#754. I have to use another way .
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Susseuk.
Clean the inside with a dry cloth until no dust comes out.
Grease the parts with a rag soaked in lubricant.
Then, after wiping off the oil with a dry cloth, carefully assemble the parts and gently pull the trigger.
Clap!
“…good.”
It doesn’t even contain bullets.
With a smile on his face at the terrifyingly sharp sound of the bolt.
Charlotte stroked the polished rifle.
“Death Bound… I don’t have a good naming sense, but it’s the best.”
I snuck it up at the sheriff’s office and put it to good use, but lost it when I got caught in the Golden Buffalo’s shelling.
However, he slowly touched the anti-armour rifle that was found among the wreckage of the building and eventually returned to his hand.
Charlotte murmured inwardly.
‘My Hogang-nim is also really big.’
Originally, it should have been confiscated by the sheriff again.
It’s a reward for saving yourself.
Recalling the violinist who gave her this rifle as a gift, she shook her head.
Until I received it, I would rather have complained about asking for money.
But that’s only the first time.
The more you touch this death bound.
The satisfaction that naturally seeped out made her smile.
how good it felt
From now on, even if Lee told me to call him master, I would listen to him with a smile.
Of course, you will have to ask for extra pay as well.
‘…but what was that?’
I was turning the rifle around like a child who got a new toy like that.
Charlotte suddenly looked at her hand.
Memories don’t come back.
Because the work of that day is still hazy.
Still, there were things that came to mind from time to time.
It is so complicated that the meaning is not known, but for some reason it is familiar rather than unfamiliar.
The memory of a strange sentence that can only be called ‘gugyeol’.
But what makes her care more than that is the emotion that comes with that memory.
so warm
happy again
comfortable.
The strangely clear feeling made her happy and longing just by thinking about it, which made her worry about it inadvertently.
What is the true nature of that feeling?
What should I do to feel that feeling again?
“…Ah, is it already this time?”
Was it because I was too deep in thought?
Realizing too late that time had passed, Charlotte put the rifle back into the case with a sad expression on her face.
And I don’t want to repeat my mistakes.
After checking myself in the full-length mirror I purposely placed there.
get out of the trash
Charlotte returned to the store.
And, as always, I lightly opened the door and went in and said hello.
I was trying to say hello
“I’m back…
.”
“…!”
bang!
…if it hadn’t been for a sudden tearing scream from inside the store.
Charlotte reacted immediately.
He broke down the back door of the store and entered.
The moment she pulled up the skirt of her waitress suit to reveal her slender thighs and grabbed the pistol she was wearing on her belt.
“Auntie what happened…!”
“Hey Charlotte! Look at this! huh? this!”
“…What’s this?”
“What is it? You know it when you see it!”
Truly lightning-fast.
before he even drew his pistol.
Seeing Jenny who ran like a bullet.
Charlotte blinked.
From the sparkling eyes to the flushed cheeks and loose lips.
It wasn’t just because of Jenny’s face overflowing with joy that it felt like a lie that made her scream earlier.
It was because the object she was proudly displaying was so unexpected.
“First of all, it looks like a sign.”
“It’s a sign! And look at the sign, not the paper!”
“Even if you ask to see the autograph…?”
She lowered the hem of her skirt again, hiding the pistol she was wearing on her thigh.
Charlotte looked at the sign.
and admired
‘Wow, that’s a nice sign.’
Could this be the sword mark left by a swordsman who has devoted his whole life to a single sword?
It continues like flowing water.
As dazzling as a flower garden in spring.
Neat with no mess.
Looking at it, which looked more like a piece of art than a sign, Charlotte thought involuntarily.
-I want to have it too.
that beautiful figure.
and perfection.
It made Charlotte involuntarily inflamed with a desire for exclusiveness.
“aunt? Where am I…?”
That’s why I understand why Jenny is making such a fuss, but I’m trying to ask where she got this sign.
she hardened
I should have realized it earlier.
I couldn’t confirm it because I was fascinated by the elegance of the handwriting.
In other words, it was because it was only belatedly that I noticed whose signature it was.
“My aunt… Where did you get this autograph? No way…”
“Oh! This is not the time for me to do this!”
The question, similar to the one before, but containing completely different feelings, could not be finished.
It’s because Jenny pulled her over and over again.
“Hey, go out to the hall and entertain the guests. Because I have to make the best burger ever!”
“No, more than that…”
“We serve whatever the customer wants!”
If I get lucky this time, I might be able to become the number one burger shop in the United States.
Jenny pushed Charlotte with words full of motivation.
Thanks to that, she was pushed out alone as if almost falling out, and the moment she managed to correct her balance.
“hmm. I thought only the boss was pretty, but the waitress is also very beautiful.”
Charlotte’s pupils caused an earthquake. The voice that
was so familiar now, but
should never be heard here, made her feel the urge to run away right away.
However, doing so would be tantamount to confessing to being suspicious.
while pretending to be equanimous.
she raised her head.
And at the table in the middle of the hall, a guest sitting leisurely with a cage containing bluebirds as friends.
He approached the dark-haired violinist and smiled.
“…Welcome to [Happiness Bean Burger], guests.”
A trembling mouth.
A voice that sounds like a squeeze.
To the blinking eyes.
No matter where you look, he looks like a bounty in front of the sheriff rather than entertaining guests.
But I couldn’t help it.
To the point where he felt as though he would be naked and rolling through the crucible of hell if he thought that Lee might recognize him.
‘Why is this guy who doesn’t budge from Leviathan usually come here…!’
Are you tired of waiting for food?
He pricked the blue bird in the cage with his finger, then pecked his finger at the blue bird’s beak with its twin wick lifted.
Even so, looking at the black-haired man who smiled and stroked his hair.
Charlotte suddenly felt uneasy.
‘Could he know my true identity?’
It was a reasonable doubt.
Among the many restaurants, Lee had no reason to come here.
‘No, it can’t be.’
Charlotte made up her mind.
Then, he slowly put his hand behind his back and fiddled with the bracelet on his wrist.
The castle of this bracelet is perfect.
The reason she was able to shake off those fearsome pursuers was because no one recognized her as she transformed into the power of the bracelet.
Lee is no exception.
As if reflecting on herself, Charlotte made up her mind and tried to pretend to be calm.
“Do you need anything?”
“I don’t need anything.”
“Just say anything. Anything from sparkling water to beer….”
“Actually, I wanted to bring my black dog here too.”
Even if a passing pigeon suddenly hit me in the head with a mace, the back of my head wouldn’t hurt like this.
For a while, the unexpected sound made me harden with a smile on my face.
Charlotte struggled to open her mouth.
“Do you have dogs?”
“huh. There is a cute little black dog that shows its stomach right away when you feed it to a very proud subject.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah, that’s what I mean.”
When did you reveal your belly and pant?
The black-haired man grinned as he saw her grit her teeth to suppress the desire to argue.
“Our black dog looks so cute today.”
after a brief silence.
let the ground go down.
Charlotte sighed.
Then he looked at Lee with cold eyes.
“Could it be that the boss was following me?”
Of course, checking the identity of the bodyguard who will protect you is a matter of course for a high-status person.
But as a free-spirited gunslinger, I couldn’t take that for granted.
As a fugitive, she thoroughly distinguished herself as Black Dog and Charlotte and used them to hide her identity, especially for her.
“I thought you would know without having to investigate?”
“how?”
“That waitress outfit. It looked really good, so I looked it up and it turned out it was a special order from this store.”
“….”
I still can’t give up my ambition to build a burger empire, so I should resent Jenny for ordering a dedicated waitress uniform even in this situation.
Or should I show the waitress uniform to this smirk and curse myself for not thinking that I would be tracked down here.
Suppressing those complicated feelings.
Charlotte sighed and asked again.
“So why are you here?”
“I want to see you work as a waitress.”
“Stop talking nonsense. Tell me your purpose.”
If he really came to make fun of himself without thinking, he decided that he would be the boss and that he would not let it go.
Charles Thor.
No, Black Dog looked at him with cold eyes.
This shop is her home.
It was your own ‘territory’.
No matter how unfamiliar they were, they did not have the heart to tolerate uninvited guests who set foot here without permission.
“Hmm?”
For some reason.
For a while, I was even more willing to look at her sad reaction.
Lee said with a smile.
“Actually, I have a place to go, so I think I will have to leave this place soon.”
“…That’s good.”
I’m glad enough that I don’t have to deal with this serpent anymore.
Why do you feel regret?
To Black Dog, who secretly thought that he must have become addicted to it because he was so accustomed to extorting money from this solicitor.
Lee said calmly.
“But I’m going to a rather dangerous place, so I’d like to have some strong bodyguards along the way.”
“Where are you going?”
“EK.”
“…is the boss crazy?”
“well. Compared to other workers in the same profession, I think I’m pretty normal.”
“Then why are you going there?”
Charlotte asked indifferently.
Since he was leaving, I wondered if he was evacuating like the others.
I couldn’t stand the absurdity when I heard that he would walk on his own to death instead of evacuating.
But the moment I heard the words that followed.
She couldn’t help but be agitated in a different way.
“I thought there might be a way to stop the spirit uprising there.”
“…You’re saying you’re going there to prevent a spirit riot that might actually happen? Not even sure you can stop it?”
“Because someone has to do it.”
“…”
“Besides, there are people who have recommended me to go there at least once.”
After laughing out loud.
Lee said seriously.
“In that sense, I want to sign an additional contract, black dog.”
“I will refuse.”
“Are you not worried?”
“I have work to do too.”
Black Dog cut it off.
I couldn’t leave the store with Jenny, let alone not have the heart to accompany her on such a risky journey, no matter how much money she gave.
But Lee was not disappointed.
I just laughed heartily.
“If you follow me, even if I will allow you to open the store of the boss here in Leviathan?”
“what? Does that make sense?”
“You said that. I have any amount of money.”
“Leviathan isn’t a place run by money alone.”
“well. Someone I know said, “What money can’t do can be solved with more money?”
“…”
“Besides, I have yet to try it, but there are kids who claim that the burgers here are worthy of being in Leviathan.”
A man smiling at a blue bird nodding his head in a cage.
Looking at him, Black Dog was silent.
She knew better than anyone else Jenny’s dream of building a burger empire.
How quickly you can get closer to that dream if you enter Leviathan, where only the best stores can enter.
More than anything, this situation is confusing.
The offer was really tempting, given that no place is as safe as the Leviathan.
But…
“What if you still don’t like it?”
I do not like it.
This is an offer you can’t refuse.
The one who is swung around by the man.
Somehow I’m so proud of myself.
The man was not disappointed with the question Black Dog asked.
Of course it seems like it should be.
He only had a faint smile.
“I’ll have to use another method.”
“If you think you can hit it with a wad of money again…”
“Please.”
head bowed deeply.
Waist bent at right angles.
At the end of being hardened by the image of a man who was always enviably confident and even arrogant, giving up all face and asking for a favor.
Black Dog asked involuntarily.
“Why… are you doing this?”
To say that he is the number one gunman in this city is all he can do.
To him who had the power to wipe out dozens of armored vehicles at once, he would be nothing more than a guard dog.
Why is it not enough even after pouring in a huge amount of money to do this?
To her who asks questions.
he replied calmly.
“Because I need you.”
So simple.
I don’t know the meaning.
Rather like a lie.
Even so, those eyes that automatically make it impossible to deny that the words are true are too deep and straight.
She looked at him blankly, and finally opened her mouth after a long silence.
“…How much extra will you give me?”
