Chapter 421 – Matching Weapons (1)

After somehow finishing the work as a healer at the company, at work time.

Due to work being more than 30 minutes late than expected, I moved a little faster after finishing my healer job.

I hurriedly moved to my two younger sisters who were waiting for me in the company lobby.

“Jin-ah, Sun-ah, did you wait a long time?”

“Ah, brother! Are you done now?”

“It’s okay, brother. I didn’t wait tediously like my brother thought.”

Han Jin-ah and Han Seon-ah answer calmly even though they would have waited for almost an hour together.

Against them, I apologized for being late, offering excuses that were not excuses.

“Sorry. Still, I thought I would have to do all the people in line before 7 and leave for work…”

“It’s okay, brother. There is only one healer working at the company right now, so you can do whatever you want.”

“It doesn’t matter if you’re late for that reason in the first place! Because I liked that kind of personality from before!”

“Okay. Thanks for understanding, guys.”

As I listened to the two younger sisters’ answers, which radiated cuteness as if breathing, I put on an unknown mask I took out of my subspace pocket.

My two younger sisters, who saw me using this object for the first time, asked me about the artifact I had with curious eyes.

“What is that strange mask? Why does it disappear as soon as you write it on your face?”

“What special effect is there? From my point of view, I don’t think I’m very different from my usual older brother…”

“I know when I see it. How to use it.”

“Huh?”

“…”

Together with the two people, who still don’t know what they are using, they walk through the lobby to the main entrance of the company.

As expected, there were several “Suspicious people” At the main gate of the company today.

“Ah, what is it? It sucks again.”

“Haven’t you already left work? It must have been a long time since it came out.”

“Are you sure that the awakened man went to work today?”

“Yes. According to an insider, other hunters were healed with recovery spells in the treatment room until 7:30 PM today…”

“…”

“…”

The suspicious people, whose purpose seemed clear to anyone, were having a gossip conversation in front of the front door of the company.

Jina and Suna, who quickly read the atmosphere, were also quietly silent and following me.

After walking for about 5 minutes until I was far enough away from the company.

I told my younger sisters, who were still nervous and rolling their eyes, that it was okay now.

“It’s okay. If we had come this far, there would be no reporters.”

“… Wow, what is that all about? When Suna and I went to work, there weren’t people like that.”

“They probably gathered because they wanted to cover my older brother. Because there are probably more than one or two people who want to uncover the identity of the first male Awakener shrouded in a veil and get a scoop.”

“But when I heard you say something, it was a little strange. Just looking at the muttering, it seems like Taekyung is talking about her brother, but she didn’t even think of talking to her brother even though she was looking directly at him?”

“Iknow, right. If you want to find a male Awakener, you might want to talk to your brother. … After all, does that mask have any special power?”

“With this, other people won’t recognize me. Except for those who knew my face from the beginning.”

I briefly explained to my two sisters about the mysterious mask I was wearing.

In addition, he told me how I had been active without being exposed to the media until now.

“Umm, so oppa has been active without being noticed by the media with a mask that makes his impression lighten up like that?”

“… If you think about it, it was a bit strange. Normally, it wouldn’t be strange to be exposed to the world media just for being a male Awakener, but how does your brother act normally?”

“That’s right. As long as he works as a company healer, he doesn’t hide his identity so tightly.”

“As you all say, it is thanks to this mask that I can still work normally. That’s why people inside the company wouldn’t know, and few people outside the company know that I’m an Awakener.”

Among the people who are not affiliated with the company, there must be only Sihee, Eunbyul, and senior Hwayoung.

Other than that, everyone else I met at the Guild had been active while wearing a mask, so they couldn’t associate me with Awoken Males.

The fact that Do Ye-hee, who had disappeared while waiting to see later, still did not retaliate against me, probably also had a considerable influence on this mask.

As much as we met while wearing this mask, the impression of me would remain vague in Do Ye-hee’s head, and it would be impossible to track the person loose.

If she went out on her own, she would remember the impression of me wearing a mask, but well.

She said that she was competing with Si-hee for her successor, and that she would only catch one. She would not be able to leave her seat for several days, so it was more correct to assume that it was virtually impossible for her.

Right now, even Doshi-hee has a limited number of dates to meet with me because of her busy schedule.

“By the way, oppa, you’re still wearing that mask.”

“I am still writing.”

“Aren’t you uncomfortable? Since you’ve fared enough from the company, I think you can take it off soon.”

“I don’t feel particularly uncomfortable, so it’s okay. And the place I have to go with you right now is because I have to go in wearing a mask anyway.”

“Huh?”

Han Jin-ah tilts her head, questioning the statement that she has to wear a mask to enter.

Meanwhile, Seonah Han looked at my face and asked a more fundamental question.

“Come to think of it, where are we going now, brother?”

“Weapons workshop.”

“Huh?”

“Yes?”

“It’s company equipment and Nabal, so let’s match your weapons first.”

“… Yes?”

“Brother… ?”

The two of them looked at me with embarrassed expressions, but it was a matter that had already been decided.

I don’t want to see him come back with all his limbs broken every day.

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Dwarf Blacksmith’s Workshop, Spark of Creation.

Inside the studio behind the store, the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil resonated loudly.

-Kang. Kang!

“…”

A girl pounding a heavy hammer over an anvil while holding the blade with a heavy wrench.

A large chunk of red metal was still taking shape on the anvil from which she struck her hammer.

Every time the girl used her awakening ability to apply heavy force, the hard metal changed its appearance very minutely.

– KANG, KANG, KANG!

“… Huh.”

The half-dwarf girl let out a sigh as if she was slightly tired from the repetitive work she had done for almost three or four hours.

The brown-haired girl, with a hammer that was too big for her size and a chest no less large than that, swung the hammer with all her might as if she was forgetting something, concentrating on her blacksmithing work.

In her heart, Soo-reum was quietly building dissatisfaction at her own hammering, which did not taste as cool as before.

“… Ha ha, that’s a real turnaround. It’s been a few days since I’ve been here and I can’t concentrate…”

She actually knew all too well herself as to why she couldn’t concentrate.

A hunter, Kim Seong-cheol, whom I met by chance in the combination dungeon I entered to test the weapon’s performance.

His presence had been disturbing and disturbing her mind for the past few days, so he couldn’t concentrate.

Perhaps because of her experience of being helped by him two or three times already, she was clearly aware that her feelings for Kim Seong-cheol were growing in her own heart.

Although she still thought of those feelings as just feelings of gratitude and longing.

It is also true that the existence of Kim Seong-cheol in Soo-reum’s head has been a ‘woman’ since his first meeting.

It was because it was too strange to think about feeling this way for her, a woman like hers.

Besides, it was Suareum who even made a mistake a while ago because of that dissociative feeling.

She momentarily recalled the thought, ‘If it’s Kim Seong-cheol’s older sister, she’d be a woman too’, and suddenly made an indirect confession in front of Kim Seong-cheol.

More than a month has passed since the incident. Soo-reum has been regretting her actions several times.

“No matter how much I think about it, it seems like I’m not coming anymore because I said something strange before… This Bingshi girl…”

It was her true heart that suddenly jumped out, but she still had to endure it somehow.

Such ridiculous confessions as saying that I might have fallen in love with a man.

Of course, in reality, Kim Seong-cheol wasn’t even a woman like she thought, and she just hadn’t resolved the misunderstanding that had arisen while wearing her mask of unknown identity.

“Dee Seong-cheol has to tell her sister-ya again that it was a misunderstanding…”

However, resolving her misunderstandings was only possible through a face-to-face conversation.

It was physically impossible for Soo Ah-reum to talk with Kim Seong-cheol, who did not visit her studio.

As a result, it was inevitable that she would naturally have bad imaginations in her situation.

“… What am I doing right now In the first place, a blacksmith should be good at making weapons. What can I do with all my heart for each and every customer…”

– Ding! Ding!

“Yes yes! I’m leaving soon!”

Awakened by the ringing of the call bell, Soo-reum put down the hammer she was wielding and took a slow step towards the door of her shop.

There, it was some time later that she met Kim Seong-chul, whom she had been waiting for so long.