Chapter 53 - A Baseless Rumor Travels a Thousand Miles
A personal small restaurant only remains that way when few people know about it.
If more and more people come to know about it, rumors spread and spread until it eventually becomes everyone’s favorite restaurant.
The value of Dam Han-ul’s name is now similar to such a case.
He was acknowledged by Korea’s five S-ranks led by Cheongsoha and became the owner of Korea’s underworld, and because of this, Dam Han-ul, who found it rather burdensome, had his subordinates step in instead to manage the underworld forces and bring them all to greet Dam Han-ul, causing Dam Han-ul’s existence, which was only known to a few, to suddenly gain great recognition!
Moreover, unlike the existing personnel who tried to keep Dam Han-ul as unknown to the outside as possible, these newcomers who recently came under his command had no such intention, so rumors about Dam Han-ul began to spread more and more.
Of course, for now, it wasn’t rumors about being a great fortune teller, but rumors like a black curtain who reached the pinnacle of the underworld despite having a low rank… but it was unknown when proper information would be released. It wouldn’t be strange for such rumors to spread subtly like false rumors at any time.
Even the immediate widespread recognition of his name was a very big problem from Dam Han-ul’s perspective. Dam Han-ul himself was a person who didn’t welcome his name spreading so widely.
However… because the person himself couldn’t even predict the situation, there was nothing he could do.
“…Tsk, my ear is itchy… Is someone talking about me??”
He could only stand by as his name value was rising higher and higher without him knowing…
Dam Han-ul himself probably has no way of knowing.
That his name is currently being mentioned tremendously often in the Korean superhuman industry, along with the mysterious EX-rank superhuman ‘Church Leader’ Icardi Marduk, who appeared in Jeju recently and showed shocking strength and, in the opposite sense, a shocking exit.
Of course, there aren’t many details. It was just starting to spread rapidly as the rumors, which were only known in the underworld, became known in the light world this time.
There were all sorts of contents. That he’s a newly appeared unidentified EX-rank superhuman, that he’s just a parachute appointment, that he controls all of Korea’s S-rank superhumans as subordinates, that he’s the being who repelled the Church Leader in Jeju, and so on.
Well, there were far more incorrect contents, but occasionally, some correct words came out as jokes. Don’t they say even a broken clock is right twice a day?
Anyway, such rumors spread and spread… Even if they didn’t know Dam Han-ul’s name, there was no one among the superhumans living in the underworld across the country who didn’t know about the unidentified superhuman who was like a black curtain who took control of Korea’s underworld.
“…No, how do people who want to escape being single forever and people who want their children to do well on the next test come here knowing from where…? Did some rumor about me spread somewhere…??”
Dam Han-ul, who had unconsciously spoken the truth but treated it as a joke, frowned.
Of course, he did receive them since they came as customers.
To the person who wanted to escape being single forever, he told them about the most deeply connected lover and methods of confession or dating styles that would work well with that person, and to the person who wanted their child to do well on the test, he just gave them the correct answers.
“How should I put it, it feels like my sense has become strange… Maybe because I’ve been doing fortunes of such grand scales, rather these feel trivial… How should I say it…”
To be precise, it would be that he’s done fortunes for amazing people, anyway.
Thinking that he wouldn’t give fortunes twice to these people who had their fortunes told this time because it was also bothersome, Dam Han-ul let out a languid yawn.
While Dam Han-ul, who knew nothing, was comfortably going to bed, rumors about him reached a bit farther away.
“Brother!! So you were here!!”
“What is it. Making such a ruckus in the middle of the night…”
“You might be able to connect with sister-in-law!!”
“…What?! You bastard, you’re not spitting out lies, are you??”
“Aish, I’m not sure but rumors are circulating?!”
…Even to some force that was a bit far away and not very big.
Currently, there are officially six S-ranks in Korea. Including Yeondal-gi, who newly became an S-rank superhuman.
But that’s not all. Not everyone in the world likes to spread their strength to the public. Although everyone’s motives are different.
Anyway, there is exactly 1 unofficial S-rank superhuman in Korea who has hidden their strength like that.
The protagonist was Ma Dal-su, a superhuman who built a small domain in Busan’s underworld, officially a C+ rank superhuman.
This man, who didn’t particularly want to come to the forefront and be active, didn’t like his name being known much, and didn’t particularly want money or honor, wanting to just live a long and thin life, which was an extremely unique and unusual thought for an S-rank superhuman, was living in the underworld with just a handful of subordinates according to his thoughts.
But even he had one thing he wanted…
That was his first love!
But originally, first love is meant to break, and what you want doesn’t easily fall into your hands…
It seemed really unlikely that that first love would fall into his hands.
They say there’s no tree that won’t fall after ten strikes… He kept challenging to win his first love, but the opponent was a great tree among great trees for which even ten strikes were far from enough.
“Kuhukhuk!! This can’t be…! I, Ma Dal-su… Ma Dal-su…!!”
Anyway, Ma Dal-su, who had spectacularly failed his 21st confession like that, had been spending nights drinking for several days.
Even an S-rank superhuman was helpless against a great wound of the heart. Especially if it was a great heartbreak…
Of course, in this case, it’s questionable whether it’s really heartbreak. Anyway, Ma Dal-su was now depressed, half-resigned.
“Now… Should I give up…”
As even Ma Dal-su with his iron-like mentality could no longer endure and finally thought of giving up at that moment!
“Brother!! There might be a way for you to connect with sister-in-law!!”
“…What did you say?! You bastard, you’re not spitting out lies, are you??”
“What lies!! Well, I’m not sure, but strange rumors keep circulating?!”
Ma Dal-su, who had witnessed a small ray of hope just as he was about to give up, gave up giving up and immediately straightened his will and got up.
“So what’s this rumor!!”
“Well, brother, it’s about…”
The identity of the rumor that Ma Dal-su’s subordinate sneakily told him was about a certain unidentified superhuman who’s hot in the underworld these days.
“I’ve heard about that too… But how would meeting that person solve anything…?”
“Well, I heard he has over 10 S-rank superhumans as subordinates and is aiming for world domination or something, and he’s a tremendous black curtain who even overwhelmed that EX-rank cult bastard who appeared in Jeju in one go, so couldn’t he make brother’s first love happen in an instant??”
When he listed all the rumors he had heard from somewhere, it became a makjang nonsense that would make the actual subject of those rumors fall back holding his neck, but the subordinate who brought the news was purely serious.
Ma Dal-su, who always got rejected and locked himself in his room drinking and whining, was very uncomfortable and pitiful to him too.
Honestly, not many people would like it if a muscular giant close to 3M tall got heavily into alcohol and was sobbing.
And Ma Dal-su, having seen hope that he had barely found, was thinking of trying once regardless of whether it was fake or whatever.
Anyway, like that, the sincere will and hope of the two people drew a cross line as it was… and Ma Dal-su, who had firmly established his will like that, moved immediately.
“Urk!! M-Ma Dal-su, you bastard!! Wh-what are you doing…!! Urk!! Kurk!!”
“What do you mean what! Let me experience some heartfelt love too, come along quietly!!”
Armed with feelings for pure love and pure affection, Ma Dal-su just smashed the largest organization on the Busan side and violently found out where the person who might become his savior lived, and as soon as he found out, he immediately started rushing there by train.
And as soon as he arrived at the front door of that house, he immediately banged his head strongly on the ground with a thud and shouted.
“Please!!! Help me!!! Savior!!!”
“?????”
And Dam Han-ul, who was eating cookies that Lee Sujin said she made herself as a snack, directly witnessed that scene and thought while coughing chokingly in surprise.
What’s with this crazy guy???
Well, almost all the customers I receive are new cases… Still, it was the appearance of a customer that was truly the first case Dam Han-ul had ever experienced.
Meanwhile, in a huge and extremely solid cavity that exists in the deepest part of a certain huge mansion.
“Hmm…”
In the midst of green mist containing such overwhelming power that even the cavity itself couldn’t properly withstand it, filling the cavity and forcibly maintaining the cavity’s shape while repeatedly destroying it, at some point this strange phenomenon stopped, and the green mist was sucked into the person at its center.
“Have I finally reached it…”
Right after that, a woman who had been sitting cross-legged at the center opened her closed eyes and emitted chilling green eye light in streams.