NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 149

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Episode 149. “White Blood” Cardiac

 

Before the third week’s broadcast began, a video by film specialist YouTuber Cineking was uploaded.

 

Yeon-woo, who happened to be checking internet reactions, was able to discover that video.

 

 

 

“Hmm. An in-depth analysis of Ella through her character role?”

 

 

 

He was curious about how this YouTuber would analyze it.

 

 

 

When Yeon-woo clicked on the video, the YouTuber’s voice flowed through the speaker.

 

 

 

– Everyone. This is Cineking. I’ll get straight to the point. I think that as supporting characters with different abilities join this White Blood expedition team, they support the protagonist Jeong Do-jin.

 

 

 

The YouTuber displayed photos of the members on screen and explained them one by one.

 

 

 

– The protagonist Jeong Do-jin, played by actor Ryu Yeon-woo. He’s literally in charge of firepower. In gaming terms, he’s the dealer. He sweeps everything away while going on a rampage alone. And Akenaton is a utility supporter. Dipangdal is the driver.

 

 

 

Pointing to Ella, the last remaining member, the YouTuber continued.

 

 

 

– Although there was a brief mention earlier that she’s strong, Ella hasn’t shown anything noteworthy so far. Why is that? Is she just a mascot-like existence in charge of cuteness?

 

 

 

YouTuber Cineking shook his head.

 

 

 

– A combat squad needs various military branches. In gaming terms, there’s a dealer, supporter, driver, and even an informant called Narrator. The remaining element is the ‘tank’. I speculate they’re trying to create unbalanced fun by having a cute girl take on the tank role.

 

 

 

Yeon-woo, who had been listening to the YouTuber’s analysis, looked interested.

 

 

 

“Interesting. Pretty sharp.”

 

 

 

Of course, it wasn’t a particularly difficult speculation, but the YouTuber’s deductive ability was interesting, uploading the video at the perfect timing when Ella would start demonstrating her abilities from today.

 

 

 

The third week’s broadcast began, and episode 7 of “White Blood” started with a small spacecraft flying frantically and White Blood Army fighter jets pursuing it.

 

 

 

The spacecraft had already left Trachea and entered Cardiac.

 

However, it was in danger of being shot down as White Blood Army fighter jets continued pursuing and firing lasers.

 

 

 

Even if they were shot down and crashed, Do-jin with his powerful body would probably survive, but the rest of the cells would certainly be annihilated.

 

 

 

“Akenaton! Don’t you have any long-range attack techniques?”

 

“I am a priest of the nation! I don’t have any magic arts for attacking others in the first place!”

 

 

 

Dipangdal was barely avoiding the frantically pouring laser attacks through miraculous piloting skills.

 

 

 

Do-jin handed the controls of the ship cannon mounted on the spacecraft to Akenaton.

 

 

 

“Then come hold this! Pull the trigger and lasers come out. Think of it as a game and try shooting them down!”

 

“Ga, game? What is that? As a priest, I cannot use such wicked things… Kheuk!”

 

 

 

Do-jin hit the back of Akenaton’s head.

 

 

 

“Shut up and shoot quickly!”

 

 

 

Then Do-jin looked at Dipangdal and ordered.

 

 

 

“Dipangdal! Open the cargo hold!”

 

“What? Right now?”

 

“Stop talking and open it quickly. And close it when I get out!”

 

 

 

When Dipangdal opened the cargo hold entrance, the luggage in the cargo hold scattered into the air, and Do-jin drew his sword and jumped out of the spacecraft through the cargo hold.

 

 

 

He grasped the positions of the luggage scattering through the air and gauged the distance to the fighter jet pursuing at fierce speed.

 

 

 

Do-jin approached the falling cargo, gathered strength in his feet and kicked it hard, using that recoil to head toward the path of the approaching fighter jet.

 

 

 

Soon he drew his sword and slashed the flying fighter jet directly.

 

 

 

Whish─.

 

Kwa-bang─.

 

 

 

With the exploding fighter jet behind him, he tried to fly toward another following fighter jet, but its altitude was much lower than Do-jin’s.

 

 

 

At free fall speed, it seemed the fighter jet would pass through Do-jin and head toward the spacecraft before he could drop onto it.

 

 

 

Thung─.

 

 

 

Then the sound of a ship cannon firing from the spacecraft was heard.

 

 

 

Shwaaek─.

 

 

 

An artillery shell flying toward Do-jin, tearing through the air.

 

 

 

“That butterfingers Akenaton!”

 

 

 

Even if he shot at the flying fighter jet, it was uncertain whether he could hit it due to evasive maneuvers.

 

 

 

In such a situation, at that distance, Do-jin probably wouldn’t even be visible, yet somehow he shot it to fly this way. That was also a skill if you could call it a skill.

 

 

 

‘Wait. If I use that.’

 

 

 

Do-jin raised his sword and struck the flying artillery shell upward with perfect timing.

 

He endured the tremendous kinetic energy of the fired shell with his body and converted it directly into recoil.

 

 

 

“Keurp!”

 

 

 

He felt his arm tingling.

 

Receiving the reaction force equal to deflecting the artillery shell, Do-jin began descending at lightning speed.

 

 

 

And with that, he raised his sword and pierced through the White Blood Army soldier in the cockpit of the flying fighter jet.

 

 

 

Kkeek─.

 

Pacheucheu─.

 

 

 

The White Blood Army pilot scattered electrical currents as he disintegrated.

 

As the pilot died, the fighter jet began plummeting downward.

 

 

 

He tried to operate something somehow, but the control panel had been completely shattered from the impact of colliding with Do-jin.

 

 

 

“Narrator! Can you communicate with other people besides me?”

 

– If they’re not too far from Do-jin, it’s possible.

 

 

 

At the Narrator’s words, he looked at the spaceship moving away.

 

 

 

“Connect me to Akenaton and tell him to meet at the Cerebral Artery.”

 

– Understood.

 

 

 

The fighter jet Do-jin was riding drew a curve as it crashed downward.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

“Oh, I understand. My God.”

 

 

 

Hearing the voice in his ear, Akenaton prostrated himself flat on the floor and offered worship.

 

Ella tilted her head as she watched him.

 

 

 

“Uncle Akenaton. What are you doing?”

 

“I heard the voice of God. God Do-jin told me to go to the Cerebral Artery first and wait.”

 

 

 

Then, Dipangdal in the cockpit scratched his head.

 

 

 

“But, Your Highness. There seems to be a problem.”

 

“A problem? What is it?”

 

“The cargo hold entrance won’t close. That needs to close for us to deploy the landing gear.”

 

 

 

It seemed that the sound of something exploding from the White Blood Army’s lasers fired from the ground before departure was the cargo hold entrance opening and closing device.

 

 

 

Ella tilted her head upon hearing this.

 

 

 

“Then can’t we just close the door?”

 

“That’s true, but it’s incredibly heavy and absolutely impossible to close manually.”

 

 

 

Ella walked over quickly and lifted the door made of steel as thick as a human torso.

 

 

 

“Yap!”

 

 

 

Click─.

 

 

 

“I’ll hold it until we land!”

 

“······.”

 

 

 

Seeing the small girl lift up a steel door thicker than her own body, Akenaton and Dipangdal’s mouths fell open.

 

 

 

“Your Highness, what exactly is she?”

 

“···Actually, I don’t know either.”

 

 

 

Apart from the fact that she came up from the lower regions with God, Akenaton actually knew nothing about Ella.

 

 

 

What was certain was that she was definitely not just an ordinary Red Blood Cell.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

Black smoke was rising in the middle of a coniferous forest that might be found in the Tundra Region.

 

 

 

It was the trace of the fighter jet Do-jin had come on exploding.

 

Strictly speaking, it was closer to having briefly rested during the crash rather than having ridden it.

 

 

 

Near the exploded fighter jet, Do-jin raised his body.

 

 

 

Just before crashing into the ground, he threw his body, breaking several trees in the coniferous forest before colliding with the ground.

 

 

 

“Ugh, my whole body aches. Before, it was a sand field so it hurt less, but here it’s frozen ground.”

 

 

 

– Do-jin. Cardiac’s signal is being detected nearby.

 

“I know. I crossed over into Cardiac’s territory.”

 

– No. I’m referring to the King of Red Blood Cells, ‘Cardiac’.

 

 

 

Do-jin’s face hardened.

 

 

 

It was too distant a goal to call a primary objective, but it was the primary goal he had set since falling into this body.

 

 

 

Finding the cell called Cardiac.

 

 

 

“Where is that?”

 

– At the summit of the snow mountain.

 

 

 

Hearing the Narrator’s words, Do-jin looked around.

 

 

 

The coniferous forest was so dense that visibility was poor.

 

 

 

‘Hmm, the tallest tree is···.’

 

 

 

While looking around, he found one tree with a thicker circumference than the other trees.

 

 

 

Tap tap─.

 

 

 

Do-jin lightly stepped on the tree and climbed to the highest branch, then looked around.

 

 

 

“You mean that one?”

 

 

 

In Do-jin’s field of vision, he could see a snow mountain towering in the distance.

 

 

 

– Yes. That’s correct.

 

“Whew. I’m excited. We finally found him. I’ve been curious for 6 years about what kind of guy this Cardiac is.”

 

 

 

Since the forest was densely packed with trees, it seemed faster to run rather than use the hoverbike.

 

Do-jin began racing through the tundra forest at tremendous speed, heading toward the snow mountain.

 

 

 

After running for a while, the snow mountain that had appeared faintly in the distance came close before his eyes.

 

 

 

“I don’t have to search this entire vast mountain, do I? The summit is certain, right?”

 

– According to the coordinates, yes.

 

 

 

Do-jin nodded and began rapidly climbing the snow mountain.

 

 

 

However, even after climbing for quite a while, the summit didn’t seem to get any closer.

 

 

 

“…This is strange. I should be able to see the summit by now. Narrator.”

 

– ······.

 

“Narrator?”

 

– ······.

 

 

 

Even when Do-jin called for the Narrator, there was no response.

 

Though communication was often cut off, he instinctively sensed something was wrong.

 

 

 

Do-jin stood still, closed his eyes, and opened all his senses.

 

 

 

The energies rippling around him each spilled out their own information.

 

The Ki Sense that had opened since entering the world inside his body allowed him to see many things he couldn’t see when he closed his eyes.

 

 

 

Energies that had been spreading in chaotic shapes like paint mixed in water, tangling and mixing with each other, were swirling in one place.

 

 

 

‘Is it here?’

 

 

 

Do-jin drew his sword with his eyes still closed and slashed at the swirling energy.

 

 

 

Crack─.

 

 

 

The sound of something massive cracking echoed, and the surrounding Ki Sense crumbled like broken glass.

 

 

 

When Do-jin opened his eyes, he was standing not on a snow mountain but in front of a cave that was bright red on all sides.

 

 

 

‘Actually, rather than a cave, it’s more like…’

 

 

 

A prison.

 

 

 

From within that red prison, an old man dressed entirely in red with red eyebrows and even red pupils stood up.

 

 

 

“How impressive that you entered the Atrium. Jeong Do-jin.”

 

 

 

Do-jin stared intently at the old man.

 

Though he was just a white-haired old man, quite an intense aura could be felt from him.

 

 

 

And this was the first cell to pronounce Do-jin’s name accurately.

 

 

 

“Thanks for not calling me Doujin. Are you Cardiac?”

 

“That’s correct.”

 

 

 

At Cardiac’s affirmation, Do-jin looked around and spoke.

 

 

 

“This place is called the Atrium? A prison is quite an unexpected use.”

 

 

 

The atrium is an organ surrounded by cardiac muscle that exists in the upper part of the heart.

 

 

 

“It’s properly fulfilling its original role. However, since this place has more thorough security than anywhere else in the body, the White Blood Army must have imprisoned me here.”

 

 

 

Do-jin’s expression hardened.

 

 

 

That cell had definitely just said “anywhere else in the body.”

 

 

 

“Do you know that you’re a cell inside someone else’s body?”

 

 

 

At Do-jin’s words, Cardiac smiled broadly.

 

 

 

“Of course. Just before being captured like this, I left a weak suggestion with the Narrator to make him find Jeong Do-jin. That was also my arrangement.”

 

“…Who are you?”

 

 

 

At Do-jin’s question, Cardiac opened his mouth while spreading both hands as if he had nothing to hide.

 

 

 

“I am the last ember to help Do-jin save this body. I am Cardiac, the king confined in the Atrium and the father of all Hematopoiesis.”

 

 

 

Hematopoiesis.

 

These were the hematopoietic stem cells that Akenaton had mentioned.

 

 

 

Cells that produce all blood cells, whether white blood cells or red blood cells.

 

 

 

Sensing that additional explanation was needed, Cardiac opened his mouth again.

 

 

 

“Most cells live short lives compared to their predetermined lifespan and reincarnate again. I am a manager who has lived completely without reincarnating during those years, managing this body.”

 

 

 

Do-jin had thought about this problem before too.

 

 

 

Generally, the lifespan of white blood cells is 12 hours.

 

And the lifespan of red blood cells is as much as 120 days.

 

 

 

However, that’s based on the time standards of the outside world.

 

 

 

In this world, one year passes with each heartbeat, so even calculating roughly one beat per second, the lifespan of white blood cells is about 43,000 years.

 

And the lifespan of red blood cells was more than 200 times longer than that.

 

Over ten million years.

 

 

 

‘But Ella and Akenaton didn’t seem to have lived that long.’

 

 

 

Perhaps it was because, as the Cardiac before him had said, it went through endless cycles of death and rebirth—reincarnation.

 

 

 

‘But to have lived completely without going through reincarnation…?’

 

 

 

Ten million years was a span of time difficult to even grasp.

 

The cave paintings with handprints, humanity’s first records, were only 50,000 years old.

 

The Stone Age began 2 million years ago.

 

 

 

“So you’re saying you’ve lived through that tremendous span of time.”

 

“Looking back after it has passed, it all seems like an instant.”

 

 

 

Do-jin looked at the Cardiac.

 

 

 

“You said I was the last ember to help you save this body. Then you must have a clear reason for bringing me here?”

 

 

 

It had already been six years since the Narrator first contacted Do-jin.

 

It might seem like an instant to this Cardiac before him, but for Do-jin, it had been a long, long time.

 

 

 

Having come all this way through such hardship, if there wasn’t a reasonable explanation, anger might well have risen within him.

 

 

 

And the words that came from the Cardiac’s mouth were truly unexpected.

 

 

 

“I can send you back to your original world for a brief time.”

 

 

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

With those words, the screen faded to black and the third week’s broadcast came to an end.

 

 

 

Yeon-woo also finished monitoring and stretched.

 

 

 

“Phew. Even though the content is quite lengthy, it seems the viewers are following along pretty well, which is fortunate.”

 

 

 

Any story that ends anticlimactically receives poor reviews.

 

 

 

While the ‘introduction, development, and climax’ are certainly important, how you handle the ‘conclusion’ determines the direction of reviews and whether someone would recommend it to others.

 

 

 

Now all the plot threads had been laid out, and to gather them all into a single point and resolve them, the remaining fourth week’s content needed to be an excellent ‘conclusion.’

 

 

 

And of course, he was confident about that.

 

While organizing these various thoughts, his smartphone rang.

 

 

 

Bzzzz—.

 

 

 

Yeon-woo picked up his smartphone to check the content. It was a message posted in the group chat with Han So-hyeon and Son Jin-wook.

 

 

 

– Son Jin-wook: Everyone has tomorrow’s schedule cleared, right?

 

– Han So-hyeon: Of course!

 

 

 

Yeon-woo smiled as he read the message and typed his response.

 

 

 

– Ryu Yeon-woo: I’m ready too.

 

 

 

Tomorrow, he had somewhere to go with these two.

 

 

 

It was something they’d been talking about consistently since last time, and tomorrow was the day he had already adjusted his schedule with Son Jin-wook and Han So-hyeon, who had visited the set for cameo filming.

 

 

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