94. Episode 3
94.
The day after a fun date with Nayuna.
I was standing in the alley I went with her yesterday.
“Come here again.”
I saw the tteokbokki shop I went to yesterday.
I glanced inside and saw no customers.
“Why are you doing business on a day like today when there are no customers?”
The commercial district of this alley is long dead.
Even a person who has mastered the salvage of the alley commercial district will not be able to save this alley.
The only store in the alley is Grandma’s tteokbokki.
I looked around and went back into the store.
“Hey, bachelor! Are you here today!?”
“Yeah, how did it happen?”
Grandma welcomes me.
Today will be her last working day here.
I glanced at the remaining tteokbokki and told my grandmother.
“Please pack all that is left.”
“bachelor! will you eat all of this? Where did the girl who came yesterday go?”
“… “
I replied with a broad smile to Grandma’s remarks.
Because I couldn’t say, ‘Come today with someone else’.
So I received the wrapping paper my grandmother gave me,
I thought to myself.
‘..If you pack up all the leftover tteokbokki, you’ll get in early today.’
It hurts when someone you know a face dies.
Tteokbokki Grandma’s shop has no choice but to
Save your life if you can.
It’s not difficult to say a word.
“Go early today and rest. grandmother.”
Leave that word
I got the tteokbokki package and left the store.
And at some distance from the alley.
I approached the person waiting for me and said,
“Wait? Yoo Ha-yeon.”
“Where did you suddenly go? Wait, what’s that in your hand?”
“Tteokbokki.”
Yoo Ha-yeon frowned.
“Why the hell did you buy it?”
Ha-yeon Yoo was making an expression that she couldn’t understand.
Ha-yeon Yoo brought in under the pretext of a date to clear Episode 3.
‘It can’t be said that buildings will collapse soon…’
To explain in detail, there is not enough time.
I said as I held out the envelope in my hand.
“You eat. Do you like tteokbokki? Delicious here.”
I don’t know the taste, but if Nayuna, who has a luxurious mouth, ate it deliciously, wouldn’t it be delicious?
A restaurant that boasted a high star rating on the blog.
Ha-yeon Yoo said while looking at the tteokbokki bag.
“It’s true that I like it.. I made him wait by himself for 10 minutes… Should I say thank you for this, or shouldn’t I..?”
Yoo Ha-yeon is confused.
My explanation seemed to be somewhat effective.
‘..Now all that’s left is to wait for the time.’
I don’t know exactly how much time is left until the incident occurs, but it must be very short.
The boss in the back alley.
It will start as soon as you see the whereabouts of that beast.
In the meantime, there’s only one thing I can do.
I said, holding Yu Ha-yeon’s hand tightly with the other hand.
“Because my work is done. Shall we go on a date now? Where are you going?”
Tell me everything except the room cafe.
I like all dating places except there.
Because there is still a lot of time until episode 3 starts.
I had no choice but to enjoy a date with Yoo Ha-yeon.
‘This is life.’
If you think there are many other things you can do.
It must have been an illusion.
***
The top floor of the back alley.
A man was shaking his legs as if something was unsettling.
“It’s late. Why can’t you find it?”
Tak tak..
Na Jinwoo.
He dropped his legs so much that the marble floor thudded in the dazzling space.
“What the hell is that one beast? If you give me money, I don’t think you have to work. stupid commoners. I didn’t even know the grace that raised me…”
He gave me money because I had the ability.
But does it work for its worth?
Na Jin-woo raises such a question,
He blamed his subordinates for not finding the boss monster in the back alley.
“Where the hell is it that you can’t find it?”
Whoa.
Na Jin-woo sighed.
After he was abandoned by his father.
I was running a back alley business with my brother who was attending NAVI.
A brother who reached out his hand to himself who had fallen into the abyss.
However, Na Jin-woo did not feel grateful to the brother who helped him.
You’ve reached out your hand for something you want.
Since the interests were aligned in business, gratitude was not seen in his heart.
“It’s unfortunate, but if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have been able to create this world…”
A world where illegals created over 20 years have become legal.
Back street.
If the beast takes damage from someone else and the core is broken.
The world he created returns to nothing.
Na Jin-woo bit his nails in worry.
“Absolutely, that shouldn’t be the case. If that beast gets caught by someone else… I…”
Efforts in the past are in vain.
Na Jin-woo has only worries about being captured by demons in his head.
Who cares about whom?
The creature that was listening to his voice couldn’t help but snort.
“Who..a..a..a..a..a..g..?”
“Who…who dares speak to me… ”
Na Jin-woo gets angry at talking back.
Unfortunately, he was out of order.
Instead of getting angry at answering his words, the first thing to do was to confirm the person who answered him.
Bang!
There was the sound of something falling from the ceiling.
The gleaming marble floor was hollowed out, and the gleaming palace was filled with dust.
‘..who the hell are you?’
Is there still someone who dared to speak back to me?
He clutched the nucleus in his hand, and was slightly excited at the thought of punishing the subject.
As time passed, the dust that had been swirling passed through.
Let the existence hidden within it be revealed.
Na Jin-woo’s excited heart cooled down.
“Yeah.. How can you talk..!”
Beasts with intelligence will be able to imitate human language.
This was the case with S-class Fenryl, and only the Beasts who broke out of their shells understood the language system.
That means.
A D-class beast that was only a D-class gate in the early days.
It is said that the beast has grown to an S-class over a long period of 20 years.
The reason that the gate that only one person could enter has now grown enough to fit one dump truck is because of the growth of this boss monster.
Na Jin-woo does not have such basic knowledge of magical beasts.
He shouted at the S-Class Demon Beast Chimera without understanding the situation.
“under. Even after learning the language, he doesn’t seem to have the intelligence to run away. Quietly coming back to my hands It’s a low-level answer.”
“… ”
Chimera said nothing.
Because it wasn’t worth it.
‘I’ve suffered for 20 years under a guy like this…’
Regretting the past.
Pain came to mind.
The gaze of the lion-shaped chimera naturally turned to Na Jin-woo’s hand.
Chimera’s core in his greedy hands.
Chimera saw it and realized the path she had to walk.
“Come here. You bastard beast.”
The chimera core in Na Jin-woo’s hand shines brightly,
The moment when a wave of magic is about to shoot.
“Aww..!!”
Na Jin-woo screamed and looked at his arm that felt pain.
The arm that should have been lying on the floor.
Chimera who reached S-Class.
The whip-like chimera’s tail had cut off Na Jin-woo’s arm.
At that sight, Jinwoo Na shouted out in anger.
“My..my arm..! This.. the lowly beast..!!”
“… ”
Chimera was silent.
Then, he recovered the magical core contained in Na Jin-woo’s severed arm.
Grrr..
The chimera swallowed the beast’s core by mouth.
The sensation of the returning nucleus.
Chimera tasted the touch of the pounding nucleus and reminded herself that she was alive.
‘I… am… alive… exist… all..’
Freedom.
Liberation.
Chimera was intoxicated with the first taste.
Then you know what you should do.
Could recall it.
“Cr..”
“Oh..don’t come..! My..you know who I am..!? Na Jinwoo..! My name is Jinwoo Na from NAVI..!!”
A chimera that squeezes Na Jin-woo’s breath.
Na Jin-woo desperately ran back, but
No matter how large the palace was, it had its limits.
Tuk.
“Hey.. hey..!”
Na Jin-woo, who has no space left to take a step backwards.
Chimera looked at the weak Na Jin-woo and growled low in human language.
“You…you… die… that… and… I… live…”
And.
I kill the people who made me suffer.
Revenge.
Chimera vowed revenge.
“Oh..don’t come…! Sa…save me…! My..I’m sorry..! I will never do that again…”
Na Jin-woo shouted desperately.
However, it was not enough for the huge chimera.
After he said those words, he was sucked into the Chimera’s mouth.
He was the one who created his own world,
His death was so pitiful that no one remembered him.
“… ”
A chimera who ate Na Jinwoo alive.
In Chimera’s head, Na Jin-woo’s memories flashed past.
It was because he was able to extract memories from Na Jin-woo’s brain.
“Is it NAVI?”
The name of the group that bothered me.
Chimera recalled the name of a company called NAVI.
The arrows of revenge were aimed exactly at the company.
“..I have to go.”
And that beast.
No, that man.
The new Na Jinwoo.
I walked on my two feet towards the outside of that long, hellish back alley.