In the end, Han Soo-young rubbed my face with a handkerchief enough to hear a drumming sound until Choi Hyeon-woo, who arrived next to him, dried it.
I told her to stop rubbing her handkerchief to the point that I thought her skin might be peeling off, but the way she moved her hands meticulously with a focused expression made her even feel some kind of obsession.
“You don’t disappear… .”
“what?”
“The smell of perfume… .”
In response to Han Soo-young’s cry, Choi Hyun-woo muttered as if it was ridiculous.
“Why does the smell go away when I rub it? Look at how red you rubbed her skin.”
Hyeon-woo Choi said so and took her away from me for a while so that Soo-young had time to calm down.
Then he looked at me and smiled a little.
“Doesn’t your cheeks smell like chicken poop?”
“Are you kidding me?”
“uh. I think I’m going to die of laughter.”
Choi Hyun-woo giggled and naturally tapped my shoulder.
I raised my arm to strike him as if not to do it, but he continued to laugh and tap me.
“I’m glad it’s better than that. Do you know how surprised I was to hear that an accident happened at the zoo you went to on the way? But Jihyeok makes it seem like you are always at the center of accidents… !”
Hyeon-woo Choi, who was saying that, stopped talking, startled and startled.
Then he carefully turned his head to look at his side.
“… … .”
Jin Ye-seul stood there without a word.
She was holding a wooden skewer that she had brought from somewhere and holding it while cooking and stabbing Choi Hyun-woo’s side.
“… Back off.”
Then, slowly raising her head and looking at Choi Hyun-woo, she said that with a voice that seemed unwilling to tolerate rejection.
Choi Hyun-woo nodded his head as if he knew it and moved away from me.
“… … .”
Without a word, Jin Ye-seul reached out to me and brushed off the part that Choi Hyun-woo had touched, like dusting.
Then, this time, he looked at him with an expression of what was going on and said.
“Jihyuk is prohibited from approaching within a 3m radius in front of you.”
“What?”
“You are forbidden. I definitely said it.”
Jin Ye-seul said so with a firm voice.
Then, when she met Han Soo-young’s eyes, she loosened the skewer she was holding in one hand and said,
“I think we have something to talk about for a moment.”
Jin Ye-seul nodded at Han Soo-young’s words.
“Let’s go somewhere quiet.”
Then, naturally, Hyeon-woo Choi, who was watching the two of them heading somewhere, sneakily took a step closer to me.
“… Are you sure you don’t want to fight?”
“… would you? Why are you two suddenly fighting?”
“But why all of a sudden… .”
A wooden skewer pierced the asphalt and pierced the asphalt right in front of Hyun-woo Choi, who was about to take a step closer.
Astonished, he looked up and saw Jin Ye-seul staring at this place without even blinking.
“… … .”
“Ah Okay! 3m as you said! Come on, okay?!”
Choi Hyun-woo said so and fell on me.
Seeing that, Jin Ye-seul slowly turned her head forward and followed Han Soo-young.
“Ugh, my heart is pounding.”
He murmured in a grumbling manner and looked at me with unfamiliar eyes.
I don’t know what it is, but at least the way he looked at me was filled with the emotion of regret the most.
“What else happened?”
“uh? Ahh… .”
Hyunwoo Choi shrugged his shoulders.
He and I were far apart, so we had to raise our voices out loud.
“I just got a call from Master.”
“Ah, him.”
“They said something happened all of a sudden and they said they would come down soon.”
“Sudden?”
“that is… . Well… .”
He looked into my eyes for a moment, then swallowed.
As if he had already made up his mind, he nodded his head a few times and spoke to me.
“That, what… . Don’t be too shocked.”
“What?”
“My teacher told me that a person I had known for a long time had unfortunately passed away, and he was rushing to meet up with his acquaintances to talk.”
“yes.”
“But that acquaintance was… . You’re Chief Jang.”
“ah.”
At his words, I nodded.
It was something that had been deliberately left out of consciousness.
… To be honest, I thought he would be rude even if he died.
It was because it was only a relationship that had only lasted a few days.
There was also a time when, unlike now, everyone I met at that time recognized that they were just NPCs in the game.
But when I heard the story again, I could feel my heart suffocating somehow.
When I heard from Lydia before, it was a story that I had deliberately put off out of consciousness.
I thought that I had a closer relationship with him than I had imagined.
Jang Deok-pil said that he died by self-harm.
And the polar bear I saw just before, fighting with its own people to the point of dying.
Jaejoon Lee.
Their leader who led and united the fanatics.
he must have done it
“… … .”
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Originally, I had no intention of holding hands with him, but it seemed to me that there was one more reason not to do so.
“So he asked me to give him some time later. After doing some business, you have something to say to us after a long time, and something to tell you.”
Choi Hyun-woo looked into my eyes and ended his speech like that.
I didn’t know what to say, so I just nodded my head.
“it’s okay?”
“uh.”
I nodded at his cautious question.
Thinking that what I can do is relieve his injustice rather than pray for his well-being.
“Did you wait long?”
Not long after, Han Soo-young and Jin Ye-seul returned.
Han Soo-young immediately came up to me and took my hand naturally.
“Are you hurt anywhere? Were you very surprised?”
And she told me to be careful.
“And I heard from Yeseul, really… . If someone you don’t know approaches you, be a little wary. got it?”
“… Yes, I understand.”
I couldn’t help but stop at Han Soo-young’s eyes looking at me while I was trying to reply something out of absurdity.
His eyes were full of worry, as if he were looking at a child who had been thrown out of the water.
I said quietly the answer she wanted.
It was because it was awkward because it was a gaze I had never seen before.
“What, what? Why are you doing this to me?”
Then, at the bewildered voice of Choi Hyeon-woo, he turned his head towards it.
There was Jin Ye-seul, who looked around Hyeon-woo Choi as if he were a prosecutor.
“… I didn’t really get close. I am satisfied.”
She muttered a little, but when he heard that, Choi Hyun-woo put on a goosebumps expression on his face.
It’s the first time I’ve seen him look so frightened.
“I like people who keep their promises.”
Then he asked Hyun-woo Choi.
“Are you still going to be someone I like?”
“uh… .”
Choi Hyun-woo looked at Han Soo-young without saying a word.
Han Soo-young looked at me for a moment at his mournful gaze, as if asking him to take his side, and then nodded.
“Soo, Sooyoung… ?”
Then she moved, as if to hide me from his gaze, and then gently avoided his gaze.
To Hyun-woo Choi, surprised by the shock of being abandoned by his family, Su-yeong Han answered with a voice that seemed to be sorry but could not make concessions.
“… sorry. But this time, I have the same thoughts as Yesul.”
Just suffer for a while.
At those words, Hyun-woo Choi made a face that was absurd.
Han Soo-young had an expression that seemed to have nothing to do with Han Soo-young.
* * *
In the end, we didn’t have a place to go, so we headed to 5th Street.
To be honest, there was no better place to play than there.
First of all, we simply filled our stomachs at the restaurant and talked about what we would like to do and play.
“Shall we go to karaoke?”
At Han Soo-young’s words, Choi Hyun-woo nodded his head.
He was strangely far away from me.
“Oh, that’s good.”
“Uh… . What am I?”
Jin Ye-seul nodded as if it wasn’t bad.
Then he looked at me and asked.
“How are you, Jihyuk?”
“I’m not very… .”
For some reason, Han Soo-young and Jin Ye-seul insisted that they must go to a karaoke room in response to my disapproval.
I kept asking to go somewhere else, but it didn’t work at all, and Choi Hyeon-woo, who was strangely depressed, was silently watching what I was going through as if he was happy.
… In the end, I couldn’t spoil the mood, so I had no choice but to go to karaoke with them.
Han Soo-young sang mainly lively songs, starting with popular idol songs, and Choi Hyun-woo mainly selected ballads that emphasized as he was originally vocal.
The thing that surprised me the most was Jin Ye-seul, who arguably was not inferior to being a singer right now.
There are many types of songs to choose from, so to be honest, I was naturally looking forward to what she would sing next.
… And all that was left was me.
After a while, the three people who got out of the karaoke room were struggling to hold back their laughter, so I think my song was a sufficient answer.
That’s why I didn’t want to come.
“Jihyuk… . Hmm, the voice was nice… .”
When Han Soo-young spoke, Jin Ye-seul nodded her head.
Their mouths were strangely closed as they struggled to hold back their laughter.
“… Yes, the songs I picked were particularly difficult.”
Then, suddenly, Hyun-woo Choi opened his mouth next to him.
“My dear~”
As he sang along to the part where there was a rattle earlier, Han Soo-young and Jin Ye-seul burst into laughter along with a fuss sound.
It seemed like I could tell what my face would look like without looking in the mirror.
“… Have you all laughed enough now?”
At my words, Choi Hyun-woo muttered hard, clearing his throat.
“What is Jihyuk’s singing ability… .”
“Look behind. you really.”
When I said that, Choi Hyun-woo held back his laughter and nodded his head as if he knew.
Then, Jin Ye-seul suddenly grabbed my arm and shot at Choi Hyun-woo.
“Aren’t you being too harsh on Jihyuk?”
“Uh, what?”
“You can’t make fun of people like that. To be honest, Jihyuk is kind, so it’s a shame, if it were another kid, there would have been a fight!”
At Jin Ye-seul’s words, Han Soo-young made a careless expression and quickly nodded her head.
“That’s right, Hyunwoo. Even I think you are wrong Apologize to Jihyuk.”
“What, am I the one to kill again?”
Looking at Choi Hyun-woo, who seemed unfair, I took a small breath.
Then she smiled and opened her mouth.
“My dear~”
After laughing in front of the karaoke for a while, we headed straight to the cafe.
In the meantime, we were able to catch a glimpse of the plaza where all five streets meet, a huge stone statue standing tall in the middle of the plaza.
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One of the seven evils.
Dragon Minerva.
“… … .”
Looking at it, I gently rubbed the forearm that had Nidhogg’s fangs in it.
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Originally, I should have been working on it earlier, but things haven’t worked out in the meantime.
Margot’s work happened, and above all, it was because it was difficult to let go of Nidhogg’s fangs while he was now involved with Lee Jae-jun.
In any case, one of the worst counters for Jae-Jun Lee, a clan of the World Tree, was the fangs of Nidhogg I was holding.
Still, I had to try.
“Yesul.”
“yes? no, sleep… . Now in your name… ?”
While Han Su-young and Choi Hyeon-woo were absent again saying that Master had called again, I secretly called Jin Ye-seul.
When I called her by name, she looked at me in surprise.
“Yesul, I have one request.”
“… … !!!”
At my words, she blinked her eyes and shook her head.
Seeing her gaze as if to say something, I gently pointed to the statue and said.
“Can you see a little wound on that?”
“that? now?”
“yes. Instead of being noticed.”
At that, Jin Ye-seul nodded and ran straight to the stone statue.
And then, after a while, he came back with trembling footsteps at me with tears in his eyes.
“I can’t… .”
She showed me shattered or shattered blades of weapons.
I also pulled out Nidhogg’s fangs and handed them to her, hoping that the odd things wouldn’t leave any scratches.
“Can you do this?”
“… I’ll give it a try.”
And she went back to the stone statue.
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On the way, the guards on patrol found her and blew a loud whistle, but she wasn’t the only one who would be caught by some of the guards.
After a while, Jin Ye-seul, who returned from chasing off the chase, said to me.
“I was hurt… .”
“Did it go back to normal soon?”
At my words, she nodded as if she had no face.
It was as expected.
I looked at the statue, telling her that I was good to her and that it really helped her.
‘It also depends on self-healing ability.’
If that’s the case, you’ll have to keep Nidhogg’s fangs plugged in.
At this point in time, when there is a high possibility of colliding with the thorn cross, including Jae-Jun Lee, I couldn’t just leave it alone.
I had to find some other way.
* * *
“So, let’s try it one more time.”
Yeeun Lee asked in a calm voice as she looked at the man trembling on the other side of the screen.
Standing next to the man, tied to a chair, was her henchman.
“Your order is to blow up the research facility. Was it just that?”
“Yes, yes! That’s right!”
“Attack someone, there wasn’t anything like that?”
“Yes… ! Just simply, we are, as always, civilian demons!”
Suddenly, he stood next to him and slashed the back of his hand with a blunt weapon.
Yeeun frowned at the sound of shouting and waved her hand once.
He shook his head and stopped what he was doing.
“I told you to only answer the questions asked. Yes, no. Can’t you understand?”
“Yes, yes… . no! no! I get it!”
“great.”
Yeeun Lee nodded her head.
There was only one man in the rank of executive.
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One of the members had already brushed off everything they could by now, but the results were not satisfactory.
“Isn’t there such a thing as a murderer that was usually given down by your side?”
“… Yes.”
“Recite the whole list.”
“Oh, that’s too many to memorize… !”
Scream once more.
This time, it was not with a blunt weapon, but with a blade.
“I think you can’t judge the situation.”
Yeeun Lee sighed.
“The Thorns Cross Society is now a first-class wanted group. You’re saying you’re just scum that doesn’t violate the law even if you kill them on the spot. But now.”
Yeeun Lee shook her head.
“I’m giving you a way to survive.”
then.
“Aren’t you supposed to roll your head hard? is not it? Doesn’t even a guy like you want to live?”
“Yes, yes… !”
The man nodded eagerly.
Then, recalling the memories, he began to pick up people’s names, and Yeeun Lee calmly wrote down their names.
Yoo Ji-hyuk’s name was not there.
“… … .”
There was nothing inconsistent with the confessions of ordinary believers who had already confided.
Yeeun Lee nodded, thinking that there was nothing more to brush off.
“Okay, there’s nothing more to brush off now. I don’t think I even lied.”
“Go, thank you… .”
“Then I don’t want to see it anymore, so get rid of it. Oh, but keep your promise and send it off comfortably.”
At that, her henchman pulled out a pistol from his arms.
When there was a thud and the sound of the ball being pulled, the man shouted in exasperation.
“Come on, wait! You said you’d save me, I’ll save you!”
“What, did you really believe that?”
Yeeun Lee muttered as if it was ridiculous.
“You dared to touch my brother. Then you must die.”
“sleep… !”
There was a loud gunshot.
Seeing the man fall with a thumping sound, Yeeun Lee muttered quietly.
“Nobody.”
No one can touch my family.
She muttered like that and turned the screen off.
Her eyes, reflected on the blackened screen, were as cold as ever.