Chapter 272: Afterstory (2)
“Are you really sure I won’t kill you?”
I nodded. “Yes, you could have just taken us by surprise. The Black Dragon Master would have lost a hand, and I also might have lost a member. Your timing was perfect, yet you intentionally let your footsteps be heard. It was basically a warning. ‘If something like a purge were to happen, I would never sit idly by.’ You’ve made that clear to me—no, to the Black Dragon Master. Because there is already a high level of trust between you and me.”
The tension in the area was still suffocating. I smiled and approached the Sword Star.
Naturally, the Black Witch panicked. “Hey, Kim Gong-Ja, where are you going? Stay with me, you idiot! Don’t you understand what I’m saying? You have to stick with me if I’m going to use my teleportation, you idiot! Ah, you wacko!”
Behind my back, the Black Witch was huffing and puffing as she called me names. The funny thing was that her angry voice was getting closer and closer. Although she was angrily telling me not to go, she was following me diligently as I walked toward the swordsman who had not lost his top spot in the Hunter rankings for over a decade. He laughed as he watched us.
It made both me and the Black Witch stop in our tracks. We exchanged glances, asking each other if at least one of us understood what was going on. However, the Black Witch only shrugged.
The senior gentleman’s laughter only grew louder, as if he had truly seen everything there was to see in life. He was close to rolling on the ground in a way that didn’t suit him. Every time he laughed, his neatly trimmed white beard trembled.
“Have you gone senile?” the Black Witch asked, looking fed up.
I cleared my throat. “Should I contact the Chemist and ask her to make some kind of cure for you?”
“Oh, come to think of it, she’s also one of your people. How the heck did you recruit all these young talents? I think we need to create a system to restrict excessive talent hoarding.”
“What kind of strange system is that?”
The Sword Star probably noticed how close I was with the Black Witch from our small talk. He laughed for a long time.