Chapter 99 – Episode 99. Success
“Kang Min-goo… Are you making fun of me?”
I’ve seen Lee Soo-ah for quite some time now, but I’ve never seen her look so cold.
I feel like I’ve blown away all the good feelings I’ve built up so far.
But it’s okay.
If this thing succeeds, I’ll be able to get more than double the favorability I blew away.
I looked straight into Lee Soo-ah’s cool eyes and said.
“Do I look like I’m kidding?”
“…”
Lee Soo-ah glared at me, and I also glared at her without avoiding Lee Soo-ah’s eyes.
Oh, I’m shaking.
Dog is scary
In the end, it was Lee Soo-ah who lowered her eyes first.
Whoops, I won.
She lowered her head and bit her lip as she told me.
“It’s a joke too much. How could someone who had just lost her family-“
“Because I am not kidding. Why don’t you believe me?”
“Then how are you supposed to believe it? You’re going to spare her Jia! Jia has already… Already…”
Lee Soo-ah’s face twisted again.
Well, the teasing should end here.
I said to Lee Soo-ah, who was shedding tears again, with her head down.
“I can do it. My clanmates were in the same situation as Jia.”
“…?”
Sooah Lee looking up at me with her teary eyes.
Oh, it’s pretty.
A woman’s eyes filled with tears seem to have a magical power to catch men.
I calmed her down for a moment and continued talking.
“My clanmates. They are all dead. Sieun, Jiyoon, Jisoo, Juniel, Dongseok. And all of them, even one uncle from another place.”
“What is that-“
“It is literally. Bringing the dead back to life… Um… Rather than reviving them, they are raising them up and making them active like that. Jia can make it like that too.”
“Yeah, that can’t be. All of Mingu’s clan members are dead people? At all-“
“It doesn’t look like that at all, does it? Because that’s my skill. At my current level, I can raise it to a state that is almost indistinguishable from a living human being.”
“That, that…”
As if she finally realized that my words were not a joke, Lee Soo-ah looked at me with surprised eyes.
Then it’s time to be a coward.
I said to Soo-ah Lee.
“So, take your pick. Do you want to see Gia again? Do you want Jia to live and breathe again? Please tell me if you want. I will do whatever you want.”
“I, really… Is that really possible? Jia again… Can I see Jia alive?”
“Strictly speaking, it would be a bit unreasonable to say he was alive, but-“
“Please. Please do. Please please please. I am a child who has not bloomed yet. I’m a child who shouldn’t die in vain like that. Please please please please..”
Lee Soo-ah, kneeling down towards me, puts his head on the floor again and starts sobbing.
Good. It’s done now.
I’m just granting Lee Soo-ah’s wish.
Summoning the door of rest, I went inside and came out with the body of Jia lying on the ground.
“J-Jia-ya!!!”
When Lee Soo-ah saw the body I was carrying, she approached me in a fright.
After setting Jia’s body down on the sandy beach, I said to Soo-ah Lee.
“Back off. I will raise Jia up.”
“Really… Is Jia really getting up again? Really?”
Lee Soo-ah asks back in a voice that she still can’t believe.
It’s hard to believe until you see it with your own eyes.
Without saying a word, I gestured for Lee Soo-ah to step back.
And,
“Wake up”
The black aura from my hand permeates Jia’s body.
And,
Jia’s closed eyes slowly opened.
“J-Jia-ya!!!”
Lee Soo-ah runs towards Jia, who stands up.
I stopped her once.
“Wait a minute. It’s not over yet. Now I am just a doll without a soul.”
Lee Soo-ah, who stopped running into her Jia at my dissuade.
She covered her mouth with her hands and sobbed in her arms.
“Jia… Jia opened her eyes… Jia really woke up… Hehe…”
I left her like that and raised her Jia up.
Jia gets up from her seat.
We must take all possible steps now.
First..
“Geometry Restoration.”
The black energy extending from me once again covered Jia’s head,
The shrapnel from the grenade stuck in the back of her head came out and she regained her life form.
When ‘Mimic’ was activated, her face began to turn red, and finally, when she used the restoration of Lee Ji-ah’s rationality, the focus returned to Jia’s blank eyes.
And,
“.. Aunt?”
Looking at Lee Soo-ah, Jia speaks in a bewildered voice.
As if Lee Soo-ah couldn’t stand it any longer, she burst into tears and hugged her tightly.
“Jayah… Jiaya..!!!”
“Aunt.. Ow yaya ya, it hurts, aunt.. What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”
Jia said while comforting Lee Soo-ah, who was crying in her arms.
“Don’t cry, Auntie, don’t cry..Hee hee”
As Lee Soo-ah’s crying did not stop, Jia also began to cry.
But her tears don’t flow.
Because she didn’t drink water.
Soo-ah Lee hurriedly stopped her crying when Jia burst into tears and comforted her.
I spoke in a small voice into Lee Soo-ah’s ear.
“Her tears will not flow because there is no bodily fluid flowing through her body. Don’t worry, drinking water will make you cry.”
Lee Soo-ah looked at me with her bewildered eyes and nodded her head.
Jia, who was crying in her arms, said as if whining.
“Aunt, but where did Aunt Jeong-sook go? She was with me..”
“That, that… Aunt Jeong-suk has gone far. She has work elsewhere-”
“Where is this? Is this the sea?”
“Huh? Oh it’s the sea Do you like Jia Bada?”
“Huh! I love the sea! But Auntie, I’m cold”
“Oh chu, is it cold? Yes it will be cold hang on.”
Lee Soo-ah hurriedly removed the coat she was wearing and put it on Jia.
A coat that instantly shrinks to Jia’s perfect size.
Jia was amazed and looked at her coat.
“Wow! Aunt, this is amazing! Got smaller!! And warm!!”
Jia looks around at her coat with admiration.
Seeing her like that, Lee Soo-ah brings tears to her eyes again.
However, she also tried to put up with it when she saw Jia, who made her cry, saying that her aunt was crying.
I went into the cradle of rest, took one of her thick padded jumpers, and put it over Sua Lee’s shoulders.
Soo-ah Lee’s voice sounded embarrassed.
“Ah… I…”
Lee Soo-ah’s face as if she wanted to say something.
I called Shi-eun after telling her to wait for a while.
Sieun, who was standing far behind her, came up to us and was very happy to see Jia looking at herself with her eyes wide open.
“Would you like to watch the sea with Jia? I thought we should talk.”
“Yes, brother. Jia Shall we go to the sea with my sister… No, with my aunt?”
Ji-ah looked at her Soo-ah Lee and asked her eyes for permission to come, and when Soo-ah Lee nodded her head, she held Si-eun’s hand with a bright face and ran towards the sea.
“Jia! Don’t run too much! If you fall, you get hurt… Hit..”
Lee Soo-ah shouted anxiously, then blurted out her words and asked me.
“Is it right that you get hurt when you fall?”
“Of course. You can think that all reactions are the same as humans. It hurts when you get hurt, and it bleeds… Oh, of course, it’s about drinking water.”
After hearing my words, Soo-ah Lee suddenly knelt down in front of me and bowed her head to me.
“Really… Thank you very much Min-gu… Really… Thank you so much…”
Lee Soo-ah begins to sob again
Oh, so many tears.
I hurriedly got Lee Soo-ah up and comforted her.
“Stop crying now. If you keep crying, Jia will cry too.”
“Yes yes. That’s right. She’ll stop crying ha..”
Lee Soo-ah took a deep breath and calmed herself down.
I asked her to sit on her floor and started talking to her.
“Since you’ve seen my skills that caused the dead Jia… I think you can roughly guess my job. Is that right?”
Lee Soo-ah nodded at my words.
“Necromancer… Is it the same thing?”
“Yes, that’s right. My job is a necromancer.”
“I had a vague idea when I saw him raising those skeleton soldiers. I never dreamed that he could even raise the dead. Besides, all of the clan members are dead..”
“Well, it happened. I ask that you never talk about my job anywhere else.”
“Of course. I have absolutely no intention of going around talking about other people’s jobs.”
“Yes. That will be fine. First of all, let me tell you about Jia’s condition. Jia is one of the 7 subordinates. With my skill level, the number of corpses I could raise was only 7. It’s good that I left one blank. Otherwise, it would have taken some time to raise Jia.”
“Ah.. That’s why it has such limitations.”
“Of course. Surprisingly, it is a skill with many limitations. If there were no restrictions, I would have been able to raise all the dead people and monsters and use them as I pleased.”
“That’s a bit of a scary joke.”
Well, I’m not kidding.
If there were no restrictions on the rise skill, I might have raised everyone up and commanded them as my subordinates.
Well, I don’t need to say anything about this.
“Anyway, now Jia has become a body that will not die unless I die.
No matter how great the wound, I can heal it. There will be no particular inconvenience. If you only drink water, you can shed tears and blood like a living person, and you can feel all your emotions and senses like a living person. But if there’s one thing that’s different from living people… That they don’t sleep? The fact that he doesn’t eat… I guess there’s a level.”
“… Okay. “
“Do you have any other questions?”
“…”
Lee Soo-ah, who had been silent for a while, asked me.
“If this game ends… What will happen to Jia?”
Hmmm, I thought I’d ask right away like this.
She’s definitely a smart woman.
I said to Lee Soo-ah with a slightly depressed face.
“Skills and powers will all disappear… So they will return to their original state. Not only Jia, but also all of my subordinates..”
“…”
Lee Soo-ah’s face darkened rapidly.
Yes it is now
It’s time to bring Lee Soo-ah into my plans.
I spoke to Lee Soo-ah in a melancholy voice.
“This is what I’ve heard lately, if the game ends like this, whether it’s a human victory or a demon victory, I’ll have to part with all of my subordinates. So that’s what I thought. Is it really right to end the game… As a human, it’s right to try to defeat the demons and end the game with a human victory… But I wonder if that’s really right. All human beings are full of people who try to take advantage of others in any way, and there are only people who often want to stab people in the back. Why should I try to finish this game at the cost of parting with my subordinates? I have this feeling of skepticism.”
I feel Lee Soo-ah’s face lighten slightly at my remarks as I gently scratch the itch.
It’s almost over now.
“To be honest, even if the game isn’t over, I just live with it. So there is a lot of conflict. Should I keep trying to finish the game…”
“Play the game!!”
“…?”
“Shouldn’t it be over?”
Listening to Lee Soo-ah’s urgent voice, I smiled.
Inwardly, of course.
Good. It’s a success.
