163 – non-closing gate-1
“Ahahahaha, I have something to tell you.”
Hwaryeon, who was sitting comfortably on a weekday morning when all the other kids went to work, opened her mouth with a very serious expression.
“What are you talking about?”
Just by looking at his face, I could feel that he was going to say something unusual, so I stiffened my body and looked at Hwaryeon.
“I think I’ll have to go to the Heavenly Demon Church for a while. It might take a while.”
“…what happened?”
Hwaryeon nodded without saying a word.
“Is there a story you can’t tell me?”
“It’s not like that. It’s just a little complicated.”
“If you’re not running out of time, can you explain?”
Hwaryeon nodded softly.
“It seems that an abnormal gate has occurred.”
“Abnormal gate?”
It’s an odd gate… You said that there are a lot of unusual gates these days, right?
If the Heavenly Demon leaves me behind and returns to the Heavenly Demonic Church, how unusual is this gate?
“What gate is it?”
“They say a gate that won’t close has appeared.”
“what?”
The gate usually closes after waiting for about a day. The gate was an unknown entity that could not tell why it opened or why it closed, but based on my experiences so far, I was able to obtain information that all gates close within one day.
But the gate won’t close?
“Isn’t that serious?”
“It’s a serious problem. That’s why I’m going.”
Hwaryeon stared at my face with a hard face.
“Perhaps an event similar to a cataclysm is taking place. Monsters do not come out of the unclosed gate I mentioned, but there are many monsters inside. The environment is also diverse. As soon as the gate opens, monsters jump out of the gate. A gate that is different from the existing gate has appeared.”
“The Heavenly Demon, are you going back to the Heavenly Demon Church to explore that gate?”
“Yes. It’s unsettling to leave Ahae behind, but I trust the other women too. I’m sure they’ll take care of Ahae without me.”
“I’m fine… but are you okay?”
“Who cares about who? This body is worth a thousand. No matter which gate you enter or which monster appears, there is nothing dangerous.”
Hwaryeon smiled brightly, as if trying to relieve my anxiety.
“Are you going right away?”
“It looks like it’s going right away. The Sword Demon is also waiting, and I have to finish the job as soon as possible so I can see you again.”
“Never get hurt.”
“Do I look like a person who will get hurt somewhere? And if the work is going to be long, I will come back at regular intervals, so don’t worry too much.”
Is it because of the sudden breakup? My sad heart didn’t come up properly.
My heart was full, but there were no tears.
“Then I’ll be back. I want you to tell the other kids why I’m leaving.”
“Okay. Goodbye.”
“Ah, be well.”
Then it disappeared right away.
It would have been okay to wait a little longer, but as if realizing the famous saying that the shorter the breakup, the better, it disappeared neatly without leaving any regrets.
I felt a bit sad, but when I thought that no matter how busy I was, I would move right away even leaving the person I love, I started to worry.
‘Let’s think of it as a long business trip.’
Haven’t you ever been to the Cheonma Shinkyo and worked there before? It just disappears for a moment…
Sitting alone in the living room, my mind became so lonely that I handed over control of my body to Hyeon-soo.
The other kids aren’t home, but Liu Ying is practicing in the building.
While Hyeon-soo controlled his body, he slept without thinking.
‘Hey! Wake up, the kids are all gathered.’
‘Oh yeah?’
When I woke up and opened my eyes, I was in control of my body before I knew it, and the other kids were staring at me.
‘I think Hyeon-soo gave the first explanation?’
“Where is Heavenly Demon?”
‘Ah, I guess you didn’t explain anything?’
It would be nice if the Heavenly Demon could tell you where he went and why he left.
“I went to the Heavenly Demonic Church.”
“Did you go to take care of the accumulated work like last time?”
I shook my head lightly.
“No, I went because I had an urgent matter. It seems that there was a strange gate.”
“An unusual gate?”
Ha-yeon asked in a very urgent voice.
“Uh, the gate opened, but no monsters came out, and it doesn’t seem to close even after 24 hours. The Sword Demon seems to have come to tell the story to the Heavenly Demon, but I guess it’s a serious matter, so I followed the Sword Demon right away.”
“Are you not even saying hello to us?”
He said in a tone that he felt sorry for his younger brother.
“If things seem to be delayed, they come back at regular intervals.”
Considering Hwaryeon’s personality, wouldn’t he come every one or two weeks?
“Still… I’m so embarrassed.”
“I mean.”
While the other kids bowed their heads with sad faces, only Ha-yeon was there with a serious and heavy expression on her face.
“Ha Yeon-ah, what’s wrong? Is something happening?”
“I thought it was a gate that doesn’t come out of monsters and stays on for over 24 hours, right?”
‘Could it be that our city has such a gate?’
“Yeah, I said yes, but is there such a gate in my city?”
“It’s not certain yet. It’s a gate that appeared this afternoon, but the monsters didn’t come out, but when I went inside, I found a place where the monsters live peacefully as if they didn’t know the existence of the gate at all. It hasn’t been 24 hours yet, so time will pass. It must be.”
Although nothing has been clarified yet, I am convinced that the gate Ha-yeon mentioned is the same gate as the gate from Cheonmacism.
“How are you managing that gate?”
“After scouting for about 30 minutes, the monsters didn’t show any sign of moving to the gate, so I told them to keep an eye on it. There are some kids who don’t come out of the gate for a specific reason, like the Golem incident last time, but this time all the monsters passed near the gate and showed no interest. I didn’t have one, so I decided to watch it, because I thought it was a gate that would close after 24 hours anyway.”
“But there’s a chance it won’t close now?”
“That’s right. If the gate remains unclosed, we will have to make a choice too. Do we go inside and proceed with the search, or do we just manage the area around the gate and pay no attention to the interior of the gate?”
The atmosphere was chilly and stretched.
“What do you want Hayeon to do?”
“If the gate doesn’t close, I think we should go search for it unconditionally. Gates like this came out in China and in our city. There’s no guarantee that this type of gate won’t come out again in the future. I can’t leave it to you to keep an eye on it, and it’s a problem if the monsters suddenly turn around and rush to the gate, so I need to proceed with the exploration unconditionally.”
The living room, which had turned into a solemn atmosphere, raised her hand cautiously.
“Didn’t Heavenly Demon go back to China to figure out the gate that won’t close? Heavenly Demon will surely bring information about the gate that won’t close, so why don’t we ask after Heavenly Demon sister returns?”
“Yeongha, we have to solve our problems.”
Ha-yeon patted the younger’s head.
“And we don’t know when the Heavenly Demon-nim will find out information about the abnormal gate, so we can’t just suck our fingers until then.”
“sister…”
“It might be dangerous, but if we can’t overcome this situation by ourselves, don’t rely on Heavenly Demon-nim. This is our city.”
“…Okay. Shouldn’t we report it to the guild leader first?”
“That would be nice, right? A similar gate might have appeared in Sol as well.”
Hayeon stood up from her seat.
“I’ll go to Sol. Please eat dinner without me. Due to the nature of the guild leader, if you go at this time, there is a high probability that he will ask you to talk while eating dinner.”
“Okay, have a good trip.”
“You might not be able to come by today, so don’t wait for me to come in late, and go to sleep first.”
He disappeared as if he had teleported for the last time.
“… the end of the world… the end of the world… a gate that won’t disappear…”
The younger said softly.
-Is it that serious?
“It’s unfamiliar rather than serious, because unlike other gates that have been well blocked so far, there is no information. We don’t know anything about whether it’s really open forever, or if it’s simply open for a long time, or if it closes only when conditions are satisfied, so maybe For a while, both my sister and I will be very busy.”
-Wouldn’t it be nice to think about it? It was a mess during the cataclysm, but now they are living well. No matter how serious the gate is, it can’t be that it’s a more serious event than Cataclysm?
“Yes, I’ll overcome it well this time too.”
Is it because the always bright younger age is drooping? For some reason, the atmosphere in the house was depressing.