Ch.128Now It’s Over

# The Demon who wanted to be a transcendent is being annihilated by a human who became a transcendent.

Watching this scene, the present Shinwoo was speechless, and in the next moment.

“Kyokushin Karate – Dimension Slash.”

His future self raised his hand high and struck down toward the hellish space.

Simultaneously, the world itself began to crack, and as they returned to their original world, Shinwoo had to admit.

That while this person and he were the same being, they were by no means equals.

“You… defeated the demon?”

“Lee Jin-ah. I find it curious that you didn’t use this ability in the future.”

“I didn’t use this ability in the future?”

Lee Jin-ah had lost her trump card.

She was disheartened, with cold sweat beading on her forehead, as if she truly had no hope left.

Meanwhile, looking at the remaining humans.

“Are you… Shinwoo?”

“Shinwoo…”

“Uncle… Auntie…”

Two people caught his eye by chance.

The only beings he could call family, whom he truly loved.

However, even they couldn’t fill Sophia’s absence.

“I’m sorry, both of you.”

With just a sympathetic expression, the future Shinwoo waved his hand once in their direction, and all the heroes who had been standing upright, including those two, collapsed to the ground unconscious.

“Huh?”

Suddenly, only Sophia remained standing there.

“Sophia, it’s all over. Now let’s go to the future together.”

“No! I’m staying here!”

“How? There’s no one left to protect you anymore.”

“…! That’s…”

Indeed, there was not a single person left around Sophia who would take her side.

“Sister, run away!”

“Lia!”

Lia, who had returned during the lull, stood in front of Sophia with her arms spread wide, but.

“Move aside, Lia.”

“Kyaak?!”

With just a flick of future Shinwoo’s finger, she was sent flying far away, completely battered.

“Han Shinwoo! Stop it!”

“Senior Riverine… I’m sorry, but I can’t let this slide anymore, even for you.”

“Kkeuk?!”

Riverine was also sent flying far away and fell unconscious.

“Han Shinwoo!!”

Chang.

Jaewon, who had managed to get up again, tried to grab him from behind.

But even he was caught by the head mid-way and slammed into the ground, completely losing consciousness.

Kwang!

“It seems… there was a misunderstanding between us. You should also have many conversations with me in the future.”

The last person remaining was none other than the present Shinwoo.

But having fully realized the gap between them, he too thought he couldn’t get up anymore.

“……”

That’s what he thought, but.

“My self from 20 years ago… seems to have been stupider than I remember.”

“Huu…”

“Do you think someone like you can defeat me?”

“No… Shinwoo, don’t do it!”

Sophia was shouting for him to stop, convinced he had no chance against his future self.

But still, the present Shinwoo didn’t loosen his fist.

If he had given up over something like this…

“Kyokushin Karate…”

“Straight Punch.”

Kwang-!

He probably wouldn’t have fought at all.

The future Han Shinwoo was using his true power.

He was definitely much stronger than me.

Even though it was the same basic straight punch, I could feel the difference in level from the start.

My shoulder felt like it would dislocate from blocking.

After that, I could only take hits from the numerous attacks I knew were coming, unable to respond.

Bang bang bang bang!

“No… Shinwoo! Stop!!”

I could hear Sophia’s screams.

My heart stopped and my vision blurred.

I tasted blood in my mouth and truly thought I might die.

That’s when it happened.

‘Ah… so this is how he became so strong.’

The resonating monster cells showed me another vision of my future that he hadn’t told me about.

He had literally used the entire world as experience points to reach his current position.

He had defeated the United States, the most powerful empire in human history, subdued the apostles of God in the Vatican, and devoured all the hidden boss monsters in the game to finally become a god.

‘Do I… need to kill that many to become as strong as him?’

God.

That means all stats at 20.

In other words, it means he can’t grow any stronger.

He was the strongest.

And I was still the insufficient strongest.

What could I possibly do to defeat him?

“Straight Punch.”

Kwang.

“Useless.”

Then again.

“Crescent Kick.”

Bang.

“Useless.”

Then once more.

All the karate techniques I had learned in my previous life, risking my life.

I struck out endlessly, more and more endlessly, with each careful preparation movement, with the determination to strike once for every 100 hits I took.

Because that was Kyokushin.

“‘Kyokushin’… Well, I too had a time when I respected such things. But that’s what made you like this now.”

Bones broke.

My kaijufied body was torn to shreds.

I could see the monster’s dark red blood flowing from my body.

One eye couldn’t see, and what I could see was Sophia kneeling and crying beyond his shoulder.

“Please… stop…”

I thought I was strong, but the world is vast.

No, in this case, perhaps saying the universe is vast would be more appropriate.

Anyway, I had no more techniques left to use.

Because that knife-hand strike just now was the last of my techniques.

“It’s over.”

Conversely, he raised his knife-hand as if this was just the beginning, ready to end everything about me.

My beloved Kyokushin…

The spirit of persevering and improving no matter how painful and difficult it gets.

Is this its limit?

Am I going to stop here without moving forward?

As I was thinking that.

My body,

My cells,

My memories,

More precisely, the future that would soon become my memories.

“…?”

I raised my arm just like the man in front of me.

Then, as if to say never doubt my Kyokushin.

Swoosh.

The strongest strike, delivered neither too slowly nor too quickly.

“Kyokushin Karate…”

“Kuk?!”

“Dimension Slash.”

My strike, which had been so ineffective until now, for the first time carved a huge wound in the chest of my future self.

***

The future Han Shinwoo was able to step back and avoid a fatal wound thanks to his momentary reflexes.

However, he was still shocked.

“You bastard…!”

“……”

To inflict a wound on my body that had already become divine.

Even if it was the past Han Shinwoo, this shouldn’t have been possible.

After all, the guy from this era was nowhere near the level to be able to do that.

‘How was he able to use Dimension Slash just now?’

That was a technique he had developed when he returned to the Korean Peninsula to establish an empire after destroying the world.

It was definitely not a technique that could come out by chance like this.

Then there was only one possibility to consider.

“You, you peeked at my memories?”

Why hadn’t he noticed until now?

Why did he only realize it now?

At some point, despite being kaijufied, he was speaking human language instead of the inferior monster language like “kruk kruk.”

He had evolved.

Not only that, but he was still standing despite being battered when he should have collapsed long ago.

As if he had grown much more than he was just a minute ago.

The cause was probably because he had met his future self, namely this body.

“The kaijufied cells resonated… is that it? Or did some time trouble occur to cause this result…”

He was already complete.

He couldn’t grow any further.

However, the guy from 20 years ago was still a monster in the making.

He was still far from reaching himself 20 years later, but the future Shinwoo could sense it intuitively.

The longer this fight continued, the eventually the guy would catch up to him.

Every time the same monster cells collided, he would continue to grow.

But that’s only if he could last that long.

“Just one wound.”

“…What?”

“Don’t you understand? This is all you got after your body was torn to shreds. Just one wound.”

The future Shinwoo raised one finger as he looked at the present Shinwoo who was about to collapse.

Then, spreading his wings wide.

“Let me show you.”

“…!”

“The absolute wall you can’t overcome just by peeking at a few memories.”

He grabbed the neck of his present self at a speed he couldn’t possibly react to and began to leap into the air together.

“Shinwoo!”

“Keu, ugh?!”

“Sophia is here. So let’s change locations.”

And so the two flew endlessly on and on.

Rising higher and higher until the blue sky turned black, they became like red meteors and left the blue planet.

“Kugh… kuk?!”

“Even your current self should be able to endure a little with a monster’s body.”

Absolute zero.

In the space approaching -270 degrees, the future Shinwoo continued to spread his wings and then slammed the present Han Shinwoo down to a place.

It was none other than the retreat he often visited when he wanted to clear his head.

Earth’s satellite, the Moon.

“Whenever my head was complicated and I was very troubled, I always came here.”

“…Telepathy?”

There’s no air, so voices can’t be heard.

Instead, the sound that comes is a unique telepathy that only monsters… or more precisely, only those who have kaijufied can hear.

This was also one of the techniques Shinwoo had discovered after experiencing numerous incidents in the future.

“Sometimes I wondered. What would Earth look like without the Moon?”

“Urgh…!”

“This isn’t my doing.”

“!!”

“This world is being destroyed because of you.”

Kwang.