Chapter 387 – Thin Ice Plate (3)
Intense emotions lead the body as they please, as if they are not leaving any room for reason to intervene.
I forgot what kind of person I am now.
He approached her as she stood with her back to the window and roughly turned her to stand.
He violently grabs her shoulder and roughly pushes her to the window and asks.
“Why…”
I don’t understand.
The eldest daughter of a chaebol family.
One of the best S-class hunters in Korea, no, the world.
The owner of the Republic of Korea’s magic tower who promoted the nation’s prestige by contributing to the development of outstanding inventions and magic.
Aside from her wealth, which she held since birth, her achievements, rewards, and status were only possible because she was a hunter.
A topic that has gained so many things that it would be burdensome for one person to hold everything.
“Why on earth are you…?” !”
Even if I use all the understanding and consideration I can muster, I cannot understand.
At some point, she and I personally punished those who considered themselves special beings, evolved humans, or new humans.
Her thoughts at that time and hers were not any different from mine.
Morons.
A fire moth falling into a vain dream and jumping into a fire pit.
A hypocrite who hid his ugly lust for power under a clumsy cause.
I definitely thought so.
“Why can I sympathize and agree with such a ridiculous dream?”
What on earth are you so lacking in?
Why are you so dissatisfied?
And how amazing they are.
“You know better than anyone else that it’s a vain dream that can’t be achieved! But why… , Why… !”
Angry.
It is no exaggeration to say that she has achieved everything, and that all she wants is to do so.
Was she foolish enough to fall for the coaxing and speculation of a group of dreamers?
Did you want to achieve that so much that you even endured being distant from your closest family, your family?
In front of my eyes, full of emotions that I could not reach even if I had this body.
She didn’t make any expression.
With a look so numb that it sent goosebumps all over her body, she opened her mouth.
“It’s not a pipe dream. Because they have the power to make that ridiculous dream come true.”
After finishing her rebuttal once, she opens her mouth again.
“It’s not for my own sake that I contribute to their goals.”
After saying those words, her expression quickly changes.
“And one last warning.”
A deep sense of discomfort and anger at the end of an emotionless gaze.
“Don’t touch my body.”
The area around her shoulders turns red.
Eventually, I felt the heat in my palm.
Chi profit… !
The acrid smell and bitter pain felt in the palm of your hand against the intense heat.
He weakly pulls her hand away from the intense feeling of rejection inside him.
Her words along the way linger in my mind.
So I ask.
“If it’s not for you…”
Because I had used up all my strength to vent, I spoke in an extremely low tone.
“Who are you doing this for?”
Then she answered.
“For my daughter and her husband.”
“… I beg your pardon?”
While she was standing blankly, laughing empty-handedly at the answer she had not expected at all.
She says, adjusting the clothes that were wrinkled in my clumsy hands.
“I will do you a favor. But all I can do is to get in touch with them. What moves her heart… , It will depend on your words and actions afterwards. And…”
After one breath, the words continue.
“After what happened last time, the organization began to recognize you as an obvious enemy. And they don’t tolerate obstacles.”
It was a warning.
I never know when an organization that recognizes me as an enemy might send an assassin to attack me.
The reason I said this wasn’t because I was worried.
“… My daughter shouldn’t get hurt in the process. “If that were the case.”
Did I imagine my daughter getting hurt?
Two eyes shining with life turn towards me.
“Because you will die by my hands and no one else.”
With those words, Han Ju-hee closes her mouth and turns away, as if she has nothing more to say.
I looked at her back with a frustrated gaze and then turned my back.
Using her connections to connect with a Vatican saint.
Even though I got what I wanted before entering the Magic Tower.
“Fuck…”
I felt like shit.
* * *
My shoulders are throbbing.
This was the reason why she left the magic tower early for the first time in a long time.
I sit in the backseat of the car on the way home and get lost in thought.
‘Kim Do-jin…’
It was strange.
From the moment I first met him until now.
It has never been strange, but just a moment ago it was extremely strange.
To the point of feeling extremely uncomfortable.
‘What on earth was that?’
What comes to mind is the moment when he approached me while I was standing by the window, grabbed my shoulder roughly and shook me.
The emotions he showed at that time were very strange.
Loss, sadness, despair, anger.
And.
‘Feeling of betrayal…’
Of all the emotions, the one that was at the forefront was definitely the feeling of betrayal.
She couldn’t understand.
‘Why?’
Why does he feel betrayed by himself?
There was no relationship between me and him.
At best, they’re just trading to get what each other wants.
Emotional interaction?
There was no such thing.
But why did he feel betrayed by himself?
‘Because of Seoyeon and Jooyeon… ?’
No.
Even if he had a close relationship with those two people, that is no reason for me to feel betrayed.
That wasn’t the only strange thing.
‘That facial expression, eyes, tone of voice…’
Even though it was an unfamiliar face, everything inside it was familiar.
Things that are so familiar that we have seen them for decades, not just one or two years.
It was very similar to the way of speaking and facial expressions I saw from my husband, Son Si-woo.
Even saying they resembled each other was not enough.
‘It was the same.’
Is that possible?
It is surprising to me that, having lived with a man named Son Si-woo for decades, I see him not just as a similar person, but at the same level.
‘Something is strange.’
The feeling of discomfort I started feeling from then on never leaves my mind.
Something seems to be missing.
A sense of discomfort filled my mind.
It feels like something needed to resolve this sense of discomfort is missing.
‘What on earth is that?’
Frustrated.
The pain in my shoulder that I keep feeling feels like it’s hurting me.
Why did you make that choice?
Was that really all there was to it?
‘That was all.’
I was definitely that sure at the time.
But as time passes and I think about it, I feel a little different.
Was that really the only path left to me at that time?
Perhaps.
‘I guess I shook hands with my tired heart.’
There may have been a difficult path and an easier path ahead of me.
I wonder if I was so exhausted in front of him that I inadvertently chose the easier path, ignoring the difficult path.
The pain in his shoulder seems to be to blame.
In increasingly deeper thoughts.
“Im here.”
A single word awakens my spirit.
“Thank you for your effort.”
Han Joo-hee gets out of the car and enters the front door with a few short words.
At that moment, I ran into Son Seo-yeon, who was going up to the room with snacks from the kitchen.
The emotions in the daughter’s eyes were uncomfortable.
It was a little bitter.
That’s exactly what was contained in the gaze she received from her daughter.
She shot back without realizing it.
“… “If you eat things like that at night, you’ll gain weight.”
Then Seoyeon Son responded by turning her head slightly.
“I’m okay because I trained a lot.”
“So.”
It did.
My daughter no longer only practiced magic.
She wanted so badly to stop it, but she ended up holding her sword like her father did.
Thanks to this, the public is even saying that she is the only magic swordsman in the world who inherited both her mother and father’s outstanding talents.
She asked without realizing it.
“How is life these days?”
Son Seo-yeon’s body trembles slightly.
It was as if she never dreamed she would hear such a question.
Soon she answers.
“Good. I made friends, there were a few cheeky juniors, and there were cute juniors…”
Kim Do-jin was the last thing that came to her mind as she thought of each person one by one.
A being that is qualitatively different from others who are with us and is difficult to describe.
However, one thing is certain.
Whatever your feelings for him, they are far from ordinary.
Han Ju-hee, who was watching her daughter smiling softly, shot back in a cool voice.
“Keep in mind. The moment you get even slightly injured, your life as a hunter is over. “I know because her mother will retire her herself.”
It was clearly something he said out of concern.
It’s just that those emotions are buried in such a cold, sharp tone of voice that they are hard to see.
Son Seo-yeon responded by pouting her lips.
“You won’t get hurt.”
Han Joo-hee sneers at her confident tone.
“Under… , Well. “To her mother’s ears, her fledgling looks nothing but needless pride.”
Son Seo-yeon turns away from her mother, offended by her tone of voice that says she doesn’t trust her at all.
“I want to go up.”
Son Seo-yeon said that in a pouty tone and quickly went up to the second floor with angry steps.
Soon, Han Joo-hee is alone again.
“Ha.”
She lets out a small sigh due to her excessive use of mental energy and heads towards her master bedroom.
On one side of the bed that her husband and his wife shared, Son Si-woo was lying in his pajamas, as if he had arrived home earlier and was already ready for bed.
The two people’s eyes meet.
“Uh… , Honey, are you here? Oh, you came early today.”
The tone of voice and gaze that clearly shows embarrassment.
I was puzzled.
Wasn’t she someone who was always happy to have time to be together when she sometimes left work early?
‘But why today… , No, no.’
It wasn’t just today.
It was like that the last time I left work early.
He looked at himself with a look of extreme embarrassment and discomfort.
This is the second time today.
The moment when an unpleasantly strong sense of discomfort invades my mind.
She was spitting out words without realizing it.
“It’s been a while since I have some time left, but… “How about a glass of wine?”
If it were usual, ‘Wine? He would have rushed in, saying, ‘It’s better for me!’
“Oh, hey… , I’m sorry. I have something to do today? Haha.”
She answers in a confused tone and gets up from the bed she was lying on with her legs stretched out.
And then, just before he passed by him and left the room.
He turns around with the doorknob in his hand and adds an excuse.
“I’m going to sleep after doing some work, so don’t wait for me and go to sleep first.”
“… Is it so.”
Boom!
The door closes at the same time as the helpless answer is given.
She finally realized.
Something unusual happened to my husband.
