It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 2

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Episode 2

#Episode 2

After running for a while, I returned to where Kim Yeo-ul had been.

There were no traces of fierce battle.

Only a single corpse lay there alone, half of its body charred black, its life activities ceased.

“Ah.”

I could tell without even looking at the face.

The corpse lying there is my friend Kim Yeo-ul.

Kim Yeo-ul, who would annoyingly wake me up every morning.

Kim Yeo-ul, who would randomly smack the back of my head when things got tough.

Kim Yeo-ul, who would smile awkwardly when embarrassed.

Kim Yeo-ul, who would blush bright red and get angry whenever our hands even brushed.

A bond of 15 years.

My friend, who had spent that long time with me—enough for mountains and rivers to change—had died protecting me.

And she lay dead in a miserable state, half her body burned.

“Yeo, Yeo-ul.”

My thoughts wouldn’t work properly, as if I’d been struck in the head.

My hands and legs trembled uncontrollably.

The cold tears flowing down my cheeks made me realize this was reality.

“Yeo-ul, Kim Yeo-ul, I’m here. Please come to your senses…”

I approached Kim Yeo-ul and carefully lifted her body.

I supported her head with my hand and tried to sit her up, but the corpse whose life had ended went completely limp.

The hands that used to pinch my cheeks at every opportunity no longer held any life.

Those annoying lips that always stole my bread, and the arms that would roughly shake me awake every morning—they all hung lifelessly.

Things like A-rank Hunter or asylum in Japan didn’t come to mind at all.

The guilt that my friend had died protecting me strangled my throat.

I even felt as if the only family I had left, beyond romantic feelings, had disappeared.

I felt hollow, as if a hole had been drilled through my chest.

She who seemed like she would get up any moment and tease me saying “Thought I was dead, didn’t you?” was no more.

Her black eyes had lost their light, turning gray.

The tears flowing down my cheeks touched Kim Yeo-ul’s cheek.

There was no miracle like Kim Yeo-ul coming back to life from my tears.

This is reality.

Tears flowed like crazy.

They flowed so much I could barely see ahead.

Even as my breath caught and choked, my hands holding Kim Yeo-ul in my arms continued to tighten with strength.

“Why… why did you do that… you should have just run away with me, why did you do that…”

Her fire-burned hair crumbled with a crackling sound.

The broken strands of hair scattered in the wind.

How painful must it have been.

What thoughts did she have as she died in burning agony.

If she had been alone, she could have easily escaped.

“Because of me… all because of me…”

Though tears flowed endlessly, I forced myself to stand up.

This was a life that Kim Yeo-ul had saved once.

I picked up the shovel to honor her last words.

I quietly began digging the ground.

I dug the earth with the military shovel and tidied the surroundings.

I carefully placed Kim Yeo-ul inside.

My friend with closed eyes fell into eternal sleep.

The friend who protected me until the very end crossed the river of no return.

“…”

I spread the soil.

Having to bury her who protected me with my own hands was so difficult it made me want to vomit.

The flowing tears seemed endless, as if my tear ducts had broken.

Even so, I bit my lips and covered her with soil again.

Since I couldn’t deny even her final words, I buried Kim Yeo-ul in the ground.

I leveled the ground and took out the drink Kim Yeo-ul liked from my bag.

Was there barely two sips left?

Even that precious drink she had been saving, I poured it over the ground.

I knelt down and put my hands together in prayer.

Once.

“Virtuous lady Kim Yeo-ul, your noble spirit shall remain forever, and your name shall live on after you.”

Twice.

“May heaven look upon this with compassion… and grant eternal rest to my friend…”

Blood flowed from my bitten lips.

My throat kept choking up from the flowing tears.

I buried my head in the ground and paid my final respects.

“May you achieve rebirth in paradise…”

I bowed twice with utmost respect to the friend who had been with me.

With that, it seemed the connection between Kim Yeo-ul and me that had remained in this world was completely severed.

The tears that had been trickling down began pouring out.

Even though Kim Yeo-ul would have gotten angry and told me to get up if she saw this, I couldn’t break the current of sadness.

Since Kim Yeo-ul was gone, I had nowhere to go anyway.

No country would accept a parasite who couldn’t even awaken, let alone reach A-rank.

Then I would have to continue living in this hell.

In that case, I’d rather…

A somewhat impious thought crossed my mind.

Rather, if I could go together from this place where Kim Yeo-ul lost her life…

For a moment, the dizzying thought of turning Kim Yeo-ul’s sacrifice into a meaningless death began to take shape.

Suddenly, time stopped.

The blowing wind ceased and the distant roars of monsters were cut off abruptly.

“Huh…?”

Pure white light from an unknown source began gathering in my heart.

Warm energy enveloped my body.

“…Oh.”

Life returned to my weakened body.

An awakening.

And EX rank at that.

At the words “Soul Lord,” I hastily opened my status window.

EX rank, Soul Lord – I couldn’t even see the other words.

I could resurrect the dead.

That was enough.

I dug up the grave I had just buried.

The still soft earth came apart easily with my hands.

Inside the grave lay my friend, covered with soil.

I carefully took Kim Yeo-ul’s hands with both of mine and shouted the skill.

“Rise…!”

Then light flowed out from my body and settled into Kim Yeo-ul’s body.

Her horribly burned body recovered, and her charred hair and skin regained their original vitality.

She returned looking more vibrant than when she was alive, and slowly opened her eyes.

I was reflected in her black pupils.

And then.

Kim Yeo-ul instantly kicked off from the grave and embraced me.

Normally I would have pushed her away asking why she was being so gross, but Kim Yeo-ul’s back was trembling.

I quietly patted Kim Yeo-ul’s back.

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“…Miss Kim Yeo-ul, you’re strangely clingy.”

“I died trying to save you, can’t I at least do this much?”

“…Cling all you want.”

After being resurrected, Kim Yeo-ul hugged my arm and leaned her head against me.

It was awkward with all the contact, but I couldn’t push away her grinning face.

She was my precious life’s benefactor, after all.

I stroked Kim Yeo-ul’s hair, which no longer broke off in chunks, and asked.

“So, how does it feel to be resurrected?”

“…Good.”

“That’s all? Don’t you remember anything else?”

At my question, Kim Yeo-ul pondered deeply, then pulled something from her hazy memories.

“What I remember is… a pure white hand pulling me out from a pitch-black place?”

“A pitch-black place?”

“Yeah, just a pitch-black place.”

A pitch-black place.

That’s a bit different from the afterlife in my head.

“So, aren’t you curious about how you were resurrected?”

“Huh? You resurrected me with the Soul Lord’s power, didn’t you?”

“…How do you know that?”

“Well, since you resurrected me, I know about it…?”

She can know such things without me even telling her…

This must also be part of the Soul Lord’s power.

I hadn’t been paying attention to it until now, but strictly speaking, Kim Yeo-ul is now my summoned creature.

Even in the skill window, the number shows [Currently commanding undead 1/3].

My friend is now my summoned creature.

My head was getting complicated, but there was no reason to make an issue of it.

What’s good is good.

“So, what are you going to do now? Are you still going to Japan?”

Kim Yeo-ul, who had claimed my left arm, asked.

My mind, which had been lost in thought, cleared up.

“Japan…”

Considering my current job grade, forget Japan – even if I went to the United States, the president would come out to escort me.

A skill that revives already dead people.

I’ve never even heard of such a thing.

Even the abilities of S-rank Hunters who overturn mountains and split seas are ultimately powers that humans can wield.

But the power to revive the dead.

It’s literally closer to divine authority than mere power.

Moreover, as long as there’s a corpse, there’s no limit to resurrection.

“No, our destination has changed.”

“Huh? Where are we going?”

“We’re going to the National Cemetery.”

“…National Cemetery?”

Kim Yeo-ul looked at me with a pathetic expression.

“Still going on about the National Cemetery?”

“It’s not like that… Don’t you know who’s buried at the National Cemetery?”

“Huh? Well, Hunters who died in the line of duty when the Republic of Korea was still intact… Ah!”

“Right, now you get it.”

The Republic of Korea wasn’t ruined like this from the beginning.

Rather, the Republic of Korea of the past was a powerful nation on equal footing with other advanced Hunter nations.

And the reason for that was thanks to a single Hunter.

Hunter Baek Do-hyeon.

The Hunter who single-handedly stopped the S-rank monster Overlord Dragon Valserion.

The legendary Hunter who single-handedly blocked the undead legion pouring into Seoul when other Hunters fled.

The Hunter considered the best not just in the Republic of Korea but in all of Asia – that was Baek Do-hyeon.

When he died in battle on lost territory, the Republic of Korea’s Hunter ranking, which had maintained 3rd place, plummeted vertically to outside the top 30.

To think I could revive someone like him.

And as a summoned creature at that.

No matter how injured or broken he gets, as long as I’m alive, I can revive him indefinitely.

Baek Do-hyeon who revives no matter how many times he dies.

“We absolutely have to go, right?”

“We definitely have to go!”

Kim Yeo-ul’s eyes sparkled as she nodded vigorously.

For her too, Baek Do-hyeon joining was something to greatly anticipate.

“With Hunter Baek Do-hyeon, at least we won’t die!”

“Maybe we could even reclaim the Korean Peninsula.”

“With an infinitely reviving Hunter Baek Do-hyeon, it might be possible…!”

I’m completely revising our plans up to now.

We’re heading back to the National Cemetery, specifically to Seoul National Cemetery where the Hunter burial grounds are located.

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“So how are we going to get back to Seoul?”

“We’ll have to take a different route… Originally this path was the safest route.”

“That place was the safest route?”

Kim Yeo-ul made an openly disgusted expression.

But what could I do – that was the truth.

“It’s because of that ridiculous variable, but originally it was the safest path.”

“The guide failed to consider variables and I died…”

“You have nothing you can’t say to a professional guide who revives even the dead.”

“Ugh…”

Kim Yeo-ul’s body stiffened as she tried to put me in a headlock again, then slowly lowered her arms.

It seems her body automatically stiffened because summoned creatures cannot harm their master.

“A headlock on my heaven-like master’s head, how impudent.”

“Hey, if you’re going to be like this, I’ll bury you again.”

“Really? Wait and see.”

“No, I’m joking! Just joking!”

I put the shovel I was about to take out of my bag back and spread out the map again.

“Sigh… In that case, let’s just go the complete opposite direction.”

“Where are we going?”

“From now on, we’re going to Cheonma’s Domain.”

“What? You want to go there!?”

Kim Yeo-ul, who still had PTSD about Cheonma, was horrified.

But this is a high-pass route we can only take right now.

“Since most of the monsters have gone over there to fight the war with Han Bingrong, we should take advantage and rob the empty house now.”

“What if the war ends before we cross over?”

“A war between monsters of that level won’t end easily.”

At minimum, for the war to end, one of them would have to die or flee with serious injuries.

But there’s no way monsters at S-rank level would finish fighting in just an hour or two.

Moreover, Cheonma has now left its territory.

That means the surrounding environment isn’t as terrible as it usually is.

“Time is of the essence, let’s go quickly.”

“…There really won’t be any problems, right?”

“Even if there are problems, I’ll bring you back to life.”

Kim Yeo-ul grinned broadly and nodded her head.

“Just trust me, I’ll protect you this time too.”

Kim Yeo-ul, who smiled brilliantly while taking my hand, looked incredibly cool.

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