I swallowed hard.
Agent Choi did not look well.
Even though there was unmistakable hope and joy in that smiling face at the fact that his teammate had returned….
A deep exhaustion showed beneath it.
“How does your body feel?”
“……”
“When you’ve been lying down forever and then suddenly get up, your muscles all waste away and it’s seriously rough, right? Heh, this senior has been through it all too. Relax. Take it easy.”
Following his joking words, I carefully raised myself up.
My arms and legs trembled, but considering I had been asleep for 293 days, it wasn’t bad. Probably I… no, stop thinking about that.
The important thing was that, for the moment at least, I had escaped both Segwang Special City and Director Cheong’s grasp.
Probably thanks to this person.
Still hiding my trembling hands, I turned to thank him first, but froze when I saw the surrounding scenery.
“…Where exactly is this?”
“A place with good air and good water.”
It looked like we were inside some kind of natural cave.
A small space among jagged rocks that looked as though they had been cut sheer away, a hideout seemingly set up within it.
On one side of the rock wall, strips of five-colored cloth had been hung around an area as though it were a ritual site, hiding something….
And beside me, I saw Bronze Agent’s sleeping body.
“……”
I looked from Bronze Agent’s body, laid out on a properly prepared bed, to my own place, then turned back toward Agent Choi.
“…We definitely entered Segwang Special City from the Fox Counseling Office.”