Chapter 125

Ch . 125

‘Is there something like a side effect?’

Or was it simply that I had put myself forward too much, so my brother’s illness(?) relapsed? If it was the latter, then it was a relief… was it a relief? A side effect might be easier to resolve .

Anyways .

“Don’t be like that, and let’s just sightsee or something and then go home . There’s still a lot to look at around here . ”

It was a chance to go all out, hanging out while using someone else’s card .

“Yeah . After dealing with Sung Hyunjae . ”

“…Hey, if I become a missing person, I wouldn’t be able to do things like sightsee . ”

“Don’t worry . There’s the item that Hunter Yoo Myeongwoo made . ”

Yoohyun took off the glasses and put it on me as he laughed . Uh… that was true . Even though the sacrifice of someone who would become my cover would be necessary . And, it might be okay to go missing here, and then live a little more relaxedly and comfortably .

I grabbed ahold my heart being captivated in an instant . Still, with how many things that have already been started, I couldn’t act ignorant . I couldn’t until I fully resolved the dungeons at least . And found the method to recover him .

“But you – your eyes I mean-”

-Has it all been cleared up?

Noah said, flying down toward here . At the same time, I felt Yoohyun trying to move . Hey, this asshole!

“Noah-ssi!”

I urgently put the Teacher skill on Noah and sent Yoohyun’s sensations unilaterally .

Along with hurried flapping, a flame cut through the air like an arrow . Taken aback, Noah turned his body and shot up to the sky .

“What are you doing!”

“I was just going to intimidate him . ”

“No, you shouldn’t intimidate people either!”

First, I tried to stop sharing the attack skill doubling . When I did, a message window popped up .

[The other person has refused . ]

…Damn . Maybe Yoohyun had also seen the message, because he quirked his lips up and smiled .

“Usually, it’s impossible to cancel this type of skill without the other person’s consent . Since you can hang something like a flight skill on someone and then cancel it in the air . ”

The explaining voice was pointlessly gentle . I also knew that, but I didn’t know that it would be relevant to sharing a skill instead of directly putting it on someone .

With Noah, it was lifted when I just let go of the hand I was holding, and with Sung Hyunjae… I fainted each time, huh . Wait, then did that mean that the skill sharing continued even after I lost consciousness during that time with the Babar?

…Wow crap, it might have been really dangerous . Seeing how he quietly came out of the dungeon even so, more than I had thought, that person might be a better… a better… no, as expected, this wasn’t it .

-Yoojin-ssi, are you alright?!

-Chirp!

The dragon who had gone one large circle in the air, turned toward here again .

“Please do not come over!”

My brother seems to be slightly not normal . Yoohyun spoke in a grouchy voice to me, who was looking at Noah worriedly .

“Lately I feel like you’re being stolen away, so I’m lonely . ”

“What do you mean ‘being stolen away’ . I only have one younger sibling . ”

“There’s a lot of other people around who you’re close to . Even though I only have you . ”

This sounded like a bit of a big problem .

“Hey, don’t be like that, and be friendly with Noah-ssi . Or there’s Kang Soyoung-ssi . Make friends, and also date someone . Even if you say there’s no helping it for Unawakened People or people with low ranks since there’s a barrier, there’s a lot of people with similar rank to you . ”

Emulate Yerim .

“You doesn’t know, hyung, so you’re speaking like that . ”

Grumbling, he took out a thin sword from his inventory . It wasn’t what he usually used, but an A-Rank weapon . He threw it a bit away, toward the ground .

Kwak .

The sword pierced the ground, and again, various weapons like a great sword, dagger, scimitar, etc . pierced the ground while keeping a distance from each other .

“…What are you trying to do?”

The Teacher skill didn’t read the inside of someone’s mind . It was merely reading the movements of the body and mana ahead of time . With someone just taking out a fishing rod, you couldn’t tell if they were going to fish or hit somebody with it .

“The efficiency is bad, so it’s a skill that I don’t really use . Since it’s a little burdensome to use high rank weapons as 1 time use . ”

It wouldn’t be a little .

“I don’t know what skill it is, but don’t use it . It’s a waste . And it’s better to resolve things with words . ”

“Are you going to keep on using the Teacher skill? It’s irritating . ”

“Do you have any intention of resolving things with words?”

“No, not at all . Is it really painful if your skill is rejected?”

“Yeah, a lot . ”

“Sorry, hyung . ”

Hahaha . Smiling as I faced the red eyes, I withdrew the Teacher skill from Yoohyun . That little brother guy put on a satisfied expression .

“I’ll end it soon . ”

Sung Hyunjae-ssi, please run away . It looks like stopping my brother is out of the question . Your life isn’t a loss, but your skill would be a waste .

Just then, the fire lizard passed the back of Yoohyun’s neck and moved to the other shoulder . The two eyes that were black, unlike usual, stared at me . The feeling that something really was wrong pierced me again, like a needle .

“Irin . ”

At my call, the elemental blinked its eyes . Without much thought, half by habit, I used the Seed-Leaf skill .

[The First Fire Elemental ? Irin

Current Stat Rank C

Possible Awakening Stat Rank F

Optimized Initial Skills

Elemental’s Contract(L) Acquired

Contractor ? Han Yoohyun]

The status window that had seemed like an item window when I had first seen it, had changed into something similar to an Awakened Person’s or monster’s . Besides that, to think it was an L-Rank initial skill .

An elemental’s contract with contractor Han Yoohyun . There was no doubt that the skill was affecting Yoohyun . Something that was as much as L-Rank shouldn’t be a simple contract skill, and exactly what kind of effect did the skill have?

“Lizard bastard, you come here . ”

“Hyung?”

Anyways, the lizard was the problem . I stretched out my hand and gripped Irin . The elemental that was grabbed, surprisingly obediently tilted its head . It couldn’t speak so I couldn’t interrogate it either .

After wondering what to do about it, I used the Teacher skill . In an instant, I felt the illusion of my insides getting burning hot .

The outward appearance was a small lizard that had climbed to the top of my palm, but the the sensations being conveyed over was a flame that didn’t have an end . It was a feeling like I had fallen inside a desert where bright red flames flickered instead of grains of sand .

“You……”

It really was no joke compared to what I had thought . Even while being a little taken aback, I focused the skill . Like when I had dug into the dragon human type at the lake dungeon .

And like that time .

“Huh?”

My vision briefly became dark, and then brightened . The place where I was standing was an unfamiliar… no, a familiar living room . The house that I had lived in before the dungeons had appeared, before Yoohyun had Awakened .

[Hi!]

In that place’s living room, a round lizard whose size had gotten as big as a cat’s gave a greeting to me .

“…Irin?”

[Yeah, that’s right . Hyung, it is Irin!]

The fire elemental who replied perkily opened its mouth wide and laughed .

***

Bak Yerim lifted her head . The skill that had been applied to her disappeared . Terrifying Hatchling Class Teacher – vision sharing, like that skill’s owner could do, was impossible, but she could tell that Han Yoohyun had attacked to intimidate someone right before the skill disappeared .

“Did some other monster appear?”

“Then he wouldn’t have tried to intimidate them . ”

Sung Hyunjae said, moving his gaze past the building’s wreckage . Like he said, if it was a monster, there was no need to intimidate or whatever and he would’ve just directly incinerated it . Then exactly who did he try to intimidate?

Bak Yerim quickly launched her body into the air .

“Ahjussi!”

She saw the devastated ground whose original form were hard to find after sweeping it away with water and then nicely mincing up the Kraken . And she saw Han Yoohyun as well, who was holding his hyung, who had lost consciousness .

“What happened?!”

A golden dragon quickly flew over and blocked Bak Yerim, who was taken aback and trying to go over to the two .

-Please wait!

-Chirp chirp!

“Noah oppa? Chirpie?”

-The Haeyeon Guild Leader seems a little strange . …He also seems fine, but seeing how he is not listening well to Han Yoojin-ssi, he seems strange .

-Chirp!

“He is not listening to ahjussi? Then it is right that he is being strange!”

-And he said he would deal with the Seseong Guild Leader .

“That seems like he’s fine . ”

-He also tried to intimidate me, but that is also not different from usual, so it is confusing .

“Ack, so he had attacked Noah oppa, huh . It is right that he is being strange! There is Chirpie and above all, it is right in front of ahjussi watching!”

Bak Yerim kept a good distance from Han Yoohyun as she went down . The two red eyes stared at her . It was a slightly irritated gaze without murderous intent, but Bak Yerim instinctively judged that she shouldn’t approach further .

Instead, she asked Noah why Han Yoojin had fainted .

-I do not know the reason . The Haeyeon Guild Leader also seemed taken aback .

“That’s a relief . It seems like he did not go weird enough to lay a hand on ahjussi . ”

-He tried to reject the Teacher ski……

“Wow, he really went weird . ”

-He was thinking of shutting us up, but Yoojin-ssi could not even stop him, so I do not know when he will attack . Please be careful .

“Shut us up? Does he think that’s easy?”

Bak Yerim adjusted her grip on the ice wood spear . Sung Hyunjae, who had come over at some point and was listening to the two’s conversation, slightly raised his brows .

“It’ll be difficult . ”

“Still, this side has three people . I will bind him down, so please smash the back of his head or something . ”

At Bak Yerim’s confident words, Sung Hyunjae replied cool-headedly .

“The situation is not simple, little mistress . To deal with the Kraken, Han Yoohyun is in a state of having received the attack skill doubling . That’ll be maintained until Han Yoojin is separated from him . At the same time, it’s the same as him having an item that gives damage nullification and poison resistance . ”

“…That’s a scam . ”

Bak Yerim thought of the Kraken that had burned up and disappeared in an instant . If she, who didn’t even have a decent flame resistance, was just grazed, wouldn’t she receive a serious injury?

But she didn’t have even a fingernail’s worth of an intention to stand down . Rather, her will burned more as she stared toward the sea .

“Noah oppa, lend me your mana stat a bit!”

Then Shadowless Day spread out toward Han Yoohyun . At nearly the same time as that,

Hwareureuk-

Flames appeared around Han Yoohyun like a round barrier . At the heat drying up even the moisture in the air, Bak Yerim clicked her tongue .

“Far from Shadow touching him, it can’t even get near him, so it’ll evaporate! I have confidence I can sweep away my guild leader, but could you help?”

“If you ask me to stay out, I’d be sad instead . ”

The red-black coat, the Sillekia’s Wings, landed down over the tailcoat . The long chains shook, and gold feathers were held between Sung Hyunjae’s fingers . Gold Gryphon’s Feathers . It was an item you could get when you hunted the S-Rank Gold Gryphon .

“It’s too bad about the Teacher skill . Try to catch the timing well on your own . For reference, gravel doesn’t burn well . ”

“Yes!”

Maybe she had understood, because her eyes sparkled . Sung Hyunjae ran unhesitatingly toward the domain wrapped in flames . Right before the heat that couldn’t be completely nullified even if he had an S-Rank flame resistance drew close, feathers shot out from the tips of his hands .

The gryphon’s feathers attracted wind . Hwiooong, along with the sound of the air roiling, the flames were strongly pushed to both sides as if curtains were yanked open . At the same time,

Kwareureung!

A lightning bolt shot down . But the electric attack couldn’t touch its target and was carried away by the dagger stuck to the ground and ravaged only the surroundings . Dirt and rocks flew up, and right afterwards, the dagger exploded . The debris that should normally scatter in all directions, shot toward Sung Hyunjae like arrows .

Kagagak-

The wrapped chains blocked the debris, but even if you knew the direction they were shooting, it was impossible to handle all of them . Red lines were drawn on the back of Sung Hyunjae’s hand and the tip of his ear . There was one piece that was halfway pierced into his shoulder . A doubling skill effect had been added as well, to the attack that sacrificed A-Rank weapons . Normally, you would’ve become a hedgehog even if you were an S-Rank Hunter .

Han Yoohyun took out a long sword in order to continue the attack . But .

“…When?”

His feet were heavy . They were caught in Shadowless Day .

He had known that Bak Yerim had used Pale Rain as soon as Sung Hyunjae pushed away the flames with the gryphon feathers . But even without it directly touching the fire, he had melted all of it down while it was far from reaching his shadow .

“Putting one or two pebbles inside ice arrows isn’t hard to do . ”

Sung Hyunjae, who had drawn back and plucked out the fragments, explained kindly . Even if the ice melted, the gravel inside it didn’t lose its motility and went forward . It wasn’t a skill that designated a destination and it was simply throwing rocks, but one or two among those rocks could touch Han Yoohyun’s shadow .

While his eyes were fooled, as other rocks scattered when the lightning bolt bore through and dug into the ground .

Even if it tied down the target’s movements down according to how high the target’s rank was, it was merely just slowing down the target’s speed . But even if it was just at that level, it was a big penalty for going against another S-Rank .

“I didn’t intend to move a lot anyways . ”

Han Yoohyun said, looking down at his unconscious hyung . The flames that had been briefly pushed aside swallowed the gryphon’s feathers, and wavered bright red .

The weapons that were stuck in all directions let out faint vibrating sounds . The eyes that were flushing red met the eyes that were faintly gold tinted .

“Since the preparation to rip apart the most irritating insect is done . ”

“Oh dear, the young master’s jealousy is stronger than I’d thought . ”

“Why would I be jealous of a thief?”

He was just furious and was going to dispose of him . Just then .

Geugeugeugeung-

The ground shook . Then, along with the sound of the ground collapsing .

Kwagwagwagwa-!

Water started to shoot up here and there . The seawater that was piercing up through the surface of the earth squirmed like several dragons . Both Han Yoohyun and Sung Hyunjae unconsciously directed their gazes toward the water dragons that raised their heads toward the night sky .

At the same time, Bak Yerim shouted .

“Han Yoohyun, cool your head!”

The giant column of water struck down toward the comparatively insignificant flames .