## Chapter 94 – Who Will Save the Despairing Girl? (1)
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Numerous lights from the shopping district brightly illuminated the dark night,
and beneath that light, people finished their day and enjoyed comfortable rest and entertainment.
In this street where laughter and exciting music flowed without ceasing, heightening the atmosphere,
only one person could not laugh and walked the street forlornly.
– Thud –
“Ah! Oh! I’m sorry.”
Rumi, who was walking through the bustling street with an expression as if she were dead,
was apologized to by a man who bumped into her shoulder while passing by.
“……”
However, Rumi did not even turn her head, let alone respond to the apologizing man,
and simply walked aimlessly down the street.
“What’s with him, Oppa…? He doesn’t even turn his head when you apologize….”
A woman, seemingly the man’s girlfriend, glared at Rumi, who didn’t even turn her head.
“It’s okay. She looks like she’s not feeling well. Let’s just go.”
The man, seeing Rumi’s unusual expression, grabbed the woman’s arm and quickly moved away from Rumi,
and once they were far enough away, he carefully whispered in the woman’s ear.
“That woman… had blood on her face and hands. She might be a villain, so we should be careful.”
The man, seeing the bloodstains on Rumi’s chin and the back of her hand, thought she might be a villain,
and thought it was best not to bother her for no reason.
“……”
Originally, human walking is done with a purpose and destination predetermined.
But in Rumi’s case, such a thing could not be felt at all.
Just for no reason.
As if she were left alone on the street.
Rumi walked aimlessly with a vacant expression.
– Drip… Drip, drip…
Suddenly, in the silent darkness, raindrops began to fall, one drop at a time.
“What? Why suddenly a shower?”
Then, people were surprised and took out spare umbrellas from their bags,
or rushed into stores or buildings to avoid getting their clothes wet.
“……Ah.”
Only after most of the pedestrians walking through the bustling street had entered the building to avoid the rain,
did Rumi realize that raindrops had begun to fall on her shoulders and head.
But Rumi did not avoid the rain.
She just stood in the rain, shedding tears.
“Is that person… okay…?”
“Why is such a young and pretty lady doing that….”
People watched Rumi’s incomprehensible behavior with curiosity,
but also sighed with pity at her sorrowful appearance.
But no one came to her and offered her an umbrella.
Someone will give that woman an umbrella.
Someone will take that woman somewhere to avoid the rain.
I’m busy out having fun right now.
There was no hero in this bustling street to save her from the disaster of the shower.
“Hic….”
She had saved citizens from countless villains until she was in this state.
She had endured until her body and mind were torn to shreds.
All that was left for her was the betrayal of the Union and the indifference of the citizens.
– Ringingㅡ Ringingㅡ
After crying in the rain for a long time, a phone notification rang in Rumi’s pocket.
“Wh… Who…?”
The anxiety that the Union might be looking for her and chasing her.
But the name on Rumi’s smartphone screen was not the name of a Union official.
“Si… Siyoon…?”
Seeing that the name on the screen was unrelated to the Union, Rumi’s heart momentarily dropped,
and only then did she realize that she was crying in the middle of the street in the rain.
And she also realized that people were just staring at her,
when Rumi got up and turned her head.
“Ah…!”
Rumi got up without even being embarrassed and went into a building,
wiping the water droplets that had fallen on the smartphone screen with her sleeve.
“He… Hello….”
“Ah! Rumi-ssi! Are you working right now?”
“Ah… well….”
Rumi, who had been texting or calling Siyoon every day since the end of her vacation,
talking about each other’s work and feelings.
However, even though the hero’s regular working hours were over, she didn’t check her texts or messages,
and Siyoon was worried because it suddenly started raining, so he called.
“You haven’t read my texts. Is something wrong?”
“Ah… nothing… No…thing.
I’m just… busy with work… I’m sorry.”
Rumi tried hard not to reveal her situation to Siyoon,
but the sadness and despair in Rumi’s voice, full of tears, could not be hidden.
“You can be honest with me.”
Siyoon, noticing the sad feeling, thought that something must have happened.
“No… No… I’m fine….”
Rumi didn’t want to show her sad side to Siyoon.
She only wanted to show him her cool and good side, the one he loved.
But somewhere in her heart,
there was also a desire for him to save her from being slowly sucked into despair.
“Si… Siyoon-ssi. Even if I… did something…,
whatever I look like… can you not… hate me?”
That desperate feeling finally gently asked Siyoon through her voice.
“I told you before. You can be as honest as you want with me.”
Siyoon’s answer to Rumi’s desperate feeling.
“I don’t know what happened to Rumi-ssi.
But… I can tell that you’re in a situation that’s too hard and sad.
So… don’t try to carry all the hard things alone.”
“But… I….”
“I’ll go to where Rumi-ssi is. Can you tell me where you are?”
Siyoon’s words, full of conviction that he would come to save her from the anxiety and fear she was still in.
“It’s… the street near the hotel… the one we walked together at night.”
Rumi wiped the raindrops and tears flowing down her face,
and only then did she muster the courage to tell Siyoon where she was.
“Thank you so much for being brave. I’ll run there right now.”
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Siyoon, who had just finished a sweet sex with Dowa and was resting for a while while putting her to sleep,
called Rumi, who hadn’t been in touch all day.
“Ugh… why is it raining so much…!”
Siyoon, feeling that something was wrong in Rumi’s voice when she finally answered the phone after a long time,
was running with an umbrella towards the bustling street that Rumi had bravely mentioned.
“It’s definitely that street where the adult store was… is it here?”
Searching for Rumi’s figure through the still heavily falling raindrops,
“Rumi-ssi…!”
After running for a while, he finally found Rumi, who was avoiding the rain in front of a wet gray building.
“Haa…! Si… Siyoon-ssi…?!”
Then he hugged Rumi, who was shivering with her wet body, tightly.
“It’s okay. Just stay like that.”
Siyoon is a selfish villain who prioritizes himself above all else.
A villain should not be swayed by someone’s personal feelings for the sake of their goals,
and must move coldly according to thorough planning and design.
But it’s different if the target is a female he has marked as his own.
In the past, Dark Knights was weak, so he couldn’t protect his subordinates and hideout,
so he would become a strong villain who doesn’t abandon his subordinates.
With that thought, Siyoon ran to Rumi and hugged her tightly.
“Cry as much as you want. We can talk about it later.”
Rumi, hugged in Siyoon’s strong arms, couldn’t say anything because her throat was choked,
and her emotions exploded as she shed endless tears until her eyes turned red.
Siyoon had no way of knowing what had happened to Rumi.
But if Rumi, who was such a cold and emotionless hero, had become like this,
there must have been something that even she couldn’t bear.
Thinking that, he gently patted her shoulders and back without saying a word.
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The sudden shower that had soaked the peaceful evening sky and the bustling street stopped,
and Rumi and Siyoon entered the hotel they had visited last time and took a break.
Siyoon entered the room and adjusted the room temperature appropriately so that Rumi wouldn’t catch a cold.
“I’ve adjusted the air conditioner temperature so it’s not too cold… so you’ll be okay now.”
Rumi left her wet clothes in the hotel’s laundry room and put on a gown,
receiving a warm canned coffee that Siyoon had bought from a nearby convenience store.
“Can you tell me… what happened?”
Only after Rumi’s condition had calmed down to some extent,
did Siyoon ask Rumi what had happened to make her cry in the rain like that.
“Is it something you’re embarrassed to tell me… or something you want to hide?”
“Th… That’s….”
“Then let’s make a deal.”
When Rumi hesitated to tell him what had happened,
Siyoon proposed that they make a ‘deal’ with each other.
“I’ll tell you about the truth I’ve been hiding from Rumi-ssi.
Instead… Rumi-ssi, you tell me what happened to you too.”
