14 – The End of Childhood, A Sign of Awakening

In the corner of the kitchen, Dirakit sobbed.

Everyone hates themselves. Because it’s the devil’s blood. The devil is a terrible thing, and he himself, whose blood is mixed with it, is disgusting.

Still, if the food I made was delicious, I ate it without saying anything. That’s why I wanted to become a chef.

Was it too big a wish?

On the day I was fired from my part-time job, even a monster appeared.

I wanted to escape right away like everyone else, but my legs wouldn’t listen. It was like this sometimes. He didn’t listen, as if his body didn’t belong to him.

I can move normally again, but now I am too late to escape. Because the surroundings collapsed.

No one comes to the rescue.

I will die here alone.

“I found it.”

No, you came to save me?

Dira Kit immediately raised his head in the direction the voice came from. He was the boy I met outside. He said.

“Would you like to partner with me?”

***

Goku Shark.

A monster listed as a county level.

Cha Yeon-hwa was a beginner who woke up less than half a year ago. Even if the divine protection he possessed was strong, it was a dangerous decision to fight against a prefectural monster. Knowing it, I chose to engage.

It was because he remembered Bi Eun-hyeon, who was just an ordinary person who fought against Slender Man.

‘He also fought against a stronger guy. I can do it too.’

The accident spun quickly. I thought hard about how to attack the Wukong Shark.

The strength of the carapace is amazing. It can never be torn apart with the proficiency of the protection currently possessed. He continued to interfere with the space and bombarded with attacks, but in reality there were no effective hits.

Is there any other way? In general, living things were weak near the head.

‘Okay, let’s go for the head.’

The purple energy flowing from the fingertips was captured in the shape of a sword. I swung it wide toward the monster’s face.

‘Did it work?’

Not at all. Rather, it was hit on the back by a tail that approached from behind.

“…… Kut!”

My body flew and collided with the wall. He must have suffered internal injuries, and blood flowed from his mouth. His back was tattered, and his clothes stained red.

It wouldn’t be strange even if I lost my mind in pain. However, Cha Yeon-hwa opened his eyes and tried to keep his spirits up.

‘At least this much pain.’

No big deal. There is nothing more painful than the days when she was forced to stay in the slums.

Repeated his self-hypnosis.

Awakened the hunting instinct.

I realized something while avoiding and parrying the attack. The joints between the carapaces, it’s quite soft there. If you attack there, you can kill the monster.

Once again, the purple energy was captured in the form of a sword.

“Kieheh!”

Wukong Shark let out a scream and collapsed.

‘…… Uh?’

Hasn’t attacked yet.

Thump!

I saw a familiar boy over the head of the fallen monster.

“Hey, that’s killing drugs.”

Cha Yeon-hwa was dumbfounded. He didn’t even know why Bieun-hyeon was here, and furthermore, he didn’t know how to defeat the Wukong Shark in one blow.

‘No, that’s not the way.’

No technique was included in the attack. That was just power. The metal pipe brutally stuck in the monster’s head proved it.

How did this happen?

Has Bieunhyeon become an awakened person?

There were plenty of possibilities. Didn’t he become an Awakener after he suffered from a fever, even if he only had Cha Yeon-hwa right away?

“Are you okay? Uh, look at the blood.”

Bee Eun-hyeon splashed some liquid on it.

My back, which had been constantly in pain even though I tried not to be conscious, didn’t hurt. I felt it with his hand and found that his wounds had been cleaned.

I know of a medicine that produces this effect. Portion. It was something that cost hundreds of millions of won each.

This is what he had been thinking about ever since he hired an expert named Aram to come to rescue him, but Bi Eun-hyeon really didn’t spare himself money.

Cha Yeon-hwa learned from her grandmother that if a member of the opposite s*x does well even while enduring financial loss, that is a good feeling.

‘You have a crush on me.’

Cha Yeon-hwa was mistaken. Thought at the same time.

‘I’m still young.’

So, instead of dating like stupid kids, you should prepare for a successful future. I can’t reciprocate my heart right now. At least, let’s say thank you. It was the moment I made up my mind.

“Did you see it? Because the potion you made is so amazing. Can you be a little more certain now?”

Bieunhyeon talked to the girl with purple hair. Her face was smirking. A bright expression she had never shown herself. For some reason she felt uncomfortable.

It was definitely a feeling of ‘jealousy’, but Cha Yeon-hwa was not honest with her feelings.

This is an inferiority complex.

She deceived herself into thinking that Bi Eun-hyeon, whom she thought was weaker, was an inferiority complex that developed as she grew stronger.

She ran out of the building as if she were running away.

‘Let’s be strong.’

I can’t control my excitement. This is such a dangerous feeling. I don’t want to feel this way with anyone, especially Bi Eun-hyeon. Let’s keep training until that happens.

Cha Yeon-hwa ran, and she started whipping.

***

Time goes by very fast.

It’s already been nearly 10 years since I possessed this map. Soon to be 17 years old. Age to enter the academy

To put this differently, it meant that the mental age had passed thirty, and that the world would perish within four years.

It is said that even mountains and rivers change in 10 years, but major events occurred around the time I was 10 years old.

It’s still been 6 years since that time. Even though there are 4 years left to reach 10 years, too many things have changed.

First of all, Cheonjiye.

A girl with a lack of affection, who clung to a quiet crybaby and brazenly demanded that she sleep next to me, saying she was afraid of nightmares even at night, has now grown into a very desirable villain.

‘It’s a problem because it’s limited to me. Rot!’

Externally, the conduct is correct. Behavior? I got that every time too. He was also very good to his parents. I went to the playroom on the weekends and often helped out.

But I was the only one who grew up not to be cheap.

If you’re bored, don’t you ask me to buy something or do something? It was also frequent to steal and use clothes or objects.

‘In particular, why are you taking your underwear?’

Going one step further, when he was bored, he joked around with a whim. You don’t know how much I suffered because of it. I could stand it though. If she became a villain anyway, wasn’t she the girl who was brought in with the plan to become friends?

I think it was rather good because I wasn’t able to attach much affection to it. The problem was that his future hope had become a hero.

What kind of sacrifice would that be if you had been friends with a hero? It was the moment when a long-awaited plan came to naught.

Ah, where did the Villain Dream Tree, who once said he wanted to kill all the heroes, disappear? Miss the past

Next is Yeonhwa Cha.

Originally, he was a picky kid, but he responded when I spoke to him. But at some point, he consistently ignored them and started avoiding meeting them altogether.

I honestly didn’t pay much attention to this. Even in the manga, the kid had a dog-like personality.

What I cared about was Cha Yeon-hwa’s survival. Part 5 hasn’t even progressed properly yet. Before that, I was worried that I might be in danger, so I just went home once in a while.

Definitely, it was not the purpose of stalking.

But each time, Yeonhwa Cha reported to the police and was arrested. He had to complete stalking crime prevention training several times… ….

“Whoa.”

There are people whose relationships haven’t changed at all.

Typically, it was Aram.

She was a woman who repeatedly made rice cakes while running a secret agency, but her attitude towards me never changed.

‘That’s true for my grandfather too.’

Perhaps because Karstin has grown too old, she has recently retired from being a hero. Right now, another A-rank hero was in charge of the Zaun slums.

He seemed to be very unwell, but I thought I would visit him soon. No matter how hard it was, he was the one who arranged the job for me when I was in need of money.

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Lastly, it was Dirakit.

It was her latest relationship, but she and I run a studio together. Of course, we worked in the same space, and there were many things to see.

It was Dirakit who had a genius talent for alchemy. The money he earned reached tens of billions of won every year, but the remaining money was only tens of millions of won.

It was because Dirakit, who had once awakened to alchemy, kept buying all sorts of materials and experiment tools.

‘I also destroyed a lot of buildings.’

I am the representative of the studio. I was able to stop the impulse purchase enough, but isn’t the world going to perish in 4 years anyway? I didn’t feel the need to save money.

‘Because this helped me strengthen my strength as a normal person.’

I am aiming for a hero.

And today was the day when the hero ability test report card, which is essential for entering the hero department, came out.

I’ve been working really hard.

Of course it turned out well…… ?

‘I choked a dog.’

The evaluation items of the hero ability test were three areas: strength, durability, and agility. These were 4, 5, and 3, respectively, for a total of 12 ratings.

You do not have to be an Awakener to take the Hero Ability Test. In that case, really well-trained ordinary people averaged 4th grade.

I also have an average grade of 4. He was a really well-trained ordinary person, but there was no place in the hero department to pick a 4th grade.

It is possible to insert documents. It’s individual freedom. However, among all departments that exist in this world, the department with the overwhelming majority of students dying is the department of heroism.

The biggest cause of student death was that the student’s physical ability was low compared to the training process.

The process of nurturing elites with a complex combat sense that fights against villains and other evils while protecting citizens is never easy.

I don’t know if it’s a cartoon world, but there was a corporal punishment system that was hard to imagine in the previous earth, and the training process that went beyond human limits was overflowing.

Right now, thorny rock climbing, which can only be found in martial arts novels, is in the training process.

As a result, there is a tendency to not accept even an Awakened person if he or she has a grade 2 or lower in any one of the three test items: strength, durability, and agility. Who would accept me, an average grade 4, for being crazy?

“…… Are you okay? Would you like a potion?”

Dirakit talked to me in a panic.

“It’s okay, don’t worry.”

She gently stroked her hair.

“hehehehe… …. Thank god.”

To be honest, I wasn’t shocked. It was because I tried my best even while forcing myself to eat the tasteless supplements that Dirakit made. What if it didn’t work though?

“I’ll go out for a while.”

Now I wanted to get some fresh air.

***

Today is December 20, 2016.

This is the only day in the original work where the winning number for the first prize lottery appeared. It’s not about looking at money and buying it.

I have changed the original work numerous times. However, if it was a situation where I couldn’t interfere at all like a lottery ticket, I was going to test it once to see if it really worked as it was originally meant to be.

I left the house and crossed the crosswalk. Originally, it was enough to go straight through the city and go to the lottery shop. But today, before the end of the year, a famous hero is singing in a city square pretending to be an unknown singer.

It must have been around this time. The appearance of a famous hero was exposed.

As much as it is a world where all kinds of dangers exist, people’s idol psychology toward heroes was great.

Overwhelming crowds gather in the city square, and congestion occurs. If that happens, the time spent at the lottery shop will increase.

Time is money. I feel it even more because there is not much time left until destruction.

There was no reason to walk downtown under these circumstances. Entered the alley. The moment I turned the corner, I immediately held my breath.

“…… !”

It’s a villain. That pale-faced beauty was definitely an A-class ‘Blood Seeker’.

Yeongsabang is a manga I enjoyed reading, but I can’t remember all the characters.

Among the A-class villains, Bloodseeker is famous for being particularly bizarre and frequently committing grotesque murders. It was sheer luck that I remembered seeing her face alone.

‘No, wait.’

It was strange. If it’s an A-class villain, it’s a big deal. Why are you here?

This is the capital of Heaven. Even if it was a back alley, it was one of the safest places in Cheonlim.

Even now, there are three or four surveillance cameras. It shouldn’t have been possible for a criminal to go around like that.

It doesn’t seem to have been found yet. It is an opponent that should not be confronted. Let’s go back slowly. It was then. A fishy smell was felt at the tip of the nose.

“Haa, really…. What a nice scent. Is not it?”

“Let go, let go….”

A woman’s weak voice.

“I can’t do that. Is this the start? Do you dare to turn my back and run away? You just can’t kill No, don’t kill me.”

“Please….”

“Could you beg for more? Or did you scream? Maybe not? Will a prince show up from somewhere and save you?”

“!”

Bloodseeker’s eyes met mine. She let out an alluring smile.

The Awakened’s senses are far superior to those of ordinary people. It’s stupid. Undoubtedly, the Blood Seeker must have known I was watching her from the start. sh*t.

“It’s a lump of blood. Now, what are you going to do?”

Said the Blood Seeker, closing her woman’s mouth with her right hand and ripping her left thigh with her stiletto.

“Did you see something here? Or did you not see anything?”

Bloodseeker and I are located at the corner of each other’s alley. If she recklessly pursues me, I’m sure I’ll run away with all my might. Also, I don’t know what my level is.

She was just threatening to forget what she had seen, saying she would release her from the beginning.

‘There is nothing to worry about.’

The opponent is an A-class villain, and if you intervene, there is a high probability of dog death.

I am weak. When I see a villain, I think, “Kyaa, I’m scared.” The one to scream and run away, not the one to fight back. Sacrifice like a hero was the goal, not dog death.

Obviously, I am aware of that.

―Jerbug

“Hmm?”

―Jerbug

“Ha.”

―Jerbug

“I must be looking down on you too.”

But why? I didn’t want to run away from the crisis in front of me. Could a moth jumping into a fire feel like this? Rather, I feel a sense of exaltation.

Because of a f*cking quest to sacrifice like a hero in a creative work, I lived while aspiring to be a hero.

It seems I’ve lost my mind.

I can’t stand injustice.

-Beep.

[Villain outbreak, emergency report number ‘7771’. A hero is being dispatched to the reporting point.]

“Instant life, immediate life.”

This is my place.

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