Chapter 186 (2/2)

“How did you know that?”

“When they got back, I was enjoying a date with White Queen.”

Cha Jun Sung did not accept the word ‘date’ literally.

White Queen fought Cruel King, and he had appeared when she was being overwhelmed by Lifers as though he had been waiting. It is right to interpret this as meaning that they held a meeting.

“That’s not what I’m saying. I’m asking how you knew it was me.”

“How could I not?”

Black Demon had looked half human and half mutant, but his appearance began to twist. He had held characteristics of both species, but his body crumpled like clay and then he became one species.

That is a human. A complete human form as Cha Jun Sung himself.

“What are you playing at?”

Cha Jun Sung was not surprised. Imitating his image is nothing for a level 9 that can go through whole body mutation at will.

“Does this look like a joke?”

“Then what else could it be?”

“Cha Moo Hyun, Lim Hye Yang.”

“What?”

“Father Cha Moo Hyun, only son, born August 21, 1966. Mother Lim Hye Yang, 4 siblings, born December 18, 1967, and her family is worse than her neighbors?”

Cha Jun Sung released from his awakened state. He had intended on going wild, but he was covered in goosebumps as soon as he heard what Black Demon was saying. It felt like he had been splashed with cold water.

“You – you, how…”

“I’m sure you know that this is Earth, too? There’s no difference between where you live and this place. The same people lived in the same environment.”

Lived. Past tense. Now, it is dominated by mutants.

“Unless you’re stupid, I’m sure you understood what I’m saying.”

He knows what Black Demon wants to hear.

It is a hint, and a very explicit one at that. A mutant knows his parents’ names and their family relations. How could he have known their birthdates? The same people and environment? He would be dumb if he did not know.

“You’re me?”

“You in that world and me in this world are the same. We’re different but the same and the same but different. Proof? Your body is proof. Cha Jun Sung.”

Cha Jun Sung looks down at his hand.

Awakening of level 8 whole body mutation. Come to think of it, Oriax had said that it was scared he would swallow it up.

Oriax had felt a level 9 potential buried somewhere deep inside of him.

“Are you saying that I’m a level 9 mutant?”

“No. I don’t know the cause, but you weren’t able to awaken properly. There are things along the way that we can’t know. I’m sure it’s coexisting in that body?”

He is not complete. He stopped while evolving. He is strong now but if the strength he was supposed to have was similar to that of Black Demon’s, he has failed.

“Oriax, come out.”

[I don’t want to. I’m scared. He’s a monster that’s out of balance. My existence itself is crushed just by looking at him. Don’t look for me. Figure it out yourself.]

Oriax began talking less after witnessing White Queen and Cruel King.

Its is mixed with Cha Jun Sung, but they are different beings. It was frightened by a top level predator. This is the same situation.

“As long as you’re me and you don’t give up the life of a mutant, you will fully awaken one day. The idea of 2 Black Demons isn’t bad.”

Cha Jun Sung is speechless. He wants to say that he is a human, but he is currently a mutant no matter which way he tries to look at it. That is why this lacks persuasiveness.

“At the similar time, two changes occurred in two worlds, whereby two results came out. Like this. Isn’t it funny? Lifers develop in your world through a game Life Mission, while mutants develop in my world with the spread of a virus.”

Regardless of their will and instead by the wishes of Life Mission officials, the hunters and game had been decided. That result brought them this kind of meeting.

“You wouldn’t have noticed that they’re the same worlds… There is bound to be overlap when that large of a population is acting.”

He is right.

There are various cases where Lifers enter missions and find traces of memorials or go to find the houses they used to live in.

“This world is a bit more in the future than the world you live in. Not dozens of years, but more or less 10? I’m sure they controlled it in Life Mission.”

“How did you find out? A mutant to know all this stuff that Lifers don’t even know.”

“I heard it.”