Chapter 193 – Chapter 193- Who Are You? (2)

“Fuck.”

After I told her that Merlin appeared in her dreams, Kim Ji-hye absentmindedly spat out curse words several times.

She seemed pretty shocked.

Kim Ji-hye, who lit two of her cigarettes on the spot, told me.

“Kang Han-jun.”

“Yes Yes?”

Feeling the unusual atmosphere, she answered right away.

Jihye Kim crushed her cigarette.

“When did you meet him?”

“Oh, that’s it.”

It was also Kim Ji-hye.

Her quick-witted Kim Ji-hye seemed to see through the fact that I hadn’t spoken to her right away.

Seeing Kim Ji-hye immediately questioning me, I was sweating profusely.

“It was the other day.”

“The day before yesterday?”

Kim Ji-hye raised her tone.

“Fuck, I told you to tell me right away if something like this happened…”

Kim Ji-hye clenched her fists, as if asking if she didn’t remember her.

It was in an atmosphere where I felt like I was about to get hit, so I immediately made up an excuse.

“No, that’s it. Inevitably, this situation came to pass. I was in a state of panic when I first met Merlin… In that state, we exchanged some deals.”

“A trade girl?”

To make an excuse, I increased my words.

Rather, Kim Ji-hye’s fists were tightly clenched, asking why she didn’t say anything.

“Then… Then, as an experiment, I reversed the dream space… And woke up from that state.”

Hot.

Veins welled up on Kim Ji-hye’s fist.

It seemed that the more shocking the facts I spewed out, the more Jihye Kim’s annoyance grew in proportion.

Kim Ji-hye is looking at me with an expressionless expression, as if asking me to say it one more time.

Having come this far, why did I quit?

I decided to tell Kim Ji-hye all the facts that had happened at that time.

“Areum… That… Was in my bed.”

“… What the fuck?”

Quick.

Kim Ji-hye’s expressionless expression broke.

For some reason, it seemed to annoy me the most, more than anything I had ever vomited up.

“During that time, when I was secretly training in my dreams, Ah-reum treated me like this… I suddenly woke up and was caught. Not yet…”

That’s why I came early this morning, let’s finish the explanation.

Kim Ji-hye clenched her knuckles.

“Kang Han-jun.”

“Yes… Yes.”

“So, you mean you’ve been hanging out with that half-dragon all day. You haven’t been able to contact me, right?”

“Ah, that’s it. You know, to capture negative energy. It’s necessary…”

“This… You bastard.”

Kim Ji-hye pulled down another button on her disheveled suit, and she walked over to me.

“… A dog.”

I tried to swing her clenched fist, but.

As I obediently tried to hit her, Jihye Kim bit her lip hard.

Pug.

Jihye Kim lightly kicking my shin instead of her fist.

“Aww.”

Let me react appropriately and show off pain.

Kim Ji-hye kicked my shin one more time in an act that seemed cute.

Puff, puff.

“Dog guy.”

Kim Ji-hye, who kicked my shin twice more like that, sat down on her chair in her own office.

“Next time, if something like this happens, call me unconditionally. Okay?”

“Yes… Yes.”

She thought Kim Ji-hye, who had become fat, was cute.

It was obvious that I would be seriously beaten if I found out about this idea, so I quickly sat down on the chair in front of Kim Ji-hye’s desk.

Then, as if Kim Ji-hye wanted to tell me more, she waved her hand at me.

* *

Deal with Merlin.

In her dream, Kim Ji-hye heard Merlin’s words that she would cooperate fully by conducting research on me.

As if it was absurd, he sighed.

“From what I’ve heard, it’s clear that she really is that crazy old woman.”

“Yes, well, that unique atmosphere can’t be imitated.”

Always in her own head, her humming Merlin, her song resounding.

Trapped in a world of her own, that peculiar self-pacedness was her Merlin’s hallmark.

“There’s no such thing as too much harm in research.”

Concerned, Kim Ji-hye asked about my safety.

“You can cut off your arm there and put it back together. It’s okay.”

“…Yes, then it wouldn’t matter.”

Kim Ji-hye took a sip of her coffee I made for her and was lost in thought for a moment.

“Therefore.”

Not long after, Kim Ji-hye, who took her luck, asked me.

“How far do you think Merlin will tell you?”

To that question, I answered without hesitation.

“Everything.”

If they were the heads of other evil forces, I don’t know.

The one in my dream was Merlin.

In order to meet me who has bloomed into a dragon, I killed the evil forces that were escorting them and came alone.

Because Merlin sacrificed everything for her own research and creation.

She had no affection left for the evil forces she belonged to.

It wasn’t that I was close to Hong Ma-dong for nothing.

He fanatically hates monsters, like Hong Ma-dong, who went mad after knowing the truth.

Even Merlin knew she was crazy.

So, when asked how far I could go, Merlin grinned.

‘It’s all over. Didn’t he die anyway, cluckle.’

It was a very far-fetched answer.

“… Right.”

Kim Ji-hye quietly flicked her pen and scribbled something of hers on the piece of paper that lay beneath her.

Jihye Kim muttered as she looked at something she had written.

“Then, things will go very well.”

Coldly, with her sunken eyes, Kim Ji-hye wrote one more time and said to me.

“Kang Han-jun.”

“Yes.”

“If you go into your dreams today, be sure to ask Merlin about this one.”

“What?”

“The dwelling place of the Dark Ghost of the Geunsae clan.”

Kim Ji-hye recited in a calm voice, as if telling her to remember.

The Dark Ghost of the Gsonbird Clan.

One of the leaders of the evil factions that Morgan has confirmed over and over again with the personal statement handed over.

A hat made of straw and a raincoat over it.

The specialty of the head of this bizarre youkai who tightly covered her own appearance was one.

Assassination.

Especially when it rains, the presence of these cancer ears goes unnoticed, she said.

“I’m sure you know, but I’ll tell you more about him.”

Kim Ji-hye looked at her empty space with her cold eyes.

The eyes that did not focus anywhere seemed to recall the past, not in this room.

“When the war broke out, do you know who was the shaman who single-handedly cut the heads of the monster chiefs?”

“No.”

“It’s Crimson Horse. As befits a guy who has the keyword of being new and rare, he always stirred up the enemy lines and lazily cut their throats.”

Jijik.

Kim Ji-hye pulled out a cigarette and continued her words.

“On the contrary, the monster who single-handedly decapitated the most heads of shamans is that Dark Ghost.”

Aww

Jihye Kim broke her cigarette.

“He doesn’t usually show up well, nor does he reveal his whereabouts. If you knew his whereabouts before starting a war… The damage would decrease exponentially.”

As if asking for understanding, Kim Ji-hye nodded her head.

“Okay, I’ll go and ask right away today.”

“…Okay, I’ll write down the rest of the questions for Merlin right now.”

Kim Ji-hye took out her new piece of paper and started writing down her questions.

Naturally, with nothing to do, I stared blankly at Kim Ji-hye.

“Hey, Jihye.”

“Why.”

“Actually, I have more to tell you, can I tell you now?”

“… What.”

Tuuk.

Jihye Kim stopped the pen she was writing down and looked back at me.

I felt like I was interrupting something, so I’m sorry.

Still, she seems to have to say something now, so she decided to speak out.

“You entered the dream space yesterday too.”

“Okay.”

“But yesterday, while talking with Merlin, and while I was reversing the dream the other day, I realized one thing.”

Kim Ji-hye’s eyebrows twitched, as if she had noticed that I was bringing up something important.

“… What.”

“I told you before. In my dreams, I can’t use my sorcerer’s gin at all.”

Reverse world.

Still full of doubts, the sorcerer’s gin that I can unfold.

“Yes, it was.”

“But during that time, I found the reason why I couldn’t get any sense or couldn’t write.”

After taking a deep breath, I explained why.

“It was a reverse world.”

“… What?”

Jihye Kim asked again.

“The space itself in the dream was a reverse world. That’s why I couldn’t use it. Because I was in that space from the beginning.”

Kim Ji-hye, who heard my story, looked blankly at me.

Tuuk.

Jihye Kim dropped her pen in her hand, just like when she first heard that Merlin had appeared.

He spat out a single word.

“… Fuck.”

That one word had many meanings.

* *

Drooling, drooling.

Urgently dragging the carrier, someone moved.

Salang, salang.

Every time you take a step, the five wagging tails are so appetizing that it draws the attention of passers-by.

Everyone who saw it would notice this girl’s family at once.

The Tailed Fox Clan.

Like a family with a thick white tail and dripping charm.

Lee Mi-ho, the youngest member of the tailed fox clan, who naturally attracted the attention of those around him, walked casually as if he was used to it.

“Han Jun-ah… Han Jun-ah.”

Nervously, she calls the name of her beloved Nang-gun.

Yesterday, before leaving her house, Lee Mi-ho told her mother, Lee Mi-ryeong, about the story.

Banryong, Merlin’s death, and Kang Joon involved in all of it.

Hearing the story, Lee Mi-ho was shocked.

Even so, the fact that Jun Kang, whom she cherished the most, passed the test of death before she knew it.

Because he came too close to Lee Mi-ho.

He said that fortunately things ended well, although he was relieved.

Still, she wanted to see it with her own eyes, so as soon as Lee Mi-ho was given permission to go outside, she set off straight away.

Kang Joon’s house.

Lee Mi-ho, who set out at once with the address of the house given to him, looking at the apartment in front of him.

“The twelfth floor… I said the twelfth floor.”

Looking at the text message with the password written on it, Miho muttered.

It’s afternoon time, so maybe he’s training in the shadow family.

At first, I was thinking of waiting inside the house.

“Whoa.”

Lee Mi-ho, who arrived in front of Kang Han-jun’s house, exhaled lightly.

‘Newlyweds.’

Recalling the promise Kang Kang-joon had made earlier, he slowly entered the front door password with a throbbing heart.

Tiririk.

With excitement, I opened the door.

The first thing that greeted me was the sweet smell.

The moment he pricked his nose at the sweet smell that bothered him, as if he didn’t seem to be living alone.

A girl appeared in front of Lee Mi-ho.

Looking at her light green hair that stretched down to her waist, and a beautiful girl with a slender and neat charm.

Lee Mi-ho blankly blinked her eyes.

“… Who are you?”

She asked the question, and to her uninvited guest, who was settling into her own honeymoon home.