Chapter 7: Celestial Realm (4) (2/2)
Chi-Woo stared intently at her, “How…are you so sure…?”
At Chi-Woo’s question, Laguel looked a bit troubled “Sir, I can’t tell you that”
Laguel couldn’t reply, but her response confirmed Chi-Woo’s suspicion “Is it because of that vow…you talked about before…?”
When Laguel looked taken aback, Chi-Woos that ordinary people shouldn’t see, he began to get swept into all sorts of big and small incidents There were many times when people around hiot hurt
While these incidents kept happening around him, he had now coincidentally found out a secret he had no idea of The reason why he had such an unusual life, why his brother went , and why his parents became so reclusive The decision that Chi-Woo h all kinds of incidents was this: ‘I want to know’ He wanted to knohy his brother had to disappear, why his parents couldn’t eat or drink, and why he had to live such a cruddy life After finding out the secret of his continuousback to normal if it was possible
“Is it an iuel was unable to reply
“If those who get hurt because ofpunished…I don’t care about them…” After all, Chi-Woo was also human—no, he was ht…”
“…”
“My fa a hard ti them in anxiety, I think it would be better if…it can end with just uel becaht the same before
“I…don’t knohat my…fate is…” Chi-Woo shook his head “And I don’t even want to know it” With a parched voice, he strained to continue talking, “I’uel finally realized that Chi-Woo had thought these thoughts for a very long tih and said, “If I live like this, I’ll die soht become crazy one day and die…”
“Sir Chi-Woo…”
“Miss, you may consider me weak…I know reat effort to turn his body “…I won’t ask you to help uel, he declared, “I won’t insult you…or hate you…if I regret this, it would be because of my choice…So, just don’t…block my path please…” That was the end of the conversation Chi-Woo stared at the ceiling, and Laguel silently stared at the floor They were on opposing sides; Chi-Woo was trying to find out about her secret, and Laguel was trying to stop him An aard silence enveloped the two, and in the end, Chi-Woo felt his fever rise further and fell unconscious
When he woke up again, Chi-Woo blinked andblue eyes It wasn’t Laguel Even though they looked siel in front of hiot up She had been leaning her body over the bed and watching hi her face in a V shape “Wait, wait Wait a bit This is our first hed a few tiel”
“…” Chi-Woo stared at the angel as she introduced herself with a very lively voice He was visibly confused, but it seeuel had said would soon arrive
“Uh…was that too el scratched her head and turned back She looked at Laguel, as hu her head for the first tiain”
The angel disappeared in a flash After a while, a shi+ in bed
–Welco in his ears At the saht while fluttering and stretching out her wings to their maximuel Raphael, ould be guiding you
Raphael Chi-Woo had heard that name before Raphael shtly narrowed
“How’s your body? Are you okay?” Raphael asked as she landed back on the ground, folded her wings, and turned off her light Raphael talked to him like he was her friend At Raphael’s friendly attitude, Chi-Woo nodded in a daze He felt much better than before
“Good Shall we start talking right away? I don’t have as ht not look like it, but I’el”
Chi-Woo stared at Raphael as she came closer It was pointless to talk about her cutely tied-up ponytail or her beauty The only thing he could focus on were the translucent wings on her back; she had a total of eight wings Considering that Laguel had four, there el Raphael, please wait a bit” Laguel, who had been quiet so far, was about to say souel with a slight wave of her hand Rather than deciding to keep quiet, Laguel seemed to be forced to close her mouth
Chi-Woo slowly spoke up, “You are…”
“Me? I’els here,” Raphael replied before Chi-Woo even finished talking “Or should I say…” She shest authority to listen to your request?”
Chi-Woo gulped
“Did you say you were froion, you must have heard of me Well, it doesn’t ed and looked back at the nervous Laguel
“Archangel Raphael”
“Hey, stop” Even before Laguel could say souel’s h opportunities”
“How can you say they’re opportunities? This is…”
“I know I didn’t expect Princess Saheu (捨姬公主) to come out, either…but since the situation turned out like this, it can’t be helped, right?” Raphael pointed at Laguel “In the end, you weren’t able to stop hi here, and you also failed to persuade hih she could have easily intervened beforehand, Raphael had purposely given Laguel soh respect by giving you that el Raphael, do you think that’s respect?”
“Yep Why?” Raphael asked with a cheery smile “You want me to not respect you for real? Are you curious ould happen then?”
Laguel took a step back without hest level
Raphael smoothly said, “Hey, hey Calm down This person really wants to do this, so there’s really no reason for us to go out of our way to stop hiht?”
“Sir Chi-Hyun wouldn’t stand still”
“Uh…Yeah, he probably won’t” Raphael also seeh him, and won’t he also explain the situation well to Sir Chi-Hyun? It doesn’t seem like he’ll stab us in the back later on”
“In the worst case scenario—!” Laguel was about to say so but shut her mouth It seemed that she couldn’t say it in front of Chi-Woo
“Well, it’s not like you're wrong” Raphael smirked “When I eavesdropped on you two, I heard so here, I would have welcouel and chuckled, and Laguel flinched “Yep That’s right Well, I won’t go as far as welcoh”
Raphael’s eyes spun around, and she turned her head “I don’t have any intentions to object to anything in particular Honestly, there are so for him as well Well, that’s basically where I stand” She stretched out her thuulped several tih his head was oing hoanted it to
“Yeah But…it’s a bit regretful” With this thought, Raphael’s words took a turn “Isn’t that so? When the gaerous, ould you think when a good card suddenly coolden card that will save you froan to inspect every part of Chi-Woo as she continued, “So you becoht want to try to assess the situation first and save the card for later All of you know about card gaaether, like she was telling everyone to focus on her hand
Chi-Woo pondered for a bit and said, “What is it that you want?”
“…I like that you get straight to the point” Raphael s, ‘look at this punk’ Co before, Chi-Woo believed this was closer to her true nature
Then Raphael stretched her thumb and pushed it in front of Chi-Woo’s eyes “I’ll set the conditions”
“Conditions?”
“Don’t misunderstand You’re not the only one with conditions” Raphael withdrew her hands “Not everyone has the saoals; you aren’t the only one ants to find your brother” She smiled cheerfully and continued, “I can’t let everyone join, so if you want to fulfill your goals, you have to pass a test”
“A test?”
“Don’t worry Do you seriously think I’ll tell an ordinary person like you to fight someone and survive?” Raphael folded her arms “The test itself is simple, so there’s no need for you to worry Well, I think the level of difficulty and whether you can pass the test are completely different matters”
Chi-Woo tilted his head How could passing and the level of difficulty be completely different matters in a test?
“If you pass this test, I’ll send you where your brother is”
“I’ll accept the conditions”
“Oh my Really? You answered immediately” Raphael had a cheery face the entire time she talked with Chi-Woo “Did you hearthat I’ll let you meet your brother, but I’ll send you where he is”
Chi-Woo suddenly realized that while Raphael had herat all so far It was not a very good feeling to see her smile
“Then—”
“I’m sorry, but nope” Raphael fir to say a word about you or your brother Not even about your faht?” Raphael pointed towards Laguel, who looked very worried
Chi-Woo let out a sh
“If I could, I would have explained in the very beginning You think I want to explain in a roundabout way like this, while paying attention to my every word? I’m also frustrated”
Chi-Woo wanted to ask about his brother just in case, but as expected, Raphael also could not reply Chi-Woo gave up asking any further; there was no point in crying over sour grapes
“Good Conversation over With this, you don’t have any coreeuel
“What is the test?”
“Uhtly, “You’re curious, right?”
“Yes”
“Come and take it then”
Chi-Woo looked up at Raphael Raphael was an angel that was quite talented at pissing people off
“Ahaha Did I go too far?” Raphael flapped her hands to show that she was joking “Sorry, sorry Anyway, if you do decide to take the test…” She put her thuht s about when it’ll take place?”
Intense sunlight pierced his eyes Chi-Woo soon completely opened his half-lidded eyes He quickly picked hiht hand instinctively felt around his bed When he turned on his phone, not much time had passed since he last checked it
‘I can’t believe it’
When he opened his eyes, he was in his house Did she teleport hi? If not, it would mean that since the ti had been a dream Chi-Woo stared into space in a daze There was no way for him to check if what he experienced was a dream or reality—no, there was a way At that h his pockets and opened his wallet
‘Money, money…’ He checked to see if had the money he received from Giant Fist Soon, Chi-Woo’s pupils fiercely shook as he took out a paper bill from his wallet
[Let me see Your planet is Earth, and you said your country was the Republic of Korea, right? Then…]
On the paper bill, there was Chi-Woo’s name, family, and a location and date
[I know about Earth pretty well I have a lot of connections there]
[Here, take it You just have to go to the location I wrote for you here]
The letters were very special as it gave off a subtle silver light
[You can’t even be one second late, got it? I can’t take responsibility if you’re late]
After checking one, no, several tihtly clenched his fist He was now completely sure
‘It really…wasn’t a dream’