Jin Ye-seul and I sat facing each other.
While examining her forty years, Lee Yu-na suddenly developed a high fever.
Professor Grossman rushed her to the infirmary, and the class ended naturally, so we were spending time in the cafe.
“Yuna, are you okay?”
Jin Ye-seul muttered in an indifferent voice.
However, it was not difficult to notice the subtle worries contained within.
With the exception of us now, she was the only friend I met separately.
To put it bluntly, it seemed that he didn’t want to build close acquaintances with anyone except for Lee Yu-na.
I could only guess that there must have been a lot of changes inside her due to Jin’s death.
“The professor said fortunately that he knew how to treat it. You don’t have to worry.”
Jin Ye-seul nodded and looked at me.
“Jihyuk, do you even know what that is?”
By the way, Jin Ye-seul was a member of the wizarding family.
Then, even if it was a rare symptom, it was not strange to know about forty-two.
“know. You are forty.”
“That was it too.”
She nodded her head slightly.
Then he mumbled quietly with a gloomy expression on his face.
“It’s an incurable disease, but at that age… .”
“yes?”
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Oh
Come to think of it, in this world, forty-four people were known to have an incurable disease.
There was no need to keep it a secret even to Jin Ye-seul, so I told the truth.
“I can fix it.”
“uh?”
“It can be fixed, forty-nine. It is an incurable disease, not an incurable disease.”
Jin Ye-seul made a surprised expression as if she couldn’t believe it, and then nodded her head.
“Uh… If Jihyuk said that to you, that would be it.”
Then she smiled as she touched the inside of the cup with a straw.
“let me know? How do you fix it?”
“Uh, um. If you do, it’s me, thank you… .”
“How to cure forty… .”
It was when I opened my mouth to explain to her.
“Hey, Ji-hyeok and Jin Ye-seul?”
It was Ivan.
He had a cup of coffee in his arms.
“It’s the captain.”
“Oh, Ivan.”
Jin Ye-seul shook her head as she sat down.
I got up and greeted him.
“The professor entrusted me with an errand to ask for something to feed the kids.”
As he said that, he waved the coffees he was holding in both hands back and forth once.
“Then why are you guys here? Have you guys finished class already?”
“What… right.”
I nodded and said.
“Can I help you more than that? It looks heavy.”
“no it’s okay. It is enough for me alone.”
Ivan burst out laughing.
Then, he said with a glance at the place where Jin Ye-seul was.
“Besides, I don’t want to hear any resentment from Jo Won-nim for acting without notice.”
When she turned her head to those words, Jin Ye-seul had an expression on her face as if she didn’t know anything.
Ivan laughed once more.
“Anyway, I’ll go. Everyone will be waiting for me to come.”
He said that and was about to leave, but he made a noise and looked at me.
“right. Jihyuk, can you spare some time later?”
“why?”
“That… Your mother keeps telling you stories.”
He tilted his head as he said hesitantly.
“It’s okay to say this, but… You are the first person your mother has shown interest in you like that, and whenever your mother does, something important has to happen… .”
“… Belluna?”
Ivan nodded.
There was no reason to refuse.
“It’s me, I don’t care. If you tell me, then I will free up time.”
“Okay, then I’ll call you back later.”
Leaving those words behind, Ivan walked away as usual, walking upright.
As I sat down, Jin Ye-seul was staring at me.
“… why?”
“… Come to think of it, Ivan’s mother was very beautiful.”
“What?”
When I looked at her in a bizarre way, Jin Ye-seul also made an expression that thought that she had gone too far.
Then he turned his gaze and muttered in a low voice as if he was asking why.
“No, just… You were very beautiful… From the outside, to be honest, we looked a little older than we were of the same age.”
Because that’s the spirit.
There was no way I could answer that.
I lifted up my half-drunk coffee cup.
“By the way, what did you say earlier? Was it about how to cure forty-forty?”
“Ah, yes.”
“Simple. How to cure forty… .”
it’s money
Jin Ye-seul tilted her head at my story.
“money?”
“Yeah, money. Exactly, it costs a lot of money to prepare the materials needed to heal.”
“Uh… .”
Jin Ye-seul muttered quietly.
“Then I can’t help you anymore.”
Jin Ye-seul, who spoke up to that point, covered her mouth with an apologetic expression for a moment.
What, why are you here?
With that thought in mind, she rolled her eyes and sighed a little as if she had given up.
“… I didn’t mean to keep it a secret.”
She muttered like a whimper.
“just. Jihyuk seems like you have a lot to take care of these days, so I didn’t want to make anything more for nothing.”
“What the hell is going on?”
“That’s, um… .”
Jin Ye-seul hesitated for a moment.
“I was rejected at home.”
“… What?”
disobedience.
It was something I hadn’t thought of at all.
When I asked the question, she smiled bitterly.
“I roughly expected it, but I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.”
Jin Ye-seul, who said that, had a rather sad expression on her face.
“Well, he wasn’t the kind of person who would change his mind just because his mother encouraged him, so he probably had it in mind from the beginning. Maybe he did it with the intention of taking this opportunity to relieve one of his worries.”
Jin Ye-seul, who had been talking up to that point, rolled her eyes as if she was suddenly anxious.
Then he looked at me and muttered quietly.
“Hey, Jihyuk. I really didn’t mean to keep it a secret from you. But, if I say I’m offended… Jihyuk will definitely care about you, and… .”
She stiffened and closed her eyes.
“I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned by you… .”
“Wait a minute.”
This time, it was a word I had never thought of in a different way.
“What are you talking about? Why did I leave you?”
When asked that question, she answered in a mumbled, crawling voice.
“Well, now I don’t have a rich family or background… Whenever you need something, I can’t help you like I used to… I just thought you might annoy me.”
“Huh… .”
I couldn’t help but let out a deep sigh.
Then, Jin Ye-seul flinched and trembled as if she had been beaten by someone.
I’m going to be so dependent on you that I won’t be there for a while.
Recalling Sbangali’s words, I began to soothe her with the softest voice possible.
“I saw a person called you from the beginning and went together, and I never went together because of your background or family. You know that, right?”
“It is, but… .”
“But it is not. And did you hear it too? That, your father… When I said that about you, I immediately refused and chose you.”
Jin Ye-seul nodded her head without saying a word.
I carefully reached out and took her hand.
“I won’t leave you. No, it’s ridiculous to say that it was thrown away in the first place… So, don’t worry about such useless things.”
“still… .”
“Because it’s real.”
I let out a small laugh.
“If I was going to throw you away for nonsense, I threw it away now.”
He moved his neck to show the nape of his neck that still had a small scar.
So don’t worry.
As I was about to say this, I was taken aback and startled.
“… … !”
It was because Jin Ye-seul’s complexion had become so pale that there was no more.
She immediately bowed her head and muttered quietly.
“… yeah right I did that to you too… It wasn’t now, but when it was thrown away, there was nothing to say. But me, if the real Ji-hyeok gets abandoned even by you… .”
“… … .”
What should I do with him?
It was a time when I was contemplating how to calm her, who seemed to be digging into the ground if left alone.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
Someone naturally took a seat at our table and sat down.
I looked up and saw it was Ivan.
[You were that blonde girl last time.]
Sbangali muttered so.
I looked at her and asked.
“What’s up? Have you already found it?”
“… I am not surprised.”
Esmeralda, disguised as Ivan, muttered with a smirk and kicked her tongue.
Then he nodded and looked at me and Jin Ye-seul in turn.
“I found one of the two you asked for.”
“who?”
“Lee Chul-min. One of Isaac McDowell’s close associates.”
She took out a picture.
In the photo, a man who appeared to be in his late 20s was photographed.
“Did you say Dmitry? The man hasn’t been found yet. But this is definitely… .”
“great. It was just a matter of finding one or the other first.”
I nodded and looked at Esmeralda.
“You don’t have to wait until you know where it is.”
“What, are you planning to go right now?”
“okay. And now that I’m here, I’d like some more help.”
“… That wasn’t what I asked for in the first place.”
“Shall I contact Lydia, then?”
Then Esmeralda looked at him as if to kill him.
After a while, he looked at her and nodded.
“I’m going to go catch him right now, just like you said. So, disguise yourself as Yesul and I, go around and make some alibi. and… Just go there with us and guide us.”
I won’t even ask you to fight with me.
At that, she nodded as if she understood.
I gently touched Jin Ye-seul’s shoulder, who was still gloomy.
“Yesul.”
“… yes?”
“Come with me.”
that’s what you need
As soon as she said that, her eyes, which had been droopy, began to gleam a little.
But it was shaking slightly.
“I?”
“yes. No one else, only you.”
At my words, she nodded her head.
It was when she was desperately feeling the need to contact Jin-jeong sooner or later because of her desperate appearance.
“Children are the worst… .”
Esmeralda murmured as if she didn’t like the way we were.
I looked at her like that and asked.
“By the way, where was he?”
“… … .”
Esmeralda was silent for a moment.
Then he said in a really bad voice, as if swearing.
“The place where you and I first met.”
Esmeralda mumbled that as if she was really upset.
* * *
The archives I had visited in a long time were bleak.
Still, it was a place where there were always about a dozen or so people, but now it’s empty, so it’s locked tightly with a sign that says that entry is prohibited except for officials.
“… What’s happening?”
Really, really, this was unexpected.
As she muttered blankly looking at it, Esmeralda explained.
“The director, the deputy director and the head of the management department also died, and due to financial difficulties, various things overlapped, so it was temporarily closed. It must have been a month already?”
“It’s been a month… Then what about the materials or things that were inside?”
“Well. It is not easy to move materials of this size.”
She waved her hand saying she didn’t know.
“It will probably stay the same. Well, even so, I would have taken all the expensive items and computerized data.”
“okay… .”
Then, it was said that the book of Shadow Walker, where Henir’s shadow is hidden, is likely still there.
Even if it was moved somewhere, all the records will remain, so if you sell a little bit, you will be able to find it quickly.
“… Anyway, he’s hiding here.”
Esmeralda lifted her head and looked at the archivist.
“There is a record that he bought food and daily necessities in the vicinity several times, and above all, the security company was called eight times because of the noise of people in the closed archive. It was all in vain.”
“That is enough. Do you know the approximate location?”
“Probably the manager’s office. It’s the cleanest place, and it’s a place where you can live like a human being.”
Esmeralda, having said that far, backed away as if there was nothing more to do.
“Then, I’ll let you go.”
“okay. Good work. Say hello to Lydia.”
She stopped walking at the thoughtless words.
“… You are what I sincerely advise.”
Esmeralda gritted her teeth with a popping sound.
“If you keep stumbling over him like that, one day I will really kill you… !”
That was then.
Esmeralda’s neck was broken with a rumbling sound.
Jin Ye-seul kicked it.
“ah.”
Jin Ye-seul straightened her posture and muttered.
“Have you not been able to?”
“uh… … right?”
I muttered as I watched her disappearing alter ego.
I was just a little surprised to find out that it was her alter ego that came all the way here in the first place.
“… But it doesn’t matter what the clone was.”
I’ll get insulted again next time, but it’s always been that way.
I murmured and stretched my shadow towards the lock.
I said to her, carefully removing the lock that had been cut in two as cleanly as if it had been cut with a knife.
“Still, it was just a little rough. From now on, you must get permission from me. Understand?”
“yes.”
Jin Ye-seul nodded her head like a child.
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Okay then… .
“Let’s go in.”
Without hesitation, we ventured into the archives.