Chapter 1962 – [Kimchi Season Also Comes to the Zombie Apocalypse World]

For me, my sense of national belonging is weak because I was reincarnated, but since I was born in Korea for the first time and my job is a chef, I am very interested in that.

So, the taste is similar to that of a Korean, to the extent of eating soup with kimchi or radish radish radish. And kimchi… I still make and make kimchi every year. It’s like soul food.

Honestly, I can’t say that all Koreans like kimchi. Some people may not like the sour and spicy taste of kimchi. But at least I and many Koreans like it. Even if you don’t like raw kimchi, there are people who enjoy grilled kimchi or stir-fried kimchi served with grilled meat.

That’s why kimchi is so important. Every year, when kimchi season comes around, Eden and I talk about how to make kimchi and how much to make. In the first place, my signature dish is kimchi stew, so would I ignore kimchi and use it?

But… You’re Korean, but you don’t know the taste of kimchi? Even foreigners who come to Korea have probably tried kimchi at least once, right?

“Oh my god!!!!!”

“I agree with you too, Eden. No, Koreans don’t even know what kimchi tastes like or what kimchi is? This is crossing the line.”

“Uh… Why is the reaction more intense than when the district mayor said it?”

“The reaction is bound to be bigger in your field. What would you say if Hansol saw you as an ultra risk and shortened it to Ullari?”

“What kind of crazy bastard are you?!”

“That’s roughly it.”

“Ah, I understand.”

If you suddenly talk to Yu Hansol, it’s because this is an issue.

No, do Korean kids not know the taste of kimchi? Even though I’m a post-apocalyptic expert, I couldn’t relate to a situation this bad. Of course, it is not that there is no Earth-based post-apocalypse, but at least there was kimchi, which was similar to salt-pickled cabbage and pickles covered in red pepper powder, but it was rare for there to be no kimchi itself.

But are there kids who don’t know the taste of kimchi? No, this is a fart.

“Wait a minute. If I don’t become the President of Korea, I will support you as an individual.”

“Uh… Is that possible?”

“On this side, we have to talk about a lot of things and give up a lot of things to make it possible. That’s why I didn’t do it, but I still have to do it as it is an issue. Anyway, I’m waiting because I’ll give you good news soon.”

“Yes!!! I’ll be waiting!!!!”

It may have come out of nowhere, but my motivation soared sharply. No, honestly, problems related to kimchi cannot be helped.

First, we are doing our part in this matter, but on the other hand, we cannot easily interfere as the dimensional civilization is interfering with the Phantom. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. In the end, it’s a matter of determination and willingness to take losses.

“Hey, it’s me.”

[Why did you contact me again, this guy? By the looks of it, aren’t you on vacation now? If we just hold an election, we won’t be able to do anything else.]

“It’s nothing else, you know what I said before. Zombie apocalypse Earth civilization.”

[Ah, the place where I received art supplies. I remember. But why?]

“I thought we should use this opportunity to provide full-scale support. First, we will use our personal resources to provide support, but the position itself can be taken as the President of Korea. If not, we can do it as an individual.”

[No, if you do that, things will get worse because of politics or other issues. Are you okay with that? Rather, rather than being an individual, the president represents a nation…]

“No, fuck it. Korean kids over there don’t even know what kimchi tastes like or what kimchi is!!!!!!!!”

[That can’t be helped!!!!!!]

“Okay, do you understand? Huh?!”

Although Phantom was born in a fantasy world, he was stranded in Korea at a young age due to a dragon’s dimensional travel experiment.

Since I spent my adolescence in Korea, it is not strange to say that I have become accustomed to that country’s tastes. On the contrary, this guy understood this story well as he enjoys kimchi stew and soybean paste stew without any likes or dislikes.

“If there is a problem, I will take full responsibility, so leave this to me.”

[Okay, I’ll be on your side in that regard, so go and help me. I will delegate full authority to you. Ah, but how are you going to tell the Korean side?]

“Uh… We will have to talk about it separately after the next president is elected. If we talk about it now, it will be judged as election activity, so it will be a problem.”

[You bastard, it is clear that you will be elected, so what are you doing?]

“For me, being president once is enough!!!!!”

[Assei!!!! Welcome to your voluntary reappointment!!!!!!!]

“What kind of fucking dog-disease literature are you bringing up?!?!”

[Hey, I’m willing to do it, but my brother is forcing me to do it. Why are you riding the same tree as your brother?]

“Shut up, if you don’t want to be left behind.”

[Either kill it, you bastard.]

Anyway, permission was granted. That gave me a reason to move here.

It’s a problem because there’s a price to pay, but we’ve decided to take the collateral damage and cover it by having Phantom take our side. With this, we will be able to roughly handle any problems that arise later.

At the same time, Eden also prepared to go to that dimension. Other than that, since I didn’t have any kimchi, I prepared various things to prepare for making kimchi.

Honestly, it takes a lot to make kimchi. If you want to make not only cabbage but also other kimchi, you need radish or something else. Even if your tastes vary, you need salted seafood and oysters, and you also need things to eat together.

“Kimchi is of course boiled pork. I have to slaughter a pig!!!!!”

“If you have any leftover, you can keep it and bake or boil it. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s so prepared.”

“How about you, Dad? Are you missing anything?”

“Dad, I want to make green onion kimchi and eat it with black bean ramen.”

“Ah!!!!! That’s delicious too!!!!!”

In Korea, even if you don’t have a kimchi refrigerator at home, the people next door do have it, so it’s hard to keep your distance from kimchi. Is there anyone in Korea who doesn’t eat kimchi at all? If there are, it’s probably a very small minority.

So, I also prepare while meddling with Eden’s preparations. It might be any other dish, but since the menu item was kimchi, I had to prepare it carefully this time.

“Take some bacon. If you make kimchi later, you can cut it up, stir-fry it, and eat it with fried rice because it’s delicious.”

“Wow!!!!! It’s so fucking delicious!!!!!!”

“At least we need to provide support so that there is no food problem. Oh, what did you do about the vaccine problem?”

“We are now increasing production and accumulating it. Since there is a time difference between this and that, we will be able to create quite a bit of surplus.”

“What about the storage problem? Looking at the situation over there, it would be difficult to just freeze and store it.”

“Yes, that’s why we have already produced and stored it as a vaccine that can be stored at room temperature.”

“My daughter has plans.”

Eventually, we finished preparing and prepared to visit the other dimension. Since we have discussed it separately, they will welcome you without any problem if you go there, but the problem is who will accompany you.

First, since Eden and I are chefs, we inevitably go together. Soy milk no kimchi because the kids don’t know what kimchi is in the first place? We’re on our way to do it, but what if we don’t go?

The others, somewhat unexpectedly, were joined by their father-in-law. Maybe it’s because they recently joined the family, but they seem to want to participate in these family events.

“I’m an expert in all areas of science and technology, and I’ve acquired this ability, so I’ll be of some help, so don’t worry. Besides, I’m going to do a good job, but I can’t stay still.”

“It would be a great help if your father-in-law goes with you. However, unlike the Métis civilization, the Earth over there is less developed, and you have to be concerned that it was ruined once.”

“It’s not like you can’t consider that. And if you work hard, you’ll be able to do this and that, so don’t worry.”

No, what kind of self-gongmill!!!!!

Since I have that kind of personality, even if there were other factors, I would have climbed the house tree before I woke up. I think it would be a good idea for future craftsmen to join a research institute that develops special abilities or skills. Oh, of course, now I’m spending some time with my mother-in-law.

After completing the preparations, we prepared to visit the other world in earnest. This is the second time I have visited the dimension of a customer of Eden’s store, probably due to Chairman Naomoto’s previous work in the cyberpunk world, but it feels quite different, perhaps because the world is completely different.

The gloomy cyberpunk world is different from the zombie apocalypse world. No, dystopian water and apocalyptic water are different genres.

“Aren’t the two similar?”

“Go!!!!! How can maintaining a controlled society be the same as a society being destroyed!!!!!”

“If you look at my dad, he’s strict about the apocalypse genre. Is it because he’s the Great Demon King?”

“What is the relationship between being the Great Demon King and the ruined world? Rather, since it is a ruined world, there would be nothing to see as the Great Demon King.”

“That’s why I like it, father-in-law. Because there’s no need to judge those who fail.”

“Oh, I guess I can see it that way.”

Anyway, I packed up a lot of things to support the other side and headed to the other side. I went to Cherubim of Eden and in some ways it was better than Horizon. The most important resources in the post-apocalypse are food and medicine, so Cherubim specializes in production, so making those things is easy.

Since it wasn’t that far away, it didn’t take long to get there. The timescale was also longer than my mother-in-law’s dimension or the other Earth’s dimension, so I felt like I could stay for a long time.

“If you just look at the Earth, there doesn’t seem to be any environmental pollution, and that’s good.”

“It’s because most people have died and society has collapsed. What is the cause of environmental pollution!!! It’s humans!!!”

“That is correct. The development of technology inevitably leads to the destruction of the natural environment… Unless it is a groundbreaking environmental restoration technology, the rate of destruction will be faster than the rate of restoration.”

Ironically, as human influence decreases, the natural environment becomes cleaner. Even just now, I felt like the Earth I could see was cleaner than our Earth.

At least I can’t see anything like yellow dust in China. Oh, it’s winter, so even though there’s yellow dust, there’s no fine dust because the factory is closed and not working.

“But even if they created a survivor community, what will China do?”

“Uh…”

“I think blocking the entrance would be hell if there were a billion people coming in.”

“That’s right…”

Zombies will not come over by sea, but will eventually come over by land, so due to the nature of the Korean Peninsula, all you have to do is block the entrance. In this case, it would be near the ceasefire line.

Of course, it would be easy because not all Chinese zombies will invade Korea… Besides China, there is also North Korea, and the current situation is difficult for South Korea to deal with. I wonder if a lot of zombies will come later.

“But what type of zombies are here? While talking with Shion about this and that, I’ve seen a few zombie movies, so I can roughly tell them apart.”

“Uh, maybe it’s a zombie like the 28 Days Later series.”

“It appears to be a zombie that has no intelligence but has the same physical abilities as a human.”

“In reality, it’s probably a little stronger than that. It’s the type of thing that’s pumped with adrenaline, so it doesn’t even feel pain, and it rushes at you without reason.”

So it’s more annoying. However, since it is winter now, their metabolism is low, and they are the type of zombies that need to eat to move, so I don’t know what will happen, but it would be worth checking.

Oh, is it safer from zombies in the winter? Even if we hibernate, it may not be true in the long term, but in the short term, it is good for humans.

Let’s go down first. You may have heard something at a store, but the information you see and hear in person is unique.

So my father-in-law and I got ready to go down to Earth and opened the Dimension Gate. And then a familiar cityscape came into view. Although it is not as big as Yeouido, which can be found a little further across, it is a place where various commercial districts, including shopping malls and department stores, are gathered. It seemed like a fairly large area was being used as a survivor community activity area.

Since we were on the rooftop of a station building where we came out, we had a good view of the surroundings, so we could see how hard they worked to gather survivors and build up their power.

“Oh, it’s Yeongdeungpo.”

“I heard that the name of the survivors’ organization was Mayor’s Association, but I guess it was near the Yeongdeungpo shopping district. Well, there’s a market and that’s good… Oh, wait. But wasn’t the person I saw last time the mayor of Yongsan-gu?”

“Yu Han-sol robbed the Central Museum. We met while working around there.”

“Is that so? It’s not that far in terms of distance.”

They probably robbed the museum and moved to Yeongdeungpo, creating a community of survivors. If you look around, you will see that it was a very large community of survivors, expanding not just around the shopping mall but also around the station area and the park nearby.

They say they are giving various things to vaccines, but it seems like they put a lot of effort into growing a place like this. Even the number of survivors that I can sense is quite high, reaching tens of thousands.

At this point, I think it is only a matter of time and restoration of human civilization will be possible, but…

“Have you forgotten what we came for?”

“Kimchi!!!!!”

“You guys bet your lives on kimchi. Is it that delicious?”

“It’s like chicken soup to my grandfather.”

“If that’s the case, I can understand right away. There’s nothing I can do about cooking that touches the soul.”

Soon we met Yu Hansol. He was waiting for us as we had contacted him in advance and ran to the rooftop of the station building to welcome us.

“Boss!!! Uncle!!! Uh, but the other one…”

“Our father-in-law. He is an expert in machinery and science, so he came to help.”

“Nice to meet you, young man Yu Hansol.”

“Yes?”

For a moment, I was skeptical when I saw my father-in-law, who looked much younger than me or Eden (he was actually a middle school student), but as I was a customer at a two-dimensional restaurant, I was used to unusual things, so I immediately understood.

To be honest, the other customers in the store are more unreasonable than my father-in-law, a middle school student. A skeleton eating sorbet or a woman who looks like a spider monster eating a steak…

“Anyway, welcome back!!! As a representative of the Mayors’ Union, I welcome you all!!!”

“First, should I ask you to guide me? I’d like to take a look around the survivor community you’ve built.”

“Yes, we also want to show you the place we spent several years building.”

And we slowly began to look around the living quarters of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. It seems like you can feel the scent of them surviving and blooming with their tough vitality, like wild flowers blooming in the field.

Biguuuuu!!!! I’m already intoxicated by the unique post-apocalyptic atmosphere!!!