Chapter 28: Why did you come to my house? (2)

“Yeonah. I think I’ll have to throw those clothes away.”

“Four!? These are the only clothes I have…”

Yooseong snorted and opened his mouth again at the sight of Hoyeon speaking while holding the tattered bear hat in his hand as if it were something precious.

“I’ll make you other clothes.”

“Other clothes?”

“Yes. Those clothes are too dirty.”

“Then.”

Only then did Hoyeon hand over the bearskin clothes he was holding onto Yooseong’s outstretched hand.

“It’s real bear skin…”

It wasn’t just a replica made in the shape of a bear’s head.

It was the clothes made by sewing together the skin of an entire bear.

It was hard to imagine how Hoyeon, who looked like a small kid, no matter how he caught a huge bear and ripped its skin.

“Even if he’s young, a tiger is still a tiger.”

With that thought, Yooseong opened his mouth when he looked at Hoyeon.

“Follow me, Yeonah.”

“Four… Master!”

Like that, Yeon, wearing a white gown that was larger than her body, followed behind Yooseong like a baby duckling.

Step by step.

Step by step.

After walking for only a few steps, Yooseong and Hoyeon arrived in front of a machine with a long rail that looked like something you would see at a printing house.

“Hoyeon will make your clothes with this.”

“Ah! I heard from the skeletons earlier! This machine makes copies of objects if you put materials in it!”

“Yes. A copy machine… a 3D printer, to be exact. If there’s any clothes you want to wear or anything you need, let me know. I’ll print them for you.”

As he said that, Yooseong handed Yeon a pen and paper and added that if it was hard to explain, she could just draw a picture.

Yeon, who had accepted the pen and paper, fidgeted with the pen for a while.

“Here it is, Master!”

He handed the paper to Yooseong and shouted in a confident voice.

“Okay. Where…”

When Yooseong accepted the drawing that Hoyeon had held out.

“…?”

A question mark passed over Yooseong’s face.

“Yeonah… what is this?”

The paper in his hand had a drawing of a man who looked like a dwarf wearing black kelp stems.

“In the Black Tiger family, where I was a member, everyone wore black martial arts uniforms! I really wanted to wear it once! That’s why I trained hard… but in the end, I couldn’t finish my training and left the family… so I couldn’t wear it…”

Watching Hoyeon diligently explaining the clothes he had drawn with gestures, Yooseong couldn’t bring himself to say that he had asked what the kelp stem-like things were.

“It’s probably a black martial arts uniform, right?”

“Okay. I understand. A black martial arts uniform will do, right?”

“Four! Thank you, Master!”

Although he didn’t understand Hoyeon’s explanation, Yooseong imagined a ‘black uniform that’s comfortable to move in and has excellent thermal insulation’ in his head, walked to the front of the 3D printer, placed the materials, and started the machine.

Zing–clinking–clinking–

The machine’s rails moved and the materials Yooseong had placed were inserted into the internal mechanism of the 3D printer.

Swish… thud…

After a while, several sets of clothes fell out in front of the outlet.

Among them, Yooseong found clothes similar to the black uniform that Hoyeon had mentioned and handed them to Hoyeon.

“Put this on.”

“Okay! Master!”

Swish.

Hoyeon answered right away and tried to open his bathrobe on the spot.

“Wait! Don’t take it off here!”

“Huh?”

“There’s a changing room next to the bathroom. Go change there and come. Phew… And don’t take your clothes off in front of others and show your naked body, Yeonah.”

“Master is not a stranger…”

“_”

Yooseong was speechless for a moment at the sight of Hoyeon looking up at him with a resentful look in his eyes. He then collected his thoughts and opened his mouth.

“Don’t show your naked body in front of people you’re close to. Especially not in front of men. That’s the law of the sorcerer.”

Of course, there was no such law. However, it was difficult to explain in that situation why a girl shouldn’t take her clothes off in front of others, so he just put it off for the time being with the excuse of “the law of the sorcerer.”

“Yes! I will keep that in mind, Master!”

After answering that, Yooseong let out a small sigh as he watched Hoyeon running to change his clothes.

He had never been married or dated before, but he felt like he had a daughter.

I wonder if his parents are doing well!

It had already been 5 years since he was summoned.

According to the theory of the interdimensional boundary, there was no guarantee that time would flow exactly the same between Earth and this world.

Maybe more than 5 years had passed, or maybe less.

I wanted to go back to my original state as much as possible… but when I go back, it might not be the world I know.

As he thought that, Yooseong felt sad along with longing.

“Master!”

At that moment, Hoyeon’s voice from afar woke him up from his thoughts.

Hoyeon was running hard.

He looked completely different from when he had covered himself with the bear skin that was dragging around his ankles earlier.

“I changed my clothes! Does it suit me… Master?”

Hoyeon asked, looking up with blue eyes.

Even when he ran into the bathroom naked, he could see a hint of embarrassment on his flushed cheeks.

“Hmm… Let’s see.”

At that, Yooseong acted like he was looking at it with a playful side, deliberately exaggerating his actions.

A black, plain-clothed top with gold buttons.

Bottoms that reminded him of training pants.

Once he was dressed up, the clothes looked much better and more alive.

“I should make him a pair of sneakers or something.”

“They really suit him.”

“Hehe!”

“Just.”

Slowly.

Yooseong walked in front of Hoyeon, raised one hand, and tied his golden hair tie.

Swish-

“That’s enough.”

With his skillful hands, he crossed Hoyeon’s loose hair at the back of his head and tied it into a ponytail.

“Wow… That’s amazing! Is there nothing Master can’t do?”

Hoyeon shook his head and shouted with sparkling eyes.

“I learned it all.”

Yooseong replied, recalling a scene from the royal library and quickly erasing it from his mind.

“Then should we get moving?”

“Yes! Okay!”

Hoyeon and Yooseong went outside the base for the original plan to visit Metallica.

Unlike when they came in wearing an extra layer of clothing like padding, they packed a self-driving sled in the space compression cube and headed outside.

Busang-

They quickly rode the sled that ran on the snow like a motorcycle and moved to the cave where the return magic circle was.

“It moves when you go up the magic circle. You have to stand up straight.”

“Yes… Net!”

Unlike when he looked at mechanical devices, Hoyeon seemed to feel fear at the thing called ‘magic’, so he grabbed Yooseong’s hand and trembled slightly as he carefully climbed up onto the magic circle that was emitting light in the cave.

Woohooow-

After a brief moment of brightening vision and dizziness.

“Be careful not to fall.”

“Ah… ah! Yes! Where is…?”

“Underground Gate. You can use the magic circle here to move to various locations.”

“Isn’t Master a dragon? Phew… It seems there’s really no end to the surprises!”

Yooseong understood Hoyeon’s feelings to some extent.

After all, it wasn’t like he was showing people from this world one or two civilizations they had never encountered before.

If it weren’t for Hoyeon being a child and his reaction being exaggerated, anyone would have been shocked and opened their eyes wide.

‘If the dwarves were in heaven, they would have fainted.’

“Be careful not to fall.”

“This much shouldn’t be a problem! Heh!”

Hoyeon and Yooseong went through a small cave-like passage and climbed up the ladder at the end to get to the ground.

Creak-

They came out inside a wardrobe.

Originally, when they opened the wooden door, the inside of the workshop would have been revealed, but now there was only a small space and an iron door blocking the top.

After the alley was trampled by a giant and the workshop collapsed without a trace, they moved their belongings to their new house and did some repair work, and this is what it looked like.

Knock. Knock.

“Ah.”

As he knocked on the iron door, Yooseong remembered that he had finished it when he came in, so he placed his palm on the door.

Crack…!

Click-!

He used his transmutation to open the hinges that had been blocked.

Crack…

He pushed the door open and immediately went outside, turned around and pulled Hoyeon up.

Crack Crack-

Then he closed the iron door again, finished it with his transmutation, and used a shovel that he had stuck nearby to cover the door with dirt.

Yooseong shook his hand and turned his head.

“Didn’t you say there was an alley, magician? I can’t even see a shadow in the alleyway.”

“I don’t know! Because the giant ran wild… but I’m sure of their location.”

Then a voice was heard from somewhere.

“Someone’s coming…?”

A girl with red twintails and a female knight wearing violet armor are seen walking towards them while grumbling.

“Huh?”

The red-haired girl let out a short laugh…

No matter how you looked at her, KarenRedleaf made an expression as if she had seen a ghost when she saw Yooseong.

“Yoo…Yooseong!”

She shouted Yooseong’s name with a big smile on her lips.

Just looking at that appearance, she looked like a girl who had met a lover she had been desperately waiting for.

“_”

The temperature difference in Yooseong’s reaction was clearly different.

Yooseong’s expression, which had been a kind master’s face as he looked at Hoyeon just a moment ago, froze like ice as he confirmed the appearance of Karen and Sylvia.

The former warrior party members flinched at the sight of such a meteor’s face, and the two avoided the reproachful gazes as to why they came, but soon discovered Hoyeon next to Yooseong.

The woman the wizard spoke of…?

‘Who?”

Sylvia was looking at Hoyeon, analyzing whether the fox that Karen had talked about who was obsessed with Yooseong was Hoyeon, and Karen was looking at her to analyze whether a new target of caution had appeared.

A young child?

“Isn’t she too young…?”

However, no matter how they looked at Hoyeon, who looked like a young child who would suck his thumb, they didn’t feel like a rival at all.

Then the only question left was what kind of relationship that child had with Yooseong.

While the two were thinking of all sorts of hypotheticals…

“Master… Do you know them?”

Hoyeon looked at the two and asked Yooseong.

“No. They’re strangers.”

Yooseong answered as he grabbed Hoyeon’s small hand and walked quickly past them, completely ignoring them.

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Damn. This is going to be annoying again!

He could tell without even looking back.

The two were following him from the Metallica shopping mall all the way to the hill at the entrance of the shantytown.

He thought about moving somewhere else, but with Hoyeon by his side, he couldn’t shake off the two high-level swordsmen and magicians.

Although he would probably get caught by two of the three people he wanted to avoid the most, Yooseong had no choice but to head to the house in the middle of the shantytown.

“More importantly, why are they here? What about Seyeon?”

As the two appeared, he naturally thought of Seyeon and the Demon King in the palace.

The Demon King had clearly mentioned that they were going to join the project to save the world, and Seyeon had expressed her opinion that she would cooperate with it.

Then shouldn’t those two be in the palace?

To Yooseong, they were just annoying bad relationships, but in any case, the two of them were a great force to the country called Griffin.

Especially in a disaster situation where a disaster would come in a year, they had important positions and positions that they couldn’t just leave.

“This is… Master’s house!”

“Yeonah.”

“Huh?”

“Wait inside for a moment. I need to talk to the people outside.”

“Ah… Four! Don’t worry about me and take your time, Master!”

Hoyeon also felt the presence of the two people who were following him so openly, so he thought there was a reason and told them not to worry about him with a deliberate smile.

“You’re a thoughtful child.”

Yooseong smiled and patted Yeon’s head, and then turned around and opened the door with a cold, hard face that seemed to be even angry.

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As expected, there were two people waiting outside the door, unable to come near.

“Follow me. Both of you.”

Yooseong said without even looking at the two. He walked into the shadows behind the house.

Thud… thud… whoosh-!

As soon as the two entered the shade, Yooseong roughly turned his head and slowly opened his mouth with a face filled with bewilderment and annoyance.

“Do the commander of the royal knights and the court magician really have that much free time?”

The words that Seyeon would have said if she had seen the two came out of Yooseong’s mouth.

“When I went to Yooseong’s room…. Yooseong wasn’t there… So….”

Unlike Sylvia, who remained silent, Karen opened her mouth first and tried to make an excuse, but

“Why on earth!?”

Yooseong’s shout that immediately burst out made her sting and close her mouth.

“Why on earth… are you chasing me? That goddess’s face… Didn’t the Demon King explain it to you? What you did to me… Well… it was just the goddess scheming anyway. So can’t we just accept that and continue to live our lives? I never asked you to pay the price.”

At first, it was close to a shout with anger, but towards the end, a voice that became weaker and more appealing flowed out of Yooseong’s mouth.

“But… but… because I like Yoo Sung..! I like Yoo Sung sob..!”

Karen, who had been fidgeting while listening to Yooseong’s words, confessed her feelings to Yooseong with tearful eyes.

“I don’t like it.”

“_!”

“An enemy who killed someone precious to you, or a disgusting rapist who forcibly raped you. Just think about those people continuing to come looking for you… That’s how I feel about you. Even if it was the goddess’s handiwork! I can’t forget that face and voice back then.”

As Yooseong spoke with a pained expression as he recalled the past events again, Karen and Sylvia felt their hearts being ripped apart.

Unlike their close relationship in the past, they now felt an impassable wall between Yooseong and them.

They could just give up and turn back, but they couldn’t turn back because they still had regrets.

Because of the goddess… and because of them who had been treated by her… Han Yoo Sung had changed.

In the past, Yooseong was a kind and gentle person who enjoyed helping others.

He was not like the person he is now, who is thorny towards everyone and reluctant to approach them.

If they couldn’t get over that wall…

The reality that the cause was none other than themselves, their former comrades in the warrior party, was so hellish that they wanted to deny it.

Even if it was all the goddess’s prank… the feelings and scenes of what they did to Yooseong back then were so vivid that they couldn’t possibly blame everything on the goddess.

The guilt of tormenting the person they loved to the point of pushing him to his limit stabbed their hearts like a knife.

“Yoo Sung.”

Then Sylvia, who had been silent until then, opened her mouth.

“…”

Yooseong looked at Sylvia with tired eyes.

“Let’s spar.”

“What?”

“You don’t want to… continue the last sparring we had?”

With the same smile as before, Sylvia suggested to Yooseong that they continue the sparring from back then when she stole his eyes.