episode_0011

“Gasp, ugh…!”

Have you ever run this fast in your past or present life? Not even when you took the physical test in the military.

My extreme survival instinct was screaming at me to never look back, and even though my body was too tired to run, my head was screaming at me to never stop.

A truly all-out sprint.

My lungs were so sore that I couldn’t breathe, my vision was so blurry that I couldn’t even see the road in front of me, and I had to run so hard before I could stop.

“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh, ugh… .”

Of course, not by my own will but against someone else’s will.

A woman dressed in ash from head to toe was suddenly standing in front of me, looking at me.

‘Oh, that’s ridiculous… .’

You ran away so quickly, how did you appear before my eyes?

“… … .”

“Uh, Uh… Uh, what do you want…?”

But since he looks like a person, I guess we can have a conversation. I opened my trembling lips and spoke.

“… … .”

Of course, there was no answer, and only the eyes reflecting the moonlight that had risen high in the sky quietly looked at me.

Can you escape?

‘Absolutely not.’

Just running up until now was hard enough to kill me, but running with my back turned to that weirdo? That was impossible. It was obvious I would be caught in an instant.

“I, I, I don’t have any money… I don’t have anything else… .”

No matter where I looked, there was no sign that she was after me. If I had to be picky, there was one thing…

‘I don’t like that.’

I hated it so much that I thought it would be better to just die. I had already given my body away countless times, but it wasn’t a body I would throw away to the point of giving it to a monster like this.

‘Uh, how… .’

I have to. The images of Ju Ha Na and Seong Ha Neul, who were both dying, flashed before my eyes. I couldn’t even beat those two, so is there anything I can do?

“… … .”

The stranger approached me with a creepy smile.

“Oh, don’t come… Ugh!”

I tried to take a step back, but my trembling steps caused my feet to get tangled and I ended up falling.

“Go, go, go, I said… .”

Of course, there was no way she would listen to me, and at the very moment when her cold, chilling hand was about to touch my head.

KWAAANG—!!!!!

“Do-yoon!!!”

“…in?”

There was a sudden explosion, followed by a voice calling out to me urgently.

I opened my eyes, which had been tightly shut, and looked at the shadow that was blocking my path.

‘Oh, one…?’

They were clearly lying there on the verge of death. How did they get here?

“Ugh, ugh… Are you okay?”

“Uh, how…?”

In response to my question, Joo Ha Na just smiled and said nothing.

“How dare you aim at Doyoon?”

Joo Ha Na glared at the intruder as if she was furious, and soon began to gain momentum.

Shadows began to boil and take shape in the surrounding area.

Knights with thick armor and spears surrounded me as if they were guarding me, and above them was a transparent wall.

“Huh, are you okay?”

Then, Seong Ha-neul arrived and asked me while brushing back his blood-soaked hair, and instead of answering, I hastily nodded.

“Yeah, our Doyoon shouldn’t get hurt… I’ll train that bitch. Rest.”

“…Yeah.”

Exactly. As soon as Sung Ha Neul snapped his fingers, the air shattered. From the cracks, which looked like shards of shattered glass, knights in pure white, different from the pitch-black knights of Ju Ha Na, slowly began to appear.

“You are the spear, I am the shield.”

“Yeah.”

Seong Ha-neul, who responded calmly to Joo Ha-na’s words, lowered his hand from above to below as if giving an order to charge.

“Take care of it.”

White waves began to wash over the intruders.

“Ah… .”

Was it because he was sure he had won, or was it because he was relaxed?

I lost consciousness with a strange sense of comfort.

…How many times have I fainted?

***

“……Ugh!”

The first feeling I had when I opened my eyes was fear. The fear that at any moment, that woman might come and grab me with her eyes blazing.

‘If only one of the two had been next to me…’

No, what am I thinking? I shook my head and tried to shake off the distracting thoughts.

“That, but still… .”

It would be safe, but once I raised my head, I couldn’t stop. It was definitely that scary and difficult just a week ago.

I was so anxious that I almost went crazy when you weren’t around.

“…Should I call you?”

A week ago, on the day we all entered the gate together, I got angry and barely managed to escape from some unknown assailant.

Joo Ha Na and Sung Ha Neul said they were going to the hospital for a short while to receive treatment. They told me to call them if anything happened and apologized for being so harsh to them last time.

At the time, I thought it was okay. I thought it would be okay if I just hid in the lab and at home for a while.

Every time I walked down the street and got stares, every time a delivery woman glanced at me, every time I made eye contact with a drunk woman as I was looking out the window late at night.

Every time, I had to tremble in fear, because I had already experienced something like that once.

“Oh, no. Where did you get this free time… .”

I’ve done a lot of experiments so far and have succeeded in producing decent results.

This is an achievement I would never have been able to achieve if those two had stayed by my side. Thinking about it, my desire to call them dropped.

Surely nothing bad could happen. Surely something like that would never happen again.

If I just be a little more careful, if I just take care of myself a little more…

“…What is this?”

And that thought disappeared as soon as I stumbled upon my photo on the Internet.

[Hey, who is this?]

He’s a man you sometimes see in Hanul Awakening City, and every time you see him, he’s walking around without a woman. Doesn’t the Special Act on Population Increase apply to male Awakened people as well? There’s no way no one has touched him.

-What is it? Should we go and try it?

-If you’re not here, I can do it.

-Where is Hanul? I’m in a hurry.

It’s Jeju Island

You fucking bitch

“Oh, no… .”

At best, only my face and where I live are vaguely known on the Internet, but not exactly.

But the fact that even that information was known, that someone had secretly taken a picture of my face, already made me tremble in fear.

“…Hello?”

I ended up making a phone call.

***

“See, you said you were coming?”

Seong Ha-neul burst into laughter when he saw Joo Ha-na’s cell phone vibrating.

“…It took too long.”

“So what? We’re going to live together for the next few hundred years.”

“That’s right.”

Likewise, Joo Ha Na, who was laughing, answered the phone.

“Yeah, Doyoon.”

-…hello?

“Yes, honey, that’s right.”

-… … .

There was a brief silence due to Joo Ha-na’s dry joke, but soon they heard what they wanted to hear from the other end of the phone.

-Hey, he’s not completely better yet…?

It’s a success. Joo Ha Na said in a nonchalant voice, looking up at the sky and smiling brightly.

“Yeah, no. I’m all better. Why, because I miss you?”

-…huh.

Oh, what should I do? I got wet.

Joo Ha Na got up from her seat, thinking that it might be okay to reward herself for holding back so well.

“Okay, just wait a minute. I’ll be there soon?”

-… … .

There was no answer. I thought the call had ended, so I took the phone away from my ear to check the screen.

-…Come quickly.

Thump. Do-yoon hung up the phone right away, embarrassed by what he had said. The two women lost their senses and ran out the door.

***

“When are you coming… .”

If it were now, I would have been able to welcome you with open arms. I wonder how many minutes I have been fidgeting and pacing around the house.

Suddenly–

Along with the sound of the door opening, I heard the voice I had just heard on the phone.

“We’re here.”

“Hello, Doyoon?”

“Ah…!”

Finally, the one who can keep me safe and protect me has arrived.

Before I knew it, I was running barefoot and being hugged by Juhana.

“…and.”

“Hey, what’s wrong? Come in… Huh?”

I heard voices of panic, but I paid no attention.

“Why, why… .”

Now you’re here. You’re the master. Then shouldn’t you stay by my side? You’ve left me alone and gone away for so long. You’re disqualified as master.

It was scary outside, but I was even more scared on the boat because I was going to go alone. If it was going to be like this, I should have just taken her to the hospital with me. I would have taken good care of her.

therefore.

“Don’t go anywhere now… .”

Could it be that the extreme vigilance that had been going on for so long had suddenly eased, or was it because both my body and mind had already allowed it once?

I ended up saying things I would never have said in my usual state without thinking twice.

“P.I., if you need it… I’ll do it for you.”

Perhaps those words were the trigger. Eventually, Joo Ha Na’s eyes rolled back and she hugged me tightly and started rolling around on the floor.

“Ah, crazy bitch… Go to bed and do it!”

Although Seong Ha-neul was nagging him, he himself was seen simply taking off the clothes he was wearing.

“Hey, if I do it like this… will it work?”

After a brief commotion, I took off all the clothes on my body and stood in front of the camera, quietly recalling the lines that Joo Ha Na had told me earlier.

“Yeah, if you read it as it is, I won’t be able to touch you anymore.”

“Okay… .”

It’s embarrassing, but for safety’s sake.

He made a V with both hands and put them on his face, smiled, and opened his mouth.

“I, I, Sado Yoon… will do my best to make Master Juhana and Master Seonghaneul pregnant according to the Special Act on Population Increase… and I will not create another master without their permission…♥”

“Right. What should I do now?”

Before I knew it, Joo Ha Na and Seong Ha Neul were standing next to me. I slowly knelt down and lowered my eyes to their level.

“side♥ side♥”

He turned his head left and right and kissed her once. A sweet, fragrant liquid dripped onto the tip of his lips and then fell away.

“Okay, that’s it.”

“Good job.”

“Hehehe… .”

Joo Ha Na, who had turned off the camera, hugged me with a flushed face.

“Should we start the show now?”

“…Yeah.”

It was over. I couldn’t refuse it or push it away any longer.

They protect me, and I make them happy.

Because that was a promise between us.