Chapter 42 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

It was late in the evening when Shion returned to her house.

I wanted to go out to meet him, but since he was a victim, the police said they would see him off, so I said yes.

“I’m home”

“It’s been a while since you came in later than me. I prepared dinner. You haven’t eaten yet, have you?”

“I ate at the police station, but I can’t even afford it.”

I, Shion, are quite gluttonous. In particular, Shion eats enough for one or two adult men compared to her young appearance. Not to mention I

“How are the kids?”

“He’s healthy. They say he’s eating well and doing well, so there’s no problem. Perhaps the kidnapper’s mutated appearance doesn’t seem to be contagious or anything like that.”

“So? Did you hear who the kidnapper was?”

“The police don’t know that yet. But I found the keyword.”

“Keyword?”

The fact that I found a trace of something inwardly surprised me. In the first place, if Zion investigates, there is nothing that can’t be found in a scientific civilized society, so I gave up halfway when I said I couldn’t find it the first time, but I found it the second time.

“Honestly, that’s where I made a mistake. The opponent was a Force user, so I honestly only looked through the list of registered Force users.”

“Then, is the opponent an unregistered force user, a criminal, or a missing person?”

“Yes, I will.”

If you think about why a Force user is a missing person, there can be several reasons. I registered, but did I do something illegal? Have you been abroad? Where did neither the mouse nor the bird die without knowing?

“I’ve been thinking about both of those cases.”

Shion quickly compared both sides and pulled out the data.

Then he stretched out his hands and spread all ten fingers.

“There may be one or two more unregistered force user criminals who are missing persons except for the analog part, but first of all, according to my analysis, there are about 10 people.”

“That’s quite a lot. But…”

Shion already knew what I wanted to say.

“I tried to filter out cases where there were children of the same age as Sujeong and Aram, whether it was a younger sister or a daughter. But… The culprit was closer than I thought.”

“Yes?”

“Do you remember the first victim killed by the kidnappers?”

The kidnappers kidnapped three children. Among them, the first child was found dead. Even with the upper and lower body separated.

No way……

“She had an older brother with a difference in age.”

It was a disgusting story.

As the pieces of the puzzle fit together, I came up with a story to myself.

The kidnapper, turned into a monster by someone, went home and met his family, but they couldn’t recognize him.

Considering the first case I met during the Yeongdeungpo fire, the odds of him being sane were rare. He instinctively went back and met his family, his sister, but he must have struggled in surprise at the appearance of an enemy species rather than a human.

In addition, the body that has become a monster will not be able to control its strength, and the moment you give it a little more strength in order not to let go of the struggling child…

A tragic situation is created.

“My name is Kim Jeong-soo, single at the age of 25. My parents died in an accident, and behind the scenes, it is said that I am a famous unregistered user. Even the police couldn’t find out the name, but there are activities to the extent that they knew the approximate crime. However, news from a year ago They said there was no

“……How old is your little sister?”

“I’m 12 years old because I’m 13 years old”

Siblings with a large age gap are rare, but not nonexistent. Sometimes there are people who get married even with a 20-year age difference, but that’s enough. Like Baekri and Ruri, siblings fight and fight when the age difference is small, but when there is a big difference, there are many people who grow up almost like sons or daughters.

If I were to raise my younger sister alone without parents, I would have raised her with pampering as if I were raising a daughter. But the result was a tragedy.

“Do you have any information? Something like what those bastards are doing.”

There are people who don’t even look like humans who turn normal Force users into dead people, kidnap them, and conduct human experiments. If I don’t touch them, I don’t care if they fry or fry each other, but if Shion has already suffered damage to it, it’s easier if I annihilate them all without leaving a single small spear.

“Unfortunately, there is no big information. It seems that the other side has also concealed the information, and it seems that the upper line is also hushing.”

“Which of these guys do that? They say they close their eyes to such unethical behavior?”

Since I was unethical in the first place, I have nothing to say, but a person sitting in public office has a line that must be followed, even if it is not honest. Even if you look after someone and take care of receiving money, you shouldn’t make others shed tears of blood.

Hearing the names from Shion, they were people I had heard of on TV a few times. First of all, let’s do George for the last time. The countermeasure team moves stealthily because I only hunt down the enemy species, but if I kill one or two members of the National Assembly, it is no different from starting a war at that moment.

“But I got a clue.”

“How?”

“I’ve been looking for similarities between the two cases.”

The two incidents that Shion is talking about are the Yeongdeungpo department store fire, and the child abduction and murder case.

“The body of kidnapper Kim Jeong-soo was first autopsied by the police and then moved to a specialized facility to find out the details. Where do you think it is?”

“Is this a place I know?”

“You must have heard of it before.”

I tried to recall memories related to the first incident. And there was a story that came to mind like passing by.

“Leverage Corp. Is the specialized facility where Kim Jeong-soo’s body was transported is that laboratory or hospital?”

“That’s right”

I heard something from Jin Seo-ae before. His husband’s body will belong to the Leverage Company with the insurance he bought while he was alive and be used as research material. It is one of the few insurances available to Force users who have a high risk of death and are difficult to purchase with other insurances. What’s more, he would never have thought that his corpse would go back intact while he was fighting an enemy species.

When a man thinks of his family, he really can do anything. Even if he has a funeral, even if he brings an empty coffin without his body to the crematorium.

“If a dead person is alive, just look for the movement of the body. And I found his tail.”

“Have you tried hacking there?”

“I tried, but it didn’t work. It’s bingo.”

It is said that in a simple scientific civilized society, those who cannot hack Zion must have the same level of technology. In particular, it is not science, but a level of technology developed by combining this ability with science.

In a civilization that has only been 20 years since the Gaia Force appeared, it is impossible to have a super genius at that level. It’s like throwing Bill Gates into the Stone Age and telling him to build a computer. Oh, Bill Gates is a programmer. Anyway.

“It’s impossible to hack the Leverage Corporation itself, but it’s possible to hack the surroundings, so I’ve been researching this and that, but most of them are research facilities that are superficial.”

“Can’t we go deeper? Why could there be a secret underground laboratory?”

“It is unreasonable for an artificial satellite of this era”

“Ah, this”

The way Zion collects information includes CCTV, electronic devices, computer networks, national defense networks, and satellite hacking. The point is that if you can’t gather information with it, you can’t.

For example, Zion can hack and blow up nuclear bombs all over the world right now, but it can’t blow up the moon right away. In the first place, even if you explode all the nuclear bombs on Earth, you won’t be able to blow up the moon. Everything that is possible with Earth’s scientific power is possible, but it is impossible to do anything that is not possible.

“Detailed investigation is impossible unless you bring in a car parked on Mars.”

“I told you not to treat a vehicle with a giant dimensional navigation ship.”

“Are you calling me?”

“Did you forget to bring it up like that the other day and destroy some satellites in satellite orbit?”

It was about 300 years ago, so I roughly remembered it. Because of that incident, Shion had to appear outside on the surface to clear things up, so… I filmed the encounter with the unknown. It can be ignored, but Zion’s conscience was too fragile to destroy and ignore several satellites worth hundreds of billions.

It was so funny that he flew out of the way and greeted with his fingers like ET….. It’s true that he’s a friendly alien, but if you’re a normal person, it’s normal to say hello with a dog drip.

I remembered it because it was one of the few things that Shion, not me, had an accident. It’s funny when you think about it now, but at the time, the situation was really shit.

“Leave it for now. Anyway, those guys are bound to make a fuss no matter what they do.”

I don’t know why they even experiment on humans, but in the end, it will be nothing but the result of a psychopath who cares about the cause and the development of science. Wanting them to be quiet is the same as wanting them to stop being virtuous after seeing them as their wives.

“Sooner or later, another one will explode. I’ve only got this close with two, so if it takes one more, I can catch it.”

Now I could only hold on to the collar. This is a stage where you can miss it if you shake it off.

It needed clear clues to hold on to it for sure. And the clue didn’t seem as far away as I thought.

How do you know?

It’s just a hunch.

*        *    *

Shion stopped at the police station often for a week because of that. If I were the target, there was a high possibility of trouble, but it was finished quickly because it was what Shion was doing.

“I gave the kids my phone number first.”

“Sujeong and Aram? Aren’t your parents worried?”

“I met and talked well. It was easily resolved because they said they were kidnapped together.”

“It went well. Did you get ignored or anything like that because of your appearance?”

“Sujeong’s father was working as a manager at a company I know. Thanks to that, the conversation was easy.”

“There must be dozens of companies you know, where?”

“It’s just the right company”

I don’t know if it’s a really suitable company that Xion is talking about, or if it’s a large company, but it’s just a suitable company from Zion’s point of view, but I think it’s the latter.

“Maybe if something happens, you’ll call me.”

“It’s okay to give me my phone number. Why is there a number that can’t be tracked?”

“I know that we are acquaintances anyway, but if it is a request from the kids, I can handle it on my own.”

“Wouldn’t that bother you?”

“I have experience taking care of children.”

The kidnapping case was concluded on the Zion Line. Kim Jeong-soo’s body was lost during the chase. He seems to have stole it somewhere, but I couldn’t figure out the exact location.

It seems that the dark-looking guy used his hand. The police only listened to the information they had obtained, and it seemed that the body had not been returned.

“Oh, and the game developer I mentioned before, you can visit the day after tomorrow.”

“That’s right. There was that too. I’ll just wear the suit I bought. But I’m not very talented at running a business.”

Everyone is born with natural talents and talents. As a reincarnated person, I beat the bowl of competence and made it big, but the parts without talent are still not outstanding even if I train and develop them.

One of them is talent related to business management or leadership. If you leave a company to me, it’s just enough to not ruin it, but I can’t even dream of business prosperity.

At least, I can develop skills like using cheats with my skills, but there is a limit to that as well. Among the knowledge I accumulated in the first place, there is not much knowledge that can be called a gongdol.

Even more, if you are a game developer, it will be mainly programming, game story, etc. Then you can use your hands, but less.

“I’ve got the office and the people. You just need to give instructions.”

“What’s your company name?”

“This is Zion”

“Do you only change Korean characters?”

Zion’s name is Zion. In terms of pronunciation, this one is closer to Zeon, but both are pronounced the same as Zion.

When asked why he is an alien and his name seems to be based on Earth, he said that Shion was born on Earth in the first place.

Game developer Zion.

If you think about it, the purpose is not to run a business, but purely because I want to make a game I want. I want to be able to eat and operate comfortably.

When I let go of my attachment to money, I feel at ease. This is why people can live comfortably only when their material desires are in moderation.

The day after tomorrow, I should go to work at Shion instead of going to the chicken restaurant……. Ah, because of this, I feel like I will not go to work the day after tomorrow and have a chat with Shion.

When referring to the game developer Zion, it should be called Shion Co., Ltd.

“Please make a fun game. Gacha elements are not acceptable.”

“I don’t like gacha either”

These days, there are a lot of games with gacha elements in order to make money. 100,000 won for a few items that go into character selection. That way, it’s not going to come out definitively again.

At least, conscientious guys say that if you turn a certain amount on the ceiling, the character you want will come out, but there are many games that don’t do that.

I don’t want to go back to the past, but I can miss the past. It wasn’t that games in the past didn’t have billing elements, but even so, the game quality and story were better than spending that kind of money.

At least, even a moderately well-made game at the time was more fun than a gacha game made roughly to make money these days.

The old days were good, at least for mobile games.

The games I played back then were in the days of 2G and folder phones, so it’s hard to play again now because there are compatibility issues with smartphones. Even if it did, it wouldn’t be as fun as it was then.

So it would be fun to reboot again or improve it to suit the present.

Money is next

Of course, if the company doesn’t make enough money to go bankrupt, it goes bankrupt.

“Is it okay if I perish…?”

“Even if the company goes bankrupt, don’t worry, we have enough money left after paying all the employees’ severance pay.

“It makes salary negotiations cool”

“In the first place, the salary for this job is too salty in this country.”

Shion secretly handed over the rough company documents. From the personal details of the employees to the resume, there are programmers, screenwriters, illustrators, network administrators, and so on, divided according to each job. The total number of employees is about 60 people. It’s quite a lot on the outside, but it’s definitely a small business.

“There are a lot of people with quite a bit of experience… I don’t look at academic background too much, so I’m only looking at career.”

“Originally experienced is good”

It’s not that there aren’t fresh graduates, but there are quite a few experienced ones.

“Oh, and I bought the rights to the Heroic Chronicle series. You can edit as you like.”

One of the things to do is my wife who is awesome.

I got an approximate direction. I am a person who believes that if a result is needed, sufficient time and budget should be invested in it.

Of course, it’s the part where you have to be angry if you can’t do it even though you’ve invested enough time and budget.

I’ll tell Baekri that I have work tomorrow, and I’ll take a break the day after tomorrow.

*        *    *

When I said I was going to work, Baek-ri asked back in surprise.

“What company?”

“A game developer. They said there was a game they wanted to play, so they made a game company.”

“Wow, that’s great. Rich people behave differently from us. What is it? I heard that Bill Gates rented a cruise ship for a few hundred million dollars to spend his summer vacation and played. I think it’s similar.”

“It’s not like that. To be honest, it’s fun to ride a cruise ship, but there’s nothing more to do than I thought. If I want to swim, I’d rather go to the sea or the valley.”

“I think it’ll be fun though. And then it’s hard to play because there are a lot of normal people.”

“Then, would you like to go on vacation together this summer? My wife bought an island and a mountain.

“Is there an island or a mountain? A mountain can be considered as real estate, but an island is another great thing. Oh, I heard that rich people live for their money.”

“It’s for recreation. Me and my wife are hedonists after all. The most important thing is, of course, the mental part, but I love playing and eating, so it’s nice to have fun, so it’s only natural that I bought it.”

“Where do you want to go… I think it would be nice to go with my family, but if it’s an island, it will take a long time, right?”

“I haven’t heard in detail where it is, but I think it’s on the west coast for now. They say it’s close to Seoul and the west coast, but it’s not a distance to come and go in a day or two.”

Korea is a peninsula, but at the same time, there are many islands on the west and south coasts. On the other hand, the east coast is gentle, so there are not many islands. If you do not fall asleep during class time, this is a field that is taught in school classes.

However, once it was an island, it was not a short distance to come and go either way. Somewhere close to the metropolitan area is not good, and it must be an island in the southern region, but it takes a few hours to drive there.

If you add the time to go and play and come back, I think 2 days and 1 night will be tight.

“Then the mountain side is better. If there is a valley, playing in the water is the same.”

“If you just barbecue there, I’ll just kill you.

“Hyung is cool when it comes to money, so I like it.”

How much money do you guys have? It doesn’t cost a dime or two to travel.

Anyway, let’s get down to business. If you work worthwhile today, the food tastes good and you earn money.

“Ahhh, there are so many people because it’s on TV. I’ll have to prepare more chicken tomorrow Baekri!”

“I fried over 100 fish today too?!”

“Here are two packs of seasoning.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, but wait a minute! Please wait!”

“Please do the math here.”

“I’ll do this, Baekri student”

Maybe it was thanks to the last broadcast, the publicity effect was good. As long as it goes on TV and tastes really good and is cheap, business is going well. If the store were a bit bigger, it would be difficult to cover with three people, but since the store is small and most take out orders, we were able to do it somehow.

It’s just that it takes a long time to fry, but the rest is done quickly. In the first place, Baekri is a Force user, so his movements are fast, and I am also a Transcendentalist, so even if I move moderately, I am much more agile than Baekri.

When the business was over, I was able to breathe a sigh of relief. Thanks to the broadcast, sales skyrocketed, but unlike usual, when I had some spare time, I’m busy moving without any time to breathe.

“I’m busy. How about hiring another part-timer?”

“Even if it’s called broadcasting effect, it’s not going to come out continuously, but it won’t last long. At most, it’ll be a month or two. But wouldn’t it be better for us to work harder than looking for a part-time job to do that?”

“You’re not doing this to save money, are you?”

“There is a bonus this month”

“Hyung, I’m always loyal and loyal!”

The stance shift resembles her sister’s.

As always, before closing the shop, Seo-ae sent it first. It’s been like this since before because Baekri and I talked. I have a kid at home and I need to go back soon.

“You worked hard today too. Seo-ae. Seong-hye is healthy, right?”

“Of course. These days, I’m on vacation, so I don’t wake up until lunchtime. Sometimes, on days when I go in early, I hear that there are times when I come in later than I do because I’m playing.”

“No matter what kids do, being healthy is the best. Oh, after vacation, when would you like to go on a summer vacation together? Going together would be much more fun.”

“Are you on vacation? Where are you going?”

“I’m planning on going to the mountain for now. My wife bought something to play with.”

It’s vacation… Come to think of it, it’s vacation season. That’s why the broadcasting effect was said to be effective, but it was understandable that there were twice as many customers as usual. At least college-aged kids hang out all night, what else to do besides drinking and eating?

“Oh, is it a mountain?”

“Yes, it’s not too long. I’m going to catch it for 2 days or 2 nights and go to the valley and have a barbecue. How is it?”

“I’m sure you’ll like Seong-hye too. It’s been a while since I’ve been on a trip…”

“I’ll let you know when I schedule later. If there’s a day that doesn’t work, let me know in advance.”

When you say vacation, it is a day off after all. And when I say a day off, it has something in common with a day to play.

There is no difference between us. As a self-employed person, I can rest as long as I endure the sales that day, so it is better than the company. Weekends….. No, as much as you eat chicken on the weekends, it’s better to take a break on weekdays rather than weekends. Our store is closed on Saturdays, so let’s make a schedule for three days: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

“Then see you tomorrow, President Choi. Ah! You said you wouldn’t come tomorrow, right?”

“Yes, I think I will come out only in the afternoon. Anyway, go inside carefully.”

After Seo-ae passed away, Baek-ri and I stayed behind to organize the store. I organize food waste and store tables and fix the ingredients for tomorrow.

Since we have more guests, we need to prepare more, but it doesn’t take as long as we thought.

“Did my hands get faster? I move the same as usual, but have my skills improved?”

“She used to get hit by Ruri all the time, but lately she’s fighting back.”

“Oh, yes? The basics seem to have accumulated?”

Baek-ri, who wants to become stronger, has accumulated less basic skills than I would care for, but she seems to have accumulated the basics by fighting and beating Ruri. In that short amount of time, I gained a certain amount of muscle and moved, but looking at the knack, I don’t think my talent is bad.

Now that I have built up the basics, I want to teach you something… What would you like?

“I’m going to teach you something. Is there anything you want to learn?”

“Uh…Then that’s it. Is it the covetous immeasurable qigong I told you about before, or is it the dragon slayer?”

“I said both of you can’t learn it.”

“Instead, the effect is great! One is infinite inner strength, and one is the power that knocked down the heavenly sword Lee Gyeong-jin!”

Covetous Qigong is a martial art that requires a good heart, and Slaughter Dragon is a martial art that requires hatred.

If you force yourself to learn, you’ll run out of control or only get half the time. Better to learn something else.

Since people’s minds are completely unaware, it is not possible to engage in greedy qigong unless it can be guaranteed to be absolute from the start. I am also from my family, so I basically learned it because I had a mindset for others, but I couldn’t have learned it otherwise.

And even though Baekri doesn’t know his heart, he has no hatred. He can be angry with others, but he cannot hate them deep in his heart. That’s why even if you learn the slaughter dragon, you won’t be able to use your power.

“I’ll tell you something similar. Then that’s it.”

“What do you have?”

“One is Taegeuk Spiral Gyeong. Excluding Martial Arts) as well. Surah Gwangryongtoo is a bit ambiguous… The Manryongmu I know seems to have a different aptitude for you to learn.”

“There are a lot of things. The further you go, the less you learn.”

“What I’ve learned is to sort out people. I’m proud of my reincarnation jjambab.”

It’s called Manryu Gwijong. As I lived my life, rice was learned by matching enlightenment here and there, so I learned how to do it.

It’s Sura Gwangryongtoo that I made by arranging all the skills I learned, but it’s a bit difficult to teach me to kill from the beginning.

“The things I can teach you are Taegeuk Naseonkyung, Nang Ayu Su, and Yu Su Gang sword. These three are definitely. Do you want to learn swordsmanship?”

“Hmm… Bare hands are more comfortable. I can’t even carry a sword around.”

Even Force users cannot bring weapons unless they belong to a country. Then bare-handed would be more comfortable.

Then, except for the water river sword. It is Taegeuk Spiral Gyeong and Nang Ayu Su.

“Taegeuk Naseonkyung and Nang Ayusu. Both are good martial arts. If either one reaches its peak, you can become the strongest Earthling. Except for me, of course.”

“I’m not a Moorim person, but it’s like a line written full of bravado at the beginning of a martial arts book.”

“One can break anything down to the atomic level, and the other can use a time stop.”

“Wow, fuck off what I just said”

As the name implies, both Taegeuk Naseonkyung and Nang Ayusu are martial arts with a focus on flow. However, the goal is different.

If Taegeuk Spiral Gyeong is based on the principle of ‘decomposition’, Nang Ayu Su is a martial art to reach the limit of speed. None of them are martial arts that can hardly be reached in a person’s lifetime.

Probably, if nothing else happens, there is little chance that Baek-ri will reach the extreme. It teaches you to use it for self-defense.

“What do you want to learn?”

Baekri was worried because it was about the future. After thinking about it for about 10 minutes, he finally said the name of the martial arts he wanted to learn.

“I…….”