“Ugh…”
Nature’s groan resounded lowly.
I don’t know how ‘vocalizes’ humans.
But I could easily guess that Zero died last time because he spilled too much information in front of me and Yeonju.
In case of any unforeseen circumstances, Suji roughly folded a blanket lying around and shoved it into Nature’s mouth.
“Urgh… oomph…”
“Be quiet. This is a makeshift gag.”
Nature flailed about, but Suji was resolute.
At that moment, Saint and Peace, who belatedly grasped the situation, came running.
“What’s going on?”
“…Did Nature try to lay a hand on you, Leader?”
Genuinely startled, the two immediately drew their weapons and assumed battle stances, glancing back and forth between Suji and Nature with puzzled faces.
Looking visibly fatigued, Suji gestured at Nature, who was sprawled on the floor groaning.
“Please restrain him.”
“What happened?”
Even as he asked that with a perplexed expression, Saint took out the 7-tier item and tied Nature’s arms behind his back. Until a moment ago, they were fellow team members clearing the tower together, but there was not a shred of hesitation in his actions.
“This level should be enough to restrain Nature, right?”
After tying him up intricately several times and finishing it off nicely with a ribbon knot, Saint dusted off his hands.
As Suji, Saint, and Peace stood side by side glaring at Nature, who was stuck between chairs, Elaine approached with a nonchalant face.
Suji stared intently at him as he came from the direction of the cockpit.
“I’m alive thanks to you. How did you know?”
“Wouldn’t it be stranger if I didn’t know? No matter what, the team members playing chess without a care while Daphne is being hijacked would be the incompetent ones.”
Saint and Peace widened their eyes.
The two, who had been trying to make sense of the situation, were more surprised by Elaine’s words than him disparaging them.
“Hijack? An airplane terror attack?”
“Nature? Against Leader?”
Elaine gave a slight nod.
“Honestly, even the grandiose term ‘hijack’ is a waste. For something this stupid.”
Saint, frowning, looked at Nature who was sprawled on the floor making “oomph, oomph” sounds.
“Are you stupid? …No, I was secretly happy that a rather handsome guy rejoined the team. You held a knife or something to Leader?”
” has been contacting him for a while now, and judging by how their methods are getting more extreme, I guess they’re desperate about something. Rather than threatening me, he threatened his own life.”
“…? Again?”
Suji nodded, looking at Nature with dejected eyes.
“Exactly. I told you last time too that Zero burned to death right in front of us. So for now, I gagged Nature’s mouth, but I don’t know what will happen.”
Peace poked Nature with the tip of his foot.
There was a time when they were teammates and got along quite well, treating each other with respect, but now that things had come to this, everyone knew there was no need to show affection anymore.
“Do they implant bombs in your body or something when you join … Seeing how everyone goes crazy.”
“Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.”
Suji nodded at Peace’s words.
The group dragged Nature, who was almost crawling, to the conference table in the middle of the cabin and set him down.
“Shouldn’t we hear what he was thinking?”
Peace asked, kicking Nature’s leg, and Suji replied with a sigh.
When 3 S-class waves erupted simultaneously, I heard they arrested followers at each location and have them in custody.
When interrogating them, I heard they can’t even touch them for fear they might die like Zero. I didn’t think much of it then, but I never thought I would be in that situation.
What could we possibly hear from Nature?
He’s a cultist who doesn’t even value his own life.
She looked at Nature, who was still rolling around next to the table with his arms tied behind his back, with cold eyes. He still seemed to have things to say as he grunted, but she didn’t feel a shred of pity.
It was unpleasant to see someone she had known for a long time, worked with, and trusted to watch her back transform in this way.
It felt like her trust in people was shattered all at once.
“What’s the point in listening to what he has to say? Forget it. It’s a rare overseas visit, and I don’t want to ruin the mood any further here.”
Watching her teammates nod, Suji muttered as if to herself.
“I heard Nature was dispatched to the sites dealing with the S-class waves. I wonder if he was in his right mind then… Or if he was ‘s servant from the beginning.”
“Exactly. No, could there have been some misunderstanding? This is way too pathetic to be believable.”
“We trusted him completely. Wouldn’t it be better to keep hiding his identity while sticking close by our side? Don’t you think?”
Elaine shook his head at Saint and Peace’s words.
“He probably resorted to this knowing there would be no gaps even in intense battle situations in the tower. We all saw how he couldn’t focus on combat.”
Peace and Saint exclaimed in admiration.
“Ah, so that’s why?”
“My goodness. I had no idea.”
Suji turned to look at Elaine again.
“Since when did you know?”
“Since we were clearing the tower together, I thought he must have some intention, always lingering around Daphne.”
It did seem that way.
Perhaps it was my fault for not connecting that to suspicion.
Still, would it be possible to react to this extent? The seats he and I were sitting in weren’t that close.
Moreover, this wasn’t the only time Elaine acted as if he knew in advance.
There were too many instances I brushed off thinking it was no big deal.
But again, I was at a loss for what to ask.
I couldn’t press him on how he was so quick-witted, and it was also strange to ask if he always protected me so well like this.
“We are approximately 10 km from our destination’s airspace. All members of Team Daphne on board, please prepare for the door to open.”
At that moment, an announcement made directly by the captain echoed through the cabin.
Suji was lost in thought for a moment before pointing at Nature.
“Let’s have Priya come directly to collect this baggage.”
“Got it. I’ll contact her.”
Seeing Saint reply like that, she grasped Elaine’s arm.
“Elaine will move with me.”
“Understood.”
Suji gestured to Saint as well, seeing him obediently reply.
Since there were two people who could use wings, the team judged there was no need to wait until the plane landed.
Soon, everyone gathered in front of the door on one side of the private jet.
Suji and Saint equipped their wings. Peace, holding the tightly bound Nature in one hand, stood next to Saint, and Suji unlocked the safety mechanism on the door. Then she sat at the entrance.
The ground stretched out below her feet, and the bright blue sky above her head. The clouds thickly blanketing the space in between were quite a spectacle.
Even for Suji, overseas travel was not frequent, and for domestic travel, she took shortcuts through gates, so she didn’t have much experience jumping out of airplanes.
“Let’s go down.”
Suji closed her eyes tightly and opened them, erasing the matter about Nature from her mind.
“Let’s go.”
She wrapped her arm around Elaine’s waist and jumped out just like that.
In the serene silence until spreading their wings, the wind fiercely hit their bodies.
“Can I trust Elaine?”
It wasn’t a shout, so an ordinary person wouldn’t have heard it in this situation. But Elaine would have understood.
As Suji blankly stared at the ground drawing closer and closer, a reply came in a voice that was simply calm and gentle, as if perfectly trusting her even in this situation.
“You can trust me.”
She didn’t expect any other answer besides this either.
It grew more and more confusing.
As if she could trust all humans, and then as if she couldn’t trust anyone.
She slowly closed and opened her eyes, spreading her wings wide.
As the rapidly approaching ground instantly distanced itself, her body floated up lightly.
“Don’t make me regret trusting you, Elaine.”
“Of course.”
Would it have been better if I could see his face?
It was frustrating that she couldn’t see what expression he was making because she was holding Elaine’s waist.
Suji changed direction and flew towards the tower as if shooting through the air. Looking right behind, Saint could be seen flying gracefully holding a man in each hand.
Lost in thought as she flew for a while, she vaguely heard a sound like a whistle.
Wheeee-eek!
“Welcome, Daphne!”
“Welcome!”
Raising her head and looking ahead, she saw silhouettes gathered together.
Even though it was quite a distance from here to the tower, she could see people waving all sorts of flags and jumping up and down in front of it. The number was not small.
As the ground drew closer, voices shouting in Korean with a slightly awkward accent could be heard.
There seemed to be close to a thousand people by rough estimate.
She had traveled to an overseas tower, but she thought she had just come to keep a promise.
She never thought she would be welcomed like this.
She showed a dumbfounded expression.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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