SSS-Class Hunter is Going to Rest - Chapter 93
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Episode 93 Towards the 100th Floor (6)
2024.06.18.
“Ugh… … .”
Nature’s moan echoed lowly.
I don’t know how humans are ‘triggered’ in 〈Messiah〉.
However, it was easy to guess that Zero died because he leaked too much information in front of Yeonju and Je last time.
Just in case, Suzy roughly folded up the in-flight blanket that was rolling around on one side and stuffed it into Nature’s mouth.
“Ugh… … Ugh… … .”
“Be quiet. It’s a substitute for a gag.”
Nature struggled, but Suzy was firm.
At that moment, Saint and Peace, who had realized the situation late, came running.
“What’s going on?”
“… … Did Nature touch the team leader?”
The two, who had been really surprised, drew their weapons in an instant and took a combat stance, looking back and forth between Suzy and Nature with bewildered expressions.
Suzy, who looked clearly tired, nodded at Nature, who was lying on the floor and groaning.
“Please tie me up.”
“What’s going on?”
Saint asked with a puzzled expression, but immediately took out the 7th-tier item, “Rope of Binding,” and tied Nature’s two arms behind her back. Even though they had been teammates and tower guards just a moment ago, there was no hesitation in his hands.
“This level of skill is enough to bind Nature, right?”
Saint tied them delicately several times, finished them off with a ribbon knot, and shook his hands.
Suzy, Saint, and Peace stood side by side, glaring at Nature, who was stuck between the chairs, when Elaine approached with an indifferent expression.
Suzy stared at him as he came from the captain’s office.
“Thanks to you, I survived. How did you know?”
“Isn’t it stranger not to know? No matter what, the teammate who is calmly playing chess while Daphne is being hijacked is probably incompetent.”
Saint and Peace’s eyes widened.
The two, who were trying to understand the situation, were more surprised by Elaine’s words than by her putting them down.
“Hijack? Airplane terrorism?”
“Nature? Against the team leader?”
Elaine nodded slightly.
“Honestly, the grand word hijack is a waste. It’s a name given to such a stupid thing.”
Saint frowned and looked at Nature, who was lying on the floor, groaning.
“Are you an idiot? … … No, but I was secretly glad that someone pretty good-looking came back. You pointed a knife at the team leader?”
“I’ve been in contact with the Messiah side for a while now, and seeing how their methods are becoming more and more extreme, I think there must be something desperate. Rather than threatening me, they threatened Nature with her own life.”
“… … Messiah? Again?”
Suzy looked at Nature with empty eyes and nodded.
“That’s right. Last time, you said that Zero was burned to death in front of your eyes. That’s why I covered Nature’s mouth for now, but I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Peace tapped Nature with the tip of his foot. They
had been quite close and polite when they were teammates, but now that things have come to this, they all know that there’s no need to be attached to them anymore.
“If you join the 〈Messiah〉, you start by planting a bomb in your body… … . Looking at how everyone’s going crazy.”
“I can’t understand it otherwise.”
Suzy nodded at Peace’s words.
The group dragged Nature in front of the conference table in the center of the plane and put her down.
“Shouldn’t we hear what she’s thinking?”
Peace asked, throwing Nature’s leg away, and Suzy answered with a sigh.
I heard that when three S-class waves exploded at the same time, they arrested and detained the followers of the 〈Messiah〉 in each location.
When I heard that they couldn’t even touch them for fear of dying like Zero again while interrogating them, I didn’t think much of it, but I didn’t know that I would be in that situation.
What kind of story would I hear from Nature?
A cult member who doesn’t even know how precious his own life is.
She looked at Nature, who was rolling around next to the table with his arms tied behind his back, with cold eyes. He was groaning as if he still had something to say, but I didn’t feel even a hint of pity.
I hated seeing someone I had known for a long time, worked with, and trusted, change like this.
It felt like my trust in people had crumbled all at once.
“What good would it do to hear what they say? That’s enough. It’s been a long time since I’ve been abroad, and I don’t want to ruin the mood even more.”
As she watched her teammates nod, Soo-ji continued to speak as if mumbling.
“I heard that Nature was dispatched to deal with the S-class wave, but I wonder if she was in her right mind until then… … or if she was a servant of the Messiah from the beginning.”
“That’s right. No, there was some kind of misunderstanding, right? It’s so ridiculously pathetic.”
“We trusted her so much. Wouldn’t it be better to just hide her identity and stay by her side? Don’t you think so?”
Elaine shook her head at Saint and Peace’s words.
“She must have done something like this because she knew that she would be vulnerable even in the fierce battle situation at the tower. Everyone must have seen her lose focus in battle.”
Peace and Saint let out exclamations.
“Oh, that’s why you did that?”
“Oh my. I didn’t even know that.”
Suzy looked back at Elaine once more.
“When did you know?”
“I thought there must have been some intention because she’d been hanging around Daphne since we were patrolling the tower together.”
It seemed like she had.
Maybe it was my fault for not connecting that to suspicion.
Even so, was it possible to respond like this? The seats where he and I were sitting weren’t that close.
And this wasn’t the first time Elaine acted as if she knew in advance.
There were too many things I had let go of, thinking it was nothing serious.
But I still had nothing to ask her.
I couldn’t ask her how she was so quick-witted, and it was strange to ask her how she protected me so well every time.
“There are about 10km left until we reach our destination. Team Daphne members on board, please prepare for the door opening.”
At that moment, the captain’s announcement rang out.
Suzy thought for a moment and pointed to Nature.
“I’ll have Priya pick up this luggage herself.”
“Okay. I’ll contact her.”
As she watched Saint answer, she grabbed Elaine’s arm.
“Elaine will move with me.”
“Okay.”
Suzy nodded to Saint as he answered obediently.
Since there were two people who could use the wings, the team decided that there was no need to wait for the plane to land.
Soon, everyone gathered in front of the door on one side of the plane.
Suzy and Saint installed their wings. Peace, who was holding Nature tightly with one hand, stood next to Saint, and Suzy opened the door’s safety device. Then she sat down on the doorway.
The ground was beneath her feet, and the blue sky was spread out above her head. The thick clouds between them were quite spectacular.
Suzy didn’t travel abroad often either, and since she took shortcuts through the gate when traveling domestically, she didn’t have much experience jumping out of a plane.
“Let’s go.”
Suzy closed her eyes tightly and opened them, erasing the thought of Nature from her mind.
“Let’s go.”
She wrapped her arms around Elaine’s waist and jumped down.
The wind hit their bodies like crazy in the quiet silence before the wings spread.
“Can I trust Elaine?”
Since she didn’t scream, an ordinary person wouldn’t have heard her in this situation. However, Elaine would have understood.
As Suzy stared blankly at the ground getting closer and closer, she heard a calm and gentle voice answer, as if he completely trusted her in this situation.
“You can trust me.”
She didn’t expect any other answer.
She was becoming more and more confused.
It felt like she could trust all humans, but it also felt like she couldn’t trust anyone.
She slowly closed her eyes and opened them, spreading her wings wide.
Her body floated up as the distance between her and the ground, which was approaching her at a rapid speed, widened momentarily.
“Don’t make me regret trusting Elaine.”
“Of course.”
Would it have been better if she could see his face?
It was frustrating that she couldn’t see what expression he was making because he was wrapped around Elaine’s waist.
Suzy turned and flew towards the tower. When she looked back, she saw Saint holding a man in each hand and flying gently toward her.
As I was flying along, lost in thought, I heard a faint whistle.
Wheeeeeek!
“Welcome, Daphne!”
“Welcome!”
I raised my head and looked ahead, and saw a group of people gathered together.
From here, it was quite a distance to the tower, but in front of it, I could see people jumping around and waving flags. There were quite a few of them.
As they got closer to the ground, they heard voices shouting in a slightly awkward Korean accent.
There seemed to be about a thousand people.
They had come on a trip to the top of a foreign country, but they thought they were just here to keep a promise. They
didn’t expect to be welcomed like this.
She looked bewildered.