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The doctor said it was a miracle that he survived and did not go into a vegetative state.
The limbs are said to be fine.
If you remain hospitalized for the time being and take medication, you will be able to return to your daily life in the near future.
I’m so glad.
‘That’s bullshit!’
Kuuk-!
Shin Cho-young grabbed the blanket on the hospital bed as if she was going to tear it off.
-I’m sorry to say this, but the affected area is on the abdomen… and all of your aura has been lost.- -It wo
n’t be a problem in everyday life, but you should give up living as an awakened person from now on…-
Biting your lower lip . Blood was leaking out and tears were flowing from my eyes.
It was a death sentence.
For her, who had walked a single life in hopes of becoming a hunter, it was like telling her to die.
I don’t even know how I spent my time after hearing the doctor’s diagnosis.
I just stared blankly at the ceiling, like a person with an empty soul.
The news came on the hospital room television.
– < Soul > leader Hwang Jun-young, who indiscriminately murdered members of < Red Ma > to avenge his disciples, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today. – – It is known that among the victims were people with an awakened sense of taste…
–
– Some are of the opinion that the court’s sentence was too harsh. – As
she had no parents or relatives to be by her side, the only person she depended on was her current situation.
Even though the time they met was not very long, Shin Cho-young truly considered Hwang Jun-young a teacher.
I still vividly remember the promise I made at that time that I would definitely make him a great hunter.
As much as Shin Cho-young trusted and followed Hwang Jun-young, Hwang Jun-young also cared for Shin Cho-young.
In a relationship where sincerity is exchanged, each other’s feelings can be conveyed just by looking at each other, even without long words.
Shin Cho-young thought that for the first time in her lonely life, she had found someone to trust and follow.
But now he has left, branded a murderer.
‘It’s because of me.’
To avenge Shin Cho-young, not anyone else.
The thought that she had ruined everything never left Shin Cho-young’s mind.
When I came to consciousness, everything had disappeared.
A person to rely on for both the strength and the opportunity to avenge one’s dead parents.
Now I’m just spending meaningless time trapped in a cold hospital room.
Shin Cho-young cried and cried like that.
I hit my head on the blanket, bit the pillow, pulled out my hair, and screamed.
A nurse came in and caught Shin Cho-young, who was running wild, and administered a sedative.
next day.
Shin Cho-young no longer went on a rampage.
Instead, I completely stopped eating and drinking. I ate nothing and drank nothing.
She stared blankly out the window until the sun rose and set.
I could see the clear sky, but the emptiness in my heart that I had lost everything was not filled.
‘I’d rather…’
If I stretched out my hand, there was a square window within reach.
If you pull back the thin curtain and stick your head out the window, you can see a land as wide as the sky.
‘I’d rather just…’
I want to escape this feeling of helplessness.
I want to be liberated from a life where there is nothing left.
And….
‘I just….’
I want to meet my mom and dad.
I’m sorry I couldn’t go and get revenge. I want to apologize for following you like this.
I wanted to be held in those wide, warm arms that I could never forget and be pampered like I was 10 years ago.
“….”
It’s simple.
Open the window and put your feet up.
Just keep your head facing down.
“Why do you do such a wasteful thing?”
At that time, Shin Cho-young’s skinny arms stretched out toward the window handle.
A ghostly voice sounded eerily in her ears.
“…!”
There was no sign of anyone opening the door and entering the hospital room?
For a brief moment, Shin Cho-young’s head quickly turned with that thought in mind.
Swish-.
A pitch-black hand popped out through the empty space and snatched her up.
***
‘…The director told me to look carefully. ‘The patient.’
The interior of the hallway was completely turned off without a single light remaining.
A young nurse was walking around the hospital room holding a folder in her arms.
This mainly focuses on patients who are subject to ‘intensive observation’.
And the target included Shin Cho-young.
‘They say I haven’t eaten a single meal since I woke up… but that’s understandable. It must be a lot of heartache.’
Everyone who knew about Shin Cho-young’s situation showed a unanimous response of sadness.
The person also appeared very unstable, so the director of the hospital in charge of her gave instructions to observe her carefully.
“Tsk…”
In the case of yesterday, I had to give him a sedative to calm him down as he screamed and ran wild all night long.
Somehow it was a little quiet today, but
‘that makes me more anxious.’
When I open the door to the hospital room, I feel anxious because I am afraid that a terrible scene will unfold.
Arriving at the single room where Shin Cho-young was, the nurse took a deep breath and opened the door.
Squeak-.
And
“Huh?”
A look of surprise appeared clearly in his tired eyes.
This is because Shin Cho-young, who should have been lying motionless in a hospital bed, was nowhere to be seen.
“Uh oh…!”
For a moment, the nurse, who had lost her mind, searched all the bathrooms on that floor, feeling like she was grasping at straws, but Shin Cho-young’s whereabouts were still far away.
The worst situation I could have imagined.
The nurse, whose complexion turned pale, shouted, not caring that it was time for the patients to be sleeping.
“Director! Director!”
***
My vision became pitch black along with the feeling of being led by someone’s hand and falling somewhere.
For a moment, I felt like I was sinking into a deep abyss where my toes couldn’t reach.
“Huh…!”
Shin Cho-young let out a short moan and opened her eyes, as if she had been revived just before suffocation.
The first thing that caught my eye was the inside of a huge rock cave with blue lights shining here and there.
“This place…?”
“You seem to have come to your senses. “It may make you feel sick at first.”
The same male voice I heard just before my consciousness went into darkness.
Shin Cho-young, who was dumbfounded, shook off her dizziness and raised her head.
“what…!”
A large man dressed in thin, black cloth.
No, the expression ‘big man’ would not be very suitable for such a one-eyed monster.
Anyone could see that it was a monster.
For a moment, I frowned at the dizziness that clouded my vision.
“This…”
The string of reason in my head was cut off.
A spark burned in Shin Cho-young’s eyes.
It was a natural reaction for her, who had a history of losing her parents to monsters.
“You bastards!”
The embarrassment I had felt at having fallen into another world without my knowledge was crushed in the face of anger like an active volcano.
I ran out to strangle this one-eyed monster with my bare hands, but
I got hit with a splash! Pubububung-!
Human-faced fish with limbs all jumped out from the lake that flowed inside the rock cave and crushed her.
“Ugh…!”
“Please refrain from such violent words and actions at the sacred altar.”
“JX. “Fuck you!”
The angry cry made the one-eyed man’s eyes glaze over.
The one-eyed man said as he looked down at Shin Cho-young, who was trapped and unable to move.
“My name is Jerome, the priest of the third altar here in the Eastern District. If you don’t mind, I’ll give you a name too… No. Fuck it. Judging by your expression, it doesn’t look like you’re going to talk smoothly.”
“I know! Who ever asked about your name? Are you guys monsters? Where are we? “Where have you brought me now?”
“Monster… Surely, the humans of Middle-earth used to call the residents of Honsei that. “It’s not a title I like very much, but…”
Jerome, who had lost his gaze, turned his back and muttered as if he were observing.
Shin Cho-young mustered all the strength in her body and struggled to escape from the shackles of the human face fish.
The one-eyed monster just admitted that they are monsters.
“I’m going to kill you bastards! Because of you guys! Because of you, Mom and Dad…!”
“….”
“You disgusting bastards! Look down at me with those dirty eyes! Just wait and see! I! “I will definitely get you guys…!”
Shin Cho-young’s eyes filled with tears and blood vessels burst as she glared at Jerome.
Jerome nodded, staring intently into those gazes filled with resentment and anger.
“I brought it to the altar because I felt a strong desire… If the ‘vessel’ is shaped like this, I can’t use it as a soldier.”
“this person…! “What kind of bullshit were you talking about earlier?”
“Make it a sacrifice.”
With a short word.
Jerome turned around, his cloak-like cloth fluttering, and soon turned into smoke and disappeared somewhere.
“wait! There you bastard! “I’m not finished talking yet.”
Shin Cho-young’s screams, filled with anger, could not continue until the end.
Sigh!
Because the grip of the face fish that was attacking her body from all directions was even stronger.
“Ugh…!”
Thanks to this, Shin Cho-young’s forehead and even the bridge of her nose were crushed to the ground.
She barely rolled her eyes as she felt the coldness of the stone floor penetrate her bones.
Geez-.
Gaaagh-.
The magical hand of a mermaid fish that looked like it had a human hand added to its fin was approaching, writhing in a disgusting way.
That was when Shin Cho-young, feeling physiological disgust, bit her molars and raised her eyes.
[< Shadow Ambush > is canceled.]
Shin Cho-yeong, the human-faced fish that were oppressing her, and Jerome, who gave orders to those human-faced fish.
No one there noticed.
The fact that Shin Cho-young’s shadow on the rock cave somehow has the shape of a ‘skeleton’.
Slurp-.
Geez…?!
It was only then that the human-faced fish sensed a strange feeling behind them and stopped pressing Shin Cho-young and turned their heads.
And I saw it clearly.
Yeah…
The sight of a being that appears clearly foreign to their ‘residents of a single family’ emerging from Shin Cho-young’s shadow.
Next, a system message that the human beings could not see came to mind.
[‘Commander Dolph’s’ unique power: < Replace the Dead > is activated.]
The black body of the being that came out of the shadows changed its appearance, fluttering from head to toe.
Like dead skin cells falling off the skin.
After a short transition.
Jeopuk-.
The sound of heavy footsteps continued.
“I waited long.”
A low, grave voice echoed as if engulfing this vast rock cave.
Shin Cho-young, who was unable to look back because she was pinned down by a group of mermaid fish, thought that another monster had appeared.
Geez-!
However, the moment I discovered the human face language falling with a scream, I realized that that thought was a misjudgment.
“What is it?”
Free from the pressure that had been weighing on her body, she looked back at the human words rushing toward the source of the voice.
Before I even finished understanding the situation.
Qua-ang!
The face fish that had been running together turned into scraps and flew into the sky.
Without a single exception.
“….”
In the illusion that time passes slowly.
Only then did Shin Cho-young realize that the voice was a man with white hair.
***
When Seong Chan-ho was in the clan, he was able to obtain information from an acquaintance that Shin Cho-young had just regained consciousness two days ago.
After activating < Stealth >, Daesung entered the hospital room where Shin Cho-young was hospitalized without being noticed by anyone.
and.
A ‘shadow’ was planted on her.
[The inherent authority of the subordinated Demon Beast ‘Commander Dolph’ has been temporarily passed on to the Absolute.] [The
Demon Beast cannot use the power while the power has been passed on to the Absolute.]
[The unique authority of ‘Commander Dolph’: < Shadow Ambush > is activated.]
< Skill Information >
Shadow Ambush Lv.5 (Max)
[Place a command soldier in the shadow of the specified target.]
[The command soldier hidden in the shadow is a messenger and is a skill user. You can communicate with.]
[Physical damage cannot be inflicted on the target during the ambush.] [
The ambush can only be set up once per person.]
[The duration of the ambush increases as the level of the skill increases. .]
The commanding officer was instructed to report immediately if none other than the ‘Dimension Taker’ approached her.
As long as we don’t know exactly when ‘Dimension Taker’ will appear in front of Shin Cho-young.
Since I couldn’t just stay in hiding and wait by her side, it was wiser to do it this way.
But no way.
I didn’t know that there would be a bite right away on the same day that < Shadow Ambush > was installed.
The timing can only be called lucky.
The commanding officer, who was hiding in the shadows and watching Shin Cho-young’s every move, sent a signal to Dae-seong without delay.
After that, it was all smooth sailing.
< Skill Information >
Swap Dead Lv.1 (Max)
[Changes the location with the designated command soldier.]
[However, the skill cannot be used on a command soldier in < Shadow Ambush >.]
So Daesung can easily use one skill. I was able to come over to this world.
‘I wanted to get more information if possible, but…’
I let Jerome, the ‘Dimension Taker’, keep talking, but Shin Cho-young was uncooperative, so things turned out to be more urgent than expected.
Of course, there was enough harvest just by finding their lair.
‘You can hear the rest of the information directly from Jerome.’
After entering the ‘altar’, Daeseong stepped on the bodies of the human-faced fish that were lined up on the ground.
On the other hand.
“Uh uh…”
Shin Cho-young literally looked like she was possessed by a ghost.
This man appears out of nowhere, blows away the monsters with one blow, and walks indifferently.
‘I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere…’
Shin Cho-young felt a strong sense of déjà vu as she looked at him,
even though the situation was so sudden that even her voice couldn’t come out properly .
“Oh, perhaps!”
It wasn’t difficult to remember the identity of that familiar, seemingly unknown man.
How can one easily forget that unique appearance and presence?
“At that time, during the license exam, the leader warned me to be careful…”
And the soloist who spread the wings of a black dragon on the rock climbing wall in the second floor field.
At that time, Shin Cho-young recognized Daesung and was about to say something.
with a splash-! Food!
Geez-!!
In the lake of the rocky cave, a number of face fish that were incomparable to those I had seen before jumped out all at once.
Daesung frowned at the unpleasant fishy smell and approached them.
A very light gait, as if taking a walk.
Shin Cho-young asked without realizing it.
“What are you planning to do?…”
“….”
Daesung’s red eyes with a hint of bitterness glanced at Shin Cho-young.
The moment when Shin Cho-young, who had a chill on the back of her neck, faintly cowered.
Grumble-!
A rush of heat accompanied by a terrible burnt smell hit her in the face.
“Ugh…!”
Shin Cho-young, who closed her eyes for a moment due to the heat that felt like her skin was burning, slowly lifted her eyelids.
And she saw.
“Ah…”
Daesung’s big hands.
In his hand is a very large and very thick great sword wrapped in karmic flames.
“What are you planning to do?”
at the same time.
His answer came a step late.
“I’m going to destroy everything.”