84 – It was him.
The basement of the temporary headquarters in the early morning when the morning sun did not rise.
There,
She was slowly playing the piano with a familiar tune.
A beautiful musical sound full of joy and joy.
And… at the center…
Sitting there was a man with a look that made you never think he could play this kind of music.
Brown tanned skin with dyed blonde hair.
At the same time, her face, which is playing a beautiful performance that does not match her bad appearance,
It contained emotions of deep and deep anguish, quite different from usual.
sound full of joy
A cynical look at the world.
And.. a look that feels more heavy emotions than that.
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Just like that, right after the situation with complicated energy in many ways finally ended with the performance…
She slowly turned towards me with a slightly surprised expression on her face.
“..Lee Jin-hyeon.. Adjutant?”
“sorry. I didn’t mean to disturb you, though.”
Looking at me, she starts to show embarrassment..
Yu Kwon-soon, the A-class Hunter of Dreamers.
Regarding this, I slowly approached her side. Regarding this, Kwon Soon averted her gaze from me and asked in a quiet voice.
“..Since when.. have you been there?”
“It’s been a while. If I had to say it, would it be from the beginning of the performance?”
“… Chit.. What, then you just watched everything from the beginning. Aren’t my adjutants too busy thinking of strategies?”
Kwon Soon speaks with a bit of a murmur at my words.
However, reading the emotion behind her attitude, I spoke to her in a voice full of sincerity.
“Operations are important, of course, but I think right now this will be quite important as well.”
“… Ha, you mean the Hunter’s mental care I mentioned earlier? I’m sorry, but I feel like I need counseling right now…”
“Joggs.”
“… .”
“Please tell me. What’s going on with you now. What the hell is bothering you so much?”
Along with clarity, I spoke to her with some severity.
A fact she denied with her mouth.
However, I was able to grasp at once what she was thinking about this.
Even if all other reasons are excluded, her face that I can see in my eyes at this moment.
At this moment… a single tear was flowing from her eyes.
She is so confused that she doesn’t even recognize that she was crying.
And, as I vaguely guessed what the reason was, I couldn’t.
I couldn’t leave her alone in this moment.
And, at my invitation, Joggs’ face slowly began to distort as if it were cracked…
Then, she completely broke the forced smile she had just a moment ago, and began to pour thick tears from her eyes.
“..it was him.. that abyss.. the face he was making.. that was.. definitely.. that guy..”
“That guy… if it’s… no way?”
The moment I heard that, one fact passed through my mind.
The past that Kwon Soon confessed to me the other day.
At this, I automatically started to frown…
Looking at me like that, Kwon Soon nodded slowly and said,
“Choi Son-bin… the guy who fought alongside me the other day… and… the guy who couldn’t even recover his corpse during the damned restoration of Pyongyang…”
“!…”
A story that gives clear conviction to my thoughts.
Regarding this, I didn’t say anything for a while, and Kwon Soon, seeing me like that, put on an expression of even deeper pain.
*
Kwon Soon wipes the dust off the rifle in his hand.
Gwonsoon’s face showed a more serious determination than usual as he cared for it, which was decorated with colorful painting and minor illegal alterations to match the owner’s usual image.
Although, the feelings of bitterness she carried remained firmly rooted.
But at this moment…
In her heart, there was not only simple suffering, but also a sincere determination to solve the problem that lay in front of her.
‘Certainly… He’s a competent person in many ways, my adjutant. In any case, you succeeded in making a person able to carry a gun and go to the battlefield like this, right?’
Perhaps, Kwon Soon was deeply distressed by this situation where she might have to kill her former colleague who died unfairly with her own hands.
Although that mind still hovered around her like a specter, at this moment she was willing to choose to take up arms.
It was because of the story Jinhyeon Lee, adjutant, told her after hearing about her suffering.
If… that’s really her colleague, tell her to finish everything with her own hands and save her.
It is said that complicated thoughts should be done with her hands first after freeing that pitiful being being used by the Abyss.
Adjutant Lee Jin-hyeon didn’t say anything more about what the words “salvation and freedom” specifically meant.
Will it be salvation in the name of death?
Or.. are you hoping for a miracle like a thread that can’t happen.
However, either way, Kwon Soon was able to clear his mind on one fact.
‘You don’t have to worry about whether that’s really Sonbin Choi or a monster in his appearance. The important thing is to defeat him with my own hands. Determining what that entity is is something we can do next.’
Whatever its identity, leaving it in this state would endanger her life, her precious comrades, and the lives of many others here.
It is not too late to think about an old friend once the immediate danger has been completely ruled out.
In this way, Kwon Soon began to make up his mind once again while clearing up his complicated mind regarding personal matters.
‘No matter which way it goes, I’ll definitely end it with my own hands..’
*
After nine days of blood-drying information gathering,
In the end, immediately after sending the exhausted hunters to the infirmary due to overwork with the mission completed, I immediately looked at the lieutenants and guild masters who were waiting for my story.
Although I was in a bad physical condition due to the fatigue of the past nine days, at this moment I had no time to worry about such things.
An operation that must succeed even for the lives of 10,000 people, including the precious people who are in my hands, and even for the lives of other soldiers who are fighting everywhere at this moment.
In response, I calmed down my tired mind and opened my mouth with a serious and determined voice.
“then. From now on, we will proceed with the operation as announced.”
As previously announced by the dictionary, the operation started a day before the Abyss arrived at the defense line.
So everyone there began to listen to me, and to them I began to elaborate on the best possible strategies for them, based on the information I had gathered.
So, the briefing lasted for about 3 hours or more.
In the meantime, the faces of those who were here began to show some complicated emotions.
About this I spoke to them with some concern.
“If you have any doubts or corrections in the above issues, please express your opinion.”
“… ”
A question I asked while preparing to hear some resistance.
However… Contrary to my thoughts, I didn’t see anyone expressing opposition to this right away.
‘..Unexpected.. I thought that a slightly different opinion would emerge. If there was a person like Isena, I would have come out right away, but I don’t think there is anyone like that here.’
As with any operation, the question came up asking why we were rolling in such a rough place as if it was dangerous, and also if it was safe, as if it was safe, the old guild master who was screaming and saying why we didn’t give us a chance to make a feat came out. I was what I expected
Fortunately, however, none of them raised any particular issues, and feeling relieved by the fact, I spoke in a calm voice.
“good. If there is no objection, I ask that you proceed with the operation immediately.”
“Did you all hear? Then get into action right now! Operation begins!”
As soon as the guild master in charge of this place ran out of words, those who immediately took action.
Seeing their chaos like this, I felt a strange joy that I had never experienced before and started to move hastily toward the place where I should be.