Kidnapped Dragons

son.
Even Kang Ahjin wasn’t very willing because it was burdensome. 

“How come you are alone on such a fine night?”

But there were still many ears on them so Bom maintained the appearance of a mysterious soothsayer despite being alone with him. 

“I believe you were enjoying yourself.
There is no need to be concerned about me, as I feel more comfortable staying alone.”

And so did Yu Jitae.

“But you’ve come a long way.
Would you like a glass with me?”

“Yes.
Of course.”

In that dark area with the only source of light being the dim lamp, as the LP disk in the turntable played a heavy yet slow melody,

Clink.

Yu Jitae and Bom clinked their glasses.

He expected Bom to leave after that but she remained in her seat.
As he was wondering what she was trying to do, Bom rested her chin on her two hands and gazed at Yu Jitae with her usual eyes.

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It was different from the eyes she showed at the Association.

Her eyes were slanted in the shape of the character ‘eight’ (八) and she deeply stared at him as if she was gazing into the depths of his soul.

Quietly, she stayed like that.

“…”

That silence, for some reason, felt like the start of a certain event.
That was what the Regressor’s intuition told him.
Whenever this girl who was like a nine-tailed fox did strange things, there tended to be reasons regardless of whether he knew them or not. 

In other words,

Something was going to start.

Her head was tilted to the side and her eyes that deeply stared at him curved like bows.
Her smiling lips opened, before coming to a close.
After some hesitation, she barely voiced it out.

“……Thanks for everything.”

That was what Bom suddenly said.

“It’s thanks to you that I’ve become happy.”

“Please don’t worry about it.”

Was it a simple sentence of gratitude or was there some other intention behind it? He knew that something had begun but had no idea what it was.

That was when Bom covered her mouth in slight surprise.

“Ah… sorry.
Was that a slip of a tongue?”

In any case, Yu Jitae had to show respect to Bom within the Association for her authority.

“By no means.
It was sudden, but it’s okay.”

“I must be drunk.
But it’s not made up.
I’ve always, wanted to say this to you…”

“It’s an honour.”

Bom breathed in and out, going ‘huu, huu’.

“Apparently you become sober faster if you breathe in and out like this.
Huu, huu…”

“Isn’t that a superstition?”

“Is it? Huu…”

He decided to stealthily show his doubt.

“You seem to be in a very good mood today.
Did something good happen? You also seem to have drunk more than usual.”

(Why do you act so drunk.)

Usually, Bom tended to reply connotatively whenever he asked such questions.

“There are many good things of course.
It’s good talking to such awesome people, and sitting in front of you like this also…”

But her response was different today and she actually seemed drunk.

“If you have drunk too much, how about you stop drinking now.”

“Nn… It’s fine.
So what, if we get slightly tipsy?”

“A drunken tongue blurts out wrong words, and the body tends to behave disgracefully.
It concerns me that it might dishonour your face.”

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(If you’re really drunk, then stop it right now.)

There was no way that the clever Bom wouldn’t have understood the meaning behind his words, but she shakily shook her head.

“Noo? That doesn’t logically make sense, because I’m not drunk.”

“You seem to have relaxed yourself too much.”

“Huhuh… I’m not a one-year-old child.
I can control it and besides, I don’t drink like this anywhere else.
But, isn’t it fine to get a little tipsy today?”

“Why would that be fine?”

“Because, you are with me by my side…”

It was a sweet-sounding word that was pleasant to the ears.
In fact, it did ease his mood and soothe his heart that was starting to be filled with suspicion.

On the other hand, he still couldn’t understand what she was trying to do.

What exactly was wrong with her? Bom however, did not allow him the time to think about it.

“You can’t leave by yourself.”

“Of course, I’ll never.”

“Nn…”

Yu Jitae changed his mind.

Maybe Bom really was drunk and was saying anything that was going through her mind.
Thinking that, he deemed it necessary to end it here in order to maintain her dignity as the Soothsayer.

Clink–

Their glasses collided once again and he drank the wine in one go.

Afterwards, he opened his mouth trying to suggest that they leave now but that was when Bom put something into his open mouth.
It was a canapé that they had ordered to have alongside the wine.
A cracker with cheese, cream and fruit on top.

Slightly surprised, he looked at Bom as she continued staring at him with a smile.

Bom trying to feed him food was something that she had been doing for a long time.
However, this was the Association and Yu Jitae was Prophet Season and yet Bom had treated him very much like how she would in their daily lives.

“How does it taste? I tried it, but it was really delicious.”

He quietly crunched the thing that was in his mouth while feeling intensified gazes from the surroundings.

The glances that were occasionally being sent towards their way had suddenly changed into explicit and open gazes.

Let alone Kang Ahjin and Zhuge Haiyan, the members of the 5th command room and the ladies that Bom had befriended recently as well as some of the male agents were all staring at Yu Jitae and Bom with eyes filled with intrigue and curiosity.

Don’t tell me she…

“So I immediately thought of you.
And wanted to let you try it…”

Only then did Yu Jitae realise it.

Her words finally resolved all his doubts.

The reason why Bom suddenly approached Kang Ahjin and Zhuge Haiyan to get closer to them.
The reason why she left the impression of a wagging puppy to others to make that relationship seem natural, and lastly the reason why she repeatedly expressed her affection towards him while pretending to be drunk.

All the scattered puzzle pieces finally came together.

Monsters that hunted in hordes tended to gather the food they hunted into one place and apply their thick saliva on it to ensure their foods won’t be mixed up.
It was like labelling the food and was called ‘marking’.

Similarly, piss was also used to mark territory that implied to others, ‘This is mine, and this is my territory so do not come over’.
Taking that approach, Yu Jitae finally understood Bom’s actions as well as why she intentionally waited for everyone to settle before coming to him.

Bom was marking him as her territory.