“Damn it.”

Kim Min-hyuk muttered in the car.

I could see the driver in the front seat shrugging his or her own sinful shoulder.

It wasn't his fault.

The road is clogged.

You're wasting your time stuck in a stalled road.

A second, a second, a sudden traffic jam in a hurry.

Seoul city roads were blocked. It wasn't a day or two, but today was difficult.

“Are all these cars going to Seoul Station? ”

“Well, I... I guess so. ”

The driver also confirmed Kim Min-hyuk's question.

Kim Min-hyuk's cell phone is still texting nonstop.

Instead of replying to each one, it was also difficult to confirm.

The meaning of the rainy text message was clear.

It is known that the Seoul Station portal was driven.

To everyone.

And there are people who are convinced that a new challenger is coming to Seoul Station.

I ignored dozens of messages every ten seconds, and sent myself a text.

It was a text to Lee Cheol-min, a Class S Awakener who was waiting for Seoul Station.

It was a message confirming that Lee Ho-jae appeared in Seoul Station.

In a short text message, Min-hyuk Kim felt like he was going dark.

Not like this.

It was a big problem for Lee Ho-jae to come out, but it was a matter I had been preparing for for for a long time.

But it wasn't supposed to be this crowded.

You scared the shit out of me.

Lee Chul-min was a Class S Awakener.

It's hard to find a stronger person inside the guild unless it's Lee Jun-seok.

He was one of the best in the world.

Kim Min-hyuk sent me a message to stop talking like a cowboy and hurry inside.

And he scolded the driver.

I knew there was no way to do it as a driver, but I didn't think I could stand the wait.

After a while, a text came from Lee Cheol-min.

It was a text asking me when I was coming.

I don't think so.

Kim Min-hyuk muttered after seeing Lee Cheol-min's text.

Kim Min-hyuk hurried.

If anything happens, there is a bomb that will blow up the whole of Seoul as well as Seoul Station.

I felt like my life was going to shrink if I just sat in the car and waited to arrive.

I opened the car door impulsively.

I watched outside the door for a moment and got out of the car.

After leaving a message to the driver to go first, Kim Min-hyuk started running down the road.

* * *

Kim Min-hyuk was able to arrive at the building in front of Seoul Station.

I couldn't be happier that I was Awakened.

One thing I couldn't happily accept was that people had already gathered near Seoul Station.

From afar, Kim Min-hyuk felt overwhelmed.

I wonder if people went into the building.

Luckily, there were guild members in front of the building.

“Never let people in, and if the press show up, kick them out. I'm not doing a press conference today. And push them as far away as possible. At least with all your strength.”

“It's not easy. These are civilians. We use our strength a little.... ”

“It doesn't matter.”

A child who knows nothing should be kept as far away from the knife and fire as possible.

Even if the child hates it.

It was right for the child.

After completing the instructions, Min-hyuk Kim entered the building.

The room that heard the voice was the costume room.

I stood in front of him and could see what Lee Cheol-min meant.

I felt a slight tremor.

It was a convulsion.

My body is rejecting me.

Kim Min-hyuk had a similar experience.

On Normal difficulty, there was a famous gateway.

Normal difficulty 7th floor stage.

It is now a stage where information is disclosed and passed through dogs or cows, but it was different in the early days when information was not available.

And Kim Min-hyuk was the ranker who was attacking the stage ahead of that time.

There is a monster on the seventh floor, entering without any information.

A giant lion-headed hippopotamus.

It was only later that I learned that the monster terrifies the opponent with psychic attacks, and that combat power itself is nothing, but it was truly terrifying when I first met him.

It was the same sensation as then.

Kim Min-hyuk took a deep breath and placed his hand on the door hook.

A moment ago, I turned the door like that, impulsively, like when I opened the car door.

* * *

“Oh, you're here. ”

You're early.

I thought it'd be a long time since there were so many people out there.

“Cute!”

Before Kim Min-hyuk answered my greeting, Yong ran to Kim Min-hyuk.

And I tapped Min-hyuk's body.

That's very kind of you, son.

I shouldn't call anyone cute, by the way.

This is bad.

Kim Min-hyuk quickly flew away from stiffness and bowed to the dragon hanging towards himself.

Yong-yong hung up on Kim Min-hyuk as soon as she thought it meant to give her a hug.

Kim Min-hyuk embarrassed, but hugged me properly without letting go of Yong.

It was a different reaction from Lee Cheol-min.

I don't know if it's because I have a bolder personality or because I'm more bold.

Lee Cheol-min, who is squeezed in the corner, has been trying to maintain a distance from Yong Yong since he first came in.

He was moving around picking up clothes that didn't fall apart, touching the fluorescent light switch on the wall.

Of course, it couldn't have been better.

In the car that was distressed by my heart, a brave human who held himself in his arms silence appeared.

Yong was smiling brightly whether it was satisfying.

Kim Min-hyuk came to me with Dragon Dragon hug.

He seemed to have gotten out of tension a lot.

“It really came out. Hey, that's amazing, man. ”

“It really came out, then it must have come out fake. ”

I also agreed with the feeling that it was strange.

I decided to introduce the group to Min-hyuk Kim.

Min-hyuk Kim once heard about my group through a message in a tutorial.

But it was my first time seeing it in person, so I needed an introduction.

“This is Hotch. ”

“I remember our wretched one had been heavily indebted. I'm going to lose a lot, and I'm so sorry about this. ”

I asked him to say hello, and he punched Hotch in the back of the head for talking nonsense.

I decided to skip Hotch and introduce myself to the following people:

“Hey, the old lady came from 61st floor.... ”

I wanted to introduce myself, but the inspiration and the grandmother were still picking clothes near the closet.

Whether Min-hyuk Kim wasn't interested in me or not, he turned his back and didn't even listen to us.

Somehow I was embarrassed.

I skipped two and saw Sergia.

Serenia was lying on the ground like a dream, and fortunately, her eyes were turning toward us.

“Cersei? Why don't you get up and say hello? ”

Ceresia lies on the ground, her eyes still, not awake.

I knew it.

I'm just saying, just in case.

Damn it.

* * *

It took time for inspiration and grandmother to choose clothes.

I didn't know you two were interested in fashion, but I was surprised.

“Shall we?”

Seems like enough people are gathering.

Yong-yong was falling asleep.

Kim Min-hyuk left the room with Cheol-min, saying that he would go out and organize things before we went out.

He didn't say exactly when to come out.

Can we wait a few more minutes or so?

Looking back, I was making an anxious expression about Yong.

Dragon hugged me.

“Come on, Yong Yong. ”

용용이 did not want to answer anything.

I asked Yong-yong to whisper.

“Is it because of the guys who just left? ”

용용이 looked at my eyes for a moment and nodded small.

I wonder if he's nervous.

I thought it might be.

“Did he look cute? ”

“… Yes. What about Dad?”

용용이 asked me.

This must be the reason for the anxiety.

Differences between me and Yong's attitude towards other humans.

“As a matter of fact, so do I. ”

Yong-yong who heard my answer opened her expression of anxiety or relief.

I hugged Yong tightly and patted her back.

Whatever the power, and whatever ability, Yong is still young.

The fact that he is different from his parents alone is a great fear for him.

Human beings who only look cute and funny to themselves and me talking at equal eye level would have looked strange to dragons.

I understand.

Anyone would be frightened if he saw his parents hanging from a tree one day and seriously trying to communicate with a cicada.

If you were a child, you would be more afraid.

I was worried that I wasn't my parents.

Unlike me, who was born and raised as a human, dragons were born dragons, and were quickly roughened.

Even after living with Hotch and I alone, I lacked the experience of communicating with others.

Seeing me talking to Min-hyuk Kim, it was worth being afraid of.

“Hey."

“Why.”

When you're ready to leave, you talk to Hotch, who's raising Cedria.

“You're leaking. ”

“Yes? No? This much... ”

“Dangerous enough. ”

Lee Cheol-min or Kim Min-hyuk, they were all Awakened, so they just ended up being nervous.

Ordinary people may have dozed off.

“Really…? Very weak.”

Hotch was sharing my memories, but they were also just memories in the tutorial.

In fact, I could not feel it because I had never encountered a human being or been a human.

In fact, not only humans, but anything we meet will be similar to our standards.

It occurred to me that we had been locked up for too long.

“Yes, weak. Now let's get out there and meet those weaklings. ”

By now, Kim Min-hyuk should have prepared at least.

The group leaves the building, leaving the costume room.

Towards a weak and cute world.

* * *

It was the worst.

Kim Min-hyuk had to mutter so much.

There were too many people.

Too much, too much.

I wonder if everyone in Seoul is here.

I couldn't see the floor because of the people gathered under the stairs.

People were approaching right in front of the building.

The guild members are trying to stop it, but even that doesn't seem right.

In the words of the guild members, they were powerless civilians, and there was a limit to pushing them away.

Threats were all that drew back, but they became meaningless as the numbers exceeded 10,000 units.

People gain power when they form groups.

Even when the guild members show their strength and yell out, people instead try to come closer with a bloodbath.

Whether it's because of the half-guild emotion that has been building recently, people are reluctant to speak harshly to the guild members who are trying to control it.

I was now worried that the guild members would really use up their strength.

There were fewer guild members blocking the building.

I saw why, and some of the guild members were far apart.

Something seems to be stifling, but I couldn't see it well in Kim Min-hyuk's eyes because it was too far away.

I didn't see any members of the association, the police, or the ceremony that should have arrived by now.

“Oh, fuck me. ”

Kim Min-hyuk looked back with a hot feeling.

Lee Ho-jae and his group come out.

If you knew this, you would have told me to come out later.

No, make an escape route for people to sneak out.

Many regrets were mixed in Min-hyuk Kim's head.

And now I think I'm really fucked.

“What's wrong with the air? It's worse out there. ”

Looking at Lee Ho-jae who was frowning, Kim Min-hyuk couldn't connect.

People became even more noisy as they saw him leave.

You hear cheers and applause, but you hear more evil than that.

To get closer, to get a better look.

There were also rare questions in the noise.

Journalists.

It was a mix of noisy noises and questions that didn't sound right.

However, Lee Ho-jae heard it clearly, one by one.

Too bad.

‘Are you aware of the Class G, which appears in Pyongyang? ’

‘What do you think motivated you to clear the Hell difficulty level? ’

‘What would you like to eat most now? ’

‘Did you know that Lee Myung-Sook, your older sister, died 3 years ago? If so, what do you think? How are you feeling? "

‘Let me tell you……. ’

“Even noisy. ”

Tsk.

As if a tent had sat down, the noisy square became silent.

Those who had just been screaming and trying to run forward stood there and kept their mouths shut.

No force was exercised, but people remained silent as if it were natural.

Only the sound of a car coming from a distance hits the building and echoes.

The square was so static.

I didn't ask anyone to do that.

Everyone there silently shuts up and listens.

Lee Ho-jae standing in front of the building breathes quietly.

The sound leaks out through your slow breathing as if you were taking a deep breath.

It was also the sound of a breeder whistling to calm the rabid animal.

While everyone was stopping, there was one who desperately tried to move.

It was Kim Min-hyuk.

Lee Ho-jae untied him and asked.

“Why.”

Kim Min-hyuk tried to calm his trembling body.

“... Hey, don't. ”

“So why? I waited on purpose. ”

It was always like this.

Lee Ho-jae, who knew Kim Min-hyuk, always chose to gather and sweep up when he had to solve problems he didn't want to touch.

“People……. ”

It was Kim Min-hyuk who opened a difficult word, but I couldn't think of anything to persuade Lee Ho-jae.

Seeing Kim Min-hyuk like that, Lee Ho-jae said.

“You know what? The protagonist never hides his power. ”

* * *

There was an explosion over Seoul.