Chapter 85 An Ex-Girlfriend’s Resolution

I quickly brought Yoo Eun-ha to the entrance of Reytana’s gate.

“Everyone, I brought someone.”
And I could see Reytana and Narin waiting for me.

An unprecedented gate that appeared in Seoul.

The party to clear that gate was complete.

“Shall we go in now?”

Now all that’s left is clearing it.

Since we’re probably the only ones who can clear this gate.

So I was about to take everyone into the gate but.

“Umm… Master.”

“Hero-nim…?”

Seems Narin and Reytana’s gazes looking at me and Eun-ha are a bit strange.

“What’s wrong?”

Why are you looking at me with those eyes?

You don’t like the party member?

Though she has a bad personality, where could you find a better party member than her.

I don’t understand why these two are looking at me like this.

“Master, isn’t that Yoo Eun-ha?”

“Yeah. She is. Why?”

“Then she’s your ex-girlfriend, right?”

“Yeah. So what?”

“… Well… is it okay to enter the gate with your ex-girlfriend?”

“Yeah. I don’t particularly mind.”

Narin started asking me with a dubious expression.

Hmm… well, hearing Narin’s words, I understand to some extent.

It’s not like I’m on good terms with my ex-girlfriend, and honestly going together like this might be a bit awkward.

“This isn’t the time to worry about such things.”

But well, we just need to go about it professionally and business-like.

“Th-That’s true.”

“Then it’s fine. Let’s go quickly.”

So I took the four people into the gate.

And several hours later.

We came out of the massive gate.

Of course, in a state of perfect clearance.

“Weaker than I thought?”

I couldn’t help but tilt my head.

From what I heard from Reytana, the Nephilim were supposed to be very strong beings.

I heard each one activates tremendous abilities.

Moreover, because all their abilities are connected.

I heard catching Nephilim requires sacrifices.

But they were much weaker than expected.

Thanks to that we came out without a single injury, but something feels off.

“Umm… Hero-nim. I think that… I heard there were supposed to be 3 Nephilim, but there were only 2.”

“Why were there only two?”

“Hmm… seems someone not only disturbed the Nephilim gate, but cleared it?”

“Wow… they caught a Nephilim alone?”

“Seems like it.”

At first I wondered what kind of person would recklessly disturb the Nephilim gate.

But in the end it worked out really well.

I’m very grateful to the person who cleared the Nephilim gate.

Who could it be? I must thank them if I meet them later.

“It’s really over now, right?”

“Yes, Hero-nim…! Seems like it.”

“Well. That worked out.”

Anyway, though it ended somewhat anticlimactically, what’s done is done.

Honestly I’m not sure if this is right but.

If Reytana says it’s over, it must be over, right?

Now I can live without worries.

“Then let’s go have an after-party.”

Now that everything’s over, we should have some drinks.

Though I can’t taste alcohol at all, it’s about the mood.

“Yes, Hero-nim..!”

“Yes, Master.”

Reytana and Narin answered my words.

And stood beside me grinning.

They must have had their own struggles until now too.

“Hmm…”

As we were about to leave.

Come to think of it, she’s here too, right?

“Eun-ha. Want to come to the after-party?”

“Huh…?”

“I’m asking if you want to come to the after-party.”

“Can I come too?”

“Yeah. You can come. You contributed too.”

This gate was cleared by four people after all.

So Eun-ha’s contributions can be considered significant too.

Of course it would be right to take her to the after-party.

“You don’t have to come if you don’t want to.”

Though I’m not particularly planning to force her.

Well, if she has plans or needs to do something else, I thought she could refuse but…

“Ah… no. I don’t have plans…! I’ll go. Let me go.”

Fortunately seems I don’t need to worry about that.

With an expression like a child before going to an amusement park, Eun-ha.

“Okay. Let’s go together.”

I headed to the bar taking Eun-ha along too.

Time passed at the after-party.

Quite a lot of alcohol had been consumed.

Of course, I wasn’t drunk at all but.

“Hehehe… Master. I love you.”

“Hero-nim. I love youuu.”

Reytana and Narin both seemed quite drunk.

They can’t even think straight now, half-collapsed and sleeping beside me, making me realize it’s about time to end the after-party.

“…”

In contrast, Eun-ha showed no signs of being drunk.

She just silently sipped her drinks at the after-party watching.

As I always feel, she seems to be a woman really strong with alcohol.

“Master… let’s go to a motel quickly.. hehe.”

“Hehe… Hero-nim. Let’s go. Let’s go quickly.”

Anyway, saying again, seems they can’t drink anymore now.

Narin started pleading beside me.

Reytana also started pleading not to lose out.

“Okay. Let’s go now.”

Honestly it was a bit embarrassing since we weren’t alone and Eun-ha was right in front of us.

I sighed and tried to get up from my seat.

“Eun-ha. You worked hard today. Thanks.”

Supporting the two people, I turned to look at Eun-ha and said.

Thanks are thanks after all.

And after saying goodbye, I turned my head again to head to the motel but.

“Um… Si-woo.”

Eun-ha called me.

She had an expression like she had something to say.

“Hm? What?”

“…”

“Are you… going to the motel?”

“Well… yeah I am.”

Eun-ha spoke about the motel as if embarrassed.

And I also felt awkward because of that.

But why is she asking about this?

“Um… it’s been a while… you know. Si-woo.”

“Yeah?”

“Can… can I come too?”

“…”

And I heard very unexpected words.

Honestly I wonder if I heard correctly even now?

Though I had such thoughts, my mind that never gets drunk was too clear so it was unmistakable.

“No, that’s a bit.”

I naturally refused.

Going to a motel with an ex-girlfriend…

Of course, we’ve already seen everything of each other, but even so, going to a motel with 3 people isn’t…

Somehow it felt embarrassing.

“I… I see…”

And seems it was the same for Eun-ha too.

Eun-ha awkwardly sipped her drink again.

“Master… let’s go to the motel. Quickly…! Please ravish me.”

“Hehehe.. Hero-nim. Let’s go quiiickly. I’m good at sex too.”

Meanwhile, the two started urging as if they couldn’t wait, with half-lidded eyes.

Seems it’s really time to go now.

“You drink moderately and go home too. Then I’m going.”

I told Eun-ha to get home safely, then left the establishment.

And entered the motel with the two people.

After Si-woo, Reytana, and Narin left the establishment.

Eun-ha also left the establishment right away.

And crouched behind the motel where the three people entered.

“Haah… haah…”

And used her abilities to watch the three people.

The three people looking happy having physical relations.

Watching such three people, Eun-ha could only breathe roughly.

“Hng…”

Eun-ha also enjoys pleasure along with the three people but.

Her heart was too empty.

Because Si-woo wasn’t there.

“I’m… really pathetic.”

And after the pleasure, self-loathing flooded in.

Just following three people and doing this behind a motel. It was too pathetic.

“Haah…”

And after the patheticness, regret inevitably followed.

If she had known she would be this pathetic she wouldn’t have dumped Si-woo…

Why did she dump Si-woo whom she liked so much?

She became so resentful of her past self.

Her past self was arrogant and too haughty.

Not knowing gratitude, she dumped Si-woo who had devoted himself to her.

And didn’t even apologize on top of that.

Because of that mere pride…

“… Am I any different now?”

Come to think of it, that’s the same even now.

Not apologizing.

Not apologizing even after hurting Si-woo is the same even now.

“Just what kind of woman am I?”

Realizing this fact now, self-loathing flooded in again.

Even she couldn’t understand what she was doing.

She dumped Si-woo but likes Si-woo.

She has strong pride, but ends up clinging like this.

Knowing she did wrong but not even apologizing…

Her very existence itself was just a mass of contradictions.

“… Let’s just… put down pride and such…”

She was too much of a mass of contradictions.

A mass of contradictions not properly knowing what she wants to do, needs to do, can do.

And what created those contradictions was Si-woo.

“Let’s just… put it down. Really now…”

Therefore Eun-ha resolved.

To put down everything.

To put down the pride she had kept her whole life.

“I can’t live without Si-woo…”

The pride that had been her everything.

But that pride was nothing in front of the precious person named Si-woo.

Though pride had been everything to Eun-ha, in the end it wasn’t more precious than a single existence.

It wasn’t more precious than the existence of her ex-boyfriend Si-woo.

Though she realized it too late, she had no choice but to realize it too clearly.

“Tomorrow… let’s go apologize.”

Therefore Eun-ha resolved.

To apologize to Si-woo tomorrow.

To really apologize that she had done wrong…

“Will he… forgive me…?”

Though she doesn’t know if he’ll forgive her…

Eun-ha resolved to say the words she had held in her heart.