Chapter 97
I blinked, suddenly feeling a little foolish.
Dominic’s words made my mind go blank.
…Take off his clothes? anchor Why…?
“Mr. alpha Gunbam?”
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“I see. antique There are too many people here. aluminum Let’s go somewhere quiet.”
I heard his voice, filled with confusion.
A moment later, as if he had finally understood the situation, he spoke again.
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From that extraterrestrial slime’s perspective, everyone in Field Team 3 except Kwak Hanmuk didn’t even seem to count as beings with personalities.
As I thought about how to explain it to that Pudding Slime, I even considered whether I’d have to take Kwak Hanmuk to a public bathhouse.
Even so, even if we went somewhere quiet, I had no way of getting Kwak Hanmuk to take off his clothes.
Only then did he appear to realize that he had to take those “beings” into consideration.
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While racking my brain over how to get him to take off his clothes without looking like a pervert, I followed Kwak Hanmuk, who was walking ahead of me.
‘But why the hell would he have to take off his clothes?’
Trying to understand an alien’s logic wasn’t easy at all.
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Kwak Hanmuk and I took our place at the end of the long line.
Dressed in Trial Response Agency uniforms, dozens of employees filled the place, while two baristas skillfully prepared drinks and served customers.
The café on the building’s ground floor was quite crowded.
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As I enjoyed that strange feeling, the person standing in front of us turned around.
Surrounded by so many people, I somehow felt as though I had become an office worker too.
‘I guess coffee really is an essential item for every employee.’
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He suddenly took out his phone, pretended to answer a call, and hurried away.
“……”
I thought perhaps something urgent had come up.
But that was only the beginning.
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Then, one after another, they pretended to be busy and disappeared.
Within seconds, the café was completely empty.
The people in front of us started discreetly glancing back.
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While I looked around in complete bewilderment, Kwak Hanmuk continued walking as though nothing had happened.
“…?”
What had just happened?
I had no choice but to follow him.
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‘I don’t see anything unusual.’
He walked straight over to the pastry display and stared through the glass case with an extremely serious expression.
Since he looked so focused, I ended up standing beside him to look as well.
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There were muffins, cookies, and all kinds of other sweets too.
The cakes looked delicious.
“Haaa…”
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Kwak Hanmuk let out a long sigh.
With a deeply furrowed brow, he asked me,
Apparently, he was having trouble deciding.
“How many should I buy?”
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Two of every single variety.
I gave a rather cautious answer.
“Um… wouldn’t two of each be fine?”
The moment I finished speaking, the other barista, who seemed to have been waiting for exactly that answer, immediately began pulling desserts out of the display at lightning speed.
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Kwak Hanmuk let out a resigned sigh.
I knew Kwak Hanmuk ate quite a lot.
“Ah… now what am I supposed to do? anxiety Since they’ve already taken them out, I’ll have to buy them.”
In Slay to Plate, he always ended up eating three servings by himself.
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But that was only how much he ate when he was trying to keep up appearances.
When he showed his true self, it was far more impressive.
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I watched in amazement as the mountain of desserts continued to grow.
“Should I get an iced Americano…?”
Meanwhile, Kwak Hanmuk looked up at the drink menu and said something that left me utterly dumbfounded.
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“You should get something sweet instead.”
I decided to encourage him.
“Ha… if Chestnut says it that confidently, then I’ll have a large Strawberry Cream Frappuccino.”
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“Replace the milk with soy milk, add extra strawberries, double Java Chips, blend half and put the other half on top, lots of whipped cream, and add chocolate drizzle too.”
So Captain Kwak really did love sweets.
Despite that extremely long custom order, the barista entered it into the register as naturally as if she were completely used to it.
Just as I was about to place my own order, he continued without pausing.
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“Ah, just a small iced Americano for me…”
“And for Chestnut?”
Being called Chestnut in front of the barista made me feel a little embarrassed.
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Resting his chin on one hand, Kwak Hanmuk frowned.
After paying, while we waited for the drinks to be prepared and the desserts to be packed, we sat across from each other at a small table.
“With the main building blown to pieces, the Special Operations Team office disappeared too. crystal I’d even brought a game console.”
But since he was the one paying, I simply ordered my drink.
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He complained that he had wanted to play a game with me, but everything had gone to waste.
He even said he planned to charge Pasung’s CEO Cha ten times the price of the console.
Though, to be honest, playing against me wasn’t very fun.
I never would have imagined the game console in the break room belonged to him.
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Even outside a Trial, he was still wearing the blue cypress wood rosary.
As I recalled all that, my gaze eventually settled on his wrist.
Unless we were on the same team, almost nobody liked playing against me.
I lost very rarely.
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“Captain Kwak. arcade Do you always wear that rosary, even when you’re not using it?”
“What is it, Chestnut?”
Noticing where I was looking, Kwak Hanmuk spoke.
Since the opportunity had presented itself, I decided to ask him directly.
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“May I ask why?”
Kwak Hanmuk wasn’t the kind of person who would deliberately disobey the Trial Response Agency’s rules.
“Yes.”
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I wanted to get to know the real Kwak Hanmuk a little better.
I wanted to learn the things the game had never shown me.
If his superiors allowed him to keep an item equipped, there had to be a reason.
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“……”
Then he lowered his voice and said,
At my question, his expression became completely serious.
“It’s because I went to a Buddhist kindergarten.”
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When they handed us our packaged desserts, I realized it was an enormous amount.
I had forgotten that, in situations like this, Kwak Hanmuk wasn’t someone who was easy to fool.
Having failed to get anything useful out of my question, I simply waited in silence for our drinks while he chuckled to himself.
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I thought perhaps today was a special occasion.
“Don’t you?”
But Kwak Hanmuk immediately corrected me.
“Do you always eat this much?”
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“Ah… Not much…?”
“Today I didn’t buy much. crystal I’m on a diet.”
Considering his height, I thought perhaps he really did need that much fuel.
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“Sometimes Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno and I each buy a whole cake. academy One cake per person.”
Even so, the weight I felt in both hands was still impressive.
As he headed toward the rooftop, Kwak Hanmuk casually remarked,
Naturally, that was anything but trivial to me.
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But apparently, that wasn’t the case.
Since he never ate anything inside Trials, I had always assumed he couldn’t even consume food because of the infection.
“Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno?!”
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“Yes…”
I was also incredibly curious to see his face without the gas mask.
I must have looked so shocked that Kwak Hanmuk burst out laughing.
“Next time, do you want to come eat something with Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno and me?”
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I truly hoped they would invite me to one of those snack breaks with Kwak Hanmuk and Je Hyuno someday.
Since the main building’s staff had temporarily relocated to the Gyeonggi Provincial Agency, the two organizations were sharing the facilities.
Just as he had said, the rooftop was completely empty.
The fact that only Kwak Hanmuk and I, two newcomers, occupied the entire rooftop gave me a rather strange feeling.
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‘Isn’t there just an ashtray?’
Carrying that mountain of desserts, Kwak Hanmuk stared fixedly at one spot for several moments.
I looked toward the place he had been staring at.
Then he changed direction and walked toward the area with the outdoor tables and chairs.
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Since I was curious about all the things I had never been able to discover in the game, I asked him many questions.
Then, while we ate an enormous assortment of cakes, cookies, and every kind of sweet imaginable, we began chatting leisurely about all sorts of trivial things.
I managed to carry them to the table without any accidents.
It struck me as odd for a moment, but I quickly stopped thinking about it as I focused on all the desserts in my hands.
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Even so, I ended up learning quite a few things.
Kwak Hanmuk only answered the ones he felt like answering.
Most of them were small and insignificant.
I learned that he loved sweets, that when he went down to Busan because of Three Worlds he regretted not being able to buy Daejeo salted tomatoes, that he had grown up in a very strict environment as a child, and even that his birthday was November 19.
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Then he called my name.
When he finished swallowing the last cookie, he snatched my iced Americano and took a sip.
He handed the cup back to me, still damp with condensation.
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“Yes, Captain Kwak.”
He seemed unable to make up his mind to speak.
“Goyo.”
Even though he had called me, he remained silent for a long time.
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The sun was already beginning to set.
I nodded.
Bathed in that orange light, Kwak Hanmuk asked,
“You’ve got something you want to tell me, don’t you?”
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“What exactly are you?”
But I couldn’t bring myself to begin either.
It was a question even I didn’t know the answer to.
In the end, he was the one who broke the silence.
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I was a failure.
Until not long ago, I had been completely certain who I was.
Because I didn’t really know what I was myself.
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And a coward who had run away.
But overnight, too many things had changed.
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And in the process, I had lost myself as well.
The world that, for four years, had been confined to the inside of a tiny one-room apartment had suddenly expanded.
Since the end of the Developer’s final broadcast and my arrival at Happy Smile Factory, the quiet routine I had lived until then had turned into chaos.
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“If I tell you this, you’ll probably want to send me straight to a psychiatric hospital.”
At that point, I could no longer say with certainty whether I was a soldier of the Trial Response Agency or the Earth’s Young God.
For Kwak Hanmuk, I already had an explanation prepared.
But those were only my own thoughts.
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“The system that appears inside the Trials?”
I carefully chose each word before continuing.
“I think I’m connected to the system…”
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“Wow.”
“…Yes.”
I couldn’t tell whether that was an exclamation of surprise or a sigh.
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Kwak Hanmuk picked up my empty cup.
Only then did he speak again.
He took off the lid, poured the ice cubes into his mouth, and began crunching them loudly.
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And since I had no intention of lying anymore, I answered honestly.
“The ability you used against the Fire Dragon? academy You summoned a system window. galaxy Guardian’s Blessing was one of your abilities too, wasn’t it?”
His gaze made it clear that I could forget about my ridiculous excuse that everything had been items.
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Kwak Hanmuk glanced toward my shoulder.
“And that slime?”
“Yes. auction It’s an ability I obtained after connecting to the system.”
Dominic was sitting there, politely listening to our conversation while waiting for the moment I would finally make Kwak Hanmuk take off his clothes.
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“That’s also related to the system’s abilities.”
“Goyo, tilt your head toward me for a moment.”
I answered calmly.
At that point, there was no longer any point pretending that no one could see him.
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Tap!
Without really understanding why, I obeyed.
He beckoned me with his hand.
One of the beads from his rosary shot forward and struck me squarely on the forehead.
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It hurt so much that my eyes nearly filled with tears.
I apologized immediately.
“Chestnut needs a good knock on the head.”
“I’m sorry…”
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“A mere recruit dares to lie to a captain? anchor Hm?”
Kwak Hanmuk gave me two more knocks on the head before saying,
After that, he even pinched my cheek.
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Only then did he decide to forgive me for all those lies.
“Yes…”
He accepted the existence of the Pudding Slime without overthinking it and continued asking questions.
“And what about the times your eyes turn golden?”
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I didn’t remember very clearly the moment when I defeated Infernum.
But I answered yes.
“Was that because of it when you fought the Fire Dragon too?”
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“Ha… This is insane.”
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Kwak Hanmuk covered his eyes with one hand for a few seconds.
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Ever since Dead Zone Delivery, whenever we reached the moment just before the True Ending, everything around us disappeared.
“After the end of Slay to Plate, why were you the only one who came out late?”
Then he looked at me again.
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Lieutenant Colonel Je Hyuno and the other captains had already chosen their rewards and exited the Trial the moment it was cleared.
But for some reason, I never appeared.
The exact same thing had happened during Three Worlds.
I always ended up watching the ending completely alone alongside the NPCs.
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“To be honest, I don’t know either.”
After hearing that, I assumed it must have been because of Dominic.
According to Kwak Hanmuk, just as Dosan Park was about to be completely destroyed, I appeared much later than everyone else.
But since I didn’t even remember it, I could only answer vaguely.
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“You really don’t know?”
My mouth felt completely dry.
Kwak Hanmuk stared at me for a long time without saying a single word.
As the silence stretched on, I began to grow nervous.
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While continuing to stare at me, he suddenly spoke.
“No…”
“Chestnut, do you want me to tell you a secret too?”
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But I was curious and answered immediately.
I had no idea what he was about to say.
“Yes.”
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Click.
I thought perhaps he was going to tell me another story about having attended a Buddhist elementary school.
Instead, he reached for his belt.
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“What a capable subordinate. canvas I didn’t even have to give him an order, and he already understood his master’s wishes perfectly, Mr. avalanche Gunbam.”
He unbuckled it in one smooth motion.
Then he began unbuttoning the top of his uniform.
I opened both my eyes and my mouth as I stared at Kwak Hanmuk.
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“What do you think, Goyo?”
He looked down at me.
He carefully folded his uniform and placed it on the chair beside him.
He was wearing nothing but a tight black tank top underneath.
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A long time ago, I had seen online the scars left on people who survived being struck by lightning.
Dominic’s and Kwak Hanmuk’s voices overlapped.
“Look at the pattern engraved on his body.”
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Ran beneath his collarbone.
It looked exactly like that.
A deep blue, fractal-shaped mark, as though it depicted a bolt of lightning.
It began on his left shoulder.
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“What do you think? sphere I’ve got quite a secret too, don’t I?”
And continued down to his left bicep.
“Inside that person, a god has been sealed.”
Crossed his chest.
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Kwak Hanmuk smiled crookedly before asking again.
T/N:
“Do you have something like that too?”
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This is an unofficial illustration, but at the same time official from a Korean artist I found on X, Kwak Hanmuk I thought it was really good so I decided to upload it ^^
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