chapter 20
20 – Past and present ties
“Are you saying that now?”
Han Yu-ra She thinks what she is talking about and does not know what she is talking about.
It reminds me of the fact that she has been misunderstood by the people around her and suffered in many ways because of the way she pushes and talks recklessly like this from long ago.
Of course I had to take care of that.
“Why? Literally. I am asking you to work under me again, as a porter.”
‘Of course.’
At that moment, my heart skipped a beat, and I was a fool. There’s no way Han Yu-ra would say that she wants to see her again.
And from the words that followed, she could fully understand that she had considered me subordinate to her from before.
It’s bittersweet.
From Han Yoo-ra’s attitude, it is only now visible how much she has been alone and foolishly in love.
“Would you like to be like me? What the hell do you believe in? On the subject of betrayal once.”
“Ah, what is it? Are you still messing with it? What do you do with it Anyway, I didn’t like that timid side from the moment I met you.”
She dismisses her painful memories of having nightmares as nothing.
Besides, he met me…. Seeing her talking as if she was generous, it feels like all the memories that were even a little bit good are flying away.
“Do you honestly think about it? Have you ever had experience dating an S-rank Hunter? Is not it? Isn’t that enough of a beautiful and good memory for you?”
A typical mindset of people who believe that the world revolves completely around them. After rising to S rank, that tendency became more severe, and it was seen that his shoulders were raised to the fullest.
“I will introduce you to the Starlight Guild, so be grateful. Small guilds like this come out quickly.”
“… Are you done with what you have to say? If you finish drinking coffee, can you leave? Hard to hear anymore.”
He spoke to Han Yu-ra in a voice as cold as her cold heart.
Han Yu-ra panics as if she didn’t think she would be rejected.
But she was Hanyu, and as if she noticed something, she said with a smile.
“Are you afraid you might have little money right now? Okay. I’ll let you get twice as much as normal porters. Since we were together, I was generous.”
Han Yu-ra is mistaken for money. The emotions she had been holding back exploded, she said forcefully.
“Can you please close your mouth and leave? It really hurts to hear any more.”
For a moment, Han Yu-ra’s expression crumpled as if she had chewed a stone. And she looked at me in a raised tone and said,
“Ha, you keep prying me when I haven’t seen you for a while? I wasn’t going to end this…. Do you think I don’t know?”
“What?”
“Aren’t you trying to get my attention by being attached to an S-rank kid? If you’re shrewd, you’ll be fine with that. But now you pretend you can’t win and you’ll lose, but it’s troublesome if you do this, isn’t it?”
I don’t know if Han Yu-ra is serious about what she is saying or if she is just saying anything because her pride is hurt, but now it seems that her misunderstanding is just pitiful.
“Where is she going, Han Yu-ra, who used to work hard talking about her dream…. Ha, stop now and please go. And let’s never see each other again.”
However, as if these words touched Han Yu-ra’s wrath, she came to me in anger and shouted.
“A dream? What a dog! I’m better off in those days when I risked my life to earn a single meal every day? Do not be ridiculous! Those days when I had to start from daycare and come up from the bottom were dark times for me!”
He didn’t respond to the words he poured out as if he had built up resentment.
I don’t know if Han Yu-ra with that kind of innocence existed in the past or not, but the Han Yu-ra of that time is no longer here.
I don’t feel worth dealing with.
“Okay, stop it.”
“Hey, Wonwoo Lee! And don’t you know my situation now. But since you’re a childhood friend, can’t you help me once?”
I wonder if that’s the original mind that came here.
I came here not because I wanted the ability I had, but because I needed someone who would comfort me and comfort me when I became a fool when I was psychologically withered.
“After…. Han Yoo-ra Last thing to say. I will never leave the guild I am in now, and I have no feelings left for you anymore.”
“….Lie. Are you the one who can’t be without me? Did you wait for me Don’t pretend it isn’t.”
I’m starting to get tired of being in denial and stubborn.
‘Should I call Sujeongi after all?’
I didn’t want to make people worry about it, so I tried to finish it on my own, but looking at it now, I’m definitely not in the mood to back down.
Ding dong. Ding dong.
Then the doorbell suddenly rings.
Only one person will visit this house at this time.
Ding dong. Ding dong. Ding dong. Ding dong. Ding dong. Ding dong. Ding dong.
The doorbell rings in succession in the suddenly quiet room.
In a sense of urgency, I quickly went and checked the intercom.
[Wonwoo…. Please open the door.]
It was the coldest and scariest face I’ve ever seen. Not the smiley face I always see, but an expression that seems to be suppressing some emotion.
I was nervous just looking at that intimidating feeling on the screen, and I automatically swallowed my saliva.
“Uh… What’s up? Didn’t you go home?”
As we tried to talk through the intercom with a smile, Sujeongi spoke in a low voice unlike usual.
[…] Because I know the situation. Please open it.]
As she said that, her shoulders trembled so slightly that you could tell from the interphone screen.
I was worried because it seemed like something big was going to happen, but I thought I already knew everything anyway, so I opened the door.
– Clap
As the door opened, Crystal entered slowly. It must have come in a hurry, and the clothes were all messed up here and there.
“Sujeong-ah, over there I am talking….”
For now, she tries to explain the situation, but Sujeong cuts her off first.
“Wonwoo, I’m sorry, but I don’t want to hear anything right now.”
A cold attitude at first sight. But rather than being sad about that appearance, I feel more sorry.
Sujeongi then turned to Han Yoo-ra, who was standing in front of her table.
“Oh, hello. Hunter Choi Sujeong. My name is Han Yu-ra, an S-class hunter from the former Seong-gwang Guild. It’s an honor to see you. She came to visit her childhood friend’s house after a long time.”
As soon as Sujeongi came in, Yura Han began to play off her nice and polite image, which is how she appears to others.
Sujeongi was fed up with that figure and smiled coldly. Then, she looked at Han Yoo-ra and said,
“Do what you do. You pretentious b*tch.”
It must have been the first time we met, but Sujeong swears all the time. Before meeting Sujeongi in person, this is the unstoppable Sujeongie I knew.
“Yes?”
Doubting her own ears, Han Yu-ra asked again, and Soo-jeong suddenly smiled brightly and said.
“Don’t be pretentious and do what you do. Don’t be mean.”
“… Even though it’s our first time meeting, we speak half words and even curse words. Have you ever had something to be so angry with me?”
Her name is Hanyu, even against Sujeong who comes out rudely, she still kept the mask she wore.
She has been acting for a very long time, so it was possible perseverance.
On the other hand, Sujeongi didn’t care and said something.
“Oh, too many. But I guess I can only say two things here?”
“Where should I listen?”
Her face stiffened slightly, but she still responded with a smile. Sujeongi said without hesitation.
“The first is the sin of taking advantage of Wonwoo’s affection and eating away her sweet water. The second is the sin of brazenly coming back to see if something hasn’t worked out recently. Is this over?”
At Sujeongi’s words, Han Yu-ra frowned.
Since you know what happened in the past, you seem to be embarrassed inside.
This part was the same for me too.
She said that from the day Sujeongi first met her, she openly said that she had investigated me. I felt different.
However, Han Yu-ra soon argued with her bright voice.
“So what? Even if that were true, would Choi Soo-jung have the right to do this here? It’s a private part. If you are the guild leader, can you touch the private lives of your guild members?”
She was told that she wasn’t dating yet, so she chose the most rational story she could say to fight back.
A normal opponent would have been intimidated by this, but the opponent is Choi Soo-jung, who is as indecisive as Han Yu-ra.
“Not just a guild member? Is she someone I care for and love madly?”
Han Yu-ra was rather taken aback by those words and asked back.
“Yes? According to Lee Won-woo, she is not dating yet….”
“Oh, right. So what? I like to die The wounds I received from being tricked by you hurt so much that I just can’t afford to relax for a while. Will come to me soon I can wait as long as I can.”
At that, Yura Han slightly bit her lip and she asked.
“Isn’t your pride hurt? As a woman?”
“Pride? It’s probably like the year you live who always notices and caresses others like you. I feel proud when I see the kids who follow you like you. Unlike you, I don’t care about it because I like it.”
At Sujeongi’s words, Han Yu-ra’s face turned red. She fights back though she doesn’t lose.
“So, isn’t it unrequited love? What are you going to do if Wonwoo doesn’t like you?”
“I can wait. All along…. Because it’s been that way for a long time Well, I’m not waiting for it now, but since it’s mine now, I’m going to get it back.”
“You are crazy, you. What is love?”
She said Han Yu-ra with an incomprehensible face. Choi Soo-jeong shook her head and said calmly.
“Don’t try to understand. Seeing what you’re doing, I don’t even understand. Throwing away such a warm person, her only choice was to fill her vanity.”
Han Yu-ra suddenly smiles at Sujeongi’s words as if she is pathetic.
“But Hunter Choi Sujeong’s wish will never come true. Wonwoo will be with me again, and I will go to Seonggwang Guild today.”
Suddenly, two burdensome eyes are directed at me.
“Wonwoo Lee! Come on, let’s talk. What to do.”
“Wonwoo….”
Unlike Han Yu-ra, who is full of confidence, Soo-jeong, who has been confident until now, seems uneasy about being told to make a choice.
However, there was no way there was a single hesitation in my choice.
“I told you earlier. I will stay here.”
“Wonwoo!”
Sujeong-i jumps at me with a happy face and hugs me. And Han Yu-ra, with an angry expression, began to argue.
“Are you really serious? If you go with me, you can be treated much better than small and medium guilds like this.”
When she said it as if she didn’t understand that it was Hanyu who didn’t know how she was being treated, she let out a sigh of her own accord.
In the past and now, they are selfish and evaluate everything based only on the standards they know.
“Whoa…. Stop now and grow up, Han Yu-ra.”
If you don’t change that attitude of not even trying to understand the other person’s mind, you will end up being isolated in the end.
I have been working hard to make up for that part of Han Yoo-ra until now, but now I think it’s time for her to realize herself.
And then Han Yu-ra, who had been quiet for a while, suddenly shouted as if her emotions had intensified.
“… Hey you bad boy! You say you love only me for the rest of your life? But in the meantime, her child just used her honorific name and said she liked it, so they quickly stuck together and ate it? What? Do you want me to iron?”
A mask that shatters.
Han Yoo-ra’s face turned red and filled with anger as if her words had become a wedge.
As expected, I still remembered only the image of myself from before and came to visit. Just like in the old days, the false belief that any wrongdoing will be accepted.
Sujeongie responds as if she is offended by me yelling at me as if arguing.
“Ah, they curse at me for being young. If you are sad about being old, then you were born late. Why are you yelling at Wonwoo, Ajumma?”
“Ah… Madame?”
She seemed to have lost her composure, and Han Yoo-ra’s gaze at her Soo-jeong seemed to spark a spark at any moment.
On the other hand, Soo-jung, provoking a winner’s smile, seemed to have regained her composure.
“Uh, lady. I see she is about 7 years older than me. When she’s that old, she’s like an aunt to me.”
As soon as Sujeongi said those words, the temperature in her room suddenly started to rise.
And from Han Yu-ra’s body, the red light’s magic radiates little by little, as if representing her anger.
“Could you say that again? Kid?”
Han Yu-ra believes in her own ability and speaks menacingly.
“Auntie. Her grandmother. Her breasts, too, are small and inelastic, so she must be limp. Because I’m old. Wonwoo really likes big, bouncy breasts like me.”
Han Yu-ra could not stand Sujeongi’s provocation in the end and unleashed her magical energy and did not hide her own anger.
The temperature inside the room rises even more due to the ever-intensifying power of the red light, and it changes to the point where you’ll start to sweat at any moment.
Sujeongi released her magic as if she would not give up.
As the magical energy collided, a very small whirlwind was created on the floor of the living room, and fine vibrations began to rise.
At that moment, the two took out their respective weapons from their hands.
In Sujeongi’s hand, there is a ‘stigma’ with a shining silver blade.
In Han Yu-ra’s hand is her own sword, ‘Yeomwang’.
Then, each of them aimed their weapons at the other.