Episode 86
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Idaho, United States.
One day, Timothy Lillywhite, a shepherd boy working on a sheep ranch, heard a ‘noise.’
【Why don’t you chase after me?】
Beyond the foothills, a wolf was taking a sheep. It was close enough for Timothy to see. But Timothy didn’t get up.
The voice asked again, this time a different voice.
[He asked why I wasn’t chasing him.]
Timothy, the shepherd boy, answered.
“Peter starved for almost a month.”
【Does the wolf have a name?】
It was another voice.
“There are more than just Peter. They had children a few months ago. Mary, Ivy, Roy… .”
【So you’re just leaving the wolf alone?】
“Jasper died the day before yesterday. If we starve again today, Peter will die next, and if Peter dies, the rest of the kids will die too.”
【Isn’t that sheep pitiful?】
“The sheep will die anyway. It’s pitiful, but it’s destined to die. The wolf isn’t.”
【But then you?】
“… … .”
【The owner will hold you responsible for not guarding the sheep.】
“It can’t be helped.”
It is just the natural order of things, like when the stars rise it becomes night, and when the sun rises it becomes day.
Timothy the shepherd boy answered.
【lie.】
The voice denied it.
【You’re scared.】
【If you’re afraid of getting beaten, just do what you have to do.】
“… … Because I won’t die.”
Even if he gets slapped or beaten, he won’t die. But if he continues to starve, Peter will die.
After the black tower appeared in the capital city of Washington, holes continued to appear in the sky. The earth burned day after day, and the streets were blocked with corpses and blood.
As food supply decreased, people’s fences became higher and higher.
Timothy Mokdong looked at Uncle Peter, the ‘wolf’ running far away. And muttered.
“People still have to live.”
Four voices spoke.
【dissembler.】
【What a good kid.】
【I don’t like it.】
【Not bad.】
Two voices left, two voices remained.
Following the directions given by the voice, Timothy climbed the mountain and entered the cave. Thirty days passed like that.
Revelation and the 30-day ordeal.
As the boy emerged from the cave, the trumpet sounded throughout the world.
Babel Network – World Server
《Babel Network, World Notification》
[Congratulations, USA!]
[The first S-class Awakened person is born in the United States of America.]
[First title, ‘Seongsa (星使)’ (myth) blooms.]
The Voice of the Stars, ‘Son of God’. Timothy Angelos Lilywhite.
This was the second birth of an S-class Awakener in the world since the beginning of the Great Babel Era.
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4 o’clock in the morning.
It was the promised time.
Timothy continued to pace around the room. He heard voices. It was them.
[Timmy, you’re dizzy, sit down. I’ve told you this many times, but you tend to overreact to everything./Kind]
[You’re so good at packaging things, just say he’s ugly. That guy is the best in the world./Dissatisfied]
[Oh my, why are you doing that to the child!/Surprise]
[It’s so frustrating to watch!/Angry]
“That’s because it was a promise I made unilaterally. Just leave me alone!”
[Oh, our Timmy… … /sob]
[How long will that kid’s puberty last! It wasn’t like he picked up something that was dying on the ranch!/Buruk]
A star messenger, one who conveys the voices of the stars.
As befitting his first title of ‘Hearer and Communicator’, Timothy was capable of direct conversation, rather than indirect messages through the Covenant and Babel.
Of course, because it was due to the nature of the title, it was not their real voice that was heard by opening the ‘Stigmata’.
It’s like a kind of artificial, mechanical sound… … .
Since the expression of emotions is also selected and pressed on the covenant side, it was honestly a bit stressful to hear at first. But now I’m used to it.
“What if he doesn’t come… … ?”
[Your indecisive and pathetic actions have been going on for more than a day or two, so I didn’t expect it anyway… … !/Pushed away]
[Be patient and wait. If it is the right course of things, things that are needed will go to those who need them. / Calmly]
It was at that moment that Timothy nodded and sat down on the left star.
Knock, knock.
Timothy ran and flung the door open.
A calm gaze and eyes that were impressive from the moment I first saw them. Below that, there were two teardrops that looked like stars.
His idol tilted his head askance, still wearing the baggy hoodie he wore but without the baggy hotel uniform.
“He’s funny.”
“… … .”
“Aren’t you going to ask who it is? At this late hour.”
The day will come when I will call this name ‘directly’.
Thump, thump. My heart pounded in disbelief. Timothy called out in a trembling voice.
“… … Yeah.”
‘Joe’ laughed as if he could hear the heartbeat. Yes.
“Hello. Kongmosi.”
The suite at dawn was quiet.
It was so noisy in the afternoon, but at night, it seems like I have this place to myself.
Geo collapsed into the armchair. It looked just like his living room.
“Since when did you notice?”
“At that time, in front of the door.”
“It’s a bit of a stretch from the beginning.”
Timothy hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth to speak.
“The covenants give us hints.”
It seemed like he didn’t want to talk about it in detail.
I’m not curious about anything anyway.
It is an unwritten rule among the Hunter community not to ask about each other’s covenants. Geo made a general gesture.
“Okay, stop whining.”
Geo clenched his jaw. In fact, he felt a bit embarrassed.
Korea vs. USA.
Although it was unofficial, since it was a meeting between national representatives, we were determined to take the lead, but the other side had already wrapped their whole body in the white flag.
‘But even though he’s a Westerner, he still doesn’t avoid eye contact.’
Geo looked closely and asked.
“You. What is your real name?”
And this time he answered without any hesitation.
Chararararak.
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• Name: Timothy A. Lillywhite
• Age: 27 years old
• Grade: S-class
• Ranking: WorldId 3rd place┃Local 1st place
• Disposition: A sincere and indecisive leader
• Affiliation: Earth ━ United States
• Sub-affiliation: Aegis
•Validity: ■■■■ / ■■■■
• First Title: The Star Envoy
• Unique Titles: Shepherd, Hearer and Passer-by, Second Man, Good of the World, Messiah, Hypocrite, Coquette, Prince, Child
Hmm. This title is also incredibly flashy.
Geo looked at Timothy, who was waiting silently.
I’m trying to be blunt, but this guy has already been given the title of a coquettish person.
“I guess you never learned that when a wizard asks a meaningful question, you shouldn’t answer carelessly.”
“Ah. I just realized that you were trying to check something about me. I just thought that whatever you did didn’t matter.”
“No matter what I do, there’s nothing I can’t do?”
“Because there is nothing impure in my pure sincerity towards Joe.”
Timothy answered affectionately. Gyeonjio blinked. Pure sincerity?
Then Timothy, perhaps having misunderstood something, hurriedly added:
“… … Of course, it was smaller than I had imagined, no, it was petite, that is, a bit small, no, no, it was less physically built!”
‘… … Just say it’s small.’
“So I was a little, just a little surprised, but my feelings haven’t changed at all.”
The appearance of a foreigner trying to somehow convey his true intentions.
Geo, who had been staring blankly, changed his posture. He raised his hand seriously, furrowing his eyebrows. Over there.
“I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in international dating.”
“What? … … That’s not it!”
Timothy woke up screaming.
“Just admiration, respect, role model, that kind of thing, absolutely, absolutely not! No! Never!”
“… … Huh? Or is it not so? Are you denying it so earnestly? It’s hurtful, huh?”
It’s not true, believe me, I know, stop it, do you want to die, they argued like that for a while.
Timothy suddenly turns his head to the other side.
It looked like he was listening to something.
Geo’s appearance reminds him of his title, ‘The Listener and the Teller’.
“… … This is not the time to be doing this.”
And when he looked up again, Timothy’s eyes had changed.
Not Timmy Lilly, who couldn’t hide his trembling in front of his long-time idol, but Timothy, ranked 3rd in the world and 1st in the US.
“I don’t have much time. Excuse me, but can we get to the point?”
“sun.”
“First of all… … , as an official representative of the United States, I will convey a message from the White House. Joe, what I am about to say is off the record, but you can think of it as the message of the entire United States.”
The face of beauty, Timothy straightened his back.
“Let’s get straight to the point: The United States of America wants you. Desperately, and fervently.”
“… … .”
“We know very well that Korea is a great country as an ally. But, Joe, America is the best.”
A country of heroes. A country for heroes. A country built on justice and religion.
“We do not place any conditions or restrictions on our treatment of heroes. We promise to give every privilege and honor that can be given to a person.”
Come to America, King.
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