NIS Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor - Chapter 154

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Episode 154. “White Blood” Final Chapter (2)

 

The eyes of all the cells throughout the body turned toward the sky.

 

 

 

The staff at the Trade City Hotel and the cells living in the small village that Ella had left behind all raised their heads to look at the video floating in the sky.

 

 

 

“Wh-what is that?”

 

“Peggy. You can see that too, right?”

 

 

 

The sender of the video was the Narrator.

 

 

 

The screen simultaneously projected onto the skies of the countless worlds that made up the body was initially just a black screen, though occasionally something seemed to writhe within it.

 

 

 

Then a blue light flickered briefly at its center before going out.

 

 

 

“Huh? That figure just now was definitely Uncle Do-jin!”

 

 

 

Ella spoke after seeing the silhouette that had been illuminated during the brief flicker.

 

 

 

Then the blue light flickered again, clearly showing Do-jin swimming through the water and the silhouette of a massive monster fiercely pursuing him.

 

 

 

At that moment, Do-jin was continuously descending deeper into the sea, unaware that his appearance was being broadcast live throughout the body.

 

 

 

Blub blub─.

 

 

 

He could see the monster’s tentacles approaching, violently pushing through the water.

 

 

 

Thwang─.

 

 

 

He barely managed to block it by raising his sword, but his movements were sluggish underwater, making it a close call.

 

 

 

The creature’s tentacles seemed to have incredible hardness – even when he blocked with the sword’s tip pointed forward, they didn’t get a single scratch.

 

 

 

At that moment, the blue gem embedded in the sword vibrated more fiercely, pulling Do-jin’s body further down.

 

 

 

‘Damn, how far down am I going? I’m starting to run out of breath.’

 

 

 

Then Do-jin remembered the pouch hanging at his waist.

 

It was the pocket money pouch that Akenaton had given him.

 

 

 

He had used one to pay for the destroyed hotel, and the remaining one was hanging at his waist.

 

 

 

‘Right. This is oxygen after all.’

 

 

 

Do-jin took out an oxygen bead from the pouch at his waist and put it in his mouth.

 

 

 

‘Phew, now I feel like I can live.’

 

 

 

Meanwhile, he seemed to have reached the bottom of the lachrymal gland as his feet touched something solid.

 

 

 

Whether his eyes were open or closed, it was pitch black and he couldn’t see anything, but Do-jin closed his eyes and concentrated his mind to search for places with different energy wavelengths.

 

 

 

‘Over there.’

 

 

 

 

 

Yeon-woo, who was watching the screen, shuddered as he recalled the time when they were filming.

 

 

 

They had filmed in a water tank about 3 meters deep, and although Yeon-woo had mastered Combat Swimming, the physical exhaustion was no joke.

 

 

 

‘Still, seeing the edited version, it definitely looks convincing.’

 

 

 

It was edited to be much faster than the actual filming speed when he had descended holding the rail underwater, giving the feeling of truly reaching the deep sea.

 

 

 

“Yeon-woo really went through a lot filming that scene.”

 

 

 

Director Hwang Min-kwon, seeing Yeon-woo shuddering, gave a thumbs up with a slightly apologetic face and grinned.

 

 

 

“Hyung. How did you film that?”

 

 

 

Dong-ha asked Yeon-woo while staring with his mouth agape.

 

 

 

Since the latter part had many scenes with only Yeon-woo, the protagonist, there were many scenes filmed at different locations from the other members.

 

 

 

“…Well, I just stayed still in a half-unconscious state while they pulled me down and up in the water and filmed everything.”

 

 

 

Director Hwang Min-kwon seemed to feel guilty hearing Yeon-woo’s words and turned his head to look into the distance.

 

 

 

While the cast was having their conversation, Jeong Do-jin on screen finally found the white gem at the bottom, and at last the blue stone, purple stone, and white stone all came together and combined into one on the black sword.

 

 

 

Holding the sword that emitted light of various colors in multiple directions, Do-jin looked upward.

 

 

 

Looking at the macrophage cluster that had persistently chased him this far, he aimed his sword and kicked hard off the bottom of the lachrymal gland to rise up.

 

 

 

And all the cells throughout the body were vividly watching that scene.

 

Who was good and who was evil could be distinguished at a glance just by their appearance.

 

 

 

Humans naturally focus more on those ascending from below to above and prefer bright things over dark ones.

 

And instinctively cheer for the underdog.

 

 

 

The grotesque mass of tentacles descending into the dark depths.

 

Do-jin’s figure stood at the exact opposite end of that spectrum.

 

 

 

Do-jin, who had leaped from the bottom, was ascending upward while emitting bright light in full color.

 

 

 

When those two met at a single point, Do-jin, infinitely small compared to the massive monster, was reminiscent of the battle between David and Goliath.

 

 

 

The composition of ascending from below to above.

 

Light opposing darkness.

 

 

 

In theater or film, the work of arranging all visual elements within the stage or frame according to intention is called ‘Mise-en-Scene.’

 

 

 

The mise-en-scène that aesthetically satisfied everything was the product of highly calculated psychology.

 

 

 

The star that shone alone, illuminating the darkness of the deep sea, instantly pierced through the darkness, grotesqueness, and negativity as it rose higher.

 

 

 

Do-jin, who had flown up and escaped from the lachrymal gland, passed by Ella, Akenaton, and Dipangdal on the ground and crashed into the barrier surrounding the brain.

 

 

 

Crack─.

 

 

 

It seemed to crack but couldn’t break through, and Do-jin stopped again.

 

 

 

“Mister! Whoa, you’re sparkling so brightly it’s blinding!”

 

 

 

Ella couldn’t look directly at Do-jin and covered her eyes with her arms.

 

 

 

“My God, you found the last piece the Sage spoke of! To think it was in such deep water.”

 

“Hmm? How do you know about that?”

 

 

 

At Do-jin’s question, Akenaton and Ella simultaneously pointed their fingers at the sky.

 

However, at the same time, White Blood Army soldiers began pouring out from the surroundings.

 

 

 

“Let’s deal with those guys first!”

 

“Yes!”

 

 

 

Do-jin drew his sword and Akenaton held up his crystal orb.

 

And Ella boldly rushed forward.

 

Watching that scene, Do-jin tilted his head in confusion.

 

 

 

“What? Why is she acting like that?”

 

“···Didn’t you know? Miss Ella is strong and fights well.”

 

“I guess there’s something different about her. Cardiac said Ella is a young Hematopoiesis.”

 

“···What?”

 

 

 

Akenaton’s eyes widened at the unexpected words.

 

The great Mother Hematopoiesis.

 

 

 

“···Should I call Miss Ella ‘Mother’ from now on?”

 

 

 

Meanwhile, all the cells in the body were watching the battle between light and darkness through the screen floating in the sky.

 

Over the past few years, there wasn’t a single cell that hadn’t harbored resentment while watching the increasingly severe tyranny of the White Blood Army.

 

 

 

Therefore, everyone knew that although the White Blood Army appeared white, they were paradoxically darkness.

 

 

 

And the instinct engraved in their very existence naturally made them realize that those currently shown in the sky were fighting to save them.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, the small village in the thigh was in chaos.

 

 

 

“Gasp! It’s El, it’s Ella!”

 

“Right?! I’m not seeing things, am I?”

 

“What? That’s supposed to be Ella?”

 

 

 

In the video filling the sky, the one running forward while shaking her pigtails was definitely Ella.

 

 

 

The ordinary girl who had disappeared from the small rural village with a stranger had somehow become a big shot.

 

 

 

“What are you all doing gathering around so ominously! Get to the workshop immediately!”

 

 

 

The Village Chief got angry, but it was just an empty shout.

 

Everyone was busy talking about Ella while looking up at the sky.

 

 

 

And the same was true for the Deyaz Kingdom in the Liver Region.

 

 

 

“Oh! It’s the prince!”

 

“Hurry! We must send reinforcements!”

 

 

 

They hurriedly activated the Hepatic Vein to select elite soldiers from the Red Blood Cell Kingdom and send them up.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, while all cells were watching with bated breath, one red blood cell who had been tied up and forced to do hard labor at a labor camp located in the brain outskirts dropped his pickaxe in surprise.

 

 

 

The face that briefly appeared on the screen filling the sky was definitely someone he knew.

 

 

 

“Dipangdal···?”

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

John Taylor, an internal medicine specialist in England who had recently opened his own hospital.

 

He was gripping his hands with sweat as he stared at the monitor.

 

 

 

In the examination room of the hospital where all the nurses had gone out for lunch after finishing the morning consultations, what John Taylor was watching alone while postponing his own lunch was “White Blood.”

 

 

 

“Wow, the action in this episode is also top-notch.”

 

 

 

He had started watching the previous two episodes from the morning before coming to work, and with only one episode left until the conclusion, he couldn’t bear the curiosity about what would happen next during the morning consultations.

 

 

 

He usually didn’t watch non-English movies or dramas with subtitles, but “White Blood” had broken through that one-inch subtitle barrier.

 

 

 

His usual hobby was watching movies or dramas and deducing the hidden meanings intended by the director.

 

 

 

“Three gems and one sword. Hmm, that’s four in total.”

 

 

 

This series had bizarre things popping up from start to finish, but paradoxically, none of them were dispensable.

 

What he meant was, the orbital elevator that served as a means of changing locations in the drama was actually veins, and the currency that cells exchanged was oxygen. In other words, everything was connected to bodily functions and all of them were utilized in the story.

 

 

 

“But the sword and gems, which are one of the core elements running through this series, are just a sword and gems? That doesn’t make sense.”

 

 

 

Those objects surely had hidden meanings and would be foreshadowing for the continuing story.

 

 

 

John had been pondering and deducing this since the middle part.

 

Among his speculations, there was one that he thought was quite credible, and he was curious whether it would turn out to be correct.

 

 

 

John began focusing on the screen again.

 

 

 

***

 

 

 

Crack—.

 

 

 

Every time Do-jin moved, White Blood Army soldiers burst apart.

 

However, it seemed like whenever he eliminated one, two more would be added.

 

 

 

‘They seem to be increasing more and more.’

 

 

 

Jeong Do-jin couldn’t think of a proper solution as he watched the endlessly surging White Blood Army.

 

 

 

From what he felt when colliding earlier, the barrier was so powerful that he couldn’t guarantee breaking through even with full force.

 

 

 

‘Phew, what should I do.’

 

 

 

That’s when it happened.

 

 

 

Countless Red Blood Cells appeared from beyond the ridge.

 

 

 

“All troops!”

 

 

 

Clang—.

 

 

 

Each Red Blood Cell drew their sword.

 

At the voice heard from afar, Akenaton’s head whipped around.

 

 

 

“Lord Revendel!”

 

 

 

It was the Royal Guard captain and elite soldiers from Deyaz Kingdom in the Liver Region, Akenaton’s hometown.

 

 

 

“Protect the prince and our guests! Charge!”

 

 

 

Waaaah—.

 

 

 

Like a rising tide, Red Blood Cells began rushing in droves from beyond the ridge.

 

 

 

The Red Blood Cells and White Blood Army clashed.

 

 

 

Though they charged with great momentum, the Red Blood Cells’ combat power was actually mediocre.

 

It took at least five of them together to match one White Blood Army soldier.

 

 

 

Still, it became considerably easier when the White Blood Army from one of the four directions turned their backs.

 

 

 

‘It’s still not enough to break through the protection shield.’

 

 

 

However, it wasn’t only Red Blood Cells that had traveled the long distance across the Hepatic Vein.

 

 

 

Screech—.

 

 

 

Bird cries could be heard from somewhere.

 

 

 

Screeech—.

 

Flap—.

 

 

 

“…Pterodactyls?”

 

 

 

Do-jin raised his head to look at the black dots flying from far away.

 

Seeing Do-jin like this, Akenaton shouted with joy.

 

 

 

“It’s Alanine! They came to help!”

 

 

 

Alanine may not have human form, but they are by no means a species lacking intelligence.

 

They fully understood that this struggle was directly connected to their future.

 

 

 

The pterodactyls that had covered the sky became a single gust of wind, flying toward the barrier and beginning to collide with it.

 

 

 

Screech—!

 

Thud—.

 

 

 

With cries, they threw their bodies and collided with the membrane.

 

Pterodactyls with broken beaks, losing consciousness and crashing toward the ground.

 

However, other creatures quickly filled the empty spots and collided again.

 

 

 

Thud thud thud—.

 

 

 

Some had their beaks half-shattered, others had their wings broken off.

 

Even while losing consciousness and crashing to Ground Level, they desperately flapped their motionless wings, trying to fly and collide once more.

 

 

 

Thanks to the pterodactyls continuously flying in and sacrificing their bodies, cracks in the barrier began to slowly open.

 

 

 

‘The barrier will recover quickly!’

 

 

 

He couldn’t let their sacrifice end meaninglessly.

 

Do-jin quickly leaped toward that cracked gap and grabbed the barrier with both hands to pry it open.

 

 

 

“Ugh! I don’t have enough strength. They said gathering all the gems would give tremendous power! That was complete bullshit. Damn it!”

 

 

 

Then, between Do-jin’s arms holding the gap, twin-tailed hair entered.

 

 

 

“I’ll help open it!”

 

 

 

Tiny hands entered right below the gap Do-jin was holding and added their strength.

 

 

 

Creak—.

 

Crack—.

 

 

 

The barrier’s gap was forcibly widened.

 

 

 

“Now’s the time!”

 

 

 

Do-jin and Ella threw themselves toward the darkness beyond the barrier and barely managed to get inside, and immediately the barrier was restored to its original state.

 

 

 

“Phew, that’s a relief.”

 

 

 

Do-jin, who had passed through the darkness, finally relaxed and lay down to look up at the sky.

 

 

 

“···What is this?”

 

 

 

Only then did he notice his own image filling the entire sky.

 

 

 

“It appeared after you got eaten by that tooth monster, mister!”

 

 

 

The tooth monster Ella was referring to must be that thing formed by multiple macrophages combining together.

 

 

 

‘The Narrator must have done something after determining I was in danger.’

 

 

 

Come to think of it, now it made sense.

 

 

 

“So the Red Blood Cells and pterodactyl came because of that.”

 

 

 

He had been worried since it had been quite a while since contact with the Narrator was cut off.

 

 

 

When he thought about it, Ella wasn’t his first coworker.

 

 

 

‘The one who was actually my coworker for 6 years was the Narrator.’

 

 

 

He had never even seen their appearance, but without the Narrator, he would have given up long ago or been caught and killed by the White Blood Army.

 

 

 

In any case, the Narrator must be somewhere in the brain too.

 

 

 

He looked up at the rocky island floating high in the sky.

 

 

 

“So that’s the brain.”

 

 

 

Do-jin scratched his head while looking up at the sky.

 

 

 

“But how do we get up there?”

 

“You’re right! It’s high!”

 

Then Do-jin looked at Ella.

 

 

 

“Ella.”

 

“Try throwing me.”

 

 

 

“Throw me.”

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