“It’s not impossible at all, absolutely not.”
Even if it was impossible, there was a need to show that some areas shouldn’t be touched. How lightly would they take us if we allowed them to meddle with our families?
Suji looked over her team members.
They all had their own families.
She was the target now, but as long as the information collection route wasn’t identified, who knew when the team members would become targets.
Suji didn’t want her trusted team members or their families to be put in danger. That would make it impossible to function as hunters.
It was better to draw the line quickly.
Suji smiled and deliberately changed the subject.
“I’m in the best condition ever after resting well. Now I feel like… how should I put it. Like I have a reliable fortress.”
“Is that so?”
“Originally, when things went wrong, I only thought about doing better. Now when things go wrong, I think, well, that can happen. I’m not sure if this is good though.”
Saint quickly nodded at Suji’s words.
“I put so much effort into decorating that garden. It’s really a precious home. I need to go water it soon, really.”
“Will seeds grow that quickly?”
“Have you ever grown plants inside a Gate? You never know.”
“…Well, that’s true.”
Listening to Saint and Peace’s conversation, Suji wrapped up the discussion.
“Then, let’s meet back at my living space after everyone’s done their checks. We need to water the plants, like Saint said.”
“Well, I can do all my data collection on my terminal, so I can go right now if needed.”
“I already moved the kids to the dorm inside the Gate Stabilization Department when I got the team leader’s message, so I can go now too.”
“What about Elaine? Don’t you have anywhere else you need to go, Elaine?”
Unlike the others, she had been by Suji’s side all day today.
She must have her own personal matters to attend to.
Elaine seemed to consider for a moment before shaking her head.
“I think it’s right for me to stay near the team leader for now.”
“Oh, what… Is this a confession?”
“Not even trying to hide it anymore. My, my.”
As soon as Elaine finished speaking, Peace and Saint teased her with lightning-quick reflexes.
But even this childish teasing was something you could only see when people were relaxed.
Suji thought it was good that her team members were enjoying themselves, and winked at Elaine, who was looking at her with serious eyes.
“Alright then, let’s head back for now.”
“Team leader, should we do some seed shopping on the way?”
“Saint, now’s not really the time for that, given the situation.”
“Ah, Peace, I keep telling you that being so uptight makes young people dislike you. There’s still about a month until ‘Bay Leaf’, are you not going to eat or use the bathroom until then? Make sure to secure time for hobbies.”
“Fine. Do whatever you want. Eat and use the bathroom all you like.”
“Wow, I’m so excited.”
Letting the increasingly childish conversation go in one ear and out the other, Suji enjoyed a few more bites of the food that perfectly suited her taste.
Though Team Daphne had racked up over 40G in sales just from drinks sold by the glass, none of them had managed to get drunk, and they left the bar with clear faces.
As she walked out the entrance following her companions, Suji suddenly looked up at the sky.
The tower that rose so high it seemed to touch the sky was clearly visible even from quite a distance.
‘…Is it just a coincidence?’
That the rift Nature encountered didn’t appear when she was living in the tower, but only now.
There were too many headache-inducing problems right now to bring it up, but it was meaningful to her that she had confirmed the monster that killed her mother was there.
Others say they become stronger to make money, or to step on others to rise up, but for Suji, it wasn’t like that.
Ever since childhood, when she suddenly had to accept her mother’s death, she had constantly dreamed of revenge.
That was everything that moved her.
She had worked hard for that alone, giving up everything else. She truly worked hard, always keeping death not far away. As a result, she gained power far superior to others.
Yet the goal was always out of reach.
She thought it would never be within her grasp.
‘But it was there after all.’
It would be a lie to say she didn’t feel like rushing there right away.
Her heart grew impatient.
To be honest, she wanted to climb the tower right now and hold out until the rift appeared.
‘Would it have been better if the rift appeared when I climbed the tower? “Great Beings”, rifts… I don’t like any of it.’
Suji whistled while complaining inwardly.
Responding to that sound, a unicorn came galloping through the air. Earlier in the day she hadn’t noticed, but now that darkness had fallen, its body emitted a soft glow that had a mysterious beauty.
Peace and Saint glared at the approaching monster, but when the unicorn gently stopped in front of Suji and lowered its head, their jaws dropped.
“…What is this, team leader?”
“You didn’t just learn a new taming skill… Is this from that egg from before?”
Suji nodded with a smile.
“Yes, that’s right. Pretty nice, isn’t it?”
Peace had a dumbfounded expression.
“Every time I’ve seen tamed monsters until now, I really thought… I’d rather walk than trust and ride those things… but this feels different.”
Suji shook her head.
The more she realized that the ‘Great Beings’ presided over ‘Bay Leaf’ and were entities that contacted hunters, the less she liked them.
It also felt too much like they were acting as gods overseeing this system, that an egg given exceptionally by the ‘Great Beings’ would hatch into such a new and unprecedented pet.
All of this felt like… they were inside a game operated by them, which made her very uneasy.
“How different can it be? It just looks pretty on the outside.”
Suji replied flatly, but Peace and Saint were busy arguing over who would ride first.
“Elaine already rode it, right? I want to ride this time.”
“Peace, you’re too heavy. Besides, unicorns prefer women, you know?”
“You think that fairy tale stereotype applies to this unicorn whose origins we don’t even know? Oh my, Saint is discriminating against people with baseless reasons.”
“There you go acting weak again!”
“Saint, you take the motorcycle.”
“I’ll lend it to you. You ride it.”
While the two bickered, Elaine leisurely mounted the unicorn.
When you think of unicorns, you might imagine them as just beautiful and graceful, but in reality, they’re large monsters that can easily carry two humans.
Elaine in her black armor, mounted on such a massive unicorn, truly looked like a warrior on a white horse straight out of a manga.
‘Even though the pet itself doesn’t have combat functions, if Elaine rode it wielding a lance, she’d be unstoppable.’
But no sooner had such idle thoughts crossed her mind than the unicorn began to prance and kick its hind legs. Soon it reared up on its hind legs, as if annoyed that something bothersome had mounted it.
“…Ah, I guess I need to ride first.”
She had thought it was always docile and gentle because it was obedient when she handled it, but it seemed to only obey Suji.
With this awkward realization, she reached out to the unicorn.
The unicorn snorted, as if trying to calm its excitement, and pressed its forehead against Suji’s hand.
Suji stroked its mane as if to soothe it and said,
“We’re all going to the same place anyway, so whoever wants to ride can ride together.”
But after seeing the unicorn’s wild behavior, Peace’s face looked a bit sick, and Saint wasn’t the type to tell Elaine to get off when she was already seated as if it was her rightful place.
So it was decided that Suji and Elaine would ride the unicorn, while Saint and Peace would take the motorcycle back to their living space together.
[This is the timeline separator]Suji came out to the sea in front of the living space in the middle of the night.
She had been about to contact Priya anyway, when an email arrived from Priya first.
[To: DaphneI would like to meet and talk at 9 AM at the Hajodae Observatory in Yangyang, Gangwon-do.
This is an opportunity to join hands with us and move towards a greater future.
I respect you.
From: Priya]
The email with the specific time and place for the appointment arrived at 5 AM.
Of course, it wasn’t impossible for Suji since she could shorten the distance through Gates, but she thought it was quite early and polite to notify her of the appointment time like this.
‘It’s so funny to threaten someone and then talk about some greater future.’
She looked around the sea once, then left footprints in the sand while thinking about what to do.
She was going to go, but the question was who to go with.
If this was a trap, things could get troublesome if she went alone.
Lost in thought, she snapped back to reality when her purple hair messily obscured her vision.
Even though it was inside a Gate, the wind was strong as if it really was the seaside.
Suji grabbed her fluttering hair and looked back.
The team members were scattered around the living space, each finding their own comfortable spot to sit and collect data or analyze maps.
But the atmosphere wasn’t gloomy for a group facing a big task.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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