Chapter 68 A Childhood Friend’s Resolution

The Narin I kidnapped.

Just as I was about to shower Sister Narin with affection because she was unexpectedly too cute, an inexplicable visitor came.
So I went to the front door to see what kind of visitor it was, and the visitor was my childhood friend Na-ri.

‘It doesn’t seem like she’s just visiting.’

Na-ri coming to our house is something that hasn’t happened in almost 7 years.

In the past, when I was 17 and expelled from Hunter High School, she used to visit occasionally.

In the past, she used to visit frequently and we went around here and there together.

But now it didn’t seem like that.

Since we’re not 17-year-old high school students anymore but now 24-year-old adults, at least she’s not just visiting or anything like that.

So I couldn’t help but be a little puzzled now that my childhood friend Na-ri has unexpectedly visited after 7 years.

“Na-ri, is something wrong?”

And there was one more thing that puzzled me.

That was the fact that Na-ri’s expression looked very serious.

So I started to worry about what was happening.

As a childhood friend, it’s natural to worry and I couldn’t help but be concerned.

“…”

Na-ri maintained silence for a while in response to my words.

And she makes an expression full of guilt while looking at the ground.

After being like that for a while, she finally opened her mouth.

“Si-woo… Actually, I have something to confess to you…”

My childhood friend showed a grave expression.

In the past, Si-woo lost his parents at the age of 17.

In a gate accident of unknown cause, he lost both his mother and father in that accident and became an orphan.

A young head of the household with only his younger sister left, that was Si-woo.

A boy who became an orphan overnight, and a boy who had to be responsible for the life of his young sister.

The life of such a boy was too gloomy.

As a result, he had to drop out of the Hunter Academy he was attending well, and from a young age, he had no choice but to take on dangerous hunter work at gates.

In this way, the boy lives his life to the fullest to protect his younger sister…

A truly gloomy story of a childhood friend…

But, for Na-ri, this story comes across a bit differently.

In fact, for Na-ri, this was a story to atone for.

‘I… They died because of me…’

The gate accident of unknown cause, Na-ri knows about that accident.

About the truth of that day…

Though it wasn’t well known to the public, how Si-woo’s parents died, the reason is related to Na-ri.

Not just a simple relation.

In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Si-woo’s parents died because of Na-ri.

Na-ri remembers the memory of that day clearly.

A gate that suddenly appeared, and the monsters flowing out of that gate.

Who saved her in that situation when the monsters were pouncing on her.

And what happened to their end…

Also, she knows very well what kind of life their children lived afterward.

‘I… should have atoned…’

For Na-ri, it was too big a trauma.

Because the childhood friend who was always bright and got along well with her, such a childhood friend’s life became hell overnight.

This was an issue where Na-ri must apologize and take responsibility for.

But, she couldn’t.

It was because of her sister, Narin.

Her sister Narin didn’t particularly try to help others.

From the beginning, with a mindset that the strong survive and the weak die, her sister didn’t want to help a mere orphan.

No matter how much Na-ri begged, it was of no use.

Rather, such humility was just exploited by having her weaknesses seized.

In the end, Na-ri couldn’t atone and couldn’t help Si-woo.

Also, Na-ri didn’t want to be hated by Si-woo.

If he finds out that it was her who caused his parents’ death.

Undoubtedly, Si-woo would hate her.

So Na-ri had no choice but to maintain distance from Si-woo.

When the childhood friend she loved so much confessed, she rejected him in tears.

She could only be sad.

Na-ri just watched from afar.

Because there was nothing she could do except watch.

Whether due to guilt or circumstances, she could never approach Si-woo.

All Na-ri could do was give up on Si-woo.

She had no choice but to give up on her love for her childhood friend, on her childhood friend’s happiness.

Certainly, there was no other way than giving up.

But…

She couldn’t give up.

Her childhood friend who had always been with her since childhood.

She absolutely couldn’t give up on the person she loved.

In fact, Na-ri didn’t want to give up on anything.

Na-ri wanted to defeat her sister.

She wanted to tell Si-woo the truth of that day, atone, and.

She wanted to confess her feelings of liking him.

She could never give up on these feelings no matter what.

Therefore…!

Na-ri decided.

That she would do everything she wanted to do…

That she would accomplish what needed to be done…

Defeating her sister, Narin.

Telling Si-woo the truth and atoning, and then.

Confessing that she had liked him all this time, Na-ri resolved to accomplish this.

Therefore…

Na-ri now came to Si-woo’s house.

Before the arduous training ahead, she wanted to pour out her feelings even a little bit…!

“I… actually have something to confess to you…”

Na-ri barely held back the tears that were welling up as she looked at Si-woo.

The truth that had to be told someday, but couldn’t be told.

The truth that had to be told courageously but couldn’t be told because she was a coward.

Na-ri made up her mind to tell that truth.

“But, it’s too early to tell you that…”

But besides telling that truth, Na-ri also wanted to atone.

For that, she had to take responsibility, and to take responsibility, she had to become stronger.

Therefore, she was too lacking now to tell that truth.

She was too weak.

“Because there’s something I must deal with…”

So she needed to become stronger.

She needed to become strong enough to take responsibility for Si-woo.

Then she absolutely had to defeat her sister Narin.

“That… opponent is too strong…”

Narin is strong.

She is the Sword Saint who is called a monster.

She knows it’s not easy to defeat such a Sword Saint.

“So, would you wait for me just a little…?”

The time to defeat Narin, she can’t guarantee when it will be.

It could be a day, a week, a month, or it might never be accomplished.

In such a situation, asking him to wait might be a very selfish thing to say.

But… even so, it couldn’t be helped.

“I… will… definitely… win…”

Na-ri told Si-woo that she would definitely win.

That she would definitely defeat her sister Narin.

That by doing so, she would definitely save Si-woo…

“I will definitely win… and come back.”

And she said she would win and come back.

She, who couldn’t be by Si-woo’s side…

She would no longer regret.

“So, just for a while… please bear with it…”

So, until that day comes someday.

Until she defeats Narin…

She hopes that Si-woo would wait just a little.

Because she will definitely defeat her and come back…

“I’m sorry…”

Lamenting her weakness, Na-ri ran away.

Si-woo seemed to be saying something, but.

She didn’t look back.

Na-ri burned with determination.

“Na-ri, what do you mean by that?”

I called out to Na-ri, trying to ask what on earth she was talking about, but.

“She’s already gone…”

Na-ri had already disappeared far away in an instant.

I couldn’t help but be quite dumbfounded right now.

‘What’s she saying? Seriously.’

I went over what Na-ri had said to me.

She has something to confess but can’t say it, and she’s asking me to wait just a little because she will definitely win?

It seemed like that’s roughly what she said.

Since she omitted all the subjects while speaking, I couldn’t understand the meaning.

It seems like there’s some circumstance, but I couldn’t know what it was.

‘Why on earth did she come?’

My childhood friend Na-ri who suddenly came.

She came with a serious expression out of the blue, and I was very tense, and if she was going to ask me for something, I was going to listen to her seriously as a childhood friend.

But now, seeing Na-ri who just said what she wanted to say and left, I wondered why she came to our house.

‘Hmm… Should I chase after her and ask?’

Honestly, with my physical abilities, I can easily catch up to Na-ri right now if I chase after her.

After all, I have the body of a Hero.

So I hesitated for a moment whether to chase after her, but.

‘Well… she’ll figure it out.’

I didn’t feel the need to chase after her.

Although her expression looked serious, my childhood friend Na-ri has been a very smart girl since before.

Moreover, she’s now a recognized S-class hunter, and I don’t think there’s anything I particularly need to help with.

So I decided not to chase after her and ask.

And.

Right now, I was also quite busy.

It was time to play happily with a cute cat on the bed.

So I closed the front door and was about to return to the bed.

“Ma… Master… I was wrong. Punishment…”

When I closed the front door and turned around, Narin was standing there with a reddened face, fumbling.

And she continued to speak, looking at the floor shyly.

“I don’t want to be punished… I’ll listen well, can’t we not do punishment…?”

It seemed the golden cat still didn’t realize her position.

Slap.

I hit the cat’s butt once.

“Kyaa..!?”

“Don’t talk back impudently and go back to the bed.”

The cat, surprised after being hit on the butt once.

“… Yes.”

Afterward, she became an obedient cat again.