While Kim Hyunwoo was sleeping, the sudden appearance of Aria startled him, but what truly shocked him was her bold action of grabbing his member, leaving him frozen.

‘I don’t remember her being like this…?’

Though he was still groggy from waking up, Kim Hyunwoo recalled the Aria he knew ten years ago.

Because, as far as he remembered, the Aria he knew didn’t have this kind of personality.

‘No, her way of speaking is definitely the same as back then…’

Whether ten years ago or now, she had always spoken in that condescending tone, as if it were her trademark.

But that was only her manner of speaking.

At times, her actions did reflect that attitude, but fundamentally, the Necromancer of the Blue Forest was not this bold.

If anything, she was more on the timid side, or at least more ordinary, rather than being so audacious.

“…?”

Thus, with a puzzled expression, Kim Hyunwoo suddenly realized that Aria, who was sitting on top of him with a seductive smile while doing something daring, had stopped as if frozen in place.

And then.

“……”

As Kim Hyunwoo regained more of his senses and looked closely, he noticed that Aria’s face had turned bright red, causing him to wear a bemused expression.

“…You’re the one who made the move, so why are you the one embarrassed?”

“Sh-shut up! You lousy fool!”

Flustered by his remark, Aria responded, her face turning an even deeper shade of red.

…His reunion with the hero he had accidentally killed due to a mistake was lighter than he had anticipated.


The next day.

“Did you sleep well?”

“You lousy fool! How dare you make me wait, what were you thinking?”

“I set this up as soon as I woke up…”

Kim Hyunwoo had set aside time to talk with Aria.

“I’ve already slept so much that I don’t need any more sleep!”

She smiled broadly, clearly in a good mood, and the eight blue bones floating around her quivered as if resonating with her emotions. Kim Hyunwoo pondered what to talk about first, then spoke.

“So, why did you show up last night? Don’t tell me you woke up after we brought you here?”

As he casually sat at his office desk, Kim Hyunwoo asked, and she responded.

“No? I was already awake. You didn’t even notice? You lousy fool.”

Aria sneered at him, and Kim Hyunwoo looked at her, confused.

“…You were awake?”

“Yes!”

“Then why didn’t you answer me?”

“Obviously, I wanted to surprise you!”

At her bold declaration, Kim Hyunwoo stared blankly at her.

“…So that’s why you didn’t answer?”

“Exactly! For a dramatic entrance!”

Her words reminded Kim Hyunwoo once again of her rather young mental age.

‘Even ten years ago, I got the sense during our conversations that she didn’t have a very mature mindset.’

Just exchanging a few words with her brought back memories of their past conversations, one by one, as they continued talking.

“…So, what happened?”

“Hmm?”

“I mean after that time.”

Aria quickly realized what Kim Hyunwoo was referring to and answered.

“It took about ten years, but I came back to life.”

“…That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

“……”

Her overly simplistic summary of the past ten years left Kim Hyunwoo momentarily dumbfounded.

“…Can you explain a bit more?”

“There’s really not much to say. But since you’re asking, you lousy fool-”

Nodding, Aria began summarizing the events of the past ten years for him.

After hearing her full story, Kim Hyunwoo briefly summarized the situation.

“…So, to sum it up: you died on the 28th Floor, but at the last moment, you managed to push your soul into a book, so you didn’t fully die. Is that right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then you worked to reconstruct your body on the 28th Floor after that.”

“As I mentioned, it took about ten years. Reconstructing a body in ten years is really tough, you know?”

With an expression that seemed to say, ‘I’m amazing!’, Aria spoke, and Kim Hyunwoo nodded before responding.

“So, you don’t know much about what’s been happening above, right?”

“Hmm, unless you tell me, I wouldn’t know. All I know is that after I died, the Labyrinth closed, and it reopened recently.”

Kim Hyunwoo wondered how to explain everything that had happened up until now, then briefly filled Aria in on the events.

After listening quietly for a while, Aria finally spoke.

“So, you came back to Lartania a year ago, lousy fool?”

“That’s right.”

“You disappeared for ten years without even thinking about saving me!?”

Kim Hyunwoo, feeling awkward, explained in response to her accusatory tone.

“Things just ended up that way. I’m sorry. It’s not like I didn’t think about saving you. I just thought you were dead, so I was gathering materials.”

“Hmph-”

Aria made a very dissatisfied face, but then spoke as if there was no helping it.

“Well, I’ll forgive you this much. You can’t do anything without me, you lousy fool. And besides, I’m still alive and well, aren’t I?”

With that strange smile on her face again, Kim Hyunwoo spoke.

“Thank you.”

“Of course you should be grateful that I came back!”

As he smiled at Aria, Kim Hyunwoo suddenly remembered something and spoke.

“Oh, come to think of it, there’s something I wanted to ask.”

“Hmm? What is it?”

“You, uh, climbing into my bed last night – why did you do that all of a sudden?”

To be honest, that had been puzzling Kim Hyunwoo since yesterday.

The Aria he saw last night was completely different from the Aria he remembered.

However.

“Ahem, ahem… I’m going to go greet the other heroes now!”

“…?”

The moment Kim Hyunwoo brought it up, Aria raised her hand as if she had been waiting for it, and quickly fled.

“…??”

Kim Hyunwoo stared blankly at the door Aria had just left through, a bewildered expression on his face.


The Round Table.

“Hey, idiots?”

Merilda, Rin, and Charyll saw Aria smirking at them, waving her hand casually.

“It’s been a while.”

“It has.”

“Indeed.”

Though they often growled at each other’s mocking words, the heroes nodded without reacting to Aria’s taunts.

After all, Merilda and the other heroes had heard Aria’s snide remarks so many times over the past ten years that they had become completely numb to them.

So, they looked at her with the same disinterested gaze one might give a stone on the side of the road, prompting Aria to speak with a sullen expression.

“…I don’t like that your reactions are the same as that lousy fool’s.”

“There’s no reason for it to please you. And are you still calling the Master a lousy fool?”

“A lousy fool is a lousy fool…??…Wait, what do you mean by ‘Master’?”

Smiling slyly as she spoke, Aria suddenly realized something was off and asked.

“Master is Master, what else would it mean?”

Rin smiled subtly as she answered.

At that, Aria, who had been wearing a dazed expression, suddenly turned beet red.

“What? What? Whaaat???”

As if not understanding the situation at all, her mouth fell open.

Seeing Aria’s reaction, Rin flashed her characteristic victorious smile.

“Anyone would think the Master chose you.”

But Merilda’s words from the side caused a crack to form in Rin’s expression.

“What?”

Rin turned sharply to look at Merilda.

“I said, it sounds like you think he chose you.”

“If it wasn’t a choice, what was it then?”

“Isn’t it a bit much to call it a choice after one night of reward? The Master was just indulging you, that’s all.”

“Ugh.”

Rin scowled at Merilda’s remark.

“A re-reward? One-night play? What?? Lousy fool??? My lousy fool…?”

Alongside Rin, Aria began muttering like a heartbroken heroine, tears welling up in her eyes.

“It’s the same for you, isn’t it?”

“It is, but still.”

“And yet-”

“But I’m different.”

“How?”

“The Master was 2 centimeters bigger with me than he was with you.”

As if Aria didn’t even exist anymore, Merilda and Rin continued exchanging words.

“My, my lousy fool-”

Within just five minutes of entering the Round Table room, Aria left once again.

In that place.

“So, that’s just because of the condition that day-”

“That’s just because you couldn’t make the Master’s condition better.”

Merilda and Rin were passionately discussing Kim Hyunwoo’s size, and-

“…There…2 centimeters more?”

Charyll stood there, muttering in shock.


And then.

“Have sex with me too!!!”

“Huh?”

“……”

While receiving his morning report from Elena, Kim Hyunwoo found himself in a dizzying situation as Aria, who had returned in less than ten minutes, clung to his arm, crying.

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