## Chapter 1531 – The Foreigner Swordsman – A Different World’s Demon God

The largest liquor store in South Korea.

In other words, this liquor store, somewhat renowned even globally, was naturally bustling with customers.

“Huk…! Cheonma!”
“Holy shit! It’s real!”
“Wow, damn…!”
“Damn, damn, damn! Wow! It’s really Cheonma!”
“Wow, shit, wow… Wow. Is this real?”

Korean customers, upon seeing us, widened their eyes and exclaimed in admiration.

“Oh! Unbelievable! I can’t believe it!”
“To see him with my own two eyes! Amazing!”
“Dave! Suggesting we come to a Korean liquor store was a stroke of genius!”
“Dave, my eternal friend! I thank you!”
“I’m so moved! To actually witness Sky Devil-God!”
“Today is the best day of my life! I’ll write it in my diary and commemorate it every year!”

Foreign customers also expressed their astonishment upon seeing us. Having heard it so much, I had somehow grasped English without even studying it.

I understand everything the foreigners are saying in English.

We didn’t react to them in particular, and I pushed the cart. Of course, I was the one pushing the cart. The women were on either side of me, looking around the store.

“My goodness. It’s truly amazing. It can’t even be compared to the store in that department store…!”

Khadia was the most excited. Khadia highly valued Earth’s liquor. Her eyes were sparkling as she looked around.

“Ah. I recognize this one. I heard it’s French wine. French wine is well-regarded on Earth, I hear. Did you know?”
“Oh, Khadia-nim. Don’t you know too much?”
“There’s the internet, isn’t there? It’s a very good world for acquiring information.”

When Hilde spoke, Khadia began to explain about the liquor. Frankly, I didn’t really understand even when I listened. I wasn’t very interested.

“Hehehe, yes. Let’s buy everything Khadia wants.”
“Then let’s take everything in this line.”
“Kya! How much is it all? Just put it all in!”

Her spending habits were impressive too!

I didn’t know much, but the fact that the prices of the wines were basically in the millions of won didn’t matter, and the fact that there were also items costing over ten million won here and there, and that there were liquors worth hundreds of millions of won displayed over there, didn’t matter either.

The money would be billed to the South Korean government anyway.

But these expensive wines are probably mostly drunk by Awakened Hunters. Well, they’ll probably be out of a job soon because of my appearance.

The number of monsters has decreased significantly due to the purification of North Korea and China, so much so that analyses are coming out saying that related damages have decreased, so it’s certain.

“Kya. It feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Khadia so excited.”
“Huhu, I think so too.”
“Then let’s pick some out too. Hey. Are you really putting everything in?”

From the start, none of them disliked alcohol. Even Elise drank it, saying it was delicious.

“Put in whatever you want. Actually, even if you bought everything here, no one could say anything.”

Purifying North Korea was literally going to cost astronomical amounts. We saved that money, so what’s a few billion won?

So we went around the store and swept up all the liquors that looked delicious.

It was then.

“Katte. The Earthlings are watching a lot. And they’re even taking pictures? Or is it video recording?”

Some people took out their smartphones and were filming us. No flashes were going off, but I could tell just by looking at them.

“Those friends?”

I didn’t really care, no. Rather, I was encouraging my pictures to be spread widely, but since Cloudy pointed it out, I was going to go and say something.

But.

“A medium that records Katte… I want it.”

I think I heard something I couldn’t just ignore.

“Wh-what? Cloudy, what did you say?”
“Can I get that cell phone?”

Cloudy said something absurd with a perfectly normal face.

“Cloudy? What are you talking about?”
“If you think about it, that’s also a medium that records Katte. It’s natural to want it. They took pictures without permission, so we can demand that much.”
“No, no. We can’t do that. We can’t just take it, no matter what.”
“…”

Cloudy made a pleading expression at those words, but no means no. No, more than that… She wants it because it’s a medium that records me?

Hard drives have been getting delivered lately, was Cloudy using them?

“Okay. Don’t make that face. I’ll let them take pictures of me, so put up with that, Cloudy.”
“That’s not… enough. A medium that records Katte by someone else… I need it.”

What does that even mean?

—Step, step.

Soon, Cloudy took a step forward, faintly scattering purple light from her eyes. She’s really going to take it like that. I couldn’t let that happen, so I immediately overtook Cloudy and approached the group taking pictures without permission.

“Huk!”

The Earthling was surprised.

“Earthling. Shouldn’t you get permission from the person when taking pictures? I know that taking pictures secretly is against etiquette.”
“Ah, ah…! Th-that! I mean!”

The Earthling sat down and began to tremble, as if they didn’t expect me to come and argue. I said while looking at that Earthling.

“Show me.”
“H-here…”

—Swish.

Looking at it, it was a picture of the back of me pushing the cart.

“Katte. Hurry and get it. And give it to me as a gift.”

Cloudy whispered like a demon…!

Of course, no matter how much I love Cloudy, I don’t just take people’s cell phones. From the start, I didn’t really think it was a problem to take pictures. If I thought it was a problem, I would have taken it. But it’s not.

“Certainly. It’s a picture of me. So I’ll take it. Upload it to the internet. I’ll save it myself.”
“Ah, ah…? Ah. Yes, yes… I, I’ll do that…”

The Earthling nodded as if their soul had left their body.

“Then.”

I immediately grabbed Cloudy’s hand and turned around.

“Is this enough?”
“Hmph… I wanted it.”
“You can’t just take people’s cell phones. I don’t really care about taking pictures. I need to spread my image more.”
“If Katte thinks so, then it’s okay. Ah, then Katte. How about we do this?”

Cloudy said with a smile.

“How?”
“I can’t stand the thought that there might be pictures of Katte on Earth that I don’t know about. From now on, if you take pictures of Katte, you must upload them to the internet. I think it would be good to announce that.”
“Hehehe, no, what kind of thoughts are those?”
“But I want it.”
“Okay. I’ll announce it next time. Well then. Are you going to collect what’s uploaded to the internet?”
“Yes. I’ve already collected 1 terabyte.”
“Do I have that much data?”

Your web surfing skills have improved.

Anyway, I was pushing the cart again, following the women who had spread out in all directions.

“It’s absurd. Then why are they displaying it? They even put a price tag on it. It can only cause confusion.”
“Th-that is…”

Khadia was arguing with an employee over there.

“Khadia? What’s wrong?”
“Ah, you’ve come. Look. This wine that’s displayed here…!”

It was a wine that was displayed as if to show off.
A very old bottle.

“Oh.”

What wine costs 300 million won?
The price tag is even made of gold.

“Khadia, do you want to buy this? Buy it.”
“But they say it’s not for sale.”
“What?”

Looking at the employee, they were very troubled.

“Employee. Is the product displayed here not for sale?”
“Th-that’s right… It’s an item that’s like the symbol of this store…”
“Then why did you put a price tag on it?”

The employee answered Khadia’s words.

“To advertise that we own something that expensive…”
“Hmph… It makes me feel bad for no reason.”

It was just a wine that was put there for display. But in Khadia’s eyes, a very great desire was flickering.

But you can’t ask for something that’s not for sale.

Asking for something that’s not for sale is being a nuisance.

In the Cheonma Divine Kingdom, the grades of such nuisances are classified in detail, and in the case of absurd nuisances, they are beaten with clubs.

“Hehehe, Khadia. It’s for display. There’s nothing we can do about it. No matter how much of a god I am, I can’t ask for something that’s not for sale.”
“Kuh, kuh… Hmph… To think that I can’t buy this…”

She seems very disappointed.
How do I comfort her?

Should I look for someone who sells it?

“Th-there! Just a moment!”

Right then, a man in a suit ran over from over there and shouted.

“Ah! Manager!”
“What are you doing! You have to sell it at a time like this! Can you imagine how much publicity we’ll get?!”
“Yes? N-no, I don’t have the authority to sell it…”
“Shut up, you! Cheonma-nim! Please allow us to sell it!”

A deal is made.

* * *

With our hands clasped and placed on our noses, we sat around a round table.

A very important meeting is about to begin. It was a meeting about how I, Cheonma Kim Katte, should avoid becoming a moron.

“I can’t watch the darkie become a moron.”
“Yeah. I can’t let my husband become a moron. My husband, who is the most wonderful in the world, can’t become a moron.”

Karin answered Winia’s words.

“I agree. No matter what happens, our Katte-ssi’s identity must not be revealed… The moment it is revealed. You’ll be treated like a moron in an instant and receive dishonorable humiliation.”

Liz nodded, and at the same time, their gazes turned to me. I looked at each of their faces one by one.

“That’s right.”

I answered very seriously.

“I can’t become a moron.”

To be exact.
I must not become a moron.

“This Kim Katte has too much to bear to become a moron.”

—Cheonma from another world, falls in love with Earth culture!
—Actually a reincarnation of General Yi Sun-sin? The greatness of the Cheonma God who uses the same character for his name!
—Saving Belgium, which had become hell!
—Purifying the otherworld-ified China in just one day!

The media reports about me every day. They want to see. They want me to experience and evaluate Earth’s culture directly. They want the powerful and wonderful god from another world to sympathize with their culture. They want to feel pride as Earthlings.

Not only that.

—Cheonma God worship groups are springing up like mushrooms!
—Existing religions are collapsing!
—The Awakened monarch system is shaking!

They are worshiping me.

“In this situation, my identity is revealed? I don’t know what will happen.”

(Exclusive report) Cheonma, actually Korean?
(Fact peck) He’s really Korean, but he was acting like that?
(In-depth coverage) Not a lie, it’s real! Cheonma is of Korean origin!
(Headline) National fraud! Cheonma is a liar!
(Seriously shocking) We were deceived! The whole Earth was deceived!

Without lying, this kind of report will cover the world.

It’s too dishonorable.

“That’s right. Although Seongdo-nim hid the truth, it must never be revealed.”
“I also think it should be hidden forever.”

Of course, of course.

Of course I have to hide it.

I’m not an Earthling, I’m the otherworld Cheonma Kim Katte.

“Then how?”

Cloudy tilted her head slightly and said.

“How can we go to greet them without revealing Katte’s identity?”
“That’s the thing.”
“Should we tell them to keep it a secret?”

A secret.

“Hmph…”

We’re having a meeting because of that right now.

How can I go to greet my family without revealing my identity? Now that it’s come up, I think I’ll be going this week, but how should I meet them?

I just have to go and say hello. I’m not going to return to a human family now. I’ll say hello once and then live my life.

But that greeting is the problem.

“Katte-nim.”
“Hmm?”
“Are Katte-nim’s old family members people who will keep such a promise?”

—Trickle.

Hilde poured wine into my glass and asked.

“Well… I wonder.”

The resurfacing of memories.

Father and mother.
And younger siblings.

It was an ordinary family.

But now those things are buried in too intense memories, and in the early days of living in another world, thinking about Earth would only cause pain, so I intentionally minimized it. It feels like something so far away.

So far away that it really feels like a past life.

But even so, the memory of my father is clear.

A madman.

A crazy human.

—Goo-oo.

A crazy human can never be predicted. A person who makes a secret promise with a crazy human is also a crazy human. My father was not a very trustworthy person.