150 – Spring Comes Before Flowers (2)
I sat in the tent and put twigs into a small brazier and started a fire.
You don’t even need a lighter.
Because it catches fire just by flicking a finger snap lightly.
“It will be comfortable.”
“Yes, it is comfortable.”
“Are you still going to do that?”
“Wouldn’t it be nice to be fresh?”
“… Is it?”
Clap.
Looking at the embers swaying around in a small brazier, I feel like my consciousness is going blank.
Brush.
I looked up at the slightly intrusive sound, and Grid was holding a convenience store bag.
“Get out of the way, b*tch.”
“I don’t like it?”
“I bought this with my pocket money, so I won’t give it to you.”
Yuna put her mouth out on her toes and very slightly cleared her distance.
If this was the author, the grid would have just ended up entering my body.
I find the subtle difference in response interesting, and I feel sorry for Yuna.
Grid picked up one of the pieces of firewood I had gathered and cleverly crafted a wooden skewer.
Then he put marshmallows on skewers and started roasting them on the stove.
Slightly sweet smell.
This smells similar to dalgona.
Knock.
As she was watching the scene in a daze, she heard a voice swallowing nearby.
Yuna.
Thinking back, I ate hoppang earlier, too.
… You skipped breakfast.
Yuna has low blood pressure, so she sleeps a lot in the morning.
Normally, she would have been taken care of by the boss, but since she had been with her since early hours, she would not have been in the mood to eat.
When her marshmallows were finished roasting, Yuna stared blankly at the marshmallows in Grid’s hand.
Her pride was hurt to ask for it, and she seemed hungry to bear it.
Smile.
As if Grid knew the situation, the marshmallow went straight into Grid’s mouth as if it were natural.
“Ah….”
An exclamation filled with regret flowed from Yuna’s mouth.
“It’s a joke, b*tch.”
The marshmallow, which he thought had gone into her mouth, went straight to Yuna’s slightly open mouth.
“Oh, heh, heh, heh!”
Yuna struggled a little as if the marshmallow was hot.
That must have destroyed the roof of my mouth….
When I looked at Grid, wondering if I was doing too much, the guy replied with a shrug of his shoulder.
Should I think of this as Grid’s own expression of affection?
Yuna, with tears in her eyes, was staring at the grid as she was thinking complicated thoughts.
Still, judging from the way she muttered, the taste seemed to be there.
If you think about it, both Grid and I have the ability to ignite.
So, that means she doesn’t have to roast them one by one in a brazier like this.
But somehow, I felt that I couldn’t bake it with the chlorine ability.
This is the height of inefficiency.
Nevertheless, the inefficiency is important.
Grid must be thinking the same thing.
“Wouldn’t it be better to bake it with the Chlorination ability?”
“”….””
It was the moment when I realized a little bit why Grid was bothering Yuna.
“A guy who lacks romance.”
“What?”
“Ehh… That’s why I’m going to give it to the author.”
“What?!”
We fight again.
Looking at it like this, it seems like we’re getting along well.
Even if we fight, I’m in the middle anyway, so it won’t turn into a hand-to-hand fight.
Yuna couldn’t do anything on a grid that even I couldn’t win.
It just creates a situation where Grid smirks and makes fun of Yuna when she screams at her.
So I decided to leave them alone until they were satisfied and stare blankly at the fireplace.
I think I got a little bit of burnout, maybe because I had a murderous schedule in China.
Ah… I’m just so blank….
“Be alert and ready, Brave.”
Grid started arranging her skewers as if she had finished roasting the marshmallows she brought before she knew it.
I couldn’t eat any of it… ?
***
“Then let’s begin.”
“Yes.”
“Um….”
I closed the tent, lined up the monster’s core I had brought, and took a slow, deep breath.
From now on, I plan to start training to feel the monster particles by activating this core.
“Is it really okay?”
“If you lie down again, Jinwoo can save you, right?”
“Yes… Don’t worry, boss.”
“Yes~”
Perhaps because Hawkeye voluntarily woke up from the psychic syndrome, he was a person who could feel the monster particles even minutely.
Yuna could not wake up voluntarily, but like Hawkeye, she is a patient with psychic syndrome.
So with Yuna, we might notice something about her that we didn’t notice.
It seems that Grid decided to join Yuna on this camping trip.
I didn’t want to do anything that would cause problems with Yuna’s body, but Yuna seemed to want to be of some help.
“Then go!”
With Grid’s cry, a blue light began to emit light.
The monster particles must come from the core of the monster.
Because this emitting light is similar to the light I saw at the press conference.
Unlike what I did in China, my senses are more sensitive and I can feel it more clearly.
This is the feeling of the stagnant air you get when you enter a building that has been neglected for a long time.
Even though I was obviously in the same place as before, I had the illusion that I was in that place.
“Ugh….”
Yuna was trying to stabilize her breathing while frowning, probably feeling the same way.
“There is something.”
“Yes.”
I can clearly feel it.
This sense drifts heavily.
Can I touch this?
Me and Greed simultaneously reached out into the air.
“”I can touch monster particles.””
Greed and my words became one.
Elena’s autosuggestion.
If it feels so clear, it might be possible!
With that thought in mind, I waved her hand around.
Every time she shakes her hand, there is a sense that there is something there.
But rather than being touched….
“It just feels like the wind is passing by?”
“Tsk.”
Invisible air is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide and water vapor.
It felt like this monstrous particle was mixed in with it.
We decided to stop the monster’s core for a while and take a deep breath.
“Puha!”
Yuna quickly unzipped the tent and ventilated her tent.
You can’t see it, but you can definitely feel it when you ventilate like this.
My breathing has become easier.
It was a level where I could really feel the difference.
“Something felt stuffy inside.”
Saying that, Yuna began to press the part of her pit with her hand.
“Didn’t you see something?”
“Yes. But I had a feeling that something was there.”
If exposed to a little more particles, Yuna might be able to see something like Hawkeye.
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I had such faint expectations, but it seems that there is no difference between us.
Something is a bit disappointing….
“Whoop, whoop….”
Yuna exhaled heavily, her face reddening a little.
She somehow feels like she’s the one who held her breath for a long time, and she’s like when we drank wine together in prestige class.
Feeling drunk….
“Feeling drunk.”
“Yes?”
“Hmm?”
“Wait a minute.”
Feeling drunk.
Sake.
Alcohol.
I’m trying to think of something….
“Drunk, alcohol, feeling intoxicated.”
I murmured and worked her head trying to think of something.
Still, I couldn’t think of anything, so when I was groaning, Grid and Yuna started to help.
“Soju.”
“Beer.”
“Wine.”
“Vodka.”
“Ummm… Distilled spirits?”
“Yes, distilled spirits.”
Grid and Yuna’s eyes turned to me.
“Couldn’t it be possible to filter out only the particles from the core of this monster with the feeling that something only filters the air?”
“Like spirits?”
“Yes.”
When I said that, Grid frowned and began to ponder.
And then he shook his head as if that wasn’t the case.
“Why?”
“The Fenrir we rode was made of an alloy made by mixing metal with by-products from the corpses of monsters.”
“So?”
“Did the BT holders who studied the kaiju’s nucleus know about the kaiju particle?”
“Ah.”
If you are a BT holder, you must have already experimented with various methods.
The reason why Yuna responded might be because Yuna was also a patient with psychic syndrome.
Is it wrong….
Thinking it was a bit unfortunate, Grid started scratching his head.
“It was a good try.”
“Is that so?”
Attempts are good, but there must be results.
As a BT holder….
I should consult with the author later to see if there is anything.
After that, we decided to share some of the snacks Grid bought at the convenience store and pass the time.
After coming out like this, it was a bit disappointing to go back right away.
“Brother… No, Jinwoo, have you been camping often?”
Are you planning to continue with the boss concept today?
“No, I don’t have much either.”
My father was busy, and I was quite busy in college.
“I think I’m used to it. Pitching a tent….”
“Oh, I went camping with Grid for a while.”
“… When?”
Yuna looked at Grid with a slightly complicated gaze.
“Oh, you mean then?”
“Yes, then.”
“Huh?”
“Doesn’t the boss know? ‘Is Yuna scene?’, ‘Yes, is Seo Yuna?’ Don’t you remember?”
“Ah, ah….”
It’s been quite a while.
It happened in April, so it’s already been 8 months.
“Isn’t that the first time since then?”
“Yes. There was no time for that.”
Excluding training, I spent the rest of my time doing hero activities.
I didn’t have enough time to leisurely go camping.
“Ummm….”
Yuna looked around her tent, saying she was good with her hands.
Anyway, I hadn’t gone camping a few times, but I think it was amazing to pitch a tent well.
“Brave is the type to read the manual first when buying something.”
It’s not wrong, but when Grid says that, it feels like he’s being cursed at for some reason.
“Hey….”
Yuna glanced at me and she started scratching her cheek.
“Why is that, boss?”
“We’ve known each other for a while, but we don’t know much about each other~ That’s how I felt.”
… That’s right.
Excluding the time Yuna suffered from psychic syndrome, it has been almost a year since she and Yuna got to know each other.
Still, she doesn’t know much about Yuna.
The same goes for Yuna.
There is a circumstance where he hired Hawkeye to investigate, but he probably doesn’t know much about it.
“15 Years ago… So, when I was 8 years old, I saw Firth slay the monster, right? That was really cool.”
Like all kids of that age, I was the same.
First’s appearance was so cool that I thought I wanted to become First.
The fact that my father was a firefighter must have been great.
“All men are alike.”
“Is that so?”
Maybe Yuna’s older brother, the boss, had a similar period.
“This must be a bit complicated. Because the ending is that the person you admired so much was actually a bad guy.”
“Well….”
Even when I think of First, I don’t think of anything other than the son of a b*tch.
I guess it’s the effect of becoming a monster.
If you had just learned that First was a villain when he became a hero….
“Mr. Jinwoo?”
When I shut her mouth, Yuna cowered as if she thought I had asked a sensitive question.
“It’s okay, boss.”
I had my own expectations, and I was just disappointed.
I was such a human from the beginning, but it’s just that I didn’t have eyes to see.
… That’s just about it.
Good story.