Episode 67 < Heavenly Demon. (2) >
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The pharmacist quietly closed his eyes.
After a moment, her lips opened.
“… If it weren’t for Death King, I would still be in the back alleys of the slums. All the tools were taken away… . “Honestly, I can’t even imagine what would have happened.”
The pharmacist slowly opened his eyes.
Behind the glasses, her eyes were much clearer than before.
“yes. I want to repay Death King for what he did for me. I will not think about anything and just focus on making the cure. … … But for me, when I’m preoccupied with my work, I really can’t see my surroundings. Not even polite. He’ll probably be very cocky. still… … ”
“But it doesn’t matter.”
I nodded.
“Please use your skills to your heart’s content.”
Now is not the time to worry about trivial etiquette.
I just need Alchemy Castle Lord in the future.
“… … all right.”
The pharmacist adjusted his glasses.
She turned her head and looked at the Medicine King.
“Young Master.”
“Ugh? What.”
“Please support me with all your might from now on.”
The Medicine King frowned. The old man’s wrinkles were as thick as his stubbornness.
“support? Support huh? Have you seen something this pure? Yekki, this one. Even in cold water, there are ups and downs! Somewhere, a bright blue child is asked to do nothing but provide support to this Medicine King… .”
“Skill card open.”
“…huh?”
Cards flowed out of the pharmacist’s hand.
1 golden card. 3 silver cards.
The pharmacist has mastered four skills that would be difficult for an ordinary hunter to acquire even one. And that only applies to B-level or higher advanced skills.
The Medicine King’s eyes widened.
“What, what? Are you trying to show off your skills to me? Eh. It’s a big deal these days because young people think that skill is all they need. I don’t know what true skill is… .”
The pharmacist said.
“You can look.”
“what?”
“You can see what my skills are.”
The Medicine King was so embarrassed that he could not react right away.
It was natural. For hunters, skill is their secret weapon. It was a know-how that should never be revealed to others. Revealing one’s skills was no different from confessing not only one’s strengths but also one’s weaknesses.
In a word, it’s a coincidence. Stupid, foolish thing to do.
“Or should I just show it to you?”
But the pharmacist had no hesitation.
“This skill is [Moving Hospital].”
She turned over the card herself and showed it to the Medicine King.
“Everything from blood tests to EEG tests can be done in real time. I can also take out and use the medicine I stored in advance. However, there is a 2% chance of misdiagnosis. This is a [life certificate]. You can know the patient’s condition at the genetic level. I minimize the chance of misdiagnosis by combining the two skills…”
“Now, wait a minute! “Wait a minute!”
The Medicine King finally came to his senses, albeit belatedly.
“Hey! Why are you showing me your skills! “What if I reveal this to the Pension Service and my business partners?”
“are you okay. “I promised not to worry about such random thoughts.”
The pharmacist said.
“If you want to make it public, you can make it public. However, please make sure to support us until we create a cure.”
“No, so why… .”
“Because we need you to speed up the development time even by a day.”
“…….”
“You don’t want me to look at you, do you?”
The Alchemist looked at the Medicine King. His eyes were not only calm but cold. She had always been a bumbling apothecary, but now her face was completely expressionless.
“Are you angry because a child is fussy without even knowing the topic? It must be annoying that someone like me has talent, right? “I have a long time left to live before you, so the fact that I will be treated well by people for a longer period of time than you did, doesn’t that make you feel annoyed and crazy?”
“…….”
The human voice is often compared to that of a bird. However, I can assure you that no animal could imitate the apothecary’s voice. To put it bluntly, yes. It was a voice that reminded me of an insect.
A whisper that sounds like sizzling fire ants.
“If you help me with all your might this time,”
The pharmacist adjusted his glasses.
“The medicine recipes I have made so far. I’ll give you everything. I’m not going to go anywhere and say that this recipe was made by me. Have it. use it. “Tell people that this recipe was invented by the old man—.”
At that moment, the pharmacist’s glasses slipped and fell to the floor.
The old man had slapped him in the face.
“…….”
The pharmacist picked up the glasses. And he silently wiped his glasses with his sleeve. A handprint remained on his left cheek. The pharmacist put his glasses back on and then looked quietly at the old man.
The old man was furious.
“It’s pure… … ”
“I will analyze the zombie virus.”
“You will see that there is a sky above the sky.”
“Young Master, please do what I ask.”
“The day will surely come when your pride will be crushed and a rotten smell will come out.”
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“I will write and give you what you need.”
“Someday you too,”
“At that time, the old man said,”
The old man and the woman spoke at the same time.
“You will meet someone better than you.”
“Find it and give it to me.”
And the two hunters became speechless.
With the corpse of the shaman Jang Mun-in in between, the pharmacist sat on his left and the Medicine King on his right. When the pharmacist mumbled something, the Medicine King wrote it down. Colorless air. The two people, who looked closer to a still life than a portrait, just had a business-like conversation.
“Death King. “I’m sorry, but please leave.”
The pharmacist muttered as he held the mass to the corpse’s head.
“I’m worried about Death King’s breathing. very. “It’s very disturbing.”
“Catch six more zombies on the way out.”
The Medicine King looked into the corpse’s dark mouth. The Medicine King pinched the zombie’s tongue, which was dyed purple and black, with his tongs.
“I need more samples. child. Young guy. old man. Each with a different gender. And if there is any medicine I say you need, please get it.”
I nodded.
“Leave it to me.”
From that day.
We went into war mode.
I didn’t even have time to eat. Washing one’s body was a luxury. Even though there was an open-air bath right next to it, the pharmacist and the medicine king did not take a bath. Be it day or night, the two hunters only studied zombies while looking into Byeokgokdan.
“Uh huh… . “The atmosphere has changed significantly.”
The Heavenly Demon looked at our group as if confused.
“Are you trying to gain enlightenment? “The young people are eager.”
“Why don’t you cook more clam stew or doripal risotto?”
The Murim Lord was secretly flirting with the Medicine King.
“It was truly a feat that made even the imperial family’s servant cry. “If only the world were fine, I would appoint you as the head chef of the Daenam Palace family.”
“I’m busy, so get out.”
The Medicine King answered without even raising his head. He put one hand in his pocket and threw a water bottle.
“If you’re hungry, why not fill your stomach with water?”
“Keueuung.”
I wonder if it’s quite disappointing that I won’t be able to taste the Medicine King’s cuisine. The Murim Lord swallowed his appetite. Still, I caught the Bling H20 thrown by the Medicine King and drank it well.
“You old man. “Let’s go without bothering busy people.”
“i get it. okay. “Oh my, it’s been a struggle these days because my body doesn’t listen to me.”
The Murim Lord grumbled as if he was tired.
“I wonder how many Jiangshi people have scattered today… .”
“If you have gone far, will you travel a thousand miles? “Don’t talk nonsense and come out.”
“OK.”
The Murim Lord grumbled and left the cave with the Heavenly Demon.
I guess they’re trying to collect zombies today like yesterday. To spend the 991st day of the Battle of Jeongma.
A day passed.
The day the world falls into ruin is one day closer.
Another day passed.
One day.
Again, another day.
count down.
Days spent just waiting for destruction.
A world that is nothing more than a music box that has not yet stopped.
“Hmm.”
one week.
Exactly a week has passed since I fell into the apocalypse.
That day, the Heavenly Demon looked up at the ceiling of the cave.
“… … “I guess I can’t go out today.”
A blizzard was raging in the world. The snow was blowing and blowing in the wind, making it impossible to distinguish between above and below, heaven and earth.
The world was just a dark snowy field.
This was the first time I realized that white could be dark.
“what. “There are days like this.”
The Heavenly Demon shrugged his shoulders as if it was no big deal.
“Rather, it was a coincidence that the weather was clear these past few days. In severe cases, heavy snow fell for over 30 days. “I couldn’t move even one step because there was no sunlight.”
“Then the jiangshi will keep moving.”
I said.
“are you okay? “If you go too far, you won’t be able to retrieve the jiangshi.”
“There is nothing you can do about it. “You lose it.”
The Heavenly Demon sighed.
“Originally, just three years ago, our school’s strength reached 1,000. The children of the political faction that the old man brought with him were just like that. But as time passed, there were some jiangshi who went so far away that they could never be found.”
It will be so.
missing bodies. no. Not disappearances, but lost bodies. Every time a snowstorm raged in the sky, the Heavenly Demon and the Murim Lord would have lost several bodies.
“I guess that’s what you’re most scared of.”
“hmm?”
“I woke up and went out to the snowy field, when the jiangshi that was there yesterday disappeared somewhere.”
“…….”
The Heavenly Demon quietly looked at me.
“Do you think I would feel fear or something like that?”
The woman’s eyes were a dull color.
Hair too. Even dressed up in uniform.
Her appearance, which was entirely black, seemed as if she was trying desperately to resist this world that had become a pure white snow field.
“yes. “I think you will.”
“The world has indeed been turned upside down. Originally, there was no way the guy who said something like that would be safe. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha “You should be glad the world is ruined.”
“Cheonma and Maengju are experts. “You are so well-versed in martial arts that I feel sorry for comparing you to me.”
I quietly looked away.
The Murim lord was sleeping at the hot springs.
“But no matter how expert you are, your skills are not infinite.”
“What are you talking about?”
“When will my strength run out?”
Stop.
“You are blocking the cervical acupoint with internal energy. He said that heartbeat, breathing, and movement of limbs are all handled through inner energy.”
Did you say that it is no different from using a sword 24 hours a day?
I shook my head.
“No matter how much strength you have, you can’t continue doing such outrageous things forever.”
“I’ll ask again. When will my strength run out, Heavenly Demon?”
The woman said a while ago.
“Everyone will die someday.”
Those words had resonance. It was the sound made by an enlightened person.
There is only one way for humans to realize something.
I had no choice but to experience it myself.
“… … really.”
The Heavenly Demon groaned.
“Really, Ahaerogo is quick-witted.”
“There are only a few days left, right?”
“… … Let me correct you a little. “Ahae is so quick-witted.”
This world.
How does [The Annals of the Heavenly Demon] come to destruction?
If you think about it, it was a surprisingly simple problem.
“If your internal strength drops, it will become impossible for you two to move your bodies.”
“okay.”
The Heavenly Demon looked up at the sky.
From the open ceiling of the cave, a blizzard was pouring down from the sky.
“First, your toes and fingertips will be destroyed. Next are the calves and wrists. knee. shoulder. waist. “You will not be able to turn your inner energy in order, and your body will eventually rot without your inner energy permeating it.”
Literally necrotic death.
Like buildings that stop operating one after another when they run out of fuel.
At some point, the two became unable to move.
“heart. lung.”
The woman touched the chest of her shabby uniform.
“Sangdanjeon.”
And then he tapped the top of his head.
“All parts rot except for three. no. “Other places are left to rot.”
“… “You already knew.”
“Shaolin Temple’s Taengjung held us together for a year.”
The Heavenly Demon smiled bitterly.
“I was afraid that someone would miss him, so he passed away while lying down. At the last moment, well. Except for the face, there isn’t much difference between him and Jiang Shi. Every inch of his body was black and rotten… . “I couldn’t even recite Amitabha Buddha as a will.”
“…….”
“Did you ask me if I was afraid? okay. “I am afraid.”
The human voice is often compared to that of a bird.
However, I can assure you that no animal could imitate the Heavenly Demon’s voice.
“I am afraid of this throne.”
A murmur like a flower falling.
“I’m afraid of running out of energy. I am afraid that even my vitality will be depleted. I’m afraid of a blizzard, afraid of no sunlight, and afraid of my subordinates and those who used to be my subordinates disappearing when the sun rises. Every time I take a breath, I worry about how many more breaths I can take. “Every time my heart beats, I am afraid of how many more times I will be able to feel the pounding of the heartbeat.”
The Heavenly Demon sighed.
“I am afraid that I will not be able to kill that old man. I’m really afraid that that old man won’t be able to kill me. I am afraid that the day will come when I and my older brother will be lying in bed together, unable to move. “I am afraid that I will just lie down in bed and wait for my inner energy to dry up and disappear.”
meaningless death.
Even the fact that they struggled until the end has no meaning. Die. In a world that has died and disappeared, snow falls and falls again, leaving only a colorless landscape painting.
“iced coffee.”
This is the ending that [The Annals of the Heavenly Demon] will meet.
It was the ending of the world.
“Even the world is afraid.”
A day passed.
It’s been 8 days since falling into the apocalypse.
Two days left until the world falls apart.
“Maduya.”
While lying on the bed, the Murim Lord muttered.
“I can’t move my body anymore.”
The Murim Lord was smiling.
And I was crying.
“sorry.”
A soft whisper.
That was the sound of a world coming to destruction.
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