Resurrection Chapter 47 - I Do Not Remember

‘Your Majesty, is Min Gongchan really an ordinary person?’

—The Golden Emperor replies that it is surprising, but yes.

The message, different from what I had expected, surprised me greatly. Seeing my expression, Min Gongchan lifted his chin as if to say, “See?”

I recalled the various things he had done and was dumbfounded. To think he had been causing all that trouble without even being an awakened one. Does he wear his liver on the outside for display?

Heesoo hyung also spoke, sounding surprised.

“I thought something was strange. No matter that His Majesty Ulfheðinn had descended, you were driven to the brink of death, yet there were no signs of resistance.”

Min Gongchan grumbled.

“I have to have the leeway to use my items to do anything…”

I recalled the fact that Min Gongchan had been completely helpless against Ulfheðinn earlier. As Heesoo hyung said, if he had been an awakened one, he would not have just taken it.

An awakened one could use supernatural powers even with their bare body, and their physical level was far superior to that of an ordinary person. In an extreme life-or-death situation, they could even request a divine possession, so they would not have just been on the verge of having their neck broken.

“No, if you are not even an awakened one, how did you regress?”

Min Gongchan received my question as if it were absurd.

“Is it easy for an awakened one to regress?”

“To be able to turn back time, shouldn’t you at least be an awakened one?”

“Sorry, but no. I did not have a regression skill. I had an item.”

“Your regression was also thanks to an item?”

“So to speak, yes. I do not know the details either, because I got it by chance, just like your resurrection skill. Anyway, just as I was able to use the items from the Otherworld Store, that item sent me back to the past.”

Heesoo hyung nodded his head.

“Looking at the items Min Gongchan has, most of them are summoning items. Many types of summoning items do not consume the caster’s MP, so an ordinary person would be able to use them.”

Usually, the items that awakened ones carry around consume HP or MP with each use, so there is not much difference from using a skill. Their significance lies in allowing one to use an ability they do not possess.

However, truly good items had no restrictions on their use, and the most useful among them were summoning items. One could summon something sealed within the item through a simple method and have it fight for them.

These types of items could be used by ordinary people. The problem was that such items were so expensive that an ordinary person could not even dream of them… Of course, they were expensive enough to make even hunters’ eyes pop out.

It would be a relief if you could even get them with money. In most cases, they were so rare that you could only get a glimpse of them by going to the Otherworld Store.

But in Min Gongchan’s case, since he was a regressor and knew the time and place where the Otherworld Store opened, it seemed he had bought and collected all the items an ordinary person could use from there.

No matter how much prior information he had, the Otherworld Store itself appeared deep inside a dungeon, so it was a mystery how he got there with an ordinary person’s body and how he paid for the items.

In any case, as long as the Golden Emperor guaranteed it, he was definitely an ordinary person.

“You can rest assured because I cannot do anything without my items. What can I do with the weak body of an ordinary person?”

The suspicion still remained, but it felt even more wrong to kill him since he was an ordinary person. Min Gongchan took the opportunity while I was hesitating and said.

“I am not asking you to believe me. Just spare me. If you do not abandon me here and take me with you for a week, in return, I will teach you a way to raise Seo Heesoo to level 60.”

It was a deal with no downside for us. If Min Gongchan were a skilled person, it would be unsettling, but as long as he is an ordinary person, he is zero risk without his items. Even if there was a slight risk, it was worth taking.

If I could get Heesoo hyung to level 60, equivalent to an S-rank, in just a week, it would make many things that would happen in the future easier. Above all, I could reassure Heesoo hyung and boost his confidence.

Even after becoming Ulfheðinn’s First Apostle, he was so worried that he thought he would not be able to protect me as he was. It seemed he felt the pressure to become an S-rank first, even if it meant dying and being revived multiple times.

If Min Gongchan’s help was added, I would not have to see Heesoo hyung die several times. And Heesoo hyung would reach level 60 and be relieved of his anxiety and impatience.

Since it was something worth choosing even with a slight risk, I looked at Heesoo hyung intently. Heesoo hyung nodded at my gaze and said.

“Alright. Let’s go together.”

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“Honey, be careful!”

I gritted my teeth and plunged my Demonic Sword deep into the bulging, glistening belly in front of me. When I applied magic and lifted the Demonic Sword upside down, the so-called giant frog, the Whale Frog, flew into the air.

“Kweeeek!”

As its intestines spilled out from its split-open belly, I quickly dodged them. As soon as I did that, I sliced through the tongue flying towards my back and shot magic at the next one’s forehead.

“Fire Ball!”

Whoooosh!

The fireball, burning through the fog, hit the Whale Frog’s forehead. As the one with its eyes burnt out roared, I kicked off the ground again and stabbed its belly. After a good rummaging inside its belly with the tip of my sword, the Whale Frog stuck out its remaining tongue and turned its white belly up.

Seeing that sight, Min Gongchan gave a compliment that was not a compliment.

“My honey, nice shot!”

Forgetting that I was in the middle of a battle, I got angry at Min Gongchan.

“Who is your honey? Please just shut up!”

Min Gongchan narrowed his eyes and smirked.

“Were we not dating? If we are lovers, you are my honey.”

“Hey, you son of a bitch who deserves to be drawn and quartered! I have never dated you and never will, so shut your mouth before I stuff this frog’s intestines in it!”

I spewed a bowlful of curses and slaughtered the swarming Whale Frogs. Heesoo hyung also calmly and methodically butchered the Whale Frogs.

By the time the Whale Frogs that were popping out of the fog had disappeared, a mountain of monster corpses had piled up around us. I let out a “Phew,” straightened my back, and said as I shook off the residue on my Demonic Sword.

“Cleaning up the byproducts is going to be a chore.”

Before, I could not carry them out, so I did not pay attention to other byproducts besides the magic stones. Even among the magic stones, I only picked out the large and high-quality ones to take with me.

But now that I had the Dimension Pocket, I could hoard every byproduct that came out. Of course, that did not mean I could put the entire large carcass in, so it was necessary to cut out only the needed parts to some extent.

Heesoo hyung took out a large jackknife from his bag without a word. I also drew a hunting knife from my belt and approached the frog carcass.

I cut open the belly, removed the entrails, pulled out the magic stone, and detached the heart that was stuck to the magic stone. I also cut out the poison sac separately and put it in a waterproof sheet, and cut off the webs of the front and back feet.

This was all money, but to be honest, it was incredibly annoying. If it were not for going to the Otherworld Store, I would not be collecting byproducts so diligently. As Min Gongchan said, to buy items at the Otherworld Store, it was necessary to secure funds.

While I was organizing the byproducts, grumbling without realizing it, Min Gongchan was lazing around, humming a children’s song.

“Croak, croak, frog~ sings a song~ Son, grandson, daughter-in-law~ all gather~”

I could not stand it anymore, so I straightened up abruptly and glared at him. Min Gongchan saw me with daggers in my eyes and grinned.

“That is why I am saying I will help too if you untie this. What am I supposed to do when you have tied me up so I cannot do anything and then glare at me for slacking off?”

No matter that Min Gongchan was an ordinary person and that I had confiscated all his items, I could not let my guard down. I had no choice but to untie his feet so he could walk on his own, but his hands were still tied.

I had done that to prevent him from doing anything stupid, but it was extremely annoying to have the idle guy chattering nonstop. He kept calling me “honey” and teasing me, which made my blood boil to the top of my head.

Just then, Heesoo hyung, who had been mindlessly cutting, spoke up.

“Why don’t you untie him?”

I turned to Heesoo hyung and knitted my brows.

“What if that bastard does something stupid?”

“Even if he does, there is a limit to what he can do with an ordinary person’s body. If he does something in a deep place like this in a dungeon and gets abandoned by us, it will be hard for him to survive. It would be better to untie him and have him help with the chores, which would reduce our work.”

Heesoo hyung was right. I could not think of a single hand tied up as a great safety measure, and since we were inside the dungeon, it was impossible for the guy to run away or pull any other tricks.

I grumbled and untied Min Gongchan’s hands. Min Gongchan said, “Thanks,” and smiled brightly. I threw a hunting knife at him as he rubbed his wrists and said.

“If you have lived multiple lives, you should be able to handle trimming monster byproducts well enough.”

“Leave it to me. I will show you the knife skills of someone who has lived multiple lives.”

Min Gongchan made a promise and started to clean up the byproducts. I also worked diligently, and after about 30 minutes, we were able to collect the things that would be worth money and put them in the Dimension Pocket.