Chapter 876 – 876. Hero Academy (6)
“Whew… We finally met.”
“Yeriel!”
As soon as her Yeriel appeared, Seong Soo-ah greeted her with her bright smile.
“You are safe. I’m so glad.”
Seong Soo-ah was sincerely relieved when she saw Yeri-el.
When she recalled the look on Sung Soo-ah’s face when she heard that Yeriel had suddenly disappeared, she could tell how much she cared about her Yeriel.
However, seeing Seongsu-ah’s worried look, Yeriel smiled dejectedly.
“I was really worried, but I’m glad nothing happened.”
From Yeriel’s point of view, Sung Soo-ah was probably more worried.
No matter how talented you are, you have little experience, and it would have been too much for you to handle alone.
And what Yeriel was worried about was not only Seongsua’s separation from her teammates.
As I expected, Yeriel glanced at me and asked Sung Soo-ah.
“Is that the man you mentioned?”
“Yes.”
As soon as Yeriel heard Seongsuah’s answer, she nodded her head and started talking to me.
“I heard the story. You found me?”
If you normally meet Yeriel, you should be polite to her right away…
“I finally met you.”
I greeted him in a blunt way.
Originally, it was standard to give the other person a full name to say hello, but since she was hiding her identity, she couldn’t be polite.
And Yeriel, who heard my rude words and actions…
“It is as I have heard.”
He glared at me with dry eyes.
Cold sweat began to flow down the back of her back, thanks to Yeriel’s staring eyes.
‘The atmosphere is different from usual.’
Yeriel’s eyes glaring at me now were different from the ones she usually shows me.
Usually, when Yeriel looked at me, her eyes were always full of friendliness.
Occasionally, he would play pranks on me.
But now in Yeriel’s eyes…
“For now, I will listen to her after joining her colleagues.”
It was like a completely different person.
‘If I get caught, it’ll be a real headache.’
I thought so and put her face a little more into her cloak.
Believing in the existence of a cloak, he questioned Yeriel.
“I want to start by talking about business?”
When Yeriel heard my question, she replied with a stronger glaring look at me.
“I will listen to your business after joining my colleagues. Because my colleagues are far more important to me than your business.”
“…”
In fact, it’s enough to forcefully say a few words here and leave.
More than anything, if Yeriel was by her side, she seemed to be able to send even Sung Soo-ah away safely.
But I…
“Good. Do that.”
I decided to accept Yeriel’s words.
Although it is said that Seongsuah’s safety is guaranteed to some extent with Yeriel by her side, there will eventually be a limit.
Yeriel, who was the head of the tower, also fell apart from his colleagues because of the war gimmick.
‘There’s no law saying two people shouldn’t fall apart again…’
Going around with Yeriel would increase the chance of being exposed, but from my point of view, I decided that the safety of the two was more important.
Yeriel hears my answer…
“… Let’s go, Sua.”
“Yes.”
He started to take the lead by answering Seong Soo-ah.
Seong Soo-ah looked at me for a moment, but immediately started moving next to Yeriel.
And I started following Seongsuah and Yeriel.
‘Let’s finish it as soon as possible and leave.’
No matter how much I wanted to help the two of them and stuck around, there was nothing good about sticking around for a long time.
As time goes by, the possibility that my identity will be revealed will increase.
Yeriel and Seongsuah left me behind and started talking to each other.
I couldn’t hear the conversation between the two, but…
“That man…”
“It’s that kind of attitude, but more than I thought…”
It was clear what they were talking about.
‘I can hear everything…’
The good thing, though, was that they weren’t gossiping about me based on overheard conversations.
Yeriel doubted my existence, and Sung Soo-ah explained to Yeriel the help she received from me without hesitation.
Most of the stories Sung Soo-ah told me were compliments.
Yeriel, who heard my praise through Seongsuah…
“… Okay.”
Even after hearing my compliments, he couldn’t relax his expression at all.
‘I don’t know what he’s doing, so of course.’
So far, Yeriel has basically treated me favorably.
In fact, it was only natural that she would treat her favorably.
A field trip incident, a terrorist attack at Ebrica headquarters, etc… Since I unintentionally helped Yeriel, she has no choice but to look favorably on me.
But now I’m going to look like a suspicious entity like the guys who attacked the search party.
‘It’s rather strange that I’m not suspicious.’
As I thought about that, I remembered the scene where I first met Yeriel.
The first place I met Yeriel was at the entrance to the principal’s office.
Yeriel, who was treated politely by the huge headmaster with the word ‘nim’.
Yeriel, whom I met in her principal’s office, looked at me with an expressionless and dry expression.
As if you weren’t interested…
‘Thinking about it, that might be my original personality.’
Upon reflection, she found that she had rarely seen Yeriel show emotions to anyone.
Even to the cadets, he treated them with a blunt attitude.
In contrast, he joked around with me and laughed.
But now it’s like I don’t know… No, they just looked at me with suspicious eyes, like looking at an enemy.
I smiled as I watched Yeriel and Seong Soo-ah take the lead.
‘I had a windfall today. It feels like I’ve seen the inner thoughts of two people I don’t know.’
It was more fun than I thought to see Sung Soo-ah and Yeriel, who I hadn’t seen before.
While listening to the whispering voices of the two and following behind, I heard a communication from Armonia.
[Suho, I have something to show you.]
‘Like what?’
When I asked back, the window of Yeriel’s temperament popped up in front of me.
What I saw were several of the temperaments in Yeriel’s temperament window.
‘They kept walking around like that?’
In Yeriel’s temperament window, a more absurd temperament was written.
[Hungry], [Excessive fatigue]…
I could understand the fatigue, but not the hunger.
‘Couldn’t it be that he didn’t carry emergency food or something?’
Seeing that kind of temperament of Yeriel, I shed a blank laugh.
“That’s awful…”
Seong Soo-ah and Yeriel, who heard my laugh, stopped while moving and turned their heads to look at me.
It was Sung Soo-ah who spoke first.
“Is something wrong with your colleagues?”
“No, my colleagues are fine.”
“Then why suddenly… ?”
“Take a break and go.”
I looked at Yeriel and said, but it was Sung Soo-ah who answered.
“Go, suddenly?”
“Yeah, you couldn’t sleep properly because you stayed up all night. And…”
I said in a low voice, looking at Yeriel with her cape pressed down deeply.
“I was suddenly hungry. Basically, you have to fill your stomach to use power.”
“!?”
As soon as he heard my words, Yeriel’s body trembled beside Seongsuah.
However, Seong Soo-ah shook her head and replied, as if she hadn’t seen such a Yeriel.
“I’m sorry, but I think that will be difficult. Joining the search team comes first.”
“I don’t want to rest for a long time. We just want to fill our stomachs and go.”
“Can’t you be patient for a little while? The search team has groceries. As soon as we meet…”
Seong Soo-ah tried to persuade me by any means.
In contrast, Yeriel…
“…”
I started to feel restless as I looked at Sung Soo-ah and me.
I smiled at Yeriel’s appearance and replied without moving a single step.
“I’m so hungry right now that I can’t even move a single step.”
“No! In such an emergency situation, suddenly like a child… !”
Seong Soo-ah erased the kindness she had shown me until now and started screaming at me.
And it’s not me who’s stopping Seongsuah…
“… Sua. Let’s rest for a while.”
It was Yeriel.
Seong Soo-ah was embarrassed by Yeriel’s sudden decision and began to hesitate.
“Ha, but in the current situation…”
“It is also important to be prepared for the unexpected. Let’s look at the situation with the search party and decide.”
“Ah… Yes, if Yeriel says so…”
Even Sung Soo-ah would not have expected it.
To think that Yeriel, who is no one else, suddenly asked me to rest like that.
As soon as Sung Soo-ah heard Yeriel’s command, she immediately started talking using her smart watch.
Sung Soo-ah, who finished the phone call with the search party…
“I’m trapped in an unknown place right now, but they say it’s not dangerous.”
Saying that, I accepted Yeriel and I’s opinion to rest.
When the break was decided, Sung Soo-ah began to ask Yeriel various things.
“Yeriel. Have you ever been hurt?”
“No…”
“If there is something wrong with your body… ?’
“It’s not like that. Listening to that man, Sua, it looks like you haven’t been able to sleep or eat properly, so even a simple snack at this timing…”
It was the moment when Yeriel made excuses like talking gibberish to herself.
Growl.
“…”
“…”
“…”
There was a loud vibration that was not suitable for the quiet cave.
I laughed involuntarily and opened my mouth.
“It seems that the teleportation gimmick has been activated somewhere.”
It’s not a joke, if you didn’t know, you would have thought that the teleportation gimmick had been activated in another place.
Yeriel, who heard me…
“…”
He clenched his dainty hand tightly and began to tremble.
Seong Soo-ah, who saw Yeriel like that, was rather angry and shouted at me.
“Do you think the teleportation gimmick is a phenomenon that activates so often!?”
“… Why are you angry all of a sudden?”
“That’s because you just suddenly said something out of the blue…”
Seong Soo-ah is not an idiot either.
You probably already know the source of this sound.
She started talking gibberish to protect Yeriel as much as possible.
“Once you got permission from Yeriel-nim, you can quickly rest…”
That was the moment when Sung Soo-ah was talking gibberish and trying to say anything.
Growl!!!
“…”
“…”
“…”
A louder sound rang out than before.
If the sound I heard before was about magnitude 4, the sound I heard now seemed to be about magnitude 6.
I heard a stronger vibration and said to Sung Soo-ah.
“Looks like the teleportation gimmick has been activated again.”
“That… Please stop it.”
Seong Soo-ah slowly turned her head to check Yeri-el’s condition with her startled expression.
Sung Soo-ah and Yeriel in my eyes…
“…”
It was a look full of shame.
Her dainty hands were squeezed, her face flushed, and her whole body trembling.
Looking at Yeriel like that…
‘… Let’s finish here.’
I decided to stop kidding.
It seemed that if I touched more than this, I would experience what hell is like before I die.
I cleared my throat and began to change the mood.
“Once an agreement has been reached, let each of us resolve it on our own.”
After saying that, I observed the condition of the two from a moderate distance.
Seong Soo-ah looked at Yeriel restlessly, and Yeriel…
‘… A beam will come out of the eye.’
He was staring at me fiercely.
It is said that people shed tears when they are blessed, but luckily it didn’t seem like that.
Seong Soo-ah began to work hard to match Yeriel’s mood in any way.
“Yes, Yeriel-sama, do you have any emergency food?”
“… It must have spilled during the battle.”
Yeriel answered Seongsu-ah’s questions, but he didn’t stop looking at me.
‘That’s awful… The sound should have come later anyway…’
[… Sound is not the problem.]
‘…’
Shouldn’t I have been teasing you with the teleportation gimmick?
Seeing Yeriel’s embarrassing appearance, the mischief kicked in without me realizing it.
I sighed and spoke over the phone.
‘Should I let go of my anger first?’
[How do you plan to release it?]
‘Simple. I’m sensitive because I’m hungry, so it’ll be resolved if I make them full.’
[I don’t think it’s going to be easy to solve even if I’m full in the current state.]
‘… At least they won’t chew me up if they’re full.’
I answered Armonia’s question with a sigh.
‘Armonia, make some cooking utensils and ingredients.’
