Chapter 438 – The Proper Use of Plant Magic (3)

“I don’t know what offer the kid made to you and you’re holding on, but if you come into my party, he’ll give you double that.”

“… Double?”

“Yes. Twice. Whether it be money, goods, or whatever.”

… What are you saying you crazy bitch?

As soon as I heard Do Ye-hee’s absurd suggestion, the first thought that popped into my head almost jumped out of my mouth without passing through the filter.

Did he steal Si-hee’s connections as his own in this way?

I’ve thought about how human relations between chaebols are a little different from those of ordinary people, but I never thought I’d make such a blatant suggestion.

It was such a shameless proposal that I didn’t expect it at all, so no matter how much I was, I couldn’t help but disappear at her words.

And I don’t know, but the connections Si-hee has made so far will mean that she gave up on Do Ye-hee’s blatant suggestion and abandoned her.

He probably had to turn around a lot more than talking to a commoner hunter like me, but the essential content of the conversation itself wouldn’t be much different.

He can give more than Doshi-hee himself.

He is closer to the successor of the Dokyung Group than Doshihee.

He has more potential than Doshi-hee.

Perhaps, with these stories, he would have gained an upper hand in the competition for successor by absorbing Si-hee’s personal connections.

Of course, apart from that, the words that would come out of my mouth were already decided from the beginning.

“What if you don’t like it?”

“Can you not like it? This is my offer.”

“Yeah, no.”

“You are more snobbish than I thought. Maybe even twice is not enough?”

“It doesn’t matter whether it’s twice or ten times. In the first place, Si-hee and I didn’t have a material relationship, so there was no reason to worry about your proposal in the first place.”

Of course, if you ask me if I really didn’t receive anything material from Sihee, sadly I didn’t.

The clothes I’m wearing right now were also bought by Sihee at the department store on our first date, and Sihee’s role was mostly to set up restaurants and dating courses on each date.

On the other hand, all I did was a hotel fee that was less than half of the cost of a meal, and a little strong sex every time I liked it.

If I were to judge only whether I received or gave something to Si-hee, most of them were close to receiving-only relationships.

However, it is just an unavoidable phenomenon that arises from differences in gender and status.

It is said that Si-hee’s family is ruined immediately and she becomes her commoner, or that I unexpectedly win an overseas lottery and become her fortune-teller.

The current relationship between me and Sihee, who want each other’s bodies and share love, was not going to change in the future.

If I had the personality to judge people with money, I wouldn’t have been friends with Minah in the first place, and I wouldn’t have calculated the cost of the twins’ customized weapons instead.

“If not a material relationship, what is it?”

“What is it? Are you the kind of person who can’t date someone if you don’t pay a friend fee?”

“Are you claiming that a friendship has sprouted between the Commoner Hunter and the Foundation Hunter? You tell an interesting story.”

Friendship? At least it’s a much deeper relationship than friendship.

At least it would have been a much more serious and sticky relationship than that woman could have imagined.

“Anyway, if you heard what I said, get out of here. I have nothing more to say about the offer you made to me.”

“…”

“You said you only came to talk with your mouth? Now that the conversation with you is over, get out of here quickly.”

“Hmm…”

After hearing my answer, Do Ye-hee suddenly salivates with serious eyes.

With a serious expression on her face as if she was thinking about something, she stayed in front of the front door and started muttering something to herself.

“… This time, it seems like you’ve been dating the right person for the first time in a while.”

“…?”

“But that rude attitude and foul language need to be corrected. It’s because it’s not good for Si-hee’s emotions…”

“What are you muttering to yourself? Do you want to get off soon?”

“… First of all, let’s do something quiet.”

Charleuk. Do Ye-hee folds the fan that half covered her face with a sound.

Centered on the fan, her red magic spread and began to flow down the ground.

Sensing an ominous energy, I hurriedly took out a spear and a skutum shield from my subspace pocket and mounted them on both hands.

The flow of this magical power was almost the same as when Cha Yu-ri was right before she started using her full-fledged magic.

At least I was pretty sure that this woman would simply listen to my rejection and she wouldn’t back down.

– Chideok.

-Chideok, chideok.

The unpleasant sound of something wriggling, like mud and dirt.

Even though it wasn’t a very common sound, I was able to figure out what it was.

Because, in the duel with Do Ye-hee the other day, I vaguely heard a similar sound in my ears.

“I’m like a lady, so if you stay calm, I’ll make sure you don’t get sick.”

“What if you don’t stay quiet?”

“… Well, I’ll make sure you don’t get sick ‘as much as possible’. It’s because he’s also Si-hee’s acquaintance.”

Eventually, several strands of mud tentacles suddenly emerged from Do Ye-hee’s back.

The nasty summoned creature I had witnessed in the previous duel was squirming and wriggling as if it were going to run at me at any moment.

I made eye contact with the uninvited woman while holding my spear and shield so that I could respond at any time.

-Grasp!

“… !!”

Without warning, Do Ye-hee’s mud tentacles rushed into the house at high speed.

I thought it would be better to remove them one by one, so I slashed the nearest tentacle in half with the spear I was holding.

Immediately, the mud tentacles that came from the opposite direction were blocked by the Scutum Shield.

“…”

-Paaak!

Do Ye-hee silently summons another tentacle and thrusts it at me, regardless of whether I block her summons or not.

Since it is earth magic that needs to be used by borrowing intellect, I thought that I would not be able to use the ability suddenly indoors.

Judging from the fact that he deliberately talked to her in front of the front door, it seemed that he had predicted this situation from the beginning.

Just in case I didn’t agree to the conversation, or if I didn’t agree to the conditions she had put out like now.

“This… !”

– Chow!

Fortunately, it was an opponent who had already won once in a previous duel. Also, from past experiences, it might have been that he had some experience in dealing with mud summons.

The problem was that the more annoying penalty was holding me back.

In an environment that was not very good for continuing the battle as usual, I blocked Do Ye-hee’s tentacles from attacking me with limited movements.

“… !”

“Why is that? He didn’t attack while actively wielding his sword and shield like last time.”

“… !!”

“Well, in such a narrow battlefield, it would be difficult to move freely like back then. Unlike dungeons, this is not a place where you can break and ruin it at will.”

… Cowardly year.

He was really cunning in that he deliberately drove me into the house and dragged mud tentacles from outside.

He used his awakening ability to his heart’s content and put pressure on me, but on the contrary, my awakening ability couldn’t exert its maximum output.

In such a narrow place, if you swung your shield or spear a little too loudly, the walls and doors would be smashed to pieces.

However, he could not respond by using archery he had never practiced yet, and fire magic was too dangerous to use in this situation.

At least plant magic could have an advantage over earth magic, but in order to use plant magic, even a handful of soil was needed to take root.

In my heart, I want to use plant magic on the flying pile of dirt to turn it into an opportunity to counter it, but…

-Wheeik!

“Keugh!”

“What are you up to? Are you sure you intend to catch my mud tentacles with your bare hands?”

“…”

“It will be useless. In the first place, it would be a much more realistic story to catch a flying knife rather than children who are not too soft to catch it with bare hands.”

… Yeah you’re good bitch

It was virtually impossible to cast magic on moving soil, so I had to somehow hold on to those lumps of mud and stop them.

The problem was that Do Ye-hee’s quick-moving tentacles seldom gave even the slightest gap.

If it had been a greatsword rather than a spear, it might have been a little more likely.

With a greatsword, you’d have tried cutting off part of that mass of mud tentacles and using plant magic on them.

However, no matter how much I attacked with the spear, it was all about cracking or penetrating, and the mud tentacles that were split and penetrated just continued to maintain their original shape by sealing the area again.

It was just a pity in many ways to leave the greatsword in Areumie’s workshop.

… If possible, I didn’t really want to use this method.

-Paaak!

“To my summons, please be gentle!”

“… Cold, freeze!”

“… What?”

The cold magic that escapes from my fingertips along with my chant spell, ‘Frozen Touch’.

As if I hadn’t expected that I would even use magic, I could feel obvious bewilderment in Do Ye-hee’s expression.

As a result, her movement was slowed down by a step, and one of her mud tentacles froze in the air for a moment.

‘Done.’

Somehow, the process of temporarily stopping and fixing the movement of the mud tentacles was successful, so now all that was left was to cut off this lump of mud.

If you have a handful of soil that can use plant magic, you will be able to subdue that woman even in this small space.

The moment he struck down to cut a lump of mud after holding the spear edge in his hand to make it easier to wield at close range.

“… You show off your leftovers.”

“… !!!”

Do Ye-hee’s mud tentacles, which had been frozen by cold magic, cut off the frozen part on their own in an instant, then wrapped the remaining part around my arm in an instant.

“When I saw her using a sword, shield, and even a spear, I vaguely thought she was a multiple awakener, but I never thought she could use magic in the opposite direction.”

“Keugh… !”

“After a long time, I also became interested in other people.”