Episode 79

Kang Tae-min showed his ability while glaring at Do Jin-woon, who was hanging on a cross.

With a clicking sound, the curtains covered the windows all at once. With him, the room got dark.

It was because Do Jin-woon turned off all the lights in the room to maintain a mysterious feeling.

“town… !”

Do Jin-woon was frightened by Kang Tae-min’s actions. The candlesticks placed all over the room flew under him all at once.

“I’m a religious person, so a religious method would suit me.”

Taemin Kang took out a lighter and lit a candle. The light pushed away the darkness and began to scorch the soles of Do Jin-woon’s feet.

“town… ! Eupup… !”

“Don’t struggle.”

Kang Tae-min said that and Do Jin-woon drove nails into the palms and ankles with his ability.

“Turn it off… !”

Do Jin-woon screamed in agony and struggled. Drops of blood flowing down the cross began to fill the candlestick below.

“What comes out of that mouth must be the truth.”

Kang Tae-min split the iron plate. His mouth opened, but Do Jin-woon did not scream.

‘Fuck! There are only old people… !’

Most of his followers were elderly, even if they could somehow reach him. I didn’t think they would be able to deal with this iron man.

A hasty defiance would only urge the lifeline.

“Whoa, what do you want… .”

“Do you know about Cid?”

“Sid… ?”

Do Jin-woon shook his head slightly.

“I don’t know, I don’t know… Please, please save me… .”

It was the truth.

However, Kang Tae-min was not disappointed. There was a good chance that Do Jin-woon would not understand even if he looked at the recipe.

“About the Ubermensch?”

“Te, isn’t it a terrorist organization? I hope you… Turn it off!”

Kang Tae-min lightly turned the spike. Soggy blood flowed like a faucet turned on.

“Only answer the questions.”

“Keuk-heo-eok, I know, I know.”

Do Jinwoon drooled and nodded.

“Other than that, I don’t know. Really… !”

the truth this time.

Taemin Kang slightly frowned. I don’t know Cid, but I thought I’d get a different reaction if I’d been to the hideout of the Ubermensch.

‘… Is it nonsense?’

Was his guess wrong?

Taemin Kang decided to ask one more question.

“Do you know anything about No Name?”

I guessed that No Name or a sponsor got the recipe, but Kang Tae-min only asked for No Name. It was clear that he would come up with a different meaning when he referred to it as a sponsor.

“I do not know. Really… ! Please, please, just save me… !”

The burns on the soles of his feet were getting worse. The pain was so severe that I couldn’t even stand it. But none of the blood and urine extinguished the candle.

“Ask for help?”

Taemin Kang asked and stretched out his palm. The suit came off and his bare palm caught Do Jin-woon’s collar.

“Read it.”

“… Yes?”

“Look at my past.”

Do Jin-woon trembled and did as he was told. As soon as he manifested his ability, Kang Tae-min’s memories flooded in.

Only memories with strong emotions were visible, but the amount overwhelmed Do Jin-woon’s life.

Do Jin-woon, who seemed to be drowning in memories, hastily reaped his abilities.

“Keep it… !?”

“Did you see it?”

“Return, return… ?”

It was the part that Do Jin-woon could not understand the most. How can I go back to the past?

“Is there any reason for me to keep you alive?”

At Kang Tae-min’s question, Do Jin-woon twitched his chin. Some of the memories he saw were of himself.

And considering Kang Tae-min’s hatred for the villain, the result was one.

“Yeah, but… !”

Do Jin-woon said in a tearful voice, pouring tears and runny nose.

“Devil Maker is also gone… ! I will live quietly, quietly. please… !”

I couldn’t die like this. I didn’t want to end my life like this.

“I changed, you know. Yes? You changed the future… !”

“The future has changed.”

At that earnest request, Kang Tae-min shook his head.

“People haven’t changed.”

“sleep… town!”

A crown made of iron thorns was placed on Do Jin-woon’s head. The nails in his limbs turned and the thorns dug into his head.

Contrary to what he said, Do Jin-woon was not a savior, so the only sin that could be forgiven with pain was his own.

‘Is it a dead end?’

It was when Kang Tae-min swallowed bitterness and tried to dispose of the body.

‘… What is this?’

A haze-like aura that floated over the corpse. It was Do Jin-woon’s soul that he saw through Blood Si-ok.

However, what caught his attention was that it was black and sticky, unlike other haze.

As I uttered my will and took it, a strange memory permeated me.

– Is this all?

It was a very strange voice.

It seemed as if several people were coming together, and the voice changed with each syllable.

– Yes, yes. First of all, I wrote everything down and drew it.

Do Jinwoon’s voice.

What I see before my eyes are dizzy spells and papers.

Kang Tae-min could see that this was Do Jin-woon’s memory.

‘Then, is the opponent a no-name?!’

Perhaps because it was spying on memories, I couldn’t control it at will. However, Do Jin-woon turned his gaze to the direction where the voice came from.

– Hmm, okay. That should be enough.

The look was as strange as the voice. Not to mention her outfit, she had no facial features. It just stood there, swaying in turbid colors.

However, the aura felt by that being was as clear as it was.

-All I remember is his aura, his unapproachable presence.

It was as the Mimic Predator had said.

Do Jin-woon brushed off the dust on his hands and respectfully extended both hands toward him.

– The promised reward…

– Oh, here it is. It doesn’t matter if you just use it or withdraw it in cash.

What Do Jin-woon received was a card. But that wasn’t the point.

As he received the card, he contacted No-Name and manifested his ability.

-… don’t you remember?

But all he could see was emptiness and darkness. Do Jin-woon was horrified and reaped his ability.

‘Don’t you remember? Isn’t it invisible?’

before the doubts are gone.

– And this is for each other.

Colors swirled in front of Do Jin-woon, who came back. It hit Do Jin-woon in an instant, and Kang Tae-min returned to reality.

‘Have you sealed your memories? Being detected by bloodstain is a kind of witchcraft… .’

It wasn’t bullshit.

Kang Tae-min was convinced of this.

‘Sponsor and No Name are definitely related.’

If No Name, who obtained the manufacturing method, makes a seed, wouldn’t the sponsor distribute it?

It was good.

‘We’ll find out when we find a sponsor.’

Meeting the sponsor would reveal the outline of No Name more.

* * *

“… Is this a house or a pigpen?”

Seol Ga-eun’s mother, Lee Young-mi, frowned as soon as she finished greeting her daughter.

“Ah, not to that extent.”

Seol Ga-eun pouted her lips and replied.

“Not… ! Look at those cookie crumbs and empty bags strewn about.”

“It’s because I want to clean it up at once.”

“Then what’s in the sink? No, did you only eat ramen? What pot is full?”

“I was going to wash the dishes all at once.”

Surprisingly, it was sincere, not an excuse. That’s why Seol Ga-eun was proud.

However, it wasn’t that Lee Young-mi didn’t hit her on the back.

“Oh, you burn! It’s not like this because I stay at home all vacation!”

“Oh, I haven’t seen you in a while, and you nag again.”

“You don’t look nagging? If that’s the case, let’s go volunteer with mom. huh? Wouldn’t it be nice to meet and hang out with nice people?”

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Lee Young-mi started tidying up while grumbling. Seol Ga-eun started washing the dishes.

“Are you thinking about going out anyway?”

“really?”

Youngmi Lee turned her head away in delight.

“Does my daughter look like a son-in-law?”

“Ugh, no. I have a close friend named Soyul.”

“student?”

“yes. I was researching at the Spiral Guild, and they said I was going to train, so I could come there.”

“Oh my, isn’t Spiral a great guild?”

“Soyul is friends with Changhwang’s granddaughter.”

“really? Wow, you have great connections. yes, yes Good idea.”

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Lee Young-mi shook her head and her eyes lit up.

‘If it’s my daughter, men will line up, but the hunters there must have eyes too.’

Doesn’t a relationship happen just by staying still? It was a law that somehow had to have a chance to meet people.

In that respect, the change in her daughter was worth cheering for.

“yes? Did you finish washing the dishes already?”

“I’ll do it soon.”

“yes? I don’t think I could even hear the water… .”

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Lee Young-mi tilted her head. But he soon turned his attention to it.

“Are you eating properly?”

She opened the refrigerator. But all I could see was retort food.

“Oh, Mom… !”

“Oh wow, I know how to do this… .”

Seol Ga-eun was startled and tried to stop her, but Lee Young-mi’s eyes were fixed.

High-quality ingredients that show off their heterogeneous presence.

I could easily guess that it wasn’t something my daughter had bought.

“… Did he come?”

“No, that, Mom. I’m going to try cooking… .”

“Ga-eun.”

“… I came.”

Seol Ga-eun eventually made up her mind.

“Mom, but the real dad is working hard too. huh? Don’t be too angry… .”

“I told you not to call me Daddy.”

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Lee Young-mi’s expression was cold as she closed the refrigerator door and turned around.

“I’m not one to call you that, and I’m not one to trust you.”

“mom… .”

“Ga-eun, your mother told you everything.”

Seol Ga-eun was also an adult.

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Lee Young-mi told her daughter everything.

“He’s the one who left me and you in my stomach.”

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Lee Young-mi was pregnant before marriage. Because I trusted him, I was more happy than worried.

However, it turned out that he had a fiancée, and in the end he chose a fiancée over Lee Young-mi.

“It’s all fake. The appearance in the media is also image making. Being good to you is also about maintaining your own self.”

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Lee Young-mi’s lips trembled.

She didn’t want to say that to her daughter either. I wanted to show a father who loves his daughter like a normal family.

But the reality was not like that.

“That is the position of the president of the association. No, he is that kind of person.”

The person who should have been Lee Young-mi’s husband, and Seol Ga-eun’s father.

He was the president of the Hunter Association. It was a secret that no one knew, only the three of them.

“Okay, Mom. huh? don’t cry… .”

“… I’m sorry, Mom, I’m sorry.”

Seol Ga-eun swallowed the bitterness and hugged her mother.

* * *

Association headquarters, top floor.

“Majenim’s research on Lunatic money is still in progress. Seed and Noname are working with Changhwang to wipe out the organizations that own Seed. And the Obermensch has been quiet since the previous terrorist plot was thwarted.”

Bae Seung-ju quickly finished the briefing. Business reports to the president of the association could not be made in writing.

[It was hard.]

The president’s reply came back as a message, not a voice.

“no.”

[Sorry for not being helpful.]

“it’s okay. Instead, if you feel better later, I will use up the unused vacation.”

Bae Seung-joo joked, but his expression was dark.

An exhausted man lying in a hospital bed.

Part of the leg that should have been exposed under the blanket was missing, and the exposed shoulder was also moth-eaten.

He was the president of the association, Seol Gyu-jin.

[I’m afraid of this, so I can’t even get better.]

At Seol Gyu-jin’s answer, Bae Seung-ju smiled faintly.

Seol Gyu-jin’s condition was very rare. His body tissue slowly disintegrated because he couldn’t accumulate mana.

In order to slow down the disease, mana was continuously injected, but the countdown to death did not stop.

It was difficult to speak, so much so that an input device using brain waves was used instead of communication.

‘I will take the place of the president of the association.’

Fortunately, there was no damage to the accident, so a clear judgment could be made.

Considering the social impact, only Bae Seung-joo, the head of the direct headquarters, knew this fact.

[Did you find my alter ego?]

“Unfortunately, I still… .”

[I understand. It won’t be easy.]

The reason Seol Gyu-jin became like this.

[Because he will be crouching down until I die.]

Because the clone he created betrayed him.

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