The Returner
The Returner 12 volumes (currency 15)
3. Then let me ask you to try to solve it (5)
The gate begins to tremble more and more.
Park Seong-chan, who had fled far away, hurried to ask Jung-hoon Choi.
“W-what's going on? What's wrong with that gate? ”
Choi Jung-hoon replied grudgingly.
“It's going to be a big monster. ”
“Is that supposed to make you so careless? ”
“I don't have anything to do with it whether it comes out or not. ”
Park Seong-chan was confused whether he was talking to Lee Lee Hyuk or Choi Jung-hoon.
"Does it look like this? ’
I don't know why I only learned to be so stubborn.
Ah...
When I thought about it, I didn't know what was good for me to learn from Lee Hyuk. Or none of that from the beginning.
“Big monsters coming out? ”
“New to Level 6? ”
“... I haven't seen you around much. ”
“That's true. ”
When I looked at Choi Jung-hoon who answered roughly, I felt that Park Seong-chan was going wrong.
Even this guy, NDF has no future.
“Hey, stop messing around and come up with a plan! ”
“Measures.... ”
Choi Jung-hoon stared at Lee Hyuk.
“I have a plan for now. ”
“Ah……. ”
It's a sure thing.
I feel that Level 6 Gate doesn't matter just because Lee Hyuk is here. I wonder if you're still too relaxed...
“Somehow. ”
“Yes?”
“No, I'm not.”
Park Seong-chan shakes his head.
Instead of talking to these guys and trying to stop them, we should just keep an eye on them and do what they say. That's the way it doesn't flip.
“That one's more shaky. ”
“… one of those, too. ”
Well, how great is that going to be?
“Shouldn't we be prepared? ”
Jung-hoon Choi nodded his head in response to Park Sung-chan's question.
“We need to be prepared.”
Well, I don't know how much help it'll be.
Choi Jung-hoon turned on the smartwatch and gave instructions.
“Sir."
- Yes.
“We need help over here. ”
- There are too many monsters.
“That's not the problem, there will be big monsters. ”
― … Yes? I can't hear you.
“Sir!"
- Oh, okay.
This lady's getting better and better.
To put it into perspective, Choi Jung-hoon looked at the gate, thinking that all of the NDFs seemed to have been much more flustered than at first.
The gate is collapsing.
“I'm scared.”
At this point, I was afraid of what would come out.
“Lalla.”
Lee Hyuk, who is whistling next to him, is usually a human who leaves his liver outside his ship, but Jung-hoon is a normal person.
It will be hard not to be afraid of this situation if you are mentally impaired. Especially if you think about the amount of monsters spilled at the gate.
“But Lee Hyuk. ”
“Yes.”
“This would make it a situation for us to take on those eleven gates because we were chased out by the North Koreans for nothing? ”
Lee Hyuk tilted his head.
“Will it happen again? ”
Choi Jung-hoon stared at Lee Hyuk with fat eyes.
“Well, it could be. ”
“I can't believe you did that! ”
Lee Hyuk opened his eyes wide.
“Are you questioning me? ”
“It's not like that. ”
It's true, but how can you answer like that?
Dirty world.
“Well, I didn't do it on purpose. ”
That's why I told you not to! ’
“And frankly, it doesn't help that they're there. ”
“Mmmm... ”
Maybe that's it.
Choi Jung-hoon nodded.
North Korea would not ignore its capabilities, but any other country would not have been very helpful with monsters lined up at Level 6 Gates.
If the eleven gates were all open at the same time without Yi Hyuk, the NDFs would also be helpless.
Anyone who saw the monster spill will think the same thing.
But a big monster?
I'm glad you didn't run away.
‘That's absurd. ’
Why are there eleven Level 6 Gates open here at the same time, even if one of them could lead to a national collapse?
It's an oil fountain in spite of all the trouble I've had!
“Is it open?”
Seo Ah-young walked among the NDF agents who had herpes in front of Lee Hyuk.
“... You have a beautiful back. ”
“I'm a little……. ”
“No matter how hard you run, your leg tendons are going to burst. ”
“Did you see that? You have good eyes.”
“You were the hardest runner in front of me. ”
“I don't have a stalker, I'm watching everything. If you're interested, let me know. ”
“ ……. ”
Seo Ah-young looked away awkwardly when Choi Jeong-hoon stared at him.
We all ran away together, and I don't understand why we only do this to ourselves.
“I think it's open. ”
“Well……. ”
Choi Jung-hoon glanced at the gate with a hard eye.
“What will it be? ”
I'm not surprised anything's coming out of it now.
Whoo-hoo!
The gate is half-crooked, and something is slowly coming out of it.
“Huh?"
Seo Ah-young's voice is bewildered.
“What is that? ”
“If you ask me that.... ”
“Phew.”
Seo Ah-young stared at the front as if she was confused.
Large monsters coming out of the gate have never been noticed. A rare monster appeared that she could never have imagined.
I thought of course I would do it again.
However, it is different from what came out of the gate until now.
“... It's small? ”
“I see.”
“A spirit?”
“I don't think so. ”
Bang.
At that moment, Lee Hyuk took out a cigarette without saying anything and put it in his mouth and lit the fire.
“Phew.”
Lee Hyuk, who emitted a long smoke, looked straight ahead with a frowny face.
“Ha……. ”
Shhh.
Erkana appeared behind Lee Hyuk's back, and sat on Lee Hyuk's knee.
“Hmm?"
She also looks at the things coming out of the gate with an unpleasant face.
“What is that? ”
Herkana tilts her head as if she couldn't understand.
He would, too, because it wasn't living things that came out of the gate.
“Mana Nugget? ”
Coming out of the eleven gates were pure Mana, which had all white lights.
The dense crowd is so dense that it seems like a mass of light is emitting.
Clusters of Mana, which look like spirits of light, come out of each gate and clump into one place.
Phew.
Lee Hyuk's cigarette smoke disperses into the air.
“I can smell it. ”
“This can't be a coincidence, can it? ”
“Hmm……. ”
Lee Hyuk turned his head and looked at the appendage.
“Hey, lizard. ”
“Yes.”
“What do you know? ”
“I don't know.”
“Of course.”
Lee Hyuk laughs. His face is covered with cynical light.
“Smells like grass. ”
“I really don't know. ”
It's a dragon's word, so it shouldn't be a lie. Dragons can't lie. But it was also true that I felt a strange energy in her words.
‘That's why I hate it. ’
Lee Hyuk stood up.
“Darling.”
“I know.”
Those Mana Nuggets were like a meal prepared for Lee Ji-hyuk.
You can clearly feel the poison inside, but you don't even know what it is. However, we can only know that the meal is an authentic dinner, which cannot be rejected by Lee Ji-hyuk.
“I can't let you do that. ”
If it was Beraf, it would be one way to leave them scattered, but this is Earth, not Beraf. Mana never vanishes on Earth. It takes a long time to disperse slowly, but if another monster absorbs that Mana before that, a catastrophe will happen.
“That's funny.”
Lee Hyuk smiled.
This makes it half clear.
There is an opening of the gate.
A rational being is definitely coming this way to open the gate.
And maybe he knows Lee Hyuk.
“I didn't have to send you a gift. ”
Lee Hyuk smiled.
The monsters coming out of the gate were the right kinds of things for Lee Hyuk to overwhelm, and since then he's been sending them to Mana Nuggets.
Even if you try to help Lee Hyuk with favor, it is a reliable structure.
“But I still don't like it. ”
At some point, Lee Hyuk's insistence was that this banquet would definitely make him sick.
“I think so, darling. ”
“Isn't that right?"
“Yeah. Let's just throw it away. ”
Lee Hyuk shakes his head.
“You can't do that. ”
Even if it's poisoned, the food is delicious.
It was common sense at Lee Hyuk's house that his back would burst from his mother's table.
“You can't use it if you eat it. ”
As Lee Hyuk laughs and walks forward, Herkana smiles and hugs his neck behind his back.
“Darling, you're a man. ”
“... Tsk. ”
Should the response be too consistent in any way?
That's the beauty of Herkana, though.
Lee Hyuk hung Herkana on his back and walked towards the Mana Nugget.
“Hmm.”
The aroma of familiar Mana.
It was hard to explain what exactly I was familiar with, but it was clearly Mana who had experienced it.
Then this Mana is where Lee Hyuk has been....
“Beraf.”
If you're from Beraf, that's reasonable. But the monsters that came through the gate were not Beraf's.
Even though the monsters you can see in Beraf were mixed, there were many types of monsters that you can't see in Beraf.
Then where did those monsters come from?
“You're twisted.”
Lee Hyuk shook his head.
There had always been a feeling that something was happening around him. I'm starting to feel convinced, but I don't know anymore.
Above all, the fact that there was nothing to gain from aiming at him confused Lee Hyuk.
If he is some legendary dragon with a Dragon Heart, what profit can he gain by investing in Iz-hyuk now?
“Maybe there's a god who craves me. ”
“Darling, it's time for your meds. ”
… nutritional supplements?
You're not talking about psychopharmaceuticals, are you, Herkana?
Lee Hyuk smiled and approached the mass of Mana.
‘It's massive.’
Mana had never seen anything so tangled up before. Mana was as dense as Lee Hyuk's clumping and compression of black magic.
“I feel a little burdened. ”
Lee Hyuk became a little serious.
“Darling, I think this is going to be a ride. ”
“Well, back off, Herkana. ”
“Yes.”
For those who use black magic like Lee Hyuk or her, the pure Mana in front of them is truly poisonous.
“Are you really going to feed them and assassinate them? ”
Lee Hyuk reached out his hand and brought it to Mana, thinking it was a reasonable way.
“Drain.”