“What's all of a sudden? ”

First, I took the bouquet of flowers that I was carrying. Baek Hyun looks alternately at the bouquet of flowers in his arms, the secretary laughing loudly, and the metal volcano behind him.

“What, congratulations. Don't you know?”

Secretary Bassi smiled and said, Baek Hyun lowered the bouquet and stared at the secretary. It is within the sanctuary of Iron Maid, but the ‘eyes’ of Baek Hyun are still bright. He saw the movement of the cog inside the secretary, and felt the look of Iron Maid looking at him in the crack.

‘Pressure...’

Nothing. I can't feel the paraplegia. The eyes are still bright... White Hyun doesn't know Ironmaid very well, but Ironmaid knows White Hyun. He knows how violent and ignorant Baek Hyun is when he tries to.

Nevertheless, putting Baek Hyun into a sanctuary that can be called his own room does not put any pressure on him.

“You don't wanna fight, do you? ”

Not now.

Baek Hyun smiles and asks, while his secretary nods with a smile.

“I don't know about the other speed, but Iron Maid doesn't like fighting. I say it with my mouth, but Ironmaid is a nude. ”

The secretary raised her hand and pointed to the silver volcano behind her.

“You're still in contact with Baek Hyun through me without revealing yourself. Iron Maid is getting nervous because he's stuck in his workshop. ”

“In case I run? ”

“No. I think Baek Hyun will kill Tempest. ”

The secretary shakes her head and denies.

“The work that Baek Hyun has done so far, the Baek Hyun that I know... and the Baek Hyun that Iron Maid ‘judged’. I'll kill Tempest if I have to. ”

“Premises if you need them, don't you? ”

“But almost unconditionally. ”

The secretary replied.

“Tempest's power is violent and devastating. Especially that power is so harsh for his own people. Seo Min-hyeon's friend is forced to die as long as his relationship with Tempest is maintained. ”

That was seen by the secretary himself. After arriving in the Amazon, the West emptied the jungle with indiscriminate releases of Tempest's power.

And the cycle is getting shorter. The contract with Tempest kills Seo Min-sik. That must have been true.

“Because Baek Hyun cares for his friend, he would kill Tempest to save his friend. Definitely.”

“That's right.”

I didn't deny it. Baek Hyun will, of course. Even if Seo Min-gi is angry by killing Tempest, Seo Min-gi is better than dead.

Baek Hyun looks at Silver Volcano.

“If you want to take Valencia hostage and threaten her, you better quit. ”

“No!”

In a less laughing voice, the secretary immediately raised her hands and cried out.

“Ironmaid doesn't intend to do that, neither do I. Why would I threaten you with my master's life? ”

“Really?”

Baek Hyun said with suspicious eyes. I thought it was likely in the present circumstances. It was suspicious enough that Valencia was with Iron Maid and not here.

“Really, really. ”

“What is Valencia doing now? ”

“You're preparing. ”

The secretary stiffened his face slightly.

“If he saves Baek Hyun violently, Valencia will have to step up and stop him. ”

“Aren't you blackmailing me after all? ”

“I didn't mean to. And the preparations... are not just to stop Baek Hyun. Sanctuaries have fallen, and the Pure Saints have been openly hostile. You need to be prepared to fight. ”

“That's not true. So... what does Iron Maid want from me? ”

“Let us observe Tempest. ”

The secretary immediately responded.

“You said that last time, right? ”

Ironmaid did not observe Tempest in the dimension in which Tempest existed, nor in Abyss. However, that requirement was a bit premature for Baek Hyun.

“Is that all? ”

“If possible, you say you want some of Tempest. ”

“What, you don't want me to capture and dismantle something like that?” “That's not Ironmaid's taste. ”

He said with a look that his secretary hated him.

“Iron Maid wants to analyze some of it and make it new, not dismantle Tempest and completely imitate it. An alchemist's stubbornness.”

“In the meantime, what do you want me to note? ”

Silver volcanoes trembled at Baek Hyun's grumbling. The Iron Maid over there felt insulted.

“I don't want to see the right answer, I want to get a little hint. ”

Unlike such an Ironmaid, the secretary rebuked with a dazzling expression.

“I don't think it's a bad offer. Baek Hyun will end up conflicting with Tempest, and Iron Maid only wants to see it 'well'. ”

“If Tempest's observation doesn't work for me, I can still do it. ”

“Maybe so. But they can't just walk out of the sanctuary like Baek Hyun, right? In the unlikely future, Iron Maid would definitely like to observe Tempest. And I want to make a full friendship with Baek Hyun through this deal. ”

I heard that story last time. Ironmaid has always insisted on not wanting to make contact with Baek Hyun and not wanting to be an enemy.

“Of course, we have to have deals with each other. What do you want? Ironmaid is willing to give up her favorite god...”

“No, I don't need that. ”

Baek Hyun shakes his head. There was no need for another rapid creed. If there was such a greed, I would not have given back the Devil's seal and black cloth to the Black Rose Queen. And I've already received a lot from Iron Maid. Arachne and the earrings hanging from your ears right now. This was enough.

“You don't want anything? ”

“No way. What I want is very simple. ”

It's not bad.

As the secretary said, this was a proposition that couldn't be bad for each other. Ironmaid can observe Tempest with her own magnetism, and she can easily get 'recognition’ from Ironmaid.

“Hear my condemnation, acknowledge me. ”

Baek Hyun said, staring into the secretary's body. The secretary's eyes widened and the trembling of the silver volcano stopped.

“... than a new thing. ”

The secretary's mouth was opened.

It was a familiar voice several times, but I knew Baek Hyun was not the secretary who was making that voice. The secretary's eyes were puzzled and his chin squeaked and he recited.

“Worth it. I hope so.”

Like an abdominal contravention, the secretary speaks out.

“But, for me. It's not worth much. ”

“I don't know if I'm going to kill Tempest yet, but I'll make sure you see what I see. ”

“It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Just watching. That's enough. What about your myth?”

“Goddess.”

“Admittedly, you are. It's a god.”

Upon hearing the myth, Iron Maid immediately replied. It's not just words. It means that the rapidity recognizes the rapidity. It was like a statement that was not allowed to lie.

“I feel bad...”

The abdominal procedure is over. The secretary grumbles, wringing her lips as she moves away from herself.

“Are you going now? ”

“If there's still time. ”

“I've already turned a few laps, but the distance is getting narrower. because the wings are slowing down. ”

“It's great to run away like that. ”

Baek Hyun said with a smile. The Iron Maid also knew that 'time’ as Baek Hyun said was the time for Drave to flee the Dragon King.

“You must have run away with something. You think you can go now? ”

“If so, let me explain this. ”

I pulled something out of my arms, just as the secretary waited. That was a fist-worthy silver bead.

“One of Ironmade's new observations. Powerful enough to work in other rapid sanctuaries. ”

“You don't want me to swallow that, do you? ”

“I don't do that kind of ignorance. It can't be healthy to swallow such a large silver bead in common. ”

Baek Hyun scratches his back with a smile.

“Just touch it once. Then the observations are yours, and they won't fall. After that, meet Tempest and kill him or not. ”

“I said I won't take the new stuff. ”

“Well, what am I supposed to do...”

“But I'll take this. ”

Baek Hyun said with a hot grip of silver beads. The secretary opened her eyes in a sudden change of attitude.

“... isn't that different from what you said earlier? ”

“I thought it was a weapon or something. ”

Baek Hyun smiled nicely for four years.

“And I've been told to think inductively. ”

The silver bead that I grabbed floats around Baek Hyun.

“You can also see it in the sanctuary, right? ”

“Yes.”

“Are you okay if you stay away from me? ”

“It's attributed to me. If you want to share visual information, you need to be conscious of the eye. ”

I tried it right away. Though I felt a little dizzy, what I saw was engraved in the brain of Baek Hyun.

“Of course, the visual information is also being received by Iron Maid. I'll block the connection to Iron Maid later. if you want to have your observations. ”

“If you don't need it later, I'll give it back. ”

Baek Hyun blocked the view of the observation.

“If Iron Maid completes Homunkulus. What's going on with you? ”

“Nothing will change. ”

The secretary shrugs.

“Iron Maid wants to create a new homunculus, not me. I don't want to make amends. I'm... I'm just, like, a secretary. If you bring your dead brother back to Homunculus, Valencia will be satisfied. Then you won't even look at my brother anymore. ”

It's a separate thing to think of as a brother.

“Maybe Valencia won't need me anymore. ”

“I don't think so. Valencia left her sister, and she just likes you. ”

Baek Hyun said with a smile. The secretary blinked at the words and burst into a short smile.

“Well, thank goodness. ”

Of course, Baek Hyun didn't know Valencia's essence. However, the Valencia that Baek Hyun went through was never the nature of throwing away what he didn't need. Baek Hyun last glanced at Silver Volcano.

“I know a man who calls himself an observer. I think the Iron Maid is an observer rather than an idiot. ”

“No way.”

The secretary laughed at Baek Hyun's words.

“Iron Maid is a nude. ”

I laughed backwards.

Pandora, Iron Bow, Rose Dum, Saguenay, Silver Volcano. In a short time, he circled over five sanctuaries and gained recognition from all the other rapids except the serpent of regeneration.

And now I go to see Tempest. The firmly closed door of Saga meant no trespassing.

Baek Hyun recalled Tempest's tendencies. Violence. All the rapids who went through Tempest said so. Tempest is crazy, he's unstable. The origin of Tempest, heard through Iron Maid, began with a miracle and ended in tragedy.

I don't know why Tempest came to Abyss yet, Baek Hyun.

“Now you'll know. ”

Seo Min-kik.

He's still inside. Baek Hyun took a deep breath.

‘How it's going to come out. ’

I anticipated it.

It was as expected.

The moment I forced Saga's door open.

I also admire the scenery of the sanctuary.

A storm of flesh overflows to tear Whitehorn's body apart.

Baek Hyun immediately curled up the ripples. An attack that spreads as soon as you enter the sanctuary. A response that clearly indicates that Tempest is a nonverbal dog. No matter how much this side opens the door without knocking, this is too much of a response.

“Don't you think? ”

Quarrr! In a fierce storm, Baek Hyun mutters like that. The whole defense is shaken. It wears quickly from the outside and shaves off its defenses. Like a sculptural ship wandering around a windmill, Whitehorn's body floats in the storm. Even in the field of view, Baek Hyun clearly saw the 'opponent’ and floated around him without falling under his gaze.

“Colonel.”

Baek Hyun called out his name with kindness. Because you have enough intimacy. From the same orphanage. We spent our childhood together, sharing the same memories. The name of a friend who took care of himself as a plant man for nothing.

The colony was in the wind and floating in the air. Baek Hyun said, looking at the purple robe he was wearing.

“You don't match that color. ”

I said it like a joke, but I meant it a little bit.

Seo Min-hyung stared at Baek Hyun without answering. Baek Hyun looks at one eye of Seo-yeong, who has been bitten in gold. Tempest... Baek Hyun looks down.

Dead. The street below was literally dead. Without a popularity, the wretched ruins continue.

“Hyun.”

Seo Min-sik opened his mouth.

“It's funny to attack and talk. You can't go back. ”

“Yes, and if I was going to back off, I wouldn't even come in without knocking. ”

Baek Hyun said that and looked down the street. Seo Min-sik swallowed his breath.

“If you're not going out on your own, you're going to have to kick them out. ”

“Can you do it? ”

Baek Hyun smiled and asked. Seo Ming bites his lips tightly. Oooooo! The dead street howls. The wind that floated between the ruins became a storm.

“I can't. ”

Baek Hyun looked up at Seo Min-kik and said:

“You lost to me in elementary school. ”

A storm has struck.

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