Resurrection Chapter 131 - I’m Saying Let’s Date

I don’t know why Heesoo hyung developed a split personality, but it didn’t seem like he was born with it. The profession of a Holy Knight was not suitable for hiding a personality he couldn’t even control. As a national hero, most of his actions were public, so if he had another personality, something strange would have been revealed.

It was probably more accurate to assume that it was acquired later, that a second personality formed after a major event shook his ego. If so, the timing must have been when he was trapped in the demon den.

After parting with the White Goddess, he was isolated in the demon den for several years, unable to even die. An ordinary person would have gone mad long ago. In fact, for several months after we rescued Heesoo hyung from there, his body and mind didn’t seem sound. He was no different from a living corpse, so it wouldn’t have been strange if he had created a second personality to protect himself.

To know the exact reason, I needed to know what had happened in the demon den. I decided I should look for Park Sikyung first and tried to call him. Park Sikyung would know who was there. I believed he would tell me who I should meet to ask about it.

However, perhaps because everything was in chaos, Park Sikyung didn’t answer. Judging by the fact that the call wasn’t even going through, he might have been inside a dungeon or somewhere similar.

‘Wherever he is, it’s highly likely he’s with Heesoo hyung.’

I had left Heesoo hyung alive and practically fled the scene where the Grand Temple had collapsed. Since Park Sikyung was left there with Heesoo hyung, he would undoubtedly stick by hyung’s side.

If the two of them were together, I couldn’t go looking for Park Sikyung, no matter how curious I was about what happened in the demon den. Rather than rashly setting out to find him, it seemed I should personally track down the people who were there.

It wasn’t difficult to obtain a list of the people who had participated in the expedition. The names of the last people to escape the demon den were also widely known.

The problem was where they were now. With the collapse of the Grand Temple and all this chaos, it would take time to find each of them. And even if I found them, there was no guarantee I would be able to hear the full story.

In the end, I decided to take a quicker route. I rummaged through my phone contacts, picked a name I wasn’t so happy to see, and made the call.

“Hey, Park Gyu. Let’s meet.”

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The moment Kang Cheoljun’s eyes met the young police officer’s, he saw the officer’s sparkling gaze and felt the urge to run away.

He had been serving the country and its people for quite a while. Starting from the lowest-level 9th grade, he had steadily climbed the ranks to become a 7th-grade civil servant, and now he had come to serve as the interim team leader of Mugunghwa, said to be the best in terms of offensive power in the Special Task Force.

It would be a lie to say he didn’t covet the team leader position, but he wasn’t confident he could handle the role well. Kang Cheoljun knew himself well. His stats were decent, but he lacked the charisma to command and lead others.

It wasn’t as if he was overflowing with sociability either. To be honest, he was introverted and shy around strangers. The situation itself, having to speak to a stranger like this, was unwelcome, but it was even more burdensome because the other person was dying to act like he knew him.

Kang Cheoljun armed himself with a blank expression, gave a slight bow, and opened his mouth.

“Thank you for your hard work. I am Kang Cheoljun, the interim team leader of the Special Task Force’s Mugunghwa.”

The police officer, who returned the salute, made a fuss as soon as the greeting was out.

“It’s an honor to meet the Mugunghwa team leader!”

“Not team leader, interim team leader.”

“You’re much more handsome than you look on screen! The Special Task Force uniform suits you so well!”

Kang Cheoljun almost scowled. He hadn’t given any press briefings or interviews, so where and when could this person have seen him?

He was unaware that he had gained some fame online due to a series of incidents. He had been so busy with the consecutive events that had blown up since meeting Kim Yitae that he hadn’t had the mental space for it.

He bluntly got to the point. He pulled out his phone, projected a hologram, and posed a question.

“I have something to ask you. You’ve seen this person here, right?”

“Oh! Yes. Just a little while ago… about an hour ago? I found him lying down around here. I thought he might have collapsed from an injury, but he was fine. But why are you asking about this person?”

Anyone who needed to know already knew the personal details of Kim Yitae, who possessed Resurrection. However, the media had not publicly exposed his identity. The videos of Kim Yitae that had spread online were also largely deleted for privacy protection reasons, so it was possible for someone to see Kim Yitae and not know who he was.

But the police officer, who at first looked puzzled as if he didn’t understand why the Special Task Force was looking for him, suddenly slapped his palm with his fist and exclaimed.

“Ah! Now that I think about it, I knew I’d seen him somewhere… This person is Kim Yitae, right? The Awakened who’s said to have the resurrection skill!”

Kang Cheoljun sighed inwardly. The fact that even an ordinary citizen like this could recognize Kim Yitae’s face meant that information control had failed. There was nothing to be done, as the scene of him using Resurrection had been broadcast live all over the internet. It was only this subdued because everyone was preoccupied with the monster break alarm. In peaceful times, the entire country would have been in an uproar over Kim Yitae.

Among the Awakened, Kim Yitae’s whereabouts were already a bigger topic than the monster break. Just by sensing the presences nearby, it was easy to tell. Kang Cheoljun, intending to wrap up the conversation, asked hurriedly.

“Do you happen to know where this person went?”

“Well? He made a few phone calls somewhere and then disappeared in a flash, so I don’t know. That was a teleport, right?”

“Probably. Thank you for your cooperation.”

If he made a phone call somewhere, it meant there was someone he had to meet. Since he had voluntarily left Seo Heesoo behind, he wouldn’t be trying to meet him. Right now, Seo Heesoo had disappeared into a dungeon with Park Sikyung, so contacting him was impossible anyway. Then for what purpose and who was he trying to meet?

Kang Cheoljun focused on the fact that he was witnessed in front of the dungeon that had been Ulfheðinn’s holy ground. For the past few days, he had been tracking Kim Yitae, putting even the general mobilization order on the back burner, but he couldn’t find a trace of him. Min Gongchan, who might have known his whereabouts, was also difficult to track down, and then Kim Yitae had suddenly appeared here. He had rushed over within an hour of receiving the intelligence, but Kim Yitae had already left. However, the fact that Kim Yitae had shown up here of all places had a clear implication.

‘There’s definitely some kind of problem with Seo Heesoo.’

The reason Kim Yitae came here was likely to meet Ulfheðinn. Unless Seo Heesoo set up an altar in a separate location, that was the only place a third party who was not an apostle could face a Transcendent.

Since Seo Heesoo was the sole apostle and Kim Yitae himself was the sole apostle of the Golden Emperor, he wouldn’t have met Ulfheðinn to ask to become an apostle. It seemed he had met Ulfheðinn to find out something about Seo Heesoo.

In any case, if Kim Yitae used his phone, a call would come from Okjamhwa soon. In addition, the countless people tracking him would flock in that direction. He had to catch up to Kim Yitae before that, but for now, he had to wait until Okjamhwa finished their trace, and the swarming presences nearby were bothering him.

Kang Cheoljun didn’t give the police officer, who was fumbling with his phone to ask for a photo, a chance to speak. “Thank you for your cooperation. Well then,” he said and immediately turned around. Then, he used a skill to quickly leave the scene.

But he was caught before he could. As he launched himself with Reel In, he saw an arrow flying precisely toward him. After narrowly dodging it and landing on a building rooftop, someone immediately appeared before him.

Kang Cheoljun was inwardly surprised to see his face.

“Gukgung Kim Jewoo.”

The person who stopped Kang Cheoljun was, unexpectedly, Kim Jewoo, the raid leader of the Phoenix raid party, known as Gukgung. He had lost his signature item, the Divine Object Tigran, but since his face was uncovered, he wasn’t hard to recognize.

With his horse-tail hair, thick eyebrows, and fierce features, he had a face that was hard to forget after seeing it just once. He exuded an atmosphere completely opposite to Kang Cheoljun, who had such a common appearance that he was hard to recognize even after seeing him multiple times.

As if deeply displeased by his own name being muttered like a soliloquy by Kang Cheoljun, Kim Jewoo spoke crookedly.

“I’ll make this short. Where is Kim Yitae now?”

Puzzled, Kang Cheoljun threw a question back rather than answering.

“Why are you looking for him?”

“That’s none of your business. Where is Kim Yitae?”

Kang Cheoljun stood up, straightened his posture, and frowned.

“I don’t think this is the time to be looking for Kim Yitae. A general mobilization order has been issued, so you should be going to your assigned district. Why are you here?”

“Last question. Kim Yitae?”

“He’s already left this place. Above all, you can’t get your hands on resurrection just by finding Kim Yitae. Even Yaksha failed to get it and died.”

“The questions are over!”

Kim Jewoo, unable to contain his fiery temper, shouted and shot his bow like lightning. The movement was so fast that Kang Cheoljun couldn’t even see him take the bow from his back and nock an arrow. He rolled to dodge the arrow that flew like a thunderbolt, but realistically, dodging Gukgung’s arrow was an impossible feat.

Kang Cheoljun prepared to defend with a skill and counterattack. But just then, his senses suddenly dimmed and his body felt heavy.

Kang Cheoljun knew he had been hit with a debuff. At first, he thought Kim Jewoo had done it, but that wasn’t it. Kim Jewoo also showed clear signs of being flustered. He too had his abilities nerfed and had stopped his attack. Then, unfamiliar presences swarmed around them. Unseen figures surrounded the area, closing in on Kang Cheoljun and Kim Jewoo.

They must have used an Invisibility Scroll. When the scroll’s magical effect wore off, the identities of the enemies that had surrounded them were revealed.