chapter 2
2 – Daily life with a blind saint (1)
I put my ear to the door and listened, but all I could hear was the sound of the water from the shower.
“Enter?”
After making a decision, I opened the doorknob and turned it back.
Knocked up.
Amidst the misty steam that filled the bathroom, the naked body of a broken love could be seen on the floor of the shower booth.
I tried to keep my composure, took out a towel from the cupboard, covered her body, and checked her condition.
There is no external trauma… So, maybe a shock to the brain?
“Damn it.”
The golden hour was the most important thing in this accident, so I quickly took out my phone and looked through my contact information.
This is the closest place to the academy’s residential area, where you can get professional help.
“Yes, the Salvator Academy relief knights. Do you need help?”
“Here is Academy Residence Area A-1, inside the mansion…!”
The moment I was about to calm down, Han Sarang suddenly jumped up. She then reached inside of her and just fumbled her hand and snatched her cell phone.
What is the situation, she said, clearing her tone, leaving me behind.
“Sorry! My friend tried to order chicken at *chi.Sa.Mo, but I bet wrong.”
“… Fortunately, nothing happened, right? If you need relief, please contact us anytime.”
“Yes, good job!”
(*Chi.Sa.Mo: An abbreviation for a group that loves chicken. It is a large-scale club that always maintains the top 3 sales rank among catering clubs at the Salvator Academy.)
A love that let out a sigh for the ground to disappear after the phone was cut off. Then he screamed and pushed me away.
“Dang… You can leave now too! It just… fell.”
Boom!
Well, nothing seems to be happening.
After she left her change of clothes in front of her bathroom, she sighed and warmed herself upstairs in the shower.
*
After taking a shower, I went down to the living room on the first floor to have dinner.
She must have thought that she would have gone home since not a little time had passed, but she was sitting on the sofa with a blank look on her face.
Are you trying to take responsibility for what happened earlier?
I was rather embarrassed.
“That… It was unavoidable earlier.”
“Then you came in because you were worried about me? The passing spirit must be smiling.”
“You have no interest in your poor body, do you?”
“No… Rude! And at that level, you come out when you come out and go in when you go in.”
To come in after arguing sentence by sentence, is a really tired person.
I need to get out of here.
“I’m sorry, I understand. Please leave soon.”
“…”
“Oh, if it’s an umbrella, it’s by the door. Take it.”
It must have been a proposal she would not regret, but she only mumbled something, and she didn’t move at all.
She asked again, she hesitated for a while, then she struggled to open her mouth.
“… I have nowhere else to go.”
Have nowhere else to go?
“The house is.”
“I ran away…”
Dead eyes with no focus and the dark shade beneath them. Even in an open space, the body is infinitely wrinkled.
From the first time I met him, he said that he seemed familiar somewhere.
“You can’t be… Is that the kid?”
About four years ago, the Void Night (Dungeon Break) incident occurred in Busan.
There was a girl who sat quietly as if she had given up on life even though the void bodies (wild beasts) were pushing right in front of her nose.
At that appearance, my gloomy past flashed through me, and I broke the order of my superior and left the ranks to save the girl.
And it was the first life I saved.
I endured the nagging and punishment and saved it at best, but what did they say?
“Why did you get it… I didn’t really want to live. Then you kill me instead.”
“Wh… I’m not sure what you’re talking about?”
“…Really?”
They look really similar.
I brushed the fragments of the past out of my head and returned to the previous subject.
“Then where were you going to sleep today?”
“I was originally going to sleep on the bench earlier, but it started raining in the afternoon…”
“You can go to an acquaintance’s house.”
“It’s purely my personal situation, but I can’t cause a nuisance to my precious people.”
Should I call this kind or foolish?
“The conclusion is that there is no place to sleep today?”
“What… Why do you ask for skewers more than anything else? Would you like to have some fun? I hope you are.”
Originally, I wouldn’t have asked such a thing.
My heart has been moving ever since I hypothesized that Han Sarang might be the first life I saved.
“…If you want.”
To the extent that I couldn’t understand myself.
“Jin… Are you serious?”
“Why would you lie?”
“If you are targeting my body…”
“If you don’t believe me that much, leave. You are the one who stays in the first place.”
“That… that is.”
After her words came to an end, she couldn’t answer easily, and there was an awkward silence for a while.
The only thing that broke the silence was none other than that.
Growl.
“I haven’t eaten anything all day… so it can’t be helped!”
“… I didn’t say anything. Please wait.”
Before starting the full-scale cooking, she took out bagel bread from the kitchen and put it in Hansarang’s hands.
Hesitantly, he took a small bite from her, and a faint smile bloomed.
Of course it must be delicious. It was created by a French Michelin three-star chef.
A bite of that would probably cost at least 300,000 won.
One love that crouches in the corner like a pouting squirrel and shoves in bread as if it’s about to explode.
“I’m not the kind of person who can get everything done with food!”
“Ah, yes yes.”
Even if she looked like that and said it, it wasn’t convincing.
*
After setting the bubbling soybean paste for the last time, we headed to the living room.
She didn’t answer when I called, so I thought she was complaining again, but not this time.
“Cool… Cool… Don’t do this to me… I like you, what is that…”
What kind of dream are you talking about in your sleep?
After that, she let out a short sigh and patted Han Sarang on the shoulder.
“Umnya… Be gentle please,,,”
“Whatever softens you, wake up.”
“Yes…? Oh, it was a dream.”
It must have been a happy dream, but it was a tone full of regret.
No, by the way.
“You said you wouldn’t believe me.”
“… By the way.”
“Is that kind of guy stretching well when he sells?”
“Because I’m tired… it’s because I don’t know?”
“Okay, the meal is done, so get up.”
Booth raised her body, lightly grabbed her wrist and led her carefully.
“Huh? Hands… Caught again…”
“Should I hold my elbow if it’s inconvenient?”
Instead of her words, she gently shakes her head.
I guess that means it’s okay.
After I sat Sarang Han on a chair and told her where the side dishes were, I sat across from her.
“I didn’t put any poison or medicine in it, so don’t be mistaken by yourself again.”
“What do you think of me?”
What a strange person. She added and started her meal.
A bite of rice soaked in soybean paste, a bite of stir-fried pork, and a bite of stir-fried potatoes.
Mmm!
A gentle exclamation slowly leaks out.
“I never thought you would be good at cooking…”
“You said you were my fan, but you don’t know anything about it.”
“That’s natural. You haven’t revealed anything about yourself.”
Hearing that answer, a question I had been curious about for a long time surfaced and asked.
Why the hell did my fans like me?
With zero humanity, interviews with the media are either straight forward or rejected.
I acted so that I couldn’t feel any charm. Because I didn’t want that at all.
But why?
“It must be because of the 【Cold Control】 authority. The blizzards added to the dynamic fighting style that was not like a wizard were art itself.”
“It sounds like you weren’t.”
“I can’t… No, I can’t tell you for a second, can I? After all, he is a scary person.”
He passed another spoonful of rice with a huff.
Most of the side dishes disappeared before I knew it.
When I half-emptied her bowl of rice, she swallowed her last spoonful and wiped her mouth, blushing her cheeks.
“Was I… too frivolous?”
“Not really.”
I also put the dishes in the sink after finishing my meal.
I was about to turn on the water and wash the dishes, but Han Sarang, who was following me, pushed me to the side.
“I will wash the dishes. I can do it if you tell me the location of the pom-pom and the storage closet.”
“Not much to do, so just go and sit quietly.”
“Even if I look like this, I’m good at washing dishes, right? Come out to the side.”
In spite of my stubborn will, I handed her a scrubber.
Still, I wasn’t too trustworthy, so I kept my side…
Clang!
Obviously, soon a plate fell to the floor and ended its life.
“Huh? Mi… I’m sorry! I’m good at it…”
“…Stay still.”
“It’s not like I want to break it either.”
“No, there are shards of glass nearby.”
“Yes? Wow!”
Ignoring her shrieking screams, I lifted her into the arms of her princess and gently set her down on the couch in her living room.
I almost dropped it because he struggled and beat me in the chest.
“…Heavy.”
“Is that what you say to a woman?”
After that, I cleaned up the glass fragments and finished washing the dishes.
I thought she was sleeping again this time because it was as quiet as a rat, but she was manipulating her mana while concentrating.
That is the magic power control training that is the basis of magicians, and I practiced it until I got tired of it.
“I am eager.”
“If you look like that, could you teach me some know-how?”
“My lectures are expensive.”
“It’s just an excuse. Are you an idiot who can’t teach me? Pooh.”
“…What are you talking about?”
Soon after, the group of blue lights disappeared from Hansarang’s hand.
“Ah! You’re distracting me. Take responsibility!”
“…How.”
“Since I’m kind, I’ll give you your own special secret recipe.”
Did you think it was a reasonable proposal, or was it shameless?
“Answer.”
As soon as he paused, he raised his mana again and threatened me. It was so powerful that if I was hit right now, it would break anywhere.
“…Okay.”
She reached out her hand to the mouth of her heart, where her magic-generating organ was located, to check her unique mana frequency.
It’s near her breasts, but she didn’t think much of it because her clothes were there too.
“Huh? Transformation… Perversion! Die!”
– Quaang!