The Live

Kim Jin-seok took Yoon Jae and Jung straight to the top floor of the Clan House where Arhan is.

Knock-knock.

Elvin comes to the front of Arhan's office and smacks the door. But there was no answer inside.

“Are you in there? ”

“There's nowhere else to go. ”

Knock-knock.

When Kim Jin-seok asked, Elvin knocked again. I heard the answer late.

“Come in.”

Elvin opens the door. The first thing I saw was Arhan sitting on the couch drinking alone.

“…… How much did you eat? ”

“Just, a lot. ”

“You've eaten a lot. ”

Elvin grimaces as he kicks his tongue.

This spacious room is filled with the smell of alcohol. The bottle was piled up on the table and was rolling all the way to the floor.

‘All this liquor is high. ’

Yoon Jae checked the bottle.

I grabbed the tip of my nose and smelled it, and the aroma swiftly pierced my nose. It wasn't just any strong drink.

Did you drink it to get drunk? ’

Those with more physical abilities and more resilience rarely get drunk unless they are intoxicated.

Even a few bottles of strong liquor over 40 degrees were barely enough to get drunk.

Because of this, those who drank alcohol on the other side of the world often drank it rather than trying to get drunk.

It was because I could hardly feel the hangover without drinking it.

However, the liquor that lay around here was made to be far more potent than usual, so that those in need could feel the hangover.

A drink made to drink rather than taste.

It was a different kind of alcohol from what Arhan had been drinking.

But…….

“Hello?”

Arhan's voice was far from sober.

Yoon Jae sighed with the same expression.

"You can't be drunk. ’

The strength of these drinks was originally built on the basis of ordinary people.

The reason they did not take it was because they were in better resilience than normal people. And resilience is stronger as they excel.

Arhan is one of the greatest minds in the world.

He couldn't have felt the hangover.

“That's strange. You don't get drunk no matter how much you drink. ”

Gulp -

Arhan said so and drank again.

I spit out the stench of bad liquor in my mouth, but my face, voice and mind were no different from any other time.

“What about you? Jin-seok.”

It sounded like I knew everything.

The question made Kim Jin-seok walk out loud toward Arhan.

“What do you think? ”

Kwaak -

Then he grabs Arhan by the collar and lifts his fist up.

“Stay with me, you idiot. ”

Phew!

Arhan's body collapses and falls to the ground, struck by Kim Jin-seok's fist.

It was a fist with pure strength, without magic. I didn't hit him hard enough to die, so it didn't hurt much.

Arhan sits on the floor and stares at Kim Jin-seok dazed. Kim Jin-seok looked at Arhan with his pathetic eyes.

“Is this the time to be shivering? ”

“Are you better than I thought? ”

Kim Jin-seok could see why Arhan did this.

Just as he lost Emily, so did Genji's betrayal.

For him, Genji and himself are the few friends in the world.

“Do I look all right? ”

Arhan looks at Kim Jin-seok and shakes his head.

“…… No. ”

Arhan replied with a self-absorbed smile.

Then I shook my head and sighed deeply.

“Yeah, you need to wake up. I just wanted to do something about it. ”

“Survive.”

Kim Jin-seok said so, and reached out to Arhan.

Arhan takes his hand and rises from his seat. Then he said, tugging away the dusty clothes.

“Yes, you should. ”

Arhan's expression improves.

Kim Jin-seok nodded, yes, with a face.

“The hawk pill is for you as well. ”

“Knock it off. Get out of my fist. ”

“If you're out of your mind, you better be right. ”

“Got it. I'm awake. ”

Arhan looks away, saying.

“But what brings you here? Are you here to report a survivor? ”

Arhan pointed to Yoon Jae with one hand.

“Get out of here, everybody but this guy. Anybody who has something to say can do it later. ”

“Me too?"

“Yeah, you, too. There's a hundred of them on the first floor, so you can play with them. Maybe he's the same as me. ”

Go squeeze him. Arhan shakes his hand, saying so.

First, Kim Jin-seok turned and left the room. Then the others had to leave the room as Arhan had said.

“Don't just stand there. Sit down. The seats are a little messy. ”

Arhan sits face-down, pointing to the seat opposite him.

Yoon Jae said, watching the sofa with the bottle rolling around.

“It doesn't look like much. ”

“Understand this once. Put that away. ”

“I understand.”

Yoon Jae took away the bottle that was rolling on the couch and sat on it. I rebuilt the spilled liquor.

“Emily's dead, right? ”

“Yes.”

“He's trying to grieve himself to death and pretending not to. ”

“Is the Clan leader okay now? ”

“Are you going to be okay already? My 20-year-old friend has been cheating on me my whole life. He tried to kill me yesterday. ”

Arhan sweeps his head with one hand, smiling as if it were absurd.

“But I'm embarrassed to see his face when I'm like this. It's probably harder than I am. ”

20 years old friend.

They were friends who were thrown into a strange world and lived in the same world.

One of them is dead, and one of them aims for his throat. You will need time to collect your mind for a day or so.

‘Maybe that's why you missed Genji. ’

Arhan and a hundred thousand.

Without any variables, he couldn't have missed out on one of them.

Probably because they hesitated to let him go.

“Why did you ask me to stay alone? ”

“You know the drill, don't you? ”

“What are you talking about.... ”

“Why did Genji reveal himself now? ”

“That's obvious. ”

It was an answer I could give even if I didn't look at the journal.

“There's no reason to hide yourself anymore, is there? ”

“I'm sure it is. ”

That was the expected answer.

Other than that, I had no time to think.

Genji has been hiding his identity for seven years. But now that you've shown yourself, there must be a reason.

“And why is that? ”

“Maybe……. ”

The answer is probably just a guess.

However, Yoon Jae's next words clearly contained confidence.

“An intermediate land between man and the devil. It's because the trail is almost finished. ”

* * *

A few months ago.

Yoon Jae was able to read the next page of the new diary.

It was thanks to Fukushi Genji's awareness of the betrayal and the warning.

Some of the contents of the diary were familiar.

Like the present self, the future self also learned about the secret of the key and what happened between the first generation of people.

[I learned the secrets of the other side. Master of the Skyscraper Clan, Arhan. He told me the secrets of the past when I was in the middle of nowhere.

I'm the key? I can't feel it. On the other hand, I thought it was an opportunity. Once we get the Holy Grail, we will return Eungyeong and Mina...

Can we really win? Suddenly, I feel skeptical. Humans are already too weak, and our enemies are too strong.]

Difference between present and future.

It was only one journal that was delivered to him. But because of that journal, the future and the present have changed so much.

‘Time and events were too far ahead. ’

The future written in the diary was after Yoon Jae entered the world behind him and sufficed for more than 3 years.

‘Is this a good thing……. ’

Yoon Jae has been keeping one disaster from happening in the future through his journal.

And because of that, the future that was planned has changed. In a decent, not bad way.

However, as long as the present has changed, it does not mean that there has never been an "incident" in the future.

[Arhan is dead.

The unsub is only a few minutes away. There were few people in the other world who could kill him.

Fukushi Genji. An old friend of Arhan's, a first-generation friend, killed him.

The Genger Clan…….]

Yoon Jae woke up after reading the diary. My eyes were wide open and I felt strong in my hands with the diary.

‘The Murder Clan is not the problem. ’

Genji and Fukusi.

Arhan dies in their hands and the Skyscraper clan is destroyed. Fukushi Genji fails to lure the next target, the Hundred Thousand.

It was the future recorded in the diary.

A miserable future where even humanity's last hope is broken.

Fukush Genji betrays Humans and stands by the Devil's side to kill Arhan. It was a future that was likely not to change even if the present had changed.

‘We have to stop it. ’

Arhan's death must be stopped.

He was only a handful of giants who could rule over 100 million people. It was hard to imagine the wavelength of that one death.

Yoon Jae hurriedly started reading the next part of the diary.

[Fukushi Genji showed up for one reason. It was because he no longer needed to hide his appearance. He was like a sly fox.

Could it have been three months since Arhan died?

Grand Mountain, bordering the Midlands. Beyond that high mountain range, demons have begun to come to our land.

During the time we had lost our keys and remained stuck indefinitely, they were pioneering the path.]