It was really effective. The word effective was a bit stereotypical here, but nothing could describe the current situation better than that word.

I braced myself and prepared contingency plans in case he showed a different reaction, but he showed the reaction I had been expecting, which wasted my preparations.

Rimoura stared at me in confusion, but she was quick-witted, so her face soon brightened up.

She quickly realized why I had come here and why I looked like this.

‘I don’t think she was told beforehand…’

The battle in the nest came to a lull, and the people were staring at me in shock.

“Is that you, hyung-nim?” Park Deok-Gu asked.

“O-O-Oppa. Heuuuung. Oppaaa…!” Jung Ha-Yan cried out.

“Darling?” Cha Hee-Ra called out.

“Mr. Lee Ki-Young…” Elena said.

They looked at me as if they couldn’t believe what they were seeing, and the majority of them were confused about how they should react. Elena, Cha Hee-Ra, and Kasugano Yuno instantly knew what was going on, so they looked like they were in despair.

Kim Hyun-Sung was in despair as well.

However, the slow-witted...