Episode 61
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Knock, knock.
The sound of an electrocardiogram machine and dripping drops of IV fluid.
The awakened one, who had a more sensitive sense than others, heard it clearly. Geo looked up at the flat ceiling of the hospital room.
‘I really hate hospitals.’
Of course, that doesn’t mean that you should use magic in front of someone you’re not even close with. Just be patient.
That’s why I followed the ambulance and came to the emergency room now.
Yoon Eui-seo’s face, with the respirator on, is as pale as a corpse.
“It seems like drug addiction… … Normal addiction symptoms improve with the administration of an anti-poison potion pack, but this is strange. I think you should come and see a high-level healer.”
The intern added that it didn’t seem to be in very serious condition though.
I think it was a remark made with a mind of Yoon Kang-jae, who looked more like a patient than the patient himself.
Outside the hospital room.
Yoon Kang-jae, crouching down, was speechless. His bones had become swollen in just a few days.
It looks like he’s in worse shape than when he was trapped in the bug ooze pouch in the Jongno Dungeon.
“Shouldn’t this person be lying in bed too?”
“I told you anyway, but you insisted on it… … .”
“Hey, hey. Hey. Get up. What the hell? Why are you on the floor?”
“Hey, wait a minute. Joe, Joe! But kicking someone who’s sick is a bit… …”
“… … Right?”
Yoon Kang-jae lifted his head, which had been buried between his knees.
He looks at them with a blank face.
“Yeah… … It’s all because of Joe. It’s because of Joe.”
‘What is this damn hair?’
What’s the matter with this? It’s not like it’s a commercial for Urussa singing a round song.
Joe (real name: Kyeon Ji-oh), who was grabbed by the hair while standing still, gave Baek Do-hyun a look that said he was wronged.
Baek Do-hyun smiled awkwardly.
“Hey, Kang Jae. What is that… … ”
“It’s all because of that kid, fucking shit!”
“Mom. Listen, listen, listen, hey! What did Joe do wrong!”
“Wait a minute, Mr. Geo. Calm down.”
“If only it weren’t for that kid, no, if only he wasn’t there! My brother wouldn’t have ended up like that!”
“Eww. Huh? When life gets tough, you start cursing at your country, but isn’t this too much! What did Joe do?”
‘That magician king… … is naturally calling himself the king… … .’
They say that thoughts usually come out unconsciously… … .
Anyway, it’s quite tough, perhaps because it’s a fight between kids who haven’t even stepped foot on the college campus.
Gyeon Ji-oh, who had both arms grabbed by Baek Do-hyun, kicked his front leg into the air.
“Come on, come on!”
“please…….”
(Please keep some dignity…….)
It was only after a passing nurse scolded him that he finally calmed down.
Yoon Kang-jae sobbed like a zombie whose hair had been ripped off by a cat.
“I also felt that my brother wasn’t ‘that guy’… I just pretended not to know and didn’t want to believe it… … .”
“… … .”
“I hoped that at any time, any day, you would reveal your identity and confess that it was actually me and that you had only endured it all this time.”
“… … .”
“If you just endure it a little longer, if I just endure it a little longer, you’ll tell me that you’ve suffered so much, that you’re sorry for being a coward, that you won’t endure it anymore, that it’s all over, that I wish you would do that… .”
Everyone wants a ‘reversal’ in their life.
Dreaming of a reversal.
We hope and desire that things will change overnight.
However, unlike others, Yoon Kang-jae’s desires were a bit more specific and had a clear target.
Yoon Kang-jae buried his head between his knees and cried. It was tears of regret and self-loathing.
“So… … Ugh, so… … You pretend not to see that hyung is having a hard time, and you don’t listen to what hyung is saying… … Just like a real person.”
“Hyung! I know. You’re that guy, right?”
“Huh? What are you talking about?”
“Oh my, what kind of fool do you think people are? Who doesn’t know that there is only one ‘Master of the Black Dragon’ in the world?”
“… … Yoon Kang-jae, you came to the guild? Hyung told me not to come!”
“No, I went to look for my brother for a bit.”
“Kangjae, my brother is not that person… … ”
“Oh really! I get it. I mean, not revealing my identity. Yeah, how could you stand in front of people with your personality? I understand, little brother.”
「… … .」
“Still, you’re really cool, Yoon Ui-seo. I’m proud that you’re my older brother.”
“I made my brother like that… … .”
Geo looked down at Yoon Kang-jae blankly.
The face of a teenager, wet with tears and snot, his face flushed red, is ugly. But.
This was the most honest appearance that Kyeonji Oh had ever shown since he met the boy named Yoon Kangjae.
“… …Help me.”
“… … .”
“Get revenge on those bastards who did this to my brother.”
“… … .”
“It’s been 6 years. Since my brother was in high school, he lived like a slave for 6 whole years, doing whatever those guys told him to do… … .”
Kwak.
A hand grabbing the hem of one’s trousers.
He was holding on with such great effort that it was bloodless and pale.
Geo asked.
“Do you know who I am and want me to help you?”
“bear.”
“… … .”
“My brother told me to call here if anything happens.”
“This seems to be what I need the most.”
“Did you know I noticed? How?”
“If you look at it that way, who doesn’t know?”
“It smelled like a dragon. And it smelled like fire. Then there was only one person… … .”
“When I asked who this was.”
「… … Then, if I really, really need help, I can contact you!」
“The person we’ve been waiting for, the one we’ve been waiting for so desperately… … .”
The key to reversal.
The protagonist of the reversal.
‘Joe’ laughed.
“Yun Ui-seo… … this.”
That guy is a hunter.
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One by one.
The cheeks are round when you drink pack juice.
Short hair. Short stature.
A face with less baby fat.
An appearance that straddles the line between a minor and an adult, but is still much closer to that of a girl.
Looking at it from the outside, no one would easily guess it.
I’ll probably just think, “He’s cute,” “He’s young,” and “He’s unique.”
But this young woman is the most powerful sorceress in the world.
He was the king of this Babel era who had no rivals.
Baek Do-hyeon sat quietly in front of him.
“… … From Kang Jae’s perspective, it was understandable that he would have been mistaken. After all, isn’t it true that there is only one ‘Master of the Black Dragon’?”
“Yeah. The black dragon is the symbol of ‘Joe’.”
There has never been a time when they were not together when they appeared in the world.
The sight of the ‘black dragon’ appearing like a dark spot in the distant sky is almost like the Magic King’s signature.
Geo took another sip through the straw.
“Even I was fooled, you know.”
“yes?”
“Dragon scales. I’ve seen them before. Yoon Kang-jae brought them to the academy, and they were really black. If Byeol-nim hadn’t told me, I would’ve been fooled.”
I almost took out Nidhogg in the middle of Jongro, lifted his wings, and checked them.
Baek Do-hyun hesitated for a moment at those calm words. His lips moved and he spoke with difficulty.
“Actually, I too… … have seen other ‘black dragons’.”
Hmm. Geo leaned back.
“Before the return?”
“Yes, if you follow the timeline, it was a long time after this point… … ”
“Then it must be him. There’s no way two of them would pop out of nowhere.”
“I think so too, but for a slightly different reason.”
It looks like the label was ripped off in a hurry after being taken out and placed back as is.
“I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not. I found it in the warehouse I went to in the afternoon.”
“… … .”
“Judging by the double coating, it seems like it hasn’t been launched yet, but it’s a pharmaceutical company that has grown rapidly since its launch. They’ve released one of the greatest stimulants.”
Commonly known as Manumission. Liberation drug.
Baek Do-hyun’s voice lowered.
“It’s just a stimulant, it’s a drug.”
“And the raw material for that mission is the fantasy fairy dragon… … the other ‘black dragon’ that I saw.”
He faced Geo with a dark expression.
“If I’m not mistaken… … the powder you were blowing from the rooftop earlier… … .”
“What are you asking? It’s the fairy dragon’s wing powder.”
It is impossible not to recognize.
Only one fairy dragon in the world has such a characteristic powder.
The fairy wing powder had the effect of making people forget pain and reality.
Therefore, it may be good for a short while, but if exposed for a long time or directly consumed in large quantities, there is a high risk of falling into a state of mental and physical weakness.
For example, like the Yoon brothers over there.
That’s why I called it drug cleaning while cleaning up Geo.
‘Of course, I didn’t know that they would catch a dragon and make real potion.’
[The Holy One, the ‘Reader of Fortune’, is amazed at how humans have a talent for turning bad when they meet desire.]
That’s right. That Satan guy has one loss today too. Get going.
“Joe, what are you going to do?”
“well.”
Geo’s feet tapped rhythmically in the air.
Hospital break room.
On one television, several breaking news stories are being broadcast.
[ This is news that came in a little while ago. The guild leader of the White Bird guild Hae-ta has finally joined the joint attack force that will be launched tomorrow. The White Bird Hunters and the Hae-ta guild have not made an official statement yet, so it is speculation… … . ]
[ Announcement of the list of allied attack forces ]
[Ranked 4th White Bird Hunter, Joins Allied Attack Force “Very Unusual Event”]
[4 Guild Alliance Attack Team, Korean Tower of Babel 39th Floor Attack Starts Tomorrow at 10 AM]
“Mr. Baek isn’t going there?”
“Ah. At this point, I think it would be better to move outside the Tower of Babel. By the way, Hae-ta Jong-ju is going… … .”
The face of a regressor who seems to be thinking a lot.
Geo stared intently and then rested his chin on his hand.
My face is reflected in the glass of the hospital window. Bored and bored… … .
“Then, if I really, really need help, I can contact you!”
“The person we’ve been waiting for, the one we’ve been waiting for so desperately… … .”
‘Oh really. Dear Mrs. Park.’
So why bother sending your daughter to a cram school and making her go crazy?
[Your Covenant, ‘Reader of Fate’, is laughing hysterically, saying that you’ve been moving around a lot lately.]
‘That’s really true.’
What is this world going to become?
Joe woke up.
I walked on, still stumbling, and looked at my little brother from Dal-dong, who was still crouching on the floor.
“hey.”
“… … .”
“Pick just one. Exactly.”
“… … .”
“Is it ‘revenge’ you want? Or… … .”
“… … .”
“Salvation?”
The eyes of the Transcendent One, right in front of you.
Yoon Kang-jae raised his head and answered while looking into her eyes as if possessed.
“salvation…….”
“… … .”
“… … No, revenge.”
“… … .”
“plural.”
The people’s answer.
The king smiled. With a very satisfied and refreshing smile.
“That’s right. Salvation is self-made.”
If saving those in dire straits is what it means to be a saint… … .
A tyrant is someone who carries out executions filled with tears and blood.
Isn’t that the royal road of a tyrant?
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