I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul 224

Episode 25

“Who? friend?”

Kim So-yeon lightly shook her head in response to Kim Min-ji’s question. And then he spoke in a cautious tone.

“Do you remember anything? “I told you before that I have a friend I became close with on the Internet.”

“A close friend… Ah, I remembered. That friend who watches the drama you watch together? “The one who writes well, draws well, and has very good tastes?”

“huh. Him.”

“Are you here to meet that person? But why is the reaction like that? What happened? “Did you like it when you actually met him?”

In response to Kim Min-ji’s barrage of questions, Kim So-yeon shook her head again.

“no. Nothing much happened. No, nothing special happened. “If nothing happened at all, that’s not true.”

“Oh, it’s frustrating. “What’s going on?”

“He was a dungeon person.”

At the same time, seeing her friends who were shocked, Kim So-yeon found some comfort.

That’s right. It’s shocking, isn’t it?

It wasn’t strange that I was surprised.

“If you’re a dungeon person, are you a Nio type?”

“no. “A beast king type dungeon person.”

After briefly asking a question, Hyunji Lee fell silent again.

Kim So-yeon looked around for a moment at her friends who had closed their mouths, then sighed and continued.

“It was that bear. When you usually post a picture, you say, ‘It’s a bear hand, so I’m a little late for this performance,’ so I thought it was just a joke, but it was a real bear…” “That’s right. It’s really

shocking.”

“But the person was really nice. I met the manager of the person who came with me, and he bought me a meal. He bought me Korean beef, so I ate it. But what should I do? I don’t have the confidence to talk naturally again.”

Choi Ye-eun raised her voice as if to come to her senses to Kim So-yeon, who was lamenting.

“Hey! What, you’re such a good person. Why can’t you talk naturally? Nothing has changed anyway. You can just stay the way you are now!”

“…is it?”

“Then of course. I heard you met someone who is that good for you? Are you going to lose your precious drama friend? A good person who even buys you Korean beef?”

“No, that’s not possible. That’s right. I was worrying for nothing. I’ll send you a message later and tell you that I enjoyed the Korean beef!”

“Yes, yes!”

The conversation ended on a warm note, but it took quite a long time for the conversation to start again.

Once again, it felt like the world had really changed a lot.

The friends, who had been lost in contemplation over all the thoughts that came to them, only after a while began to talk about trivial topics again. And

this is something that will continue to happen here and there in Korea.

* * *

“Gather.”

I heard a low voice from the other side of my faint consciousness.

As I quietly listened to the voice with my eyes closed, I felt a warm body covering my body.

Seo Ji-han was holding me.

I felt the sleep slowly fading away, but in front of me. I snuggled into the warmth I was in.

“Do you want to sleep more?”

I heard a small laughing sound from above my head, and I felt his fingers lightly stroking my hair.

The sensation of moving carefully, as if untangling hair while sleeping, tickled.

I buried my nose in Seo Ji-han’s chest and took a deep breath.

” Umm… I have to get up.”

When I answered in a half-asleep way in a subdued voice, I heard laughter again.

Then, something lightly touched the top of my head and forehead, and the feeling continued to my cheek.

Finally, when I lifted my eyelids and moved away from his embrace a little, I smiled sweetly, as if I was regretful. I saw Seo Ji-han there.

“Did you sleep well?”

“…yes.”

He was lying on his side, leaning on one arm, looking at me, and then he brought his face

close to me again. We touched our foreheads and shared warmth.

Our breathing mingled.

I felt happy again as I gently received the feather-like kisses that fell on my face.

“This morning , “Toast. I think I’m sick of rice.”

“Um… when did you wake up?”

I asked in a quiet voice and slowly got up, and Seo Ji-han, with a happy expression on his face, smiled slightly.

When I first saw him, I never imagined that this person could make such an expression.

“A little while ago.”

“I see….”

“Do you want to eat first? Or washing up?”

“I need to wake up and take a shower.”

When I stretched and stood up, Seo Ji-han gave me a light hug and left the room.

Judging from the direction I could see, it seemed like he probably went to the kitchen.

After Dungeon Management was launched, I moved to a house on an island in the South Sea rather than a lakeside house.

This is because other people, including Ban Seo-jin and Yoo Eun-dam, came and went in the lakeside house like a hideout, so there was no private space to relax alone.

When we moved into the new house, Seo Ji-han naturally followed us.

It just happened like that, without even asking if I could go with him or inviting him to come in.

After defeating the predator, we became much closer than before.

Although we had never talked about this relationship or discussed what each of us should do, we already knew what to call it.

In that silent atmosphere, Seo Ji-han naturally came into my house with me.

Surprisingly, my mother didn’t say anything.

I guess that’s because I saw how carefully Seo Ji-han looked after me while I was preparing for dungeon management.

The first day we moved into this house, we fell asleep in the same bed.

It was something that had happened frequently in the past.

The difference from that time was that Seo Ji-han did not watch me sleep as a ghost or a straw doll, but actually fell asleep, sharing body heat with me.

In the past, Seo Ji-han had never dreamed of being this relaxed even if he had a body while I was sleeping, because the time to materialize was a waste.

I was always busy cleaning, taking care of my surroundings, or doing things I thought about when I was away.

It’s already been 6 months since we’ve been like that.

When I looked at my face in the bathroom mirror, my cheeks were filled with happiness.

“Have you washed everything? sit down. “The bread is ready.”

As I walked out, wiping my washed hair with a towel, Seo Ji-han quickly offered me a seat.

That apron looks good anytime you see it.

After roughly sitting down, Seo Ji-han placed a piece of bread on the plate.

The toast, lightly fried on the outside with butter, was full of delicious smell.

I picked up the bread and took a quick bite, and the smell of butter rose along with a crunchy sound. Mmm, it’s delicious.

“delicious?”

“it is delicious.”

Seo Ji-han, who was happily watching me eat, pushed me some jam and fruit that were on the table.

Jam and bread are good, but I don’t like jam that is too sweet in the morning.

Still, I can’t ignore the sincerity of the preparations.

“Try it. “I don’t put it on.”

Seo Ji-han read my reluctant expression and gently suggested I have some jam.

Not sweet? Is it jam?

With some hesitation, I scooped up some yellow jam and spread it on the bread.

And the moment I bit into it, half-confident, I was surprised.

“It’s really not sweet?”

“huh. If I was going to eat it for breakfast, I thought it would be better if it wasn’t too sweet, so I made it without adding any sugar. “If you like sweets, there is fig jam here, so eat it.”

“You made it?”

“huh. Oh, here’s the juice.”

Seo Ji-han answered casually and tilted the juice bottle.

This juice is also squeezed by Seo Ji-han himself. Pollution-free juice squeezed using only a juicer and grip force without using a machine. It’s delicious today too.

“ah.”

While putting down the juice glass I took a sip of, I accidentally hit the fruit basket.

A tangerine rolled out of the fruit basket and was about to fall under the table.

I reflexively stretched out my hand to catch it, but instead of catching it, I hit it with my hand and threw it away.

“I’ll pick it up.”

“No, I’m eating.”

Seo Ji-han moved his body quickly and before he knew it, he was in front of the storage shelf where the tangerines had rolled.

The tangerine rolled into the gap underneath the storage shelf in the kitchen.

It seemed like Seo Ji-han had to lower his body almost to the point where he could take it out.

However, instead of lowering his body, Seo Ji-han chose to downsize.

His height gradually decreased, and in an instant, he was reduced to about 30 centimeters.

Then I took out the tangerine without much difficulty.

The tangerines were clean without any dust.

This house sparkles everywhere because Seo Ji-han is always sweeping and cleaning every corner with his small body.

“I was able to use that ability very freely.”

“huh? huh. yes. “Um, do you want some tangerines?”

When he offered me peeled tangerines right on the spot, I shook my head.

Seo Ji-han, who absorbed the power of the predator, gained the ability to increase and decrease his body size at will.

It seemed that the maximum size it could grow to was no more than 5 meters, but it could shrink to less than 1 centimeter.

In addition, he was able to possess things other than the straw doll he had bought from a shaman’s house, and while experimenting to see what objects he could possess, he ended up possessing a helium balloon that Pergis had bought at an amusement park.

After that, the helium balloon possessed by Seo Ji-han flew through the sky and disappeared, causing a lot of stress.

The balloon was not found in the end, and the incident ended with Seo Ji-han breaking the possession and returning.

Pergis was very upset.

“It’s such a waste, after all. “I can’t believe I’m using such an incredible ability just like this…”

Being able to freely adjust one’s body size is a much more useful ability than I thought.

Especially when used in battle, its potential is endless.

Seo Ji-han knows that better than me. You know that. My sense of close combat is better than anyone I know.

However, Seo Ji-han just smiled with a satisfied expression as he threw a tangerine into his mouth.

“Why? It’s very useful. Things like under chairs and shelves. “It’s so useful when cleaning places. I’m so tall that it’s hard to get down to some places.”