I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 203

Reality (2)

A day at Dayeon’s pension, where there are guests, starts off quieter than usual.

The mansion grounds were quiet for a while, as there were no students to fill the place with noise. It was only after Woo-I-Rok started going to school that he could hear sounds. His brother, his teacher at school, his friends, the cat. This and that.

As I listened to that quietly, I began to wonder if this is how everyone raises their children. He’s not my son, but with this age difference, I guess…

He shook his head sharply. What a terrible sound.

Anyway, now I really have to do something about Uirok. To be exact, my residence. I can’t stay in this… broken pension forever. And this place is used too often for business purposes. No matter how much I think about it, it’s not a place where a child should stay. And you even invited Hope here? What was I thinking? Why did Hong Seok-young allow that?

Looking back now, it seems like the reason he called Alex Hope to the pension where Uirok was without thinking was because of that ridiculous ability he used to call instinct. He was barely safe because he didn’t show Uirok to Hope. However, the only time he could send Uirok to his friend’s house was on the weekends.

Wooirok is a quick-witted and thoughtful child. I didn’t want to take away his daily life from him, who had a sense of how an ordinary day goes by. He was barely affected by Sem Bloom’s kidnapping attempt, so there was no need to stir things up. Sometimes, things are overlooked because you don’t know. I didn’t want him to find out now that it wasn’t an ordinary thing.

Hong Seok-young accepted my argument. Lee Mi-sun seemed to want to say something, but Lee Mi-sun couldn’t win since Hong Seok-young was involved. Woo I-rok, who had no choice but to play to his heart’s content at his friend’s house, returned with the aforementioned expression. He coaxed the cat out of playing with it, washed it, fed it, and put it to bed.

Wooirok woke up at the same time as usual and got ready for school.

The adults staying at the pension held their breath and watched the ten-year-old boy walk to school with great tension.

As I bring the kid out to the garage, I feel a gaze on the back of my head. This old man is angry again because I stopped him from coming out. What do you want him to do when he’s the only one who can watch Hope?

I looked in the direction where I felt the gaze. Only then did the gaze disappear. I told you it was annoying.

“I’ll be back!”

Wooirok, who had no idea about his brother’s complicated feelings, shouted in a bright voice.

“Okay. Listen carefully, teacher.”

I smiled nonchalantly and waved. The car that Wooirok was riding in drove away.

I can’t live like this forever. This incident has made it even clearer.

What are the essential elements for human survival? Food, clothing, and shelter? Housing. A place to live. A house.

No matter how nicely you say it, this pension can never be a home.

However, I couldn’t call the accommodation I stayed in near the demonstration site during the container era my home.

Is Hong Seok-young planning to continue making me a model high school teacher?

If it were just me, I could stay in the model high school teacher’s dormitory, but not with Wooirok. I have no intention of raising him as a hunter.

“so….”

Only after I confirmed that the car was completely out of sight did I return to the pension. Hong Seok-young had already taken out the hop.

However, the person involved was smiling calmly regardless of the surrounding atmosphere.

Gamble, who came out to the living room late, glared at Hope’s condition and shrugged his shoulders. Unlike his crazy boldness of having a monster and a human as his friend, Gamble was looking around in a strange corner. Well, it was better than Gamble acting as shameless as Hope.

“How far did we go in talking?”

The hope in question was calmly muttering out loud.

Before I can sigh, I hear Yimiseon sighing first.

Nothing is working properly.

* * *

“Ahhh.”

Hope shook her body, making meaningless noises.

Clank.

Every time I moved my body, the magic control device made a heavy sound.

“Can’t we talk in a more peaceful atmosphere? Like, Love and Peace! There’s even a song. It’s called Peace and Love?”

Hope is wearing magic control gear. Four magic control gears, one on each ankle and one on each wrist. The ones I was wearing weren’t as stylish, but they were nothing compared to that. If she wore clothes, they wouldn’t be visible, but that…

The crude magic control device that looks like handcuffs carved from stone is actually used to control monsters in dungeons. It is used when the monsters cannot be killed because of the byproducts, but it is dangerous to just let them go. It was funny to go that far to run a monster farm. Human greed.

Even that can’t be used without permission, but Im Ji-seon managed to get four of them. I reported my activities to the association and even received separate permission, so I wonder if it’s the same for Hope. How much does the Association of Ability know about the Ark? It’s unlikely that Hong Seok-young would have allowed anyone else to know about Hope.

I’m telling you, there’s nothing really right.

Anyway, Hope was disgusted by the sight of the magic control device, but she did not rebel.

“Okay, okay. I did something wrong, so I’ll just stay quiet for now. Okay?”

As if that wasn’t enough, Hong Seok-young used the method I used to briefly awaken Kim Chae-min’s magic. This time, he contacted Kim Chae-min in advance, and the magic obediently surrounded Hope as Hong Seok-young intended. Gamble opened his mouth to protest, but stopped when Hope remained silent. It was a tearful friendship.

“But is the dungeon I gave you real? Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean you can ignore it!”

Hope twisted her body around as if she was uncomfortable with the magic control device and magic. But she kept talking.

It seemed that the dictionary meaning of being quiet was input differently for Hope.

“Where should I start talking?”

Hope tilted her head to the side.

“Interference? Well, well. Okay. Let’s start with this.”

“Shan Shan!”

Gamble called out to Hope in horror.

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Hope shrugged her shoulders at Gamble with an indifferent expression. Gamble bit his fingernails with an anxious expression. From now on, it was Hope’s sole discretion.

It would have been right to confiscate the cell phone and separate the two. It must have been Hope’s influence that she couldn’t think of this simple thing. The cell phone might not have been a very meaningful item to Hope, who had an unidentified means of transportation, whether it was Rune or something else, but she couldn’t have moved around secretly and talked to Gamble while Hong Seok-young was watching her.

I was excited and anxious at the same time, wondering what Hope would say without going through Gamble’s censorship.

Hope smiled affectionately at the anxious Gamble.

“Actually, that’s true. It’s like we asked for help. These people also need information about Noah… but they don’t seem as desperate as I am.”

“Shan Shan.”

“The person who is impatient usually loses.”

The strength leaves Gamble’s body.

“So, Sandra, we should have said that too. The whole tightrope walking thing in the middle was nonsense.”

…Hope is sounding normal.

Hong Seok-young had Hope with him all night. It was his way of saying that he would pretend not to know anything even if he found out something by using some kind of strong means, but I don’t know if Hong Seok-young heard it exactly. At least, Hope’s arms and legs were fine… But that old man carries around a lot of good potions.

Or maybe Hope or Gamble had a secretly emotional side, so they might have persuaded him peacefully. I looked at Hong Seok-young, but I couldn’t read what he was thinking.

“And the Savior will not watch innocent lives being sacrificed.”

Hope didn’t take her eyes off Sandra.

After staring at him for a while, Hope looked at Hong Seok-young.

“yes?”

“Yes. As long as you don’t do anything that betrays humanity.”

“Did you hear that, Sandra?”

Hope looked at Gamble and smiled bashfully. What the. I felt bad. If you say that, it makes us look like the bad guys. Several of the multi-line hunters felt the same way as I did, and they turned around with uncomfortable expressions.

Hope and Gamble, lost in their own world, didn’t even pay attention to what was going on around them. Gamble was still frowning, and Hope was smiling brightly, whether she noticed it or not.

“Okay. Then, let the other humans out for a moment. What I’m about to say is very, very, very… very! It contains sensitive information.”

“What if they were other humans?”

“Everyone but you?”

Hong Seok-young nodded to Lee Mi-seon. Lee Mi-seon hesitated for a moment, shook her head, and led the hunters outside.

Should I go out too?

But Hong Seok-young caught me.

“Heejae, you have to listen.”

“… Ah. You said son? Then… Well. It’s okay, listen. I’m the one who first destroyed the interference, so I’m qualified.”

“Qualification?”

“Where should I start? Perhaps it would be better to explain what interference is?”

“… rather than that.”

Eventually, Gamble surrendered.

Gamble closed his eyes tightly and suggested to Hope.

“How about we start by telling you what a dungeon is?”

“Dungeon?”

“Yeah. Shanshan, you… were going to tell me.”

“Huh? Oh, yeah. I think that’s better. If I tell them that, they’ll be able to prepare for it too. If they dig in the wrong place and suddenly end up destroyed, I’ll be in trouble too.”

“… That’s true. So, you can just tell me about the dungeon first.”

“Hmm… . Well, that would be good. That’s the most basic thing. After all, since there’s a dungeon, other things happen too.”

Hope muttered to herself and then nodded.

“That’s right. The dungeon comes first.”

Once again, anxiety eats me up.

Before going back to the past, Seoul was on fire. The clue finally comes into my hands.

“Dungeon is a term given by humans. We call it… a cradle in human terms. No, we are calling it that.”

“A cradle? That thing you put a baby to sleep in?”

“Yeah. I’m not saying that everything in there is a baby.”

Hope chuckled, as if she found what she said funny.

“It’s a nickname given to it because it’s small and cozy, and it’s said that it’s like a cradle that protects what’s inside. The official name is something else… . If you translate this into human language, hmm. Well.”

Hope struggled for a while, unable to find the words.

“I can’t find a case where it’s actually used.”

“You saw it in the movies.”

“movie?”

“Why, you saw it at our house last time. You said you liked it because the universe looked pretty.”

“Ah! That’s right.”

Gamble turned his gaze and stared at Hong Seok-young and me with anxious eyes.

“Right. So, it’s an escape pod.”

“escape?”

“Yeah. We escaped because our world was destroyed. What did you say then? We were going to eliminate the natives when we landed and settle there?”

Hope smiled brightly.

“No one would have guessed that the magic here would not work and everyone would die as soon as they came out!”

Fantasy, contemporary,