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EP.73 Sleeping with the Enemy?!
The main quest appeared.
『League Chapter Game ③』
◆My Personal Bodyguard
-Objective: □Protect the target until they reach the destination
-Reward: 50000 DP, Random item x1 (proportional to quality of performance)
-Failure: Death
I felt dizzy.
Are they telling us to babysit now?
Of course we won't actually be babysitting. But I didn't like this.
"Star."
"Oh, come on! The Star you want has staged on here DA!"
The bright red Star I saw before appeared. I wondered what he was doing.
"Hey, not you. Bring the Star I often talked with."
"Calm down! That person is currently absent due to busy work DA! What are you curious about JYO?!"
"Ha, nevermind. Get lost."
"Good night!"
The bright red Star disappeared with a poof.
"Is it night now, fuck."
I pondered with my arms folded.
The situation was more subtle than I thought.
The Star that always appeared didn't show up.
Busy? That can't be it.
They're quantum information beings or whatever.
Beings that can exist anywhere and nowhere.
But suddenly saying they can't come because they're busy doesn't make sense.
It might be nothing.
But I wondered if the Celestial Horse Demon was keeping them in check.
'They've been blocking loopholes one by one since the last game. Are they a Korean politician? Why are they blocking things now?'
I had a bad feeling.
I decided to wait for now.
I looked at the main quest again.
No matter how I looked at it, I couldn't understand the intention.
'Are they trying to do an observation variety show now or what?'
But even this could be content for the Celestial Horse Demon.
First of all, it's probably not human.
Each and every action humans do could look like a comedy from afar.
Soon a notification popped up.
[This game 'My Personal Bodyguard' will transfer you to a random terrain with a specific person.]
[The specific person is the 'protected target' you must guard as a bodyguard, and you will be eliminated together if they die.]
[The goal is one! Take the specific person to the designated area shown on the minimap from the start. Then you will survive.]
[You can also kill other bodyguards' 'protected targets'. If you kill a total of five, you will be judged to have survived!]
[There are special places in between. Experience them directly!]
[Overcome all events and variables that occur until you reach the designated area. Prove yourself!]
I stared blankly.
At a glance, it seemed like a simple game.
The game method itself is to take the protected target to a specific area.
It might not be easy, but it was simple.
Using your brain in various ways? It doesn't seem like that at all.
'But this game shouldn't be thought of simply either.'
Where to take them and who to protect had to be left purely to luck.
And everyone seems to have forgotten.
If we've come this far, there probably isn't a player without grudges.
What if the person I have to protect is someone I have a grudge against?
Or if it's someone I'd blush just looking at?
This would be messed up from the start.
Nevertheless, what had to be done was simple.
Taking the protected target to the destination.
'The problem is, they publicly stated it's okay to kill other people's protected targets. This is clearly intentional.'
Facts that could be known just by doing it.
They unnecessarily revealed it.
They could have hidden it like in previous games, but they deliberately didn't.
In other words, it was inducing us to fight and kill each other.
'Plus they say it's cleared if you just kill five of others' protected targets? This seems even easier?'
Depending on the awakened abilities, this could be easier.
For someone specialized in assassination like me, or someone who likes to sweep with AoE skills.
If you're not confident in protecting your target, you could even go around killing others' protected targets like an assassin.
There will definitely be people like this.
'Plus our building will be empty during this time. I hope nothing happens.'
As I sighed. Soon the women came down from above.
Jong-mi asked with a confused face.
"You dog-like boss bastard, what are you going to do?"
"What else. Everyone fends for themselves. It'd be nice if we're lucky enough to meet each other."
"Even if we meet, no fighting each other? Huh?"
Isn't that obvious?
It seemed like we'd be transferred to the game zone soon.
I said one thing before that.
"Everyone don't forget this one thing. If we meet each other, unconditionally ally. Whether as protected targets or enemies."
"Of course! Who do you think we are!"
"That's right, President is the best!"
"Auuu!"
"Hmph, isn't that obvious? You idiot brother?!"
I smirked.
It's nice to see everyone energized.
'Huh?'
Suddenly I felt dizzy.
Just as I wondered what was happening.
My surroundings changed as if swirling.
I had been transferred.
Is this the game zone?
I looked around in surprise.
I was standing in an asphalt parking lot.
"Where is this?!"
Under the bright sunlight.
I could see a huge building standing firm.
I hadn't seen it before, but looking at the building's sign I seemed to know.
"National Theater?"
Then a minimap appeared in the corner of my vision.
I saw a place marked in red. Wait, this isn't the game zone?
This is reality?
'Dongdaemun Station?!'
I tried to take out my phone to look at the map properly. The minimap only showed names without distinguishing between mountains or roads.
Oh, the internet doesn't work.
I tried to make a phone call too.
It doesn't work.
Suddenly I felt like my hands and feet were tied.
I felt dejected. It seems they blocked all contact from the start.
I vaguely recalled this area.
It was familiar, though I hadn't been here.
'That bitch of a mom sang at the National Theater once. Let me try to recall the map I saw then. So if you go further north, you reach Cheonggyecheon and Dongdaemun Station, right?'
By the way, I had one question.
Okay, it's good that it's started now.
But where's the protected target?
'Surely I'm not the protected target?'
As I was pondering.
Someone tapped my back.
I turned around and drew my weapon. Who is it?
"...Huh?"
"Hi? Ikhyun. It's noona!"
It was Yeo Ha-ra.
No, more precisely, it was Yeo Ha-ra with orange eyes.
Then that's not Yeo Ha-ra.
It was Dream Empress Baltane.
I took out my gun and aimed at her forehead.
"You fucking bitch... Dream Empress, what are you doing here?"
"Ikhyun, what's wrong? It's me, your noona Ha-ra. Did you come to dislike me?"
"Stop the bullshit!"
"Did you come to dislike me because I'm an ahjumma? Right. I'm a dirty woman after all."
"Won't you shut up?"
When I asked coldly, Baltane finally smiled. It was a devilish smile.
"Keuk, keuhihihit!"
This is ridiculous, you fucking bitch.
Why did this bitch crawl out when she's not even a player.
"What the hell are you up to?"
"Shouldn't you treat your protected target better? You lack gentleness."
I doubted my hearing.
What is this bitch saying now.
I stepped back.
"What? You?"
"How long are you going to hold that gun? Let's go, to Dongdaemun Station."
"...This is real. Why are you the protected target?"
"Ah, actually there was someone else who was supposed to be your protected target. But, do you really want to hear what happened?"
Baltane tilted her head slightly to the side.
Her eyes curved into arcs as she smiled.
I clicked my tongue as if disgusted.
"You killed them and took their place, right?"
"My, what do you take me for? To be precise, I sacrificed that human to manifest in this world. Legitimately!"
"Legitimate my ass."
"Don't misunderstand? I'm trying to keep my promise to you."
"That you'd always watch me?"
I laughed hollowly.
Isn't it crossing the line to crawl into the game to watch?
Why her of all people?
A bitch I want to kill and it still wouldn't be enough.
Why is she appearing here!
I sneered while waving the gun muzzle side to side.
"I don't know what you did but you've gotten extremely weak?"
"So, are you going to kill me? Go ahead and kill me. Who knows? Maybe the woman you've been looking for will return?"
Baltane came even closer.
She smiled brightly, then gave a seductive smile and flirted.
Baltane grabbed the gun with her delicate hand and stuck out her tongue.
Her tongue danced ominously in the air, then licked the gun muzzle.
Her deep pink tongue dripped saliva as it gently caressed the muzzle.
Eventually she wrapped her tongue around the gun barrel once and shook it back and forth.
As if giving a blowjob.
"What are you doing, hurry and shoot. Or are you going to pounce on me?"
"Get lost, you fucking bitch."
I sighed while putting away the gun.
It was a really troublesome situation.
'Why is something like that the protected target out of all the possibilities? Damn it, Celestial Horse Demon. I don't like you!'
Anyway, we had to go.
There was nothing good about staying here.
"Don't think too much about it. I know a bit about this game."
"How would you know? How can I tell if you're lying or not?"
"Your protected target was actually a human brainwashed by the Celestial Horse Demon."
"...What?"
What is she saying?
Baltane chattered and laughed.
"I'm not sure but you, you must be quite marked? Before manifesting I sensed a few more brainwashed human presences. There must be many humans marked like you?"
I was at a loss for words.
What on earth is the Celestial Horse Demon's intention?
Why try to make a brainwashed human my protected target?
To eliminate me? Somehow?
"...Let's just go."
I left first.
Baltane hurriedly followed.
"Hmm? Ikhyun! You have to go with me! If I die like this, you'll die too, you know?"
"Don't call me familiarly, you bug of a woman. Fake bitch!"
"But I'm the real one, hiing."
I really wanted to tear her to death.
How dare she spout such nonsense with that face.
But I couldn't.
My god, her very existence is teabagging right now, isn't it?
I came out onto the visible open road.
I ignored the huge hotel visible ahead and headed north.
Ha-ra tapped my shoulder.
"By the way, how are we going?"
"We just go, right?"
"You know too? That they won't let us go easily."
"Can't you just shut up and go?"
"Look, they're already here."
Baltane pointed straight ahead, ignoring my gaze.
I turned my head wondering what it was.
I was shocked enough to open my eyes wide.
No, what is this now?
"W-what is that?!"
I was so dumbfounded I couldn't even laugh.
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