Chapter 191 – Black Dragon (1)

Between me and Choi Yeon-joo lying on the bed, I could only hear the even breathing. She lay with her back to me and wiggled her fingers. I stroked her hair and ran her arms around her as I held her in her arms like her bird’s nest. Yeonjoo Choi said:

“I’ve been thinking about it.”

“What do you think?”

“If I die, where will I be most likely to die? Do. I’ve been thinking about it.”

I nodded her head and brushed her hair once more. The Almighty was still silent. She didn’t say anything, but she could sense that she was listening to us.

Yeonju Choi seemed to like having me brush her own back. She also loved to cuddle. Overnight, she let me know what she liked in a variety of ways.

For instance, she liked having her ass squeezed hard during sex, but she didn’t like to have her ass wide open. She liked being rubbed on the shoulder and petting her hair, but hated touching her face. The tighter she hugged her, the stronger she liked it. Yeonju Choi’s voice rang dryly like a talking doll when pressed.

“Perhaps, isn’t it time to fight Choi Soon-hong, the former Black Dragon Ark. I’ve been thinking about that. Originally, fighting awakened people is several times more difficult than fighting monsters. It’s an act of fighting someone who has the same experience as me or more.”

I hugged her tight again.

“I will not die. I will protect you.”

Laughter was heard. She shook her head and put her hand up to stroke my cheek. When she stroked my cheek, she felt strange.

“Then you die. We are people who are busy taking care of our bodies. Both are targets of Choi Soon-hong.”

She said and looked at her wall again. On the wall reflecting indigo under the starlight, a jet-black clock emitted eerily red numbers. Yeonjoo Choi said.

“Because I think so. It seemed like I didn’t have much time. I was so nervous and in a hurry. So, I wanted to do anything. Because I didn’t want to die.”

I said nothing. I didn’t want to die either. Living at the gate for three months, I always thought I didn’t want to die either. It seemed that I nodded my head unconsciously. She flinched and then she looked back at me. She cupped my cheek around hers and kissed her on the lips.

“Today was really good. Really. I’ve never had an experience like this before. It was the first time I had ever been in bed with a man, and had a sincere conversation like this.”

I didn’t ask why it was me. She must have chosen me based on her own criteria. It must mean that I was her really good man to her. I, too, decided to accept her now as her good woman and her wonderful lover.

Yeonjoo Choi said.

“Because I thought that way, I felt this way. Why do I have to die Shouldn’t I die? Shouldn’t we win here and just be careful from now on?”

It was her logic. Hunter Choi Yeon-joo’s logic had a corner of it. She said and grabbed my arm.

“And, shouldn’t we just keep doing fun and good things like this? Forever.”

She said that and pressed her body close to me. She kissed me once again and told me this story.

“When this job is over, would you like to go to the sea together? I’ve never traveled anywhere with that guy before. You call that a date. So, we go to see the sea, we go to the mountains, and we go to the movies together. I go to the cool exhibition halls and I go to the library and read books. Finding new research papers, researching them, and studying together. Then, when you improve your skills, we will go into the gate together.”

“Awesome.”

At my words, she looked back at my face. What expression was I making? She watched my expression carefully and then she said:

“You can’t bring other women. Dating is my time. I’ll only take one day out of the week. Sometimes I give in too. We can talk about that later.”

“Are you really okay? The relationship with that woman is complicated.”

“Does not matter.”

She said firmly. Yeonju Choi stroked my cheek and added,

“Why do love need conditions? The reason why firewood burns is that it ends neatly with one word: fire.”

I hugged her tightly once more.

“All you have to do is defeat Choi Sun-hong. And, we spend our time finding out what we like.”

She stroked her hair once more and kissed her on the cheek. I slept there that night. When I got up early the next morning and went up to my room, my women were looking at me strangely.

Seong Ha-yeon said this while stroking her own belly first.

“Baby. My dad is a player right? We didn’t know anything, but before we knew it, did you see that she knocked down the s-class hunter job?”

Senior Yoojeong said this as she walked backwards with her embarrassed face.

“Mr. Suhyun. Aren’t you a real player?”

To Ichie, who was silently listening to her story, she said this.

“I’m always on Suhyeon-san’s side?”

Seong Ha-yeon and Yu-jeong, who heard the sound, looked at Ichie with puzzled faces. As Ichie stuck out her tongue slightly and ran out of her, they laughed and said.

“Wow, traitor.”

“I’ve already been attached to an s-rank hunter. And.”

I laughed at their appearance. It was because if she smiled like this, she would be able to quickly overcome her serious worries, as Choi Yeon-joo said. While the three of us left for breakfast, I talked to the Almighty from the veranda.

“The Almighty Emperor.”

[Why?]

“I don’t think it matters who Almighty Emperor is. Whoever is in the future, whoever is in the past, and who has been turned into an omnipotent agent by some event, it doesn’t matter at all to our relationship.”

[It is a matter of course. No matter who I am, it doesn’t change that I will be with you. Because watching you grow is one of my pleasures.]

The Almighty said so. I nodded at those words. And I thought about it in my mind. I won’t die. I will definitely defeat Choi Sun-hong. No matter what, no matter what

*****

Inside the dark warehouse, black aura was flowing like lava. In the corner of the room, a man with big muscles, like two bears stacked on top of each other, was sitting crouching over her. His surroundings were full of traces of brutal destruction, reminiscent of a bombing site.

The masked man awkwardly poked his head out of the range of his man’s attack and asked,

“Old man. How have you been?”

“It is finished.”

Choi Soon-Hong’s deep voice contained a hint of murder. As if he could hear the throbbing voice of a beast, the masked man managed to calm his trembling legs. Just by listening closely, I could feel the brutality of killing that overwhelms people.

After completing his second dose of doping, Soon-Hong Choi entered face-to-face training to control his body, which was being swayed by uncontrollable power. As a result of breaking and crushing the exercise equipment that controls his strength countless times, Choi Soon-hong now turns around while playing with a gripper like a toy. Gently teasing his fingers as if he were a child, he folded the gripper all the way, and with a sudden burst of force smashed his instrument.

When he opened his clenched fist, he saw that shiny metal powder flew to the floor. He asked the masked man with his big eyes shining.

“How’s the operation that you guys are doing?”

“Because it is an operation that takes a long time to prepare. Currently, only the equipment is made and it is entering the final test. As you know, the test in the operation I did with Kim Hyun-ki last time was a bit incomplete.”

He was not interested in the operation that Kim Hyun-ki did. However, Choi Soon-Hong nodded his head, saying yes. Only two thoughts filled his head. He kills Lee Hyeon-woo, who took away the name of the Heavenly Demon from him. To kill Choi Yeon-joo, who insulted her by calling herself a girl, and Jung Soo-hyun, who took away her power.

Choi Yeon-joo and Jeong Su-hyeon were about to die at his hands. Choi Soon-hong will appear in the middle of Seoul holding the heads of the two people. And he will challenge Lee Hyeon-woo in the name of the heavenly horse. After winning there, he will finally become a human worthy of the name of the Heavenly Demon.

Choi Sun-hong asked the masked man again.

“Aren’t there people in the Black Dragon Room?”

“According to our sources, the Black Dragon Room is currently out of business, and there are a few researchers in the lab and Jeong Su-hyeon. There is only Choi Yeon-joo.”

I thought she was a cheeky woman to the end. Choi Soon-Hong frowned and gnashed his teeth. Now it was time to make a decision.

It was time to take a step forward in the name of the Heavenly Demon.

******

[This is an almighty tracking tool using Exidia.]

Yeonju Choi stared blankly at the bracelet in her own hand. The courier that flew by morning delivery had an energy that slightly loosened a person’s spirit as soon as it was held in hand. She took out her contents and looked them over.

A bracelet made of Axidia.

A fragment of Almighty Power created by the mixing of Exsidia and Hunter’s thoughts.

It was funny.

She will not become a fragment of the Almighty.

Because the corpse will be Choi Soon-hong.

Choi Yeon-ju looked over her bracelet and put it in her chest of drawers.