Honeysuckle
# # #
“are you okay?”
Taejin was lying in the hospital room in the mansion.
And beside the bedside, his personal doctor, Moo-gyeol Lee, was examining his condition.
Looking at his seventies, he was beyond the twilight age, but he was a master of the hunter treatment to the extent that he took on the role of the young Hunter National Hospital.
After retirement, he was hired by Park Na-yeon and resided in the mansion as a personal doctor.
Then he drooled and shook his head at Park Na-yeon’s question.
“Hmm… I do not know English.”
“yes? Is there something you don’t know?”
Nayeon widened her eyes and wondered.
He was well-informed about the phenomena that had occurred to Hunter. He had never said ‘I don’t know’ since he was hired, but that was the first time he expressed ignorance.
“It’s not that I’ve been tainted by black magic… There are no signs of necrosis due to excessive training… That said, it doesn’t even look like a new skill generated by magic response… .”
Taejin’s entire left arm had turned black all the way down to his shoulder.
Lee Moo-gyeol performs various examinations with various medical instruments.
However, the end has always remained a question.
“Aren’t you in need of treatment? Are you not going to die? No, even life-threatening.”
“It’s not like that, so don’t worry.”
Reina, who was restless from behind, asked so much, but Lee Moo-gyeol calmed her down.
There is no limit to life
There was no problem with the function of the left arm.
Blood was circulating normally, and pure mana was flowing in it.
Also, there was no damage to the muscles.
only questionable.
“… It’s like spontaneous combustion.”
“Spontaneous combustion?”
“So, for some reason, it seems that this bizarre phenomenon occurred as if it was burning on its own.”
“… It’s difficult.”
Park Na-yeon tilted her head.
It was not comfortable because the first exclusive disciple seemed to have suffered an unpleasant thing during training, but apart from that, I could tell that the sight I had witnessed in the F12-13 dungeon the other day was not an illusion.
‘Even then, my left arm was faintly black.’
I thought it was a stain from blood fighting, but this time I found out that it wasn’t a stain.
together.
‘This guy… What the hell?’
A big question arose.
The magical explosion recorded in the video at the time was also concluded to be a temporary phenomenon, but she did not think so.
The wavelength strong enough to destroy special electronic devices was doubtful to dismiss it as a simple phenomenon.
Of course, such an explosion sometimes occurred in a special situation called a dungeon, but when I heard that the explosion happened to Han Tae-jin, it was difficult to just ignore it for some reason.
‘Clearly there is something… .’
As an S-class hunter, I’ve been through all sorts of dungeons for ten years, but it’s the first time I’ve seen a case where only my left arm is stained black.
Even if I’ve seen cases where they sometimes get contaminated by wrongly touching black magic, or get necrotic by being attacked by poisonous monsters.
‘okay.’
If neither black magic nor necrosis nor the creation of new skills.
Moreover, if this phenomenon is the same as spontaneous combustion.
There was only one possibility left.
No, at least there is only one possibility if we deduce it from the vast amount of practical experience that is inversely proportional to his poor knowledge.
“Teacher.”
“Tell me.”
“Perhaps… If the monster history is ignited, is there any possibility?”
At her words, Lee Moo Gyeol and Versailles widened their eyes at the same time.
No, even Kim and the maid waiting in the hospital room.
“Monster, monster history?”
“It has never been officially reported, but… At one time, among hunters, rumors of a monster history being generated due to poison or mysterious power during boss raids, and becoming a monster because they couldn’t handle it were horrendous.”
“Ah, I have heard of it.”
“Is that possible?”
“However… Haven’t apprentices done boss raids before?”
Park Na-yeon shed a small sigh in response to Lee Moo-gyeol’s question.
Yes.
The cadet never had a chance to meet the boss.
In the end, even that poor reasoning could not be applied to the apprentice.
Nayeon sighed, biting her lower lip in disappointment.
Monster history.
It is still a phenomenon whose authenticity has not been revealed.
As a villain is made from monster serum, it refers to a phenomenon in which a monster’s powers reside in the human body and gradually turn into a monster due to a strange phenomenon during a boss raid.
Monsters that often appear in the city center supported that reasoning.
However, it was one of the phenomena that had not yet been officially adopted due to the lack of evidence.
“Hmm… After all, there’s nothing we can figure out right now.”
“When I wake up, I have no choice but to ask myself. First, we will discuss closely with the US medical staff.”
“yes. Please give it a try.”
“Yes. then.”
With the help of Kim Ina, Lee Moo-gyeol packed a medical bag and left the room, leaving Raina and Park Na-yeon in the room.
In the awkward atmosphere, it was Park Na-yeon who opened the door first.
“Mr. Reina?”
“yes?”
“Can I ask you something?”
“yes.”
“How is your relationship with Han Tae-jin? Not as a bodyguard. It seems like you’ve been together for quite some time.”
Reina lifted the tip of her glasses to buy some time.
Since the start of the outdoor activities, I had been educated by my master from time to time.
And that education was all shouting for one answer.
Always if it seems like an unfavorable question.
“ah… That’s something I can’t tell you about my job.”
He said to dismiss the answer.
“… is that so? You look pretty friendly.”
“A close relationship helps me in my job.”
“Hmm, then I’ll come and see you for a while, so please take a seat.”
“yes.”
Fortunately, Nayeon Park left the hospital room without any additional questions, and Reina had to exclaim inside.
‘That was a great response!’
Of course, the moment I saw Tae-jin Han lying on the bed, I started crying again.
After confirming that there was no one outside the room, Reina locked the door and approached the bed.
Sensei Lee Moo-gyeol said he did not know when he would wake up.
-Vital level, mana condition, creed rhythm are all normal, but strange. You should be waking up by now.
He also said he didn’t know why he couldn’t wake up.
And he said that maybe because of the influence of his left arm, he seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.
If some inner influence is keeping you from waking up, you can help.
[Versailles Galinis Efroncia]
Because she’s the queen of succubus, that is, dreamers.
This ability of our ancestors, who invaded someone’s dream, looked into, manipulated, and exploited the spirit, was still alive and well for the breeding of the species.
Although it may be a cheeky dreaming as a summoner without a summoner’s name, I wanted to do my best as much as I could.
If it was for the owner, Taejin Han, I wanted to do it for some reason.
‘master… Excuse me for a moment… !’
Reina, walking up her skirt and riding on Han Tae-jin’s lower part, clasps her hands and memorizes a spell.
“ אני אוהבת אותך .”
After a while, her eyes turned purple and the dreaming began.
# # #
– Whee-ying.
At the foot of a snowy mountain covered in soft snow.
Where the desolate snow flew, Versailles was climbing the mountain road.
‘… What the hell?’
At first, I thought I had entered someone else’s dream, not my master’s dream, but because of interference with the butterfly dream.
However, looking back on the frequency of the caterpillars, the dream of the owner, Taejin Han, was clearly right here.
But it was weird.
‘… I don’t think it’s Earth?’
The harsh cold, the sound of snow falling, the trees covered with pure white hats.
And even fresh air.
They were all the same as the Earth, and at first glance, the scenery was no different from any other winter, but Versailles felt a deep sense of alienation.
The purity of mana was different from that of Earth.
There was a mild musty smell from the mana, and the purity was unrefined, so it felt rough.
Clearly, it is a different place from the Earth where I lived with my master.
So it was questionable.
Why did this place become the background of my dreams?
Or am I falling into a swamp of hallucinations, not dreams?
‘In that case, the clarity of the dream is high.’
If it is not a dream, but a hallucination, the sharpness drops significantly.
The surrounding scenery, the flow of mana, and even the nerves of the person who saw it.
But now it was showing a sharpness comparable to reality.
In other words, it is neither a hallucination nor an illusion, and this is the background of the owner’s dream, Taejin Han.
‘Okay, where is the master?’
First of all, Versailles floats in the air and rushes through the snowy mountains to find Taejin Han.
Even if it was a dream, I was cautious as it felt as if an unfamiliar sluggishness was cutting my skin sharply.
It was too tedious.
The winter beast did not even have a proboscis, and there was only the sound of a desolate wind in the snowy mountains.
It’s like the mountain on which death descended.
However, something was definitely felt.
In this terrible stillness, something is beating.
And then, a ferocious voice resounded from the sky above her.
– ooh!
Suddenly, I lifted my head and looked up at the sky, and a black dragon was flying.
Even the size of its spread wings seemed to be enough for several tens of meters, and at the end of its long tail was a bundle of thorns like a mace.
But, his body was full of scars.
The tips of its wings were ragged as if they had been hit by harsh winds and waves, and countless deep sword wrinkles were drawn on their long necks.
Scars as if fighting with something.
And it seemed as if the battle had passed for hundreds of thousands of years.
Besides, his left arm was completely cut below the joint.
And sometimes, struggling in the air, it seemed difficult to even fly.
‘Dragon… ? This isn’t even a Drogpia… ?’
Because he was summoned to Earth several times, he knew well that there were no dragons on the planet Earth.
There were dragons in Drogpia, but there was no such huge race as the dragon that cut the sky.
In other words, it is somewhere other than Earth or Drogpia.
Of course, a dream can be unfolded based on imagination, but Versailles had the feeling that this dream was a projection of the mysterious events that the owner had experienced in the past.
It was an intuition as a nightmare.
‘Hmm, I’ll have to go after it first.’
Without question, Versailles immediately turned into an eagle and started chasing the dragon.
And soon, around the peak of the snowy mountain, we arrived in front of a huge cave.
– Whoops.
For some reason, I had a strong intuition that the master was being held there.
Because that black dragon was the only living thing in this cold snowy mountain.
The dragon, who landed at the entrance of the cave, created a magical wind and turned into a halo, and then began to slowly contract.
‘no way… Isn’t it?’
For some reason, I felt an ominous feeling.
A dragon gradually transforming into a human form.
Even the gender could not be distinguished due to the glowing glow, but when the dragon’s transformation was over, Versailles could not help but be shocked.
should.
‘uh… ?’
It was Han Tae-jin.
However, it was the opposite of the one he knew.
It felt as if someone else had wrapped his shell around him.
His eyes were fierce, and his spirit was warlike.
The flowing magic was also old and smelled old.
Above all, he had no left arm as he did when he was in the state of a dragon.
Besides, his staggering gait seemed quite weak.
Obviously, it didn’t seem like it was my owner.
Then, after taking a look around, he begins to enter the cave.
‘What the hell?’
Versailles, polymorphed from eagle to bat, hurriedly followed him into the cave.
Soon, we arrived at a huge domed cavity.
There was a mysterious blue lake in the center, and a small rocky land that was not connected to the surrounding land stood alone in the center of the lake.
‘… main… man?’
And on that rocky land.
Another Tae-Jin Han had her eyes closed, trapped in the black, sticky, spider-web-like tentacles.
I could feel it intuitively.
Because the strong partnership concluded with the summoning contract made it known that Taejin Han of that rocky land was his real owner.
