Chapter 40
Part 39
Watching the three of them laugh...
Yugeon remembered their appearances from his previous life.
They had looked so miserable that death might have been kinder.
Now...
They were smiling brightly.
And now I understand why destroying the Emperor Guild delayed the world's destruction.
Yugeon's eyes cooled as he stared at his phone.
After accessing the Emperor Guild's main data server...
He had learned what they had been doing.
One thing in particular infuriated him.
They were trading with Genocide.
The Emperor Guild had been selling people to Genocide.
Not ordinary people.
Awakeners.
They were not harvesting organs or anything like that.
They were selling the Awakeners themselves.
There were even Otherworlders among them.
That was extremely dangerous.
If the Otherworlder races learned about this...
The inside of the Tower could become a bloodbath.
Our relationship with the other races isn't exactly good even now.
Humanity had not established anything that could truly be called diplomacy with them.
If they learned that humans had been kidnapping Otherworlders...
Humanity could immediately be branded an enemy race.
But those records probably refer to corpses, right?
As mentioned before...
Traveling between racial dimensions was currently impossible.
Even if humans kidnapped an Otherworlder inside the Tower and exited...
The humans would return to Earth.
The Otherworlder would return to their own world.
Good thing I removed those records before releasing the data.
Yugeon nodded as he watched the news.
When he sent data to the media...
He had removed the most dangerous information.
Some outlets aren't reporting anything at all.
Those were the media companies that had taken money from the Emperor Guild.
Yugeon had deliberately withheld that evidence too.
Those companies were probably sweating right now.
The evidence proving their connection was the only thing missing from the leaked data.
That would make them even more terrified.
He could use that information when the right time came.
There was another important clue.
I don't know what they're for, but there are two suspicious locations.
One was in the Seoul metropolitan area.
The other was near Jejin Station.
Jejin Station...
An abandoned station in Goseong County, Gangwon Province.
There was a building registered under the Emperor Guild's name nearby.
In an absurdly random location.
And a huge amount of money was transferred to the Gangwon building.
But there were no records showing what the money had been used for.
The same amount had also been transferred to the building in the metropolitan area.
Same day.
Same time.
Only those two locations.
Extremely suspicious.
Every important member of the Emperor Guild was dead now.
There were probably no meaningful remnants left.
Still...
Yugeon wanted to learn what those buildings had been used for.
At that moment...
BANG!
A loud noise came from behind him.
Yugeon glanced back.
Mincheol had slammed the table with a furious expression.
“These... fucking parasites...”
Apparently...
Woojin had told him what happened.
Mincheol was furious.
Naturally so.
He had experienced pain similar to Woojin.
A sick family member.
Someone precious suffering every day...
While he could do nothing except watch.
They understand each other.
Hwarin's expression was colder than Yugeon had ever seen.
What kind of monsters did those people have to be...
To do that to children?
“I'll crush every one of those bastards' heads for you, Woojin!”
“Aaaah! Calm down! Yugeon Hyung already killed all of them!”
“Oh. Really?”
Hwarin sighed.
“Hmm... I was thinking about making sure they couldn't even die. That's disappointing.”
Woojin stared at them.
Mincheol and Hwarin both sighed.
If they had known...
They would have gone with Yugeon.
Then...
Ding!
A new message appeared before Yugeon.
I didn't expect this.
[The Outer Realm attempts to contact Han Yugeon.]
[The Outer Realm invites Han Yugeon.]
The Outer Realm.
An unexpected situation.
Yugeon's eyes narrowed.
Why did the Outer Realm want to meet him?
And where exactly was it inviting him?
The Divine Realm?
There was something I'd been wondering about anyway.
The Sanctuary.
And the Outer Realm.
What standard separated the two?
Surely it was not something as simple as...
Good gods belonged to the Sanctuary.
Evil gods belonged to the Outer Realm.
“Everyone eat dinner and get some rest.”
The others looked over.
“Something came up. I need to go somewhere for a bit.”
“Where? I'll come too, Hyung!”
“That's right. What if something happens?”
“I'm not going to the Tower.”
“Then where are you going?”
Yugeon looked at them.
“I'll tell you after I come back.”
WHOOSH!
The moment he accepted the invitation...
Yugeon's body vanished.
Crackle.
Pop.
“Hmm.”
After accepting the invitation and arriving in another space...
Yugeon stared at a fireplace.
Warm heat filled the room.
Outside the window...
Pure white snow drifted down.
A mountain cabin.
There were comfortable chairs.
The hide of some strange creature Yugeon had never seen before hung on one wall.
A cup of steaming tea sat on the table.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
“Did you arrive?”
While Yugeon stood silently looking around...
Someone slowly descended the stairs from the second floor.
“Sit down.”
The woman smiled.
“Do you like cocoa? I made some. Try it.”
Long, straight hair.
Black as the deepest night.
And eyes so deep they seemed to contain the universe itself.
An unknown woman smiled as she lifted a steaming cup.
Her dark appearance contrasted sharply with the snowy white scenery outside.
She's probably a god.
