chapter 92
EPISODE 92
Won Deoksam sank to the ground, grumbled, and dug into his pockets for a cigarette and lighter.
He lit the cigarette, inhaled deeply, and spat out the smoke. Like a bad person, he had no qualms about smoking indoors.
The pungent smell of tobacco irritated Hee-na’s nostrils. She didn’t like the smell of other people’s smoke, but the pungent aroma made her feel alert.
“First, we have to get out of here. What if he tries to hurt me badly to get more of my secrets?
She couldn’t afford to have any more secrets stolen.
Hee-na stood on her tiptoes again and pushed the chair back with a lurch.
“Oh, shut up, young lady, shut up!”
The man burning a cigarette shouted at the noise.
He looked terribly exhausted after using his strange skill on Hee-Na. It was a good thing. It would be good to get away while he was distracted.
“Ikcha!
Hee-na swayed back and forth, unperturbed by the man’s yelling.
The chair tilted backward, and before she knew it, her back was against the wall with a thud, and she felt the solidity of the wall against her tied hands behind her back.
“Oh my God, Duya……. What a penalty.”
The man scratched his head, tossed the butts, and stomped his feet. As his gaze fell to the floor, Hee-na cast Home Sweet Home.
There was a door behind the chair, and she fumbled with her hands to find the doorknob. Her wrists were tied together, making mobility difficult, but she was eager.
“……I’m here!”
She groped along the wall and finally grabbed the handle. Her muscles ached as she twisted her broken wrists to turn the doorknob. But the pain didn’t matter in the face of escape.
Hee-na gripped the door knob and looked up at the man, who was still grunting and rubbing his head to see if his headache had abated.
He looked lethargic, but he was close enough that it wouldn’t be strange if he jumped up at a moment’s notice and pounced on her.
My heart pounded in fear that I’d be caught before I could turn the doorknob all the way.
And then…….
Chulkuck.
The sound of the lock being unlocked rang loudly in the silent warehouse.
“Was the door that loud?
A cold sweat trickled down Hee-Na’s back.
“What was that?”
The man looked up, rubbing his temples to see if he heard it too.
It was then that the front door opened. With a click, the door swung open behind Hee-Na’s back, and fluorescent light streamed in through the wide-open front door.
“Huh? What, what?”
The man looked startled by the sudden light, but he quickly regained his composure and staggered to his feet, trying to snatch Hee-Na out of her chair.
“Oh, no!
Hee-Na gritted her teeth and rocked back and forth. She leaned forward as far as she could, then used the recoil to push the chair back.
“Where are you going!”
At that moment, the man reached out to grab her.
But she narrowly escaped his fingers.
Instead, she leaned back in her chair. With her weight resting on the back legs of the chair, her back pushed the door open.
“Boom!”
Hee-Na hit the floor with a thud, still strapped to the chair. But she barely had time to feel the pain shooting through her body.
“Sa, help me! Go away! Get off!”
Hee-na screamed as she collapsed in front of the familiar front door shoe rack.
Meanwhile, the man quickly regained his composure.
“What is this, is this the spatial skill?”
He cautiously approached the open front door of Home Sweet Home.
“No! It’s supposed to be closed!
Hee-Na mentally stomped her foot. Her restraints prevented her from closing the wide-open front door.
‘If this was a smaller house, I would have realized the commotion and come out!
For the first time, Hee-Na resented the spaciousness of her ‘home sweet home’. The house had gotten so big that she couldn’t hear the commotion at the front door.
“Miss, let’s talk about this skill slowly.”
The man’s eyes seemed to glow.
Frightened by the eerie threat, Hee-na called out desperately to her family.
“Help! Brother, brother, brother, brother, brother, brother, help! Help!
Puck!
A huge shadow fell over the man for a split second.
“Ugh!”
As the man approached Hee-na, he was struck in the torso by something that sent him sprawling.
It was Baduk.
“Baduk!”
Hee-na yelled out the name of the heroic figure.
The Go player took one look at Hee-na’s condition, then thumped his roots on the ground in anger. Then he charged at the man like a raging bull.
Tadadak!
With a loud bang, Baduk jumped on top of the fallen man.
“Mo, it’s a monster!”
The man quickly pulled out a knife from his inventory.
But the palm-sized knife was only good for threatening people, and it was no match for the nearly two-meter-tall monster.
He couldn’t even cut a single leaf from the dungeon’s well-hardened foliage.
He raised his arm, or rather, his leaf, high into the air. He swiftly slashed at the man’s face.
Pa!
“Ugh!”
The man’s scream rang out with the sound of a hard slap. But the housekeeper had no mercy.
Pair! Pair! Pair!
The Go player switched leaves and slapped the man hard on both cheeks.
The blow sounded so strong that one wondered if a human face could make such a sound.
“Landlord?! Landlord?! ♨ ☎112!!!! ☎112!!!! ☎112!!!!”
Meanwhile, Oh Sae-yi, who had been running as fast as a snail can run, was hovering by Hee-na’s side.
He was so alarmed by Hee-na’s condition that he drew 112 in the air.
“What’s the matter……? What happened while I was washing?”
Hee-won stepped out of her panties to wash and her mouth dropped open at the mess in front of her.
“Hee-na, what a mess!”
The sight of her brother’s stupefied state in his boxers brought her to her senses.
Hee-Na screamed.
“Brother, don’t just stand there, untie me!”
“Oh, okay!”
Hee-won rushed over and untied Hee-na’s hands and feet. He was very embarrassed, but he had no trouble freeing her hands and feet.
Hee-won was a 10th-year Hunter who had been a slave herself. She knew how to react quickly to emergencies.
“What the hell is going on? Why are you tied up like this? Were you trafficked or something?”
“Something like that. I am kidnapped.”
“How?”
“Do you understand?”
Hee-Na scrambled to her feet, rubbing her numb limbs.
Outside the open door, the sound of mate, mate, and slap still echoed. It was the sound of Go chastising a man.
“Is that him? Did he do this to you?”
Hee-won asked, pointing at the man beneath him.
“Yep. I think he kidnapped me.”
“That bastard……!”
A sharp blade appeared in Hee-won’s hand as if he’d pulled it out of his inventory, and he stalked toward the man with a ferocious glare.
The sight of him felt very reassuring to Hee-Na.
……even if he was only wearing his boxers.
Hee-na followed her brother and slowly approached the man.
One! One! One! One!
The man was lying on his stomach and being spanked by the go player. The swinging of the leaves was just as frightening as the sound.
“Baduk, wait.”
Hee-na stopped him.
She didn’t want him to get killed. Of course, there was no better way to silence him than with a killing blow, but there was more to find out.
“I need to know how he knew about my brother’s peanuts, how he connected me to them, and why he kidnapped me.
There was no guarantee that this person would be the last person to harm Hee-Na. She had to find a way.
Meanwhile, Baduk stopped swinging the leaf, and the man’s body went limp. He had been slapped so hard on the cheek that he had passed out.
Hee-na took the rope that had tied him up and handed it to her brother.
“What, do you want me to strangle him?”
Hee-na rolled her eyes as Hee-won shouted at her.
“No. Tie him up. I have a lot to ask him.”
There were so many things to ask him.
* * *
My jaw was stiff, and I felt a dull ache in my face.
“Ouch…….”
Won Deoksam opened his eyes with a groan. Then, a bright light leaked through his eyelids.
At the same time, an unfamiliar scene unfolded before his eyes.
[Kyo-oh-oh-oh! Kyo-oh-oh-oh!]
Monsters flew in circles across the vast expanse of the sky. A faint salty smell emanated from them, accompanied by the sound of crashing, crashing waves.
“Where am I, am I dreaming?”
Won Deoksam moved his hands to rub his eyes, but his body refused to cooperate. His arms and legs were tied tightly to the chair.
“What is this? What is happening?”
He racked his brain to recall the moments before he woke up.
He traced the source of the rare peanuts in his inventory and found a woman who seemed to be connected to it. She was an employee of the Blue Dragon Guild.
Her exact affiliation was unknown, but she had been in the cleaning squad not too long ago, so she must be a non-Awakened or non-combatant Awakened.
……That meant he didn’t seem dangerous at all.
Won Deoksam wasn’t the type to make a big deal out of things, so he decided to follow her.
But what a surprise. While following her, a quest popped up.