94 – Taebaek Mountain Range – 3
“It’s mail!”
‘Lake City’, a small city located far south of Seoul.
Compared to the size of the population of 5,000 people, the thickness and height of the barrier, and the company that maintains, repairs, and protects it was one of the world’s leading places.
In other words, as a city to protect 5,000 small people, Lake City has the best facilities and protection companies as much as Guahari.
at the foot of the hill to the north of it.
On that nameless hill overlooking the otherwise narrow city, an old-fashioned house was hidden among the thick trees.
And the postman, who had come there to deliver mail for the first time in his life, looked around the house without hiding his doubts and put the mail in the box hanging next to the door.
‘Did people live in a place like this?’
A place that even you, who belong to the semi-veteran class with a lot of years of experience, did not know.
That would also be the case, because there was no record of mail delivery here.
Under the shade of trees, it was a quiet place full of small sounds of nature, so it looked more like a secluded mountain cabin than a house.
so that.
‘Ugh, let’s go quickly.’
After completing the delivery of the mail, the postman began to descend in a hurry on the Mana Rider, a levitating motorcycle.
After a while.
– Kik.
The gate opened with a metal sound that matched the gloomy atmosphere.
A fresh spring-like woman, contrary to the atmosphere here, made a peeking face.
A woman who appears to be around her mid-teens.
Her immaculate skin, her facial features and her small face are so immaculate that you wonder if the sunlight shining through the leaves is reflecting.
Also, the thin horn-rimmed round glasses, straight bangs, and bob hair rolled up like a roll at the end go well together, giving off a model student vibe.
However, a strong energy that contradicted that feeling was emanating from her fragile body.
A woman who looks extraordinary even when she passes by.
Her name was ‘Han Yoo-ra’, who had a wild feeling that went well with this mountain, not asking the classy flock of the academy, even though she had the temperament of an awakened person.
Yura took the mail out of the mailbox and entered the house across the large yard.
In the living room, a middle-aged woman was cooking while wearing an apron.
“mom.”
“yes?”
“post? did you come? what?”
About 20 years ago, all bills and notices were replaced by text messages or e-mails, and paper mail remained a welfare system for very few users.
So it was the first time Yura had ever seen it.
at the same time.
Baek Mi-hwa, a middle-aged woman who was cutting and Yura’s mother, stopped cutting and looked at the narrow window through which the dim light came in.
“… mom? why? What is it?”
Sensing her mother’s strange energy, Yura opened the mail.
Together.
“yes? what. Is it just white paper? mom. It’s just a piece of paper with nothing written on it.”
What was in it was literally a blank sheet of paper.
I was puzzled by that, but Mi-Hwa Baek silently put down the knife and washes her hands.
“Look at this. It’s completely blank. Who the hell would play such a joke?”
Unlike Yura, who was somewhat indignant, Baek Mi-hwa wiped her hands on a dishcloth and accepted the blank paper.
with a sunken expression.
And then.
“Something has come.”
Looking at the blank sheet of paper, I muttered that.
“What? What’s coming?”
Mi-hwa put the paper on the table and lowered her head while holding Yura by the shoulders.
“Han Yoo-ra.”
Mi-hwa, who quietly calls my daughter’s full name.
There was no anger in that voice, but the calling [full name] always chilled the conversation.
Yura looked at her mother with a nervous expression.
“Why why…?”
With sadness at the end of the corner of your eyes.
At the end of his mouth, he hangs remorse.
It was my mother’s face that I had never seen before.
A valley of emotion with a depth that cannot be dared to be measured even if it was created from a single piece of blank paper.
Unable to guess what was at the end of the goal, Yura was able to picture the depth of it, albeit in a low way, after hearing her mother’s voice knocking on her ear.
“Did you say you wanted to see your brother?”
“Uh, yes. Wasn’t it?”
“Let’s go get him. Your brother.”
A blank sheet of paper with nothing written on it.
However, in Mi-Hwa’s eyes, the promise she had made 10 years ago, when she and her husband signed the divorce stamp, was clearly drawn.
[If I have a problem, I’ll mail you a blank sheet. Instead of the poor father, please take good care of me. As an ugly husband, this is my last request.]
And it was the last letter sent by a man whom she once passionately loved.
The last letter that shouldn’t have arrived has arrived.
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“Hohoho. Did you just attack me with that skill?”
The typical evil woman’s laughter resonates in the empty space.
A laugh sound that is as enchanting as a siren’s voice, even though it’s almost as if it’s cut just by touching it.
But to Baek Mi-hwa, who was on one knee, it was nothing more than a noise she didn’t want to hear.
“Yura. Are you okay?”
Mihwa touched the floor with her bow and looked at her daughter.
He was better than himself, but he wasn’t in very good shape anyway.
“Uh, yes. It’s okay so far.”
It was strong.
When she was young, when she was at the top of the Hunter world, she was not enough to overcome the blue witch, who was much stronger than she was back then, with her senile energy.
The same was true of Yura, who lacked experience in interpersonal combat.
But I couldn’t back down.
If it was to keep the promise she made with her husband, Chang-ho Han, 10 years ago, and for her own son.
And as long as I knew what was contained in that cave, I could never back down.
“I’m sure he should have arrived…!”
Mihwa looked around.
Last night, Taejin’s cell phone was detected by Yura’s own GPS tracking device.
It was a weak signal, but it was understood that there was a mobile phone signal within a radius of 5 km.
A lot has changed since the advent of dungeons, monsters, and mana.
Housing type, job, survival priority society, etc.
Among them, there was also a change in [communication].
Since that day, the so-called ‘cataclysm’, the earth’s magnetic field has changed and space launch vehicles have become useless.
After that, there was an attempt to send the satellite back into space, but it was attacked by a flying monster, a strange phenomenon of mana, or a thick layer of mana in the stratosphere, so it could not handle the heat of friction.
It was canceled for a number of reasons.
In the end, mankind will choose the communication method in the form of [city center radio wave].
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Just as wired communication for each country was completed with submarine cables in the old days, the barrier city was wired with an underground cable, and wireless communication was to create a wide area network by installing powerful radio waves in the center of the city.
That’s why wireless communication is smooth when you’re in the city, but as you get out of the city and into remote areas, you can’t use wireless communication.
Before many hunters or mercenaries went on a long-distance subjugation, it was a kind of culture to download and share sights in advance.
It is an unspoken rule to download attractions that can be viewed with teammates.
anyway.
It was that the more you leave the city and go to the remote area, the more your cell phone goes down, and if you are not in the same city, you cannot be contacted via cell phone.
Since it was possible to contact only through the wired Internet, there was no way to contact Taejin, who had left Seoul and was on a journey.
I don’t know why he didn’t leave his number to Taejin, but Mi-hwa arrived here in a hurry, knowing that he was careful in everything.
Unfortunately, it was not a reunion with Taejin, but it became an adversary with the Blue Witch.
The signal from Yura’s special detector kept ringing.
Villains couldn’t carry a regular cell phone.
Undoubtedly, it must be Taejin who travels with a mobile phone in this remote place.
Unfortunately, no shape was caught in the field of vision.
Although it is a burning lie.
First, dealing with Lexa was the priority.
of course.
It seemed like the best thing to do was to hold on.
“Ho-ho-ho. I don’t know who you’re looking for, but it looks like you’re looking for someone like me? I think we’re talking a little bit, but I’ll take that into consideration and save your life. Ho-ho-ho!”
Lexa let out a wry laugh.
Mihwa bit her lips.
I don’t know how Illusion found this place, but even Yura was in danger at this rate.
stubbornness to not give up.
stubbornness for a promise.
It was enough to do that alone.
“It’s Yura.”
“yes.”
“If you find your brother, run away first. Mom will be blocking you.”
“what?”
Yura frowned.
It was absolutely unacceptable to abandon a mother for an older brother who had no memory.
so that.
“no.”
“Please, listen to me. It’s Kibae.”
“Even if you don’t like it.”
“Are you babbling in this situation? Even if you’re looking for your brother, you can’t defeat the blue witch.”
“Why.”
“Unlike you, I was born weak. Even coming here is a miracle. I don’t know what your father believed in sending Taejin to this wasteland.”
I know he doesn’t do anything without reason, but I wonder if this decision was too reckless… Honestly, if I had met him face-to-face, I would have wanted to curse at him for being crazy.
Ten years ago, if it weren’t for Taejin, who would follow his father, if it weren’t for my husband who said, ‘It’s natural for a man to grow up under his father’s shadow to have great aspirations.’
It was Taejin who would have grown up safely with Yura.
anyway.
“I told you to go. Han Yu-ra. Listen to your mother.”
“Oh, even if you don’t like it.”
“Why is this kid past puberty so stubborn!”
“You don’t have to go?”
“What? What does that mean…!”
Yura pulls out a detection device and shows it.
The red lamp at the tip of the crude beacon’s antenna starts blinking faster and faster.
“Your brother is coming.”
“What? Coming? Taejin?”
After a while.
Taejin and his party, who quietly dealt with the villains in the surrounding area, appeared leaping into the air.
And.
“Doujinkyeoksa (多箭激射).”
Taejin reached the MAX level and cast [Multi-Shield], a skill that enabled infinite shooting.
A gigantic mana wind.
Arrows as thick as a crossbow in the Middle Ages.
Numerous magical arrows of brilliant golden light began to shoot like a storm.
It was a majestic yet terrifying sight, as if multiple rockets were launching infinitely.
and seeing the sight.
“That-that’s our Taejin…?”
“Is that… brother…?”
Yura and Mihwa had to feel a strange fear before the joy of reunion.
It was the first feeling of a family reunion after 10 years.