Ch.136Season 2 – Let’s Go! To the Resistance Headquarters
by fnovelpia
They were “humans” wearing thick leather and goggles, seemingly quite accustomed to this cold.
A band of thieves began circling around the time machine on hover bikes cobbled together from various broken machines.
“Please stop this! We’re humans!”
Perhaps they were acting this way because they mistook them for monsters.
Thinking this, Yoo Cheran raised her hands in surrender.
But in this human society where law and order had disappeared, this was merely a weak gesture indicating she had no intention to fight.
“I call dibs on that woman!”
“Let’s take her to the milk factory and milk her until she dies!”
Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!
The band of thieves began shouting like ancient primitives from before civilization.
Then one of them threw a rope toward Yoo Cheran, who was trying to resolve things peacefully.
Starting with that, more ropes were thrown one after another, successfully binding her completely in an instant.
“Grab her! Grab her!”
“Cut off all the unnecessary limbs!”
The thieves drooled at the sight of the defenseless woman.
But they still didn’t realize.
“Sigh, it seems peaceful resolution is impossible.”
The woman they had captured wasn’t just a human who survived because she couldn’t die after civilization collapsed.
She was an A-rank Hunter who had received systematic training from the Hunter Association and was currently a candidate for National Authority-Level.
She was Yoo Cheran, a talent in the top 1% of Hunters.
“Looking at how you talk… I’ve determined you’re humans not worth saving even in a world like this.”
“Wh-what?”
“How can a woman have such strength…!”
“Since there are no facilities to detain you, I’ll have to dispose of all of you.”
Only then did the thieves realize.
They hadn’t captured Yoo Cheran.
Yoo Cheran had allowed herself to be captured, and now they were the ones trapped by the ropes they had thrown themselves.
The steel chain ropes connected to the hover bikes.
Yoo Cheran grabbed one of them firmly like a flail and began swinging it around.
Then, without even needing to use her divine tool, she smashed them one by one like whack-a-mole.
“M-monster!”
“Everyone run!”
Where was this fear when they came to plunder?
Seeing more than half of their comrades die as bloody pulps, the remaining thieves quickly tried to cut the connected ropes and escape.
But even that…
“Thieves who tried to plunder people…”
“Urgh?!”
“What’s this?”
“A voice in my head…!”
“All of you, commit suicide.”
A voice suddenly came from somewhere.
Immediately agreeing with that declaration, the thieves took out their blades and stabbed their own throats, completely annihilated on the spot.
“?! That technique just now…”
“Leon. Are you awake?”
“I’ve been awake for a while, Father…”
“Being outside the walls, we get to see things like this.”
“Indeed. We took care of everything near the walls, but this place is quite far. Seems there are many like them around here.”
Yoo Cheran turned toward the time machine in surprise.
There, all three of Shinwoo’s children who had come from the past were coming out, except for Yujin who had taken a nuclear-level explosion head-on.
Shinwoo greeted them without prejudice.
After briefly grinning at that sight, the two daughters except Leon seemed shy around this unfamiliar version of their father.
Yurian glanced away while Shina covered her face with both hands.
“By the way, what are you going to do? I’d like you to keep following us.”
“I’m sorry, but if we follow you, that means going to the rebels’ hideout, right? You might trust us, Father, but I wonder if the others would trust us that much.”
“Of course not. I absolutely cannot let you into that place.”
Leon’s point was excellent.
Despite having betrayed His Majesty, they were once princes and princesses who served him.
As if to prove this point, Jaewon gritted his teeth and showed hostility.
As if to say that this was absolutely unacceptable, no matter what.
“Father! I didn’t like bringing these people to the future from the beginning!”
“Jaewon…”
“When I think about how many humans… how many resistance fighters have died because of them, I honestly want to kill them right now.”
“W-wait! At least my generation with Shina and Brother Yujin have never even properly seen this resistance! Surely Brother Leon too…”
“I’ve killed many.”
“B-brother!”
“!!”
Yurian tried to mediate between her two “brothers” who were about to fight as soon as they arrived in the future.
But that only backfired.
“That Hunter Yoo Cheran standing over there, you know she was the action leader of the resistance, right?”
“Of course. After all, Cheran was the one who taught me hand-to-hand combat.”
“Well, the monster who killed that woman was ‘me.'”
“…What?”
What on earth was he saying?
Jaewon stopped everything he was doing for a moment and turned the thought over in his mind several times.
And then he couldn’t help but realize, whether he liked it or not.
Leon, the first child of Empress Lia.
He was the culprit who had killed Cheran when the resistance headquarters was discovered, as she fought to buy time.
“You bastard! I’ll kill you!!”
“No! Jaewon, hold on!”
“Jaewon, calm down!”
Han Jaewon tried to charge at Leon, drawing Arondight from his back.
Shinwoo, who was right beside him, and the past Yoo Cheran in front of him managed to grab and stop him.
But his anger remained.
“You! I will definitely kill you!”
“…Fine, it wouldn’t be bad to die by your hands after everything is over.”
“B-brother!”
“But now is not the time. Don’t we have a powerful enemy that would be difficult to face even if we combined our strength?”
Leon didn’t refute.
It was natural for him to be Jaewon’s enemy.
He didn’t offer any ambiguous apologies, nor did he provoke by telling Jaewon to try and kill him.
He simply said that now was not the time.
“We’ll deal with our issues after taking down His Majesty. Any objections to that?”
“…!”
Jaewon, who had been about to go berserk, finally managed to sheathe his sword as he recalled their most important current goal.
“Right… we have someone else we need to kill first.”
“Good to see you’ve come to your senses.”
“Is that something you should be saying, brother?!”
“By the way, why are you trying to kill the future Han Shinwoo? Don’t tell me you want to become the next emperor?”
“I have no interest in such a position. I simply decided that I need to eliminate the man who is destroying my mother.”
“Mother… I see…”
His mother would be the Empress Lia, who had killed Jaewon’s greatest benefactor, Teacher Lee Jin-ah.
Even knowing that their goals could never align…
‘Let’s back down just this once.’
Jaewon decided not to ask anything more, resolving to think about it after defeating Emperor Han Shinwoo.
“But Leon, where are you planning to go now?”
“Well… our goal is the same as yours, Father, isn’t it?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“So I was thinking we would stay inside this time machine for now, not at the resistance headquarters.”
“The time machine…”
Indeed, that device could only travel through time.
Once it arrived at the target time period, it wasn’t something you could drive around like a car—it was just a piece of junk.
Shinwoo was of course willing to allow it.
But as for the other two people…
“I agree, Father.”
“Oh, you do?”
“Yes. After all, the time machine can only move through time once more. They can’t pull any tricks with just that.”
Jaewon unexpectedly gave his father one vote.
“I agree too!”
“Kang Mirae…?”
Sister Kang Mirae, who had been hiding quietly since the thieves appeared.
She also surprisingly took Shinwoo’s side.
“Think about it the other way! The time machine is our only means to return to our original world, so are we going to leave it unattended? It’s already huge and not something we can carry around.”
“Ah, so you want them to guard it for us?”
“Yes! They’re already half non-human anyway. That makes them more trustworthy. Of course, it’s a flaw that they’re mixed with monster blood, but…”
At least monsters don’t stab you in the back like humans do!
With that opinion, Kang Mirae suggested leaving Leon’s group at the time machine.
As for the rest…
“I’ll follow oppa’s decision!”
“I’ll go with whatever Shinwoo says.”
“I will do as Master Shinwoo says.”
Lia, Yoo Cheran, and Clan Head Kurumi, all dressed in thick clothes, actively supported Shinwoo.
“I have to stay at the time machine anyway for maintenance and communication, so I’d actually welcome the company.”
Katarina, who had to stay with the time machine anyway.
She simply said that if she died, there would be another Katarina, so she could just regress.
“And currently inside the time machine is my brother who is still recovering.”
“You mean Yujin?”
“Yes. He’s not in any condition to be moved around, so if you let us stay with the time machine, I promise we’ll stand guard to the best of our ability.”
“Okay, let’s do that then.”
So Leon and the children remained at the time machine with Katarina.
“Then we’re heading to the resistance headquarters!”
“Ooooh!!”
The adventure of Shinwoo’s group who had arrived in the future was finally about to begin…
“F-Father, wait a moment.”
“Yes?”
…or so it seemed.
“About Shina.”
“Yes?”
“Please take her along with you.”
“…Huh?”
“B-brother?!”
Leon suddenly asked his father to include his youngest sister in his party.
To that, naturally,
“Don’t be ridiculous!!”
Jaewon expressed his flat rejection.
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