CH 170

HOSHI’s bow (5).

“Eternal denomination? The denomination collapsed, right? The leader dies, and the forces are completely scattered…….”

Yoo Ha-eul muttered as if she were confused.

She, too, has only very abstract memories of her time as an Eternal Church.

People with some age often talked in a way that “the days were good,” but it didn’t reach Yoo Ha-eul.

However, a civil war broke out in the city to drive out the eternal church, and many people and constellations died. And I only knew that Platinum Lord was at the forefront.

“Is there any remaining power left on the tower?” If this city is the base of the denomination……”

“That can’t be true.”

Kang hajin muttered with his face distorted.

“The denomination was a system that could only be established around the leader. The head of the paladin group and the bishops were cut off by Moktukgaksi, and the leader was executed by Platinum Lord. All that’s left is the seaweeds. There’s no way I have the power to build a city this big…….”

Then Kang hajin clenched his teeth.

I remembered what Platinum Lord said last night.

Enjoy the richness of this city.

Kang hajin seemed to know what she wanted to show.

And what the reality of this city is.

“It’s a religious order.”

“What? It can’t have been a religious order just now.””

It’s something that imitates the denomination. To be exact, it is “the future when the denomination wins.” More precisely, it would be a space that embodies the “fear that maybe the future in which the denomination was successful would have been better.” Then it’s not strange to implement a ‘meal’. Do you know what I mean?”

“Eh, uh, no way…”…”

“This city itself is a parasite.” I think I know where all the parasitic species in the five-story system went. I should hurry up and find Baek Ho-min.”

“Baek Ho-min!”

It was later than I thought that Kang hajin met Baek Ho-min.

I visited the shopping mall hard to find the two, but I could meet Baek Ho-min, who returned to the room only after returning to the hotel.

“Where in the world were you?” I’ve been looking for it for a long time!”

“Oh, it was on the 48th floor.” I heard there’s a school there.”

“School? School is not important now. This city is…”

Baek Ho-min felt something rising from his mind for a moment when he heard that school was not important.

Kang hajin may have left school. But Baek Ho-min did not.

It felt unreasonable for a person who enjoyed everything to say to a person who did not enjoy it, “It is not important.”

However, Baek Ho-min calmed down and replied to Kang ha-jin. It was because he knew what he was going to say.

“It’s a parasite.” I know.”

Kang ha-jin’s body briefly stiffened and nodded calmly.

“Okay. That’s enough to know. I don’t know how you knew……”

“He taught me how to do it.”

“…That parasite named Song Ahyoung?””

Baek Ho-min nodded. I remembered what happened at school in his head.

Why do I have to go up to the top? Since the collapse of the world and the creation of a tower, mankind has only had a tower.

If the world had been better off, not going up to the tower might have been an option.

But there is no world like that.

It disappeared with the sun.

“The tower… Of course I have to go up.” If you don’t go up, you’ll die slowly, right?”

“No.”

Song A-young whispered Baek Ho-min with a serious look.

“Become a parasite.” Then you can enjoy the abundance of living forever just with starlight.”

“What?”

What do you mean, become a parasite?

Baek Ho-min’s knowledge of parasites came to mind.

Hunters often mutate into parasitic species inside towers. It mainly happens underground where starlight does not reach.

When he first met Baek Ho-min, a woodcutter suspected him of being a degenerated parasite.

In Baek Ho-min’s head, he had no intelligence as a parasite and only hostile beings to mankind, so he had never thought of becoming one.

“Oh, no. Wait a minute. Then, Song Ahyoung……?”

“Yes. Not only me, but all the citizens of this city are parasites.”

She looked out the window at the starlight with dim eyes.

“I don’t know why I stay in the lower city and live like that. No matter how much I think about it, it’s weird. The city and Yeongju, which have never attended school, do not know the taste of ice cream, and make young children climb the tower with their lives on the line…… It’s weird.”

She nodded and said firmly.

“It can’t happen in modern society.”

“Yes, but…”…”

“It’s because humans are attacked by parasites. The reason why parasitic species do not communicate and seem to have no intelligence is because Baek Ho-min is human. But all of that changes when you become a parasite.”

Song A-young said, placing her hand on Baek Ho-min’s hand.

“The world doesn’t have to just rise above.” Baek Ho-min 씨.”

At one time, the world was wide horizontally and vertically.

People could go anywhere and set goals anywhere.

Baek Ho-min realized that Song Ah-young’s options were not just a comfortable life. But I couldn’t answer right away.

It was because for that very wide world, a person who was delighted with just seven steps wider came to mind.

When Baek Ho-min hesitated to answer, Song A-young blushed and pulled out her hand.

“I was too excited. I think they’re all good people, but I think they’ve been so hard-working….”

“No.”

Song A-young said, turning to Haru, who is still sleeping on her stomach.

“Please answer when you visit the association tomorrow. Even if you refuse, you will be able to go up to the sixth floor.”

The day after finishing the city tour in a complicated mood.

Baek Ho-min and his party headed to Yeongjuseong Fortress on the 49th floor to climb the six-story system.

Kang hajin couldn’t take his eyes off the blue flag hanging from Yeongju Castle. At the same time, I thought about the reason why this city was created.

The civil war was a trauma to the entire city, and the long healing process is still not over.

Many people would have repeatedly asked themselves if it was the right choice. Some would have thought that their choices could not be reversed.

The longing and pain created such a city on the fifth floor.

Rather than the painful Platinum Lord city, it is the city of the Eternal Church where people are complacent.

But all of that is an illusion and a lie.

Kang hajin knew that the future of the Eternal Church could never be like this.

People just believed that the road they couldn’t go looked brighter and more comfortable.

Kang hajin bit his lips tightly and said to Baek Ho-min.

“You know how to do it, right?””

“What? What are you going to do?””

Kang Hae-jin distorted his face at Baek Ho-min’s calm attitude.

Somehow, Baek Ho-min seemed to be out of his mind since yesterday. I heard that he had a conversation with Song A-young, but I wondered if she was shaking his mind.

As far as he knows, Baek Ho-min was more motivated to climb the tower than anyone else.

“Will you be complacent here…”…”

“I’m here”.

Song A-young, who was guiding at that time, looked back and said.

The escalator reached the top in time. Kang hajin looked pale again as he saw the blue flag flapping in front of the gate of Yeongju Fortress.

Kang ha-jin staggered for a moment, and Yoo Ha-eul hurriedly grabbed him by the shoulder.

“Ka-Kang Hajin hunter?”

“……No, it’s okay. “It’s not a big deal.

“Are you okay?””

Song A-young approached with a surprised look.

Kang hajin almost grabbed the dagger with a seizure, but managed to stop. I felt more nauseous because I could see Song A-young’s expression sincerely.

When Kang Ha-jin gave a gesture that he was okay, Song A-young nodded and began guiding again.

“It’s been a while since the hunter from the city below, so the president of the association is coming.”

Song A-young guided me to a drawing room with a pretty luxurious sofa, refreshments, and tea.

Kang hajin asked, conscious of the words that the president of the association would come.

“What about you, Youngjoo?”

“What?”

“Youngjoo, are you not here?” As far as I know, this is Yeongju.”

“Are you talking about the mayor?” The mayor doesn’t even care about this. You have a lot of work.”

What do you mean market?

Kang ha-jin thought about what the market was and soon burst into laughter when he recalled the customs of the old times.

Citizens will vote to pick a representative?

What does that mean? The representative is determined by the tower.

If the representative designated by the tower is not selected as Yeongju, the city will dry up.

Just as we had no choice but to serve the Eternal Church without any alternative until Platinum Lord appeared.

However, Song A-young continued to talk like hitting Kang Hae-jin on the cheek.

“A few years ago, there were two lords. At that time, we voted to decide who will be the mayor.”

It was like a joke about the civil war in the city below.

When Kang Ha-jin seemed to have no more signs of asking questions, Song Ah-young left behind to tell her if she needed anything.

Kang hajin laid down on the sofa with a tired look. Back Ho-min didn’t say anything until then.

Kang hajin opened his mouth.

“…You’re just going to let me go up to the sixth floor?””

“Yeah. That’s what they said.”

Parasites must be killed.

It is common sense to kill and slaughter to use by-products as ingredients for eating or making necessary items.

Anyway, they constantly crawled out of somewhere in the tower, maintaining only the minimum ecosystem to obtain by-products, and did not have to be sympathetic.

But now, there was a parasitic bell here that said it would feed them tenderly, put them to sleep, and take them to the sixth floor.

It was too inconsistent with common sense.

knock, knock

I heard a knock on the door.

It seemed that the president of the association, who I mentioned earlier, was coming in.

However, what Kang hajin faced was a pale-looking man in glasses and a Platinum Lord walking in with his arms twisted.

She was wearing a white suit, unlike usual.

“Good job, hunters.”

“Youngjoo?”

“Youngju”?

The man in glasses listened to Kang Hae-jin and asked back.

“Wait, were you Youngjoo?” Then we’ll talk……”

“Your role is done.””

At the same time, a crackling sound rang out.

The man’s body in glasses twisted around and the joints were bent at a bizarre angle. Soon, thin wires crawled out of the mouth through the skin.

The wires dug into the body twisted the man’s body from the inside of the body.

He couldn’t scream and was desperate.

Baek Ho-min and Kang ha-jin were speechless due to their terrible appearance.

Are you the president of the association?”

“Okay.”

“They said they’d just let us go to the sixth floor. Was that a lie?”

“No. I think he meant it.”

Platinum Lord put aside the body of a man who was not interested. The man, who was the president of the association, collapsed helplessly.

Platinum Lord wiped her bloody hands with a handkerchief and put on white gloves again.

“That might have been the case for you guys might have. But so, the 50th floor is “conquest”.

I can’t.”

At that time, I heard a thumping sound.

Outside, voices of people trying to force the door to open while wearing bandages were heard. They were people who came to find the president of the association.

Only then did Kang hajin realize what had happened.

They unilaterally broke in and killed their representative, who welcomed them, like a bug. The peaceful method was over, and all that was left was the bloody method.

However, Platinum Lord did not show any agitation and continued to speak calmly.

“Then you know what to do from now on.”

Platinum Lord calmly took out a kitchen knife made of platinum from the waist dance and threw it toward Yoo Ha-eul.

Yoo Ha-eul hurriedly accepted the dagger.

Platinum Lord, as usual, trampled on all options and ordered hunters.

“Kill the whole city. As if there was no one from the beginning.”

Boom. The door finally broke.

The pouring people froze when they saw the president of the association who died of being twisted miserably.

Kang hajin was engulfed in a strange mood in a rigid reaction as if it were his first time seeing the body.

However, contrary to his mood, he was already taking out a dagger.

Yoo Ha-eul was stabbing the neck of a person next to him with a kitchen knife.

Haru was loosening her dog’s necklace with a lazy look.

In an instant, the inside of the drawing room became a sea of blood with screams.

Kang ha-jin even felt a strong sense of incompatibility in response to the strangely weak person, or parasite.

Suspicions arose over whether they were really parasitic species.

At that time, Kang hajin saw Platinum Lord staring at someone without paying attention to the parasites being slaughtered behind her back.

Despite all this confusion, Baek Ho-min remained motionless.