episode_0102

Lian trembled her pupils.

‘Uh, what should I do now?’

The cough had stopped, but she couldn’t lift her head and continued to cough softly. Rolling her eyes, she urgently began searching for a hole to survive.

‘I need to get out of here quickly. Otherwise, I might die while bleeding profusely from my nose!’

The body of the beautiful woman had enough power to send a man loved by unicorns to heaven.

Falling with a nosebleed and a happy face, the scene of the soul leaving the body was one of the incidents that occasionally occurred in the comedy world.

Thinking about ‘that scene’ in her mind, Lian felt her nose twitching.

‘I might really die..!’

Experiencing a fear of death like never before, Lian’s body began to tremble uncontrollably.

In the comedy world, the trembling might have elicited a simple reaction like “Huh? Why is Lian shaking so much?” But to the people here, it looked entirely different.

“Oh, brother!”

“Darn it! Is this a curse?”

Lian’s convulsing figure did not look normal to anyone.

As Lian convulsed as if having a seizure, Lily and Nero tightly held her.

In cases of sudden seizures, many unintentionally choked themselves or hurt themselves by swinging their fists uncontrollably. Therefore, Nero and Lily forcefully subdued Lian.

Lian, who was just trembling out of anxiety, was easily overpowered. The problem was that not only Lily and Nero were the ones subduing her, but Noah was also there.

“Lian, are you okay?”

“Gasp..”

As Noah approached and pressed her shoulders firmly, the trembling stopped. Lian reflexively lifted her head and found herself trapped in Noah’s beautiful eyes.

‘Oh, goodness… A, a good smell.’

Whether it was because she had recently showered or simply because Noah’s scent was pleasant, as Noah approached, a floral fragrance wafted through the air.

Cold sweat began to form on Lian’s face. The atmosphere grew more serious.

“This won’t do! Let’s lay her down first!”

In response to Lily’s firm voice, Nero quickly complied. Lian was swiftly laid on the bed and covered with a blanket. Here, Lian faced a new problem.

“Ugh, ack…! N-Noah’s scent is too overwhelming!”

Since Lian was lying where Noah usually slept, it felt like her scent enveloped Lian. She bit her lips, feeling like she might involuntarily sniff the lingering scent.

Was it due to her desperate will that she ended up biting her lips?

Blood started to trickle from her lips.

“Lily! My brother is bleeding…!”

“Just wait a moment; I’ll somehow use the new magic tool we acquired…”

The three thought that Lian had started to vomit blood again and chaos ensued.

“I’ll go fetch another healer right away!”

“Oh, the newcomer, that person called Mucan?! Yes, that person might know the cause!”

Mucan was someone who, during the attack of the Four Kings on the external main base, did not fear the monsters rushing in and made efforts to treat as many people as possible.

Thanks to her noble efforts, quite a few lives could be saved.

Mucan, who had worked almost like a half-slave in another organization, was a highly experienced healer, so she might be able to accurately assess Lian’s condition.

Noah hurriedly ran out to bring Mucan, while Lily tried to diagnose Lian with a magic tool she had never seen before. At that moment.

Suddenly!

“Huh?”

“Brother?”

Lian abruptly sat up from the bed, then leaped out of the bed, or rather, out of the room.

“What’s going on?”

“Ri, Ri-an hyung! Where did he go with that body?!”

Nero, who quickly regained his senses, rushed out of the room following Ri-an belatedly. By the time Nero stepped outside, Ri-an had already disappeared.

“Huh? Huh? Hyung? Where are you, hyung?”

Running so fast that his legs were barely visible, Ri-an vanished almost like teleporting, typical of residents in a comedic world fleeing at breakneck speed.

Not long after, Noah brought Mu-kan halfway up, but Ri-an had already disappeared.

The main building had quite a few empty rooms due to a shortage of officers compared to the building’s size. Ri-an was leaning against a wall in one of the rooms where people usually didn’t frequent.

Looking at the chairs and tables piled around, it seemed like a storage area. The place was poorly maintained, with a thin layer of dust settled everywhere.

In a severe mental shock, Ri-an couldn’t grasp the surrounding situation.

“Ugh…”

Ri-an let out a small groan.

Thud!

He hit his forehead against the wall. It wasn’t particularly painful, but repeating the act could drive away the demons trying to occupy his mind.

Thud! Thwack! Thud!

Repeatedly banging his head against the wall made his forehead turn red. A drop of blood trickled down from a slightly grazed spot on his skin, flowing over his face.

Just as a punch to the face turns into a black eye, hitting his forehead against the wall made a drop of blood flow artistically over his face.

This was one of the many laws of the comedic world. Hence, Ri-an didn’t pay much attention to it.

What mattered to Ri-an was the chaotic state of his mind. If visually represented…

“Heart! Heart! Heart!”

Mini Ri-ans in his mind were cheering, holding banners. Occasionally, voices saying, “Who do you think you are!” could be heard. Long-starved instincts were causing a riot.

From trivial thoughts about “that memory” to imagining happily marrying Noah and having children for generations to come… Ri-an could only wrap his head around various scenes.

“Ugh…”

Before long, Ri-an sat down on the floor, feeling somewhat composed as the effect of hitting his head against the wall kicked in.

The mini Ri-ans protesting in his mind began to be dragged off to prison.

“Sigh…”

Finally, Ri-an could calmly organize his thoughts. A question he had pushed aside subtly resurfaced.

The scene he saw right before collapsing and Noah’s appearance when he woke up suddenly came to mind simultaneously.

“If… if that scene is real, then Noah’s usual appearance doesn’t make sense.”

No matter how much he tried to hide it with bandages or clothes, such a significant thing couldn’t be concealed. As this thought crossed his mind, his ears and cheeks heated up, but he persisted in his thoughts.

“It would make more sense if the scene I saw was a dream.”

However, Ri-an knew well that it wasn’t a dream. The moment he faced “that scene,” every detail was etched into his mind in milliseconds, as if someone had stretched time like taffy.

“Gah… It doesn’t make sense to be a disguise, but it also doesn’t seem like a dream.”

Questions kept arising one after another. Frustrated, Ri-an stood up abruptly from his seat and said,

“Let’s just ask directly!”

Was it because he had locked up the mini Ri-ans driven by instinct that Ri-an believed he could have a conversation with Noah when they faced each other?

“Alright, let’s first step out of the room and… oh.”

Mumbling to myself, the moment I tried to turn my body around and leave, my appearance caught my eye. I realized only then that my top was halfway undone and my shoes were not properly worn due to being so absent-minded.

To make the unconscious Lian more comfortable, it was because Nero changed her into a comfortable shirt and Lily took off her shoes and socks. Lian looked around while staring at her black-stained feet.

She began searching for something suitable to wear on her feet.

“Hmm, can’t find them. Let’s just quickly go back to Noah’s room.”

Deciding so, she headed towards the door.

Thud!

“Huh?!”

As she headed towards the door, her shoulder bumped into the protruding corner of a chair.

Creak…

The stacked chairs shook back and forth before starting to topple over. Lian fled from the cascading chairs with a pale face.

Crash! Thud, clatter!

The sound of the old chair breaking apart echoed loudly. Lian coughed incessantly due to the rising dust. Her eyes felt congested from the dust.

“Ugh… this is a mess.”

Muttering so, Lian got up from her seat.

Thunk!

At that moment, urgent footsteps could be heard from outside. Someone was rushing in response to the commotion. Thinking she needed to escape the dusty room, Lian hurriedly ran towards the door.

Navigating through cluttered furniture, she accidentally kicked the corner of a table with her toe.

Thud!

“Ouch…?!”

In distant agony, Lian collapsed on the spot.

“Cough…”

Before long, blood spurted from her mouth. It was due to the fatal injury. Although the injured area was clearly her toe, pain surged through her entire body as if she had been beaten.

Lian curled forward in pain, sitting on the floor. She hurriedly covered the floor with her hand as blood spilled from her mouth.

“Oh, it’s hard to clean up blood!”

As Lian was thinking about summoning her dark magic, clutching her throbbing toe and whimpering.

Bang!

The door swung open as if it would break.

“Lian!”

Noah, with a pale face, rushed into the warehouse. The moment Lian locked eyes with Noah, she realized they wouldn’t be able to have a proper conversation today.

Lian’s eyes immediately dropped to the ground, her face turning red. It was all because of ‘that scene’ that naturally came to mind.

As she tried to subtly move her body backward, Noah swiftly approached and grabbed Lian’s shoulders.