81 – Crumbling Ice Castle (8)
All the way back.
Instructor Tak Jae-hwan explained what he had just said… No, he was busy making excuses.
“Lee Hyun-seong, don’t misunderstand. It is clear that the profession of a linguistic magician has some flaws. Keep in mind that what I said earlier is absolutely not true.”
“Yes.”
“What is that expression? In any case, this incident should not be disclosed to Instructor Han Yu-mi or to others. Got it?”
“Don’t worry, even if you see him like this, his mouth is heavy. The fact that Instructor Tak Jae-hwan has a crush on Instructor Han Yu-mi will be taken to her grave.”
“·······.”
I have never seen Instructor Tak Jae-hwan so flustered.
Did you say that a strong negative is a strong positive?
The more he made excuses, the more he acknowledged his feelings.
‘Instructor Tak Jae-hwan had a crush on Instructor Han Yu-mi.’
Somehow, I thought it was a little strange.
I didn’t show off, though.
Because it was honestly questionable that a man with great wealth and reputation had no scandals with women.
‘I’ve said enough to spread rumors that he’s either a homos*xual or a monster.’
But he only looked at one woman and didn’t even look at any other woman.
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Different from the formidable impression.
Unexpectedly, he was a pure lover.
“Don’t you just want to confess?”
“Didn’t the Phantasm Summoner say that because of the existence of unicorns, s*x between the opposite s*x… No, I didn’t like it!”
“Yes.”
Would you mind?
I replied with a giggle.
Knowing that Instructor Tak Jae-hwan, who was more like a robot than an iron rice bowl, had such a humanity, I felt like my inner intimacy had risen for no reason.
Instructor Tak Jae-hwan asked a very strange question to see if he wanted to quickly change the subject.
“Lee Hyun-seong, do you have someone in your heart?”
“Like Instructor Tak Jae-hwan has Instructor Han Yu-mi in his heart?”
“…Just answer my questions.”
“No.”
My answer was firm.
In my previous life and in this life.
I’ve never been in love with a member of the opposite s*x.
Heteros*xuals are correct, but
It was because I couldn’t afford to keep someone in my heart.
Especially because I’m currently busy devising countermeasures against the liberation issue and writers.
“Fortunately, there are many good girls around me… What a strange guy.”
“They are all friends.”
“…Really not? At least one person might be slightly interested.”
You ask very persistently.
Since his secret has been exposed.
It seemed like he wanted to know a secret about me.
“No, no.”
“Well, since I dated a lot of girls in the past, I might be tired of it now.”
“That’s not it…”
“So what? It’s not like my tastes suddenly changed. No, wait, Lee Hyun-seong, you can’t imagine a summoned beast…”
I heard that I liked Instructor Han Yu-mi, and I thought the same.
Look at Instructor Tak Jae-hwan’s expression.
It wasn’t a sincere statement, it was like a joke mixed with fun.
So I responded with a silly joke.
“Maybe you like minions. Please respect my taste.”
—That’s right. Love transcends race.
─That’s right!
·······.
I looked back and saw an iron rice bowl and a kkaebi.
It seems Bobtong found us by chance on the way home from work and followed us, and did Kaebi learn some secret summoning technique? I didn’t even notice that I was summoned. When did you get out of the encyclopedia?
“As expected. I’m on the side of respecting tastes, so there’s nothing to be ashamed of. Do not cheer.”
“Ah, yes…”
Anyway.
With Instructor Tak Jae-hwan, we are now able to share jokes like this without hesitation.
Are you kidding me?
I had the illusion that his expression had become serious, but I passed it off as if it was because he had a serious face.
As we kept chatting and walking like that, we arrived at the Passasak Mansion before we knew it.
And.
I ran into Kim Young-ji sitting with her legs crossed on the stairs going up to the second floor.
Kim Young-ji found me.
She smiled awkwardly and waved her hand.
The atmosphere seemed to be waiting for me.
***
Mansion Backyard.
“You have something to say?”
“Yes. It’s important.”
She said that Kim Young-ji had something she wanted to say and called me aside.
“I’m probably still looking at it now, but…. As long as you don’t tell me your purpose, it’ll be fine.”
Kim Young-ji muttered something to herself, and then she suddenly rolled up her sleeves. Perched on her forearm was a grotesque creature with a black armlet… No, her eyes and mouth.
─Nice to meet you.
The black monster greeted you.
It was a really embarrassing situation.
Kim Young-ji introduced the black monster.
“Hello. He is my father.”
“…Father? Uh, hello for now…?”
─You have a bright personality.
“·······.”
The data Seo Han-bit investigated came to mind.
She put together her guess and the current situation.
‘There’s no way that could be a human.’
It didn’t matter if her father was a zombie or not. The point was that it had such an odd shape.
‘The voice is like that, and the appearance is definitely a monster.’
Kim Young-ji introduced that creature as her father. That, in the end, could only mean that she was also a monster.
‘···No, let’s stop speculating to ourselves. There’s a person in front of you, what are you doing?’
Just as Kim Young-ji seemed to be trying to tell her about her true identity, she decided to ask me straight ahead.
“······Youngji, are you sure you are not a monster?”
“Poop!”
Kim Youngji covered her mouth and swallowed her laughter.
Look at the reaction.
Anyway, it didn’t seem like a monster.
“My father is a monster, but I am a human.”
First of all, it means that humans are right.
The moment I was about to ask another question.
Kim Young-ji opened her mouth first.
“Yes. Actually, I overheard the conversation between you and Seo Han-bit through an artifact.”
“What?”
“I apologize for that. I don’t have voyeurism like Seo Han-bit, but it seems clear that he’s talking about me, so stop…”
Kim Yeong-ji turned her gaze around, blurring the end of her words.
It was as if he was conscious of someone.
A little bit of acting in English.
She made eye contact with me again and continued her conversation.
“Anyway, most of your deductions are correct. It’s a higher job than necromancer, though.”
I don’t know the intention.
Kim Young-ji confided all her secrets.
“And it’s true that you hid your identity, but there’s nothing wrong with that, right? If it’s a necromancer-type job, it’s normal to want to hide it, and there won’t be crazy b*tches who go around revealing that their father is a monster.”
“That’s true, but…”
“Above all, I do not hold any hostility toward you, Lee Hyun-seong. Rather, I am in a position to help.”
Let Kim Young-ji say that.
I was listening to the story with the iron rice cooker, which was close to my body and spoke softly.
─Cloths with blocking artifacts.
I also lowered my voice and said.
“You mean you can’t tell if it’s a lie or not?”
─Not that kind of blocking artifact. Everything you say now is presumed to be the truth.
“The saying that there is no hostility is true, then.”
—That’s right. I think the reason for hiding your identity is also valid.
I looked at Kim Young-ji again and asked.
“What do you mean by helping me?”
“It’s literally. I will help you with whatever you do.”
“Without any price? There will be no purpose.”
“I can’t say that now.”
Kim Young-ji stared into space again.
I don’t know what I keep looking at.
“Instead, I will clearly reveal my true identity. Then can you trust me?”
“…Listen to it.”
Kim Young-ji let out a deep breath and slowly let her go.
“My father is a monster called Mamon, who was called the Demon King of Greed, and I am the reincarnation of Mamon. OK? Understand?”
Um. I didn’t understand.
Why are you mixing crude English?
Babton also urged Kim Young-ji to explain clearly.
─Cheap Bunddu. Please explain again. Analysis is difficult.
“Can’t you understand this right away? The rice bowl is full of trash.”
—Shut up. Even a kindergartener would be better at explaining than that.
Clap.
Hearing the sound of her gun being pulled out, Kim Young-ji’s body recoiled reflexively.
“···Since Bobtong said he didn’t understand, I have to explain it again, cancer! I won’t say it three times, so listen carefully!”
But this time too.
We had no choice but to understand it perfectly because the explanation was so cheesy.
To summarize the contents roughly.
Kim Youngji was young. She
She secretly took the only class Awakening Stone that has been passed down as a family heirloom. After that. Her head pounded madly, and memories of her past life flooded in and out.
And the story that his previous life was ‘Mamon’, the demon king of greed.
‘I’m sure my understanding is correct?’
Kim Young-ji revealed her job as a ‘zombie creator’, and she said it was a job that contained the power of an ancient god, as she had a close relationship with Mamon. Maybe because of this, memories from her previous life were resurrected, she surmised.
She somehow used her job skills to create her former self, and after giving away a part of her soul, she calls her father.
“Apart from being able to give a zombie a soul with her job skill, is it possible for her to split her own soul into two?”
“If possible. Originally, the soul is not composed of one thing, but like fragments, it is spread evenly across the past, future, or other dimensions. God is the only one soul in all dimensions.”
It wasn’t a lie that she was a demon king, but Kim Young-ji had a lot of knowledge.
I asked again.
“Why did you bother to share your soul?”
“There was something uncomfortable because the memories of this life and the previous life were mixed… Even if you recall your previous life, is the human body limited in what you can do? With my body, I can’t even use the abilities I had when I was a demon lord. That’s why I handed over half of my soul along with most of my memories.”
After she finished speaking, Kim Young-ji suddenly closed the distance between me and her. And whispered softly into my ear.
“If you want to hear more about it, let’s do it later in the bathroom.”
“Why is the bathroom suddenly?”
“Usually, when going to the toilet, I observe… no. I think it’s just because it’s comfortable to talk in the bathroom. Anyway, I’ve told you everything, so don’t do any background checks, okay? It doesn’t matter as long as you know, but that’s not it.”
After opening the distance again.
Kim Young-ji moves slowly towards the stairs of the mansion.
“I will secretly tell you other stories and information. When no one is watching.”
With that said, she entered the mansion.
She was staring blankly at the back of the iron rice cooker. She moved her gaze to me and spoke.
—Master. Most of Debbuntu’s reasoning was correct.
“That’s right…”
─Anyway, are you going to continue the background investigation of Satbuntu?
“No, it’s okay. I don’t know why, but it’s true that she helps me, right?”
—That’s right.
“Then you have to believe it. For now, let’s focus on what’s in front of us.”
If only the frozen guild gun is resolved.
Let’s talk slowly again.
Until then, I decided to organize the information I learned about Kim Young-ji step by step.
***
Time flies and on the day of the war.
In Cheorwon, an area abandoned by mankind, the Freezing Guild and the Goguryeo Guild set up their camps and were busy inspecting artifacts while maintaining their posture. And a little away from the area where the Ice Guild is stationed. Two officers from the Ice Guild were walking side by side for reconnaissance.
That was the case.
“Hey.”
A man stopped in his seat and said.
The other man followed, stopped and answered.
“Uh, why?”
“I heard that you are a liberation spy?”
“…What kind of nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“As expected, they start with absurdity. Anyway, since the facts were all over as of yesterday, how about acknowledging it gracefully?”
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The man who was suddenly questioned frowned and raised his voice.
“Do you want to keep talking nonsense? Bring proof or why are you holding a live person and f*cking?”
“Evidence? Evidence is overflowing. But I don’t have any obligation to show you, do I?”
“Ha… f*ck, I’m busy preparing for war, but why is this bastard again…”
It was then.
Fishing-!
A small hole was pierced in the head of a man suspected of being an agent of Liberation.
“You seem quite flustered. Seeing how you can’t avoid a single sniping.”
At the same time, an official from the Freezing Guild unleashed a sword, struck it quickly, and pierced the man’s heart.
“Cheer, cooer…! This bastard…”
“Isn’t this enough to die? It’s like a Chimera who received a monster’s heart.”
And.
“Most of the Liberation guys got a monster’s heart transplanted in the lower left abdomen.”
Lee Hyun-seong, who appeared in an instant, shoved his hand into the man’s stomach, stirred it for a long time, and pulled out the jet-black heart covered in blood.
“Right?”
Lee Hyun-seong grabbed his heart, which was gradually slowing down, and smiled as he showed it to the Freezing Guild executive.