Chapter Index

    “Hello.”

    First, I exchanged a quick greeting. It had been so long since I last spoke to Jinyeseo that I couldn’t even guess.

    I passed out while trying to stop the witch Regulus that was possessing Yena’s body, and immediately after waking up, I went straight to find Yeon-i, but then passed out again.

    After that, I was in the ward for a long time and barely managed to return…

    “… ”

    Jinyeseo didn’t respond to my greeting. She just glared at me with her bloodshot eyes. Looking at her, her face looked pale, as if she hadn’t slept properly. Of course, she’s been very busy lately.

    “You don’t even say hello? And first, this arm… ”

    -Bang!

    Immediately, a heavy cracking sound resonated from my right ear. I glanced at it and saw a lightly dug surface. Didn’t they say that the floor of the training ground was made of composite steel to prevent damage?

    “From the description.”

    The ghostly voice urges me on again. At this point, I’m starting to get a little annoyed. I’m not the type of person to spit out everything just because someone is nagging at me. I could probably explain it to you without you having to do this.

    Well, it’s not that I don’t understand Jin Ye-seo’s feelings at all. Maybe she’s disappointed in me. The way she sees me now is probably more like a useless troublemaker.

    And that too, made my favorite senior in the world a single mother all of a sudden.

    So it’s not like I disliked Jin Ye-seo or anything. Right now, this is just a minor incident. After all, isn’t she my friend? And the same goes for her.

    Even though he’s really angry, I don’t feel any hostility at all.

    “… What if you don’t like it?”

    “Ha.”

    When I blurted that out, Jin Ye-seo let out a hollow laugh. Then she glared at me and recited coldly.

    “Then I guess I’ll have to stay in this position. Sometimes I’ll get hit by flying fists.”

    “Who said you hit me? You can’t touch a single hair on my head.”

    “Well, you never know until you try. At least I can make it so you can’t act like a man. As punishment for playing around with your lower body.”

    We exchanged provocations and received verbal responses. Every word she uttered was extremely chilling. We instinctively wanted an excuse. I wanted an excuse to relax my body that had been stiff for several days, and Jinye wanted an excuse to cool her heated head.

    The explanation came later. I could tell without even saying it. She and I already knew each other well. So Jinyeseo must have been waiting here too.

    Because he clearly knew I was coming.

    There was no need to say anything more. Jin Ye-seo, with her empty eyes, slammed her fist down. What she was aiming for was not the floor of the training hall, but clearly between my eyebrows.

    -Bang!

    He turned his upper body just in time to avoid the punch. The air shook with the belated blast. He spun his lower body around and escaped Jin Ye-seo’s restraints. Then he immediately turned around and broke Jin Ye-seo’s shoulder, crushing her.

    Our positions were reversed in an instant.

    “Not yet for me. So now… ”

    -Whew!

    Jin Ye-seo flexibly twisted her arms without saying a word and escaped the restraints. Then she jumped up and strangled my neck with both legs, using him as a support to lift her body into the air. The two soft touches on the back of my head were more burdensome than the suffocating feeling of the tight neck.

    “Whew. Got it again?”

    Jin Ye-seo, standing behind me, moves her lips as if whispering. Her voice conveyed a sense of satisfaction that she had completely captured me.

    “It’s a combination you can never escape once you get caught. You yourself taught me. How’s it? It feels like being hit by a technique you taught yourself.”

    “… Awesome.”

    The compliments were not empty words. I had no idea that her fighting skills had already reached this level. It took me months to reach this level. I suffered in the arms of my older sisters hundreds of times.

    Don’t they stroke your hair while you’re tied up, blow air into your ears, or squeeze your body so tightly that it makes you feel uncomfortable?

    When I think of the humiliations I suffered back then, my hands still tremble. Jin Ye-seo managed to achieve the level I had achieved after all that suffering in just a few weeks.

    It’s definitely an undeniable talent.

    “Hmm… ”

    Jin Ye-seo lets out a light nasal sound after hearing the compliment. Perhaps she feels a little better. Separately, the pressure on her neck is getting stronger. Her breathing is getting harder and her vision is blurring.

    If the arrest warrants are not lifted, Jin Ye-seo’s victory will be a foregone conclusion.

    If you can’t solve it.

    “Even if you say that, I won’t release you from your restraints. Just pass out quietly like this.”

    Jin Ye-seo said, squeezing me even harder.

    “Don’t worry. I’ll be by your side to protect you. But everything that happens in the meantime is your fault. Do you understand? It’s all your fault… Oops! ”

    She took advantage of the early victory to twist her joints and pull herself out. Her entire body screamed as her joints cracked. I was a little curious about what would happen next. Everything that happened in between? She was trying to draw on my face to vent her anger while I was unconscious.

    “Phew.”

    My dislocated shoulder was dangling because I had twisted it out of my way. I put it back in without blinking an eye. Jin Ye-seo looked at me with a look of anger and ground her teeth.

    She approached me again, turned around, and stretched out her leg. It looked like she was going to hit my chin. Instead of kicking my chin, her long leg, like a crane, just swept past my nose.

    As soon as he avoided the attack, he closed the distance and dug into Jin Ye-seo’s arms. His tightly clenched fist was clearly aimed at the area below her navel. Jin Ye-seo laughed and shouted at the sight.

    “I knew it! Anyway, I thought someone would call me a pervert…!”

    And Jin Ye-seo twisted her body as if she had expected it. Of course, this was also what I was aiming for. She must have known my favorite striking technique. I should have shared it with her once or twice.

    I immediately twisted the angle of my arm. Instead of punching her in the stomach, I wrapped my entire arm around her neck.

    And with all of her weight and acceleration, he slammed her straight into the arena floor.

    -Bang!

    “Ugh… ”

    Jin Ye-seo coughed dryly. She barely managed to get up, but she was already practically defenseless.

    He clenched his fist again and swung it at Jin Ye-seo’s belly button. Even if he knew, it was not a situation where he could stop it.

    -Pfft!

    “Keuk… !”

    She blew it two or three times in a row. She couldn’t come to her senses properly due to the shock that shook her whole body. Well, she still controlled her strength. This wasn’t a life or death fight with an enemy, but a duel with a friend.

    I climbed onto Jin Ye-seo’s stomach, which had collapsed. From that position, I pressed down on her legs with both knees. With both hands, I held onto her wrists tightly.

    So that no more rebellion can occur.

    “Haa, haa… ”

    “Ugh… ”

    The heavy breathing, soaked in sour sweat, filled the training ground. Both of them felt as if they had just come out of a heavy rain. There was the feeling of wet hair sticking to their cheeks.

    Because she was wearing thin clothes, Jin Ye-seo’s skin was completely visible. Feeling embarrassed, I deliberately stared at her face. She was close enough that I could feel the warmth of her breath.

    “I won?”

    “… Ugh.”

    Instead of bowing, Jin Ye-seo quickly turned her head to the side. Only then did she come to her senses, and her eyes filled with gunfire.

    Perhaps because he had faced defeat in such an embarrassing manner, his face was flushed red as if he were drunk.

    ***

    “Have you calmed down a bit?”

    He took out a bottle of water from the refrigerator in the corner and held it out. Jin Ye-seo, who was squatting with a towel covering her body, accepted it without saying a word.

    “… Huh.”

    The way she pouted her lips on purpose made me think that she was already angry. After taking a sip, she handed me the bottle of water again and asked timidly.

    “So…what is it really?”

    “What?”

    “Huh, you’re still going to pretend not to care in the midst of all this?”

    He emptied the rest of the water bottle Jin Ye-seo handed him and asked back. Jin Ye-seo rolled her eyes.

    “Do you know how worried I was? The kid who said he would definitely come back turned out to be hospitalized. Because of Senior Yeonmin-ha, he couldn’t even enter the ward… ”

    “… ”

    “I went to check secretly and they were already up and gone somewhere? Is that even the rebels’ headquarters??”

    Jin Ye-seo fired back at Dadada.

    “I got hurt there again and was hospitalized again… and even after I returned to the cradle, they didn’t even say hello to me… !”

    “Wait a minute… ”

    “And what?? Daughter?? Dad???”

    Jin Ye-seo seemed to have accumulated a lot over the years. Hearing this, I can understand her frustration a little.

    “You, you’re going to have to explain this properly. Are you really… really with Seoyeon unnie… that, that kind of relationship… ”

    Jin Ye-seo’s eyes were losing focus again. No matter what, sparring once a day was enough.

    But what should I call this?

    “… First of all, my daughter is right.”

    “… ”

    And at those words, Jin Ye-seo suddenly stopped moving. Moisture soon began to well up in her eyes as she stared blankly at me.

    I felt like I needed to explain more before there was any unnecessary misunderstanding. I quickly opened my mouth and added a word in a hurry.

    “But what you’re thinking of… there was nothing like that.”

    “Huh?”

    Then Jin Ye-seo raised her eyes venomously as if asking what I was talking about. Now she was staring at me with an expression like she was looking at a piece of trash.

    More explanation was needed.

    That’s quite a lot too.

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