#48
“brother… ?”
I saw Jaeyoung Lee, who was sleeping at my feet, raise his head and rub his eyes. Se-hyeon reached out his hand and brushed Jae-young Lee’s hair to make it grow longer. However, as soon as he swiped once, his hand was grabbed.
“Brother, you’re so eager. Does it still hurt? uh?”
“are you okay… “It’s better than yesterday.”
Lee Jae-young’s eyes wavered with worry. Sehyun smiled slightly and sat upright, leaning her back against the wall. As he let out a long breath, he felt Baek Do-hyun flinch next to him. Baek Do-hyeon’s bowed head slowly began to rise.
The hazy eyes blinked a few times, but at some point they came back to life. And when his eyes landed on Se-hyeon, Baek Do-hyeon’s face frowned. Eyes filled with irritation looked Sehyun up and down intently.
“Why don’t you ask the Archduke to give you some medicine?”
“Mr. Baek Do-hyun… I’m thinking of doing it… “No?”
The words came out intermittently. I’m afraid of colds. I realized it again.
In the end, Sehyun raised her knees and lowered her face between them. A cold hand touched my forehead, but I only felt a tingling sensation.
“Stay calm and raise your head.”
“It’s not that bad, Baek Do-hyun.”
“Brother, don’t be sick… .”
“Jaeyoung… “Brother, it’s okay.”
Sehyun raised her head with difficulty, answering every word that was said to her. He opened the status window to see if his magic power had recovered, but it was completely exhausted.
“Ha, there won’t be any water…” .”
“water?”
As soon as he heard those words from Baek Do-hyeon, Lee Jae-young immediately got up and started knocking on the warehouse door. Everyone who was sleeping at the sound of the door banging was startled and turned to see Jaeyoung Lee.
“hey! Open the door! You barbaric bastards, open the door! “Give me the water!!”
Jaeyoung… .
The sight of Jaeyoung Lee knocking on the door as if someone had died made me drool. I swear I didn’t mean to make such a fuss.
“W-what is it?”
“What’s going on?”
“Is there a problem.”
One by one, the people who were sleeping crouched near Sehyun got up and looked at Jaeyoung Lee. Then they realized something and everyone looked at Sehyeon. Seeing Se-hyeon’s pale complexion, Kwak Jeong-han immediately grabbed her shoulder.
“Sehyeon, why are you like that?”
“… No, because I’m thirsty.”
“water… If it’s water… “I have something that caught the rainwater yesterday.”
“Where are you?”
Jaeyoung Lee, who had been kicking the door, quickly turned around and asked. As soon as Kwak Jeong-han pointed to the wooden barrel in the corner, Lee Jae-young quickly ran over and brought the wooden barrel in front of Se-hyeon. Then he scooped up water with a small bowl and offered it to Sehyeon.
Sehyeon took the water offered to him and drank it in one gulp. As water entered my thirsty body, I felt the heat subside.
“Brother, don’t be sick. I don’t like being sick… .”
What was so scary? Lee Jae-young’s eyes were full of tears. Not only Lee Jae-young, but everyone was looking at Se-hyeon with concern. The gazes were heavy. He had to push away those gazes by saying that Sehyun was okay.
Only after hearing three times that it was okay did everyone’s worried expressions calm down a little.
“Baek Do-hyun… “Let’s borrow your shoulder.”
“Isn’t it worth living if you don’t cause all kinds of trouble?”
“Yeah, well… Salman… “It does.”
Of course, even though Lee Jae-young was making a fuss all morning, the warehouse door did not open. All of the thirty or so people crouching in the warehouse had their gazes cast down with dark expressions, like those sentenced to death.
From the moment Sehyun closed her eyes, the silence of everyone except Jaeyoung Lee deepened. Perhaps because I couldn’t even guess the passage of time, I didn’t feel hungry.
A long time passed, and when the early morning air was warmed by the midday sun, Baek Do-hyun, who was leaning on his shoulder, suddenly started shaking. Sehyun’s eyes fluttered open. The blurry gaze was directed at Baek Do-hyun, who had stiffened.
He looked somewhat shocked. As if he couldn’t believe it, Baek Do-hyun’s widened pupils were trembling slightly.
“why… The Black Empire… .”
Baek Do-hyeon’s words gave off a gloomy mood, and everyone who was sitting raised their heads and looked at Baek Do-hyun. Among them, Lee Jae-young and Kim Gap-jun’s eyes were wide with shock.
“Huh, the Black Empire?!”
“Why are they here?!”
“… “What is that? It’s so surprising.”
“Chi, is it an invading country…?” ?”
Only Kwak Jeong-han and Yoon Je-ha, who did not understand the meaning, asked with puzzled expressions. But no one could answer their words. I could only watch anxiously as Baek Do-hyun’s eyes closed miserably.
“… “The Black Empire is coming.”
“What?! No, why do they come here! “Oh, I’m going crazy!”
“You’re coming here right?! Ah, maybe not… !”
“… They say Isis found the route to get here around dawn through a search party. But… According to the information obtained by the reconnaissance team that was monitoring the empire’s movements, the Black Empire is moving this route first.”
Baek Do-hyeon said he was mentally connected to Isis, so it was possible to receive any amount of information. It seemed like they were receiving information in real time, and I had a rough idea of what the situation was.
Sehyun looked at the devastated faces of Kim Gap-jun and Lee Jae-young and then closed her eyes again. Not now. Yeah, not yet… It wasn’t.
Sehyeon also didn’t know how the Archduke would turn out. In the worst case, he may have to sacrifice his own life to demand their safety. At that time, not everyone should have become an obstacle.
“Well, you can’t arrive before them… ? Oh, there’s a shortcut or something like that!”
“The Black Empire airship is a magic bomb airship given by the Engineering Empire as part of friendly relations. These are the only two airships owned by the Engineering Empire and the Black Empire. Overtaking? “How can we overtake the Mapok airship, which has a speed difference of more than 20 times?”
“… Mapok can never be defeated… . Besides, they are not barbarians. If you attack me… no.”
“Ah, then let’s just let go!”
Gapjun Kim shouted, tearing out his shaggy hair. Baek Do-hyun and Lee Jae-young also seemed to have no answer, so they sat quietly with their mouths closed and their expressions set.
“… It may just be a path. If you’re lucky, you’ll pass by. “There is no reason to touch lower-level villages in the Black Empire.”
“that’s right. It was said that the invading empire’s airship had a snake shape… At least it’s not the symbol of the Black Empire. “They use different colored wings as a symbol.”
Baek Do-hyun and Lee Jae-young said that in sighing tones and remained silent again. Perhaps because they were agitated by the silence, Kwak Jeong-han and Yoon Je-ha didn’t say anything this time.
“brother… are you okay?”
Lee Jae-young held Se-hyeon’s hand tightly and came to her side and asked. Sehyeon smiled faintly again and nodded his head. I felt better than when I woke up. It seemed like <Rapid Recovery> was working well, as the addiction was gradually decreasing.
It was about an hour later that it became noisy outside. Long after lunchtime, when everyone was clutching their hungry stomachs and swallowing their saliva, the chaotic chatter of the Kural tribe was heard from outside the warehouse.
Due to the unusual whispering, everyone in the warehouse forgot their hunger and clung to the wall of the warehouse. Sehyun also opened her eyes with difficulty and focused her gaze on the door through which light was streaming through.
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“Why, again? “What’s going on?”
“All the Kural people are here.”
“When those barbaric monkeys asked for water, you didn’t even bother to look at them!”
“Wait a minute, something’s strange.”
“… “It smells like gunpowder.”
Everyone who was looking outside through the gaps in the shabby warehouse held their breath and stared somewhere. The chaotic chatter gradually moved away from the village chief’s house. Where everyone could see, there was a crowd of Kural people gathered together.
“Daepo Army. “It looks like they made that all night long.”
Gapjun Kim gritted his teeth and said. A crude but somewhat colorful cannon was appearing in a weapons refinery. The Kural tribe, who had positioned themselves in a circle in the center of the village, then started coming out with lots of cannon balls.
“There was a blacksmith who could make cannons, so why…” .”
“no. That’s what the Archduke told me. Even if it’s not on the crafting list, you can make a weapon if you know how to make it.”
“It looks like the Archduke really intends to fight against the invading country.”
“Huh, really. “I don’t know why I’m so damned every time a bastard does something that won’t work anyway.”
Kim Gap-jun continued to pour out abusive language toward the Kural people, as if he had suffered a lot. Before we knew it, everyone’s expressions in the warehouse had become serious. An imminent situation.
Everyone felt it instinctively and had a premonition that today was the crossroads between life and death.
It was the same for Sehyun. Sehyeon strengthened his body and lifted his head, which was leaning against him. His cold hand reached out and pressed his head again, but he couldn’t break Sehyeon’s stubbornness to get up. Baek Do-hyeon’s face was plastered with irritation again.
“Why don’t you just stay still?”
“What should I do if the height isn’t right?”
I have to wake up soon anyway. That thought soon became reality as I heard the sound of bustling footsteps. The Kural tribe was coming to the place where the warehouse was.
“W-what!”
“Do not come!”
“Try something!”
