CH 70

30. Event Occurrence (4)

He thinks of almost everything, but he doesn’t like his face. Instead, his heart sank.

“……so you want me to remove my face?”

Ye-Hyeon tilted his head and asked back stupidly.

“If I tell you to do that, will you do that?”

Shin Do-Gyeom said with sarcasm. Considering Shin Do-Gyeom’s usual acrimonious tone, this level of sarcasm was a light prank.

“Hmm. Think about it?”

Does he have to get plastic surgery? Ye-Hyeon doesn’t have money….’

Ye-Hyeon was seriously contemplating and smoothed his chin.

“Did you go crazy?”

Shin Do-Gyeom was annoyed.

Ye-Hyeon blinked because he was dumbfounded.

“You told me to change it.”

“When did I?”

“Just now, no. Never mind.”

Similar conversations were repeated as if they were repeaters. Ye-Hyeon shook his head and gave up. He was speechless.

“Sigh.”

Shin Do-Gyeom sighed nervously.

Ye-Hyeon narrowed his eyes. Shin Do-Gyeom must know that what he is saying doesn’t add up.

Or did he mean he doesn’t like Ye-Hyeon being shameless?’

Ye-Hyeon fiddled with his earlobes. However, after regression, he isn’t even particularly shameless. Rather than calmly interacting with everyone, he was confused because he couldn’t adapt to the changed environment.

“What can I do?”

Ye-Hyeon grumbled like a mumbling.

“Choi Ye-Hyeon.”

Shin Do-Gyeom was quiet and called Ye-Hyeon.

Ye-Hyeon lowered his head and flinched.

Until now, Shin Do-Gyeom did not call Ye-Hyeon by his first name. He had no other intentions, but there was no reason to call his name.

What is it?

Ye-Hyeon shrank his neck and swept down his arms. His name, which came out of Shin Do-Gyeom’s mouth, was surprisingly light and soft. As the sensitive and feisty energy that always came out when talking to Ye-Hyeon disappeared, Shin Do-Gyeom’s voice highlighted his unique, delicate, and clear feeling. It was good to hear, so he wanted him to call it one more time without even realizing it.

‘I think he called me before.’

Ye-Hyeon crumpled his brows and tried to recall the faintly memorable voice. It was a little different from now, a voice that seemed out of breath.

“Where the hell are you looking in the battle?”

Shin Do-Gyeom’s tone quickly sharply changed again.

“Thank you for saving me…”

“Do you think I brought it up to show off?”

Shin Do-Gyeom snapped back.

Ye-Hyeon quietly closed his mouth and turned his head to the opposite side of Shin Do-Gyeom. His cheeks tingled even though he couldn’t see them.

“Just answer the question.”

“……Let’s look at the status of the party members.”

When Ye-Hyeon reluctantly opened his mouth, Shin Do-Gyeom smiled. It was an unmistakable laugh.

“What would you do if you understood other people’s conditions while you hid in a safe place? You should avoid monsters first. You don’t even know the basic common sense of being a hunter?”

“No……”

Ye-Hyeon’s eyes widened at Shin Do-Gyeom’s constant criticism.

Ye-Hyeon had no attack skills or defense skills, so he had no choice but to avoid them in the event of a battle. He was angry because he sarcastically said that he was hiding in a safe place.

Of course, getting hit earlier was stupid and a big mistake, but Ye-Hyeon felt it was unfair because he tried to be helpful somehow.

“It’s true that I made a mistake…….”

“Mistake?”

When Ye-Hyeon tried to explain the reason calmly, Shin Do-Gyeom cut Ye-Hyeon’s words with a single knife. He sounded deafeningly cold.

The atmosphere, which was not mild but not so bad, froze instantly.

“Mistakes are words used only by people who try. Don’t cover up your incompetence by saying mistakes when you don’t have the will to develop.”

‘Huh…?

The content was somehow familiar. It’s something Ye-Hyeon heard before.

Ye-Hyeon soon remembered when he heard it. There was a time when Hunter, who had no skills, pretended to use his Ability and tried to be buried comfortably. Shin Do-Gyeom pointed him out and rebuked him in public, and Shin Do-Gyeom said similar things when the hunter made an excuse saying it was a mistake.

So, in Shin Do-Gyeom’s eyes now, Ye-Hyeon meant that he was the same as that Hunter.

“No, it’s not.”

Ye-Hyeon almost reflexively denied it.

“What do you mean no?”

“There’s nothing I can do in combat.”

“You don’t have it? Not that you don’t look for something, do?”

“So, what, you want me to jump into a monster with a sword?”

“Why do you ask me that? If you have a brain, think. What kind of porter are you? Are you just going to watch with your hands behind your back?” The word porter suddenly popped up in his heart like a stake. There is no way that Shin Do-Gyeom knew what happened before regression, but his stomach throbbed as if he had been caught. “……a porter?”

“Yes. What’s the difference between you and a porter carrying a vital potion?”

Suddenly his nose ached. He couldn’t tell whether he was upset that Shin Do-Gyeom was talking about the porter as a negative object or was still sad to hear that he was still like a porter after regression.

Ye-Hyeon bit his lower lip hard.

The porter, a low-level hunter, was in danger of his life just by brushing against a monster if he followed the upper gate. If it’s a proper party, separate personnel protect only the porters.

It was also commonly called the Guard, usually played by a relatively inexperienced hunter in engineering school. All the guards did was stay as safe as possible and defend defensively.

Like other porters, Ye-Hyeon, a supporter, stayed in the rear with the guard. Sometimes he left his seat to deliver the potion, but it was common for hunters who needed maintenance during the battle to fall outside the monster’s range for a while, so the distance to and from was pretty close.

It was an environment that could not be considered safe, no matter how protected it was by the guard. Still, since the engineering school dispatched to the high gate is a veteran hunter, monsters rarely flow to the rear. Ye-Hyeon did not have to pay attention to the monster’s attack.

When he worked as a supporter, he was excluded entirely from the battle, so he was severely criticized for doing something that stood out a little. He may have had a habit of crouching so that he could not be seen as much as possible, which might have bothered Shin Do-Gyeom’s nerves.

But porters and healers are the same as being excluded from battle.

From Ye-Hyeon’s point of view, it felt that Shin Do-Gyeom was asking for something beyond his ability.

“……Do you know what I heard the most after I became a healer? You don’t have to do it because you’re a healer. That was it.”

Ye-Hyeon muttered in a dry tone. It was something he had heard from the training camp. Whether new or veteran, they all gathered their mouths and repeated it like a parrot.

There was no one around to teach Ye-Hyeon anything. It was just people trying to look good.

“Do you think I just want to watch from behind? It’s not that I’m not good at it. I can’t fight monsters, and I’m not born with anything else, so what the hell do you want from me?”

Ye-Hyeon’s low voice was gradually raised. The corners of his mouth trembled.

It was more painful when asked to confess his incompetence, and he felt more resentful than he imagined.

“Don’t make excuses.”

However, Shin Do-Gyeom was still cold-hearted.

“Did you stay still because others told you to stay still? Stupid. That’s why healers…….” Shin Do-Gyeom slurred his words with sarcastic sarcasm. “That…!”

Shin Do-Gyeom only talked about standard stories without knowing his circumstances and was angry. Ye-Hyeon wanted to refute anything, but nothing came out. Ye-Hyeon licked his lips.

“I, I…….”

Ye-Hyeon stuttered without answering easily.

Meanwhile, a question came deep into his mind.

‘Did I try as hard as I did when I worked as a supporter?’

As soon as the question came to mind, Ye-Hyeon realized the answer.

“No.”

Ye-Hyeon belatedly realized that he was speechless because he unconsciously agreed with Shin Do-Gyeom.

Maybe he was complacent without realizing it.

An impatient and earnest heart was sincere. However, the situation was much better than before regression, so he didn’t have to struggle.

There was no problem even if Ye-Hyeon stayed in place. The targets have steadily increased and grown remarkably.

He was the same, but Ye-Hyeon misunderstood that he had grown up.

He felt like he had been hit hard on the head. A healer may have been treated as a healer and can be relaxed. When Shin Do-Gyeom, not anyone else, pointed out the weakness he was unaware of, he felt shame “……Yes, I was wrong.”