Episode 252
After much tidying up and wearing a dress, Cheet sat down at the table. Sitting across from him was none other than Claw taking off his mask.
“Is this a restaurant where the price of a single meal is in the triple digits? Did you gild the food?”
Unfamiliar with such high-end restaurants, Cheet looked around and joked why they were so expensive.
However, I couldn’t hear it as a joke when the really gold dusted scallops came out.
“Oh, you really nailed it. Hehe…”
Took.
When the menu came up, Chloe took off her mask. The villains of Rebellion looked like ordinary women in suits and dresses.
In particular, the appearance of Cheet, who was heavily decorated with makeup, was too far from his usual sloppy appearance.
Even if you sit quietly at the table, it draws the attention of the people around you. Perhaps because of that, a tall man who had been watching cheats approached the table.
“I fell in love at first sight. If you don’t mind…”
“Huh? me?”
Cheet looked at Chloe at the man’s words. Look at this. Are you still eating me? A cheat that proudly points a finger at itself with a reaction.
Feeling uncomfortable, Chloe frowned as if it was annoying. The man seemed unable to read Chloe’s uncomfortable expression. Cheet laughed in a voice that is not usually heard- and said while looking at the man.
“Ah~ I’m a hacker so I can’t give you my contact information~ I’m a really scary villain! Do you have a wanted bounty?”
“You are an interesting person. Then, if I want to know the contact number, can I check the wanted flyer?”
“Oh, it’s not written there.”
The man seemed to take the words of cheat that he was the villain as a joke. A friendly atmosphere as if you were on a date. Feeling uncomfortable, Claw gestured toward the man.
“Come closer to me.”
Tick tock.
Despite Claw’s rude gestures, which were black but moving, the man approached without much resistance.
“Ah yes! Both of you are really beautiful. If you don’t mind, I’d recommend sitting in seat B.”
Beauty is like a flower that gives off a fragrance, and it has the power to break down the opponent’s defenses.
Of course, it was natural that the man did not know what he was going to do in a restaurant in broad daylight.
“No, closer.”
Claw leaned back in the chair and gestured for her to come closer.
“Ah yes!”
The man strode towards Chloe. He seemed to think of Claw’s behavior as an approach to a relationship.
However, it was already too late when she approached, enchanted by the scent of a beautiful flower. What Claw was hiding wasn’t just a stinging thorn.
Took.
Chloe grabbed the man’s wrist.
The man seemed taken aback by Claw’s sudden action, but it was only for a moment.
Dig!
A man who quickly becomes dust when his wrist is grabbed.
“kid! I quite liked it. He told me to calm down when he saw me! You are more extreme than me!”
Cheet made a cheeky sound, but calmly replied to Claw, who killed a person in an instant.
“It was a problem to look at for a long time. My identity might have been discovered, so I just dealt with it.”
“I am playing. Aren’t you mad that he talked to me and not you?”
Cheet raised a fork and picked up the temple with a disapproving face. Then he chewed the scallops of clams sprinkled with gold leaf. Claw, on the other hand, dignifiedly cut his temples with a knife.
“The interest of anyone other than the captain means nothing to me.”
Cheet looked at the dust next to the table that was once a person and clicked his tongue.
“Ah, poor human. The fact that I am so attractive as a woman has offended the crow.”
That’s when cheats pity the poor man. An employee came in with someone.
“Seat C is this table.”
“Oh come here. Hey kid, here it is~”
The person Chet greeted by waving his hand was none other than the frightened Ryuming.
“Ah, you don’t need to be so scared. Because your brother sent it. Ryujin, I mean Ryujin.”
smile.
Cheet laughs and mentions her brother’s name. Only then did Liu Ming come to the table nervously.
“But my brother… Now in the national competition…”
“I asked in advance. Sit down.”
Liu Ming had no choice but to sit down at Chet’s insistence. Soon after, the waitress brings food to Liu Ming’s share.
“Now, before we start talking, you must be hungry. Try this first.”
However, Liu Ming was greatly taken aback by Chet’s kind suggestion.
“Ah, I can’t eat normal food like this…”
Liu Ming refused as politely as possible so that Chitt wouldn’t feel embarrassed.
What Tuk-
Cheat took out on the table was a small piece of stone.
“We are the people Ryujin called, don’t you know that? But if I hold this, the story will be different.”
Liu Ming obediently obeyed Chitt’s pretend to grab a piece of stone.
“Here, hold on tight like this.”
Perhaps because of the enigmatic atmosphere of cheats, Ryuming imitates his actions as if possessed.
“That’s right, you’re good.”
When Liu Ming’s hand squeezed it with all its might, the stone turned into liquid and was absorbed by Liu Ming.
“Oops!”
For a while, I was taken aback by the sharp pain in my palm. Liu Ming immediately noticed a change in her body.
The throbbing headache that he had been feeling all along disappeared, and the torrent of mana that was pressuring his entire body disappeared.
Let’s look at Liu Ming with a surprised expression at the change in her body. Chloe opened her mouth.
“It’s a prototype we made by combining a cycle stone and a magic crystal. The nature of melting the mana of the circulation stone and the amplifying power of the magic stone. And it is a product made with properties that are well absorbed by the body.”
Liu Ming didn’t understand Claw’s difficult explanation at all. However, he knew that his illness had healed as if it had been washed away.
“I will be fine for a month now. Although it is not good for the body if used frequently. If you replace the artifact, the story will be different.”
Magic crystals were originally a dangerous material that was a by-product of the demons. However, until the moment when Ryu Jin made his choice, he was able to ease Liu Ming’s pain.
“Even though it takes a lot of work, we made it ourselves. Do you know why?”
Liu Ming answered Cheet’s condescending question with a bewildered face.
“Is it because of my brother?”
Cheet laughed at that answer and shook her head.
“No, no. Also to recruit your brother. that the order is different. To heal you even for a moment. It’s all orders from our captain.”
Chet grabbed the fork he was using again.
“Our captain is the horse. Even though it’s so cruel, it’s hard to see children in pain.”
Cook-
Cheat took a piece of steak with a fork. Then, let’s stick that fork towards Liu Ming’s mouth. Liu Ming ate the meat like a baby bird.
Well well.
Liu Ming had long since lost his sense of taste due to the long treatment period. From a young age, he received a lot of stress and drug treatment, so his body senses were destroyed.
However, the taste of the food, which I had never felt before, felt so vividly.
“It is delicious.”
“okay? Then go tell your brother~ If you help us, he will make sure you don’t have to worry for the rest of your life.”
Hearing Ryu Jin’s name, Liu Ming finally looked at the two. What are these two unidentified people doing?
It was impossible to know the identities of the two just by wearing them now, but I could tell by intuition that they were dangerous.
‘Brother…’
Alternately.
Whose hand did Ryujin, her older brother, take to cure her disease? But there was nothing Liu Ming could do.
“…yes.”
“Frightened. It’s a joke, it’s a joke~”
For now, all he could do was nod his head in compliance with Cheet’s words.
* * *
Gaon’s waiting room.
Adela looked at Sumire as she sipped her tea and felt familiar yet nostalgic. Is it because of the realization that he has returned to Gaon?
“This is a cookie that Velvet and I made ourselves. Velvet told Adela to tell her when she met her. Isn’t that wonderful?”
Making cookies for Adela in a foreign country. Velvet’s kind heart was something that Adela didn’t have.
‘Obviously…’
Kind Sumire and Shin Yoo-seong with a deep heart.
sniffling.
Adela moistened her lips with Sumire’s black tea and took a bite of Velvet’s cookie. It hadn’t been that long since they had been apart, but Adela felt very missed.
“…Sumire.”
Adela called to Sumire.
Until a while ago, they did everything they could to eliminate each other, but now they were enjoying dessert in the same place.
“yes? Did you call?”
Sumire, who was bringing the cookie to her mouth, raised her head. Adela looked at Sumire’s face gently.
dumb dumb.
An embarrassing confrontation situation where only looking at each other’s faces.
“you. I missed you.”
However, Sumire’s cheeks blushed for no reason at the sight of Adela speaking so seriously that her face would heat up.
“Eh… me too.”
“Is Velvet doing well?”
“sure! Velvet talked a lot about Adela! Every day, they ask when they’re coming, and when they do, it’s like we should do something together…”
Adela smiled at the story Sumire told about Velvet.
“okay.”
For Adela, more than half a year since entering Gaon has been a journey to become a stronger hunter. Then why did he have to be strong?
Louise’s revenge was completed by her grandfather, Aden. Adela, who had already lost all of her family, could not find a reason.
It was because I could feel the sense of being alive for a moment, my heart beating in the midst of an urgent battle, just becoming stronger without purpose.
But now Adela was able to answer that question.
There are many people in the world, many stories, and many dangers. The hunter that Adela now dreams of is a hunter who becomes strong for herself and them.
It was enough for her to wait in the biting cold for her parents who would not return.
No one in the world wanted to suffer like that anymore, even if it wasn’t their co-workers or family.
So let’s cultivate the strength to prevent the tragedy that will come.
‘For these people.’
For parents who are forever frozen to protect themselves. For Aden, who still only cares about himself.
and for yourself.
‘More of the world….’
Risk-free.
Full of beautiful stories.
‘Let’s change it to a nice place.’
That was Adela’s newly acquired mindset as a Hunter.
