“here.”
“Ah, thank you.”
As she handed a handkerchief soaked in cold water, Lee Yuna carefully took it and brought it to her eyes.
We moved to a secluded place to chat, and it was so secluded that there were no benches or trash cans.
“Put this under you and sit down. I’m going to lick your ass.”
Lee Yu-na, who was about to sit on the flower bed, smiled and said.
Inside the bag she was holding was the blanket she had been given as a gift from Yeeun Lee.
I brought it to warm up after training and gave it to me with the thought that I didn’t know how to use it like this, but she shook her head.
“No, Jihyeok, you are still sick, so you shouldn’t chill. So you just write it.”
“I am well now.”
“I don’t lie like that… ah.”
Then she took a blanket from me and laid it under her as if she was suddenly aware of it, and sat down.
Then, with a rustling sound, he pulled out a small blanket from his bag.
She held it in her hands, pondered for a moment, and handed it over.
“Then Jihyuk, you use this.”
“uh? Uh, yes.”
I was handed a blanket from her on a whim.
At the same time, I wondered if it would be okay to use what each other had in the first place, but it wasn’t that important in the first place, so I just went on to say that.
“Well then… What story should I start with… .”
It wasn’t that I was reluctant to talk.
It wasn’t the first time I’d shared my secret, and the reason I was definitely a trustworthy person.
It’s just that I didn’t know where to start when I started talking.
Then I asked carefully, remembering what she had said earlier.
“Hey, can I ask you something before that?”
“yes?”
“Why… Did I say that I slept badly? And how the hell did you know I had a brother?”
With those words, Yuuna looked at me silently for a moment.
“Your brother Jihyuk said with your mouth before.”
“I?”
“Yeah, why did Jihyeok at our orphanage before when you were preparing meals? Then I said ‘I have a younger brother’. But I thought you didn’t want to talk because you shut your mouth right away.”
I’m starting to remember her words.
Seeing me nod her head slightly, she said with a characteristic closed-mouth expression.
“And drooling… Yes, most of it was about my brother.”
“… What was it?”
“I’m sorry that this happened because of me. And I’m sorry I thought it was weird.”
“… … .”
At those words, I had to keep my mouth shut.
Even if you said that before, I would have uttered those words in sleep talk.
‘Should I talk to Sbangali and get help?’
While thinking like that, Yuuna asked.
“It’s okay if I ask you something about him… ?”
I stood still for a while and then nodded.
“What is your name?”
“Yujina. Come with me, it’s Doolim.”
“Gina, Gina… It’s a pretty name.”
Lee Yu-na said so and smiled brightly.
Then, suddenly, I thought that the way she smiled was similar to that of that child.
Reason and Yuji.
Coincidentally, the two had similar names.
“What do you look like? Is Jihyuk similar to you?”
“no. You are so pretty that you can’t even compare me.”
“uh?”
“He’s a little shorter than me. Unlike me, I exercised well and studied well. In addition to that, he was fast, had a good personality, and had many friends. There… .”
“Ah, yes.”
Lee Yu-na nodded her head with an awkward expression and then asked, blinking her eyes.
“Well, then, how old is Jihyuk from you?”
“Six years old. Quite a lot.”
“Ah, so… .”
Lee Yu-na muttered with a face that seemed to understand.
“Then you will be in elementary school?”
“… no.”
“yes?”
“I’m a college student. we’re gone I’m 22 now. Unlike me, I went to a four-year university. I always said that after I got a job, my brother will do well.”
“uh? What?”
I smiled bitterly as I looked at Yoona, who seemed to be talking about something.
“And I was twenty-eight and worked in a factory.”
“Jihyuk, what is that… .”
Looking at Yuna, who seemed to be unable to keep up with the story, he carefully spit out words he didn’t know he would say many times.
“I live in a different world from you.”
* * *
I took the time to tell her everything slowly and in a quiet voice.
That I am from another world, not from this world.
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Originally, I was a little older, but I became younger.
In order to return, it is necessary to defeat the Seven Evil Bells.
And my younger sister, Gina, seems to be in this world too… .
After finishing the brief story like that, I looked at her and sighed a little.
“… That’s all. Things I’ve been hiding from you all this time. I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you sooner.”
Lee Yu-na was covering her mouth with one hand as if she was speechless for a moment.
I said watching her reaction.
“I didn’t mean to hide it… Well, because this is a story that is hard to believe even if I say it.”
Then, Lee Yu-na reached out and grabbed my hand as if telling her to stop.
“sorry.”
“yes?”
“Sorry, I… I never even dreamed that it would be a story like this… .”
After muttering like that, Lee Yuna lowered the hand that was covering her mouth and clasped my hands together.
“How in the world have you endured alone? ?”
“… … .”
“Was it very difficult?”
At her words, I reflexively nodded without realizing it.
For a moment, astonished by my actions, she patted the back of my hand and said:
“By the way, what if your younger brother is also in this world? Did you find any traces or anything like that?”
“that is… To be honest, I don’t think he fell at the same time as me.”
“What?”
“It wasn’t long before I found out that that child also fell into this world with me in the first place. And today… I found out that he was in a different time zone than me.”
“ah… .”
As she mumbled helplessly, Lee Yuna let out a small sigh.
I unknowingly mumbled the worst assumptions that kept running through my head.
“… Maybe he’s already dead.”
I heard the sound of Yuuna taking a small breath.
“Whether he or she fell a few hundred years ago, or will he come hundreds of years later… I really don’t know anything. When I first fell into this world, I came here 10 years younger than I was, because there is no guarantee that it won’t be like that for that child.”
Minerva said that the child was sealed, even that the body and mind were separated and sealed.
No, to be precise, the person she met said that and was convinced.
… Perhaps it means that sooner or later we will be able to find out more about the child.
Something about the sealed child.
“… … .”
Sealed, sealed.
There is no way a human being like that would be okay.
No, in the first place, for some reason, the body and mind of an ordinary human being divided and sealed… Was the seal used for the Seven Evil Bells or at least natural disaster-class monsters used?
“… … .”
It must have been hardships that I could never have imagined.
I couldn’t even imagine what was going to happen.
And the fact that I wasn’t there at that time, even the fact that I didn’t know anything until a few days ago, tightened me even more like a moth.
“It will be fine.”
In the meantime, Lee Yu-na clenched and gave strength to the hand that was holding my hand.
“I will help you.”
She said looking at this side with unshaken eyes.
“It’s not because Ji-hyeok owes you a debt, and not because he has received a favor from you that will never be enough to repay it for the rest of his life.”
“I am your friend and colleague. And because he is your first henchman and vassal. So I will help you.”
“No, let me help you.”
I replied with a small smile on her face.
“thank you.”
However, Lee Yu-na was constantly looking at me with a look of pity.
Then he gently tapped my shoulder as if stroking his hand.
“Was it very difficult?”
“… … .”
I was moved by those words, so I closed my mouth and bowed my head.
Lee Yu-na let out a breath that seemed even more pitiful to see me like that.
“it’s okay… It will be fine. It’s not just me. Everyone, Jihyuk will help you. Until now, Jihyuk, you have been doing well, haven’t you? So you can do it. Yes, you can do it.”
Here she hesitated for a moment and stuttered.
“So, don’t be discouraged, stay strong, oh, oh… .”
For a moment, it seemed as if a small pop was heard from somewhere.
“… brother.”
“What?”
“Oh!?”
I wondered if I had heard the wrong thing, and when I raised my head, Yuna Lee, whose face was dyed red like Hongshi, fluttered and fell from me as if she had fallen sideways.
“What are you saying now… .”
“Oh no! I’m sorry if I made you feel bad!”
Lee Yu-na waved her hand as if she had never had such intentions.
Her face was still stained red.
“Hey, you’re older than me… ! Anyway, my uncle and uncle are a bit like that… .”
“… You can just call me by my first name as usual. Because I am comfortable with it.”
Yuuna nodded her head as if she understood my answer.
Then, suddenly, as I looked at her, I burst into laughter without realizing it.
Perhaps it was because of me who suddenly started laughing, Lee Yu-na’s face grew red with shame and shame.
It was just surprising that I could get even more red in that situation.
“thank you.”
“yes? Oh no… what?”
“Tell me to help.”
Feeling even more relieved, I spoke frankly.
“Honestly, Yuna, you were the person I really needed.”
“… uh? What is that now.”
“Because there is no one stronger than you and no one with superior abilities.”
“Ahhh… I did something else.”
I was surprised for a moment, and Yuna opened her eyes like a rabbit and nodded as if she knew immediately.
That’s what I meant… After muttering like that, Yuuna snorted slightly.
“still.”
She smiled a little.
“I’m glad it worked out differently this time than last time.”
Noticing what she was talking about the other day, I nodded my head and burst out laughing.
“I know.”
she muttered quietly.
“I wish I was like this back then.”
After saying that, she silently raised her head and looked at the flower beds scattered around her.
I also sat next to her and silently watched the scenery she saw.
So we sat there silently for a while.
* * *
“I bit a mousetrap.”
Ye-eun Lee nodded at the report of a girl tying a ribbon of color to indicate that she was in 4th grade.
In Orge Academy, from cadets to staff, researchers, and professors, there were people who were members of the World Tree clan or were subordinated to it.
It was the same with that girl.
By nature, Yeeun Lee did not openly create or carry forces with her, but this time, she did not intend to take the time to do so.
She took an empty classroom almost semi-forced from the academy and used it as her own office in this way, but no one could complain to her.
There were also dozens of people she had gathered in just a few days, but it was because she wasn’t the one to let others gossip or get caught in the first place.
“Did you check the other person’s face?”
“Yes, I was one of the technicians on the installation team.”
“Be brave too.”
Yeeun Lee muttered sarcastically and gave a chin gesture to a female student who was a higher grade than herself.
“Leave it alone in the meantime. There are some real pieces of information in it, so let’s wrestle with them for a while.”
“All right.”
“Then please.”
“Yes, then… .”
“Yeon Kyung-ah. Did you have any contact with that person?”
Lee Ye-eun glanced at Kang Kang-kyung, who was clinging to her like a secretary right next to her.
Standing awkwardly, Kang Kang-kyung nodded in response to her question and approached her and whispered in her ear.
“… Anyway, I just got a call. It’s an urgent reply, so I think it would be better to receive it directly.”
At her words, Yeeun Lee quickly confirmed the report sent by Wooseok Shin.
Then, he motioned for Kang Kyung-kyung to take a look.
“what do you think about it?”
Kang Kang-kyung looked at the screen of her cell phone as she wanted, while making an expression that wondered why she was asking herself this.
A tangent request has been received.
He’s a high-ranking person from the association, but in his own words, he’s an executive of the Red Case.
There is enough credibility, and there was a point of contact with the master.
I asked for an answer as soon as possible, saying it was a fight for the hourly wage.
“Uh… .”
Kang Kang-kyung pondered for a moment and then nodded, confirming that she and herself were alone in the room that was always crowded with people.
She was the only friend who had been by Lee Ye-eun’s side for many years, so she was confident that she knew Lee Ye-eun well.
“To be honest, I thought it was a trap… .”
“Did you want to?”
Yeeun Lee raised her eyebrows slightly.
And Kang Kyung-kyung pretended not to know and continued speaking calmly.
“Jihyuk, no. Do you have any contact with the master? Then, if you check it out and say that you can trust it, I think it would be okay to meet you once.”
She shrugged and uttered what she most wanted to hear.
“It’s true, the master isn’t an ordinary person.”
“Hmm, heh heh.”
Yeeun Lee nodded her head.
Then, with a strangely satisfied smile, he said to Kang Kyung-kyung.
“Actually, I think so. If Yeon-kyung thinks so too… Can you please send me a reply instead? and… !”
Kang Kang-kyung, who was about to answer that it was nothing, looked at Ye-eun Lee, who stopped talking for a moment.
Afterwards, when I saw a picture of Yoo Ji-hyuk and Lee Yu-na holding hands, which came to her in the form of a report, I began to notice her without realizing it.
As I said earlier, Kang Kang-kyung was a confident person who knew Lee Ye-eun better than anyone else.
Therefore, I was also well aware that Ye-eun Lee had complex and subtle feelings for Yoo Ji-hyuk.
“… … .”
Yeeun Lee took the picture without saying a word and looked at it as if glaring at it.
Kang Kang-kyung, who was watching from the side, opened his mouth very carefully.
“… how will we do it?”
At her question, Yeeun Lee put down the picture she was holding.
Then he answered in a quiet voice.
“What should I do?”
“yes?”
“Just leave it alone. In the first place, it’s something I can’t interfere with, and I shouldn’t interfere with it.”
With those words, she picked up the glass next to her and sucked the juice through a straw.
“They aren’t even children, and the girl in the photo is Jihyuk’s close confidant… Surely there must be some reason. Besides, if you look at the facial expressions and atmosphere in the photos, it is clear that they are comforting something rather than enjoying secret love.”
Kang Kang-kyung looked at her as if surprised by her calm demeanor.
Ye-eun Lee said as she drank the drink through a straw once more, probably unaware of her gaze.
“Is the person Jihyeok’s escort took this picture? Give him a few warnings. I didn’t tell him to escort him secretly, but to do voyeur-like things. And tell them that they won’t let you go if you act like you’re trying to steal the child’s private life like this again.”
Kang Kang-kyung nodded at Lee Ye-eun’s harsh warning.
“yes. okay. I will tell you firmly.”
“Then what’s next?”
“Ah, here. These days, it’s a report that says that the countermeasures are a bit strange… .”
Kang Kang-kyung, who had said that, suddenly saw the cup Lee Ye-eun had put down.
The straw in the cup was full of teeth marks.
He chewed so much that the straw was bent sideways.
Kang Kang-kyung, who remembered that he had a habit of biting his nails or nipping something when he was annoyed, secretly prayed that nothing would happen.
‘young master… No, Jihyuk. save me… … please.’
Gently stroking his sore stomach, Kang Kyung-kyung took out the documents without showing any expression.