44 Episode 44 - Finding the Owner, Part I (1/2)
Chapter 16. Finding the Owner, Part I
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
1.
”Boss.”
The mayor's office in Bucheon City Hall. There, two men faced each other with a desk between them and a cup of steaming coffee rising, as if they were just chatting.
”Let me get this straight.”
One of them scratched his head with his right hand.
”So before you died, sister Sun-mi told you the wish list?”
At the words of the man who was ruffling his hair, the man with the mug of coffee in his hand, nodded his head lightly, enjoying the aroma of the coffee.
Jang Sung-hoon feigned a smile at the man.
”I don't know whose thought it was, it's a great idea. A wish list… a sure way to use the Golden Glass of Napoleon.”
At the end of the words, a long sigh came out from the lips of Jang Sung-hoon.
It was not a good sigh.
”The problem is the wish list.”
The word that came out was close to a complaint.
Kim Tae-hoon also frowned at the whining remarks, the same as Jang Sung-hoon's complaint. The bitter taste of the coffee had never made his face look so sour.
Through the silence that started like that, Jang Sung-hoon began to recall things to organize his mind.
The start was when Kim Tae-hoon woke up from his dream. He called Jang Sung-hoon, who was waiting outside the mayor's office, and told him the story.
At first, when he heard the word ”wish list,” Jang Sung-hoon clutched his fists without knowing it.
He never wanted to miss that opportunity, because it seemed like having a crazy power in his hand.
But when he heard the wish list, Jang Sung-hoon felt everything getting far away.
”Let's say that's the case with the Bell of King Seongdeok and Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje.”
There were six wish lists that Kim Tae-hoon remembered.
To be precise, Ahn Sun-mi would have recited a long story, but there were only six things Kim Tae-hoon could hear.
The Bell of King Seongdeok and Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje were the first of the six mentioned wish lists.
”Let's also say that's the case with Gwanggaeto Stele and the Sword of Goujian.”
The things mentioned after that were Gwanggaeto Stele and the Sword of Goujian. From there on, Jang Sung-hoon felt something strange.
Obviously, the two things were real, but they were obviously different from the above-mentioned Bell of King Seongdeok and Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje.
”What am I supposed to do if you tell me something like Green Dragon Crescent Blade and Kusanagi?”
And finally, when Green Dragon Crescent Blade and Kusanagi were mentioned, Jang Sung Hoon thought for a moment.
He thought that Kim Tae-hoon suddenly became a very humorous man and played a joke on him, or the shock of Kim Tae-hoon's death was so great that he confused his memories with what he saw in a novel.
He had no choice but to accept them for now, however. ”They are only in stories, aren't they?”
They were literally non-realistic things since the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and Kusanagi could only be seen in the novels.
Of course, Kim Tae-hoon was serious.
Not only at the time when he told the story, but also at the moment he spoke out to Jang Sung-hoon, Kim Tae-hoon still did not lose his serious air.
”I need a description of what I said about the things in the wish list.”
He couldn't help but be serious.
This was the valuable information that Kim Tae-hoon obtained in return for living his future death, information from the future.
To live, he had to change his destiny again using this information.
”Once, four of them were real.” Jang Sung-hoon also knew that fact, so he stopped talking nonsense any more. ”Where are they?”
”The Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje is located at the Buyeo National Museum, and the Bell of King Seongdeok…”
”What is the Bell of King Seongdeok?”
”Oh, it's the Emile Bell. It's at the Gyeongju National Museum. And Gwanggaeto Stele is in Jilin in China, and the Sword of Goujian, as I know, it's in Hubei in China.”
”Are the two remaining ones not real?”
”They're mentioned only as legends.”
Kim Tae-hoon drank some coffee again. Jang Sung-hoon also agreed with the silent time that started.
The two men kept their mouths shut and organized their thoughts.
When Kim Tae-hoon spoke again, the conversation resumed. ”If there was a wish list, I would have been the one to make it.”
”I suppose so.”
”Then I'm sure I didn't just tell myself the desire for things I could not get.”
”Ah.”
Jang Sung-hoon got the hint of what kind of man Kim Tae-hoon was. He could not simply have recorded things he could not gain.
”I don't know how much more I could hear before I died.”
Moreover, this wish list was made to tell the story at an urgent moment, just before his death.
It means that there must be something hidden in the order, as well as in the items mentioned.
Kim Tae-hoon definitely must have made a wish list. Was it even possible that he didn't have his own personality in mind?
”The things in Buyeo and Gyeongju are the ones we can get right now.”
”Yes. If we don't have to fight monsters, it won't take even half a day to get there. Just three hours to arrive at the Buyeo National Museum after taking the Yeongdong Expressway, and about four or five hours to get to the Gyeongju National Museum. Of course, I doubt that we can get there in a year, even if we risk our lives.”
”There are things in Buyeo and Gyeongju, but not in Seoul.”
The first question was why there is no relic on the wish list in Seoul.
Gyeongju and Buyeo were definitely full of relics, including historical sites.
However, Seoul had been a capital city for most of the grand history of the Republic of Korea.
The National Museum of Korea was located in Yongsan District, Seoul.
”I'm sure that's a question. The woodblocks of Daedongyeojido are now kept at the National Museum of Korea.”