There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 387

Chapter 387: Chapter 379. For a Guaranteed Future

"It’s complicated..."

"Just like your relationship," Zein commented, to which Radia responded with a laugh.

Well, he could laugh now because things had been solved between them, and everything just felt silly now. But indeed, their relationship was a complicated one.

"So?"

Radia smiled and rummaged through his inside pocket, taking out a small box containing golden needles. But before he took out one, he looked at the host first. "Can I?"

The blue eyes stared at Radia wordlessly, and the summoner sighed, putting the box back. Except during the raid on House Horin where he needed to spend a lot of mana, he had been cutting back on it. But this time...he felt like he needed one just to calm his heart.

"Here, eat this instead," Han Shin pushed a small box of chocolates in front of Radia, who stared at it with narrowed eyes full of disapproval. "It’s eighty percent dark chocolate that I was going to give Hyung, but..."

"Well, in that case."

Zein and Bassena pressed their lips as they felt the corners of their mouths twitch. So people in love were the same everywhere, no matter how cold, calculating, or mighty they were. To complement the chocolate--which Zein found to be too bitter for him--the guide provided the tea that Yuria Apsoro gave him as a courtesy gift the other day.

"Alright," Bassena leaned forward, propping his elbow to the table after the tea had been served. "Hit us."

Radia wiped his fingers with wet wipes that one of his summons provided, staring blankly at the lake while he pondered where he needed to start. "Joon was sentenced for desertion."

"Because he was missing?"

"Because he was leaving without permission for more than thirty days, while on active duty," Radia explained. "It was considered to be abandonment of military duty, and the punishment ranged from imprisonment to death."

Han Shin widened his eyes, teaspoon clattering on the table. "No, he won’t receive the death penalty unless he did it during a mission or war," Radia patted the healer’s head.

"Bu--but he did it to...to deal with that Operation!"

"That he did," Radia nodded, staring at the same tea he tasted when he asked Yuria to trace Han Joon’s crumbs. "But he did it on his own, so he was a vigilante at best. It’d be different if he made an attempt to alert the authorities--you know, the investigation bureau or presidential palace--but he didn’t."

Radia paused and, when he spoke again, it was with a heavy sigh. "Instead, he sent the data to me, and destroyed the place."

"So..."

"So he could be charged with erasure of evidence and leaking sensitive content to outsiders."

"How absurd!" Han Shin frowned and the teacups jolted slightly from his fist striking the table. "They wouldn’t find out about the Operation without him!"

Indeed, Radia also thought there was a factor of pettiness from the President. Han Joon got rid of the Specter core and the building, sending the data to Radia, and so, instead of the government, the one who became the Head of Inquisition was Ludya Mallarc.

"That result was what made him only being charged with desertion," Radia said, lifting his cup so Han Shin wouldn’t accidentally spill it from reasonable outrage. "The source of data used on the trial would be marked as being sent through an anonymous source. Otherwise, he could be charged with other things."

Bassena frowned and pursed his lips. "Can’t they just consider him as--what was it called again...whistleblower?"

Again, Radia sighed. "It’s because Joon did not send the data to the government, but to a merchant."

"...you," Zein muttered.

"Yes, me," there was a bitterness in Radia’s tongue that had nothing to do with the chocolate he just ate. "Joon’s plan was to get rid of the main server secretly and get out of there without anyone knowing. Then, he would slip inside a random dungeon and stage an anomaly, saying he was trapped inside another dungeon that got connected to that dungeon."

People might get suspicious, but with how much dungeon anomaly happening, it would be hard to refute, especially if they cleared the dungeon and the gate disappeared. He wouldn’t be a deserter then, just a soldier missing in action. Afterward, he had planned to resign from the military, stating that the time he was missing caused him post-traumatic syndrome. The data that he took would then be sent anonymously to the President, the investigation bureau, and the press.

At least, that was the plan.

And the one who ruined that plan was none other than Radia. "It’s me," the summoner said. "I’m the one who took Li Caishen there and ruined everything."

"No! If you didn’t come, he would be killed by that person!" Han Shin vehemently denied it. He would rather Joon’s plan get ruined than look at his corpse.

"But I’m also the one who baited the Horins and Han Gyeong to make a move," Radia shook his head. If it wasn’t for that, Joon would only need to face two guards before destroying the building. And this was the reason why he wanted to smoke.