Chapter 47
“Why not? The contract with the god surely had the condition of saving humanity!”
At Yu’s point, the man looked very guilty.
But still seemingly unchanged in his thoughts, he shouted with a stubborn expression.
“I can’t help it! Do you think these guys will let me go if they know I have healing abilities?”
He cried out with a pained expression.
“I have to go back someday. …I have a family!”
I see.
Only after hearing that he had a family did I finally realize.
In the novel, there were often scenes of him suffering from the trauma of the 9.24 incident.
But now it’s still before the 9.24 incident in Busan.
So this is before he lost his family and changed into a taciturn character out of despair.
“Is that why you’re using an alias? Afraid you might be pursued after running away?”
Flinch.
The man who had his arms crossed shook violently at my words.
Unlike his haughty and aloof appearance, he was someone who couldn’t hide his emotions at all.
From the moment he heard about the patient, he couldn’t hide the guilt on his face.
‘To think even his personality and values would be different from the novel. More things could change than I thought…’
I wondered if it was really the right thing to come get Choi Yudam earlier than the novel’s progression.
But now wasn’t the time to be weighing this and that.
Just in case, I gripped the magic stone necklace and tried to infuse a bit of power, but as expected.
The magic stone didn’t react at all.
‘He’s not an evil person, so causality doesn’t allow it, huh.’
“…Yu.”
We don’t have time to be trying to persuade this man here.
Baek Yi-heon is dying in the camper van.
Even if his personality was a bit odd, I still needed him.
I declared firmly.
“Let’s kidnap him.”
“…What?”
[(Messenger) Indra grabs his head saying, ‘Oh my, oh my.’]
Choi Yudam was as surprised as Yu.
“Why are you saying that so openly and boldly, kidnapping?”
As he says this, he picks up a hammer from the desk.
“You know, despite how I look, I’m used to handling heavy tools, so I’m quite strong?”
I’m sure.
And if we were just two ordinary women, it would be almost impossible to kidnap a man in this situation and run away.
But…
“Yu. With your power, it’s perfectly possible. Please kidnap that man and take him to Baek Yi-heon.”
I added to her as she hesitated.
“Consider it as saving one dying person.”
Then Yu seemed to firm her resolve and straightened her gaze.
“Hey, you two. I mean, talking like that right in front of someone…”
Thud.
He couldn’t finish his sentence.
Because he was hit in the stomach by blue mana that shot out like lightning from Yu and collapsed on the ground.
He was a non-combat awakened one.
He was no match for Yu from the start.
‘That’s why he hid his ability and was looking for a chance to escape.’
Yu lightly lifted the fallen man.
Though he was at least four heads taller than her, to an awakened one he’d be lighter than a straw.
“It’s too much for me to go too, but if Yu goes alone, you should be able to escape outside the barrier.”
I hurriedly said while checking outside the container’s window.
It had already been three days since we left the camper van.
I didn’t know what had happened to Baek I-heon during that time.
I said I’d go within a week, but that was the maximum. It was better to go as quickly as possible before the wound worsened.
“I’ll escape somehow on my own later, so hurry…”
“No.”
Yu, who was holding the man as lightly as cotton candy, spoke in her characteristic calm tone.
“Let’s go together.”
“…What?”
“Let’s go together. We came together, after all. And…”
Yu smiled softly.
“Didn’t you say we’re a team?”
For a moment, feeling my heart tighten with emotion, I hastily put a hand over my heart.
‘What, what is this? It’s not heart disease, is it?’
“You look like you want to explain more, but we’re in a hurry now, so I’ll have to skip it.”
Yu, who had been staring at me, muttered softly.
“Should I carry Noah and run? I think I can manage two people…”
“No.”
After a brief moment of surprise, I quickly regained my composure and shook my head.
Even if we could escape for now, guild members would soon be on our tail.
We couldn’t go to the injured Baek Yi-heon with them following us.
After hearing my explanation, Yu frowned with a troubled expression.
“Hmm. Then what should we do…? A way to secretly carry this man while running…”
“…..”
Without replying, I quietly headed towards the wooden desk where Choi Yudam had been sitting.
This is an office mainly used by awakened guild members.
So probably…
“Noah? What are you…”
“As I thought.”
Rummaging through the desk drawers, I grinned with a victorious smile.
One of the drawers was filled with tempting colorful magic stones.
‘They don’t know how to use magic stones yet since no artisan-class awakened ones have appeared.’
That’s why they couldn’t throw away these pretty crystals and carelessly collected them like this.
Although they’re all C-grade or lower low-grade magic stones, it’s not bad now that my synchronization rate has increased.
I quietly picked up a red magic stone and tried to infuse it with power.
Perhaps already sensing my resolve.
The magic stone that hadn’t budged when I tried to use it against Choi Yoo-dam now reacted, rippling with light.
Good.
Now that things have worked out this well, there’s no reason to escape ‘secretly’ anymore.
Holding an armful of the piled-up magic stones, I stood up and quietly recited.
“…No matter how good the cause, forcibly exploiting people is clearly an action far from goodness.”
There are people here who work voluntarily, but also those who work against their will.
Using power to help them escape isn’t restricted by causality judgment.
[(Messenger) Indra declares he will lend you all the power you want, so go wild as much as you like.]
Now that I have permission from the highest god in the celestial realm,
“…Well then, shall we have a party?”
A party so rowdy that they won’t notice if one or two people go missing from here.
As I clutched the magic stones and grinned ominously, Yu, who was watching me, calmly nodded.
“A party. Sounds fun.”
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E Building.
The Dowonhyang headquarters located at the very center.
“Cain-nim!”
A guild member rushed into the quiet office where a man dressed in black was sitting.
“…What is it?”
“I-I’m sorry! We just got an urgent report that a riot has broken out at the construction site in A Building!”
At those words, one eyebrow of the man called Cain slightly raised.
He was a man with striking features, especially the unusually black pupils under his eyebrows.
He lifted his red lips and threw out just one word.
“What are the watchers doing.”
The construction workers are all non-awakened.
So they could be easily controlled by a small number of low-level awakened guild members.
“It seems there was an awakened one mixed in among them! And quite a strong one at that…”
Tsk.
Cain clicked his tongue loudly.
‘That’s why we need to find Choi Yudam quickly.’
There were so many items they needed.
From barrier stones to strengthen this barrier, to devices to detect awakened ones.
He knew the method to refine magic stones, so if he could just teach that, that Gandharva’s avatar could make anything.
‘It’s before the 9.24 incident, so he must still be in Busan…’
But even after scouring all of Busan and gathering awakened ones, no one named ‘Choi Yudam’ had appeared.
Not even someone with healing powers.
Looking out the window, he could see dark clouds gathering as if it was about to pour rain.
“Um… Cain-nim?”
“I’ll go.”
Just two words.
At those words, the expression of the guild member who had been gauging the situation brightened.
The two troublemakers running wild in A Building seemed quite strong, but they were no match for Cain.
After all, he had contracted with a god stronger than anyone the man had ever seen.
Combined with his prophetic ability to know information about the future, he was considered almost omnipotent within the guild.
“Yes…! Then, this way!”
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