The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 170

"Excuse me… you're the ahjussi, right?"

"…This is an unexpected question."

Lee Shin, who had easily shaken off the clumsy pursuit of the trackers, went to the predetermined place.

And the first thing he heard was this.

At Lee Hyunyoung's sudden question, Lee Shin looked at Eun Yeonwoo and Lee Jieun with eyes that said, 'Did she eat something wrong?'

"As expected, the possibility that someone else wearing Hyung-nim's face was acting is the most…"

"But a mask that doesn't show any trace even after being cut enough to draw blood. Even I, a former spy, have never heard of such equipment…"

But those two were worse, if not more so, than Lee Hyunyoung.

Eun Yeonwoo and Lee Jieun glanced at Lee Shin a few times and were busy whispering and talking among themselves.

'Yireu, what's this situation all of a sudden?'

-Even if you ask me that, there's no way I can answer you.

Kkwaak-

"Are you the ahjussi?"

"Are you Smile?"

Just as Lee Shin was about to start a discussion with Yireu about the current situation, Lee Hyunyoung and Lee Sieun hung on, pulling Lee Shin's cheeks from both sides.

It didn't particularly hurt, so at first, he was just going to ignore it, but as the two continued to not let go of his cheeks and just whispered among themselves, Lee Shin swung his fist without hesitation.

"Aya!"

"It hurts…"

At Lee Shin's flick, Lee Hyunyoung exaggeratedly sat down and made a fuss, and Lee Sieun gently touched the part she had been hit, pouted slightly, and glared at Lee Shin.

"That's enough, just tell me why you're suddenly doing this. There must be a reason why you're making such a fuss."

"Uhm, so what should I say… Should I say that you didn't seem like yourself at the meeting a little while ago?"

At Lee Hyunseok's quiet words, the others nodded their heads as if that were it.

"A person who usually just rolls around in bed at home suddenly dressed us in high-end suits and took us to such an amazing place in a limousine!"

Lee Hyunyoung, who was speaking while making a fuss.

"On top of that, you even used some professional words I didn't know and had a verbal fight with the president and some amazing-looking people."

Lee Hyunseok, who was speaking while calmly organizing his thoughts.

"On top of that, you even led the meeting later and presented plans for various projects. Seeing that, I seriously suspected that I might be dreaming."

Even Eun Yeonwoo, who was speaking in a dazed voice as if he still couldn't believe it.

"Ah~"

Lee Shin, who had listened to the three's words in order, could finally roughly grasp the situation.

"A human who I thought was a bum who just rolled around at home all day suddenly showed a completely different side, so it didn't match his usual appearance and my head was complicated… is that what you're saying?"

Nod, nod-

At Lee Shin's simple summary, all five of them nodded their heads as if that were it.

"Sigh…"

And Lee Shin looked at them with a blatantly pathetic expression.

Wook-!

"No, why are you looking at me like that! Considering your usual appearance, this is natural!"

"Think about it yourself, Hyung-nim. Do we look like we wouldn't have this reaction?"

"When you're at home, you really just stay cooped up in your room and don't leave the bed."

"Or show us that side more often!"

"Smile was bad."

At Lee Shin's pathetic expression, the five of them became furious and rushed at him.

It was their feeling that even if they were called pathetic by everyone in the world, they didn't want to hear those words from Lee Shin.

"Alright, I get it, you fools. That's enough, so hurry up and get ready."

Lee Shin waved his hand roughly, stopped their protest, and got up from his seat.

At that, the quick-witted Lee Jieun changed her expression and asked.

"What, is there still something left?"

"Rather than being left, you should see it as just the beginning. In the first place, we didn't come out for this."

"Smile, then why did we go there?"

At Lee Sieun's words, Lee Shin said nonchalantly.

"I just went to show off since I was dressed up."

At Lee Shin's words, they looked at him with an expression that said, 'Right, he was this kind of human…' and quickly regained their composure.

They had calmed down after seeing Lee Shin's familiar appearance.

"Sigh, then where are we going this time? Are we going to a casino or something?"

"Hmm, there is a casino."

"What?"

Lee Hyunyoung, who had thrown the words as a joke, was surprised when Lee Shin nodded his head and looked at him.

Bbang-bbang-!

But before Lee Hyunyoung could ask anything more, a van in the distance honked its horn and stopped her words.

"I'm here."

From where the horn had sounded, Kim Jaehyun, who was holding the steering wheel, was looking at them as if telling them to hurry up.

"Get in. The preparations have already been made on this side."

"…Where on earth are we going that you've prepared this much?"

At Eun Yeonwoo's words, Kim Jaehyun looked at Lee Shin and asked.

"You haven't told them anything?"

"I was just about to."

Lee Shin said that and then said to them with a smiling face.

"We are now going overseas using [Wonderland]'s private jet."

"…We're going overseas all of a sudden?"

"Yes, the preparations are all done."

"Where are we going?"

At that, Lee Shin answered as if it were obvious.

"To Italy."

***

The dungeons that had been created in this cataclysm were not just created on the ground like the existing dungeons.

They were created without discriminating between the ground, the sea, and the sky.

Kiiik-!

Kwieeeek-!

And naturally, dungeon breaks also occurred fairly in the dungeons in the sky and the sea, releasing a large number of monsters into the sky and the sea, which had been the domain of humans.

"Of course, the number of monsters flying in the sky is not that many yet, but there are no crazy humans who would dare to fly a plane in a situation where there are monsters. And it's not a short-distance flight, but a long-distance one."

"…Then what are we? A suicide squad rushing into the mouths of monsters?!"

Lee Hyunyoung huffed and puffed, looking at Lee Shin with eyes that said she wanted to hit him right away.

"Hmm, this is my first time using this, I wonder if I can use it well."

"It's easy once you get the hang of it, so it should be fine."

And while Lee Hyunyoung was huffing and puffing and arguing with Lee Shin, Eun Yeonwoo and Lee Hyunseok, who had already given up on everything, were learning how to use a parachute from Lee Jieun and Lee Sieun.

"Ah, it's fine. It's not for nothing that I borrowed that Cheon Yuhwa girl's private jet, and that Kim Jaehyun guy isn't driving this because he has time to spare."

"…What do you mean by that?"

Lee Hyunyoung, who thought there might be something she didn't know from Lee Shin's attitude, stopped hissing and looked at him.

"Well, to put it simply, it means you can rest assured. That guy, even though he looks like that, is an incredibly busy guy who does various things while following Cheon Yuhwa."

"Are you asking me that, knowing that?"

"Well, what does it matter? It's not bad to get some foreign air easily."

Lee Shin, who had lightly ignored Kim Jaehyun's grumbling, said, looking at the window.

"First of all, although we're using the word 'private car', you guys also have a rough idea of what kind of person Cheon Yuhwa is, right?"

Lee Shin said, pointing to the plane they were on now with his finger.

"It's a private car owned by a girl who prepares for monsters to the point of obsession. She would have naturally prepared for a situation where flying-type monsters attack."

"Aren't you badmouthing the young lady too openly in front of me?"

"What, do you think that's not the case?"

"…It seems it's morning in Italy. The morning sunlight is dazzling."

Kim Jaehyun, who couldn't answer that it wasn't, even as a lie, blatantly looked away and avoided the answer.

At Kim Jaehyun's answer, not only Lee Hyunyoung, but also Lee Hyunseok and Eun Yeonwoo, who were receiving a crash course on parachutes, could calm down a little.

Because Kim Jaehyun's answer now was the same as implicitly admitting that this plane was equipped with a combat function.

"And what's the probability of a group of monsters attacking in this wide sky. Instead of worrying for no reason, it would be more useful to just sleep until we arrive."

-You're still planting flags so nonchalantly.

At Lee Shin's words, Yireu, who was quietly watching an anime where a dragon came out and became a maid, muttered.

'I know, right. I planted a flag, so I wish something would happen, but strangely, things like this don't happen to me. I don't know what kind of weapons are equipped on the plane, so I wish an attack would happen a few times.'

-You're probably the only one who plants flags, hoping for an incident to happen for that reason.

'No, usually, when a new weapon comes in, you want to use it.'

Lee Shin said that and then quietly put on a sleep mask.

-Hmm, this is good. Originally, if you closed your eyes, I couldn't watch anime, but now I can watch anime whether you cover your eyes or sleep!

'Yes, congratulations. So please be a little quiet.'

Lee Shin threw a short word of congratulations and then quietly fell asleep.

And unfortunately for Lee Shin.

"We've arrived."

They had arrived at the Italian airport comfortably, without anything happening.

"Hyung-nim, we've arrived."

"Uhm…"

Eun Yeonwoo looked at Lee Shin for a moment, who was drooling and traveling through dreamland, oblivious to the world.

Pajik-

At that, a sudden surge of annoyance rose.

'Since he won't wake up even if I say it, isn't it more convenient and better for my mental health to wake him up by hitting him once?'

It was a thought so attractive that his clenched fist trembled, but Eun Yeonwoo forced himself to shake his head and erase that thought.

'If I try to hit his head, he'll avoid my fist like a ghost, get up, and say, 'Huh? What's this? Were you trying to hit me just now?' and tease me with a smile.'

Perhaps because he had seen Lee Shin for a long time, the imagination that unfolded in Eun Yeonwoo's head was so vivid that it was as if it had actually happened.

Because Eun Yeonwoo knew that if Lee Shin caught even one weakness, he would do all sorts of things with it.

"I've arrived, so I definitely woke him up."

Eun Yeonwoo finished his words and then got up from his seat and went out of the room.

Buseureuk-

And a moment later, Lee Shin got up from his seat, blinking his sleepy eyes a few times.

"Haaam~ We arrived much faster than I thought. Is this what a private jet is?"

Lee Shin looked out the window with languid eyes that were still sleepy.

In the distance, the land of Italy, full of various ruins and cultural heritage, could be seen.

'Shall I have pizza for breakfast today?'

-It doesn't seem bad.

For reference, this was all the impression Lee Shin and Yireu had of Italy.

(End of Chapter)