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Episode 187. The Ruler of Seoul (3)
At Choi Myeong-jun's call, Kim Guk-jong spoke quietly.
“It’s Myeongjun. You’re still alive.”
“Who raised that dog? Would it die so easily?”
Kim Guk-jong smiled faintly at Choi Myeong-jun's words.
“Yeah. That’s right. When I first saw you at the bakery, I thought you were a guy who would survive no matter where you were put.”
This time, Choi Myeong-jun remained silent.
Kim Guk-jong continued, resting his chin on his hand.
“I knew you would come up to Seoul right away. If you had been there, our organization wouldn’t have surrendered to Metro.”
“I got caught by a salty fish.”
“… … Yeah. You must have had a hard time. You must have had a hard time.”
Even the big brother, who was as scary as a tiger, was infinitely kind to his younger brother.
In fact, to Choi Myeong-jun, Kim Guk-jong was closer to a father than an older brother.
Choi Myeong-jun grew up with a mother who was addicted to gambling and an alcoholic father.
Whenever my father drank, he would beat my mother and Choi Myeong-jun.
My father, who loved to drink, was hit by a drunk driver and died.
My mother disappeared without a sound while gambling.
He dropped out of high school and lived a miserable life on the streets as a neighborhood thug.
However, Kim Guk-jong was the person who instilled meaning in life in Choi Myeong-jun.
Kim Guk-jong said.
– Fists are not meant for the weak, but for those who are stronger than you. A strong fist will train your mind and show you the direction you should go.
The era of gangsters extorting and looting is over.
Kim Guk-jong reorganized and operated the gangster organization.
Among all the organized crime groups in the country, Kim Guk-jong's group was the largest and had the most money.
When you use force, it is when you have to fight against the unreasonable.
Kim Guk-jong's organization was closer to a company than a gangster organization.
And Choi Myeong-jun grew up under Kim Guk-jong.
He was the only person who supported Choi Myeong-jun's life when he was going through the hardest times.
So, I have no choice but to treat you like my older brother and father.
Kim Guk-jong said with a short sigh.
“It is truly a shame to meet you like this.”
“… … .”
Kim Guk-jong quietly closed his eyes.
At that time, Choi Myeong-jun walked forward slowly, and Kim Guk-jong quietly opened his closed eyes.
But Choi Myeong-jun did not try to attack.
dump-!
He knelt down on both knees before Kim Guk-jong.
Kim Guk-jong just observes his actions silently.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Choi Myeong-jun's body was shaking steadily.
Then he shouted.
“I owe you so much, damn it! Brother… … !”
Thud-!
Choi Myeong-jun hit the floor with his forehead.
Although it was an act of bowing, it was closer to an act of self-harm.
His forehead was torn open and blood gushed out.
Choi Myeong-jun still spoke with his forehead pressed against the floor.
“My brother taught me how to live like a human being and helped me do what I could. My brother was like a father to me. A world without my brother would be meaningless to me. My brother is the one I should serve and follow like a father.”
Then Choi Myeong-jun clenched his fists and shouted.
“Brother!!! There must be a way!!!”
His voice echoed loudly throughout Geunjeongjeon.
It was loud enough to echo.
“… … .”
Choi Myeong-jun shouted even more desperately in front of Kim Guk-jong.
“There is a way… … ! There must be a way!!! You can live, hyung! We can live! I can die! There must be a way for you and me to both live! Rather… … . Rather!!!”
“… … .”
At Choi Myeong-jun's desperate voice, Kim Guk-jong let out a short breath.
“I see you’re quite pleased with your new boss. Judging from what you say.”
“… … .”
Choi Myeong-jun did not show his expression to Kim Guk-jong.
Still lying face down, he bit his lower lip until it bled.
Choi Myeong-jun was afraid.
The situation where the person you trust and follow turns their back on you.
Kim Guk-jong took out a pack of cigarettes from his bosom and asked.
“What kind of person are you?”
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“… … .”
“Tell me. It’s been a while since I last talked to you.”
Chick-.
Kim Guk-jong sat down on the throne and began to smoke a cigarette.
He exhaled the smoke from his cigarette as if sighing.
Choi Myeong-jun continued speaking, holding back tears.
“At first… … . he was a cheeky little kid. He was fearless and talked nonsense… … . He seemed like a rascal. To me, he seemed endlessly immature… … . At first, he was just going to watch from below for a while, and then he planned to kill me and run away.”
“… … Phew.”
“But I saw in that man eyes just like your brother… … . Eyes as fierce as an eagle and as sharp as a tiger, just like your brother.”
“… … .”
“But I still thought of my older brother. Until I left the police station… … ! But for some reason, something was different about him. An inexplicable pressure. I saw the future in that man. And I. I started following that older brother. I ended up serving two older brothers under the sky.”
“Is it Kang Si-on?”
"……yes."
“What do you want to do?”
Kim Guk-jong stubbed out his cigarette on the seat.
Choi Myeong-jun couldn't give any answer to his question.
Choi Myeong-jun wanted to ask Kim Guk-jong's opinion first.
How can I do this, how can I overcome this difficulty?
Kim Guk-jong rose from his throne.
And then he approached Choi Myeong-jun, who was lying face down.
He said as he sat down in front of Choi Myeong-jun.
“I don’t know either.”
“… … .”
The first words Kim Guk-jong spoke were shocking to Choi Myeong-jun.
Kim Guk-jong, who seemed to know everything, put himself down, saying that he himself did not know.
Even my eldest brother, who was like the sky, was ultimately the same as Choi Myeong-jun.
Kim Guk-jong recited his story as if he were going to confession.
Some time passed.
Choi Myeong-jun, who heard the whole story, was deeply angry.
Kim Guk-jong said.
“I tried to organize well. We had our own plans. But in the face of absolute power, we too could not help but collapse. I resented the world, and everything I had done so far felt futile. Now, I am barely hanging on to my life, supporting the cult leader. I challenged the world with big dreams, but I got nothing in return. I thought I was not afraid of death, but now I am afraid that there is nothing after death. I also wanted to ask you. What should I do to live? I thought you would know the answer.”
Kim Guk-jong caressed the back of Choi Myeong-jun's head with his rough hands.
It was the warm, caring touch of a father that Choi Myeong-jun had been dreaming of.
“Do as you wish. It is my will that the old leaves fall to make way for the green shoots.”
Choi Myeong-jun slowly raised his head.
There was silence between the two men for a while.
There was silence for a while.
Soon, two gunshots rang out in Geunjeongjeon Hall.
Bang… … . Bang!
* * *
Choi Myeong-jun wiped the blood from his face with his hand and left Geunjeongjeon.
He looked at the monster with soulless eyes.
A monster that has been raised by the Gangbuk forces so far.
The elite soldiers stabbed the monster several times with their swords and then returned.
One of the elite soldiers approached Choi Myeong-jun and asked.
“I heard gunshots. Are you okay?”
“No problem.”
“… … .”
The elite agent fell silent and spoke again.
“The monster has been killed. The power in Gangbuk, Seoul will collapse. Should we proceed with the operation?”
The operation that the elite agent was talking about was something that Kang Si-on and Choi Myeong-jun had discussed beforehand.
The elite force was to infiltrate the northern part of Seoul, kill the monster, escape to Nowon-gu, a friendly area, and then escape to Gangnam.
In the Seoul area, Mapo Bridge was the only passageway, but in Gyeonggi-do, there were many bridges that could cross the Han River.
Because that's not the only place that Sledies live.
So now that the elite force had completed their mission, they just had to join up with Man-gyeong through Gangnam.
But now Choi Myeong-jun was deeply angry.
The elite soldiers who were looking at him were so startled that they trembled.
“… … .”
Choi Myeong-jun's anger was directed at the Metro forces.
Stories I heard from Kim Guk-jong.
The barbaric tyranny of those who have been in the northern part of Seoul so far.
He heard everything, without missing a single word, about how his beloved Black Dragon siblings had died miserably and how Kim Guk-jong had been educated.
And we also figured out where the Metro Force monster is.
They were hiding a monster in the basement of Mapo-gu.
Choi Myeong-jun exhaled deeply and said.
“You guys, go back to Man-gyeong via Nowon-gu as planned. By now, even Brother Zion will be having a hard time. Go and protect Man-gyeong with your life.”
There was something strange about Choi Myeong-jun's order.
The elite agent asked again.
“What are you going to do, Captain?”
At his subordinate's question, Choi Myeong-jun frowned and looked around.
This place was full of ruins.
But Choi Myeong-jun looked at them and said.
“The scenery is beautiful… … .”
"yes?"
The subordinate looked at Choi Myeong-jun's face.
His face was wrinkled and crumpled.
I felt a deep anger.
“… … I think I should stay here a little longer.”
Choi Myeong-jun left with just those words and went outside.
The place he headed to was Mapo-gu.
* * *
I wasn't afraid.
No matter what the ending of this story is, I will accept the consequences of what I have created.
One day, when I was very young, I went to church.
The evangelist gathered my young friends and I together and said:
Since we all live in sin, we must believe in Jesus and go to church to go to heaven.
The reason I am an unbeliever is not simply because I cannot see.
It was because of the question that came to mind: If there really is a God, why does he allow evil in the world to remain as it is?
God even died for humans.
If God truly loves humans that much.
Why leave evil alone?
The answer I came to was one.
God may exist, though.
God is testing humans.
It is about giving life a chance and evaluating it through death.
Of course, no one knows the criteria for that evaluation.
I don't think anyone knows about that.
Good deeds are good for humans to live together, but they are never actions for God.
I think that to become a higher-dimensional being, something other than the distinction between good and evil is needed.
I thought it was 'the ability to overcome loneliness.'
Suddenly, I thought of Kwon Kyung-soo, the king of the black team in Round 1.
He said I was the last one he would suit.
I could get a hint from his words.
The end means that in the end, you will be left alone.
God is a lonely being.
In a universe where there is nothing, God exists alone.
What did God think of in that dark void?
Perhaps the being called God created humans in his image because he was lonely.
The price of creating humans in this endless loneliness was great.
Humans tried to challenge God by building a tower, and instead of living together, they turned guns and swords on each other, and even denied and blasphemed God.
God is the one who can overcome loneliness.
So, the god of this world, or perhaps the god of this dimension, may be someone who could not overcome loneliness and came down from his position as god to step into the human world.
In that sense, what am I?
In the words of the Absolute Being I met in the Light, I was a piece of their puzzle to move to a higher dimension.
I don't know why they want to go to higher dimensions and why they pull me into their puzzle piece.
At first, my goal was just to find my younger brother, but now I don't know.
Just kill the enemies in front of you and move forward.
I am neither lonely nor rich.
I don't know if everything I'm doing is right or wrong.
I just want to finish this league with my own hands.
One goal was certain.
With that thought in mind, I charged towards the charging hunters.
I screamed.
No, it roared.
“Eww-!”
* * *
Whirik-! Clang! Clang!
Kang Shi-on swung his sword and tore apart the bodies of the hunters running towards him from the front.
“These fu*king dogs!!!”
“Kill them all!!”
The hunters charged forward, screaming, and Zion continued to shoot spheres without stopping.
Now, the spheres were powerful enough to penetrate enemy bulletproof vests and kill them, even if they weren't as powerful as bullets.
The spheres that were always flying around Kang Shi-on flew to wherever he wanted with just one command.
Swish- swish- swish-!
Spheres and lines spread across the battlefield, engulfing the hunters.
Zion was out of breath after hours of fighting, but he couldn't stop here.
The ultimate goal was to completely destroy the main force of the Man-Gyeong Metro after eliminating all remaining enemy forces.
At that moment, an arrow flew towards Kang Shi-on.
Jin Jae-hee, who confirmed this, moved faster than the flying arrows and deflected them with the Holy Sword.
Ting-!
She always protected Kang Shi-on.
Always by his side.
Jaehee looked back at Zion and asked.
"are you okay?"
“No problem.”
“… … You really got stronger.”
“I don’t think this is the right time to talk about it.”
Zion spotted the two charging towards him from the other side, and immediately snapped the ends of the wires into hooks.
Then he put a hook on Dudu's flesh and pressed it down.
thud!
… … Kugugugug!
Dudu fell down with his head thrown forward.
In the end, Jin Jae-hee swung the holy sword and cut off Du-du's head.
Jin Jae-hee approached Kang Si-on and said.
“There’s not much left. Until Man-gyeong.”
"okay."
It won't be long before we reach Man-gyeong.
The news that the North King's monster had been defeated was known through the administrator's system. Now, all that was left for Zion was to destroy Metro's main force.
The two ran together.
Towards the hunters rushing from the front.
But then, something happened that no one expected.
An object began to swell on the ground that Kang Shi-on was walking on.
Jin Jae-hee recognized it, but did not react.
It was a mushroom.
Along with that, a woman's voice echoed throughout the battlefield.
“Wow-. It’s really Kang Shi-on? I didn’t think he’d be alive!”
Kang Shion started to get buried in the giant mushroom summoned by the woman.
The woman who suddenly appeared was kidnapping Kang Shi-on.
The woman said with a smile.
“If I take it, Junho will like it, right?”
She was Kang Jun-ho's subordinate, Chae Chae-yeon.
(Continued in the next episode)