Chapter 175
“It was the first ti I felt helplessness.” With that said, she outstretched her hand slowly. I didn’t avoid it, and she suddenly grabbed by the collar.
She didn’t move to strangle , but, since her action was just so sudden, I beca rigid from bewildernt. She lifted lightly, like the shield she summoned, and pulled right in front of her.
After doing all that, it was obvious that her clicked tongue was simply just for show. “You’ve beco lighter during this ti. You’ve probably lost around 3 kilograms.”
My anxiety was suddenly swept away by this act–like a grandfather grumbling about his grandchildren. Energy lost, I grumbled, an unknown feeling–was it despondency? Was it relief?–laden in my words. “Do you always have to find that out in this way…”
“You look cute when you’re plumper, so take care of your body from now on.”
“Haah… I didn’t lose that weight because I wanted to…”
However, despite my protests, Kim Olim simply pulled on my cheeks without hesitation. That didn’t hurt, but her touch did hurt my esteem; I crumpled my brows.
Of course, she ignored my frown and only said what she wanted to say. “Your skin got rougher too. Were you trying to invoke my sympathy by being so grubby?”
“Jus- who woul- think like tha–” 1
“That’s not cute, so eat well.”
However, contrary to her stern tone, the hands holding onto my cheeks began to glow white; my body was enveloped in warmth. It felt just like soone was patting my back with a gentle hand.
I assu Kim Olim did sothing? Since whatever she did didn’t feel so bad, I leaned into her without complaint; after a long while, the Paladin took her hands off of . Then, as if she was dissatisfied, she grumbled under her breath while wrinkling her forehead, “Because you’re part of ‘that attribute,’ my skills won’t imdiately recover your condition.”
“It did feel warm though…” I said.
“Do you really think I would’ve used a Paladin skill only to warm your body?” Then, she looked down at regretfully.
Woo Ragi, who had just been listening from behind, suddenly interrupted our conversation. “What’s all this?”
“……?”
“How did you manipulate Kim Olim?” 2 He stood there with arms folded, narrowing his eyes, as if I had influenced Kim Olim sohow.
His reaction was just so absurd, I was going to ignore him, but, instead, Kim Olim blushed and took several steps away from , making excuses. “I just simply tended to him because he looked like a puppy left out in the rain!”
“How on earth does he look anything like that? He just looks like a stick thin ho… a stick thin boy.”
“He was worth looking at when his cheeks were still chubby. It’s not as good now, but, if he recuperates well, they’ll be as puffy as before.”
“No… What I’m saying is, what do puffy cheeks have anything to do with you, why should I care about that?”
“……” When Kim Olim heard Woo Ragi’s question, she went silent, as if she fell into deep contemplation, and then turned around to look at him. Her expression looked a little frustrated, and her responding question belied how incomprehensible she found her guildmate’s words. “Ragi, didn’t you feel anything when you signed a contract with Choi Lee-kyung?”
“Feel what?”
“After the contract, when the tattoo design appeared…didn’t you feel an upsurge of emotion?”
“……?” Woo Ragi raised one eyebrow, as if this was the first ti he’d heard or experienced that. Kim Olim looked as if she was going to continue, but she closed her mouth, conscious of .
I was curious as to what the Paladin was going to say, but before I could ask, the space next to her darkened and split open. I was so surprised I forgot to speak.
The other servants only observed such a scene without raising their guard. anwhile, an upright white hand popped out of that dark gap. I was scared at first, but, when I recognized the ring adorning that hand, I could hide my joy and ran forth.
“Seo Dawon……!”
“……”
However, from the very mont Seo Dawon walked through that gap, his expression was different from what I had expected. He looked sowhat angry; as soon as he made eye contact with , the gleam in his eyes beca fiercer–the atmosphere in the room was unusual.
“Um… D-did you worry a lot……?” I stuttered.
“……”
Crumbling under pressure, I took the initiative to begin speaking, but Seo Dawon’s steely, cold eyes remained the sa.
That didn’t an I began hesitating or clinging onto his hem, though. Seo Dawon sighed for a long while, and then spoke in a more relaxed manner, “……I told you to cut the connection and return, Lee-kyung-ah.”
“What? I didn’t hear anything like that…”
“You kept on saying you couldn’t, everyti you attempted to make a connection.”
Seo Dawon told to quit, but I rebelled?
Feeling unfairly wronged, I looked around; Woo Ragi also seed to have no idea, perhaps because he was dragging his feet in signing the contract with . Kim Olim began clicking her tongue.
Sitting with his chin cupped in one hand, Jung Garam looked at . “That’s right. You rejected us by cutting your link to us. Dawon-ie hyung’s rationality was also cut off at that mont as well…”
Jung Garam shook his head as if he rembered sothing terrible.
Honestly, I was feeling so unjustly maligned? When I finally returned to my senses after summoning, I was already in the [Vengeful Ghost mory]. Right afterwards, it was Ahn Hospital. However, besides Lackey who nodded hard whenever I spoke, no one seed to believe in my words.
“Hey, wait a minute… Did you guys really give up on because of that guy?” Behind my upset self, Woo Ragi grumbled with an expression of disbelief.
Jung Garam glared at his forr colleague with eyes wide open, as if he had been waiting for those words. “Hyung, did you really do sothing to him?”
“All of a sudden sothing strange wanted to link with my subconscious world, so I put it on hold. I can’t be expected to allow sothing of unknown origins to plant itself in my head.” Woo Ragi made excuses, as if he were burdened by his teammate’s continuing questions.
However, Kim Olim, who had been listening quietly all this while, had joined in on the pursuit. “Didn’t the system ssage explain everything when Choi Lee-kyung linked with you? It should have explained the contract and its purpose.”
“But… only a fool would just readily believe that. Of course I have to test it.”
“Do you think Lee-kyung was a spam mail or sothing?”
“Then, do you think I’m overly sensitive? I’m sure, during that ti, you guys would have received that joke of a scenario 3 as well.”
“……”
“……”
“Compared to that scenario, the conditions set forth by that homo is just too good. I’ve already been hit hard in the back of the head once, did you expect to welco him with arms wide open?”
While observing their prickly confrontation, I vaguely understood that sothing–sothing else I didn’t know–had happened to my servants.
To be fair…from my perspective, the perspective of the contractor, I may simply be activating a skill called [Vengeful Ghost Summon], but the others could describe that as an ‘invasion,’ as I would have been rifling through their mories.
In Seo Dawon, Kim Olim, and Jung Garam’s case, I had passed imdiately since they accepted ; Woo Ragi was extrely wary, so he hadn’t accepted my proposal and used his abilities to test .
‘But, what is this ‘Scenario’….?’ What truly bothered , though, was the scenario that they had been offered.
From the servant’s attitudes and how they all grew quiet simultaneously at the ntion of such ‘scenario’, I assu they had received another proposal before signing the contract with … But, the offered conditions must have been unfavorable.
No, looking at Kim Olim’s expression of utter disgust, it might not be right to even call it a proposal. I had a lot of questions, but I stayed silent since I didn’t think it was the right ti to ask.
“Since you’re so idiotic, you blindly threw a temper tantrum.” At that mont, the previously calm Seo Dawon suddenly cursed.
If Woo Ragi had been frowning before, his expression now was a volcanic eruption. “Are you talking to ?”
“If you know that much then you should’ve at least turned a deaf ear; what’s the point of confirming what you already know.”
“I’ve explained my stance well enough, though?”
“Before that, you should apologize to Choi Lee-kyung. Now that you’ve signed the contract, you can’t sweep this under the rug by pretending ignorance.”
Surprised by the sparks flying between the two, I stared at Seo Dawon, but the mage didn’t spare a glance and only looked imperiously at Woo Ragi.
Woo Ragi, on the other hand, alternated looking in between and Seo Dawon as if he had heard sothing unbelievable. He snorted and asked, “Are you high?”
TL: I hope this is conveyed well, but honestly Woo Ragi is kind of the hardest to pinpoint dialogue for since he speaks so casually/with so much slang. It’s kinda hard to find that one to one comparison in English.
Kim Olim dotes on the hamster so much T_T Lee-kyung has two hands for a reason ya’ll.
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