#Episode 54
Chapter 2
South Korea has been turned upside down.
When asked who is the best awakener in South Korea right now, Jin Song-i is the first to come up.
No one disagrees on that point.
The problem comes next.
Who on earth is the second strongest Awakener?
The awakened are also people in the end. People walk the path.
Jeong Jae-seok, the chairman of Jeongcheon Group, is simply the chairman of Jeongcheon Group. The title of Chairman of Jeongcheon Group is a kind of title that signifies the path that Jeong Jae-seok has walked.
The same goes for the awakened ones.
Jinsong uses a unique skill called the Light Sphere. Her title is Light Magician.
This light magician is determined by the system.
This is the difference between ordinary people and the Awakened. The system gives the Awakened a title that represents the path they have walked.
When asked who the second strongest Awakener in South Korea is, two names always come up.
One is the Four Gods, Lee Seong-jae. The other is the pyromancer, Hong Hyeon.
Neither of them were unique awakened. They were just regular awakened people, but all unique awakened people do not ignore these two people.
There was a clear reason for that.
These two people are the highest rank among the general Awakened. They are SSS rank Awakened people.
Even if you expand the scope to the entire world, there are only 11 SSS-class Awakened people at most.
Of these, two were from South Korea.
There is a reason why South Korea is called the Awakened Powerhouse.
But now, one of those two, the Grim Reaper Lee Seong-jae, has died.
The government investigation says he died when the building collapsed due to a ‘gas explosion’. Does that make sense?
Not just any other Awakened One, but a SSS-class Awakened One.
Although he hasn’t reached the max level, Lee Seong-jae’s level is officially over 450.
This is a level where Lee Seong-jae can clear gates below S-class on his own, and SS-class gates can be cleared only with the help of Awakeners who specialize in supporting abilities that provide buffs.
At least, you won’t die from a gas explosion or anything. No, you can’t die.
It can survive being intercepted by thousands of machine guns and hundreds of missiles.
That’s Lee Seong-jae.
But no one in South Korea raised an objection to Lee Seong-jae’s death.
Even Lee Seong-jae wasn’t the only one who died.
All Awakened members of the Conqueror’s Guild have died.
The number is a whopping 2,800.
In the heart of the city, 2,800 people have now died.
Of course, not all of those who belong to the Conqueror’s Guild will stay inside the building.
On the day the Conqueror’s Guild building exploded, most of the Awakened who went to clear the gate were entangled in a ‘strange incident’ and all died.
The reasons were really varied.
Some died in car accidents, some suffered cardiac arrest right after clearing the gate, and some disappeared inside the gate.
It wasn’t the end.
Lee Seong-jae’s entire family died. Should we say that his seed was wiped out?
This isn’t the Middle Ages, and something that shouldn’t have happened in modern times has happened.
But you’re concluding it without even investigating it in depth?
This is ridiculous.
and.
Anyone who wasn’t stupid could tell.
I felt it exactly.
It is said that the Salvation Guild is behind this.
It is already well known that the Salvation Guild dominates the political world. They are on the verge of taking over the financial world as well.
Lee Seong-jae was not on good terms with Jin Song-yi and was a person who constantly kept Jin Song-yi in check.
There is a saying in the world:
‘If someone dies, think of the person who will benefit the most from that death. That person is the culprit.’
Who benefits the most from the destruction of Lee Seong-jae and the Conqueror’s Guild? And who is the force that benefits the most?
The character is Jinsong, and the force is the Salvation Guild.
Although there is no concrete evidence, it is clear that the Salvation Guild has wiped the Conquerors Guild from the world.
It may be dismissed as one of the conspiracy theories, but those who know know.
This isn’t something that Jin Song-yi did, it’s something that Jin Shi-hoo did.
Yoon Young-soo was in front of the White Hotel suite door.
dripping.
I knocked on the door.
“Come in.”
I opened the door and went inside after hearing a voice from inside.
First of all, Jin Shihou appears.
“… … .”
What should I say?
Yoon Young-soo was at a loss for words for a moment, which was unusual for him.
This is what happens when you stand in front of Jin Shihou.
Should I say that it feels like it’s shaking the very foundation of humanity? I want to deal with ‘Jin Shi-hou’ as he is without showing it as much as possible, but I can’t do that.
I feel intimidated and naturally overwhelmed.
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“Why are you so nervous?”
Jin Shi-hoo approached with a gentle smile and lightly patted Yun Yeong-su’s shoulders with both hands.
Then, the oppressed atmosphere is released in an instant.
“… … I think you are amazing in many ways.”
“That’s out of the blue. Suddenly?”
Jin Shi-hoo headed to the kitchen with a smiling face.
“Water? Zero Coke? There’s also fruit juice, but it’s only orange. What would you like?”
“You can give me anything.”
“There is no menu called ‘anything’.”
“… … Then I’ll just drink water.”
Yoon Young-soo’s eyes never left Jin Shi-hoo’s for a single moment. It was simple.
Yoon Young-soo wanted to understand Jin Shi-hoo. What he liked, what his personality was like, what he hated, and what he liked.
It wasn’t just this moment.
When I first saw Jin Shihou, it was like this from then on.
I took out a cup from the spacious kitchen, opened the door of the large refrigerator, and took out a bottle of water.
Yoon Young-soo’s gaze shifted to the side for a moment. Overall, the kitchen was clean. There were no dishes. There were a few specks of dust, but overall, it was clean.
Jin Shi-hoo, who had brought a cup filled with water, puts the cup down in front of Yun Yeong-su.
“As I said before, I really like the Chief Secretary.”
“… …Is that so?”
“Yes. And how about beef this weekend?”
Originally, on the day the Conqueror’s Guild collapsed, Jin Shi-hoo planned to eat beef with Yun Yeong-su. He had even made a reservation, but Yun Yeong-su couldn’t leave because the work he had to do was bigger than expected. So he postponed it. They decided to eat together later when they had time.
“Weekend, yes. That sounds fine. Lunchtime might be a good time. What do you think?”
“Okay. Just decide on a location and text me. I’ll go.”
Jin Shi-hoo immediately asked Yoon Young-soo, who nodded, with a strange smile.
“You don’t quite understand?”
“… … You are like a ghost.”
Certainly, Jin Shi-hoo was not an ordinary person. Because he read Yoon Young-soo’s thoughts that he wanted to understand the man called Jin Shi-hoo. His intuition was too quick.
“Have you read that diary?”
The diary mentioned here is the one written by Jin Shihou on Titan. It contains most of what Jin Shihou experienced over the past ten years.
Jin Shi-hoo handed it over to Jin Song-yi, and Jin Song-yi hired a professional translator to translate the diary. The translator who hired that translator was Yoon Young-soo. Yoon Young-soo answered.
“I haven’t read it.”
“Oh, really? Well, it would have been easier if you had read it. There’s a guy called the Emperor of the Holy Empire in it.”
“Holy, the Empire?”
“The Holy Empire. A noble and dignified nation, that’s all you need to know about it. It’s a nation that rules over more than half of the eastern and western continents of Titan, but even its emperor doesn’t understand me properly.”
“… … .”
“He told me that I was a difficult guy to keep track of.”
“Did you leave it alone?”
This was an important question.
Because looking at the actions Jin Shihou has taken on Earth so far, it doesn’t seem like he would ever leave it alone.
Jin Shihou laughed.
“The emperor’s nickname was the one-armed emperor.”
Yoon Young-soo swallowed hard.
“Emperor, that’s not something just anyone can do. It’s no joke.”
“Is that so?”
“He said that while losing an arm. He said, ‘Let’s make a deal.’”
There was only one thing Jin Shihou could call a ‘deal’ on Titan.
“I will start a war with the dragons, stand at the forefront of that war, if I obtain the Dimensional Stone, I will give it to you unconditionally, no matter the reason, etc.”
The memory from that time must have been very impressive. Yoon Young-soo judged it that way. Because Jin Shi-hoo’s expression when he said that didn’t show any sign of discomfort.
“So I lived as a general of the Holy Empire for a while and then came to Earth. By the way, I was quite close with the Emperor. Do you know what the secret was?”
“I don’t know.”
“Don’t touch.”
“……yes?”
“I’m not really crazy, and to be honest, I can let it go once or twice. But I can’t do it more than that because of my personality.”
“… … .”
“What I realized while living on Titan is that you have to see things through to the end. If you don’t see them through to the end, too many little things will happen. Then it will just be annoying and there will be more people to kill. I said at the time. When I sort out the king or whatever, I’ll just kill everyone up to the conqueror or whatever.”
“… … I stopped that.”
“Nothing has changed. It’s just that Lee Seong-jae or something lived for a few more days, that’s all. Do you have a rough idea of what kind of person I am?”
Yoon Young-soo nodded.
So now we need to have a really productive conversation.
“I have confirmed the list of missing Titans you gave me before.”
“All of it?”
“Yes. I checked them all, and all but three of them left their mark on the world.”
“What about three people?”
“He is missing.”
“Missing?”
“Yes. Paulo Dos Santos Silva, Joseph Vacher, and Tia Sullivan. These three are Brazilian, French, and American citizens respectively, and they are all missing. I tried to find out as much as I could, but I couldn’t find out anything other than that they were listed as ‘dead.’”
“What, there’s no CCTV or witnesses or anything like that?”
“Yes. Since the three were neither celebrities nor active as Awakened, no one knew them. What is unique is that their entire families disappeared together when they went missing. As of now, it is generally accepted that they all died after being caught up in the Gate, and since there was nothing unique about them, no one is investigating them separately.”
It’s simple.
Those three are the ones who originally fell to Titan. Those three on Earth are their doppelgangers, or apostles.
If an apostle decides to hide, it is almost impossible to find them in this world, unless they are another apostle.
“I think with a high probability, those three are the top-ranking apostles.”
Yoon Young-soo, with a serious expression, seemed to think for a moment before continuing.
“Do you know the island of Kauai?”
“This is my first time hearing about it.”
“It’s an island in the Hawaiian Islands. Twenty apostles will gather on that island tomorrow.”
A smile appeared on Jin Shi-hoo’s lips. Yoon Young-soo was serious, though.
“They are not fools, and since Mr. Jin Shi-hoo has returned to Earth, they must know that their personal information has been exposed. Furthermore, Mr. Jin Shi-hoo’s ‘only’ family is Jin Song of Chilgang. At least, as long as they are openly active in the world, they cannot avoid our gaze. However, gathering in such an open manner, and gathering in such a limited space as an island, is the only thing that can happen.”
