25.NTL Fantasy

Ehyu.

 

 

Yuna sighed, saying that.

As expected, he’s reaching out with his demonic hands.

Well, it was a very obvious course of action, though.

 

 

He’ll probably pretend to think about it and then sneak over to her place around nightfall to try and take her body.

It’s all too clear.

 

 

 

“But you know. Do you really have to get married?”

“Yes?”

“That guy, whether he’s a Lloyd or a Noid, seems to have a personality that’s totally busted, and he’s not even good-looking. If you get married, you’re bound to be unhappy anyway.”

“…Still, it’s better than going to Viscount Amar.”

“True. Isn’t he balding and a pig? Ugh, the worst.”

Yu-eun shuddered, inadvertently imagining a woman who was balding and fat all over.

Just thinking about it is horrifying.

 

 

 

 

“Even if Lloyd-ssi and the knights remain, won’t you still lose if a territory war breaks out? I heard there’s a big difference in military strength.”

“Ah! That’s right. That’s what I was really curious about.”

“That’s….”

 

 

Baron Raizen lowered her head.

Certainly, even if she keeps Lloyd around under the pretext of marriage, she’ll still lose if a territory war breaks out, just like she said.

Lloyd isn’t some Sword Master, just a so-so knight under a lower-ranking noble.

 

If they’re outnumbered, it’ll probably be hard to win.

 

 

But despite that, the reason she’s keeping Lloyd around is,

 

 

 

 

“It’s probably because she’s lonely.”

“Lonely?”

“Yes. I’m the only one she has right now. Her family is all dead…and there’s no one among her retainers she can rely on. I think she needs someone to rely on somehow.”

 

 

Her expression as she spoke self-deprecatingly looked very sad.

 

This sadness of having to keep a human being who threatens her with marriage next to her, using her dire situation, just because he’s a childhood friend.

 

Her whole family is dead, and Lloyd is the only human being left among those who remain that she can rely on.

 

 

What a pathetic life.

 

 

“I know it’s a contradiction. But still, right now…I think I want to be like this, even if it’s just like this.”

“I see.”

 

 

How pitiful.

Yu-eun muttered.

 

 

There’s no way she couldn’t have heard that, but Baron Raizen didn’t say anything else.

Rather, she reversed her expression and,

 

 

“Still, you’re going to stay for a few days, right?”

 

She asked brightly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+++

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While Yu-eun and Yuna were stranded in another world, Earth was in chaos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fact that Barkanah, who was thought to be the appearance of an A-class dungeon, was actually an alien,

 

The fact that the resulting casualties exceeded 400,000,

 

 

The fact that there was a disaster that the human army couldn’t handle,

 

 

The fact that the adventurer force wasn’t of much help either,

 

 

The fact that only Yu-eun and his party inflicted effective damage,

 

The fact that Yu-eun was missing.

 

 

 

 

Etc. etc. etc.

 

 

 

 

It’s because events that would be global issues even if only one of them happened were occurring one after another.

 

 

Thanks to this, Sora, who can be said to be the highest priority commander of Gung right now, is about to have her head explode.

 

Of course, Seo-hyun and Eun-joo are in charge of the actual work, but Sora has been receiving numerous inquiries regarding her performance in the Incheon incident and the disappearance of Yu-eun and Yuna, so she hasn’t been able to rest for a single moment.

 

 

 

“Ah. Where the hell are they?”

 

It’s already been three weeks.

Some are saying that they didn’t just go missing, but died in this incident, and others are spreading various conspiracy theories.

 

 

Thanks to this, the Harem Group’s stock price is hitting rock bottom every day.

 

 

The only good thing is that the situation of Gung itself is not that bad because there was a rising star called ‘Sora’.

 

 

 

 

“We’re using various methods, but…that bitch doesn’t seem to want to use fire magic at all.”

“It’s not that she doesn’t want to, it’s that she just doesn’t know how, right?”

 

 

Sora, who answered nervously to Seo-hyun’s report, covered her head.

 

“Surely, I won’t not be able to see them like this?”

“That’s not going to happen. Heuk-heuk and Ah-heuk are also searching with all their might.”

 

 

Ironically, human science is developing like crazy because of this.

No, to be exact, it’s Gung’s technology.

 

 

When Yu-eun was around, he had no interest in such productive work, so he didn’t bring or develop the technology that Heuk-heuk possessed, but after Yu-eun and Yuna went missing, they started running Heuk-heuk’s functions at full capacity to find them, so they naturally came to possess various technologies.

 

 

“And apart from that, the multi-dimensional explorer and dimension gate are scheduled to be completed within three months. However, it costs a lot of money…”

“Three months….”

 

 

She sighed deeply at the distant time.

She feels like she’s going crazy just from not seeing them until now, but to think she won’t be able to see them for more than three months in the future.

 

Even those three months are just the period for the facilities to be built, not the period for Yu-eun to be found.

It may take years, or in the worst case, they may have fallen into an irresistible place like a black hole, as Joan of Arc said, and already died.

 

 

“If Master-nim had passed away, there would have been some kind of message to Ah-heuk or Heuk-heuk. But there’s no sign of that, so don’t worry.”

“….”

 

 

What is that woman thinking about to be so positive?

Sora looked at Seo-hyun with new and surprising eyes.

 

 

In fact, one of the people she was most worried about because of this incident was Seo-hyun, because considering the way she had seen her so far, she was more of a Yu-eun fanatic than Sora or Yuna.

 

 

But what do you know.

She quickly came to her senses and showed a move to find Yu-eun step by step, while also showing efforts to conduct efficient diplomacy with the world.

 

 

Thanks to this, some areas of Incheon that had collapsed, some areas of Seoul including Gangnam, and even the landed Barkanah were recognized as the Harem Gung Autonomous Region, and it was able to solidify its position as a proper nation, not a guild, including Tokyo, Japan.

 

 

 

 

In addition, she played a big role in submitting an agenda regarding massive financial support for the construction of multi-dimensional explorers and dimension gates.

 

Harem Gung had a lot of money, but because the facilities required such over-technology, there was a possibility that Gung would falter, and even if they poured everything into it, they would fail.

 

So, what she thought of was global support.

 

 

Because there was a high possibility that the world, including Korea, would be destroyed by this disaster, she put a frame on the UN such as ‘Yu-eun and Yuna who sacrificed themselves to protect the world’.

 

 

Of course, if Harem Gung openly came forward and acted, there could be a backlash, so she made an appropriate person act.

 

 

 

‘Even if he is an enemy, it is an undeniable fact that the world was saved by him, so the world must make every effort to find him. That is the proof that we are human.’

 

 

 

 

Agnes Isabella, the current head of the Dungeon Cooperation Organization.

Yu-eun would be grinding his teeth at her, but she didn’t refuse Seo-hyun’s words.

 

 

Thanks to her power, the agenda for support from Harem Gung was safely submitted.

All that’s left is to get it passed.

 

 

Seo-hyun as well as Sora are working hard for this.

 

 

 

“Is Seo-hyun-ssi okay? Without that bastard.”

“…She’s not okay. But it’s pointless to cry, so she’s just holding on.”

 

I nodded involuntarily.

Indeed. Was that what she was thinking?

 

 

“Crying is enough when all attempts have failed.”

 

 

 

 

+++

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“No.”

 

 

The most famous international organization in the world, the UN.

Even with the rise of the Dungeon Cooperation Organization, the UN’s influence was strong.

 

 

Almost all countries are members, and especially the great powers are members without a single exception.

 

 

Representatives from each country gathered for a meeting.

A meeting solely for the urgently submitted agenda.

 

There, people had a heated discussion.

 

 

China, which is exerting strong power not only in the Dungeon Cooperation Organization but also in the UN.

The representative of China continued.

 

 

“Although it is true that we received his help as a result. However, that is only a result-oriented story, and even if it weren’t, it is only limited to Korea.

The story that the military didn’t have much power is also unreliable, but even if that were the case, we could have defeated it sufficiently if we had gathered the power of the whole world.

However, it is not reasonable to discuss global support just because we overcame one such crisis.

 

 

He defeated the A-class disaster purely for his own desires, not for the world. As evidence, they are holding Barkanah, which may be the greatest discovery in human history, in their arms and not giving it out. This is proof that they are acting for their own desires.

 

 

Then, regardless of the outcome, we don’t need to take responsibility for what happened as a result of an action taken for ourselves. Why should we step in to support and compensate for an accident that occurred while doing what we wanted to do?”