Resurrection – Chapter 112 – Who Are You?

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Title: At this point, it’s the accepted theory that there’s something up with Kim Yitae

Even though Yaksha was out of his mind, he wasn’t this bad back when he was running the raid party. For what it’s worth, as one of South Korea’s S-rank Awakened, there were lines he wouldn’t cross. But there’s definitely a reason why he lost it after missing Kim Yitae, became a Level 1 publicly wanted criminal, and is now even staging a hostage situation. Seeing as he needs Kim Yitae himself, it probably isn’t an item or a skill book. It’s highly likely to be some ability Kim Yitae possesses.

In my opinion, if it’s an ability that would make Yaksha go this wild, it’s either related to time or related to revival. One of those two.

Lately, rumors have been going around among mercenaries that a regressor has appeared, so maybe Kim Yitae is the one. The fact that Special Task Force Captain Kim Piljoong stepped up to catch Yaksha doesn’t seem unrelated to this matter either.

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⌞ If Kim Yitae is a regressor, then does that mean him becoming an A-rank magic swordsman and rescuing Seo Heesoo from the demon den were all actions taken because he knew the future? Then is it Seo Heesoo who defeats the Black King after all?

⌞ Or maybe he knows he’s screwed if he gets caught by Yaksha, so he’s using Seo Heesoo as a shield.

⌞ That sounds pretty plausible, hmm…

⌞ The major regular guilds are already on high alert about Kim Yitae’s movements. Since Yaksha went as far as to invade the grand temple and is raising such hell, it looks like the large regular guilds will make a move soon too.

⌞ I heard National Archer Kim Je-woo gave up his search for the divine artifact and came out. Maybe it’s related.

⌞ Wow! lololol I never thought the all-rounder jack-of-all-trades Kim Yitae would become such a hot topic. Looks like there really is something about him.

⌞ Breaking news is up. Looks like Kim Piljoong lost again?

⌞ Kim Piljoong???????

⌞ Kim Piljoong?????????????????

⌞ Is it for real that he lost again?

⌞ It’s a news flash so there are no specific details yet, but it seems Kim Piljoong is in critical condition and his life is hanging by a thread. They said even the Saintess rushed to the hospital?

⌞ I knew it when he was showing off with Trishula. If you lose once, you should know your place and back off, but he acted up saying he’d catch Yaksha and now he’s finally kicking the bucket.

⌞ The Captain of South Korea’s Special Task Force was critically injured while fighting to catch a Level 1 publicly wanted criminal, and look at the way you’re talking. It’s because of scum like you that hunters get called a bunch of sociopaths who only care about money.

⌞ Your words are harsh. You do know what you just wrote is a malicious comment, right?

⌞ Scum like you should have been the one to drop dead. Tsk tsk tsk.

⌞ You drop dead.

⌞ Don’t feed the troll, just hit the report button.

⌞ The situation is taking a serious turn. If even the Special Task Force Captain is down, who’s going to catch Yaksha, who’s busy smashing up the grand temple? Is Kim Yitae going to get dragged into this for real?

⌞ As if Kim Yitae would be crazy enough to show up in this situation.

⌞ If Yaksha keeps this shit up, there’s no other way. No matter how much of a money-grubbing all-rounder jack-of-all-trades he is, is he going to pretend he doesn’t know people are dying because of him?

⌞ If there’s really something to Kim Yitae, the Special Task Force will probably stop him from getting involved. And it’s not like Kim Piljoong is the only S-rank Awakened in our country. At the grand temple, there’s Moon Iseon for a start.

⌞ That bastard Moon Iseon is a lost cause. How the hell is a fake Heesoo going to beat Yaksha?

⌞ If Moon Iseon steps up alone, he might end up dead just like Kim Piljoong. If the S-ranks have any sense, they should form an alliance.

⌞ An alliance of the measly four S-ranks has never worked out, not in a million years…

⌞ With Yaksha out and Kim Piljoong out, it’s three.

⌞ Even if they’re S-ranks, can the three of them handle Yaksha?

⌞ Totally possible ㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇㅇ

⌞ Nah, impossible

⌞ I vote impossible too

⌞ They say the explosion at the Yiyicheong Training Center was also related to Yaksha. There’s a high possibility that Yaksha has already become an SS-rank, surpassing the other S-ranks. Then even if the fake Heesoo, Cheongeom, and the Magic King team up, they might not be a match for him…

⌞ That’s scaryㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

⌞ Freaking scary.

⌞ But what happens if they can’t stop Yaksha?

⌞ Well, first, his partner Seo Heesoo will get wrecked, and then Kim Yitae will go to Yaksha.

⌞ I mean what happens if Yaksha gets his hands on Kim Yitae…

⌞ For that, you’d have to know why Yaksha is targeting Kim Yitae. How can we know that when we don’t even know what Kim Yitae has?

⌞ If Kim Yitae is really a regressor, wouldn’t he know what’s going to happen in the future…?

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“No matter how I think about it, this isn’t right.”

Hearing me mutter as I got out of the van, Heesoo hyung and Kang Cheoljun, who were walking ahead, turned back to look at me. I stood holding the half-open van door, frowning as I questioned them.

“Don’t you think so? Yaksha is holding a hostage situation, threatening to kill innocent people to catch me, but it just doesn’t feel right for me alone to escape to a safe place.”

Heesoo hyung and Kang Cheoljun stared at me with troubled expressions, as if they didn’t know how to respond.

After Magic King Imae left, the van drove on its own as if it were on autopilot. The van, which had been driving for hours, stopped in a village that had fallen into ruin.

The landscape of the village, which had been abandoned after being swept through by a monster break, was desolate. Gloomy, dilapidated houses and empty apartments and buildings were entirely covered in bright blue vines. In a place that had once been a sizable farm, torn sheets of vinyl tangled in the frames of greenhouses flapped eerily.

The weather was clear and there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky, but even the bright sunlight couldn’t cover up the gloominess of the abandoned houses where all signs of life had vanished. It was to the point where I wondered what kind of safe house could possibly be in a place like this, but the van had stopped at the entrance of a tunnel under a national road overgrown with weeds.

The tunnel led underground beneath the road and was pitch black. It wasn’t hard to guess that the guide Imae had mentioned was inside.

However, instead of going inside, I stood holding the van door and faced Heesoo hyung. It was because I thought that even if Kang Cheoljun wouldn’t, Heesoo hyung would listen to me.

In fact, among the people here, Heesoo hyung would be the one who wanted to go punish Yaksha more than anyone. The reason Yaksha was staging a hostage situation at the Grand Temple of the White Goddess of all places probably wasn’t just because of me. It was undoubtedly a ploy to provoke Heesoo hyung, and Heesoo hyung had replied that he thought so too.

Believing Heesoo hyung would think the same way I did, I stared at him intently. But the one who answered my words was not Heesoo hyung, but Kang Cheoljun.

“There’s nothing you can do even if you go there. The S-rank Awakened, including Imae, have already gone to deal with Yaksha, so even if your skills are decent, there won’t be a place for you. If you just hang around and get caught by Yaksha, you’ll only make the situation more difficult, so let’s just continue on our way.”

Thinking rationally, Kang Cheoljun was right, but Yaksha was not the Yaksha of the past. If the old Yaksha had barely managed to defeat Kim Piljoong, the current Yaksha had not only broken through the trap Kim Piljoong had deliberately set but had also beaten him to a pulp.

He had inhabited the body of the Dragon Slayer, Shin Rion, and his abilities as a necromancer had grown even stronger, so he could not be called an ordinary S-rank. It was correct to evaluate him as an SS-rank, a grade that did not yet exist.

It was doubtful whether they could restrain Yaksha even with three S-ranks going. This was because it was the accepted theory that when you put S-rank Awakened together, even things that should work out, don’t.

In reality, the S-rank Awakened did not get along. While they were all outstanding ability users representing South Korea, the competition and checks against each other were fierce.

The Hunter Rankings, which lined up the Awakened, were largely to blame for this. The rankings were updated almost daily, judging who was better, which couldn’t help but be a difficult situation for the Awakened.

Of course, there were advantages to becoming a ranker, such as attracting sponsors or support. But the disadvantages were just as great, because a massive gambling scene, which could hardly be called secret, unfolded every day over the rankings.

From middle and high school students to the chairmen of large corporations, more than a few people ruined their lives gambling on the rankings. As organized crime was also openly involved in this, hunters in the mid-tier ranks were often subjected to unexpected threats or would disappear without a trace.

Naturally, the top-tier rankers, the S-rank Awakened, couldn’t help but be affected by these matters. Cheongeom Ryu Jinjoo, in particular, was as sensitive as the point of a needle, because in the past, when her rank had dropped, someone had blamed her and thrown themselves into the Geum River.

It was the same when Heesoo hyung was branded as fallen and trapped in the demon den, or when Kim Piljoong was defeated by Yaksha. Countless people lost their fortunes in the gambling scene through foolish choices and then poured their resentment and curses on the innocent hunters.

To protect their own rankings as much as possible, the S-rank Awakened avoided each other. They had never worked together even when a monster break occurred, so it didn’t seem likely they would suddenly cooperate just because they gathered to face Yaksha.

It didn’t seem like a situation where I could comfortably take shelter, believing they could defeat Yaksha. If they couldn’t defeat Yaksha, I would have to go, one way or another.

“It’s better for us to go than to just watch the needless sacrifices. My skills aren’t much, but Heesoo hyung is Lv.61, so he’s practically the same as an S-rank, right? Four S-ranks would be better than three.”

At my words, Kang Cheoljun furrowed his brow. He was trying to move me to a safe place because of the orders he received from Kim Piljoong, but his personal judgment seemed to be different.