Chapter 3 – 3. The First Survival Period of the Other World Summoner
– One –
“Hmm? Where is this place…?”
Kim Jin (金眞) looked around her and couldn’t hide her embarrassment.
‘Let’s organize our thoughts for a moment.’
He must have lived as a high school student in Korea.
Then I got caught up in some kind of trouble in school.
And she gathered evidence for several months, vowing revenge.
In the end, she worked out on her own and returned home feeling relieved.
Then the house suddenly caught fire.
He climbs the plumbing downstairs to escape the fire, and BANG! Puck.
“Aaaaagh!”
When the memory came to that point, the pain of the whole body exploding came to mind.
While my whole body was tingling with pain, I remembered the feeling that gravity had disappeared.
The impact of colliding with the floor and being shattered came to mind.
Recalling the unbearable pain of that time, Kim Jin fell into a state of panic.
Right!
“Ahh!”
“Noisy, you filthy barbarian bastard!”
As he screamed in panic, someone hit the back of his head roughly.
Surprised, Kim Jin came to his senses for a moment and looked at the pup who had beaten him on the back of the head.
“What? You’re a fucking fucking fucking baby?
The man who spat and spit put his thumb and forefinger into Kim Jin’s eyes as if to poke them.
He was accustomed to the pain of beatings, as he had many experiences of being beaten during so-called lynchings.
So, as if trying to hit her, she brought her face to her man more.
“Huh, do you see this bastard? Hiya! This bastard is a tall savage, but I thought about excluding him because he looked so corrupt and corrupt. !”
Her man smirked and looked around him in all directions.
It was only then that Kim Jin regained his senses and looked around.
There is no yellow race among those around them.
Something doesn’t seem to be Korea.
I overlooked it because I naturally understood their words, but when I listened carefully, it wasn’t Korean.
He had been learning English for 12 years, but the conversation of native speakers was unintelligible.
It was obviously strange that he naturally understood his man’s language.
Those around them were in poor hygiene.
It was normal for her toenails to get dirty.
Fingernails were thickly swollen, probably from athlete’s foot, and blood, dirt, and grime were clotted through the cracks.
Not only the face and nape of the neck, but also the exposed skin were dripping with water.
There was a foul smell, a mixture of sweat and feces.
Her hair was caked with greasiness and tangled.
Everyone had messy hair, probably because they didn’t cut it at a hairdresser’s, but with a rough blade.
A small insect was crawling through the hair of the man hovering around him.
‘Ugh, I know that! That’s it!’
He wanted to turn away, but this place was definitely like a slum abroad.
“You bastard passed! Obediently follow me!”
However, Kim Jin was no longer given time to observe and understand the situation.
The man, like the others around him, was short and stooped, as if his development was in a mess.
No, it was just a hunchback.
However, only her strength was superior to Kim Jin, a Korean high school student.
The thick knuckles suggested that the muscles that were hardened through labor or beatings were hidden under the clothes.
“Ouch, it hurts! It hurts!”
“If you don’t want the bastard to go bald, follow him obediently.”
After being dragged along for a while, he arrived at a wide open space.
The empty lot was full of lower-class people in shabby clothes who had arrived before him.
‘Poetry, fuck! What is this?!’
Those who were first brought to the surroundings only rolled their anxious eyes, but did not say anything.
So Kim Jin also decided to shut up.
It was because he had learned well over the course of his 18 years of life that when others didn’t step up, he would be the first to die or take responsibility alone.
He was already a good citizen of Hell-Joseon who had matured well.
‘Ha, I want to beat everything and just go to sleep.’
After waiting for a long time while eating the sand in the clearing, and nothing happened, he gradually felt bored.
At that time, a pot-bellied man he had never seen before stood up on a platform on the other side of the empty lot.
“Are you serfs volunteering for noble military service?”
‘What? Are you saying that I am a forcibly conscripted serf?’
Kim Jin looked around, stunned, but no one raised an objection.
In other words, everyone there was aware of the fact that they were mobilized for military service.
Except for Kim Jin.
‘I, am I unfair? Didn’t you volunteer?’
However, before he fell into this strange place, he ate a snack at school for more than a few months.
Thanks to that, he realized that he could die out here.
‘Sir, Mr.! The knives those bastards over there aren’t fake, are they?’
He clearly noticed that this was neither Korea nor a modern civilization.
I didn’t know if things would get better or if I would be able to go home.
But at least he knew that understanding had to precede the current situation.
So, I tried to gather the information with all my nerves.
“You know very well that my estate is conducting a fiefdom war with the neighboring Viscount of Teheran.”
‘I don’t know what to do!’
“And my enlisted and mercenary troops, who posted overwhelming results, defeated them several times.”
‘Then why are you being forced into conscription again!? Can’t we just win with the troops we have?’
“But when the cowardly Viscount Tehran, his family, and his henchmen realized that they had no chance of winning in a head-to-head battle, they cowardly retreated to the impregnable fortress of Nikpey Mountain!”
Kim Jin was dumbfounded.
‘Hey, if you’re at a disadvantage, you can retreat strategically, and if you’re going to retreat, it’s common sense to go to a safe place. Why is that cowardly?’
But the pot-bellied lord seemed like an idiot without common sense.
“And after weeks of sluggish siege and defense of the fortress, additional troops were urgently needed, so we waited for your resources.”
‘Since they rushed into a siege against the impregnable fortress and then developed it, the consumption of low-level manpower to use as a meat shield was severe, so they said they brought you guys by force.’
I understood the situation.
Knowing the situation, it seemed that I would not be able to return home.
Because she doesn’t know why she’s here.
She herself had apparently been severely mutilated to the point of being irrecoverable, and she had died.
My consciousness flickered for a moment, and when I opened my eyes, I was in this strange town.
It is unclear whether he eventually died, but even with modern medicine, there was no possibility of revival.
How can he expect to live when he falls from the ninth floor of an apartment building with his stomach and chest ruptured?
‘Then, where is this place and who am I?’
Even in his anguish, the pot-bellied lord quacked as if he were giving a solemn speech.
“So I’ll feed you well tonight, so I’ll go out tomorrow after wearing the equipment provided!”
‘After tomorrow, how many more days will I be able to live… ?’
“Those who survive the war will be promoted to free people, and those who make outstanding achievements will be reaped as vassals in this work!”
“Whoaaaaa!”
The spoiled beggars next to him screamed at the pot-bellied speech.
‘Am I not using evil?’
At least Jin Kim could easily realize.
‘Perhaps very few survive. There will be no opportunity to set up a major. Even if he survives and rises to the status of a freedman, he will not be able to pay tribute or taxes, and will again be reduced to serfdom. In other words, there is no burden on the lord for the overpayment of empty checks, and there is no expense or blood loss.’
And it was judged that there was probably a very high probability that everyone here would die.
So, Kim Jin decided to run away taking advantage of her night.
– 2 –
‘Ha, fuck. There’s no such thing as a fucking thing.’
He was looking up at the night sky through a hole in the ceiling.
It was a wooden building built with logs.
However, I was a little sorry to give the name of a wooden building to a warehouse that was roughly erected with such rotten logs.
Because it was such a building, I could see the sky from inside the building.
Puck.
‘Fuck.’
“Hey, you filthy savage serf, where are you going to desert to avoid conscription?”
The hunchback who had dragged him by the hair earlier during the day kicked him in the pit of the stomach with his toe.
“Don’t think of running away! I’m going to go get arrows before the territory. His Excellency Baron said that if you survive, you’ll be promoted to a free citizen.”
“No, I don’t know what the fuck you mean.”
Puck!
‘Fuck! I accidentally brought my thoughts out of my mouth and earned a punishment that I didn’t have to get hit.
“Ha, is this bastard laughing now, huh?”
Kim Jin did not answer and gave a low laugh.
And she thought
Strange.
But he is still alive
I’m used to the touch.
And he proved that the familiar touch is alive.
‘I am alive.’
But it’s strange
‘Where is this really? Am I really Jin Kim? Did the soul, consciousness, memory, etc. Dwell in the other after he had already died?’
With that in mind, it was not a big deal that the night sky was unfamiliar.
‘There is no Samtaeseong, Orion, Cassiopeia, or Big Dipper.’
The stars are strange
‘But why is the moon like that?’
No matter how unfamiliar the stars and their existence were, the moon gave a great visual impact.
Puck!
‘Fuck!’
It was hard to keep thinking as the hunchback kept barking and hitting me.
“I-I won’t run away, so stop hitting me so I can organize my thoughts.”
Humpback barked loudly as if he was upset, but he didn’t hit him any more.
In the meantime, he caught his breath and stood up.
Kim Jin limped out of the rotten log warehouse.
Then he looked up at the vast, unobstructed sky outside the warehouse.
It was a clear and refreshing night sky so familiar stars could not be seen because the sky was covered in smoke.
I saw strange constellations and unfamiliar moons in the sky.
Yes.
The moon
There were not one moon, but three.
Realize for sure that this is not Earth.
‘Ah, this is another world. Okay. Kkeukkeuk… ! Did he become the main character of the light novel? Open your eyes to a new power and take a picture here!’
Kim Jin raised her right arm toward the sky and spread her hand out.
‘Amy, fuck. Is the Black Flame Dragon not going out?’
“What is this bastard doing?”
The hunchback looked at him with bewildered eyes.
“Hey, hey Hooch! Take this crazy bastard to your platoon!”
Hunchback called the soldier who was watching from afar, Hooch.
Kim Jin looked at Huchi.
“Mister. What color are those eyes?”
Huchi thought for a moment about what he had heard, then answered meekly.
“Uh. I can’t see it well because it’s dark, but it looks black or brown to me?”
“Hya! This bastard is real for the first time in a while?”
“Slammer, is this guy okay?”
“I don’t know, bitch!”
Kim Jin, who was once again looking at the sky to summon the Black Flame Dragon, turned her head and looked at Hunchback Slammer and Soldier Huchi alternately.
“[Really] Nyo? Call me Hon-Mono, no, Mono-Horn!”
“No, what kind of a hornless bastard is this hornless bastard? Where did you get this hornless bastard? Is it on the back end or the tip of the cock head?”
Already, Monohorn wasn’t watching Slammer.
Slammer spat, saying he was lucky, and then shook his head and disappeared.
Hooch took him along and tried to explain and take care of him.
However, Monohorn was excited about the fact that it had fallen into a different world, so it was hard to hear.
‘It’s not Odd Eye, there’s no Sharingan, and Black Flame Dragon doesn’t appear, so it’s not the munchkin genre…’
Monohorn was going mad.
Although he had a rational and calm personality, it was within the Republic of Korea, where minimum safety was guaranteed.
He was only an 18-year-old high school student.
Less than a day had passed since he experienced his sudden death.
He died, and when he woke up, he suddenly fell into a strange town with three moons.
Although the human spirit seems strong, the limits of its durability are clear.
So when your mind wears out and starts to collapse, it’s hard to get your hands on it.
He went through a series of shocking things that were difficult to experience even once in his short life.
And he was still suffering.
Because of that, Monohorn was slowly losing his mind.
‘Status window! Status! Ayy, that sucks. It’s not a player or hunter thing, and the kind goddess NPC doesn’t even give a tutorial. What a fucking hunchbacked bastard crawls and beats people up.’
“Look, are you listening?”
“Yes, I am listening.”
“It’s obvious that you’re not listening.”
“It’s a bit complicated, so can I ask you again when you’re done, mister?”
Hooch did not push him for not listening even though he kindly explained it.
He just sighed and said he would get it and assigned a room to rest.
It was a communal lodging where several people lived together, but I wanted somewhere that Monohorn wouldn’t get cold wind.
He squeezed through the cracks of those who slept moderately and lay down on a corner of the floor.
‘Hmm. There’s no guarantee that it’s a return product, so I can’t even try to die. Ah! Is it a genre of cultural invasion that utilizes other world cultures!’
Monohorn shuddered at his realization.
‘Yeah, there’s nothing strange about being a high school foodie like me. So, let’s keep calm and get the ball rolling and get a say! Then you get a little higher status and voila! And spread modern culture! Then I can become a merchant or a king in this world, and I can also rise in status by marrying a noble lady or royalty, right?’
Thinking so, Monohorn’s heart calmed down.
‘I have to live. If you survive, you will be able to measure your angle well whether you return or conquer, so the beginning is to calmly take the adaptation route!’
As Monohorn giggled, the serfs in the same room glared at him disapprovingly.
But he didn’t care.
‘I am a modern man. To yield now to these uncivilized savages is merely an act of kneeling for momentum! I will survive this time too!’
It was only a promise and a promise to survive.
‘I will survive and prove the superiority of modern civilized people to the savages of the savage world!’