Chapter 302: Butterfly Effect (6)
First, I calmed myself and asked Yang Seong-hu to look after the two elders.
[Yang Seong-hu, could you please check on the elders? I’ll check on the kids.]
[Understood, Sir So.]
While Yang Seong-hu went to wake the two grandfathers, I turned immediately to the children.
My heart was racing because of what had just happened.
‘Please... let them wake up safely.’
The reason I was so anxious was that I didn’t think this was the Soul-Stealing Technique.
If it wasn’t that, then what was it?
A drug or a poison.
The reason I was so certain it wasn’t the Soul-Stealing Technique was because that technique is known to suppress the body through eye contact, drawing the target’s spirit into an illusion where their soul can be subdued.
Like turning to stone when you look into Medusa’s eyes in fantasy stories, the Soul-Stealing Technique must be activated through the eyes.
Before coming here, whether because she was worried about me or wanted to make me her accomplice, Hwa-eun had told me a bit about it. She said it was a kind of technique that combined illusion arts and martial arts and must be performed through direct eye contact.