67 Episode 67 - Bucket List, Part I (1/2)

Chapter 24. Bucket List, Part I

Translator: Khan

Editor: RED

1.

The sky was gray. The gray, bluish sky was ominous. It was like the end of the world.

”Cough, cough…” In that ominous world, Kim Tae-hoon was coughing. It was not just a cough. Whenever he coughed, his throat and lungs felt scratched by sharp pieces of iron. The pain sent shivers down his spine.

When he stopped coughing, his mouth was itchy. The tickling in the mouth was due to blood, and it was running down his mouth as it popped out of the blood clots.

'What's going on?'

It was a plain sign of death. Kim Tae-hoon, who dreamt of dying, was surprised at his own situation.

'Why do I feel-.' Even at this moment, his five senses were not playing their part. He couldn't hear well, he couldn't feel any sensation in his fingertips, and he couldn't feel the bloody smell or the bloody taste at all. Even his eyes were dim.

'What the hell is going to happen to me?

It was something that could not happen to him, who had superhuman eyes and ears from the Eyes of Black Snake and the Hearing of a Bell-tailed Rat.

'Tell me anything.'At this moment, he urged himself.

'Tell me now!' He was going to die soon, and he wanted to give himself any clue to avoid this death!

However, Kim Tae-hoon, who was now dying, did not hear such longing. So, he didn't say anything. In addition, there was no one around him at this moment to say anything for him. There was no Jang Sung-hoon to talk to him, no Ahn Sun-mi to tell the wish list, and no one to prove his death. There was no word. He only looked at his left-hand palm without saying a word.

- 170712 Colonel Lim Hyun-joon is killed, stop it.

- 180203 Cho Sung-yeon's death. Make him president.

- 180504 The meltdown of Kori Nuclear Power Plant starts, stop it.

'Ah.' Kim's left hand had a message written to himself to watch at his death. In addition, it was not just a message.

'Bucket list.' It was a bucket list, a must-do list before he dies. It was also unnecessary to say why.

The future which he could see by Napoleon's Golden Glass was arbitrary. No matter how much he talked, it's not likely to see it all in a dream. If death was scheduled, the surest way was to see a message to send from beginning to end.

In other words, at this moment, Kim was waiting for his death. He had no intention of avoiding his own death or challenging himself, just waiting for inevitable death to come.

'What the hell happened to me?'

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa! At that moment, he heard a sound in the distance. While looking at the palm of his hand, he lifted his head and looked at the deafening roar. His dim eyes reflected the angelic look. It was an angel made of gray smoke.

'That…' Of course, it was not an angel.

'Flare?' A plane, which was more familiar with the nickname ”Angel of Death” than ”AC-130 Gunship”, fired a flare. The scene did not last long.

As the Angel of Death approached, he focused more on his palm than on looking at it.

He concentrated all his senses on the palm of his hand.

His dream ended there

2.

Incheon International Airport...

There were VIP lounges from various airlines within the airport, bound to surprise the first visitors with their size. In one of the VIP lounges, two men were burying themselves on a soft sofa and facing each other. The looks on their faces were not very good. One was massaging his temples with his eyes closed, and the other was frowning enough to distort his whole face.

One of them, the man with a frown, said, ”Boss, can I ask you a question?”

Kim did not answer Jang's question.

”The more dreams you have, the better the situation you should have, but the more you keep dreaming, the worse the situation seems to get, instead of better.”

Again, Kim did not answer, since the question, which didn't have to be answered, already had an answer.

”Fuck.” Jang, who knew the answer, had answered his own question.

”Meltdown?”

Kim dreamt of his fourth death. In the dream, he had a bucket list for himself on his palm.

It was as it was said. He left the bucket list which needed to be done before death. It was a wise move. It was not just a clue, but a clear statement of what to do. It was the kindest death he had ever seen.

”I'm crazy. After we kill the dragon, the following threat is radiation? We'll have to stop a meteorite next time. Should we build a spaceship, land it on a meteorite that's coming to the Earth, and explode a nuclear bomb? There was definitely such a movie… Bruce Willis…”

But the content was never kind.

”We will save Colonel Lim Hyun-joon, so let's start there.”

There were three things in the bucket list.

First, they should save Colonel Lim Hyun-joon, who would die soon.

”Who is Cho Sung-yeon? Boss has to make him president.”

Second, after saving Cho Sung-yeon, he should be elected president.

”And Kori Nuclear Power Plant… No way! It's really fucked.”

Finally, they should stop the meltdown at the Kori Nuclear Power Plant.

When Jang mentioned the last item, he covered his face with his hands. His hands, covering his face, were trembling from the heart.

”It's definitely something you should do. If you don't, everyone dies.”

The Kori Meltdown forecast was so shocking.