Chapter 141: My Guardian Deity (7) (1/2)
There were no demons there. Only the Gold Dragon was gazing down at Yu Jitae.
The abduction was just an act scripted by BY.
It finally all made sense. If she were showcasing all the dignity and class of a dragon, the Sky Race would’ve made way without daring to fight back. There would’ve been nothing stopping her and she would have been able to fly in the sky, away from the eyes of others.
After understanding everything, he sheathed his sword.
“What is all this about.”
With an indifferent expression and an apathetic voice, he spoke.
“Go back to human form.”
The large body of the gold hatchling decreased in size and was soon replaced by her human form, but BY wasn’t wearing any clothes. As her bright and untainted golden hair fluttered, BY opened her mouth with a wry voice, sitting collapsed on the ground.
“…Not surprised at all?”
“What.”
“Since when did you know? That I was a dragon.”
“You don’t need to know.”
Without even bothering to cover her body, she blankly stared at Yu Jitae.
Following the rules of a security officer, he took off his jacket and tried to hand it over to her. The jacket was muddled in blood, with countless holes and was tattered like a rag.
But BY didn’t receive it.
Still vacantly sitting on the ground, she merely gazed up at Yu Jitae with sunken eyes.
“Wear it.”
“…”
“Wear. It.”
“…”
Since she still didn’t receive it, Yu Jitae walked up and threw the jacket over her shoulders. His feet weren’t stable – he was staggering.
The jacket was full of blood. When it touched her body, it left a red trace behind on her white skin.
BY, who had been blankly staring up at him, finally lowered her head and gazed at the jacket covering her body and sniffed it.
“Why did you come?” she opened her mouth.
“To save you from dying.”
“As always. Seriously.”
“Get up. You’ll hear a mouthful once we go back.”
“You’re not doing it here?”
“Yeah.”
“Why? Why are you that relaxed? Aren’t you mad?”
“Not much.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re not dead.”
“…”
BY glared at him with a crooked gaze and opened her mouth.
“Who do you think you are?”
It was a sharp voice. His eyes twitched.
“What am I.”
“You’re just a hired bodyguard. It’s just a simple contracted relationship between an employer and an employee.”
“And.”
“What ‘and’? Put another way, I’m the boss of your company and you’re just an employee. If I fire you, you become someone that’s totally unrelated to me.”
“And.”
“But what are you trying to do. Your boss is slightly mental and wanted to take some rest. Who are you to come and stop me from doing so.”
The wound on his forehead that was about to close up reopened as blood flowed down. He rubbed his eyes to clear his vision.
“And.”
“You’re not someone special to me. I’m serious. There’s nothing special about you and you have nothing to brag about either. All you did during the past 10 years is just bash a few paparazzis.”
“And.”
“And, and, and! What’s with these ‘and’s! Don’t you have anything you want to say? Talk back or get angry. Or if you wanted to make me hear a mouthful, then do it. Say something!”
“…”
Postponing the response, he thought to himself.
The Gold Dragon didn’t think of him as someone special? Something like that didn’t matter a single bit.
So what…
The important thing here was that she didn’t die. Apart from that, nothing was able to arouse any feelings inside him.
“Don’t you have anything to say? Just say it!”
And yet BY was telling him to say something back. BY carrying out a scripted abduction drama was fine and the fact that he had to cross countless hazards in order to save her was also fine. Those didn’t matter.
However, her voice that urged him to speak was slightly irritating.
Thus, he walked up and crouched before BY.
Despite the close distance between them, she didn’t look away nor did she turn around. For some reason, she was angry and was glaring at him with heavy pants.
“What. You want me to be angry?”
“Aren’t you mad? This doesn’t make you angry? Are you like an enlightened hermit?”
“No. But it does annoy me a bit.”
“Why don’t you do something then!”
Listening to her request, Yu Jitae slapped her on the cheek.
With the slap, her small head was turned to the side.
It wasn’t a powerful slap, and she probably knew that too.
“Never have I wanted to be your special person. So even if you get angry and even if you think of me as someone under you, I don’t really care.”
“…”
“You just have to not die. As for the other things, I honestly don’t really understand what you’re trying to say.”
Looking back now that he had earned daily lives in the seventh iteration:
He was ignorant, abnormal and didn’t have the ability to tell what was correct and wrong as a guardian. So until the end of the fourth iteration, he didn’t regret the attitude he took against BY.
What he did think however, was that the method itself was wrong so without caring about celebrities and whatnot, he locked her up in the underground labyrinth.
But there was one thing, which he had done right.
“This is what the company made for you. It was boiling hot, but now it’s gone cold.”
He took out the soup which was inside a plastic container, in his dimensional storage.
It was ‘Offering for Eternal Peace’.
Due to the chilling spell of the alternate dimensional storage that was casted for preservation purposes, the soup went back to being like a jelly and didn’t fall even when he carried it upside down.
“It’s irritating that this cools down like this. I have to guard you and I can’t afford to leave the area for something like this but there wasn’t anyone that could do this in the morning. What should I do if you end up in a life-or-death situation when I leave for a little bit. Huh?”
Blood dripped down from his chin onto the solid soup.
“You said ‘do something’?”
He threw the soup at the ground in front of BY. The plastic container was crunched as the solid soup scattered across the floor.
“You happy now?”
But that was the end. Yu Jitae walked up and reached out with his hand, which was filled with wounds. Blood was still dripping from his fingertips.
“Get up. Let’s go.”
“What. Is that all…?”
“Yeah. I’m done doing something, so hurry and get up. Let’s go back.”
“…”
She remained silent. BY blankly stared at the fragments of soup scattered on the ground, before lowering her head.
“Turn around. Let me wear this properly.”
Yu Jitae turned around.