Chapter 95 : Chapter 95
Chapter 95: Illegal Awakening (7)
An alley in the Dark Store.
Clatter!
Bang!
The shutter closed forcefully, making a noise.
Simultaneously with the sound of the iron door closing, the air inside the room changed.
Heavy and cold air as if one needed permission even to breathe.
As Yoo jin moved his head toward the First, the First of the Money Laundering Shop leaned his large body against the iron door.
As if to ensure no one could escape from here.
And secondly, Yoo jin looked at Kei.
“Hold onto it well. I'm going to use that in about 5 minutes.”
Kei swallowed dry saliva while looking down at the wooden box he was holding.
He didn't know what was inside this wooden box yet, but judging by the expression of Yoo jin he was facing, it seemed something much scarier than the bombs he had imagined in his head was inside.
Leaving behind Kei's stiffened expression, Yoo jin slowly moved his head.
Into the shop.
More precisely, toward the Illegal Awakening business employees inside the shop.
One, two, three…….
Five.
Including the guy whose arm was cut off and was lying on the floor, there were a total of five people.
Their appearances and expressions were all different, but the emotion contained in their eyes was all one thing.
Fear.
That was hanging in their eyes.
Still.
Yoo jin was satisfied.
Because they hadn't given up completely.
Although they were feeling fear, hostility had not yet disappeared from their eyes.
If they knew he was a Returnee, they would have tucked their tails immediately and begged for their lives while crying, but.
He thought it was fortunate that such a thing didn't happen.
Because if that happened, it would have been unfair.
Chan-yeong's revenge.
Their true education.
Because it would have come to nothing.
And most importantly…….
Because the opportunity to use the wooden box Kei brought would disappear.
So.
“That's a relief. It seems you guys still want to kill me?”
Yoo jin laughed.
The employees who had moved stealthily gathered to one side.
Even the guy whose arm was cut off and had fallen on the floor crawled well to where they were gathered.
One guy popped out to the front of the group.
A man with a beautiful eye smile.
He was definitely a man, but with his eyelashes and eyes that curved gently into half-moons, there was a beauty buried in him that anyone would find hard to take their eyes off.
“It's you.”
So Yoo jin knew immediately who that guy was.
He didn't know the name, but he had firmly embedded him in his mind.
Because he heard it clearly from Lee Chan-yeong's mouth.
The guy who gave the drugs to Chan-yeong.
So…….
In Yoo jin's world.
A guy for whom execution would be legal.
“Seeing that skill of cutting off Guk-ho's arm at once, you seem to be quite a strong Awakened.”
Given the situation, he wasn't smiling with his eyes now, but even though the man's eyes were fiercely curved, only the beauty remained the same.
“But if you tried to discourage us by cutting off the arm of a careless younger brother, you're mistaken. To earn money on this floor, you need to have that much tolerance.”
A small exhale flowed from the mouth of the man who finished speaking, and the tension disappeared from his face.
Even the trembling of his pupils that was faintly visible completely disappeared.
He seems to be an Awakened.
But the Awakening rank is unknown.
“Is he a soldier?”
At Yoo jin's voice, not the person concerned, but the voices of the employees next to him rang out.
“How did he know Ju-yul Brother is from a military background?”
“He could have just been guessing.”
“Whatever, it doesn't matter. Brother, please take revenge for me.”
“Acting high and mighty is over too. If Brother hadn't caused trouble in the past, he's an Awakened who would have been quite influential in the assassination squad.”
Vitality returned to the employees' voices.
Even though they were almost dying just a moment ago.
It seems to be to that extent.
It seemed that guy named Ju-yul was that strong.
Well.
Whether it's special forces.
Whether it's an assassination squad.
Whether it's an Awakened who would have been influential.
It doesn't matter to Yoo jin at all, but.
Ju-yul, who stepped forward, rolled his shoulders and loosened up his body.
“It's been a while since I fought seriously…… Well, since it seems I can only leave this place if I kill you. You'll have to die.”
Ju-yul's eyes curved, and.
Pat.
Like a ghost.
Ju-yul's figure disappeared.
At the same time, the Illegal Awakening business employees opened their mouths and spat out exclamations.
Yoo jin was just standing still watching it.
Even until Ju-yul, who disappeared like a ghost, moved behind his back and threw a punch.
Thwack!!!!!!
A tremendously dull sound rang out.
Ju-yul, intoxicated by the success of the attack, opened his mouth.
“Seeing you called yourself a teacher earlier, it seems you came to get revenge for that brat. Is that brat doing well? No, you'll be going to meet him anyway. In hell…….”
Ju-yul's mouth tore open widely.
Completely unsuited to his beautiful eyes.
.
.
.
“He's not there. Chan-yeong. Hell is not for Chan-yeong but….”
As a voice flowed out even though he had struck the back of the head precisely, Ju-yul's face turned pale.
“You are the one going there.”
Grin.
Yoo jin's fist headed for Ju-yul's face.
With a dull sound, Ju-yul's vision blurred.
***
His cut-off consciousness was gradually returning.
Ju-yul's eyes slowly opened.
“Are you awake?”
A face filled his vision as soon as his eyes opened.
It was Yoo jin.
“You bastard…….”
Without even time to be surprised that he had fainted, he tried to throw a fist at Yoo jin's face in surging anger, but strangely, his body didn't listen.
As his body didn't move no matter how much force he applied, Ju-yul slowly moved his eyes downward.
Legs, body, arms.
His entire body was bound.
There's no way an Awakened couldn't control their body like this just because they were tied with ordinary ropes or strings.
However, no matter how many times he looked again, what bound his body was just a thick string that could be seen anywhere.
Except that judging by the color or material, it was something he was seeing for the first time.
Looking around, all the Illegal Awakening business employee younger brothers who worked with him were bound just like him.
Although their ranks are low, these guys are Awakened too…….
Ju-yul, frowning as much as he could, looked straight at Yoo jin and spoke.
“Just what is the identity of this string? How can it bind Awakened so helplessly?”
Yoo jin, who was smiling brightly while matching his eye level, answered slowly.
“Ah, this? It's just a string, a somewhat sturdy string. It was useless to me because it broke easily, but it's helpful here.”
A string made of Adamantium.
There probably isn't an Adamantium item processed this softly on Earth.
This was one of the few items Yoo jin brought from the other world.
Yoo jin, smiling softly, turned his head and looked at Kei.
“Hey, bring it.”
At that voice, Kei, who was standing hesitantly, approached and slowly put down the wooden box right next to Yoo jin.
Gulp.
Kei, who stepped back, had his eyes fixed on the wooden box.
Finally, he would be able to know what was inside.
“Then.”
Yoo jin brought his hand to the wooden box and opened the covered lid.
Then.
“What is it, those bottles.”
A voice flowed from the bound Ju-yul's mouth.
“Ah, this? I thought about it carefully. How I should do it to take proper revenge. Should I burst your head with a punch in one shot? Should I tear off your limbs and make you feel pain for a long time?”
He was speaking calmly with a smiling face, but the stories contained within were truly goosebump-inducing.
And Ju-yul and the employees who were capturing that right before their eyes were feeling that grotesque horror in real-time.
“But then I thought it would be too bland. So this is the answer I came up with. As expected, for punishment…… putting yourself in the other person's shoes is the best.”
Grin.
Yoo jin laughed once more.
Once more largely on his smiling face.
At that moment, Ju-yul.
And the Illegal Awakening business employees bound together realized.
That they wouldn't be able to leave this place alive.
Leaving behind those making expressions as if their souls had left, Yoo jin picked up a bottle containing blue liquid.
And then.
Grip!
He grabbed Ju-yul's face with one hand and forced his mouth open wide.
“First, you.”
Part of the blue liquid contained in the bottle went into Ju-yul's mouth.
Moving the hand he was holding him with, this time he forced the mouth shut.
Making him have no choice but to swallow.
Gulp.
Yoo jin, confirming he swallowed the medicine, relaxed his hand's grip.
“Cough! Cough…… What did you feed me…….”
Ju-yul crumpled his face without being able to finish his sentence.
Pain rushed in from inside his body, no, from his entire body.
Stomach, heart, ribs, arms, legs, blood vessels.
Pain rushed in from places he couldn't even feel properly usually, making it hard to maintain his sanity properly.
However, strangely, even though such pain was swallowing his body, one man's voice was heard clearly.
“How is it? Do you feel like you're getting stronger?”
At the man's single remark, Ju-yul could know. What he had drunk.
“Ugh…….”
Although he couldn't speak.
Illegal Awakening Stimulant.
The method by which they earned money.
Illegally created drugs.
Among them, the most powerful agent and the most expensive medicine.
So.
“I heard this has such good performance. There's also a rumor that they ground up runes and put them in. They say if it's this much, it allows even those who have already Awakened to Awaken once more?”
“Ugh…… Ugh……!”
Ju-yul, curling his body in pain, shouted.
With a strange sound that was neither speech nor a scream.
Because he knew better than anyone.
What happens to the Unawakened bugs injected with the drug.
Antidote…….
He needs the antidote, if he doesn't have that….
“But I heard the body explodes if you don't get the antidote periodically?”
Yoo jin looking down at Ju-yul still with a smile.
Now he was not a human but a god, no, a demon.
A demon who placed Ju-yul's life on his palm.
“Ugh…….”
Ju-yul's vision, still making strange sounds, gradually blurred.
But then.
Grip.
Yoo jin grabbed Ju-yul's face again.
This time, he injected a newly taken out purple liquid into Ju-yul's mouth.
Then.
“Ha… Ha…… Ha…….”
Ju-yul gasping for breath.
Although the pain hadn't completely disappeared, it felt as if his foot, which had been hanging on the boundary of death, had stepped back a little.
Only now did his voice come out.
“What…… Why the antidote…… Why did you save me…….”
Grin.
Ju-yul's pupils shook.
As soon as he saw Yoo jin's expression, he realized.
Why this guy put the antidote in his mouth.
“This is what you guys did. To you guys, it might have been just a means of making money, but to them, it's a lifeline that makes them hang on until they die. Well, since it's illegal, I have no intention of defending either side. Still….”
Yoo jin picked up the blue water bottle again.
And grabbed Ju-yul's face again.
“To a kid who came all the way here, you shouldn't lie. If you're a human being.”
Yoo jin poured the blue liquid into Ju-yul's mouth again.
And he grabbed the snout strongly, forced the mouth shut, and waited.
Making him have no choice but to swallow the medicine.
Gulp.
“Ugh…… Ugh…!”
Ju-yul feeling pain as if his whole body would explode again.
A voice was heard in his ears again.
Probably a voice he would never forget for the rest of his life.
“Just…… 10 times…… Let's repeat it just 10 more times. Until the answer I want comes out of your mouth.”
Yoo jin's expression seen in Ju-yul's vision was not human.
However, such things didn't matter.
“Mmph… Mmph… Mmph…….”
Even while floundering in pain, he was shouting.
Because he knows the answer.
What that person is saying.
Because he knows for certain the words Yoo jin wants to hear.
But.
“Ugh…….”
“I can't hear you, you have to say it properly.”
“…….”
Ju-yul's vision blurred.
‘Kill me.’
‘Please.’
He wanted to say the words that person wanted, but his voice didn't come out.
Like that.
Ju-yul and the business employees.
Ten times.
Had to experience the hell of drinking the drug and antidote alternately.
***
And
The next day.
In the hospital room prepared at the Ignis Guild Headquarters, Lee Chan-yeong opened his eyes.