Black Badger - Chapter 380



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380. Wings (2)

Hildebert was lying face down on his bed.

Ricardo sighed as he saw his successor tightly shutting his eyes while covering himself with the bed sheet. He tried not to sigh as much as possible, but things in this world don’t always go as planned.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Hildebert did not hear his sigh.

It seemed like he didn’t even know he had come in.

You probably don’t have the presence of mind to notice.

Only someone other than him recognized Ricardo. Bingryong, who was sitting on Kairos’ bed, looked back at him.

The dragon smiled with his eyes wide open.

“What a disobedient child.”

Ricardo walked quietly towards Yoon’s bed.

“I apologize for visiting without permission… If I am interfering with your treatment, I will leave.”

“Not at all. Sit down.”

Yong answered lightly and pointed to the bed across from him, Yoon’s bed, with his chin.

He held one palm open and placed it against Hildebert.

Ricardo had no intention of sitting on Yoon’s bed, no matter what. He probably wouldn’t sit on Blackjack’s bed, but he certainly had no intention of sitting on Yoon’s bed.

But I had to go, so I walked calmly between Yoon and Hildebert’s beds.

Hildebert turned his head in the opposite direction of Bingryong.

It seemed as if he didn’t want to show his crumpled face even to the dragon. It was not that he didn’t feel sorry for making his junior’s efforts go to waste.

But this is all his karma.

If you had just said you were in pain, you wouldn’t have come to see me.

“why….”

As I roughly bent my knees and wiped the cold sweat off of my opponent, Hildebert narrowed his eyes.

The successor squinted his eyes and made a muffled voice.

“I….”

The words that were about to continue were interrupted by a groan from the successor that came out in the middle.

Hildebert buried his face in the bed. A raspy spit. His feet pushed the mat away in vain.

Ricardo watched the man tearing off the bed sheets with a dark, squeaky sound.

“If you endure it, there won’t be any aftereffects.”

Bingryong spoke to Ricardo as if trying to appease him.

“I’m trying my best to make it as painless as possible, so just wait a little bit. It’ll be painful, but this guy uses his body well, so he won’t go into shock.”

“Yes… Thank you for your concern.”

Bingryong ended up laughing.

Ricardo didn’t move for a while. He just watched Hildebert groan silently. Only after his tense body relaxed a little did he finally wipe away the sweat.

The successor looks up at him with narrowed eyes.

The parts other than the eyes are buried in the sheet and cannot be seen.

Ricardo snorted softly after wiping the beads of sweat from his eyelashes.

“I never cry at times like this… .”

When I faced the enemy, I cried and cried.

Even though he was tearing the blanket in agony, Hildebert did not cry now.

As I was looking down at the yellow eyes, they drooped down.

Whether he was trying to say sorry or tell me to leave.

He couldn’t interpret it, but he had no intention of listening to either. The green-eyed man just quietly watched his successor.

A dragon, who seemed surprisingly well-adapted to modern times, broke the silence.

“You know, being a Sword Master is like being a first-class star that devours the light of other stars.”

Ricardo looked up and saw the dragon.

A being that is so human-like that it actually gives you goosebumps.

Fortunately, he was comforted by a being who seemed to have a gentle and compassionate nature.

“I explained it boringly enough earlier. There are only a few people whose names we can hear. Usually, by the time we hear their names, they are dead.”

“He is so talented that he can make his surroundings look shabby… I know that.”

“10 hours isn’t that long.”

The dragon said what it could say because it was a real dragon.

“It was just a moment. If it hadn’t been for this pain, it would have taken him years to recover. It’s a terrible thing.”

That’s true, though.

“Don’t worry too much. How fortunate it is that it only causes pain.”

embrace.

But even knowing that fact didn’t make the sight before his eyes any easier. Ricardo looked down at Hildebert and wiped away the cold sweat a few more times.

The successor closed his eyes and curled his body into a ball.

The clothes were already soaked in cold sweat.

I feel like smoking.

It’s time to change shifts.

“Can I let someone else in~?”

“Do whatever you want.”

When I asked while getting up, the dragon smiled kindly.

“I don’t think the child will like it, but he is sick and can’t even speak, so what does it matter?”

That’s right.

Ricardo nodded in agreement with Bingryong’s wisdom and quietly walked out of the bedroom.

***

Karl Doe came in.

Bingryong nodded his chin, telling him to sit in the same seat, and Karl bowed his head politely and did so.

He said he sat on Yoon’s bed.

After that, he looked down at Hildebert without saying a word and gently wiped away his sweat. He came in without a mask and didn’t make any particular expression. He just sat quietly and looked down at his successor who was receiving treatment.

Rather, it was Yong who spoke first.

“You have to be careful this year.”

The sword raised its head and looked at the dragon.

“Do you see the future?”

“The flow of life is something that is only occasionally visible. It is even more so for someone like you, whose flow suddenly stops after a short while.”

“It doesn’t look like he’s a soldier.”

Carl smiled faintly.

The dragon wasn’t surprised, but he didn’t take his eyes off the sword.

Karl lowered his gaze to Hildebert and spoke softly.

“It is highly likely that he died during the mission.”

“I can only say that it doesn’t appear to be a natural death.”

“I have no intention of abandoning my enhanced body and dying a natural death. So, I am satisfied with not being a soldier, no matter what.”

The ultimate dream of many badgers is a painless death that saves others.

I hope that the end is far in the future, if possible. The good badgers neither welcome nor fear death. Perhaps they have seen too much death to understand that there is a kind of peace in it.

I can’t just die easily, because I’ve been struggling to not die for so long.

“It doesn’t mean you’ll definitely die. It just seems more likely. The future isn’t fixed.”

“That’s a fascinating story.”

“Be careful of yourself around the end of July and beginning of August.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Karl greeted politely and added quietly.

“You are also taking care of the youngest….”

The conversation was interrupted because Hildebert grabbed Karl’s arm tightly.

Is it because you’re sick?

Carl lowered his head and found yellow eyes looking up at him.

The sword laughed.

“They say it’s not a prophecy.”

The evil power has grown stronger.

“You just have to be more careful when you’re on a mission.”

Even though he had read it, the anxiety in his mind did not go away.

Carl bent his waist a little more.

“But it seems like you still have the presence of mind to listen to the conversation. That makes me feel a little bit relieved.”

The eyebrows furrowed even more as if he was not satisfied with the response.

Carl sat down for as long as Ricardo had, then got up from his seat. After silently greeting Bingryong, he went out into the hallway.

Yoon was standing outside.

“Check the generator and portal status.”

“Yes. And I sat on the bed for a moment. Sorry.”

Yoon looked at the knife with pitch-black, emotionless eyes.

“Yeah. It doesn’t matter to you.”

It was Yoon’s words after a brief silence.

“I guess you knew that before you sat down.”

Badger, the only one besides Hildebert who was called by name by Yoon, smiled faintly.

Yoon turned his head and went into the bedroom.

“Have a good job.”

“yes.”

Carl went to do the work that Yoon had entrusted to him.

***

Yoon sat down on his bed and looked down at Hildebert.

The successor, who is probably biting the towel that Karl gave him.

As I stood there, arms folded, quietly looking down at him, Hildebert narrowed his eyes.

Sweat beads clinging to white eyelashes.

Yoon briefly met the golden gaze flying toward me. But he didn’t continue to look at me. His black eyes continued to examine Hildebert’s mastoid process.

“I can’t see anything if I look there.”

The dragon said with a small smile.

“At least for now.”

“That’s too bad.”

Yoon said without emotion, but it was clear that he was sincere.

“I don’t know what you mean by piercing the magic line.”

“I see, you came to check it out.”

“I came here to worry about something.”

“Don’t lie. There won’t be any aftereffects and it’s just a passing pain, so I’m not worried at all.”

Yoon smiled faintly for the first time.

Of course, the faint smile quickly disappeared.

The man replied.

“Because I have a practical personality.”

Hildebert coughed.

Whether it was because he tried to speak but his throat was choked with pain or because he tried to laugh but lost his breath, Yoon lightly patted Hildebert’s back twice as he coughed and let out a choked sound as if he had been hit by something.

“Hold on.”

Hildebert glared at Yoon, searching for the blanket.

Yoon said it was no big deal.

“Yeah. You’re good.”

Hildebert lets out a sigh, something akin to a sigh.

Yoon observed the deputy’s mastoid process for a while.

Then, after a while, he left the room and Kairos took his place.

***

The men took turns.

The two women waited, sorting out the trash. They were getting ready to leave. It wasn’t a place to stay for long in the first place, and if Hildebert recovered without any problems, there would be no reason to stay here any longer.

Army’s penguin is….

“I guess I should give up… .”

The round-eyed Badger muttered as he carefully separated the trash they had consumed so far.

“You probably wouldn’t have been able to see it anyway. It was too dark.”

“Ask Yonghan for help later. Going to where the penguins are seems like a no-brainer.”

Sophia said, tying the envelope tightly.

“Isn’t that why you gave me cocoa?”

Ami’s eyes grew wide.

“Did you get caught?”

“He seems like a kind grandfather who likes good people. I’ll ask him anyway since I have no choice but to lose.”

Sophia threw the tightly tied envelope into the corner.

Then she straightened her bent back. Short hairs came out of the tightly tied bundle of hair.

She tucked the rest of her hair behind her ear.

“You never know. You might get a present from Santa Claus.”

After finishing cleaning up the trash, I returned to the restaurant.

There, the female badgers joined the male badgers who had been kicked out of the bedroom.

It wouldn’t be long before the treatment was over.

So, Bingryong chased away all the men.

“This is the most difficult part because he loses energy. Just this once, please protect his pride.”

The dragon said that and sent everyone out.

Those who were no longer able to care for the sick gathered at a restaurant.

Yoon distributed the work. I checked the portal status and went to the headquarters to send a communication. Carl pushed the remaining aviation fuel into the portal zone, and Ricardo and Kairos took a quick look around the base and placed the items they had to take back into the portal zone.

The Badgers were ready to leave as soon as Hildebert got better.

The Badgers returned to the restaurant, where all that was left to do was wait.

Yoon also walked in.

“It looks like something came up at headquarters.”

The dry man who came in silently said with an arched eyebrow.

“Don’t come in right away. Wait a moment.”

“Oing?”

Amy blinked.

Others also stared at Yoon.

“What’s going on?”

“I don’t know the details. Communication here is so slow.”

Yoon frowned and grumbled.

“It doesn’t seem to be related to Hildebert. They are looking into the situation internally and will give you further instructions within a day or two.”

The badgers looked at their squad leader with raised eyebrows.

But no one asked any additional questions. Everyone knew that asking questions would not yield satisfactory answers.

So I nodded and took my seat in various places in the restaurant.

Then I quietly waited for the treatment to finish.

A silence that weighs down like wet laundry.

The silence was broken a few minutes later by the sound of the bedroom door opening.

“I guess it’s over!”

Ami shouted with her face bright.

“I heard the door opening!”