Chapter 64 - A Mixed Blessing Itself!!
Slash!! Thud! Roll…
Akame didn’t miss the huge opening Cheon Ryu-hwa gave when she suddenly stopped upon seeing Dam Han-ul, and sliced her neck.
However, even Akame who had actually cut her had a strange expression.
While Akame was clearly ahead in technique, that growth rate and regeneration ability were no ordinary thing, so she had planned to end it in one go by finding an opening and using a big technique, but it ended weakly even before she could do that.
“It’s good that I cut her, but what on earth did she see to suddenly stop… Oh?”
Akame nodded as she looked at Dam Han-ul where Cheon Ryu-hwa’s gaze had been fixed.
“Han-ul is certainly charming.”
However, it’s true that she tilted her head wondering if it was enough to stop a crazy woman who had been fighting like a ghost, exuding a murderous aura until just a moment ago, when she saw him for the first time in her life.
But well, isn’t it fine if things worked out?
“Hmm, perhaps this too is Han-ul’s arrangement?”
Akame even thought that Dam Han-ul, the great fortune-teller, might have foreseen this and shown his face.
“It’s entirely possible, after all Han-ul has truly amazing abilities!”
Ah, of course that’s a misunderstanding. He just poked his head out a little to see what was happening, that’s all.
Anyway, just as she was about to clean up this dead girl and return to Dam Han-ul!
Roll roll!
“Ah, I really think we have matching tastes, sister?”
“You’re fine even with your neck cut?”
I didn’t expect this!
“This regeneration ability far exceeds my expectations? It’s almost to the point of immortality…”
“Eh, what’s the big deal about this much. I told you, didn’t I? Even if I chop my neck, I’m fine… Oof!”
The body that was standing fine even with the neck cut off moved and picked up the rolling head, putting it back on the neck.
Then as she turned it this way and that, the neck moved with a creaking sound and a red, sticky energy flowed out, neatly reattaching the severed neck.
“Sister, you really have good sword skills! Thanks to the clean cut, it was quick!”
“Wow~ Fighting with you, I feel like we could fight for a whole week?”
“Nah, it wouldn’t go that far. Oh, and I won’t attack anymore, so you can put your sword away!”
“Huh? What change of heart happened so suddenly?”
“Oh, that’s… I think I’ve fallen in first love!!”
“Eh? What??”
This is another unexpected reason… Was it really that she fell in love at first sight with Dam Han-ul?!
‘As expected of Han-ul… a man with devilish charm…!’
Akame thought it might be possible, but she was reluctant to bring such a dangerous person carelessly in front of Han-ul. She was obviously not normal, what if she caused an accident as soon as they met?
“You know that feeling? Lightning striking your head, pak! Electricity in your brain, pabat! Your heart feeling directly filled?! An unavoidable arrow flying to your soul and sticking, not coming out… Something like that!?”
“Hmm, I can see that you’re serious about falling in love.”
It didn’t seem like she had the personality to lie about this. This type, when twisted, is surprisingly pure and doesn’t lie.
“Yeah! I think my eyes have even turned into hearts! Don’t you think so, sister?!”
“Ah, that’s not the case. Your eyes are perfectly normal right now! Rest assured?”
“Oh, that’s a bit disappointing.”
Cheon Ryu-hwa, who had been grinning broadly, soon demanded again.
“Anyway! Please let me meet my darling, sister!!”
And Akame contemplated.
Even if such a person has feelings of fondness or love, it doesn’t mean they won’t cause trouble.
But it doesn’t seem like she’ll listen if I don’t let her meet him. It’s incredibly ambiguous.
‘Is this what they call a mixed blessing…?’
However, after brief consideration, Akame chose to show her to Dam Han-ul.
‘Well, Independent Demon is there, and me and the others are there too…’
She chose to deal with her in front of her eyes rather than dealing with someone who might go off in any direction if she just left.
Anyway, that’s how Cheon Ryu-hwa came to face Dam Han-ul directly.
“I, I, I, I love you…!!!”
“???”
“I, I fell in love at first sight!! Please marry me!!!”
“?!?!”
And she confessed as soon as they met.
Of course, Dam Han-ul was thrown into confusion!
What Cheon Ryu-hwa felt was simple.
An overwhelming and vast shock she had never felt in her life, filling her empty, hollow inside to the brim and enveloping her with something even greater and more overwhelming.
Cheon Ryu-hwa, who hadn’t lived a normal life to the extent that the first warmth she felt, far from love or affection, was someone’s freshly spilled blood without even experiencing a hug, felt for the first time in her life a sensation of something being perfectly fulfilled.
Not the empty fake pleasure she had been obsessed with after feeling warmth for the first time, but a real pleasure and sense of fulfillment that was comfortable and satisfying, making her madly running body stop and rest… as if that’s how it should be.
Just as a person is drawn to a truly overwhelming being, Cheon Ryu-hwa was drawn to Dam Han-ul, whom she had gauged, as much as possible…
And that immediately became Cheon Ryu-hwa’s first love and obsession.
“I, I, I, I love you…!!!”
“???”
“I, I fell in love at first sight!! Please marry me!!!”
“?!?!”
So she confessed as soon as she faced him.
Of course, Dam Han-ul, who didn’t know and couldn’t possibly know such circumstances or Cheon Ryu-hwa’s inner feelings, couldn’t possibly understand this!
Dam Han-ul was thrown into confusion with his mouth agape at those shocking words.
Even the people around him didn’t hide their uncomfortable expressions and let them show.
After all, there was no way anyone would like having the person they were pouring affection on suddenly snatched away by a crazy woman who suddenly appeared. Especially if they were all quite capable individuals themselves.
“No, well… does it make sense to say that when we’re seeing each other’s faces for the first time…”
“How about we carve each other’s names into our hearts as a token of love?! It’s about engraving each other forever! Isn’t that quite romantic?!”
“Oh my goodness…”
A normal person would die if you did that!! You crazy person!!
But judging that it’s not good to provoke a crazy person, I didn’t spit those words out of my mouth.
“…That’s a bit much. First of all, I’d die if we did that…”
Still wanting to say something, I spoke as mildly as I could.
I’m not a superhuman like you who can survive even with their head cut off…
“It’s okay! It’ll be really fun!!”
“This is driving me crazy. You don’t listen to people well, do you?”
I thought she didn’t seem quite right in the head as soon as I saw her, but actually facing her makes me dizzy.
“Hmm, the idea of engraving each other forever to remember might be quite romantic…?”
No, Ji-young Ji-young…!! What are you saying…!?
“Oh, by the way, that friend’s name is Cheon Ryu-hwa, she said.”
“Thanks Akame…”
It wasn’t a name I particularly wanted to know, but…
“And she looks quite young, but in our country it’s illegal to date minors.”
“That’s okay! Despite how I look, I remember my age and I’m twenty-one!! That’s an adult, right??”
Aish, one shield is gone…!!
I thought she wasn’t an adult yet because she looked young, but to think she was an adult… Should I call her baby-faced…??
“Anyway, it’s still not possible.”
“Why?! I’m really confident I can treat you well!! I’ll do anything you want!! Like if you want me to chop people…!!”
First of all, speaking so scarily is out…
I sighed deeply at Cheon Ryu-hwa’s words.
“I may not have a clear standard since I’m single, but at least I don’t marry someone I’ve just met… Same goes for love…”
And someone as terrifying as you in many ways, I don’t think I could handle it.
I don’t think I’d live out my natural lifespan at this rate…
“Kugh…!! How can that be…?!”
Oh, does she give up when she’s properly rejected in an unexpectedly normal way?!
“But I will never give up…!!”
Then again, of course not… Damn it…
I really want to just throw her away here and leave… but I can’t do that either.
I just quickly read her physiognomy earlier…
If I just throw her here and leave, she’ll reduce the population of the lawless zone by half, kill 1/10 of Korea’s population, and then come looking for me.
If Akame or the other friends deal with her and we leave, she’ll somehow survive well and come looking for me causing even greater damage than before.
If I ask Wi Ji-young, she’ll die, but later when someone dies and bleeds profusely on top of the dead Cheon Ryu-hwa, she’ll become a monster that loses human form through that, lose all her memories except for remembering only me, and come looking for me.
It’s really scary that no matter what, her motivation is truly love, affection, and obsession…
The only way to prevent such things from happening is if I take her with me to live together, and then that terrifying personality becomes a bit more mellow and she doesn’t cause huge accidents… but the problem is I don’t particularly want to live with her!
To begin with, my first impression wasn’t good either!
But if I don’t do that, I’ll have to take charge of an even more messed up lawless zone, not to mention facing Cheon Ryu-hwa who has caused a huge accident…
‘Oh… Is this what they call a mixed blessing…??’
It’s bad either way…
That’s why it’s more of a headache because the answer seems more clearly decided.
Haaa…
Dam Han-ul, who let out a sigh so big it could make the earth float away, steeled himself, closed his eyes tightly, and said.
“Honestly, I have no intention of accepting your love… but if I just leave you here, it seems like a disaster will happen… so do you want to come with me for now? There are many rooms in our house.”
At those words, Cheon Ryu-hwa’s expression brightened.
“Then are you accepting my confession?!”
“No, that’s not what I said. What are you listening with… Listen properly…”
“Ehhh… That’s disappointing…”
Cheon Ryu-hwa, who had suddenly become very lively then dejected and then quickly energetic again, fixed her gaze on me and said with a bright smile.
“But we’re living together for now, right?! Let’s start slowly with cohabitation!!”
“This is driving me crazy… When you come to our house, use a room at least 10 rooms away from mine.”
“Ah! I was planning to sleep in the same room…!!”
“……Oh my goodness.”
Feeling ominous, I checked her physiognomy again and confirmed that she wasn’t thinking of attacking at night, then sighed again.
Should I be grateful for that twisted purity… I really feel like I’m going to lose my mind…
Anyway, it seemed like nothing good had happened since coming to this damn lawless zone. Damn it!