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Episode.14 Her story

[Baek Harin SIDE]

I left work today without incident.

I think other office workers might envy me.

But that’s… I’m saying this because I’ve never really stayed still like a scarecrow for 8-9 hours.

An empty office.

A quiet space where you can be alone.

.. invisible sight.

Being blind is really painful.

But sometimes I look into the world.

Even though the media promotes me as a precious and unique S-class healer, there aren’t many places where I’m actually needed.

What do you do when you get paid a lot of money? I live trapped in an association.

The association consists of 51 floors.

The cold sensation when I touch the wall is very impressive.

They say our association was built with transparent glass.

This place where I am trapped is on the 51st floor.

My office is on the 50th floor.

The association president’s office is on the 49th floor.

Strange, right?

As if I were in a higher position than the president of the association…

But in reality, I feel like they are trying to exclude me.

Still, there is an ultimate advantage to where I am.

The higher the floor, the better the view at night.

Although it has no meaning to me.

But sometimes I look into the world.

It’s painful not to be able to go out when I want to.

The association does not specifically prohibit going out.

Maybe it’s because I can’t see, but my senses are really good.

So I can go out alone.

However, during the day when there are many people, it is difficult to go out due to my perceived popularity.

It’s strange that people at the association who see me once a week aren’t surprised, but people outside are not.

Some people asked for handshakes or autographs saying they were fans.

And even the most difficult requests for medical treatment.

Unless I enter the gate, I can’t use my abilities in the outside world.

Even more so in places where there are many eyes watching.

The association needs to give me permission for this.

It is said that if abilities are used in places where permission is not granted, the Hunter world will become unbalanced.

Even the sky is indifferent… When I go outside, there are so many eyes looking at me.

I can’t see people giving me that look.

But sometimes I look into the world.

Still, there is joy in my seemingly unhappy daily life.

When I go out for a night walk at dawn, the cool night breeze fills my body, even in summer.

Even though I have a good sense of humor, I often run into obstacles at night.

I felt so good about deviating like this that I lost all sense of it.

It’s okay if you hit an obstacle and it hurts, because you can use your healing ability.

Still, I am happy.

Because sometimes I look into the world.

Even without both eyes.

Now I have to turn the corner and go back to the association.

– bean!

– Shake it off.

It felt strange to have hit an obstacle.

“Ouch…”

It felt like my heart was racing.

To be exact, my heart was pounding.

“Hey… are you okay?”

“Yes, yes… it’s okay.”

I fumbled around on the floor to find the smartphone I was holding.

“Are you looking for this?”

It felt as if someone with a male voice was giving me something.

‘Is this… an ID card?’

It feels different from the black card I have.

‘Did you drop your ID too…’

“Ah, thank you… Hey, could you… I’m sorry, but I have trouble with my eyesight, so could you help me find the smartphone that fell near here?”

I thanked him.

When he heard that I had trouble with my eyesight, he asked me various questions.

I explained it lightly to him.

Crucially, the explanation is that I have not had eyeballs since I was born.

Huh.. I wasted so much time.

‘Now I have to go back soon…’

“… Have all your questions been answered by this point? I’ll go now… Ah, that… What’s your name?”

I asked him his name one last time.

“…. …. Ah… yes. My name is Siwoo Han.”

“I see.. Han Si-woo.. That’s a good name.”

Hansiura… That’s a good name.

Let’s use this guy today.

‘Individual activates sensory sharing to Han Si-woo.’

-Shuuu…

The sound of a unique skill that only the caster can hear when activated was conveyed to me as well as the sense of seeing, hearing, and touching him.

What he sees is in my head.

What he hears is in my ears.

What he touches is at my fingertips.

It was shared in three parts.

I look into the world through shared senses.

I turned my back on him and started walking toward the association, like a special agent whose mission was over.

‘Ah… my back looks like that…’

“Hey, wait a minute… What is your name?”

He stopped me.

“Is there anyone who doesn’t know me?”

“Yes?”

What.. Did you treat me kindly without knowing me?

“I thought I was pretty famous… but I still need to work harder.”

“Then… you helped me even though you didn’t know me…”

I’m still embarrassed to call him by his name.

I started walking back to the association.

All I see in my head is my backside.

I can see him staring at my ass.

But suddenly a blue window appeared in my field of vision.

And after a while, the sense sharing with him was lost.

Today, unfortunately, I have to live in a dark world again.

I have to live in a dark world again until I gather my magic power.

But it’s okay.

Because I…

You can look into the world.

But what was that blue window earlier?

**********

I had work to do in the basement of the association today.

underground parking lot?

The basement I came up from is not a parking lot or anything like that.

The basement I came up to…

– Ding~!

ah. The elevator door opens and someone is trying to get in.

I guess I’ll have to go inside a little bit.

Uh… but this gait and breathing… somehow it seems a little familiar.

It’s the same as what I felt through sensory sharing at dawn.

‘Could it be?’

“Uh.. You’re the person I met on the street yesterday, right?..”

I thought it might be someone I didn’t know, so I asked timidly and casually.

“Ah! Were you also a member of the association?”

Fortunately, I think Siwoo is right.

He said he worked in the gate processing department, and he wasn’t lying when he didn’t know my name this early in the morning.

– Ding~!

The elevator door opened and he seemed to be moving.

“Are you getting off now?”

“Yes, it was nice to meet you again.”

He quickly exited the elevator.

“You… See you again soon~”

I waved my hand and said hello to Siwoo.

It’s hard to say my name out loud yet…

‘I think I’m falling for Siwoo without even realizing it..’

.. I had such a stupid idea.

I decided to put the items I brought from the basement back to my room and return to the 4th floor where Mr. Siwoo was.

Because… I want to feel the hot gaze he sent on my body again in the early morning.

This is also quite fun, isn’t it? It’s one of the few pleasures.

As soon as I arrived on the 4th floor, I wandered around the large department.

“Oh my… this gait… this breathing… is that person in front of me, Mr. Siwoo… you?”

After wandering around for a while, I finally found Mr. Siwoo, and I was happy to see him, as if he were an oasis in the desert.

Maybe that’s why I brought out Siwoo’s name without realizing it.

‘Be ashamed…’

“I said I would meet you again soon, but I never dreamed I would meet you again so soon.”

“Yes.. I see.. Mr. Harin?”

“Hmm.. There is no need to be so stiff between us, right? I wish you could just call me by my normal name, Harin-ah~”

I think I’ll call him Siwoo too…

“Then.. Harin. Hey… I have a favor to ask…”

“Oh my.. right in a place like this..”

Lured by his boldness, I end up accepting his confession without even realizing it…

“Please explore the gate with me!”

“Yes, of course!.. Yes? What?”

what?

“Let’s go explore the gate together..”

“Ah… in the dungeon… you have quite a romantic side, you.”

Just the two of us in a dungeon…

– Tup.

Oh… Si-woo held my hand… No, I think it would be better to call him Si-woo.

I’m so embarrassed.

“Wow, so powerful..”

Mr. Siwoo’s rough hands are coveting my wrist.

It’s an unfamiliar feeling.

**********

I think I came over the gate.

“Harin, it’s so dark here that I can’t see.”

“Yes? I can’t really see in front of me.”

Mr. Siwoo asked a strange question.

“No.. isn’t there some kind of technology that brightens the future?”

“Can you please refrain from asking a question that is no different from asking a monk if he has a comb? Even if I were to be made fun of for being visually impaired, it would hurt me..”

Siwoo is really great.

“No.. I wasn’t making fun of you for being blind.”

I was so focused on holding hands with Siwoo that I couldn’t come to my senses.

You don’t even know you’re isolated in a dungeon.

If I had come in alone, I might have absorbed the magic power of the monsters here.

Still, I like it better that I came in with Siwoo.

A date with him brings me excitement every moment.

This is my first time feeling like this.

The fact that I was isolated in the dungeon alone with Siwoo made me even more excited.

I don’t want to escape, but I still have to escape.

I led him deeper and deeper into a space filled with the smell of blood.

When I told him that there was no other chance to deal with the dying boss, I picked something up from the floor.

‘rock?’

Didn’t he bring a weapon?

Or do you have no weapons?

Whatever it is… I need to buy you a weapon.

That way, they can stick together longer, so if you go to a handmade specialty store, they can stick together longer.

I think he killed the boss.

I thought he might have been hurt, so I approached him to heal him.

“You… I will heal you…”

I put my hands on Siwoo’s body to treat him.

But when I thought about it, I was embarrassed to ask him to go to Mugu branch with me.

If I strongly appealed that I would buy it for him, I would somehow be seen as a woman who thinks money is everything.

I don’t want to be seen as that kind of woman.

So, I thought he asked me to buy him some weapons using my secret ability, ‘mind manipulation’. He first tried to manipulate my mind by telling me to go to Mugu branch with him.

‘The entity activates mental manipulation on Han Si-woo.’

So I used mind manipulation.

“Ah.. I wasn’t hurt. Thank you….”

He suddenly stopped speaking.

‘Why?’

Are there any side effects of mind manipulation?

He seemed to be staring blankly into space.

Mind manipulation hasn’t been applied to him.

‘The magic power has been drained… but the precious magic power was wasted.’

I think I made a mistake.

‘Until now, I have never once failed to manipulate my mind…’

“How are you?”

“Hmm.. I’m not sure?”

I asked him how he was feeling.

I felt like his body temperature was dropping.

This time, instead of mind-manipulating him, I healed him.

I ate as soon as I got out of the gate.

I treated Siwoo with food that he doesn’t usually eat.

After eating, I linked arms with him and went to a handmade furniture store that I know well.

After failing to manipulate my mind earlier, I was depressed thinking about leaving after just eating, but Siwoo mentioned that his weapon was broken.

I didn’t miss that opportunity.

‘Maybe because we have our arms crossed, it feels like my chest is touching Siwoo’s arm..’

We came to Mugu Branch.

I ordered the most expensive weapon from my boss.

That’s right, it’s a one-handed sword. It’s not much.

When the boss came out with the goods.

When the boss called us.

As if I had been waiting, I jumped forward and immediately touched the wrapped box.

‘This is the weapon he will use in the future…’

Strangely enough, it seemed like a weak magic power was coming out, but the depth of the magic power was infinite.

I asked the owner a perfunctory question and immediately paid with a credit card.

The price is said to be 50 million won.

It doesn’t seem like much.

“But… who is the bachelor next to you? Boyfriend?”

“What?”

Ah… there was a sudden attack.

Boyfriend… It’s a good sound.

“No… I’m not your boyfriend..”

“Then who?”

“Hey… that’s…”

‘Ha… I don’t know what to say… I might not be satisfied with a title like boyfriend…?’

I’m not a pervert.

“I’m just a coworker.”

Then Siwoo said he was a co-worker.

“.. Just a colleague….”

“Haha.. Goodbye, boss!”

I don’t like it.

ah. Mr. Siwoo came out of the store with me.

“You… that weapon… why do you think I bought it?”

I’m happy even though I can’t see.

because…

“Just because it’s expensive?”

“No, you are wrong. The reason I bought that weapon is not such an ordinary reason.”

I held Siwoo’s right hand.

My two hands tightly wrapped around Siwoo’s right hand.

If only we could share a sense…

“Why did I buy a weapon that was suspicious and where it was not clear where it was obtained, rather than having it custom-made at a store that mainly sells handmade products?”

I’m OK.

“Because the energy that this weapon gives off is special.”

I am.

“Let’s do our best from now on… Going to explore the dungeon without your weapon is too reckless.”

your.

“And you.”

“Huh?”

“Please don’t lie to me from now on… I hope the only thing that deceives me is your appearance that is out of my sight…”

“Uh…”

From both eyes.

“I don’t think there is anyone in this capitalist country who wants trust without compensation.”

The world.

“Then.. I have to give you the price of trust.”

I looked into it.

“So… I’ll give you this weapon.”

‘Individual activates sensory sharing to Han Si-woo.’

-Shuuu…

“Ah.. Thank you.”

This feeling… I won’t miss it.

After that, I went to report, but I didn’t have time to pay attention because I was so focused on his senses.

I also responded enthusiastically to his answer.

I think he got a little serious when I asked him if he was a friend or a colleague.

I made him say the word ‘best friend’ out of his mouth.

I think he was referring to my eye transplant surgery.

I think he misunderstood that I was depressed after saying that.

I want to see him trying to soothe me with his restless nuances.

In my head, I can only see myself.

He seemed very concerned about my lack of vision.

Siwoo, who seemed to understand everything quickly, still doesn’t know much about something. It’s great to see how worried you are as you leave home…

But I look at the world through your eyes.

You don’t have to worry.

My Siwoo.