#Episode 39
Lee Seong-jae clenched his fist.
To be honest, I could just bury it here.
The Conqueror’s Guild also has its own elite. Not just Lee Seong-jae, but also the sub-guild master who is keeping his eyes tightly shut, and other S+-rank awakened members.
If they rush in at once, it is possible to kill Hong Hyun and Yoon Ji-hoo here.
But if you do that, the Conqueror’s Guild will collapse that day.
It doesn’t just collapse, it collapses without a trace.
The world of the Awakened and the world of ordinary people have been kept strictly separate.
If the Salvation Guild and the Conqueror Guild fight, the boundary may be broken. There will be enormous damage. Unlike Jin Song-i, Lee Seong-jae was not confident in handling the aftermath.
so.
“Remember, it’s only for one day.”
I couldn’t stop Hong Hyeon from saying that.
* * *
It was quiet.
I thought as I watched Jeongbin frantically writing down notes in his notebook.
‘It’s already been 12 hours, and I haven’t lost my posture at all.’
Should I say it looks like I’m looking at some kind of machine?
It was amazing.
‘An artifact is definitely an artifact.’
He smiled softly while drinking a cup of coffee.
I just looked at Jeongbin, who was sitting there writing.
Another two hours had passed like that.
The pen stopped.
“Phew.”
Jeongbin stretches and spots me. Our eyes meet.
“Oh, brother? Have you been here the whole time?”
He nodded.
“I have a few questions.”
It was a simple curiosity.
“Well, if I wait, is it free? How much volume is needed to go into paid serialization?”
“Usually it’s around 125 episodes, which is 5 volumes. But these days, they say it’s okay to start a paid series with 100 episodes, which is 4 volumes.”
“You’ve become an expert.”
“I heard about all sorts of things while drinking with Team Leader Kwon Hyuk-jae yesterday. And the amount I’ve written so far is roughly around 100 episodes.”
“You wrote a lot.”
“The only thing I can do after eating is write, so of course I have to write a lot. It’s all about money.”
Above all else.
“It’s faster than I thought. I’m writing almost half a book a day, so I think I’ll have more than enough for paid serialization this week. No, it seems like the ending itself will come quickly. Is that okay?”
“Oh, I don’t mind. The goal is to let the world know, so the sooner the better.”
Jeongbin, who had been laughing like that, asked me as if he had forgotten.
“Oh, and. I also had a question. Regarding the characters that appear in it, will you all use their real names like you do now?”
“why?”
“Team Leader Kwon Hyuk-jae said that. He said that there might be a problem because there are too many real people.”
“okay?”
“Yes. Not only the company names, but there are also politicians and conglomerates among them, so this will definitely be a problem later. If possible, I would like to ask them to change the names a little bit. What should I do?”
“What are you going to do? Ignore me.”
“Really?”
“If you arbitrarily upload the names of the characters in Titan or the companies they belong to, even a single letter, I will tell you that I will kill every single person related to it.”
I was serious. Seriously, if you touch those names, I plan to kill every single person who edited them, who uploaded them without reviewing them. Are you going to tamper with my work for your own gain just because you’re saving up a few pennies?
I have no intention of giving you any consideration.
I intend to kill you no matter what.
“… … I’ll just handle it on my own.”
I nodded and then an interesting thought occurred to me.
“Add this at the beginning and end of the book: ‘Everything that happened on Titan is true.’”
Jeongbin blinks his eyes.
“Really?”
“uh.”
I stared blankly at Jeongbin, who had stopped talking for a moment.
“Why? Are you scared after the novel is over?”
“You’re like a ghost. I’m a little worried. To be exact, I’m worried about what will happen every time a novel comes out.”
“There’s no need to worry about the future in advance. Just focus on the present. You never know what’s going to happen in this world. It might just pass.”
The guy nods as if he understands.
“Yes, brother. I will do that. Don’t worry, I will convey your words properly.”
“You’ve grown quite mature. You were like a child until recently.”
“… … Strangely, ever since that day when my brother did something to me, I feel like I’ve changed a little bit.”
“okay?”
“Yes. It wasn’t like you were hypnotized or anything like that, mind control?”
He shook his head.
“That’s something only low-level kids do. No matter how much I go out, I won’t do something like that. You should know that if you read my diary.”
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“Oh, that hypnotist from the beginning of Titan?”
“Oh, I had a hard time because of that kid. I swore that when I got stronger, I wouldn’t turn out like that guy. Just know that.”
“… … Really, my brother has really suffered a lot in the past.”
“Do you think I came here to play? And give me a zero coke.”
Jeongbin, who was taking out water from the refrigerator, handed me a can of soda.
“thank you.”
“No. And about the cover. Like the composition you mentioned before, with the man sweeping his hair up… … Are you sure you want to do it like this?”
“Why? It’s cool.”
“… … But why did you send me your brother’s photo as a model photo? Did you send it to the wrong person? You did send it to the wrong person, right?”
“Of course not.”
I was confident.
“I am the main character of Titan. It’s my story, so of course I should be on the cover.”
“That’s true. Well, they’ve started production right away, and they said they’ll send out the first edition by tomorrow.”
“Really? That’s fast.”
“If there’s anything that needs to be fixed there, fix it, and he said that it should only take a day at most. The world has become such a great place.”
I kind of understood it.
“Then, good luck.”
Jeongbin asked me as I stood up from my seat.
“Where are you going again?”
“uh.”
“Where are you going this time?”
He said with a smile.
“Swiss.”
* * *
After a pleasant meeting at the Conqueror’s Guild, Hong Hyun headed back to the restaurant where Yoon Young Soo was.
No.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t a restaurant. There are a lot of temples in Gwanaksan Mountain in Seoul.
We rented out one of those temples entirely. It was a temple that served as a restaurant for just one day.
There, the Prime Minister returned home and Hong Hyun and Yoon Ji-hoo went down.
And then Hong Hyun and Yoon Ji-hoo headed to the temple again.
The two people who arrived at the temple simultaneously furrowed their brows.
It smelled.
A strong smell of blood.
The two people left their seats without even thinking. After entering the temple, they opened the door to the room where Yoon Young-soo was supposed to be.
Bam.
And then it just stopped.
“What about Lee Seongjae?”
Yoon Young-soo’s attitude of asking that question as if nothing had happened was very unbalanced compared to the current situation.
It was simple.
A person was lying down across from Yoon Young-soo.
With a knife stuck in his heart, it was obvious to anyone that he was dead.
His face was very deep. There are few people in Korea who do not know his face.
Choi Seok-hyun, the 24th President of the Republic of Korea.
Although the timeline was disrupted by an accident in which the 23rd President was swept away by the gate and died, it has already been three years since the current president took office.
President Choi Seok-hyun, who was somewhat different from other presidents in that he was suspected of various things, such as corruption in employment and hiring, real estate corruption, and statistical manipulation, but was still evaluated as having managed state affairs well, was now dead.
“… … Brother, what is this? Why is that guy doing that over there?”
Yoon Young-soo took a sip of the drink in his glass with his bloody hands as if it was nothing serious and spoke lightly.
“I wish for too much.”
Yoon Young-soo turned his head.
Smiling, Yoon Young-soo said.
“So I killed her. Hyuna.”
“……why?”
“Prime Minister, call me back.”
“now?”
“Oh. If you’re going to end your political career as acting president, come here in 30 minutes. If you want to become the 25th president.”
Yoon Young-soo paused for a moment, checked the time, and then continued.
“Tell him to come back in 10 minutes.”
* * *
Should I say that the plan went awry?
Initially, Jin Shihou planned to kill all the apostles in the Republic of Korea.
But a problem arose in the middle.
I got a call from my sister who was in Switzerland.
I naturally asked him how he was doing, if he was okay, how things were in Switzerland, etc.
After Jinsong answered everything, she asked this.
-By the way, you said you entered the S-class gate in Busan, right?
Didn’t deny it.
Jin Shi-hoo told Jin Song-yi what he was going to do in South Korea. He said that he had first cleared out the apostles in Busan, and that he planned to kill Jeong Hyo-ju and Jeong Seong-ju of the Jeongcheon Group in Seoul today.
There was no reason to hide it, because we were family.
-Marginno? That guy was an apostle?
“Why? Do you know him?”
-I saw him once before at a Korean Awakening gathering hosted by the Korean Awakening Association. He seemed to have a pretty dirty personality, but I guess that was all part of the concept.
“It’s not like the concept is the same, but the personality is so similar that you could almost think of them as the same person. He was that kind of guy in Titan too.”
Jin Song-i, who was having a conversation, suddenly spoke.
-But, can’t we touch on the Jeongcheon Group a little later?
I was curious as to why.
“why?”
-I received help from Chairman Jeong Jae-seok in the past.
“okay?”
-Yeah. And I own some shares in the Jeongcheon Group. Give me some time to defend before the stock price falls.
I ended up laughing.
“Are you serious?”
-Of course I’m serious. Do you know that the money that went into it was a hundred or two hundred won?
Jin Shihou was not a fool. Money is money, but could it be that he is doing this because of money?
That can’t be true.
“What is the real reason?”
-… … First of all, is it certain that both Jeong Seong-ju and Jeong Hyo-ju are apostles?
“Oh, sure.”
-Then, can we deal with one of them?
There was a pause.
we?
-There’s one SSS-class Awakener and two SS+-class Awakeners in the Salvation Guild. I’d like to try and catch them together. Is that okay?
I thought about it for a moment.
I don’t even know which apostle it is. It’s very uncertain how much power it has, but honestly, what kind of fight is it when you have to measure and re-measure your opponent’s power?
It is impossible to fully understand the power of all the enemies you will fight in life.
“Okay, do that. I’ll give one of them to you.”
-thank you.
It’s too early to say thank you.
“however.”
-But what?
“If it’s at the level of the guy called Karma I saw in Texas before, then my sister will die. Not just my sister, but all the awakened ones, whether SSS Minus or Plus, and all the other awakened ones.”
It was a stark truth, so Jin Song-i kept her mouth shut.
“I went into the A-class gate with Jeongbin before.”
Jinsong suddenly wondered why a Class A gate was appearing.
Jin Shihou continues speaking.
“That’s when I found out something funny.”
-What is that?
“The gate didn’t recognize me as a human. So.”
So, the following was important.
“Let’s have an accident together.”
-… … What happened?
“I heard from Jeongbin that there are quite a few additional rewards, such as achievement stats increasing as a solo clear reward, and additional stats for unique skills, etc.”
Jinsong also knows about that part.
Without going too far, Jinsong’s achievement stat is now over 40.
“If you’re like me, you probably know what it feels like. But, think about it carefully. If the reward for an A-class gate is that much, what about an SSS-class gate?”
There is nothing new about this.
The reward that Jeongbin received for clearing the A-class gate was definitely enormous.
However, those who are at the unique awakening level are those who have already received such rewards several times.
But, you get a unique reward from an A-class gate?
This is a case that has never been reported in the industry.
Cleared solo, cleared in the shortest amount of time.
This is what happened because these two overlapped, and what would happen if Jin Song-i and Jin Shi-hoo cleared the SSS-class gate alone?
