It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 9
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Episode 9
#Episode 9
Even after gaining a new companion, the conquest of Trash Mountain was far from over.
So much trash filled our view that we couldn’t see the end of it.
“They really dumped an incredible amount here.”
“What can we do? I heard Japan and China secretly dump their trash here too before running away.”
“They come all the way to the Korean Peninsula just to dump trash?”
“Yeah, they spray it from the air using drones.”
“Those damn bastards…”
This is all because our country lacks power.
Why do S-rank monsters keep appearing on this tiny piece of land?
“Sigh…”
Once again blaming grandfather Dangun, I diligently moved forward.
“At least it’s comfortable since there are no monsters.”
“Right, if it’s this safe, people could actually live here.”
“People are actually living here though?”
“…What?”
“Really?”
Seo Iram nodded calmly.
“If you go a little left from where that arrow sign is stuck, there’s a place.”
“Are about ten or so people living together?”
“No? Uh… I think there are over a hundred… I can’t count beyond that…”
“Wh-what?! A hundred!?”
Leaving behind Seo Iram who was folding and unfolding her fingers counting to 10, Kim Yeo-ul and I instinctively turned left.
We had more mouths to feed now, so we needed to gather supplies and take a rest anyway.
After walking left from the U-turn sign for about 5 minutes, a village came into view.
They had pushed away the trash to create a large clearing, and there were quite a lot of people visible.
Moreover, the village entrance even had a sign reading ‘Trash Village.’
“There really is a village…”
“I know…”
As we approached the village entrance, guards blocked our way.
“What brings you here?”
Unlike the guards from the previous monster Tamer’s place, the guards of Trash Village were quite polite.
I pointed to my bag and said.
“We’re heading to Seoul, but stopped by to resupply along the way.”
“Your names?”
“Cha Hyeon-su, and behind me are Kim Yeo-ul and Seo Iram.”
The guard carefully examined me and my party members before opening the entrance.
“The grocery store is straight ahead, and when you see the black horse statue, it’s right on the left.”
“Thank you for letting us know!”
The guard bowed his head and resumed guarding the gate solemnly.
‘He’s really good at his job.’
Setting aside that brief impression, I first surveyed the surroundings of Trash Village.
Naturally, there were no strong fighters comparable to Kim Yeo-ul in sight.
Just in case, Kim Yeo-ul was keeping her presence suppressed and cosplaying as a low-level Hunter again.
“The inside is cleaner than I thought?”
“Right, it’s pretty clean for a place called Trash Village.”
Of course, it only looked clean because the outside was so filthy.
“Still, people seem to be living fairly well. There don’t seem to be any starving people, and I don’t see any homeless either.”
“It can’t be easy to live here geographically, but it’s strange… Do they have some comfortable means of making a living?”
For now, we went straight into the village as the guard had instructed.
Before long, a spotted horse statue appeared just as he had said.
“He said left from here, so that must be the grocery store over there.”
When we went inside, a generous-looking owner greeted us.
“Haven’t seen your faces before? Are you outsiders?”
“Yes, this is our first time here today.”
“Is that so? I’ll give you a fair price, so feel free to look around.”
With the Republic of Korea having collapsed, existing currency is no longer accepted.
Usually, transactions are conducted with precious metals, silver, or through bartering.
And I had some silver left on me.
When I left Seoul, I had raided some ownerless jewelry stores.
I gathered some semi-dried foods and items like medicine and bandages.
Even though I had gained Super Regeneration, it was better to be thoroughly prepared in case problems arose.
After completing the transaction with a few pieces of silver, I casually handed the store owner one more silver ring.
“Even though this is a remote place, the village seems quite active?”
The Store Owner quietly accepted the silver ring and answered with his still warm smile.
“It’s all thanks to the boss.”
“Boss?”
“Yeah, the boss who rules Trash Village. I think his name was Leon? Must be a foreigner.”
Leon…
I’ve never heard such a name on the Korean Peninsula.
“What kind of work does the boss do?”
“What do you mean? Even supplies coming to a remote place like this is all thanks to the boss.”
“Oh… supplies come all the way here?”
“Of course, it’s not people who come, but drones deliver them.”
Drones deliver to such a remote place?
Just what kind of person is this boss to have such good connections?
“Wow… that sounds amazing just hearing about it.”
“Of course, we just need to pay a little tax, so you can’t imagine how good life is here.”
“I see… do you pay taxes with precious metals like gold or silver?”
“Huh? Ah… well, there’s that too.”
“Excuse me?”
An uncomfortable atmosphere briefly flowed.
The store owner looked at me and the companions behind me, then waved his hand dismissively as if it was nothing.
“Oh my… I should rest now. It was fun talking after so long!”
After that, the store owner pushed us out of the shop as if driving us away.
“Hmm… what was that…”
“Why? Something wrong?”
“No, when I brought up taxes, he dodged the topic and cut off the conversation.”
“What, is he evading taxes or something?”
“I’m not sure about that…”
I had a feeling it wasn’t such a simple problem.
“Well, we got what we needed anyway, so let’s find a place to stay.”
“I want to rest on a soft bed too!”
“Me too! Me too!”
“You need to wash up first.”
Fortunately, there seemed to be many outsiders like us, so finding lodging wasn’t difficult.
We chose a suitable place among the few scattered options and went in.
“Do you have any vacant rooms?”
“There’s only one left, would that be okay?”
He said this looking at Kim Yeo-ul and Seo Iram behind me, but they’re summoned creatures and their master, aren’t they?
There was no problem.
“Yes, one room is enough.”
“Understood, please go to the second room on the 2nd floor.”
“Thank you.”
I took the key and went up to the 2nd floor to open the door.
It was a room with two beds – the innkeeper must have been considerate.
The structure itself was just a bedroom and bathroom, but just not sleeping on the street was something to be grateful for.
Since it had been so long since I’d seen a bed, after washing up, I fell asleep as if fainting.
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When I opened my eyes again, the sun had already set.
Blue moonlight was illuminating the ruined surface.
“I slept really well after so long…”
As I stretched to loosen my stiff body, Kim Yeo-ul and Seo Iram heard the sound and groggily rubbed their eyes.
“Mmm… already awake?”
“Bed… so soft… the best…”
Kim Yeo-ul, who had woken up, came over beside me and looked out the window together.
“It’s a full moon.”
“Right, how long has it been since I looked at the moon so leisurely…”
“You saw it plenty when we were sleeping rough.”
“Looking while all tense is different from looking leisurely like this… huh?”
Kim Yeo-ul’s words were cut off.
“What, what is it?”
“That person, isn’t that Juntak Ajeossi from the bakery in Daejeon?”
“Huh? There’s a survivor?”
When I shifted my gaze to where Kim Yeo-ul was pointing, I really could see the bakery owner we often visited in Daejeon.
He was running frantically in panic, as if there was some urgent matter.
He was a grateful person who always secretly gave us extra service whenever Kim Yeo-ul and I visited, so I definitely remembered him.
“…Should we go check it out?”
“Should we? If something’s wrong, we can help him now.”
“We should repay our debts. Let’s go.”
“I’ll come too!”
“Of course, hurry up and put on your shoes!”
Even though we jumped straight out the window, no one got hurt.
It was only the 2nd floor after all.
Despite coming down quite noisily, Juntak Ajeossi didn’t notice and was urgently running somewhere.
“Let’s follow him once.”
“You mean tail him?”
“Something like that.”
I killed my presence and quietly followed Juntak Ajeossi.
Running at that pace should have left him breathless, but far from being tired, Ajeossi maintained his speed continuously.
Considering his gourd-like physique, it was quite remarkable.
“Could Juntak Ajeossi always run that well?”
“Maybe his running improved from fleeing Daejeon?”
“Could be.”
After tailing him for about 5 minutes, Juntak Ajeossi stopped walking as if he’d reached his destination.
Then he looked around to see if anyone was nearby, before quietly entering an alley.
“Is he making a drug deal or something?”
“His behavior is suspicious enough to question… but there’s no law here anyway, so why would he need to hide like that?”
“Then maybe he’s secretly eating something delicious without us!?”
“He doesn’t even know we’re here though?”
“Aha!”
Setting aside our chatter, I quietly observed the alley Ajeossi had entered.
“Hurry! Give it to me quickly! I paid you!”
“Hey now, you’re quite impatient, who said I wouldn’t give it to you?”
It looked like Juntak Ajeossi and a man were conducting some kind of transaction.
The man was wearing a black coat and red sunglasses in the middle of the night.
‘That’s an unusual outfit…’
After checking the money he received from Juntak Ajeossi, the man opened an ice box.
Then he pulled out a red blood pack from inside.
“Confirmed, here, take it.”
“Heh… hehehe hehehehe!”
Juntak Ajeossi took the blood pack and began tearing into it greedily.
‘That really looks like blood…?’
Blood quickly drained from the blood pack that had the blood type written on it.
Only after emptying the entire blood pack in an instant did Ajeossi let out a long-held breath.
“Keheheh, well then, I’ll be counting on you next time too.”
The man left those words and disappeared.
In the dark alleyway, only Juntak Ajeossi remained kneeling with a somehow dejected expression.
‘A vampire, something like that.’
At least Ajeossi’s current appearance wasn’t that of a human.
“What should we do? Are we just going to keep watching?”
Kim Yeo-ul, who had been watching alongside me, whispered quietly.
For some reason, I had a feeling that Juntak Ajeossi was connected to the uncomfortable feeling I’d had since coming to this village.
I entered the alley first.
As I walked in openly with heavy steps, Juntak Ajeossi, who had been crouched on the ground, slowly turned his head.
“…Oh, you’ve gotten much tougher since I last saw you.”
His mouth was covered in blood and he was breathing roughly.
What was even more surprising was that Ajeossi’s eyes were dyed red like blood.
“Heh…”
“What did you say?”
“More… give me…”
“…Ah.”
“More… give me more-!”
Perhaps his sitting position was to gain momentum, as Juntak Ajeossi’s red eyes flashed and he lunged at me.
Naturally, Kim Yeo-ul wasn’t going to just watch this happen.
“Don’t kill him!”
“Got it!”
Kim Yeo-ul deflected his rough hands with two fingers and moved as smoothly as a snake.
She got behind Ajeossi and put him in a chokehold.
Though Ajeossi twitched and tried to resist somehow, an S-rank Hunter’s strength easily suppressed him.
“Kek… keeek…”
Juntak Ajeossi foamed at the mouth and rolled his eyes back.
After confirming he was completely unconscious, Kim Yeo-ul released the chokehold.
Then she dusted off her hands and clicked her tongue.
“Juntak Ajeossi doesn’t seem human anymore, does he?”
“For what reason?”
“I didn’t want to kill him so I gradually increased the pressure, but if a normal person had taken that much force, their neck would already be broken.”
“…You applied it that strongly?”
“Yeah.”
If Kim Yeo-ul says so, then it’s certain.
Even so, to think she applied enough force to break someone’s neck…
He wasn’t a bad person, but it seems there’s some kind of situation.
“Let’s take him back to our lodging for now.”
“Will that be okay?”
“From what I saw earlier, he seemed to be at a level where we could still have a conversation, so we need to ask him about it.”
And so, we kidnapped a 43-year-old former master baker from the Republic of Korea.
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