“It’s a matter of how we take Mr. Jin-jeong.”
Yuzuki Horie, who returned soon after, said so.
She looked at me and looked at Jin Ye-seul, who was holding Jin-jeong from behind and holding her in her arms.
With their strangely soft eyes, the two of them seemed to be very affectionate.
… For some reason, in my eyes, it looked as if Jin Ye-seul was holding Jin-jeong to prevent her from escaping.
[You put your hand on the boat.]
Sbangali muttered quietly.
He said before he even asked what the hell was the problem.
[Although it is the preferred part of predators, the place that the prey want to protect the most is the stomach, that is, the abdomen. Because all the organs necessary for life activities are gathered there. Why, when you see animals, don’t they show their ships as a sign of obedience?]
Upon hearing his words, I looked at him reflexively and saw that Ye-seul Jin put her hand on Jin-jeong’s stomach and hugged her tightly.
Although Jin Jeong-jeong looked uncomfortable, she hugged Jin Ye-seul’s arms without saying anything.
[What… It’s a good thing for you.]
Sbengali said with a chuckle and a tongue-tied twitch.
[Since there are two goals, the possibility will increase a little. Because the main survival strategy of the prey is to increase the survival rate by traveling together a lot.]
What the hell is this guy talking about?
I started talking with Horie Yuzuki, trying to ignore the guy who was talking about his own liking.
“It’s not good to show up here and there… However, Jeong-Jeong Jin’s physical condition is not too good for me to take him out by teleportation.”
“Certainly, it will be a lot of pressure in the current state.”
“Then I’ll take you.”
Jin Ye-seul calmly opened her mouth.
“You can just wrap it around in sackcloth and take it out of sight. Even if you think it’s strange, Evangeline, it’s the people that he sent, so I’ll understand. As a means of transportation, we can rent a car or one and move around.”
“Well… Then, next is about the follow-up care of Mr. Jeong-Jin Jin.”
Horie Yuzuki hesitated here for a moment, then faltered.
It seems that he had heard that Jinjeong was a homunculus.
“Let’s get out of here first, then think about it.”
I looked at them both and opened my mouth.
“After all, this facility will no longer be operational. First of all, Evangeline… If it’s not enough, we ask our clan for help too. Myung-Jun Lee is there too.”
With regard to the homunculus, the best experts could be called Alice Blesbuck and Cass Lyle.
If I could ask those two people, most of Jin’s problems could be solved.
“Well, then, let’s do that for now. Wait a moment… .”
With those words, Horie Yuzuki called somewhere.
In the meantime, I found the blanket and brought it to Jin Ye-seul.
“Come on, sister.”
Jin Ye-seul took the blanket and said to Jin-jeong with a smile.
“Yeseul, I think you can just leave. All the people who are coming now are from our guild anyway… .”
“sister.”
Jin Ye-seul was still smiling.
“I’ll cover you with a blanket, so tell me if you touch the wound?”
With those words, Jin Ye-seul began to roll up Jin-jeong’s body with a blanket.
Jin-jeong made an expression that she wanted to say something, then kept her mouth shut.
Jin Jeong-jeong, who was dried in blankets like gimbap, looked up at Jin Ye-seul and spoke in a still low voice.
“Yes, this is… I think that’s a bit too much. I can’t even move by myself. If so.”
“Because I’m carrying it. Sister, did you think you were going to walk on two legs now? with that body?”
Jin Ye-seul said so and took Jin Ye-jeong in her arms.
When Jin Jeong-jeong’s bare feet, lifted lightly, came out of the blanket, Jin Ye-seul picked up the blanket and carefully covered her toes.
“It’s too light. This is almost like a middle school student… ?”
Jin Ye-seul was silently hugging Jin Ye-seul as if she had almost given up.
She was deeply guilty of Jin Ye-seul.
That is why she looked like she would humbly accept even if Jin Ye-seul slaps her on the cheek and spit on her.
“I have to eat diligently.”
Jin Ye-seul muttered like that.
Sbangali chuckled at the sound and burst out laughing.
[You know why people fatten pigs, huh?]
That’s what you’re doing after you’ve fattened yourself up and eaten it.
Unknowingly, I shot at Sbangali who said that.
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
“yes?”
“No, heck. Let’s get out of here quickly.”
He spoke in a low voice, but it seemed he heard it.
I turned to Jin Ye-seul like that and started walking in the lead.
As if he had already finished talking, Yuzuki Horie nodded.
“We have a vehicle waiting outside, and now the members of the Guild Blue Sap are here. As soon as we leave, they will take care of it immediately.”
“Then, may I ask you a little more, Horie-san?”
“What?”
“Hunter Lee Myung-jun, Mr. Evangeline, and the head of our clan… I want to do this three-way face-to-face right now.”
“You want me to contact the boss.”
“Yes.”
She nodded immediately.
“Well, this is not normal… Let’s do that. Judging from it, it seems that that person is also involved, and I will grab him by the collar and bring him back.”
“good. Then we move on.”
With those words, we walked towards the exit of the facility.
And after walking for a while, I could find the source of the first disgusting smell of blood, and the corpses of monsters were scattered all over the facility.
“I was prepared for an intruder.”
Jinyoung opened her mouth quietly.
She was wrapped in a blanket and held in Jin Ye-seul’s arms.
“I didn’t know it would come in so quickly with such an ignorant amount. Thanks to that, I lost it before I could even write anything.”
“I was glad I asked Horie-san. I would have been really late.”
“yes. Once again, thank you, Horie Yuzuki.”
While in Jin Ye-seul’s arms, Jeong-jeong Jin bowed her head respectfully to Yuzuki Horie.
“Ahaha… .”
As Yuzuki Horie was greeted, she smiled slightly as if embarrassed.
After a while we were able to make our way out.
At the exit, there were several people who appeared to be members of the Blue Sap.
“Mr. Horie.”
“Ah, hello.”
Perhaps it was a spherical shape, Yuzuki Horie said hello to a man wearing a mask.
He gave orders to the others to go in and investigate, then point to the midsize car parked to one side.
“This is the vehicle you requested.”
“thank you. I will use it carefully and return it well.”
He nodded his head and looked at Jin Ye-seul.
Then he said his final goodbyes, saying that he would also go in to investigate, and walked to the place we had just left.
“Yeseul, would you like to sit in the back seat with Jin-jeong?”
“Ah, thank you, Jihyuk.”
With that said, Jin Ye-seul opened the door and carefully sat Jin-jeong in the seat.
As I sat in the passenger seat and fastened my seat belt, I heard Sbangali muttering in surprise.
[Leave it naturally… Ohh. It seems like you now know a little about how you, who have no clue, are still alive.]
“… … .”
I felt the need to have a proper conversation with this guy later.
These days, I released it to see if it would be of any help, but it was starting to get annoying to start by talking useless things like this and making fun of it openly.
“Yesul. Why can’t I just do this… .”
When I looked behind me in the rearview mirror, I saw that Jin Ye-seul was fastening her seat belt to Jin-jeong.
The problem was that Jinjeong’s body was filled with blankets wrapped around it.
In the end, Jin Jeong-eun took on a strange shape to the point of doubting whether someone was being kidnapped or escorted by a criminal from the outside.
Jin-jeong tried to wriggle her body once, but then she closed her mouth with a still uncomfortable expression.
She looked into Jin Ye-seul’s eyes and sighed quietly.
“why?”
In the meantime, Jin Ye-seul, who made eye contact with me, smiled brightly.
“never mind. You must be more tired than that. Why don’t you close your eyes?”
“Uh… later.”
Jin Ye-seul said so and glanced at Jin-jeong, who was sitting still.
“I’m not very sleepy right now.”
After saying that, Jin Ye-seul turned her head again and looked at me.
She was still smiling.
“It’s a bit too wasteful to just sleep there.”
* * *
We arrived at one of the branches of the guild to which she belonged, the Hammer of the Thunder.
Although the situation was urgent, in reality, the heads of the three factions could not gather right away, so there was talk of talking through communication.
“… That’s Okay. You can come in.”
We moved quickly at the words of Yuzuki Horie, who was looking around.
Jin Ye-seul was still hugging Jin Ye-seul.
“Wait a minute, please sit down and rest while we prepare for communication. Others have already been contacted, so we will be the only ones who will be ready when they are ready.”
While she was fiddling with something, Jin Ye-seul carefully sat Jin-jeong in the chair.
Jin-jeong, who was constantly making an uncomfortable expression, opened her mouth as if she had made up her mind.
“Yesul.”
“yes?”
“How long do you plan on doing this?”
Jinjeong said in a quiet, calm, but slightly trembling voice.
“Now my body is fine. It’s still difficult to deal with mana like before, but there are potions and Yoo Ji-hyuk helped me, so I’m almost fully recovered… .”
“sister.”
Jin Ye-seul quietly sat down next to Jin-jeong and said.
“Did you think I was doing this because I was worried about my sister?”
“… uh?”
Jinyoung gave a blank expression for a moment.
“Sister, how can you be so selfish?”
Jinjeong looked at Jin Ye-seul with trembling eyes.
Jin Ye-seul was still smiling.
“Now to the subject of being unable to do anything alone, to the subject that abandoned me and threw me into the abyss.”
Why did you think I was worried about you?
Jin Ye-seul quietly whispered in her ear.
Every time she whispered, Jin Jeong-eun made a face as if it were being cut with a dagger.
“Still, look, I know when I look. My sister is still not giving up. Most likely, he will volunteer for another dangerous job. I don’t even think about how I feel when I’m left behind.”
“That, that… That’s… .”
“So you’re saying that I’m going to take care of everything now so that you don’t die. If I go somewhere else and die again, I will feel bad. And in any case, there might be a disadvantage to me. You’ve been hearing people say you’re smart all your life, and you don’t notice any of this?”
“ah… eww… .”
I didn’t want to do it anymore.
Just before she opened her mouth to dry her, Ye-seul Jin smiled and gently stroked Jeong-jeong’s cheek.
“I’m joking, sister.”
“… uh?”
“It’s just that I haven’t been angry with my older sister for hiding the fact that she’s alive even from me with a lie.”
So I played a little prank once.
Jin Ye-seul, who was muttering like that, tilted her head and wiped the corners of her eyes with her fingers.
“Well… Looks like it was too bad It’s been a long time since I’ve seen my sister cry.”
“Yes, yes… I… .”
“Hey, my sister… .”
Jin Ye-seul quietly hugged Jin Ye-jeong, who was trembling with guilt.
Then, as if it was okay, he gently patted his back and said.
“Sorry, I was too harsh. I thought it was too short. It’s okay, sister. you said… I don’t resent my sister anymore.”
“I… sorry… Just too much for you.”
Jin-jeong was able to hold back her tears and barely vomited.
“Sorry. I’m sorry, Yeseul. I’m really, really sorry.”
Seeing Jin Ye-jeong repeating the words “I’m sorry” like a broken radio, Jin Ye-seul nodded her head as if to comfort a child.
“Shh… are you okay. I just want my sister to take more care of herself in the future. So it was.”
Jin Ye-seul muttered quietly.
“You will? Even for me.”
Jinyoung quietly nodded her head.
[Huh… .]
Then Sbangali, who saw it, did not get tired of it again and stuttered to herself.
[Now the wolf is not enough, so he has become a spider.]
And he mumbled in a really worried voice.
[Now I really can’t help but laugh… I mean, if this guy dies, I’m going to die too… .]
“It’s all done!”
Before I could say anything to him, I heard Horie Yuzuki’s cry.
When I turned my head to look, the huge screen split into three, and the faces of Lee Myung-jun, Evangeline Lohengrin, and Lee Ye-eun appeared respectively.
[long time no see. Student Yoo Ji-hyuk.]
“Iknow, right.”
I bowed my head slightly as he greeted me as if pleased.
He looked quite tired after seeing him in a long time.
[…] scheduled.]
“jelly.”
Evangeline looked at Jin Ye-jeong and smiled slightly.
Then, as if he had found something, he had a grim expression on his face.
[Did you cry?]
“ah.”
Jinyoung waved her hand as if it was nothing special.
“I yawned earlier. I feel very sleepy when the tension is released.”
I glanced at Jin Ye-seul, smiling brightly and stroking Jin Ye-jeong’s back.
Evangeline nodded with a shaky expression on her face, then found me and bowed her head slightly.
[Ji-hyuk-ah.]
“Lord.”
I bowed my head politely towards Yeeun Lee.
First of all, since it was an official position, I had an obligation to be polite to her.
“Then, everyone is busy and time is tight, so I’ll start with the topic. First of all, it’s pretty bad news… .”
As I looked at the three of them together, I spoke slowly.
“There is not much left until the seal of the Seven Bells on Five Streets is lifted.”