The Returner
The Returner 6 volumes (14 currency)
3. Don't say it out loud (4)
“Training?”
Christopher nods with a light on his cigar. A dark smoke circulates in his mouth, slowly and for a long time.
“Yes."
“Training? You mean we should be educated by them? ”
Looking at Christopher's openly unpleasant subordinates, he did not want to be a tree.
In fact, he knew it was very humiliating.
It was a matter of great pride to ask those who were proud of being the world's greatest in the field of competence to train other people's abilities.
“Reality is the problem, reality. ”
But now is not the time for pride.
“But……. ”
“I'm not giving up my pride! You're just trying to protect your pride. ”
“You said you protect your pride? ”
Christopher nervously dropped cigar ashes onto ashtrays. Then I sucked the cigar back into my mouth. The poem burns red and produces clear smoke.
“Hey."
“Yes.”
“Imagine which one is the problem with self-esteem. ”
He did not listen to the answer, and Christopher spoke.
“Does it hurt our pride to have our talents trained by Lee Hyuk, or does the pride of those who beg Lee Hyuk to run to Lee Hyuk for help in the future? ”
“Obviously the latter. ”
“Yes, that's the problem. ”
Seti has already appeared.
There is no guarantee that such monsters will not appear in the future.
However, if in the future, whenever such monsters appear, the only solution is to ask Lee Hyuk to solve the problem, how much self-esteem will hurt?
“Tsk.”
I didn't ask you to do that, Christopher. Even if it is a success, many things remain, such as getting the cooperation of various relevant departments, getting permission from above.
For him, this was all he had to endure.
“But what difference does it make to be trained? It's not that easy to develop your abilities, is it? ”
“Look at this. ”
On Christopher's monitor, you see a very handsome man.
Yoon Hyuk-gyu from Spitfire.
It was him destroying the monsters that protruded from the gate.
“Level four. ”
“… is it real? ”
“According to my research, I've used a lot of high-level Talents at Level 4 Gates before. I've seen that spitfire do that a few times. But after a certain point, every single one of them was on their own for level four. ”
“Mmmm!”
“Is it merely coincidence that it overlaps with the point of the emergence of Lee Hyuk? ”
“Of course not.”
“No, you're not. So now we don't have a problem with pride. Do you understand what I'm saying? ”
“I understand. But I'm not comfortable with it. ”
“You'll have to get used to it. ”
Christopher gripped the cigar tightly.
Get used to it.
This will happen a lot in the future.
“By the way, is there any information still coming in about the Alpha? ”
“Seeing that I can't get a hold of it.... ”
“Hmm……. ”
If Lee Hyuk was a nuclear bomb buried in the ground, Alpha was a high-explosive being rolling around somewhere.
I don't know if Lee Hyuk has a high risk of exploding, but there was a problem that Alpha doesn't know when and where it will explode.
“If training starts dropping people, there 'll be surveillance problems. ”
“That's right.”
“Just keep looking for religion for now. ”
“Yes.”
Christopher muttered, looking at the screen inside the monitor.
“Unpredictable. Unpredictable. ”
Lee Hyuk, Alpha...
The world has become an unpredictable world of how things are changing.
“Train your talents? ”
“That's right.”
“They must have pride. ”
Jung-hoon Choi was very surprised.
I put down the face of the greatest nation in the world and asked Lee Hyuk to educate me.
Of course, it's not that I don't understand....
“It seems they thought monsters like Seti could continue to appear in the future. ”
“Hmm……. ”
Seo Ah-young frowned.
“I disagree. ”
“Hmm?"
Choi Jung-hoon looked at Seo Ah-young.
“Why?”
“To put it bluntly, that... strengthens foreign power, doesn't it? There's nothing good about doing that. And it's America.”
You're not wrong.
Choi Jung-hoon also thought her words made sense.
You don't have to do anything that will definitely benefit other countries. That's for sure.
However, the problem was that the situation could not be seen as such.
“It's not that I haven't considered that part, but it's also a problem that Lee Hyuk will lose a lot of pressure if he goes on like this. ”
Seo Ah-young turned her head and looked at Lee Hyuk.
He did not mix Lee Hyuk's giggling face with the enormous burden of putting his legs on the desk and playing a mobile game leaning against the chair as if he was not interested.
“Burden?”
“… Yes. ”
Don't you have to act tough when people talk to you, man!
Choi Jung-hoon's insides burned up, but it can't be Lee Hyuk if he cares about it in the first place.
Doppelgänger.
“It's a burden... Hmm, it looks burdensome... Hmm... ”
Choi Jung-hoon's forehead sweated.
“You're resting. In fact, we haven't solved everything. ”
“I'm just playing around. ”
“Hmmm……. ”
Don't keep telling me the truth!
Don't tell me the truth!
Don't you know that those who tell the truth have long since become infallible?
“Then I'll take my pills. ”
“Yes?”
“No, I'm not.”
Choi Jung-hoon lightly stretched out his hands to ventilate the atmosphere.
“I don't think Lee Hyuk can go around everywhere. And you shouldn't do that. We're not janitors, we're not mercenaries. If you go everywhere that requests come in, it's just cheap. ”
“Us?”
“... Lee Ji-hyuk. ”
“Yes.”
Can't you just skip that one?
Tiny human.
“But I'm helping. ”
Jung Jeong-min glanced at Lee Hyuk.
“I still move and bring them back! ”
Lee Hyuk nodded and stroked Jung-min's head.
“Nice shuttle. ”
Jung Jeong-min slightly tilted her head as she listened to Lee Hyuk's tsudam.
“Something doesn't feel right. ”
It feels like compassion, not compassion.
“Still, it's better than those cheerleaders. ”
Seo Ah-young growled at Sun-min's words.
“What, this kid? ”
“You, don't talk to me like that! Ji-hyuk, look at him! ”
Lee Hyuk smiled happily and said.
“Be quiet before you blow them both away, will you? ”
They kept their mouths shut.
“So……. ”
Lee Hyuk shoved his phone in his pocket and went straight to the pose.
“Why don't you train the Americans? ”
“It's not just the United States. If you have a request, there's a lot you can do to look at the situation and get help. It also has a great advantage that Lee Hyuk's time and effort are saved. ”
Lee Hyuk closed his eyes, touching his nose.
Of course, it may be very helpful in the long run, but it is always right and hateful to say that we have to suffer now for the sake of the future.
Can't we just relax now and work it out later?
“I don't want to.... ”
“It helps Lee Ji-hyuk! This is helpful, why don't you try it! ”
Lee Hyuk looked at Choi Jung-hoon with a fat face.
“You have to exercise, study, eat well, avoid salt, and take a little quantum tonic, right? ”
“… Yes? ”
“It's all for Choi Jung-hoon, why don't you do it? ”
“ ……. ”
No, that's just it...
Th…….
You really have nothing to say? What am I supposed to say?
“How can a man just do the right thing! ”
“Ugh... ”
Choi Jung-hoon, who was pushed from logic, trembled.
I lost to Lee Hyuk! Logical!
Something was humiliating.
“Well, but…. ”
Lee Hyuk clenched his tongue and massaged the chin edge with his hands.
“Hey!"
When Lee Hyuk shouted out, a low voice came over the door.
“What's the matter? ”
“When someone calls, you have to come in and say it! ”
“I'm in the middle of something. ”
“His game. ”
Ha, Mom...
I was wrong.
That's how my mom must feel to see me.
Is he doing it on purpose to feel it?
“Is the gate getting bigger? ”
“There's a good chance of that. because the crack is going to happen. ”
“Hmm……. ”
Apart from Lee Hyuk, who was contemplating the conversation, other people in the room were contemplating something else.
Why is that voice so loud?
If I heard a voice outside the door, I would have to mix or make the taxi coming through a small, very large, or something, but I felt very strange to hear it verbatim, as I said right next to the door.
Is this another kind of ability? ’
For those who didn't know magic, it was something they couldn't understand.
“The conclusion is simple. Monsters will run more and more. At this rate, I'm going to live on the streets of the world without sleeping. ”
“Precisely.”
“So let's strengthen the others and figure it out, shall we? ”
“I don't know if it's a very strong grade, but I don't know how to handle it. ”
“I have more than a few talents.... ”
When are you going to teach me all that?
No matter how much they train you...
Oh, yeah?
No, there's no reason for you to suffer, is there?
Lee Hyuk suddenly remembered something and flashed his head.
“Let's do it!”
“Oh?”
Choi Jung-hoon glanced at Lee Hyuk's permission, which was simpler than I thought.
“Excellent choice. I'll put you in touch with the United States. ”
“No, no. Not yet.”
“Yes?”
“You're not ready. ”
Ready for what?
It was Choi Jung-hoon who felt like fighting again.
“What is it?”
But there was someone who felt that feelin 'more intense.
Seo Ah-young stood up and looked around.
“I feel weird. ”
Lee Hyuk laughed as he watched the scene.
Anyway, those people with abilities are still alive.
“Director Seo Ah Young. ”
When Seo Ah-young heard Lee Hyuk's words, she mumbled like a baby rat who saw a cat.
“Actually, the foreigners aren't important. It's a big problem that the people in front of me aren't helping. ”
“… I'm working hard. ”
“Working hard is pointless! Well done! The world is a result! You don't know that until you're that old! ”
Your age, my age....
Seo Ah-young, who was not even sticky, carefully asked.
“… So? ”
“We go pyramid. ”
“If you touch it in multiple stages, you can no longer separate it, Lee Hyuk. ”
“Hehe.”
Lee Hyuk said with an evil smile.
“Gentlemen.”
“ ……. ”
“No, I'll call you an instructor now. Instructor, you have a tremendous responsibility to raise the level of many talents around the world. ”
We?
No, why not you, us!
“To do that, we'll need to level you up. ”
Ah...
So this is it.
Seo Ah-young checked the identity of the anxiety she felt and was frustrated.
“Gather all the children. ”
The voice seemed to flow from hell.
At least for her.
“Chuckle.”
And that's the devil's laugh.
Seo Ah-young covered her face.