Deep Sea Fish Hunting Specialty Broadcast
EP.89 Not all who wander are lost (2)
Alice slowly approached Alexandra.
Parang wasn’t the only one surprised by Alice lville’s sudden appearance.
Alexandra, the protagonist of the mory, was also expressing her surprise, no less than Parang.
Given the situation, it was closer to shock than re surprise.
“W-Who are you? A m-monster?”
Strangely, from the mont Alice appeared, Alexandra was speaking without opening her mouth.
Her voice seed to erge from the space itself rather than coming from her mouth.
It was like when a character’s inner thoughts are narrated in a movie or drama.
Alexandra herself seed quite surprised by this fact. Even Parang thought that she didn’t have any telepathic abilities in the original work.
“W-Wait, what’s this… Why is my voice like this?!”
Alexandra’s eyes trembled.
Considering her journey from the point of ascension to her arrival here, along with her current situation, one could easily imagine the confusion Alexandra was experiencing. It’s not unreasonable for her to be frightened.
Fortunately, Alice didn’t seem to have beco so cold-hearted as to scare soone in such a situation.
“Calm down. I’m not a monster, and I won’t harm you.”
At Alice’s gentle voice, Alexandra’s tension seed to ease a bit. After all, once you realize that communication is possible, the fear of the unknown tends to diminish significantly.
Alexandra asked in a trembling voice.
“Who… who are you?”
“I’m Alice lville. A mber of Oceanos… the group you’ve been looking for.”
She hesitated slightly at the ‘mber of Oceanos’ part.
“Oceanos…!!”
Alexandra exclaid in surprise.
“O-Oceanos? What’s that?”
“It’s a group of hunters operating underwater. Those strange fish you’ve been fighting until now are what we usually hunt.”
“W-Wait, are you saying you’ve been watching us?”
To that question, Alice quietly reached her hand towards the darkness, that is, towards the inside of the cave, as if calling for sothing to answer in her stead.
Woong-
What erged from the darkness was a small Capulus, much smaller than what Parang had seen before.
“Th-That…!!”
“A C-Capulus?!”
Alexandra and Parang were surprised simultaneously.
Parang was almost knocked over.
She never imagined a Capulus would appear here. Of course not.
“I’ve been watching you with this. From beginning to end, everything.”
“Oh my…”
Despite learning that soone had been stalking her in such a situation, Alexandra didn’t seem to resent Alice or show any anger towards her.
Or more precisely, it seed like she had decided to focus on sothing else more important.
“Y-You need to et soone right now. A hunter nad Han Siwoo…”
‘Ah, it’s about the quest.’
Parang had also seen Han Siwoo ntion receiving a quest to ‘Find Oceanos’ with her own mouth previously.
However…
“Unfortunately, that’s impossible.”
‘Of course it’s impossible.’
Parang thought.
“W-Why?”
‘Obviously, it’s a matter of distance.’
Alexandra’s current location is the East Sea, while Han Siwoo’s location is Hawaii.
Unless Alice has learned so sort of teleportation technique, it’s impossible to swim a distance that takes eight hours even by plane.
That’s what Parang thought, but sothing completely different ca out of Alice’s mouth.
“It’s part of the plan.”
“W-What plan…?!”
“According to Hunter Han Siwoo’s plan, I shouldn’t et him right now.”
“S-Siwoo’s plan?”
“Yes. Even you being teleported here is part of his plan.”
“W-What… How can I believe that?!”
“Here.”
Alice approached Alexandra, knelt in front of her as she lay on the ground, and held out her hand.
The object placed on that hand was sothing both Alexandra and Parang knew well.
“Th-That ring…!”
It was the ring nad ‘Happy Ending’ that Han Siwoo had made and distributed to the heroines.
“Is this enough proof?”
“B-But, what if you took it by force, or stole it…!!”
“Do you think it’s possible for to take or steal sothing from him? I can’t even leave the water.”
At those words, Alexandra’s mouth closed.
It’s certainly a good thod of persuasion. Regardless of the truth, it would sound convincing from Alexandra’s perspective.
In fact, she seed to be convinced by Alice’s logic, slowly nodding her head.
‘So, it’s Han Siwoo’s plan, huh.’
Parang wasn’t particularly surprised. After all, it was Hunter Han Siwoo who had given that ring as a gift to all the heroines, not to ntion his suspicious behavior in previous mories and speaking as if he knew sothing.
It’s highly likely that he knew they would go to the sea after ascending.
In terms of information, it’s as if she’s just confirming what she already knew through Alice’s words.
That doesn’t an the questions are gone, though.
‘How on earth did he figure that out?’
Good heavens, the fact that the reward for killing a god was a scroll about the ascension ritual, and that following it and ascending would suddenly transport them to the sea below Hawaii, where they’d face all sorts of battles and finally encounter an eye monster that even pressures the status window.
How on earth did Hunter Han Siwoo know?
This perfectly reasonable question was the first to pop into Parang’s mind.
But Alexandra didn’t seem to care about any of that.
From the mont she accepted that ‘Han Siwoo has a plan’, she didn’t seem to worry at all about her own fate or Hunter Han Siwoo’s well-being.
“Well, that’s a relief. If it’s Siwoo’s plan, I can trust it.”
Parang, who had been lost in thought for a mont, was startled by Alexandra’s expression.
Alexandra’s face had brightened up so much that it was hard to believe she was the sa person who had been trembling in fear in the unknown deep sea just monts ago.
‘No way, this level of trust?’
Of course, it’s true that the Slayers trust Han Siwoo trendously… but it didn’t seem to be this blindly before.
‘I guess it’s understandable, seeing hope in a difficult situation.’
Even so, that unblemished bright expression. That appearance that seems to have not a single trace of anxiety or worry.
Doesn’t it seem like she thinks of Han Siwoo as a ‘perfect person who succeeds at everything’?
As far as Parang knows, Han Siwoo isn’t that kind of person.
In the original work, he loses battles, fails in plans, and sotis suffers great losses.
Nevertheless, he’s the type who fights to the end, eventually breaking everything and achieving his goals.
‘That’s why there was a lot of talk about tag baiting and title baiting.’
Even Parang thought that part was worth criticizing.
A munchkin who loses in battle, what nonsense is that?
The point is, Hunter Han Siwoo is by no ans a ‘perfect human who never fails’.
Considering this, Alexandra’s level of trust in Han Siwoo seems unusually high.
But then again, for Alexandra who particularly followed Han Siwoo well, it might be possible…
Parang, who had been wavering between ‘it’s understandable’ and ‘sothing’s suspicious’, finally concludes with ‘it’s understandable’.
There’s too much information to process to delve into this aspect any further.
Whether Parang’s head was about to explode or not, Alexandra’s attitude had completely, 180 degrees changed.
It’s as if this is just another light incident that will pass by.
It’s so disconnected from her current situation.
Whether she’s trying to forcefully push it to the back of her mind, or if she really thinks that way.
Parang’s head throbbed, and she rubbed her forehead again.
“Can you tell what plan Siwoo is brewing?”
“…No. That’s not possible.”
“…Why not?”
“Because my friend who’s watching this mory right now shouldn’t know about it.”
“What? What do you an… Oh.”
Alexandra chewed over the sentence Alice had just uttered, then looked at her necklace, the ‘evidence’, as if she had realized sothing.
“Is that why… you ca to find ?”
“That’s right. According to Han Siwoo’s plan, there’s soone who absolutely needs to see our conversation right now.”
Alice turned her head and looked into the empty space in Parang’s direction.
From her perspective, it was clearly just an empty space, but strangely, Parang felt as if she had made eye contact with her.
“Plus, not just this conversation, but my mories need to be stored there too.”
“Your mories too… I see.”
“Then, I’ll ask you to do it.”
“Ah, lastly, there are a few things I’d like to ask.”
“What is it?”
“Am I… going to die soon?”
Alice was silent for a mont, then answered with a slightly trembling voice.
“…Yes.”
“I see. Alright. It’s my first ti dying, so it feels strange.”
“…Is that all?”
“Huh? What do you an?”
“Your thoughts on death. I an…”
“Ah.”
Alexandra smiled brightly.
“It’s okay. It’s not like I’m really dying anyway, right?”
“…What?”
“You said it’s Siwoo’s plan, right? There’s no way Siwoo would have made a plan that sacrifices , or any of the Slayers. Even if I die here, I’ll probably be resurrected sowhere, or even if not, I’ll live a happy life with Siwoo in another world.”
“…”
Parang was dumbfounded.
‘No matter how you look at it, bringing soone back to life…’
Isn’t that impossible? Even if this is a modern ‘fantasy’ world, how…
Regardless, Alexandra was still smiling brightly.
“Why are you silent? Am I wrong?”
“…”
“Even if I’m wrong, don’t tell . If I’m going to die anyway, I want to die holding onto hope.”
“…Alright.”
“Do you have any last words you’d like to leave?”
“Huh? What do you an…”
“To your friend who’s watching this mory. Wouldn’t it be good to give them a hint or sothing?”
“Ah…”
At those words, Alice was silent for a mont, then uttered a single sentence.
“…Ascend, Parang. That’s the only way.”
“Good. Now, store the mories you want in this necklace.”
“…Okay.”
And so, Alexandra and Alice each stored their mories in turn.
Crack- Crackle…
“This is…”
Alexandra seed quite surprised to see the ‘evidence’ cracking and about to break.
“I’ve sealed it temporarily with my power. My friend shouldn’t see this too soon.”
The scene at the East Sea Hive ended with Alexandra’s mories being stored in the ‘evidence’.
And imdiately after.
Whoosh-!!
“Wh-What?!”
With a feeling of being sucked down, Parang’s consciousness began to flow to another place.
Given the circumstances, it must be going into Alice’s mories.
‘Alice…’
Parang clenched her fist.
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