Bjorn Yandel the Barbarian

Baekho Lee suddenly asks if he wants to kill himself, and Jainana answers yes without any hesitation.

What kind of relationship do these two have?

“Oh, do you see my eyes opening like shit again?”

“······”

“Stop it, Baekho… If we fight amongst ourselves in this situation, it’ll only benefit the bad guy who locked us up here!”

Aures, who is trying to cover up the situation by saying the right thing.

“Just keep quiet. Are you afraid that he doesn’t know that you’re still in contact with the lord?”

“···What are you talking about! I, I—!”

“Hey, I told you you can’t lie in here?”

“······”

“But you said you didn’t tell anyone that you were leaving this time, so I’m just letting this slide.”

“Thank you······”

Listening to the conversation, it seems like even the innocent Aures has some kind of hidden agenda…

‘If these guys are going to be like this, why do they hang out together?’ It seems that to Baekho Lee, ‘colleague’ is a completely different concept from the ‘colleague’ I know.

“···Baron, Baron, shouldn’t you step forward a bit? If this continues, we might end up in a split····”

“Just stay still for now. I’ll come out if things get serious.”

The atmosphere suddenly became as cold as ice. GM expressed his concern, but I decided to wait and see what happened.

That’s true, too. At first, I didn’t understand why Baekho Lee was so suspicious of his colleagues.

‘Well, if there are such circumstances, then it makes sense.’ I almost mistook him for someone who seemed friendly, but the fundamentals don’t change.

We are just hanging out together because our goals are the same.

These guys are not like ‘companions’

“Grandpa… It’s okay. I knew from the beginning that you had other plans anyway…”

Baekho Lee, who was about to say something to the destruction scholar, sighed deeply and shook his head.

I don’t know why, but there’s a look of disgust in his eyes. Did he suddenly get dizzy?

Tick ​​tock-

I don’t know, but from that point on, the time for misused trust has run out.

“Doing more would be a waste. Isn’t this enough to prove that there are no traitors among us?”

“······”

Wasn’t it too much of a mess to do one more thing here? Baekho Lee also put the misplaced trust back into the subspace as the old man said.

Oh, of course I added some useless gossip.

“But that’s fortunate. I feel a little bad about killing a kid I’ve been with for years, but that’s not happening.”

Soon, Baekho Lee looked at Jaina and smiled.

“Oh, you don’t know? You don’t even remember properly anyway?”

I don’t know the details, but I could feel it instinctively. These words were heart-wrenching to some people.

Jaina, who had been trembling silently, approached Baekho Lee one step at a time and stopped, and then…

“Why did you hit me once?”

Looking up at the sarcastic Baekho, Jaina mutters this in a harsh tone.

“Lee Baek-ho… We are not your playthings to vent your anger on”

“······”

“So, you should only show off your tantrums to your mother.”

A bold counterattack that made GM and Aures, who were standing next to him, flinch.

“Oh, you can’t act like a fool? You’ll never be able to go back to your original world—·”

At the very moment when Jaina was about to touch the reverse scale, Baekho Lee’s new form disappeared from sight.

Kwaaaaang-! A gust of wind spreads out in all directions with a loud noise that pierces the eardrums.

“Hey, this is fun”

The situation was very simple and clear. Baekho Lee tried to attack Jaina, and Aures, who was right next to him, blocked it with his shield.

“What? You said you’d regained your memories and all, and now you’ve got someone to stick with you?”

Even to me, an outsider, it was such a poor, third-rate villain-like line. I felt like I saw the bottom of Lee Baek-ho in an unexpected place.

“Baekho, I know you’re impatient, but come to your senses. This isn’t like you.”

“What is mine?”

“He’s always been moody and cranky, but at least he’s not the type to cause trouble like this.”

Aures, who confidently looks Baekho Lee in the eye and says everything he wants to say even in front of him who is about to hit him. ‘This is a tanker.’ There are no bad tankers in the world. ***

“···Oh, I’ll go cool my head and come back.·”

As Baekho Lee ran away after saying those words, Aures let out a long breath that he had been holding in as if the tension had been relieved.

“Whoa···· Baekho’s killing aura is always so terrifying· I really thought I was going to suffocate to death·”

“Haha, even though it was like that, there was no hesitation in your eyes. I saw it again…” “Ahaha.. It’s about protecting your comrades. But how could you back down…”

“···thank you·”

Aures scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed look as Jaina thanked him in a small voice.

“Then, would you all like to go first? I’ll cool my head for a bit and then follow you down.”

“Ah… Ah! Is that so?”

What do you mean, Aures intervened before he could say anything else.

“You can’t act alone. There’s no guarantee that you’ll be safe here.”

“Uh… But didn’t Baekho Lee go alone?”

Are you talking back to Lee Baek-ho and Shin-gwan?

“If it doesn’t work, know that it doesn’t work.”

I spoke firmly once again, but Aureus did not back down.

“If being alone is a problem, I will stay by your side. Is that okay?”

Uh… I have nothing to say if you say it like that… ‘Hey, you can talk so logically, but why haven’t you been doing it all this time?’

Apart from the novelty, I had no intention of allowing it.

“No way”

“Why is it not possible?

There are several reasons. First, I feel uneasy about entrusting my only priest to this guy.

“Didn’t you clearly say earlier that being alone was a problem? So what’s the problem with me being by her side?”

The second is just this guy himself. If a gender issue were to arise in an already divided team, it would really be a total mess.

“Answer me properly. Or I will never back down—”

It’s so noisy

“Then you guys go down first. I’ll stay.”

I chose to do it instead because it seemed like he would never give in if I just said no.

“Uh… Huh? Even if you don’t do that….”

As expected, Aures was greatly embarrassed.

“It’s okay, Aures. I’ll be right down, so don’t worry.”

“···I understand·”

When even Jaina said that, the guy seemed to have nothing left to say and just slumped his shoulders and left. And then…

“Are you a funny person?”

When the two of them were left alone in the stone chamber, Jaina spoke to them.

“It’s been like that since before. Even when I was joking around, he would always sneak peeks at me.”

“Did you know that?”

“How can you not know? You are such a conspicuous person.”

Is that so? To be honest, I didn’t really feel anything until today.

By the way, there are two more left.

“Oh, so that’s how it ended up like that again. Then I’ll just stay quiet for now and go collect your thoughts on your own.”

After saying that, I sat down at the desk near the entrance, and Jaina also sat with her back against the wall a little way away. And then a long silence followed.

While I was eating jerky and thinking about this and that, someone from that side spoke to me first.

“···Aren’t you going to ask?”

I thought it was nonsense, but there was no problem with the communication itself.

“Didn’t you need some time alone?”

“But you’re not alone anyway.”

Well, that’s true too.

“Then if I ask you, will you tell me?”

Jaina answered the question that was asked casually as if it were thrown out of the blue.

“There’s nothing I can’t tell you. It’s not something I should bring up first, but it’s not something I should hide either.”

“······”

“And wasn’t that why you said you’d leave it behind because you were curious about that in the first place?”

Well, that’s one of the reasons.

“There was another reason that was the biggest reason.”

“What is it?”

“I thought it would be a headache if I got emotional in this situation.”

Hearing this honest answer without hiding anything, Jaina laughed out loud as if she had not expected it, and then suddenly changed her words.

“No, I don’t want to say anything either.”

“···What is it all of a sudden?”

“Just because it’s not a particularly interesting story.”

“Is that so? Do whatever you want.”

Ugh, I had high hopes for nothing. I sighed, feeling a bit let down.

But did you feel a little guilty about that appearance?

“But I’ll tell you one thing. I lied to you before, Baron. Or rather, I deliberately kept that part a secret.”

“What was that?”

“I was the one who tried to save Karui-sama by offering my memories to him. I was the one who killed him. Well, I guess you could have guessed it to some extent, after hearing what Baekho said.”

“Can you tell me how it came to be like that?”

“There was no great reason. It was just that Lord Karui asked for him as a sacrifice. He promised to give me new powers, so I killed him.”

“······”

“It was a powerful power that saved my life several times. But… I wouldn’t have done this. If I had known it would be this suffocating, I would never have done it…”

I could hear the deep regret in Jaina’s voice and I just gave her some time alone without asking any more questions.

After 10, 20, 30 minutes, Jaina finally got up from her seat and went down to the stone chamber first, saying that it was okay.

“Are you feeling better now?”

As soon as I entered the ruins, Aures and the two approached me and seemed to be having a conversation, but I didn’t bother to eavesdrop.

“What about Baekho Lee?”

When I approached the GM and asked, all I could hear was that he hadn’t come back yet. Hey, he’s not even in puberty.

“Should we try searching?”

“Okay, what about the search? Just wait and they’ll come back on their own.”

“But isn’t it possible that someone unknown might be with us in these ruins?”

“Wait a little longer and if it doesn’t come, it’s not too late to come back then.”

Above all, there are conversations that need to be had when Baekho Lee is not around.

“hey·”

I finished my conversation with GM and headed to the ruined old man.

“What’s going on, Baron?”

“There’s something I want to discuss with you.”

“Tell me”

Since this old man is not the type to talk much, I got straight to the point.

“Lee Baek-ho, did you think he looked normal?”

Actually, this is something I’ve been feeling since a while ago. Even if Baekho is not a normal person, he is not the kind of person who would act thoughtlessly like this.

Because that guy only does things that are ‘profitable’

“It’s probably not normal, since you say so too.”

“Did you feel something strange too?”

“His criteria aren’t things like ‘good and evil’. He tries to think and act rationally in any situation. But what happened today was so emotional.”

“Is it possible that he did that because he felt impatient?”

“That’s a funny story. If I had been impatient about things like this, I wouldn’t have been able to run toward a goal for nearly twenty years.”

“I see····”

So what on earth made Baekho Lee like that? Was there a field effect that we don’t know about? But if that’s true, then everyone else except Baekho Lee is fine?

While I was thinking about it, the old man suddenly came over and brought up a different topic.

“I’m more curious about the other side.”

“What kind?”

“As I continue to sort out the situation, I can’t help but conclude that there must have been a traitor among us.”

“Isn’t that problem over now?”

He even used misplaced trust to check not only Baekho Lee’s team members but also the GM.

I couldn’t use it because it didn’t work for me. But why is this old man bringing this up again?

“Are you doubting me and Baekho Lee?”

No matter how much I thought about it, this was the only answer I could come up with, so I lowered my voice and asked. The old man chuckled.

“That’s not true. Of course, you certainly have a motive to interfere with us, but… there’s a suspect who’s more suspicious than you.”