episode_0011

A university hospital in central Seoul.

A large crowd of people is gathered at the entrance of the hospital.

Hospitals are said to be places where a lot of people gather, but today a crowd that is twice that number, or even ten times larger, is camped out at the entrance of the hospital.

As the crowds gather and block the entrance to the hospital and even the road for ambulances to pass through, the hospital security guards and parking attendants irritably wave their light batons to stop them.

This hospital is an old hospital that was founded over 100 years ago. It was founded by a foreign businessman and philanthropist who donated his own money after lamenting Korea’s poor medical facilities during the enlightenment period.

It is famous as Korea’s first general medical center, and countless people visit this hospital with its deep history and tradition every day, but today the number is quite excessive. On the contrary, it is a nuisance to the hospital.

Unfortunately, the reason they visited the hospital was not to treat a disease or an injury in principle.

“Please step away! I understand your desire to see him, but he too is injured! Plus, this is a hospital! It interferes with the transport of patients! Please stay in line!”

A very tired-looking doctor pushes them away and yells.

The dark circles under his eyes are thick, his skin is rough, and his hair is matted, so it looks like he hasn’t slept well for a few days. It looked dangerous, as if it would fall over with the slightest push.

Three days have passed since the Seoul Gate incident was concluded, but injured people are still being brought to the hospital.

Survivors who survived under the rubble of collapsed buildings for more than 48 hours or victims who lost so much blood that they fell into a coma.

The countless reporters and visitors who have blocked the entrance to the hospital, as if ignoring their lifeline that is fighting every second until it is cut off, continue to flock in no matter how much they try to control it.

On the contrary, they even crowded into the hospital, and there were often skits in which they had to retreat after being scolded by the head nurse in the emergency room.

One floor of the hospital. A spacious hospital room that seems to be a VIP room and is completely different from regular hospital rooms. The being was lying in the only bed.

There was something aura-like flickering around his body, pushing away everything that approached him.

The doctor who visited regularly on time tried to touch his body, but was only pushed back by the energy.

After continuing to try for a while, the doctor in the white coat had no choice but to sigh, give up his work, and retreat out of the room.

Grumbling─

The door to the hospital room opens and someone speaks to the doctor who steps out the door.

“Doctor. How is his recovery?”

A blonde woman came into the doctor’s field of vision as he turned to the location of the voice. A wavy jean bob that reaches down to the neck, a neat blouse, a neat-looking cotton slit skirt, and comfortable low-heeled shoes.

Although she had the air of a Western woman going on a date somewhere, the doctor knew that she was no ordinary person.

The evening that the red lizard named Elm Northmund… no, the dragon, was brought to this hospital. When he stopped me from breaking into the hospital room, he took out something that looked like a small notebook from his inside pocket and held it out.

When the doctor saw the letters CIA in the notebook, he felt mildly dizzy. I think it was called Helen or something. I don’t remember the last name.

“It’s still the same. Honestly, I don’t know. Since contact is still impossible, it is difficult to say for sure. What.”

The doctor blurted out to her. No matter how important the patient is, it is not polite to crowd around and block the path to the hospital like this.

Of course, it is not only the agency she belongs to, the CIA, that is crowded in the hallway in front of the hospital room right now.

A quick glance shows that agents, or people equivalent to agents, from all over the world were flocking in to form a long line.

SVR. I looked at a badge that seemed to belong to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and also saw the insignia of the Chinese Ministry of State Security. I also saw certificates from organizations such as MI6, which are already famous and need no further explanation, or Mossad, or PSIA, which I had never heard of before. I thought they were probably Japanese.

“I can’t give you a definite answer because you are a different species from us, but I think you have already mostly recovered physically and are simply losing your mind. If nothing else happens, you will wake up soon.”

The doctor recalled the time when the Red Lizard was taken to the hospital’s emergency room.

Intangible energies that push away the startled medical staff. When even the experienced doctor was puzzled by the strange phenomenon, light suddenly appeared in his chest and the wound healed and the tissue was restored in an instant.

I remember being a bit surprised to see even the scales on my chest regenerating.

And he fell unconscious and is still in the same condition two days later.

A remotely measured pulse machine showed a normal pulse (this was achieved with the help of a reptile specialist veterinarian), and an X-ray examination showed that the internal organs were intact.

So the final decision made by the medical staff was that he was simply losing his mind.

The doctor also had no choice but to agree because he had seen the video of the tearing of the dimension that he had shown. If I had done the kind of thing that is difficult to express in words, I would have lost my mind.

The way he was staggering around at the end of the video looked quite dangerous.

As the doctor, who answered roughly, disappeared across the hallway, the woman sat down on a chair in the hallway, crossed her legs, and clicked her tongue.

A large Russian agent speaks to her.

“You look very nervous, Helen Burns. This is the first time I’ve seen you this impatient.”

“It’s no use pretending to be calm, Kozlev. You would have received the same orders as me anyway.”

“Hahaha. Well, that’s right. But if you worry like that, nothing will change. Why don’t you just relax.”

She snorted at the words of the big man named Kozlev and waved her crossed legs. Actually he is right. Any overseas intelligence agent should not reveal his or her feelings so easily.

But the anxiety of what was to come was eating away at her heart. The more she loves her country, the more.

There are only three days left until the day he said.

National Intelligence Service agent Lee Deok-jae burst out laughing as he watched the scene.

‘You seem very nervous. ‘I guess he does too.’

They, no, all the people gathered in this hallway must have come here under the same orders.

December 8th. His prediction was that gates like the one opened in Seoul would break out all over the world. There are only three days left until that day.

The lizard named Elm, who is currently lying in the hospital room, is the only one who can properly fight against monsters.

A few days ago, he sacrificed his magic organ to Earth and lost most of his power, but looking at the current situation, it seems that he has not completely lost his magic power.

They would have to take him to their country and ask for help, and they would have to do their best to prevent their country from collapsing. Since they are foreign intelligence agents who only hire people with exceptional loyalty to the country, they cannot tolerate their country being attacked and people dying.

However, it was impossible to take Elm Northmund with him because he was now unconscious and lying in a hospital room, and he couldn’t even touch him due to his strange energy.

The Republic of Korea is a regional power in name and reality, but it is somewhat inferior to superpowers such as the United States and Russia. Therefore, even if they forcibly take Northmund, the Korean government would have no choice but to deliver a strong protest.

Paradoxically, his rise actually protected the national interests of the Republic of Korea.

As each day passed and the day approached, Lee Deok-jae felt a strange sense of pleasure as he felt the composure disappearing from the faces of the agents from each country.

I hope that it will be too late for that dragon to come to its senses, that there will not be enough time to take it to their country on the day of the Gate outbreak. That’s what Lee Deok-jae prayed in his heart.

“Now that I think about it, the first awakened person came out of China. Congratulations. Was his name Mr. Li Jiyuan?”

However, Deokjae Lee could not continue to leave them in a state of low pressure, so Deokjae Lee changed the subject. Of course, it was a happy topic for some and an even more irritating topic for others.

“Ah. Yes it is! It is the bliss of a nation. haha. The world’s first awakened person came from China.”

A Chinese agent with a smile on his face. The Russian agent smiles bitterly, and the CIA agent called Helen openly turns her head away.

“And you’re a descendant of a dragon! It’s a great blessing. Heaven bless our People’s Republic of China─.”

“Hey. Could you please stop acting so proud when you get caught with such a large population?”

Helen shoots the Chinese agent. At this moment, Deokjae Lee truly felt grateful for her.

The TV was hectic with reports of the first Earthling to awaken to a special ability since Northmund.

In China, they say that heaven blesses the great nation and that they are using Li Jiyuan, the first awakened person, for their party’s propaganda.

The first awakened person was already so famous that the President of China personally prepared a meeting to shake hands and award him a medal.

In addition, as China loves dragons, Lee Deok-jae was quite upset when he saw countless placards covering Beijing covering Beijing, saying that he was a descendant of dragons and that he inherited the ability of dragons.

“What? How dare you insult our China? iced coffee. Come to think of it, there are no awakened people in America yet, right? Only then will we be able to properly protect our country after a few days? It will soon be a thing of the past for the United States to call itself a superpower.”

“Shut up! Anyway, your awakened ones will be completely useless in battle right now.”

“Well… that is a problem that Mr. Northmund will solve later. No matter how much you envy me, it doesn’t change the fact that the first awakened person was our Chinese counterpart, Miss Helen. Hahaha.”

Helen’s eyes flashed with anger. Deokjae Lee’s gaze was so threatening that for a moment he thought she was trying to fire the magic shown by the Red Lizard from her eyes.

He sincerely regretted bringing up the story of China. The topic that was brought up in an attempt to lighten the awkward atmosphere actually inflamed the situation further.

However, he steeled himself, saying there was nothing to envy China. Isn’t Korea where that dragon is now? The person who is awakened and the subject of that awakening is now in Korea.

The gate that is said to be open globally will not avoid Korea. Therefore, his home country, Republic of Korea, had the greatest advantage at the moment.

He felt his heart relax and looked at their nervous battle gently.

*

“I went to a part-time job.”

A boy who entered the house naturally took off his shoes at the entrance, went up to the living room, and put down the huge sack he was carrying on his back.

There was a person on one side of a small, small room about ten square meters wide.

A middle-aged man gets drunk and says something in front of the TV. His skin is dull and his hands are shaking, possibly due to alcohol poisoning.

I was a person who usually watched horse racing, motorboat racing, and bicycle racing on TV, but today, as if the wind was blowing, news was playing on TV.

“No, father, are you drinking again in this situation? Are you really out of your mind?”

“Fuck you. Do you think I should quit drinking, you bastard? What kind of magic is going on in the world? Don’t say anything!”

A middle-aged man whose nose is red and angry. He was now the father of the boy Han Sejun.

“Father. We have to evacuate now. I need to run away to the countryside. But what if I drink like that, do I go crazy?”

“Fuck you. Jjang

His father swore with a red face and fell down with a loud thud. He fell asleep drunk.

ha. Han Sejun sighs, lifts his fallen father’s head and puts a pillow on his head.

The place where he lived with his father was in a small room in Incheon.

Incheon and Seoul are not that far away. That’s why the boy felt horrified that so many lives were lost in a place not far away.

From what I saw on the news, what happened in Seoul will happen again a few days later.

The Prime Minister’s remarks on the news were to not cause confusion or act recklessly and to ask the people to trust and rely on the armed forces in their place.

But the boy didn’t believe it. Of course, even though he was still only a high school student, he understood that this was a statement made to prevent the entire nation from suddenly ebbing away and causing society to become paralyzed.

According to an analysis by an expert on another news channel, it is highly likely that future gates will occur in densely populated areas first.

This is an inference based on information reported by an anonymous informant.

I don’t know who the informant was, but the boy thought the words were quite persuasive.

That is why it was necessary to evacuate. I decided that I should take a car and hide somewhere quiet, in the mountains of Gangwon-do or Chungcheong-do.

So today, I told the convenience store owner where I was working part-time that I was quitting and received payment from my part-time job. The store owner also understood when I told him I was quitting. He too seemed to be thinking about evacuation.

Because he was a kind-hearted store owner, he allowed Han Se-jun to take as much preserved food as he wanted from the convenience store, and he gratefully brought back a sack full of food.

And today, he tried to evacuate by car with his father, but the boy lost energy when he saw his father, who was supposed to be driving, drinking and sprawling out. There is no way he, a mere high school student, would have a license.

What he saw on his way back home was that the streets were crowded with cars on the evacuation route. There were three days to go, roughly two days safely, but he had to start evacuation at least today…

Since the police probably wouldn’t be controlling traffic right now, I thought about forcibly waking them up and leaving, but I decided it wasn’t a good idea, so I put the idea down.

If you get into a car accident while driving drunk, it’s all over.

Han Sejun sighed and sat down on the chair.

‘He is the first person to awaken his abilities…’

Muttering under his breath, he clenched his hands and looked down.

His hand was leaking red energy.

Two days ago, during his part-time job, he saw Red Lizard’s mana trip to the public. He didn’t know why, but he went home from work with an overwhelming feeling in his heart.

Even though he grew up to be a young man, supporting his alcoholic father, did he still have some childhood innocence in his heart?

Why don’t young children often imagine things like that? It’s like a dream where you become a hero who flies in the sky and uses supernatural powers to punish villains.

That night. As he fell asleep, he felt something tickling his entire body.

Then, suddenly, he felt something hot energy penetrating his spine, and he woke up screaming in shock and breathing heavily. Cold sweat was running down my back.

The sensation was something foreign that he had never experienced before. I still feel a strong foreign body sensation inside my spine where something has penetrated it.

The moment I trembled in fear and pain and grabbed the plastic bottle filled with water that was placed by my bed to drink.

Kwasik─

With the sound of something crushing, the boy was splashed with water on his face.

Surprised by the sudden splash of water, he looked down at the plastic bottle and saw that the bottle was completely dented in the middle.

The plastic bottle, unable to withstand the pressure, exploded and turned into a water bomb.

And from his hand, a red energy like a flickering tongue was leaking out.

“Ugh!”

Startled, he fell down on the bed and grabbed the bedsheets. The sheets were torn apart as if tearing soft cheese, and the mattress I was holding in my hands was torn apart, with cotton and springs sticking out from inside.

It was incredible power.

“What the hell is this?”

A feeling of a foreign body digging into the spine. Red energy emanating from the hand. As he knelt down and trembled, he was able to recall something in his mind.

The voice that the boy had seen on TV and hoped for with his trembling heart.

[I gave my origin to this world. Now Earthlings will be able to use mana. As early as tomorrow.]

‘No way… me?’

Yes.

The first awakening was not China’s Li Jiyuan.

It was Han Se-jun, the head of a Korean boy’s household. He opened his eyes to new powers less than half a day after Northmund.

No one knew and it was difficult to prove, but it was true.