There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 548

Chapter 548: Chapter 541. Seize the Day

"That’s...the sea," Zein turned to Bassena. "Right?"

"Yeah," Bassena nodded, patting the guide’s back. The sparkles in those blue eyes were unchanging, even though the sea in question was also littered with miasma.

It was still the sea. and somewhere near that place, a land for their future house existed.

Bassena couldn’t help but be excited at this too.

But he quickly snapped back to reality and came back to the hazy transmission. "Do they mention anything amiss? Enemies?"

"They said there’s nothing as of now, but there was a trace of beasts and the fragment’s radar was beeping," Lex told them. "So they are on standby for now, in hiding mode."

One of the things that sucked up Radia’s funds was the camouflage function in the ship, since it was a big, almost stationary target. It wouldn’t completely fool those with high detection skills, but Senia and her elemental spirits troop could cover for that.

That being said, staying still in a dangerous place was never a good strategy.

"Tell them to pull back," Bassena said. "Full speed--we’re going to explore the seaside with a proper attack squad."

"Yessir," Lex punched the order on the keyboard.

"I promised two spots for Ron and Agni," Zein told Bassena.

"I would never reject an excellent scout and a flamming bulldozer," Bassena shrugged. "Just them?"

Zein nodded. "Ron said they had a business with the ship’s Captain."

Bassena raised his brow and chuckled. "What? Are they going to get married on the ship or something?"

"Huh? You can do that?"

Zein looked at Bassena in surprise, and Bassena nodded while laughing in response. Then they looked at each other, blinking in silence as Lex typed on the keyboard.

"Huh?"

"Huh..."

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"Oh~" Agni looked around the Castle. It was his first time visiting somewhere other than the main base. "This is nice, like in those old stories."

"Are you alright now?" Zein asked the Captain.

"It’s just a scratch," Agni waved his hand dismissively, prompting Zein to snort.

"Did Ron think so?"

The Captain cleared his throat and pretended he didn’t hear that last question while recalling those days of cold gaze, cold shoulder, and cold bed.

Zein smirked at the berserker’s slightly flustered face. "You’re not young anymore, Captain. You won’t heal as fast as you did."

The guide was expecting a dismissive laugh, but Agni nodded quite seriously this time. "You’re right," he stopped his walk and leaned against the Castle wall, looking at the bridge in the distance. "You know, we always think we are ready for death here, but...at the end of the day, none of us really want that to happen."

"...what spurs this on?"

Agni laughed at the suspicious tone laden with concern. "Honestly, I never thought I’d die in the Borderland--unless I’m very unlucky, that is. But seeing that clone or whatever...it’s a wake-up call," he chuckled wryly. "Lucky or not, we all probably die if that thing gets to full power, don’t you think? No place will really be a safe place anymore."

"Probably," Zein nodded; there was never a need to sugarcoat things with the Captain.

Agni leaned his head against the wall, exhaling heavily as he looked at the dark canopy. "I can’t let him die," he smiled wryly. "I trapped him enough as it is when I gave up to him all those years ago. But at least, he won’t do reckless things anymore if I’m here--since he loves scolding me too much."

Zein chuckled, recalling a story he heard from the old timers about the first time Ron came to the Deathzone; he was young, younger than Arlo or Dheera, and angry. So angry that he entered the Deathzone by himself, got caught by Agni, and then got angry at the berserker. It was a wild story that no one would be able to associate with the current Ron, but...the seed of recklessness had always been there.

As someone who spent a lot of time with the scout during his contract period, Zein knew the reason for that anger. There was a time when he actually felt envious because he wished he could feel that anger instead of the numbness killing his soul at that time. Perhaps that was why he got close easily to the scout; because their sorrow led them to the Deathzone.

At that time, he wondered how the scout could overcome it just because he found someone.

Not anymore.

"Is that why you’re suddenly getting married?" Zein glanced at Berserker, who raised his brow high at the question. "What? You don’t think I’ll realize?"

"Yeah..."

To be fair, Zein didn’t.

"I promised myself that I’d take care of him, but..." he laughed bitterly. "It’s not exactly something I can do in my situation. I tried to send him away, I tried to break his heart, I tried a lot of things to make him leave me--to no avail, obviously."

Zein hummed at this little bit of history between them. He himself didn’t really know about those two’s relationship, because they were quite private about it most of the time. But he knew enough that the Captain had already given up in his attempt and was blissfully falling for the scout.