I Become a Mafia in the Academy Chapter 308

Along with the eerie voice ca a pitch-black darkness of unknown depth.

At first, I thought I had simply lost my vision. It was the only way to explain the sudden blackness.

But that wasn't the whole story.

I tried moving my arm.

I must have moved my arm, but I didn't feel anything. I try stroking my arm with my other hand.

No, did it even move? Is it touching my hand?

I'm definitely thinking, but I can't feel my body moving at all. It's as if my body doesn't exist.

The next thing I felt was fear.

Am I even breathing right now? If I scread, would I be heard? No, I don't hear any sound.

I can't hear anything.

I can't see.

I don't feel anything.

There is only thought.

Can this even be called existence?

Just as my thoughts were about to fade away──

-Hwaaaaah!

I began to see the light once again.

The first thing I noticed was the damp stone floor.

As I was frantically racking my brain to figure out what happened.

-Thud.

Water had fallen from sowhere and soaked the floor once again.

Water? I'm pretty sure there wasn't any water before.

I frantically grope around.

"……?"

I realized it all ca from my own eyes and mouth.

* * *

Sasha scrambled to her feet as she realized she was done. The ti she held out was approximately…….

"Three minutes? You lasted longer than I thought."

-I thought she would last about 30 seconds, but she's tougher than I thought.

As we stare at the ti and talk, Sasha looks over at in bewildernt.

"Uh, Master. This is……."

"The ability of Black Hand. It blocks the opponent's five senses. To learn the art of the Dark Spirits, one must basically have immunity to darkness."

The horror of suddenly losing your senses is unimaginable. If you don't control it correctly, your mind can collapse in an instant.

It's a training thod that could be considered harsh.

"Do you think it's too much?"

Sasha wipes the fluid from the corner of her mouth and lets out a ragged breath. She shakes her head in response to my question.

"……No, because if it was the enemy, they wouldn't even give that much ti."

Did I ntion that she had been a rcenary in the past, so her mindset was definitely different.

But…….

"Black hand. Can we stop that?"

-If that's……You an Jin-woo Bevalt?

He's still rolling around on the floor, screaming.

No, why is he singing in that situation?

"Isn't he already losing his mind?"

I ask with genuine concern, and Black Hand waves a hand in the air.

-No, he hasn't had a ntal breakdown yet, according to my senses. It's just……being that kind of human.

"……That?"

Now he's just lying on his back and being still. What's even funnier is that his chest is moving up and down evenly.

"No way, is that sleeping?"

-……I think he's sleeping.

What the hell is wrong with this guy's mind?

Sasha is actually looking at Jin-woo with a look of disbelief.

"Is that……Jin-woo Bevalt having the sa experience as right now? Is this it?"

-Yes, I've never seen anything like this before, so I'm surprised.

Really, I don't know if I should call it amazing…….

"Black Hand, wake him up."

-Yes, Master."

Black Hand snapped its fingers, and Jin-woo’s body jumped up like a spring.

"The floor is cold, what's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong, what's wrong?"

Speaking as soone who had also experienced Black Hand's darkness, that reaction was truly bizarre.

"Young Boss, what just happened? It's like my body just disappeared."

I can't believe that's the first thing he asks when he sees .

"It's Black Hand's ability."

"Black Hand? Oh, you're Don. I was also surprised because I thought sothing was wrong with my body."

Jin-woo chuckles and scratches his head as if it's no big deal.

"Normally, you'd have to be extrely frightened or ntally delirious to do that, so how on earth did you manage to stay sane?"

"What? Well, uh……sll? I just focused on the sll."

"The……sll?"

"Yeah, like, all my other senses were gone, but I could still sll the familiar earthy odor, so I focused on that."

At that answer, Latte looked in my direction, surprised, and whispered.

"Not bad, huh? Jin-woo Bevalt. Does that an he's your chosen one after all?"

No, I didn't think he was either.

I turned my head to look at Black Hand overseeing this test.

"Is that possible?"

-Yes, I definitely didn't remove his sense of sll, but I didn't expect him to focus all his senses on it…….

Ha, I didn't know Jin-woo had such a talent.

I wondered if he was really an assassin, maybe it was the result of his separate training in the Bevalt Family.

"……Master, I have a question for you."

Suddenly, Sasha called out to .

"What is it?"

"I don't know if I should ask this, but I was wondering if you have experienced this too."

"You an the training you guys just did?"

Sasha nods at my question.

"We did…..but it wasn't as significant as we thought it would be."

"You an it didn't have significant results……?"

"I tried to block out all my senses……for a while, but it broke right away."

"……? What do you an, it broke?"

"Yes."

Due to the strong status abnormality resistance of [Dragon Slayer], the darkness spell was forcibly destroyed.

The trait that keeps cool at all tis [Hitman]. Thanks to this, there was virtually no ntal damage.

It was more like soone suddenly turned off the lights.

"So, Black Hand. Will they be enough?"

Turning back to the topic at hand, I asked if these two could receive the Dark Spirit's techniques.

-Yes, I think they're strong enough to learn it.

"Good."

We had created a curriculum for learning the Dark Spirits' secret technique, but there were only a few people who could learn them.

Darkness resistance was the minimum requirent to learn the secret arts.

The number of people who possessed it was much smaller than I thought, to be precise, only a handful of the dozens who applied this ti.

Well, they had all mastered the basic techniques.

"Then I'll ask Black Hand, right away."

As I said that and stood next to Jin-woo, Sasha and Jin-woo turned their heads toward .

"Will Young Boss be learning with us?"

"Master is listening too?"

What's wrong with them?

"Isn't it natural?"

I created this opportunity, of course I should learn.

We stood in front of Black Hand.

He glanced this way and that, nodded once, then rolled up his sleeves and showed us his hands.

-First of all, to deal with the darkness, you must feel it. You can all feel the mana in the air, so that should make it a little easier.

"What specifically does it an that it's important to feel the darkness?"

Sasha is the first to raise her hand and ask, presumably bruised by the fact that she's been pushed aside by Jin-woo.

-It's simpler than you think. Feel the fire. Touch the dirt. Scoop up water. Run your palm through the wind. You ‘feel' the darkness in the sa way.

It's a bit abstract because it's not a tangible object.

It's easy to say, but not everyone can do it.

If everyone could feel darkness that way, this world would already be full of elentalists.

The other kids actually struggled to understand what he was talking about.

Of course.

"Is this what it feels like?"

-!!

It didn't apply to .

I had already dealt with so much darkness. Could it be because I've been using Black Mist made from the core of a dark spirit for a long ti, as well as using techniques such as black fla, mines, and spirit beams like a al?

Black energy begins to gather in the palm of my hand as soon as I realize it.

I felt sothing different from mana, sothing lukewarm, sowhere between cold and warm.

-You're different, Master!

Black Hand looked at the black smoke curling around my hand and spoke with admiration.

-This must be your first experience with the darkness, and what an affinity you have for it. At this rate, you'll soon reach the level of a Lesser Elental.

I thought I was pretty good, but I'm still a lowly Elental.

But once I get the hang of it, it shouldn't be too difficult to raise my level.

-Co on, everyone else, give it a try, and if you're having trouble, I'll help you with the darkness.

Leaving the first successful one behind, Black Hand approaches the others and begins to show them how to operate the darkness.

Looking at the two who eagerly snapped their fingers with his help, I smiled with satisfaction behind my mask.

* * *

Inside the Darkness, an arena where countless spirits and mbers of the organization train.

In the center of it all, one man and woman faced each other, engaged in a fiery battle of nerves.

Jin-woo was smiling triumphantly and Sasha was glaring coldly at him.

"I've been trying to cover my tracks, and now here's my chance."

"That's what you thought, too? This is an incredible coincidence?"

And between the two of them was a sword as dark as pitch.

The Dark Sword, a weapon forged by the Dark Spirits.

This was the cause of this conflict.

It all started with a simple word.

Black Hand made arrangents for the two people who couldn't feel the darkness after so long.

-It seems that you can't sense with your bare hands, so I'll give you a little help.

He drew the sword at his waist.

-This is a dark sword, the weapon of dark spirits. It was forged in the darkness, using the darkness to forge the blade, and it will help you increase your affinity. I'm giving it to you, so why don't you each take turns wielding it?

One sword, two people.

You'd think they'd fight to get it first, but……unexpectedly, the fight went the other way.

‘You go first. I think you'll be fine without it.'

Jin-woo made the first concession.

He was probably trying to be considerate of Sasha since he's weak to beauty, but the problem was that she, who was burning against Jin-woo, took it the wrong way.

Perhaps she understood it as, ‘I don't need this shit, so use it on you, who's a loser.’

And of course, this set up a confrontation between Jin-woo, who refused, and Sasha, who exploded.

Seriously.

"You're not even……kids, what the hell are you doing?"

As I sighed at the scene, Latte, who was standing next to , chuckled and said.

"They're kids, sure, but at least they're bringing a lot of energy to the town, right?"

True to her word, it was already a party around us.

-The two humans of Corleone fight!

-How do the mbers of the Corleone organization fight?

-I haven't seen a fight in a long ti!

Is it because it's the first ti they've seen a fight between humans? The spirits look on in anticipation.

"Newcors?"

"You said one of them is a master of the Bevalt family?"

"A duel between the ones you've marked, sounds interesting."

Even the mbers of the organization ca out to support.

The deck was stacked against us.

Well, that's the way it is.

"We'll do it the Corleone’s way."

They say that the surest way to prove a man's worth is through strength.

As the superior of the two, it's my responsibility to referee such a confrontation.

It wasn't because I was curious to see who would win if they fought.

No, really.