Kidnapped Dragons (KR Web Novel)

Episode 89: Partner (12)

While gasping for breath, the two of them leaned on the rock staring at each other.

The training had been extremely strenuous – even more so to Yu Jitae than the months he spent locked in Noahs dream. Even then, it wasnt his first time experiencing such things so he paid little regard to it but that wasnt the case for Yeorum. With a blank look on her face, she began doing strange things.

“…”

Lifting her hands, she touched all over her body. She touched her nose and pinched her soft cheeks.

“…”

She brushed past the wound on her ankle and wetted her finger with blood. Then, she rubbed it with her thumb and index finger before bringing it to her nose for a smell.

“…”

After that, she brought it to her lips. As if having sweet honey, she tasted her own blood and savoured the flavour even though it should have a rusty flavour to it.

“…”

Yeorum then turned her gaze towards the world. It was early morning near the end of dawn. Sun of this dimension was starting to rise from the horizon with its ambience covering the entirety of this tranquil ocean. With not a single bird or organism interrupting the scenery, the surface of the water near the horizon reflected the shape of the Sun like a mirror, making the Sun look like a crumpled rugby ball.

“Ah.”

And lastly,

She opened her lips and made a sound.

“Ah. Mhmm. Hmm…”

She seemed to find her own voice awkward.

“Ah…”

But her last sound was slightly different – Yeorum groaned as her body crumbled down. Yu Jitae hurriedly threw his arms forward and supported her body before she could collapse from the accumulated fatigue. She had been holding on with her willpower alone and her body was the first to react when she relaxed her mind.

“…”

Yeorum gazed at him with half-closed eyes. The two of them did not say anything in particular.

A smile was hanging on her exhausted face as she stared at him.

Yu Jitae, however, did not smile back. He simply took the strands of hair that had gotten into her mouth out with his fingers.

That was when Yeorum raised her trembling hand to grab a handful of hair to place into her mouth. She looked just like a rebel with that sneer on her face.

Therefore, Yu Jitae grabbed more strands of hair and inserted them into her nostrils for her.

“Ukk, kng, hmph…”

“Have some more, why dont you huh? Eat more.”

“What are you doing…?”

That was the first conversation they had in a long while.

How difficult it was; how long they had to wait; what they had gone through and what pain they endured – none of that was the first words they shared. Everything was over already and Yeorum didnt feel like listening or talking about it so the two of them stayed quiet without sharing any other conversation.

“Its cold…”

Hearing her mumble, Yu Jitae took her jacket out of the alternate dimension and handed it over.

“Ah, right.”

Yeorum took a cigarette out of that jacket and gave it to him.

“…”

He received it and placed it in his mouth.

Using the mana of the red dragons, he tried to light it on fire but his fingers failed to create any ember… Although he pretended otherwise, he had also used up a lot of his power. Slowly, he began to bring the authorities and blessings back to his body.

“…”

That was when Yeorum lifted her finger to light her own cigarette on fire. She then tried to bring the fire over to Yu Jitaes cigarette, but the ember did not last long since she had also used a large proportion of her power. By the time her trembling finger reached his cigarette, the fire was already long gone.