I glanced at the outstretched hand and glanced at him.
Then Jaejoon Lee turned back his outstretched hand as if embarrassed and muttered.
“Um, are you in a bit of a hurry?”
“More than that, why are you here… . Did you even do something like that?”
“No, no. No way! Following a minor is no reason to commit such a crime.”
Jae-Jun Lee waved his hands wide and trembled, telling him not to say such scary things.
And he responded with a smile that seemed like a human being when he first saw him.
“Honestly, I don’t know if you would believe it, but I just happened to find out. So I followed.”
“How did you happen? Believe it now?”
“Yeah, what is that… .”
He gently extended his right arm to me.
Wearing thick long-sleeved clothes, he gently pulled the sleeve of his shirt, revealing something familiar from the side of his wrist.
It was a branch of the world tree.
“I’m not proud of it, but I am. It’s a pretty old relationship.”
He said so and covered his sleeves.
I could feel the branches of the World Tree oscillating more violently than usual.
He had to put in a lot of effort to prevent him from going out right now.
“Hey, he’s a pretty aggressive kid. My child is boring because he is dry no matter what he does.”
Jaejoon Lee looked at me with a small smile as if he knew it.
“The branches of the World Tree resonate with each other. It is the same with those whose branches have taken root in the body.”
He shrugged.
“Now that we have met and recognized each other, wherever I go, you can get a rough idea of where I am. Oh, of course, vice versa.”
“… That’s really hard to hear.”
He gave me a slightly bewildered look at my words.
“uh… . That might be acceptable. Sorry. The only people who have branches of the world tree are me and my brother, so I never really thought about it.”
He nodded.
“Now, the head of the world tree clan, Lee Je-seok, will become my older brother.”
He casually spit out a fact that was also confidential and muttered to me as if complaining.
My older brother is Je-seok, but I use the name Jae-jun.
“Anyway, my brother accepted the branches of the World Tree as soon as they became adults, and was evaluated to have led another heyday. And because we have been together for a long time, we were able to exchange each other’s positions and feelings.”
He still muttered with a smile.
“So I thought that if I just dig into your brother’s brain, there would be no trace of him, but here I met a person I never thought of.”
Contrary to the shadow of Henir, who was silently waiting for those words, the branches of the World Tree struggled again.
I made him still again and looked at him.
Because, as far as I know, he would never have touched me at this point.
Now was the time to listen to the story and gather a little bit of information.
“So, you came in person to scratch my head too?”
“Oh, did that sound like that? It didn’t mean that.”
He waved his hand once.
“I’m just curious. How in the world did a person with a branch of the world tree come out other than our brother, and not Yeeun? . I’m sorry, but is it possible that my brother is a hidden child?”
“Well. Wouldn’t it be quicker to ask your brother over there?”
“Well… . Well, that wasn’t the point.”
He nodded.
And then he said, looking at this as the main point.
“Would you like to hold hands with me?”
“… … .”
I looked at him without a word.
it wasn’t funny
“I killed two or so bastards who thought they were apostles, you know that?”
“Ah yes. Of course I know. It doesn’t really matter, anything like that.”
He waved his hand as if not to worry.
“Because I’m going to have to pick it up again anyway. At first, I told you not to touch the academy students, heroes, and other awakened people like hunters… . Kids these days have a habit of distorting and exaggerating the opinions of others. To be honest, I was just thinking about getting one.”
As he muttered, he began to look at me slowly.
It was an embarrassing look.
“Actually, I only had the thought that it would be more convenient if we were on the same side. But, as well as having a branch of the world tree… . It must have been that they had the same kindness of the Seven Evils.”
He chuckled and smiled.
“I have two of them, can you believe it? No, I have to believe it. There is a living witness like this right in front of me! one spirit… The aura I have in common is weaker than mine, but the other one is stronger than the one I have… … . I can’t believe it! How can a single human be alive with the plural of the Seven Evil Species, and even with such a powerful energy… !”
He shook his head as if he was genuinely excited.
“Do you know how many years, and how many people, for that purpose? Orchard, what? . Something like that happened a while ago when I was out of town, but… . Anyway, I’ve never had any meaningful results. But in this way… .”
Saying so, he suddenly began to unbutton his long sleeves one by one.
Every time he unbuttoned the button, there was a strong smell of perfume and a disgusting smell that made his nose hurt.
“In order to build trust with others, you have to talk and deepen the relationship. It’s a personal theory, but I think it’s good to tell each other’s secrets. By revealing your big secret, you can give the other person a strange sense of responsibility and sympathy. Depending on the person, it can also give you a sense of guilt and debt as an added bonus.”
Having said that, he lifted up his clothes as if I wanted to see him.
There was a strong smell of perfume, along with a foul smell of putrefying meat.
“Are there any side effects? See, I’m nothing more than the blood of a new foot compared to you… .”
Part of his body was rotting.
Even if the branch of the World Tree in my body fluctuated, there was no reason why his branch of the World Tree was silent.
His world tree was because it was difficult just to constantly repair and maintain his body.
Even if I knew it, seeing it in reality was more terrible than I had imagined.
As I stared at his stomach, lost for words, he smirked and said:
“Isn’t that great? The pain is painful, but I suffer from hallucinations and hallucinations to the point where I can’t even sleep at night. It’s a shame because I’m a member of the World Tree, but if I were a normal person, I literally drank enough sleeping pills to just die, and I barely fell asleep.”
He blinked his eyes as if tired.
“Is it the punishment for committing a taboo? It’s terrible. It was necessary, though.”
“… … .”
It was as he said.
As he said in the clouds on the horizon, if you commit a taboo act, you accumulate karma.
And the fastest way to build up that karma level was those related to the Seven Devils.
It could be said that it was a case of accepting their factors, or eating a part of the body.
Even in the original story, it starts with small things, such as a permanent decrease in status when karma levels are accumulated, or random status abnormalities or debuffs when entering a battle.
And starting with gradually being rejected by the people around you, or monsters named evil spirits twisting around every now and then, in the end, even if you just stand still, you will continue to take damage.
… If it had reached that level, it was said that it had come to an irreversible degree.
I looked at him, who was staring at him with twinkling eyes.
“When you’ve finished talking, won’t you turn off now? Stop exuding a rotten mine too. I’m nauseous.”
“Uh… That’s too bad. After all, it seems like it was too much to be friends with from the first meeting.”
He said so and got up from his seat.
And then he said to me in a voice that had no regrets.
“If you have any thoughts, please come to me anytime. It’s because I’m really, really, full of thoughts of welcoming you.”
“You haven’t gone yet?”
“Uh, that’s… . Actually, there was another reason I came here. Actually, there will be a terrorist attack here in a little while… .”
Aww!
As he was speaking, an explosion could be heard in the distance.
Unsurprisingly, he glanced back.
Even though the situation of father-in-law was unfolding in an instant, he couldn’t help but calm down.
“Hey, it’s late. Because I always talk too much.”
He shrugged.
“Anyway, see you later. People with the original branches of the World Tree are drawn to each other even if they don’t want to… !!!”
He was moving mana so that he could attack him at any time in case of an unforeseen situation.
The man in front of him made a strange noise and flew away.
‘Ah ah ah ah ah… .’ He flew away with a faint sound and fell into the kennel where the polar bears were.
And Jin Ye-seul, who kicked his neck with all his might and sent him away, was looking at me with a desperate face he had never seen before.
“Jihyuk, are you okay!?”
With a click, the blood-stained blade was sucked into her shoe.
Jin Ye-seul started looking around, fiddling with my face with her trembling hands.
“Didn’t you do something strange to him earlier? huh? Look where!”
Jin Ye-seul, who had been looking around me with a desperate attitude, stopped suddenly and looked at me.
Then he sniffed and sniffed me, frowned without mercy, and murmured in a voice that seemed to scratch from the inside out.
“This is to tear and kill… !”
Jin Ye-seul, who muttered as if chewing and spitting, suddenly took something out of her arms.
Before I even realized it was perfume, she started spraying it on me drab.
“Oh, hey, what… !”
She sprayed me with perfume, almost to the point of sprinkling rather than sprinkling.
As she waved her hand reflexively at the stinging smell, she exclaimed in a groan.
“Hold on, hold on! I mean, it still doesn’t smell bad… !”
Jin Ye-seul, who almost sprayed perfume on me, threw away the perfume bottle and ran straight to the kennel where he had fallen.
I also moved with her.
Smoke was still rising from the building that looked like a research facility in the distance.
“This… .”
“… … .”
The inside of the kennel was a mess with blood and flesh.
And Jae-Jun Lee was nowhere to be found inside, and the remaining polar bears were fighting like crazy, biting each other and slamming each other with their front paws, with wounds all over their bodies and covered in blood.
“what.”
Jin Ye-seul muttered a little as if she was in a good mood.
Then, as soon as he found a man wearing a robe and holding a weapon in the crowd of people running away, he ran as if everything went well.
The man who was kicked by Jin Ye-seul was thrown to the floor with a sound like splitting rocks.
Then, from here and there, wearing robes, what appeared to be members of the Thorn Cross Society began to flock to see if they were targeting Jin Ye-seul.
The first was when I, too, drew out Yado’s dagger, which had only one left, to join her.
“Don’t worry, Jihyuk.”
Saying that, Jin Ye-seul stepped forward as if blocking me.
“Because I’m going to kill everything you do.”
Having said that, Jin Ye-seul flew towards them without hesitation.
* * *
“Chief, please step on it a little faster! Hurry up!”
Han Soo-young polished the taxi driver with an urgent voice.
Then Choi Hyun-woo, who was sitting next to her, put his hand on her shoulder as if to calm down a little.
“Sooyoung, calm down. I was so excited.”
“Now do I really look like that!?”
She nervously shouted at Choi Hyun-woo.
Then he immediately shook his head and apologized to him.
“Mi, I’m sorry. Hyunwoo. I didn’t mean to be angry… .”
“know. it’s okay.”
He smiled softly as if he didn’t care.
Then he began to gently pat her on the shoulder, as if to tell her not to worry.
“Is Jihyuk a normal kid? Because Yeseul is there too. You won’t have to worry too much.”
“Nope. Hyunwoo, you don’t know… .”
At the zoo where they were supposed to meet, Han Soo-young felt like her heart was pounding at the sound of a thorn cross, which had been absent for a while.
In addition.
Another thorn cross.
Han Soo-young could feel a deep murderous intention towards them, who appeared as if they were waiting.
How much do you have to torment him in order to get rid of his stomach?
It felt like his billionaires were collapsing at the thought of how painful he must be, and that he is keeping a secret that he cannot tell anyone.
“Ji-hyeok looks so delicate on the inside, but… . How painful is it right now? .”
Han Soo-young muttered in a low voice as if her heart was aching.
Han Soo-young continued to mutter as if regretful, whether or not she knew that Choi Hyun-woo was making a slightly incomprehensible expression next to him.
“Every time I look at it, it feels like I’m looking at a young puppy, so I’m always drowsy… . He’s so kind and he’s so affectionate, so I’m worried… .”
“Oh yeah… .”
Choi Hyun-woo simply nodded his head without saying a word.
puppy?
In my opinion, he’s more like a dog… . Yeah, it’s closer to a snake.
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Of course, this time too, I didn’t say it out loud, I just thought so.
Before long, the two arrived right in front of the zoo.
Han Soo-young immediately kicked the door and left, and Choi Hyun-woo apologized to the driver and paid the fee and followed her.
“Jihyuk!”
And they could find Yoo Ji-hyeok talking to the police outside the zoo.
Han Soo-young ran away calling his name, and he looked at Han Soo-young and Choi Hyun-woo with a surprised expression, who seemed to be listening to something.
“Jihyuk, are you okay? !”
Han Soo-young, who clings to Yoo Ji-hyuk without anyone stopping him, tilted his head instead of speaking in an urgent voice.
“… … .”
after a while.
Smelling the perfume on his body, she silently pulled out a handkerchief from her arms.
* * *
“What do you all do without practicing?”
“Ah, the boss.”
After practicing, Yeeun Lee asked the members who were sitting around looking at something.
Then one of the members waved his cell phone and answered.
“A thorn cross, this time attacking a monster research facility?”
“What are they really thinking?”
“Do you understand Nanda?”
Lee Ye-eun’s eyes became cold when she heard that name.
Garbage again… .
With that in mind, she quietly pulled out her phone.
It was at the moment when I was about to call someone to track them down and take care of them.
“Uh, what? Isn’t he a member of our team?”
“who? Oh, it’s true! they, her Is that Yoo Ji-hyuk or him?”
“who?!”
Surprised by the name that shouldn’t be heard, Yeeun Lee rushed to them.
Then, seeing Yoo Ji-hyeok on the screen of the stolen cell phone, she seemed to be suffocating.
“… … .”
“I, the couple… ?”
“Are you okay?”
She nodded her head without saying a word to the members’ questions.
Then, with staggering footsteps, he went out and immediately called his henchman.
“… This time the attack happened. Don’t hand over all the Crusaders captured there to the Society, and we’ll secure them at any cost.”
– Yes? Suddenly what… .
“Did you even eat your ears? Catch them all and secure them.”
Yeeun Lee muttered as she looked down at the floor with her unfocused eyes.
“Because I will interrogate myself.”