Waiting For Your Reincarnation Chapter 57

The northwestern mountains were notoriously terrible.

 

True to Saeri’s word, some of the tools Jaeho had brought with him had gone awry as soon as they entered the mountains.

 

The turquoise trees that grew to cover the sky were more grotesque than lush.

 

The mountain paths were silent, damp, and dreary. It was so different from the Tanato world she had seen so far.

 

Jaeho made his way up the path, but whenever something got stuck, he ducked his head into a bush.

 

When this behavior repeated itself about five times, Yeon-young asked him.

 

“What are you doing?”

 

After looking at Yeon-young, Jaeho reached out and blew water droplets into the bush.

 

As the droplets floated in the air, a black cloud fragment moved into it.

 

Jaeho placed the black cloud fragment in his collection bucket and smiled triumphantly.

 

Yeon-young’s eyes widened slightly as she looked into the catcher.

 

“Hey, isn’t that a snarl?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“Are you crazy?”

 

She had to leave the room immediately. Her arms were tingling like chicken skin.

 

Yeon-young’s common sense didn’t make sense.

 

“Do I use this or not?”

 

Yeon-young was handed the fruit that had turned her into Sly the other day.

 

Saeri told her not to hesitate and to use it on Jaeho if necessary.

 

It was a protection against Jaeho’s erratic behavior.

 

“That’s a lot of snarls.”

 

Jaeho fearlessly bobbed the bucket up and down to see how the snarls reacted.

 

Before coming here, Saeri had explained to Yeon-young why the northwest mountain was tricky.

 

The northwest mountain, she said, is physically the farthest from the pillar, making it difficult for Iris’ power to reach its full extent.

 

She was told that the mysterious and strange beings that inhabit Tanato are usually concentrated here.

 

“You didn’t say it was a snarl. This is too dangerous.”

 

Jaeho walked at a brisk pace, trying to spot the Snarl.

 

He didn’t seem to have a reaction manual in his head.

 

He was smaller than Yeon-young, but his fast feet made it hard to keep up.

 

She thought of Ryu Won, who always kept up with her.

 

Ryu Won was furious when he heard about Yeon-young’s mission. He didn’t go on a rampage like Jaeho.

 

He simply walked into the room with a slow pace that dominated the atmosphere.

 

With every step he took, the air felt heavy in his bones.

 

Ryu Won’s eyes remained fixed on Yeon-Young. It was as if he wanted to ask her if she would really leave him.

 

Ryu Won reached out and clasped her hands. There was a certain desperation in his eyes.

 

“Ms. Yeon-young, are you leaving?”

 

“…….”

 

“Don’t leave me alone.”

 

“I’ll be back.”

 

Yeon-young hesitantly let go of Ryu Won’s hand.

 

She couldn’t quite remember the look on his face when he heard her last answer.

Ryu Won lowered his head slowly. 

 

That was the last time she saw him.

 

Reading the mood, Saeri added that Ryu Won could join them as soon as his ring was in working order.

 

Whether he would follow her, however, remained to be seen.

 

“I feel uncomfortable.”

 

Yeon-young’s bracelet beeped with an emergency alarm. It meant she was off course.

 

She’d felt it before, but now she realized that they were circling in place.

 

The arrow that marked the circle of life wobbled from side to side, unable to find its center.

 

Something was wrong.

 

“I think we’re going around in circles.”

 

“Yeah, that’s what it feels like.”

 

Jaeho fiddled with his piercing and checked the bushes again, looking for another piece of snarl.

 

He was relaxed, as if he already knew.

 

“You know?”

 

“I’ve been here so many times, I don’t know how I know.”

 

“Then you should have told me.”

 

“Why should I?”

 

“Because we’re a team.”

 

“Who says we’re a team? You’re just following me for the money.”

 

“On a subject that needed me for a map deal.”

 

“If it wasn’t for this body…”

 

“Body?”

 

Jaeho suddenly frowned and closed his mouth.

 

Yeon-young, who had been paying attention to Jaeho, didn’t miss it.

 

Pulling his face out of the bush, Jaeho arrogantly raised his arms and kicked the ground several times.

 

His kicks kicked up a cloud of dust, further blurring his vision.

 

“You don’t look like you’re in pain.”

 

Yeon-young slowly scanned Jaeho from top to bottom in his generously sized uniform.

 

He was short and lanky, but he didn’t look like he had any injuries or anything.

 

If he was uncomfortable, it would have been obvious from the way he fumbled with the snarl.

 

‘What does this have to do with the materials Jaeho is looking for?’

 

The mission is to find the Cave of Purification in the northwestern mountains and retrieve Sly’s powder.

 

Suddenly, Yeon-young remembers the powers of Sly’s Powder.

 

“A legendary ingredient.”

 

Sly’s powder is considered a legendary ingredient in the world of Tanato.

 

It was a powder that could only come from Sly’s with unusually clear powers, and when mixed with the necessary medicines, it could restore an injured body or broken machine to its original state once and for all.

 

Restore it to its original state once.”

 

That’s when Jaeho’s figure came into view.

 

He didn’t look like a child, but he was hardly an adult.

 

He became unusually sensitive whenever they mentioned his lack of growth.

 

He choked on the word “child” during their first meeting. Jaeho’s size is a side effect of his experiment.

 

With Sly’s powder, it could be reversed.

 

Yeon-young smiled loosely and looked directly at Jaeho.

 

“Sly’s powder can make you taller?”

 

Jaeho visibly flinched at the question.

 

The sharp-eyed Yeon-young didn’t miss it.

 

“Aha, so you need Sly’s powder to return your body to its original state.”

 

“No.”

 

She knew that a strong negative was a strong positive.

 

Now she understood why Jaeho had been so eager to seize this opportunity.

 

If it was a rare ingredient in the northwestern mountains that might only appear once every few hundred years, it made sense to get it while the information was still available.

 

Yeon-young looked at the bracelet again.

 

She’d heard that he’d been working on a machine that would trigger a reaction when it reached its destination, using the Sly’s powder he’d obtained earlier.

 

The card, which had worked flawlessly when they were at the top of the mountain, had failed to activate once they reached the coordinates.

 

It was as if something didn’t like their presence and was interfering.

 

“Isn’t this a high-ranking request, not an errand?”

 

“Maybe if you can’t find it.”

 

Jaeho craned his neck to see if he could make out any movement in the bushes he’d been watching earlier.

 

The sound was loud enough to make him stare into the bushes, his eyes narrowing like a cat at its prey.

 

Yeon-young had a bad feeling.

 

The pieces of snarl that Jaeho had collected were rattling around in his collection bucket, causing vibrations.

 

*Sigh*

 

Her uneasy instincts weren’t wrong.

 

The first thing he heard was the sound of the wind rushing past him at high speed.

 

As he turned his head in the direction of the sound, the figure slowly revealed itself.

 

It was a deformed snarl that looked two or three times his size.

 

He looked as if he had arrived in a huge dark cloud, and his body stiffened at the sight.

 

“Snarl.”

 

Yeon-young crouched down and measured the angle of escape, just like the manual she’d learned from Zhaolin.

 

But Jaeho held his stomach, laughed out loud and stepped forward.

 

For the first time in her life, Yeon-young stopped him.

 

“Jung Jaeho, you crazy bastard, what are you doing?”

 

As if Yeon-young’s words fell on deaf ears, Jaeho prepared to use his powers.

 

Jaeho’s piercing flashed once in a wave, and the battle with Snarl began.

 

Snarl threw a rapid stream of ink clouds at Jaeho, trying to devour him.

 

“Slow.” Jaeho said smugly.

 

He bounced lightly in the air, creating several columns of water in front of him.

 

Each larger than Snarl, they blocked his view and deflected his attacks.

 

“This request is fruitful.”

 

When Snarl hesitated, Jaeho created a wave that swept him right into it.

 

Soon, Snarl was trapped in a circle of water.

 

Jaeho clenched his palm into a fist, and the water disappeared, crushing Snarl.

 

“Snarl captured!”

 

“Jung Jaeho.”

 

He pumped his fist in triumph. Yeon-young let out the breath she had been holding in, happy to have escaped the mutated Snarl unharmed.

 

Then a piece of Snarl caught Yeon-young’s eye. A black light glowed inside.

 

She wondered if that’s what light looks like when it’s corrupted by darkness.

 

Before she could find out what the dark light was, the snarl fragment moved quickly and reassembled itself.

 

The core had not been destroyed and the Snarl had been reborn.

 

Jaeho flicked his ears in annoyance and produced water again while Yeon-young focused on the light she could see.

 

On the wrist of Snarl’s left hand, a black core was visible.

 

“Jaeho Jung, Snarl’s left hand!”

 

Meanwhile, Yeon-young felt the chill again and turned around to see that the lid of the collection bucket was open.

 

Jaeho had been collecting Snarl fragments earlier. He must have accidentally dropped it while catching the snarls.

 

All the snarl fragments had fallen out of the bucket and merged into a single snarl.

 

Jaeho didn’t notice the giant snarl, but the smaller one lunged at his back as if in retaliation.

 

“Jaeho! Behind you!”

 

Yeon-young ran behind Jaeho’s back and blocked the attack of the smaller snarl.

 

At the same time, the little snarl grabbed him and threw him into the air.

 

Jaeho’s distorted expression was clearer than ever as he finally realized the situation.