Chapter 90 : Chapter 90
Chapter 90: Illegal Awakening (2)
The one-room apartment where the door had completely vanished.
Jin-ho's mouth gaped open as he stood in front of the entrance.
"Uh…… that person is?"
The man lying inside the shattered door came into view.
A man sprawled out in a big starfish shape, lifting only his head abruptly.
It was Kei, the organization member who was briefly involved during the past fighting ring incident.
"What the, Mister, you didn't get arrested?"
Jin-ho muttered, and Ye-na clapped her hands as if she just remembered Kei.
"Ah! The bad mister I saw when I went to meet Dad."
Kei rubbed his eyes and muttered.
"Who's the bad mister calling a bad mister. I got dozens of stitches on my back trying to protect you."
That's right.
Although the first meeting was definitely as an organization member of the Goblin Fighting Ring, he threw his body at the end to protect Ye-na from the organization members.
Ye-na and Jin-ho, who now recalled everything that happened with Kei, nodded their heads.
"If it's the bad mister who worked at the Goblin Fighting Ring……."
"Right. He might know about the Underground Dark Store too."
Jin-ho and Ye-na realized why Yoo jin had barged into this place recklessly.
Because they heard roughly while coming here from school.
Why their classmate, Lee Chan-yeong, didn't come to school today.
Although it wasn't certain yet whether it was the truth or not, as children who watched Yoo jin closer than anyone else, and who saw how accurate their homeroom teacher Yoo jin's intuition was.
They felt certain to some extent.
Kei, who was just peeking his head up while lying on the bed capturing the children in his eyes, raised his body halfway and moved his gaze to Yoo jin.
"Is it not a dream? Hmm… no. I think it's a dream…… there's no way that human would come to my house……."
Kei, who was muttering to himself, pinched his cheek with his hand.
As if feeling the pain vividly, Kei furrowed his brow.
"Stop sleep-talking. Come out. We have somewhere to go."
"Somewhere to go? I have to go to work?"
"Work? You work? Did you quit the fighting ring and go to a gambling den?"
"I told you I don't do that kind of thing anymore! I'm really living diligently."
"Doing what?"
"That… just doing part-time jobs……."
Kei avoided Yoo jin's gaze and hung his gaze in empty air.
"Doing what. Why can't you say. Surely you aren't doing illegal…."
"It's not, really not illegal. I bet everything."
"Bet what. This bastard still hasn't fixed his gambling habit. Anyway, skip work today. There's something really important."
"No, barging in recklessly and telling me to skip work. I'm strictly a member of society now too."
"Oh ho. Why don't you come out while I'm speaking nicely?"
"Geez. Barging in while I'm sleeping and saying what… More than that, why did you smash the door? Ha……."
Yoo jin's eyes stiffened into a line.
"Hmm…… Really? You mean you're busy?"
"If you know, please go. I lost my high-paying job because of someone and am doing night work. Aigo, the debt I have to pay is a mountain, a mountain. In this life, I'll die just paying back debts because of someone."
Kei grumbling and not moving a single step from the bed.
Yoo jin, capturing such Kei in his eyes, shook his head slowly.
Right.
Since a few months have already passed.
He might forget.
Yes, of course.
So…….
Yoo jin raised his right hand.
He should let him know clearly again.
"Really? I know a way to die comfortably without paying debts. How about it."
Vroom vroom!
"Want to go even now? To heaven?"
Vroom vroom!
As Yoo jin snapped his fingers, a roar rang inside the room.
A sound rang as if an airplane engine was rotating right above.
"Hiiick!!!"
In an instant, Kei stood up like lightning.
"Wh… where should I escort you, Teacher?!"
Only now did Kei recall when he first met Yoo jin.
Vroom vroom!
He hadn't changed one bit.
Kind to students, and to everyone else besides them.
That smile like a devil.
Grin.
***
A moment later.
Kei, dressed neatly, forcibly shoved his feet into dress shoes and left the one-room with Yoo jin.
Kei, who was about to close the door, looked down at the already deceased door and soon turned his body.
If he spat out a word asking to fix the door, it felt like he would smash the rest of the house too.
'Like this, you don't need a door, right?'
That appearance shimmered before his eyes.
'I'll fix it myself.'
Kei thought leaving the house quickly first was the way to reduce damage.
As they exited the one-room alley quickly like that.
"By the way, where are we going……?"
Only now did he remember he hadn't asked about the destination.
"Underground Dark Store."
"What? You mean that illegal store?"
Kei's voice rose immediately.
It was inevitable.
Underground Dark Store.
A story floating around like an urban legend.
Ordinary people didn't know if it was truth or fake.
Since it was a place only rife with rumors.
However, people in the know all knew that place existed.
And even if they knew it existed, they absolutely never even went near it.
Because that place was called a lawless zone.
It had already spread worldwide.
Its size was deeply rooted quite unlike what was called a ghost story, enough to have several branches in Korea too.
"B, big trouble! If you enter there wrongly, you can't come out! Do you know how many scary guys are there. Even when I went last time……."
Kei, whose face turned pale, even stamped his feet.
"Seems you know where it is?"
"Ah……."
Kei's pupils wavered.
Yoo jin, not missing that, smiled slightly.
"I… I don't know well. When working at the illegal fighting ring, I just followed along briefly to one place to buy goblins……."
"Where is that one place."
"That…… It is towards Goyang City but…."
Grin.
Yoo jin made a satisfied expression.
It narrowed down quite a lot at least.
Looking at Chan-yeong's student record, it said he was born in Goyang City and lived here all along.
Naturally, there was a probability he went to another place, but would there be a need to go far when there is one nearby?
The probability he went to the Underground Dark Store in Goyang City would be the highest.
Well, if he really did illegal awakening…….
Kei scratched his forehead and let out a lament.
"Ah, but really can't do it……."
"Who said let's go inside? Just looking slightly at the front just in case, rascal."
"Can't do it. Whether it's the front or inside! Do you know how dangerous that place is! Even if decent Hunters enter, they can't even salvage their bare bodies."
Kei, who stopped walking, shook his head vehemently and waved his hands.
No matter what, no meant no.
It was a level that couldn't even be compared to the illegal fighting ring and dark store where he worked.
Illegal drugs, slave market, he heard ridiculous monsters were also located in the center.
On top of that, it has grown too big now, connecting branch to branch.
It is said the size of the organization rivals a nation….
"Can't do it, can't! Absolutely not! No, I'm not going, absolutely!"
"……."
Kei shouting while not budging from his spot like a child throwing a tantrum.
Yoo jin, watching such Kei, muttered with an indifferent expression.
"Okay. If it's dangerous let's not go. Instead let's go to heaven."
Vroom vroom!
The roar ringing out again.
The engine sound shaking the air rang through the alley.
Kei's legs trembled.
"……."
Right.
What was he saying.
Underground Dark Store.
A lawless zone circulating like an urban legend, where people in the know absolutely never even go near.
However.
Vroom vroom!
Gulp…….
Who is the person in front of his eyes?
Moreover, due to the incident a while ago (Yeoncheon Subjugation), Kei also came to know that this teacher wasn't just a teacher, but a Returnee.
Underground Dark Store.
Lawless zone.
And the scary guys inside it.
No matter how high their notoriety is…….
"Le… let's go……."
There's no way they are scarier than this Returnee called the Demon King.
***
Underground Dark Store.
Below the heart of the city.
A forbidden zone floating like a ghost story among people.
Such a forbidden zone…….
"You're saying it's really here?"
"That Dark Store said to make even crying children stop……."
"To think it's in a place like this……."
Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho.
And Ye-na were making blank expressions looking at the place Kei stopped.
Although blank expressions, what should I say, perhaps dumbfounded expressions would be more fitting.
It was inevitable.
"Is it really here? This is a doghouse."
A large doghouse seen in the countryside was visible in Seong-hyeon's vision.
Naturally, the owner of that house, a black doggy, was also captured in his vision.
An factory complex on the outskirts of Goyang City.
Inside that large factory located deepest inside, where one doesn't know what they make.
Yoo jin, who made eye contact with the doggy guarding the factory…….
Thud!
Hit Kei's head lightly.
Although it was gentle, Kei's body folded in half.
"Ugh……."
Through Kei's eyes appealing for pain, Yoo jin's face with eyes and mouth stiffened into a line was seen.
"You, are you kidding with me right now?"
"Ah, what kidding!"
"If it's not a joke then what is this. What are we doing with this doggy in the dead of night. Walking it under the moon?"
"Ah, really! You said let's go to the Underground Dark Store! I'm telling you it's here!"
Kei, whose face turned red, glared.
"Oh ho. Eyes."
"……."
At Yoo jin's voice, Kei lowered his eyes like a scared puppy.
At that time.
"Uh, by the way, Teach, this pushes?"
At Seong-hyeon's voice, Yoo jin's eyes, which were raised as if to devour Kei, moved.
"What?"
"Here, here. Inside the doghouse. The wall inside the doghouse pushes."
At Seong-hyeon's voice, the rest of the children gathered at the doghouse.
Jin-ho lowered his body first and pushed his hand into the doghouse.
Behind him, Ye-na, who petted the large doggy once, pushed her body halfway and entered the doghouse.
No, precisely.
Pop!
Ye-na's entire body disappeared inside the doghouse.
Kang Tae-wook, who was standing behind watching them, said in a low voice.
"Teach, I think this is the right place. Inside this doghouse seems to be the passage to the underground."
Although he didn't put his hand in directly like the children because of the dog hair and dirt on the floor, even with Kang Tae-wook's eyes, this seemed right to be the entrance.
"See, I told you it's right!"
Perhaps gaining strength from the children's voices, Kei shouted loudly looking at Yoo jin.
"……."
Tsk.
Yoo jin made an expressionless face looking at the large doghouse.
Geez.
Kidding me.
Urban legend my ass.
What's with an entrance inside a doghouse.
"……."
"Woof."
"……."
"Woof."
What was so good, the large doggy on a leash barked once at a time looking at Yoo jin.
As if asking to play.
"Ha…… Why is this guy so gentle. Dumbfounding."
"Exactly. It's very different from imagination, right? I was like that when coming for the first time too. I thought a Cerberus would be guarding the entrance of the Dark Store."
"……."
Yoo jin was lost for words seeing Kei smiling broadly while talking.
Yoo jin, shaking his head vehemently.
"But is this the only entrance?"
"That is…… well…… since this is the only entrance I know……."
Yoo jin, who clenched his fist tight, relaxed his hand with a small sigh.
What's the use of getting angry at this guy.
Still.
There is a saying that all roads lead to Rome.
Didn't they arrive anyway.
At the place where his disciple might be.
Yoo jin, looking at the doghouse, opened his mouth.
"Then let's go see. What kind of place the Underground Dark Store is."
With Kei in the lead, Yoo jin and the children crawled into the doghouse.
.
.
.
.
.
Kang Tae-wook, who held out as much as possible because he hated getting dust on him, entered last.
On his hand.
Squish.
"……."
Something hot was felt.
"Woof!"
It was summer.