Chapter 136 – What Are You?
“Haha,”
A rough breath escaped from Kang Hyun-soo’s mouth.
His expression became visibly bloody.
“Ha, this is true.”
Kim Gil-seong started this sparring because of his own interest.
However, when it was over, there were remnants of unclear emotions.
One-sided confrontation.
The losers tasted humiliation that they could not easily overcome.
Kim Gil-sung was also concerned about that part.
“Hyeonsu.”
Hyeonsu Kang, who was glaring at me, changed his expression in surprise.
“Ah, Master! Thank you for the great opportunity. I received a good lesson from this person today.”
Kang Hyun-soo bowed toward me.
I also greeted face to face.
“Yes, knowing your own inadequacies is also a great foundation for development. Hyeonsu If you had no talent and skills, I would never have taken you.”
“I know. Thank you.”
Kang Hyeon-soo took a moment to catch his breath and then spoke to Kim Gil-seong.
“Can I go back today? You seem to have trained enough.”
“Okay, go back and get some rest.”
Hyeonsu Kang greeted Gilseong Kim and left the training room.
Watching his back, Kim Gil-sung sighed deeply.
“Well, I didn’t mean to kill the spirit.”
“Sorry. You told me to take it easy.”
“That’s enough for me. It’s not your fault. Ina and her mother are waiting for you, so let’s go there.”
It was good to be here today.
I confirmed who Kang Hyun-soo was, and he imprinted my presence on him.
Now the future was to change.
‘The future changes…’
Obviously, the part where I met Kang Hyun-soo and sparred was not written in the ‘Book of the Future’.
I felt the need to check it out.
“May I stop by the bathroom before we go?”
“Okay.”
I was guided to the bathroom by Kim Gil-sung.
I stood there and put my hand in my inventory.
What I brought out was the ‘Book of the Future’.
I wanted to see how the content would have changed.
I opened ‘Kim Eana’s Chapter’ to see if anything had changed.
“Ah…”
Certainly things have changed.
The number of pages written at length had been cut in half.
Is it because the flow that was scheduled has changed and there are many variables?
I read through the changes.
‘This…’
Of course, the flow and events have changed.
But the thing I wanted to change the most was the same.
Kang Hyeon-soo was shocked that he lost in a sparring match with me, and he felt frustrated because he couldn’t solve him.
Excited, the method he chose was more extreme.
‘It’s a day ahead…’
Originally, two days later, Kim Eana was supposed to be badly punished by him.
However, the date was moved forward by a day.
Right tomorrow.
Waiting for Kim Eana to return to her house, she kidnapped her.
It was written in the ‘Book of the Future’ that he took her to his house and insulted Kim Eana.
However, the contents were only written up to that point, and nothing about Kim Gil-sung was written.
At least, I didn’t know that the matter of Kim Kil-sung’s death had changed from certain to unclear.
Still…
‘Shit…’
If Kim Eana is hurt by him, nothing has changed fundamentally for her.
Moreover, if the future of Kim Gil-seong’s death really changed, the message of completing the quest would have appeared right away.
I thought about how I could change this future.
The answer came very easily.
All that was left was action.
#
In the evening, I received a phone call from Park Jeong-gyun.
– Sungkyu, I found out.
He didn’t have to think deeply about what he said he had found out.
What I asked him to do.
In other words, the investigation into Kang Hyeon-soo must have been completed.
In fact, I didn’t expect to hear the results so quickly.
I thought there was a high possibility that I wouldn’t hear anything until I finished this quest.
I learned the reason why I was able to finish the investigation quickly through Park Jeong-gyun.
– To put it bluntly, he’s a spy.
“Are you a spy?”
– Yes, he originally belonged to an underground guild. “Dead Tiger”.
“The dead tiger…”
Coincidentally, I knew that guild.
There was a time when the guild I belonged to fought against that guild.
To be precise, the ‘dead tiger’ was a very large guild, and when it became too strong and did too much evil, the guilds of Yangji formed an alliance to attack the guild.
As a result, both sides suffered only heavy damage and could not come to a decision.
Strictly speaking, the damage of the ‘dead tiger’ was less and the damage of the coalition was much greater.
The ‘dead tiger’ had connections with the political world, and rather pressure was applied to the guilds on the Yangji side.
A struggle that ended so quickly.
‘To think Kang Hyeon-soo belonged there…’
This was unexpected.
– I know? Dead tiger?
“Yes, I have heard the name. Isn’t it a fairly large guild?”
– Oh, I know that. It’s one of the top five guilds here. The investigation ended easily because there was a guy in that guild who was indebted to me before. He found out that I was investigating Kang Hyeon-soo, so he came to find me on his own.
“Yourself?”
– Yes, he said he really hates Kang Hyeon-soo. It has no choice but to be. Because Kang Hyun-soo touched his woman.
“A woman…”
– Pervert libido. It seems that only through rape can an erection be achieved. Moreover, she said that her tenacity was strong enough to say that the woman she picked up on her would somehow rape her.
“Why did Kang Hyun-soo enter the ‘Path of the Sword’?”
– There’s a story there too. The ‘Dead Tiger’ guild leader had been with Kim Gil-sung before. In ‘Path of the Sword’, I often received general quests and fought with underground guilds a lot. At that time, the leader of the ‘Dead Tiger’ guild was beaten by Kim Gil-seong and lost one of his eyes. His eyeballs were completely destroyed and couldn’t regenerate. That’s why the guild leader came to hate Kim Gil-seong.
It was difficult to find a point of contact between Kang Hyun-soo and this story.
Park Jeong-gyun continued to talk.
– Kang Hyeon-soo is said to have stood out among the many members of the ‘Dead Tigers’ because he has a pulpit and good skills. However, there is one habit that has not been corrected. Just pervert libido. He was carelessly setting it up and touching several women of the organization. There was even a guild executive woman included. When things got like that, no matter how well I did my job, I couldn’t help but lose sight of the members of the organization. Eventually, the guild leader made a decision. To deal with him within the organization. At the risk of losing his life, he came up with a trick. The guild leader knew that he had a grudge against Kim Gil-sung and took advantage of it. He asked me to send him as a spy to the ‘Path of the Sword’. He said he would somehow kill Kim Kil-sung. That’s the story so far.
I understood everything.
Why did such a future unfold in the previous life?
It was true that the 2nd generation guild leader of the ‘Road of the Sword’, who had been rumored to have killed Gil-seong Kim.
Moreover, his identity is a member of the ‘dead tiger’ guild.
All the reasons why the ‘Way of the Sword’ had become so corrupted after reaching the 2nd generation of guild masters had been revealed.
– But why did you suddenly become interested in him?
“Kilsung Kim’s daughter is in the same class as me.”
– Huh? Is that all?
Certainly, even after I said it, I felt that the reason was meager.
But I couldn’t figure out how to explain this.
Because I couldn’t tell him about quests and things called ‘Book of the Future’.
– Maybe that’s the same with him?
“That is…”
– No. I’d rather not listen Anyway, that’s all I’ve been researching. Do you need more?
“No, thank you. Can I really not pay the commission fee?”
– If you feel like it, buy a meal later.
“I will definitely buy it.”
– Yes~
Based on the information Park Jung-gyun gave, it became possible to put all the puzzles together.
After all, Kang Hyeon-soo was someone who should disappear from the world.
It was all the more so when I thought that Kim Eana and Kim Gil-sung could live their lives without being hurt by his disappearance.
#
Next day.
Today at the academy, Eana Kim and I practiced in the morning together.
When Kim Eana asks to go out for coffee together, she refuses because she has business to see.
But in the end, Kim Eana and I were headed to the same place.
Yesterday, I confirmed the changed future through the book of the future.
A future that has not fundamentally changed, but has changed in detail.
The date when Kim Eana was harmed by Kang Hyeon-soo was moved forward by a day.
The place where she was kidnapped was right in front of her house.
The scene was described in detail in the book, so I knew where Kang Hyeon-soo was hiding.
I ran past Kim Eana and arrived in front of her house.
And he said to Kang Hyeon-soo, who was in hiding.
“Come out.”
Kang Hyeon-soo did not respond and pretended not to be there.
“I know everything, so come out, Kang Hyun-soo.”
Only after directly mentioning his name did a figure walk out of the darkness.
Unchangingly dark impression and atmosphere.
If there was a difference from the time I saw him yesterday, it was that he wasn’t hiding his true colors at all.
“You bastard…”
He glared at me with eyes burning with rage.
“What is your identity?”
