75 Episode 75 - A Gamecock, Part I (1/2)
Chapter 27. A Gamecock, Part I
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
1.
With the advent of the monsters, horrors that had never been experienced began. With the advent of the Messiah, the exploitation and plundering which seemed to not end began, but in the end, it was a man who no one anticipated or knew who finished the nightmare of Buyeo. A desperate battle began, and only screams and corpses were left.
Kim Tae-hoon.
He no longer allowed the gunshots and screams to ring out in Buyeo. That's how the nightmare ended.
”Are you finished?” But it wasn't over. Kate asked a question of him, who started to enjoy the coffee he had served at the coffee shop after finishing everything. He did not answer, but he stared at her slowly with his coffee in his mouth.
”It looks like it's over.” She did not play up her anger, as she knew he was not that kind of man.
”Thank you.” She was not angry at his appearance. She knew that she had no right or reason to be angry with him.
”Thank you so much.” She thanked him again.
Gulp! At that time, he swallowed.
”I liked your savior's performance, and I caught the Messiahs properly, and I'll cancel some of the monster stones, as promised.”
After his words, he enjoyed his coffee again. That was the last sip, and the coffee that had been half-filled in the mug was gone, not because he drank a lot at once, but because of the small amount of coffee that he had made.
Her face hardened at that moment. ”Hey, are you going to leave like this?”
There was no answer to the question. There was no need to. His eyes, looking at her indifferently, were enough to convey the answer.
”Are you really going to leave them alone?” Her face was now distorted. ”If you just go back, most of the people here will just die!”
It was the sound of Kim swallowing the last coffee that stopped the words that she was pouring out with her feelings. At that sound, she swallowed without even knowing it.
”We use the Messiah to catch the Messiah, that was our plan. You play Messiah, and I catch Messiah. I never said anything more.”
”You saved them! You're responsible for saving them, aren't you?”
He got rid of the Messiah. Certainly, they were rooted very well. But there were still plenty of threats around the survivors of Buyeo.
Once there was a threat from the monsters. The survivors of Buyeo were exploited by the Messiah believers, but they endured since the Messiah protected them from the monsters anyway. But no one would kill the monsters that would be going crazy now that Messiah disappeared.
”They don't know how to fight monsters!” Even those who were protected by the Messiah had little resistance to monsters, because they had never fought them.
The Messiah had hunted monsters from the beginning, using the overwhelming weapon of the first-grade relics, not the crude relics obtained from the Buyeo National Museum.
When compared, the presence of Messiah was a desperate remedy for the survivors. There was no room for tolerance in the body's fight against the disease.
There was a shortage of food and ammunition. Unlike Seoul and Bucheon, there was enough farmland in Chungcheong Province and Nonsan areas, but the rice harvested from rice farming did not have much food stockpiled, and it was not enough to guarantee next year.
As soon as he left here, all the survivors here were finally sentenced to a deadline to die.
Her anger was right.
”I'll make sure of two things.” He spoke to her anger.
”One, I used these people here as bait, and I threw a wriggling worm into my hook to catch what I wanted, and the fishing was over. There's no reason for me to look at the state of the worm on the needle anymore
She glared at him.
”Two, I don't want to be a Savior, and even I can't be a Savior.”
”You!” She reached for his collar as if she couldn't stand it anymore. He did not avoid the touch. He was willing to be seized by the collar. That was all. He, who was caught with the collar, didn't budge. She just grabbed his collar.
”Currently, there are tens of thousands of people who need my protection in Bucheon and Incheon. For their sake, I am willing to ignore the lives of thousands in Buyeo.”
In addition, his will was as strong as his body. She gave up her persuasion in front of the firmness. She relaxed her grip.
”Then I'll bear these lives.” Unlike him, she could not abandon them.
Because of those who believed her to be a Savior and sacrificed their life, she couldn't ignore the survivors here.
”No.” But he didn't even allow it. ”You're a hostage. I can't allow you to act the way you want.”
”Let's make a deal. Please help the survivors here. I'll bear the price.”
”What are you going to pay with?”
”Anything will be fine. Whether my body or a monster stone, say what you want.”
She was relieved of part of her debt in return for playing the Savior, and she was now determined to owe an unmatched debt.
He had a bitter smile at the changed look of her. 'You've faced the reality.'
The first time he saw she was a smart woman. To put it more plainly, she was an astute woman. She was a woman who understood her situation and was willing to act for her own good.
The evidence was that she pretended not to know anything from the first time he met, and that she understood the situation and calculated quickly by weighing the scales. However, she was now facing the reality: the world in which monsters had appeared was not just about fighting monsters.
She had no choice but to reveal her true self, facing the reality that just living became hell.
'But I didn't expect this to happen.' It was the way she was now. She was full of responsibility and a great cause.
”Well, for Americans, admiration of heroes is not just a preference.”
To put it simply, she was a hero. She was a hero who wanted to achieve something worthwhile through self-sacrifice.
He was not surprised by her appearance.
There were not a lot of people in the world like her. Courage had its own use.
Someone needs courage just to save their life, someone needs the courage to commit evil, and someone needs courage for the sake of the world. That's all.
There was no need for him to pay much attention to her appearance.
”If you really want to become their Savior, what's urgent right now is not to take them to Bucheon.”
He did not bring her here just to use her.
”Actually, the Chungcheong area is important to me, too. For the Honam region, the largest granary region in Korea, we need to establish a base in Chungcheong Province in some way. But I can't do that right now.”
”What's the reason?”
”The reason is that we did not come through Sejong City on our way.”
Of course, at this moment, he was planning to use her heroic image for his own good. He was Kim Tae-hoon.
”There is a blue-grade monster in Sejong City.”
”… what do we do to kill it?”
2.
Sejong City.
Built under the reason of relocating the administrative capital, it was once called the grave of government officials. Of course, it was a joke, a grumbling joke made by goose-fathers, who suddenly drifted around the country to earn money for their dependents who studied abroad, or government officials who became mothers. But now the joke had become a reality.
Sejong City became a huge tomb. Among them, the Sejong Government Complex and Sejong City Hall were the most splendid tombs.
Sejong City Hall, which reminded people of a spaceship and once brilliantly shone under the sunshine with glass instead of concrete, was a glass mound, and Sejong Government Complex, which was designed like a snake to follow the Geumgang River passing through Sejong City, was the longest tomb in Korea.