Chapter 334 – Since Ancient Times for a Crazy Bitch (1)

The moment I found Si-hee and Eun-byeol lying on the floor, it was an instinctive movement that reacted before my reason.

I didn’t even have to make a grandiose situational judgment. The sight already in my eyes was enough reason to blow the woman in front of me.

It was fortunate that I was holding a scutum while practicing my shield technique. Thanks to that, I was able to subdue the opponent by ramming my body with the shield.

And in another sense… What he was holding was not a greatsword with high killing power.

At first, I thought it might be some sort of hidden monster in the Black Mud Swamp.

The sight of several mud golems built around her and the two people who were covered in mud and suppressed was, of course, enough to evoke such an imagination.

If I had been holding a greatsword, I might have cut it as it was because of my instincts.

If the target was a monster, it didn’t matter whether they cut it down or not, but if it was a human, it would have caused problems in many ways.

Fortunately or unfortunately, it seemed that it was a person, not a monster, who was hit by my shield and bounced off.

“Ugh…”

I didn’t feel particularly sorry. Even if they were the same person, it was unmistakably true that that person was trying to harm Si-hee and Eun-byeol.

Seeing the mud golems that held Sihee and Eunbyeol slowly collapse with a fuss sound, it seemed that she was right to be controlling the mud golems as I expected.

“Shihee, are you okay?!”

“… Mr. Seongcheol?”

Her eyes trembled as if she still couldn’t grasp the situation.

“… Are you dreaming?”

“It is not.”

“By the way, how…”

Apparently today’s appointment has been canceled, so you want to ask why I’m here.

In fact, I rather wanted to ask her the same question.

There were many other things I wanted to ask after seeing the situation, but I didn’t think I could afford to talk about it right now.

I shook her hand and let her blonde girl’s question go away, and I immediately conveyed her question to understand her current situation.

“We’ll talk about that later, but for now, who is that woman?”

“Yes?”

“It doesn’t look like you and Si-hee are on good terms, are you enemies?”

“Enemy… I win…”

Looking at the hesitation in the answer, it seemed that it was not a relationship that could be expressed simply.

Just as I was about to turn my gaze towards Eunbyeol this time to hear objective information, I heard a voice from the woman who had flown away this time.

“An enemy, it’s disappointing. Shi-hee and I don’t have that kind of relationship.”

A woman with a red side tail got up from her seat after tidying up her clothes before she knew it.

She fixed her eyes on me and Sihee, then arrogantly crossed her arms and spoke to us in a clear voice.

On the contrary, Si-hee was wary of such a woman and expressed her hostility towards her with her main eyes.

He must have been hit by my shield, bounced off, and rolled all over the mud floor, but his clothes and hair were neat and tidy with no traces of anything dirty.

As for controlling the mud golem just a while ago, speculations that it might be an earth mage began to arise cautiously.

Even on her muddy floor, her clear footsteps approached her slowly, her shield held tightly in her hand, her firm vigilance bristling.

“You don’t have to be so vigilant. Really, I’m not Si-hee’s enemy.”

“It didn’t look like that at all from what I had just seen.”

“It was just a normal sister fight. Originally, isn’t it the way that close blood relatives grow up fighting and bumping into each other?”

“…”

“If you don’t believe me, why don’t you ask the child directly? Whether or not I am Shi-hee’s older sister.”

Her too confident demeanor moved her gaze towards her play, and she too, in her own way, shook her head in denial.

“It is a lie. I never thought of a woman like that as my sister.”

“You are lying, Si-hee. When I was younger, I was like her older sister and followed her very well.”

“No! I will never accept a bitch like you as an older sister!”

“Ha, really. Even after losing in a duel, he was so shameless…”

Between the two girls who spit out an argument running parallel lines, I leaned towards Si-hee again and kept my guard on the side-tail woman who was naked.

I wouldn’t know if the two of them were people who were familiar with me, but the girl in front of me was someone I met for the first time today, let alone a friendship.

In this situation, of course, my heart was inclined toward Si-hee, whom I had built a relationship with for a long time.

“I don’t think I need to hear more. Si-hee seems to think of you as an enemy.”

“… This new colleague seems to be quite loyal. I don’t know how long that attitude will last.”

“You sound like loyalty! I don’t have that kind of relationship with Mr. Seongcheol!”

“Hmm, are you saying Seongcheol? It’s something like a man’s name. I will remember.”

“… !!”

The city hee shook her head belatedly grabbing her own mouth that screamed with excitement.

Judging by her general mood, it seemed that she didn’t want her to know who I was.

Maybe the reason I hurriedly canceled the appointment to meet today was because I wanted to avoid a situation where that woman and I ran into each other.

Perhaps the reason why people still don’t think much of it strange when they hear my name is because of the unknown mask. On the day I go to work with a combination, it was almost like a habit to still write and go to work.

I tried to figure out the situation as best I could with the given information, but the identity of that woman was still unclear.

She herself claims that she is Shi-hee’s older sister, but Do-shi-hee vehemently denies the content.

In the atmosphere where a strange tension began to circulate, Eunbyeol’s words came towards me this time.

“… This is Do Ye-hee, the master’s half-sister.”

“Half-sister?”

“It means that the mother is the same, and the father is the other sister. Both the master and Do Ye-hee’s mother are Do Kyung-hee, the current president of the Do-kyung Group, but their fathers are different…”

“Ah, that’s the relationship.”

In a word, does it mean that they are not real sisters, but rather a complicated family relationship?

It was only now that I was able to figure out that Do Ye-hee was the opponent of the succession competition that Doh Shi-hee had often talked about before.

I could understand the fact that the two didn’t seem to get along very well.

After all, sisters who bump into each other every time due to succession competition must have a crack in their relationship that could have gotten better.

Of course, it was just speculation because I wasn’t familiar with the competition for succession among the ladies of large corporations.

After slightly nodding her head at Eunbyeol’s explanation, the red-haired sidetail lady immediately greeted me as if she was happy to see me again.

“You know now, right? That I am that Do Ye-hee.”

“… Alas, yes.”

“Then you know how rude the rudeness you just did to me was, right? Mr. Seongcheol.”

“…”

… Since when did this woman start seeing me, she suddenly calls me by my first name pretending to be friendly

While contemplating whether to call attention to the suddenly narrowing distance, the brazen woman in front of her turned to me and expressed her dissatisfaction with the earlier attack.

“It was very painful. Your shield bash. I heard that you handle swords well, but you seem to be quite good at shield techniques, right?”

“… Did Sihee tell you about me?”

“No! It’s just information that woman found out by doing a background check on you on her own!”

“A behind-the-scenes investigation. It’s just a fact that I found out while looking into Sihee’s recent activities. Choose your words carefully.”

“That’s a background investigation, you bitch!!”

I moved to her in the moment of my gaze on her, in the twinkling lust of her first time hearing her again.

As soon as I said something, Sihee met my eyes and quietly looked away with an expression of regret.

After pathetically enduring the laughter that almost leaked out at her appearance, she answered while moving her gaze to Do Ye-hee, who was making eye contact with me.

“… Well, I’m sure a shield bash from the first meeting would be rude.”

“I’m glad you know me well. This time, I’ll be kind and forgive you in a special way, but next time…”

“But, since you were harassing Si-hee in the first place, wasn’t it something she couldn’t help?”

“… Yes?”

“… Mr. Seongcheol?”

Do Ye-hee slightly frowns and tilts her head as if she sincerely does not understand.

To the woman who showed such a bewildered reaction, I explained the situation just before that, from the first meeting with her, I had no choice but to face her with her shield bash.

“Even if you say you are Si-hee’s older sister…”

“I am not your sister.”

“… Even though they are half sisters, isn’t it true that you were harassing Si-hee and Eun-byeol with your abilities? You might argue that I’m meddling in other people’s family affairs, but I had no choice but to side with Sihee, whom I already know in the same situation.”

“… Are you serious? Are you saying that right in front of me, Ye-hee Do, who is the candidate for the next successor of the Do-kyung Group?”

“I just heard about that, but… It’s not particularly important, is it? In fact, he’s not even the chairman of Dokyung Group.”

“… !!!”

Do Ye-hee, who floats her body with a shaken expression as if she really can’t believe it.

But I had no intention of retracting what I had just said or apologizing for blowing her body away with a shield bash the first time we met.

Even if she were the president herself, not her successor candidate, my actions in the same situation as before would probably not have changed much.

There was a good chance that there could be a misunderstanding since I arrived late, but at least the first sight that caught my eye was the woman wielding her magic against Doshi-hee, who was tied up limbs.

Throwing myself away with a shield in a situation where I didn’t know whether or not the magic had lethal power or danger was the best choice I could make at the time.

It was a very logical and natural thing to do, so I didn’t regret it. In fact, thanks to that act, it was also true that the mud golem that was holding Si-hee and Eun-byeol was freed.

“Bah, I just heard… ? I really don’t know who I am… ?”

“I am not the chairman of a large company, and I remember every single name of the successor candidate. When I first met Shi-hee, I didn’t even know which girl group she was.”

“Nonsense… How can I, the successor candidate of the Dokyung Group…”

Seeing her subconsciously muttering the same words in her own language over and over again, it must have been a great shock to me that I really did not recognize her.

But what can I do when I can’t say I know what I don’t know.

For the hunters belonging to the foundation, most of them will be descendants of conglomerates or celebrities, so information on self-restraint from the Dokyung Group is a must. It was unnecessary knowledge.

Rather, it is better to accumulate the knowledge to become a Hunter during that time.

“… Didn’t I know either? Uh, somehow, from the first meeting with her, I felt that she treated her too openly.”

… Seeing that the lady here has a similar reaction, it might just be that all the Hunters from the Foundation feel this way.