I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 31

Spoiled Meat (1)

Strictly speaking, it is not wrong to say that it is an international criminal organization. Rather, it is true.

It is not a pseudo-club that cleans the Ark in a secret room, but is so large that it operates a secret laboratory five floors underground. It’s all about money, money.

Yes.

Running any organization costs money.

What is it that causes the management office to be called to hearings every time? It’s all because of money. What about the people’s tax money? In fact, the management office ran on money earned from dungeon by-products rather than on the people’s tax money.

In any case, Ark is not an organization that exists only in Korea.

Although East Asia was their main base, it did not mean that they did not also operate in Europe or across the sea in America. Funding is usually raised there and then flows into the research institute.

In some ways, it may be larger in scale. So, it is not strange that Hong Seok-young’s misunderstanding is not a misunderstanding.

Hong Seok-young frowned and then opened his mouth.

“Teacher Wu. Where do you think I learned about the Ark?”

“… “Where did you find out about it?”

“On the black market in South America.”

According to Hong Seok-young’s story, two years ago, a raiding party was massacred in the United States. Hong Seok-young was acquainted with one of the victims, and the bereaved family wanted at least the remains of the deceased back.

So, I followed the trail and ended up in a black market in South America, where I saw the Ark.

In the process, I learned that the Dungeon Massacre, which occurred frequently in the United States and became a social problem, was the work of Ark.

As Ark’s misdeeds became more severe, a special investigation team was created in the United States.

“I decided to help too.”

I frowned. This is my first time hearing this story. It wasn’t even in the report the uncle wrote.

It was either omitted while transferring the data to the management office, or the uncle deleted it. Otherwise, they hid it from the beginning.

“But as we dug deeper, we found that it was much larger than expected, and each affected country was conducting its own investigation. “It was the same in Korea.”

“Was Hunter Lee Mi-sun one of them?”

“hmm. The same goes for Mr. Kim here.”

Kim Chae-min nodded with a heavy face.

Looking at those things… . I feel like I’m missing something.

What is it? Why do I have this uncomfortable feeling?

“I… .”

“hmm?”

“… … no.”

I was about to ask when Mr. Kim infiltrated the organization. Once you have gained trust, there is no need to risk doing something that may cause you to be doubted again.

But something… It was like that.

Something… … .

What if the Ark Hong Seok-young was chasing and the Ark I know are completely different organizations?

I’m not saying that there are two criminal organizations with the name Ark by chance.

At Ark, funding and research were conducted separately. Due to the nature of point organization, there may be many people who do not know anything about research.

And that… The same goes for those chasing them.

Even if you confiscate the criminals you have caught, you cannot tell them things that they themselves do not know.

So what if Hong Seok-young didn’t know?

“Something? “Why don’t you talk?”

“… “Then what do you think was the reason for kidnapping the kids?”

Hong Seok-young answered without hesitation.

“ransom?”

Why is the last sentence a question?

“Were you not sure?”

“No one contacted me to ask for ransom.”

Hong Seok-young smoothed his chin. Stories that had been hidden from me or told differently began to come out.

“Actually, that’s why the initial investigation was very late. “The parents thought it was a kidnapping and waited for a call.”

“Why don’t you wait and report it when it doesn’t come?”

“hmm.”

“What about when you saw the research center at the training center? “Did you have any doubts after seeing that?”

“Rather than suspicion… .”

“Did you have any thoughts?”

“What am I to say if I say that?”

Hong Seok-young frowned.

“It was also related to illegal awakening, and most of the drugs distributed in South America come from these people. “I thought it had something to do with it.”

“drug?”

“There were a lot of other things they handled besides that… . Children too… .”

Hong Seok-young trailed off.

I know roughly what you’re saying.

After hearing this, it’s not that I don’t understand.

Rather, everything fits together. It makes more sense to say that he was caught while investigating a criminal organization rather than going after a cult club right away.

It is understandable that Kim and Yu-hwa Kim, who were police officers, went undercover.

It’s Hong Seok-young in front of you, and now that I’m telling you, you know.

When did my uncle find out about this? Before raiding the lab? After raiding the lab?

Did they find out only after they adopted me?

… … .

or not.

I wonder if I never knew.

Did they only eliminate Ark as an international criminal organization and miss the other side?

So did the remaining guys continue to feed the centipedes in the Bangi-dong dungeon? Did the centipedes that grew up eating corpses cause Dungeon Break?

I do not know. It’s something we don’t know anymore.

Even if I try to guess what happened here or what will happen, there is absolutely no way to find the right answer.

but.

There are things you can change.

if so. What if centipedes were really fed and raised on the ark?

If there weren’t just one or two monsters raised like that.

What if the guy who burned down Seoul was one of them?

“… … .”

It can be prevented.

It can be prevented now, at this time.

* * *

It’s been almost two months since I came to the past.

Although time seems to fly so quickly, it is surprising that it has only been two months.

“I’m here!”

A yellow sports car entered the playground. Kim Chae-min unloaded the sports car and greeted in a cheerful voice.

“Guys! It’s lunch time. “Eat!”

A horde of zombies rolling around on the dirt floor suddenly stood up.

“rice!!”

“Why are they looking like this again?”

Kim Chae-min looked at me in shock. I put down his wooden sword and shrugged his shoulders, pretending not to notice.

Do you know what dungeon raiding and Hong Seok-young have in common?

It’s impossible to predict where it will go.

Hong Seok-young went to Seoul as soon as the story was finished. It’s not that she doesn’t trust Lee Mi-seon, but she says she needs to see it with her own eyes. There wasn’t much to say about Yoo Ji-eun… You’ll figure it out.

Actually, I was kicked out of the pub. It’s almost time to close.

Hong Seok-young is not at school again today. To be exact, it’s just me.

Even if you passed the final exam, you still leave someone like me alone with your children. Even Kim Chae-min came out in the morning to look after the children and then drove out the sports car in the corner of the playground.

No matter how much I asked for something… Isn’t that crazy?

“Why do you look like that?”

“What do you think of my expression?”

“Did you eat a bug?”

“… … .”

“I supplemented with protein, so straighten my face.”

“… … .”

Kim Chae-min burst into laughter.

Hong Seok-young is not the only one who has become strange. That guy was originally weird, but Kim Chae-min also has a lot of tension for some reason.

Did you think you could take it easy now that the invisible search war was over?

I’m so grateful that you trust me so much, but at the same time, I’m really crying.

Are you really okay with this? Is it okay to be so careless?

Hong Seok-young and Kim Chae-min are both insane.

I will never become an adult like that. Of course it didn’t work. This is important.

I’m really glad it’s me.

As expected, you can’t do it without me.

“… “You didn’t just bring a lunch box, right?”

“Of course not!”

Kim Chae-min handed me the bag with a proud face.

“I bought it well.”

I checked the bag that Chaemin Kim handed me.

It is a plastic bag with the logo of a nearby supermarket drawn on it. Since I bought it, it is quite heavy.

When I check the contents, I see chunks of meat that are still cold. Since I wasn’t going to eat anything anyway, I told him to just buy the cheapest ones… Why are they all beef? This is why wizards can’t do it. My money sense is terrible.

It’s not my money, it’s my own money, so it’s okay to say anything. I took out the meat Chaemin Kim bought on the parasol table.

And I handed the note to Kim Chae-min.

“what?”

“You can just draw this.”

“Rune?”

Chaemin Kim tilted his head and checked the runes drawn on the notebook.

“In the photo… That’s it? “But there are several?”

“Because the runes are not accurate. “It looks like it might be something like this.”

“and… Teacher Wu, didn’t you actually create the runes?”

“It was drawn by a wizard I know. “I’m not a wizard, so I can’t use runes.”

“For some reason, I feel like Teacher Wu would know how to draw runes even if he wasn’t a wizard… .”

“… … .”

To be sharp.

I pretended not to hear what Chaemin Kim said.

“Anyway, draw the runes quickly. “It’s not difficult.”

“Hmm… . “What effect do you think this will have?”

Kim Chae-min twirled the ballpoint pen in her hand and began tracing the runes I had drawn.

Unfortunately, the magic clock had no information about the runes drawn on the corpse. Still, there was nothing left to guess.

“It’s probably used to lure out insects or speed up decay.”

“Ugh, a monster that eats rotten corpses. “I hate it so much.”

“As you conquer the dungeon, you will see a lot of worse people.”

“I spend more time cleaning up dungeon breaks than clearing out dungeons. Monsters that pop out of dungeons are usually… .”

“Do you prefer fresh meat?”

“Don’t say that!”

Chaemin Kim pouted his lips. Still, his hands are steadily drawing runes.

“You’re wrong there.”

“Oh really!”

While Kim Chae-min was groaning and drawing runes, I checked the lunch box. The lunch box Hong Seok-young brought was full of meat, and the lunch box Lee Mi-seon brought was a high-quality lunch box with beautiful colors.

On the other hand, the lunch box that Chaemin Kim brings… .

Filled sandwiches with beautifully arranged fruits and salads.

It was funny how clearly each person’s personality was revealed.

“done! Would you like to draw some auxiliary runes?”

“no.”

I shook my head.

“We should try to make the runes as similar as possible. If you draw auxiliary runes, the rune effect may become stronger… .”

There are a total of five runes I drew. If none of these work properly, it becomes annoying. Runes more complex than this are difficult to reverse engineer.

Chaemin Kim carefully checked to see if he drew it correctly. Only after she was sure there was no problem did she place the rune on the beef.

“Activate it right away.”

“Teacher, what are you doing now?”

Immediately after Kim Chae-min activated the rune, a voice suddenly intervened.

“Is this a rune? What rune is it? We never learned this, right? Uh, they look a bit similar.”

Choi Jin-woo opened his eyes wide and looked at the runes drawn by Kim Chae-min.

“But why do you put it on the meat like this?”

Park Seo-hyun was seen standing behind Choi Jin-woo. I can’t even come closer and am just lingering around… If you want to come, come, why are you doing this? I felt bad for no reason, so I tried to call him, but he ran away.

What do you really mean?

I should have taken something like child psychology as a general education course in college. I didn’t hear about it because I was planning to join the management office, but the day will come when learning anything will be useful. Isn’t the price of laughing at one of my classmates too high when he said he was taking that class?

“teacher?”

“… hmm. “I have something to experiment with.”

“Experiment? “Rune?”

Choi Jin-woo opened his eyes round.

“Are you developing a new rune? Ah, so they all look similar!”

I can’t even tell a child what rune this is. I didn’t deny Choi Jin-woo’s words, saying whatever he wanted, but just let it go.

“ah! Is this a rune created by teacher Chaemin? Now that I think about it, how do you make runes? “What does each shape mean?”

The words continued without giving me time to reply.

… At first glance, it occurred to me that times when things were difficult for me might have been better.

“Mr. Kim hasn’t eaten yet, so don’t disturb him and go play.”

“Oh, you haven’t eaten yet. “I’m sorry, teacher.”

“huh? “No, it’s okay.”

The kind Archmage teacher Kim Chae-min pointed to an empty chair.

“Jinwoo said it hasn’t been long since he became a wizard, right? “Aren’t there any adult wizards around?”

“yes. “In my entire family and relatives, I am the first person to be awakened.”

“oh… . Wizards are usually family units. Then it must have been difficult to learn magic. “Is that why you came to the demonstration high school?”

“I originally didn’t plan on becoming a hunter… . They say that if a wizard doesn’t learn how to control his magical power, he may end up in an accident. “I saw it in some documentary.”

“yes. “Children are very sensitive to magic.”

“I woke up and the room was a mess… . No, I was watching TV and something funny came on and I laughed a little and the TV exploded. So, just when I was thinking, “Oh, this won’t work,” I was looking into it! “The principal came.”

Choi Jin-woo, who had said that far, paused for a moment and wrinkled his nose.

“But, teacher. “Isn’t there a strange smell coming from somewhere?”

“huh?”

While Kim Chae-min was confused, I found the cause faster than Choi Jin-woo.

A musty smell that catches the sensitive senses of an awakened person.

I frowned.

How long has it been since you activated the rune, already?

One of the five beef chunks was spoiled.

fantasy, modern,