396 – [D] Hidden Boss: The Melancholy of a Childhood Friend (2)
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What is it?
Jang Xian froze for an instant.
Why on earth is he here and why is Nasua coming from there?
Could this be Nasua’s house?
‘But it couldn’t have been someone else’s house in the first place…….’
It’s probably Nasua’s house.
Aside from her house in Puerto Rico, this was her first home she had visited in her life.
“You called your sister depressed yesterday, but you seem to be feeling much better today?”
“Yes? “Phone?”
Na Suah approached Kang Xian.
She looked oddly cute, perhaps because she was wearing one-piece dinosaur pajamas.
On the other hand, I could see her breasts shaking every time she walked, as if she was only wearing underwear underneath her.
Kang Xian moved her eyes from below to above her, and tilted her head.
“Don’t you remember? “She was drunk last night and she called her sister.”
“I…… Yo. This?”
“So my sister went looking for our Xian to see if it was lying on the street.”
She was looking for that too?
Kang Xian felt terrified as to what she had done to the unknown, which was not in her memory.
“Maybe…… “Have you been looking for a long time?”
“Um, about 3 hours?”
What the fuck.
Not for 1 hour, but for 3 hours.
Although she says it indifferently now, it was hard for her to even imagine how difficult it must have been back then when she was looking for it.
“I’m going crazy… ….”
“How did you find it? She kept making phone calls and looking for a place that suited her surroundings. “I guess you didn’t go as far as I thought.”
“…… “Hey sister, where did you meet me?”
“We met near Nartica headquarters.”
For reference, the distance between Nartica headquarters and Sariwon City was not short.
There were a truckload of people who would swear at me and say I was wasting my time if I tried to walk seriously.
And Kang Xian had performed such an act yesterday.
It was clear that he was not only drunk, but very drunk.
“Near Nartica headquarters…… ?!”
“It seemed like we had been walking for quite a while as we were almost approaching the headquarters. Well, maybe because he was walking like that, he didn’t seem to have much energy.”
“Hey…… Sister. “Did I say anything strange?”
“Strange words? Hmm… ….”
Jang Xian prayed earnestly in his heart.
I hope I didn’t make the worst mistake in an unavoidable situation.
“I did a lot. “When I put you in the car, you complained a lot in a depressed tone, right?”
“Are you complaining?”
“Oh, that doesn’t mean I cursed anyone…… Oh, is that an insult? Hmm, I guess it’s an insult.”
“Who are you insulting?”
“Well, it was some girl swearing…….”
Girl.
The problem is that half of the world is made up of women, and the people next to Kang Xian had a higher percentage of women than him.
I couldn’t even tell who I had dared insult.
I’m sure you didn’t directly curse at Nasua, right?
“That doesn’t mean you insulted Marie, Shannon, Ines, or me, so don’t worry.”
“Phew… ….”
Then it was done.
Because I wasn’t specifically swearing at an acquaintance.
“Friends from high school? He complained a lot about that guy. Well, I tried to trick you, I cursed you a thousand times, I tried to pull a trick…….”
I was friends with a girl in high school.
Kang Xian thought of more than a thousand female friends, and she was soon able to think of just one person.
“Ah…… I think I know who it is. “She’s the one who sang along to other friends.”
“Yes, that’s exactly what you said back then. At the same time, she wondered what would happen if a thousand birds were injured…….”
“… ….”
“She was really worried about Marie. “If she continues like this, she will be ruined in the future.”
Nasua’s eyes were like those of someone who had seen the truth of an acquaintance’s drunkenness.
There was no doubt whatsoever in her statement that everything would be ruined in the future.
It was fortunate that her secret was kept, but Kang Xian kept her mouth shut.
It was because she was embarrassed enough to die.
If she had been Cheonma-ri instead of Na Su-ah, she would have been stuffed forever and made fun of.
Of course, Cheonma-ri would bring it up every now and then and get on Kang Xian’s nerves.
She did something of that level to Nasua, so how could she not feel bad?
Na Su-ah tapped Kang Xian on the head.
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She said, “She seemed to have had a lot to drink. Things like that happen, too. “That’s what happens to you too if you drink too much.”
She chuckled as if she understood.
On the other hand, Kang Xian touched her cheek as if she thought it was cute that she was even squirming.
“And the very thing you said was something you would complain about in that way in your life. “A strange friend might get in trouble, or an injured friend might be worried.”
There is no need to be ashamed.
Be a little more confident.
It was just easier said than done.
Kang Xian wanted to hide in her hole.
“Don’t worry, my sister doesn’t think much about what happened yesterday. “Don’t hold her too close to your heart.”
“Yes… ….”
Na Su-ah comforted Kang Xian, who had a fear of drinking.
She eventually went to the kitchen, and started taking out ingredients one by one from the refrigerator.
“Let’s see, my Sian has come to visit my house~ I guess I should cook him something delicious~”
Kang Xian stared at Nasua.
It was a bit strange that she was cooking while wearing dinosaur pajamas, but that wasn’t what Kang Xian was thinking about right now.
‘Then why did you bring her to your own house instead of taking her to her aunt’s house?’
I know that she found me here, listened to my complaints, and even covered me with a blanket to tell me to sleep well.
But why was she brought here?
She was a little strange.
Kang Xian tilted her head as she watched Nasua take out her cutting board and cut her vegetables.
“Hey, sister. I have a question.”
“Huh~? What?”
“Why was I sleeping here instead of at my aunt’s house?”
It wasn’t something I was suspicious of, it was just something I was curious about.
No matter how you look at it, there is no particular reason to bring her here.
“That’s because my sister brought me here.”
“Uh…… But if it were Nartica headquarters, I think my aunt’s house would have been closer… ….”
Tak.
Her cutting stopped.
Nasua smiled softly as if asking what was the problem.
“That’s right. That’s right, but I just brought it here. “Do you hate it?”
“No, that’s not it…… I’m an outsider. Sleeping together at my sister’s house in such a situation would be a bit…….”
Being close and sleeping overnight at that close person’s house had different meanings.
Of course, it could have been because they were really close, but Nasua and Kang Xian were closer as older-younger people than as friends.
Acquaintances, elders, guardians, teachers.
It could be seen as a relationship between something that includes the relevant element.
“You mean an outsider? “Why is our Sian an outsider to my sister?”
“Yes? After all, we are just acquaintances…….”
“Sian, you are like my own younger brother. “My younger brother is drunk and comes and goes, so wouldn’t it be okay to bring him home?”
Is that so?
But if it’s your real brother, wouldn’t you rather not let him sleep?
‘I think they’d rather kick me out, saying I can’t go to my house.’
Considering the numerous conflicts between brothers and sisters, it was safe to say that it was a wrong analogy.
However, since Kang Xian had no real brothers or sisters, she did not open her mouth about this.
The inexperienced person was speechless.
“Ah…… “That’s right.”
“Right? “I brought my sister here without much thought, so don’t worry too much about it.”
“Yes.”
Anyway, I forced myself to understand.
Even though Na Su-ah licked her tongue, she understood and passed it on.
Afterwards, she was waiting endlessly for Nasua’s food.
The cell phone in her pocket rang harshly.
“Huh? Who is it?”
– [Sender: Vlasova (Researcher at Nartica)]
Time Potion Researcher.
Espir Vlasova is calling.
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After a short phone call, Kang Xian immediately left the house.
Contrary to Nasua’s wishes that she eat at least one meal, she headed to the laboratory at Nartica headquarters without eating anything.
“Oh, this is what the inside of the Nartica lab looks like.”
“Don’t look at it too much. “Researchers might think my sister is strange.”
However, this time, her outsider, Nasua, was also present.
She got Na Su-ah’s car and brought her a car to see her as a magpie-gang Xian to repay her favor.
Like that, Kang Xian stopped in front of a laboratory.
She pointed to a bench right in the corner.
“I’ll have a chat with the researcher first. “Please stay here for a while.”
“Yes.”
“If anyone says anything, just say that he is a relative of Hunter Kang Xian. Or tell me your sister’s identity.”
An acquaintance of Kang Xian or a professor at Palaistra Academy.
It was a business card that would work for anything here.
With that request in mind, she opened the door and entered.
A researcher was sitting on a chair, looking at her entrance.
“It’s been a long time. Researcher Vlasova.”
“I’m sorry for calling you early in the morning. Because it was a sudden problem…….”
“No, it’s okay.”
Walked inside the lab.
We looked at various flasks and instruments that appeared to have been used in research.
“By the way, how did you like the prototype potion I gave you?”
“A potion to enhance temporal superpowers? It was very good. “The performance was amazing.”
“Oh! “I’m so glad it worked!”
“Of course, as soon as I unlocked my super powers, I had the problem of losing strength and increasing body fatigue.”
“Oh.”
What happened at the Nartica Puerto Rico branch.
During the battle underground, I consumed a prototype potion that strengthened my temporal powers.
The effect exceeded expectations.
At the cost of some side effects, it was possible to make the time slowdown overwhelmingly slower than the normal controllable time slowdown.
“That’s a problem that can be fixed even if you work overtime, if you give us time and budget, so you don’t have to worry too much.”
“Time and budget…… Thank god. “Still, you’re putting off what you originally made, so there’s no need to go overboard and make it.”
“No. Considering how much the original potion consumes, I would have made it at some point anyway.”
This time-boosting potion was unplanned.
Vlasova reports on the mysterious time superpower potion consumed during the research process.
It was a potion that was painstakingly created from a duplicate to be used instead for research.
Of course, it was a replica, but not a complete version.
It was a deteriorated version, so it was labeled as a prototype.
This was the reason why Kang Xian used the deterioration plate potion.
It was for better combat, but it was also to check what a time psychic would be like when using it.
“First of all, we will produce the next improved version by the second quarter of this year. “Could you please check it like this again?”
“As long as it is a version for which clinical trials have been completed to some extent.”
“Oh, of course I have to give it to you as one that has completed clinical trials! “There are a lot of companies in China anyway”
“Wait a minute. “You don’t have to tell me that much.”
Kang Xian blocked the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
Even in private, she shook her head as if saying something like ‘the mystery of the human body’ was not something to be said casually.
“Oh, look at my mind. “Even if they are all serious criminals, you have to watch your mouth, but I forgot that.”
“Anyway, don’t overdo it. Please proceed slowly.”
“Yes~!”
Vlasova nodded her head and stood up from her seat. She
She then set down several utensils from the shelf.
“By the way, the reason I called the Chief Hunter here today… ….”
She also took out familiar items from the storage room.
It was none other than several samples previously obtained from Kang Xian.
“I need to collect new samples like hair and blood.”
“Have we run out of samples?”
“That’s not it. However, the samples are in poor condition, possibly due to a storage mistake. So I think we should take this opportunity to collect something new.”
There was nothing that couldn’t be done.
It brings about great results, such as a superpower strengthening potion, so you have to give everything you can.
But that was the moment when she rolled up her sleeves to give a sample.
One factor that could not be overlooked passed through Kang Xian’s mind.
“Uh…… This time, just like last time…… Is ‘that’ necessary?”
“That…” … I know it’s hard right now, but…… Note…… Yes that’s right. “I need that too.”
Vlasova’s gaze lowered slightly.
Kang Xian sighed, saying that this was truly amazing timing.
‘I can’t do it alone, what should I do?’
Should she really call a prostitute?
If that bothers you, should you wait for even a thousand without a promise?
However, the research results were too great to waste time waiting.
Something might happen while a thousand birds sleep, but I couldn’t stop research.
‘If it doesn’t work out, even Shannon…… But I think I heard this vacation is a bit busy.’
It was the lesser evil, but even for this I had to wait for a month.
With the start of the game slowly approaching, one month was too precious a time to be wasted.
Should I visit Ireland again?
My mind became complicated enough to think like that.