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Part 1
Knock! Knock! Knock!
"Umm… ah… I still feel… a headache…"
The red-haired girl 'Ive' woke up from her bed in her room, just because of the mysterious knock on the door in the morning…
Even though she was still foggy, she had to go check who came to see her? So she rubbed her eyes and walked to the door and opened it, and found the owner of the dorm, an old lady, wearing a costume with an apron
"H… hello," Ive greeted in a daze, like someone who had not fully woken up yet.
"Hey Ive… What about the rent? When will you pay? It's been 2 months already."
"2 months… Rent… Oh! Oh! Just a moment!"
Because of the rent, Ive suddenly woke up, so she hurriedly ran back to her bedroom to look for her wallet frantically…
"Where is it!? Where is it!!!"
"...."
"Ah! ha!!"
Finally, she found it, it was under the pillow on the bed. And quickly took out as much cash as she could remember and went back to the door of the room.
"Here it is!"
The owner of the dorm was shocked.
"You… You got the money to pay, even though this place is expensive, huh?"
"I'm really sorry, auntie… But this is the money I earned."
"Very good, it's right. I thought you wouldn't have money to pay… Because my dorm is cheaper than other places in Irisberg… Every person who stays here, there will be people who default on paying the full amount, but there are very few people. This month, you are the first person who has paid the rent without defaulting like this."
Ive nodded in response to the aunt's feelings that were being expressed. But then the aunt rolled her eyes and noticed something on her shirt.
"Hey, Ive… What did your shirt get on?"
"Huh? My shirt??"
Ive looked down at her shirt and saw a stain that looked like a footprint in the middle of her stomach.
"Huh!!?? Er, that is…" She was so shocked that she quickly used her hand to brush it away. She herself didn't know where this stain came from.
The old lady sighed.
"These days, kids like to play dirty things, huh?"
"Y-yes...yes!" She replied to the old lady, not very confident.
"By the way...you probably know that in a week, you have to move out of here. Don't forget to pack your things."
"Right, auntie. Thank you!"
Ive waved goodbye to the old lady before closing the door.
She hurriedly walked into the bathroom. The mirror reflected her body. This favorite shirt really did have stains.
"Shit!! These stains! I... can't remember... What happened to me yesterday?"
She closed her eyes and tried to remember what happened yesterday.
"I just remember fighting the slime golem and almost getting eaten..?"
"And then... someone came to help me... After that... I can't remember anything else..."
No matter how hard Ive tried to remember, she couldn't remember anything…
Then, Ive decided to take off her clothes, revealing her fair skinned body. Although she looked fragile, her body was well-proportioned from the reflection in the bathroom mirror... Then she sank into the bathtub filled with warm water.
While soaking… Ive looked down at her two white and pure hands.
The red-haired girl felt to herself… Her body was still not strong enough…
The monster she encountered yesterday was really too strong for her…
But the person who came to help her, even though she couldn't remember, the girl tried to think positively…
That he might be able to take care of that monster, including helping her and the victim…
So she clenched both her fists to fight back.
"If Wynn faced that situation like me..…"
"I'll find him! The person who helped me and scratched my clothes!"
After 15 minutes passed
Ive walked out of the bathroom, her body was wiped dry, and she was wearing only a white towel…
But then, there was a notification sound on her mobile phone, which was placed on the table. She walked to the table to pick up her mobile phone to read the message.
"What is this?"
"Please come to the station in 1 hour…"
"On a holiday!!"
Ive was shocked by the message, which came from SOP, demanding that she come to the station at this time. It made her irritated and scratch her head, wondering why they had to call her on a holiday.
"Oh my gosh!... Why did I have to go there!!"
"But…"
She remembered that she hadn't received her wages from yesterday's case, which made her even more irritated.
"Oh no!! I just remembered! my personal money has almost all been used to pay for the rent!!"
She immediately opened the wardrobe.
"It's a good luck that I still have a spare pair of my favorite clothes!"
Then she took off and threw the towel away immediately, and quickly chose her clothes to wear.
After putting on her usual outfit, a sleeveless white shirt, red flared pants, and finally, she tied a white bow on the left side of her hair.
"Alright! i ready to go!!"
Ive opened her phone and entered the Outra App. Then, she pressed a button, which warped her to a certain place, SOP Station.
SOP, or the full name Special Outra Patrol
It is an unofficial agency from the original world. Its duty is to control the Outra World. Only employees who use supernatural powers or have knowledge about it can work there.
Ive works in the suppression department, which deals with monsters from Outra World that intend to harm humans or those who use supernatural powers in the wrong way. She works in this position part time.
She doesn't know when SOP was founded. She only knows that 1 month ago, when she still couldn't find a job to pay her rent, she saw an announcement from SOP on the agency's website, recruiting new people for the part-time suppression department, working the night shift.
Ive thought that she would get an easy test, but who knows!...
Going back 1 month ago
When she went to the meeting place in the evening That place was an unmanned construction site… She read the message she received from SOP as a test on her mobile phone, looking down at every letter, reading it over and over again.
"What is this? A world that is 3x3 is always beyond expectations? I- I don't understand!!"
She tried to think and think, walking around that area for hours.
Until it was midnight when there were no cars passing by, Ive was lying on the sandy ground in the construction site.
She sighed, and breathed in and out to bring herself back to her senses… and tried to think again…
"Wynn… I can't think of anything."
"Then… just make it up!!"
She jumped up and used the three elemental magic powers, fire, ice, and lightning, to control the energy lines on the ground, drawing a triangle.
"You want 3x3, don't you!?"
She continued to cast spells until she was able to draw a three-dimensional pyramid shape..
"Yawn!… Are you satisfied… you crazy SOPs…."
She felt sleepy. Until she yawned loudly… and then she accidentally fell back…
Bam!
Suddenly, Ive felt that she was not lying on the dry sand, but was lying on a soft sofa in a room.
"Huh?.. Huh? Where is this place??"
She looked around to see a strange room with only her and a man in a coat, short brown hair, and a mask covering his mouth, sitting on a chair, staring at her with friendly eyes and applauding her.
"Congratulations-!"
"Ouch!!! Who is this!!"
Ive was startled and bent her knees up, and raised her arms to defend herself. The man in the coat extended both hands, as if in a surrendering gesture, and told her,
"Calm down, little girl… My name is Chen, one of the SOP employees who is both one of the chiefs of the suppression unit and tests part-time employees."
"Huh? Really?"
"Yes! Don't worry, this is my staff room. And my job now is to test new part-time employees to come in and work. And you are the first one to pass the test."
"S-s-really?!"
After hearing that she passed the test to enter the job here, Ive's eyes widened and sparkled. She was about to raise both arms in joy.
"Hooray-!"
"Wait, wait, don't be so happy yet. This is the first time I've passed."
"Huh?... Oh!!"
Ive immediately felt sorry. Even though she had been so happy for herself, she lowered her head and put her arms down when she heard that the mind-boggling test just now was only the first level.
"Then why didn't you tell me in the beginning of the test!!" She looked up and immediately raised her voice without any fear.
"Well... I was ordered to conceal the test…" Chen extended both hands in a gesture of surrender again. His calm tone made her start to calm down because his words seemed reasonable.
"Sigh... Okay! Then... What about the other test?" Ive asked.
Chen changed his attitude as if he had an idea. And smiled at the corner of her mouth.
"Oh, right! First, we need to change the Outra App to the Pro version! Can I borrow your phone?"
"Huh? Hmm, okay!"
Ive handed Chen the phone that had the app open…
It was like he had done something, like he was feeding it something…
After 5 minutes, Chen returned her phone, with the Outra App screen that had become the Pro version.
"Hey! In the Pro version, you can warp here as you please."
"Really? Thank you!" She bowed her head in thanks, before thinking of a question he hadn't answered yet.
"Then, what about another test?"
"Another test… Oh, right. The next test will be about supernatural combat skills."
Just hearing about combat skills from the man who was testing them, Ive couldn't help but smile.
"Huh! Combat skills?" Ive cracked her fingers. That was what she really wanted him to test.
"Sure! When do you want it to start? Tell me!!"
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Part 2
Back to the present
Ive had warped to the entrance of SOP Station, a large black building, with a blue sky outside that looked brighter than the original world.
When she walked into the lobby, she met her supervisor, who was talking to the counter staff.
"Boss Chen!" Ive hurriedly walked in, causing Chen to turn to her.
"Oh, good morning, Miss Ive. I'm sorry I haven't given you my salary yet, and I brought you back to your room without telling you... It would be like, uhm..." Chen felt a little embarrassed, since he was the one who brought her back to her room. It was like invading a woman's place.
"No problem. Thank you, boss, for bringing me home." She replied without thinking much.
"Um, well, don't be too hard on yourself. The reason I called you here was because of yesterday's incident. Follow me."
Supervisor Chen led Ive to his private office, and they sat down at opposite tables.
"This is yesterday's pay." Chen handed her the envelope for yesterday's case payment. She used both hands to receive it tightly. Feeling grateful that she finally got some money back
"Thank you!!"
"And by the way, I have a new mission for you."
"Huh? New mission?"
"That is, find that man for me."
In the private staff room, Chief Chen used the remote to turn on the TV screen on his left, showing the surveillance camera on the pole of a convenience store. Ive was confused by the image on the TV screen, which showed a young man in front of the convenience store, facing where the Outra Gate was… The chief explained,
"This is the suspect, and luckily I captured the image before it was destroyed by his hands."
"Huh? What do you mean? I don't understand," Ive scratched her head in confusion.
The chief had to explain further,
"Normally, you and I wear the Tiny Detect device on our clothes to detect and store data on ongoing cases in the form of numerical values, to determine the proficiency of the criminals in terms of supernatural powers… But yours… It was destroyed for no reason."
"I don't know?.. Oh right… I also thought that I couldn't find that thing."
Chen nodded and continued.
"That device didn't transmit data in real time, so I didn't know what was going on until I got yours, before I came to the scene at the entrance of Outra World. So I checked the surveillance camera instead, which I don't really like to do."
Chen turned back to the TV screen showing the man he was talking about.
"And that mysterious man, I wonder? Why did he go to the scene?"
"That man…?"
"Um… I saw him walk towards the scene, towards Outra Gate, where Mr. Ive was handling it. But after a while, he came back, bringing you and the victim, the mother and child, back to sit next to the convenience store… That was the last image I saw before the surveillance camera was destroyed."
After he finished explaining, his right hand opened a drawer and took out a photo.
"But fortunately, my TV has a screen capture system. So I was able to capture the man's picture in time."
Chen showed Ive two pictures. The shape looked like the one on the TV screen, and another picture of him turning towards the camera after he had brought her and the victim back from the scene.
Ive could hardly believe her eyes. Was that the man who had saved her?
"Wait! This is him?? The one who saved me!.. and the mother and child??"
"Huh? You, Ive, don't you remember?"
"Oh, um... yes..."
Chen crossed his arms and rested his chin on his hand, thinking of the impossible...
"Then there are... a few possibilities."
"How?"
"Well, we have a light-projecting device that looks like a pen called the Eraser Pen. It will project a light with supernatural powers to erase memories of what happened. Because our unit is there to protect the people in the dark, we have to do that.. But...!"
Chen took out a pen from the drawer and showed it to her.
"Is this yours, Ive?"
"Oh... oh right! I forgot this one too!!"
"I just checked and there were no other fingerprints. Besides yours… That means he definitely wouldn't snatch it from your hands to erase your memory."
"Then… How could that be?"
Chen frowned immediately, thinking of an impossible thing that shouldn't have happened.
"Unless… he has the same power as us, which is impossible. Because the power from the pen, only SOP can use it…"
Ive was speechless and started thinking about the time when her memory was erased. What happened? This man? Who both saved her and erased her memory. Why did he do that?
Chen dismissed this doubt for now and returned to the main point.
"Let's say that right now, your mission is: I want this man. Bring him to SOP. There's no time limit on closing the mission, but the sooner the better."
"Then why do you want him so much?" Ive asked.
"Well… From what I know from other supervisors, some days, some cases related to handling criminals in Outra World were snatched up before the officers arrived, and the nearby surveillance cameras were destroyed… It might be his doing."
Chen handed her a picture of the man.
"And if you succeed, you'll get double the pay."
Ive's eyes lit up, she pursed her lips, and immediately clutched the picture tightly. When she heard the higher pay, she had a face that her supervisor could tell.
"I'll leave this to you, Ive."
"Okay! I'll find him!!"
After that, Ive used the Outra App to warp out of SOP and back to her original world, in her rented room.
She could barely scratch her head, wondering how to find the mysterious man in the picture her supervisor had given her.
At Noon…her lunch time
She looked at the picture of the man in an air-conditioned restaurant… The waiter brought her food, which was onion soup and grilled cheese bread…
She stirred the soup with a spoon, and muttered to herself.
"If Wynn got this… what would you do… Just one picture, I'm not a genius like you…"
This made her recall her memories of when she was still with her best friend..
3 years ago, during middle school.
Ive had a friend named "Wynn Blau", a girl with short blue bob hair, her best friend who had been studying with her since middle school. She was a girl with strong supernatural abilities, ranked at the top of the school.
However, due to her weak physical condition, she was not good at PE, and instead excelled in other subjects.
When Ive got to know and be close to Wynn, it was as if they were complementary to each other.
If Wynn was bullied and teased by her classmates,
Hey! Do you think she's good? But when it comes to PE, she's no good!!
If you're really a top student, show me how to lift a dumbbell!!
Ive would come in and block her way, and chase away the bullies.
It's okay, Wynn! I'm here!!
If Ive was worried about the exam, to the point of having to curl up in a corner of the room and tremble, worried that she would not pass the theory test,
Wynn would come in to comfort and encourage her.
Hey, Ive! Don't worry, okay?
With me here, I'll tutor you!
When the two of them were together at the school's magic tournament, if it was a duel,
they were always the top pair in the school for the past 3 years..
But then one day..
The day before the school's graduation ceremony.. Ive and Wynn were waiting for the bus at the bus stop, and it was raining heavily..
At that moment.. Wynn saw something that Ive couldn't see.. She ran after something in the rain.
"Wynn? Where are you going? Wait for me!!"
So Ive followed... When they went deeper into the forest, without realizing that the two of them were going to an Outra World, she met Wynn who was fighting a monster that looked like a human!?
The body was made of black mucus, and the head, shoulders, and lower body were like pink peaches..
If I remember correctly, Wynn called it the Peach Demon…
"You! You demon!! How dare you kill my brother!!.."
Wynn shouted with an explosion of anger, like magic power, like wind magic that released blue wind bullets, shooting at the demon without looking away.
The Peach Demon created a sword with a pink peach-shaped blade, easily blocking Wynn's wind bullets.
Ive, who saw it from afar, was stunned, speechless. She had never seen Wynn this angry before.
The demon who blocked the wind bullets spoke up,
"Brother? Oh, I remember! This girl must be that little girl from 5 years ago."
Just the smile the demon revealed made Wynn's face turn redder.
"I still remember. I really like your brother's heart.. But unfortunately, someone blocked it, and I made a mistake and was sent back to hell. It's hard for me to get out, you know?"
"Hell?..." Ive was puzzled by the devil's words.
"So what if it's hard!!? I have to avenge you with my own hands!!!" Wynn shouted angrily, still shooting air bullets non-stop.
"Heh heh."
The peach devil jumped above the ground, causing Wynn to stop shooting air bullets and raised her right hand towards it, in order to continue shooting magic power, but the devil continued,
"At first, when I got out of hell, I wanted to use the illusion power to lure some men in... But why... instead, I got this little girl! The weak younger sister of the man I love!?"
Wynn used her left hand to grab the shirt at the heart and clenched it tightly, filled with resentment that she couldn't hold back.
"Because of resentment!!! How did I find you!!!"
Then Ive ran in.
"Wynn!!"
Because of the call from her best friend, she turned back.
"Ive! Don't come in!!!-"
"Oh!... Umm..."
Ive regained her senses at this moment. She didn't want to think about the last image between her and Wynn anymore…
The look on her face that thought of happiness that ended in darkness, along with eating bread with grilled cheese continuously to relieve the darkness in her heart, until both of her eyes were closed and shaking so much that she didn't want to let out tears.
"It's okay… Even though Wynn is gone."
"But I will…"
She tried to control her thoughts, tried to think positively, and good stories about Wynn more than the last story.
But then, when she was about to drink water from the glass… she turned to look at the door of the shop, where there was a young man with a familiar face… until she picked up the picture to look at.
"Wait a minute… This guy…"
That was the same person she had to find… His hair style, clothes, and glasses were exactly the same as in the photo, no mistake.
"This guy! It must be him!"
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Part 3
"Where is him!? Where is him!!?"
Ive chased after the man, all over the streets and along the paths, but still couldn't find him.
"That man…. Why….?"
She glanced over and saw the same man walking into the flower shop.
"Wait!!"
She quickly ran through the crowd, crossed the street, and quickly went to the flower shop.
But when she opened the door to the shop… She looked around the shop.
"W-where is him?… I can't find him in the shop."
So she stepped out of the flower shop and looked around to find him.
"What the hack!… Why? It's not like he's running away or walking around normally!"
"It's like… warping back and forth."
Throughout this afternoon, Ive chased every nook and cranny of the city, about 1 km.
"Did he use the person who helped me? Is this a person or a ghost!!?"
Every time she met that man Whether it was in shops, parks, houses, she would see him walk until he disappeared through the door or in corners that disappeared from her vision.
And when she chased him, he was gone.
"Haha…ha… no way… where is he?"
When evening came, Ive almost bent over, panting, exhausted, on the sidewalk that was the exit to the city, her legs were starting to weaken.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew towards her, making her feel cool and dry immediately.
"Aaah…thank you for the wind, ouch!!"
The young woman regained her strength, and had the strength to stand up.
"Huh?… that!!"
Ive saw the same man running into the gap between the buildings, so she chased after him through the gap.
Until she came to a dead end, where in front of her was a dimensional door. The white oval shape is the door that she and people around the world use to travel to different worlds called Outra Gate.
"I hope that man is in Outra World through this door..."
And she stepped into this door, traveling to Outra World...
Ive appeared in Outra World, which was inside an abandoned building. The outer walls of the building were full of glass... The outside of the building was empty, only red, like this building was floating in the sky.
She explored until she heard a girl's scream.
She had to run after the sound... until she reached a room in the building...
Ive met a girl in a school uniform who was being transformed by some energy into a white ice cream... and used the ice sap to eat into the mouth on her stomach...
That was the Ice Cream Demon... who looked like a snowman with a human-like body, standing on two legs and having a mouth on her stomach.
She could only stand there stunned. Even though she wanted to say stop, it was too late. She clenched her fists tightly, filled with anger and shock, mixed all over her face.
"You...cause YOU!!"
The demon who heard the red-haired girl's voice, used the power of ice to close the door.
"Oh... the unfortunate victim!! The next one is you!! Time to DIE!!"
He extended his right hand, pointing at her, hoping to transform her into the next form..
As soon as he finished speaking, Ive used the app to create a laser sword again in his right hand, and a small red magic circle appeared in his left hand.
"Fire Magic: Enhancing!"
The laser sword was coated with fire, turning into a red fire sword.
The demon released 4 snow scythes, rushing towards her immediately. She swung her sword and cut the ice cream demon's scythes easily.. until she successfully reached him, slashing the center of his chest at close range in front of her.
"I'm done!!"
But when she hit him, the demon's body turned into a snow vortex and swept past her.
The red-haired girl came to her senses, her feet could not move. When she looked down, she found both feet frozen to the ground.
"Frozen!?"
The demon appeared as a being again from behind her.
"You done!!" Little girl!!"
About to use the pink light from her eyes to turn her into ice cream
Ive screamed loudly, echoing throughout the room, her body that was turning into a ball of ice cream from her feet to her shins…
"Oh no, my body is…"
"If it continues like this…"
"Wynn! If it were you… what should I do….?"
"......."
Ive closed her eyes in despair, crying in her heart….
Suddenly, a voice spoke out
Ive! Do you still remember it? The Wheel of Enlightenment of supernatural powers, huh?
Before the final exam, don't forget about this. It's a written test!
Wynn's voice that reminded her when she was in junior high school, emerged in the midst of her despair.
"Wynn's Wheel of Enlightenment Of supernatural powers…"
"To be honest… I'm not good at remembering theories…"
"Normally… I can use magic, fire, ice, and lightning by training with you alone…!"
"But this time, whatever happens, happens!!"
"Thank you very much, Wynn!"
She still had her eyes closed, ignoring her surroundings, so she focused and reviewed the Five Wheels, which were the basis for using supernatural powers.
[Event - What happened]
I was being frozen.
[Thought - What do I think?]
This is too bad. Not only did I fail the mission today, I also failed to save someone.
[Feeling - How do I feel?]
I felt cold and hopeless, but it was no match for my lust.
[Desire - What do I want to do?]
I wanted to burn even more.
[Action - What do I want to do?]
I will…
"I will set my soul on fire!!"
Before the ice cream that was almost reaching her upper body, she spoke in her mind…
"Ha!!"
Ive exploded with a bright red aura, causing the ice to melt. Including her body that had returned to normal…
She turned back to look at the Ice Cream Demon, with a look of awe, and the red aura that enveloped her body, like a blazing flame, until it began to see the body that used to be snow, starting to melt a little.
"Ah! This… impossible? I've never seen a victim this hot!!"
"Aaaaaaah!!!" The demon was so scared that it shouted, so it swung both arms, throwing snowballs at her without stopping.
Ive swung the sword that was bathed in red flames, easily cutting off the snow that was thrown at it.
"You cannot win! You demon!!"
She got the chance to rush in close, and thrust the sword into its mouth on its stomach, and lifted it up, splitting the demon in half, causing a sword wave to break the ice blocking the exit door of the room…
"Gaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" The demon's screams had disappeared…
After subduing it, her red aura disappeared, and she felt a little tired.
"No… I can't believe… Just thinking about that wheel… it was so effective!? It's no wonder Wynn is the best!"
"You're the best!"
Ive muttered to herself. Her success didn't come from her, but from Wynn, who had advised and taught her about supernatural powers.
"If there's no… what… what!?"
But then, she saw a little snowman, which should be a small part that survived… It saw her.
"Eww, what the hell!!" It quickly jumped out of the room and ran away from her.
"Hey! Come back here!!"
And she chased after it, even though the little devil jumped even faster than a grasshopper…
She chased it until she reached the connecting path to another building…
When it jumped to the right, which was the only way to enter the other building, she immediately stopped walking.
"......."
Ive felt something strange, until she felt tiredness drip down her face abnormally.
Pew!!
Suddenly, the sound of a gun-like weapon stopped… A little ice cream devil jumped out of the right turning path… but its body melted into water before her eyes…
And there was another creature Stepping out of the turn... A human-like robot with orange joints and blue armor... A right hand holding an orange energy sword and a left hand holding an energy sword...
"Numnan... A... robot!?"
Then, the robot turned to face her...
"SLAYER DETECTED! Target detected!"