Chapter 194
Chapter 194. To the End of the Land (7)
“Then, just give me a tight hug once. So tight that I can’t breathe at all!”
“That’s also rejected.”
“Or how about my butt…”
“I have no interest in your auntie’s butt.”
“If you touch it just once, you’ll change your mind!”
Jerry had made a request that Yoo Ji-han had never heard of in his entire life.
Even Lee Dong-gil and Kim Si-hu, who were listening from the side, were taken aback by her requests.
Yoo Ji-han rejected all of them and said, “You really are out of your mind.”
“I’m perfectly sane!”
To be asking for such trivial things at the moment when death seemed imminent.
It didn’t sound like she was joking.
It seemed like she really earnestly desired those actions.
“Why are you staring at me like that? Am I too pretty?”
Feeling her gaze, Jerry covered her chest with her hand.
Considering how brazen she was until the end, it must be a personality she was born with.
Yoo Ji-han clicked his tongue and said, “Unfortunately, you’re not dying here.”
“Uh? Why?”
“I’m going to exchange the hero captured in Yeosu for you.”
Yoo Ji-han was thinking of handing Jerry over in exchange for Jung Young-wook from the people from another world.
If the condition was to exchange hostages captured from one another, then Rius, who had been leading their group, wouldn’t easily refuse either.
It seemed like there was a strong camaraderie among the humans who had crossed over to Ajesia together.
“Aha! You mean that male magician?”
“You’ve seen that magician?!”
“I did. I met him and talked.”
“He’s not in any danger, right?”
“He’s not dead. He was being managed separately, so he should still be alive.”
Jerry readily admitted to Jung Young-wook’s survival.
Kim Si-hu felt relieved inside at hearing that he was safe.
“If that’s a lie, you’ll have to pay for it.”
“……You’re that magician who used that spell earlier.”
Jerry’s eyes sparkled as if she had discovered something wondrous.
“I thought you were just a hero tagging along with us, but I didn’t expect you to be hiding such power.”
“I’m not really interested in your compliments.”
“Why? Compliments are always good, right?”
“Don’t say such things when you’re killing innocent humans!”
“Eh? I haven’t killed anyone.”
“……?”
At Jerry’s response, Yoo Ji-han and Kim Si-hu were momentarily speechless.
Could that crazy woman really not have committed murder?
But Jerry spoke without changing her expression.
“I don’t do murder. I don’t really like human corpses.”
“Liar.”
“Not lying.”
“Then what about the bloody equipment you dropped at the airport?”
“They’re all alive. I just knocked them out and stripped their equipment. They probably woke up and ran away long ago.”
“You said yourself that you killed them.”
“That was just to provoke you. I thought the reaction would be interesting. And it was, too.”
“What about those heads lying on the ground…!”
“That was killed by my companion.”
Jerry, who claimed to have never killed anyone since her birth.
While Kim Si-hu was at a loss for words, Yoo Ji-han said, “Even if everything you say is true, you stood by while murders happened.”
“That’s true.”
“You’re no different from them.”
Jerry shrugged her shoulders as if she had nothing to say.
“Si-hu.”
“Yes?”
“Can you extract her magic?”
“I can still do that much.”
Kim Si-hu grabbed one of Jerry’s shoulders and started extracting her magic.
Yoo Ji-han held Jerry’s head still to prevent her from moving.
“Ow…! This is quite a new sensation.”
“Don’t move.”
“Hey, if you’re going to save me, at least handle me a little more gently.”
Jerry rubbed her head against Yoo Ji-han’s palm.
It seemed like she was trying to make contact with him just a bit more.
She even stuck out her red tongue to lick his hand.
Yoo Ji-han tightened his grip to keep her head firmly in place.
‘It feels like I’m looking at a beast, not a human.’
A type that faithfully followed its instincts rather than its intellect.
From the first conversation, Yoo Ji-han felt that Jerry was a person who was the exact opposite of himself.
“It’s done.”
“Ah! Don’t let go and touch me a bit longer!”
“Shut up.”
Bam!
Yoo Ji-han gave Jerry a playful flick on the head and received the magic stone from Kim Si-hu.
An elite selected even among the people from another world.
Jerry, who was among those elites, undoubtedly had valuable information within her memories.
“Let’s go.”
—Nom nom!
As the Sylph consumed the magic stone, darkness enveloped Yoo Ji-han’s vision.
And after about 5 seconds…
The surroundings brightened up, revealing an unfamiliar landscape.
‘This place is…’
A situation where Jerry was battling a group of heroes.
The heroes, gradually getting pushed back by the combined attack of the monsters, eventually suffered a major shock and fainted.
The heroes, who were likely to become monster prey at any moment.
However, the monsters didn’t devour the heroes but instead stripped off their equipment and loaded it onto their backs.
All of it was equipment from the Dice Guild members that Jerry had dropped at the airport.
‘So, she really doesn’t kill.’
As Yoo Ji-han nodded, concluding his confirmation.
The Sylph showed him another scene.
—Are you sure you sent the Rank 1 Heroes away?
—Yeah! The Captain’s plan succeeded perfectly.
It was a memory related to the missing heroes.
*
“How are you feeling?”
“The dizziness has considerably decreased.”
[Healing]
[Refresh]
[Holy Mist]
Lee Dong-gil used various healing spells on Kim Si-hu.
From spells that accelerated physical recovery to those that dispelled anxious feelings.
After receiving a full set of healing spells, Kim Si-hu felt much better.
“Si-hu!”
“Ah, Sister Yu-ri!”
At that moment, Min Yu-ri came running toward Kim Si-hu, accompanied by Chilla.
Behind her were the members of Kim Hyun-tae’s Party, who had escaped from the swarm of mosquitoes.
They came to inform him that they had successfully won the battle.
“They really killed them all.”
“Was that the magic that appeared in the air earlier?”
“It must be a unique magic. How did they even manage to use such magic…!”
The members of Kim Hyun-tae’s Party whispered as they gazed at the dead monsters on the ground.
There were so many mosquito corpses that with every step forward, over ten were crushed underfoot.
“No, that’s!”
Leading the party, Kim Hyun-tae widened his eyes.
He discovered Jerry and Im Min-soo, who had been bound and unable to move.
“That’s them!”
“They’re still alive?”
Im Si-yeon and Hwang Joon-ho questioned why Yoo Ji-han had spared the enemies.
Crack!
Kim Hyun-tae ground his teeth audibly.
It was because those pathetic creatures, the mosquitoes, had left a big scratch on his pride.
“Camera!”
“What?”
“Take a picture of me!”
Kim Hyun-tae shouted instructions to the cameraman and dashed forward.
He didn’t know why Yoo Ji-han had spared the two, but he couldn’t let them be left alone.
“Kim Hyun-tae! Stop right there!”
A startled Lee Mi-a hurriedly followed behind him.
[Dragon’s Charge]
Kaboom!
The ground shook as if an earthquake had occurred.
With every spot Kim Hyun-tae stepped on, cracks formed in the floor, raising clouds of dust.
‘I’ll kill him!’
He sliced the still-bloodied monster corpses with his great sword and charged straight toward the bound Jerry and Im Min-soo.
“Uh? What is that person doing right now?”
“Action?!”
Everyone was taken aback by Kim Hyun-tae, who was quickly getting closer.
Only Jerry, who was the target of his rage, calmly said, “He’s trying to kill me.”
“What?!”
“When is our self going to wake up?”
Since Yoo Ji-han was taking longer than usual to review the memories,
The party members had no choice but to step in instead.
“Stop!”
“Eep!!”
Chilla, holding a shield, stepped in front of Kim Hyun-tae.
But Kim Hyun-tae simply ignored Chilla and jumped high.
“If you don’t want to get hurt, all of you should scram!”
[Meteor Smash]
Kim Hyun-tae and his great sword came crashing down like a meteor, aimed at Jerry.
Startled, Kim Si-hu and Lee Dong-gil quickly dodged the attack.
Looking up, Jerry wore a bitter expression.
“I wanted to at least get a kiss before dying…”
Just as the blade of the great sword was about to touch Jerry’s body.
Kaboom—!!
With a tremendous crash, a powerful shockwave erupted around them.
Lee Dong-gil and Kim Si-hu, who were nearby, felt their skin tingle from the force.
Had they been involved in the attack, their bodies would surely have been shattered.
But since the shock was dispersed around them,
It meant that someone had countered the attack.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“Yoo Ji-han…!”
The one who blocked the attack in front of Jerry was Yoo Ji-han.
Kim Hyun-tae was filled with rage at having his attack intercepted,
But Yoo Ji-han pressed his sword against Kim Hyun-tae’s with force.
Kang! Kang!
The two swords clashed, creating a harsh grinding sound as they struggled against each other.
Then Kim Hyun-tae widened his eyes in shock.
‘That guy can withstand my power? Yoo Ji-han of all people?’
He had never fought directly with a Rank 1 Hero,
But Kim Hyun-tae had confidence that his physical abilities would not be inferior to any hero.
Yet for ‘that Yoo Ji-han’ to not be pushed back directly was a small bruise to Kim Hyun-tae’s pride once again.
“Get out of my way right now.”
“You should step back first.”
A mental tug-of-war ensued between the two.
As the tense atmosphere wrapped around them.
“Can’t you both just stop?”
Thanks to Lee Mi-a’s intervention, the standoff between the two ceased.
Yoo Ji-han retrieved his sword first and thought.
‘Whew, that brute force is still as formidable as ever.’
He felt a tingling sensation in his wrist that held the sword.
If he hadn’t wrapped his body in buffs, he would have been pushed back much easier.
Surely, it was the kind of power that Kim Hyun-tae, the hero he remembered, possessed.
He could have withstood even longer if he had set his mind to it, but thankfully it didn’t come to that.
More than anything, the blade of the sword was screaming as if it might break.
‘It’s too much to face a top-tier artifact.’
Kim Hyun-tae’s great sword, made by a high-level craftsman with quality materials.
It was a weapon that held both high destructive power and durability, much like its oversized size.
Having seen the results Kim Hyun-tae achieved with that weapon right beside him, he understood clearly.
Even though Nam Ho-yeol’s sword was classified as the same artifact, the qualitative difference was huge.
Whack!
Kim Hyun-tae stabbed the sword into the ground and pointed a finger at Jerry.
“Why aren’t you killing those trash? You’d better explain properly so I don’t misunderstand you.”
“There’s a hero captured in Yeosu. I’m going to exchange her for him.”
Upon hearing there was a hostage, Kim Hyun-tae immediately shut his mouth.
Though his expression was dissatisfied, he seemed to understand the intent.
To which Yoo Ji-han narrowed his eyes and said.
“If you subdued your enemies and spared their lives, there must be a reason for that.”
“You might be in cahoots with them…”
“That’s just your baseless delusion.”
“……”
“Most importantly, isn’t it a bit embarrassing to return after running away only to try and kill previously subdued enemies?”
“Shut up!”
Kim Hyun-tae turned red in the face at Yoo Ji-han’s criticism of his actions.
“Don’t you dare insult me!”
“I wouldn’t want to, but you’re making me do it.”
“You punk…!”
“I’ve endured for 7 years under you, so you probably still see me below you. I honestly don’t care about that. But…”
Yoo Ji-han lightly tapped his own temple with his index finger.
“If you have a head, at least think before you act. You stubborn brat.”
