I Am the Only Non-Returner

167 – To Where He Is (2) – Reunion

Due to the existence of a compass that points to exactly one place in the dimensional passage, their journey became unhindered.

“You pass through the Demon World and point to the crack on the other side? Aren’t the passages in all dimensions connected?”

“The roads are all connected, but it’s probably a question of efficiency. Perhaps passing through the demon world would be a path that would shorten the time by a lot.”

“Aha~”

As soon as they entered the demon world, they fell into a place infested with ferocious and violent beings they had never seen before, and Lingling and the black panther fell into great confusion.

“Kneel down, you bastards.”

When Euncheol started playing and gave a command, a spectacle unfolded where demons as large and powerful as the tall mountain bowed their heads and knelt down.

So, I was able to reach the point to the next dimension more easily than ever before.

“Wow… Eun-cheol is so great? Has he really become the Great Demon King?”

“Heh… These are the actions that should be taken by this body that will rise to the peak of demons…”

“Ugh, why is it so greasy to talk small?”

“Is there really no one who can understand me?”

Even after this, there were obstructionists blocking the group from time to time, but they were all sorted out along the ‘black’ line.

Crrr!!

“Hmm – why does it feel like that guy is more active than me?”

“Don’t feel competitive towards animals, Euncheol.”

After crossing thousands of dimensions for several months, they finally arrived.

“Is that… The tree of origin… The starting point of everything?”

“Oh my god…”

The compass light had already disappeared, and what they could see as they entered the dimension was a huge tree stretching endlessly.

“I can’t believe the distance still looks like this even though it’s still a long way away.”

“If you get closer, you won’t be able to see anything, right?”

And although it was a long distance to the black dog, it felt like it.

“There is. There is a presence of full armor at the top of the tree.”

After traveling for several days, they finally narrowed the distance to the tree by half, and at some point, they arrived at a place where creatures of all kinds and sizes were randomly fighting.

“Everyone has lost their minds. They are beings who only crave destruction and slaughter.”

“It seems like the mechanism is to consume the winning opponent and become stronger. It doesn’t seem like the intake efficiency is that good…”

Monsters created by magic continued to rise from the ground, and without fail, they rushed at everything they saw as if they were going to kill them.

“Is this the hell I’ve only heard about?”

“We can’t keep leaving Gyeon in a place like this!! Let’s go quickly!!”

Euncheol started playing on top of Heukah, and soon the confused monsters began to build up defense forces around the group, layer by layer.

“Hwiyu~ That’s amazing.”

“Oh? The part where Black Dog finally acknowledges me?”

“There’s no need to admit it. I already know that you have the power to mess up an entire dimension if you put your mind to it.”

“Heeheehee······.”

In the end, they reached the bottom of the tree, guarded by monsters, and moved towards the top of the tree again, and after a few days, they were barely able to reach the top.

And there, a full body of armor resembling the outline of a silver dog was floating in the air, and sitting next to it was an old man with a bushy beard.

“······ Damn it······.”

The old man’s presence was so great that I couldn’t help but curse.

The beings of the beginning could not see it, but in the eyes of the black dog who had experienced the watchman, the old man was a being of a higher rank than the watchman.

Suddenly encountering a being stronger than the one that controlled the entire dimension, the black dog could not help but be greatly embarrassed.

‘There really is no end.’

“Sit down, everyone.”

Shock-!!

The group was shocked once again when they found themselves sitting across from the old man.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve had that kind of reaction, so it’s refreshing.”

“······.”

When the black dog could not open his mouth, Euncheol spoke up.

“Grandfather, can you hand over our brother over there to us?”

A presence that even Euncheol cautiously asks about. And the old man looked at Euncheol for a moment and smiled.

“I was very surprised when that one flew by, but there was one more… It is truly the red bok of this world…”

ㅡ??

The old man muttered something unknown and shook his hand, and soon the full armor moved in front of the group’s eyes.

“It wasn’t mine in the first place, so I don’t have anything to hand it over.”

“Okay, thank you.”

The black dog took over the full armor, and only then did he smile brightly after feeling the energy of the silver dog inside.

“If you promise me one thing, I will send you back. Can you two come here one more time? It doesn’t matter when.”

The old man who picked the black dog and Euncheol laughed loudly as if he was extremely happy.

“You have to make an appointment to send it to me, right?”

“That’s right. Once you’ve entered this dimension, you can’t leave without giving or receiving at least one small thing from me. Or, one way would be to forcefully get drunk on this old man. I wouldn’t recommend it.”

It was strange to see him behave like that even though he had already lost his armor, but I couldn’t picture him competing with this old man and causing even the slightest scratch.

“I understand. I will make sure to come see you.”

“Heulheul – that’s enough. Let’s go now.”

“······.”

The old man took his eyes off them after hesitating for a moment to see if he could go. He walked toward the pillar of light rising into the sky from the top and just stared at it blankly.

The group finally recognized the pillar of light, looked at it together, and then immediately turned around.

‘I don’t even want to know right now, what the hell that pillar of light is.’

Wooow-

The full armor resonated with the black dog and returned to its most primitive spherical form.

(How…)

A longing voice rang out clearly from within the armor, and the sphere slowly began to seep into the black dog’s body.

At that time, the old man snapped his fingers, and a magic circle that I had never seen before began to appear on the floor where the group was standing.

“Everyone, it was fun. And thank you for coming with us.”

“Huh? Already? Are we starting right now?”

“Uh… It’s not going to disappear anyway, right?”

Euncheol asked the black dog with a complicated expression, and the black dog nodded his head, but in fact, his role ended here.

‘I didn’t know that the gamble I played with the organizer would lead to this point. This is a huge success.’

The body should have been destroyed in the first round anyway, and there wasn’t even the slightest lingering regret left.

(Thank you…)

And that was the black dog’s last memory.

The group disappeared in an instant, and the old man said with a small smile a moment later.

“I’ll come back someday. Kkeulkeul-“

* * *

Wahahahahahah- It’s here!

Really! If you get caught, you die~

Commonly known as ‘Zero’, the only human habitation area remaining on Earth

Numerous long lines of shelters and tens of thousands of people holding on to vague memories of their lives.

Looking at the children running and playing in the open space outside the shelter, Eunchae and Kahi were enjoying their leisure time for the first time in a long time.

“No, really, does it make sense that there are so many records and all the people disappeared in one moment?”

“Are you talking about that again? It’s been a long time since I stopped thinking – ego.”

Eunchae placed her head on the singer’s lap and looked blankly at the blue sky, which was much higher and clearer than she remembered.

Geee of

Kiiiiing- coo thud!

The sound of golems moving has now become familiar.

Wooow-

“Tsk! Huh? What are you doing here?”

I am no longer surprised to see superpowers with absurd powers such as space movement. Of course, the same thing happened to me, as I broke the 100m record with a single-digit record.

“I’m just blankly~ How did something decent come out of it?”

“No, this time it’s a waste of money. I don’t think we were completely swept away at the beginning of the gap, but the city side is almost a blank slate. There’s nothing.”

Suzy, who had returned from scouting, shrugged her shoulders and walked toward the kitchen.

“Hmm-“

“Don’t you dream about that big person these days?”

“I’m still dreaming. It’s fading, though.”

“Really? I haven’t seen it in a while… Is it really God like people say?”

There was a lot of speculation that the main character of the half-man, half-dragon statue erected in the neighboring shelter was the main character of the dream, but Eunchae thought that the silhouettes were very similar.

So she looked up at the statue several times a day and tried to recall the memory, but as expected, nothing came to mind.

“I don’t know either! What was lunch today-“

When Eunchae raised her upper body and tried to turn toward the kitchen, she sensed something falling quickly from the sky.

– What, what!!

– Something is coming!!

– Am I an enemy?!

Of course, everyone here was beyond the normal range, so everyone ran out to the open space in front of the shelter and waited with their own weapons.

There are as many as four beings with tremendous magical power.

“It’s a monster… Could it be that Seol is stronger than her older sister or the conqueror grandmother?”

“No way…”

Quaaa!!

And a moment later, a four-legged monster with black bones and three people riding on its back landed on the ground.

Gulp-

People who had expectations that their lost memories might be replaced rather than feelings of fear or fear took a step forward.

And when Eunchae saw a man walking ahead of the three, she couldn’t take her eyes off him.

‘The man who appeared in my dream…’

And then the man started walking straight towards him.

Besides, Kahi, Hong Seol, Kim Hyun-ah, Aksh*ta, and Yoo In-soon were sitting next to him, holding hands that were as trembling as his own, and were quietly waiting for him to come.

After the silver dog was completely fused with the black dog, this was the first concern.

‘What should I say? Linglin, I heard that you completely lost your memory, but it’s strange that you pretend to know everything. It would be quicker to find a way to blend in naturally…’

Thanks to the mysterious old man’s consideration, I had been thinking intensely about this while flying through the dimensional passage as if driving automatically for several days, but when I saw the faces of Eun-chae and the other lovers, those thoughts disappeared at once.

‘I never thought we would meet again…’

Thump thump thump!

As hundreds of golems rushed towards their master, the ground trembled as if there had been an earthquake.

But, as if that didn’t bother him at all, the man didn’t stop walking.

Now, the distance has narrowed to the point where he can reach Eun-chae’s face when he extends his hand, and Eun-gyeon realizes one thing as he looks at the familiar faces who have traveled the long journey with him.

There was no need to say anything in the first place.

He held Eunchae’s small, trembling hand and gently pulled her into his arms.

“Ah…”

A man with an incredibly large physique suddenly hugged her, and although she might have been very surprised, Eunchae felt like she was missing something and wondered what this was.

“Who are you?”

Embarrassment bloomed belatedly, but I felt even more puzzled at myself for not trying to escape from his embrace.

After Eun-gyeon felt her body temperature for a moment, she looked at Eun-chae’s face and said.

“I’m back, Eunchae.”

It was the first time she heard a low-pitched voice, but the bridge of Eunchae’s nose turned cold at the feeling of missing it so much.

“Uh… Huh? Why, why are you like this?”

Patter-tuk-tuk-

I don’t know why I’m suddenly overflowing with emotion or what the meaning of the falling tears is.

This person clearly knows me and even seems to like me very much.

“Tell me… What happened to us.”

“Okay, I’ll tell you everything.”

Gyeon held Eun-chae’s hand and started walking. Towards the shelter where he first started, with the people who were with him.