170 – 170. Random Gacha Future City
“Suho… …. I think we’re in big trouble.”
The moment he heard those words, An Su-ho felt his heart sink. No, he seemed to have all his organs slipping out between his legs, not just his heart. At the same time, a chill tickles his body along his back.
What a great thing to hear. Seol Ah-hyun’s words were extremely simple and dry concerns, if you look at their face value. However, words usually have different meanings depending on the speaker.
How do you look at the current situation from Suho Ahn’s point of view?
The two discussed measures regarding the winter alliance with Sung Eugene. Related discussions were sluggish, but the two still had a last resort. It was Seol Ah-hyun’s future poem, and through that expedient, not an expedient, the two thought that they would be able to figure out a solution to the problem they were facing.
Seol Ah-hyun, who was involved in the process, looked quite confident. A face full of positive emotions, such as pride in one’s abilities and the joy of helping Ahn Su-ho. He had a face that made me feel reassured just by looking at him from the side.
But what?
When Seol Ah-hyun closes his eyes to see the future and then opens them again, his face suddenly starts to turn pale, his lips quiver, and his eyes run wild like fish thrown into the water.
However, the first words he said with such an uneasy look were a big deal.
To put it a little vulgarly, we’re f*cked.
You say that in a trembling voice, wondering where your confidence from a while ago has gone. Ahn Su-ho is not an iron man, is he not surprised and shoots his stomach?
“…… What kind of future did you see?”
“That… ….”
Seol Ah-hyun stammered as he explained the scene he had seen. Upon hearing this, Suho Ahn shook his head a couple of times, saying, ‘It’s true that we got f*cked up!’.
Dark parking lot. Traces of battle. In the middle of it. He died (appears to be) with his right arm cut off.
“…… f*cked.”
The face-to-face expression represented Ahn Su-ho’s feelings. In response, Seol Ah-hyun adjusted her expression and said.
“It’s okay, Mr. Suho… ! That’s the future that hasn’t arrived yet, so we need to take measures from now on! Besides, how many times do we get glimpses into the future?”
It’s not infinite, but the right to glimpse the future dozens to hundreds of times allowed by Seol Ah-hyun’s physical strength. Although the point of view was random, it was definitely a strong ability.
So Ahn Soo-ho grabs Seol Ah-hyun’s hand tightly.
“Please. Mr. Ahyeon.”
“Just trust me.”
So Seol Ah-hyun threw herself into the future again to overcome the catastrophe she had just seen.
However.
“…… Suho and I were taking out coffee at a cafe. Suho’s Iced Americano. I have a Java Chip Frappuccino.”
“…… Suho and I are going somewhere in a car. The driver is Carchago. I show Suho a picture on my phone from the back seat. What kind of observatory? It was a picture of Suho taken in the same place as the background.”
“…… Suho and I were walking down an alley. Judging by the coffee in his hand, it must be the next scene from the future we just saw. Yes? Oh, there was nothing unusual about Suho getting a last-minute call? Oh, I couldn’t confirm who it was. That’s when the future poetry ended.”
“…… Suho and I were taking a walk near the lake. I don’t know where it is, but the trail is well-maintained and there are many joggers? It felt like the banks of the Han River. That’s it. I just took a walk without saying a word the whole time I was watching. I don’t know why the hell…….”
“…… Su, Suho and I, that’s……. Hmmm, I don’t think this future is very important. Needless to say……. Yes? Gee, is it really not important? Don’t you believe Zezeze?!”
After that, I tried to activate future poetry several times, but somehow the future I could see was all mundane, or worse, a useless future.
Especially because of the obscene scenes mixed in between, Seol Ah-hyun’s face was red like a ripe apple. Ahn Su-ho asked with a worried expression.
“Ahyeon. Don’t overdo it and take a break. You look very tired.”
“Is that so? Then wait a minute, take a break and do it again…….”
“Let’s do this for today. I don’t want to overdo it and cause any side effects that I don’t know about.”
“But… ….”
“Anyway, you knew I was in danger. Where did you even get that? Besides, as Ahyeon said, the future can be changed. If we prepare now, such a future will not come.”
Ahn Su-ho thought that Seol Ah-hyeon was overexerting herself to the point that her face became red. In fact, the cause was not the use of abilities, but Seol Ah-hyun was grateful for Ahn Su-ho’s consideration, and he did not even want to convince him that it was not the reason.
As Seol Ah-hyun let go of her hands, the sticky sweat met the cold air and quickly cooled. Seol Ah-hyun wiggled his fingers with a flushed face, wondering if the sweat was her own or An Su-ho’s.
“That, Mr. Suho. Do you have time tomorrow too?”
“Maybe. I am not going to work for a while.”
“Then can I see you again tomorrow? Even though this ability is random, there will be things that get caught if the number of times increases…….”
“I don’t care. By the way, Mr. Ahyeon, is your time okay? You are the guild master.”
“Because I am the guild master, I can do whatever I want for an hour or two. I still have work, so I can’t go to Sokcho, but…….”
“It’s okay. Someone with plenty of time should come. Besides, this is entirely my responsibility.”
“I’m sorry, but could you come over here tomorrow too? The specific time will be announced by this evening.”
“Good.”
The two of them felt thirsty almost at the same time after their conversation. It was because they had been talking non-stop for almost an hour.
“It’s already past one o’clock.”
“I will. Lunchtime is over. Oh, did Suho eat?”
“No? It is still.”
“Then would you like to eat with me?”
There was no specific reason to refuse. Ahn Soo-ho nodded, and Seol Ah-hyun picked up the phone with a smile on her face.
‘Come to think of it, what kind of meal would Ahyeon like to eat?’
I don’t know how much difference there is in the food people eat, but Seol Ah-hyun was once the guild master of the Black Dragon Association and the president of the company including the guild. Even if he doesn’t call a catering chef for every meal, he might have an in-house restaurant for executives somewhere in the company.
Wouldn’t it be better to go to a more luxurious restaurant even if you eat out?
Ahn Su-ho thought so inwardly, but Seol Ah-hyun took out a mobile phone with a smile on her face, and the screen of a delivery brokerage application that was familiar to her came to mind.
“Uhhhhh. What shall we eat today…….”
Seol Ah-hyun chooses dishes with a happy face.
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Looking closely, there were advertisement magnets for Chinese restaurants, fried chicken restaurants, and all sorts of stores in the drawers of her table. It is the same guy that is often put on the refrigerator at home.
The scene where the guild master of one of only five S-class guilds in Korea is choosing food for delivery with a face like a high school girl.
Ahn Su-ho was surprised to see her like that. She didn’t come from a conglomerate like Seol Ah-hyun’s Midsummer & Midgyeol sisters, but she did.
“Maratang after a long time? Or, I think the Rosé Tteokbokki from this store would be okay…. It’s been a while since I’ve eaten tonkatsu here. Noodles…… Wouldn’t it be bad if it was delivered because it would blow up a bit? Oh, but the Chinese restaurant serves noodles and soup separately…….”
Seol Ah-hyun, who was worried and excited, stared at Ahn Su-ho with her desired face.
“Ah… ….”
Seeing the smile on Ahn Su-ho’s lips, she covers her face with her cell phone as if she’s ashamed.
“That, Suho, do you have something you want to eat…… ?”
“That’s all good. Ahyeon, eat whatever you want.”
“Is that okay?”
“Yes. Anyway, I don’t know what’s delicious around here anyway. Please introduce a famous restaurant at this time. I’ll order another one next time I’m nearby.”
“Well, then I’ll take my favorite shop…” ….”
After agonizing over her troubles for about 10 minutes, what Seol Ah-hyun ordered was a large-sized pizza from a shop called ‘Nerd Pizza’.
She said that this is a hidden restaurant where you can feel the craftsmanship of her boss even in a piece of sprinkled cheese.
It took less than 20 minutes for the pizza to arrive. Another advantage is that the store itself is two blocks away from the headquarters of the Black Dragon Society, so you can enjoy freshly made hot pizza. Seol Ah-hyun said confidently.
“…… The pizza is square.”
“Hee hee. Are you curious? Doesn’t it feel a bit exotic?”
In the first place, pizza was a foreign food, but An Su-ho could roughly understand what Seol Ah-hyun meant.
The pizza came in a square box that was small for a large size, and the contents were as square as the box itself. The thickness of the pizza, which could have been three times that of a normal pizza, was crispy like a tart on the outside. It looks like a square plate full of pizza.
“Now, try it. It’s really good here!”
Seol Ah-hyun offered her pizza with her confident face. Because he picked up the slice with his hand and put it into his mouth without using a fork, An Su-ho opened his mouth and ate the pizza.
“Oh… ….”
“How are you? Is it delicious?”
“Yes. It’s really good. I don’t know much about pizza, but cheese and sauce are all excellent.”
Cheese with a texture that seems to flow in your mouth and the aroma of tomato sauce that spreads in it. An appropriate feast of taste that was neither overly stimulating nor bland unfolded in An Su-ho’s mouth. In fact, I thought that the delivery pizza had to be delicious, but it was considerably more than expected.
“Anyway, I am surprised. I never thought Ah-hyeon could be so quick with delivery food. Since I’m the company’s president, I thought, of course, that you would only go to expensive restaurants.”
“A. Is that all it’s worth? All the happiness of life is contained in this square box.”
Seol Ah-hyun said while chewing on cheese with a happy expression. Certainly, that face looked happy even to Ahn Su-ho. The happiness worth 27,000 won including delivery fee made even the face of an S-class superman melt away.
“Suho. What will you do now if you die today?”
“Mmm. First of all, I want to meet the two people in the future that Mr. Ah-hyun saw.”
“Midsummer and midwinter?”
“Yes. My older sister is not someone I can meet because I want to meet her, but my younger sister is at the academy, so I can see her as much as I want. Being in the future scene means being involved in this event in some way, or being in a position to get involved. I want to meet you once again to ask about the current situation.”
We had to meet at least once in the middle of winter. It’s been two weeks since the last ranking match loss. Because she had to check on her condition.
“Other than that… …. I need to have a discussion with people around me who can clarify the situation. My boss, Min Chae-ryeong……. Do you remember Yewon, the last time you saw her? I’m going to talk to him and Kang Ha-neul as well. Because they are both people who worry about me a lot.”
“Come to think of it, what kind of relationship do you have with those two? Kang Ha-neul student? On the other hand, even if you are an academy student, that Ji Ye-won…….”
Come to think of it, she didn’t tell Seol Ah-hyun about the two of them yet.
Then how should I explain it? Ahn Su-ho pondered for a while and soon decided to reveal the truth. She didn’t even have a fact to hide.
“This is my girlfriend.”
“…… Yes?”
Seol Ah-hyun hid at Ahn Su-ho’s confession! And held her breath. She falls over, but a piece of cheese gets stuck in her throat, causing a hiccup.
“Hiccup! Uh, girlfriend? Either way, hiccup! Which one?”
“Both. There are complicated circumstances like this.”
“Doo, doo doo doo doo both?!”
She was so startled that even the hiccups stopped. Ahn Su-ho briefly explained the reason why she met the two of them. As the explanation continued, Seol Ah-hyun’s face gradually spread bewilderment.
“Ahahahaha. Are you a bit confused? Two legs in this day and age.”
“…… Yes. No, I’m very embarrassed. Sorry. Because it’s completely unimaginable…….”
“That is a normal reaction. It doesn’t make sense to say that it’s usually a certified bridge. I was very lucky, really.”
Ahn Su-ho said that she didn’t care about her jokes, but Seol Ah-hyun’s inner thoughts were so serious that she didn’t even know if her pizza was going down her mouth or down her nose.
‘Suho already has a girlfriend? Are there two of them?’
It was completely unexpected. She had never investigated An Su-ho separately, and he hadn’t shown that he had a girlfriend.
Of course, I had run into those two during the kidnapping of Kang Ha-neul, but even then, I didn’t see any signs of that. In Seol Ah-hyun’s view, Ji Ye-won was just a colleague or acquaintance of Ahn Su-ho, and Kang Ha-neul was just a victim of an innocent kidnapping case.
But those two are Ahn Su-ho’s girlfriends?
‘Then what is the future I saw?’
Seol Ah-hyun felt like she had been hit hard in the back of the head with a hammer. The future is not certain. It was a fact she knew all too well, but she never harbored such doubts about her relationship with An Su-ho. If it was strange, it was strange, but…….
‘Well, then, if I keep going like this, will it end without incident with Suho?’
I don’t know where to end when I haven’t started anything. Thinking so, Seol Ah-hyun felt sorry for nothing and her mouth felt bitter.
She herself didn’t know why she felt that way, but she felt uncomfortable anyway.
‘I’ve been feeling strange since before… ….’
Meanwhile, Ahn Su-ho was tilting his head at Seol Ah-hyun.
A possibility flashed through his mind.
‘Does Seol Ah-hyun like me too?’
…… The moment he thought about it, a humorous article about dating that he had read on the Internet passed through his mind. I don’t even think of anyone who will give me rice cakes, but I’m drinking kimchi soup first. It seemed like he was talking about himself right now.
‘Oh no way. Seol Ah-hyun and I are just in a business relationship, and it wasn’t like there was anything between the two of us.’
The relationship between the two was, at least from Suho Ahn’s point of view, only a favorable business relationship. To say it was something between a man and a woman, it was only that he saved Seol Ah-hyun when fighting Wilhelm, and even that was a melee in which seven superhumans fought side by side, so it was nothing new.
If you fell in love with yourself for saving me with your stupid words, then you should have fallen in love with Seong Yu-jin too. Ahn Su-ho’s head was gradually filled with such skeptical thoughts.
‘Of course, Yewon and Ha-neul also started their relationship because I saved them… …. Because that wasn’t all.’
Because of the isolated environment Ji Ye-won was raised as a spy, Kang Ha-neul was drawn to Ahn Su-ho because of her position as a possessor in an unfamiliar world.
However, Seol Ah-hyun was different. She was an S-class superhuman and guild master who lacked nothing. Why did she say that she fell for Ahn Su-ho through a trivial occasion?
‘Yewon and Haneul were special cases. Could Seol Ah-hyun do the same?’
I thought it was, but in fact, Seol Ah-hyun was also a special case, although the type was different.
As Ahn Su-ho said, Seol Ah-hyun did not fall for Ahn Su-ho yet. Instead, she observed the future where she and Ahn Su-ho continued to do so-and-so.
In other words, I don’t know the solution to the problem, but the answer is thrown at me.
Since human psychology isn’t a math problem, there’s no way that Seol Ah-hyun would fall for him, but I couldn’t help but be concerned. On top of that, Ahn Soo-ho wasn’t particularly angular towards her, and she rather chose to do things that would make her likeable. Therefore, it would not be strange if he gradually began to feel soft.
Of course, the two couldn’t imagine each other’s psychology at all. They say they know what’s inside the hot water, but don’t know what’s inside the people on the long road. Sincere conversation is essential to knowing and understanding another person’s heart, but the two of them had never had such a conversation before.
‘Wait. But if I was Suho’s girlfriend in the future that Suho went through, and if Suho’s girlfriend is someone else now……. So am I abandoned…… ? Could it be that he knew the future of dating me and deliberately dated someone else…… ?’
‘There’s no way that Seol Ah-hyun likes me. The reason why the reaction was strange to the story of the two was probably just that I was embarrassed because I had two girlfriends. What else could it mean?’
That’s why the two of them developed an illusion like that without even knowing each other’s feelings. The pizza placed between them was obviously delicious, but neither of them had time to taste the pizza.
At that time.
-Diriririririri.
Ahn Suho’s cell phone rang. It was a call from Ryu Tae-hyun.
“Hello?”
-Brother! I heard you were released yesterday! Where are you? Can I go pick up the tofu now?
Ahn Su-ho smiled at Ryu Tae-hyeon’s question in a humorous tone.
“Do you think I went to prison or something? It’s okay dude. Why did you call than that? What’s going on?”
-I need something, but can I call you? …… I want to say yes, but something is going on. Why, the other day, I had to talk to my older brother about the amusement park…… Oh oh!
-Cudang Tang Tang!
At that time, a raucous sound rang through the receiver. The moment Ahn Su-ho furrowed his eyebrows, a harsh female voice pierced his ears.
-Hey!!! Hey you thief!!! Give me back my artifact right now!!!
“??? Who are you?”
– What??? Who is this???? Who is it????? Ni xiang si ma?! Do you really want to die to me?!
‘Chinese…… ?’
At the moment when Ahn Su-ho was at a loss for words at the sudden Chinese profanity, a high-pitched voice continued.
-Who am I?! I am Xiaomei, Xiaomei!!! The Chinese Broker Who Stole The Artifact!! Give me back my stuff right now you son of a b*tch!!!!!!
Ahn Suho frowned at the roar that rang through the phone.
Why is he with Ryu Tae-hyun… ?
what a clusterf**k