Black Badger - Chapter 331



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331. Twist (1)

Ami, who was sitting next to Hilde, started to hiccup.

Hiccup! Hiccup!

The senior hiccuped like a startled child. He couldn’t turn his head as he looked at Hilde with bloodshot eyes.

But Hilde didn’t even glance at Ami.

If it were normal, I would be startled and ask if it was okay.

Now Hilde’s golden eyes were fixed coldly on Jack.

Hilde asked softly.

“Why didn’t you do it after seeing the poison?”

The mumbling was almost a whisper.

But Karl saw Hilde’s eyes turn around. Anger burned in her beautiful golden eyes.

So you weren’t angry at Sophia the other day.

It was just a little annoying.

“Did you leave it out on purpose?”

“sorry.”

Jack spoke with sincerity in his voice.

“I tried not to use it as much as possible. I kept it with me for emergencies… I thought you might not like having a poison bottle with you.”

“You’re saying you didn’t report it on purpose?”

“That’s right. It’s my fault.”

Jack never made excuses.

That’s a wise choice.

Carl thought.

Well, even so, he wouldn’t be able to make excuses in front of Hildebert in that state.

“I told you not to even try to do missionary work.”

Hilde leaned over and grabbed Jack’s shoulder.

I glanced towards the leadership and saw my aide Gilbert and Commander-in-Chief Ye-Hyeon.

They were reporting something to the two pilots.

It seemed like he didn’t have the energy to worry about this.

“You must have heard what I said.”

“I heard. And I tried to do it as best I could. I’m sorry. It was the only way I could think of.”

“What if Army hadn’t destroyed the portal device in time?”

The suppressed emotions are transmitted to this point.

Although he knew he had to stop it, Carl was surprised by Hilde’s cold anger, which he saw for the first time, and was unable to easily intervene.

It seems like the other seniors are the same.

Jack Black again gives an exemplary apology.

Hilde remained silent for a moment.

Then he spoke in a voice that even Karl could not hear.

“I bet you thought it was pretty fun.”

“Hilde. I’m sorry for worrying you.”

“Look at that guy who doesn’t deny it. That’s right.”

Even these words were calm.

“You should be more correct.”

Bam!

Bam! Bam!

A clear sound echoed across the meadow.

“what?!”

“Hey! Stop it!”

A flood of panicked voices.

Carl jumped up and rushed at Hilde.

The seniors who were nearby also jumped between Hilde and Jack. Carl, along with Ricardo, Yun, and Asil, grabbed Hilde and pulled her away.

The other badgers also rushed over, but Ricardo held out his hand to stop them.

You and Igor rush in between the Badgers and Jack Black.

Only a woman with red eyes and pixie hair put both hands on Jack Black’s shoulders.

“Captain! I’ll hold on to you so you don’t escape!”

“…you.”

Carl saw Jack Black let out a laugh.

“You are so loyal to Hilde that it is admirable.”

“Calm down, kid~…. You saved me and now you’re going to kill me again~?”

“I’ll give you a tip. If you don’t want to get ripped off like this, avoid hitting the face.”

“Captain. We’ll nag you properly, so go back to the doctor.”

Advice from Ricardo and Yoon.

Igor spoke in a calm voice, ignoring the mutterings of the other badgers, who muttered things like, “He’s more temperamental than I thought,” or “He used to be such a gentle guy…”

“If you still can’t figure it out, do it when there are no humans around.”

“Hey, Inma!”

Isn’t the way you dry it a bit strange?

Samuel shouted at him, looking puzzled.

The doctor who came running was quite angry.

“Why are you turning the guy you saved into a mess again! If you have the energy to do that, get him treated!”

Isn’t Hildebert all better now?

Whether he agreed with Igor’s words or was now relieved, Karl thought as he watched his junior become as calm as a ghost after the three seniors intervened. Just now, Hildebert had naturally inhaled while moving. Karl saw with his own eyes that his serious wounds were healing.

So it should be okay now… .

“What? Why do you still have a fever?”

Ricardo placed his hand on his junior’s forehead and opened his eyes.

“Your wounds have all healed, right?”

“Rick.”

Hildebert muttered softly.

“What did I do to you?”

Samuel Hahn arrived.

He quickly checked Jack Black’s condition, then returned to Hildebert. Then, spitting out thick curses, he ordered them to help Hildebert up and into the medical helicopter.

“It’s sepsis!”

Carl heard Ricardo swear softly.

The level of anger in the curse was amplified as soon as Hildebert said, ‘Please tell me later what I did.’

Meanwhile, Yoon arched an eyebrow next to Ricardo, who was getting on his nerves and saying, “You don’t deserve to scratch the driver’s face.”

“How can this be? If you inhale it, isn’t your body supposed to be completely fine?”

“Maybe the leaf veins….”

Hilde muttered as she had one arm taken away by Yun and Ricardo.

Karl did not understand what his successor was saying.

What are leaf veins?

Neither Ricardo nor Yoon seemed to understand.

But instead of explaining properly, Hilde muttered:

“But this is my first time seeing something like this….”

I see.

It may be a similar mechanism to the reinforced body injury.

Carl followed his junior towards the helicopter, supported by his two seniors, lost in thought.

Black Badger’s augmented body was not omnipotent. Most injuries were healed monstrously quickly, giving rise to the illusion that they were immortal. However, since humanity had not yet fully emerged victorious in the fight against disease, the augmented body occasionally caused strange errors.

Sometimes wounds that should have healed didn’t, sometimes inflammation levels strangely didn’t go down, and sometimes rare diseases occurred. Samuel said this is because we don’t yet fully understand how the human body works.

So please don’t think you guys are invincible.

It is now common knowledge that severe stress significantly reduces the body’s ability to recover.

The reason why Hildebert’s fever does not go down may be along similar lines.

I think Hilde stumbled and fell forward.

“hey.”

“Hilde.”

“ah?”

Yoon and Ricardo quickly accepted the fallen successor.

And then Jack Black’s goofy voice came from behind.

“uh?”

Carl turned his head and found the frozen ones.

The successor looks even more flustered than when he was hit by Hilde.

Hilde’s people stand frozen next to Jack with shocked faces.

“Why is that?”

It didn’t seem like Hilde was surprised that she had collapsed.

Because Hilde, who was on the floor with one knee down and not falling over thanks to her superiors, also had an extremely surprised look on her face.

The sword seemed startled by something it did not recognize.

The golden eyes that had opened wide in surprise were then filled with emotions that Karl could not decipher.

It’s like shame….

“Hilde!”

Jack Black suddenly ran up to Hilde.

“you…!”

“Wow!”

Carl did not understand Hilde’s sharp scream.

But his compatriots seemed to have understood correctly, and those who had been running like cheetahs suddenly stopped in their tracks.

I couldn’t even think of going any further as if I had discovered a landmine ahead.

what?

Carl narrowed his eyes and examined the situation.

The other humans seemed to be equally clueless. Samuel, Ricardo, and Yun all looked at Hilde and Jack with puzzled expressions.

The leaders and other badgers also looked at this place with surprised eyes.

Everyone stopped moving and carefully observed the situation when Hilde’s voice was heard.

A withered voice.

“sorry.”

Hilde fell face first to the ground.

“I didn’t mean to do that. I never meant to….”

“Hilde.”

“Don’t come near me.”

The shame and self-loathing in her choked voice was palpable to Karl.

“I know distance isn’t the issue, but still….”

The successor’s voice crept in.

“still….”

Hilde’s people did not approach him.

He stood tall and didn’t take his eyes off Hilde until the two seniors took Hildebert into the medical helicopter.

Hilde did not accept the gazes of her people until the very end.

The various sounds that came down again.

The sound of the leadership giving orders. The sound of preparing to return through the portal.

A working portal.

Negotiations with the enemy are over.

Black Badger recovered all the kidnapped prisoners.

***

“He came back alive.”

“okay.”

Kyle answered, his gaze fixed on the reconstructed barrier.

The sun that turns the land red.

Standing on the blood-red ground, Kyle received reports from his men.

“The leaf veins won’t recover right away.”

Valdez stood behind Kyle with a blank expression.

The wizard’s dark blue robes fluttered in the evening breeze.

“Clyde didn’t completely remove the leaf veins… but he didn’t remove them enough to make them soft enough to be absorbed and recovered. It’ll take a long time for them to recover.”

“It might have been better.”

The black-haired man muttered as he considered what he had lost and what he had gained from this incident.

His golden gaze scanned the traces left by the ruins.

There are also remnants of human weapons that came through the torn barrier.

“In a sense, it would be more humiliating for him. As time goes by, the sense of isolation will change into familiarity, but the humiliation will never go away.”

“Yes. Because he knows shame.”

Valdez agreed with Kyle’s sentiment.

Kyle let out a small laugh without realizing it.

Yes, Hildebert Taleb was a man who knew what shame was. He sometimes unconsciously revealed that I was from the temple.

But he didn’t know humiliation.

The gut-wrenching humiliation that comes from licking a loser’s feet.

Kyle realized too late that Hilde did not understand those heavy feelings.

If I had known sooner, I would have noticed Hildebert’s betrayal.

Hilde was so focused on the shame of being a survivor that she failed to notice an important fact.

That Hildebert never once failed in his quest for revenge.

The fact that the knight known as the ‘Sacred Wings of the Empire’, with his dazzling white hair hanging carelessly behind his shoulders, walked out of the ruins, stepping on the bones of his enemies at every moment.

I realized it only after I woke up.

It was a long sleep that seemed like it would never end.

“Don’t you regret it?”

Valdez said quietly.

“You could have just cut off Hildebert’s neck.”

“It’s a shame, but I’m sorry. I don’t regret it.”

He had no intention of easily giving Hildebert the peace he desired.

I know it’s an irrational response. But my thoughts haven’t changed. Besides, I don’t know if it was during the first war, but in the current situation, this war itself is not very rational.

Of course, there was a chance of winning.

Victory can be overturned in an instant by a small trigger. Knowing this, the commander-in-chief must have sent Hildebert to the negotiating table.

To eradicate even the slightest possibility of being hit.

Of course, I had no intention of giving in.

“The results of this game will only be revealed over time.”

Hilde and the captive were lost, the barrier collapsed, and several wizards and executioners were killed. There was also a bomb planted inside the barrier that they could not easily find.

However, by cutting off Hilde’s leaf veins, he dealt a blow to her maximum power and planted a means of counterattack inside the bodies of the prisoners.

A tiny seed that would be difficult to discover unless you were a wizard.

so.

“Let’s just wait and see.”

Kyle muttered to himself so the Badgers couldn’t hear him.

“How will it proceed?”

He had been staring at the torn border for a long time.

***

Emotional transference is uncontrolled.

That was the thought that came to my mind as soon as I opened my eyes.

The leaf veins are damaged….