◈ Episode 77: Only I can recognize (2)
In the hideout of the One Believers, one of the most dangerous evil groups in the world.
Hannibal, the leader of the One Believers, frowned at the situation that unfolded before his eyes and opened his mouth.
“F*ck.”
A soft swear word.
However, no one responded to the low swear words.
Because everyone is dead.
“… … .”
Hannibal looked around with a frown on his face.
What you see is dark red blood and corpses.
Even if you look here.
Even if you look over there.
Even if you look far away, all you see are corpses.
However, the reason why Hannibal was most angry was that the corpses he was seeing were all those who belonged to the Monolithic Church.
Therefore, Hannibal turned his gaze towards the two men and women who were believed to have carried out this act while wearing his holy relic, the gauntlet.
On one side was a woman holding a scythe and wearing a skull mask.
The other was a man holding a sword, but with a very unusual black hood covering his eyes.
And Hannibal knew the identity of the two as soon as he saw them.
“… … “One religion?”
Hannibal mutters.
The woman wearing the skull mask opened her mouth.
“that’s right.”
A voice that seems full of annoyance.
“Why on earth is Ilgyo…?” … me… … !”
Hannibal frowned and asked back.
“Because the Constellation wants it.”
“what?”
“I heard the Constellation wants it?”
“What is that… … !”
“There is no other reason than that. “The Constellation told us to bring you, and that is why we are here.”
“… … The Constellation ordered it? “The constellation of the Japanese religion?”
Hannibal asked back as if he couldn’t understand.
“How many times are you bothering to ask?”
“… … .”
Hannibal frowned at her annoyed voice and immediately picked up his gauntlet, his holy relic.
The woman wearing the skull mask clicked her tongue briefly and spoke.
“Are you going to fight? “With us?”
“Then you thought I would die obediently?”
“If you give up your will to fight right now, I won’t kill you. The Constellation told me to bring you.”
“Damn.”
Hannibal immediately begins to spread his magic.
however.
Next moment.
Kwaduk-!
“uh… … Okay… … ?”
Even before Hannibal could summon the constellation he had made a contract with using his magic power, he was able to confirm the degree of the man who pierced his stomach.
“Tsk, so let’s go quietly.”
After the woman’s laziness-filled words, Hannibal fell to the ground with dark red blood pouring out.
A death that is too meaningless to be said to be the death of a single-minded leader who made the world tremble with fear.
However, the two who killed Hannibal talked as if they were not particularly impressed.
“Should I take this with me?”
“Because it is the Constellation’s will.”
“… … “I guess so?”
“Because it is the Constellation’s will.”
“You can only do it because it is the Constellation’s will?”
“It’s the same for you too.”
“… … “That’s true.”
Finally, the woman wearing the skull mask agrees.
“In the end, everything is for the Constellation.”
They eliminated all members of the One Believers, one of the most dangerous evil groups in the world, in less than 30 minutes and suddenly disappeared, taking Hannibal’s body with them.
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next day.
[Yen Lang: Huh?]
[Yen Lang: Hmm???]
[Kim Joo-hyuk: I have work to do today, so I’ll do it alone. Do everything I told you yesterday without forgetting.]
After Kim Joo-hyuk gave that answer, he left Valhalla and went to Uijeongbu.
The reason, of course, is to enter the market.
‘Is it this place?’
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Kim Joo-hyuk found a road lined with many shabby slums and started walking towards the inside.
[By the way.]
“why?”
While walking like that, Kim Joo-hyuk responded to Barce’s words.
[This is the text you created.]
“Why is that?”
[…] … Wasn’t there such a thing as writing 300 years ago?]
In response to Barce’s question, Kim Joo-hyuk frowned and said as if he was saying something.
“What do you mean, why is there no text?”
[Was there a text message?]
“Then it wouldn’t have happened?”
Of course, compared to now, there were many people who knew how to speak, but writing… … So, there were quite a lot of people who couldn’t read letters.
At least as far as he knew, most of those who learned something to the point of being able to read were those who settled in the city.
Of course, other than that, it was possible to learn basic writing, but 300 years ago, there were far more people who did not know than those who knew.
Well, anyway, even if there were more people who knew how to read than people who didn’t, there was writing in the end.
[Then why on earth did you create the text?]
“What, the text I made?”
[Yeah, that’s it. I did see it once yesterday, but it was a little… … .]
“What?”
When Kim Joo-hyuk asks, Barce slightly pauses.
[I think it would be inefficient to create a new character when there is already an existing character.]
“Well, that’s definitely true.”
Kim Joo-hyuk nodded as if he agreed with Barce’s words and continued the conversation.
“But actually, it wasn’t really meant to be used as text.”
“It wasn’t made to be used as text?”
Barce’s question.
“Yeah, that’s… … .”
Kim Joo-hyuk nodded and continued to think for a while, as if he was thinking about how to explain this text.
“… … Well, let’s just say it’s part of the training.”
[Part of training?]
When Barce asked that question and showed signs of asking more, Kim Joo-hyuk spoke as if he was annoyed.
“But what are you so curious about that you ask so much?”
[Well, since you said it was a text you created, I’m a little curious.]
“I’m curious about everything.”
For some reason, Barche got the feeling that Kim Joo-hyuk subtly did not want to talk about the text message anymore, so he did not ask any more questions.
“Is it here?”
Kim Joo-hyuk arrived at an old abandoned house and opened the closed iron door of the house.
“hmm.”
And what he sees along with it is the purple sky he had seen once.
Below that, buildings that still looked like a steampunk world were lined up everywhere.
Kim Joo-hyuk was staring blankly at the market he had seen for the first time in a while.
“huh?”
Soon he could see a new building that he had not seen before coming to the market.
A building that looks a little unbalanced in the punk world, which is the original atmosphere of the market.
After staring at the building blankly for a while, Barce spoke.
[…] … A building was made with currency.]
“what?”
[You may not be able to see it, but that building seems to be made of currency.]
“It was made with money?”
[okay. I know that for humans, currency is something that is used to trade something… … is not it?]
Kim Joo-hyuk heard the voice of Barce, who seemed to be slightly confused and opened his mouth while looking at the building in the exact center of the market.
“her.”
I smiled unconsciously and looked at the building.
How long did Kim Joo-hyuk stare blankly at the building?
“Nice to meet you, Kim Joo-hyuk.”
“… … huh?”
Before long, Kim Joo-hyuk could see a man wearing a cat mask.
“you?”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s question.
Black Cat naturally nodded and opened her mouth.
“I am the owner of this market, black cat.”
“Are you the one who sent this letter?”
“Yes, I was the one who sent that letter. But before we talk about that, can we move around a bit first?”
“Change seats?”
“This is a place with a lot of people, so it’s a bit noisy to talk.”
Just as Black Cat said, people were continuously coming into this square in real time, so Kim Joo-hyuk nodded as if he understood.
“Then let’s move to our seats right away.”
Black Cat nodded slightly again and clapped her finger.
Perfect!
Even though it was clearly a crowded place, the sound was unusually loud.
And the next moment.
“… … ?”
Kim Joo-hyuk had moved to another place.
To be precise, it is a clean space with a modern feel.
“This is inside a building in the center of District 7.”
When Kim Joo-hyuk looked around, Black Cat, who explained as if she had been waiting, then lightly motioned for him to sit on the sofa in front of him.
When Kim Joo-hyuk sat down, Black Cat sat across from him and talked.
“First of all, can I say something really rude first?”
“… … “Is that rude to say?”
“yes.”
“First of all, I would like you to give me an answer to the contents of the letter.”
In response to Black Cat’s words, Kim Joo-hyuk spoke while showing the letter he was holding in his hand.
“Answer to this letter?”
“yes. Actually, about two people had already visited before Kim Joo-hyuk came… … “I came to you without knowing the correct answer, and I offended the Holy See for no reason.”
At Black Cat’s words, Kim Joo-hyuk nodded his head a few times and then asked.
“Did this letter come from your constellation?”
“If you had read the letter, you would know, right?”
Black Cat opens his mouth in a tone of suspicion in response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s question.
Kim Joo-hyuk, who was staring at him, seemed to think for a moment, then smiled and opened his mouth.
“Then give me a pen.”
“… … “A pen?”
“uh. pen.”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s request made Black Cat slightly puzzled.
Perfect!
He tapped his finger and created a black pen in front of Kim Joo-hyuk.
Kim Joo-hyuk, still smiling, began to write something in the letter that Black Cat had sent.
And looking at Kim Joo-hyuk like that, Black Cat,
‘… … Surely, isn’t it this time too?’
I was quietly sweating.
The reason I think so is because Kim Joo-hyuk was behaving strangely when asked for an answer.
‘Ah, it has to be this time too… … !’
Black Cat looked at Kim Joo-hyuk and frowned inside his mask.
Of course, two of those who received the letter had already arrived here before Kim Joo-hyuk came here.
Of course, the ruler behind the scenes looked forward to seeing the people who came as soon as he received the letter.
‘People who don’t know the answer shouldn’t come to me… … !’
The two people who came to the market before Kim Joo-hyuk did not even know the answer to the letter, but came just in case.
Well, actually, if you think about it up to that point, to be honest, they didn’t really cause any damage to Black Cat.
Yeah, there was no real damage.
Actual damage.
However, the problem was that they completely shattered the expectations of their Constellation, which they had high hopes for.
[The ruler behind the scenes frowns mercilessly as if he is extremely annoyed.]
The aftereffects were also hitting Black Cat very strongly.
I am afraid of what will happen if the person the Constellation wants does not come this time.
That’s why he hoped that Kim Joo-hyuk, who came this time, was the person the Holy See was looking for.
‘No matter how you look at it’
Looking at Kim Joo-hyuk’s actions and a few simple conversations with him, it seemed like he was not the person the Constellation was looking for, so Black Cat had a despairing expression on his face.
“here.”
Just when Black Cat was thinking about how to deal with the constellation’s fallout, a letter was suddenly presented to her.
Black Cat took one look at Kim Joo-hyuk’s smiling expression and then took the letter he held out.
‘… … what’s this?’
Soon, Black Cat could see the hieroglyphs written in ballpoint pen underneath the letter he had written on.
He also wrote letters that looked similar to the ones he had written down only as instructed by the ruler behind him.
How many times did Black Cat tilt her head as if she couldn’t understand him?
[The ruler behind the scenes looks at the letter with an expression of incomprehension.]
His constellation, which had not said a single word since it had previously displayed a notification window saying that it was very angry, began to display a notification window again.
[The ruler behind the scenes mutters ‘No?’ as if he still doesn’t understand.]
[The ruler behind the scenes tilts his head as if curious.]
How many times has a notification window popped up like that?
[!]
‘… … !’
Black Cat’s eyes widened involuntarily as an exclamation mark appeared in the notification window of the master behind the scenes.
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
[The ruler behind the scenes rejoices!]
At the same time, a huge number of notifications appeared in front of Black Cat.
[The ruler behind the scenes shouts ‘Master!’ in a confident voice.]
A notification window appeared before his eyes.
On that.
“long time no see.”
Kim Joo-hyuk answered that way.
