Secret's! [War Of K-M-DGsp-M4221] Locked OSO.0
[B1-13] How to Cure Without a System (2/4)

“What?!” pekik Ret, surprised. “Au―a-aku .. only want to do that only with people I love just―”

“What are you thinking?!” tukas Sei, suspicious, “I'm talking about sparing?! Fighting, ng? You can't still be alive after plunging and falling into the culverts with such amazing, if you don't have 'something'.”

Sei looked at Ret from the side with a sharp look, then he suddenly frowned.

“No. That's ...” Ret instantly nervous, and trying to say something, “I ...”

He continued walking while carrying Sei on his back. The two of them circled Area.3 within the lush forest surrounding the Area. Around the lush forest there was not a single building visible to the two of them.

“Dan,” in a tight tone, Sei asked, “how do you know I'm a woman?! I thought, I never told you.”

The gaze of the woman behind Ret, made her nervous and break out in a cold sweat. He stopped his steps to find the right answer.

Uh, there's no way I'm telling him that I know who he really is, Ret thought. “The beggar was right, huh, I actually met an interesting person. Damnit. This is by no means an interesting situation and ..”

As Ret continued to grumble, Sei urged her, “Ng....?”

“Yah ... You know,” Ret replied, although she looked very reluctant, "Maybe I'm a little disrespectful, but I felt something soft sticking to my back.”

Sei straightened his back and looked at Ret, with a stare sharper than before.

Ret says, “Uh. Okay. I'm sorry,” after feeling a sharp murderous gaze and aura from behind him.

There was nothing the young man could do. Ret could only continue to move her legs with heavy steps, as the murderous aura Sei was emitting continued to pierce her body.

Then, the two of them reached the boundary between the lush outer forest and the deep lush forest.

“We've come this far, I don't see a single Gate―” Ret grumbling, and looking back, seeing Sei who is still angry, “Come. Don't look at me like that. And, turn off your murderous aura.”

“Ng?”

“No. It's nothing," Ret said, shaking her head, "I'll continue walking.”

They both arrived in the middle of the forest. There were only trees and a row of half palm trees attached to the side of the cliff. And there is a striking cliff gap in the middle of the row of palm trees.

Sei said, "We get to.”

Ret stopped his steps with a hint of confusion as he looked at the row of palm trees in the gap of the high cliff before him.

“Until?! We are in the middle of the forest foothills of the mountain, I remember, on the map there is no mountain as I remember.” Ret frowning. "Is my memory bad?! And it's all very strange, in the middle of a forest like this there ...”

Palm trees are neatly lined up and attached to the side of the cliff. Ret noticed the cliff gap while smiling confidently.

.... There are trees that show you the way, huh. We're going to get into that cliff, yeah, Ret thought.

“The cliff slit is a trap." Sei immediately refuted Ret's thought, "Don't approach her!"

“Huh?!” Ret was surprised and stopped his steps. The smile on his face disappeared instantly. “What do you mean?! Isn't it usually like that? Go into the gap and see the waterfall, then there is a gate from the waterfall to the Smuggling Gate, which you call.”

“Such gate is only in fantasy, stupid,” umpat Sei. “Just give your smartphone to me.”

“For what?! Oh, we'll subscribe to the Smuggling Gate portal?” ret said, realizing something. “Just give me the port access number, then I'll buy the slot―”

“Just give it to me!” insist Sei.

“Hei―You know, right ...” Ret said with a little displeasure, “Smartphone, that ...”

Can't just give a smartphone to just anyone. It is like a life for anyone. Although the smartphone can not be used by anyone other than the owner, it can not be damaged, and also can not be taken over ownership, but Ret and smartphone owners in the Entertainment Era must be wary of hacking or tracking smartphone― which is the biggest crime exceeding the ‘killer’, ‘terrorism’, or ‘uprising’ on the World System.

.... O-ok―I still have more than 300 Credits. I can still buy her again, Ret thought, giving up on seeing Sei shut up while staring intently at her. “But ...”

If any resident class smartphone was damaged, they could still buy it again with a price range of 300 to 1000 Credits.

But in the end, Ret handed her smarthpone to Sei just like that.

“Enable its scanner feature.”

“To―Okelah.”

Ret turned on the scanner feature on her smartphone and Sei instantly picked it up. Ret smartphone screen, changed color to red when Sei touched his smartphone.

The woman then scanned the barcode on her left wrist, and the Ret smartphone screen suddenly changed color to white again, indicating that the smartphone could be used by the woman.

“Didn't you feel weird being able to be familiar with ‘villains like me, Rat?’

Damnit. It's hacking? Uh. What is he, Ret thought. He ignored the woman's question, anxious and nervous.

“Ng?”

“No. Me,” said Ret, wave. “Bu-isn't that hacking the biggest crime?! I thought you were just a regular killer. If we get caught, Credit alone will not be enough to―”

“Ng...?”

“No.” Ret instantly shut up and said softly, “Nothing.”

Long enough Sei scanned the barcode on his left arm using a Ret smartphone. The man was more afraid of seeing Sei now, than when he saw him in the pile of corpses.

“Why didn't you answer my question?” urged Sei, “Didn't you feel weird being able to get along with ‘villains’ like me? Ng?”

When Sei finished asking, the scann barcode to his left arm was completed. And he plays a Ret smartphone, like he's the real owner of that smartphone.

“Itu―”

“I used 10 Credits to open the Smuggling Gate.” Sei cuts Ret's word, then returns the smartphone to her, “This.”

“Uh.” Ret just nodded lightly while taking the smartphone from him. "okay."

“So? We get into the cliff crevice after all the traps have been disabled with 10 Credits earlier, huh?”

“What's that stupid thing you said? We will only know the Smuggling Gate after one of the palm trees disappears. Just wait.”

Then, one of the palm trees shrank and it went into the ground. The tree is like an automatic door that sinks into the ground, and forms a small square-shaped gap.

“So,” ask Ret on Sei, “We go in there?”

“Ng.” Sei answered him with just a silent nod.

The two of them entered the dark cliff.

Uh. Scann again, of course, huh, Ret thought. He was frustrated to see a white door in front of him.

The silver-colored door with white emergency lights on both sides, illuminated the dark cliff crevices.

“Uh.” Ret complaining, frustration. “It will definitely be more than 10 Credits, right?”

“Quiet,” sneer Sei, then he clucked in annoyance, “Cih. I will pay later. That's only 15 Credits.”

Ret scanned his smartphone to a black barcode silver door in the middle of which there is a symbol:

Ü

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