CH 169

HOSHI’s bow (4).

The place Song A-young guided for “play” was a shopping mall located on the 47th floor.

Before moving, at the request of Song A-young, the Baek Ho-min and his party had to be disarmed. The Baek Ho-min party did not feel much resistance because there was also an order from Platinum Lord.

Anyway, Baek Ho-min is now at a level that is not very restricted by weapons, and Kang Hae-jin was able to pull out the hidden weapons as much as he wanted.

Yoo Ha-eul could run anywhere and bring out a kitchen knife, and Haru itself was a weapon.

“If you want to tour, I recommend this place.”

As soon as Baek Ho-min and Kang Hae-jin arrived at a large shopping mall, they couldn’t close their mouths. Even Kang Hae-jin, who had been in the downtown area of Yeongju for a long time, was embarrassed.

There were countless people everywhere, and snacks that I saw for the first time were displayed throughout the shopping mall.

“There are so many people here.””

Even at the intersection in front of Yeongjuseong Fortress, it was difficult to find a crowd of this size.

Baek Ho-min realized the size of this city. At the same time, it felt strange that it was difficult to find an armed person among these many people.

Because it couldn’t happen in their city.

“What should I do here?””

Baek Ho-min asked stiffly.

He gave me a card and there was a shopping mall, so I would tell him to spend as much money as he wanted, but it was a landscape that he still had no sense of reality.

At that time, Baek Ho-min found Haru walking around with Tanghulu and cotton candy in both hands.

“Is that so? Can I just eat it?””

“Is there no armed battle here?” If we build such a high-quality infrastructure, the level of industrial products will be quite excellent.”

Baek Ho-min stared at Kang Hae-jin with a look at the psychopath. Kang hajin did not even pay attention to Baek Ho-min’s gaze.

Anyway, Kang ha-jin lived regardless of money, so he had no desire for consumption.

Realizing that the two were not in a position to be together,

Kang hajin went out to find an armed battle with Yoo Ha-eul, and Haru dragged Baek Ho-min.

“Baek Ho-min! Try this!””

“This is…” What is this? Medicine?

“It’s called bead ice cream!” It’s a rare food! Try this, too!”

“What’s this?” It’s crispy on the outside but moist on the inside…. It’s more delicious than iron needle dochi.”

“They say it’s sweet and sour chicken.” I heard that the mountain beast was cut into pieces, extracted blood, removed bones, covered in dough, and fried in high-temperature oil! The people at the top of the tower eat scary food! Isn’t it suspicious?”

It sounded very cruel, but it was a recipe for ordinary food.

Haru continued to feed Baek Ho-min while dragging him around.

Sometimes I even tried to feed people with suspicious things, but when I saw him not eating, I doubted that he was just trying to tease me.

It felt like Haru was struggling with street food that Haru bought constantly instead of parasitic species.

Baek Ho-min ran away immediately after seeing Haru, who was ahead, enter a store called “Outdoor Snack Discount Store.”

I was no longer confident in handling whatever Haru brought out of there.

“Huh?”

Then Baek Ho-min found something in the crowd. If it wasn’t something wrong, it was Platinum Lord.

It was different that they were wearing ordinary clothes like people in the crowd instead of white raincoats as usual.

Platinum Lord seemed to have made eye contact with Baek Ho-min, but disappeared without much reaction.

“Wait, Youngjoo!”

Baek Ho-min missed it in countless crowds while trying to follow Platinum Lord.

Instead, she stopped in front of the store where she was hanging around.

It was a clothing store with an ordinary impression.

The shelves were full of old-fashioned clothes.

They were new products that seemed to have just been pulled out of the factory, not worn out and worn out like Baek Ho-min was wearing.

Curious why Platinum Lord was in front of this store, Baek Ho-min looked inside.

“Baek Ho-min!”

Then someone bumped into me from behind. I heard a sound of something pouring Ururu from behind my back.

Looking back, Haru, who was holding an armful of snacks, was picking up the snacks that were spilled on the floor in a mess.

“What were you doing?” Were you emptying your stomach to eat all these snacks?”

“No, please stop…”…”

“What are you two doing?””

Someone quickly approached when Haru caused some confusion.

It was Song Ahyoung.

Seeing she come right away, she seemed to have been watching them not far away. She asked, helping Haru pick up the snacks she spilled.

“You must have broken up with your party.” To buy clothes?”

“Oh, yes. What?”

“Well, it’s definitely old. Their fashion sense is much better than the other two, but the fact that they’re worn out……”

Song A-young said as she looked at Baek Ho-min and Haru’s clothes.

Baek Ho-min was wearing old-fashioned clothes, although old, and Haru, who used to pick up waste products among shadow beasts beyond the boundaries, was the same.

Come to think of it, Song A-young also looked like an old-fashioned costume.

The same was true of most people on the street.

Among these people, Kang Hae-jin and Yoo Ha-eul’s clothes were naturally noticeable. Haru shouted as if she realized it, too.

“I used to be an old man in the city, but I’m a fashion leader here!”

“What are you talking about?” It’s not to that extent. I’m just saying it’s better.”

Baek Ho-min picked up one of the clothes displayed silently. It was a hoodie with strange letters.

Song A-young looked subtle when she saw Baek Ho-min putting the hood on her body.

“Are you going to wear that?””

“What’s wrong with this?”

“What’s written there…”… You know what I mean, right?”

“What? What does it mean?””

“That’s a very bad meaning in English.””

“English? Forgotten ancient language?”

“What? An ancient language?” Didn’t you go to school? It’s a must to interact with other tops.”

Song A-young asked with her eyes wide open.

“Wait, compulsory education?””

“Education is a leash for those who conform to the system!””

Haru replied proudly, but Song A-young calmly looked at her and said.

“No. Knowledge is the minimum culture for people to be human before they conform to the system and sleep. People who don’t know anything are resistant, compliant, and can’t even choose. It’s like an animal.”

Haru hesitated and couldn’t answer Song A-young’s answer.

Baek Ho-min said as he stepped forward for Haru.

“She’s just a fool who likes to say things that seem difficult and scary, not what she knows.” But what about school? Is that important?”

Song A-young looked so serious that Baek Ho-min wondered if there was something wrong. She said with a very worried look.

“You said you were 20 years old, Baek Ho-min.” Haru seems to be of the same age, but is it common in cities below the tower that you can’t go to school like that?”

Baek Ho-min and Haru looked at each other.

“Well, it’s normal in alleys.””

“I know how to write letters!””

“And it doesn’t matter if you don’t know English to kill parasites.”

Despite the two’s rebuttal, Song A-young looked at the two with her arms folded.

“I’m a hunter, a parasite, and it’s not a problem.” You don’t have to kill a parasite. Even if you don’t kill the parasite, most of the people in this city are living well. If you had been educated, you could have had a chance other than a hunter.”

Baek Ho-min could not answer.

In cities, receiving circuitry and becoming a hunter was the only way to get out of the gutter.

There was no other path.

Entering the pension battle and entering the circuit battle were all possible from the moment the circuit was transplanted.

“It’s a bigger problem than you two think. There is a big problem in the city where you came. Besides, it’s weird to push people as young as you into the limbs.”

“No, what…””

Baek Ho-min had nothing to say as he was coming into the theorem.

However, it is also true that there was no other way.

The city was dying, and there was only a path on the tower.

However, Baek Ho-min found people living actively in the middle of the tower.

Platinum Lord must have known this fact.

But why did she hide that fact?

“If you have any thoughts, would you like to go to school with me?” There’s a teacher that I respect. The teacher has already taught other hunters a few times like you. Maybe it’ll be helpful.”

Song Ah-young, who said that those who don’t know anything about Baek Ho-min are resistance, conformity, and cannot even choose, came to mind.

Baek Ho-min hesitated and looked at Haru. Haru was somehow staring at Song A-young silently.

Looking at the unknown eyes, Baek Ho-min opened his mouth.

“I don’t think it matters if I learn English. If we go up here, we’ll call it another tower….”

Platinum Lord told me to enjoy this place.

I meant things that were not in the city.

Abundance, peace, and opportunity.

“What does this hoodie say?””

Song A-young hesitated and read the pronunciation and added an explanation.

“That’s very vulgar and mean.””

Baek Ho-min tilted his head.

“It seems like the word that Jacheongbi Paladin used to recite.”

“Baek Ho-min, what are you thinking?””

“It’s a little scary.””

Eventually, Baek Ho-min and Haru unexpectedly visited a school located on the 48th floor.

While Song A-young was away, saying she was going to pick up her teacher, the two sat in an empty classroom and stared blankly at the blackboard.

The starlight permeating through the window, the dust shining between them, and the strange smell of trees.

Everything was unfamiliar to Baek Ho-min.

“School was this kind of place.”

“This is where oppression begins…”…”

Still, because he heard something from somewhere, Baek Ho-min looked through the drawer, took out the book inside, and pretended to study.

There were a lot more words that could be read but could not be recognized.

“Hey, Haru. You know a lot of difficult letters.”

“Collapse of quantum! My heart is beating so fast!”

“Where did you learn that from?””

“I learned it at the dog necklace workshop.”

Baek Ho-min closed his mouth while trying to ask what the hell should do to learn such things.

Most of the trainers in the dog necklace workshop are now dead. This was because he was caught up in Chorong’s monkfish, who was proceeding with the counterattack.

Baek Ho-min suddenly thought that Platinum Lord led the process of reverse, so she might have prevented the tragedy of the dog necklace battle.

However, it was a meaningless assumption. Since it’s already been in the past.

It’s not like Platinum Lord can return.’

“Sorry!”

At that time, Song A-young bowed her back and apologized as she entered the classroom.

“My teacher is in class right now, so she thinks it’ll be difficult.”

“Oh, it’s okay.” I was studying on my own.”

Baek Ho-min said shamelessly, but Song A-young approached him with a welcoming look and looked at the textbook.

But she soon looked at the condition of the textbook and made a subtle face.

“This is a fantasy novel.”

“It was in the bookshelf with modern literature written on it”.”

“It’s not wrong, but…”…”

“Oh, I don’t know what this means, but please tell me.””

“Me too!”

Song A-young unexpectedly started teaching Korean to Baek Ho-min and Haru.

The Korean lectures conducted in that way went on to literature, English, basic mathematics, and history and social studies subjects.

By the time the lecture exceeded two hours.

Song A-young was slowly getting tired, but Baek Ho-min continued to listen to Song A-young.

Song A-young was somewhat surprised by his unexpected concentration.

“Uh… I didn’t think I was that good at teaching, but seeing Baek Ho-min, I wonder if I was talented in education.” Of course, I corrected my mind again after seeing Haru.”

Haru fell asleep on her desk. She looked asleep less than 30 minutes later. However, Baek Ho-min was not sleepy at all.

Over the past two hours, Baek Ho-min has sucked in knowledge like a sponge that meets water.

It was an amazing world for him.

“It’s fun”.

“At first, all studies are fun.””

Song A-young smiled bitterly and said.

But soon she murmured with her eyes down low.

“Even so, I think Baek Ho-min is definitely talented. I can feel that I’m learning quickly and getting used to it quickly. If I had a proper opportunity from the beginning, I think I could have become a great person.”

“I don’t think it’s that bad even now.”

“However.”

Song A-young said while looking at Baek Ho-min.

“You’re still risking your life to climb the tower. Fight dangerous parasites, kill and kill and kill…… Usually, 20-year-olds don’t.”

Song A-young carefully pointed at herself and said.

“I’m 20 years old, too. But I’m doing an internship at the association, let alone hunting parasites.”

“There’s no other opportunity than that…”….”

“That’s what I’m saying. It’ Was there really no other option?”

There might have been.

But now Platinum Lord has stepped on it and removed it all.

Not only Baek Ho-min’s but also everyone else’s options.

Baek Ho-min didn’t want to think deeply about that.

“If so, it would be better if we could use this city as a base and climb the tower.”

“No. Mr. Baek Ho-min.”

She bowed down and made eye contact with Baek Ho-min.

“I mean, why do you have to leave climbing the tower as an option?” Can’t you live comfortably now? You can live by teaching and learning at school without killing anyone. But why?”

“All weapons are handled by the association…””D.”

Kang hajin was looking for an armed battle, but couldn’t find it, and eventually gave up. Eventually, I had to visit an association to find a place to sell weapons.

The association was located in the middle of the cavity in a huge Yeongjuseong Fortress hanging like a stalactite.

Kang hajin eventually decided to visit the association first.

Platinum Lord said to enjoy it as much as possible, but it was impossible to enjoy it comfortably in a situation where there were no other hunters and the identity of this place was unknown.

While riding the escalator heading to Yeongjuseong Fortress, Kang hajin looked around Yuhaul, holding the hem of his clothes from behind and not letting go.

“…Yoo Haeul, why don’t you let go of your clothes?””

“Uh… But.”

“What are you scared of?” There are no weapons and no parasites here.”

“Well, I don’t know, but I don’t feel good…”…”

Kang hajin suddenly paid attention to Yoo Ha-eul’s words while being annoyed.

Yoo Ha-eul has more extraordinary aspects than it seems.

Sh had low self-esteem and weak mentality, but she could have been superior to Kang Hae-jin in terms of sense and skills.

“How does it feel?”

“Oh, no. There’s something like that. It’s an unnatural feeling that there’s nothing that should be and shouldn’t be. I can’t get rid of that uncomfortable feeling….”

“It’s strange that there’s a place like this in the middle of the tower…”…”

At that time, Kang hajin saw Yoo Ha-eul’s gaze glancing upward from Yeongjuseong Fortress. Kang hajin followed the gaze without thinking, and found a blue mark that had been passing by without thinking.

Yoo Ha-eul said as if he was bored.

“That’s the sign of paladin, right?””

Unlike Yeongjuseong Fortress in the lower part of the city, Yeongjuseong Fortress was not the only one that was overturned.

In Yeongjuseong Fortress in the lower part of the city, there is a white flag engraved with a golden seal indicating that Platinum Lord is a lord. However, a blue flag engraved with white seals was hung above the main gate here.

It was a sign of the atheistic paladin group that was familiar to Yoo Ha-eul’s eyes.

“Why is there an atheistic paladin sign here?””

“It’s not a sign of atheistic palladin.”

Kang hajin gritted his teeth and murmured as if whispering.

“It’s a symbol of the Eternal Church.”