Chapter 109. Everything’s Going According to the Plan (1/2)
Chapter 109. Everything’s Going According to the Plan
ED: Chrysanthemum
Gongs Ahri spoke as she pet the white rabbit on her lap.
“Where were you all this time? I was worried.”
[……]
The rabbit, who was currently sleeping with its belly exposed, was Maksu.
Gongson Ahri rubbed Maksu’s cheeks, then discovered that there was a tiny leaf poking out of its belly and poked it.
Twitch-
The leaf moved away from Gongson Ahri’s hand as if it was alive.
When Gorgon Ahri made a surprised face, Maksu suddenly stood up from his spot.
“What is it, Maksu?”
Maksu straightened his ears to listen for a bit, then sniffed the air a few times.
After this, he leaned left and right a few times, turned around, and began to run.
“Eh? Where are you going, Maksu?”
When Gongson Ahri followed Maksu, she realized they had arrived at the place where Cho Ryu Hyang was.
The drill hall of the Sichuan Branch.
Once she arrived there, Gongson Ahri paused for a bit.
That was because that child was there.
‘Cho Ryu Hyang……’
Maksu ran towards Cho Ryu Hyang while Gongson Ahri hesitated.
Gongson Ahri turned the other way when she saw Cho Ryu Hyang.
‘How strange.’
She didn’t know why, but she felt the need to look at Cho Ryu Hyang, but her feelings were conflicting.
She felt good when their eyes met, but her chest hurt at the same time.
‘Why?’
The reason was simple.
She liked the child.
Gongson Ahri’s face reddened once she thought that much.
She was feeling embarrassed.
While that was going on, Maksu had already reached Cho Ryu Hyang.
Gongson Ahri saw this but was unable to move.
‘What shall I do?’
She wanted to talk to Cho Ryu Hyang by using Maksu as an excuse, but she couldn’t really do that nowadays.
Cho Ryu Hyang had become noticeably colder to her.
He just nodded when she said hello, and he always acted as if he was busy.
That made Gongson Ahri feel sad.
Gongson Ahri looked down at her clothes and sighed.
‘I should’ve come out in better clothes……’
She hadn’t thought much about her clothing because of Maksu.
And there was one but person who was watching all this.
It was Sunwu Cho Rin.
‘Cho Ryu Hyang……’
There was Cho Ryu Hyang at the end of Gongson Ahri’s gaze.
Just what did she like about that child?
Sunwu Cho Rin looked at Gongson Ahri with a complicated face, then turned around.
‘Focus.’
She needed to focus at her task in hand.
Sunwu Cho Rin tried her best to wait for the change that Cho Ryu Hyang had mentioned.
* * *
[What the hell did you do?]
Cho Ryu Hyang turned when he heard a voice next to him.
He knew that Maksu had come here from the start.
He just didn’t bother to talk to him.
“Can’t you tell?”
[Why do you think I’m asking?]
Maksu frowned and looked at the formation in front of Cho Ryu Hyang with strange eyes.
[Where did you learn this sort of thing? A formation that controls formations..?]
Maksu asked Cho Ryu Hyang a question with a shocked voice, but the boy chose to ignore the rabbit.
It would just be a waste of time to try and explain things now.
“Let’s talk later.”
Cho Ryu Hyang waved the rabbit away and focused on his formation once again.
Maksu looked at this dumbly, then turned to the formation as well.
‘Is this how he looks at the bigger formation?’
But no matter how much he tried to look, he was unable to see anything.
He decided to step in out of curiosity.
Then……
Vuun-
‘Eh?’
He could see.
He was able to see multitudes of dots flowing in front of him……
When Maksu made a surprised face, Cho Ryu Hyang pulled the rabbit back with a frown.
“Don’t watch without permission.”
[You…… Just that…… Were those dots all human?]
Cho Ryu Hyang paused when he heard this.
He brought the rabbit to his eyes and spoke.
“You could see those?”
[I managed to see dots, arrogant human.]
Cho Ryu Hyang looked at Maksu with an annoyed face.
‘So he really is special?’
A being that was not human.
This rabbit really must have something special going for him.
There was no way one could see dots inside the formation with normal eyes.
Even Cho Ryu Hyang had to use his Godly Eyes to see in the formation.
Maksu seemed to possess an ability to see things like this on instinct.
‘He isn’t normal, is it?’
Cho Ryu Hyang looked at Maksu with a curious gaze.
Maksu began to twist and shake as if he was getting tired of being hung in midair by Cho Ryu Hyang. The boy put the rabbit down carefully.
Maksu huffed and puffed angrily once he was put down.
[Do not treat me lightly, human. Do you even know what position I have in heaven? I may look like this now, but once I ascend, all beings will look at me venerably.]
The rabbit spoke arrogantly out of anger.
Looking at this, Cho Ryu Hyang smirked.
“Cute.”
[……!]
When Cho Ryu Hyang said this and turned away, Maksu began to shout in outrage.
But the boy just decided to ignore all this.
The reason why he had turned away wasn’t because of Maksu, though.
‘Gongson Ahri……’
He had felt her standing far behind him.
The moment he saw her, he turned away.
‘Why?’
He asked himself why he was like this, but he didn’t really have an answer to it.
Everything he came up with seemed no more than a poor excuse.
‘How annoying.’
He felt annoyed when he thought that he was just being an idiot by himself.
Gongson Ahri was acting normal to him, but he wasn’t.
Cho Ryu Hyang cursed his own cowardliness and went back to work.
He was afraid that his thoughts would begin turning into audible words otherwise.