chapter 21
21. Bittersweet
“My name is…”
Gulp-
Rebecca looked at Yoohyeon’s mouth and her eyes were shining.
“My name is…”
“Your name…?”
When Yoohyeon saw Rebecca’s fidgety look, she suddenly wanted to tease her.
“Do I really need to know? It could be a secret I shouldn’t know?”
“Yes..?”
Rebecca, taken aback by Yoohyeon’s sudden whim, rolled her big eyes and answered.
‘Were you uncomfortable trying to find out who you were? What do we do? First of all, an apology…’
“That’s right, if you don’t like Musa-nim, you don’t have to tell us..?”
“If I could tell you?”
“..Yes? That..Then if you want to tell me, I should listen to it, but now that I think about it, I think it would be okay if I didn’t tell you..?”
Seeing Rebecca sweating out of embarrassment, Yoohyeon smiled with satisfaction.
“You’re a kid who likes to be playful! hahahahaha. After all, well-grown guys have a taste for teasing you?”
“Now… Are you kidding me?
Rebecca was worried that she might have touched the planting of a master who could take her own life.
She was born as the princess of the Empire, the most powerful country on the continent, and when she was subjected to a prank that she had never been subjected to before, and even more so, Rebecca lost her mind completely.
“Ha..hahahaha, it’s okay. I’m glad you enjoyed it..”
Yoohyeon, who laughed at her words, immediately hardened her face and said,
“Are you laughing? Just because I said it was a joke, do you think it’s a joke?”
“I’m sorry. I was wrong. I won’t do that again. Please forgive me just once.”
Looking at Rebecca, whose complexion has turned pale from sweating, Yoohyeon laughed while holding her stomach for the first time in a while.
“It’s been a while since I laughed like this again! It’s still pure and the reaction is perfect for teasing! hahahahaha!”
“…”
Rebecca trembled at the sight of Yoohyeon wiping the tears from her eyes.
‘If it weren’t for the ignorant and talented…’
Rebecca, who had never wielded power before, wanted to apply ‘blasphemy to the royal family’ for the first time.
Yoohyeon approached Rebecca, who was bubbling inside her, and put her hand in her ear and whispered.
“It makes me feel especially good, so let me know. My name must be the person you thought it was.”
“..!”
I honestly thought that she wanted to hide her identity from Yoohyeon’s reaction, but she suddenly came and told me?
Feeling bewildered by Yoohyeon’s erratic behavior, Rebecca carefully asked Yoohyeon.
“Um…May I ask what the reason you told me about it?”
“Why do you think it might be? Guess what.”
When Yuhyeon, who still smiled faintly at Rebecca, asked a question, she answered thoughtfully.
“Where are you going to tell me not to brag about Musa-nim’s identity…?”
“As expected, the experience of the political arena must have been in vain? As you can guess, I would get very tired if I revealed my identity. So, for now, only you should know.”
Rebecca nodded at Yoohyeon’s words and asked again.
“If you say yes now, do you plan to reveal your identity later?”
Then, Yoohyeon nodded his head.
“Yes. I’m not guilty of anything, and I don’t have to live in hiding forever. I have work to do. But I hate it when people flock to me whenever I go out on the street.”
“mmm… Sure, it’s only natural to get tired when you’re famous.”
Rebecca, reminding herself of how much she had to worry about whenever she went out of the palace because of her unique hair color and appearance, Rebecca strongly agreed with Yoohyeon’s words.
“But if you don’t want Musa-nim’s identity known, don’t you have magic? Or even a mask…”
Yoohyeon was disgusted when she said it as if she were curious.
“I don’t know anything about magic, but since I received a spell that kills signs in my world, they treat me like a ghost or a conspirator. All I want is to have a normal conversation. And the mask is very uncomfortable.”
At his words, Rebecca spoke to Yoohyeon as if she was glad.
“Then I’m glad! Our empire’s Vigo has a treasure that changes the user’s appearance. Don’t you need something like that?”
“Is there such a thing? Is it okay to give it to me carelessly?”
At Yoohyeon’s words, Rebecca said with an expression that realized reality.
“That’s… That’s right. It’s one of the treasures of the empire created by dragons… But if you go with me, I’ll try my best to convince you!”
Rebecca said, thinking that it would be a surplus business if it was to capture a strong man like Yuhyeon with one useless artifact.
“Well… I was thinking of getting something in return for saving you anyway, so I’m going with you, but you’re not trying to stab me in the back by saying that, right?”
Surprised by Yoohyeon’s sneaky remark, Rebecca shook her head and said,
“It’s not really! I talked about the treasure with a big heart.. It’s unfair to be misunderstood like this..”
“I’m sorry. I just said it. hehehe..”
Seeing Rebecca bowing her head in her sulkiness, Yoohyeon thoughtlessly stroked her head as if she were seeing a large dog scolded by her owner.
“…!”
Her Rebecca, in her more than 20 years, has only one person stroked her own hair as far as she can remember, except for her childhood, which she does not remember. There was no name.
Since his mother, who died when he was young, and his father, who was busy with state affairs, didn’t even have time to look at him. Suddenly, in a place like this, being stroked like a child…
Even though it would be a big deal if someone saw this scene, Rebecca couldn’t resist the touch of Yoohyeon, who didn’t have much strength, and she accepted it.
‘Boo.. I’m shy.. But somehow it’s warm..’
Rebecca’s cheeks were getting redder as she accepted her warm touch for the first time without saying anything, half ashamed and half embarrassed.
‘As expected, this works well when the children are pouting.’
Yoohyeon thoughtlessly stroked her hair, but seeing Rebecca’s expression gradually loosen up, Yoohyeon had the wrong idea.
When Hayun, Yoohyeon’s disciple in the past, went to the village together to shop when they were young, he saw a child of her age being petted and liked it. It started.
-Master, stroke me.
-I did everything Master told me to do. Good job
Yoohyeon, who had become a habit of stroking Yoohyeon thanks to a student who pushed his head in just looking at him, saw the top of his head in a good position for stroking.
Yoohyeon was just when Rebecca became calm and the evaluation of stroking was rising in his mind.
“This…Stop it…Because I’ve calmed down…”
As Rebecca, whose shyness had reached the limit, grabbed a tomato-like face and ran away, Yoohyeon scratched her cheek.
“It’s the first time we met, was I too hasty? Somehow I’m sorry..”
At that moment, the two figures vigorously wielded their swords.
Ahh!
The In-Youngs, who clashed their swords sharply, stepped back and asked.
“Hey. What happened all of a sudden? The sword shook.”
“I’m sorry. I suddenly feel a little bit annoyed…”
‘Suddenly, I feel like someone is dirtying mine..’
“Hmm? Is it that day? Maybe that’s it. Then go again!”
In a city a little far from Yoohyeon, Yooeun suddenly felt dirty and became sensitive all day, but it was irrelevant.
“So how long does it take?”
“Yes, Mr. Yoohyeon. If you walk normally, you will probably arrive at the capital in a week.”
It was Yoohyeon and Rebecca who were walking down a path that had become dark before they knew it, relying on the light summoned by magic.
Rebecca, who was looking at Yoo-hyeon with the fainted knights floating in the air, and Rebecca, who looked at him with surprising eyes, looked at him and kept thinking of Yoo-hyeon stroking her earlier, and repeated his face reddening and lowering her head.
The two of us walked through the woods and talked about this and that, then we learned Yoohyeon’s name and sorted out the titles.
“Looks like there’s a waterside nearby. I can hear the sound of the water, but since it’s getting dark, I’ll stay here tonight.”
After putting down the fainted knights, Yoohyeon proposed to Rebecca.
“Oh, yes! I’ll start a bonfire then!”
Yoohyeon looked at Rebecca happily as she had something to do and started a bonfire with magic.
‘I like it because it’s like a high-ranking child.’
“Wait here for a while. I’ll look around and see if there’s anything to eat nearby.”
“Ah Yoohyeon-nim… I have a subspace pouch…”
Rebecca, seeing Yoohyeon who had already disappeared from her seat like the wind before Rebecca could even say a word, lowered her outstretched hand and put down the food she had taken out of her pocket in the subspace and waited for Yoohyeon.
“Still, if you eat alone, you might feel bad..”
Growl-
How long did it take to hold on to that hungry stomach and wait for him?
Kooung–
Cheap-
Not far from Rebecca’s campsite, something was approaching her campsite with a roar, knocking her tree down.
Unfazed by the sudden roar, she got up quickly and cast her defensive spell. When her opponent showed up, she heard a familiar voice preparing her offensive spell.
“The beast living here is strangely large. I brought it because I didn’t know if it could be eaten. What are you doing now?”
The identity of the one who approached destroying the forest was none other than Yoohyeon. Even with the Minotaur’s leg on his arm.
“Yoohyeon-nim.. That.. Is that..?”
Rebecca, who had frozen in the same posture as she was preparing for the attack magic, asked Yoohyeon a question in embarrassment.
“Hmm? While I couldn’t see anything to eat nearby, this guy caught my eye, so I tried catching it. It looks just like a cow, so I thought he could eat it… But can’t he eat this?”
“I can probably eat it… But I don’t eat it often…”
Rebecca had heard that soldiers on the front line would eat monsters if they had nothing to eat, but she never dreamed that the tasting opportunity would come so soon.
In the end, Rebecca, who couldn’t ignore Yoohyeon’s sincerity in obtaining food, grilled the Minotaur’s legs on a bonfire with Yoohyeon.
Rebecca, who was in tears when she heard Yoohyeon say that she didn’t have to eat, carefully bit off the browned minotaur’s leg meat.
An-
“This…This taste!!”