The Date with Yuna (Part 2)
Yuna! Cheon-seong! This way~!
"Got it! Yuna. Don't rush, we'll take it slow."
"Hehe. But I don't want to waste time with Cheon-seong?"
Yuna was warm.
That was probably the biggest reason I loved Yuna.
Even when my grandmother took me in after I was abandoned and raised me, I felt nothing the moment she passed away and those garbage kids who had only adopted me to inherit her wealth showed up.
I only felt a slight emptiness in my already empty heart when she died.
And the one who filled that emptiness was little Yuna from my childhood.
"Hey, what are you doing here? Let's play together!"
"..."
"Why are you angry at me for going there? You don't want to play with Yuna?"
"Get lost."
"Cheon-seong! Let's play tag!"
"...You go alone."
That hollow feeling inside me made me unable to mix with kids my own age.
I didn't even want to try.
In such a meaningless life, even after my grandmother who was trying to give me some purpose passed away, I lived each day with no meaning at all, and Yuna always came to me first despite how coldly and harshly I treated her.
"Yuna, don't you want to play with Cheon-seong? Cheon-seong is scary."
"Yeah. And our mom said not to play with Cheon-seong."
"Our parents said the same. Our parents said Cheon-seong's parents are bad people, so we shouldn't play with him."
Gradually, just a little, my inside filled with Yuna.
On the day I heard those kids trying to convince Yuna that she shouldn't play with someone like me.
"It's over now..."
They were right, so I understood.
"Creepy bastard..."
"Tsk, why did that old man pick up this kind of trash to bother himself?"
"You're seriously creepy..."
"..."
The garbage kids who had only adopted me to inherit the grandmother's wealth were also scared when they saw me, and their own children were no different.
That's why I could fully understand when Yuna distanced herself from me.
But the answer Yuna gave me stopped my hollow heart and struck me with a shock that shook me deeply.
"Why can't I play with Cheon-seong?"
"Why? Because Cheon-seong is scary and his parents are..."
"Then why can't I play with Cheon-seong just because his parents are bad?"
I had to doubt my ears.
Until now, no one had ever worried about me, looked at me alone without caring about others, except for my late grandmother.
Maybe that was because she had taken in the abandoned me and raised me.
But Yuna was a complete stranger to me, and every time she approached, I had answered coldly and harshly.
It was warm.
With those extremely warm words from Yuna, I felt my insides being filled with her.
And from that moment on...
I fell in love with Yuna and loved her for the rest of my life.
"Cheon-seong! Let's play together!"
"...What are we playing?"
"Heh! You're going to play with Yuna!?"
"...First, let's listen."
"Wow! Cheon-seong, let's do doll play!"
"...Whatever you want."
"Hehe. Playing with Cheon-seong is fun. Let's play together again tomorrow!"
I still hadn't forgotten the smile of Yuna I saw back then.
"It was really fun today! Cheon-seong!"
"I'm glad you had fun, Yuna. But isn't just sitting here okay?"
"Of course~ Just being with Cheon-seong is enough for me."
Yuna and I were sitting on a park bench.
7:15 PM
It was late, or rather, right on time.
Between morning and night, Yuna had asked me to sit here with her and spend the remaining time together.
Even if it wasn't a request, I had to do as Yuna wanted today, and if she wished, I would do everything I could.
"Cheon-seong. Are you going to enter the academy too?"
"Probably. But why are you asking?"
"Just~~ because I thought you'd enter together with me, I was happy~~."
Before regression, I hadn't entered the academy.
The academy's first test was the mana quantity test.
Learning that I could absorb mana from mana stones in five colors came after the entrance exam, and with the tiny amount of mana in five colors, I failed the mana quantity test from the start.
So I couldn't enter the academy with Yuna, and instead I had to raid the weak dungeons I could handle and barely manage to eat.
Later, when I realized that five colors could purify the poison in mana stones and absorb mana from them, I had nothing but regret.
If I had known earlier, I could have saved Yuna, who was severely injured and in a coma for months after being hit hard at the academy.
But this time it was different.
Now I knew I could absorb mana from mana stones, and with the cyan stones and other potions Beatrice gave me, I was already passing the first mana quantity test easily.
So this time I could save her.
I learned from the news that something had happened at the academy and that I could save Yuna, who was severely injured and in a coma for months.
And revenge on that guy who entered the academy was the same.
"Don't show off in front of me like an extra in the novel!!! If you're an extra, stay in the corner like an extra!!"
"I'm a novel extra? So what? I'll do anything to kill those guys. And Cheon Yu-seong, you too..."
I would make you regret touching my precious ones.
"...Seong... Cheon... Seong... Cheon-seong!"
"Huh? Yuna? Why are you suddenly calling like that?"
"Hehe~ It's what I should say, right? Why did you hesitate to answer even when I called you that way?"
"Ah... It's nothing. I was just thinking that the events of today were fun."
"Really~~? I had a really great time today too! Cheon-seong!"
Looking at Yuna smiling while saying that, the heart full of revenge melted and rose with her warm warmth.
"This time I'll definitely protect you. No matter what happens, I won't lose you in this life."
No matter how many things threaten you, no matter if it means turning everyone against me.
Still.
After saying goodbye to Yuna, I was not heading home.
An abandoned factory.
The abandoned factory, about an hour away from the park where I had been with Yuna, was where I had gone.
There was nothing special about why I came here.
"Knowing there's trash here, I have to clean it."
The reason I came to this abandoned factory was simply to clean it.
Squeak!
Cheon-seong opened the rusty door of the abandoned factory and stood in the center, slamming the floor hard.
Kwa-gak-gak-gak-gak!
The ground cracked, a large hole opened, and the paths above and below the factory connected, and human voices could be heard from there.
"Hey! What the hell is this!!"
"I don't know either, you bastard! I'm not even a detector ability user, why are you asking, you idiot!!"
Da-da-da-da-dak!
Squeak
From the opened floor, the sound of many people running came, and from the corner, the sound of an iron door opening, and from there, a bunch of trash burst out.
"What? A little brat?"
"Who the hell brought this brat here?"
"No way, did that little brat do this too?"
"Hey, there's no way. With that thin body, how could he do that?"
Cheon-seong walked slowly toward the factory door while looking at the trash he had to clean and listening to the ones staring at him and chattering.
"Hey, but that guy's face looks pretty and might sell for a high price. If we just catch him and sell him, wouldn't that be more profitable?"
"Hmm... Definitely a high-quality one. Can't compare to the guys down there."
"That guy would fetch a good price if we sell him. Hehe."
Even though they were threatening him from behind, Cheon-seong walked silently toward the door, and from behind the trash shouted.
"Hey, little brat! Looks like you got lost. If you follow us quietly, we won't hurt you!"
"...I came properly, so don't worry."
Squeak, clank!
The factory door closed, and darkness fell on the abandoned factory.
"Hey! Turn on the light."
"Hah, this brat is annoying."
Whoosh
With the muttering of the trash, a small light orb floated up in the abandoned factory.
"Huh? Where the hell did all these guys go?"
But seeing their own reduced number of colleagues, the trash looked around, and from behind those trash, the pitiful scream of another trash could be heard.
"Kwaaaaaaaaak!!"
"What the...!!"
Tap-tap
There was Cheon-seong, cleaning the trash, and the trash who realized the situation rushed at Cheon-seong.
"You bastard!!"
Whoosh!!
Knuckles suddenly appeared in the trash's hand, and he threw a punch at Cheon-seong.
"Slow. Just like trash."
Whoosh bang!!
But Cheon-seong lightly dodged the trash's attack and slammed a strong uppercut into the trash's stomach, and the trash flew away like an explosion, crashed into the ceiling of the abandoned factory, and fell.
Thud!
"This bastard is dead!!"
At that moment, another trash chanted magic and fired it at Cheon-seong, and Cheon-seong, seeing it, braced himself, stared at the flames coming toward him, and threw a punch.
Bang!!
"Good!"
An explosion occurred, covering Cheon-seong's figure, and the trash who thought his magic had hit shouted in victory, and shortly after, that victory shout turned to fear.
Thud
Thud
Thud
"...Not yet."
"...H-how...? The... the magic... must have hit straight...?"
Like nothing happened, Cheon-seong walked out from the dust, and the trash panicked and muttered to himself, and hearing that, Cheon-seong casually resolved the trash's bewilderment.
"Just a useless trash magic, that's all."
Crack!
"You bastard!!"
The trash felt insulted by Cheon-seong's words and chanted magic again in anger.
"Let's see if this one is useless too!! Die!!"
The trash fired a magic spell with all his mana poured into it at Cheon-seong, and the trash looked at Cheon-seong with a face full of excitement.
But what was cast over Cheon-seong's face was only an expression of no interest or concern, not the fear and despair the trash had most wanted.
"Don't look at me like that!!"
Bang!!!
An explosion three times as big as before shook the factory, and the trash sat down on the ground, mana exhausted after using all his mana.
"Ha... ha... ha... Look... good... bastard..."
Thud
Thud
Thud
"Huh...?"
But unlike the trash who thought he had hit, the sound of footsteps from inside the explosion made the trash deny reality.
The owner of the footsteps was, of course, Cheon-seong, and Cheon-seong walked toward the trash who couldn't even run away due to mana exhaustion.
"S-save me! H-haha, I'll do anything!"
"..."
"P-please!!! I'll g-give any money! O-or my... my body? My chest is big, and it would feel good if you hugged me!!"
"..."
"P-please! If you want a slave, I'll become a slave!!"
"..."
"Y-yeah, what the hell are you saying!!"
Even with the trash's pleas, Cheon-seong said nothing and walked to the trash, and in front of the trash, Cheon-seong bent his body and lifted the trash's head.
"R-right. H-hug me and it would feel good!"
Thinking that the trash who was about to hug him would be saved, he said it with a relieved face, but when Cheon-seong's face changed to contempt, he realized it wasn't that.
"No interest, no value, no care for the body of a trash who kidnaps kids and turns them into slaves."
Squeeze!
Cheon-seong tightly grabbed the trash's face, and the trash who was suffocating started his final struggle, begging to be saved.
"S-save... save me... P-please..."
Twitch!
With one more squeeze in the palm, a sound of something breaking came from the trash's neck, the struggle stopped, and he slumped, and Cheon-seong let go of the slumped trash and walked toward the hole in the floor, muttering.
"Those kinds of trash being heroes... How gross."
Tap!
With the sound of snapping fingers, the bodies of the fallen trash on the floor caught fire, and Cheon-seong passed through the burning trash and descended into the hole he had drilled.
In the abandoned factory where even the light orbs used by the trash had disappeared, the trash flying were lighting up the factory instead of the light orbs.