Lucid Dreams of Late: Luckless Trinity

CHAPTER 9: 危険な状況 [A Dangerous Situation]

Jae-sung had long noticed he was being followed and decided to face whoever it was head-on. He left the hospital far behind him and used various confusing paths, trying to make the person focus on following him only and lose his way and it had worked really well.

Jae-sung stood in silence, waiting for his stalker to show himself, and after a while, he finally did. The sounds of someone walking on the stone pavement was abnormally clear in Jae-sung's ears. There was a streetlight that had turned itself on in front of Jae-sung which allowed him to see his stalker. A tall, burly man, with his hands in his pockets came to light, he wore a baseball cap that covered the top half of his face and only his mouth and chin could be seen.

Jae-sung studied him from a distance, making sure that he was at least 10ft away from the man at all times, though it wasn't easy as the man kept trying to come closer and closer to him, eventually causing Jae-sung to back into a wall.

Even when he was cornered, he didn't feel scared at all and bravely asked, "Who are you?". He was met with silence as the stalker paused in his steps. Jae-sung tried asking another question, "Why are you following me?". Still no response. The man was completely still for what felt like hours until finally, he took action.

Lunging at Jae-sung, the man's hand, glowing due to magic, was curled up into a fist and was heading straight for Jae-sung's face. Just before the fist could connect with Jae-sung's face, he smoothly turned his head to the left, dodging the man's blow. Before the man could turn around and make an attempt to strike Jae-sung once more, Jae-sung had already grabbed hold of his arm and flipped him over his back.

The man landed on the floor with a heavy *thud* and was obviously in pain. Jae-sung used his magic to make the man levitate high in the air and then dropped him. A human-shaped crater had formed in the ground where the man had fallen. He hadn't had the chance to catch his breath when Jae-sung, swiftly followed up the previous attack by rising him high in the air and dropping him repeatedly until the man was begging to be spared by him. Jae-sung listened to his pleas and momentarily stopped his flurry of attacks.

Taking him even higher in the air than all the other times, he asked coldly, "Who ordered you to take my life?". The man's mouth that had been begging and begging to be spared, immediately stopped moving. Jae-sung was about to throw him to the ground, when he happens to catch a glimpse of the man's face. His baseball hat had of course, flown of his head at some point which left his face in full view.

By now, it was extremely dark, though that didn't affect Jae-sung as he had exceptional vision, that normal people didn't have and could very clearly, see that on the man's face was an expression of sheer terror. Not only that, but his body had also begun to shake, and his eyes were glazed over. Jae-sung widened his eyes in surprise.

"What person could make this man so frightened?", he thought. Jae-sung's father had showed him various kinds of people, and how they reacted to certain situations, but never had Jae-sung see someone react to being asked such a simple question and for a moment, he didn't know what to do and he became a bit distracted.

It was in this moment of carelessness that the man, still very much floating in the air, took a pill out of his pocket, and swallowed it. Almost immediately, he began to have very violent convulsions, it was then that Jae-sung noticed the man's strange behaviour, but it was already too late. The man's body limply floated in the air and white foam spewed out of his mouth. The man had just killed himself.

Jae-sung frowned at this and quickly withdrew his magic to stop the man from floating. This time, the man landed lightly, and his body lay flat on the ground. After confirming that the man was truly dead, Jae-sung took out his phone from his pocket and dialled a number.