“Who is that person, really? The more I look, the less they seem like an NPC.”
The forks kept coming, and our march didn’t stop.
To the left, to the right.
Right-face, left-face.
Like students matching an instructor’s cadence,
we walked for a long while, following Jio’s words.
No obstacles, no monsters.
You couldn’t help but wonder at a journey this smooth.
During a brief rest to recover our stamina, Ju Romi suddenly tossed out a question, and Ji Eun-o shrugged.
“Who knows. Whatever he is, he’s definitely a lucky charm, right?”
“Ugh, should I go scratch a lottery ticket the moment we get out…? I thought luck was something that never, ever visited my life.”
Ju Romi gave a hollow laugh.
Beside her, Jeong Sang-won poked at the embers and laughed along.
“Don’t say that. Romi, aren’t you back in again? What luck could beat that?”
“My luck’s been weirdly good this second half of the year. Got a subcontract, then got kicked out of the guild,…