96.
After running for a while, Seon-woo stopped at the spot. He had already left the hospital and was standing in the middle of an unknown park.
He just followed Hyeon-woo because his Hyung was holding the hand of a woman he didn’t know and wanted to see what was going on. He heard something he didn’t want to hear.
‘I like Han Do-jin!’
His Hyung said that. He knew that the ‘like’ that Hyung said was not the ‘like’ in the sense of liking things.
‘I know.’
Hyung promised to always be by his side, but he knew that promise would not last forever. There were more people in the world than just the two of them, and he thought that there might be someone among them who would attract his Hyung’s heart.
So, he was determined to be prepared, but now that the event actually occurred, his heart ached, and it was difficult to bear it.
When he closed his eyes, he still remembered his Hyung hugging him in a small room. He remembered the promise that the two of them would always be together.
“How can you say that?”
He hated his Hyung. How long had he been back, and he already fell for someone else? No, maybe the years they were separated in the first place were the problem. If they had stayed together, then he might have been different.
He regretted the past even though he knew that it was inevitable since it had already passed.
“Hyung.”
Seon-woo bit his lip.
***
Miriel kept her promise. Hyeon-woo was worried that she would say something else in the middle, but it was for naught. She removed the curse from Do-jin.
“Why couldn’t you have just done it?”
Alberg calmly answered Ga-jun’s grumpy question.
“Because of the compatibility of attributes.”
In terms of cursing, detoxifying poison, and healing wounds, the angels were considered to be the best. Once freed from the curse, Do-jin’s breathing became more comfortable.
His health and stamina had been cut off while under the curse, but Miriel said that he would recover as quickly as his original foundation was strong.
“Thank you!”
Hyeon-woo thanked Miriel.
“Enough.”
Miriel waved her hand and received a rough greeting.
She said that once she cursed at Hyeon-woo’s request. It was the result of her heart being moved.
But the uneasiness remained. Because the other was a human, who was being followed by demons. So she thought she would keep a little distance.
Pushing away Hyeon-woo, who seemed like he was about to bow again, Miriel left the hospital room. Then, with a dark expression on her face, she spotted a human heading this way.
“Then who might he be?”
“That is Ji Seon-woo. He’s Hyeon-woo’s younger brother.”
Ga-jun, who came after her, gave a brief explanation.
“Your younger brother?”
Did she think that one was much older? Miriel tilted her head, but she didn’t interfere any further than that.
“Where did you go and why are you here now?”
“I went to look for healers just in case.”
“Aha! But I don’t think a healer is needed anymore. The angel over there lifted the curse. The doctor went to see her, but now she says we just need to wait for his natural recovery.”
“That’s great.”
“Your expression doesn’t seem like that.”
Responding to Ga-jun’s words, Seon-woo looked at him again with an expression asking what he was talking about.
That bastard Bro-com. Ga-jun clicked his tongue and followed Miriel, who walked away leaving Seon-woo alone. He didn’t want to, but he was the only person to watch over the angel now.
“Hey, come with me!”
“No! Why should I go with a human like you?”
“You don’t know a thing about here!”
As he quickly caught up to her, Miriel openly frowned. However, Ga-jun did not give in to her and naturally stood by her side.
Although she was an angel, the enemy of Alberg, she may have had a part that could be exploited somewhere.
‘There’s nothing wrong with being close after all.’
So Ga-jun pretended to be kind and led Miriel to the hospital cafe.
Seon-woo hesitated for a moment in front of the hospital room door. And then he opened the door. Do-jin, who was always lying on the bed with a dying face, stood upright. He turned to his Hyung, who was sitting next to him. The expression that was dark all the time was bright.
“Hey, you’re here?”
It was Alberg who greeted Seon-woo first. He nodded and looked at his Hyung again.
The way he whispered and smiled with Do-jin was like sunshine. But the sunlight was not shining on him now.
His stomach twisted. A bubbling black thing rose up to his throat. Seon-woo raised his hand and scratched his neck involuntarily. But nothing caught on the nails.
“Hyung.”
When he belatedly called his Hyung, he turned around.
“Seon-woo-ya!”
His Hyung jumped up from his seat and approached him.
“What happened?”
With an excited attitude, Hyeon-woo explained step by step what had happened so far. The angel descended with Alberg’s help, the angel treated Do-jin, and so on.
“The person I saw earlier was an angel?”
“Miriel? That’s right! Ga-jun probably followed her just now.”
“Do Ga-jun?”
“Unn!”
It seemed that at some point the wall between Ga-jun and his Hyung had begun to crumble. Otherwise, there was no way he could speak so comfortably.
His heart seemed to sink deeply. When he suddenly looked up, Alberg was looking at Seon-woo. They were eyes that knew something.
“Hyeon-woo, Han Do-jin said he wanted to drink water?”
“What? Then I’ll give it to him.”
His Hyung turned around and walked towards Do-jin. It seemed that he was suffocating. So, Seon-woo turned around and walked out of the hospital room.
“You’re leaving already?”
“I have a lot of work to do.”
That was it. His Hyung did not follow Seon-woo. Seon-woo continued walking and stood in front of the elevator.
‘I’d rather die.’
He should have disappeared from this world before Hyung understood his heart. Horrible thoughts ran through his head.
The elevator that stayed on the high floor did not think it would come down easily. Eventually, he couldn’t stand it and headed for the stairs. The darker the stairs as he went down, the more his heart sank.
“Hmm.”
Alberg’s eyes twinkled when he saw Seon-woo leaving the hospital room.
‘This is going to be fun.’
The younger brother, who had an ardent desire to monopolize his older brother, was gradually being encroached on by the darkness.
‘The words of the angel were not wrong.’
Humans are weak and easily stained and broken. It wasn’t that the body was weak. If so, S-class Awakened wouldn’t be broken. What they were talking about was the heart.
The obsession intensified and seemed to have reached its limit. How long would the broken heart last?
He wouldn’t know what it was in the past, but now it was easier to get in touch with Demonic energy than before. It was because some of the demons infiltrated and opened the portal from time to time. Demonic energy pierced weak hearts really easily.
‘The cause must be Han Do-jin.’
He hesitated a bit, but it seemed like he did an excellent job saving Han Do-jin. If he did it well, he might be able to use Han Do-jin against Ji Seon-woo and make them both disappear.
It wasn’t a moral choice, but so what. Being born in the Demon Realm and he was raised like this. If everything to be obsessed with disappears, then Hyeon-woo would be able to abandon his place of birth.
Alberg raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.
***
When Seon-woo found out that Do-jin was awake, he started to move briskly. He hurriedly settled matters with his business partners and received a gift of thanks from the United States.
In the meantime, momentous changes have taken place in the United States as well.
Bacardi was branded as a criminal, and most of the members of the Phoenix Guild were put on the wanted list.
And in the chaos, Leon became the president of the World Awakened Association. Since most of Bacardi’s actions were taken care of by him, there was no opposition.
“Congratulations.”
The party to celebrate the election of the president of the association was held in a small way. They rented a hotel hall and invited only important people to have a light meal. Compared to the scale originally planned, it was shabby.
“Thank you.”
Receiving greetings from Seon-woo, who served as the representative of Korea, Leon also returned his bow.
“I’ve really received a lot of help from you.”
“Of course I had to help.”
“Even so, many people had to go back because of what happened.”
Leon smiled bitterly. Compared to Korea, New York in the United States was a mess. Naturally, other countries had no choice but to worry about their own affairs. That was why every Awakened with a high rank was called back.
South Korea also recently asked Seon-woo to return home. It seemed that he couldn’t stand it anymore because he was anxious. Fortunately, Do-jin had recovered a lot, so he thought he could go back.
“Call me if you ever need help.”
Leon parted with those words and turned to deal with someone else. He had great convictions, so he wouldn’t go against his word.
There were difficulties after coming to the United States, but there were many rewards harvested as well. Based on this, the Seon-Hyeon Guild would reach a higher place.
They returned through a chartered flight. Even though he landed secretly at the airport, there were already a lot of people waiting. It seemed that the news had leaked somewhere.
“Ji Seon-woo-ssi! A portal opened in New York. What exactly happened there!”
“I heard you did an excellent job! Please let me know!”
He was mobbed by many journalists.
“Hyeon-woo-ya-aack! Did you get hurt?”
“Handsome Ji Seon-woo! Uplifting national prestige!”
Even the fans swarmed around the brothers. The airport was in chaos.
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Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor/Proofreader: Davine, YaagRabRag
YRR: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I do not like brocon. Kinda gross. I’m here for Ga-jun and Miriel getting together.
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