chapter 26
26. Fulfillment of Promises
26. Fulfillment of promises
“So, Hong Gil-dong became king and lived happily ever after.”
End.
It’s a fairy tale, but why is it so long?
When I read a fairy tale book to Banhana, my lips were as dry as a desert.
I thought it was a children’s book, but it was harder than I thought to read all the characters one by one.
“..is it over?”
One half asked me as if regretfully.
She never stopped concentrating while reading a children’s book, and seemed to have fun.
‘I’m sorry. It’s a fairy tale book.’
Since the story of Hong Gil-dong was released as a fairy tale book, many parts were abbreviated in terms of content.
Hong Gil-dong, who was born as a concubine, could not call his father father.
He lives a righteous life, and then he does this and that, invades another country and becomes the king of that country.
In a way, the story of Hong Gil-dong flows like a story like the Black Dawn.
Their plan to succeed was similar to Hong Gil-dong’s content.
I stroked Banhana’s head with regret.
“Hong Gil-dong’s story is over.”
“Then what about other people’s stories…?”
“Ummm…”
Half Hana showed considerable interest in children’s books.
It would be nice if you didn’t just read Hitler’s Great Man Books piled up.
I wanted to read other books to Banhana, but my body did not allow it.
His mouth was dry, and he had been holding a book for a long time, so his filthy low stamina had a limit.
“Until today. I’ll read you later.”
“Why…? Why…! Let’s read this…!! Only this one…!!”
Banhana got up from the sofa to see if there was a book she had always wanted to read, and Ododo also ran to get a book.
If you want to read a book like that, can’t you just ask other members of the organization?
I asked a classmate who came with a book.
“Why don’t you ask other gang members to read it? Can’t they all read letters?”
“That… that…”
The other half began to explain slowly.
“Uncle Kim Chun-sam, who only reveals money, is ugly and I don’t want to be with him.”
“Angela reads a book to me, but I don’t want to read it when I’m annoyed…”
“I don’t like Uncle Field because he speaks so slowly…”
“Dail unnie reads to you, but she concentrates and doesn’t say anything..”
“I hate tsunami installments because they bring strange books…”
“June unnie… I just hate it!”
It seems that Banhana couldn’t read the letters.
The Black Dawn gang members were missing screws one by one, so they probably didn’t fit in with Van Hana.
That’s not to say that one half was screwed in.
She has only a few screws loose.
Haven’t fallen yet
After my question was over, Banhana held the book to me again.
“Just read this! Pet! Hear what the master has to say!”
“I’m not a pet. My name is Si-Jun Han.”
“Ah..Okay! Say hello to pets! Si..Shijun! Read it!”
As she held a book, her fingertips were filled with earnestness.
How long have you been wanting to read a book?
I’ll have to read all the books and see if there’s anything that can teach her to write.
“You read only this? Today is the end?”
“Hey! Sijun is the best! hehehe..”
Banhana shouted as if she had done it, and ran into my arms.
Rubbing her face in it, she was like a pink rabbit.
And the action lasted longer than expected.
‘..it must have been necessary.’
Banhana, who grew up without proper parents, may have felt alienated from the villains who roam freely outside.
First of all, seeing what he was doing to me, it seemed obvious that he was hurting.
“hehehe, I think you’re having a little fun..”
Why are you sticking like this?
This is a little scary.
Maybe not?
‘It’s not fate… is it?’
The fate of the flirt.
I wondered if maybe she was in love with me.
No way.
Nope
The only thing that was painful for love was being honest with the feelings of the moment.
I removed a half from my arms.
Now it’s time to read a book.
The book she brought is called ‘Rapunzel’.
The story is about a prince who rescues a woman who is trapped in a tall tower and the two fall in love.
Banhana stared at my face, then smiled again and took a seat between her legs.
“Come on! Read it quickly! Shijun!”
“..okay”
A classmate who smiles and urges her to read a children’s book.
With such an anxious mind, I opened the book.
I hope my predictions were wrong.
I read a fairy tale book to the ear of my classmate in my arms.
***
Evening time when all members of the Black Dawn gathered.
Even with the best steak in front of me, I could not taste anything, so I finished the meal the fastest.
“..I really enjoyed the meal.”
A visual that will make you regret having removed your taste buds.
For nothing, did you choose the taste?
‘Anyway, this is better than life.’
Let’s live three more years and eat something more delicious.
I offered my deepest condolences to the past.
“Wait a minute.”
As I was about to get up and go to my room, the person who spoke to me was Shin Hae-il, the leader of Black Dawn.
Why did he call me
As soon as he had doubts, he opened his mouth to me.
“I have something to tell you, so go to my room at the far end and wait.”
To me?
What are you going to say?
It’s been a day since I came here.
I had no idea what he was going to say to me.
“Yeah, well, I’ll be right there.”
I trembled a bit, but at his words, I was at the end of that hallway.
I walked towards the room where the deer’s face was stuffed.
‘..This is Han Yu-wol’s room..’
In the room next to Shin Hae-il, there was a visit from Han Yu-wol, whom I had to go to.
Compared to the other members, her visit was not decorated with anything, but it seemed that a slightly eerie air was blowing.
Aww, it’s scary to look at.
I looked away from her room and moved to Shin Hae-il’s room.
“…it’s more normal than I thought.”
His room was quite normal, and he had the warmth of an old man.
Dark basic color wallpaper and floor.
Difficult books on the bookshelf.
An expensive wooden desk and rocking chair.
A plush leather sofa and a small desk in front.
And a bed made of solid looking stone.
It was the old K-old man’s room.
I decided to sit on the leather sofa and wait for him to return from his meal.
‘It’s normal for a villain…’
Shin Hae-il’s room was infinitely close to the top, and I was more afraid of that fact.
Aren’t psychopaths pretending to be normal the most frightening law?
If you see someone who looks crazy, you can avoid saying, ‘Oh, that guy is crazy.’
However, in the case of Shin Hae-il, on the surface, he is more like a kind grandfather.
If you look inside, a heinous criminal lives inside.
If you didn’t go deep into him, you could never find out that he was abnormal.
Rattle.
As he was thinking about such a tsunami, he opened the door and came in, wondering if he had finished eating.
I was uncomfortable with him for a long time, so I wanted to get to the point.
“What are you going to say to me?”
“For now, let’s have a cup of tea and talk. It’s going to be long.”
Shin Hae-il says that unfortunately it will take a long time.
Reluctantly, I was given a cup of tea that he poured.
“I cried the grass that came out of the gate in Yeosu. It helps to recover magic.”
“Ah yes..”
I have no magic.
I sip the tea, which had no taste.
Yeo su.
In the past V. AGE worldview, there was a time when an S-class gate was opened in Korea.
Erosion of the gate.
Many heroes and hunters who hunt beasts went to support, but it was not enough to capture. In the end, the attack on the S-class gate ended in failure.
The boss monster with the core of the gate eventually jumped out of the gate and swallowed the area called Yeosu, famous for the night sea, as its territory.
The erosion of the gates ended in Yeosu, and they could no longer expand their territory.
After that. The heroes and hunters, engulfed by the horrors of that day, lived as if they had forgotten the area called Yeosu.
Shin Shi-hwa, the current academy teacher, was also one of the attacking personnel that day.
And Shin Hae-il was one of the culprits that created the gate.
“..so, what do you have to say?”
“Your personality is very urgent. You must have been with Hana, how is it? Isn’t he a very kind child?”
..Did you call to brag about your granddaughter?
Haeil Shin probably didn’t just call me to say that.
I put thorns on my horse.
“He was a good kid. Like the other members, he was like an innocent kid.”
“That’s right. A child with a mentality that doesn’t suit this Black Dawn.”
Because Shin Hae-il had raised her since she was a baby, it seemed that he had accurately grasped her mentality.
Clearly, Banhana had an innately pure heart that did not fit in with a villain.
“So I’m talking. A week later, on the promised day. Can you grant me a favor?”
“..Please?”
“I’m not going to say it with my bare mouth. I’ll give you a lot of rewards.”
Shin Hae-il says that the day I leave this place is a week later.
What the hell is he trying to do?
At the same time as the doubt, Shin Hae-il, who is blind, laid down the promised ‘reward’ on the desk.
When I saw the reward, my eyes had no choice but to open wide.
‘This…’
Why is this thing in his grasp?
A single pistol sat softly in the box.
It wasn’t the typical gun I knew.
‘Crow’s Wings.’
The name was given because the black gun resembles the wings of a crow.
It is a grade between B and A that is used in the early and middle stages of V. AGE, and if it is strengthened, it is a good weapon that can be used until the second half.
The wings of a crow that can shoot even with magical power without bullets.
Firearms that are calibrated for speed and destructive power in bullets.
Obviously, this must be a drop-type weapon that comes out after you defeat one of the mid-boss villains.
“Isn’t this enough?”
Shin Hae-il speaks to me with a kind smile.
That awkward smile made me feel very uncomfortable.
If I had this weapon, I would be able to achieve a dramatic rise in force.
If you include the core of the golem, even if a villain of C to B ranks attack, you will have a certain chance of winning.
First of all, I decided to listen to what his request was.
“So. What’s your request?”
“It’s not a big deal. Just read this letter on the promised day. You just need to open it and read it when I signal. Isn’t it simple?”
“…”
I’m anxious.
All I need to do is read the letter?
It doesn’t make sense to ask for something so easy and give it a weapon like that.
If it were Libra to do business with me, I’d only give you the magazine of the pistol.
There was no doubt about the situation.
‘It’s more difficult because it’s Shin Hae-il’s request…’
His request gives a good reward, but it means that the world is getting closer to destruction.
I glanced at the crow’s wings in front of me and closed my eyes tightly.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’ll be able to fulfill your request.”
“…why? I’m just asking because I’m curious, so please feel free to answer.”
Shin Hae-il seems to have unexpectedly refused my refusal.
His voice trembled slightly.
‘Why did you say no?’
The answer to that was, of course, decided.
“I never trust you.”
No matter how honest the villain is, do you think I would fall for one of those weapons?
The kidnapping was half-forced to accept the offer, but this time it was just a personal matter.
Apparently, Shin Hae-il recognized me as an absurd Hogu.
Shin Hae-il, who had a hard expression on his face at my answer, opened his closed mouth.
“…that was an interesting answer. It’s okay to leave.”
“Then, excuse me.”
I left his room with a broken heart.
After all, the weapon can be obtained later.
As far as I can remember, there were many better weapons than crow’s wings.
‘Never, never let them do what they want.’
It was also for the peace of the world, and it was also for Yoo Ha-yeon, who is having a hard time right now.
***
Profit.
Bang.
A door stuffed with a deer’s head.
I closed the door and thought for a moment.
‘What’s your plan?’
It is very easy to read the letter, but the fact that he put on such an expensive weapon as a reward is said to be quite close to the end of the world.
I have no idea why Shin Hae-il made such a proposal.
It will be known a week later, on the day he promised.
The moment I was immersed in that thought, a small creature was approaching me.
“Si-Jun! You were there!”
Odododo.
As usual, Banhana runs with a bunny doll in her hand.
She seemed to be looking for me.
“Why are you calling me? I gave you a book earlier. Study.”
After reading the children’s book Rapunzel, I handed her the Korean pronunciation book for foreigners, which was hidden deep in the library.
It was speculated that the book was used by a foreigner among the Black Dawn.
I promised her that if she memorized all the consonant letters, I would read to her tomorrow as well.
Half Hana answered me, hesitatingly.
“That…but I don’t understand! Help me! I can’t do it alone!”
All you have to do is look at the pictures and see what the letters look like according to your pronunciation.
Half Hana says she doesn’t understand.
She tugged my sleeve and shouted as I went to her room.
The moment when you are about to be drawn to Banhana due to the difference in power.
Han Yu-wol exists in the room next to Shin Hae-il.
Her door began to open with an ominous sound.
Profit..
‘What, why me?’
Cold air leaked out of the room, and Han Yu-wol walked out.
And right away, she put her hand on my waist and led me to the open door.
“I’m sorry, Hana-san, but Sijun has a prior contract. I’ll take him.”
“Uh.. uh…? What cow..”
Bang!
Banhana’s words did not continue due to the closed door.
So, leaving half Hana alone in the hallway, I was sucked into Han Yu-wol’s room filled with the cold air.