#Episode 34
Jinsong also had something to say.
“If you’re going to bother me, you should’ve cleared it yourself. I asked for help, but it never came. Jamie Wilson, are you by any chance?”
“What by any chance?”
“Are you scared?”
“……what?”
“They said the gate numbers kept going up, so you were scared by those numbers, right?”
“This bitch is really.”
There was a stark contrast between Jamie Wilson, who jumped up from his seat, and Jin Song-i, who was still sitting with her legs crossed.
Jinsong said with a smile.
“Don’t worry. That was actually a measurement error.”
“……what?”
“I have an interview scheduled outside later, but I’ll just tell you in advance. That was just an SS-class gate. It was a gate where about fifty Ghost Kings and one Ghost Emperor appeared. Compared to the Baekdu Mountain Gate that our unique Awakened members cleared together about two years ago, it was almost like a drop in the bucket.”
“… … .”
“But you’re scared of just that gate? It’s really disappointing.”
Mana burst out of Jamie Wilson’s body. The castle shook. Jinsong-i didn’t stay still either. Two spheres floated around Jinsong-i’s body, three spheres floated on the castle’s ceiling, and one sphere floated behind Jamie Wilson, exactly 6 meters away.
There were six spheres in total.
“Shall we try it here? Yeah?”
Jamie Wilson wasn’t scared.
Of course, Jinsong wasn’t scared either. If they fought, there was a high chance of losing, but that was a story of the past. It’s different now.
Jinsong was confident that if she fought now, she would definitely win.
Also, Jinsong always thought.
“Why on earth was someone like you born in America?”
“what?”
“Your character is a piece of shit. You talk about liberalism, but your actions are no different from communism. You don’t know respect or manners. Do you know that? You are tarnishing the honor of the United States of America?”
The other unique awakened people were just watching this situation with interest. Among them, there was one man who was giving them a really strange look. An Asian man with a long scar on his cheek.
He is a unique Chinese awakener with a level of 680.
He was the highest level of all the Awakened beings currently existing on Earth.
The name is Lee Kang.
He watched the confrontation between Jin Song-i and Jamie Wilson and sent a message to someone on his watch.
A reply will come within a minute.
‘I’ll just watch and see.’
It was almost like an order. After reading the message, Lee Kang turned off his watch.
Eventually, things got awkward and the two were about to start attacking each other.
“Come on, calm down, our heroes.”
The president of the association, Santiago Munez, came between the two.
He spoke to the two people with a kind face.
“The whole world is watching right now. I know you two are not on good terms, but if you fight here now, wouldn’t you both be in a very awkward position? No, not just you two, but me as well, and all the heroes here would be in an awkward position. So please calm down for now.”
Santiago is a big shot among big shots who exerts influence all over the country. No matter how much the two of them go out of their way, he is aware of it.
If we fight here, the repercussions will be beyond imagination.
Eventually, the two people gathered their strength.
Santiago clapped his hands.
“Shall we have a constructive conversation now?”
* * *
I came to Cheongju.
I wanted to mention this before, but the world has definitely become a better place. Areas that suffered enormous damage in the past due to gate breaks, such as Gyeongbuk Gimcheon Innovation City, are not included in the gate safety area.
The number of S-class Awakened people inside the city and the number of SS-class Awakened people are the criteria for determining the gate safe zone, but movement between these safe zones is extremely active.
Seoul is a safe area, and Cheongju is also a safe area.
The travel time between these two cities is just 30 minutes by bus.
As soon as I arrived in Cheongju, I caught a taxi.
“Hello. Where would you like to take me?”
“Please take me to Magnolia Park.”
Magnolia Park is a park cemetery located in Cheongju.
The surrounding scenery quickly passed by.
Time goes by.
When was it?
It was when I first entered high school.
At that time, my mentor and the benefactor of my life passed away.
There was no iron. I didn’t know exactly.
I raised my head and looked at the name of the columbarium.
Jo Ae-hyun.
It was written like that.
He was a weak person.
Sometimes he would slump down in his seat or stumble while walking.
I had no idea how serious it was.
It was about two months before he passed away.
The teacher already had terminal cancer.
Before I knew it, I was vomiting blood and receiving treatment at the hospital.
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But after hearing the doctor’s words that there was no hope, the teacher took care of me and my sister instead of going to the hospital.
The teacher said.
‘I don’t know what kind of people you will become and what kind of life you will live when you grow up, but I hope you will do what you think is right.’
‘Even if the world turns its back on you, and no matter how much hardship and adversity you face, you can do it. And just as you think of me, I hope you can become another me for someone.’
Besides that, you have said so many good things.
Let me say it again, he, no, this person was the master of my life.
I heard she was an orphan. She got married, but her husband passed away shortly after, and she lived alone until she found me and my sister. I thought we were meant to be.
And speaking of which, the reason I was able to survive on Titan was also thanks to his teachings.
From this man I learned unwavering conviction and unwavering will.
“… … I’ll come again, teacher.”
I bowed down right there on the spot.
I tell you the truth, in my entire life, whether on Titan or on Earth, I have never bowed to anyone. Not to those called kings on Titan, not to those called emperors, not to a lord of a race, not to an ancient being, not to anyone. I have never even bent the knee.
It’s not that Jin Tae-seop hates me for nothing.
This is the first time.
I lay there like that for a while and then slowly got up from my seat.
There was a place to go.
* * *
Busan, the second capital of South Korea.
There was no need to mention it further.
Busan is big. The land area is also very important for gates to appear. There are countless gates that appear in Busan, and the most famous of these Busan guilds is the ‘Gwangalli Crazy Guys’ guild, which is famous for having SS+ level awakened people.
Needless to say, this guild, which is made up of crazy people as its name suggests, was scheduled to clear the S-class gate in Busan today.
The elite of the Gwangalli madmen arrived at the place where Busan’s gate security management department and police were controlling the surrounding area.
Jung Jun-ho, the guild’s middle manager and vice guild master, had been thinking that there was something strange about the guild master recently.
What could it be?
“Master, are you okay?”
The guild master was so crazy that he named the guild “Gwangalli Crazy Guys.”
The name is Marginno.
There was a rumor that the guild name was named after that name, but that’s not true. It’s not that the name was made to match the name, but that he was a truly crazy person who named the guild after that name.
Ma Jin-no, who always smiled and would always throw a tantrum at anyone who tried to stop him, whether they were civil servants or people with no manners, asked back with a very calm expression.
“what?”
“… … I should say that you’ve been feeling a bit calm lately. If there’s something going on personally… … Is there anything I can help you with?”
Marginno shook his head.
“Nothing. Don’t worry and just clear the gate.”
“yes.”
It was at that moment that I was about to enter the gate.
Everyone stopped in their tracks.
A man was sitting on a chair in front of the gate.
The man smiled as if the person he had been waiting for had finally arrived.
“Jinno, are you here?”
Because I was at the back, I couldn’t see who the man was properly. Neither his face nor his body shape.
My eyebrows furrow.
No, dare to be a pup of a prize
Majino, who had pushed past the Guild Master and stepped forward, stopped in his tracks.
“Let’s not waste time on this. Jeong Ho-nam, Im Gyeong-tae, do you all live in Busan? Bring them all.”
The man who had stopped talking stood up and continued speaking.
“Let’s all go home. Police, civilians, and the awakened.”
“… … .”
“Jinno, I’ll wait, so call me back.”
Marginno answered with an expression on his face as if he had no idea what I was talking about.
“… … I don’t know what you’re talking about. More importantly, who are you to be here? Don’t you see that my older sister is Jinsong?”
“It’s not necessarily like that.”
“If you’re a third-rate writer, then go to Seoul and write trash like a third-rate writer.”
I’m saying this because we’re on the subject.
“Do you know that you guys are in that trash too?”
“… …Stop fooling around and get out. This is no place for a brat like you.”
This was the true face of the crazy guy called Majino. Majino was always like this.
Only then did the guild master feel relieved. Nothing happened. Our master was fine.
At that time, Jin Shihou burst into laughter.
“My brother is preparing the table right now. But why is your tongue so long?”
“… … .”
“I’ll be inside, so don’t be shy and bring all the apostles in Busan with you. I’ll go first.”
Jin Shihou left those words behind and disappeared beyond the gate.
Everyone was like, “Uh-huh?”
Jin Shihou is an unawakened being, and he entered an S-class gate instead of another gate? Are you crazy?
Only one person had a frozen expression on his face.
Majino, the master of the Gwangalli Crazy Guys Guild.
He was the 148th apostle.
He immediately turned on his watch.
* * *
The inside of the gate was ordinary.
There was a sky and a land, and on the other side there was a strange building, and around there were strange-looking beings that looked like mermaids.
Just in case, I asked these people who looked like the water people.
“They have the head of a dog and the body of a human. They look a bit like the guys on Titan called the Wind Whales. What should we call them?”
They didn’t talk for long.
“According to God’s will.”
I was a little surprised.
“You speak Korean. Who is your god? Jesus? Buddha?”
They didn’t answer.
And this is a side note, but it is said that when you enter the gate, you can naturally hear the monsters talking.
Race and such are all different, but depending on the race, if you are Korean, you will hear it in Korean, if you are American, you will hear it in American English, if you are British, you will hear it in British English, if you are Japanese, you will hear it in Japanese, if you are an Indian who speaks English fluently, you will hear it in Hindi, which is the common language.
They say it’s the gate’s influence, but I’ve heard that even though they can communicate, they can’t have long conversations.
Because.
Because something like this will happen now.
The number is roughly 50 people.
Each rank is similar to an A-class Awakener.
Before I knew it, they had come close to me and were each swinging their weapons.
Halberd, spear, sword, dagger.
Each one was different.
I thought about it for a moment.
Should I just kill them?
I don’t usually get blood on my hands.
Of course, there is no excuse for going around killing the apostles up until now, but that is a separate issue.
That’s because I went there and killed him because I had a reason to kill him, but this is because I came in myself.
Unlike my sister and the other Awakened ones, I still didn’t think of the monsters within the gate as ‘enemies’.
It may seem easy, but what can I do? That’s my opinion.
“Tsk.”
He clicked his tongue lightly.
It’s the same as when I killed the golems before. I can’t help it.
He just stretched out his hand.
Kwaaaaang-!!
