“I have been living freely without any inconvenience so far, so I just forgot about it. In the end, the real woman is connected to you, and it is fate that dwells in your shadow.”
Minerva, who sat down with Yoo Ji-hyuk with two chairs side by side, muttered like that.
Minerva’s horns and tail, which had changed to a physique almost similar to that of Yoo Ji-hyuk, were disproportionately large, so she had to lean on the floor with her tail as a support in order to balance the shaking due to the horns.
“… … .”
And Ye-eun Lee, who was watching the scene, was silently taking pictures with her cell phone.
Her serious expression on her face was enough to make her mistaken for an artist full of agony who was nearing completion of a masterpiece.
“Please explain in more detail. The situation now needs to be understood as clearly as possible when considering the future.”
“You know, my maiden too. Umm, how and where should I start explaining… .”
“I know what you left for, so you don’t have to go back and say it.”
At Yoo Ji-hyuk’s words, Minerva hurriedly turned and looked at Lee Ye-eun.
His gaze was a mixture of resentment and reproach, as if asking him why he had told him the truth.
Facing her cold gaze, Yeeun’s heart felt like it was sinking.
Although it was completely different from Minerva’s intentions, it was blunt.
“… Then I’ll explain that first. Anyway, the main woman moved to kill those on the list. Well, don’t get me wrong. I didn’t mean to kill everyone, but only those who wanted your life directly.”
Looking at Yoo Ji-hyuk as if making an excuse, Minerva continued.
It was because she knew very well that even Grae had a reluctance to kill the same person.
However, not the look of disappointment, on the contrary, his gaze mixed with regret gave Minerva a mysterious expression.
“that… Aren’t you mad?”
“why me?”
Instead, Yoo Ji-hyuk asked.
“Minerva, I’m not the type of pleasure killer who enjoys killing people, but… That doesn’t mean I’m the kind of guy who’s trying to show mercy to those around me, as well as those who plot scheming. If you hadn’t, I’d rather have come.”
“Uh, uh… .”
“Then why would I be mad at you? Rather, I should say thank you. … It’s like you’ve got blood on your hands that you didn’t need to get on for nothing because you were messing around with me.”
“That, that… ! It’s not even worth it! So don’t make that face, baby!”
Seeing Yoo Ji-hyeok with a gloomy look, Minerva appeared restless as if embarrassed.
Yeeun Lee was silently concentrating on the phone screen.
“Um, let’s continue with the explanation. She moved to exterminate those on the list. After assimilating with your shadow, it took a little bit of magic power, but it was able to move quickly. And as the priority was high, when I dealt with the two people in front of me, I felt the lack of magical power. That’s why I thought I’d give it to you in a little, very little connection. By the way… .”
Minerva raised the child’s small, flabby arm and held out her palm.
The hand, which had an overwhelming power that could crush anything it caught, was doubtful whether it could crush marshmallows properly.
“As soon as I connected the magic with you, my body changed like this… As I said before, the real woman is your shadow itself, so it seems to be affected by your current appearance.”
“… If so, on the other hand, if I get older, Minerva, you too will look older, or if you take a drug that changes s*x… .”
Minerva nodded in response to Yoo Ji-hyeok’s muttering terrifying words.
“Maybe it will be affected. It will be fine if you use only her magic power, but I think the moment she receives your magic power, her appearance will change as well.”
He thought for a moment, then nodded.
“… Yeah, I know roughly. I’m glad I found out this way. It would have been very difficult for both you and me if it had changed in this way in an urgent situation.”
“Um, as you said. With a body like this, you can handle magic properly, but moving isn’t too cumbersome. Since the limbs are short, the gap has become too narrow, and above all, I can’t even hold and wield even a single weapon properly.”
Ye-eun Lee swallowed a small saliva at the sight of the two little children who looked like sparrows chattering.
They were having a serious conversation with a serious expression, but in her eyes it seemed as if they were just joking around.
“So I mean… .”
Yoo Ji-hyuk glanced at her for a moment as if he was expecting it, and then spoke in a calm voice.
“Then, wouldn’t it be better to go back to the original first? Drink the neutralizer and you’ll be back soon. Of course, it will return to its original state even if it is left alone, but first of all, as soon as possible… .”
“Don’t be silly, my dear.”
Minerva looked at Yoo Ji-hyeok as if plastically.
“Your shallow craftsmanship is clearly visible as if you were looking at the palm of your hand.”
She chuckled and let out a small laugh.
Seeing that, Yeeun Lee could barely hold back her exasperated sigh.
Minerva, who had taken the form of a girl, was smiling, covering her mouth with the back of her hand, as if mimicking an adult.
“My dear, it seems that I have forgotten this body… Minerva was a term referring to the being at the top of the dragon.”
Minerva chuckled and raised her head.
“In other words, it is saying that small and uncomfortable things do not change for the original woman, whether it was her former body or her present body. So, she has no regrets at all. No, on the contrary, I have never been so excited because I was able to see and enjoy your childhood that my mother had never seen before.”
If he had uttered the previous words in his original form, it would have been intimidating and arrogant due to his unique atmosphere and magical power.
But Minerva, who speaks like a child in the form of a child… From Lee Ye-eun’s point of view, she was nothing more than an adorable and cute little child.
‘At first, I was just trying to avoid the seat so that the two of us could enjoy it in moderation… .’
To be honest, Yeeun Lee didn’t want to leave this place.
In fact, even right now, I wanted to intervene between the two of them, talking and playing together.
Maybe it was because she had been raised as an only child for a long time, and when she saw children, her lips became loose without realizing it.
In my mind, I knew very well that they were both adults, not children, but without realizing it, the boundary was loosened.
“Ugh… !”
Then, at the thought that just came to her unconsciously, Yeeun was startled and slapped her cheek lightly as if she was about to come to her senses.
There is nothing more foolish than being deceived by appearances.
Yeeun Lee, who had captured her heart like that, began to take a deep breath.
“Whew… .”
When I talked to Yoo Ji-hyuk a while ago, I said that I wasn’t jealous of Minerva, but in fact, she knew well that she was jealous of Minerva to some extent.
And it was accompanied by a sense of crisis and anxiety, and in the past, it aroused disappointment and displeasure towards Yoo Ji-hyuk.
‘No, but what the hell is that woman, I’ll cut off a person’s neck and put them next to her, I’ll pull out my heart, I’ll kill her, then she calmly clings to me and whispers to me, sweetheart, sweetheart? There, Yoo Ji-hyuk and that person are the same. Nucksal is good, it’s said that you’re attached to your shadow, but if you try to kill yourself by saying the wrong words, you can’t do anything, so why do you trust and rely on it like that? If that’s the case, shouldn’t you do that to me first? Sbangali with me, I got caught by that guy and went through all sorts of hardships. What did I do to save my traumatized sniffling… Bad boy, bad bastard, fall down on the road and break your nose… .’
Yeeun Lee, who was struggling to maintain her reason while grumbling like that, suddenly felt someone tap her arm and touch her.
It was not a human hand, but something blunt, and when I looked up for something, it was none other than Minerva’s tail.
“Hey, I’m sorry, can I get you some water? My body is like this, so I don’t feel comfortable moving.”
Manerva, who slowly recovered his tail, gave a look of embarrassment.
Normally, I would have ignored it, but there was no way I could refuse to see him looking up at me with bright, hazy eyes in the form of a child.
Yeeun Lee poured the water as if possessed by something for a moment and handed it to Minerva, and Minerva thanked him and took the paper cup and drank the water.
“… Huh?!”
“oh!”
As she tilted her head back to drink water, she staggered in an instant, leaning over and struggling, perhaps because of the weight of her horns.
In the meantime, Yoo Ji-hyeok, who was right next to him, was startled and tried to catch her and fell over together.
“no!”
Yeeun Lee flew away so quickly that she would never have seen it again in her life, and took the two of them into her own body.
She felt a dull pain in her head, back, and chest along with a loud bang, and she frowned for a moment.
But soon after, I immediately opened my eyes to the creaking sensation I felt on my chest.
“Ugh… .”
“Hey, what filth am I… .”
Yoo Ji-hyuk and Minerva.
The two of them seemed to be hugging each other in a way.
Seeing her creaking on her stomach, she stopped and froze.
“Yeah, are you okay? Did you think I hit you in the head?”
“… … .”
Yoo Ji-hyuk looks at him worriedly.
And Minerva’s face is blushing in embarrassment.
‘Ah, ah… !’
Yeeun Lee stopped losing her mind.
In the corner of my mind, frankly, the thought of whether it would be okay to just leave the two of them back was constantly coming to mind.
* * *
“… Okay, I’ll call you later. It’s almost time.”
Xiaojie, a member of the upbringing, said so and put down the phone.
When I looked around, all the upbringing members were seated except for Choi Jun-hyung and Yoon Seul-hye.
Haley is also serving as a commando commander.
Maxim Goldenberg, who was so busy making a fortune rather than a hero, couldn’t even see his face.
And instead of missing Manchas, who was virtually dead, a newly fostered, unknown Arab man.
At the order of their leader, Choi Jun-hyeong, except for Yoon Seul-hye, everyone was in the midst of a period of self-isolation that was nothing more than quarantine.
What the hell did they bring them together like this, Xiaojier was thinking.
“Ah, everyone was here.”
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Opening the door, Choi Jun-hyung walked in with his characteristic, shaky steps.
Behind him stood a giant man he had never seen before and an old man with a straight posture.
“Hey, why did you suddenly bring us all together?”
Hailey asked cautiously, though she couldn’t hide her discomfort.
“Uh, what. not a big deal. I just had something to say face-to-face.”
Junhyung Choi said so as he sat down, and the old man closed the door and stood firm as if he had been a gatekeeper.
Xiao Ojie looked at the man of the giant who approached right next to Junhyung Choi with an uncomfortable gaze.
“… Who are these people?”
“Xiaojie, I’ll explain everything, so wait a minute.”
Junhyung Choi said so and pulled out a large cigarette from his pocket.
Then he lit it with the most refined movement, looked at the giant man and the old man, and asked.
“Do you want to smoke?”
“… … .”
“I don’t think.”
The giant man just stared at him without saying a word, and the old man returned an answer as determined as he was upright.
With an expression that seemed like he didn’t expect it in the first place, Junhyung turned his head and looked at the people sitting in his seat.
“Well, anyway, everyone is busy, but thank you for coming. Everyone’s busy, so I’ll stop saying hello and start with the topic. Why did I bring you all here? .”
He said once, spitting smoke into the air.
“Because we have rats among us. Even that bastard came in with the intention of betraying him from the beginning?”
Quang!
Haley, immediately enraged at Choi Jun-hyung’s words, smashed the table and shouted.
“what? Gosh, tear it apart… ! What kind of bastard are you!”
The other members secretly avoided their gaze as he glanced at the table with gleaming eyes.
It was because he was the most powerful man in the upbringing, except for Choi Jun-hyung.
“… uh?”
Then, when Haley noticed that Junhyung Choi’s gaze was fixed on her, she immediately spit it out with a cold expression on her face.
“Come on, wait. I hope you don’t doubt me… ? My, why would I do that?!”
“Right, Hailey. You are not like that.”
At that, Hailey quickly looked relieved.
Junhyung Choi shrugged his shoulders and said.
“Actually, I know there are rats, but I don’t know who they are. So I’ve been thinking all night about how to find it… .”
Suddenly, the giant man behind him swung and waved his arms.
Xiaojie, who wanted to do something for a moment, could see something splattered on his left face, and realized a little later that it was a drop of blood.
It was the last time I realized that the giant’s hand was holding the head of an unknown Arab man.
“Ahhh!”
“Suck!”
At the same time as Xiaozier screamed, Maxim Goldenberg, who had a massive build to match, turned the table over.
Then he ran straight up and punched the man with all his might.
The shards of the smashed table flew with a loud bang, and the headless corpse fell out in a strange posture.
“… This is the highest strength of the association.”
“crazy… .”
The man who was still intact even after being punched in Maxim’s fist muttered in a calm voice.
Afterwards, Maxim also fell to his knees helplessly, becoming a corpse without a head.
“What are you doing! What the hell is this, what the hell is this!”
Choi Jun-hyung, who was sitting still and burning a cigarette, answered Xiaojier’s hysterical cry.
“clean.”
“What, what?”
“I told you, Xiaojie. I couldn’t figure out who was the rat or who the traitor was.”
He chuckled and smiled.
“So, I just want to catch them all and kill them. It’s comfortable and neat. right?”
“This dog bastard is ah!”
Haley, who vomited out her anger, immediately rushed to Junhyung Choi.
But the giant man stood in the way, and he cried out, grinding his teeth with a popping sound.
“I’m going to kill them both, crush them to death!”
With those words, Haley raised a fist filled with magic, and the giant man also raised his fist.
An eerie sound like a bomb exploding.
In a panic, Xiaojie collapsed in her seat, covering her eyes and ears with a scream.
The roars that follow.
someone’s scream.
After a while, Xiaojie slowly opened his eyes, and soon realized that there was another corpse, which had lost both arms and head.
“Hey, hey… .”
The giant man was standing right in front of her.
“Sah, please save me. Old man, please help me… .”
“… … .”
“Oh, I was wrong. Stop saying that you gave me a big reward later… !”
The man raised his legs without saying a word.
There was the sound of something being crushed, and Xiaojie could not speak any more.
Her body, shaped like an unknown man, Maxim, and Haley, curled forward helplessly.
“Whew… … .”
In an instant, four people, even colleagues who had been with him for many years, died, but Jun-hyung Choi was sobbing and bursting into laughter.
“My stomach hurts.”
But there was something he hadn’t noticed.
There were seeds of the world tree planted by Yoo Ji-hyeok in the conference hall, and all the circumstances were passed on to him.
And the fact that there was another person besides Yoo Ji-hyuk who noticed the situation.
* * *
“Ahh… .”
Seul-hye Yoon couldn’t control her trembling body, so she sat back.
In her hand was the cell phone she had just been talking to Xiaojier.