Resurrection Chapter 70 - Save Heesoo Hyung

Min Gongchan looked up at the casino, which bore the rather cliché sign <Casablanca>. Then he started walking and went inside.

As soon as he set foot in the casino, a guide ran out and bowed his head deeply. Min Gongchan followed him without a word. Yoon Younghyun likewise followed behind, and they headed to an office above the casino.

It was an office located where one could see the entire casino at a glance. Every nook and cranny of the casino was visible, but from the outside, it seemed impossible to be aware of the office’s existence.

A man who appeared to be the manager was sitting in front of a fine mahogany desk. He was a man in his mid-to-late 40s, with a beard so well-groomed it looked fake.

As soon as he saw Min Gongchan, he rose from his seat and gestured for the guide to leave. Once the guide left and the door closed behind them, the man let out a sigh that could have made the ground sink.

“Young Master, it’s troublesome for you to visit again so soon after your last visit.”

Yoon Younghyun was shocked by a word he had only seen in print but had never heard with his own ears.

“Young Maaaaster?”

Consistently ignoring the surprised Yoon Younghyun, Min Gongchan said.

“You already know why I came, don’t you?”

“It’s not surprising since the reason the Young Master seeks me out is obvious, but I’m saying this because I don’t understand. Why on earth do you go around playing dangerous games, spending such a large sum of money?”

“Don’t call it a large sum, you know full well it’s spare change. And no one’s interested in what I do, are they?”

“If the spending continues like this, they will have no choice but to take an interest.”

“I’ll be frugal, so hurry up and give it to me.”

The man took out an aluminum case from behind him. The hard case with a lock on it reeked of money from the moment one saw it.

But when the man flipped open the lid, Yoon Younghyun, who had imagined it might contain a huge amount of cash, was so shocked he nearly fainted.

What was inside was not cash.

It was gold.

Surprisingly, even after the new world began, the value of gold bars had not fallen. Far from falling, it had skyrocketed. This was because as dungeons increased all over the world, the already scarce gold mines were all shut down.

With gold production halted and no gold inside dungeons, it was natural for the price of gold, which could be called the world’s common currency, to rise. The increase in countries where currencies could not function properly due to government collapses also played a part.

On the other hand, a big reason was that the otherworldly races of the interdimensional shops, which one could encounter as rarely as beans sprouting in a drought, were crazy about gold. They were, unexpectedly, enthusiastic about this sparkling golden metallic substance.

Needless to say, even if one happened to encounter an interdimensional shop, if one had nothing, one could buy nothing. Since one had to be wearing at least a gold ring, hunters often wore accessories made of pure gold as emergency funds. Large official guilds also started collecting gold bars whenever they had surplus funds.

Naturally, the value of the gold bars packed inside the case was not just enormous but terrifying. Yoon Younghyun was so surprised his eyes could have popped out, but this was a pleasure district that ranked within the top three in the entire world. To the extent that they handed out gold bars to normal people through raffles, it wouldn’t be strange even if they had mountains of such gold bars piled up.

The tightly packed gold bars looked to be at least several hundred kilograms. The man, after showing the contents, closed the lid again and pushed it towards Min Gongchan.

Min Gongchan did not make the foolish move of trying to lift the impossibly heavy case. He gestured at Yoon Younghyun with his chin, and Yoon Younghyun wrinkled his brow.

He had wondered why he was letting him follow along, but was the intention to use him as a porter?

When Yoon Younghyun took the gold bars, the man spoke to Min Gongchan with a slightly worried expression.

“I don’t know why you go around doing what you do, but please take care of yourself.”

Min Gongchan responded with a cold smile and turned away. Following him as he retraced his steps and left the casino, Yoon Younghyun burst out with the question he had been holding back.

“Isn’t this casino owned by the Hyeopjukdo Association? No, this whole street belongs to the Hyeopjukdo Association. But to be called Young Master… I thought you were rich from the moment you pulled out that black card. Were you someone related to the Hyeopjukdo Association?”

Min Gongchan replied reluctantly.

“Only Mr. Choi calls me that. Strictly speaking, you can’t even say it’s the correct title. It’s true I’m related to the Hyeopjukdo Association, but I’m not a member of the Hyeopjukdo Association.”

“What kind of neither-here-nor-there answer is that?”

“It can be neither here nor there.”

“Stop talking in riddles and be clear… Ack!”

Yoon Younghyun, trying to speak quickly, ended up biting his tongue. At the sight of him twisting his large body in pain, Min Gongchan sighed as if the ground would collapse. The moment he had worried about whether he could control this guy who could turn into a man-eating beast at any moment now seemed foolish.

It was clear that Yoon Younghyun was also a person who should be on the list of individuals to watch out for and be wary of, but when he acted so clueless like this, he couldn’t just keep his guard up indefinitely.

Was it only Yoon Younghyun? Seo Heesoo too, and even that bastard Yaksha, as he repeated his regressions and kept trying, he grew attached and his heart went out to them.

Of course, the person among them he should never give his heart to was Kim Yitae.

Min Gongchan recalled the words he had said while holding his hand, and his face clouded over.

‘I believe that you’re a regressor. You must have really seen Heesoo hyung destroy the world. But that time hasn’t come yet. The future that is to come can be changed! If you help, it’ll be possible. So don’t you give up either. If you can’t believe in Heesoo hyung, believe in yourself. If you can’t believe in yourself, believe in me!’

How wonderful would it be if he could believe those words without any worries?

As anguish surged in, the vengeful spirits invariably began to stir. Having set foot in a place he didn’t want to come to, the hallucinations and auditory hallucinations had been getting worse for a while now.

Min Gongchan felt his heart pound violently and clutched his chest. And as he gasped for breath, he said as if to himself.

“Yes. You’re right. I’m a neither-here-nor-there existence. The bastard son of the Hyeopjukdo Association. An illegitimate child treated like a cripple because I have no special abilities.”

Yoon Younghyun, who didn’t immediately understand the words he spat out, stammered, his lips moving soundlessly. It wasn’t every day you heard words like ‘bastard son’ or ‘illegitimate child’ outside of a drama.

But the bewilderment did not last long. Yoon Younghyun had recalled who he was based on Min Gongchan’s explanation.

Yoon Younghyun unknowingly asked in a loud voice.

“You’re Seol Woochan’s son?”

Min Gongchan clicked his tongue with a pale face.

“What did you hear me say just now?”

Yoon Younghyun didn’t say, ‘Even if he’s an illegitimate child, a son is a son.’ That would have been truly neither here nor there.

Seol Woochan, the chairman of the Hyeopjukdo Merchant Association who had once even run for mayor of Sejong City, was officially not even among the top 100 richest people in South Korea. As he was not the chairman of a large corporation nor the raid leader of a large official guild, but merely the chairman of a merchant association, it was natural.

But unofficially, he was one of the ten richest men in South Korea, because the wealth he had created was all derived from the underworld that had flourished around this Hyeopjukdo Street.

He had risen to the pinnacle of the underworld and amassed a fortune that could be called endless, but not satisfied with that, he had coveted power. Thus, he had tried to enter politics, but was tripped up by an unexpected incident.

It was none other than an illegitimate child scandal.

Even after the new world began, the citizens of South Korea demanded a very high level of integrity from politicians. Naturally, an illegitimate child was an unacceptable thing for a politician, and when asked that question by an audience member at a televised debate, Seol Woochan had publicly declared.

‘I do not have an illegitimate child. The child named Min Gongchan is a child I do not know.’

It was almost brought to a close as a common happening in a fierce election battle through Seol Woochan’s desperate lobbying. But he was forced to withdraw from his candidacy when his legal wife held a press conference and revealed the results of a DNA test.

At the time, the incident had caused a great stir, but now several years had passed and it was a forgotten event.

To think that the illegitimate child from back then was now the Young Master of the Hyeopjukdo Association.

Yoon Younghyun felt perplexed, not knowing whether he should be impressed and envious, or sigh and feel sorry. Min Gongchan noticed this, but felt no need to explain that for the man who was not his father, the only way he knew how to apologize to his deceased mother was with money.

When Min Gongchan fell silent, Yoon Younghyun searched for a long time for something to say that he might respond to.

“Then the reason you’ve been able to show off your items all this time is…”

At the question Yoon Younghyun carefully brought up after hesitating, Min Gongchan affirmed.

“Yes, I’m rich.”

Fortunately, Yoon Younghyun had some sense, so he didn’t utter any exclamations. The smile that appeared on Min Gongchan’s lips was truly cynical.

“I’m an orphan with no living relatives, but surprisingly, I have enough money to die buried in banknotes, not even coins. So let’s go.”

“Where to?”

Before answering Yoon Younghyun’s question, Min Gongchan took an item out of his dimension pocket. Judging by its horn-like shape, it seemed to be an item that summoned the phantom horse. Yoon Younghyun, who was staring at the sight as if it were fascinating, frowned as a realization suddenly struck him.

“Wait a minute, if you have a dimension pocket, why did you make me carry the gold bars?”

To his question of whether he couldn’t just put them in there, Min Gongchan replied indifferently.

“If you’re unhappy, you can run off with it.”

“Hey, what are you going to do if I really run off?”

Seeing Yoon Younghyun hug the case of gold bars preciously, Min Gongchan grinned.

“Do as you please. I’m going to the interdimensional shop.”

Yoon Younghyun realized that he was a fool.

To think he was trying to ask a regressor for a mere lottery winning number! As a hunter, he should have naturally asked about the interdimensional shop!

Yoon Younghyun let out a cheer.

“The interdimensional shop! You mean you know where it’s going to appear?”

“It’ll appear soon, so this is no time to dawdle.”

He checked the digital watch on his wrist, then summoned the phantom horse and leaped onto it. Seeing him swing the reins without another word, Yoon Younghyun hastily transformed only his lower body.