Rust - Chapter 530



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RUST -530

Cheeeeeeek-

Maru and Najuyeon sat across from each other, with the pork belly placed in the middle on the grill.

“······.”

“······.”

Cheeeeeeek-

The heavy silence even suppressed the smell of thick pork belly cooking.

As Maru turned his head slightly, feeling suffocated, his eyes met with Ms. Kim’s, who was eating a large wrap at the table next to him.

Kkwang- I could see Ms. Kim Moon-yang taking a big bite, sticking her thumb up, and then munching the rest into her mouth.

“······.”

“······.”

Silence follows again.

“Let’s eat first. Let’s eat and talk.”

“yes.”

The crispy-grilled pork belly surprisingly had no gamey odor. Just like the mutated bear, the boar seemed to have better meat quality than even a Duroc or similar breed of pig.

As Maru put two dots in and ate the wrap, Na Ju-yeon, who had been picking at the side dishes, cautiously started eating.

“Isn’t it dangerous to eat a mutated monster?”

“The American research institute said that if you cook it well, it’s okay to eat it. People who made bear soup and ate it actually gained stamina and became healthy.”

“You got healthy? After eating the bear that turned into a monster?”

“Yes. There are definitely quite a few people who have seen the effects. Animals too.”

Na Ju-yeon didn’t touch the pork belly though. She just slowly ate the steamed eggs, scrambled eggs, and kimchi as side dishes. Maru started grilling half of the kimchi and half of the bean sprout salad on the grill.

The oil from the pork belly wafted over the kimchi and bean sprouts, giving off a delicious smell. A sweet smell.

‘Sweet?’

Kimchi and bean sprouts with pork belly? Maru’s forehead furrowed.

A sticky feeling. A smell that I felt back in my school days… An unpleasant feeling like something was sticking to me. A memory of that time when sticky goo came to mind.

Because of this feeling, Na Ju-yeon had often heard that she was a tail-wagging person, and as a result, there had been quite a few unpleasant incidents. Maru’s voice came out stiff, thinking that she hadn’t been able to break her old habits.

“hey-”

“yes?”

Maru called Na Ju-yeon in a crooked manner.

“Are you still wearing weird stuff?”

“yes?”

Na Ju-yeon asked back as if asking what he was talking about. Do you not know? Or are you pretending not to know? Have you lost the concept after using it every day?

“Didn’t I tell you last time? You said that you wrote something about love and then your father lost his mind and started hating you? Are you still writing stuff like that?”

“···No. That’s not it. They dragged me here to eat as soon as I arrived···.”

excuse?

Maru’s eyes turned cold.

If you did something wrong, you should apologize first and foremost. Why make excuses?

“Drag him in? Who? You’ve been that way since you were a student, and you’re still that way?”

“No, really.”

No- fuck-

If you don’t think they’ll understand it when I tell them, I’ll have to hammer it into their brains.

Just before she was about to blow off the handle, Na Ju-yeon glared at Ms. Kim. Ms. Kim was glancing over at me with her cheeks swollen, as if she had wrapped up a large amount of meat.

‘You brought it here?’

If it were Ms. Kim, she would have brought it right over while singing the song Samgyeopsal~♬ Samgyeopsal-♫.

Hey- Shh-

Maru took his hands off the knife handle, sat down on the floor, and stuffed pork belly and stir-fried kimchi into his mouth.

Crunch crunch-

Kkkkkkkkk-

Maru poured vodka into a soju glass and emptied it in one gulp.

“Uh- Okay. Then let me ask you something. How did Kisun become crazy?”

“······.”

Na Ju-yeon was so shocked that her hand holding the chopsticks was trembling, perhaps because the thought of blowing off her hand had become a weak murderous intent.

“Cow. Why are your hands like this···.”

She held her trembling right hand with her left hand, but her body began to tremble little by little as she dropped the chopsticks.

Maru clicked his tongue slightly at the sight of Na Ju-yeon trembling as if the ripples that started in her hands were spreading throughout her entire body.

Tsk-

“Go in and rest. We’ll talk later.”

Maru called the medical team and sent Na Ju-yeon to her quarters. As the medical team, equipped with full-body chemical, biological, and radiological equipment, led Na Ju-yeon and her group out of the restaurant, Ms. Kim rolled her eyes and pretended not to notice, then quietly focused on the meat.

Maru was about to say something, but then shook his head.

It was fortunate that all of the guards, including Kim Yang, were wearing armored exosuits. The exosuits were capable of responding to chemical, biological, and radiological weapons.

If I had smelled that sweet scent, I would have developed feelings for Na Ju-yeon, but it would have been better. By the way, looking at Na Ju-yeon’s actions, she wasn’t as reckless as she used to be.

Thinking back now, it was strange. Although Na Ju-yeon was beautiful, she had dark circles, pale skin, and a floating impression.

But I later found out that there were so many guys who kept pushing forward, and that the incident where I saved Na Ju-yeon from those guys had become a big deal.

Back then, when I rejected Na Ju-yeon’s persistent advances, the guys who called themselves her fans did some really stupid things.

When the family was fine, it was possible to teach them the ‘physics’ of sticky behavior, but after the family was ruined, there were times when they just had to endure it unilaterally.

The irony is that the reason Naru was able to travel safely in the midst of all this was because Najuyeon stepped forward to protect Naru.

‘It must be true that you like me.’

As soon as I received the letter, I saw that he risked his life to come here, so it must be true.

However, I couldn’t look at it in a positive light. If I think about the information that Ki-soon had handed over before leaving, it was clear that Na-ju-yeon had been doing something to me.

Perhaps the senses, life, and movements that were halfway beyond human were changes that came about because of that. It was not like I had transformed from a zombie with anger management disorder to a mutant, and it was possible that I could live like this without being a cannibal. Maybe it was the effects of that act.

“···Oh my gosh-”

It’s complicated.

There were too many things connected to her to simply hate her. It would have been less complicated if I had known nothing about her or had been hostile to her.

It was the same now. If I didn’t come and see you, or if I tried to work on something by letter, I would try to organize it neatly. But you came right away.

‘What the hell is this year thinking?’

Maru, who had called the staff and cleared the place, gestured to Ms. Kim.

‘Come here. From here.’

She resisted with a look that said, ‘Why, I’m eating meat?’, but when Maru slightly turned his body to the side and asked, ‘Should I go there?’, it was Ms. Kim who was holding onto the ssam she was about to put in her mouth and walking with heavy steps.

“What about Naru?”

“Little brother? I thought your little brother said he’d just stay there?”

This is driving me crazy.

Kim Yang, who saw Maru’s expression decaying, quickly put the wrap in her mouth and sealed her own mouth.

Well well

I can’t answer.

Because I can’t answer.

Even in this situation, the pork belly was really delicious.

Kim Yang’s expression was bulging and puffy, unable to hide her happiness. Maru felt momentarily empty at the sight of her looking like she had everything in the world.

‘I can’t be mad at you for not dragging those bitches who said they wouldn’t go by their hair.’

How much of a tantrum must Naru have caused for her to do this? How much must Najuyeon, who had been taking care of Naru, have done for her to just leave her behind? As Maru emptied his mind like this, his body and mind began to calm down.

The green LED blinked and Diana reported.

[The Confederacy has requested identification.]

“Identification? What identification?”

[There is currently a person in the Southern Alliance who claims to be the younger sister of King Vladimir Kalin. I would like to confirm the facts about this person.]

They say even a tiger will come if you call it. That old saying is never wrong.

“How are you going to confirm that?”

[I want to confirm my blood relationship through DNA testing. How can I do that?]

You want rooted hair? Including oral mucosa cells? They were talking nonsense. The Confederacy didn’t have cloning technology, but they were doing all sorts of things in their secret labs. And you want DNA information?

“Tell her to come. She’s the woman who claims to be my sister. Tell her to send me here, so I can check and take care of it.”

[I will convey it that way.]

Because of the radio interference, it took a day for a messenger to travel by airship to reach the Southern Alliance and the Kingdom, and four days if he traveled by human messenger. Judging from the story of the younger sister that was mentioned just now, it seems that Najuyeon and her party escaped and followed right behind.

“No. Let’s be more aggressive. Tell them that if they don’t send that woman away right now, I will consider them detaining someone who claims to be my sister and will break the non-aggression pact.”

[All right.]

You want to see the liver? How dare you.

As Maru was stretching, turning his head from side to side, his eyes met with Kim Yang’s.

Kim Yang, who had placed three slices of pork belly on top of lettuce, slowly folded the ssam, gripping it tightly with one hand and raising her thumb with the other.

“Hey- You···?”

Pick- As Maru, who was smiling, was about to say something, it was Ms. Kim who was quickly putting the wrap she was holding in her hand into her mouth and looking at it.

Meow meow-

I can’t answer that. Don’t ask.

huh.

Maru shook his head at Kim Yang’s response.

This is it. It’s going to be hard to just go smoothly.

Maru swept the four slices of pork belly from the grill and ate them in one go, dipping them in onion sauce.

Gulp gulp – gulp –

As soon as he swallowed, he cooked it again – and immediately, four pieces of pork belly disappeared into Maru’s mouth.

It was Maru who started to delete the pork belly like a meat grinder.

Four sides at once, no exceptions.

When I was in Seoul it was three sides, but this time it’s four sides?

The end of the pork belly hanging pitifully on the chopsticks on the floor.

The grill was already so empty.

Oh my god, three chopstick movements?

ah-

Despair flashed in Kim Yang’s eyes.

Cheeeeeeek-

A hot sound rose from the pork belly placed on the grill.

Okay, now let’s talk while our meat is cooked.

Maru looked at Kim Yang as he placed the pork belly on the grill.

“What do you think, Southerners?”

“······.”

Ms. Kim had to say something.

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Texas Virginia Company Headquarters.

“Didn’t you say that there is no one talented in the field of plotting?”

“I checked and it definitely wasn’t there.”

I tried to bait my younger sister, but the answer I got back was so scheming.

On this side, it was like, ‘Your little sister is in our hands, so we can handle it as we please.’ The response was a masterpiece.

‘Send it this way so we can personally verify whether or not it is my sister. If you don’t send it this way, I will know that you are trying to use my sister to shake the Holy Kingdom, and I will break the non-aggression pact.’

Breaking the non-aggression treaty with the Confederacy means starting an invasion of the South in alliance with the Eastern Empire.

“Are you saying you don’t care about your little sister’s life?”

“I think they decided to respond strongly because they don’t know if it’s true or not.”

“And what if the woman dies, and it is later revealed that she was really my sister?”

“If we analyze Vladimir Kalin’s behavioral patterns, there is a high probability that he will take revenge.”

Chairman Joseph Meyer passed the papers back.

This type was tricky. The dirtiest type. The moment they took their family hostage, the madmen became even more violent.

‘Really? Kill your family if you want, but the price of their blood will be borne by you and your family, no, by the United States of America.’

Most of the guys who say they’ll commit radioactive or biochemical terrorism are of that type. They’re the kind of guys who want to kill everyone because their family died.

“Are you sure about your little sister?”

“Yes. I haven’t done a DNA test, but the evidence is clear.”

According to the testimony of the remaining Ojin group, she was definitely Vladimir Kalin’s younger sister. Just looking at the strange sense of reality of the woman who was her younger sister, it was obvious. A worldview like a flower that was raised with great care in a greenhouse.

No matter how good the security in Korea is, shouldn’t we know that the world is falling apart and the existing order is collapsing?

But Naru was a different woman.

He thought as if it was none of his business. The war with China, the large-scale violence caused by people with anger management disorders, even the cannibals who were running around eating people… he answered as if it was all unrelated to him.

“What would you like to do?”

“I think it would be better to send it, so that it makes you realize reality.”

Joseph Meyer nodded and said.

“Let’s start with education. At the highest level.”

“Confirmed as the highest level of education.”

“And, if I may add one more thing out of concern, don’t forget that there is a psychometric person over there.”

“ancient.”

If you ask me to send it, I have to send it.

Something I thought was so simple has become strange.

[Mr. Chairman. That woman is strange.]

“?”

[It doesn’t work. MK Ultra doesn’t work either.]

“······?”

What the…

Chairman Joseph Meyer’s poker face cracked as he read the report.

She was an uneducable being.