chapter 12
break down
The hotel suite where Ha Yeon-woo is staying with her father.
Na Sang-gi, head of the Returnee Management Office, and Kim Chan-ho, head of the Awakening Crime Investigation Office, came to this place.
Ha Seong-cheol went into the room without notice, and the three of them had a simple conversation in the living room.
“A formal trial?”
“Yes, we will arrest all of them. And the maximum sentence… It is the result of discussions with the government that finally decided to receive it.”
Nagi’s expression wasn’t that bright. The person sitting next to me, the head of the Awakening Crime Investigation Agency, was also like that before, but his female image was dirty like he had chewed sh*t.
“I tried my best, but after all, goodness… It’s probably because it’s related to human life… .”
It’s obvious, but I didn’t expect much.
Accepting Ha Yeon-woo’s proposal, in other words, is the same as the government stepping up to encourage and abet murder.
Any functioning government agency, even if it was a criminal, would not accept a deal for human life.
When there was no response, Na Sang-gi hurriedly continued talking.
“We will announce all the contents of the returnee consulting and their evil deeds and start an investigation. Citizens will also understand if you say that you are exempted from self-defense in a situation where you come back after living for 100 years and come across the issue. .”
“The deal is broken.”
The minimum coexistence to live on earth did not mean to take care of people’s notice.
I was going to kill anyone if I blocked it in the first place, but that’s the understanding of the citizens? I didn’t even care.
“teacher… .”
The mournful expression of Na Sang-gi, as if asking for a rethinking of his thoughts.
He first met himself and led negotiations in front of a nursing hospital three days ago. Whether he wants it or not, he will take on the responsibility and give him a headache.
But even he wasn’t interested in Ha Yeon-woo.
“There are two days until the promised date. It’s my condition to bring them all and offer them up. If you can’t do it, I’ll do it myself.”
“You mean to find and kill them all?”
Kim Chan-ho, who was watching the heavy conversation between the two, intervened.
“Didn’t I tell you?”
Ha Yeon-woo opened his eyes at Ha Yeon-woo’s words, “Why are you asking something obvious?”
“Do you think we’ll let that happen?”
“If you don’t let it go. what to do?”
Even when I first saw him, I didn’t like him. It was because he kept talking to himself and showing disapproval.
just as expected.
‘About 6th rank?’
Six circles rotated inside his body, and the mana within him resonated like a bell.
It was a kind of exploration work to grasp the opponent’s state. And the fact that you usually try to figure out the level of the other person in this kind of conversation.
‘Would it be worth trying, or would I get a sense for it?’
It felt fresh.
It’s also true that he cut ties with the world and lived in seclusion only recently for 100 years. The last time he appeared, it was only when he was massacring the Bahala Empire.
When the hell is it to be judged by a human being?
I knew it, but I stayed still. No, on the contrary, he even took in the curtain of the marriage period that was naturally unfolding so that he could easily observe his inner circle.
Just like that, a little time passes. Kim Chan-ho, the head of the investigation agency, wriggles between his eyebrows as if he was embarrassed.
“… … Commissioner Kim?”
The conversation was cut off just as something was about to happen. Na Sang-gi, who was watching, asked curiously. Because I was a normal person, I didn’t feel anything.
“you… . What the hell happened.”
Ha Yeon-woo just stared at Kim Chan-ho, who was flustered and put his words to rest.
“The circle… . No, I don’t even have mana… .”
“What the hell do you mean by that? What are you doing?”
Kim Chan-ho did not even think of answering Na Sang-gi’s question. Because I felt like my common sense was twisted.
circle. and mana. It was the basis of unmannedness and the beginning and end of the Awakened to exert their power.
No matter how nutrient-rich a food is, you can eventually make it your own only by eating and digesting it.
Mana is a nutrient that only the chosen can obtain. The circle is a kind of digestive organ for digesting this nutrient.
The higher the number of circles, the higher the amount and purity of mana digested.
When an ordinary warrior reaches the limit of a circle and attains enlightenment, the next circle is created and the realm is pioneered.
Of course, in the case of an Awakener with a status window, the system took over all of those roles.
Even so, the mechanism to exert power was the same whether it was an awakened person or not.
This is the same as common sense on the Earth and the pan continents that have been revealed so far.
So, it was only natural for the head of the investigative agency to be crazy enough to spit out all his tricks to himself.
A person who can understand the inside so easily, like a normal person.
The fact that even a handful of mana does not exist, so the ‘mana resonance’ phenomenon itself does not occur.
The fact that there is no circle at all, a repository that can contain mana in the human body and a medium for using it, was enough to shock the Awakener.
“That person… . It has no mana, let alone circles.”
“No way… . Obviously among the dead… .”
It wasn’t like guesswork. Apart from the three mothers and mothers who died at the villa, the four people Ha Yeon-woo killed in the nursing hospital were all awakened people with definite identities.
“Are you curious?”
Ha Yeon-woo’s low question reached the two embarrassed men.
In the first place, there was no precedent for humans to deviate from the mana frame through all the information on the continent and the earth they had. Being treated as out of common sense because it is unimaginable.
Ha Yeon-woo himself thought it was impossible, so it was shocking.
In a half-mad state, when the Circle was broken fighting the real ‘owner’ of the Cheonmabong, who had entered to die at the time.
Circumstances, luck, and judgment all fit together to break the wall through the enlightenment gained, and only then was it possible to escape the constraints of mana by gaining a soul mate.
His body soon became a circle, and he could take all the mana floating in nature as his own.
Therefore, after returning, the fact that Mana existed here gave him a sense of security.
“What the hell did you do?”
Realizing that Ha Yeon-woo did not have a handful of mana, Kim Chan-ho’s tone changed 180 degrees.
“okay. You brought artifacts from the Pan continent.”
It was said that he brought a so-called ‘artifact’ called various names such as artifacts, gods, and fetishes from the pan continent and pretended to be a high-ranking awakening person.
“All the people you killed were nonsensical people who were not even in the 3rd tier. okay… . Even if you go to Pan continent, there are people who have spent the rest of their lives without hunting monsters… .”
Kim Chan-ho got up and moved to Ha Yeon-woo across the table.
“If he had lived that long, he would have been able to take at least a few items.”
“Chief, please stop and sit down! Isn’t it a fact that everyone knows that they come back naked at the time of their return!”
“If it was like that before, can it be like that again? He came back decades later than the last returnee.”
Na Sang-gi was well aware of how absurd he was.
When they return, they are given a new body, so everyone returns with their bare bodies. This is a fact I witnessed with my own two eyes.
And the earthquake-like vibrations felt in the villa. An involuntary murder. It wasn’t the ability of someone who couldn’t use mana.
Even three hats with a hole in the middle of their heads or crushed as if they were pressed by a press. Even the awakened people in a nursing hospital whose internal organs were completely blown out and their lower jaws completely blown off.
As Kim Chan-ho said, even if it is true that he does not have a circle, it was a sensible judgment at this point to consider that he has more abilities than that.
‘My eyes are spinning.’
I was anxious from the beginning.
Since the first task force was formed at the nursing hospital and a brief discussion was held, he continued to talk about the possession of the problem and the crime, and expressed the opinion that Ha Yeon-woo should be arrested or killed.
This position was also the head of the investigation office who volunteered to go together to a place where he did not have to come.
The purpose, of course, must have been to weigh Ha Yeon-woo’s thoughts like now, and then try to do something with a sense of justice that would not be possible unless he broke his will.
Just in time, an unexpected situation where there was no mana or circle in his body.
The fact that he was not an imaginable ordinary person, but a 6th-tier Awakener who knew the importance of mana and circles better than anyone else, would have made him even more narrow-minded.
Kim Chan-ho came right in front of Ha Yeon-woo, who was sitting there.
As if he was appreciative of Ha Yeon-woo’s interesting expression as he looked at him, he stretched out his hand toward his shoulder.
When his outstretched hand was only about a span left.
Finally, an intangible energy came out around Ha Yeon-woo.
The mana around him sympathized with his will and formed a soundless, shapeless boundary vortex as if he would not allow anyone to approach.
Poududeuk-!
For an instant, the right hand of the Chief of Investigation Agency twisted abnormally with a terrifying sound.
He hurriedly raised mana to protect his hand, but his entire hand, which had already entered the realm, was twisted grotesquely.
There was no time to scream or backtrack. It was because Ha Yeon-woo stretched out her hand from her seat and grabbed his lower official.
“ugh… town… !”
“Your father is resting. If you are a guest, be quiet like a guest.”
A tremendous grip force applied from below.
“Turn it off… turn off… .”
In pain as if the officer was about to fall off, the head of the investigation agency drew closer to Ha Yeon-woo, who was sitting there little by little.
Ha Yeon-woo chanted softly to him, who naturally knelt down.
“There is a proverb like this on the Pan continent. Doubt, and doubt again. I will save you once in my life.”
Monsters are also monsters, but it was a well-known proverb in the sense of always being careful because there was so much bloodshed between humans.
“Did I mention that it is one of the 46 ranks in Korea? I will be thirty-nine now.”
“teacher-!”
Na Sang-gi stands up and shouts. However, it was not a situation where he, a common man, could not be stopped.
Ha Yeon-woo’s remaining hand touched Kim Chan-ho’s belly button.
Wow-!
“Correouk… .”
With the dull sound of drums being torn, Kim Chan-ho, coughing up blood, collapsed and shook.
“If it was a pan continent, I would have tore it to death the moment I made a trick. It’s Earth, so that’s all we’re looking at.”
Seeing Ha Yeon-woo’s emotionless eyes, Na Sang-gi involuntarily shook his head. Without even thinking about protesting or expressing a doctor.
“Two days left. You know that if I don’t get the answer I want by then, I’ll take action on my own.”
As if his mind had gone white, Na Sang-gi stayed in a daze for a while, and only after the banquet was issued, did he help the chief of the investigation agency and leave the hotel.
After the door closed, Ha Yeon-woo was lost in thought while looking at the bloodstains scattered on the floor.
“The head of the Awakening Crime Investigation Office of the Special Ability Department… .”
When I was suffering from hallucinations, I always depended on them to determine the life and death of others and my own behavior.
As with all mental problems, it was caused by inner anxiety and obsession.
The choice is always kill or save. If it was a problem, I killed it and if it wasn’t, I ignored it. Most ended up killing them.
However, the moment I came here and checked my father’s health and comfort. I found peace of mind that I could feel myself.
Of course, when he was doing tricks, my head rang countless alarm bells telling me to kill him and get rid of him. It is still the same today.
During the whole time, which seemed to be full of leisure from beginning to end to others, in fact, Ha Yeon-woo was exerting all his patience not to kill him.
In the end, after hundreds of years, he succeeded in controlling killing on his own.
An invisible hallucination that came back. Psychological stability found through father. It was a combination of reason and patience as much as possible in the fact that this is Earth.
‘If he had killed it, things would have been messed up.’
He is not just an Awakener, but a 6th rank soldier with only 40 people in Korea and the head of a central agency.
If he killed them as they were, there was a strong possibility that they would turn into a bigger problem, incomparable to coming to Earth and killing seven people.
He would have to recuperate for a few months for his damaged interior right now, but even the act of destroying the circle was nothing but a trick through high skill.
It was only because he hit the inside and mixed mana with soul energy and infiltrated it into his circle.
If you raise your strength, you will feel the pain as if the circle is torn apart, and you won’t be able to use mana. However, the circle is not destroyed.
Whether the bastard enlightened himself and begged for forgiveness, or the next time he needed something, he could go back to normal.
“Anyway, how should I deal with it… .”
Korean-Japanese groups, brokers, and those who acted directly after receiving orders. Only key figures will reach at least dozens.
I can’t expect help from the government, so I thought I’d have to move and solve it by myself.
It was for this reason that he agreed when he first heard the government’s proposal to arrest him.
Until a safe place is provided for my father, there will be inevitable restrictions on their actions, and they will hide like cockroaches whenever their comrades die.
“I have a lot of time… . Is your father’s safety a priority?”
First of all, I needed a safe place.
So that you can kill the people you want to kill.