episode_0488

‘The gaze…’

I can feel your gaze…!

Whose gaze is flying towards my back right now?

I didn’t have any common questions like ㅡ.

That’s because right now, there was only one person worth staring at me from behind like this.

Helena, who had chosen to stay in the warehouse to recharge her dead battery due to the aftermath of an unreasonable use of magic, secretly joined me and said, ‘Ta-da! Unless they’re trying to use a hidden camera like ‘Actually, it was me’, there’s only one person who would do something like this.

Yes, your eldest brother.

Dancheongpung.

Unlike others who are still in the team leader position, he is the eldest son of the Sacheon Party family who took the position of president of an affiliate company early on.

‘Well, considering the age difference between the two, that gap may be natural…’

Anyway, the important thing was that there was a high possibility that this person was also a serious idiot.

First of all, that’s what I thought… but a person like that stares at me like this without even thinking about hiding his gaze?

‘Is this the sister-in-law or something…?’

It’s really not easy to get married…

After somehow passing the section of my father-in-law, which I thought was the biggest mountain and not some kind of traditional Russian doll, I couldn’t even be happy about that fact, and this time my eldest brother was sent into battle.

Even seeing that he was looking at me so intently, I could tell that he really didn’t like my existence and that he was determined to find my faults somehow.

How can you be sure of that?

That’s right… the gaze I was feeling from behind was very similar to the gaze that the instructors who managed the students’ overall lives during my time at the gifted education center often gave me.

Why are you looking at me like that?

It’s the look in your eyes that seems to be threatening you to get just one.

The fact that something like that was flying towards my back in real time and sticking in my back was enough to send shivers down my spine, but what made me even more scared was that the other person didn’t seem to have any intention of hiding his actions.

What if Tang Cheongpung actually tried to secretly observe me?

He could have done as much as he wanted without me finding out about it.

To be honest, it couldn’t help but be like that… because both the level and the standing position were clearly superior to that side.

Right now, the situation is that Hayoung and I are taking the lead, feeling like vanguards, and Tang Cheongpung is standing behind, feeling like a long-distance dealer and rearguard. However, if he, an expert who is on a higher level than me, decided to secretly observe, I would do it. How could anyone notice that fact?

It’s not like I have eyes in the back of my head or anything like that.

However, instead of doing that, he gave me a gaze so intense that it made the back of my head tingle… and that meant only one thing.

‘warning.’

Yes, I guess they are warning me in that way.

I’m watching over you, so don’t even dream of doing anything foolish.

From the point of view of Tang Qingfeng, the idiot younger brother, was he worried that I, whose marriage to my younger brother was almost a half-confirmed decision, would marry Tang Xiaoxiao, make her my puppet, and then control the Sichuan Group according to my will?

Anyway, no matter what the inner meaning is in the eyes that are directed at me, is there someone watching me from behind with their eyes wide open like that?

Even if I wanted to relax, I couldn’t.

Because of this, I had no choice but to quickly launch my body whenever I sensed the presence of an enemy in the wide expanse of air.

It’s a bit vague to express that virtue, but it must have been a moment when we were moving forward with the momentum of splitting rotten bamboo.

Chirriririllit!

“Um…?!”

It was obvious that it would not be effective if we all tried to spread our spirit widely, but it would end up as if we were hindering each other, so even my senses, who were acting as detectives on behalf of the group, were caught up with an extremely strange sensation.

I guess I should say that it felt like someone was holding my energy with their hands and fiddling with it.

It must have been a moment when even the steps he was taking stopped and he hurriedly withdrew his energy.

“Huh? Why suddenly…”

That’s it, that’s it

A strange sound was layered over Hayoung’s voice, which was puzzled by my actions.

A sound as if the floor is being scraped by something with a hard, crooked cross section.

The sound came from a place that gave me a strange and unfamiliar sensation.

And what followed after that was-

“What… I found something that looked interesting, but it disappeared?”

It was a voice.

A girl’s voice that seems innocent at first glance.

The moment that voice flowed into my ears, my head started to whimper uncontrollably.

“Huh?!”

“Sweet…!?”

“Um…!”

Was I not the only one who experienced that same feeling?

The moment I unconsciously let out a sigh as I felt like my head was pounding, similar sounds came from Hayoung and Tangcheongpung, who were located next to and behind me.

“Hello, are you… Murim people or something?”

“···.”

“Perhaps. What you showed me earlier… can you show it again?”

A girl’s voice heard from behind a thick smoke screen.

That’s why the person who appeared with a voice that sounded even more ominous was… a girl with her hair tied into pigtails and wearing tight black leather clothes.

An outfit that would only be seen at a cosplay event.

However, what caught more attention than that was the girl’s right arm.

As if someone had cut off the arm of a strangely shaped monster and forcibly glued it there, a black, ominous arm reminiscent of the devil was sprouting from the girl’s right forearm.

“Hey?”

“···.”

“Hmm, strange…? It’s not like he’s already dead…”

It must have been a moment when not only me and Hayoung, but even Cheongpung, who could be said to be a higher-ranking expert than us, remained silent due to the ominous feeling it aroused.

“Well, does it matter?”

“···?”

“If you squeeze it until it dies, it will give you a soft answerㅡ”

A sound like a light thumping of the ground resonated in my ears, and before I knew it, Hayoung’s legs were rushing towards the girl’s head, with so much energy that their legs were glowing red.

“What…?”

In the blink of an eye, the girl’s eyes widened slightly as she saw Hayoung’s leg being crushed right in front of her.

At the girl’s reaction, Hayoung’s eyes began to glow with confidence in success.

However, Hayoung’s legs stretched out like that –

chin···!

“···?!”

I couldn’t reach my destination.

Just as Hayoung’s bright red legs were about to crush the girl’s face, the black hand that grew along the girl’s right forearm twisted strangely and grabbed Hayoung’s legs to stop her.

At the moment when Hayoung’s eyes widened slightly, the person who brought Hayoung out of danger…

“No way. It’s not polite to attack while talkingㅡ”

“Snow!”

It was Cheongpung’s rear support provided at the right time.

Bleep!

“What…?!”

The word “eyes.” In response to those words, I closed my eyes tightly and hurriedly threw myself backwards, and the distinctive tinnitus of a flashbang pierced my ears.

And as soon as the tinnitus that covered my ears went away, I opened my tightly closed eyes, and what naturally came into view was the image of a girl shedding something like black tears between her gently closed eyes.

Even if she had been shedding tears of blood, it would have felt sufficiently bizarre, but there was something about the sight of the girl shedding something that was neither blood nor tears that sent shivers down the viewer’s spine.

“It hurts ㅡㅡ!”

A voice that sounds like it’s complaining that it doesn’t want to go to the hospital.

However, the aftermath it caused was by no means trivial.

At the same time that a shout that was almost like a scream came out of the girl’s mouth, the black arm that was attached to the girl’s arm trembled, expanded in size, and began spewing out pitch-black thorns in all directions.

“On the topic of thieves who arbitrarily stole our things…! dare···! How dare you…!”

“Think of it as poison and avoid it instead of blocking it!”

A girl’s cry filled with incomprehensible anger.

At the shout of Tangcheongpung, which was superimposed on top of that cry, I gave up on clashing the sword with the thorns that were flying at various parts of my body and hurriedly flew to the side, and the thorns that were densely stuck in the spot where I was standing just a moment ago turned to flaccidity and quickly moved to the surroundings. It spread.

It looks as if it is eroding the surrounding area.

It happened right after I witnessed that the corpses hit by the thorns that spread in all directions began to squirm, engulfed in something pitch-black.

‘What the fuck…’

Are you a zombie again?

No, that’s the part. Even so, what is that…

Even just looking at the cancer doesn’t mean it’s human.