A woman was walking towards somewhere with a quiet gait.
She was noticed by Ye-eun Lee at the festival where the terror of the Thorn Cross Society took place in the past, and as a result, she was selected by Ye-eun Lee in the process of organizing and organizing her clan and became a new aide.
As Lee Ye-eun became the head of the household, Shin Woo-seok, who was her closest aide, naturally also had a lot of work to do, and this was because she needed someone to help her.
“… … .”
In fact, she vaguely understood that it wasn’t the only one.
Her main job was to serve her right next to Ye-eun Lee, take care of her small errands, and act as secretary.
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Originally, Ye-eun Lee did not like to be served by others, and maybe that’s why there were some people who scolded her for having only Shin Woo-seok by her side and spit out vulgar nonsense.
However, as he became the head of the family, he was conscious of such a gaze, and as he naturally turned Shin Woo-seok to outside work, including himself, he had a new entourage.
If you look at it up to this point, it can be said that Yeeun Lee acted that way because of her position as the head of the family.
But, as I said before, she knew it wasn’t the only thing.
The reason was none other than the presence of a younger brother who suddenly appeared.
Did I mention it was Yoo Ji-hyuk?
When talking to him on the phone, Yeeun Lee was smiling brightly unlike usual, and when choosing items to send to him, she was more careful and worried than ever.
Also, from the beginning, she was famous for hitting the so-called iron wall against the opposite s*x, but recently, she has been acting even more thoroughly against the opposite s*x.
To some extent, he even tried to avoid being alone with Shin Woo-seok.
The action is like… .
“Please carry it with care. Because the head of the family said something special.”
She looked back and said that to the people carrying the luggage.
It was an extremely intentional act to forget the thought that had just come to mind.
She knew better than anyone that Yeeun Lee was her master.
He was also well aware of the fact that burying the secret the master wanted to hide and pretending not to know is the right kind of servanthood.
‘but… .’
The curiosity that continued to rise, showed no sign of dissipating at all.
Yeeun Lee suddenly returned to the clan’s estate yesterday.
Some people followed.
Lee Ye-eun and her companions have entered a special forest that only members of the main family can enter, in other words, only Lee Ye-eun can enter.
Lee Ye-eun decreed that no one should come to the forest except for those who came with her.
There, the items that Yeeun Lee told me to airlift as soon as possible.
She looked back once more.
Most of the items Yeeun Lee requested were cheap, but they were large enough that several people had to move them.
She tilted her head slightly.
It was because the things Yeeun Lee asked for were nothing in common, such as cleaning brushes and tools, pet bath products, abrasives and abrasives, and so on.
‘Are you thinking of opening a general store… ?’
* * *
“… Sleep well, our Jihyuk.”
Ye-eun Lee sat on a chair and looked at Yoo Ji-hyeok, who was sleeping soundly with her body curled up as if she was lying on the vacant lot.
He was still in the form of a dragon.
She glanced around.
It looked like each of them was taking a break, whether it was sitting and resting like himself, or someone who was sleeping, or someone who was staring at Yoo Ji-hyeok.
She quietly closed her eyes and took a deep breath in the scent of the forest.
“Whew… .”
… When Yoo Ji-hyeok did not return to his original form, quite a few ripples had spread among the party.
why can’t you come back
Do I have to live like this for the rest of my life?
That was the end of it.
However, while everyone was bewildered, Minerva, who was calmly examining Yoo Ji-hyeok’s condition, soon found out the reason, which none of the party had thought of.
In short, he is doing that to escape now.
‘Dragons grow through intense events or causes. Most of them are external factors such as squeezing out their magic to the limit, or fighting for their lives.’
the problem is… .
Even when Yoo Ji-hyuk did not return, Minerva, whose expression did not change, said with a rather perplexed expression.
‘Hatchling… That is, when you are young, your parents, guardians, or even your colleagues have to help you escape. You have to spend quite a bit of time doing it on your own. Also, if you do, you will fall into a deep sleep. … Just like me in the past. And looking at it now, I think he’s in the same situation as me.’
When asked how long it would take, Minerva said he had plenty of time to keep in mind for a few years.
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Of course they couldn’t wait that long, so they decided to take a different approach.
It was just that they helped Yoo Ji-hyeok escape.
To do that, there was a lot to be prepared for.
First of all, in order not to expose him to the outside, he brought him to the territory of the World Tree, and to a special forest where only members of the main family could decide whether to enter or not.
In the process of bringing him in, Ye-seul Jin and Minerva worked together to put him in the shadows and move.
To Sipgang, who came to help, Yoo Ji-hyeok was wounded during the battle, and as he was a member of the World Tree, he returned to the territory first to receive treatment in a special way.
‘… And there’s that too.’
A crystal floating around Han Soo-young.
After killing Richie, as soon as I touched Han Soo-young’s hand, it floated around Han Soo-young as if she had a will.
The lens, which slowly floated around Han Soo-young like a satellite orbiting, could not be used without paying attention.
Apart from being as small as a baseball from the size of a human being, the traces of the strange magical power flowing from the lens itself were gritty for Yeeun Lee, a member of the World Tree clan.
“Ugh, that’s a lot.”
While she was quietly organizing her thoughts, Hyeon-Woo Choi showed up gasping and carrying things.
Thanks to losing the bet, he went back and forth to the outskirts of the forest alone several times, then put down the cleaning brush and boxes he was holding and murmured.
“See, I will draw a lot again.”
“Then why did you do it? Don’t you know that the person who originally said to do this gets caught?”
Han Soo-young giggled and began to lift and move the things he brought.
Ye-eun Lee also stood up as other people approached to help.
“So what did you say?”
Minerva, who held a sprayer and a mop in one hand, raised the cleaning brush as if curiously, said.
“If you help break the scales that are like shells and make it easier to come out, it will be over in no time. If you inject magical energy into it, you’ll wake up in a few days. It will be at most three or four days.”
“Can’t we just smash it outside? No matter how hard the dragon’s scales are, to be honest, everyone here could do it if they put their mind to it.”
“Sounds like a big deal.”
Minerva, who raised the cleaning brush as if she had decided on Jin Ye-seul’s question, answered.
“What if the butterfly breaks the pupae instead of saying it looks difficult? It should be understood in the same context. … Besides, he didn’t even know how to escape, so I don’t think there’s any need to do anything frivolous. You never know what the side effects might be.”
“So what does this have to do with helping molt?”
Choi Hyun-woo, who looked at cleaning tools, pet bath products, abrasives, and abrasives, asked.
“You have to make it soft so that it can break the scales and come out easily. Just like any other hatchling.”
Minerva replied.
“Originally, the way to help hatchlings break their scales and come out is by licking every nook and cranny of the hatchlings. It helps to save energy by intentionally abrading the outer surface, and promotes awakening by giving appropriate stimulation. If I had been able to return to my original form, it would have been a problem I could easily handle on my own, could it not be?”
Having said that calmly, Minerva looked at Yoo Ji-hyuk with a look of regret, as if something was missing.
“You don’t have to wipe everything hard. Applying abrasives and abrasives to joints and joints and rubbing them a few times should suffice. After that, it ends by injecting the prepared magic into the area.”
Having said that, she took off her shoes as if it was cumbersome.
Then, while trying to tear off the hem of the dress, he paused for a moment and glanced at Choi Hyun-woo.
Then he nodded his head slightly and finished preparations by roughly tying his clothes.
You can’t reveal your secrets to anyone other than him.
Breathing in, she began to pack things.
The party members who saw this also changed their clothes so that they could move more easily and picked up their own things.
“… Wow.”
Lee Yu-na looked up at the dragon, which felt bigger when she looked up close, and could feel her mind wandering.
In the past, when I was cleaning the gym by myself during a part-time job as a cleaning agent, I thought that it wasn’t like this.
“Hey hey.”
Choi Hyeon-woo, who took off his shirt and wore a short-sleeved T-shirt, muttered while looking up at Yoo Ji-hyuk with a cleaning brush on his shoulder.
“I’m not good at cleaning my room either. I try to bathe all the dragons.”
And it was the same for everyone in this place who didn’t have that experience.
… The work was finished 7 hours after I started brushing for the first time.
It was around the time that Yoo Ji-hyuk returned to his original form about a full day after that.
* * *
“Wow, Natalia, what are you doing now? It looks really fun.”
“~~~~!!!”
A shrill scream echoed in the roar of laughter.
Belluna, who had been sniffling and laughing at the loud rustling sound, blew the wind as if to calm down.
As the cold wind hit her face, Natalia’s face was distorted in an infinitely hideous way.
“okay okay. Calm down. Come on, I’ll release the eyepatch.”
Belluna said so, and loosened the eye patch that had been on Natalia’s eyes, which had been bound all over her body with chains and leather straps.
Behind the eye patch, red-tinted eyes, as if soaked in blood, were staring at Belluna as if to kill him.
“Hey, Natalia. How does it feel to be beaten and captured by your daughter who has been so ignorant and abusive? huh? How are you feeling now?”
“~~~~!!!”
At Belluna’s ridicule, Natalia moved wildly, as if she was going to bite off her neck at any moment.
However, starting with a silver stake, her body was firmly fixed, and she was also gagged, so her actions were just meaningless struggles.
“Wow, no matter how much you are treated like Jinjo, this is a bit harsh. To be honest, I can’t even run away from this.”
Her arms were curled upwards, and tightly studded with silver stakes.
And since there was a chain attached to each stake, it seemed that even a person with reasonable strength had no choice but to get entangled.
Because that wasn’t enough, the room in which she was confined was shielded from all sorts of magical treatments, and even smoke that scatters power was flowing softly.
It was Belluna’s pure sentiment that, frankly, it was a bit pitiful for her to cover her eyes as much as she used the ability to deceive people, and to have a gag in her mouth just in case.
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Of course, it was only a little bit.
“~~~~!”
“Um, you have to be still to be a good kid.”
Belluna lifted Natalia’s chin with her fingers, making her eye contact.
At her act of turning her head as if in a bad mood, Belluna tightened her fingers and grabbed her face.
“Why did I have to come all the way here? At the risk of getting caught.”
“… … .”
“I couldn’t possibly have come to help you, did I?”
Belluna smiled and whispered quietly in her ear.
“Can you tell me?”
Natalia showed no reaction.
He just closed his eyes as if he was too lazy to deal with him.
Seeing that, Belluna grinned and said.
“It’s for revenge, Natalia.”
“… … ?”
For a moment, Natalia felt a chill as if she had been thrown naked into the North Pole.
“All of Milited’s children, including you, and the Milited who will tear them apart.”
She was startled by the sound of her trembling voice and opened her eyes.
In front of him, Belluna was still smiling.
“Randsch, did you really think I didn’t know that he killed him? What, he died in an accident while examining the seal of Venus? Did you really think that I could never really see through such a frivolous feat?”
At those words, Natalia stiffened without realizing it.
Belluna said with a smile.
“How did you look at me? Do you know how hard it must have been to resist wanting to tear you apart with my hands right now?”
She gently stroked Natalia’s cheek with her finger.
“Yeah, our foolish and beautiful Natalia… you would think like this now Then why the hell did I sit still and cooperate with you?”
Belluna, who touched Natalia’s cheek with her finger, muttered in a languid voice.
“I lost the most precious thing to me. Just because of you.”
So I also have to make you lose the most precious thing to you.
’cause that’s the real revenge
At her words, muttering in a quiet voice, Natalia held her breath involuntarily.
“It was only after I saw that lens that I knew all about your plans. Okay… Look forward to it, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do.”
With those words, Belluna raised her eye patch.
“Well, even if things happen now, it has nothing to do with you… In fact, the reason I came here was because there would never be a second chance to have a conversation with the ‘original you’ other than now.”
“… … ?”
With a click, a click, the half-enclosed Belluna whispered to Natalia.
And when she heard her whisper, Natalia’s eyes widened wide, and then she twisted her body like crazy and let out an urgent scream.
“town!? Oops! Whoops!”
Belluna, who looked at her with satisfaction, put an eye patch on her tightly and left a kiss in the middle of her forehead with a squeak.
“Well then, Natalia. Next time I see you, I’m sure you’ll look different.”
click.
The lock was tightly locked with a small iron sound.