Leo opened his phone and, seeing that the source of the message was indeed Sandara, continued to look at the message content in fear.
Just then, a crack silently appeared in the space behind Leo, and a continuously shape-shifting cube with a 2049 theme emerged from the crack.
As Leo looked at his phone, unaware of what was happening, he saw the luck tubes on his body appear outside his control.
At first, he assumed this was a lucky or unlucky encounter, but suddenly the test tubes containing luck flipped upside down, and the liquid inside spilled out.
Since Leo couldn't understand what was happening, the first thing he thought was how he would overcome a bad luck event of this magnitude. Perhaps the luck energy could balance out some of the bad luck. This was a theory Leo had considered before but never tested.
However, things got even worse at this point.
The liquids pouring out of the test tubes did not fly towards his body as they had before, but changed direction in the air, passed by his neck at a frightening speed, and flew behind him.
When Leo turned around in astonishment, he saw the good and bad luck energies being sucked into a cube floating in the air.
The cube began to spin even faster than before as it rapidly absorbed the luck energy.
One second it turned into a cube, the next it took the shape of a sphere, and the next it transformed into a triangular prism.
At the same time, the good luck energy being drawn into the cube was completely depleted, and only the dark red bad luck energy began to be injected into the cube.
And thus, the cube's state of continuous evolution began to take on a more terrifying form.
The dark red bad luck energy being sucked into the cube slowly immobilized the cube.
It was as if the cube had lost its dominance and was slowly being polluted by the red color.
Or rather, that's what Leo thought. The cube, however, had no opinion on the matter; the only thing it needed was this energy itself, regardless of whether it was good or bad. Only by using this energy could it stabilize itself and eliminate its existential flaw.
After a while, the bad luck energy was also absorbed by the cube, and the cube's shape was completely stabilized.
After the absorption of the energies was complete, the two test tubes, having lost their target, moved again toward Leo's body.
All this time, Leo was still trying to make sense of what he saw, reflexively retreating to the room door and watching the events unfold by peering his head out the door.
At the same time, he kept lamenting that he wished he had finished that damn webtoon before coming to this world.
As Leo reached out his hand for the luck-collecting test tubes flying toward him to enter his body faster, the cube suspended in the air suddenly moved at a speed similar to teleportation and collided with the two tubes.
Immediately after, the tubes were embedded in the cube, as if they had hit slime.
Leo realized at that moment that this cursed thing was trying to steal his cheat and wanted to lunge forward, but the 2049 theme intimidated his eyes, so he decided to remain silent, like smart side characters, and watch the show.
After the cube merged with the test tubes, it looked as if two test tubes had been implanted on the cube's front face.
In the next moment, the cube, thinking it had achieved what it wanted, opened a spatial crack and moved to leave.
But when it tried to move, it realized it couldn't.
The test tubes, meanwhile, began to emit black and white energy. These energies were orbiting each other in the air like Yin and Yang, and were connected to Leo's heart.
Seeing that he had suddenly switched from a third-person to a first-person perspective, Leo tried to break the bond with his cheat with his own hands.
After all, even if you called it a cheat, it didn't turn Leo into a real superhero or anything, and he also had to deal with bad luck.
Assuming he was probably the nation's top scorer on the university entrance exams, Leo decided that he could live well in the future even without the cheat. The important thing was life, right?
What good is a cheat if you don't have the life to use it?
Unfortunately, this bond could not be broken even by the strange cube floating in the air, let alone Leo. Moreover, even though the cube tried to move away with a force that defied physics and shook the space, it did not move an inch, as if Leo was firmly standing on the entire universe.
The cube, unable to analyze what was happening, was suddenly hit by the test tubes, whose power increased even more, and the cube crashed into Leo's chest while attached to the test tubes.
Leo hit the wall behind him from the force and injured himself, losing consciousness.
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