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“master?”
“miss?”
The female prosecutors who were escorting Maia and Cordelia spoke almost simultaneously.
That’s because Uther and Cordelia suddenly looked at each other and said strange things.
Why are you here?
‘Why are you coming out? I came to visit you in the hospital.’
‘You came out because I came to visit you in the hospital, right?’
While Maia and the female prosecutor were thinking rationally, Uder calmed his surprised heart and looked at the girl in front of him – Cordelia, who was experiencing the same confusion, surprise, and other emotions as he was.
‘What? Why is a yellow storm coming up?’
The girl in front of him was Cordelia, a beautiful girl so beautiful that she could be described as ‘peerless.’
This is Yuder’s own fiancée, who has no connection whatsoever with the perennial second-place Yellow Storm.
But it was strange.
The moment our eyes met, a yellow storm came to mind.
It could almost be said that it was an absolute feeling.
Moreover, it was important that the other person also showed a similar reaction to oneself.
‘no way.’
Is this really a yellow storm?
It was a dizzying story, but not entirely impossible.
First of all, even Yuder himself, that is, Outboxer 009 Im Jin-ho, became Yuder Bayer.
“Ahem, uh, um. Excuse me for a moment.”
“Uh… Me, me too.”
When Uther spoke hesitantly first, Cordelia also spoke hesitantly.
But the way he was looking at me was unusual.
“First of all… please sit down.”
“Uh… yes.”
Seriously, just sit down.
Maia and the female prosecutor tilted their heads at the awkward appearance of the two people, but it only lasted for a moment.
Maia gave him a new car that had been prepared in advance, and Uther continued to exchange awkward glances with Cordelia.
‘Let’s try it.’
I don’t know if it was just Uther himself who felt something, but it seemed like the other side felt something similar.
If the opponent really was the Yellow Storm that Yuder himself felt, it would be like a disaster, but if it really was, he would understand.
“No, no.”
Yellow storm high.
My voice trembled because I was embarrassed to say it out loud.
But the reaction was right. Cordelia flinched for a moment and then opened her eyes wide.
“Ah… aha.”
Outboxer Hi.
Cordelia also spoke softly, and when Maia and the female prosecutor tilted their heads again, Uther drove the wedge in.
“Hey… You too?”
“Hey… Me too.”
“master?”
“miss?”
A look of serious concern now appeared on Maya and the female prosecutor’s faces.
Why are these normally decent gentlemen suddenly acting like that?
But Uder couldn’t care about the reactions of those two people.
‘Crazy! Is this really a yellow storm?!’
When I spoke roughly with my eyes, the other person gave me a similar answer.
Uder took a deep breath. He wanted to ask her right away what had happened and when she had become Cordelia, but Maia and the female prosecutor were there right now.
So Uder tried to talk back.
“Cooperation battle reset 9:3-9.”
One of the contents of Hero Chronicles 2, the cooperative battle, is reset every night at midnight.
9 o’clock meant the 9 o’clock direction, and 3-9 meant 9 spaces down from the entrance coordinates – that is, 18 meters down.
So, if we interpret what Uder said, it would be as follows:
‘Let’s meet in the corner of my garden at midnight.’
To be honest, it was a story that was difficult for even the most experienced Heroes Chronicle 2 player to understand, but Rotten Water Yellow Storm would understand.
And indeed, Cordelia nodded and spoke softly.
“Good impression.”
A radio term meaning that you understood correctly, it was one of the Yellow Storm’s unique speech patterns.
“Ahem, I’m glad you’re healthy. It’s late for today, so I’ll take my leave now… I’ll see you next time.”
“Ahem, it was nice meeting you. I look forward to seeing you next time.”
Anyway, we couldn’t have a proper conversation here.
Since we had already decided when and where to meet, it was better to just tear it up quickly.
As Cordelia and Uther stood up from their seats while talking to each other, Maia and the female prosecutor were again taken aback.
“Hey, you’re leaving already?”
“miss?”
Maia, who is usually expressionless, was so surprised that she showed a look of surprise on her face.
However, Uther and Cordelia had already reached an agreement and exchanged greetings.
Uther awkwardly smiled and saw off Yellow Storm – no, Cordelia, and Cordelia quickly left with an equally awkward smile.
“Your Highness? What the heck······.”
“Well, okay.”
What on earth is going on?
But one thing was certain.
The appearance of allies who believe in Yuder’s own words and are on his side.
Uther clenched his fist as he looked at the entrance to the reception room where Cordelia had left.
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Count Bayer, father of Juder Bayer, was away on a northern expedition with his successor, Gale Bayer, Juder’s older brother.
Although it was called an expedition, it was a small-scale expedition that took one month from departure to return, as it was an annual event to subdue northern monsters.
Anyway, thanks to this, the already quiet household became even quieter. This was because most of the vassals went on an expedition with their father and older brother.
Yuder, who had dinner alone in his room, waited patiently for midnight to come.
And finally, the night deepens and it is midnight.
Yuder sneaked out of the room and hurried to the garden.
Although it was still summer, the night air was cold, perhaps because it was in the north.
‘I’m sure you’ll be able to find it properly?’
Yuder, standing under a large tree at the promised location, looked up at the night sky with a worried face.
‘It’s the real Pleiades.’
There were two moons hanging in the sky.
Selene and Helen.
Twin goddesses who light up the night sky.
The two of them that I saw in real life were much more beautiful and mysterious than when I saw them through virtual reality.
“hey.”
It was at that very moment. Yuder suddenly came to his senses at the sound of a very small voice. He pressed himself against the wall and raised his head to confirm the owner of the voice.
It was a red-haired girl wearing a brown hood pulled down tightly, reminiscent of the robes of monks.
“Yellow Storm.”
“Outboxer 009.”
When I spoke softly, a soft voice came back.
And then thud.
Cordelia, who had jumped over the wall with her flying magic, looked at Uther with a face filled with a mixture of emotions.
“Really, really?”
“Oh, really, really.”
Because we just confirmed each other’s nicknames.
“It really is something like this.”
“what?”
“I’m so happy to see you, even though it’s you.”
Uther nodded at Cordelia’s words. He felt the same way.
I thought I had been dropped into a completely different world all alone, but I was still so happy to see a familiar face – no, a person.
“Since when?”
“Two days ago. What about you?”
“Me too, two days ago.”
“When I opened my eyes, suddenly?”
“For now.”
Without saying who would go first, Uther and Cordelia crouched down under the tree and looked at each other.
Cordelia was the first to speak again.
“Hey, but isn’t this something a man should do? How can you make a girl climb over a man’s house wall?”
“What is this sudden sexism? And don’t you know Juder? Juder Bayer. Guumjeolmaek. How am I going to climb over the wall?”
When I thought about it, that wasn’t all.
“And since when have you been a woman?”
“From birth.”
“huh?”
“Since birth, you idiot.”
Uther blinked at Cordelia’s confession that wasn’t really a confession, and then spoke in a bewildered voice.
“Was the yellow storm a woman?”
“So you were a man?”
“I was a man.”
“I was a woman.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Thinking back, it’s been five years since we’ve known each other, but we’ve never even had a voice chat. When we met in a game, we naturally met as game characters, so I didn’t recognize him.
“Anyway, that’s not what’s important.”
When Uther spoke, Cordelia frowned slightly but nodded.
The important thing was that Outboxer 009 became Yuder, Yellow Storm became Cordelia, and that this world was the world of Heroes Chronicle 2.
Uder decided to start with the basics.
“You too? It’s more like… it feels like I’ve entered a game, rather than a ‘past life’ where I was an outboxer… or rather, a yellow storm.”
“Me too. You too.”
At first glance, there may not seem to be much of a difference, but in fact, there is a crucial difference between the two.
Whether to return or not.
If he had really been reborn in the Pleiades, the world of Hero Chronicles 2, then there would be no destination called ‘return’. Since he had been reborn in the first place, where would he go back to?
However, neither Uther nor Cordelia thought deeply about it. This was because they each felt strongly that they were Uther and Cordelia, but also because there were more important matters at hand.
““The Great Summoning.””
An event that triggers the full-scale descent of angels and demons.
At first, I only thought about becoming stronger so that I could survive the Great Tribulation, but that wasn’t enough.
We had to stop the Great Summoning itself, which would bring destruction to this world.
Of course, it was a vague story.
The descent of angels and demons was truly a fateful event for the world called the Pleiades.
Even if he was a rotten person, it would be impossible for him to do it alone.
But if there are two, not one.
That too, if the 1st and 2nd place in the server rankings are together.
“I like the picks there.”
Uder Bayer and Cordelia Chase.
Both of them were non-mainstream characters who were far from being scam characters, but the picks that Uder was talking about were not simply about performance.
Cordelia said with a bitter smile.
“It’s perfect for sharing.”
“bingo.”
Because Uther was a warrior and Cordelia was a sorceress.
As with all goods in the world, the number of various karma and items that exist within the Pleiades also has its limits.
If Uther and Cordelia were characters who walked the same path, it would inevitably be inevitable that they would hinder each other’s growth.
However, the two were both unmanned and magicians, and so, as Cordelia said, they were able to share the wealth of the Pleiades together.
“I never thought I’d be having a party here for the first time in five years······.”
“Yeah, the world is really a cruel place.”
It’s absurd to be reincarnated into a game world, but to be reincarnated with a perennial runner-up? And to be engaged to that.
“Anyway, since it has come to this, I would like to ask for your cooperation.”
“What cooperation?”
“I need to treat my palpitations.”
“Isn’t that automatically cured by the event?”
That’s right.
If you start out as a Yuder Bayer and somehow manage to survive for half a year, an event will occur where you will obtain a cure for the Nine-Eyel-Mac from Count Chase and send it to Count Bayer.
In other words, it meant that if you just wait quietly, you can cure the palsy.
But in response to Cordelia’s question, Uther clicked his tongue and said.
“So you’re always second place.”
“what?”
“Hey, be honest. You’ve never played Uther before, have you?”
“No, I didn’t. I tried it. I know that it works because I tried it.”
“But why are you saying that? Are you saying we should just wait half a year and get treatment?”
Half a year is 6 months, 6 months is 180 days, and 180 days is a whopping 4320 hours.
It was too long a time to waste.
Cordelia responded with a frown to Uther’s remark.
“Then what should I do?”
“You have to treat it before that. Use all kinds of tricks.”
In a way that only those who have surpassed stagnant water and reached the realm of rotten water can do.
“Come closer.”
Uther gestured to Cordelia again and began to tell his story.
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