The Cursed Blacksmith Who Regressed - Chapter 94

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Episode 94

For a moment, goosebumps rose.

A person?

Suddenly?

However, Choi Hyun picked up his sword-hammer before even hearing Shasha’s answer.

Then he threw himself without the slightest hesitation toward the monsters charging at him.

And in an instant, he slaughtered the monsters.

It was tremendous power.

She had to risk her life just to face a single Ice Bear, yet this black-haired man who suddenly appeared had instantly cut down all those monsters with just one sword.

Was that why?

The monsters, overwhelmed by Choi Hyun’s crushing presence, didn’t dare think of approaching him.

Choi Hyun raised his finger gun toward the creatures that hesitated to come closer.

Then mana bullets infused with cold energy were fired from his fingertips.

All the fired bullets hit the monsters, and the parts struck by the mana bullets froze solid.

“Kiheeng!”

“Krrrung!”

The atmosphere completely shifted.

Though they clearly outnumbered him, at the appearance of this predator they’d never seen before, all the monsters tucked their tails and fled without exception.

When peace finally came to Hunchun Path, only then did Choi Hyun approach Shasha again and extend his hand.

“Are you alright?”

A man asking about her well-being in Russian.

In the succession of incomprehensible situations, she momentarily didn’t know how to respond.

But without realizing it, she took Choi Hyun’s extended hand and stood up.

Choi Hyun brushed the snow off Shasha’s body and said.

“You’ve been through a lot. That was almost a disaster.”

“Who… are you?”

“I’m called Choi Hyun. I came from Korea.”

“Korea? The north?”

“No, the south. But wait a moment.”

Choi Hyun extended his hand to one side.

Then, starting from his outstretched hand, the ground was leveled, walls were erected, a ceiling was formed, and a space with a warm furnace was created.

It was a workshop.

Choi Hyun pulled out a chair in front of the table prepared in the workshop and said.

“It’s cold, isn’t it? Please sit down first. I’ll bring you something to drink.”

Then he began taking things out of thin air and placing them on the table.

Hand warmers, cup noodles, warm tea, and so on.

The man took out quite a lot of things through the small gap that opened in the air.

Following the workshop, it was the power of the job-exclusive skill Warehouse.

Choi Hyun, who quickly prepared hot water and warmed milk, poured the warmed milk into a mug and offered it, then poured the hot water into Korean lunch box cup noodles, called Russia’s national cup noodles, which steamed and bubbled.

It didn’t stop there.

Choi Hyun took out sausage, cut it and put it in the cup noodles, then even sprinkled mayonnaise on top of the cooked cup noodles and offered it with a fork.

“You like this, don’t you? Eating lunch box with sausage and mayonnaise sprinkled on it.”

“…”

She stared at Choi Hyun blankly.

How does this man know this?

Was he Russian?

There was much to say and much to be curious about.

However, before asking and questioning such things, Shasha was captivated by the lunch box set that Choi Hyun had prepared.

She had been trapped in that cold snow for about 6 hours.

Moreover, she hadn’t eaten proper food for over 3 years.

At first, she ate food from mart or store warehouses, but many rotted or had to be thrown away due to poor management, and even those became impossible to eat because of monsters.

And now a lunch box set in a warm space?

As the old saying goes that to move a person’s heart, you move them with food, Shasha took the fork as if enchanted and began to eat.

“Eat slowly.”

Choi Hyun stepped aside so she could eat comfortably.

Coming out of the small workshop, snow was still falling.

Meanwhile, the sun had completely set and the world was pitch black.

‘Five years in a place like this.’

Shasha Ivanov.

She, who could be called one of the All-Stars, had a distinctly different point from other healers.

That was precisely that she was very skilled in combat compared to other healers.

So her nickname was also Fighting Saint.

Foreigners called her Tactical Priest, Battle Priest.

If Choi Hyun was a fighting blacksmith, then she was a fighting healer.

Not only that?

She was skilled not only in fighting but also in survival, and had stronger endurance than any tanker.

It was all thanks to her life in Hasan.

‘Even if I hadn’t saved her today, she would have survived somehow.’

Looking around, he thought anew how truly remarkable she was.

In this place without a single person, where even food supplies were exhausted and it was cold all year round, what kind of feelings had she endured with?

The her from his previous life had said it was because of the last words of a child named Mikhail, but Choi Hyun himself had said that no matter if such a being existed for him, he couldn’t have done what she did.

When Choi Hyun, who had been waiting outside appropriately, went back inside, she had finished all the noodles and milk and was waiting for Choi Hyun.

Surprisingly, she wasn’t wary of Choi Hyun at all.

When Choi Hyun sat across from her, she spoke first.

“Thank you for helping me.”

He smiled at those words.

Thinking that she was truly an upright person, then and now.

“Did the food suit your taste?”

“Yes, very much so. Rather, it’s been so long since I ate that it’s almost ecstatic.”

“That’s a relief. By the way, that was dangerous earlier. Are you hurt anywhere?”

“I’m fine. Even though I look like this, I’m an awakened person and a healer. You’re also an awakened person, right?”

“That’s right. I’m a blacksmith. Nice to meet you. To introduce myself again, I’m Choi Hyun from Korea. As I mentioned earlier, I’m from the south.”

“I’m Shasha Ivanov. I’m not originally from here…”

She naturally told her story.

A story he already knew completely.

But Choi Hyun listened without saying anything.

When her story ended, Choi Hyun said.

“You’ve been through a lot. You’ve really worked hard to survive all this time.”

“Somehow I ended up continuing to live like this. But you’re from South Korea, so how did you come to be here? You don’t look like a simple traveler.”

“I came to save you.”

“What? Me? How do you know me?”

“This is related to my ability…”

Shasha from his previous life had said that even if I suddenly came looking for her, if I just explained somewhat plausibly, she would believe me.

Because that’s the kind of person she was.

So along with the Growth Tower top alibi that I had used on everyone else, I told her everything about what kind of person I was, what work I did, and what goals I lived for.

As a result, the story became quite long.

But she listened to the entire story with concentration, and when all the stories finally ended, she slowly nodded.

“You were an even more remarkable person than I thought.”

“Do you believe me?”

“How could I not believe someone who came all the way to a foreign country to save me, someone they’d never met? You can’t tell me the details, but you said it’s an ability you gained from the top of the Growth Tower?”

I couldn’t help but chuckle at those words.

That’s Shasha for you.

She knew herself too well.

“That’s right. Thanks to that ability, I was able to meet you like this. So, how about coming to Korea with me? I’d like you to come to Korea and work with me. I need someone like you.”

“I’ll do that.”

“That easily?”

“I don’t have a choice right now. I want to see my family again, but in my current state, there’s no guarantee I’ll be able to find them. But if I follow you and help you, I think an opportunity to reunite with my family will come.”

“I’ll definitely help you. So you can reunite with your family. Even if you don’t work with me.”

Shasha shook her head.

“No. Rather, I’m the one who wants to work with you. No, please let me work with you. Being with you, I felt like I could survive any moment. I have pretty good instincts, you know.”

Good instincts.

It was something people always said about her.

“It seems that way. Then shall we rest a bit, pack what we need, and head to Korea? It would be nice to use a car or plane, but unfortunately, since we came across the sea, we’ll have to walk to where there’s water first. It’ll take at least a few days.”

“That’s fine. But there’s something I’d like to ask before we leave.”

“What kind of request?”

“I want to hold a funeral for my family.”

Family.

She was referring to the women and children who had lived together after being kidnapped and killing the Volks.

After they died, Shasha couldn’t bury them in the ground or cremate them.

If she buried them in the ground, monsters would obviously dig them up and eat them, and to cremate them, she’d need to make a big fire, which would also attract the monsters’ attention.

So whenever a family member died, she placed them in a corner of the Hasan Station building.

Naturally, the corpses became skeletons, and now she had gathered those bones in a makeshift coffin.

“What kind of funeral would you like? If you want, we could take the remains to Korea and hold a proper funeral.”

She shook her head at those words.

“No, I’ll just bury them here. Hasan isn’t my family’s hometown either, but I think it’s better to be buried in their homeland than in a foreign country.”

“Understood. Then we’ll need to clean up first.”

“Clean up?”

Choi Hyun summoned his sword-hammer and said.

“To properly honor your family, there shouldn’t be any uninvited guests. I’ll take care of the monsters in the area. In the meantime, please gather your family’s remains, Shasha.”

At those words, Shasha’s eyes filled with emotion.

Then she stood up following Choi Hyun and said.

“Then I’ll help too. When you think about it, the monsters played a significant part in my family’s deaths. So please let me help avenge my family.”

“Will you be okay?”

“I’ve always been waiting for this moment.”

Her eyes began to grow infinitely resolute.

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