Chapter 437 – Mother’s Hand Is a Hand (3)
Due to Seo Jeong-hee’s awakening, the historic meeting took place much earlier than expected.
“Hello, mother! “My name is Juyeon Han.”
“Oh my, Hunter Juyeon Han! “I’ve only seen you on TV, but you’re really pretty!”
“Hohoho, that’s too much praise. Your mother is really pretty, isn’t she? “Please tell me the secret!”
Han Joo-yeon is known as one of the world’s best buffers.
And Seo Jeong-hee, who awakened as a buffer in a completely different way from hers.
“I heard that our Dojin is in a lot of debt.”
“Ho Ho… ! Do you have anything to worry about? Dojin and I are like family to her.”
Both sides became nervous about the words the other said.
‘Our Dojin?’
‘Are we like family?’
The two quick-witted people quickly figured it out.
‘No way is this woman… ?’
‘No way is this person… ?’
The person in front of you has a deep relationship with Kim Do-jin in some way.
The two people were quite shocked.
‘What is he really trying to do that even made him an S-class hunter…? .’
The shock Seo Jeong-hee received from her was relatively small.
That’s because we’ve already heard about it through her daughter, Shin Yu-jeong.
Unlike her, Han Joo-yeon’s shock was not at a level that could be easily overcome.
Because she doesn’t know that Kim Do-jin has another woman besides her?
No way.
She knew right away that he had another woman.
No, even if I didn’t want to know, I had no choice but to know.
‘It smells awful.’
From time to time, she appears giving off the strong scent of another bitch, so how can you not tell?
But I didn’t care.
No, to be exact, I was a little nervous, but I couldn’t help it.
‘Dojin… , The more means there are to tie her brother-in-law to that body, the better.’
She cannot destroy the family of her beloved sister and her niece.
That was the greatest patience she could muster in her life.
But a situation came where she no longer had to exercise that patience.
My brother-in-law, who cared for her family so much, came out of the fence for some reason.
Was he thrown out, or did he run out because he wanted to?
I don’t know the exact reason, but one thing is certain.
‘I don’t have to hide my feelings anymore.’
There are no longer any obstacles blocking my heart.
In fact, the line has already been crossed.
I’ve stayed up so many hot nights that I don’t even know how many times.
Blissfully happy days.
Still, a part of her was always anxious.
I thought that he might suddenly find his original body and leave.
I was afraid that I would be trapped in the stuffy life I used to have.
So she was always worried.
‘You have to tie it up.’
A way to tie him to that body.
Then it suddenly occurred to me.
If the relationships he made as Kim Do-jin become precious enough to overshadow the relationships he made as Son Si-woo, wouldn’t he be able to be liberated from this anxiety?
Just with that thought, I erased my desire for exclusivity.
Because now is a hundred or a thousand times better than those days when we could never reach it.
For that reason, I tried not to interfere as much as possible.
No matter who he is in a relationship with or what kind of woman he attracts into his arms.
As long as your feelings for yourself are strong, it doesn’t matter.
I thought so…
‘But not like this!’
No matter how many times I think about it, it makes no sense.
He obviously also had a relationship with Shin Yu-jeong.
In other words, doesn’t that mean that a man took both mother and daughter at the same time?
“Oh my, I left the customer outside too long. “Come in now!”
“Ah yes…”
After catching a glimpse of Seo Jeong-hee, who went inside first, saying she would bring tea.
Han Ju-yeon turned her head and looked at Kim Do-jin, who was standing behind her, with a resentful look and then let out a loud noise.
“Hey, hey… , Pervert!”
“… No.”
Han Joo-yeon just blurts out those words and follows Seo Jeong-hee into the house.
Kim Do-jin, who was left alone in the entrance, thought.
“… “It’s not wrong.”
Why are we suddenly hitting people with facts?
Kim Do-jin, who could hardly find an answer, gave up thinking and went inside.
* * *
With the emergence of a buffer called ‘Bapsim’, expectations were soaring that the strength of the team or guild would grow further.
“No, wait a minute.”
Suddenly a question crossed my mind.
Our guild already has Juyeon, who is considered one of the strongest buffers in the world.
“… “What if the two people’s buffs don’t overlap?”
Neither side can be abandoned.
After all, it was natural.
One is already S-level, and the other has enough potential to reach S-level.
In the future, when these two people both become S-class buffers, should they throw away that synergy?
“That will never happen… !”
That was why.
The reason why I invited Juyeon to my house.
To find out whether the two people’s buffs overlap or conflict and only one remains.
I don’t know why I suddenly heard Juyeon pervert during that process.
After finishing our light tea time, we started the experiment right away.
When Jeonghee entered the kitchen, the food she proudly presented was none other than beef stew.
When I heard that an S-class hunter was coming to my house, I thought about what dish I could make with beef and found this dish.
“Wow, it’s beef stew?”
“Yes. I worked hard to make it because Hunter Joo-yeon Han was coming, but I was wondering how it would taste… , Ho Ho.”
“It looks delicious just by looking at it, right? “It smells really good too!”
“Try it before it gets cold.”
“Yes, I will eat well!”
Juyeon takes a spoonful of stew and brings it to his mouth.
At the same time, I scoop up stew from the plate in front of me and shove it into my mouth.
The distant flavor and umami obtained from boiling for a long time seem to warm your entire body.
As I was savoring the taste for a while, a message came to mind.
[I consumed ‘beef stew prepared over a long period of time.’]
[Stamina recovery speed increases by 20% and stamina increases by 5% until satiety disappears.]
The increase in stamina is an added effect as her proficiency with ‘beef’ reaches ‘soft-boiled’.
Jeonghee and us too.
I worked hard to go from ‘immature’ to ‘soft-boiled’.
Eating only beef three times a day was harder than I thought…
Jeonghee asks Jooyeon with a very nervous expression.
“How is it… ? Does it suit your taste?”
Then Juyeon raises her thumb with her eyes wide open.
“It is very delicious… ! “Isn’t it great to see such positive effects after eating delicious food?”
An exclamation bursts out.
I know Jooyeon well, and that is 100% sincere.
What… , In a way, it’s natural.
Her cooking skills, which were already outstanding, were enhanced by the addition of the characteristic of ‘cooking rice’, making the food even more delicious.
I didn’t know it because it wasn’t written in the description, but each time your skill level with an ingredient increases, not only does the buff effect get added, but the depth of flavor you can bring out also changes.
The soft-boiled beef dish has already become so amazing that most restaurants can’t even put out their business cards.
So I’m looking forward to it.
What on earth will it taste like when it reaches the upper line of ‘fully ripened’ and ‘mastered’?
I wonder if the universe is really visible like a cooking cartoon I saw a long time ago.
But it’s still too early to be happy.
“Now it’s Juyeon’s turn.”
“Oh, right. I came today because of an experiment… ? Wait for a sec!”
Juyeon, who has regained her original purpose that she had momentarily forgotten due to the gracious taste of beef stew, quietly recites an incantation.
Eventually, a dazzling brilliance pours in.
As Juyeon extends her hand towards us, the radiance completely covers our bodies.
[The effect of the sacred magic ‘Light of Life’ inhabits the body.]
[Health recovery speed increases by 50% and stamina increases by an additional 20%.]
A buff similar to that of eating beef stew, but incomparably superior, surrounds your body.
When I move my body in that state, each movement feels light.
Your whole body is filled with a sense of ease that can only be felt when your physical strength is at peak level.
In fact, just by looking at the message window, the answer was derived to some extent.
“Seeing the additional increase, it seems like there is overlap…”
“Do you think so?”
When only one person has received a buff, the word ‘additionally’ is not used.
This seems to mean that a new buff effect has been added to the already ongoing buff effect…
I stand up to take a closer look.
“I’ll run for a moment.”
If you take away some stamina and compare the recovery speed, you will know more clearly.
Straight out of the city center and running without hesitation along the nearby mountain path.
One lap, two laps, three laps, four laps…
After climbing the mountain behind me about 30 times in a short period of time, I slowly start to feel out of breath.
“Whoa… “This should be enough.”
Slightly disheveled breathing.
So, close your eyes and contemplate your body.
The heart, which was beating rapidly, soon regains its original stability.
The same goes for your heaving lungs and chest.
Peace regained in less than 3 minutes.
I am confident in this.
“They overlap.”
It wouldn’t be a dream for our guild to become the best guild in the world.
We accelerate our steps to announce this welcome result.
I went back the way I came and was about to pass the police box near my house.
“You guys are still police?! “You bastards!”
A scream of criticism pierces my ears.
When she turned her head, a woman who appeared to be in her mid to late 40s was raising her voice towards the police box.
“All I have to do is report him missing?! “Don’t you have to go out and pretend to look for it?”
Report it missing.
Has someone disappeared?
In response to the continued criticism, the police officer who opened the police box door spoke in an embarrassed tone.
“Mom, we’re going out to look for you soon, so please wait for us at home, okay?”
Then the middle-aged woman seemed frustrated, pounding her chest with her fist and yelling at her.
“What mother on earth could stay home when her daughter is gone!”
Hmm.
That’s true.
“I told you. “Right now, we don’t have enough manpower, so a lot of people can’t go out.”
However, the police also seem to be equally unjust.
In fact, the number of police officers guarding the police station is only two, including the one outside.
Finding her missing daughter is important, but she can’t leave the police station empty.
“Please wait a moment, okay? “We’ll do our best, Mom.”
A middle-aged woman lowers her head with difficulty in response to repeated requests from the police.
“Please… , Please find my daughter, please… !”
“Oh my, mother…”
I got angry, then I begged.
Her heart aches as she watches the woman’s ever-changing emotions.
“… “I used to be like that too.”
Although she wasn’t missing, I felt the same way when Seoyeon’s body was getting weaker day by day.
Even though her nerves quickly became sharp and she became angry, she went to a person who knew something good for her body, held on to the crotch of his pants, begged, and paid twice or three times the market price to receive her items.
It was so despairing when there was no relief even with the elixir I had found.
“What is flesh and blood?”
This is truly amazing.
Just the fact that they are my blood relatives makes me so precious that I would not waste my life giving them up.
Is that why?
“Where exactly did your daughter disappear?”
Unable to pass by the woman who was screaming for her daughter’s disappearance, she ended up acting in a panic.
