9 Episode 9 - , Part II (1/2)

Chapter 3. The First Hunter, Part II

Translator: Khan

Editor: RED

2.

When the Black Orc's fist hit Bang Hyun-wook's chest, he did not feel pain, because his heart stopped.

It was the Energy from his belly that moved his stopped heart. It thought of its owner more than any other power, and without hesitation, it ran toward his stopped heart. And it knocked on the heart. The Energy revived his stopped heart.

”Kuh-huck!” He was then able to feel the mysterious pain and fear. But the Energy did not stop there. It knocked on his heart again and again to make his heart beat harder! Under the repeated beat of such Energy, his heart began to pump blood like crazy.

Ow! It was like someone forced a hand into his heart and squeezed out blood, or like someone had brought a hot stone into where his heart should be.

The hot blood quickly circulated around his body. Her head was going to burst, the nails on his hands and feet were going to fly off like bullets, and his eyes were already red.

”Ow...”

The bloody battle between Kim Tae-hoon and the Black Orc that welcomed Bang Hyun-wook back. It was a sight that would make him numb all over.

The battle was quieter than any other bloody battle, and gentle. It was a battle of the lasting against the lasting; it should be expressed like that. Kim and the Black Orc were unable to move.

The sounds they were making were also trivial. The sound of hot breath came out of the Black Orc's mouth instead of the scream, and only the sound of teeth cracking came out of Kim's tight lips. Both sounds were buried in all kinds of noises from those who ran away frantically.

If someone who did not know the situation had seen it, he would have thought of it as a show. If a game addict had seen it, he would have thought the same thing: the screen stopped during gameplay, or it was lagging.

But Bang, who experienced all of this situation more closely than anyone else, knew that this was not a show or a game screen lagging.

”I can't hold on long,” Kim thought himself.

Bang knew to some extent the ability of Kim's Telekinesis.

His Telekinesis was powerful, but there were also weaknesses. The biggest weakness was that it could not affect the inside of a monster. Although he could exert Telekinesis outside, he could not exert Telekinesis inside of a monster. If he had been able to do it, he would have burst the heart or brain of the Black Orc without difficulty.

Moreover, Telekinesis was very difficult to handle. As soon as the image in his mind blurred, the Telekinesis was released. He would then be defenseless. It was hard to maintain his telekinetic power with only marginal concentration.

How long could Kim hold on to such a terrible Black Orc? Maybe three minutes?

'What do I do?' And for Bang, the three minutes were all the time he could think how to live or die. Within three minutes, he had to get an answer.

'Do I have to run away? Do I have to fight for my life, or do I have to run away to save my life?'

His survival instinct urged him to choose the latter. It said that the living person should live.

'Mom, Dad...' His survival instincts painted his parents' faces in his mind to convince him to run away: the faces of the parents who had suffered all kinds of hardships with the intention of making their child a baseball player.

'Damn it, but...' Of course, if it had been for Kim, he would not have been worried about it now. Bang did not make any choice or decision right away. No, he could not.

”Hold on!” At that time, a beautiful woman, Ahn Sun-mi, with freckles around her nose, appeared. ”We have to run away!”

Having regained her freedom from the fear of the Black Orc a while ago, she once again demonstrated the courage she had shown when Park Jae-woon had been hit by four thieves. As everyone tried to escape from the Black Orc as soon as possible, she came to save Bang, and she started running after catching his left hand with her right hand engraved with the mark of an Awakener. He was not able to resist and started running with her hand.

”No, wait!” He rejected her hand in front of the fire shutter that the Black Orc had broken. It was a boundary line. If he moved onto the escalator beyond the fire shutter, he would be able to escape to the first level and then to the ground floor.

And if he ran away, he would not come back. The moment he stepped on the first floor, he would not step on the second floor again. At the same time, he would not see Kim's face again.

Bang looked back at the silent battle of the Black Orc and Kim.

Ahn Sun-mi, seeing his face, shouted, ”We can't kill it! We have to run away!”

”Fuck!” Bang also shouted, not for her, but for himself.

”Fuck all this...”

'I want to live. I want to live and see my parents' faces, and I want to protect my parents in a world where I do not know how to go back.'

Even if it was not, there were a lot of things he wanted to do alive. He played baseball, dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player throughout his school days, and now he would be going to college as a specialist. He wanted to go to a wonderful college campus, become a professional baseball player, and drive an expensive sports car.

However, it was true that Kim had saved his life before. His father told him, ”At least, don't live cowardly.”

'What do I do?'

At this moment, he remembered the scene that Kim had come up and saved himself: a paint spray to make the monster blind, the ability to kill it with fishing line, and the ability to use engine oil to poison it.

'Ah!' Suddenly, Bang's mind flashed.

”Cooking oil, Cooking oil!”

”What?”

”Cooking oil!”

There was no longer any thought of escape in his eyes!

3.

”We have to run away!”

When Ahn Sun-mi grabbed Bang's wrist and ran to the escalator to the first floor, Kim bit his teeth harder. He felt like the pillars that he could lean on in this desperate situation had disappeared like a mirage. But he didn't blame them.

'Run away, if you want to run away, and get it right.'

Humans live to live. Bang's decision was a choice to live on, and at least Kim did not have the right to blame him, because he has also made many terrible choices to live.