chapter 23
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Day 1 of uninhabited island.
Sitting in the shaded forest to avoid the scorching sunlight, I was quietly listening to the sound of the waves.
Come to think of it, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen the sea.
As I lived only in the game for 5 years, I never came to see the sea, so I was enjoying an untimely summer vacation.
Of course, even if it was a summer vacation, there were nothing but empty white sandy beaches and forests.
My cell phone is dead because I fell into the sea.
At first, this place seemed to be an island, so there was no way it could be a mobile phone.
And if you guess the sun is rising, it’s probably the other side of the world.
All I can do now is dry my clothes full of salt from drowning in the sea.
Thanks to you, I was wearing only one pair of pants and staring blankly at the sea.
crumble-
At that moment, I heard a sound from behind, and my head turned towards it.
There, Shiho sat still and was silent.
With a cardigan, school uniform top and skirt hanging from a tree branch, and wearing only a T-shirt and underpants underneath, she looked pretty miserable.
Maybe it’s because it’s small?
She was staring at the floor without making eye contact with me.
“… … I’m sorry.”
“Even if you don’t have to apologize.”
Once again, an apple came out of Shiho’s mouth.
She seemed to feel guilty about what had happened because of her space movement.
It was a field he was usually confident in, and he seemed even more heartbroken because he had never failed.
She guessed that at that time, a blind man wearing black glasses intervened in his space and the coordinates were disturbed.
It wasn’t her fault in the first place.
“Besides, it would have been a bigger problem if I had moved alone. How scary it is to be alone in a place like this.”
Shiho was silent and bowed his head.
It seemed quite heartbreaking that even a joke didn’t work.
She always seemed to have high self-esteem.
I don’t want the grass to die.
“How are you now?”
“… … Not yet.”
It had only been a few minutes since this happened.
As such, Shiho’s ability to move through space has not returned yet, so we had to wait for her to return.
“Then there is nothing I can do. Let’s take a tour of the island.”
“Is it an island?”
“Isn’t there anything to do anyway? maybe you don’t know It may be a place where people live.”
No matter how many times humans have roamed the Earth, there are probably not many uninhabited islands left on Earth.
It could be a touristic island inhabited by people like the Maldives.
“My clothes were too dry.”
As the sun was shining, the clothes dried quickly.
It could have been bitten by mosquitoes, although there was some salt left over.
In these areas, mosquitoes are more likely to carry malaria.
Mosquito bites should be avoided whenever possible.
Saying that, I got up and put on my clothes, and Shiho followed me without answering.
It was because there was no answer for sitting like this.
‘More than anything else, I want to find some water just in case.’
Water was an essential condition for survival, as long as we didn’t know how long it would take for Shiho’s abilities to return.
It was because it was clear that the thirst would come as much as Shiho and Nana ate a lot of seawater.
It’s such a sunshine
Dehydration may have occurred.
‘Because I am the guardian. I can only do what I am good at.’
Shiho is only 19 years old.
Of course, I am only 26 years old at best, but the elders are responsible.
“Shall we go?”
I grabbed a branch that looked a little thick around and started walking through the woods with Shiho.
Fortunately, I managed to make my way out by cutting the bushes with a branch.
“Aww?!”
At that moment, a scream was heard from behind.
“Shiho-yang?!”
Startled, I swung the twig for self-defense and quickly tried to wrap her around, but I had to stiffen up.
Because there was a huge bug on Shiho’s shoulder.
No, that’s crazy, I want to scream too.
“Ouch! Aww! die! Shiho is dead!”
When Shiho screamed like he was in a state of panic that was worse than when he was moving through space, I hurriedly punched the bug with my fist.
Goosebumps swelled up due to the sticky feeling of being pushed out of my hand, but the bug still fell from Shiho’s shoulder.
Shiho was trembling as if he was terrified by the bugs, and I said, shaking her shoulder.
“It’s okay, Shiho. No more bugs.”
“Hey, hey.”
Shiho wept and burrowed into my chest, sobbing.
Do you tend to regress to infants when they are terrified?
Being so small, I gave her a bitter smile and patted her head until she calmed down.
If such an insect climbs on my shoulder, I think I will be regressing as an infant.
“Take my clothes. We will walk slowly, so let’s go further.”
I couldn’t stay like this all the time, so I had Shiho grab the clothes from behind and started walking forward slowly.
And after a while, I lifted my head to feel the water riding on the wind.
It feels different from the salty sea breeze.
It is certainly. there is water
As I moved a little faster, hurting the bushes, after a while I saw a rippling stream through the forest.
It wasn’t that big, but clean water was flowing.
“Shihoyang, it’s water!”
When I shouted a little brightly, the Shiho behind me showed a trembling sign.
When I turned my gaze back, she had her face flushed red with her head lowered.
It seemed to be a lot of shame because of the fact that he had been raging with bugs before.
Come to think of it, Shiho often showed a pretty chic side.
I trembled like that, so it would be natural if it was natural.
In this case, pretending not to know is the answer.
I went to the water and put my hands in the running water.
Hands touching the water were very cool.
‘Is it okay to eat?’
Still, it doesn’t look like much of a problem.
Even in Korea, I often drink the water that comes down from the mountains, so there would be no problem in such a natural environment.
With that in mind, I took a sip of water with my hand, and as I drank it, I felt the thirst in my throat quenched at once.
The mouth that had been salted with seawater seemed to be alive now.
As I continued to drink, Shiho, who was next to me, also crouched down, put his hands together and took a sip.
Then he opened his eyes wide and after a while he began to drink water vigorously.
It seems that Shiho also had a very dry throat.
“I think I will live.”
“really.”
Perhaps because of drinking the water, his mood was revitalized, and Shiho made a more relaxed expression.
“Keep this in mind, let’s look around a bit more.”
I found a place with water.
This alone was fruitful, so we decided to explore the island a little more.
And after a while we found out that the island we were on wasn’t that big.
Because he came out on the other side after quite a while through the forest.
What you see is the sea that is again empty.
The emerald color of the sea was very pretty, but that was all there was.
“There seems to be no one there.”
“Yes, the island is small.”
I expected it to be a tourist attraction, but it seemed difficult to show on the map at this size.
I felt a little sad, but I didn’t really care.
As the island is small, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of beast.
Above all, any number of animals poses no threat to the hunter Shiho.
It’s because Shiho’s ability to move through space has just stopped, but his physical ability is still a hunter.
To be honest, even though I am a protector, Shiho has to protect me.
‘Cause I’m an ordinary person
“A little rest.”
My ankle was a little sore as I walked in the bushes.
When I suggested to rest, Shiho nodded and we sat in the shade.
After looking around the island, I ran out of things to do.
I wanted to get something to eat, but sometimes I couldn’t tell what was ok to eat.
If I did, something bigger could happen, so I thought I’d find something to eat when I felt like I couldn’t do it.
‘It is said that people can survive for 10 days without eating.’
Since it is a yard with water, there is no need to think too quickly.
Before that, there is a higher probability that Shiho’s ability will return.
“Miss Shiho, I have a question for you.”
So I decided to talk with Shiho during the rest of my time.
When I opened my mouth, Shiho’s gaze turned to this side, and I asked the question I had.
“Miss Shiho isn’t an A-class hunter, is she?”
Shiho said that he was clearly an A-class spatial mobility man.
However, no matter how A-class, it cannot fly to the other side of the earth through space movement.
At best, it is at the level of movement within Korea, but there is no A-class hunter who can move this distance without any burden.
That’s why I decided that Shiho wasn’t an A-class hunter.
She had a high probability of being an S-class like her brother.
“Did you deliberately hide it?”
When I asked the question again, she took a somewhat hesitant look.
Then, he opened his mouth as he decided that it was meaningless to hide more in the yard that had already been discovered.
“no. Because it came out like that in the Hunter measurement. I just didn’t say anything.”
Hunter measurement.
I was also curious about that part.
In other words, she was not measured enough to be an S-class at the time of measurement.
“Something is wrong with you.”
Two returnees who were aiming for Shiho.
Orjia saw them and called them returnees, so that’s for sure.
Why did these two people aim for Shiho?
It must be because Shiho has some special power.
“Honestly, I have a lot of questions about Ms. Shiho. That’s why I had to be in the woods that night.”
There were not one or two strange things about Shiho.
“But it’s okay if Shiho doesn’t want to talk.”
But I didn’t bother asking about it.
She and I are, at best, just face-to-face.
For her, there is nothing to gain from digging into the uncomfortable parts of the story.
At the very least, my doubts will be resolved.
“We just got to know each other. We’ll do it later when we can.”
As the person in charge, I want to maintain a good relationship with her in the future, so I didn’t want to create an uncomfortable relationship.
Seeing me like that, Shiho stayed silent for a while, then leaned his head against the tree.
“… … Would you like to hear the story?”
And the moment her mouth opened, I nodded quietly.
To be honest, I was terribly curious.
9
giraffe.
The exact reason is unknown, but a group of returnees who commit various crimes.
Because of their crimes, they have had numerous clashes with the World Returnees Association so far, and the Kira Castle Association could be called a rivalry.
And they’ve been acting weird lately.
It means that a door is opened through a laptop or cell phone, causing a portal phenomenon.
Although they have never crossed a dangerous level of dimensional species, their actions were considered to be a big problem in each country.
Thanks to this, many returnees belonging to the Returnees Association were searching the world like this.
And Seol-hyang Baek, the president of the World Returnees Association, had a harder face than ever.
It was because of the story he had heard through none other than the returnee Orgia.
“Iron blood!”
At that moment, the door slammed and a man ran in.
Her clothes were covered in blood, and she had her eyes wide open, not paying any attention to it.
“What is Domi oppa?! What happened! Say it right now!”
Her face contorted with anger was like a devil’s napkin.
Cheonma Cheonhongryun.
Although she is now an Earth person, Sora Shin, she had just returned from a battle with a returnee from Gira Castle.
What I heard from her was that Domi and Kang Ha-chan were involved in the movement of space used by Hashiho.
As soon as he heard the news, he ran straight from Gangwon-do to here.
“Be quiet. Because we are finding out.”
Having said that, she looked at the old woman sitting in front of her.
She was none other than a mountain god grandmother with clairvoyance all over the world.
Chun Hong-ryeon, who knew that she was looking for Ha-chan, clenched his fist, biting his teeth.
“Where is Orgia? I need to listen to her.”
“After fighting with a returnee from Giraseong, she is now resting after treatment. Listen to me.”
Seol-hyang Baek, who said that, pressed her hand against her eyes for a moment to change her mind.
This one is also struggling to keep his emotions in check, but the other side is envious of being able to explode his emotions comfortably.
‘If something happens to Ha-chan.’
She bit her lip.
Anxiety and anxiety came over her mind again.
“Hey, you’re crowned.”
“… … I made a mistake.”
At Chun Hong-ryeon’s point, she regained control of her emotions.
After the silver crown on her head disappeared again, she took a deep breath and opened her mouth.
“Once we met, there were two returnees from Gira Castle, one of whom was Sobolev Ekaterina, a Russian and former soldier with lightning-type abilities. On the other side is Kaito Aoki, a Japanese blind and illusionist and space magician.”
As soon as he heard the word Giraseong and the blind, he paused to see if there was anything that came to mind.
“Is it Aoki or Kaito, do you have black glasses and a school uniform?”
“yes that’s right. I am a returnee from the Giraseong side you mentioned back then.”
“You motherf*cker.”
Magical energy began to flow from Cheon Hong-ryeon’s body.
Seeing her eyes turning bright red, Seol-hyang turned her head to the mountain god grandmother.
“Right now, Ha-chan takes priority over such a person. However.”
Meanwhile, Seol-hyang’s face was colder than ever.
Her appearance was the same as the iron-blooded empress herself, enough to feel intimidating even to Cheon Hong-ryeon, a celestial demon.
“After this is over, I will annihilate Giraseong.”
Life gleamed in her blue eyes.
However, as soon as she thought of Ha-chan, her eyes were filled with worries instead of living.
‘It should be fine.’
Maybe this could be a trigger.
Feeling such anxiety, she longed for Ha-chan to be safe.