In the Name of God - Chapter 73.2
“Yes.”
For some reason, I felt sorry, as if I were badgering her immediately after making the request. Looking at me, Woo Hye-ran seemed like she wanted to ask many things, but she didn’t give voice to them.
Inevitably, a silence settled in, and the air in the room grew heavy.
Woo Hye-ran scratched her cheek and changed the subject as if she had forgotten.
“Ah, and I’ll tell you one thing.”
Woo Hye-ran looked at me with a somewhat stern expression.
“It’s only natural, but for the time being, the Seong Do-yoon pair will be receiving work appropriate for the clan’s 3rd-tier members.”
When I stared at her, wondering what she meant, Woo Hye-ran wore a troubled expression.
“Actually, it was strange to dispatch a 7th-rank Awakener who just joined the clan to Daejeon in the first place. Even if it was for the sake of relaying information, I never would have sent you if I knew that chaos was going to break out.”
I understood Woo Hye-ran’s point.
The contract aside, Lee Sunho and I were strictly new recruits to Black Tail, nothing more than 7th-rank Awakeners.
Since such newbies had suddenly joined an important team inspecting and investigating the Holy Land, how strange must the other Black Tail clan members on-site have found it? Thinking about it now, the warm reaction of Kang Chan-su, a 1st-tier member and the investigation team leader, was what was unusual.
“It is true that Black Tail’s prestige rose thanks to Mr. Seong Do-yoon discovering the monsters’ strategy and handling them quickly. However, that doesn’t mean I intend to recklessly run a 3rd-tier rookie through life-threatening danger.”
In other words, since I hadn’t even received the proper workload I should as a 3rd-tier member yet, she meant she couldn’t continue putting me into major missions based on the Clan Leader’s sole discretion.
“You know what I mean, right?”
I couldn’t object to her words.
Distinguishing between what I can do and what I cannot do is not difficult.
As the current ‘Seong Do-yoon,’ I could not prevent the collapse of the Holy Lands or establish countermeasures.
Although I can handle mana, I am an Awakener who only reached the 7th rank a few days ago. Although most of it was skipped due to the many events that occurred, the basic adaptation training period for Black Tail has only just finished.
The gap for Seong Do-yoon, a 3rd-tier Awakener of Black Tail with far too little field experience, to intervene in a major mission related to the Holy Land was originally smaller than the eye of a needle.
Rather than trying to force my way through that hole right now, I needed to use that time to raise the standing of ‘Seong Do-yoon.’ In any case, since international organizations have begun moving on a large scale, some level of countermeasure regarding the Holy Land collapses will eventually emerge.
To do that, I had to move busily within Black Tail as well.
‘It’s not as if it won’t collapse just because I interfere.’
Recalling the incident in Daejeon, I nodded.
“Yes, I understand.”
Woo Hye-ran, her expression softening, spoke as if it had just occurred to her.
“By the way, it seems your relationship with your older brother has improved quite a bit?”
“Pardon?”
“Didn’t you see the interview this morning?”
“What interview?”
“Horizon also did an interview along with Mr. Kang Chan-su, our investigation team leader. It was regarding the Holy Land collapse incident.”
Come to think of it, was it said that the investigation team leaders of each clan were doing a live interview this morning?
Since Seong Do-wan was the investigation team leader on the Horizon side, he would have been on the broadcast side-by-side with Kang Chan-su.
Having received three days of leave because I had overexerted myself in Daejeon to the point of draining my mana, I hadn’t even left my bed this morning and had forgotten such an interview even existed.
Woo Hye-ran narrowed her eyes and laughed as if it were amusing.
“I honestly didn’t expect Vice Clan Leader Seong Do-wan to mention Mr. Do-yoon directly. I was worried they might take all the credit for themselves, but instead, he openly evaluated Mr. Do-yoon highly, so various related articles have gone out.”
She added that thanks to that, the phone at Black Tail headquarters hasn’t stopped ringing due to reporters trying to find out this and that about me.
‘The fact that we are brothers must have already spread everywhere.’
By now, pictures of me with the title ‘Seong Do-wan’s younger brother’ are probably spread all over the internet.
Furthermore, there will be plenty of posts comparing the famous Seong Do-wan, the Vice Clan Leader of Horizon and a 3rd-rank Awakener, with me, who started at the 9th rank. Since I’ve suddenly received attention, the hate comments will also be immense.
I left the representative’s office thinking that I shouldn’t go on the internet for a while.
Without dreaming that I would end up receiving someone’s useless attention because of that matter.
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