CH 13

“No, you have to give me time to prepare, too. I don’t have any items right now. Except for this ring.”

“I prepared it for you on my own. So just follow me silently.”

Somehow, every response seems to be sharp today. The look that seemed to have loosened up a little before quickly worsened again, and even the tone of his voice gives a strange feeling of a sharp edge. Even the long words seem annoying. 

But at the risk of my life, I had to ask. The most important thing.

“Then, who am I going with?”

The white face, whose expression has disappeared, faces the front again and gives a burdensome gaze. I felt a strange burning sensation in my throat, and while I was swallowing dry saliva, the guy asked me quietly.

“Who do you want to go with?”

However, despite his usual attitude, I was uncomfortable because I couldn’t read human emotions in his dark eyes. So I tilted my head and pointed out the important point while avoiding the gaze.

“Of course, it would be nice if Hunter Lee Jehee would come with me. I feel reassured. But aren’t you sick right now? Your face doesn’t look so good—”

As I pointed out his pale complexion, the man’s forehead wrinkled. Then he goes back to his expressionless face and raises only the corners of his mouth.

“It’s nothing, so don’t worry about it.”

After saying it.

“I want to do that too, but it’s not a big deal because I have to trust only Hunter Lee Jeehee. It’s not something that can be ignored just like that. So by any chance, do you have a headache?”

“—That’s right. It’s a stress-related headache. Still, I can clear C-class dungeons, so don’t worry.” 

Uhm, so it’s a stress headache. Then he won’t even listen to heal. Because the mental thing affects the body. Maybe that’s why he’s just leaving it alone. 

As soon as he finished speaking, Lee Jehee, who tilted his head back to the sofa head like a person who reached his limit, waved his hand as if not to care.

I want to pretend that I didn’t see it and move on—.

If we went into the dungeon together in that state, I think I would also get a stress-related headache. When entering the dungeon, the only liferope is Lee Jeehee, but if he’s in such a bad condition—. 

“Please stay still for a moment.”

As I get up from my seat and try to approach the side of the sofa on which he is sitting, Chorok’s terrifying gaze  falls. He had a very bad habit of turning his eyes like that when only Lee Jehee was involved. 

I won’t do anything to your master, you greyhound punk.

After making a harmless smile to mean not to worry, I went to the front of the sofa where Lee Jehee sat and looked at the area to be touched. 

Holding hands would be the most comfortable way, but he was still wearing that damn black leather glove today. Moreover, he was wearing a white shirt and a navy vest, so there were not many areas where bare skin was exposed, so the areas that could be reached were limited. 

Should I just ask him to take off his gloves and hold his hand?

Thanks to holding his hand every time I put Lee Jeehee to sleep for the past week, I am now able to develop a tolerance for this guy’s hand. After thinking for a while more, I couldn’t help but lower my hand in order to take off his gloves. If only the intense gaze at that moment had not touched the cheek.

As soon as he opened his eyes, the man with his narrowed eyes was staring at me as if he was trying to figure out what I was going to do.

Yeah, I decided to do this to you. 

I raised my hand to take off his gloves and covered his eyes. Lee Jehee, who is suddenly blocked from sight, blinks like a surprised person. With the feeling of the eyelashes tickling the inside of my palm, I immediately put my palm a little harder, enduring the desire to scratch that part. I felt like he was frowning little by little, as if my tightly attached palms were compressing around his eyes.

Who told you to stare at me like that? I don’t know why they’re doing this to me today. Not only Hunter Kim Hyunoh, but also this jerk.

“Then I’ll start.”

[Preparing state transition. Please set the state to be transferred.]

Now, along with the familiar status message window, a window for selecting a set value appeared. Looking through the long list, I chose the part that says ‘Relaxing’. 

[Activate the state transition skill. Depending on the set value, the ‘Relaxing‘ state is given.]

As soon as the skill is used, warm energy gathers in the palm of the hand and moves to Lee Jehee. Then, after waiting for a while, the frowning forehead that was felt under the palm of my hand opened up, and the corner of his mouth opened slightly. A quick, relaxed breath leaked out. 

Just keep doing this for 10 minutes and his headache will disappear. It was the moment when I was about to step back and take off my hand with that thought.

The wrist that was falling behind is caught and when I look down, the eyes that meet are curved nicely. There was a youthful spark in the dark, dead eyes.

“You must know a lot more than I think?”

More than you think? With a strangely unpleasant tone, I turned and pulled out my wrist, forcing the corners of my mouth to curl up.

“Isn’t that someone’s thoughts short?”

“Watch what you say.”

The problem is that there is a dog next to him who won’t let it happen. Chorok was holding the sword to the other person’s neck again as soon as he took it out. 

You punk. Be careful of the sword. If someone pokes you from behind, that’s me.

“That’s too much. I did my best after thinking. Should I stop using the skill now?”

“—Don’t be cheeky. It’s not that I can’t cut it.”

With a growl-like voice, the sword digs deeper. But I really want to shout. A young man is arguing with even a sword, but who is more cheeky! 

It was frustrating like crazy, but I calmly raised my hand because I wasn’t in the mood to see blood if I made a mistake.

For Han Chorok, Lee Jehee was a God that couldn’t go out only strongly. The living God who raised himself strongly on behalf of the family who abandoned him and the fake God who was heartless. And I think he sees him as a savage who blasphemed.

“Chorok, stop it.”

“…Master, I think he just really didn’t know about the subject.”

Lee Jehee, who returned as usual with a relieved headache, tried to stop Chorok. Somehow it felt a little different from usual, because that sleepy tone had disappeared. 

However, for some reason, Chorok, who rejected Lee Jehee’s words, still didn’t put away the sword pointed at me. I wondered what was wrong with the obedient dog, so I raised my hand and blinked. This is because I met eyes that seemed to sway something black inside. 

What’s wrong with that? What if he suddenly becomes a busker and cuts me? 

His eyes were so scary that I could think of such a thing. It was the time when the light of reason was about to pull the dog back slightly, frightened by the blurred eyes. 

A long finger had approached and put a sword between the index and middle fingers, allowing it to be easily pushed out. Even though it was a sword that looked like it would be cut just by touching it, his black leather gloves were intact without a single scratch. 

As expected, it meant that Lee Jehee’s hand was more dangerous than Chorok, who lost reason. That’s why I was reluctant every time I had to hold his hand. 

“You can let him know about it slowly.” 

“—You’re just being generous, so he doesn’t know it’s scary and he does that more.” 

“I’m usually a bit too considerate.”

When Chorok throws the sword into the air with an attitude that he can’t handle it, it disappears. 

So he can put it in the inventory like that. Thanks to him, I found out something new, but that’s it, and I couldn’t just let go of the dog barking. I crossed my arms to express that I didn’t like it. 

Who is generous and who is considerate? A crazy guy in front of me? Or the crazy guy next to the crazy guy?

Whatever it was, I politely raised my hand and asked because it was not a word that would apply to both of them unless the dictionary meaning of the two words changed. 

“Excuse me, I’m sorry to ask you this, but I have a question. Do you like to talk nonsense like this?”

Even though I was going to call it bullshit and politely turned it into nonsense and asked, Chorok immediately frowned and showed that he was in a bad mood.

On the other hand, Lee Jehee laughed out loud as if it was fun. Chorok spit out words like a sigh at the guy who looked like he was worth living for now.

“Look at that. He’s so cheeky. I need to make sure once in a while—”

“Why? It’s fresh and fun.”

The cold atmosphere was relieved by that one word. Watching the atmosphere that had returned to normal, I quickly returned to my original seat and sat down. Chorok also stood up straight again, and Lee Jehee, who was lying on the sofa, also took a seat and sat down.

He looks fine now, so I relaxed after releasing the skill. As if he felt the relaxing effect disappear, he looked down at his hand and clenched his fist once, then opened his mouth with a look of interest. 

“I finished reading the skills last time, but it’s so obvious that I haven’t figured it all out yet. Since there are a lot of skills beyond the first time I saw them, it will take some time to get used to them. I was wondering what relaxing was, but the name was the same as the set value.” 

Why are you handling my skills so well?

I put up with what I want to ask, and forcefully pretend to be kind. 

“You can think intuitively about the set value of the status grant skill.”

First of all, that’s how I felt about using it for a month and a week. Although there may be exceptions because the entire set has not been used up yet.