#4.
Ever since his consciousness returned, Kim Hyun-seo felt strangely calmed both physically and mentally whenever he looked at Karzen's face. He didn't know the reason, but he assumed it was because Karzen possessed an unrealistic appearance.
Looking out the window feeling unknowingly entranced, Kim Hyun-seo suddenly met eyes with Karzen, who had looked up.
"!"
Discovering Kim Hyun-seo leaning against the balcony, he smiled brightly. For a moment, Kim Hyun-seo was dazzled by the halo-flashing smile directed at him and squeezed his eyes shut without realizing it.
In an instant, the outside of the window became bustling, but he had no leisure to pay attention to it.
'Wow~ To make a person stagger like this with just one smile; really, that person Karzen is... Huh? Wait! There's no way there's a person who makes people stagger with a smile, right? Could it be that Karzen is a god? Turns out he's like the God of Faces or something?'
Kim Hyun-seo thought his conjecture had quite a point. First of all, in
Among them, there were intermediate gods living in Middle Earth pretending to be humans, and lower gods who didn't even know they were gods but awakened later.
Karzen was a munchkin character who was the strongest in the story among the humanoid characters, excluding the Crown Prince male lead and the 2nd Knight Order Captain female lead.
The usually described Karzen was kind to everyone, and the only place he revealed his strength was on the battlefield.
Sometimes his kindness was so excessive that there were often scenes where the female lead Lien would smack Karzen's back, calling him a pushover.
'A mere human is that strong and even benevolent? Is he really human?'
No matter how kind a person is, it's only right to be wary of strangers. Yet, far from being wary, seeing him pick up a human whose name and identity were unknown and take care of him with extreme devotion himself, he wasn't just ordinarily benevolent.
While lost in his own thought that perhaps Karzen might be a god who hadn't realized it himself yet, the hallway became chaotic and the door burst open.
Turning his head, Kim Hyun-seo looked at Karzen's dazzling face running toward him through squinted eyes and became convinced without basis.
'Right... With that face, if Karzen isn't a god, he must be at least god-tier....'
Hurriedly approaching, Karzen lightly lifted the trembling body before Kim Hyun-seo could show any reaction. Then, he reached the bed, which Kim Hyun-seo had struggled to walk from, in just a few steps.
Having laid Kim Hyun-seo down on the bed very carefully, Karzen began to examine the body that was still trembling finely.
Certainly, the trembling seemed less than in the morning, and seeing that he had gotten up alone and walked to the window, he thought he had improved; but since he had clearly seen him squeeze his eyes shut and stagger just a moment ago, he couldn't let his guard down.
"Do you have a headache?"
[No.]
"Just a moment...."
Even though he answered immediately that he didn't, Karzen must have been worried, as he carefully reached out and placed his hand on Kim Hyun-seo's forehead. Perhaps because the day was cold, his hand felt colder than usual.
'Karzen's hand is really big and cool....'
After feeling Kim Hyun-seo's forehead for a moment, he removed his hand with a relieved face and said,
"Fortunately, the fever seems to have gone down. Is your head really okay?"
[I'm okay. It doesn't hurt at all.]
'I'm changing tomorrow's menu!'
Kim Hyun-seo appealed hard that he was very healthy, but it bothered him that there was no particular change in his expression, so he judged he needed to appeal a bit more actively.
[Look at this.]
Speaking with his lips, he stretched both arms straight forward as if to show off, and lightly clenched and opened his hands.
"Mm?"
At Karzen tilting his head, Kim Hyun-seo lightly clenched and opened his hands again as if to say, 'Hurry up and look at these hands that are trembling less than in the morning.'
"...."
Karzen watched him wiggling his hands hard with a triumphant face silently for a moment.
He observed carefully, wondering what he wanted to say with his hands when he could just speak with his lips, but he couldn't understand what those adorable hand gestures meant at all.
Karzen carefully held his right wrist so as not to startle him.
"?"
Just before he was triumphant, but now his tilting face was cute; holding back the laughter that was about to leak out unknowingly, Karzen pulled that hand and placed it on the palm of his other hand.
"I'm sorry. I can't understand. If you can write, could you write it for me?"
At Karzen's words, his face darkened. He seemed to try not to show it in his own way, but he couldn't hide the look of immense disappointment in an instant.
'Oh dear... Should I have watched a little longer even if it was difficult....'
Even that disappointed face looked cute to Karzen, so he managed his expression with effort and opened his palm.
Looking at the large palm, Kim Hyun-seo unknowingly pouted his lips.
'Hmm... Asking me to write on the palm, is it because it's hard to read just lips after all!? If that's the case, maybe he hasn't properly understood what I've said until now.'
Thinking that might be why he was treating him like a critically ill patient, Kim Hyun-seo began to write letters with his finger.
Entering this world, fortunately, it seemed language and writing were automatically acquired, but just in case he wouldn't recognize it properly, he wrote slowly, pressing down on each letter.
-I don't have strength in my body so it's hard to control, but I'm not in pain.-
Karzen tilted his head at the words that he wasn't in pain, but he waited quietly for the next sentence as if telling him to write for now.
-My body trembles on its own, but there is no pain.-
Karzen, who read the words written clearly on his palm, understood the part that there was no pain and smiled brightly.
"If so, that is truly a relief."
Kim Hyun-seo slightly narrowed his eyes, feeling as if he could see gold and silver dust flying behind him and golden roses blooming.
'Aack, it's dazzling! To be so happy at the words that a human whose name he doesn't even know isn't in pain; as expected, his benevolence is god-tier?'
While Kim Hyun-seo was thinking that this level was not just suspicion but physical evidence, he showed the bag he brought and continued speaking.
"Ah. Right. I should tell you one piece of good news too. I retrieved the belongings I couldn't recover back then."
The items slightly visible through the leather looked dirty with blood and soil caked on them.
"I will clean them and return them to you. First, as an urgent measure, I wiped just this and brought it."
Karzen took something out of his pocket and placed it in Kim Hyun-seo's hand. It was a broken necklace that he had washed while engaging in a battle of nerves with the monsters by the water, intending to give it to him as soon as he returned.
Kim Hyun-seo, who was examining the necklace carefully, discovered a phrase engraved in intaglio on the flat medal.
'Ivy....'
As he swept his finger over the name engraved on the medal, a gentle voice was heard.
"Ivy. I think that is your name."
Kim Hyun-seo, who had been dazed for a moment, lifted his head.
Is it because Karzen's voice is cool? Strangely enough, the name Ivy that he called sounded good.
"Ivy. It's a good name."
Kim Hyun-seo, no. Ivy liked his name quite a bit.
Ivy, who liked his name quite a bit, smiled brightly.
Karzen felt that Ivy's bright smile came from the joy of finally knowing who he was. Suppressing his complex feelings with effort, he stroked Ivy's hair gently.
"I will clean them soon and show you. Wait for me."
Nod nod.
Taking the bag and leaving the bedroom, Karzen spoke to the butler Baron who was waiting outside the door.
"I will handle this myself."
If it were another servant, they would have adamantly insisted on doing it themselves, but Baron was a seasoned butler who had served his master for the second generation following the first.
Realizing there was something he shouldn't see, he expressed no questions.
Karzen passed the long hallway and headed to his room.
Closing the door and entering the bathroom attached to the room, Karzen took out a large towel on the cabinet in front of the mirror, spread it out, and began to carefully take out the items from the bag.
The belongings were a cracked small glass bottle. Crumbled herbal residue remaining in a cloth pouch. A shattered one-time one-way teleport crystal. And a neatly folded handkerchief was all.
Feeling the volume from the handkerchief, he unfolded it and saw a tightly folded note. It was paper of not very good quality, and Karzen's brow furrowed as he carefully unfolded and read the contents.
'As expected....'
He had anticipated it to some extent when retrieving the items in the forest. Examining them in a bright place, it was a composition he knew well.
There was no content in the cracked glass bottle. There were no traces of spillage, only the stain where purple liquid had been contained remained. That meant the inside was empty even before it broke.
Smelling the scent of the crumbled herbal residue from the cloth, Karzen frowned slightly and turned his head. It was clearly the scent of a narcotic herb that caused hallucinations and was highly addictive, thus taboo on the continent.
The only case this was used was to alleviate the pain of patients for whom there was no other way. It was an herb strictly prohibited except for the purpose of helping those with little life left to leave without pain, and even individual cultivation was illegal.
Judging by this, even without the contents, it was possible to guess what liquid the glass bottle had contained.
'It must have been a sleeping potion.'
The teleport crystal was also a crude crystal, not one processed and officially certified by the Wizard Association.
A one-way teleport crystal registered with the coordinates of the Boundary Forest, where monsters swarm and entry is currently prohibited because all navigation devices malfunction if one stays long.
Strong hallucinogenic herbs and sleeping potion. And....
The content written on the crude paper.
'He intended to die....'
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