176 – Reorganization (2)
“The third daughter of Shinwa Group…?”
“Yes! Third daughter!”
“How do you know that…?”
She was dazed for a moment, looking at Lumia who appeared in front of her. When her river Haneul showed a serious expression and asked her question, she answered with a wide smile.
“I’ve been researching on my own. I had some knowledge from the beginning…”
“…Really?”
“Huh. Why are you looking at me with such a distrustful expression?”
Looking at her with a distrustful expression, she soon sighs and opens her mouth to see the river sky.
“…Is this true information?”
“Did you just buy it by being tricked? Oh, now that I think about it, I guess it’s true that I just bought it by being tricked.”
“……”
“Wow. It’s a cold river sky… No, it’s not like this. If it’s a lie, you can kill me. My right hand has been quite quiet these days. I’ll die obediently.”
As Lumia answered his question with a bright smile, her river Haneul fell into trouble for a moment.
“…If you do anything foolish, I will attack you immediately.”
“I like it~”
Then, when he finally nodded and walked towards her, Lumia smiled brightly and hearts appeared in her eyes.
“But you know what. There is a condition.”
“What?”
“This is information that I managed to ask in this rag-tag body, but can you agree to at least one condition?”
Suddenly, she stops walking, looks at the sky over her river with a smiling expression, and begins to make one condition.
“This journey will be just the two of us, me and my senior. No one else will be involved.”
＞ No!
“…Huh?”
Then, immediately joining their conversation, Pandora’s drone, which was flying quietly next to Kang Ha-neul, was observing Kang Ha-neul’s thoughts.
＞ Nununu, who wants to go on a date alone with Kang Ha-neul? Unforgiveness! This is absolutely unacceptable!
“Hmm…”
Lumia, who was looking at the drone with narrowed eyes, soon quietly raised the corners of her mouth and muttered.
“Then you can send Kang Haneul to where her third daughter is instead.”
＞ What do you mean? I don’t really know…
“Then there’s nothing we can do. Senior, let’s ignore that can and come with me, right?”
＞ !!!
And then, suddenly, Lumia grabbed Kang Haneul’s arm and started dragging her forward.
＞ Well, then take me too!!!
Pandora’s drone hurriedly followed behind her, raising her voice and making her offer.
＞ Go, I’ll follow along with you and keep an eye on you to make sure you don’t do anything stupid!! Yeah, I thought so!!
“…….”
Then, Lumia looked at Pandora’s drone with her eyes wide open for a moment.
“Well, I guess so.”
Then she answered in a low voice and was about to take her steps again.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a drone. So do as you wish…”
– Turp, trudge…
“…Oh?”
Suddenly, Lumia opens her eyes and begins to look behind the river sky.
“Lumia…”
“…….!”
And the next moment.
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Suddenly, someone runs out from behind Kang Ha-neul, grabs Lumia by the collar, and starts rolling on the floor.
“Lumiaaa!!!”
“Kek… Over there…”
“…You were on the same side as Lee Se-ah!! You too!!!”
Kang Maru, who had bandages wrapped all over her body like Kang Haneul, was strangling Rumia with tears streaming from her eyes, even though she was still not in her right mind.
“……..”
Meanwhile, in the midst of the chaos, Kang Ha-neul, who was quietly watching her while biting her lip, soon began to move forward.
– Sigh…
“…Ah.”
When he put his hand on the back of Kang Maru’s head, her eyes, which had been pestering Lumia with a cute expression, closed gently.
“”……””
And soon, a long silence began to flow within the hideout.
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“…Ugh.”
“…….”
“Ah, ah!?”
It was a few minutes later that Kang Maru, who had been put to sleep by Kang Ha Neul, opened his eyes again. It was on the bed in the room where it had been moved again.
“W-this place…”
“…Dominating Hands’ hideout.”
“Ah…”
Kang Maru, who was standing up straight and looking around, begins to make a dazed expression when he hears a voice coming from next to him.
“The person who strangled her just now is not the Rumia you knew. It’s a long story, but she’s no different from anyone else.”
“……”
“That means there is no need to waste your emotions unnecessarily.”
“Ha, sky…”
Soon, Kang Maru looks at Kang Ha-neul, who is in his early 20s, sitting right next to him, and says his name in a trembling voice.
“I, I…”
“There is no need to make excuses. Everything that happened in that dark space actually happened.”
“Ah…”
“I understand that our position needs to be redefined, and that my sister has a lot to say to me.”
Glancing down at her like that, her river sky continues her story in her low voice.
“But… It’s not the time yet.”
“…….”
“There are a lot of things that need to be solved right away, and there are a lot of problems that are right in front of us. There probably won’t be any hands or feet left. If you ask me if I can properly focus on this problem in such a situation, I can’t help but shake my head. “
Kang Maru swallows dry saliva without realizing those words.
“And… I still need more time.”
“……!”
“I ran the simulation several times and confirmed my sister’s sincerity… But still…”
Kang Ha-neul’s eyes suddenly begin to tremble slightly like in the past.
“…I still can’t look at my sister properly.”
Finally, Kang Maru looks like his heart has dropped at the small voice he uttered.
“So… Give me a little more time.”
“…….”
“…At least when everything that has come before is finished and everything becomes peaceful.”
Kang Ha-neul got up from the bed where she had been sitting quietly and started heading out of the room, leaving her behind.
“Let’s meet again around then.”
Then, Kang Ha-neul stops in place, holding the door handle for a moment.
He slightly turns his head, stands up slightly from the bed, and stares for a long time at the face of love and hate that was staring blankly at him.
“…Until then, I’m taking good care of myself. I’ve lifted the ability restrictions that were placed on my sister, so I’ll be able to protect myself somehow even in an emergency situation.”
“……”
“And, don’t skip meals and eat them.”
And then, with those words, Kang Ha-neul quietly leaves the room.
In the silence that started like that, Kang Maru, who had been staring at the closed door for a long time, soon lowered his head with a pale face.
“…I haven’t been of any help yet.”
Then, she soon began to mutter in a low voice.
“I’d like to help you somehow…”
– Tiring…!
Then, suddenly, a notification sound from her smartphone rang from her pocket.
“…This?”
Soon, she inadvertently took out her smartphone, and when she saw the news article that appeared on the screen, her eyes slowly began to widen.
[Emergency summons for top ranking heroes issued, will the Hero Association finally move…]
Her blue eyes soon began to quietly burn.
“…This might be helpful.”
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– Turp, trudge…
Kang Haneul, who came out of the room where her older sister was, began to walk towards her exit, receiving the gaze of those around her.
“…I’ll be back for a while.”
And, before leaving the hideout, Kang Ha-neul says goodbye in a low voice to the villains gathered inside.
“Please take care of my older sister.”
– Boom…
He said that in a still trembling voice, and when he quietly lowered his head and opened the door, Pandora’s drone quietly followed behind him.
＞ Kang Ha-neul. Is this really okay?
“…Huh?”
＞ Is it okay if I don’t talk to you anymore?
Eventually, when she asks a question through the drone’s mechanical sound, the river sky along which she was trudging quietly turns her head.
＞ The expression on her face while nursing for a few days seemed like she had a mountain of things she wanted to say.
“…It’s okay.”
And then, Kang Ha-neul answers with a bitter smile.
“There are still some things I need a little more time for, but even if that’s not the case, I don’t think I should open my mind now.”
＞ Why?
“…It makes you feel weak.”
His expression darkens slightly.
“In the final all-out battle, risking everything… I have to risk my life to fight. If I open my heart like this, there are so many things I want to protect.”
＞ ……
“…First of all, you are something beyond what is expected.”
Then, Kang Ha-neul smiles slightly and strokes Pandora’s drone, which is staring at him in silence.
“And…”
It was the moment when he was about to continue his speech, recalling the faces that eventually became the reason he could not carelessly throw away his life.
“…Sigh.”
“……?”
“Ugh, uh…”
From somewhere, a cry full of pain began to reach his ears.
“What do you mean?”
＞ Ears, not ghosts!?
“…No, that can’t be.”
Thanks to this, Kang Ha-neul, who looked confused for a moment, soon walked towards the sound.
＞ Tue, are you going to check it?
“….Because they could be enemies.”
＞ Really…?
Soon, the scenery of a narrow alley near the hideout comes into his field of vision.
“…………”
Kang Ha-neul quietly took in the sight and walked quietly to find the source of the sound, along with Pandora’s drone, which had disappeared behind his back and entered low-noise mode.
“…Sigh.”
Eventually, he reached the other side of the alley, confirmed the sound coming from right in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and eventually put his head out to the other side, muting the sound.
“…….”
Soon, his eyes began to become slightly dazed.
“uuu…”
A bandage that was covering half of the burned body, with blood coming out.
Lumia, who was changing the bandage by herself while squatting at the end of the alley, was holding her head in her hands, lowering her head, and crying at the top of her lungs.