Chapter 874 – 874. Hero Academy (6)
“What, what are you doing!”
After Sung Soo-ah’s screams pained my eardrums, my body was pushed backwards in an instant.
Since the surroundings were covered with darkness close to darkness, I couldn’t support her body, so I hit my butt on the floor.
Bang!
In this place where even the sound of breathing can be heard loudly, Seong-soo lowered her voice as if surprised.
“Gwa, are you okay?”
“… Ha.”
I sighed and got up from my seat.
Then he took out a spare light he had been carrying around in his pocket and turned it on.
It didn’t brighten up the surroundings, but at least it came out at a level where you could recognize the faces of the people around you.
Sung Soo-ah’s expression reflected in the light of her electric lamp was profound itself.
“That… I’m sorry. I suddenly ran…”
“…”
Distrust and guilt towards me, and fear of sudden change.
Today, Seongsuah’s face showed all her expressions that she had never shown before.
I wanted to push myself harder and see different expressions, but…
‘It must be a really dangerous situation from Seong Soo-ah’s point of view.’
Decided to stop here.
From my point of view, it’s just a light situation, but from Seong Soo-ah’s point of view, it must be a desperate situation where her life comes and goes.
No matter how much I have the ability to save you for sure, I decided to stop joking around here.
“It’s okay. It was a misunderstood situation.”
“…”
Fortunately for my sincere answer, Sung Soo-ah began to calm down.
“Was she a transfer gimmick?”
“That’s right. Just in case, I didn’t do it.”
“Do not worry. I have that kind of eye too.”
Seong Soo-ah answered like that and started trying to communicate with her smart watch.
But…
“…”
With a puzzled expression on her face, she continued to stare at her smartwatch.
Looking at Seongsuah like that, I asked.
“Can’t you reach me?”
“… Yes.”
Even though she could have covered it with a moderate amount of lies, Seong Soo-ah answered honestly.
Apart from his distrust of me, he seemed to be unable to lie because he seemed to have to go out with me for a while.
‘First of all, it looks like they’re far apart.’
But unlike Seong Soo-ah, I had a way to know the situation there.
‘Armonia, how is it now?’
[They are confronting each other.]
As expected, it was a much more uproarious situation for them than for us.
It was because Seong Soo-ah, the leader of the search party, disappeared, and I disappeared from Moon Ju-ah and Lena’s point of view.
In addition, Lena’s side could only explain it somehow through the ship’s communication, but the search party’s side was a different story.
They are probably thinking that I manipulated the gimmick and kidnapped Sung Soo-ah.
‘Lena, can you hear me?’
[Yes, I hear you. Master.]
‘Then explain our situation to them. As for the situation now…’
I briefly explained the situation to Lena and Seongsuah, and then ordered her to remain as peaceful as possible.
And then he immediately told Sung Soo-ah.
“I told you to explain it to my colleague now.”
“Uh!? Could it be that communication was reached?”
“Uh. We can talk to our colleagues.”
But that didn’t mean things got better.
[Master, the search party doesn’t believe me at all.]
‘… It must be natural.’
In the first place, in this situation, to believe Lena’s words straight away would be a really stupid act.
I explained the situation to Sung Soo-ah.
“The other side doesn’t believe it at all.”
“Ha… Of course. If… Can I use the communications you use?”
“No, impossible.”
“Ha… Then, tell your colleague what I have to say.”
What Seong Soo-ah delivered was a private conversation we had earlier.
Seong Soo-ah was reluctant to tell even if it was a private conversation, but he seemed to have decided that this was the only way.
Most of the stories were about me.
I fully conveyed what I heard from Seong Soo-ah to Lena, and after a while…
[For now, fortunately, I believe.]
‘Good.’
I was able to avoid a situation where I could see blood.
“Good job. It seems that you believe in it for now.”
“Whew… Thank god.”
So Sung Soo-ah told me a few more personal stories, and I continued to tell Lena about them.
Thanks to that, I was able to calm down the search party on Lena’s side.
By the time they calmed down the situation, an unexpected variable occurred.
“… Uh!?”
It was because after Seong Soo-ah looked at her smart watch and made a shocked expression, she hurriedly started talking on the phone.
‘What? Could it be that the radio waves reached it?’
[No. It is not separately captured that the search party is making a phone call.]
It was a moment of relief, wondering if contact had been made with the other search party.
Seongsu-ah didn’t hang up on her phone and she said to me with a smile.
“I, we have been contacted by our personnel.”
“Are you talking about another search party? Then you and the search party you were in charge of could be contacted? Tell him to relay the fact that you are safe.”
“Ah… That, that…”
Looking at Sung Soo-ah’s troubled expression, she was able to save her unexpected harvest.
‘… You got in touch with Yeriel!’
If my predictions were correct, it could have been a windfall.
Because from my standards, Seongsuah and Yeriel are more important than all the members of the tower search team.
Seong Soo-ah quickly started making excuses to me.
“It looks like the transfer gimmick has been activated on the other search party as well. That’s why they seem to have scattered.”
“Hmm… Can you find out the location of the member the communication reached?”
“Yes. When the radio wave distance is enough to reach you, you can know the approximate direction. And over there… There are people you want.”
“…”
Once things got sorted out.
Lena and Jua Moon are in the same area as the leaderless search party, and I am in the same area with Sua Sung and Yeriel.
Roughly, it was a situation where there was Lena, Moon Joo-ah, and the leaderless search party on the first floor, and me, Seong Soo-ah, and Yeriel on the second floor.
And the first and second floors are divided into areas where radio waves do not reach each other, and remnants of secretly infiltrated organizations must be scattered here and there.
I let out a shallow sigh and lit the surroundings with a backup light.
Unlike the huge hall where we were camped earlier, this was a narrow hallway structure where only two people could walk side by side.
“Then go to your comrades.”
“… I will guide you.”
That’s how Sung Soo-ah and my uncomfortable companion began.
..
..
There were many emotions I felt when I was with Seong Soo-ah.
Coziness, comfort, softness, stability, etc…
But all those feelings came down to one word.
Home.
The existence of Seongsuah that I felt was the sanctuary itself.
No matter what I did, Sung Soo-ah embraced and embraced me.
With that big chest…
“… Do you have something to say to me?”
“No…”
It’s a shame because I’m wearing a cape, but if my eyes were exposed, I’d have noticed at once that I was staring at my chest.
However, it was true that it was frustrating apart from not being caught of obscene acts.
‘Usually, if you just throw out something, the conversation would come and go on its own…’
Right now, I was in a position where I couldn’t say anything to Seong Soo-ah.
To put it simply, it was a disaster that happened because the initial concept was taken as an unlucky bastard.
‘If I had known this, I would have been kinder…’
The only time she was so quiet with Seongsu-ah was when she fell asleep with her eyes closed.
Now, he was watching me without even breathing.
While I was trying to soothe my regrets…
“… May I ask you a few questions?”
Sung Soo-ah began to dissolve the silence that seemed to block her prayers.
‘It’s good!’
I cheered inwardly and outwardly…
“Say.”
He replied with a chill that would not exist anywhere in the world.
Seong Soo-ah, who heard my answer, opened her mouth without stopping her steps.
“Do you know what happened to our colleague who came in before?”
There was no sense of late asking questions, but it was not a relationship where a smooth conversation would come and go in the first place, so it could be said that it was rather fast.
I answered honestly.
“I don’t know.”
“… Okay.”
Listening to Seong Soo-ah’s voice of relief, it seemed that she had decided that it had nothing to do with me and the advance team that had been put in before.
But I, the person in charge, couldn’t understand a little bit.
Don’t you think what I said might be a lie?
“You just believe me?”
“…”
Seong Soo-ah glanced at me with her wary eyes, and she opened her mouth with a sigh.
“I didn’t think you were the type to lie.”
“…”
I decided to take it in a positive way.
Seong Soo-ah thought that once the questions came and went, she was speechless, so she continued to ask questions one after another.
“Do you know about those who ambush us?”
“Know.”
“How much?”
“That is not a story to tell you.”
“… Is it because of my low rank?”
“Uh, it’s a story that needs to be discussed with a person in charge who can take responsibility.”
“…”
Seong Soo-ah listened to my words, and she made a slight pout.
It seemed that she didn’t like being treated as a subordinate even in the yard where she was the head of the search party.
However, although she expressed her displeasure with her expression, she did not express her dissatisfaction with words.
Beyond having a social life, she is an instructor at the consulate, and she is also the head of the tower search team.
She will know better that she is not in a position to wield her personal feelings.
Seong Soo-ah quickly eased her frown and asked me another question.
Unlike before, this question was asked with meaningful emotions.
“You said you were neutral with us, right? Then… Are you neutral with those who ambush us?”
She was, in a sense, the most important question ever asked.
Seong Soo-ah seemed to be trying to decide how to treat me based on my answer.
I replied with a snort.
“Does the tower distinguish its relationship with trash and filth?”
“Ha… Really answer…”
Seong Soo-ah couldn’t hide her sigh, and she couldn’t even hide her smile.
At first, he seemed relieved that I didn’t have a positive relationship with the guys I ambushed.
At first, I was worried about how to relieve this suffocating atmosphere, but…
“Aren’t you worried about your colleagues?”
It was easily released thanks to Sung Soo-ah’s way of raising her mood.
“You’d better worry about your colleagues than mine.”
At my words, Seongsu-ah glared at me in a fit of anger and opened her mouth.
“It’s just that I’m in trouble because of the strange gimmick in this dungeon, and my colleagues aren’t usually skilled.”
“A strange gimmick?”
“…”
When I pretended not to know and asked, Seong Soo-ah thought for a moment before finally opening her mouth.
“It’s a gimmick that doesn’t control mana. Your comrades don’t use magic, so it shouldn’t be a problem at all, but it’s deadly to us mages.”
Seong Soo-ah stretched out her one-long speech.
And after hearing all the explanations, I smiled and opened my mouth.
“You were really stupid.”
“What, what!?”
Seong Soo-ah, who heard my evaluation, began to blush with her face blushing.
I just said it according to the concept, but I wasn’t comfortable with it either.
I threw one of her things at her as an apology to her.
After Seong Soo-ah caught the object I threw with both of her hands, she began to examine it carefully.
“This… Is it a jewel?”
“If it looks like jewelry, go to a jewelry store and sell it. It would be interesting to hear the news that the hero was caught selling counterfeit jewelry.”
“No, even if you talk!”
When Seong Soo-ah got angry and tried to shout at her, I interrupted her and told her the identity of her jewel.
“If magic gets out of control, use it to solve it.”
I explained to Seongsu-ah how to use her in a simple way.
Even though Seongsuah had the solution to solve the mana out of control phenomenon in her hands, she couldn’t put on a comfortable expression.
“I don’t think you created that phenomenon…”
“Why am I doing such a troublesome thing?”
“But…”
“Really stupid. Would you give me an item like that while I created that phenomenon?”
“Then please… ?”
“Because I have to say something important with the head of the tower. Please guide me quickly.”
“…”
Seong Soo-ah also put on a slightly sullen look at me as I cared for her words, but she quickly let go of her expression and nodded her head.
“All right. It’s clear that you’re really important.”
“It’s stupid, but it’s good that you have a sense of humor.”
“Ha…”
Seong Soo-ah shuddered as if she was tired of being judged constantly, and she hurriedly began to move her steps.
Not too long ago…
“… Thank you. I will write it well and return it.”
Seong Soo-ah showed me the jewel and quietly thanked me, and when I saw that, I…
“… Please guide me quickly.”
“Whoa… All right.”
She didn’t want to be misunderstood, so she replied bluntly.
There was silence again, but she knew for sure.
The suffocating silence I felt earlier is gone, and the fact that a loose silence is connecting the two of us…
