<Killing the Rainbow>
[Please kill the rainbow]
[Time limit: Until the rainbow dies]
[Reward: Recapture of Yongsan-gu]
An overwhelmingly large rainbow rose across the sky. I was glaring at it with emotions dirtied by a mix of irritation and tension when I heard a carefree voice from beside me.
“It’s pretty.”
That was Kim Seohyeon’s impression. This bastard, seems like after becoming a Guide he’s been slacking off a bit and his boyish sensibility is emerging.
“Our Seohyeon is really excited, huh?”
“Why is your face so red?”
“Because irritation is rising up in me, right now.”
“Calm down.”
“Then hold my hand for me.”
I needed guiding for peace of mind.
When Kim Seohyeon raised his hand up like a puppy offering its front paw, only then did my circulation start flowing smoothly.
“Ah, that’s better.”
“I’ll keep my hand next to you, so grab it whenever you need it.”
“This lovely bastard…….”
A blue light rippled and entered, and the symptoms of heat rising throughout my body improved. However, the stuffy feeling in my chest like I’d eaten sweet potatoes remained.
The paparazzi who had been exclaiming in admiration while capturing the rainbow in their cameras suddenly jumped in surprise at the lightning that struck down.
“Holy shit! That scared me!”
Soon rain began pouring down as if holes had been drilled between each part of the rainbow.
[Rec……]
“Right now, I have received a popup mission window telling me to kill the rainbow. That rainbow you see there……. How are we supposed to kill a rainbow?! I guess we’ll have to approach this from a scientific perspective. Is there anyone here from the science track?”
While the ChickTube paparazzi was going around doing interviews, I was inflating a lifeboat.
The art-class Esper and electronics-class Esper were helping me while sending glances that said ‘no way, right?’
From the atmosphere, it was about time they’d start catching on.
“The rain will fall until the observation deck of Namsan Tower is completely submerged.”
“Ah, so that’s why we need to survive on a boat? But there’s only one boat…….”
“That’s right. Normally, they’d all die. Even with a boat, they’d get struck by lightning and die roasted.”
“……By any chance, do you have an alternative? We do have the electronics-class Esper-nim here…….”
“If it becomes necessary, I’ll explain. First, just keep one thing in mind.”
“…….”
“Not only our lives, but the lifelines of all those idiots down there depend on the hands of us four people. Everyone really needs to perform their assigned tasks well for all of us to survive.”
“Ah, this is a bit…… burdensome. I’m not some amazing person…….”
“Yes, you need to feel burdened. If you don’t pull it off, everyone dies.”
“I’ll do my best.”
Fortunately, the people were nice so there wasn’t a single complaint.
From these people’s perspective, they were suddenly summoned here and are just listening to threats like this, which must be absurd.
“Good. Let’s show them the power of Cheolwon citizens. Fighting.”
“Fighting! Ah, before that!”
“Yes?”
Oh Haemi, the art student misunderstanding, pointed to one spot with a shy face.
“Can we try that?!”
[Love♡Lock]
“Nice~! Cheolwon legend gathering~ As a commemoration!”
The electronics-class Esper ahjussi also got pumped up and chimed in saying let’s hurry and do it.
“Alright. Let’s pick one.”
“Wow, damn. There are so many types.”
There were soft sponge locks, and heart locks too.
I roughly picked up a cute one and glanced to the side to see Kim Seohyeon choosing really carefully.
“Seohyeon-ah, isn’t mine cute?”
“Yeah, it’s cute.”
I shook the yellow square tastefully and it must have looked good, because he also picked up something similar.
But…….
‘What should I write.’
I’ve lived so busily that I’ve never had time to write something like this, so I didn’t know what to write. Looking at others, they had things like ‘love you’ ‘friendship’ ‘forever’ ‘praying for acceptance’ and stuff written on them.
The art student completed [Mom Dad I Love You] while slightly tearing up as if writing a final will, and the ahjussi was writing Chinese characters that my knowledge couldn’t decipher.
I gripped the pen properly. And scribbled something down.
[I’m the best♡!]
It’s a bit childish but…… after actually writing it, I felt both refreshed and slightly choked up. It was a phrase to cheer myself on in the sense of living my new life well.
After finishing writing and looking at Kim Seohyeon, his lock simply had today’s date written on it.
“You write something too, Seohyeon-ah.”
“I don’t have anything to write.”
“How bland. Well, isn’t there something you want to cheer for or wish for?”
Kim Seohyeon, who had been quietly looking down at the phrase written on my lock, soon wrote something down too.
‘I don’t know what he’s writing but…….’
His focused back of the head is cute.
A moment later, my lock was tied together with Kim Seohyeon’s.
The paparazzi ChickTuber was rattling off words like someone afflicted with a disease that kills them if the audio goes silent.
“Ooh, is this okay? I’ve caught civil servants slacking off while receiving taxpayer money and performing public duties! This, this is very problematic. They’re locking locks? But those locks, isn’t that unauthorized appropriation? Former trainee Lee Yesol Esper, making controversy again?”
“…….”
“Yes, they’ve just locked the locks they unauthorized appropriated. I’ll exclusively reveal what locks our sticky-fingered civil servants have locked.”
The paparazzi ChickTuber ran over as soon as the four people left and scanned the locks with eagle eyes.
“Yes, found it. This is Oh Haemi Esper’s. What does it say…… Can you see it? [Mom Dad I Love You] She’s a very filial daughter. And electronics-class Esper Bang Seolhyeok-nim is…… Mm, Chinese characters? I’ll skip it. If you know these characters, please leave a comment. Next, Lee Yesol Esper is…… Wow, it’s transparent.”
“…….”
“It says [Lee Yesol Debut]. This is kind of cute. Seems like they haven’t given up on the dream of debuting yet. Lee Yesol Esper, I’ll also support your dream of debuting. And…… lastly, Kim Seohyeon Guide’s. It’s stuck right next to Lee Yesol Esper’s. [I’m the best♡!] This is really unexpected? He had such a cold feeling~ He was a soft and tender man who knows how to draw hearts~”
“…….”
“But you know what. These two, Lee Yesol and Kim Seohyeon, are absolutely insane in real life. Here, let’s take a quick break…… Should we do a popularity poll?”
“…….”
“Lee Yesol is handsome, number 1. Kim Seohyeon is handsome, number 2. Oh right, this isn’t a live stream, oops. When the video goes up later, please leave it in the comments~”
The paparazzi wrapped up the video ending angle with a sudden poll, caught their breath, then started filming part 2.
* * *
The water was rising. Starting from the low-lying areas, gradually submerging them, the ChickTubers who had been filming in the streets hurriedly evacuated to high-rise buildings.
“This is crazy.”
“Isn’t it going to submerge up to here?”
Earlier, I think I heard an announcement telling us to hurry and gather at Namsan, I should have listened. They tried to send a rescue request by flying a drone, but the drone that got struck by lightning crashed to the ground.
“Mother…… Father…… Your child is departing like this. Please let this video…… reach you…….”
Tears like chicken droppings dripped from the ChickTuber’s eyes. In an OTL position, they looked down below the window to check the water level, and one lifeboat was floating closer.
“I’m saved! Here, over here!”
The ChickTuber cheered and waved their hands frantically out the window, but soon realized the lifeboat had no interest in them whatsoever.
“Heeeeeey!! Save me!!”
“There are a lot of isolated bastards.”
Kim Seohyeon spoke briefly while listening to the desperate cries the ChickTubers were letting out.
At the point when the city had filled with water to some degree, I launched the lifeboat with the three people. The intermittently striking lightning all bounced off the electronics-class Esper’s electronic defense barrier.
“Haemi-ssi, I’ll ask you for the drawing I ordered earlier.”
“I’ll do my best.”
Oh Haemi’s hand moved quickly over the prepared sketchbook. A landscape painting that was an exact copy of where we were sitting. The one difference was that in the middle of the rainbow in the picture, there was a faucet drawn.
“Should I also draw gold and silver treasures at the end of the rainbow?”
“Let’s each get our own house with those gold and silver treasures.”
“Ah, I’m joking. Just maintaining the manifestation with one faucet seems like it’ll be difficult.”
“I was joking too.”
Now, from here on out was what was really important.
Once manifestation maintenance started, Oh Haemi’s stamina would drain away rapidly, and it was Kim Seohyeon’s role to organically replenish it.
“Our Seohyeon, you can do it, right?”
“Yeah.”
Oh Haemi and Kim Seohyeon held hands at my instruction.
“Wow, wowwww!”
Oh Haemi couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration at the effect that felt more vivid than when they checked their matching rate.
“Now please use your manifestation skill.”
“Yes, I’ll start.”
Oh Haemi seemed to hold their breath and gather energy, and soon the faucet began shimmering like a mirage on the rainbow.
“Ah, this is so hard.”
Even if Kim Seohyeon’s guiding was the highest level, if Oh Haemi’s energy tank was small, it could be sufficiently difficult. Then.
“You two try sticking closer together.”
“What?”
“I said hug each other.”
“That’s too embarrassing…….”
“Why do I have to do that.”
Oh Haemi, whose face had turned red, seemed hurt by Kim Seohyeon’s serious expression and hurriedly tried to pull their held hand away, but Kim Seohyeon wouldn’t let go.
“Seohyeon-ssi…… Are you playing push-and-pull with me right now, or what……. You’re not letting go of my hand…….”
“…….”
No, anyway. I had to explain.
“The closer you two are, the less danger I’m in.”
Kim Seohyeon immediately hugged Oh Haemi as if he understood.
“Not that half-hearted position, skin has to be touching skin. Well, kissing is the direct hit but…… it’d be a bit much for people meeting for the first time, right?”
“I’m fine with it though…….”
The faucet above the rainbow was now completely clear.
“Well, the wider the friction point, the greater the energy support effect. Especially if you attach mucous membranes, the effect is maximized, so if you feel like you can’t hold on, just go ahead and kiss.”
“Okay~”
“Hurry.”
“Yeah, hyung believes only in our Seohyeon.”
I put on tight work gloves and grabbed the rope to climb up. If there had been other devices in detail, it would have been convenient to climb, but with the manifestation level of the art class, at best a rope was both the best and the maximum.
“Lee Yesol fighting!!”
“Pride of South Korea! Lee Yesol!”
“Lee Yesol, get that faucet and debut!”
The paparazzi who had been isolated here and there quickly caught onto my intention and began pouring out passionate cheering.
“Wow, shit…… Is this Kim Byeongman?”
It was for days like this that I diligently trained my body, from arms to climbing. Finally, I was able to climb onto the rainbow.
