Only I Level Up: Ragnarok Episode 145
The sea of the afterlife.
Kang Tae-sik’s soul was falling into the darkness with no end in sight.
‘… … Is this death?’
The moment of suffering was brief, but the moment of death was terribly long.
In a moment.
The bottomless pit that seemed to go on forever was dragging his soul down.
In the midst of this continued fall, Kang Tae-sik’s soul was… …seeing a kaleidoscope of events.
Fragments of the life he had lived were spread out before him like a panorama.
And every single moment he was harming someone’s life.
‘Kill, kill, kill… … .’
Suddenly, Kang Tae-sik looked down at his blood-soaked hands.
Yes.
Since awakening his power, he has killed many people with these two hands.
There was never a day when the blood on these hands dried.
Even though I thought it was crazy, it was fun.
But even so, that period is only two years.
Although he had been caught by the police for petty crimes before, it was only two years ago that he began to enjoy killing and become a full-fledged villain hunter.
……but.
Clang! Clang!
As the flashbacks continued, the image of Kang Tae-sik in the memory became increasingly blurred.
And at the end, the ‘memory of that day’ was finally revealed.
‘… … Yeah, that was the beginning.’
In an instant, a blue light appeared in Kang Tae-sik’s eyes as he fell into the abyss of death.
Flash!
At that moment, a boy being beaten appeared in front of him.
-You little rice-eater! If only you weren’t here! Die! Die! Die! Die! Get out there and die!
-Ahh! Ah, Dad… … ! It was my fault! Aah! Please! It hurts so much… … ! Aah!
Broken bottle.
A narrow, messy and cluttered room.
There was a little boy being trampled mercilessly by a drunk man.
In that memory, the boy’s body was always covered in bruises, and he was always crying out loud.
I’m sick.
Stop hitting me.
I was wrong.
But the more I did that, the more my father’s kicks became violent.
After years of brutal beatings, the boy finally came to a realization.
To avoid being beaten by my father any more.
That I need to become stronger.
The first way to become stronger is to hold back your tears.
-Shut up! Shut up… … !
No matter how much it hurt and how scared I was, if I covered my mouth and held back the screams that were about to escape, my father’s beatings would decrease. Just a little bit.
And I had to make as few noises as possible.
So as not to displease my father.
No, I had to become completely invisible.
If he makes a sound, his father will wake up.
Then my father will drink again.
Then again… …I’ll hit myself.
So, he had to live as if he was at home and not there as much as possible.
Holding my breath so that the wrath of that strong and scary father would not be directed at me.
Then suddenly.
‘……ah.’
The boy realized.
The fact that there is a very simple and easy way to avoid getting beaten.
‘Ah, this is how it should be done.’
Why didn’t I realize it sooner?
It should have been like this from the beginning.
That’s how Kang Tae-sik was when he was seven years old.
With those two little hands.
‘I killed my father.’
That was the ‘first murder’ committed by Kang Tae-sik.
And surprisingly, no one knew about this until now.
No, no one was curious in the first place.
Because no one would have guessed that a little seven-year-old boy would murder his own father.
The police and the doctors too.
Everything just happens by accident.
It just ended with a drunkard causing an accident while drunk.
… … and so on.
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The boy who had erased his father from the world with his own power realized this as he looked down at his blood-soaked hands.
‘I am strong.’
Yes.
It turns out that he was strong.
Enough to kill that scary father.
When he realized that fact, Kang Tae-sik was overcome by a pleasure so intense it made his shivers run down his spine.
Oh, yeah.
Just kill him and that’s it.
No matter how scary a person is.
Even if you are a strong person.
‘Because everyone dies!’
From then on, Kang Tae-sik was not afraid of anything.
Because I am stronger now.
Because if I wanted to, I could kill anyone.
Of course, I’m not some crazy criminal who’s crazy about murder, and I don’t intend to kill just anyone.
He just realized that… … there is also the option of murder as a way to solve the problem.
As time passed, a cataclysm occurred on Earth.
The demons have appeared.
Kang Tae-sik was lucky enough to awaken as a hunter, and when he saw the demons emerging from the dungeon and brutally tearing people apart, he sighed.
‘What, they’re no different from demons.’
It just looks a little bit unusual.
After all, isn’t killing a person something that anyone can do, whether they’re a demon or not?
No, in the first place, aren’t there more people who died from fellow humans than people who died from demons throughout human history?
To be honest, I was so touched.
But then it happened.
The ‘Chairman of the Association’ came to see me.
-Kang Tae-sik. How long ago did you awaken?
-… … What is it? You’ve been quiet lately?
-I know. That’s why I came here.
-What are you saying, you old fool?
At first, I was taken aback by his sudden visit.
The president of the association, Woo Jin-cheol, was a detective who had personally put handcuffs on these two wrists when he had committed a minor crime in the past.
But then, out of the blue, they set up a strange organization called the Hunters Association, what?
-I was thinking about what I could do for you, and a good idea came to me.
Chairman Woo Jin-cheol smiled meaningfully at me and suddenly made a strange suggestion.
-Kang Tae-sik, I created a certificate called ‘Association Certified Bounty Hunter’ for you.
-what is that?
-The so-called license to kill granted by the country.
-… …Are you in your right mind?
-Why? So you don’t like it?
-… … .
Although I did feel a little uncomfortable with that unfortunate face that believed without a doubt that I would accept his offer.
In the end, Kang Tae-sik could not reject Woo Jin-cheol’s offer.
Because honestly, it was attractive.
These are people who can be killed.
They even give you money if you kill someone.
‘Yeah. It’s a lot easier and more fun to kill people than to kill demons.’
That’s how Kang Tae-sik became a bounty hunter, and over the past two years, the number of villains he has killed with his own two hands has reached hundreds.
‘Hehehe. You really killed a lot.’
Kang Tae-sik’s soul, drifting in the afterlife sea, chuckled as he watched each and every moment of the many murders.
But why is that?
As their deaths piled up in the kaleidoscope, Kang Tae-sik’s soul was also buried deeper in darkness.
In the darkness, hundreds of hands emerged and, like demons, dragged Kang Tae-sik’s soul deeper and deeper.
‘Let go, you little sh*ts! I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe… … gasp… … !’
Looking back, it was a pit that Kang Tae-sik had created with his own hands.
And that was when it happened.
[Kk kk. What a delicious-looking evil spirit.]
‘… … !’
Suddenly, Kang Tae-sik’s soul trembled at the sound of an old man’s laughter that echoed from beyond the darkness.
An instinctive feeling of rejection came over me.
At that moment, Kang Tae-sik realized.
The fact that his soul is now trapped in the middle of a magic circle made of red thread.
The sorcerer’s circle was like a spider’s web, holding onto Kang Tae-sik’s soul and not letting go.
and.
[Come here. I will personally make you a demon.]
Suddenly, a skinny old man’s hand appeared from the darkness and grabbed him by the hair.
‘Kkaaaaaaah… …!’
At that moment, I was struck by an excruciating pain that felt like my limbs were being ripped off.
Kang Tae-sik let out a terrible scream and struggled desperately to escape from the hands of the giant old man.
But even that was just a pastime for the old man.
[Kk kk. What a good scream. It’s the perfect material to make into a magic spirit.]
‘Kkaaaaaaah!’
[Yes. You are doing well. You are chewing up and swallowing all the sins you have committed with your own hands. The process will be painful, but if you just endure it… … .]
Beyond the darkness, the old man smiled, revealing his white teeth.
[… …you will be reborn as a thoroughly corrupted soul who will feel that pain forever!]
――――――!
Soon the red magic circle was completed.
The old man’s huge hands grabbed Kang Tae-sik’s soul and lifted it up.
[Kuuuuu! Now, fallen spirit! Now you are mine… … !]
That was when.
-Get up.
A ray of darkness descending from a high place illuminated Kang Tae-sik’s soul.
Damn it!
The power of darkness tore apart the red magic circle.
[What, what is this… …!]
The old man let go of the hand that was holding Kang Tae-sik’s soul in embarrassment.
‘Ah, this power… … .’
Kang Tae-sik, who was forcibly dragged into the darkness, trembled for a different reason.
‘Oh, what on earth is this memory… … .’
Suddenly, memories of my past life that had been buried deep in my mind began to flash before my eyes.
For some reason, even in that memory, he was… … covered in blood and dying.
And then she saw a man looking down at her coldly as she died.
-Let me ask you just one thing.
Looking into those cold eyes, he asked himself this.
-What the hell are you? I’ve never heard of an assassination class that can use healing magic… or even debuff magic.
But to his own question, the man was asking a question rather than answering it.
-… … If I am a hunter who grows every time I fight, how strong do you think I can become?
-her…….
Kang Tae-sik couldn’t help but laugh in vain at that absurd question.
Are you saying that you don’t know that and are asking?
-Your shadow… is connected to the darkness.
Death is strength.
-The deeper it is… … the stronger it will become.
Swaaaaaaah!
Two deaths.
Two lives.
At the end of it all… … .
Kang Tae-sik’s soul walked out into the world again.
[Shadow Assassin Lv.1]
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Swaaaah.
[… … Great Shadow.]
Kang Tae-sik, who was reborn as an assassin with black vapor emanating from his body, approached Su-ho, who had called him, knelt on one knee and bowed his head.
Then, with an extremely cold-blooded look in his eyes, he asked in an extremely earnest manner.
[Who should I kill?]
“… … .”
And I thought.
Suho’s gaze looking down at himself from above…
He said that the look in his eyes was very similar to that of the man who had once killed him.
Soon, Suho’s cold gaze turned to the numerous villains rushing in from all directions.
They are murderers who killed all the innocent people living in this village and took over the village.
There was no mercy to be shown to them.
“Kill them all.”
[… …As ordered.]
The moment the order to protect was given.
The shadow assassin, Kang Tae-sik, disappeared from the scene.
