episode_0789

The World Cup is over.

A festival for people all over the world.

It was a festival for people all over the world, where even those who were not interested in the World Cup would immediately open their ears and shout what they were talking about when they heard the story of ‘Gwangik-gong’s defeat’.

“What is the World Cup?”

However, the children here didn’t even know there was a World Cup.

“Aminai, don’t you know that? The World Cup means the world cup!”

“Isn’t this a literal translation of what Kojaengi said? Does this mean that it is the cup that holds up the world? But why are you talking from a glass instead of a bowl?”

“Ah, ahaha….”

Kwon Ki-woong, a young man standing in front of children who were talking about something outside of common sense, only scratched his eyebrows in embarrassment and was at a loss as to what to say.

“Medal! Please let me know. What is the World Cup?”

“It’s not a medal. I’m a teacher.”

“We learned that it was a medal!”

“You might have to fix that first, but…”

Kwon Ki-woong’s eyes were blank.

The children looking in front of them with eyes full of doubts were no different from the high school students preparing for the college entrance exam in Busan, but their level of ‘common sense’ was much lower than that of first grade elementary school students.

“The World Cup is, well, that’s right. Do you know about the martial arts competition?”

“I learned that! A contest to select outstanding warriors in front of His Majesty the Lord!”

“It is not a competition between one country, but between countries, where warriors from other countries are invited to compete.”

“Oh…! There are countries like the Korean Union elsewhere…!”

The good news is that the children’s intellectual abilities are much better than those of the extracurricular students.

In a way, this is natural.

Although their grades are low, they are highly capable, and they are just ordinary tutors whose talent is limited to teaching others.

“Medal! But is that true? I heard that the winner this time is a Korean from the country of nose-gazers!”

“This guy…! A Korean! Isn’t he the culprit who assassinated His Majesty!”

“What is your Majesty? Hey, you came outside. Are you still going to live as a member of the Joseon Union?”

There is one female student who ruins the learning atmosphere with her sarcastic remarks and is sarcastic to other students.

“Your Majesty is dead, and we are just Earthlings now. Just poor refugees who can’t go to any country.”

“I am a refugee…! …what is that? Is this another word for commoner?”

“……I think you guys need to adapt to the common sense of this world a little quickly.”

The student with a grim expression lamented as he looked at the other students who were tilting their heads with innocent faces.

“Now, now. Ha-eun. Calm down.”

If there was a student like that in the academy’s elite class, he would have immediately contacted his parents, but unfortunately, that student named ‘Ha-eun’ is the one who most represents Kwon Ki-woong’s feelings.

“Now that I think about it, Ha-eun said she met the goblin in person?”

“Hmph….”

“Oh, oh…! Come to think of it, I’ve heard that before! As the district leader, he was swinging a whip at the people in the labor yard, but he was captured and subdued by the goblin and his concubines!”

“No! …Not as is.”

Ha-eun screamed and gritted her teeth, but it was true that she had met a goblin.

“…He was a strong person who could not even be compared to someone like me. It’s natural to win.”

“Oh…! Well, His Majesty the King died without being able to win, so that’s only natural.”

“Then is it natural for a strong person to take the life of his opponent?”

“I heard that’s not true? I heard that the goblin did not take the life of a man named Gwangikgong!”

“…….”

Kwon Ki-woong was at a loss as to where to start teaching again.

There were too many errors in their minds to teach children born underground from a blank slate, and it took time to disassemble complex knowledge and information one by one, like a twisted skein of thread.

“Now, now. I don’t know what it would have been like there, but this is not a world where people with strong abilities carelessly treat weak people.”

okay.

If you have time, you can solve anything.

“If we want to talk about philosophy and justice, we still have a long way to go, so let’s look at ‘right living’ first, right?”

“Ugh, that’s not fun!”

“It’s not fun, but think of it as studying life attitudes for living outside this city. If not…”

Without realizing it, Kwon Ki-woong’s true feelings came out.

“Because you may have to remain trapped in this city for the rest of your life.”

“…….”

In an instant, the atmosphere hardened.

Kwon Ki-woong felt like he missed the words he had uttered without realizing it, but even if he was a talented person, he couldn’t carelessly pick up the words once they were spilled.

“…I’m sorry. That was a mistake.”

“It’s a mistake to tell kids. …at the same time, it is reality.”

Female student Ha-eun continued speaking in a similarly sarcastic, yet somewhat depressed voice.

“For us who lost our country, the only place we can go is here. I have no choice but to beg for alms and live as I am told, regardless of whether it is right or not.”

“Student Ha-eun….”

“If not, what can we do? I have to come up from the underground with nothing, and learn how to live from scratch just because I was born underground.”

“…….”

“In the first place, the starting line itself is different. For a person who has only learned the knowledge of the underground to learn new knowledge of this world…”

Kwa-euang!

A loud vibration rang out.

The sudden explosion caused the students inside the building, which was decorated like a classroom, to quickly wake up.

“What was that just?!”

“Explosion…? It’s not just an explosion! It was a magical explosion!”

“Some kid can’t control his magic again…! decoration! Be careful!”

“Ugh…?!”

Kiwoong Kwon clenched his fists in shame as he watched the children moving so calmly in a chaotic situation.

“You guys, be careful…! This could be terrorism!”

“Terrorism? Fear?”

“No, indiscriminate attack!!”

“Aha!”

Even the English I naturally spoke had to be explained in Korean, but the vibration did not end with just one time.

Kwa-a-ang, kwa-a-ang!!

A loud bang rings out in succession.

“Guys, protect your heads with anything, whether it’s your hands, books, or bags, and go outside!”

“Ah, I understand! Come with a medal!”

Kwon Ki-woong ran outside with the children.

The outside was already full of people running out in confusion, and Kwon Ki-woong quickly grasped the situation through Taegeuk Watch.

“There is no villain alert?!”

“Now, wait a minute. Hey, this thing called ‘sky’…?!”

The children pointed up.

” That’s ridiculous. The sky…why…?”

The once blue sky, which had never been seen underground, had suddenly turned black.

“What, what…? It’s still afternoon…?”

It’s not even night.

It was a darkness too foreign to be called night, just the usual darkness without any starlight.

Darkness itself.

Above the sky that covered everything in darkness, there was only one thing shining in gold.

“That….”

“Moon? No, it’s too much to say it’s the moon…”

Unprecedented.

A situation where everyone is in confusion.

“Now, now, everyone!! calm down! We are the Hero Association’s-”

Fuuuk.

“Uh…?”

Underneath the Hero Association agent’s uniform, something sharp flashed toward the lower body.

“Uh, wow…?!”

Something falling with a thud.

The agent fell to his knees with red blood flowing from his mouth, and his hair began to turn white in an instant.

“Kyaaa!!”

Screams rang out at the same time.

But the scream was not a scream of fear, but a pain-filled astonishment.

“Mi, Minji?!”

Kwon Ki-woong was shocked to see the person who screamed.

She was the one who brought him here and the one who suggested volunteering as an E-class agent for the Hero Association.

Blood is leaking out of her abdomen.

His black hair turns pure white, his eyes become unfocused and he falls forward.

“What…”

“Know that all those with special abilities who resist will be ‘Zen Loss’.”

The beings who appeared one by one, killing off the Hero Association’s agents, were strange people wearing long black weapons that were difficult to see even in the dark.

“Ha, Hahoe mask…?”

“We are Hwalbindang. Those who create a new world for the poor and discriminated against.”

“What…!”

“From now on, this city.”

A person wearing a Hahoe mask pointed to a brightly shining golden sphere in the black sky.

“It will become a sacred place for new humanity.”

* * *

“…You’re doing something more outrageous than I thought.”

Night has come.

It’s awkward to call it night, but it has definitely become night.

“Teacher, there’s something wrong with this…!”

“It’s strange. The very act of using this ability on such a large scale is bizarre.”

While I was thinking about how to capture Hwalbindang, it seemed like the enemy made the first move.

“Was this done by the Hwalbindang?”

“It may or may not be the Hwalbindang, but it seems like it is the Hwalbindang now.”

Behavior that is befitting of the ‘guy’s’ resentment.

“Ymir. Just in case, I’m asking, is it possible to open a portal to the death-defense hideout?”

“That’s it…. Huh?”

Ymir drew his hand into the air, but there was no response.

“Huh? uh? Uh oh?”

Uncharacteristically Ymir, he is extremely embarrassed.

The portal, which normally opens very easily, does not respond at all.

“Ymir. So what about my room on Sejong Island?”

“…is it open?

Sejong Island is open.

“Sejong Island is open. Opening the portal itself is normal. Even contact…”

Beep beep.

“It’s a mess.”

“Who did you do that to?”

“CEO.”

I make an international call using my watch, but the call doesn’t even ring.

“Tch.”

There is only one answer to this phenomenon.

“Is it a barrier?”

veil of darkness.

“He says he can’t be seen in the dark, so he traps everyone in the invisible darkness.”

Now, this is a technology that can be said to be Amgil-dong’s ‘ultimate skill.’

“You can come in as you wish, but you cannot leave.”

Amgil-dong spread a deep, dark curtain of darkness over the entire Korean Peninsula.