I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 59

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 059

Rookie Master

“Chairman, we have information from the West Sea Coast Guard.”

Jin Tae-gon frowned at the photo displayed on the monitor.

An iceberg suddenly appearing in the West Sea – what could this be?

“The cause is unknown, but they say the sea froze over. It’s gone now. We can’t be certain, but probably…”

“It must be near where the Newcalliope is.”

“That’s correct.”

A brief silence fell.

Right now, there was no way to know if this phenomenon was good or bad news for them.

“And I think you need to see this.”

Next displayed were several radar photos.

“These thirty or so red dots are boats reported as fishing vessels. This blue dot is the Newcalliope.”

“They’re getting closer.”

“Yes. Based on the timing, they started moving as soon as the ice disappeared.”

Jin Tae-gon narrowed his eyes and fell into thought.

There was no connection whatsoever between the fishing boats and the Newcalliope.

It was an extremely unnatural movement.

“Contact the Player Hunter Bureau and report the current situation. Have the security chief deploy the assembled players. Tell them to block those fishing boats from the shipping route.”

“Understood.”

“What about the bombs installed on the Newcalliope?”

Jin Tae-gon stood up and walked toward the monitor.

“Those guys ran into problems. Either they can’t detonate them, or they never intended to detonate them in the first place.”

Either way, the bombs won’t explode.

Otherwise, Vesta’s fleet wouldn’t be heading toward the Newcalliope.

Unless they were planning some kind of glorious suicide attack.

Ring ring ring ring.

A phone call came at perfect timing.

“It’s them.”

Jin Tae-gon took the phone.

“This is Jin Tae-gon.”

# Chairman. Quite some time has passed – is the money ready?

“I asked for more time. You’re being quite pushy.”

# Aren’t you being too relaxed? Whether your granddaughter lives or dies is in my hands.

“Is it still in your hands now?”

# What did you say?

“I asked if you’re still in control of the situation.”

A very brief silence passed.

And Jin Tae-gon didn’t miss this moment of hesitation.

For the first time since today’s situation began, a smile appeared on Jin Tae-gon’s lips.

“You bastard, you’ve got problems. You called because you’re getting anxious.”

# You’d better not jump to conclusions. That’s the only way your granddaughter will return safely. Let me answer your earlier question. The situation is still under my control.

“You’re not mistaken?”

# What are you trying to say?

“I think it’s already slipped from your hands. If not, why are you rushing like a frantic dog? Toward the Newcalliope loaded with bombs.”

A deep sigh came from the other end of the phone.

Followed by bitter laughter.

# Hey, Jin Tae-gon. You’ve crossed the line. We don’t need the money. Just wait a little. I’ll tear your granddaughter to pieces and send her by delivery.

“You nameless mediocre bastard. Let me give you a warning too. Please don’t get caught. I can’t guarantee I’ll leave your corpse intact.”

Jin Tae-gon hung up after finishing his words.

He knew it was a dangerous provocation.

But there was no reason not to do it.

Ten trillion – an amount that could never be prepared by their deadline.

Vesta knew this too.

In other words, their goal was never money from the beginning.

They never intended to return Jin Seo-hee from the start.

# Chairman. We received contact from the Player Hunter Bureau. The coastal guard departed from the Han River with Hunter Cheon Se-yeon and Hunter Eun Gang-seok aboard.

# The team assembled by Genex is also heading toward the Newcalliope’s location. They’ll probably arrive about 30 minutes before the Hunter Bureau.

Jin Tae-gon nodded and spoke.

“We need to keep one of them alive.”

# Yes, understood.

The Newcalliope isn’t some common cruise ship.

Targeting it meant they had the capital and preparation to back it up.

There must be someone behind this.

“Phew.”

Jin Tae-gon exhaled and shook his head.

He decided to think about what comes next later.

First, he needed to rescue Jin Seo-hee and Jinhyeok.

The banquet hall of the Newcalliope.

People forming groups and deciding which positions they would be responsible for.

Jin Seo-hee must have spoken well, as determination showed on everyone’s faces.

Except for one person – Im Cheon-ung from Dayrop, left alone in a corner.

“The atmosphere is pretty tense.”

Jinhyeok, who had been watching, clicked his tongue.

Im Cheon-ung was being thoroughly ignored by everyone.

Jin Seo-hee nodded as if it were natural.

“It’s karma.”

Just before Jinhyeok arrived at the event venue, there had been movement from inside to fight together with Jin Seo-hee, who was guarding the door alone.

In the midst of that, Im Cheon-ung had run away to the Tower, trying to save only himself.

“I knew he was trash originally, but I didn’t know it was to this extent.”

Jin Seo-hee shook her head and clicked her tongue, then gripped her sword again.

Her face seemed calm but was simultaneously full of tension.

Right now was truly the calm before the storm.

Since enemies could approach from anywhere at any time, they couldn’t let their guard down.

Jin Seo-hee was swinging her sword like she usually did in the training hall, controlling her level of tension.

Munch munch munch.

Jinhyeok watched her while swallowing bread.

Rustle.

Behind him, in a spot not visible to Jin Seo-hee and the others, Seira materialized.

“If you’re a friend, how about giving some advice? It should be visible to the master’s eyes too.”

Jinhyeok smiled slightly.

If sword paths had sound, Jin Seo-hee’s swinging sword would have produced clear discord.

“I’m also just a kid who’s barely started learning swordsmanship from Seira. It seems a bit presumptuous.”

“Have pride, master. What you’re learning is the swordsmanship of the Black Knight Order. Even the basics are equivalent to reaching a considerable level compared to ordinary swordsmanship. And.”

Seira placed her hand on Jinhyeok’s shoulder.

“Showing the right path to someone lacking isn’t bad or presumptuous. If they can’t walk that path even after seeing it, then their capacity is insufficient. The path you’re walking is never wrong. So you can go and show them with confidence.”

“If my master says so.”

Jinhyeok smiled and stood up.

Then he carefully approached.

“…?”

Jin Seo-hee, who had been swinging her sword for a while, drew a question mark.

Jinhyeok cleared his throat a few times.

Having always been in the position of learning, this kind of role felt a bit awkward.

“Seo-hee, if you don’t mind, could you try that movement once more?”

Jinhyeok picked up a stick and tried to follow the swordsmanship that Jin Seo-hee had been displaying.

Jin Seo-hee swung her sword as instructed, though with a puzzled expression.

When she was about to move to the next motion, Jinhyeok extended his stick.

“Could you try it like this? Don’t swing right away, but pause for one beat at this part, then extend your elbow and sweep outward. Same goes for this part too.”

Jinhyeok demonstrated first.

If it had been anyone else, she wouldn’t have felt too good about it.

The swordsmanship of the Jin Family that had been passed down through generations for a long time.

Since she had learned it from the time her memories began to form, she had been confident that she was better at it than anyone except her grandfather and father.

“I’ll give it a try.”

She answered for now, but honestly she was half-doubtful.

Just from the demonstration he had shown, it looked more awkward than the existing swordsmanship.

Jin Seo-hee steadied her breathing and unfolded her sword technique according to the demonstration she had just seen.

And when the section Jinhyeok had mentioned came.

“!!!”

She couldn’t help but be genuinely surprised.

The movement that had an inexplicable awkwardness when she first learned it.

She had forced herself to repeatedly practice it because it was recorded in the family’s swordsmanship.

Even now when she had adapted quite well, she would instinctively tense up and be conscious of that particular section.

“Huuuu.”

After exhaling, she repeated that movement once more.

While mentally reviewing what Jinhyeok had shown her.

Then she wondered.

Had this been such a comfortable movement?

The connection point leading to the next movement was also much smoother.

It felt like taking off ill-fitting clothes and putting on perfectly tailored ones.

Ding!

[The level of the Jin Family’s swordsmanship, Jin Sword Style, increases!]

Jin Seo-hee’s eyes widened.

The system that turned everything an awakened person had possessed from before into traits or skills.

Therefore, Jin Seo-hee had possessed her long family tradition of swordsmanship as a passive trait from the moment of awakening.

The reason she went to the sword training hall almost every day after work was all to raise the level of this trait.

‘It hadn’t gone up for quite a while.’

As her Tower clear floors increased and her level rose, she had also acquired new traits and skills.

But the Jin Sword Style trait that formed the foundation of the Player Jin Seo-hee had shown no signs of rising, as if it had hit a wall.

To think he had raised that trait so simply.

Jin Seo-hee steadied her breathing and stared at Jinhyeok.

He really was someone you could never fully understand.

‘Is she angry?’

Jinhyeok swallowed dryly at Jin Seo-hee staring intently at him.

From Jinhyeok’s perspective, the movement had become much smoother and the discord had disappeared.

But what she felt might be different.

“If it doesn’t seem right, you don’t have to follow it. I just mentioned it in case it might help.”

“…It got better.”

“Pardon?”

When he asked back due to her too-quiet voice, Jin Seo-hee turned her head.

“I said it got better.”

“Oh, yes.”

Jinhyeok smiled with relief.

Master Seira had once told him.

Swordsmanship that had been passed down for a long time contained countless experiences and devotion, but was likely to be inflexible and rigid.

So you had to judge well whether those movements were clothes that suited you, and if they didn’t fit, you had to tailor them before wearing them.

The process Jin Seo-hee had just experienced was exactly that.

“So blindly copying exactly wasn’t the answer.”

Jinhyeok nodded at Jin Seo-hee’s muttered words to herself.

Now that she had tried tailoring once, she would be able to do well on her own from now on.

‘Really an amazing person.’

Jin Seo-hee, who had been looking at Jinhyeok, took a couple of deep breaths before opening her mouth.

Since it was something she didn’t usually say, it felt incredibly awkward.

“Thank y…”

Just as she was about to say thank you, Jinhyeok looked up with a serious expression.

“Let’s move to the designated positions. It seems they’ve arrived. I’ll go up top for a moment.”

He ran up the escalator while frowning.

Judging by the direction of approach, they were uninvited guests.

The top of the Newcalliope.

Jinhyeok arrived and stared straight ahead.

Thirty ships were rapidly approaching.

“They’re coming from this side too.”

Dark, who had been severely seasick, nodded his head.

From the stern, several patrol boats bearing the Korean flag were approaching.

The front was a bit faster, but it wasn’t the worst situation.

The stern was likely to be allies.

“Commander! The armament on the ships in front is incredible!”

Jinhyeok nodded and placed his hand on top of Kancheo’s head.

“Kancheo, blast them.”

As the commander’s order was given.

The corners of Yodel Ranger Corps Vice-Commander Kancheo’s mouth rose menacingly.

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