When the team members heard that Sunhee had become a Linker, they were all greatly surprised.
Except for Dohyeon, who had a curious expression, the others seemed worried about Sunhee.
“Are you okay? There’s no problem, right?”
Jimin’s concern was everyone’s concern.
Sunhee shook her head at Jimin’s words.
“No problem. And he’s a good person. Strong and warm-hearted.”
At her words, the team members looked slightly relieved.
However, Eunseo, who had been by Representative Seo’s side for a long time, knew well the pain of the Linkers.
Two people were now living in one body.
That meant the time one could control their own body was cut in half.
But there was no need to bring it up and worry everyone while all the team members were present. Eunseo thought she should treat her better.
Sunhee spoke again, facing the team members. Now was the important part.
“The Sunhee from another dimension who ended up with me is the captain’s lover. I thought you all should know.”
At Sunhee’s words, everyone was once again shocked, and this time they genuinely worried for Sunhee.
It was because they all knew that Sunhee liked Yonghoon.
“Oh my gosh, then is that why the captain was treating Sunhee Unnie so nicely?”
At Jimin’s muttered words of surprise, Sunhee nodded.
The expressions of the people darkened.
Jimin held Sunhee’s hand and kept worrying, saying “What should we do, what should we do,” and the others also looked at her with pitiful expressions.
“Did you already know, Sunhee?”
Eunseo asked Sunhee in a cautious voice.
“Yes, I knew from the beginning.”
At Sunhee’s words, Eunseo let out a sigh.
“She’s someone we’ll be working with from now on. She’s a good person, so I hope everyone gets along well.”
At her words, Jimin muttered very quietly this time.
“She’s really stupidly kind.”
But the ears of the B-Rank Assassin-type Awakened did not miss her words. Sunhee, whose expression had disappeared, glanced at Jimin.
“Nice to meet you. I’m Major Eun Sunhee.”
A stiff face and a stiff tone. The meeting room became rigid.
“Haha, nice to meet you.”
Breaking through the stiffness, team leader Han barely managed to greet her. Then everyone awkwardly greeted her. The whole situation was extremely awkward.
“Well then, I look forward to working with you during battle.”
With those words, Sunhee’s expression returned to normal.
Sunhee let out a sigh. It did not seem easy for her to get closer to the team members.
The team members found it hard to interact with her because of themselves, and she also seemed to find it difficult to deal with others.
In the end, after a brief greeting, she handed over her body.
“During the war, she lost her ability to express emotions and finds it hard to interact with people. Please take good care of her.”
Sunhee spoke with a sigh escaping naturally.
She was not an angel. Even now, she felt as if there was a gaping hole in her chest. And yet she had to make such a request…… She just wanted to go somewhere without people and rest.
Her dark mood seemed to have infected the team members as well. They all sighed with dark expressions.
It was then.
After sending Sunhee ahead to the office, Yonghoon, who had finished talking with the government, entered the meeting room.
“Sorry I’m late.”
He sat down in an empty seat and looked around at the people. The atmosphere was completely down.
“What happened? Everyone looks so gloomy.”
At his words, Jimin glared at Yonghoon.
“Playboy, jellyfish, bad man.”
At Jimin’s words, Yonghoon looked bewildered.
He didn’t know what was going on, but they had to move quickly before the enemies attacked.
Yonghoon opened his mouth toward the team members.
“Tomorrow, we will perform Dimensional Movement again. This time, as originally planned, I will move together with Sunhee and Dohyeon. Eunseo, you’ve worked hard.”
At Yonghoon’s words, Eunseo shook her head.
Her arm was wrapped in a bandage and fixed to her neck. It had already healed a lot, but it was fixed for faster recovery.
“No, thank you for saving my life.”
Originally, Dohyeon was supposed to go, and Eunseo’s arm was not fully healed yet. This time, it was right for Dohyeon to go.
Moreover, Dohyeon was determined to go this time no matter what.
Thus, the meeting ended, and Yonghoon kept Sunhee behind in the meeting room.
“It seems the team members really like you, Sunhee.”
Yonghoon looked at Sunhee’s face. A face devoid of expression. It was the Sunhee from the other world.
Yonghoon let out a sigh.
Since two days ago, the Sunhee from this world had not been talking to him. Whenever they were alone, she would send the other Sunhee forward and hide herself.
“It will get better with time. Please wait.”
Seeing Yonghoon’s expression, Sunhee spoke.
They had spent a long time together. Sunhee, who could understand him just from his sigh, made a request to Yonghoon.
Yonghoon nodded at her words and took out a Dimensional Core from the case and placed it on the table.
It was an uncontaminated A-rank Dimensional Core. It was the core Yonghoon had extracted from a spatial ability user in the enemies’ world.
He intended to exchange this core with the B-rank Dimensional Core that Sunhee currently had.
He also had the S-rank Dimensional Core of the deceased Lieutenant General Eunseo.
But for B-rank Eunseo, handling an S-rank Dimensional Core’s contamination would not be easy. If she collapsed while trying, Dimensional Movement would be impossible. He planned to attempt it only after she became A-rank.
Yonghoon showed his hand to Sunhee and explained the situation. Upon hearing his words, Sunhee immediately picked up the Dimensional Core.
And she succeeded in contaminating the Dimensional Core.
Even after finishing, she didn’t seem very exhausted. It seemed her experience points had increased a lot during that time. It looked like she was close to leveling up.
Holding the contaminated Dimensional Core in her hand, Sunhee opened her mouth.
“In the end, I’m the only one who has tried exchanging this Dimensional Core, huh.”
At Sunhee’s words, Yonghoon nodded.
At his nod, Sunhee spoke again. This time, she was not speaking to Yonghoon.
“Will it be okay? The test isn’t fully verified yet. We can exchange it later if you want.”
“I’ll exchange it now. Since Yonghoon had no problems, it should be fine.”
Sunhee asked and then answered herself.
Yonghoon felt a pang of pity seeing Sunhee’s expression change during the conversation.
Sunhee, whose face became expressionless again, stared intently at Yonghoon.
“Major, you really are a bad man.”
Two women were sharing the same body. They couldn’t read each other’s thoughts, but they could feel each other’s emotions when speaking.
Thanks to that, Major Sunhee realized just how much Sunhee liked Yonghoon.
Sunhee let out a sigh and unbuttoned her shirt. A shimmering Dimensional Core appeared below her neck.
“Please.”
Sunhee handed the Dimensional Core to Yonghoon and closed her eyes.
Yonghoon briefly wondered if he should take her to a hospital for surgery. But in the end, both she and he were Awakened. Besides, only he had experience with Dimensional Core exchange.
He decided to proceed himself as originally planned.
Yonghoon carefully used the prepared knife to extract Sunhee’s Dimensional Core from her body.
As the Dimensional Core, half-buried in her flesh, was pulled out, blood flowed from Sunhee’s chest.
Yonghoon quickly inserted the new Dimensional Core into her chest.
Just like when he did it before, the pattern inside the Dimensional Core glowed, and the wound began to heal.
After a short while, the A-rank Dimensional Core settled into place, half-buried in her chest.
Sunhee opened her eyes and placed her hand on her chest. She brushed her hand over the Dimensional Core buried in her chest.
“It’s definitely different. The Dimensional Power I can use has increased tremendously.”
At her words, Yonghoon nodded.
Yonghoon was looking forward to seeing how much the S-rank Dimensional Core he had would help him.
The Dimensional Core extracted from Sunhee was decided to be used by Jimin. Now, only Hyangseol and team leader Han were left without Dimensional Cores among the team.
Jimin hesitated for a long time when she heard she had to cut into her flesh to implant the Dimensional Core, but it turned out she was worried because she would have to pay back the cost of the Dimensional Core.
However, when Hyangseol stepped up and said she would do it herself, Jimin immediately dropped her worries and volunteered to do it herself. She had already saved up a lot of money. It was just her miserly habits surfacing out of instinct.
Yonghoon quickly prepared for Dimensional Movement.
Even the government could not stop Yonghoon. According to Sunhee’s story, if the B dimension was destroyed, the Awakened who had attacked that dimension would surely rush into this world.
Time was needed.
Right now, this world, especially Korea, was desperately trying to raise the levels of the Awakened.
During that time, many low-level Awakened had been raised up to C-Rank. However, a significant number of those Awakened died in the recent Dimensional Beast attack. As a result, the number of high-level Awakened had drastically decreased.
Time was needed again to increase the number of high-level Awakened.
And if enemies flooded in during that time, it would be impossible to nurture more high-level Awakened.
In the end, Yonghoon had to step up and at least destroy the passage connecting to the enemies.
In return, the government decided to forcibly evacuate people in case Yonghoon was absent.
If people did not follow orders, the government decided it would forcibly shut down Seoul’s Dimensional Movement Blocking Devices.
It was better for the Safe Zone to disappear and become a Singularity for a time than for everyone to turn into corrupted humans.
All the Dimensional Cores obtained from the Dimensional Beasts this time were delivered to Kangwoo. They were all meant to be used for Yonghoon’s spear.
Jimin sighed in regret, but money was not the issue.
Moreover, they had even lost Hyangseol’s spear this time, so they had to prepare an additional one.
Fortunately, Yonghoon’s spear could be prepared by the time he departed the next morning.
Except for the Dimensional Core, the rest had been prepared by running the factories 24 hours a day since Yonghoon’s last Dimensional Movement.
It was just that a high-grade Dimensional Core had not been ready, but with the Dimensional Cores Yonghoon had obtained, they could immediately install the core.
Yonghoon, who had come up to the rooftop, looked around at the team members.
Team leader Han, who was steadfastly guarding the team, was looking at Yonghoon, and Eunseo had her injured arm wrapped in cloth and slung around her neck.
Hyangseol was holding a spear embedded with the A-rank Dimensional Core fragment that Yonghoon had newly prepared, and Jimin, envious of the sight, was teasing Hyangseol. It seemed the two had grown much closer.
Meanwhile, Dohyeon’s face was flushed with excitement. This time, it was truly a journey to another world. He kept glancing around, worried that something might go wrong like last time.
Lastly, Sunhee was smiling and waving to the team members. It seemed she wanted to say goodbye herself.
Yonghoon checked the equipment. The newly prepared spears and his sword-everything was ready.
“We’re departing.”
At Yonghoon’s words, Sunhee and Dohyeon approached him.
Yonghoon wrapped his arm around Sunhee’s waist and firmly grabbed Dohyeon’s belt.
He began to create a dimensional passage in front of his eyes.
Booong!
A dimensional passage formed before Yonghoon’s eyes. As expected, an S-rank was different. The dimensional passage leading to another dimension, which had been difficult to create before, was now formed easily.
At this rate, it seemed there would not be much loss of power even after arrival.
Yonghoon jumped into the passage.
This time, it was their enemies’ turn to face the attack of an S-rank Awakened.