Chapter 97 – Episode 97. Tracking
When I came back to reality and opened my eyes on the mattress, Si-eun and Ji-yoon greeted me.
I lifted the ‘tracking compass’ by my bedside.
Jiyoon tilted her head and asked me.
“What is it?”
“It’s an item that allows you to track a person or object. Wait a minute.”
Click
Opening the lid of the tracking compass, I took the pebble communicator out of my pocket and put it inside.
A pebble communicator that is the same as the one that Sua Lee has.
A ‘tracking compass’ will allow you to track Lee Soo-ah, who has the rest of the pebble communicator.
If Lee Soo-ah hadn’t thrown away the communicator.
With a nervous heart, I closed the lid of the ‘tracking compass’ and tried pouring mana into it.
‘Please…’
As if answering my earnest heart, the arrow pointed to one place after spinning around.
“Done!!”
Good. I knew the direction… The distance…
The light from the compass was blue, but slowly, it was turning red.
It means you’re getting farther and farther away.
Rather, it is a good sign.
If the color didn’t change, there’s a possibility that the pebble communicator was abandoned somewhere.
If so, there would be no way to find Lee Soo-ah again.
You still have the pebble communicator I gave you, so if you follow this tracking compass, you should be able to find Isua.
After I left the cradle of rest, I instructed Dong-seok to get a new car.
We all go together, but the car is too small.
Soapstone disappears with staggering steps after receiving my order.
Soon, the dawn is rising again.
Except for a brief trip to the store, I hadn’t slept for two days.
I’m a little tired.
Still, now is not the time to rest.
We need to find Lee Soo-ah.
Lee Soo-ah, who has lost her last blood relative, Jia, wanders around with an unstable mind, and is like a bomb that may explode at any moment.
If it blows up, it’s over. It’s game over.
I sighed heavily, stretched for a while to loosen up, and approached Juniel, who was sitting on one side.
Oh Young-hoon, who is still lying at Juniel’s feet and moaning.
Because the day is getting brighter, the crushed lower half of the body looks more and more naked.
Hmmm, that will hurt a lot.
Juniel poured a few drops of the potion into Oh Young-hoon’s mouth, who was about to turn blind again.
Oh Yeong-hoon, who had regained his focus as if coming back to his senses, spoke in a crawling voice, licking his lips.
“Please… Please… Just… Kill me… Please…”
Well, you’re doing great.
I asked Juniel.
“How is it? Can I do it?”
Juniel nodded at my question.
“Yes, you can hold on to your life for a very long time if you want to. It’s a bit annoying though.”
“We have to leave now, so let’s finish.”
“Should I kill you?”
Upon hearing our conversation, a light of relief appears on Oh Young-hoon’s face.
Ha, do you think you can finally die?
I shook my head and said.
“No, look at him. I like it because it kills me don’t kill Can you make it as if you weren’t alive even if you were alive?”
Juniel confidently nodded at my words.
“Of course. This is what I specialize in.”
“I’m leaving right away, so hurry up and come. “
Leaving behind the nodding Juniel, I walked towards the broken school gate.
Oh Yeong-hun’s suppressed moans coming from behind.
So why did you covet someone else’s guild and make that little girl die?
You have to suffer more Because he’s like a dog.
I was waiting outside the school gate with Shi-eun, Ji-yoon, and Ji-soo for a while, but Dong-seok drove a van back.
I’ll get you soon
Dong-seok’s skill is also a real scam.
Sieun, Jiyoon, and Jisoo and I waited in the car for a while, and Juniel came and got into the car.
Juniel returned with blood-soaked clothes and a pretty satisfied expression.
“How did you handle it?”
“It’s just nothing. The mangled lower body was neatly cut off, and both arms were also cut off. I dug out my eyes, pulled out my tongue, and treated all the wounds with potions. You’ll probably have to roll around there trembling in fear until you starve to death or are discovered and eaten by monsters.”
Listening to Juniel speak naturally, the faces of Shi-eun, Ji-yoon, and Ji-soo gradually hardened.
“Oh, sisters!! Why are you making that face? I just did what my master told me to do! Right, master? Didn’t I do anything wrong?”
“Of course. You handled it neatly. So, let’s go right away. I need to find a hero.”
I put mana into the tracking compass again.
Same direction as before. But…
“.. Has it turned red? Earlier, it was closer to blue…”
Shi-eun’s voice speaks strangely.
Hmm, really, as she said, the color the compass gave off was bright red.
It means the distance is… Very far, right?
No, how did you get so far away in such a short time?
Did he have a skill that allows him to move quickly among the hero’s skills?
Like the sword scars of the previous Blood Festival guild base, and being able to move so quickly…
It seems that many things have happened to the hero that I do not know about.
The only way to solve this question is to meet the hero quickly.
I gave Dong-seok the direction and ordered the car to start.
The car started off smoothly, and we started to run at high speed towards the warrior.
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“… What. Did you run out of mana again?”
“Yes, brother. I think she should take a break and go.”
I sighed lightly and got out of the car.
I must have fallen asleep while moving.
Ugh, i’m tired
What kind of trouble is this?
“How about direction and distance?”
Si-eun, who was holding the ‘tracking compass’ instead of me, spoke to me.
“The direction remains the same. It seems that the distance has narrowed a little.. And sometimes it doesn’t.. It’s still red.”
Hmm. It’s still red
No matter how much I moved while taking a break to recover Dongseok’s mana, it was a car.
Far from still catching up, the red distance sign.
How the hell are you moving so fast?
It wasn’t just moving.
There were corpses of demons lying all over the hero’s route.
He must have killed the monsters he encountered while moving.
I got out of the car and looked at my subordinates warming up.
Unlike me, he doesn’t seem to be tired, but everyone seems very sorry that his whole body is tangled because he couldn’t wash.
I let out a small sigh and handed Shi-eun two bottles of mana potion.
“If I keep going and resting like this, there will be no end. Let’s go at once. Feed Dongseok this.
Keep feeding them whenever you feel like you’re going to run out of mana while moving.”
“It’s expensive… It’s a waste for some reason.”
“I can’t help it. I thought I would catch up soon, but did I know that the pursuit would last this long?
From now on, let’s keep moving without a break.”
After I finished talking, I got back into the car.
Si-eun was in the passenger seat with a tracking compass and a mana potion, and the rest sat huddled in the back seat.
Car starting again.
My tired body wanted to rest again, and I could feel my eyes closing.
And,
“Brother! It gradually turns blue!!”
I woke up at Sieun’s cry and washed my face to wake up.
“But we got close quickly. It must have been somewhere not that far away.”
“Yes? I barely caught up after running for over an hour now… I used up all my mana potions.”
“Did I sleep for over an hour?”
“Yes… Oppa, are you very tired?”
I must have been very tired for sure.
I thought I closed my eyes for a while, but I must have fallen asleep quite deeply.
I asked Shi-eun.
“How about a compass change?”
“It was red until recently, but it is gradually changing to blue. It seems the hero has stopped moving.”
“I’m glad. I finally met you. Where are you?”
“We moved quite a distance in an easterly direction. Looking at the signs.. I think I will see the sea soon.”
“Ocean…”
It’s the sea
I can’t even remember when I saw it.
As I lived in the metropolitan area, I could see the sea in an hour or two, but it was so vague that I couldn’t even remember when I saw it.
Because I lived in the world that much.
It was only after the world was destroyed that I began to see the sea again.
As I ran a little further, the sea began to come into my eyes, just as Si-eun said.
The world has gone crazy and a lot has changed,
The sea remains the same as it was when I was young.
I feel the coolness as if my heart is open.
Even Juniel, who was calm about most things, looked at the sea with admiration.
A tracking compass that gradually turns blue.
We have reached the vicinity of the place where the hero is.
“This is… A beach, right?”
In the direction indicated by the tracking compass, there was a beach, one of the representative resorts of the East Sea.
The car Dong-seok was driving stopped,
I and my subordinates all got out of the car.
Normally, it would be a white sandy beach where you can see quite a few people enjoying the winter sea even in the cold winter, but now I can’t find the shadows of people even after washing my eyes.
That’s why, the figure of the warrior wearing a black coat and squatting in the middle of the white sand caught my eye.
I finally found it.
After ordering the party to wait for a while, I walked towards the hero by myself.
The white sandy beach of the sea where your feet sink.
The back of a warrior crouching down looking blankly at the sea.
Perhaps sensing a presence approaching her from behind, Soo-ah Lee flinched at her shoulder, but then slowly turned her head and looked back at her.
Empty eyes.
No matter how many tears she shed, her face is full of tears that haven’t been wiped properly.
A face so severely emaciated that I wonder if it could change like that in one day.
In the meantime, Lee Soo-ah looked at me with surprised eyes and muttered softly.
“Mingoo-sama…”
I looked at her, gave her a light smile, then walked over to her side and sat down on the sand in her fur.
Lee Soo-ah looked at me and pursed her lips as if she wanted to say something, but she hung her head without saying anything.
Lee Soo-ah’s tears dripping down the sandy beach.
As I silently patted Lee Soo-ah on her shoulder, Lee Soo-ah, leaning on me, gave her ‘Ahh’ and began to cry in earnest.
As if to let out all the sadness that had accumulated in her heart, Lee Soo-ah cried like a child.
I just sat quietly and gently comforted her shoulder.
Quite a bit of time passed
Lee Soo-ah, who had found some stability in her mind, spoke to me with her messed-up face.
“I’m sorry, Min-gu.. I came here because of me..”
“I’m sorry. It’s okay if you don’t think so.”
“…”
Lee Soo-ah staring blankly at me.
She sighed and told me.
“Mingoo. I have something to tell you.”
“Yes, feel free to speak.”
Sooah Lee looked at me for a moment.
“I… Became a real hero.”
.. Huh?
What do you mean?
That she became a real warrior.
So you’re saying she’s been a fake hero so far?
As I looked at her questioning eyes, Sua Lee nodded her head in understanding.
“You don’t understand what I am talking about. But it’s true. In fact, she was a hero for a while, but should I say, she wasn’t a true hero.”
“Well, I certainly don’t understand. Anyway, is that the story that she has become a true hero now?”
“Yes… With this incident, I have awakened as a true warrior. But…”
Lee Soo-ah looks at me with sad eyes and speaks.
“I have no intention of performing the duty of a warrior anymore… I’m sorry… I’m really sorry, Min-gu…”
Lee Soo-ah lowered her head and she began to weep again.