94.
It was already too late to talk nicely. With Alberg on their side, the possibility of Miriel listening to their story was infinitely low.
“Alberg!”
When Hyeon-woo called, Alberg turned around. Even in the midst of Miriel’s attack, there was no hesitation in his actions.
“Catch!”
As soon as Hyeon-woo said that, Alberg grinned.
“As you say.”
Before Miriel became enraged at the conversation between the two, Alberg, who moved quickly, grabbed the stabbing spear. Then he struck Miriel in the stomach.
“Cough!”
Miriel tried to avoid it somehow, but in the end he caught her neck. Alberg grabbed her neck and released it, but in the blink of an eye, a strange tattoo was left around her neck.
“I caught you.”
It was an absurdly short battle.
“What is this!”
Miriel scratched her neck belatedly, but the tattoo did not disappear.
“It won’t go away, so stop scratching at it.”
“What the hell is this!”
“It’s a light binding magic.”
“You’re lying!”
Miriel panicked at that. The tattoo was restricting her freedom.
“Really. I’ll let you go if you do a little favor for me.”
“I cannot trust the words of the demons. Release me!”
“Why would I release you?”
Alberg looked at Miriel with pathetic eyes and was carried by Hyeon-woo who was approaching.
“Hyeon-woo! I got you what you wanted!”
Praise me, please! Alberg looked at Hyeon-woo with those eyes.
“Thank you.”
Hyeon-woo reached out and stroked Alberg’s head. Thanks to this, he captured the angel. All that remained was to convince her.
“Let’s change our location.”
“Did you hear that? Follow me.”
“Why me!”
Miriel made an angry expression. She rebelled several times in the journey, but it seemed that the pain was severe. In the end, she gave up and quietly followed Hyeon-woo.
He thought there would be more resistance. Alberg answered with a smile as if he had noticed Hyeon-woo’s thoughts.
“Because she’s still young.”
She did not seem to have experienced an actual fight before. Hyeon-woo took Miriel to the lounge.
“Where have you been? What? Who is that beautiful woman with you?”
Only Ga-jun was left in the lounge.
“Seon-woo?”
“He’s been looking around for medicine. He is in the hospital. So who’s behind you?”
How should he explain it? The wings were tucked in, but from the appearance to the clothes she was wearing, she was far from ordinary. She even held a spear in one hand.
“It’s a long story.”
“I have a lot of time.”
Ga-jun replied with a smirk.
“Okay.”
Hyeon-woo decided to explain quickly as time was running out.
“This is Miriel, an angel.”
“She’s really an angel? A real angel?”
“That’s what she is by human standards.”
“Hoo?”
Ga-jun looked down at Miriel from top to bottom.
“How rude!”
“Yes, yes.”
Miriel shouted as her body trembled, but Ga-jun only laughed. Then, Hyeon-woo sat down with Miriel across the table in the living room. Alberg calmly sat next to Hyeon-woo and wrapped his arms around him.
“I’ll at least serve some coffee.”
Ga-jun hummed and headed for the kitchen.
“Do you think I’m going to drink what a human colluding with the demons gives me!”
Miriel was nervous, but Ga-jun didn’t even listen. He just calmly brewed coffee. When no one listened to what he said, he huffed and closed his eyes. He didn’t see anything; he didn’t seem to hear anything. But it was difficult to do so.
Hyeon-woo swallowed a deep sigh and spoke.
“Miriel.”
“Don’t call me by my name.”
“Please. Help me.”
“There’s no reason for me to help.”
“I know. Still, I have no choice but to hang on to hope.”
Although Alberg, who was sitting next to him, made a disapproving expression, he did not interrupt Hyeon-woo.
“Would you like some coffee?”
“I don’t want to hear it.”
In the meantime, Ga-jun came out into the living room with three cups of finished coffee. One cup for Hyeon-woo, one for Miriel, and the other one seemed to be his own. Only Alberg was left out.
“What about me!”
Alberg pouted his lips and said, but Ga-jun didn’t seem to have any intention of brewing more coffee. He fought under these circumstances. Hyeon-woo first pushed his coffee in front of Alberg. And started talking. The things that are currently happening in this world, the important people who have been hurt because of it. Just in case, Miriel might change her mind, so she carefully followed her words one by one.
“The demons are plotting things?”
After hearing the whole story, Miriel finally opened her eyes.
“A precious person got hurt because of that.”
“...That’s not important to me.”
Although she said so, her tone softened more than the first time.
“It is to me.”
Hyeon-woo asked again in an anxious voice.
“So, please help.”
Miriel closed her mouth tightly. She then brought her hand to the coffee cup in front of her as her throat burned. When she saw him, Ga-jun smiled slightly, but she didn’t notice and took a sip of coffee.
At the same time, Miriel’s eyes widened.
“What kind of tea is this?”
“Is the coffee delicious?”
Ga-jun replied. Miriel looked at Ga-jun with a disgusted expression, then put her lips on her coffee cup again.
“Is it delicious?”
Alberg, who was looking at his coffee placed in front of him, looked at Ga-jun with a suspicious expression. Certainly, Ga-jun was good at brewing coffee, but that didn’t mean that the young angel would fall in love with it. He complained about not having his own, but at least the coffee didn’t suit Alberg’s taste.
“It’s delicious.”
Ga-jun leaned back on the sofa and answered. It was especially because milk and condensed milk were added to the coffee of the angel. It was something he sometimes does for someone he was dating, but he tried it this time in particular. It was all to help Hyeon-woo.
Miriel emptied her entire cup of coffee with her graceful demeanor. She then licked her lips softly.
“Would you like more?”
The little head nodded back and forth subtly. Ga-jun, who saw him, went back to the kitchen with the attitude of a victor.
Was it because it was sweet? Miriel’s demeanor became even more hostile. That said, he didn’t offer to treat her, but that was all.
“Why don’t we go and have a look?”
Ga-jun offered a new cup of coffee and added a hint of sweetness again.
“We don’t know, but the angel should see what’s happening with her own eyes, right? Wouldn’t it be nice if you knew exactly what was going on?”
“Is it?”
Miriel, who quietly accepted the coffee, tilted her head.
“Yeah. So let’s go together.”
Ga-jun gently lured Miriel. He didn’t particularly like Do-jin, but he had seen Hyeon-woo suffering by his side. He realized this while watching Hyeon-woo fall apart some while ago.
Do-jin shouldn’t die yet. It was harder for the living to win than the dead. So Do-jin had to live.
“That’s great.”
As a result, Ga-jun obtained a promise from Miriel that she would see Do-jin once. With that decided, all that was left was to move.
“Wait.”
Ga-jun filled a thermos bottle with coffee and took it. Afterwards, they quickly moved along with the helicopter with the help of Elisa.
“Here you are.”
Hyeon-woo nervously guided Miriel. Do-jin was still the same. Several doctors and Awakened surrounded him, but he was slowly dying.
“Ask everyone to leave at once.”
According to Miriel’s words, all the people waiting in the hospital room were sent out. Miriel started to look at Do-jin after everyone had left.
“It’s a curse. Didn’t you say that the black dragon put a curse on him? Black dragons living in the Demon Realm are terrible. This is not going to come off easily.”
In an instant, his heart sank.
“Then what should I do? Is there any way, any way to save him?”
Hyeon-woo unknowingly clung to Miriel and asked pitifully.
“How?”
Human beings were attached to each other. But it wasn’t as disgusting as she thought. Miriel was troubled. her father said humans who colluded with demons are trash. However, seeing a human clinging to save a precious person, was it okay to call it trash? She couldn’t tell.
“Please, please. I’ll do anything.”
“Are you going to do anything? Then would you give me your life if I had asked?”
Maybe that was why it sounded wrong when it came out of her mouth.
“What are you crazy!”
Ga-jun, who was next to him, protested first. Alberg also glared at Miriel, with his eyes widened.
“I don’t know what nonsense you are talking about, young angel.”
However, Hyeon-woo’s response was different.
“If you can save him, then I can give you as much as you want.”
The black eyes were shining with intense determination. It was the sound of giving up one’s life for real. Miriel’s heart trembled. She looked at a dying human being and then looked at Hyeon-woo again.
“Kid, don’t even think of fooling around.”
Alberg growled, showing his teeth.
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Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor/Proofreader: Davine, YaagRabRag
YRR: all it takes is a good cup of coffee to get an angel on your side, huh?
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