episode_0079
by fnovelpia“Please make yourself at home. It’s just a regular get-together.”
“Yes, yes.”
After barely being able to piece together the two people’s conflicting information.
I accepted Draconius’ kindness with a clumsy smile.
“Whoa… .”
At least one mountain has been overcome.
It looked like he was barely able to get up on all fours.
After I put the fancy cookies on the table into my mouth.
I glanced around.
This is a place where five top-tier heroes have gathered.
The reception room of the agency Draconius belongs to.
A spacious conference table was set with high-quality refreshments, and the heroes were freely eating and chatting.
“Is this a frequent meeting?”
“Huh? Oh, what.”
When I asked Si-eun, who was hesitating next to me, she nodded stiffly.
“If there are 5 people in the top ten, that’s exactly half.”
“Those guys from 1st to 3rd place are so individualistic. They’ve never been here before.”
“I guess so.”
Ex-Machina is in third place, of course.
Masquerade, who is in second place, might have been different if Ruina had appeared, but she is not the type of hero who would participate in such a trivial gathering.
The same goes for the number one all-round hero, Commandments of the Thousand Miles.
He was the kind of person who would rather catch one more villain than attend a gathering like this.
“So here we’ll just say hello and talk and that’s it?”
“Should I say hello? Sharing information about each area? Cooperation on business projects or event collaboration? Something like that?”
“Just hearing it makes me really not want to participate, but here… … .”
It seems like the story about dealing with villains, which are the basis of a hero, is rather taking a backseat.
I’m sure it’s not a mistake.
“That’s why people who aren’t interested in such things don’t participate. I also try not to participate as much as possible.”
“I don’t think you’ll ever come to a place with such complicated sounds.”
“Hey, Mr. Jo Seong-hoon. Even though I look like this, I’m a hero who knows a thing or two about business, right?”
“Sorry, sorry. It seems like only yesterday that I was taking care of Han Si-eun, but she’s already grown this much.”
I was about to caress her head like I used to do with Ruina when I suddenly stopped.
I almost got into trouble.
If Ruina had been watching, wouldn’t a scene have almost turned into a mess?
I already have a girl named Ruina.
And at some point, Si-eun also met a man named Yoo Kyung-tae.
No matter how close they were, it’s still a relationship between a man and a woman.
I guess I have to be careful now… … .
“Over there.”
“Come to think of it.”
Si-eun and I opened our mouths at the same time, then suddenly stopped talking.
“Well, talk first.”
Si-eun quickly struck the player.
“… … Well, I was just curious. I wondered if you and Kyungtae were doing well.”
“Huh? Oh, yeah. I’m doing well.”
Si-eun blushed slightly and turned her shoulder slightly.
I always thought you were just a talkative person.
There will come a day when I feel a feminine vibe from her.
After a while, Si-eun raised her left hand towards me.
“Oh. Couple?”
Her ring finger had a ring on it, just like mine.
The two of them seemed to be getting along really well, so my bad mood was starting to get better.
Especially since I owe Gyeongtae something, I really wanted him to be happy.
I never thought I’d find happiness like this.
I nodded to Kyungtae, who was on my mind, and he gave me a thumbs up.
“Seonghoon, how are you and Yuri these days?”
“We’re doing well like any other day.”
“That’s it?”
“What else is there…?”
“When Yuri-ssi sees me, she glares at me so much. To be honest, I still feel a bit burdened… … .”
It seemed like Si-eun still couldn’t forget what happened that day.
The villain attack incident that left me hospitalized for a while due to my own complacency.
Come to think of it, it’s already been more than two weeks since that incident.
I thought that time really flies.
“I told you well. You might keep your distance, but you won’t openly glare at me or anything.”
“Oh, really? Then that’s really fortunate… … .”
Si-eun smiled stiffly and brushed her chest away.
It was while we were exchanging such trivial greetings.
“What are you guys talking about? Can I join in?”
Hoohoohoo. A mysterious woman approached me, smiling with her mouth covered.
It was extreme glacier.
“Oh, hello… … .”
Just as she came closer, I could feel the chill in my body.
A strangely different feeling from the cool feeling I felt from Ruina.
This was the typical cold air that a hero with the ability to handle extreme cold would definitely have.
“Nothing special, sis. Just a quick word of hello and a bit of everything.”
“Woohoohoo. Blaze, I thought you were talking quite a bit since you came back after such a long time. You must have a lot to talk about.”
“Isn’t this how he usually feels…?”
“Yes. So to speak, very──.”
“Stop stop stop! You don’t have to say anything!?”
As Glacia was about to answer with a bright smile, Si-eun blocked her with her whole body.
“Uh-huh-huh. I should hold back on my words.”
Glacia covered her mouth again with a sly smile.
As expected, it was a heroic gesture with a feminine and old-fashioned leisurely attitude, worthy of a hero ranked 4th in the hero rankings.
Excluding Ex Machina, whose gender is unknown, she would be the most popular of the top 10 female heroes.
“So… … .”
Soon, Glacia’s bright smile looked straight at me.
“What kind of hero are you?”
“Oh. Yeah, yeah. I was curious too. Glacia-sister is the first to strike.”
“That’s good timing. I wanted to see the power of the nullifying hero firsthand.”
Soon, the ones ranked 6th and 8th were Rackete and Brachyum.
The participants of this gathering, which had been torn apart for a while, gathered around me again.
Thanks to that, the tension that had dropped slightly while talking to Si-eun was rising again.
“Hahaha. Don’t put too much pressure on the handler.”
“Huh? Really? Was it a burden?”
Yes, it’s really burdensome… … .
I wanted to spit on Rakete right away, who was asking Draconius about something so trivial.
“But I also really want to see the handler invalidation at least once.”
Draconius, you too… … .
“It’s not a great ability. But it’s also a great ability. Show me, Seonghun.”
During my time at the Academy, Si-eun, who had benefited the most from my abilities, twirled her hair with her fingers and blurted out a word.
okay…….
I feel a little less nervous because they laid out the plan so openly.
I took small breaths to demonstrate my meager abilities.
“Okay, then I’ll show you.”
And then quietly.
He ran his fingers gently over Rakete’s forearm.
“I showed you… … .”
The ability was activated without a doubt.
Everyone except Blaze tilted their heads at my words.
It was a natural reaction since there had been no change whatsoever.
But soon,
“Huh, huh? Huh? I feel like my abilities are blocked by something?”
Rackete, who had received my invalidation, twisted her whole body in all directions and expressed her doubts.
“Ji, is this really not using my abilities!?”
Rackete, who had been flying like a rocket, as her nickname suggests, with powerful jets shooting out from her entire body, showed a very bewildered expression.
“Really? Then, me too?”
Then, suddenly, Brachyum approached.
Likewise, he gently touched his voluminous arm.
Okay then.
“Ohhh… … .”
Like a deflated balloon, Brachyum’s arms were gradually shrinking.
“As Draconius said, you really have great abilities.”
Glacia’s expression, which had been brightly smiling the whole time, had become quite serious.
“Is the ability triggered with both hands?”
“Yes, yes.”
“How long does it last?”
“Is it around 3 minutes… … .”
“Up to 3 minutes with both hands on the trigger… ….”
Glacia seemed to be thinking deeply about something.
More than anything, I feel like I’m being interrogated right now…
“No matter what I do, it doesn’t get any better. When we went to the academy together, he was never a hero.”
“Oh my. Is that so?”
At Si-eun’s words that were needlessly bringing up a painful past, Glacia covered her mouth and opened her eyes wide.
“So that’s why we didn’t know about it until now, even though you had such great abilities.”
Everyone nodded at Draconius’s next words.
“It is certainly an amazing ability, but it comes with significant limitations in actual combat.”
Finally, Glacia’s evaluation, which seemed to have finished thinking, was relayed.
It was the exact same assessment I had heard countless times at the Academy.
“That’s right. It’s too restrictive to deal with crazy guys like Ruina.”
“It would have been perfect if the activation trigger was something like gaze.”
The evaluations of the heroes that came out soon were also things I had heard a lot.
I’ve heard it so many times that I wish I had been more specific about my gaze.
By the way, Ruina is crazy… … .
First of all, aside from the fact that he wasn’t a bastard, I held back the words that he was actually a very cute and kind person.
“I need to go to the bathroom for a minute… … .”
“Have a nice day. When you get out, go down the hallway on the right.”
He nodded to Draconius’ kindness and slipped out between the heroes.
A deserted hallway.
I let out a small sigh.
“In the end, the same treatment is given to the field heroes… … .”
To be honest, it’s not like I had no expectations at all.
But still.
When I heard that it wasn’t that great in real life, I felt a bit of a sense of loss.
“Should I report it?”
I was just about to take out my cell phone to report to Team Leader Jang Se-hee that this was just a trivial story.
“Are you the great hero Draconius met!!”
“Huh?”
Suddenly, a loud, distorted voice rang out from the end of the hallway.
An unidentified hero wearing a white rider suit and an angular mask helmet.
Ruina’s vicious stalker and nemesis.
The Masked Hero, Masquerade of the Holy Light, stood with his legs spread wide in a dignified posture.
0 Comments