Chapter 89

Chapter 89

Kwajik!

I reflexively opened my eyes at the sound of something breaking . Was it Blue? I was going to ask what she broke again, when I saw the table and remembered that I was in Yoohyun’s house . The 9 o’clock news was coming out of the TV .

…9 o’clock? That Yoohyun stubbornly insisted that he wasn’t sleepy when we got to his house, but he fell asleep in the end? I should’ve set an alarm instead of just sleeping because it was annoying to .

I quickly raised my body, but I saw Yoohyun sitting on a sofa . He wasn’t sleeping .

“Hey, why didn’t you-!”

The words, ‘wake me up’, couldn’t leave my mouth . The two eyes looking at me were extremely cold . I heard Peace faintly growling on my lap . I saw a cell phone that seemed shattered in Yoohyun’s hand .

“Is your hand ok, no of course it’s okay . ”

First of all, I held Peace and soothed him . I couldn’t feel it very well, but that guy seemed to be in quite a vicious state . Though I didn’t know the reason .

……Actually, there were so many reasons why he could be angry so I wasn’t sure . What was he caught on? Seeing how it was severe, was it Noah?

“Hey…”

“I have no intention of hearing it from hyung . ”

Speaking concisely, Yoohyun stood up from his seat . He threw the cell phone onto the table, and opened a cabinet on one side of the living room . Unlike him, maybe he didn’t adjust his strength very well, because the cabinet handle broke . Inside, I saw cell phone boxes that didn’t even have their wrappings opened .

“What is all that?”

“Since they break easily . ”

He answered, but his voice completely wasn’t normal . It seemed like he was thinking of just switching the SIM card, but would the card still be okay? Just then, there was another breaking noise .

Tuk

The box and cell phone that were shattered together fell to Yoohyun’s feet .

“……Hey . ”

“The wrapping didn’t come off easily . ”

And then the second cell phone was also also crushed . I heard a small sigh . He wasn’t being like that on purpose . When I thought like that, I was suddenly worried .

“Yoohyun . ”

“Just a minute . ”

Since before, his voice was even . The third cell phone was safely taken out . But SIM card pin was stuck in a weird place . The hand that had picked up the pin seemed like it was slightly trembling, too . Staring down at the cracked phone, he grinded his teeth .

“……Should I do it for you?”

“No . ”

And the last cell phone broke . A silence descended heavily . Han Yoohyun glared at the shattered cell phone in his hand like he would pierce through it . While not moving an inch, like a doll whose springs had completely unwound .

“Yoohyun, Han Yoohyun . ”

“……”

His reactions really was weird . I lowered Peace onto the sofa and stood up from my seat . Yoohyun didn’t move at all until I was one step from his side .

“Even if you have no intention of listening to me, listen anyways . First, I wasn’t planning on hiding it . It’s obvious that it’d be exposed immediately anyways, so why would I hide it? I just forgot for a moment . I only thought of you and Peace since I heard that you two came out . ”

I actually had completely forgotten . If I had remembered, I would have prepared an excuse and explained first, before this trouble occurred .

“……You forgot?”

“That’s right . I don’t know what you heard, but it wasn’t anything much . ”

Yoohyun’s eyes went towards me with difficulty . They were hardened eyes that seemed angry, but they also seemed very faintly frightened .

“How is it not anything much? The reason I was able to be unworried was because I thought there was no reason for hyung’s life to be threatened . Since at the least, high rank Hunters would think of your usefulness and keep you alive at least . ”

So it really was the Noah matter .

“He didn’t attack me . ”

“…He didn’t?”

“That’s right . He wanted to go at somebody else, not me . ”

Though it was a problem that he was regarding me as that other person, as Riette . Yoohyun spit out a short breath and placed the broken cellphone in the cabinet .

“Who was it?”

“Did you break your cell phone without hearing all of it? Noah Luire . He’s not from Korea, and apparently he’s the overseas Ark Guild’s guild leader . ”

It seemed like he didn’t know . He frowned slightly and asked me again .

“Are you sure? You didn’t hear anything else that was weird?”

“Something weird?”

“…Like he fell into a cultist religion, something like that . ”

Why suddenly a cultist religion? He wouldn’t be talking about a normal cult, so was he talking about the side that saw the dungeon system as a god? No, it should still be before they grew their influence?

“I don’t know what that is, but it wasn’t that at all . It was just something like a sibling dispute . I was unluckily dragged in, and Yerim protected me, so I didn’t get hurt that much . And I definitely got treated . See here . ”

Now there wasn’t a trace of it . In the first place, it wasn’t a severe injury either . Yerim got a lot more hurt .

“Anyways, what’s the cultist religion? Weren’t you on guard against other guilds or Hunter related people?”

“I don’t know specifically either . …Something like Confucianism?”

“I mean, that’s not a cult . ”

Confucius would lament . Besides that, was there something to become serious over because of Confucianism? If you just looked at Yoohyun’s reaction, it would’ve seemed like some SSS-Rank monster had burst out .

I thought I should interrogate him more in detail and was about to open my mouth, when Yoohyun made the first move .

“So did that Noah guy die?”

“…He was physically okay and was just imprisoned . ”

“He didn’t run away, but he’s still fine?”

Yoohyun tilted his head doubtfully .

“He was obediently taken away, and there were no deaths nor any damage to Unawakened People . Yoohyun, don’t you think of touching him either . Once you know, he’s a pitiful person . ”

“Did the Seseong Guild Leader go into a dungeon again?”

“No . He came with a healer . ”

“But nothing much happened? Does he have a connection with that guy?”

…If you leave someone alone, does that mean you have a connection? How farfetched .

“He did say he would subdue him . Though I refused . Anyways, it was a mistake, and he’s quiet now, so leave him alone . ”

“I’ll see . But what about the finger marks on your neck?”

…Did he hear about that too? At any rate, Yoohyun knew that I had fear resistance, so it was easy to explain . When I conveyed what Song Taewon told me, his expression showed that he felt bad but that he understood .

“So I was going to leave the fear resistance off at home at least . Though with the circumstances, I’ll be meeting with high rank Hunters a lot, so it’ll be better to leave it on normally . ”

“…Try turning it off once . ”

“Right now?”

It wasn’t something I couldn’t do . I nodded my head and turned off the Fear Resistance skill . There wasn’t an immediate difference . It was just to the point of feeling Yoohyun’s and Peace’s presences a little stronger . Could you say it was the difference between a cat and a wildcat?

Yoohyun, who stared straight at me as if looking for my response, smiled slightly with his eyes .

“It doesn’t seem like anything changed . ”

“Obviously . And I’m adding this just in case, but there really wasn’t anything in the hospital room . The Dokkaebi just pulled a prank . Even Chirpie was there, but not even a single piece of fluff got hurt . ”

I confessed first and held Peace, who was hanging around my feet . In the meantime, the time had gotten close to ten . Blue must be asleep already .

“I have to go home now, but is there anything else you want to ask?”

“I’ll take you there . ”

And then he held out his hand toward me .

“What?”

“Key . ”

He demanded like it was obvious . I put one of the two remaining entrance keys in the held out hand .

It was the building right next door, so we could just walk over . There was Yoohyun as well as Peace, but I didn’t need to worry over safety .

With the fear resistance turned off, I felt a slight intimidation from the A-Rank Hunters we met on the way . It was unbalanced to be afraid of A-Ranks with an S-Rank next to me, but it was like that even before the regression . Rather than Yoohyun, I was more reluctant to face Kim Sunghan and Suk Simyeong and thought them scarier . Was it because I had seen him since he was young?

The SIM card was okay and there happened to be a cell phone store on the other side, so after Yoohyun bought a new cell phone, we followed along the road . The night air was kind of cool, so it felt nice .

“It’s been a while, something like this . ”

Normally walking down a road without anything else happening . It must’ve been a while for Yoohyun too, but it had been a really, incredibly long time for me . Maybe because we were close to Haeyeon Guild, there weren’t any people approaching, surprisingly, so I thought even more of past times .

“If the world was the way it was, it wouldn’t have been a long time . ”

Why did it become like this? I didn’t ask the system administrators that . Even if I had, I didn’t think I would get a proper answer back .

“Does hyung like there not being any dungeons better?”

“Of course . Above all, it’s dangerous . ”

“People who have good skills or stats usually feel the opposite . Unless they were harmed directly . ”

Then again, that was so . If I had become about A-Rank from the start, I might’ve thought my life was set . Though now, A-Ranks or S-Ranks or whatever were unpleasant .

It was already quite tiring, and I worried what would happen from now on . Would it really end well as long as I gathered 50 like the system people told me, and it was suspicious too .

…Would the future suddenly becoming completely dark, also be an effect of turning off the fear resistance? It felt like the worries I had pushed to the back of my mind where rushing forward at once .

“Did something special come out through the dungeon rewards?”

I quickly changed the subject . Only just the two of them, and if you excluded Peace, then him alone, got through an S-Rank dungeon, so the rewards should be better than usual . Did something like a title come out?

At my questions, Yoohyun briefly hesitated and took something out of his inventory .

“Something I saw for the first time came out, but I don’t know what it’s for . ”

What that guy was holding in his hand was a small red egg .

“It’s an SSS-Rank item that only has the name ‘Red Egg’ . ”

“That’s…”

I had seen it before . Before the regression . An unidentifiable egg series that very occasionally appeared . Red, blue, green, etc . – about five of them had appeared, but they were items that nothing was revealed about . They were tough so they didn’t break, and whatever you did, there wasn’t any reaction, so they were judged to be useless .

“Who knows, I’m not sure at all either . Give it here for a second . ”

I took the egg and tried using the My Brat skill just in case . But the notification window that it didn’t have the keyword applied didn’t pop up at all . As expected, it didn’t work . Even if the growth skill worked, it was impossible to apply the keyword to an egg that didn’t have ears .

Then, I tried using the Seed-Leaf skill too, but nothing appeared this time as well .

“It doesn’t seem like a normal monster egg either . Is it really just an item?”

If it was alive, the Seed-Leaf skill could be used, but there was no reaction .

“Just in case, should we give it to Myeongwoo? It could be used as material . ”

“Do whatever you want . ”

I was going to put the egg in the inventory, but Peace showed interest . When I put it right in front of his nose, he quickly bit it and gnawed on it with his teeth . Even so, not a single scratch appeared . It was an egg that was immune even when S-Rank Hunters 5 years later, who had much more outstanding abilities than now, used all their moves .

“Don’t drop it . ”

-Geureung

Even if it was the building right next door, the rearing facility was large and you had to go around the front building, so it took a fairly long time . I worried about Chirpie, who wouldn’t have fallen asleep yet, and Comet, who would soon wake up, but my pace was relaxed, unlike my mind .

While we were chatting about this and that, we arrived at the front of the rearing facility before I knew it . What should I do; should I tell him to sleep over before he goes? But Comet was a problem . Should I ask the rearing facility to take care of it for just today? It seemed like one day was okay .

Just then, my phone rang . When I took it out, there was a text from Song Taewon .

[Noah Luire has disappeared again . I would like to ask you to check again please . ]

Again? I mean, why did he escape so frequently?

‘……He wouldn’t have planted himself in front of the mini portal again, would he?’

My spine went chilly . I turned my head to the side . When our eyes met, Yoohyun smiled . First, I turned the fear resistance skill on again . When I became calm, I smiled back as if there wasn’t anything wrong .

“Yoohyun . Can’t we go back to Haeyeon Guild?”

“Hm? Suddenly why?”

“I just want to rest a lot for about a day . I thought about how I’ll have to look after the kids again if I go in now, and became tired . ”

At my words, that little brother had a doubtful expression .

“There’s the rearing room . And Hunters in charge, too . Didn’t you leave them to them and come out anyways?”

“That’s true, but…”

Shit, what should I do? If we went in like this and met with Noah, I couldn’t know what would happen . Since there was no certainty that Yoohyun would quietly just greet him and let it go, or if Noah would see me and think of his noona again .

……To think it had to meet crises where it would get broken, my poor house . How long has it been since I moved?

“Let’s quickly go in . ”

“Wait, wait a moment- . ”

Yoohyun opened the entrance’s glass door . He went a few steps forward, not listening to me trying to stop him, when he suddenly stopped . He cocked his head a little slowly .

“There’s an unfamiliar trace . ”

“My fri…end, or not that, but it’s the younger brother of someone I know!”

“You know somebody who has an S-Rank Hunter as a younger brother? There aren’t any in my memories . ”

“We’ve recently become close, through social media . ”

We got a little close and now we had fallen out . …Did I have to tell him about Riette, too? There were a lot of people who heard the contents of the call, so it was wrong to hide it . Why was there so much happening in just a few days?

“But why is he here? And it’s the middle of the night . ”

“He came to visit, related to the monster rearing, but, um, should I say it’s showing some sincerity……”

How do I even explain this? While I was organizing what to say, Yoohyun started to walk again . Ah, really!