Chapter 36 – Jealousy
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Gaon looked at it for a while and then approached the wall where he noticed the secret through his senses.
“The welcome spell hasn’t been fully resolved yet.”
Since three of the five stone Towers are in good health, it may be natural. The barrier once cracked is very vulnerable, but the last defense mechanism is still activated.
If the magic crystal is damaged, it is natural that the barrier cannot be maintained.
Gaon moved across the wall without hesitation.
Perhaps if Chorin had seen this, she would have screamed why she was trying to ram her head into the wall right now. While thinking such silly thoughts, Gaon’s eyes penetrated into the wall and saw the altar and the magic stone placed in front of it. Seemed
A fist-sized stone that emits a soft blue light shows off its presence.
Gaon took a quick look around and then stretched out his hand and removed the magic stone from the altar.
Susseussut-
Along with that, the illusion magic was completely canceled, and the wall that was hiding this space also disappeared.
“Good. Shall we go out?”
Gaon, who took a rough look at the magic crystal and put it in his arms, moved out of the cave where the rest of the party were waiting.
As Gaon appeared under the moonlight, the two women who were talking came closer.
“Are you here?”
“Yes. There doesn’t seem to be anything particularly dangerous inside.”
“Thank god.”
Even though he said he was happy, he seemed to be curious about what he was doing inside with a smile.
Taking Chorin’s gaze away, Gaon asked Cheon Jaehee a question.
“Chun Jae-hee, what are you going to do now?”
“Me, me?”
“Yes. Although scattered, there are survivors from the New World side. Are you thinking of joining them?”
“No! I want to be with you two. … Can’t we?”
Cheon Jae-hee has been struggling to make a request, using the heat from her hand held by Cho-rin as a support. There was a will on his face that he never wanted to be with them.
She was not sexually exploited or exploited because of her unique talents, but she was bullied for her appearance.
Also, the ugly bare faces she had seen so far instilled a strong sense of rejection in her.
Compared to him, Gaon and Chorin were very clean.
They are much better personalities than themselves who have turned away from those who are being exploited saying that they have no choice but to live.
That’s why I had no choice but to stimulate their sympathy even in this way.
Of course, Gaon is not one to be sympathetic to such things. However, he just couldn’t find a reason to drop Cheon Jae-hee. Rather, if Cheon Jae-hee is with him, he will be able to seek an increase in power.
Gaon drew a rough conclusion and asked while looking at Chorin.
“What do you think, Lee Cho-rin? Can we stay together for a while?”
“Uh, um… Until when?”
“Well. It’s probably about a week or so. It will be just one month by then.”
It’s Gaon. She knows that in a month she will be going to Union, but not Chorin. So far, she has passed on all sorts of information under the excuse of psychometry, but it doesn’t make sense to even know about Union.
Even Chorin will never understand.
Even if it’s not doubt, you’ll have a degree of doubt, and it might develop into doubt later.
It was prudent to not even give room for such a thing in the first place.
Chorin remembered that when Gaon’s words first came to this world, she was a condition that popped up in the status window, and after a long thought, she nodded her head.
“… All right.”
Gaon wouldn’t have lied to himself. He said he wouldn’t accept me as a colleague even if we were together for a while, so he decided to believe it.
When Cho-rin’s permission was granted, Chun Jae-hee brightened her complexion and lowered her head.
“Ah! Go, go, thank you! I will work hard too. Please do anything!”
He said he would do his best, but Gaon took that part seriously.
“Is that true? Are you going to do anything?”
“Uh, uh… Yes four! Please do anything!”
Hopefully Gaon won’t do anything strange. When I reaffirmed that belief, he smiled contentedly and said:
“Okay. It just went well.”
At the same time, the two women’s anxiety was amplified as they glanced sideways at Chorin. In Cheon Jae-hee’s head, the image of Gaon having sex with Cho-rin crawled up again in Cho-rin’s head, and the doubt that he had barely pushed back.
Gaon approached right in front of Cheon Jae-hee while receiving the gaze of the two, and placed his hand on his shoulder.
“Then can you tell Lee Cho-rin about that magical attack?”
“I’m sorry—! … What did you just say?”
Chun Jae-hee, who prevented the pee bag that was about to explode the moment it touched her shoulder by tightening her sphincter, tried to refuse with her apology, but belatedly understood Gaon’s meaning and asked dumbfoundedly.
To that, Gaon kindly solved it again and explained it.
“I’d like you to teach me the attack that tore the troll’s joints out.”
“Ah, ah, that, that’s what you’re talking about…”
“Whew…”
Cho-rin and Cheon Jae-hee were relieved that the situation was not as bad as they thought. Then we met each other’s eyes and smiled at the fact that we had a similar misunderstanding.
Cheon Jae-hee, who exchanged awkward smiles with Cho-rin, accepted the request as if there was no need to worry.
“If it is, I will tell you. But please don’t expect too much. Shinsegae also told me about it, but no one followed suit.”
Chun Jae-hee made it known in advance for future work, just in case.
“Don’t worry about that. Even Icho Rin-san can handle her magic.”
“Is it? Earlier she was that green aura. By the way, she calls it magic… It’s a fitting name.”
Gaon only noticed this now, but Chun Jae-hee didn’t stutter as much as he did when talking about magic.
When the conversation was over, he looked up at the sky and said.
“Then let’s move quickly. We need to find a place to sleep.”
In fact, he could have slept in the cave where the trolls were, but if he saw the altar, he would find out that Cheon Jae-hee was trying to deceive him, so it was an inevitable choice.
Not to mention, Chorin was terrified of that place, and she trembled and even hit her in disgust, but isn’t it strange that she just went in and slept?
It is unavoidable.
Fortunately for Gaon’s words, the two agreed without much resistance.
“N-yes!”
“All right. Mr. Gaon!”
It was a genius-hee who stuttered again as soon as the story about magic was over. I guess it will take some time to fix this.
Of course, Gaon, who was planning on spending a week or so together, didn’t have to worry about it.
The group, now three, left the troll dungeon behind and entered the forest to find a nest.
***
“Miss Gaon. Wake up!”
“… Did anything happen last night?”
“Yes. What could have happened? By the way, when are you going to tell me about yesterday?”
Chorin turned her head back and glanced at Cheon Hee, who was sitting in front of her bonfire, and whispered in her ear.
Gaon whispered the same, feeling the gaze of the genius looking sideways at the two pretending not to be.
“I will let you know by the end of the day.”
“All right. Then let’s go! Breakfast is ready.”
“Yes.”
With a simple answer, he tidied up his face and head, albeit roughly, and approached the bonfire.
There, various fruits and ingredients that had been put in the bag were listed. The three greeted each other briefly and started eating.
“But, Mr. Gaon. What are you going to do now? You have a week left.”
Yesterday I was so tired, and it was late, so I couldn’t talk properly. I was curious because I only roughly decided on my night shift and went to sleep right away.
“For now, I practice in the morning. Lee Cho-rin will learn that magic from Cheon Jae-hee, and after she eats lunch, she will hunt monsters.”
“Hmm… So, isn’t Gaon bored in the morning? Does it bother you if you say you’re lonely?”
Chorin closed her eyes and smiled.
To that mischievous eye smile, Gaon responded bluntly without any agitation.
“It won’t happen, so don’t worry.”
“… You see? Chit!”
Her eye smile disappeared in an instant. She pouted at Gaon’s resolute words, which sounded like she was a little cold, and openly let her know that she was offended.
“Why are you angry?”
“I’m not mad! Then, since the meal is over, I’m going to practice magic with Cheon Jae-hee!”
Chorin, who confirmed that Cheon Hee had eaten all her meals while watching them, turned her body away from Gaon.
As if she had nothing more to say, Gaon reached out and put her hand on Chorin’s shoulder.
“I still have more to say.”
“… What, what is it?”
Chorin’s face turned slightly red as she turned her head again. Gaon glanced at her shoulder and quickly removed her hand from her.
Then, suddenly, her expression darkened.
Looking at her strangely regretful eyes, she wondered if Gaon really had some disease, and she opened her mouth worried.
“You said you were hunting monsters in the afternoon, but today is an exception. This afternoon we are going to stop by the place where the fight took place yesterday. There is something I want to check.”
The first thing to check was Kim Min-joon’s body. To be honest, it’s highly likely that he died just like that, seeing as he spat blood bubbles out of his mouth at that time, but wasn’t he a guy with strong bad luck?
Even as Gaon, if it wasn’t for Chorin’s level of healing ability, I couldn’t see a hole that would survive, but it’s comfortable to check.
Chorin frowned in disgust at the mention of returning to the battlefield.
“Ugh… If I go anyway, there will only be corpses, right?”
“It is still necessary. Survivors may be back.”
“Is it really so? It could be dangerous.”
“The area of monsters is already mixed up in a jumbled situation. In situations like this, you want a weapon to protect yourself. There are many weapons there.”
Even as Gaon, I can’t be sure, but I don’t see the possibility as completely zero.
Of course, if the survivor was evil, he would kill him right away, but if not, he had to at least come up with a plan for self-rescue.
Chorin nodded her head with a worried expression, as if she thought there was some truth in Gaon’s words.
“… All right. Is that the end of the conversation?”
“I have finished talking to Lee Cho-rin.”
When Gaon turned her head away from Chorin and turned to Cheon Jaehee, she trembled and met her eyes with her determined expression.
Her will to be of any help comes through.
“Genius Jaehee. Just in case, did you bully people when you were in the New World?”
“Oh no! I’ve never had that. But why…”
The face suddenly asks why did you bring up the story at that time. She seemed reluctant, as if what had been there was clearly not good.
Gaon knew that Cheon Jae-hee would hate his proposal, but he finally spit it out.
“If I find a survivor, I plan to entrust it to Mr. Cheon Jae-hee.”
“Me, me? I can’t do that! I’ve never done it. Just… Being a social outcast…”
Chun Jae-hee bowed his head, calling himself a social misfit. Defining yourself that way means that your self-esteem has completely sunk to the bottom.
It must be very difficult to lead others in this state. But that’s why it’s all the more necessary. This kind of personality will not help you in your future life.
It needed to be corrected.
“Still, if we were in the same group, wouldn’t we be familiar? Cheon Jae-hee must have been especially famous.”
“That… Yes.”
Due to Cheon Jae-hee’s personality, he would rather have been abused, but there is no possibility that he exploited or harassed others. Perhaps those who belonged to the lower class in the new world would be happy to see Cheon Jae-hee, but they would not hate it.
Of course, Cheon Jae-hee’s military power plays a part in that. The current situation is no different from a darkness that cannot be seen even an inch ahead.
In such a situation, how much hope does the light that guides the person act as? Gaon, who had been through such a thing before returning, can be sure.
Thanks to this incident, Cheon Jae-hee can recover her self-esteem and move forward.
Due to this minor change, Cheon Jae-hee will achieve faster achievements and reach a higher level than in her previous life.
“I believe that Chun Jae-hee can do it. And if it’s hard, I’ll help too. Besides, I haven’t met any survivors yet, so don’t be too pressured.”
“… All right.”
Gaon smiled with satisfaction at Cheon Jae-hee’s consent. Then, when I turned my head to the stare that seemed to poke me from the side, I met Chorin’s eyes with a sullen face.
“Why is that?”
“… It’s nothing.”
Leaving behind Gaon’s gaze, Chorin murmured.
‘Be unnecessarily kind!’
She was worried that Cheon Jae-hee might fall for Ga-on.
