The conversation after that proceeded while we avoided the perverted onlookers. With Yeon-Hee, we had protection more secure than any battlefield. The mental world, and the place full of memories for us.

[You have entered Woo Yeon-Hee’s mental world.]

[Stage: A middle school classroom in 1997]

I wanted to get the scars on Yeon-Hee out of my sight, if only for a moment. She appeared standing at the lectern, then sat down next to me.

“I wanted to go find your equipment too. But Doom Kaos did not allow it.”

She began to tell the story from the point when I was trapped in the Life Vessel.

“He said blocking the gate to the spirit world would be beneficial to you. It made sense no matter how much I pondered because if the Spirit Kings were released into the battlefield at that time, the citizens of the Savior’s City would not have been able to move like that. Then, for some reason, an order came down to leave the Spirit Kings alone. An order was issued to leave the Spirit Kings alone after he had insisted that blocking...