Original Chapters (Manhwa): 34~37
8: the vengeful beau
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A few hours ago...
Yoo Junghyuk observed his hand.
At the time when monsters crawled in the tunnel, starting to overwhelm both Ahn Eun-Byeol and Kim Dokja, something sharp poked his brain. It appeared so fast and disappeared just as quickly. Just as he was about to make his decision, something in the air shifted. A bloodlust so thick that breathing became difficult.
It alarmed Junghyuk, to the point that he drew his sword and prepared for battle. However, instead of aiming towards them, the bloodlust seemed to target the endless spawning of Ground Rats. One by one, the monsters fell like puppets cut off the strings. The death of each Ground Rat only had an interval of a fourth of a second. For every second that passed, four Ground Rats were killed.
This rate of killing stunned Junghyuk who could barely believe his eyes. By the time the duration of the scenario ended, the tunnel was almost filled to the brim by Ground Rat corpses. Lee Gilyoung, who managed to get out of his loosened hold, ran towards the corpses.
"Dokja! Byeol-hyung!" The child kept calling out, eyes brimming with unshed tears.
Junghyuk watched on silently, not until some corpses began moving. Coming out from underneath was none other than Ahn Eun-Byeol who carried Kim Dokja in his arms. What stunned Junghyuk the most was that most of Ahn Eun-Byeol's flesh was torn off. His bones began peeking out through the wounds, most of them looked so horrible as if a pack of wolves ate him for dinner.
His clothes barely hung onto his body at this point. With each step he took, a puddle of blood formed beneath his feet.
The protagonist couldn't help but shudder from the uncanny familiarity he could feel at this scene. It was like he had seen something similar like this before.
"Byeol-hyung!"
Lee Gilyoung felt his heart almost jump out of his chest when he saw his hyung's state. Even if he wanted to hug him, Gilyoung couldn't because of the degree of severity of his hyung's injuries. If it was any other normal person, they might be already dead at this point in time and yet, Ahn Eun-Byeol still had the strength to smile and reassure the child.
"Gilyoung-ah, why do you have that look on your face?~ Your hyung is alright. Why don't we get Dokja-shi somewhere comfortable first?"
Gilyoung sniffed and instead of holding onto Eun-Byeol, he held onto Dokja's hand. The child was afraid of hurting Eun-Byeol any further.
Ahn Eun-Byeol was just about to walk ahead when he recalled what Dokja said earlier. The beau stopped and turned his head, catching Junghyuk's hazy gaze. A smile like no other, one even brighter than the sun, formed on Eun-Byeol's lips.
At first, he just didn't like Yoo Junghyuk because Eun-Byeol could sense that both of them were almost similar in strength. But now? There was a touch of hatred in his heart towards that man.
"Yoo Junghyuk-ah, don't let me see you again. You don't know how much I hate you right now~"
[The constellation Secretive Plotter is speechless.]
Yoo Junghyuk furrowed his eyebrows. "It's not like I want to see your face either."
"Good!" Ahn Eun-Byeol laughed. "Because thinking about just seeing you in the future makes me nauseous."
[The constellation Secretive Plotter is even more speechless.]
[The constellation Spiders Are The Best wants you to whack him in the face.]
[The constellation Lord Of The Watery Abyss is excited for the future murder.]
[The constellation Love Me Till Death supports your wishes.]
[The constellations have gifted you 3 000 coins.]
After that, Eun-Byeol and Gilyoung headed to the platform. With what they could find, they let Dokja rest while Eun-Byeol stood at the edge of the platform, eyeing the hills of Ground Rat corpses littered on the train tracks.
"B, Byeol-hyung, are you... going to be alright?"
"No worries, Gilyoung-ah. Your hyung will definitely be alright. Just, let me sleep for... a while..."
Ahn Eun-Byeol who had just been smiling a second ago fell backwards. Gilyoung ran up to catch him, only to be pushed away when water appeared and rapidly encased Eun-Byeol inside. The child stared with wide eyes, stunned by what he just witnessed.
"Hyung..." Soon enough, the rest of their group arrived in a panic.
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At present, Kim Dokja was trying to persuade his sunbae to not commit mass murder. They definitely need the numbers on their side for the next scenario, alright?!
Of course, Ahn Eun-Byeol might look like he was joking but he was definitely serious about mass murdering those insignificant people. No one would miss them and no one would feel sad about their departure from the living world. In fact, some people might celebrate and sing celebration songs that those scums died at last.
With Dokja stopping him, however, Eun-Byeol had to scratch that idea from his mind.
"Alright, if Dokja-shi says so~"
[Ahn Eun-Byeol is waiting for your praise.]
Kim Dokja: "..."
Kim Dokja: "Eun-Byeol sunbae is very good!"
[Ahn Eun-Byeol is pleased and is willing to listen obediently this time.]
Dokja didn't know how to react. His sunbae's mind really was hard to understand!
In the end, since this operation was centered around Hyunsung for his attribute to blossom, Dokja decided to let Eun-Byeol sunbae rest. After Gilyoung told him about what happened when Dokja ate the Spectre's crystal, he couldn't help but feel bad. He went back to help his sunbae but ended up failing. His sunbae even went back to help him instead.
So, now, Eun-Byeol sat at the bench in the station, surrounded by corpses, and thinking what he should do while waiting for them. For a while, he remained silent before a thought came to mind. "I should borrow some clothes. I'm sure someone would be willing to lend them to me."
[The constellation Spiders Are The Best cackles and agrees with you.]
[The constellation Lord Of The Watery Abyss prefers you naked.]
[The constellation Love Me Till Death glares at the constellation, Lord Of The Watery Abyss.]
[The constellation Secretive Plotter urges you to find clothes.]
Eun-Byeol walked around, wondering if he could find someone who looked like they owned decent spare clothes. In the end, he found a group of people huddled together, obviously traumatized by what just happened. One of them was Choi Sooyun's brother, who noticed his arrival.
Choi Sooho trembled and almost threw up when the memory of his sister's death resurfaced in his mind. He knew his sister's personality. He tried changing that damned girl to the best of his abilities. But Sooyun was too stupid, too stubborn, and too self-centered. Sooho had given up on her when she became a college student and still continued her damnable ways.
At that time, he cut off relations with her. Sooho wanted nothing to do with his sister who only knew how to harm others and bring him trouble. But a few weeks ago, their parents told them that they were coming back to Seoul so Sooho reluctantly called his sister and asked her to come back for a while.
Who would have thought that this whole thing would happen before the whole family could meet up?
And who would have thought that the very person his sister tormented in her youth would show up, and return everything back by a thousand-fold?
Even if he did hate her, Sooyun was still his sister no matter what.
Seeing her get tortured to death left a shadow in his mind. He couldn't even let her have a proper funeral. Not because of this whole situation but because there was no body left to cremate.
All that was left was a pool of blood.
"A, Ahn Eun-Byeol, do you need, need something?" Choi Sooho asked when the beau approached their group. Everyone grew tense and hostile upon his arrival.
Eun-Byeol quirked an eyebrow before smiling as if he was just greeting a friend. "You see, I'm kind of in a pinch. Do any of you have spare clothes?"
"You walked up to us to ask for fucking clothes—" Choi Sooho quickly slapped a hand over whoever this idiot was and stammered, "I, I have some."
Choi Sooho's actions stunned everyone. The person who just arrived was obviously just a pretty face. In fact, there were a few people eyeing the beau from head to toe but Sooho's obvious fear towards the man stopped them from doing anything.
After Eun-Byeol got what he needed, he left without a word of thanks. Choi Sooho sighed in relief once that disaster left.
He could still live another day.
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[All the Green Zones in the station have been destroyed. The main scenario system has been overloaded.]
Ahn Eun-Byeol glanced at the status window. "Oh, Dokja-shi and the others must have already finished executing their plan. I better hurry up then." Now wearing a skin-tight black shirt and loose training pants. He changed his shoes from a pair of dress shoes to a pair of simple black running shoes he snatched from a corpse. It was the only clean pair so~
[The constellation Spiders Are The Best slams the table in excitement.]
[The constellation Lord Of The Watery Abyss is shy looking at you.]
[The constellation Secretive Plotter covers his face.]
[The constellation Love Me Till Death waves her hand in encouragement.]
[The constellations have gifted you 1 500 coins.]
Eun-Byeol laughed seeing how adorable these constellations were. Well, not Secretive Plotter. That guy seemed suspicious right from the start.
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[The difficulty of the current scenario will be adjusted according to the remaining scenario duration.]
[The current scenario has been renewed!]
[MAIN SCENARIO #3 - Emergency Defense]
Category: Main
Difficulty: B-
Clear Conditions: All Green Zones in the station have been destroyed, spawning the remaining monsters all at once. Survive the onslaught of monsters for the remaining duration.
Duration: 8 hours
Reward: 1 000 coins
Penalty for Failure: Death
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The Ground Rats' shrieks filled the entire station. It even made the ground shake as several of them spawned at the same time. As soon as Eun-Byeol reached the top of the stairs, a monster pounced in his direction. Invisible to the naked eye, thin water threads had formed crisscross patterns in front of Eun-Byeol. The Ground Rat jumped right into it and was sliced up to many tiny pieces.
The beau casually walked amidst the chaos, causing him to stand out in many channels.
The dokkaebi in charge of him, the channel #SA-1134, was currently drowning in joy.
No monster managed to get near Eun-Byeol, making him the only clean person in the station. Anyone who saw this wanted to run to his side but when one of them managed to, she ended up like the Ground Rats' corpses. This made anyone who wanted to take advantage of Eun-Byeol strength to freeze at the sight.
Dokja was just about to incite everyone to plead Gong Pildu for help, he caught sight of Eun-Byeol sunbae. He frantically waved his arms and his sunbae quickly ran to their side, using a water bridge he created to bypass the crater in the staircase. It quickly dissolved so that no one else could use it.
As soon as Eun-Byeol arrived, Gilyoung ran up to him and the beau instinctively bent down to carry the child in his arms.
Once Dokja handled the situation, they finally had room to breathe.
Huiwon ended up sleeping on the floor, Sangah and Jihye watched with Dokja, and Hyunsung left to gather rations while Eun-Byeol lulled Gilyoung to sleep.
The beau was reminded of the times he would put his sister to sleep whenever she made a fuss in the middle of the night. He always ends up letting her sleep with him. When she was no longer a toddler, he had to bring her bed in his room because she refused to sleep on her own.
I wonder how Binna is doing.
Ahn Eun-Byeol terribly missed his rambunctious sister.
At the same time, he was also watching Kim Dokja.
Kim Dokja.
In fact, he had long noticed Dokja in the company. He always had his head down whenever he walked, his body language showed distance from other people, and he always read that same novel every day. Dokja's workspace was right across Eun-Byeol's office so whenever the beau stared off into space, Kim Dokja would always be present in front of him, working silently.
So, seeing him with his head held high, appearing confident in his own decisions, Eun-Byeol couldn't help but find Dokja's change to be quite amusing. The contrast of the former Dokja to the present Dokja was so far apart that he seemed like a different person all of a sudden.
I wonder what else does Dokja-shi have up in his sleeves.
"— have to be someplace else for a while."
"Where are you going, Dokja-shi?"
Kim Dokja paused and suddenly felt nervous. Sunbae already had Junghyuk in his hit list. If Dokja told him that he would save that bastard, what would his reaction be? "Um, I'm saving a certain bastard from heading to his own demise?"
"..." Eun-Byeol sunbae displayed a flawless smile. "Then let that bastard die."
... what else could I have expected?! Dokja thought at his own ridiculousness. "Sunbae, don't worry. I'm saving him just because he'll be a good ally."
"Am I not good enough?~" Eun-Byeol sunbae appeared teary-eyed, sending metaphorical arrows right into everyone's heart. Even Jihye, who was about to scold Eun-Byeol, couldn't help but swallow back her words.
Dokja wanted to cry. "Sunbae—"
"Just kidding~" Eun-Byeol laughed at the reader's complicated expression. "I just want to say that I'll be going with you. I want to rub it in that bastard's face of how weak he is that he needs to be saved~"
Dokja and Company plus Jihye: "..."
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Ahn Binna was currently facing off a bunch of hooded humans. The one in the lead, who had stopped her earlier, stepped forward. Binna watched that human with cold eyes, not liking how they interrupted her itinerary.
"Are you Ahn Binna?"
The girl's expression turned even colder. "If you already know, why even ask? Anyway, can you please get out of my way? I still have to find someone and you're wasting my time." Binna was not amused. Earlier, she couldn't sense her brother and that made her panic. In the end, her group told Binna that it was alright to take a detour.
Binna cried and thanked them profusely. But now, some group of hooded humans blocked her path.
"I'm the First Apostle. Ahn Binna, I know the future. Why don't we be allies?"
Binna, annoyed that her time was getting wasted: "Get lost, you human with an eighth grade syndrome."
The First Apostle, Han Sooyoung: "..."
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belle binna takes after beau byeol a lot 😌
[Character Profile]
Name: Ahn Eun-Byeol
Age: 29
Supporting Constellation: None (Four constellations are interested in this individual.)
Personal Attribute: Beau (Rare), Actor (Rare)
Personal Skills:
[Attraction Lv. 6]
[Seduction Lv. 6]
[Mental Manipulation Lv. 8]
[Weapons Proficiency Lv. 4]
[Close Combat Lv. 3]
[Acting Lv. 8]
[Regeneration Lv. 1]
- a skill derived from the Stigma, Only Ruler of Vanduo.
- it encases the user inside a water sphere and heals all injuries sustained.
- time duration: 3hrs
- it only heals physical injuries, not restore stamina nor reduce fatigue.
Stigma:
[Only Ruler of Vanduo Lv. 2]
Overall Stats:
[Stamina Lv. 20]
[Strength Lv. 15]
[Agility Lv. 18]
[Mana Lv. 40]
General Evaluation:
A man who once was dubbed as the child of madmen and devils. Be careful, you never know when he might kill you for simply existing.
[Coins Possessed
8 400]
Yes, I'm giving bb byeol's toji's outfit because why not—