It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 5

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Episode 5

#Episode 5

Kim Yeo-ul and I were tightly bound and dragged somewhere.

Perhaps thinking we were completely asleep, the surveillance wasn’t too strict.

Thanks to that, I could secretly open my eyes slightly and check where we were heading.

Their actions showed no hesitation whatsoever, as if drugging and kidnapping people was a familiar routine.

‘Looking at their behavior, these bastards were originally scum…’

The village chief and two sturdy men.

There were no additional personnel beyond that.

‘I’ve heard there are crazy bastards who occasionally eat human flesh… surely not.’

The place we were silently dragged to was the Village Chief’s Container.

I wondered what they could do in such a cramped container, but when the door opened, a different scene unfolded from before.

When they lifted the floor, stairs leading underground appeared.

‘There’s a basement…?’

Even during the full 10 minutes of going down the stairs, they carefully moved Kim Yeo-ul and me.

If they were going to move us down anyway, they could have just thrown us roughly, so there must be a reason we need to stay alive.

“Phew, my back’s going to give out.”

“A young guy complaining like that, we just need to put them beyond the door and we’re done, so bear with it a little longer.”

“I got it.”

Putting living people beyond a door?

I wasn’t sure what it meant, but I couldn’t let any more variables develop.

Kim Yeo-ul was also quietly waiting for my instructions.

‘Time to make a move.’

Using Kim Yeo-ul’s King of Fists stance, I could easily tear through the ropes that had bound my body tightly.

However, it didn’t produce the explosive aura that burst forth like Kim Yeo-ul’s.

“Wow, look at you casually using someone else’s skill.”

“Shut up, summon.”

“Huh…? Huh? Huuuh?”

Surprised by the sight of me tearing through the ropes like plastic, the bastards’ eyes trembled violently.

Kim Yeo-ul’s hidden magical power began surging forth.

As if to show that this was the kind of being they had captured, she revealed herself without holding back.

“Uh, uh… uuuh…?”

As if their thoughts couldn’t keep up with reality, the two men’s hands trembled violently upon seeing Kim Yeo-ul’s power.

The Village Chief’s eyes bulged as if they might pop out.

“An E-rank Hunter, no, her magical power is definitely E-rank…”

“What, were you expecting at most D-rank at best?”

Hit right on target, the Village Chief’s body flinched.

Kim Yeo-ul’s sarcastic smile swept over them.

In this space, and furthermore in this village, there was no force greater than Kim Yeo-ul.

Which meant.

“What should we do?”

“Subdue them.”

Even after hearing the order to subdue them, the two guards couldn’t even think of resisting.

Kim Yeo-ul shot forward like lightning and instantly subdued the two D-rank Hunters.

They buried their knees in the ground and bowed their heads.

Having completely lost their fighting spirit, they couldn’t even think of gripping their weapons.

“Uh… why is someone like you still in Korea…”

“Is there a reason I shouldn’t be?”

Meanwhile, the Village Chief had disappeared somewhere, vanishing in the meantime.

It seemed the chief was also an awakened one.

Originally, I had planned to tie up all three and extract what we needed from them.

But this changes the situation a bit.

Variables aren’t good in such an enclosed space.

Especially in a space that hasn’t been properly assessed yet.

“Just kill them both.”

“Okay.”

At the cold response, both guards’ faces turned deathly pale.

“W-wait a moment! I know the chief’s weak point…”

“Kill them.”

“Okay.”

Kim Yeo-ul’s hand blade, wrapped in the King of Fists stance, instantly struck the necks of both guards.

Unable to utter a single word before dying, the two men’s expressions were filled with despair and terror.

“They might have said something useful, was it okay to kill them like that?”

“They’re variables, and besides, the Village Chief isn’t someone we need to know weak points to strategize against.”

Since becoming a Hunter, I’ve been able to feel at least a little of the magical power that Kim Yeo-ul senses.

The ‘something’ beyond this door was at most B-rank level.

Having an infinitely resurrecting S-rank Hunter, there was no reason anywhere to keep variables alive to deal with a B-rank monster.

Kim Yeo-ul must have known this deep down too, as she chuckled and approached my side.

Standing before the thick iron door, Kim Yeo-ul knocked on it a few times before casting her gaze toward me.

Since I had always handled the brains and Kim Yeo-ul handled the action, this was familiar to us.

“Is there any need to open it for them? Just blow it up.”

“Isn’t that too violent for a lady?”

“I guess all the ladies in this world are dead.”

Even so, Kim Yeo-ul chuckled as she gathered energy in her hands.

The King of Fists stance, burning intensely with golden light, mercilessly destroyed the thick iron door.

Kwaaaaang-!

A golden explosion erupted in the dark space, tearing apart the tightly closed iron door.

Beyond the iron door, the Village Chief stood dumbfounded, alternately looking between the torn door and Kim Yeo-ul.

“Deceiving about your rank, you coward…”

“Coward? Ha! In a world like this, that’s only natural.”

If you were hoping for innocent youth, sorry, but only those who’ve died and lived again are here.

I trust no one in this world except Kim Yeo-ul, and Kim Yeo-ul trusts no one except me.

We’re not pushovers who’d let things slide just because someone we met today was a little nice to us.

“That aside, you’ve been raising something interesting.”

Behind the chief was a grotesquely twisted black creature making disgusting sounds.

Three left arms, two right arms, one half-grown arm on its back, two left legs, four right legs, one head, eight eyes, and a jet-black body as if burned by fire.

It has everything but is bald.

I guess even becoming a creature can’t solve hair loss.

As if obeying orders, the thing made disgusting noises while blocking the space between the chief and us.

‘A monster tamer, huh.’

The power I felt wasn’t particularly strong.

At best, mid-to-high B-rank level.

It seemed to have eaten quite a few people, but procuring humans wouldn’t have been easy on the ruined Korean Peninsula either.

‘This won’t be too difficult.’

When I glanced at Kim Yeo-ul, she seemed to feel similarly and didn’t look particularly tense.

The monster was also getting scared after seeing Kim Yeo-ul’s King of Fists stance and slowly backing away.

“What should we do?”

“What do you mean? Have you ever seen me leave something like this behind?”

“Never.”

Kim Yeo-ul flashed a brilliant smile and approached the creature.

The creature making bizarre sounds slowly stepped backward.

Meanwhile, the chief was holding his breath behind the creature, not knowing what to do.

Further conversation was meaningless.

Now there were just two monsters over there.

Kim Yeo-ul’s fist, launched by kicking off the ground, collided with the creature’s three left arms.

The massive arms were pushed back with ridiculous ease, and two of them bent at grotesque angles.

Screaming like fingernails scraping metal, the creature charged at Kim Yeo-ul again.

“Tsk.”

Running while drooling in mad fury, it was unmistakably a monster.

The so-called tamer was too terrified to even think about controlling the monster.

“This is why they’re disgusting.”

Monster tamers existed in the past too.

Bastards who thought they could use monsters to fight fire with fire.

Of course, most of them couldn’t control the monsters and caused chaos.

As a result, both monsters and people ended up being hunted by Hunters.

Control monsters?

Fight fire with fire?

“There’s a limit to how much bullshit you can spout.”

Kim Yeo-ul’s roundhouse kick burst the creature’s head.

With a clean kick without any unnecessary movements, the violently moving creature stopped moving.

Despair clouded the eyes of the Village Chief who had been holding onto hope.

As soon as he realized there was no chance of winning, he slammed his head to the ground.

Even though his forehead was torn and bleeding, he begged for his life from a woman much younger than himself.

“Please… please spare me, my daughter is waiting at home, if I disappear, that child will…”

Kim Yeo-ul glanced at me to gauge my reaction.

She wasn’t asking about my will regarding the Village Chief’s life or death.

She was asking if there was anything to gain before killing him.

He was the mastermind behind building such a village.

Naturally, there would be much to take.

“Yeo-ul, that was too much. You should think about the child who’ll be left alone.”

“…Yeah.”

I quietly approached him and patted his shoulder.

“You probably didn’t want to do it either. What person in the world would want to raise something so horrible?”

“Y-yes, that’s right. I was just trying to prevent it from going berserk…”

“Of course. How tormented you must have been. This was a sacrifice you made, Village Chief.”

Hope began to frost over in the Village Chief’s eyes.

Truly disgusting.

“Still, we did take care of that creature, so we can’t leave empty-handed, right?”

“Y-yes, that’s right! You’re the heroes who saved the village, so I’ll give you anything.”

“Thank you. We were just running low on supplies anyway.”

I took the hand of the Village Chief, who was breathing heavily.

He must have lived such a comfortable life – he didn’t have a single callus.

“Can we take what we need from your house, Village Chief?”

“Yes, that’s right. I’ve put all the important things in the second floor study, so take as much as you want.”

“It seems like we should be the ones thanking you.”

Disgust began to show on Kim Yeo-ul’s expression.

Since my brain was also starting to tingle, I quietly pressed down on the Village Chief’s shoulder and stood up.

“Is there anything else by any chance?”

“Huh? Yes, that’s everything.”

“Ah, thank you. I’ll put it to good use.”

“Huh? Of, of course…”

The Village Chief could no longer speak.

His head was flying through the sky.

* * *

Naturally, there was no daughter at the Village Chief’s house.

A disgusting human even in death.

“That old man was richer than I thought.”

“Where do you think all this came from?”

“…Ugh. When you put it that way, it feels dirty again.”

“So are you going to leave it behind?”

Most of it was potions, but occasionally some useful items caught my eye.

Kim Yeo-ul also grinned and grabbed a pair of gloves from the corner.

“As if.”

“Let’s take everything we can use.”

We took all the potions we could find.

Besides that, we decided to take just a few pieces of clothing, shoes, and some proper food.

“Is there anything else you want to look at?”

“This is enough for me. Taking more would just add to our baggage.”

“Then let’s get out of here now. Nothing good will come from staying too long…”

“What? What’s wrong?”

Kim Yeo-ul’s gaze met mine.

At the end of it was a photo of a girl holding the Village Chief’s hand and smiling brightly.

“So he really did have a daughter…?”

“Huh? Oh, not that.”

What I was looking at wasn’t the photo.

It was a purple shell sticking out from behind the photo.

It wasn’t mana, but it was emitting some kind of strange energy.

“Isn’t that just a stone? It doesn’t look like a magic stone either.”

“Huh? You can’t feel this?”

“Feel what?”

Kim Yeo-ul just blinked blankly as if she really didn’t know.

There’s no way Kim Yeo-ul, who’s nearly S-rank, couldn’t sense something I could feel.

When I carefully picked up the shell, a System Message appeared as if it had been waiting.

Indeed, it was exactly the kind of item the Village Chief who controlled monsters would have.

“Hmm…”

“What? What is it! Tell me too!”

I think I understand why summons can’t see it.

It’s basically telling them to die as meat shields instead of their master.

Of course, since there were no secrets between Kim Yeo-ul and me, I read her the information displayed in the system exactly as it appeared.

What expression would Kim Yeo-ul make?

I watched her carefully with some anxiety.

“Eh, isn’t that totally awesome?”

“…Really?”

“Even if I die, I’ll revive in an hour, but if you die, it’s over. It’s better for me to die anyway!”

Kim Yeo-ul seemed genuinely happy as she shoved the shell into my pocket.

“Never go anywhere without that on you, okay?”

“Uh…okay, I will.”

Perhaps she had been secretly bothered by the fact that only she was getting stronger, because Kim Yeo-ul finally looked relieved.

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