Chapter 635: You’re Not Kim Hyunsung’s Raid Party, Are You? (2)

That must’ve been how a parent felt after being betrayed by their children. I felt like the stocks that I strongly believed would go up were delisted instead.

The hall was very confusing, but it couldn’t be as confusing as how I felt inside.

However, I had no other choice but to wait.

‘I can work things out, right?’

I couldn’t let go of the Coin that had been completely crushed. I didn’t even know how long I had to hold on.

In fact, I didn’t even think that I was in a dangerous situation.

I had a blade aimed at my neck, but I knew that Raphael wasn’t trying to harm me. He even said sorry to me, and I felt strangely considerate.

He was also trying to support me in case my legs weakened, and I fell down.

It was funny that the kidnapper was caring for the hostage, but I wasn’t what he was aiming for in the first place.

At least Raphael wasn’t hostile to me. Those times we were together, those memories, those warm days.

‘Sh*t…’

At least it wasn’t a lie.

Kim Hyunsung was always hostile to him.

I needed to find out more about why he was hostile to Kim Hyunsung, but it was clear that he had a strange misunderstanding. If we could resolve it, wouldn’t we be able to return him to the right track? I thought we’d be able to regain our precious memories again.

‘My Stocks… Precious memories.’

Cho Hyejin had a shocked expression that looked like a ticking time bomb that was about to explode.

She also seemed to be no different from me.

She was probably thinking about accepting the current situation and how to solve the problem at hand.

I had spent quite a long time with her, but I had never seen her make such a face.

‘No.’

This was not exactly the first time I had seen it. She made that face when she died at the hands of the trashed mask.

Even when she sacrificed on behalf of Kim Hyunsung, she didn’t look like that.

The situation was different from the current one and the past, but it was the same that we were firmly determined.

She pouted as if she couldn’t speak well.

It took a while, but she finally spoke as she put her spear down on the ground slowly and raised both of her arms.

“Let go of the Vice Guild Master. If you need a hostage, I’ll be good enough.”

‘No, no matter what you do, you shouldn’t drop your weapon.’

She even pushed the spear away from her.

She tried to express the fact that she had no willingness to fight, but no one could deny that it was a foolish act.

Of course, Raphael was trying not to exert physical force on those present, but who knew what could happen.

‘How do you know he’s not going to kill you and me? Why are you not suspicious.’

“No, who I need is this person, not you. Cho Hyejin, you are not worthy of being a hostage. I won’t say it again. Go back and convey my words to him.”

“If you want anything…”

“I’ve already told you what I want. Don’t test my patience anymore.”

“But…”

“I told you not to test my patience.”

It wasn’t a welcoming feeling to have something so cold touch my neck. One thing was certain: we had to calm the situation down somehow.

“You don’t have to do this…”

However, her voice wasn’t heard.

‘Piece of sh*t…’

Maybe it was because he felt that Cho Hyejin was conscious of him, but I felt something digging into my fragile skin.

‘What’s wrong with you? Do you want to leave a scar on my neck?’

Park Li-ahn was still overwhelmed with her face touching the floor, and the hound dog Lee Ju-hyuk brought a sword to her neck.

Her face showed anger, but she wasn’t in a situation where she could move freely.

Above all, Raphael had eight wings spread on his back.

‘He’s strong.’

Perhaps it didn’t matter if anyone said the Holy Sword had completely chosen him. He was stronger than Cho Hyejin simply in terms of specifications.

Of course, their differences, including experience, would hold him back, but he was strong enough to reach the semi-mythic grade.

Assuming he was dealing with Park Li-ahn and Cho Hyejin with the party members, the odds were the party would win.

Cho Hyejin might’ve already known that. Maybe she came to the same conclusion as I did.

‘I really don’t mean any harm. There’s something I want.’

That was what he was saying.

Cho Hyejin’s head was spinning, but Raphael was in a hurry and couldn’t stand by and watch the situation.

When I frowned a little, thinking it would be better to do something, he immediately reacted.

“H-hyung.”

He looked very startled. It wasn’t the face of a kidnapper. I was worried for a moment, but Raphael was also worried about me.

‘Yeah, we haven’t forgotten our memories, have we?’

“Hyung! Are you okay? Hyung!”

I relaxed my body and tried my best to act it out. When I pretended that my head hurt, Cho Hyejin immediately spoke.

“We need to stabilize him.”

“A-ah…”

“Put the Vice Guild Master down. If he gets even more stressed out, he’ll have a seizure…”

“Huh? Uh, oh…”

“Put him down…”

“Go, stay away! Damn it! Stay away!”

She must have been surprised by the unexpected situation, but her eyes were shedding tears.

I didn’t think I’d have a seizure at that exact timing.

He didn’t seem to be able to decide whether to put me on the floor or keep holding me tight.

I felt like a child was hugging me as if he didn’t want his toy to be taken away from him. It was doubtful whether she made a mistake because I could feel the madness in his eyes.

“We need to stabilize him right now.”

Park Li-ahn and Cho Hyejin seemed nervous.

It would’ve been obvious to realize that a sudden seizure in such an extreme situation was postponed, but she didn’t seem to have that much sense.

In the meantime, she responded to Raphael’s “Don’t come near me.”

“Put him down quickly! He needs to breathe comfortably…”

“Don’t come closer. Stay away from me! I can take care of him. I can handle it myself.”

“You…”

“Go now. Go! Hurry up and tell Kim Hyunsung what I said earlier. That’s what you have to do. Just tell him what I said. I’ll protect Hyung. I’ll protect him.”

“…”

“Quick… quick!”

‘Reverse effect. Sh*t, reverse effect.’

Cho Hyejin nodded. She realized that she should no longer provoke Raphael.

I could see her biting her lips so hard that she couldn’t stop looking at my painful face.

“I’ll trust you to keep your promise.”

Since then, I wasn’t able to see Cho Hyejin. Raphael saw her run out, but he turned me around while holding me.

I felt my vision change in an instant, but I couldn’t react.

Once I continued to fake the pain, I heard his words in a tearful voice.

“Hyung… Hyung…”

“…”

“Hyung, are you okay? You’re alright, aren’t you?”

I had a feeling that I was moving somewhere at a very high speed.

After hearing the door open several times, I began to feel a soft sensation behind my back.

Perhaps he put me down on something like a bed.

𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

“Are you alright? You’ll be fine. I’ll… I can heal you.”

“Ah, ha, ha…”

“I can fix it for you.”

As I pretended to breathe hard and feel pain, he hurriedly took off my coat.

It was clear that he remembered Cho Hyejin’s words that he should make me breathe as comfortably as possible.

Only then could I glance around the room.

I didn’t think there would be such a place in that dungeon. It was a very large room, giving me a rough idea of where we were.

It was the room used by the queen of the tomb herself.

I didn’t know if the dungeon boss had been sleeping there all the time, but it definitely felt spacious and luxurious.

Meanwhile, Raphael stamped his feet as he continued to gasp.

Of course, he looked pale. He didn’t know what to do, and he looked like he was in a hurry.

He didn’t know how to deal with the situation properly. It was fortunate for him that the miracle priest appeared just in time.

“Hyung, Are you okay? Are you… Hyung!”

“Let me take a look. Wait.”

“What should I do? How… what should I do? Please hurry up and take a look at him. Hurry…”

“Just calm down for now. I’ve never experienced anything like this before. They said it was a temporary seizure, so he’ll probably calm down. I’m sure…”

“Hauu, haaa, U-Uggha…”

Of course, she also became worried when she couldn’t find what was causing it.

He continued to push the divine power, but that wouldn’t work.

Of course, I was worried about what would happen afterward.

‘Sh*t, what should I do? I think something bad is going to happen to him. What should I do?’

If that was the case, I wanted him to take me to Lindel.

It would be ideal to think that he couldn’t help me because I was in so much pain, but the problem was that I didn’t think it’d be that easy. After all, it seemed like he had already made up his mind.

Raphael had no intention of making concessions at the moment. The answer had already come out when he told Cho Hyejin not to come near earlier.

I didn’t know why that was happening, but didn’t it look like he’s trying to protect me rather than harm me?

Of course, I could see who he’s trying to protect me from.

To infer from his previous behavior…

‘Why the hell…’

It seemed right to say that he was trying to protect me from Kim Hyunsung. I didn’t see where or how things got messed up, but…

‘There’s still time to clear up the misunderstanding.’

It would be exactly a week before Kim Hyunsung’s arrived at our location.

I had time to reorganize my thoughts and restore the stamina that I had spent so far, but it would be my last chance to stop them from perspective.

More precisely, it was a chance to save them.

Just in time, even the wizard came in.

As I hadn’t calmed down, it was clear that he was trying to apply the last resort on me: sleep magic.

Raphael gripped my head with both arms. Marien, the miracle priest, continued to pour out her divine power, and the wizard began to chant a spell.

As I collected my breath slowly because I really shouldn’t fall asleep, I could feel the magic being canceled right away.

He probably decided that it would be better to let me rest than for me to sleep artificially.

What worried me was my lovely regressor.

‘What should I do with him?’

Of course, Hayan also bothered me.

Cho Hyejin’s personality made it seem like the guild members would handle the matter, but Kim Hyunsung would surely arrive alone in a week. I wondered how he would react… I didn’t know.

‘No.’

Cho Hyejin knew that Rafael wouldn’t hurt me… Supposing she knew that…

‘I don’t think she’d be that upset, would she? Am I right?’

I tried to solve the situation as rationally as I could.

Clearly… there would be no bloodshed.