Black Badger - Chapter 350



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350. Physical Test (1)

Ricardo, who was leaning against a café chair, raised his eyebrows when he saw me.

He had a characteristic long smile on his face.

Jonathan was sitting next to me.

My senior looked back at me and blinked as he sipped what appeared to be green tea.

Cafe Senabi, bathed in the morning sunlight, seemed completely unaware of the situation at Core 15 and was peaceful.

The sound of coffee brewing and people talking.

I ran to the one empty chair left.

“Calm down~….”

Ricardo said as he watched me pull out a chair and sit down.

“First of all, Army doesn’t seem to have any thoughts….”

“I see, right?”

I’m glad my hope circuit wasn’t in vain.

Without even thinking about ordering a drink, I handed over the photo Bobby had sent me.

Ricardo has already confirmed it.

“You must have dark intentions toward Ami Joo-man. Ami doesn’t think anything of it, right?”

“Just wait… .”

Ricardo answered calmly and took his cell phone out of his pants pocket.

Do you have any reply?

Or do you have anything to show me?

I blinked and looked at my senior.

But Ricardo didn’t show me anything or send me a message.

Instead, he flicked through the screen to check something and then called someone.

Barbie?

As I was guessing the other person, I was surprised to hear Ricardo laugh out loud and say the following.

“Ami~… .”

and.

You’re throwing a fastball.

“Where are you now~? Ah~… If you have time, do you want to come to Cafe Senabi later~?”

Ami answered excitedly from the other end of the phone.

“Yeah~. Hilde and Jonathan are here… . Since there’s nothing wrong, I’ll just keep waiting until you get back~.”

He quickly ended the call.

I could have left a message, but I thought it would be more like him to call right away.

I saw my senior smiling faintly and putting his phone down on the table.

“You want to ask me directly?”

“The most accurate way to answer these questions is to ask yourself.”

That’s right.

“Army isn’t the type of person to hide things like this… Well, when I look at it, it looks like ARMY doesn’t have any thoughts~.”

“Right? I guess so, right?”

“Hilde.”

As I was asking for his earnest consent, Jonathan suddenly joined the conversation.

Ricardo and I turned our heads to look at our senior.

The Black Badger’s only human inspector suddenly extended his hand toward me.

“Do you have a fever?”

I leaned my upper body back to match it.

“doesn’t exist.”

I smiled, staring at Jonathan, who was blinking.

“Thank you for your concern, Senior. I’m not completely fine, but I don’t have a fever.”

“Your eyes are a little red?”

“Oh, it must be because my sleeping pattern is messed up.”

I didn’t sleep.

It was around dawn when Seunghyun came to visit. After various incidents, I was awake until I returned to the portal that had reopened. I was not completely sleep deprived because I slept soundly in the car, but Samuel must have stayed up most of the night.

I hope you go in safely and get some rest.

You probably couldn’t sleep until dawn listening to the story and trying to persuade them.

I rubbed my hand over my neck, feeling distraught as I thought about Samuel and what he had said.

As time passed, the weight of Samuel’s words grew heavier.

Maybe I acted according to custom without thinking deeply due to impatience… .

As I was rubbing my neck, thinking that I would think about it more after sleeping, a question came flying in from the other side.

“Are you still like that?”

He lowered the hand that was holding his neck.

“yes?”

“Avoiding contact….”

I smiled awkwardly and muddled my answer.

“Well… it’ll get better.”

“Avoiding contact?”

But Jonathan gave me no place to run.

He furrowed his brow and stared at me like a cat.

“What happened?”

I don’t want to explain.

But I had no idea how to make an excuse.

Is it because I didn’t sleep that my head isn’t working?

“It’s a type of PTSD that comes from dying and coming back to life.”

Luckily, Rick gave us some background information.

It seems that he has keenly captured my hesitation.

“The problem is that he’s just leaving it like this… .”

“First, I’m going to try to regain my physical strength.”

I changed the subject.

“I heard there’s a physical test coming up soon.”

“If you’re not feeling well, you can act.”

“When?”

“Two weeks later. Monday through Friday.”

Jonathan answered without taking his eyes off me.

There’s not much left.

When I went into the worksheet application, I saw that the worksheet had already been updated. When I clicked on the icon of two crossed dumbbells, an explanation appeared.

It seems that you just need to pass the physical test within a week to fit your work schedule.

And I haven’t had any missions this whole month.

This too is heartbreaking in its own way.

I looked down at the LCD and asked.

“When is Rick?”

“Next Tuesday~….”

“What about Jonathan?”

“me too.”

I guess you timed it right.

“You just put it off… Don’t be stubborn like last time.”

“Take some medicine.”

Jonathan stood up from his seat, pushing the chair back with a thud.

Do I look that bad?

The moment I raised my head to ask that question, Senabi’s door rang.

“Hilde!”

Ami’s face brightened.

“long time no see!”

“army!”

It’s really nice to see your face.

I turned around and greeted her.

“how have you been doing?”

“Ami~.”

Ricardo leaned his upper body against the table and waved his hands.

“You came quickly… .”

“Yeah. Hilde came back and was at headquarters!”

The joy on his face made me feel good too.

She often came running here smiling brightly.

Then, I bump into Jonathan, who is getting up from the table and heading towards the cafe’s door.

The senior looked down at Ami and then took two steps back.

He pulled the chair he had been sitting on towards Ami.

“You may sit down.”

Ami’s eyes grew wide.

“Oh my goodness. Jonathan Kudo is so considerate….”

… I’m the type of person who would normally be considerate to this extent… .

“I was touched….”

Jonathan blinked and looked down at Amy.

Ricardo lowers his head and laughs heartily.

Amy didn’t take her eyes off Jonathan.

“Where are you going? If you’re going to the bathroom, I’ll bring an extra chair.”

“I’m going to buy some medicine.”

uh?

“I’ll go to the first floor of the hospital building, so it’ll take a while.”

“Senior… no, Jonathan.”

I hastily got up from my seat.

Anyway, I have the medicine that Samuel prescribed for me.

I took a step forward to tell her that I had to eat that, so she couldn’t take the medicine even if I bought it.

At that moment, the surroundings began to spin.

“Hilde!”

Ami is terrified.

Someone took me in urgently.

The floor that was rising in front of my eyes stopped in the middle. My body, which was staggering forward, was caught in someone’s arms. And then, the world stopped moving.

I struggled and grabbed the other person’s arm, and didn’t move until the dizziness went away.

and.

It’s a good thing there aren’t any billion-dollar statues around here.

“You go home.”

Ricardo’s firm voice was heard.

“immediately.”

“It’s okay now.”

Is this something like orthostatic hypotension that I’ve only heard about?

I blinked and raised my upper body.

Jonathan caught me. He flinched at my movements and quickly grabbed my arm.

The view widens. The entire cafe comes into view.

Ricardo looks at me with a frozen Ami and a frown.

Several other people in the cafe were also looking at me with surprised eyes.

I’m embarrassed.

“It’s orthostatic hypotension.”

I smiled awkwardly and sat back down on the chair.

“I’m really okay now, so don’t worry.”

“Stop talking nonsense.”

“I didn’t know my condition was this bad.”

Ami muttered with a shocked face next to Ricardo, who was serious.

“But didn’t it get a lot better?”

If this keeps up, I’m really going to get dragged away.

It’s not like things will get better if you get dragged away and rest.

Of course, if I spoke my mind, I would have been heavily criticized and probably thrown into a hospital or a cabin or something.

But now I was just so tired of lying in bed.

I want to hear stories from ARMY too.

I held out both palms to stop Ricardo and Jonathan from dragging me away.

“Then I’ll just sit here and rest for a moment and then go.”

The seniors who had been holding my arms one by one suddenly stopped.

“I’m going to take a break soon, so can I hear ARMY’s story first?”

“Oing?”

Amy blinked.

“My story? What?”

thank god.

Even if the HR manager has dark intentions, it seems that Ami has no such thoughts.

The seniors returned to their seats. Ricardo sat down in his chair with a displeased expression on his face, and Jonathan dragged a chair from somewhere else and sat down.

I smiled bitterly at Ami, who was standing tall without knowing English.

“Ami. Do you have something to do with the HR manager?”

Ami’s eyes grew even bigger.

Jonathan looking at Ami while sipping green tea and Ricardo smiling.

Ami said with a blank expression.

“no?”

Thank you, God.

“Who said that?”

“There was a rumor going around. It turned out to be a false rumor. I guess it started because you went to see a movie together.”

“no!”

Amy grabbed her head in horror.

“I just wanted to see the movie that I wanted to see, so I went with him!”

… The head of the personnel department definitely seems to have dark intentions.

“It’s unfair!”

But as I was relieved that the iron wall seemed strong, Ami added with a scream.

“It’s less unfair than the Giacomo Laurent love story, but it’s still unfair!”

“Yes? You should feel just as wronged as you did back then.”

I said it out loud.

“It’s all the same, it’s just a rumor.”

“That’s true, but it feels different!”

“No.”

I have to cut off any buds that might bloom.

“Ami. I really don’t think dating the former HR manager is right.”

puck!

My shins are bruised.

“ah!”

it hurts!

He jumped up and grabbed his shin with his hand.

Ricardo hit my shin with the toe of his shoe under the table.

I looked at the senior sitting across from me with a face like, “What on earth is this?”

But even though I pleaded my grievance with my eyes, Ricardo didn’t blink once.

In fact, he didn’t even give me a glance.

He just had his arms crossed and his gaze cast diagonally down at the floor.

As if he didn’t want to look at me.

As if you weren’t trying to get caught warning me… .

… … .

… is ruined.

“Who is doing what with whom?”

An ominous voice pierced my ears.

A low sound mixed with a hissing sound.

The faint murderous intent contained in the low, harmless sound aroused physiological fear.

A cafe that becomes quiet in an instant.

I couldn’t even think of looking back.

Even Jonathan kept his gaze floating towards the floor.

Amiman turned her head and looked at the owner of the voice.

“Brother!”

I don’t have the courage to turn my head.

“What are you doing here? Are you here to buy coffee?”

“Who are you dating?”

Yoon ignored Ami’s question.

He walked towards Ami strangely silently.

His white lab coat appeared in the corner of my vision.

I can’t even raise my head.

“Head of Human Resources?”

Amy nodded.

“I went to see a movie with Mr. Joo, and I guess the rumor got around.”

She was the only one in this cafe who was not affected by the hostility that Yoon was spewing.

“I just wanted to go see the movie I was planning to see, so I went with him.”

“The HR manager said he wanted to watch a movie with you?”

Yoon asked gently.

Goosebumps appeared on my arm as I desperately looked away.

scared.

“Yeah! Mr. Joo said he wanted to see the SF movie series that was recently re-released.”

“series?”

“Yeah. The first one came out three years ago, and the second one is coming out soon. They’re re-releasing it before the second one comes out.”

“You said we should watch it together.”

“huh.”

“Okay. What do you say after watching the movie?”

Yoon asked questions in a perfunctory manner.

Only Ami didn’t notice the viper-like tone.

She answered brightly.

“It’s so fun, let’s go watch the second one together!”

Clang!

The cafe staff accidentally dropped the cup.

I raised my head, lost in thought.

The man’s refined facial features are visible as he looks down at Ami with a calm face.

Yoon was looking down at his younger sister with an inexplicable smile.

I’m so scared.

I trembled and leaned my upper body toward Ricardo.

‘What should I do?’

‘Just wait… .’

The senior answered softly.

‘I know that ARMY doesn’t think much of it, so for now… .’

Clang!

The door to the café opened with a refreshing sound, cutting off his words.

The head of the personnel department came into Senabi.

A man wearing a well-fitting, calm suit.

I still haven’t figured out the situation….

Putting Yoon in a mental hospital….

“army.”

The HR manager greeted Ami with a big smile.

“Hilde is back too. Everyone is gathered here.”

He smiled as if flowers were blooming behind his back.

“It’s really nice to meet you by chance.”

Yoon twisted his body.

Ricardo and I both got up from our seats at the same time.

“Yun!”

I ran towards the shooter who was heading straight for the Lord.

“Yun! Calm down!”