CHAPTER 213: RED CODE

"GO BACK to work, Yejun-ah," Wonhee said while glaring at Yejun playfully. "I have a date with Ahyeonnie and Yool today, so you can’t tag along."

Right now, Wonhee was waiting for Ahyeon (who left to fetch the car).

Yejun and Hamin accompanied her.

But the Fall Guild’s Guildmaster was busy on his phone.

[That’s probably Hamin-ssi’s way of giving us privacy.]

Yejun obviously sucked, but fortunately, he didn’t insist on coming with her. "What time will you be done playing with your friends? I’ll pick you up, then let’s have dinner together."

"We’re planning to drink tonight, so I don’t know what time we’ll be done."

"You’re going to drink?"

"Yool bought soju and said he’ll cook tteokbokki."

Yejun covered his mouth with his hands when he let out an exaggerated gasp. "I haven’t seen you drunk yet."

"I’ve seen Chu Wonhee drunk before."

Hmm?

Yejun glared at Hamin who was still busy with his phone. "And when did you see my Wonhee drunk?"

"Why would I tell you that?" Hamin said, raising his head to face Yejun properly. "I don’t share things like that without permission from the person involved."

Yejun clicked his tongue before turning to Wonhee with puppy dog eyes. "Wonhee-ya, when did Hyung see you drunk?"

"I actually don’t remember," Wonhee said, turning to Hamin. "When did that happen, Hamin-ssi?"

"Do you remember storming into my office before?" Hamin asked, looking at Wonhee with a blank look on his face. "It was when you found out Do Ahyeon was being bullied by his sunbaes in our guild."

Oh, right.

Something like that happened.

"It was you and Gong Yool— both of you were drunk then," Hamin said, and anyone could detect the smile in his voice as he reminisced the past. "While Chu Wonhee was scolding me for failing to protect the then-youngest member of my guild, Gong Yool went ahead and tried to beat up the Hunters who bullied Do Ahyeon despite being a Civilian. Luckily, Han Graham was at my office then because he delivered some Sea Monsters for trading. If he wasn’t there, Gong Yool would have gotten beat up by the Hunters he tried to pick a fight with."

Ah, the memory of that particular event flashed in Wonhee’s head.

She felt so embarrassed by her younger self’s actions that she ended up covering her face with her hands.

"Ah, dammit."

Hmm?

Wonhee removed her hands from her face when she heard Yejun curse under his breath. "Why are you cursing?"

"I can already imagine how cute you are when drunk, Wonhee-ya," Yejun said, tapping his chest with his fist. "Thank goodness Cyborg Hyung didn’t fall in love you then. If I was him and you scolded me while you were drunk, I would have fallen for you on the spot."

Wonhee rolled her eyes at Yejun to hide the fact that she almost swooned.

[I can’t believe I find something so cringe sweet.]

Fortunately, the car already arrived.

The window rolled down, showing a waving Ahyeon with a shy look on his face.

"Noona, I’m here."

Wonhee just smiled and nodded at Ahyeon, and then she turned to Yejun. "I’ll call you when I’m done drinking, Yejun-ah. Don’t sulk and work properly, okay?"

"I’ll try," Yejun said, obviously sulking already. "I’ll miss you, Wonhee-ya."

***

YEJUN watched in satisfaction as the Hunters in charge of protecting Wonhee from the shadows moved when the car left.

[Those are Hunters that Soobin Hyung placed as Wonhee’s secret guards.]

Two black vans also followed Wonhee’s car, and the bodyguards inside were all Civilians with the strength of an F-Class Hunter.

[The baby herbivore and the shadow Hunters can’t kill Civilians. So, in case there are Civilians stupid enough to attack Wonhee, those people will settle the problem. I think it’s Semi Unnie who hired those strong bodyguards.]

Yejun wasn’t happy that he wasn’t beside Wonhee, but they couldn’t be together 24/7.

[I should do my job well to make sure no one would dare to lay a hand on her.]

"Hyung, I’m gonna go ahead."

Yejun was about to teleport, but Hamin suddenly grabbed him by the arm.

"Come with me, Hwang Yejun," Hamin said in an authoritative tone. "I need your ice for the ice-type fish that I caught recently."

"Hyung, I’m not the only ice user in the country."

"Yes, but you’re the best."

"I’m busy—"

"I still have the CCTV footage of the time drunk Wonhee stormed into my office to scold me. I’ll give it to you if you cooperate."

"Hyung, you should have started with the bribe first," Yejun complained lightly, and then he knitted his eyebrows. "But why do you still have it? Don’t tell me, you really fell for my Wonhee—"

"I just remembered we still have the CCTV footage of that day. Han Graham caught a legendary Sea Monster for me before in exchange of the footage of Gong Yool picking a fight with the Hunters from my guild." Hamin said indifferently, cutting off Yejun’s delusion right away. "Han Graham doesn’t usually act like a desperate lovestruck fool, so it’s hard even for me to forget that incident."

***

"I DIDN’T do anything inappropriate while you were asleep, Yool-ah."

Haaah.

Yool fell asleep on the sofa.

He remembered getting a call from Ahyeon saying that he and Wonhee would be late, so he decided to take a nap in the living room before cooking since Graham and Ahn Kisoo weren’t home yet.

But it seemed like he fell asleep deep.

[And when I woke up, Graham is already here.]

Yool got up and pinched the bridge of his nose. "I know you wouldn’t do something like that, Graham-ssi. I’m sorry. The dream I had was a bit vivid, so..."

"Did I do something inappropriate to you in that dream?"

"Yeah, you did."

[Abandoning someone you claim to love is inappropriate.]

Moreover, Yool could vaguely recall that he was in the middle of a burning city or something when Graham ran away with Ahn Kisoo.

He felt betrayed, and that feeling lingered.

"I don’t know what I did in your dream, but I’m sorry," Graham said, giving Yool the puppy dog eyes while holding his hand. "Please forgive me, Yool-ah?"

[When did this punk hold my hand?]

"Fine. Whatever, it was just a dream," Yool said, pulling his hand away from Graham’s grasp. "Can you please not do or say things that Ahn Kisoo-ssi may misunderstand? I don’t want to be accused of sabotaging other people’s relationship."

"Kisoo wouldn’t think that way," Graham said casually. "Kisoo knows that I like you, Yool-ah. He’s totally fine with it, so don’t worry about his feelings."

"What?"

"Kisoo also likes you."

"You mean platonically, right?"

"No— we both like you in a romantic sense," Graham said, smiling brightly as if he didn’t just drop a scandalous(?) remark. "Yool-ah, do you want to be in a relationship with me and Kisoo?"

Yool had nothing against polyamorous relationships, but...

[Why would I want to be a throuple with a couple who (seemingly) abandoned me in the previous world?]

Before Yool could say anything, the watch Graham wearing suddenly went off.

Graham, with a pale face, suddenly stood up. "Let’s continue this conversation later, Yool-ah— there’s an emergency."

***

YEJUN smiled when Hamin gave him the USB that contained the ’Drunk Wonhee Video’.

Freezing the eggs of the ice-type fish monsters in Hamin’s aquarium was worth it.

"Thank you, Hyung," Yejun said after putting the precious USB in his Inventory to keep it safe. "I gotta go."

Hamin nodded indifferently. "Yeah. Thanks for the help."

He was really about to teleport when the watch around his wrist suddenly rang loudly.

No, it wasn’t the watch that Yeon Soobin gave him recently.

The one making noise was the device made solely to alert the Big 4.

It was a ’Red Code’ alert, and Red Codes were only sent to the Big 4 since only the most dangerous Crack could trigger it.

In short, only the Big 4 could handle the dungeon.

"It’s been a while since our country had a Red Code alert," Hamin said, his face darkening. "Don’t die, Hwang Yejun."

Yejun nodded firmly after checking the location sent to his watch, his body already transparent after activating his teleportation skill. "I won’t die, Hyung."

After all, Yejun needed to be alive to marry Wonhee.

***

[CABBAGE KID: Chu Wonhee, I have something to confess to you.]

Wonhee, who was in the backseat while busy replying to Soobin’s message, stopped and looked up at the Status Windown in front of her.

[Bitna?]

Since only Ahyeon— who was driving the car— was there with her, she spoke out loud instead of replying in her head.

"Confess to me?" Wonhee asked out loud. "Did you do something bad to me, Bitna?"

[Cabbage Kid: Not yet.]

"Not yet?"

[Cabbage Kid: It’s about Gong Yool.]

Okay, that made her nervous.

"What about Yool?" Wonhee asked worriedly. "Are you going to hurt my best friend?"

[Cabbage Kid: No, but I’m afraid I need to take Gong Yool with me.]

***

NAMSAN TOWER.

When Yejun arrived in front of the Namsan Tower, Semi and Graham were already there.

And he realized why the two couldn’t get closer to the Namsan Tower— the entire tower was covered in a semi-transparent barrier.

It felt like a Crack, but this was the first time that a Crack ’invaded’ a physical building.

"Hwang Yejun," Semi said, her face pale. "Check the status of the Crack."

Before Yejun could even ask what was happening, his Status Window already popped up in front of him.

[Type: L-Grade Crack

Requirement to enter: Gong Yool]

The fact that the Crack was L-Grade was shocking enough. It was a grade higher than the already dangerous Special Grade Cracks.

[It’s the first L-Grade Crack in the world, I think.]

But the requirement to ’enter’ was more shocking to Yejun.

"Gong Yool?"

"Yes," Graham said, clenching his jaw. "I already checked— that damned Crack wants the Gong Yool that we know."

Haaah.

Yejun let out a sigh while looking up at the Namsan Tower. "Wonhee won’t be happy with this."

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NOTE: Hi! I posted three extra stories with chibi fanarts on my k/o-fi page (ko-fi. com/sola_cola). It’s my birth month (no one asked, but my birthday is on May 23rd, lol), so I prepared these extra stories for you. :

First story: ’Ahjuicy’ (featuring Yool and Song Moonho).

Second story: Ideal Type (featuring the golden trio: Wonhee, Yool, and Ahyeon).

Third story: First Love (featuring Yejun and Wonhee).

You may donate ’coffee’ if you can. I set up a goal on my kofi page for my birthday. Hehe. You may check it out on my page. If the link doesn’t work, you can just search for/g00gle ’kofi sola_cola. See you there. 3

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