Resurrection Chapter 130 - He Didn’t Lie

As a result, I won, but I had to kill them all to keep the secret. Only then did I realize that as long as I didn’t discard the resurrection skill, I had no choice but to acquire it.

If it hadn’t been for Heesoo hyung, I would not have acquired Resurrection, even if it meant just throwing the skill book away. It was because of Heesoo hyung, because I thought he could reach the max level, kill the Black King, and fulfill my desires, that I decided to acquire Resurrection.

There, mixed with the desire to be saved through Heesoo hyung, was a complex calculation. I thought that with the phenomenal ability of Resurrection, I might be able to stand side by side with Heesoo hyung. Since he had been abandoned by the White Goddess and was trapped in the demon den, I held the hope that if I rescued him, I could reveal that I had Resurrection and become his partner.

I eventually acquired Resurrection, met the Golden Emperor, and rescued Heesoo hyung from the demon den. And for several months, I cared for him with all my heart as he lay around like a person who had lost his mind.

‘…Thank you for saving me.’

When I finally heard those words of gratitude from him, all sorts of emotions couldn’t help but boil up. I couldn’t reveal them all and just scratched my innocent cheek. Seeing that, Heesoo hyung gave a faint smile. I didn’t know it was a smile back then, but in any case, the atmosphere softened, and I replied, feigning nonchalance.

‘No, I did it for myself, so what’s the big deal.’

‘You said your name was Kim Yitae… Mr. Kim Yitae, right?’

‘Yeah, that’s right. Kim Yitae. That’s my name. But don’t call me Gimitae.’

At the lame joke, Heesoo hyung’s expression hardened again. I felt a pang of regret and laughed awkwardly, ‘Ahaha.’ Heesoo hyung didn’t laugh along. He just spoke seriously and gravely, like someone who would die on the spot if ordered to.

‘Since you saved me, Mr. Kim Yitae, I want to repay your kindness. If there is anything you want from me, please tell me.’

It would be a lie to say I didn’t inwardly rejoice at his words about repaying his kindness. I tried hard to keep my lips from splitting into a grin. The words asking him to be my partner were already about to pop out, but I knew well that it shouldn’t be in the form of receiving a reward for simply saving his life. So, to avoid making a mistake, I opened my mouth, deliberately being cautious.

‘I want you to become the savior of the world, hyung. I’ll make you the max level.’

Whether my words were too grandiose or too absurd, Heesoo hyung’s eyes widened slightly. It seemed to be both, as his gaze quickly turned dull. He showed no interest in my words and was about to close off his heart as if he were looking at a con man. Seeing that, I quickly continued.

‘I didn’t say I’d make you the savior of this world out of baseless confidence. Don’t be surprised. I actually… have a resurrection skill.’

At the words ‘resurrection skill,’ Heesoo hyung’s gaze returned to me. I waited for his reaction, tense. He would know well what a resurrection skill meant. Thinking that some kind of intense reaction would erupt, I quickly continued.

‘That’s right! The skill everyone thought didn’t exist, the skill that can bring the dead back to life. I have that, Resurrection.’

At my confident tone, Heesoo hyung’s eyes filled with doubt.

‘…Is that really true?’

Knowing that this was my chance to persuade Heesoo hyung, I spoke passionately.

‘You don’t think I’d lie about something like this, do you? I have Resurrection, and it will make you max level, hyung. Even if you die and come back to life, your experience points are preserved, and you can be revived any number of times, so you can level up in a short amount of time! Then it’s not some far-fetched story for you to defeat the Black King and save the world, hyung. You can really become the savior, hyung!’

Heesoo hyung looked like he didn’t know what to say. He didn’t seem to disbelieve my words. Rather, it seemed he believed them and didn’t know how to react. There also seemed to be doubt about himself, who was no longer a Holy Warrior.

‘Why me?’

When he asked that, there was no hesitation in my answer.

‘Because it’s you, hyung. Because you, Heesoo hyung, are the person I’ve longed for for a long time.’

Heesoo hyung delayed his answer for a long time even after hearing my confident words. He seemed to think he had neither the right nor the qualification to be a savior, but I took my time and persistently persuaded him.

‘You, hyung, are my chosen savior. You don’t need to doubt that fact, you don’t need to verify it, and you don’t need to prove it. Because I’m going to make you that way. So you just have to trust me and follow me.’

‘I understand. I will not question it any further.’

His hesitation, which had lasted for several months, was by no means short for me. During that time, while trying to persuade him, I myself could not afford any hesitation or reluctance. All my words and actions were focused solely on the goal of making him a savior, and everything else was excluded. That’s why I couldn’t and didn’t want to believe what Min Gongchan said when he appeared and mentioned the end of the world.

Heesoo hyung going crazy over me and destroying the world.

Because it was something that must never happen, I dismissed it as nonsense. The look in Heesoo hyung’s eyes, his heated touch, his concern that bordered on obsession—I thought all of it was just because of the possession. Even when Min Gongchan said it was all a show, I thoroughly ignored it.

But to think that all of that was just… Heesoo hyung.

Ulfheðinn said it was a part of Heesoo hyung that even he himself didn’t know, but I couldn’t understand it. Right now, I just wanted to be angry at the fact that Heesoo hyung had lied to me. He had thoroughly deceived and toyed with me by pretending to be possessed, so it was reasonable to be angry.

But I had no right to be angry.

Because I was also lying to him.

I hadn’t told him the whole truth about Resurrection.

I had just bragged about it as if it were a miraculous ability that didn’t exist in this world…

I couldn’t imagine how hurt he would be when he found out the whole truth. I hoped he would know nothing for as long as possible, until the very, very end. Even if he did find out, I hoped the hurt would be minimal.

But with things turning out this way, I felt that everything I had planned was becoming distorted. In reality, the time and space around me were also distorting and swirling chaotically.

Ulfheðinn had thrown me into the sky, and I had been falling through the darkness before being flung out. I crossed through the cracks of the swirling galaxy like a comet, leaping through time and space without rest.

In the midst of the terrible dizziness of the world changing several times, I couldn’t tell where the fate I had planned for Heesoo hyung was heading. I had to somehow prevent him from becoming a destroyer instead of the world’s savior. No sooner had I thought that than my consciousness pulled a moment from the distant future before me.

I suddenly saw the future unfolding like a curtain.

It was the very point of destruction that Min Gongchan had probably foreseen.

A primordial destruction that covered the sky in blackness.

Heesoo hyung’s form was nowhere to be found, but I knew that the destruction itself was Heesoo hyung. Instead of killing the Black King, he had devoured him and become destruction itself, and was swallowing the world.

At the despairing sight, I screamed and fainted.

Chapter 24. He Asked Me to Date Him

“Hey, excuse me!”

I came to my senses at the touch of someone shaking my shoulder. I opened my eyes with a start and saw a young police officer looking at me quizzically. As I groggily sat up, the officer asked again.

“You’re a hunter, right? Are you injured or poisoned?”

Instead of answering, I looked around. Perhaps thanks to Ulfheðinn sending me flying, I was completely outside the sacred grounds. It seemed I had collapsed at the entrance to the sacred grounds where I had gone to find Ulfheðinn and had been discovered by the police officer.

“Ah, no. I’m fine. I was just resting for a moment.”

I shot up from my spot and stood straight before the officer could say anything more. As I stood, I noticed that the surroundings were extremely noisy.

While police officers controlled the area, military trailers were lined up in a row, and combat engineers were pulling out shielding barriers from them. It was obviously work in preparation for a monster break, so I asked in surprise.

“Is a monster break happening here?”

The police officer shook his head as if to say, ‘You didn’t know that until now?’

“There’s an alert out that an unprecedented monster break is about to happen, and things are in chaos. You should consider yourself extremely lucky to have gotten out of the dungeon before the monster break started.”

“Unprecedented?”

“They’re saying a Big Shock-level monster break is coming, so they’re closing all the dungeons right now. A general summons has been issued for all Awakened across the country. Your phone should be working now, right? You can check the alarm and go to your assigned district.”

I nodded absentmindedly and turned away from the officer. As I walked, I checked my phone, and a series of missed alarms popped up. The officer’s words were all true, and I was originally supposed to respond to the general summons as well, but there was something I needed to find out first.

‘I need to find out why Heesoo hyung broke up with the White Goddess.’

I went all the way to Ulfheðinn’s altar and met him with great difficulty, but what I learned was completely different from what I had expected. He said he had never once possessed him, so if that was true, it meant that the person I had mistaken for Ulfheðinn all this time was entirely Heesoo hyung.

It was hard to think that Heesoo hyung had intentionally acted possessed to deceive me. Didn’t Ulfheðinn also say that it was a part of Heesoo hyung that even he himself didn’t know? There must be a second personality that even Heesoo hyung believes to be Ulfheðinn. Otherwise, there was no way to explain everything that had happened so far.