82 – Crumbling Ice Castle (9)
─I will extract it.
Iron Rice Bowl took out an artifact that looked similar to a syringe. And without a moment’s hesitation, he inserted a syringe into the head of the drooping Liberation executive’s corpse.
Joo Woo-wook-
Something like the brain was sucked out of the executive’s head. That syringe was a mana extractor, and what was being sucked out was mana.
─Extraction complete.
“Good job.”
After receiving the artifact full of mana. She summoned Zap Hyunseong.
─Pooh!
This time, the artifact was inserted into the body of Jjam Hyeon-seong. When the pusher part of her was pushed in, mana was stably injected.
The reason for going through such a cumbersome process was simple. Since Zap Hyunseong does not have the ability to absorb mana, she cannot use her ability unless the owner of the mana directly injects her.
Even if the Liberation executive was alive, she would not be able to hand over the mana herself, so she chose to take the mana forcibly after killing her. For that purpose, I even asked Bobbong to make a mana extractor artifact.
─Pooh!
The body of Jjam Hyeon-seong, who had been injected with all the mana, melted. The body of Saem Hyeon-seong, which became mud and spread on the floor, turned gray, and soon began to regain its color, gradually taking on a human form.
Soon.
Succeeded in transforming into an appearance that perfectly matches the Liberation executive. It was an appearance copying skill.
After confirming the transformation.
She shifted her gaze to the rice bowl and talked.
“Rice bowl. Did you bring what you asked for last time?”
—That’s right. I had a bit of trouble making it.
“Yes, it was hard. Give it to me quickly anyway.”
Iron Rice Bowl set down the backpack that was slung over his shoulder. Open the zipper and put your hand inside to stir around for a while. The iron rice bowl, which had stopped moving, slightly raised its head and stared at me.
─Please stroke the head first before handing it over.
I don’t know if others see it.
From my point of view, it was clearly a pouting face.
Even without expression, I, the owner, could vaguely know.
‘Are you mad?’
I stroked it right away.
I can roughly guess why he pouted.
Last night, I only stroked Kaebi’s hair and went straight to bed.
—Good. We’ll hand it over.
It was a very laborious summoner.
I was handed over two artifacts just like that.
I installed an artifact in the mouth of the Liberation executive.
“Ah.”
I put my face close to the square artifact in my hand and made a sound.
“Ah.”
Then a voice came out of Jjam Hyeonseong’s mouth.
Of course, it wasn’t my voice, it was the voice of the liberation executive. The one held in my hand was a voice modulator, and the one implanted in the oral cavity was a speaker connected to the voice modulator.
‘Seo Han-bit turned on the light in my eyes and coveted it…. If I use it today, I don’t think I’ll ever use it, so I’ll give it as a gift when I get back.’
Seo Han-bit even made a tranquilizer gun for her and asked if she could give it to him, but she firmly refused as she seemed to be using it for some strange purpose.
Anyway, the infiltration preparations are over.
“Oh. Are you a doppelganger?”
An official from the Freezing Guild, who was watching this from the side, asked.
“No. It’s called a clone golem, and it’s a monster that’s less compatible than a doppelganger. You can also summon a doppelganger, but it’s not an appropriate strategy to use him.”
“Ah. But···. Doppelgangers may even resemble the personality of the copied subject, so it must be tricky.”
The officer collected the body through the body absorber. After confirming that the processing was complete, I immediately turned around and said.
“Then let’s go. You haven’t forgotten what you heard from Kim Soo-han, right?”
“Of course. Don’t worry, I’ll be careful to avoid deaths as much as possible. But is it really okay if we don’t have our staff on the Liberation side?”
“I’m not conceited, really, just the two of me and Kim Soo-han are enough.”
“…Well then, I wish you luck.”
After that.
The Freezing Guild executives returned to their camp.
After contacting Kim Soo-han, I decided to move to the place where the Liberation guys are gathered.
The location was found after Iron Rice Bowl found out through life detection.
***
A wasteland in Cheorwon.
Cha Yu-ra has arrived at the place where the Goguryeo guild is stationed.
“Are you here early?”
“Ah yes… Hello···.”
The deputy guild leader, Ji Min-ho, welcomed Cha Yoo-ra.
Cha Yu-ra temporarily joined the Goguryeo guild and participated in the war. It wasn’t someone’s order, it was an act that only stemmed from her will.
Looking around at the Goguryeo guild members busy preparing for her war, Cha Yu-ra swallowed her saliva and tried to calm her nervous mind.
‘It will be fine… Because I have this.’
Cha Yoo-ra touched her talisman, which she kept in her pocket. Summon Artifact. It was a talisman that Lee Hyun-seong was registered as a summoning target.
‘And there are bar teachers and bad boys.’
The bar teacher and the bad boy.
It was a nickname given to King Wheel and Elder Wheel by Cha Yu-ra himself. Not an official name.
While watching the giant cockroaches following her, she was regaining her stability.
“Is Yura here? Long time no see?”
A middle-aged woman wearing a colorful hanbok came up to her. A fan was in her hand. It was a proof that she was above the rank of an executive in the Goguryeo Guild.
Cha Yu-ra immediately recognized who she was and bowed her head politely.
“Oh, hello!”
“You don’t have to be so polite.”
A woman covering her mouth with her fan and laughing.
Her identity was ‘Park A-ra’, the guild leader of the Goguryeo guild.
“Didn’t you talk kindly to me when you were little? I hate that person, Cha Byeong-ho, but you’re not, so you can talk comfortably like before.”
“No. How can you speak rudely to the guild leader Park Yoo-moon…”
“Can you call me Park Ara? When the enemy name.”
Park Ara’s face, which had been filled with a smile, suddenly distorted. Realizing that she had made a mistake, Cha Yu-ra hurriedly bowed her waist ninety degrees and apologized.
“Sir, sorry! Park Ah-ra, guild leader!”
“Yes. If you don’t know anything else, please pay attention to that.”
Park Ara was sensitive about this part.
She wasn’t born a woman, it was because she became a woman from a man through a s*x change.
It wasn’t long before she became a woman.
She said that just five years ago she had a transgender transition.
Until then, she always wore only women’s clothing.
That said, I wasn’t an LGBT person who liked men. She had a normal s*xual notion of liking women.
But why did she change her gender?
The reason is that Park A-ra’s wife was a homos*xual.
Hiding that fact.
At first, she resented her wife for marrying her with only her loyalty stemming from her childhood friend’s love, but she still loved her wife, so she eventually realized that she was a woman herself. Was to see her compromise in the direction of becoming. So that we can truly love each other.
The reason why she went around dressed as a woman.
She was only for her own wife.
Anyway.
She Calling her former name in front of her and revealing her past as a man were taboo in the Goguryeo guild. Of course, Park Ara’s sons consistently call her father.
“By the way, what are these guys?”
Park Ah-ra saw the wheel monsters huddled behind her car, Yura, and asked a question with her eyes full of curiosity.
Cha Yoo-ra stroked Ms. Bar’s antennae and introduced her wheels.
“These are my friends.”
“…These are wonderful friends. Are you a monster summoned by a child named Lee Hyun-seong?”
“Yes. Concerned about me, I purposely went to a dungeon full of bug monsters to get materials and evolve them.”
“You are very sincere. Are you two in a relationship?”
“That, that’s not it…”
Looking at Yura, who denied her blushing face, Park Ah-ra smiled sinisterly.
“From a glance, it seems that the boy is interested in you? Or is there no reason to go to such lengths?”
“No way. I only helped because he was a friend. Because he was originally kind-hearted…”
“Are there no friends between men and women?”
“Not really…”
“Don’t you know that a man won’t talk to a woman he’s not interested in? It’s all because you have a heart.”
“…Come to think of it, it seems like he’s kinder to me than he is to other kids…”
Cha Yu-ra, a fluttering ear, shook her head, saying that it could be so.
Then she thought to herself.
‘Then why didn’t you just confess to me? Did you have no feelings before, but after living together, did you slowly fall for me?’
Maybe.
I thought that Lee Hyeon-seong might confess sooner or later.
But she quickly dispelled her thoughts.
‘···For now, let’s just focus on our father, no, Cha Byeong-ho.’
I felt dirty and sick to my stomach when I thought of my father, but I felt comforted when I saw the bar teacher and the bad boys with me. It was all thanks to Lee Hyun-seong. He was infinitely grateful to him.
In a matter of seconds after I let go of my thoughts.
Thoughts about Lee Hyun-seong filled my head again.
He was different from other people.
He was no match for the snobbish people who always approached to get a piece of soybean food.
I don’t want anything.
He was rather a man dedicated to himself.
‘Even though I don’t like bugs like I do, it’s to the point of going to dungeons that explorers are extremely reluctant to go to…. I’m sure this one likes me.’
Lee Hyun-sung’s face flashed in my mind and shimmered in my eyes. This time his heart pounded and came up to ten.
‘If I get rid of the shackles that restrain me, I too can live my life. Try dating that you’ve never seen before…’
Cha Yoo-ra vowed to build a relationship she wanted, not a false relationship set by others. Love relationship too.
‘If he confesses, let’s accept it right away.’
At the time I was thinking about that.
Park Ara placed her hand on Cha Yura’s shoulder and smiled warmly.
“Are you relaxed now?”
“Oh yes!”
“Whoops. It is said that when you think of someone you originally loved, your mind becomes calm. Now, shall we go soon?”
Park Ara, who spoke as if she had induced this conversation to relieve her tension, stared at the cloudless sky. Cha Yura also followed her gaze.
Puong-!
At the same time as an explosion occurred in the sky.
The gunfire announcing the start of the war rang out.
[As of the current time, Cheorwon, a designated war zone, has been converted to a lawless zone.]
The voice flowing through the loudspeaker, a sound amplification artifact, quickly spread throughout Cheorwon.