"......"
-......
At Alpha's words, Beta and Joker couldn't say anything.
They didn't know what to say.
The three of them were taken in by [Dawn] at a very young age and grew up receiving life-threatening training.
Alpha as an assassin, Beta as a spy, and Joker as a hacker, they all developed their skills excellently.
But in the process, their inner selves were wounded in various ways, and so parts died as they were.
Even after ti passed, the scars did not disappear and remained in their places.
Thanks to the considerable ti that had passed since they escaped from [Dawn], they were able to live a sowhat normal daily life, but sotis there were monts when that daily life beca unbearably awkward.
A mont like now.
In this situation, they had no idea how to express the emotions they were feeling.
It wasn't as if a good answer would co out just by desperately racking their brains.
"Th-thank you, Alpha."
-Uh... I think I'm quite moved.
"...Yeah."
Chirp-
A deep silence, so thick that the chirping of a bird from sowhere could be heard so clearly, fell between them, and they couldn't bring themselves to look at each other's faces, so they each turned their heads in different directions.
The first one to break the silence was Joker, who was at least on the other side of the phone.
-S-so, Alpha, how strong do you think you are now?
At Joker's question, Alpha's eyes lit up as if she had grabbed a lifeline, and she said.
"Yeah, I think I can do my part if I use the parts Smile taught
this ti and the artifacts Joker makes. Just trust ."
The two smiled lightly at Alpha's words.
"But Alpha, what do you an you tested Smile?"
At Beta's words, Alpha said quietly.
"It's just as it sounds. I thought Joker was thinking of letting Smile participate in the plan."
-Uh... was it obvious?
"A little, it showed on your face."
Alpha said, nodding her head, and Beta, who had expected it to so extent, was not surprised about it.
Beta was rather surprised at Alpha.
'She usually looks dazed, but there are tis when she's strangely sharp like this.'
Whether she knew Beta's thoughts or not, Alpha continued her story.
"But I couldn't be sure if letting Smile participate in the plan was a good choice."
"You an Smile is suspicious?"
At Beta's words, Alpha shook her head.
"No, that's not it. It's just as it sounds, I couldn't get a good read on the person called Smile. I kept watching him while moving with him, but I couldn't be sure if he would be a gain or a loss to us."
"But now you seem to have figured it out?"
"Yeah."
Alpha, who rarely spoke much, took a mont to catch her breath after speaking for so long, and then continued.
"If Smile had approached us with hostility, I thought that Smile's betrayal shouldn't happen while we were planning. So I showed him a big opening, but Smile just smiled and let it pass."
"...Then what if Smile had hostility?"
At Beta's words, Alpha said honestly.
"At that ti, I was going to buy ti. I had a lot of artifacts I got from Joker, and even if the worst happened, it would be a problem that would end with just
dying."
Hwoong-!
The mont she heard those words, Beta swung her fist without hesitation.
But Alpha took a step back and easily dodged Beta's attack.
"Why did you hit ?"
"You dodged! And don't try to think of such an important thing by yourself!"
-Beta is right about that.
Alpha found it hard to understand why the two were reacting this way, but she nodded her head for now.
"Alright, then I won't do that from now on."
"Haa!"
Seeing Alpha's appearance, Beta let out a big sigh in frustration.
And at the sa ti, she looked at Alpha with a pitiful look.
Although all of them had entered [Dawn] at a young age and received training, Alpha was especially young among them.
Moreover, because she had received assassin training, her emotional line was twisted in this way.
'They must have instilled in her the mindset that her own death doesn't matter for the sake of the organization and the mission.'
As her thoughts reached that point, Beta felt a sense of disgust for [Dawn] again and clenched her fists.
Joker, to resolve the situation, brought up a new topic again.
-So what do you think? Do you think it's okay to let Smile participate in the plan?
"Hmm, honestly, I'm still not sure, but I think he won't attack us at least. He might be after sothing else, though."
At Alpha's words, Joker thought that was enough and nodded his head lightly.
"I was prepared to take that much of a gamble when I first offered a deal to Smile."
Joker said, and lightly clapped his hands to signal the end of the story.
"Now, then, let's end this story here... I have sothing to show you two, so co back quickly. Thanks to what you guys brought, the puzzle has finally been put together enough to see the outline."
At Joker's words, Alpha and Beta's eyes lit up and they ran to where Joker was.
It was the morning when the sun was beginning to appear.
***
After parting with Alpha and Beta, Lee Shin decided to enter a nearby dungeon for a mont before returning ho.
Since it was a LV.1 dungeon, he was able to handle it up to the boss room so easily that he yawned.
Thus, Lee Shin sat on the body of a giant gray wolf and checked his status and skills for the first ti in a long ti.
Na: Lee Shin
Level: 2
Path: Atypical Madness
Strength II: 27
Agility II: 31
Sense II: 39
Intelligence II: 38
Internal Energy: 45
Lee Shin looked at his splendidly grown status and nodded his head in satisfaction.
'My stats are going up well, probably because I keep [Madness] on even in my daily life.'
Muscles, simply put, grow stronger and tougher by repeating destruction and regeneration.
And Lee Shin had the skill [Madness], which could destroy his body, and the skill [High-Speed Recovery], which could heal his body.
Thanks to that, if he kept [Madness] and [High-Speed Recovery] on in his daily life, his stats would grow on their own.
But this was a foolish thod that only Lee Shin, who could feel pain and still be fine, could do.
As ntioned before, when [Madness] is activated, the person feels a severe pain as if their bones and flesh are being ground in real ti.
In other words, Lee Shin was living while experiencing such severe pain every day.
An ordinary person would have gone crazy long ago, but Lee Shin was just happy that his stats and [High-Speed Recovery] were growing well on their own.
'Irhegue is teaching the cultivation thod, so the internal energy will grow gradually. Then what's left is the skills...'
Lee Shin looked at the skills he had one by one.
-[Fla Lightning Divine Art] ([Flas], [Lightning])
-[Fla Lightning Divine Spear] ([Leaves], [Branches])
-[Fla Lightning Divine Step] ([Fla Leaf Returning Step], [Thunder Wood Line Step])
-[Atypical Madness] ([Irhegue])
-[High-Speed Recovery]
-[Ten Poisons Immunity]
'Hmm, if I include the additional skills, I've gotten quite a lot of skills.'
Among them, Lee Shin looked at the description of Ten Poisons Immunity.
-[Ten Poisons Immunity]
-Normal
-In the process of returning from death, your body has instead devoured the poison and made it its own. Your body has now begun to have resistance to basic poisons.
'This was also a skill I got when I t Irhegue. Thinking about it this way, Irhegue is a complete lucky charm.'
Kkyu-!
Irhegue, telling Lee Shin that he could praise him more, wagged his tail.
'As for the items, it would be better to look at them all at once when I check the ones Geum Hyun-mo made for
later. Well, the growth is smooth.'
But for Lee Shin, that was precisely the complaint.
That ti was flowing too smoothly, so he was bored.
Although he was trying to find various interesting things, it was still incomparable to the feeling he felt in the mont of a life-or-death battle.
'There's a lack of incidents...'
"Ah~ I want to have fun, going 'bang' here and 'bang' there..."
Lee Shin, who had carefully let out his inner thoughts where no one was listening, looked at the sky and began to think about what to do in the future.
'Should I stop ssing with the Black Guilds for now and focus on raiding monsters again?'
It wasn't a bad choice.
Recently, top-tier LV.2 dungeons were also appearing here and there, and if he borrowed the na of [Wonderland], he would be able to enter them sohow.
'The Black Guild guys were not bad at first because there was a fresh taste of things like guns or traps, but after playing with them for a week, I'm getting tired of it.'
But even as he thought so, Lee Shin knew that he would not stop hunting the Black Guilds.
Because there was sothing that bothered him, making it hard to stop hunting the Black Guilds.
Lee Shin took off the mask covering his face and muttered.
"Ah~ If I just coax those guys a little more, I think they'll let
in."
Lee Shin tapped the wolf's fangs with his heel and was lost in thought.
As a result of the information Lee Shin had gathered so far, for so reason, the three were building up their strength to get revenge on an organization called [Dawn], and by the looks of it, they were contemplating whether to drag Lee Shin into it or not.
Of course, if they made an offer because it seed interesting, Lee Shin was thinking of accepting it gladly.
But the problem was that these three, as if to tease him, did not offer to join them.
But to wait any longer, raiding dungeons seed more interesting than hunting Black Guilds, and above all, his annoyance was starting to rise.
"Hoo, alright. Since I've co this far, I'll try to endure for up to 3 days. For now, after tomorrow's work is done, I'll say I have sothing to do and give them ti to think. And in the anti, I'll go into a dungeon and heal myself by rolling Yeon-woo and Hyun-seok around."
Grin-
Lee Shin praised himself for his perfect plan and stood up, dusting off his bottom.
"Well, if the three of them decide not to accept
after 3 days, I'll just change my course to taking over their plan itself."
Lee Shin, who had decided on his future course of action, ca out of the dungeon with a refreshed mind.
Tiring-
The mont Lee Shin ca out of the dungeon, the smartphone in his pocket rang with a cheerful sound.
Geum Hyun-mo: The items you ordered are all finished, so co and get them tomorrow.
"Is this Sally's law?"
Lee Shin, at the continuous good things that had happened, smiled and returned to his house.
"Hmm... hyung, you're here?"
"Oppa, you're here?"
When Lee Shin returned ho, Lee Hyun-seok, with a bedhead, greeted him with a sluggish voice, and Lee Hyun-young, who was wearing an apron and preparing breakfast, greeted him curtly.
After Lee Hyun-young had been in danger in that neighborhood before, the two had co to live in Lee Shin's house on the condition that they would take care of various chores.
"Kid, give
food. With a at side dish."
"What's with the greasy at side dish in the morning..."
"Rent, food expenses, transportation expenses, the clothes you're wearing, and other leisure expenses."
"Alright!"
Thanks to the two of them doing various things like laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc., Lee Shin was spending happy days with many parts of his life becoming more convenient.
"I'll be out after a shower, so please have ten steaks ready by then."
"What kind of person eats like that every ti? There must be a beggar in his stomach..."
Lee Hyun-young, following Lee Shin's words, grumbled continuously while opening the refrigerator to cook the steaks.
But unlike her words, her hands, which were cooking the steaks, were full of sincerity.
(End of Chapter)
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