The text message from Yeeun Lee was as follows.
The content was that Shin Woo-seok was going to pick up the things I had asked for.
After class, I headed straight to the place where Shin Woo-seok was waiting.
When Han Su-young said that a member of the clan had come to visit, he said that he would understand and let me go.
In the case of Jin Ye-seul, he went to Evangeline, who harbors hostility toward her, saying that there is something to discuss, and Choi Hyeon-woo headed to the training center saying that he would practice with Ahn Do-hoon as usual.
When I opened the door and entered, Shin Woo-seok, who was standing upright as usual, bowed his head politely to me.
“These are the things you asked for, Master.”
Shin Woo-seok was carrying a trunk as huge as the one he had brought last time.
In the other hand was an icebox.
“I may have made a stupid mistake, so please check it even if it bothers you.”
“It’s annoying. I never really dreamed that it would be ready so quickly.”
As I approached, he pointed to the inside of the trunk and icebox and started explaining one by one.
The trunk and icebox contained exactly what I had asked for, every single one of them.
“I thought it would take at least a month… .”
When he mumbled that, he replied as if it was natural.
“Whoever orders it, how dare I delay so much time.”
I told him sincerely.
“thanks. You really worked hard.”
“It’s overrated, Master.”
After answering that, Wooseok Shin hesitated for a moment and said to me.
“I, my lord. If it’s not rude, would it be okay if I asked you one thing?”
“Please?”
“Yes.”
“Yes, tell me.”
“If my prediction is correct, I think it will be processed or used as a material, but is my prediction correct?”
“What… Can you see it that way?”
“Then, would it be okay if I could assist you for a little while?”
Shin Woo-seok said so and looked at me.
“I have some knowledge of magic as well as some alchemy. I have also been involved in the creation of artifacts, although very little. It will definitely help, Master.”
“Uh… .”
Clearly, Shin Woo-seok was a man who could be said to be her closest confidant, with Lee Ye-eun, who was very strict, by her side.
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Of course, there was no way he could be incompetent, and if you listened to the things that were mentioned in passing, it was clear that he had quite excellent skills both as a wizard and as an alchemist.
The materials I asked for were those that required special processing no matter who looked at them, so it was natural for him to think like this.
But to be honest, what I needed right now wasn’t a wizard, an alchemist, or an artifact maker.
“Excuse me, Shin Woo-seok, but do you know how to cook?”
“Are you talking about cooking?”
“Yes.”
Shin Woo-seok answered the strange question without being too embarrassed.
“First of all, it’s about getting a license, but… I can’t say with certainty that I’m that good.”
“That is enough.”
* * *
Lee Yu-na was currently hospitalized in a healing room inside the academy.
Being forty in this world is an incurable disease that has no cure and is known to have to be endured on its own.
There was no point in going to the hospital, so I had heard from Professor Grossman that I was just recovering in the healing room.
I headed to the healing room where Lee Yu-na was hospitalized with Shin Woo-seok.
Fortunately, she was assigned a single room thanks to Professor Grossman’s consideration.
In the meantime, we could see Professor Abel Grossman, who was standing guard in front of Lee Yu-na’s hospital room and talking on the phone.
“… Yes, Yonghoon. There is always a lot of trouble As my sister and sister say, your safety is our number one priority, so don’t be reckless.”
As if she had found us, she relaxed and muttered quietly.
“Well. okay. Let’s talk later. As I always say, be careful and be careful. I am always sorry and thankful to you.”
While thinking about who Yong-hoon was, she remembered a flash of light passing by.
Yonghoon Yoon.
A student I met before, a disciple of Professor Grossman and a senior who said he was my death penalty.
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Obviously, the name of the upperclassman who told me he was leaving for Urea was Yonghoon Yun.
“What’s happen?”
“Hello professor.”
I said hello to her.
“Yuna, are you inside? I came here for a visit.”
“Visit?”
“Yes. and… .”
I approached her as if I had something to say.
Professor Grossman looked up at me without warning.
“… I know how to treat Yuna’s condition.”
“… What?”
Professor Grossman looked at me with a surprised expression.
After staring at her for a while, she quietly opened her mouth.
“Are you kidding me now?”
“Is it possible?”
“Then do you really know how to cure Yuna’s condition, that is, forty-four? The disease known as an incurable disease?”
“Yes.”
“… … .”
She looked at me without a word.
Her eyes, which had always drooped as if they had no motivation, contained a light that could not be expressed as much as now.
“Once I found out.”
Saying so, she was smart and knocked on the door.
“Yuna, can I come in? Jihyuk came to visit.”
Then there was the sound of something rustling inside.
After a while, permission was granted to come in, so we opened the door and went inside.
“hi.”
“Ugh, hello.”
Lee Yu-na, who was lying on the bed, got up halfway and waved her hand to me.
Her complexion was paler and paler than she had expected.
“Oh, there he… .”
“You are my acquaintance. He is the person you can trust who is the most supportive of the head of the family.”
Shin Woo-seok bowed his head slightly to Lee Yu-na.
“Please take good care of me, Bocchan’s close friend. My name is Wooseok Shin.”
“Ah, yes. It’s called reason… .”
Lee Yu-na bowed her head to him in a sullen posture.
Then he asked me quietly as I sat on the chair next to the bed.
“… young master?”
“uh?”
“No, what is it? that… I didn’t think much of it, but Jihyeok, you were a real master.”
“Suddenly, what does that mean?”
I smiled and asked her.
“How about your body? Are you okay?”
“Uh, what.”
Yoona muttered quietly and raised her right arm.
Then he rolled up the sleeves of his baggy robe and showed me his pale, thin arms.
Her arms were filled with tattoo-like geometric patterns that had arisen from forty years.
“Now I have to start worrying about what to do and make a living.”
“It’s Yuna.”
“I’m sorry, Professor.”
Lee Yu-na muttered like that and smiled helplessly at Grossman.
“Even if I raise my mana a little, I get forty and forty like this. The pain, like ripping out a blood vessel, never subsides.”
“Yuna, I don’t know if this will be comforting, but it took me three years to calm me down. You have a lot more potential than me… .”
“It is said that it will take at least three years or more.”
she muttered quietly.
“Unlike other kids, if I can’t use mana, I’m just an ordinary person. 3 years there… .”
I can’t go to the academy anymore.
Youna lowered her raised arm.
Professor Grossman said, looking at her sadly.
“Yuna, as I said before, if you want… .”
“It’s too annoying for the professor. I’m really fine.”
Lee Yu-na smiled and looked at her.
It was not difficult for me to notice that Yuuna’s expression was rigid.
“You just have to work hard after three years. A hero or a hunter doesn’t necessarily have to go to the academy.”
Yoona, who had been talking up to that point, quietly shut her mouth.
He even mumbled in a small voice.
“… Is this an incurable disease?”
“I know so.”
Professor Grossman said so and glanced at me.
I thought it was now, so I sat down and looked at her and said.
“Hey there, Yuna.”
“uh, ah. yes. Ji-hyuk. I’m sorry, I even came to the hospital at the most, but the atmosphere calmed down for nothing.”
Looking at her bashful and smiling, I said.
“Your disease, I can cure it.”
“… uh?”
Her eyes widened in disbelief.
“So, will you trust me just once?”
At my words, Yoona stared blankly at me.
And after a while, she asked me in a trembling voice.
“really… ?”
“Am I going to lie to you about this?”
“No, it’s not that I don’t trust you. Well, it’s an incurable disease… .”
“So, you have to go down to be the main sanctuary.”
Having said that, I looked at Yuuna.
Her skinny body, though, seemed to have lost more weight.
Her lips were dry and chapped.
Every time I see her, for some reason, my younger sister, Gina, comes to mind.
They had similar names and were similar in many ways, so I didn’t know it was because of that.
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Of course, starting with personality, looks and height were all better than my younger brother.
“So. Yuna, will you trust me one more time?”
Perhaps it was because he remembered that child that he shed a small laugh as if to reassure her.
Fortunately, my actions to reassure her seemed to have had some effect.
Youna looked at me blankly and nodded without saying a word.
“… yes.”
“great.”
I clapped and clapped.
Then Shin Woo-seok opened the trunk and ice box, and started taking out the things he had brought separately.
It started with simple cooking utensils, such as plates, dressings, seasonings, and tableware.
Grossman and Lee Yu-na looked at Shin Woo-seok, who suddenly took out things as if to make a living, and looked like they wanted something.
I smiled looking at him like that and said,
“It’s very dry. You’re really going to fall.”
“Uh, it’s not like that… .”
“It’s fine. I can gain weight and cure diseases.”
“uh?”
I sneakily got up from my chair and gestured to the trunk and the stuff in the icebox.
“You can cure your disease by eating all of that.”
Upon hearing those words, Lee Yu-na’s expression darkened in a different way.
I told her that I would go out for a while and talk on the phone, and I looked at Shin Woo-seok.
“It must be very embarrassing, so please take care of me. Wooseok Shin.”
“Yes. Don’t worry, master. I had experience cooking and eating monster parts during my hunter days, so I will use that experience to make it plausible.”
He said so in a confident voice, as always.
Then, as I was about to leave the door, Professor Grossman quietly muttered to me.
“Once everything is over, let’s talk with me.”
Without a word, he nodded and walked out.
And after carefully closing the door, I answered the phone that had been ringing for a while.
“I’m sorry, I couldn’t get it right away.”
– Yes, no. Because I know the time is ambiguous right now.
The owner of the phone was Yeeun Lee.
I walked away from the door and grabbed the phone.
“But what’s going on, all of a sudden.”
— … Are we calling only for something special?
She muttered as if she was very upset.
I smiled and looked around in embarrassment.
“It’s not like that, my lord.”
No.
He muttered like that and immediately changed his words.
“sister.”
– Huh… Weak.
“What?”
– You don’t look like you’re calling me noona until the end. Isn’t it a skill you’ve done once or twice to tease people while calling them “sister”?
“I’ve never been in a relationship before.”
– Really? I guess not? uh, what… It doesn’t matter.
Because the last one is important.
muttering like that, she said.
– More than that, today is the beginning. I called to tell you this.
“… Is it very fast? Are the preparations correct?”
– I know. I was worried about that too, but surprisingly, other people must have taken it very seriously. There are people who say they come by themselves.
“Hmm… .”
– We are also ready. Soon, everyone will start working at once.
It seems that the three of them, Lee Myung-jun, Evangeline, and Lee Ye-eun, moved quite quickly to clear the base of the Big Watch, which Jin Ye-seul discovered a few days ago.
Even so, the preparations are already over like this… As I was thinking about it, a question came to mind.
“Then why did you ask Shin Woo-seok to me… .”
– Because there’s the most dangerous guy.
Yeeun Lee said so.
― For a while, Jihyuk will be by your side and serve you. Just in case you don’t know, I ordered you to stay by your side for a while.
“… … .”
Unsurprisingly, I thought it was strange to see him clinging to me.
While nodding her head, Yeeun Lee muttered quietly.
– There were also some unexpected things. If you think about it, it was normal.
“Is this unexpected?”
– yes. Who cares about putting a spoon on a table that you have worked so hard for at the best?
Yeeun Lee muttered like it was nothing.
― He is a person who understands my intentions well, so he probably understood it roughly. You can trust it and leave it to me.
“Ahh… Yes.”
I nodded.
Sbangali sighed as she heard her words, which became quite disturbing.
―I am not the type of person who sits still after losing what I have.
[This is a sudden story, but do you know that you are a phytoncide?]
Hearing Yeeun Lee’s words, Sbangali muttered like that.
[Phytoncide is what you smell like when you take a forest bath. But, to put it simply, it’s an insecticide. The tree radiates and kills the microbes that spread around it. Other trees and plants, of course. In a word, plants are spraying pesticides to monopolize the surrounding nutrients and territories.]
Sbengali, who had said so far, added a word as if he had given up now.
[Just to know. There’s nothing wrong with knowing this rubbish.]
“… … .”
I was well aware that something strange was flowing.
Ye-seul Jin was like that in class earlier, and Su-yeong Han was like that these days.
I also remembered that Jin Ye-seul and Lee Ye-eun had a subtle nerve war with each other during the meeting, so I naturally opened my mouth to change the topic.
“Ah, come to think of it, I received the items you sent me well.”
– Right, I forgot to ask that. Have you missed anything?
“Is it possible? It was perfect.”
– Hehe, I’m glad you did.
Ye-eun Lee said in a shrill voice.
– Is there anyone you can trust but your sister?
“yes that’s right. Thank you so much, sister.”
— … cologne.
With that said, I asked her what I was curious about.
“By the way, sister, how much did it cost to get them all?”
– yes? why all of a sudden?
“Because it’s an expense that went out because of me, so of course I have to pay for it.”
– You don’t have to. I didn’t even touch the public money because it was moderately deducted from the amount I could afford. There’s nothing wrong with that, so you don’t really have to worry about it.
“It’s because I don’t feel comfortable. Sister, it’s a request, so can you please tell me?”
– Uh huh… .
Yeeun Lee coughed loudly as if trying to hold back something.
Then, there was a squeaking sound and a clicking sound.
It was Sbengali.
[I have no pride or anything.]
I was about to turn my energy around to cover his mouth, but I had to stop what I was doing when I heard Yeeun Lee’s words.
– Wait, let’s see… oh here it is yes… A total of 18.2 billion won and 75 million won.
“… how much?”
It was as if my brain had stopped moving for a moment.
Yeeun Lee told me once again.
– 18.275 billion won.
I had goosebumps all over my body.
I felt my pores shrink and my groin started to hurt.
Feeling a chill as if someone had put ice on her back, I asked her.
“A boat, a hundred… ? I heard it cost 18.2 billion won, 75 million won… ?”
– Yes, but don’t worry. If Ji-hyeok turns around stocks and shares that were returned to you in the first place for a while, it can be repaid quickly… .
Yeeun Lee was talking like that.
A squeaking sound was heard from right behind him.
I quickly turned my head to look, and there was Yuna Yuna lying on the floor.
“Uh, Father… .”
She looked up at me as if her whole body had lost its strength.
And I swear, I’ve never seen anyone as pale as she is now.
“Bar, just how much… ?”
182.
182.
Her body, muttering so blankly, staggered backwards for a moment.
“Uh, hey! Why! hey!”
“118.2 billion… uh… .”
At the end of those words, I had to quickly take over her darkened, fainting body.
And to be honest, I also wanted to faint next to her.