Chapter 26 – Face to Face With a Lion (4)

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What. Why isn’t everyone saying anything?

When the explanation was over, instead of the questions that had been piled up, an unexplained silence filled the hospital room.

These three people seemed like they wanted to say a lot just a moment ago, but now even after my explanation was over, they remained silent and said nothing.

I checked to see if the three people had suddenly shouted and the hearing protection function had turned on, making it impossible for me to hear their inner thoughts, but all I could see in the corner of my eye was a notification that I was listening to their inner thoughts.

Then what is it? Why is everyone suddenly saying nothing? I really hate this kind of atmosphere.

The three S-class awakeners, and the three heroes who saved the world, fell silent after hearing my words, so it was too much for me, who was only an F-class, to bear this terrible silence.

So, I was about to open my mouth first and somehow break the silence.

[······Well, there’s nothing bad about me. Okay, I understand.]

Mir Ryuin broke this terribly heavy silence and spoke out for the first time.

Is it possible to be this happy about Mir Ryuin’s voice and not someone else’s?

I listened to Mir Ryuin’s next words, feeling breathless in her voice.

[Anyway, there is no particular reward I am hoping for. That’s surprising. If it were me, I wouldn’t miss an opportunity like this. This is an opportunity to owe this Mir Ryuin a very large debt, right?]

Certainly, it was difficult to understand from common sense that she would lose the opportunity to owe Mir Ryuin.

However, having a debt with Mir Ryuin and other heroes means continuing the relationship with them, and for me, who wanted to quit her life as an awakened person and live the life of an ordinary person, that relationship was something that had to be broken.

The three people in front of you are famous and capable, so they have an incredibly large number of followers and enemies.

If the fact that I am associated with them becomes known to either their followers or enemies, the peaceful, normal life I hope for will be extinguished in an instant like a lantern before a storm.

I absolutely hated something like that happening.

In the first place, I don’t want to continue the eternal Gap-eul relationship with these personality-busting people.

“Ah, I only told this to May Ruina. The reason I treat you is not for you in the first place, but for me. “I can’t stop doing this until you get out of bed on your own.”

[You can’t quit?]

“When I wrote an employment contract with someone from the association’s Central Intelligence Agency, I was given such a contract. If I quit this job, the association will block my path in life, so I can’t quit until you all wake up. Now you get it, right? “Why do you say that it is for my benefit that you all be released from the curse?”

So, I brought up the anti-compulsory contract incident that happened this morning and made up a reason that the three people could understand why I did not want compensation for treatment.

If I say that this treatment is for me and not for you, then naturally I have justification for not wanting compensation.

[Hmph…]

Mir Ryuin let out a snort as if he was a little intrigued by her words of determination, which were the same as those he had given to Mei Ruina.

[Well, thanks to that, Stay, you became my caregiver, and I was freed from this terrible curse. It’s a good thing for me. Okay, I understand. Since it is more beneficial to me, I will do as you say.]

And, as always, the conversation ended with an extremely self-centered remark.

Although it was a selfish comment that did not consider my position at all, it was true, and since the opponent was Mir Ryuin in the first place, I did not expect such a sentimental reaction, so I nodded.

Okay, Mir Ryuin was convinced. I said the same thing to May Ruina earlier, so I’ll pass. Then, all that’s left is Dain Adamas.

I looked at Dain Adamas.

Hair as dark as blood, a sharp look that makes her look angry even though she is sleeping soundly with her eyes closed, and beauty that can turn even that look into charm.

Seeing her resemblance to the king of beasts, I wondered if there was any need to try to convince her.

Because Dain Adamas doesn’t seem to care what a guy like me does once the treatment is over.

Now that I’m in the position of treating him, I’m just talking and pretending to know him. Once the curse is lifted, my usefulness will naturally disappear, and then he’ll probably draw all my attention.

It was the same when I completed training four years ago.

So I didn’t say anything more about this and ended this long and short meeting with the lion.

“The only person here who hasn’t fainted is May Ruina. So, I will start with May Ruina tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow I will treat Mir Ryuin, and then Gulphy Dain Adamas. Well, I think it would be good if you knew that, and now the explanation is over! “We will move everyone to their respective rooms!”

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“Hey, you had a hard time today. Dain Adamas. Then, see you in three days.”

After transporting her to her hospital room in Adamas, he greeted her as she lay in an uncharacteristically sound state.

There will be treatment for Mei Ruina tomorrow and Mir Ryuin the day after tomorrow, so it will be three days before we see Dain Adamas’ face.

How can we stop the three people from now on so that it becomes known that we have effectively cornered them? No, it’s not okay for rumors to spread. So, how can I handle it well enough to create rumors…

The moment I was about to leave with those constructive thoughts, Dain Adamas, who had been quiet until now, called me.

[Hey, stay.]

Since she has been quiet up until now, I was hoping she would stay quiet today and end it, but as expected, Dain Adamas was the woman who always kicked my expectations to the ground.

Why is he suddenly calling me? Was there anything I said today that got on your nerves? No, that can’t be true. Dain Adamas is a bitch who will attack you immediately if something upsets you. Something happened that made me angry, but there’s no way I could have held it in until now. Then why did you call me? Ha, this is scary.

Dain Adamas’ voice was unusually serious as she called me, so I turned my head and looked at her, thinking about her various worries and thoughts.

“Huh? Why are you calling me?”

I answered her call with a voice and tone that seemed as harmless and easy to anyone who heard it as possible.

Then Dain Adamas paused for a moment, and then she asked me in a voice that seemed to have a lot to say.

[Coming again… 3 days later?]

“Uh? Ugh… Today, I have run out of yang energy to treat, so I have to rest and replenish my energy. Tomorrow, I have to treat Mei Ruina, and the day after tomorrow, I have to treat Mir Ruin. “I will come to treat you in three days.”

[······Sseu-eup. After. Uhmmm. Tsk. Okay. Okay. See you in 3 days.]

“Uh, huh. See you in 3 days. Rest well.”

I don’t know why, but Dain Adamas’ tone seemed very uncomfortable, and I felt like I was going to be in trouble if I stayed here any longer, so she quickly greeted me and left.

Crash.

“Whoa… “What is it?”

As I left Dain Adamas’ hospital room, shutting the door, and hurriedly left, I remembered again the unpleasant voice I had seen from Dain Adamas just before, as if he had something he wanted to say but was having trouble getting it out loud, so he just glossed over it.

“What is it really?”

Even thinking about it again, I couldn’t even guess what Dyne Adamas wanted to say to me.

“Well, thinking about it alone won’t give you the answer. “Let’s just stop worrying about the questions that can’t be answered, take a break today, and make a detailed plan.”

So I decided to just ignore Dain Adamas.

Well, I’m in a vegetative state right now. There is no reason to move quickly and say what you want without having to say it first.

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Crash.

At the same time that Stay left and the connection with him felt like it was suddenly cut off, Dain Adamas let out a deep sigh that he had been holding in.

‘Haaaaa…’

The fact that she wanted to say something but couldn’t say it was very frustrating and irritating to her, who had always lived her life the way she wanted to.

So wouldn’t it be easier to just do it? You might ask, but there was a good reason.

The reason Dain Adamas couldn’t say what she wanted to say to her stay was because what she wanted to say was something she had never said before in her life.

‘Why, why on earth did I think that? I’ve never thought about that in my life.’

Just moments ago, when Dain Adamas heard Stay say, ‘Our relationship will last until the end of treatment,’ she felt confused by a sensation she had never experienced before in her life.

A very cold feeling in a corner of my chest, different from the helplessness and fear I felt for the first time in my life when I became a vegetable.

That feeling transformed her presence the most when Stay said, ‘See you in three days.’ It almost made words come out of her mouth that she had never said before.

‘Don’t go…’ ‘Why on earth did you want to say that?’

Dain Adamas didn’t know exactly why he wanted to say that.

I just think it’s a part of my weakness that came to me without my knowledge because I was cursed and my mind and body were exhausted.

‘Huh, okay. If I am freed from the curse and regain my original strength, there will be no need or desire to say things like this. It’s all because of the curse. That’s right, once the curse is lifted, everything will return to normal.’

That’s why Dain Adamas hopes that this curse that made him a vegetable will be lifted quickly.

‘Ha, isn’t three days too long? We should talk about it when Stay comes in three days.’

I waited for Stay to arrive.