269. Bottchi the Alice (1)

─ Kyaaah!!

Drake’s mouth opened as he aimed for Kang Do-hee’s head.

It felt like those sharp teeth were about to chew through her head and swallow it.

“Tch!”

Kang Do-hee, who was clicking his tongue, quickly raised his head.

Kwajik!

Drake’s teeth closing right in front of Kang Do-hee’s nose.

Kang Do-hee didn’t miss the gap and reached out, grabbed Drake’s mouth, and turned his body over.

Landed directly on top of the big guy’s head.

─ Keeeeeeek!!!

Then Drake started to convulse and shook his head from side to side.

Normally, she would have been accustomed to this situation and would have maintained her balance and attacked.

A situation where one has not yet adapted to the suppressed power.

I had to use all my strength to just hold on and hold on to Drake’s neck.

“Ahhh!! No way! My 938,000 won shield is aaa …

When I glanced down at the screams I heard, I saw Jin Yu-ha climbing up the cliff, kicking away his shield.

And further down, Yuri was screaming as each shield fell.

Taat!

“Ah! Ah! My, my! A shield worth 2,265,000 won that I got after discounting 35,000 won from the original price of 2,300,000 won!!!”

Taat!

“Eww!! That, that! My! 3,499,900 won shield!!!!! I bought it during the shield crisis and now I can’t even get it for that price!!!”

Taat!

“Ah, no way!!! It’s a mistake by Tuntunz, the luxury shield manufacturing company! A shield worth 4,217,400 won!!!”

Kang Do-hee made eye contact with Jin Yu-ha, who was quickly climbing up.

Then Jin Yu-ha nodded.

Even without him saying anything, I could quickly figure out what he was trying to say.

I guess you’re asking me to create a gap.

“Ugh!”

Kang Do-hee let out a short shout.

I wrapped my legs around Drake’s neck and locked them with my ankles crossed.

It felt like my legs would give out at any moment due to my thick neck, but it only took a moment.

Then Drake becomes even more excited.

“Just stay still!”

Kang Do-hee clasped both hands together, crossed his fingers, and raised them above his head.

“there is!!!!!”

Kwaaang!!!

Let’s put some strength into our hands and bring them down. Drake’s head is stuck in the cliff in an instant.

“Good job, Kang Do-hee.”

Jin Yu-ha, who had arrived just then, was aiming his sword in the air.

aaa …

Phew!!

The place he was aiming for was Drake’s philtrum.

Jin Yu-ha’s sword went in briefly and then came out.

And at that moment.

Kang Do-hee released his ankle and grabbed the end of the shield right next to him with one hand and fell off Drake’s back.

And the other hand stretched out towards Jin Yu-ha.

“Yellow!!! Hand!!!”

Hot.

Kang Do-hee, who succeeded in grabbing Jin Yu-ha’s hand, kicked Drake’s torso with his foot.

Drake falls down the cliff as his claws that were stuck in the wall come off.

─ Kueeeeek······!

The screams the guy was making slowly faded away.

thud!

under.

Kang Do-hee sighed and looked down.

Jin Yu-ha, hanging on, holding onto her own hand.

He looked up and chuckled.

“Nice. Kang Poppy.”

“I said, ‘Kang Poppy!’ Don’t say that!”

She threw Jin Yu-ha up with force in her hand.

Jinyu settled on the cliff, sticking his sword into the wall.

She too put strength into her shield-holding hand and leapt upward.

and.

The shield that Kang Do-hee was holding also fell down.

“Ah, that, that really won’t do!!! It’s a brand new shield that I bought a week ago!!! I, I bought it at Dandan Girls with all my heart and without even getting a discount, it’s a 7,500,000 won shield!!!”

Yuri Lee’s pitiful scream echoed.

*

in the end.

We climbed all the way up the cliff.

However, Yuri still has no intention of falling off the cliff.

He was looking down at the distant cliff with eyes overflowing with foolishness.

“My, my shield······.”

He approached Gukbap, who seemed to be playful, and touched her shoulder.

“It’s okay, Gukbap. The shields will be happy in heaven too. Just buy another good one.”

Then Gukbap suddenly turned his head.

Tears welling up in her eyes and her lips pursed tightly.

“You, you! Jin Yu-ha! How could you say something like that!!! What kind of kids are those kids!!”

“What kind of kids are they?”

“These are the kids I brushed every day, massaged them with the best oils, and even sang songs to make them stronger!!”

‘Hmm, if I listen to a song that makes me stronger, will my shield become stronger?’

Yuri Lee is making an unknown sound like a slanderous onion.

I chuckled.

“Kick, just kidding. It’ll be okay.”

“······what?”

“You think the shield would break if it fell off a cliff? Then it’s a scam. It’s probably still there, undamaged.”

When I said that, Gukbap’s expression softened a little as if he had calmed down.

Still feeling uneasy, he asked in a shrunken voice.

“Really, is that so······? But, what if someone takes it?”

“No one comes to Taebaeksan anyway. No one has come here in the past ten years, so who would come here? If it weren’t for our compass, we wouldn’t have come this way.”

“That, that’s right······? When I go looking for them later, they’ll all be waiting for me, right?”

“Yeah, okay. Don’t be depressed for no reason. Let’s go.”

“······okay.”

Yuri took the hand I extended and stood up.

Still, he would occasionally glance at his shields below, perhaps concerned about them.

‘Hmm, really, no one has come for 10 years, so I don’t think someone will suddenly come looking for me······?’

Jin Yu-ha and the party headed to the inspector’s residence, not knowing that the flag had been raised again.

* * *

one side,

Alice heard her grandmother say that guests were coming.

She fidgeted and paced in circles in front of the bathroom mirror.

‘A guest! A guest all of a sudden! This is so sudden! I’m not even ready······!’

Alice.

Real name, Kim Mal-sook.

Ten years ago, she lost both her parents to the monsters at the Gate and was taken in by the Sword Master.

After being taken in by the inspector like that,

She grew up her entire life in this remote Taebaek Mountains.

Of course, I have occasionally gone out with my grandmother to buy necessities.

Even then, I only bought the necessary items and came back.

I’ve never had a proper conversation with anyone.

As for my relationships with friends, all I learned was from comic books and animations I found outside.

Her only conversation partner was Geomje.

I didn’t understand it before, but I can understand it now. At that time, the inspector was a very famous person.

That’s because there were a lot of people targeting her.

That is, the grandmother lived in seclusion in this remote mountain area where no one came to raise her.

So, when I heard my grandmother say that I should enroll in the academy next year, right away.

She thought.

Never let anyone look down on you.

In the comics and animations she encountered, students from rural areas who entered school were always ignored and bullied.

– It looks really old-fashioned.

– What are you talking about······.

– The name is weird too.

That’s why she made up her mind ahead of her Academy debut!

She changed her rustic appearance and name and became friends with the new Kim Mal-sook, or rather the new Alice.

It was all because of this that he dyed his brown hair white, put in blue colored contact lenses, and even changed his name to that of a female character in an animation.

In the animations I used to watch, people admired and flocked to characters with such a cold vibe.

I want to get attention, but I don’t have the confidence to react and it feels burdensome.

For her, the cold and beautiful character was the perfect personality and image for her ideal.

It was awkward at first, but I practiced my facial expressions and speech in front of the mirror every day, so now it seems a little better.

‘Shouldn’t you speak a little more coldly······.’

Alice looked up at the mirror.

“How petty.”

“Hmm, is that all there is to it?”

“Tsk, I enrolled for nothing. It would have been better to just practice on my own like I always did······.”

“Huh, buddy? I have no intention of playing such a petty game.”

“Pfft, you······. Okay, buddy. I’ll do it. I’ll consider it an honor.”

She recited the lines of characters from the animation verbatim.

“······.”

The dull, cold face in the mirror slowly crumbled.

She covered her face with both hands and stamped her feet.

“Ewwwww!! I don’t know! I don’t know! Seriously, what should I do!? Is this right!? Seriously, I don’t know! How can I do well in front of guests like this!? What are you going to do for the Academy next year!”

She, who was making such a fuss all by herself, suddenly stopped.

“Wait a minute, Grandma, if you’re a guest······. But you’re still Grandma’s age, right?”

Well then, wouldn’t it be okay to try it out in front of them?

Surely, people my grandmother’s age wouldn’t attend Velvet Hunter Academy.

Even if he made a mistake, there was a high probability that it would be seen as just the awkwardness of a child.

match!

She hit my cheeks hard with her hands.

Phew.

She looked into the mirror with her face red from the handprints.

Fortunately, though, her appearance was exactly like the girl from the animation she used to watch.

“Welcome to the Forest of the Sword Master, strangers. I am the Sword Master’s granddaughter, Alice.”

Bow.

She waved her hands widely and lowered her head, then quickly raised her head.

hmm.

okay.

Let’s cheer up.

Alice nodded resolutely with the expression of a warrior fighting the Demon King.

“Malsuk-ah! It looks like the guests are near─I’ll go out and see them off.”

I heard my grandmother’s voice.

‘Hey, don’t call me Malsuk!’

Alice opened the bathroom door and went outside.

‘Well, at least she’s the same age as my grandmother······. I don’t think it would be a problem if her real name was revealed······.’

She didn’t know.

The fact that the people who came to see her were actually her immediate seniors.

And one of them is very interested in her.