It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 13

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Episode 13

#Episode 13

“Grandfather, Grandmother, don’t you really remember us? You gave us milk and bread yesterday!”

“What are you talking about… We never did such a thing…?”

A flustered Kim Yeo-ul spoke incoherently.

But the grandmother and grandfather didn’t understand a word, as if asking what she was talking about.

Just as the situation was about to turn strange, I quietly tapped Kim Yeo-ul’s shoulder.

“That was a different bakery, and what kind of rude behavior is this?”

“Ah… is, is that so…?”

“Sorry, she just woke up and got distracted by the smell of bread, so she couldn’t think straight.”

“A young lady should keep her wits about her. What will you do if you’re already like this!”

With that, the grandmother tried to give us free bread again this time too.

This time I pressed cash from my pocket into her hands for the bread and came outside.

Kim Yeo-ul asked me while eating a freshly made red bean bun.

“Hyun-soo, I’m not the strange one, right?”

“Of course not.”

“Then, are the bakery grandmother and grandfather strange? Like dementia… you know, that thing.”

“Hmm, well… it’s hard to say that when both of them seemed quite sharp.”

While eating bread with complicated feelings in the same place as yesterday, a familiar face passed by.

“Huh? Yeo-ul, that person…?”

It was the person Kim Yeo-ul had asked “Do you know the way?” yesterday.

Kim Yeo-ul must have been curious too, as she put down the bread she was eating and hurriedly approached that man again.

“Excuse me…”

“…Yes?”

The man looked at Kim Yeo-ul, widened his eyes, and pulled out his earphones.

“Ah… did you perhaps see me yesterday around the downtown square?”

“…Yes?”

The man who had been imagining all sorts of futures with Kim Yeo-ul’s beauty tilted his head.

“I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else.”

“Ah… is, is that so?”

“Yes, take care.”

“Oh, I’m sorry…”

After that, we met several more people we had encountered yesterday, but nothing had changed.

Everyone acted as if they had lost yesterday’s memories and were seeing us for the first time.

It wasn’t just one or two people, but everyone we met was like this, so now I had no choice but to accept it.

The people of Sejong City are losing their memories every day.

Probably not just today, but tomorrow and the day after as well.

‘So this is what Memory Devourer meant.’

The ‘Memory Devourer’ that the System Message had informed me about when we entered through the fog belatedly came to mind.

A monster that literally eats memories.

If so, it must be an existence that grows stronger from human memories.

Considering that its scale covers all of Sejong City, the monster’s power must have reached quite a high level.

“But what exactly is its purpose in building up power like this?”

It doesn’t infect humans or suck blood like a Bloodsucker.

It simply eats people’s memories, that’s all.

The people here don’t even know what a ‘gate’ is.

It had created the peaceful life of the Republic of Korea from before the gates opened.

A life of going to work to earn money and struggling to go to school.

The most common life had become the rarest life.

It was enough to make even me momentarily intoxicated by that nostalgia and recall the past.

Furthermore, I even felt doubtful enough to wonder ‘Is it really right for me to destroy this daily life?’

‘Of course I have to smash it.’

I felt doubtful for about 3 seconds.

It would have been nice if the target wasn’t a monster.

What the monsters that tore through the gates possess is nothing but murderous intent and hostility toward humans.

Only how those wicked emotions manifest differs, but in the end, everything being harmful to humans was no different.

So, the Memory Devourer dominating Sejong City would be the same.

Then my current goal is to find and deal with the Memory Devourer.

‘Then, I ultimately need to know where the Memory Devourer is…’

Kim Yeo-ul tapped me while I was deep in thought.

She was holding Seo Iram in her arms like a beloved doll.

“So, what should we do now, leader?”

“Leader!”

“First… let’s find that Memory Devourer somewhere in Sejong City.”

“We walked around all day yesterday too, but didn’t find anything. Do you think we can find it today?”

“So, are you going to give up like this?”

“That’s not it either.”

In fact, Kim Yeo-ul and Seo Iram must be feeling it too.

Whether it’s right to destroy this peaceful daily life.

“Oppa, I want to eat pork belly today!”

…Kim Yeo-ul is probably feeling it.

That’s why she’s making such a complicated expression…

“Hyun-soo, I want to eat grilled meat after so long too…”

Ah, seriously.

* * *

Only after filling our stomachs with plenty of grease from lunch did we begin exploring Sejong City.

Perhaps because they had filled up with fuel, Kim Yeo-ul and Seo Iram were more energetic than usual.

“This is the second happiest I’ve been in almost a year…”

“Second?”

“First was being revived.”

“Ah.”

Well, that makes sense.

“Anyway, let’s look around slowly and investigate again.”

“Okay!”

“If you feel anything at all, let me know.”

“Of course.”

And so began my exploration of Sejong City with my two summons.

“Oppa! I want a hot dog!”

“Hyun-soo, I want churros!”

“…”

“What? Why are you looking at us like that?”

“I… I’ll give oppa a bite too…!”

* * *

To cut to the chase, despite wandering around Sejong City all day, we couldn’t detect any kind of energy.

Since an S-rank Hunter and EX-rank Hunter, who were top-tier in magic detection, couldn’t find it, it was truly baffling.

“I can’t understand it at all, where on earth could it be?”

“Isn’t it hiding in the fog outside Sejong City?”

“But we thoroughly checked all the fog too.”

“Even further out… or maybe it’s completely outside Sejong City?”

“If it’s controlling from outside Sejong City, it would be hopeless for us.”

In the end, we gained no significant results today either and entered the same inn we stayed at yesterday.

Today too, the store owner was dozing off.

“One room please.”

“Mmm… huh… ah, a customer.”

Isn’t this store owner sleeping way too openly?

The store owner, rubbing his eyes drowsily as he woke up, gave us the key to the room we stayed in yesterday.

“I can just give you the same place you stayed yesterday, right?”

“Yes… huh?”

“…Huh?”

“Wait… you guys couldn’t be…!”

When Kim Yeo-ul, Seo Iram, and I all looked at him with surprised eyes, the store owner’s eyes lit up.

It seems he had deliberately left those words as a hint.

“Everyone be quiet! From now on, you can’t say a single word!”

“…!”

My two summons and I nodded as the store owner instructed.

The fatigue had completely disappeared from the store owner’s face.

The store owner jumped up from his seat and hurriedly ran to lock the inn’s door.

Though we didn’t understand what was happening, since the store owner seemed to know something, we waited as instructed.

After confirming the door was securely locked, the store owner returned and felt around the floor.

Then he inserted a key between the cracks in the floor and twisted it.

A passage leading underground revealed itself.

With gestures telling us to be quiet and follow him, we silently followed the store owner.

Following the store owner inside, a long tunnel appeared.

Going straight through that tunnel, we found a room with soundproofing materials plastered all over the walls.

The store owner quietly turned on the lights in the soundproof room and securely locked the door after we all entered.

Then he turned on a speaker playing white noise-like sounds, and only then did he open his mouth.

“Phew… alright, you can talk now.”

“…I have more than a few questions.”

Even to my question filled with doubt, the store owner smiled and answered.

“Ask me anything, I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen people who remember ‘yesterday.'”

“First… let’s introduce ourselves. I’m Cha Hyeon-su, and over there are Kim Yeo-ul and Seo Iram.”

“Oh, I’m Park Min-jae, call me hyung if it’s easier.”

“Then when did you start living in Sejong City?”

Kim Yeo-ul and I didn’t pass through Sejong City when we came down.

At that time, Kim Yeo-ul’s power was A-rank, so we avoided major cities and took the most secluded outer routes possible.

That’s why information about Sejong City was more desperately needed than anything else right now.

Park Min-jae grumbled, “I told you to call me hyung…” then slowly began his explanation.

“I first came to this village about a month ago.”

“I was heading to Busan at the time, and though I may not look it, I’m a B-rank Hunter.”

I played along appropriately with Park Min-jae, who seemed somewhat proud for some reason.

“That’s high-level personnel.”

“High-level my ass… I barely scraped by the immigration grade.”

“Anyway, so what happened?”

“When I stopped by Sejong City, it wasn’t like this.”

Park Min-jae’s following answer was quite interesting.

When Park Min-jae first came to Sejong City, this artificial fog wasn’t spread out like this.

At the time, it was hazy like natural fog, so Park Min-jae, exhausted from the forced march, entered Sejong City without much concern.

After staying overnight at the inn, the problem erupted the next day.

When he woke up and tried to leave Sejong City again, the fog had become twice as thick as what he’d seen yesterday.

He said he got goosebumps at the sight, as if a barrier had been erected with fog.

He tried to forcibly break through the fog, but breathing in that fog for even a minute made his consciousness hazy.

Eventually trapped in Sejong City, Park Min-jae asked people about this phenomenon, but no one could answer him.

They either couldn’t see it at all, saying “What are you talking about?” or treated Park Min-jae like a mental patient.

Even after a day or two passed, people forgot even about the ‘Gates.’

Since then, Park Min-jae had been enduring alone in Sejong City for over a month as the two-eyed person in a one-eyed village.

“Hmm… I see.”

Listening quietly to the story, I felt something was strange.

Then why wasn’t Park Min-jae affected by the memory devouring?

“Then how are you maintaining your memories, sir?”

At my question, Park Min-jae quietly closed his mouth.

“Aren’t you getting too much from just me? How are you guys not affected by the memory devouring?”

Kim Yeo-ul glanced at me.

I shrugged and answered.

“I have something like a support skill, so I’m immune to most mental interference skills.”

“What!? That’s possible?”

“You saw that we have memories from yesterday, didn’t you?”

“That’s… true.”

Park Min-jae looked at me and my companions with envious eyes, then nodded as if he understood.

“The reason I can maintain my memories is because I stay awake during the ‘time when memories are devoured.'”

“The time when memories are devoured? There’s a specific time for that?”

“It’s not specifically set, but it usually steals memories at night when people go to bed.”

“So… you just stayed awake at night and slept during the day?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

A monster that targets the time when people are asleep…

I couldn’t think of any particular creature that came to mind.

In the first place, a monster that dominates by manipulating minds on a city-wide scale – I’d never heard of such a thing.

“Then, do you know where the memory devourer is?”

“I don’t really know that either. Just in case, I wandered around Sejong City like crazy for a month but couldn’t figure it out.”

“…I see.”

If even S-rank and EX-rank Hunters couldn’t find it, expecting it from a B-rank Hunter was a bit much.

“Hmm… things are getting complicated.”

“Let’s go out for now. If we’re away from our spot too long, ‘it’ might get suspicious.”

“Understood.”

Anyway, just finding a memory survivor like this was a big gain.

‘Well, if worst comes to worst, I can save Hunter Baek Do-hyeon in Seoul and come back.’

So we left the soundproof room, passed through the tunnel, and returned to the inn.

“…Huh?”

“There are… quite a few… guests?”

“…Do those look like guests to you guys?”

The first floor of the inn was packed with dozens of people with their eyes closed.

The entrance was tattered and gaping open, as if they had broken down the inn door to get in.

“What is this, a horror movie…”

Even though their eyes were clearly closed, they were staring directly at us.

Yet their movements were flailing around like sleepwalkers.

“They’re not monsters… right?”

“Yeah, they’re just ordinary humans.”

Unfortunately, the opponents were not monsters but civilians who hadn’t even awakened.

If I went wild here, it would just become a civilian massacre, so I chose to flee.

“…Run!”

“Yeo-ul! You can’t kill civilians!!”

“I know!”

Kim Yeo-ul broke through the inn’s wall and created an escape route.

“Aaaahhh, the inn that still has loan payments left!”

“You even took out a loan for it!?”

“I wasn’t planning to live long anyway, so I figured I’d just skip out on it!”

“Wow, what trash!”

A chase began under the moonlit night.

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