Chapter 98: The Dignity Of Rank S (6)
-Snow White, you like the Goblin, don’t you?
It was a rumor that was widely known among the public. As Baek Seol-hee, it was frustrating, but it was natural for people to let their imaginations run wild while observing the two S-ranked individuals who always seemed to be in conflict.
-Baek Seol-hee likes the Goblin. That’s why she behaves like that.
-Go, Seolhee-mon! Tease the Goblin!
-How do you know if the Goblin is male or female? It could turn out to be female.
-Why are you assuming she would fail to tease a female?
-Teacher, I admire your broad defensive range.
Baek Seol-hee and the Goblin were a topic that heated up the community almost as much as Romeo and Juliet, or rather, Prince Hodong and Princess Nakrang.
-But doesn’t Princess Nakrang die, and Prince Hodong win the war?
-Then let’s call them Snow Prince and Goblin Princess!
-Why a princess when anyone can see it’s a male…?
-Even if it’s male, it’s enough to treat it like a princess!
-Teacher, I am also interested in your peculiar taste.
People cheered passionately. And although the nation didn’t show it, they all subtly sent signals to Baek Seol-hee with their eyes.
-Why not try to woo the Goblin, whether with your body, mind, or power?
-Honestly, if the Goblin is ruthless because of its situation, all of them would deserve to die if you really look into it, right?
-If we use the Goblin as a hunting dog to kill the villains, wouldn’t it be just like conducting a legal transaction? Baek Seol-hee, you should put a leash on the Goblin and walk around.
Everyone tried to link Baek Seol-hee with the Goblin. Especially when the Goblin started appearing again in Sejong Island, where he had never appeared before, the rumor started to spread all over the world on the wings of the wind.
-Someone who never appeared in Sejong Island is coming to Sejong Island because Baek Seol-hee is there? This is a 100% sign. It’s a green light.
-The Goblin must be a man. How could any man not be excited seeing Baek Seol-hee’s milkshake container?
-Get married! Bang! Be patriotic! Bang! Have a Snow Girl! Bang!
The internet was already making a fuss about “If the Goblin and Snow White have a baby, will it be a Snow Girl?”
Until now, Baek Seol-hee hadn’t really cared about that sort of thing. The only thing that concerned her about the Goblin was purely his villainous ideology or actions. She never really thought of the Goblin in a romantic way-
Or did she?
She didn’t know.
But that was just an illusion. She was only mistaken into thinking she had feelings for him because everyone kept talking about it.
There was already a man who had a place in Baek Seol-hee’s heart.
‘The world doesn’t know.’
What a fateful encounter it was.
It was as familiar as if they had known each other before, and facing a strange new world was fascinating. It was comforting to be with him, and she met someone who saw her not as an S-rank hero but as a woman named Baek Seol-hee.
‘I’m already annoyed that he doesn’t answer his phone at night, and now people are linking me with the Goblin without knowing anything.’
She was scared. An S-rank hero scared? But she was afraid he might say something like this:
-So, Miss Seol-hee likes the Goblin… I feel a bit disappointed.
She was scared. She was afraid their relationship might fall apart. They were just at the start, and it was already precarious. And she couldn’t sleep properly for fear that their relationship might collapse because people around them were egging them on in a strange way.
So today, she would make it clear and end her relationship with the Goblin to prove it.
To that man, to show that the rumors about her and the Goblin were just malicious assumptions made by people.
Never.
She was not angry because he didn’t contact her late at night, didn’t reply, didn’t confirm, and didn’t even call at dawn.
Yeah.
Why should she vent her anger at the Goblin?
Just.
She would just do her best to cut off the rumors created by people.
Based on the new skills she learned through conversations with him.
Today.
Baek Seol-hee was determined to capture the Goblin.
‘It seems like she contacted me last night.’
Dodging the incoming ice spear quickly, I speculated the reason for the anger embedded in Baek Seol-hee’s attack.
Question 1. Was it because Armored Taejo was forcibly deployed to Gangwon-do to handle the accident he caused?
Answer 1. No. She has been involved in all kinds of incidents so far, but she wouldn’t get angry over something like this.
Question 2. Then, because I came riding a motorcycle with Yuliana?
Answer 2. So what? I’m the Goblin. If I came as Do Ji-hwan, I would have to kneel right away, but the Goblin has no rational relationship with Snow White.
Question 3. What if she saw me throw Yuliana to the ground?
Answer 3. That could be it. She might get angry, questioning how I could throw a woman to the ground.
But I felt a more primal rage than that.
“What are you thinking about so much?!”
[I was thinking about you.]
“Stop dodging spears! You keep doing that!!”
She got angry again. The ice spear that was charging toward my head, shoulder, and even heart; if I simply deflected it with my fist, my arm would likely be pierced, so it was best to use all my strength to avoid it.
Question 4. Does she hate being linked with me, the Goblin?
Question 4-1. There was never a problem with it before, so why now?
‘Ah.’
There was a new variable.
Until now, she didn’t really care if she was linked with the Goblin, but there was one person who could express discomfort with her connection with the Goblin.
‘Does she care about Do Ji-hwan now?’
My instincts were sharp in this area.
Even if things like setting the world with the original protagonist may be a bit ambiguous, I had a pretty good intuition about gender relations and women’s hearts.
It was risky, but I should give it a shot.
[I’ve heard of dates, but such a brutal date is a first for me.]
“Quiet! It’s just a metaphorical expression!”
When Snow White spread her right hand to the side, wings of ice spread behind her.
The wings, akin to an angel’s feathers, fluttered, and soon Snow White looked at me accurately and stretched her right hand towards me.
“I won’t miss!”
[!!]
Feathers shot out sideways.
The reason for the sideways discharge rather than forward was that each feather curved and changed direction toward me.
‘Homing missiles!’
The icy feathers were like sharp arrowheads, and at a quick glance, their number seemed to exceed thousands.
There was no place to dodge.
To dodge, one needed to get out of this battlefield of an ice net she created.
[Just because you spread your attack, it doesn’t mean you can catch me.]
I lightly jumped back and then swung my hand forward.
Whoosh!
The magical flames turned into sparks.
Each small, concentrated flame that carried explosive power fluttered like snowflakes, and these flames precisely intersected the trajectory of the flying ice feathers.
“Crap…!”
Magic and magic exploded.
Even if these abilities were based on imagination, the basic cognition inherent to humans could not be defeated.
Fire melted ice.
[If you want to extinguish my flames, you should bring more ice, princess.]
“Then, try blocking this too!”
Snow White stretched her hands upward.
She created a white sphere in the sky by recalling even the ice feathers that had not reached me yet, and soon, this ice crystal turned into a huge chunk like a meteorite.
[Just try throwing that, and I’ll dodge….]
“Too late!”
The ice net had unexpectedly become a wall behind me.
The net that instantly froze any object it touched made it virtually impossible to simply go outside, and I was clearly caught off guard.
“Meteor Fall!”
Baek Seol-hee threw an ice chunk as big as an average container at me.
It felt exactly like a meteorite falling, and I realized the source of her anger.
‘She must be pissed because she couldn’t reach me!’
In this situation, was the technique she used unconsciously, or even consciously, from the climax scene of the movie she watched with Do Ji-hwan?
One hundred percent.
When I returned to Seoul, there would definitely be more than ten missed calls on my Taeguk Watch.
-Can you come now…?“
-Or should I come to you?“
If a message like this had come, Do Ji-hwan would probably have turned into trash as a romantic partner.
‘Damn.’
It was fine to flirt as Do Ji-hwan, but due to that flirtation, it was unbelievable that the Goblin was spilling blood like this.
Should this be called trolling or outsmarting?
‘But there’s one sure thing.’
That woman, Baek Seol-hee, didn’t know my true identity.
She didn’t know at all that the Goblin was Do Ji-hwan.
If she knew I was Do Ji-hwan?
There would have been a hint of hesitation in that attack.
There were no emotions mixed in at all, such as confusion when she found out that Do Ji-hwan was the Goblin or feeling betrayed due to that confusion.
Only the single-mindedness of a hero who wanted to arrest me.
[A bit cute, though.]
“!!”
Should I call it pure love towards Do Ji-hwan?
The attack was filled with the will to arrest the Goblin, but it embarrassed me to think that it was because of her feelings for Do Ji-hwan at its root.
‘I’ll have to soothe her when I go back.’
I decided to figure out a way, whether by going back to Ulleung soon or secretly inviting her separately…
First, dealing with the meteorite falling in front of me was the top priority.
Escaping with astral projection was impossible.
There were invisible ice crystals all around that would hinder astral projection. If I crossed the net and materialized with ice crystals stuck in my body, my body would explode.
Either pierce through the net.
Or run underground.
Or else.
[Ah, can you hear me? The chairwoman’s order. She said to back up with ‘full power’.]
Expend all the power I could muster now, to block the attack.
[5 minutes. I’ll be there within 5 minutes after tidying up here, so don’t get caught.]
‘I’m just about to get hit with the ultimate move.’
I turned my body.
I turned my back to the meteorite and gathered my magical power in my lower body.
“!!”
Baek Seol-hee was taken aback and reached out towards me, but the meteorite was already falling.
‘At maximum magical power.’
[Three.]
[Two.]
[One.]
I gathered all the magical power and passed it to one leg.
[I’ll take that anger head-on.]
Cutting Leg Knife.
Patriotic Side Cutter.
I swung my body around in a huge arc and raised one leg towards the meteorite.
Whack.
The crescent moon of the red flame.
Split the white meteorite in half.
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