episode_0084

84.

My way home started out creaking from the start.

– We apologize. We will be stopping for a moment due to a vehicle problem. For your safety, please remain inside the vehicle.

The train stopped shortly after departure.

I had just left Seoul and was passing through Gyeonggi-do. The forests and mountains were lush and green, but when I saw the black smoke rising from afar, I thought it was a satellite city.

I looked out the window. I saw the monster’s corpse stuck in the wheel.

Technicians who had boarded the plane outside the window were running around with their feet burning to remove foreign objects stuck in the wheels.

This was already the fifth time.

The thing stuck between the wheels was a goblin.

He was trying to derail a car with ectoplasm explosives and ended up in a coma.

Because you seem like an idiot. No, is it fortunate that you’re an idiot?

I had a dry cough.

The place where the problem occurred was car H. Five times in a row. The gazes from the car in front were unpleasant. I turned my gaze out the window to avoid the glares flying in through the glass door.

“Wait, did we get our rifles? How did we get this range?”

“I didn’t put it in the back car. Maybe a ghost came and went.”

Outside technicians were tearing the corpses apart and burying them among themselves.

It’s a goblin.

It was just a chunk of meat that had been crushed by a wheel.

I could barely recognize it because the green skin still remained.

I covered my scratchy nose with my hand. When a goblin’s corpse rots, it gives off a terrible stench. Even with the window closed, the smell still came in, making it extremely painful.

This stench acts as a pheromone to other monsters.

Other monsters gather to eat the goblin’s corpse.

Goblins appear upon seeing the corpse.

It’s a terrible vicious cycle.

We have to move quickly. Unlike me who was anxious, Kang Mi-young half-blinked as if she was tired.

“Haam.”

He yawned as if he was tired. It was only natural since he had been sitting for hours. Moreover, it was a night train. He was starting to feel sleepy.

Still, it seems like he can’t sleep.

Kang Mi-young was holding on by drinking coffee mix.

“By the way, the magic wavelength here is unusually strong. Isn’t that right, sir?”

“Yes, it looks like there’s a nest. I think I’ll have to call someone over. Should I tell the hunter party separately? ”

Kang Mi-young glanced at the hunters wandering around outside the window and shook her head. Her face looked like she was really annoyed.

“We need to deal with the nest, but they are non-awakened. For normal people, it will act like the same magic wavelength as inside the gate. You won’t be able to hold out for long, unless you have specialized equipment or something. I will record this separately, sir. I, always wanted to say thank you. ”

“You said what I wanted to say, Major.”

As she said that, Kang Mi-young picked up a pen and scribbled something in her notebook.

As expected, the work process is truly amazing.

Well, it’s not that I don’t trust the escorts.

Even among freelance hunters, there were many people with good skills.

There are also good points to not being awakened.

The advantage of being a freelance hunter is that you don’t have to pay less.

Thanks to that, I am also in charge of this kind of escort service.

Of course, it can’t last long.

‘Because everyone is dying.’

This is a remnant of the great war.

The great war has already ended a long time ago.

But the scars remain all over South Korea.

A representative example is the large gate hidden in the province, Monster Wave.

That’s why even ordinary trains have safety insurance.

When traveling by train, you will inevitably encounter various monsters.

Monsters have a nature to chase humans, and trains are a tasty delivery food for them.

There are also many strong enemies that cannot be penetrated with guns.

So, if there is no hunter who can use this ability.

That train only has one option.

Die or die.

Or a head-on attack.

This train was probably closer to the latter.

“Hehehe, by the way, the donkey coffin is really awesome. I didn’t know it would break through the facility, kill the traitor, and come to save me. ”

“Are you talking about Bae Eun-young?”

“Yeah. You’ll be big later. Even if Baek Min-ho is like that, I didn’t know Kang Jin-young and Kang Seo-jin would come out so strong. Ha, I’m tired just thinking about it. What should I say to that girl later.”

Kang Mi-young scratched the back of her neck while dragging her tongue. The ‘woman’ there would be President Kang Cheo-kyung in my field of psychology. I completely understand that feeling.

These women are not strange no matter what they do.

“Oh, right. Did you contact Jinyoung─“

Poke.

The words stopped as a sudden, terrifying noise was heard.

“Ear, ear canal.”

Kang Mi-young came to me with a scared voice. She was covered in cold sweat and trembling all over. Her face was pale, as if she had seen a ghost.

The sound was already bad, but the picture was already drawn. Is it because of Kang Mi-young? When I think about what happened with Bae Eun-young, I feel like I’m sorry a hundred times but it’s not enough.

“Yes, Major.”

“Does the original armrest break this easily?”

Kang Mi-young tilted her head. Her voice was shaking. She was holding a broken armrest. That was the cause of the cracking sound.

I squinted my eyes and glared at Kang Mi-young.

This is a place where ordinary people appear.

It is natural that the facilities are worse than those in the upper level.

Well, I… … just came here because I’m short on money lately.

Rather, it means that Kang Mi-young shouldn’t be here.

Common sense tells you that if an elephant steps on a person, they become a human.

I urgently called the flight attendant and earnestly ‘asked’ her to do something about this. I didn’t want any more rumors to spread on the internet.

The flight attendant came running and checked the condition.

“Oh.”

The flight attendant checked the condition of the armrest for a few minutes, then sighed and ran to the front compartment.

Kang Mi-young kept apologizing to me with a very haggard face.

“Ugh, I’m sorry, sir. I’ve been so stressed out lately. I’m, I’m really sorry about what happened. ”

He whined quietly like a wet puppy.

The apology offensive ended when the flight attendant came back and taped the armrest back up. Ugh, I shouldn’t have mentioned Kang Jin-young in front of Kang Mi-young. I said something unnecessary.

The flight attendant said there was no need to pay for the repairs and asked several times if I wanted to go up to a higher class.

Of course, to Kang Mi-young. I was grateful.

If Kang Mi-young goes, I can go too in a more comfortable manner.

Of course, Kang Mi-young is mechanically“okay.”met.

He resisted the temptation and leaned against me.

“Smells good. Ugh.”

I was wondering what to do with this monstrous woman until the train arrived at the next station.

The problem started at the next station.

Because the military police showed up.

***

It was dawn when I woke up again.

I had arrived at a provincial city. Moonlight was streaming into the train station, and I could see people getting off the train and getting back on through the window. Oh, I wondered how long I had slept. I raised my arms high to try to relax my heavy body.

At that moment, soldiers wearing MP (Military Police) armbands and military caps were walking briskly from the front compartment.

At first glance, they looked like a platoon. Some of them were wearing berets. They stared straight at the H vehicle and then entered.

“Loyalty. There will be a brief inspection. Please cooperate. ”

“Oh, yes. What’s going on?”

I took a sip of coffee, trying to wake up from my half-asleep state. Soon, I assumed a cooperative attitude. It was common for vacationing Awakened people to be discovered by the military police and taken away. I didn’t want to get caught for no reason.

“What.”

The 2030 female military police officers glanced around and showed a look of surprise.

Of course, even that returned to its original state after only a few seconds. It seems like it’s flying. Ha, this damn popularity.

A military policeman wearing a beret came out in front of me. He was a middle-aged man in his forties. He looked very tired, but it seemed that there were more deserters than I thought.

“Recently, the number of Awakened deserters has been on the rise. We are currently conducting an emergency search, so please understand. Could you please submit some documents or items that can prove your identity?”

“I’ll get it to you right away. Can I put my hand in the bag?”

The middle-aged man called the military policeman behind him.

“Hey, check it out. If you see anything strange, shoot me. ”

“Yes!”

I shrugged my shoulders when I saw the troopers standing guard. This kind of surveillance is the same in the military and here.

The ever-rising WWE.

By the way, I get goosebumps for no reason.

These days, everyone recognizes me, but I really don’t know why.

I rummaged through my backpack and scanned the military police.

Fully armed.

I heard that there have been a lot of deserters recently, so they were stationed at each train station, but I never thought I’d see them like this.

Well, there is no other means of transportation as good for mixing people and escaping far away as a train.

Vehicles are checked at checkpoints located throughout the road.

A group of hunters are flying around the airport.

There is a subway police force.

How about walking?

This is crazy. There are danger zones full of monsters all around.

A faster way to escape is to commit suicide by hanging yourself.

When I was feeling a little anxious, I found the documents.

“Here it is.”

I handed over the documents from my subspace backpack.

This is a vacation document with the Hunter Management Bureau emblem stamped on it.

I also handed over my ID just in case he needed it. And all the other documents.

The military police captain looked at my documents carefully and expressed the word ‘Oh.’ with his facial expression.

“Ah, it’s confirmed. The person next to you should check it too. Could you wake me up?”

Wake me up? Are you determined to kill me?

“Ahem. That’s because it’s handling something very ‘special’. You can tell by looking at its face. ”

“Face?”

I ran my finger under my nose.

That’s… It’s so hard to say. I wonder if it’s just going to come out of my mouth.

I took off Kang Mi-young’s hood.

The new military police responded with faces like, ““Why is this person in such a shabby place?” ”

It was just like a Japanese hidden camera show.

“Cool.”

Kang Mi-young was sleeping cutely in a shrimp sleeping position.

From the lips to the chest, perhaps because he was tired.

The drops of saliva fell in thin threads.

After a while, he turned his head towards my shoulder. He grabbed my arm and wiggled as if he had been waiting.

“Scum.”

He was chewing on my hoodie lightly, like a sleeping otter.

I can’t even imagine that this kind of person would come running at me to kill me.

“Your Majesty······Huh?”

After a while, I blinked my eyes and woke up quietly. I explained the situation to Kang Mi-young.

“Major. This is the Military Police. They say we need to submit the operational documents. Do you have them?”

As I said that, Kang Mi-young’s eyes, which were looking at me, suddenly darkened. After all, Kang Mi-young is the pinnacle of perfection. How could she have left me behind?

“ah.”

Surely you’re not joking about going on a dispatch, ahem.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t let you two go without checking your documents. You’ll have to come with us.”

“ah.”

Kang Mi-young’s face hardened. After a while, she looked up at me and gave me a look that said, “Maybe?”Unfortunately, I do not have Kang Mi-young’s personal information. That would be a crime.

… … I guess I’ll have to go out there.