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I thought that I have finally reached my dream.

It was a simple dream, something so simple that most people were enjoying it without even realizing its value.

It wasn't like I dreamt of something extraordinary. I didn't want to become a respectable person who will never be seen in the world again or someone who saves the world.

I just had a simple dream.

I wanted to live as a rich slacker. Oh, and to farm a little. Just a little, on a small land with easily cultivatable corps.

"You're dying."

And yet... Here I am, staring at a bastard telling me that I can't achieve my most cherished dream.

"So, Let's make a deal."

...Is what the bastard says. Making a deal with that annoying bastard won't help in any way to achieve my dream. it's too obvious that it won't.

"...Well, pretty much. You see, your crazy family will surely destroy the world."

Hmm. They surely would do it. Still, I don't want to have anything to do with this bastard. He's just too annoying.

"Cale Henituse, become my Saint."

"I refuse."

I honestly, from the bottom of my heart, from the deepest part of my soul refuse to become his fucking Saint. Even considering it is terrible.

"...How about becoming one temporarily? Just during your stay in that world."

It's still too much, too far from my dream. My peaceful life in some remote place, slacking all year round while farming occasionally.

"Let's make a deal, shall we?"

"...Fuck."

Still, I can't refuse it no matter how much I want to do so. It's irritating, but I have no choice. The only thing I can do is say goodbye to my slacker life, for now.

Till the day I can finally smack that waste of space, annoying bastard, God of Death at the back of his head. I'll smack him so hard that he won't be able to ever mess with my slacker life again.

I will surely become a slacker. No matter how much time it takes, no matter how hard it is to achieve. I will reach my dream no matter what.

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“You're dying.”

‘What the fuck?’

Cale’s mind went blank as he speechlessly stared at the bastard who nonchalantly announced he was dying the moment they met.

He wanted to smack some sense to that bastard's head so badly. The always whining and annoying bastard said he was dying after making him faint by slapping his face with a damned book.

The moment he woke up, he was standing inside a modern office, different from the offices in his current world. The office had a simple design and was full of stacks of paperwork. There, a man was sitting behind a desk with the most paperwork and staring at him while saying he was dying.

Cale took a breath to calm down.

“You've been spouting bullshit from the moment we met. I'm not even surprised anymore.”

The silvery white-haired and unexpectedly handsome man just shrugged.

“I’m just telling you about your body's condition.”

“Haaa. Did you bring me here just to tell me this?”

Cale stared sharply at the man's black eyes. The man started to smile.

“Let’s make a deal.”

‘Hah! Look at this bastard.’ Cale scoffed internally.

“And why should I?”

“You’re dying.”

This time Cale shrugged.

“So? Everyone dies one day.”

“But you don’t want to die.”

“Who the hell would want to die? And won’t it be more beneficial for you, since you rule over death?”

Cale casually walked towards the only chair available in the office and sat on it. He looked straight at the handsome man-no, entity and opened his mouth.

“Cut the crap and get to the point already, God of Death.”

God of Death sighed and started to smile.

“You’re really disrespectful.”

Cale rolled his eyes at that while God of Death continued.

“Cale Henituse, you’re already aware of it, aren’t you?”

‘But I’m not?’ Cale’s expression didn’t change, but he was confused.

“Your ancient power must have told you already. He should have found a trace of immortality in your body after you stabbed yourself with the World Tree’s root dagger.”

This time Cale frowned. He couldn’t understand what this had to do with him dying, since a trace of immortality is the polar opposite of death. As if understanding Cale’s confusion, God of Death continued his explanation in more detail.

“Of course, normally this would make you live at least as long as a dragon.”

Cale’s eyes narrowed at the world ‘normally’, while God of Death stood up and walked towards the coffee machine.

“Well, as I said, that’s what would have happened normally. To put it simply…”

God of Death filled two cups of coffee and walked to Cale. He gave one of the cups to him, which Cale accepted without taking his eyes off of him.

“...You messed up your body beyond repair.”

God of Death went back to his seat. Cale didn't say anything and just waited for him to continue.

“You used instant right after stabbing yourself and as if it was not enough, you sealed a literal God right after that. Of course, I know it was the best way to end it all and you didn’t have many choices, but still, it broke down your body completely.”

Cale’s frown deepened.

‘So... I’m really dying because of that bastard without getting to enjoy my slacker life? Seriously?’

God of Death, who could tell what he was thinking about, smiled at him in amusement. He took a sip from his coffee and interrupted Cale’s thoughts.

“So, let’s make a deal.”

Cale snapped out of his thoughts and stared at him coldly. God of Death coughed and continued.

“Honestly, I was supposed to give you the rewards for saving the world but decided to postpone it until later because of your body’s condition. For now, let’s make a deal. I will make you a new body. Of course, With a stronger plate.”

Cale’s eyes turned colder. God of Death coughed again and continued more hurriedly.

“I’ll remove the side effects of sealing a God and keep the true effects of the World Tree’s root in your body. You’ll be able to live at least as long as that young dragon. You want to live with your family as long as possible, don’t you?”

‘Damn it. This bastard…’ Cale thought while glaring daggers at God of Death and finally opened his mouth.

“And why do you even care about this?”

Twitch.

Cale watched as the corner of God of Death’s mouth twitched slightly, he then lowered his voice as he continued.

“You. You seem scared.”

Flinch.

God of Death flinched almost unnoticeably, but that didn’t escape Cale’s sharp eyes.

Cale started to smile. If Raon was there, he would’ve been asking Cale if he was going to scam a God.

“Hmm, let me see... Is it because of Raon?”

Cale nodded at himself while remembering Raon’s vicious comments.

‘That’s right, Raon always says some vicious things about destroying the world.’

Cale unconsciously took a large sip from his coffee to wash the vicious threats from his head.

“Hmm?”

This time God of Death was speechless. Cale had guessed a part of it but...

‘l know he was oblivious, but I really didn’t expect it to be to this extent. Doesn’t he know how much of a crazy family he has??’

He suddenly felt guilty. After all, it was because of the curse he put on White Star that this pitiful and innocent soul had to suffer to the point he couldn’t accept - scratch that - understand the affection of the people and how they feel toward him anymore. That was why he decided to be a bit more honest with him.

“...Well, pretty much. You see, your crazy family will surely destroy the world.”

He didn’t feel the need to mention that the baby dragon will be the first to start the destruction.

Cale smiled more brightly.

“That’s not all, is it?”

There is no way a God would be scared of a world getting destroyed. Of course, they might do what they can to save the world like bringing single-lifers or transmigrators like him, but it surely wouldn’t be because they are scared, rather, it would be because of something like a grudge, just like what the God of Death did to seal the Despair bastard.

Cale put his cup on the table and continued to say his hypothesis while smiling as brightly as the sun.

“Are you scared that they might kill you?”

Flinch.

God of Death flinched visibly. That made Cale smile even brighter, to the point that the God of Death wondered how it was even possible to smile that brightly.

He sighed and opened his mouth.

“You really are too smart. That’s right. Even though Gods are unable to die, your family members are crazy enough to be scared of.”

Cale dropped his smile.

‘Tsk. It’s really a shame that they’re unable to die.’

Cale thought regretfully while clicking his tongue. The God of Death decided to ignore his obvious thoughts when he heard Cale mumble to himself.

“Then why the hell are you talking like you saw your own death at their hands?”

The God of Death’s expression crouched and his hand that was holding the cup of coffee shook. This didn’t go unnoticed in Cale’s eyes.

Cale’s eyes widened.

“No way... Really? Seriously?”

Tsk.

God of Death clicked his tongue, put his cup on his desk and looked straight at Cale.

“Cale Henituse. Don’t look at me like that. Your whole family is crazy.”

“Wow. They’re really vicious.”

The still-shocked Cale blurred out. The God of Death once told him that the only future he could see was someone’s death, and the fact that he saw his own death meant that they really could find a way to kill him.

‘To think that they could kill a God... How Vicious…’

Even though he didn’t pity the God of Death the slightest bit, he didn’t want his family to destroy their home just because of him dying. It wasn’t worth it.

God of Death sighed at his obliviousness again. He decided to finally get straight to the point.

“Cale Henituse, become my Saint.”

“I refuse.”

Cale snapped almost immediately. God of Death ignored him.

“You’re dying. I can make you a new body and let you live much longer.”

“You said that before already. I still refuse. I’m not going to become your Saint.”

Cale didn’t even bat an eye as he answered him. The God of Death ignored him again.

“The only way for you to live is that I create a new body for you in another dimension. I only can do it if you become my Saint, otherwise, the balance won't allow it and casualties will be too much for me to handle. I’ve already broken a few laws.”

Cale became speechless. It took him a few minutes to retort.

“What the hell? What is the difference between me dying and reincarnating in another dimension?”

The God of Death averted his eyes and answered him.

“Obviously, Your family won’t destroy the world if they know that you’re alive. You just need to stay there for a few years. When the time comes, you will be able to come back.”

Cale went silent, then as if suddenly remembering something, with a disgusted expression stared at the white-haired man and started to talk coldly.

“I still refuse to become your fucking Saint.”

The God of Death sighed yet again.

“...How about becoming one temporarily? Just during your stay in that world.”

“Hmm? That’s possible?”

“...Yes.”

Cale’s eyes started to shine. He then asked another important question.

“You’re not going to send me to another world with a crazy bastard who wants to become God or is experiencing an apocalypse, right?”

“...Oh. That.”

God of Death coughed and avoided his eyes. Cale narrowed his eyes again.

"...You see, I only can create your body in a particular world... That will experience an apocalypse about five years after your arrival.”

“...Fuck. I refuse.”

The God of Death ignored him again and continued.

“Let’s make a deal, shall we?”

“...Fuck.”

Cale cursed but didn’t refuse this time. He didn’t want to die. More importantly, if he died...

‘If they destroy the world all of my money will become dust! And... The children... They live in the super rock villa too. They’re too young to lose their home again.’

Cale brushed his red hair back with his hand, sighed and asked the annoying bastard that was observing him another question.

“So, what do I have to do in that world?”

The God of Death smiled and immediately answered him.

“Nothing. You don’t have to do anything in particular before the apocalypse, and after that, you just need to survive and wait for the right time to come back. You don’t have to do anything as my Saint too. Just slack as much as you want. You will have all of your ancient powers and abilities too, though they will be sealed till the apocalypse starts. Oh, and don’t worry, a year in that world is equal to a month in your world."

‘I don’t have to do anything as his Saint? And what, just survive?’

Cale clicked his tongue and didn’t say anything while thinking everything through. The conditions were pretty appealing. The scales on his mind were starting to tilt slowly.

‘Well, surviving is my speciality…’ Cale thought while tilting his head.

The God of Death internally sighed in relief. Suddenly, Cale started to talk again.

“Hey. Aren’t you the one who dragged me into this mess? Why should I trust you? And what, weren’t you the one who told me to Embrace that bastard in your fucking divine item?"

The God of Death flinched again.

“...What else do you want?”

Cale started to smile again.

‘If I'm going to accept this, I should take whatever I can.’

“Send me one of my spatial pocket bags, also remember that you need to help me there when I need it.”

“Of course. Then, do we have a deal?”

Cale took a breath and answered him.

“Sure. When are you sending me there?”

Cale saw him stand up and move towards him. The God of Death stopped in front of him and answered with a smile.

"Right now."

Cale’s eyes widened.

“Are you crazy?”

God of Death shrugged and put his hand on Cale’s red head.

“The sooner the better. Don’t worry, I’ll let Cage tell your family about all of this.”

Cale frowned and tried to remove his hand from his head, which failed. He then asked the annoying God coldly.

“What are you doing?”

He didn’t receive an answer, instead, black smoke raised from the God’s hand and covered Cale’s whole body slowly. It didn’t feel cold, rather, it was warm and comfortable. The black smoke seeped into Cale’s body. It felt like when he made a Vow of Death, but much more comfortable. Surprisingly, he liked it.

The God of Death smiled warmly and petted Cale’s head. He looked quite proud for some reason.

“Good luck, my dear child.”

‘Who the fuck is your Child...!’ That was what Cale wanted to say, but he lost consciousness before he could say anything.

“...Now, I have to deal with those lunatics.”

The God of Death sighed and started talking to Kage, he was so busy listening to her curses that he forgot something very, very important. Something that will make him pay for it quite a lot.

•••

The moment Cale fainted after getting hit by the God of Death’s book, hell broke out.

“It’s that bastard God! I can feel his power around my human!”

Raon shouted while contacting Eruhaben and Crown Prince Alver.

Ron took his young master back to his bed before taking out his dagger and starting to clean it. Choi Han stood beside the bed, his hand on the sheath of his sword and ready to attack at any moment.

Naturally, the children average of nine years old snuggled to Cale’s body on the bed while glaring at the divine item of the God of Death and contemplating on destroying it.

Eruhaben, who teleported with Kage to Cale’s room, instantly frowned after seeing him. A very thick aura of Death was embracing Cale to the point it was sickening.

He walked to Cale and started inspecting him.

Flinch.

Eruhaben flinched visibly, but no one noticed it. It was because everyone was staring at Kage, who started to talk at that moment while pressing her forehead with her hand as if she had a severe headache.

“Please calm down. That bastard says he’s just talking with young master Cale.”

Everyone sighed in relief, while Kage continued to curse her lord in her mind. Everyone except one person.

Eruhaben’s mind was in chaos.

‘The unlucky bastard... He…’

He was sure. He was sure of it since he was the one inspecting Cale’s body.

‘...He is dying.’

Eruhaben could tell that the only reason Cale was still alive was that the God of Death was forcefully preventing his death.

Peek.

Eruhaben peeked at Raon, who seemed to be relieved that God of Death was only chatting with Cale. It seemed like Raon had panicked so much that he had forgotten to check Cale’s body.

At that moment, he felt someone’s gaze on him and turned to them. It was Ron, who was staring at him as if asking why he was acting like that.

Eruhaben bite his lower lip and silently stood there, only staring at Cale. He was barely controlling his rage.

‘...Let’s wait a bit more. If he doesn’t get better... Then…’ He didn’t continue his thoughts and just stayed still.

Raon had already informed all of their allies in Puzzle City about Cale fainting, and everyone was in chaos. Alver wasn’t able to come but was watching everything live through a video communication device. He also noticed Eruhaben’s odd behavior but decided to ignore it for now.

As usual, Raon was counting the time his human was unconscious.

He counted and counted for two hours. Each passing second made Eruhaben more impatient. It was the moment he was about to lose his control that suddenly black smoke enveloped Cale’s body.

“What…”

Raon’s eyes widened. Ohn and Hong jumped up from bed and stared warily at the black smoke. Ron grabbed his dagger while Vicross took his greatsword. Choi Han’s grip on his sword’s handle tightened and white gold dust raised around Eruhaben. Alver was panicking since he couldn’t do anything other than watching all of this. Kage cursed the God of Death even more.

“What the hell is that bastard doing to my human??? Does he want to die??”

Raon shouted furiously. At that moment, Cale’s body started to crack like glass.

“What the hell!”

Choi Han shouted unconsciously. He felt like killing a God wasn’t that bad of an idea.

It was as if everyone’s sanity snapped. Mana and aura filled the room when suddenly Kage shouted while clenching her head.

“STOP! Don’t touch him! He says you can’t touch him right now!”

Everyone stopped and stared at her menacingly.

“Miss Kage, mind explaining what the hell is that annoying bastard doing right now?”

Alver was the one asking this. He was the only person who had stayed slightly sane. Kage didn’t answer him though, it was as if she couldn’t even hear him.

“What do you mean that you made a deal with the young master, you bastard? Just why the heck is his body in this state?”

Everyone’s ears perked up.

“...What?”

Kage’s eyes started to shake. She breathed deeply before biting her lips.

“What is that fucker saying, miss Kage?”

“What’s wrong with my young master?”

“What the hell is he doing to the unlucky bastard?”

Choi Han, Ron and Eruhaben asked at the same time. Kage raised her hand to stop the others from questioning her too and opened her mouth.

Then, she started to tell them what her bastard of a lord was saying.

By the time she finished, everyone was silent and Cale’s body had vanished like it never existed in the first place.

Raon clinched his front paws. His eyes were shining from rage. He stared at where Cale’s body was supposed to be and growled through his teeth.

“Let’s kill that fucking bastard of a God.”

Nobody corrected his language nor disagreed with him.

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God of Death forgot something.

Something so important that he himself wondered just how the hell did he manage to forget it.

What, you ask?

God of Death's sweat dropped. It wasn't supposed to be like that. He was just so busy dealing with his child's crazy family that he forgot it.

'I messed up.'

He truly messed up. How could he forget something like that?

'Damn. I forgot to set the coordinates when transporting Cale... Nothing will happen, right?'

He leaned to his chair and covered his eyes with one of his hands. The didn't put the coordinates, that meant Cale would be transported to random coordinates in the destination world. He was anxious. He wanted to check on Cale to make sure he was alright, but he couldn't.

'I used too much power. I won't be able to even contact him till a few months later.'

It wasn't supposed to be that much of a problem, since Cale would surely prefer to not hear his voice. He was also busy dealing with some crazy bastards that wanted to kill him.

'I hope nothing serious happens. I don't want my own child try to kill me.'

Well, Cale was technically planning to smack him from behind, but it was different. He knew that if Cale decided to kill him too, he will not survive no matter what.

But that wasn't the problem right now.

'...He won't end up in somewhere crowded, right?'

God of Death strongly hoped so.

But.

Cale Henituse was an unlucky bastard.

•••

"Mom, what's that?"

It was an ordinary, sunny day.

A very normal day for the busy people of New York.

It wasn't Sunday nor a holiday. Nothing about that day was special.

Nothing, except for a certain God forgetting something.

Sara was eight. She was a bright child, and she didn't like going to school.

She liked studying, but not the school. That was why she always complained and tried her hardest to avert her mother's attention and somehow don't go there.

Which failed miserably every time.

As usual, she was walking to school with her mother. It was then that she saw it.

Crack.

It was like a part of air in street cracked like glass, and black smoke started to come out from the cracks.

It was so silent that if she didn't look that way she would have missed it.

Sara stared curiously at black smoke that was forming a small black ball and asked her mother what that was.

It wasn't the first time she tried to show something, anything to her mother just to be late to her school. That was also why her mother ignored her at first.

"Huh? What's that thing?"

But when she saw a man stop and confusedly stare at one part of street that normally no one payed attention to, she also looked there. Then she stopped too.

The black smoke made a small black membrane, as if locking the smoke inside of itself. It felt creepy. She felt scared. It felt like when she saw her father dying in the hospital.

It felt like death.

She unconsciously hugged her daughter and stepped away from the black membrane that was still growing in size.

Soon, there were more and more people stopping and gathering there. A few minutes later police and even military officers came and closed the area.

It was full of chaos.

It wasn't a normal, ordinary day anymore.

•••

"Just what the hell is that thing?"

A special force soldier asked his colleagues, but no one answered him. They were dispatched after receiving a report about an abnormality in one of the New York city's relatively quiet streets.

They had evacuated the whole area already, and now the special forces were surrounding the said abnormality, ready for attack at anytime.

That abnormality was quite strange. It was strange enough that some even said that aliens have attacked.

It was like space itself cracked open and bleed black smoke, resulting in a strange black membrane forming. The cracks in space closed right after. It had been a tiny black ball at first, but now has grown to the point that it could hold an adult human in it.

It didn't grow more, it was just a lump of black smoke floating in air. But the thing that made it look scary was the feeling it caused to the ones looking at it.

Anyone who looked at it remembered the moment they were closest to death. Strangely enough, some felt like they were sleeping when looking at it, maybe because sleeping was similar to death. It was as if that smoke represented death itself.

They tried to check if anything was in it, but couldn't find out anything. It was as if the smoke was distorting everything around itself. The machines didn't work on it.

The higher-ups where debating attacking it, when the big black ball started to chang. Everyone stepped back.

"Get away from that thing! Go to you position! Get ready!"

It didn't take them much to go to their positions. Then everyone stared at the changing black ball.

At first it was as if the ball was shrinking, then its shape started to change.

"...A human?"

Someone murmured. Everyone was watching with widened eyes. The ball was changing in the shape of a human.

No, it was more like a human inside the ball was absorbing the black smoke. A few moments later the black smoke was mostly absorbed and revealed the thing-no, the person inside of it.

Gasp!

Shocked gasps filled the whole street.

There, just where the black ball was a few minutes ago, stood a sleeping teen with shoulder length red hair in some medieval style clothes. The remaining black smoke gently laid the child on the ground, as if making sure to not wake up the child, before getting absorbed in his body.

The child looked ethereal. They subconsciously thought that they should stay quiet and let the little child rest, forgetting their earlier tension.

At that moment one of the officers shouted loudly enough for everyone to hear.

"Get yourselves together! That thing may be a dangerous alien pretending to be a human child!"

Before anyone could protest, the child rolled on ground, as if annoyed by the noise. His eyes shook gently.

"@£&!+#)/*?."

The annoyed child murmured an unknown language and tried to sleep again. It was a cute sight, if a certain officer didn't ruin it again.

"Stop playing around and wake up, alien! Identify yourself!"

"Hmm?"

The child hummed and blinked. His sleepy eyes scanned the surrounding and stop on the soldiers. His eyes widened and shook. Then, without taking his eyes off their guns, slowly sat on ground.

His mouth opened and closed a few times, it was as if he was at a loss for words.

Indeed.

The red haired teen, Cale Henituse, was at a loss for words.

He was dreaming of farming with children average nine years old in yard of Raon's black castle in the forest of darkness, when suddenly a loud and unpleasant sound woke him up.

He unconsciously murmured 'be quite.' and tried to drift to sleep again when he heard another annoying shout from the same person. He was wondering how such an unpleasant voice even existed in first place when the words sunk into his mind.

"Stop playing around and wake up, alien! Identify yourself!"

Cale let a confused hum out and blinked. He stared to take in the surrounding and then his mind went blank.

'What in the fucking hell??'

His eyes widened and started to shook. He couldn't understand what the heck was going on. His mind became a chaotic mess.

There was dozens of soldiers in different ranks, viciously surrounding and pointing their guns at him. He tried to sat up as slowly as possible to not alarm them without taking his eyes off them.

He wanted to check on his records, but it didn't work. Then he suddenly remembered his deal with a certain son of a bitch.

'That motherfucking bastard...!'

He couldn't stop himself from cursing a certain bastard non stop in his head.

'God of Death... You fucker... just what the fuck did you fucking do?'

Crazy kid would have applauded him for his cursing.

But the son of a bitch who would annoy Cage all the time didn't answer him. He felt like fainting. His mouth opened and closed a few times, barely stopping himself from cursing out loud.

He raised his hand to brush his red hair that was stocked at his face back when he saw it.

His hand. It was small. Much, much smaller than he remembered. He started to shiver from anger.

'That fucking bastard of a God...!'

He really wanted to strangle that bastard.

'I swear, I'll smack you, you bastard. Just you wait, you son of a bitch. I'm going to... Hmm?'

He suddenly felt sleepy. He felt extremely sleepy, to the point he couldn't even continue to think.

'...Fuck.'

That was the last thing he thought before losing conscious yet again.

•••

God of Death suddenly got chills and touched the back of his head unconsciously.

He was in the middle of talking with a fellow God-well, Goddess, when he got the chills. He wanted to brush it aside so badly, but he couldn't. He was well aware of a group of lunatics that were trying their best to hunt him down.

The same group that didn't even spare his fellow colleagues.

"Do something already. They're destroying all the temples around the world. Even my children joined them!"

Sun God said while glaring at him. God of Death averted his eyes.

"...Do it yourself if you're that brave."

Tsk.

Sun God clicked her tongue.

"At least clean up the mess you created yourself for once. War is getting impatient too. Ugh, that crazy lunatic is going around destroying each temple he reaches while spreading that weird cult of his!"

God of Death groaned.

The crazy lunatic that Sun God was talking about was non other than Clopeh Sekka. That crazy bastard had somehow created a cult in just a few days and was destroying all the temples while shouting crazily about taking back his legend from Gods.

It was to the point all Gods decided to do something about it. unfortunately, they couldn't.

Why, you ask?

"All of the children of Gods are turning a blind eye to that crazy bastard! Even my pure, innocent Jack is letting him be!"

Sun God was frustrated. God of Death just averted his eyes again.

That's right. Even Gods couldn't stop crazy bastards.

"And as if that crazy bastard isn't enough... The dragon's are helping him while preparing to attack us! That black baby dragon is going as far as challenging the whole Divine race!"

And even that wasn't all. Simply put, the whole world was trying to get back Cale Henituse, and kill God of Death. Even world tree was helping them.

Of course, the world tree wasn't safe either. She barely survived too. The only reason Cale's family didn't burn her down was that she told them that she was connected to Cale because of the root dagger, as well as the fact that she could feel Cale was still alive.

God of Death silently passed Sun God a glass of water. She glared at him at first and then drink it all at once.

"We need to stop them."

God of Death sighed.

"I know. I was planning to make a deal with one of them, but Cage is ignoring me."

"Send a revelation or something then!"

"...And to where exactly?"

Sun God become silent. That's right. Every temple of God of Death in every corner of world was destroyed in less that three days.

Sun God tried to not sympathize with the guy that caused all the problems and opened her mouth again.

"We decided to offer them a deal too."

God of Death nodded.

"That's a good idea. They surly won't calm down just because of my deal with one of them, and I obviously can't make more deals right now."

Sun God sighed.

"Let's hope they don't destroy the world and wage war at us."

•••

Raon was eating dinner with On, Hong and others at black castle. Almost everyone was there, except a few that couldn't leave their posts, such as Crown Prince Alberu. It has been five days since his human disappeared.

Despite all of their efforts, they weren't able to get his human back, yet. These days, It didn't matter where they went to destroy, They always come back to the black castle to eat their meals.

After all, his human always said so, and Ron and Beacrox made sure they eat their meals on time.

He was poking his steak with knife while thinking about various ways to kill a certain God when suddenly door of the dinning hall opened and Cage come in. Everyone stopped eating and stared at her.

"Is something the matter, miss Cage?"

Ron asked while smiling benignly at her. Cage bite her lower lip and answered him.

"There is. That bastard said he wanted to make a deal with one of us and send them to young master Cale."

Tang. Drop.

Almost everyone dropped what they were holding. Before anyone could say anything, she continued.

"He wants to make a deal with Raon-nim."

The room's temperature dropped sharply. Choi Han sprang up and menacingly said.

"No. He can't. Absolutely not."

This time, everyone stared at him. Everyone know that he made a deal with God of Death previously, so his reaction was quite suspicious. Eruhaben narrowed his eyes and asked him.

"Mind explaining why?"

"That's right, strong Choi Han! Why can't I?"

Raon also chimed in. Choi Han shut his mouth tightly. It was Cage who answered for him.

"That bastard deals with death. All of his deals are somehow related to death."

The room become colder, but Cage continued.

"He told me that he wants to make a deal with Raon-nim. 'I can send you to where Cale Henituse is if you agree to match you lifespan to his.' Was what he said."

"That bastard..."

Choi Han cursed. Eruhaben asked with a cold voice.

"Was your deal with him like this, too?"

Choi Han averted his eyes.

"Answer me, Choi Han."

"...Yes."

Rosalyn took a sharp breath and lock's eyes shook. Ron's eyes turned colder as he asked the annoying punk another question.

"Whose lifespan did you match yours with?"

Choi Han bite his lips but didn't answer. Before they could press him more, Raon's voice filled the place.

"I'll do it."

Everyone froze.

"No, Raon-nim! You can't! I'm enough, you can't als..."

"Little kid, you can't..."

Raon cut them off.

"I will do anything for my human. Be it destroying the world or killing the Gods. It doesn't matter as long as my human is fine. This much is nothing. I didn't want to ever live without my human anyway, so I'll do it."

Everyone fell silent. At that moment, black smoke raised from Cage's body and before anyone could react went straight to Raon. It formed a little cloud in front of Raon after tying a thin string around one of his front paws.

Then, the cloud turned into some books that dropped on the table, with a note on it.

Raon reached to the note and read it out loud.

"These will help you adopt to that world more quickly. Ah, and I apologize that I forgot to tell this to my soon-to-be Holy maiden, Cale Henituse has a lifespan of a dragon because of the world tree. I won't hurt the child my dear Saint is taking care of. I will send you there in ten days."

Cage started to curse her lord again.

If they ignored the bullshits about 'Holly Maiden' and 'Saint', the note and books were quite helpful. At least the part about Cale's lifespan was quite helpful, no matter how much shocking.

Of course, God of Death didn't mention that the reason he won't mess with Cale's family was that he didn't have a death wish. Well, he didn't need to tell it anyway.

•••

At the same time, in Huiss, capital of Roan kingdom, a certain Crown Prince was doing mountain of paperwork in his palace.

He was irritated. He wanted to help others in destroying temples too, but couldn't, because he had to deal with the aftermath of their destruction.

He missed his dongsaeng a lot. He was the only person that could control that crazy bunch of people, who were increasing his workload every second.

He completely ignored the fact that he wanted to do the same thing the others were doing.

He reached out to another paper and sighed.

'Sigh...Clopeh Sekka... That crazy bastard... Half of my work is because of that guy.'

He was debating if he should stop the crazy bastard that was doing stuff that would give his dongsaeng heart attack when someone knocked the door before entering the room after getting his permission.

It was his aunt, Tasha. She didn't beat around the bash at all.

"Pope Jack is here. He says he needs to meet you."

One of Alberu's brows raised.

"Oh? Guide him in, please."

Tasha nodded and went out to get Jack. A few moments later, Alberu and Jack where siting in front of eachother on the sofas in Aberu's bedroom, that has pretty much become his office these days.

"Pope Jack, is there something wrong?"

Jack smiled weakly at that.

"That's... Your highness, Sun God-no, actually almost all of Gods want to make a deal with you."

"Hmm?"

Alberu wasn't surprised that Sun God wanted to make a deal with him, he anticipated it the moment his aunt said that Jack wanted to meet him. But this...

'Almost all of Gods want to make a deal... With me? What the hell.'

This was what made his head chaotic. Jack smiled innocently and continued.

"They said that in about six months, they will provide us with a device that will let us watch and help young master Cale in black castle."

"Six months? My dongsaeng won't be back that long?"

"They said he will come back when the right time comes. They cannot intervent in that world's affairs too much."

It wasn't that satisfactory, but...

'it's not that bad?'

Alberu thought it wasn't that bad, but he couldn't stop himself from feeling iffy. That's why he asked.

"All of them want to help us to see Cale? Why?"

Why would they all bother to do that?

Jack coughed awkwardly, before smiling innocently again.

"You see... Sun God said that the world that young master Cale is in right now, will reject outside influence and the probability to break through that rejection was too much for just her to handle, and the others agreed to help her in it."

That was reasonable, however...

"What they want in return?"

It was a 'deal'. They would want something equal to their help. What would they want that they're going to such length?

Jack smiled awkwardly and answered him.

"They... Want you to stop the guardian knight, Clopeh Sekka."

Alberu become speechless. He was truly stunned, so much that he almost dropped his Princely facade.

'What the... I know that crazy bastard was going around destroying every temple but... Just what the hell did he do that the Gods are acting like this?'

Alberu decided it was best if he didn't know. He truly didn't wish to know just what the fuck that crazy lunatic was going around doing.

He tried to ignore the chill that he was getting, by touching Taerang that was in his pocket in the form of a gun.

'Hmm?'

He then stopped when something crossed his mind. His eyes started to shine as he stared at Jack.

'It's doable...?'

Then, he stared to smile brightly. He smiled so brightly that it gave the illusion that flowers were blooming around him.

"Let's talk about that said deal a bit more, shall we?"

The innocent Saint Jack somehow felt iffy, but the innocent soul he was, he just smiled and agreed with brightly smiling Crown Prince.

"Sure, your highness."

And that was how the Sun God felt chills on the back of her head.

Chapter Text

Raon put the last book on the table after completely reading it. There were ten books. Eight of them were written in Korean, and where about various things like recent history of Korea and earth, mathematics, physics, some interesting theories about beginning of the world and atoms, as well as biology and technology.

"You're sealing my powers?"

God of Death answer patiently.

Chapter Text

Cale had a good sleep in a long time. He didn't even dream and slept quite soundly. It felt so refreshing that he didn't want to wake up. He knew that his vicious butler would wake him for lunch anyway, so he decided to sleep more.

'Ah, it's amazing how quite they are.'

It was truly amazing that the children average nine years old were this quite. He was sure he had overslept, but neither children nor his benignly smiling butler were making a sound. It was so peaceful.

He turned in his bed and unconsciously frowned a little.

'Hmm? Was my bed always like this?'

His bed didn't feel as comfortable as usual. Actually, it felt quite hard. He reached towards one of the many soft pillows in his bed and froze when his hand touched the metal edge of the bed instead.

'What the hell?'

It didn't matter whether it was the metal's coldness or sinking of the rooms uncharacteristic silence in his mind. his mind was finally forcefully awoken.

He jumped up from his sleep and warily stared at his surroundings. Then, his eyes started to shake violently.

'Where...?'

He was in a small room that its only decoration was the one-person bed he was sleeping on. The whole room was in white. The roof, walls, tiles and even the bed he was sleeping on, are were white.

Most importantly, the room didn't have any windows. There were also two doors in the room, which one of them looked anything but normal.

He didn't know where he was but he was sure of something.

'I'm in Earth.'

He wished he was wrong so badly, but...

'...I remember.'

He remembered the soldiers surrounding him and even someone calling him an 'alien'.

His Record was sealed, but he still could clearly remember it. He remembered all his past records too. It was just a bit different. It was like his records instead of 4D were 2D. It was as if his records had became blurred. Even trying to go through them gave him a headache.

Cale sighed and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath as if suppressing something and opened them again.

'God of Death. You better explain what is going on.'

Cale didn't receive any answer.

'God of Death?'

No answer. Should he be more polite?

'Umm, Mr God of Death?'

Nothing again. He felt more annoyed.

'Hey bastard, aren't you going to answer?'

He really didn't answer him no matter what.

Cale started to frown again. It was very abnormal. Cage always complained about that bastard whining in her head even when she was drinking, so Cale assumed that he will hear one extra voice in his head after becoming that bastard's Saint, but he was suspiciously silent.

Now that he thought about it, he couldn't hear his ancient powers' voices too. Not being able to hear their voices should be because they are currently sealed, but that bastard was different.

'It's either he used too much of his powers that he can't even talk to me,' Cale tried to think about all possibilities. '...Or someone or something interfered.'

It could be either he was too exhausted to even contact him, or someone or something prevented him from doing so.

'...It can be both, too.'

It could be the worse case scenario.

Now that he thought about it, it was really strange that he appeared somewhere crowded—even more so that the crowd were soldiers, when God of Death had clearly told him that he would be transported to five years before an apocalypse. It was actually normal that people thought of him as an alien.

'He mentioned about not having enough power to interfere too much in this world because of breaking a few rules.'

He did indeed mentioned it, but.

'What if someone interfered?'

What if someone messed with them when he was being transferred to this world?

Was there even someone who could do such thing? Someone who could travel through dimensions or even disturb a God's plan?

'It may be another God,' It was unlikely but possible. 'or hunters.'

Hunters.

They where able to travel through dimensions. They were also people who hunted single lifers to become Gods.

'It's possible.' It was quite possible.

It wasn't even first time for him to be hunters' target. He hadn't had time to learn more about his maternal family, the Thames, but he suspected that they were one of the originally seven hunter families.

Cale groaned.

'I was supposed to enjoy my slacker life right now...!'

He wasn't supposed to deal with all this bullshit.

Cale didn't know, but he had overstatemeted God of Death. He would have been so angry that he would try to kill the said God immediately, if he knew all of this was just because that certain God forgot to put coordinates when transporting him.

Ignorance is truly bliss.

Cale plopped on the not-so-comfortable bed and pushed that matter to the back of his head.

'Let's think about how to deal with the most urgent matter.'

He had to find out where he was first.

"You are awake."

Cale flinched at the voice and turned to its direction. It was coming from a speaker from the room's roof. Cale stared blankly at the speaker.

'They were monitoring me.'

Cale was so busy brainstorming about a bastard and some other crazy lunatics that forgot checking the room completely. It may also be another disadvantages of Record being sealed, since he would have automatically recorded the room and found them the moment he woke up if it wasn't sealed.

"Can you understand me?"

Cale realized at that moment.

'It's English.'

The voice was talking in English. He was not in Korea. He debated on how should he respond to the voice. He still hadn't decided on how he would deal with them. He was also suspecting them.

'It was suspicious that I fell asleep at that situation.'

It was extremely suspicious that the always tentative Cale fell asleep in a situation that could be considered life threatening.

'Did they shot me with anesthetic?'

He was not sure. He didn't feel any pain of possibly being shot, not even when falling asleep.

'My ancient powers are sealed, so Crybaby couldn't have healed me.'

Crybaby couldn't do it. Then,

'...Was it the so called trace of immortals that healed me when I was sleeping?' He was not sure. 'Is it not sealed because it has changed my body? Ah, I don't know, I don't know.'

He felt tired of thinking.

'...How weird. Is it also because of the seal?'

It felt weird to get mentally tired this quickly. He was pulled out of his thoughts by the voice coming out of the speaker again.

"Please react in anyway if you can understand me."

'They are really treating me like an alien. Did they learnt from movies or something? Do they expect me to say something like I came with peace like in movies?' It didn't matter how the hell they came up with this way of treatment. There was just one important fact.

'I can't trust them.'

He heard the voice once again.

"I repeat, please react in anyway if you can understand me."

'If they want to talk to an alien that badly, I'll gladly fulfill their wish.'

Cale decided at that moment.

'Let's play an alien.'

Cale decided to act as the so called alien as much as he could. He opened his mouth and answered the voice.

"I can."

He put on his signature scammer smile.

•••

A few moments later, the strange looking door opened and some people in an even more strange looking clothes that Cale guessed were some kind of protective clothing, entered the room.

The door closed immediately, and the strange looking humans stayed close to it. One of them took half a step in Cale's direction and started talking slowly, as if making sure Cale would understand him.

"Hello. My name is James Smith. I will be representing the people of Earth."

Cale, who was sitting on the bed, was totally speechless. He was fortunate that his stoic expression didn't change.

'What the... I mean, I really am from another dimension and all, but... Just what the hell is wrong with this guy?'

Cale barely stopped himself from snorting in disbelief and observed the so called representative. He was looking straight at Cale, as if waiting for something.

'He most be waiting for me to introduce myself.'

Cale had thought about this before they entered the room.

'I don't know which Earth I am in right now, but there may be a Kim Rok Soo.'

He couldn't use that name, it might become dangerous if a Kim Rok Soo really existed here. Even though there might be thousands of people that share that name, he didn't want to possibly mess with his parallel self's life.

'I can't use the name 'Cale Henituse' too.'

He did not wish to use his current name, too. It had a simple reason.

'I can't trust them.'

Cale didn't take his eyes off the self proclaimed representative of Earth that was staring at him and opened his mouth.

"Bob."

"Excuse me?"

The man, James Smith, asked back subconsciously. Cale repeated himself stoically.

"My name is Bob."

Bob. It was the first name that came to his mind the moment he thought of an alias.

The same name stupid Toonka used when they first met.

The same name he used when he was searching for Blood Drenched Rock in Stan territory, disguising as a merchant.

The same name Crown Prince Alberu used to introduce himself in his dark elf form to Duke Fredo in Endable kingdom.

'Wow.'

Cale suddenly felt amazed.

'...I didn't expect it to be such a practical name.'

Cale felt like if this continued, their whole group will be known as 'Bob's.

'...Hmm.'

He brushed that possible thought out of his mind and focused on the now dumfounded self proclaimed representative.

The said man was in shock.

'What the hell??' His mind went blank. He never expected such a name. 'We thought he could have some bizarre name or at least something that suited his looks, but...'

It felt too unreal.

'Who the hell would give such a beautiful child such a common name like Bob? Just what the hell were they thinking when naming him that??'

He was in dilemma.

Cale, who misunderstood his silence as doubting him, started spouting whatever nonsense that came to his mind.

"I was named 'Bob', because it was the name of the shining moon of our kingdom. Although it was also a tyrant's name, my parents give me this name with the hopes of me achieving my dreams. Oh, you may not know but 'Bob' means 'may your wishes come true' in our language."

Cale smiled innocently while nodding internally.

'Indeed. I will achieve my slacker life.'

He ignored the fact that his name really wasn't 'Bob'. He also ignored that he was the one who made up that meaning for 'Bob' on spot.

James Smith coughed awkwardly before talking again.

"...I see. You have a... great name."

He then mumbled to himself quietly.

"At least it has a great meaning in their language..."

He then snapped out of his daze and continued the conversation.

"Nice to meet you. May I ask where are you from?"

Cale thought about how he was originally from Earth 1, transmigrated to a world he didn't know it's name but supposed was one of the many Earths, took a test in a world that he guessed was Earth 2 and finally heard about Earth 3 through Alberu's Taerang.

"I am from Earth 4."

He first needed to confirm something. That was why he decided to give a random number to their world.

'Do they know about multiple Earth's existence?'

He wanted to know how much the knew about other dimensions. God of Death said that he would be in a world that will experience apocalypse, but didn't say anything about their knowledge and technology.

'Even Ahn Roh Man didn't know their world was called Earth 3, still...'

It would be better to be certain. He also wasn't aware what kind of Earth he was in.

'The original Cale Henituse, No, Kim Rok Soo was regressed before transmigrating.'

If God of Death was somehow able to turn the time back, then, maybe...

'It may be possible that I am in either of those Earths, if not in a whole other one.'

It was possible that he would be in any of them.

'It's unlikely to be possible, thought.'

It shouldn't be possible for one soul to exist in two different bodies at the same time.

'There wasn't something like that in diary, too.'

There wasn't this kind of situation in Drew Thames diary.

He heard Smith's shocked voice at that moment.

"Earth 4? Does that mean at least 3 more world other than yours exist?"

'So they really did't know.'

The didn't know about other dimensions. Cale started to smile and answered him innocently.

"That's right mister. Why are you asking such an obvious question?"

If Raon could see him right now, he would have asked him if he was going to scam someone.

'I will be fun.'

He was going to have fun teasing the clueless residents of this new world. Acting like a naive child was nothing for Cale, who had once acted as Naru von Ejellan and even had called White thing 'Eldest uncle' while hugging him affectionately.

On the other hand, Smith and his companions, as well as the others watching the conversation between the two from the surveillance cameras, where in shock.

They didn't know how should they feel about this new information, but most of them reached another important conclusion.

'He is really a child.' They believed the alien named Bob really was a child.

In addition,

'He is a naive child.'

He was a naive child who could disclose any information easily.

Cale, who felt their shock, looked greatly confused. He opened his mouth and asked Smith innocently, while fidgeting uncomfortably.

"But, mister. Why are you wearing this weird clothes?"

He then looked around and continued.

"Where are the people that were supposed to welcome me?"

"Yes?"

Smith, who was still in shock, asked back. He was dumfounded once again.

Smith could see Bob's expression turned to a frightened one the moment he asked him back.

"Mister, we aren't in Earth 3? I was going to my friend's birthday party in Earth 3. If we aren't there, then were is here exactly?"

Smith could see Bob, who looked much like a frightened and lost child that was trying to find his parents. He didn't have the time to register the part about a 'birthday party' at all.

"That... We are in Earth, but..."

Cale cut him off impatiently.

"Which one exactly?"

Smith couldn't help but feel sympathy towards the little child.

"Ah, I don't really know which Earth. I don't know if this will help, but we are in a country named United States."

'Got you.' Cale finally got some good information. 'Let's get as much information as possible.'

Cale barely stopped himself from smiling wickedly. He wanted to continue his play, but suddenly he felt more tired. He felt really sleepy.

'Hmm? It's like last time.'

His eyes turned sharp. It was milder but felt just the same as last time, when he first came to this world and suddenly felt extremely sleepy and couldn't even think.

'Did they give me anesthetic again?'

It was unlikely. He didn't eat nor drink anything. He didn't feel any pain that would indicate any injection either.

'Is it in gas form?' He wondered if they positioned the air he was breathing.

He glanced at Smith and his colleagues and become confused.

'They look like they don't know anything.'

They seem to be still in shock. Suddenly, a thought crossed his mind.

'No way...!'

He felt extremely wronged.

'It can't be it, right?'

He bite his lower lip. If it was what he thought it to be, he had to chase these guys away right now. He laid in bed and turned his back to them. He then started to talk in a purposely shaking tone.

"Please leave me alone. I am tired."

The people inside the room were stunned again.

'Is he crying...?' The child seemed like he was crying.

'Alien or not, he is just a small child.'

Smith thought while looking worriedly at the child's small back and gently said.

"Then, we will continue after you rest. See you later, Bob."

Cale heard them leaving while cursing a certain God again. His thoughts were becoming cloudy because of how sleepy he was feeling.

'Damn it. It really is it.'

It was really what he thought it to be.

'It's narcolepsy.'

He thought and cursed in his mind again.

•••

It took Cale a month to collect all the needed information thought countless acting and playing around with residents of this new world.

He laid on his bed and stared blankly in to roof.

'This isn't any of the Earths I know.'

That was the conclusion he reached in this month. He frowned a little.

'That bastard didn't contact me too.'

The God of Death had not contacted him yet.

'I really will smack him hard.'

He wanted to smack that bastard really hard.

'How could he not tell me such an important thing?'

God of Death did not tell him something very important.

'why didn't he told me sealing Record would cause me suffer from narcolepsy?'

He barely manage to hide this from the ones monitoring him 24/7. He didn't know when his episodes will come and didn't want them to know his weakness.

'It's all because this damned body is too young.'

Of course, he knew that it wouldn't have been like this if he was an adult. He knew that this was happening because his younger and not completely developed brain could not handle his previous records. It couldn't even properly support his faster than normal humans thinking.

'of course it might be an advantage in future, but...' His brain would develop while getting used to his large amount of records and it may even make the Record stronger in the future. 'It's annoying right now.'

It was so annoying that he would always get sleepy. Not that he didn't like sleeping, it was just unsettling to sleep almost all day when he wasn't sure how he could get out of this annoying room.

He had to keep his brain's activities low too, so that he could at least reduce his sleep attacks.

Click.

Cale turned his head towards the entrance door. It opened and James Smith along with two men who always accompanied him but never spoke, came in. Thankfully they weren't wearing that strange clothing anymore.

They would come every other day and disturb his time staring blankly at space.

"Hi Bob. How are you today?"

Cale raised from his bed and sat on it while smiling brightly.

"Hello mister. I'm fine, how about you?"

Smith smiled and answered him.

"That's good then. I'm okay too. Can we continue our talk from last time?"

Cale tilted his head.

Their talk from last time, was actually Cale introducing them to a more sci-fi version of his fantasy world.

Cale introduced himself as the youngest son of a count in a powerful kingdom that occupied the whole Earth 4. He was a weak and pitiful child who was going to his only friend's birthday party when he somehow ended up in this world.

He also could speak English because he learnt it when he went to a planet with his family for vacation, and that planet's common language was English.

Cale answered innocently.

"Of course mister! Where were we?"

"The part about spaceships."

Cale gave them a sci-fi version of how some heroes from his country looted Adin's airship. He made sure to exclude himself, of course.

He changed the part about magic and sword aura to technology and laser guns, and the airship became a spaceship.

"I see. Your country really is powerful."

Cale smiled proudly.

"Of course! It is all because of the shining sun of our kingdom, his Highness the Crown Prince!"

He didn't forget to use his hyung's name however he wanted too.

"Then," Smith said while still smiling at him, but his eyes looked serious. "Could you please tell me how did you come to this world?"

Cale tilted his head again. The question somehow felt ominous.

"What do you mean, mister?"

Smith didn't take his eyes off him while answering.

"I mean, would you explain more about that weird black smoke?"

"Weird black smoke?"

Cale subconsciously asked back. The description seemed ominously familiar.

Smith turned his tablet on and started a video on it before giving it to Cale. Cale felt like he shouldn't watch this video. His intuitions were screaming loudly to avoid it at all costs.

Unfortunately, he couldn't. He grabbed the tablet and watched the video. It was from a CCTV. It started with suspiciously cracking space and ended with a black ball turning to him.

Cale's mind went blank. He barely kept his stoic expression on.

"That motherfucking God of Death-"

He unconsciously mumbled his curse in western continent's common language.

He couldn't complete his sentence. His body went numb and he was forced to sleep.

"Bob!"

Smith tried to catch his falling body, but was too late.

Cale fell to the ground heavily. His left hand ending up in a strange angle from the impact of his fall.

It was the first time he had a episode of sleep attack in front of them.

Chapter Text

Cale was lying on his bed, surrounded with doctors and scientists.

It didn't take long for medical experts to find out about his narcolepsy. It wasn't what made them lurk around him, thought.

"How is this possible!"

One of the doctors said in disbelief. Another scientist was checking on Cale's broken left wrist with amazed eyes.

"It is almost healed! How can his bones heal this quickly?"

Cale didn't answer him. He was amazed too. His broken wrist that was estimated to heal in at least a month, was almost completely healed in less than a week.

He remembered what Vitality of Heart said in the past.

'...It looks like a new regeneration power will be born.'

A new regeneration power.

'Traces of an immortal are being gathered.'

Traces of an immortal. Traces of the World Tree. Cale remembered how this power didn't let him suffer that much from instant last time.

'How amazing.'

It was amazing, just like Vitality of the Heart. It seemed a bit weaker than last time thought.

'It must be because of the seal. It looks like a portion of this power has somehow escaped from the seal.'

It was probably because of the so called 'immortal' thing. This was actually quite welcoming, the only problem was these frantic medics.

They were surrounding him and checking on his almost healed hand one by one. It was getting annoying.

"This is a miracle! If we just can find out how he is healing this fast...!"

He didn't finished his sentence, but there wasn't a need for it. Almost everyone in that room was thinking of that. Cale's eyes turned cold.

'If you want this power that badly, then go stab you own hearts with World Tree's roots, you bastards.'

Cale was extremely annoyed. He didn't like the way they were looking at him. Their eyes were annoying.

Greed.

They all were filled with greed.

One of the scientists asked him with hesitation.

"Mr Bob, can we have some of you blood as a sample?"

Cale stared at him flatly. He recognised him. This scientist was one of the men who always accompanied James Smith to his room. Smith said he was called Wilson. He asked with confusion.

"Why?"

The scientist, Wilson, started to explain to him. his eyes were overflowing with greed.

"It is very important to us. It may be normal in your world, but here, we really need your help to improve humans' health. This can change our world!"

Cale barely stopped himself from scoffing. He didn't know what made this crazy bastard think his regeneration rate was normal in his world. There were so many things wrong with what he said that Cale didn't even want to bother pointing it out.

'They will take a sample of my blood even if I don't give them permission.'

He was sure of it. He could feel all the crazed scientists staring at him like they wanted to inspect him inch by inch.

'It's not like they would be able to find out about its origin and how it works. They won't be able to find anything no matter how much they research my blood.'

This was what he was concerned about.

'They wouldn't do anything to a child, right?'

Cale looked like a twelve or at must thirteen years old child.

He glanced at the eyes of scientists that were surrounding him.

He then hold back his groan.

'Damn. They may do it.'

Their eyes were filled with greed mixed with madness. They couldn't care less about his body's age if their madness grow.

'They may even not consider me a human.'

They might justify everything with a single, 'alien' word.

'This is bad.'

He was in a really awkward position.

'There isn't much that I can do right now.'

He didn't have that much of options. That was why.

'Let's cooperate for now.'

He could only cooperate with them, for now. He cursed a certain God again before smiling at them.

"Okay. Please make sure that it won't hurt, mister."

"Yes. Don't worry, Bob."

All of them started to smile in satisfaction.

'Don't worry my ass.'

Cale smiled gently at them, barely stopping himself from snorting.

'I can't stay here anymore. I need to somehow leave soon.'

He needed to leave before they become crazier.

•••

"Oh, Bob. I'm here to take today's sample."

Cale didn't raise from his bed and just smiled at the man.

"I understand, mister."

It has been two month since Cale was particularly imprisoned.

They have been taking blood samples from him since a month ago. Smith never appeared from again despite constantly bothering him for the whole first month.

Cale waited till the man was done and asked him a question.

"By the way mister, when can I go out?"

"Hmm?"

The man froze. Cale tilted his head and asked innocently.

"I can't?"

"Ah, it's not that. It's just that it may be dangerous. I'll tell my superiors about this thought."

Cale mentally clicked his tongue.

'Dangerous? Bullshit. Anywhere is safer than here for me.'

Anywhere was safer for Cale than this place where he didn't know when its residents would go crazy.

He also was sure that the man didn't care about his safety and was saying it would be dangerous for others if he go out. He was saying he will make sure to tell his superiors that they need pay more attention to him so that he could not ran away.

'Bastards.'

Cale was annoyed. His narcolepsy just made everything worse. He couldn't be sure if he will have an episode during his escape, so he couldn't even attempt to it.

'I'll have to wait a bit longer.'

He needed to wait a bit longer.

•••

Third month.

"We couldn't find anything in your blood."

Cale stared at Wilson that was telling him something he already know. He made a sad expression and started bullshiting.

"That's unfortunate. I thought I would be able to help the humans in this planet."

Wilson smile to him.

"We are really grateful for your thoughts. That is why we thought of something else."

'I knew it.' From the first moment this bastard came to him, Cale knew something was up.

'Damn. He looks more crazy.'

The man looked crazier than the last time they met. Cale didn't want to hear what he was going to say. He wanted to break his jaws so that he could not speak more.

Unfortunately, he couldn't.

"We would like your farther cooperation in our experiments."

Cale didn't want to ask him anything.

"...And what may that be?"

The smile on Wilson's face become wider.

"We would like you to let us take samples from your body's tissues."

'... Fucking bastards.'

Cale wanted to leave that crazed place immediately.

•••

Fourth month.

Cale stared at the crazed officer in front of him. He too, was one of the men who accompanied Smith in his visits. He was introduced as Davis.

'Damn it.' Cale bite his lower lip. 'I was so close...!'

He was so close to get out of this hell, just a bit more and he could get out.

'I calculated everything... except this bastard.'

He had made a perfect escape plan that has nearly succeeded, but this bastard, was a variable he didn't consider.

"You really are an interesting being."

He talked for the first time and Cale immediately recognised his voice.

'He is that guy who woke me up by calling me alien.'

He was the one whose voice was extremely unpleasant. The one who called him an alien when he first woke in this world.

'He called me being and not human. He is not considering me as a human.'

He was telling Cale that he never considered him as a human being, that Cale didn't have the same rights as the other humans.

Cale smiled his angelic smile.

"Is that so?"

"Yes, it is."

Davis smiled ominously.

"You see, no matter how much you acted like an innocent and harmless child, I knew you really weren't one."

Cale had a very, very ominous feeling.

"I was waiting. I was waiting for you to show your true self. Was it Bob? I bet it's not even your real name. Even if you could fool the whole world, you can't fool me, Mr Bob."

Cale's eyes turned cold. He dropped his act completely.

"You can't hold me here forever."

Davis smirked.

"What can you do? You would have left already if you could, wouldn't you? You can't even escape from here. I'm pretty sure there won't be anyone coming to your help, too."

Cale glared at him. He was expressionless, his eyes were ice cold.

"So you're saying you will experiment on me as much as you want?"

Davis smirked wider.

"That's right."

Cale smirked too.

"I will make you regret it."

"Do your worse. My friend really wanted to take a look at your internal organs. Shall we start with that?"

Cale answered him nonchalantly.

"Do your worse."

"Then, we'll do it without anesthetic."

Davis's eyes were filled with madness.

•••

Fifth month.

"Do you think it will work?"

"Why not? He seems to be completely healthy despite all the surgeries he went through. He didn't even suffer from any forms of infection. Just like how his body regenerates faster, his immunity system may also be stronger than normal humans. He may even survive deadly toxins."

Cale could hear the mad scientists talking, but he didn't care. He was in so much pain to care about what those bastards were talking about.

"Hmm, then if your theory is right, his body would be able to offset must of the toxins."

"Doesn't that mean if we inject him with a toxin that doesn't have an antidote, we can make an antidote based on the antibodies that his immunity system will produce?"

Cale had just came out of a surgery without any anesthetic, again. It didn't hurt as much of when he broke his plate or Mila fixed it, but it still hurt a lot.

"That seems possible."

"It's worth a try."

Cale was waiting for the apocalypse. He was waiting for the world to end impatiently.

•••

Sixth month.

Cale was in his limits. He was constantly in pain. His body had reached its limits.

"Is it because of the toxins? His body is regenerating slower than usual."

"That seems to be the case. His scars aren't disappearing anymore too."

His body was broken.

• Did you miss me, my child? I come as soon as possi— what the hell?

His mind wasn't fine, too. He didn't even know how many days, months or maybe years he was here.

• What the... Why are you... This...

His sleep attacks had increased too. He even started to hallucinating a few days or maybe weeks ago. He sometimes saw some of his family members enter the operation room and cut down all the damn bastards inside of it.

• Just how the hell dare they do this to my child?

That was why he ignored the voice in his head. He was probably hallucinating about God of Death, who had not talked to him in ages.

'Aigoo, to think that I'll hallucinate about him talking to me... He is annoying even in my hallucinations.'

He decided to distract himself by listening to the lunatics in his room instead.

"Hmm, it's actually a surprise that he is still alive."

• ...I'm sorry, my child.

'Wow. Did I want to hear him apologize to me? Is that why he's apologizing in my hallucinations?'

Cale found this quite funny. It was the first time in a long while he felt this amused.

"Right? The higher ups decided to do a new experiment."

"Oh? What is it about?"

• ...Please wait a bit longer, my child. I will send help.

'What help? Hmm, do I perhaps expect him to send a wanderer or something?'

Cale wondered why he was having such a weird hallucination and tried hard to ignore the voice.

"They ordered us to transfer one of his organs to a child around his age. It would be a good test sample. This test is to find out if we can increase someone's regenerative abilities with this."

Cale froze in place.

'...What did I just hear?'

He thought he heard something absurd. He thought that because he was hallucinating, he heard the bastards wrong.

'Did he just said they wanted to experiment on children?'

It didn't matter how much they experimented on him, since he wasn't really a child. But a real child was a completely different matter.

He hoped he was wrong.

"Oh! It actually makes sense. We should have tried it sooner."

"Right? It would be a great achievement if we succeed."

Cale had not felt this angry since he was in the anger test in Sealed God's temple.

'Wait a bit longer?' Cale scoffed internally as he remembered what God of Death told him in his hallucination. 'I have waited enough.'

He had had enough.

'Time to make a shit show.'

It was time to turn everything upside down.

•••

Two days later, the scientists started their new experiment.

"Wha-what are you—!"

No, they tried to start it.

Splash. Thud.

Blood splattered everywhere and a lifeless body with a neat, red line on his neck, fell to the ground.

"Call the security!"

Someone screamed. Everyone started to run away.

No, they tried to run away.

Thud. Thud.

More bodies fell on the ground.

Step. Step.

A child, with hair as red as the splattered blood on his clothes, leisurely walked through the bloody room to the corridor. He had a bloody scalpel in his tiny hand.

Splash.

More blood splashed and dyed the white tiles red. The child expressionlessly killed everyone in his way. His cold reddish brown eyes were dull. He didn't seem to care how many people he was killing.

'They are not human.' The child, Cale, thought as he slashed another person's neck. 'None of the people here are human.'

He then opened a door near the end of the corridor and entered the room. Behind the door was a big room, connected to another corridor that would take him outside. He was greeted with armed soldiers, as well as some very familiar people.

"Hah. I knew it. We should have killed this alien from start."

"Tsk. Don't kill him right now, we still need him for our experiments."

They were Davis and Wilson. The two who made this place hell for him. There were also some other familiar scientists and officers too. Cale coldly glared at all of them.

"You won't be able to get out of here. why don't you just accept it?"

Cale didn't care and leisurely walked towards the other exit, that was right behind those bastards. He could care less about getting more injuries. He just needed to avoid getting fatal injuries.

Davis started to speak again.

"Look at how bloodthirsty you are. As expected of a dirty alien."

Cale ignored him. He knew they wouldn't kill him. He also didn't have any time to waste. He needed to get out of here before his next sleep attack.

"Why are you in such a hurry, hmm?" Davis smirked. "Are you perhaps sleepy?"

Cale stopped in the middle of room and answered him nonchalantly.

"Don't worry, I will kill you before I fall asleep."

Suddenly Cale felt a pain in the back of his neck. He turned around in reflex and stabbed the scalpel in his hand in someone's neck.

He ignored the blood that splashed to his face and checked his neck. The dying scientist had injected him something, a toxin maybe.

He didn't care and casually took out the scalpel from the scientist's neck and watched his body fell down.

It was then.

"HUMAN!"

"Rok Soo! Dodge!"

He heard some familiar voices, again.

He turned towards the voices and ignored what they were saying.

He saw two persons, rushing to him. One of them had brown hair and black eyes. He was familiar, too familiar.

'It's Jung Soo.'

It was Choi Jung Soo. Someone who had died a long time ago.

'I most be hallucinating again.'

He turned to the other person.

The other one was a small child with back hair and deep blue eyes. The child kind of resembled him, too.

'Cute.'

He thought the child looked cute. He also remembered the child calling him 'Human'.

'Ah.'

His eyes widened.

'Is he...'

"...Raon?"

He unconsciously blurred out.

The child, now with blood splattered –from who knows where– clothes, answered him while tears strained his chubby, cute cheeks.

"I'm here, Human."

'It's really Raon. He looks really beautiful and cute. As expected of a dragon.'

Raon grabbed his hand that was still holding the scalpel and take it out of his hand.

"I will kill them all for you, human. So, close your eyes and rest for a bit."

'it's warm.' Raon's hands were warm. This Raon felt real. 'How cruel.'

It was cruel. It was also reckless, but he could not say no to Raon. He closed his eyes and let his tiered body fall. He felt two small hands catching him, as well as some tear drops felling on his face. He wanted to stop Raon from crying, but he was too tired.

The last thing he heard before completely falling asleep was the screaming of people.

•••

Raon was really angry. He felt like destroying the world the moment he saw his human covered in blood. As if that wasn't enough, some insufficient bastards tried to hurt his human right in front of his eyes.

He rushed to his human while screamed for him to run, but his human only turned towards him and his human's friend. He stared at Choi Jung Soo in a daze.

His human wasn't acting normal. Obviously, something was very wrong with his human.

He saw Choi Jung Soo rushing towards the one trying to shoot his human with a gun while taking out his sword out of nowhere.

He run to the bastard trying to hit his human with a chair. He couldn't use his magic and didn't have the time to find a weapon.

But it didn't matter.

He was a Dragon.

Stab.

His body was his weapon.

He stabbed his right hand in that man's chest and grabbed his heart. He then crushed it, just like how he had done to the fake dragon slayer, who made his human cough out blood.

He threw the corpse away and went to his human again.

He saw his human turning to him. He looked at him for a short while before his eyes widened.

"...Raon?"

His human called his name. He missed his human calling his name so much. He was really afraid that he couldn't hear his human calling his name again.

Raon didn't stop his tears from falling.

"I'm here, Human."

He then went to his human and took the scalpel out of his hand. He told his human to reat. He told him that he would kill everyone who made him like this.

He took a pillow and some blankets out of his human's spatial pocket bag –that he still hadn't given it back to him– and carefully laid his human on them.

'Mom and Goldie gramps put a lot of useful things in this bag.'

There were a lot of magic devices in that bag, some of which didn't need mana to activate. He then took one of them out and activate it. A transparent barrier appeared an surrounded them. Raon made sure the barrier covered his human before taking out a sword from the bag. He then went to Choi Jung Soo.

He didn't know how to use a sword properly, but he had saw a lot of strong swordmen around him and knew the basic. He was a smart, great and mighty dragon, after all.

"Human's friend."

Choi Jung Soo, who had been only deflecting the bullets with his sword, answered him while taking a quick glance at his direction.

"Yes, little Raon?"

Raon said nonchalantly, much like a certain someone.

"I told my human that I will kill them all."

Choi Jung Soo deflected another round of bullets and answered him.

"Sure. Let's kill them all together."

Choi Jung Soo turned to the soldiers and asked Raon cheerfully.

"Do you know what I like about that annoying God of Death?"

Raon tilted his head.

"There is something you like about that bas-annoying guy?"

Choi Jung Soo smirked wickedly.

"Yes. You know, he rules over the death. These bastards will probably have a very hard time in afterlife."

Raon smiled wickedly, too.

"Oh. He better torture these bastards properly, if he doesn't wants to die too."

Choi Jung Soo ignored Raon's choice of words for the time being. They had more important things to do.

"Let's clean this all before he wakes up."

Raon nodded at him, and the massacre began.

Chapter Text

'Damn it!'

He was a sadist.

"I should have killed them more painfully."

Choi Jung Soo who was sitting on a sofa across him, couldn't help but nod. He too was regretting killing them that easily.

The papers Raon had thrown earlier were what they received from the doctor who diagnosed Cale when he was unconscious.

After they killed everyone at that military base, Choi Jung Soo sent Raon and Cale to the house he had prepared for them in Korea before going back to destroy their traces.

At that time, he came across and collected everything that was related to Cale at that place. Those also contained some reports on Cale's physical condition and all of the experiments he has gone through in that place.

Chapter Text

"Human, what are these?"

"Yes."

Chapter Text

What will happen if suddenly the electricity was cut off in an amusement park?

What if it was night time?

"What is happening?"

"Why the hell did the electricity went off?"

"Jesus, look at that! This whole area's blackout!"

"Ahhh! Mom, help!"

"Get me out of here!"

That's right. Everything will become extremely chaotic.

"Please calm down! It must be a technical problem. The power probably will be back in a few moments!"

Some people were trying to calm the others.

Amidst the chaos, there were two teenager on a bench that were extremely calm.

The older one even looked quite annoyed. He couldn't help but scoff.

"Hah."

That was because he was hearing an annoying voice that was talking none stop in his head.

• It's been a long time, my child.

The voice had started talking to him right after hearing that strange message which seemed to be some sort of announcement for the start of apocalypse.

The voice that came with a headache was very familiar.

'...God of Death? No, wait. Who the hell is your child?'

It was the God of Death, who Cale had not heard his voice for years.

Cale wanted to retort but wasn't given a chance by God of Death.

• There is no time. I cannot talk to you like this for long. I'll use a more convenient way to talk to you later. For now, listen to me carefully.

"Human, what is wrong?"

Cale motioned for Raon to be quiet and focused on God of Death. Even if he was an annoying bastard, he would not say nonsense at this kind of situation.

• As you have already figured, the apocalypse is starting, but the apocalypse in this world is very different from what you experienced in Earth 1. Remember, my child. The only thing you need to do is to survive. This world has its own ways to save itself.

'I just need to survive, and the world's destruction is none of my business?'

That meant only one thing.

'This world most have it's own 'exceptions' or 'variables' to save it.'

The God of Death continued.

• I will release both of your seals soon, but it may be a bit troublesome for you since your ancient powers and divine power may clash for a bit. You don't have to be too concerned about it, thought.

'A bit troublesome?'

Cale wanted to ignore that part, but unconsciously remembered the beige dragon, Mila. He remembered how she had told him that fusing his plate back will sting 'a bit'.

He was traumatized by the word 'a bit' quite a lot because of that.

Cale opened his mouth to ask the God of Death and confirm his definition of 'a bit', but was cut off by him again.

• Well then. Good luck, my child.

The moment his voice disappeared, electricity returned.

'Hmm? What's that?'

Cale could see a strange and fluffy creature with two small horns floating in the air, right in the middle of the amusement park. Somehow this cute looking creature felt ominous.

At that moment, he heard Raon's quiet voice.

"Human, be careful. That cotton candy looking thing is strong."

'Oh? He is strong?'

He wanted to ask Raon how strong that fluff ball was but he saw the creature opened his mouth.

[&아#@!&아#@!….]

Snap.

Right at the moment he heard the fluff ball talk in an unknown language, he felt something restricting his body snapped.

Flinch.

He could tell from Raon flinching that he felt the same thing too.

Then his mind become a chaotic mess.

• Cale, Can you hear our voice?

• Can you hear me?

• Answer me.

• Cale, you better XXX answer us before I XXX and XXX!

Cale smiled after hearing those voices after a long time.

"I can hear you all loud and clear."

"Human, who are you talking to?"

Cale brushed Raon's question aside and continued to listen to his ancient powers.

"It's nothing."

• Finally! We were so worried when suddenly our connection was cut off.

• It was like we were isolated and sealed.

He also listened to the fluff ball and the people around him.

"Oh? Is this an event or something?"

"What's this? A puppet play?"

[Ah, hey. Can you understand me now? Hmm, why didn't the Korean patch work? Nevermind. Can everyone hear me?]

The fluff ball finally started to talk in Korean.

"Dad, look! The cotton candy is talking!"

[Silence, everyone. I will be telling you something important, so be quiet and listen carefully. That is, if you want to live.]

Everyone become silent. They were still thinking all this was just an event.

Cale sighed.

• What the hell!

He then flinched. It was because the one who cursed loudly wasn't cheapskate nor crazy kid.

• The fuck did you do with you body again?

It was the old man crybaby. The previous owner of Vitality of the Heart was cursing in shock.

[You all had been living your life for free for a very long time. You most have had a lot of fun living for free in a good world, but it's all over now.]

Cale didn't want to listen to that nonsense. He also didn't want to listen to his ancient powers' screams in shock and disbelief.

• What the? What did you do this time?

• Cale! Why is your body in such a condition?

• What the XXX is up with this XXX divine power in your XXX body?

• Ack! The divine power in your body is clashing with us! Your body can't take the recoil if this continues!

Cale started frowning.

[Now then, it's time to pay up!]

• Sigh. I'll start fixing you right away.

Cale heard the old man's declaration at the same time with the fluff ball's cheerful voice.

"Wait...!"

He tried to stop the old man.

'You can't start healing me right now!'

But the old man had already started to heal him.

Boom. Boom.

His heart started to beat faster and stronger.

Then, a massage rang out.

[#HA-42638 channel is open.]

[The constellations have entered.]

A small holographic blue window emerged in front of everyone.

[The main scenario has arrived!]

+

[Main Scenario #1 – Proof of Value]

Category: Main

Difficulty: F

Clear Conditions: Kill one or more creatures.

Time Limit: 30 minutes

Compensations: 300 coins

Failure: Death

+

[Well then, good luc–]

Right after seeing the window that appeared in front of him, Cale felt a warm liquid in his throat.

Cough!

"Human!"

The fluff ball –dokkaebi– was cut off by someone's coughing, followed by a child's screaming.

[Huh?]

The dokkaebi turned to the sound and was puzzled.

Cale had fell forward and started coughing out black blood.

'Damn it! It hurts!'

• Sorry. We are trying to get in balance with the divine power in your body while crybaby is healing you. Be strong.

He could hear Super Rock, but couldn't answer him. He could see his shoulder length hair return back to its original red colour. The divine item of disguise was deactivated because of his unstable divine power.

'Fuck! I shouldn't have trusted that useless, waste of space of a God!'

"Human, human! What's wrong? Why are you coughing out blood? What's wrong with you?"

Raon was hugging him while shaking and panicking.

Cale grabbed Raon's shaking hand and tried to calm him down. He then remembered the things written on then window that appeared in front of him right before he started vomiting blood.

Blood started to come out from his eyes, nose and ears, too. He quickly became a bloody mess.

'How the fuck am I supposed to complete that so called scenario in this state? You fucking bastard, how the hell is this called 'a bit'?'

"H-Human! Why, why?"

Raon was panicking more the more he coughed out blood.

Both of them heard an annoyed voice at that moment.

[Hey, you. I clearly told you all to stay quiet. Stop screaming before I make a hole in both of your heads.]

'Did he just threaten Raon? Does he have a death wish?'

Cale suddenly felt extremely angry. He opened his mouth to say something but coughed even more blood instead.

Then he suddenly got chills.

"What did that stupid cotton candy just say?"

Raon's voice was cold. It was giving Cale chills.

[What? Did you just called me a–huh?]

The angry dokkaebi was startled.

It was because he could feel, no, see it.

He could see the black mana starting to quickly gather around the black haired child.

'What the? Is he really a human?'

The child's dark blue eyes turned reptile and started to shine.

The dokkaebi was stunned.

Everyone around them was stunned. They felt suffocated.

'No way! How??'

The black mana was raging around the small child. It was also carefully avoiding hurting the red haired person he was hugging.

"You. Are you the one who hurt my human?"

The dokkaebi started shivering as Raon glared at him.

Raon's thought process was simple. His human had not used any ancient powers yet. His health also had improved in the past four and a half years, enough to not cough out blood or faint suddenly.

Then there was only one reason he was in this state right now.

'Someone hurt my human. Someone hurt my human right in front of me and I didn't even realize it!'

Raon was angry. He was barely stopping himself from destroying everything. He was controlling himself because his human was holding his hand with his shaking and bloody hand weakly.

The dokkaebi gulped.

'He isn't human!'

He looked at the black haired being that was glaring viciously at him with his shining eyes.

The red haired human that the child was hugging was still bleeding and vomiting liters of blood. He didn't know why he was vomiting so much blood and didn't have the luxury to think about how he was still alive and had not died of blood loss.

His mind was blank. There was only one sentence in his mind that was repeating in a loop.

'What the hell is a DRAGON doing here???'

At that moment, a window appeared in the air.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' is looking at you.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' is greeting you.]

'It's definitely that useless bastard.'

Cale thought while vomiting more blood.

Raon stared at the window for a second before narrowing his eyes.

"Eternal Rest... Are you the motherfucking God of Death?"

Cale coughed more violently.

'... Didn't we agree on not cursing?'

Naturally, the dokkaebi was shocked too. Of course his shock was more because he was the only one who seemed to know about the child being a dragon.

[Many constellations are greatly shocked at your why of talking to one of them.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' is silent.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' says his child wouldn't wish for you to use such a vocabulary.]

"Stop your nonsense and tell me what's wrong with my human already."

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' avoids eye contact in guilt.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' says his child is in the process of healing and readjusting to his powers.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' says that you don't need to worry too much and should focus more on completing the scenario.]

'He is healing?'

Raon turned to Cale and gasped. He was so angry and worried that he hadn't noticed how his human seemed to be getting better the more he vomited blood.

He then remembered the so called scenario and looked at the window in front of him.

'Kill one or more creatures... Failure is death?'

He felt anger again.

"How exactly can my human kill someone like this?"

'I know right?'

Cale agreed with him internally.

The people around them were stunned again. They were starting to understand their new reality. They all looked around themselves warily.

Raon suddenly turned to the dokkaebi.

"That cotton candy counts as a creature too, doesn't it? Should I just kill it?"

[Wha-What?]

The dokkaebi was terrified.

'Vicious.'

Cale couldn't help but think Raon was vicious, even though he was still in pain and bleeding.

'Hmm?'

He then suddenly noticed the ant filled candy from before. It was still in the same place.

At that moment another window popped up.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' advises you that you shouldn't kill a dokkaebi unnecessarily.]

'Unnecessarily? You're telling me he can kill a dokkaebi if he felt it was necessary?'

The dokkaebi was stunned yet again.

Tsk.

Raon clicked his tongue. He then heard his human.

"Ra-Raon–cough! ...A-Ants–cough!"

Cale, who was thinking about how God of Death had called the vicious fluff ball a dokkaebi, barely managed to say those two words. Raon turned his head in the direction Cale was pointing with his shaking hand and saw the candy and ants.

"I got it, you stupidly nice human. Stop talking and just focus on healing, I will take care of everything else."

He then made all of the ants float and come right in Cale's hand. Cale opened his mouth instead of killing them.

"You–cough!"

"I got it, human! I will kill them too, so stop talking already!"

He then crushed a few ants with his mana as if urging Cale to do the same. Cale clenched his hand and killed the ants inside of it.

[You have killed a living thing.]

[100 coins have been earned as additional compensation.]

[You have killed a living thing.]

[100 coins have been earned as additional compensation.]

...

Multiple massages filled his eyes.

'Oh? We get coins by killing something? How vicious.'

Cale thought before another window popped up.

[A large number of coins has been acquired! Do you want to check coin usage tips?]

Cale barely let out a yes and tried to focus on the tips he was receiving.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' sighs in relief.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' says good job.]

The people around them, who were frozen still from Raon's tantrum earlier has watched them too, but were still struggling to accept all of this.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' is looking at the dokkaebi 'Haneul'.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' reminds the dokkaebi 'Haneul' to do his job properly.]

The dokkaebi, Haneul, flinched.

[Ah, yes. I apologize.]

He then coughed and continued.

[Why are you all staying still? There is only 10 minutes left.]

He then smiled viciously.

[Hmm, you're not fun at all. There are some places that have already completed their scenario. should I just show you what will happen to you if you don't complete the scenario?]

Then a large screen appeared above the amusement park. It was inside a mall. People were killing eachother like crazy.

Some people started to vomit after seeing that scene.

Then the screen changed to a subway. There was man dodging the attacks of a white haired student. He clenched his hand and crushed something like insect eggs.

'Oh, he's smart.'

Cale thought while watching. Even if he was still in pain and bleeding, his mind was more clear than any other time because his Record was finally unsealed.

He watched as the white haired student attacked the black haired man but couldn't do anything other than scratching him a little, then dropped his knife and knelt while asking to be saved.

When the white haired student tried to attack the man again, the time run out and his head bursted like a balloon.

The people watching a screen finally started moving. Raon made a barrier around Cale and himself.

"The insects... Those two killed ants too..."

Someone muttered. Then everyone started to look for any type of insects.

"Ack! What are you–!"

Of course, some choose killing humans too. The didn't dare to get near Cale and Raon, thought.

Finally, a few minutes later...

[The given time has run out.]

[Paid settlement will begin.]

There were still some exploding heads.

Another window appeared in front of Cale.

[You have killed 34 living things.]

[Kill History: 34 ants.]

[You have killed non-resistance living things, so the number of coins you have acquired is reduced by half.]

[1,700 coins have been acquired!]

[You have a total of 1,700 coins.]

Cale could hear the people around him sigh in relief. Some of them plopped down on the ground as they didn't have anymore strength to stand. Some children that have survived were crying.

[Main scenario #1 – Proof of Value has ended.]

[300 coins have been acquired as a basic clearance reward.]

[100 coins have been reduced for the channel usage fee.]

[Additional compensation settlement will begin.]

Cale tried to sigh but was forced to vomit blood again. His grip on Raon's hand tightened.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' congrats you on completing the first scenario.]

'Bastard.'

Cale had noticed it from the beginning.

The 'first' scenario had ended.

[You have been sponsored 1,000 coins.]

'Oh? He can give me coins too?'

Cale would have smiled his scammer smile if he wasn't vomiting blood.

[Compensation settlement is delayed duo to an unexpected scenario check. Please wait.]

'Hmm? What's it now?' Cale frowned.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' urges the dokkaebi 'Haneul' to start the settlement already.]

The dokkaebi laughed awkwardly.

[A-hahaha, please be patient constellations! We will start the settlement soon.]

He then turned towards the people.

[We have quite a lot of survivors here... Well then.]

Cale saw the dokkaebi manipulated something in the air, and a moment later a long list of survivors came up.

[Survivors from 2nd section of Lotte World amusement park: ..., ..., ..., Cale Henituse, Raon Miru, ..., ..., ..., Dang Chin Mae, Cheong Sun Young, ..., ..., ... . A total of twenty five survivors.]

Cale's eyes widened.

'They were here too...?'

They hadn't called Dang Chin Mae to take them back yet.

"Human! The kind assistant and auntie are here too! I'm glad they are alive!"

'Me too.'

Cale was glad that the two people who took care of him and Raon didn't die in chaos.

•••

"Why it hasn't turned on yet? Didn't they say it will be activated today?"

Alberu asked while staring at a black screen in irritation. He had set aside all of his paperwork and came to black castle in a hurry but was irritated due to it not showing any signs of turning on.

It was something that they had received from Gods as per their deal. It was supposed to activate and show them Cale and Raon in that so called other world.

"I have the same question. Why it's still like this?"

Choi Han was annoyed too.

It wasn't only him, everyone of Cale's family and allies were there, waiting for seeing their beloved commender.

Cage started to speak at that moment.

"That annoying bastard said we will be able to see them when one of them choose us as their sponsor. I don't get what does it mean thought."

Jack and cotton nodded their heads.

Eruhaben clicked his tongue.

"Did the unlucky bastard received the thing that we sent him?"

Jack shook his head.

"We are not sure, Eruhaben-nim. They will send it to him as per deal sooner or later. They said it was completed, thought."

Alberu sighed and added to Jack's answer.

"We even added one of World Tree's roots to make sure it would be strong enough for him to protect himself and Raon-nim."

Eruhaben sighed too.

"We have to wait a little longer, then."

Nobody said anything. All of them only stared at the still black screen.

•••

"Kind assistant, Auntie! We are here!"

Cale could see Dang Chin Mae and Cheong Sun Young rushing to them.

"Raon-nim, I'm glad you're alri–What the hell! What happened to Cale-nim?"

Dang Chin Mae was terrified after seeing the bloody Cale, who was still vomiting blood. Cale was relieved that at least the amount of blood was decreased.

"The human is healing himself, kind assistant."

"I...see..."

Dang Chin Mae then proceeded to explain to them why they were there.

"We thought you would like to eat here today, so I asked Cheong Sun Young-ssi yo prepare your dinner and then we came to deliver it to you. I was about to call you when this all happened."

Cale wasn't allowed to eat anything other than what his doctor allowed, so it wasn't that surprising that they came to bring them their meal. It was actually fortunate that they were here and alive.

Cheong Sun Young started to talk.

"We saw that man in the subway crushed something like insect eggs, so we searched for insects and killed a few of them."

"You...did...well–cough!"

"Stop trying to talk, human!"

Raon scolded Cale, who was trying to talk after feeling a little better.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' agrees with the incarnation 'Raon Miru'.]

God of Death also chimmed in.

"Shut...up...useless..."

"Human!"

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' shuts up.]

Cale and God of Death both shut up.

"Oh, but... What is this strange... message?"

Raon answered Dang Chin Mae.

"It's just some useless guy talking nonsense. Just ignore him, kind assistant."

"Oh, okay."

Dang Chin Mae nodded in understanding.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' feels heartbroken.]

"Good."

Raon said nonchalantly after reading the message.

[Many constellations are astonished at the interaction between the constellation 'Eternal Rest' and incarnation 'Raon Miru'.]

[Some constellations wish for survival of the incarnation 'Cale Henituse'.]

[A few constellations find your interaction amusing.]

[The constellations have sponsored you 500 coins.]

Raon ignored all the messages. He was giving his full attention to Cale. He waved his hand and put a thermal magic on his human so that he won't feel cold.

[Now then, everyone! Should we start the compensation settlement?]

The dokkaebi's voice rang in everyone's ears.

Chapter Text

[As a reward for your hard work in first scenario, you are entitled to the sponsorship of the 'constellations'. Isn't that great?]

Almost everyone was looking at him in confusion.

'Wasn't God of Death called a constellation in that messages, too?'

Cale was recalling the messages from earlier and couldn't help but frown.

'Are the constellations, Gods?'

This unpleasant thought crossed his mind.

'Aigoo, my poor life.'

He felt a little better when he noticed how he had stopped vomiting blood at some point and would only occasionally cough out blood.

[Hmm, all of you look confused. To put it simply, all of y–ahem, almost all of you are incredibly weak. So much that you would be killed almost instantly if you were thrown in front of a weak ground rat. But there are some generous and great people in the universe who pity you and would like to sponsor you. Do you get it now?]

Cale started analysing what the dokkaebi said.

'He said 'people' who would like to 'sponsor' you. that means not all of them are Gods, and they would only 'sponsor' someone. It's like being a Saint or Holy maiden but also different.'

In any case, it seemed troublesome.

"A sponsor...?"

"H-Huh, what does it all mean...?"

Cale looked at their panicked assistant and caretaker. Even if the people called constellations smelled of trouble, their help would be quite useful for this two, who unlike him and Raon had been living a very ordinary life till now.

That was why he decided to give them a advice.

"Just choose whichever your intuitions is telling you."

In any case, even if their sponsor didn't do their job properly, Cale would take care of them. He would also have a chat with those sponsors.

"Eh?"

"What do you–"

The dokkaebi Haneul started to talk again at that moment.

[Now then, let's begin!]

Everyone become silent and stared at the window in front of them. Cale frowned the moment he saw his window, then his eyes widened.

[Sponsor Selection]

- Please select your sponsor.

- Your chosen sponsor will be your strong supporter.

1. Eternal Rest

2. Castle of Light

3. Secretive Plotter

'Hmm?'

He knew that the first one was a certain bastard. The second one was familiar too.

'Is this how they're going to fulfill the deal?'

Cale remembered the deal between Alberu and Sun God that Raon had informed him of. He then frowned again.

'Now that I think about it, what did the Crown Prince give the Sun God that she accepted helping him?'

Raon, who was scolded after telling Cale about his deal with God of Death, had deceivly avoided telling him about Clopeh and as a result, Ableru's end of deal.

Cale, who would have had a heart attack if he knew anything about what a certain crazy bastard did, was a bit concerned about his undoubtedly busy hyung.

"H-Human! Th-This!"

Cale turned to Raon. From his reaction it was obvious that he too had the 'Castle of Light' as one of his choices.

"You choose tha–cough!"

"Human! How many times should I tell to not talk? Even if you are a little better you aren't completely healed yet!"

Cale was annoyed.

'Damn! When am I going to stop coughing blood? Just how many litres of blood did I vomited already?'

• You should have thought about this when you were messing with your body.

He could hear Super Rock's nagging.

'Do you think I wanted my body to be in this state? Do I look like a masochism to you?'

• ...

Cale ignored the suspiciously silent Super Rock and stared at the window in front of him again.

'Who is the third one?'

He couldn't figure out who he is no matter how much he thought, so he decided to ignore that, too.

'...Do I really have to choose one?'

He was quite hesitant. As if sensing his hesitation, another window popped up.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' hopes you choose him.]

Cale narrowed his eyes.

'Even if it's temporary, I am already that bastard's Saint. Why is he trying to become my sponsor too? To annoy me more?'

"I will not choose anyone..."

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' says that he will give you a lot of coins if you choose him.]

"...other than you."

'Damn.'

It sounded very, very wrong.

"H-Huh?"

Even Raon was a little shocked. Cale cursed again and chose the God of Death.

[Sponsor Selection has ended.]

[You have selected the constellation 'Eternal Rest' as your sponsor.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' feels extremely happy.]

[10,000 coins have been sponsored.]

[The constellation 'Secretive Plotter' says it's such a shame.]

[The constellation 'Sun that burns the darkness' smiles at you.]

[The constellation 'Strongest Shelter in War' waves at you.]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' greets you.]

The moment Cale and Raon saw the last message, both of them started to smile. They completely ignored the other messages.

"Long time no see."

"Hi, everyone!"

Cale waved his hand leisurely and nonchalantly greeting them while Raon shouted in excitement.

Dang Chin Mae and Cheong Sun Young who saw them were puzzled. It was the first time Raon was this existed, and more importantly... Cale was smiling gently while waving his hand. He looked so gentle and genuinely happy that both of them were shocked.

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' says that it indeed has been a long time.]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' says they're really happy to meet you again.]

"How have you al–cough!"

The messages stopped popping up for a moment, then it suddenly bombarded their vision.

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' is panicked.]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' says What the hell!]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' screams Why the hell are you covered in blood again?]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' clenches his dagger coldly.]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' is glaring at the constellation 'Eternal Rest'.]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' threatens the constellation 'Eternal Rest' that he better explain himself before they kill him.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' shivers.]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' defends himself by saying the incarnation 'Cale Henituse' is healing himself!]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' asks through gritted teeth Why the hell does he even need to heal?]

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' averts his eyes.]

"I'm fi–"

Cale tried to say he was fine to stop the seemly endless messages, but was cut off immediately.

"You are not fine, human!"

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' snaps at you: Shut up, you unlucky bastard!]

Cale, who recognised the one telling him to shut up as Eruhaben, wisely did so.

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' demands an explanation while smiling benignly.]

Cale barely stopped flinching when he saw this. He was sure that the one sending this message was his vicious butler, Ron.

[Many constellations are shocked at the development.]

[Some constellations are curious about your story.]

[500 coins have been sponsored.]

"Don't worry! I'll tell you everything, Lemonade gramps!"

Cale felt a headache coming. A certain God was already checking any possible locations to hide.

Before Raon could start his explanation, they heard the dokkaebi again.

[Now then, shall we proceed the scenarios?]

Then, yet another window appeared in front of Cale and others.

[The second scenario has arrived!]

+

[Second Scenario – Escape]

Category: Sub

Difficulty: D

Clear Conditions: Survive the monsters and enter a subway station.

Time Limit: 30 minutes.

Compensation: 300 coins.

Failure: ???

+

At that moment, the ground started to shake.

Boom!

Amidst the people's screams, a nearby building collapsed. Then some monsters started to appear and attack them.

[Hahaha! Show me a fun story!]

The dokkaebi's laugher was ringing in the whole place. Some of the machines were broken by the monsters who were trying to eat the people inside of them.

Most of the people were running, some were trying to protect their family members or friends and a few started to fight them.

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' frowns at the sight.]

'What a mess.'

Cale thought while observing everything.

"Human, should I kill them?"

[The constellation 'Strongest Shelter in War' watches you with anticipation.]

Cale didn't stop observing the surrounding even after hearing Raon's question. He then decided his next actions.

"Raon. Create a path to the nearest subway station. We will guide the people to there."

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' nods and says as expected of Cale-nim.]

[The constellation 'Suns the burns the darkness' smiles in approval.]

[The constellation Eternal Rest is proud of you.]

[5,000 coins have been sponsored.]

"Does that mean we won't go there ourselves?"

Cale nodded at the smart baby dragon.

"We will go back home."

"Ah! I see!"

Raon stood up.

"Then I will play with those weaklings for a bit. Just stay still and wait for me, human!" 

He then turned to Dang Chin Mae and Cheong Sun Young.

"Kind assistant, auntie! Please make sure my human stays still!"

'What am I, a kid? Did he forgot who is a real kid here?'

Cale grumbled in his mind.

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' says don't worry, they will keep an eye on incarnation 'Cale Henituse'.]

Cale decided to just ignore them.

Raon put up a barrier around all three of them before floating in air and drifting away.

"It's been so long since I played with some weaklings."

Raon said cheerfully. Black mana gathered around him rapidly and turned to hundreds of black arrows in air.

"Let's destroy everything!"

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' cheerfully says yes nya!]

Raon smiled at the message, shook his hand gently and with his gesture a rain of black arrows fall to the ground. Each and every single one of them were aimed at monsters accurately.

"I really like destroying things a lot!"

Haneul who was previously watching the chaos in anticipation, was now speechless. He was stiffened the moment he saw the dense black mana.

'Such a strong dragon...!'

He was still wandering what the hell was this child like strong dragon doing here. He had no idea why there wasn't a probability storm because of this dragon.

He was only certain of one thing.

'...Let's not offend him more. Otherwise, he may really kill me.'

He then turned to the red haired, bloody human. He was really curious about him, too.

'Just who is that human thet such a strong dragon is protecting him? The constellations are quite friendly with him too.'

While Raon was playing with monsters and Haneul was brainstorming, Cale was being watched closely to stay still.

"Ahjussi, auntie. I do not plan on moving even an inch. There is no need to stare at me like that."

Cale didn't liked getting stared at like this. Cheong Sun Young widened her eyes and tried to explain hurriedly.

"Ah, that's not it. It's just... Your hair..."

"Ah."

Cale touched his red hair and gasped. He had forgotten the divine item has deactivated. He looked at his hair and smiled faintly.

"It's a bit complicated, but... This is my original hair colour."

"Eh?"

Dang Chin Mae and Cheong Sun Young were both confused. They had been with Cale for almost five years and were sure that his black hair wasn't dyed, but this red colour looked just as natural.

"I will explain later. For now, let's focus on getting back home."

Dang Chin Mae asked in confusion.

"But Cale-nim, there might be some monsters there too... Wouldn't it be safer if we go where this scenario says? Also, we will die if we don't follow it."

Cale tilted his head.

"What are you talking about?"

He looked genuinely confused.

"The scenario never said the failure would result in death."

"Ah."

Both Dang Chin Mae and Cheong Sun Young gasped. Cale didn't care and continued.

"Also, there is nowhere safer than our house in Kore–no, probably the whole world."

"Excuse me?"

Dang Chin Mae asked in shock. Cale started to smile at that.

'Hmm, that reminds me of that time.'

He was reminded of the time Raon given him his spatial pocket bag after rescuing him from US.

Raon had given him the spatial bag with a big smile and had proudly explained about it.

'Human! This is us dragon's masterpiece! Smart Rosalyn and alcoholic's friend Glenn helped too! We made it so that it is as big as a dragon's dimensional space!'

Cale was speechless at that, but Raon had not noticed it. He then had continued to cutely list the things inside of it.

'We put everything that we thought you may need!'

They had put his mother's diary, Top's whip, the badges that he has sealed the fake World Tree and Blood Drenched Rock in them, White Star's mask and even Fredo's heirloom in it. In addition, there were some of his clothes and other belongings as well as a lot of gold coins.

'Each of us also put something that we thought might help you in it!'

Each of them had put something in it for him.

'Noona, hyung and me put some apple pies as well as some of the books that we thought you may like. We also put a bit of our allowance in case you need it!'

Cale wouldn't touch their allowance even if he needed it. How could he touch those children's money?

'M-Mom, Goldie gramps, smart Rosalyn and alcoholic's friend put some magic devices and scrolls in it. They put some videos communication devices, too!'

The mages of their group had put some useful things inside of it.

'Strong Choi Han and Hannah sent you all kind of weapons! They said they made sure that the weapons are not that heavy for you!'

The vicious swordmasters had sent him weapons.

'Beacrox cooked a lot of delicious dishes and put them in your bag! Don't worry, human! The food will not go bad since we made sure your bag can preserve food for at least ten years!'

His chief had cooked a lot if food and prepared a lot more desserts for him.

The Henituse family had sent a lot of things –even luxury furniture– for him.

There were also a lot of healing potions in his bag courtesy of Sun God twins, Cage and Cotton.

Rasheel had put some of the pillows and blankets from his collection in it, while Mila and Dodori had put in everything that was needed to farm.

Bud had sent many bottles of best alcohols for him. Whales, Toonka, Queen Litana, Fredo and basically everyone had sent him something.

'Oh! And Crown Prince put a few golden plaques there too!'

He didn't know what exactly Alberu was thinking about when he put golden plaques inside his bag, but he decided to make sure to use them all when he went back to Roan kingdom.

'Hmph!'

Cale barely stopped shivering when he remembered what he saw in the bag next.

'Lemonade gramps made a lot of lemonade and lemon tea for you! He also put some poisons in the bag for your self defense!'

His viscous butler had put ten years' worth of lemonade and lemon tea in his spatial bag. Cale didn't even want to think about where and how the heck did that vicious assassin even found that much lemon.

There were even some lemon candy and lemon flavored cookies in it, as if he had too much lemon and didn't want to waste them, so he just made all sort of things from lemon and sent them to him.

And it wasn't like he could refuse any of them and not eat them.

Cale tried to calm his mind by thinking about the main reason he remembered this all.

Courtesy of dragons, they had a lot of magical devices. There were many that were designed for defense, too.

Cale and Raon had put a handful of those devices around their home. That was why, right now, their home was the safest place on Earth.

Cale was still thinking about his viscous butler when the dokkaebi tried to flew to his side.

Yes, he tried.

"Ah... They died too easily..."

He flinched after hearing Raon's regretful voice and gave up on going near the red haired human immediately.

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' says you did great!]

[5,000 coins has been sponsored.]

[Many constellations are stunned.]

[Many constellations could not believe their eyes.]

[Some constellations are trying to confirm which main scenario this is.]

[2,000 coins have been sponsored.]

Raon looked at the humans who were scattered throughout the park, trying to hide themselves. He then opened his mouth.

"My human asked me to cleaned the path to a subway station, so I did it. You all have to hurry."

He then ignored the people who were staring at him in awe and fear and floated to Cale.

"Human, I did as you said."

Cale patted his head and praised him.

"Good job, Raon."

Raon beamed at him.

"This much is nothing for the great and mighty me!"

"Yes, yes."

Everyone watching their interaction were dumbfounded. They just blankly watched as a kid casually massacre monsters and then another child praised him for this like it was totally normal and expected.

They gave up on thinking farther and decided to just completed the scenario instead. Some of them gave their thanks to Raon and Cale before leaving.

[Oh, um, aren't you going, too? There is only five minutes left...]

The dokkaebi, Haneul, asked them hesitantly.

Cale shook his head.

"No."

[But you will fail the scenario if you don't go.]

"I know."

Haneul started to feel annoyed at his nonchalance. He was starting to regret worrying about those weirdos.

[Huh. What are going to do then?]

Cale responded nonchalantly again.

"Why are you asking such an obvious question? I'm going to go sleep in my house."

Raon added cheerfully.

"That's right! Human needs to rest a lot!"

[What?]

Haneul was speechless.

'...What crazy nonsense is this??'

Who the hell would think of going back home to sleep when world had literally ended?

At that moment, the remaining time of scenario ended.

[You have failed to clear the scenario.]

[Paid settlement will begin.]

[100 coins have been reduced for the channel usage fee.]

Haneul started talking again.

[You failed.]

"So? Are you going to take coin from us?"

Haneul stared at Cale with wide eyes.

[How did you know?]

"It's obvious. Money can solve almost everything. So, how much?"

Cale asked while smiling brightly. Haneul felt iffy, but answered him nonetheless.

[4,000 coins for each of you.]

"Oh? Don't you think it's a bit too much? We..."

Cale couldn't complete his sentence.

[The constellation 'Eternal Rest' Has sponsored you 40,000 coins.]

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' has sponsored you 40,000 coins.]

[The constellation 'Sun that burns the darkness' has sponsored you 10,000 coins.]

[The constellation 'Strongest Shelter in War' has sponsored you 10,000 coins.]

[The constellation 'Secretive Plotter' has sponsored you 4,000 coins.]

Cale blankly stared at the notifications for a few seconds before putting his gentle, fake smile on.

"Oh my, I am honoured dear constellations. You are the brightest constellations in the uni–"

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' says enough! Just go rest already.]

'Oh, so it was hyung-nim who sent me money.'

Cale continued to smile.

"Yes, your high–"

[The constellation 'Castle of Light' says call him hyung.]

"Yes, Hyung-nim."

Haneul was completely dumbfounded, so much so that he couldn't react when he received the coins from Cale. He was still in daze when Raon activated a teleportation magic circle.

He only came back to himself after the four of them disappeared from the amusement park.

[...Crazy.]

It was totally crazy.

•••

"You. How the hell are you alive?"

The man asked as he stared straight at the person he had grabbed by the neck and was dangling in the air.

When he didn't hear an answer, he opened his mouth again and asked another question.

"Name."

"What?"

"What is your name?"

The dangling man answered him.

"Kim Dokja."

"A strange name."

"I’ve heard that a lot."

The man felt annoyed at Kim Dokja's unnecessary answer and punched him in stomach.

"…Ugh."

Kim Dokja winced in pain and the man started to talk again.

"You have a solid body. Have you already mastered the use of coins?"

"It is the same with you…"

Bam. The man hit Kim Dokja's stomach again. He barely managed to swallow back a groan.

"Stop the unnecessary answer. Only answer what I ask from now on. Understood?"

Kim Dokja didn’t answer. He had thought he will meet this guy sooner or later and such a situation will come up, but this was the worst situation he desperately wished to never happen.

He knew this man extremely well. This man was Yoo Jonghyuk, the protagonist of the novel Kim Dokja has been reading for thirteen years.

He was also a regressor, and currently at his 3rd round. After going through regression three times, his personality had worn out.

"Your answer?"

"...I will."

"Use honorifics."

"What if I don’t want to?"

This time, Kim Dokja raised both hands to block the fist. The pain felt horrible but the shock was dissipated. Yoo Jonghyuk’s eyes widened like he was a bit surprised.

[The character ‘Yoo Jonghyuk’ is on guard against you.]

Kim Dokja heard the notification and was annoyed. He didn't like this situation at all.

'I'd rather deal with that guy, Cale Henituse, than this paranoid bastard of a protagonist.'

He didn't know just how much he will regret this passing thought of his in the future.

Chapter Text

A meteor shower was pouring down in the starry sky. It was a sight that anyone would admire, but not Yoo Jonghyuk.

「 It is starting. 」

The meteor shower was the precursor to the third main scenario starting. Now Seoul would be destroyed one by one according to the scenario.

Yoo Jonghyuk looked up at the sky before bowing his head and looking at the Han River.

The landscape around Dongho Bridge was quite desolate since the large group of ichthyosaurs had recently moved downstream.

「 It was too much. 」

It had already been three days since Kim Dokja entered Han River. It might've been too much to demand that he catch the ichthyosaur at the first level.

「Indeed, it would be hard for me to catch an ichthyosaur in three days. 」

But it would be impossible to take him if he couldn't do this much. If he couldn't even do this much, it would only hinder Yoo Jonghyuk.

「 A prophet isn’t a big deal. 」

Yoo Jonghyuk closed his eyes with disappointment. He would go on his own again. Without any companions.

It wasn't a big deal. He had been alone all this time.

「 This time I will definitely change it. 」

Yoo Jonghyuk turned around.

But maybe he had turned away too soon.

•••

"Wait...!"

[W-What?]

Kim Dokja blinked several times but could only see a grey-white ceiling. He was still inside the ichthyosaur. He turned his head and saw the surprised dokkaebi, Bihyung.

"...I had a dream."

[Ohu, are you trying to raise curiosity? It isn't bad?]

He didn't mean to do such a thing but he didn't mind the misunderstanding.

'That damn protagonist is hunting me even in my dreams.'

He was quite annoyed. He was annoyed that that bastard had given up accepting him as a companion even in his dream.

"...He shouldn't be harder to convince than Cale Henituse, right?"

Cale Henituse.

He was a very mysterious side character in the novel, Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World.

'If there was a fourth way to survive in the novel, it would be Cale Henituse.'

He was the unofficial fourth way to survive in apocalypse. He was the best strategist in the whole novel no matter in which round he was, and survived in each and every round.

'He is also described as very handsome and at the same time very beautiful.'

It was mentioned in multiple occasions that he has a ethereal appearance that can rival the protagonist.

He was a total oddball who would do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, and would always disappear at some point. The time of his disappearance would vary from as early as tenth scenario or as late as forty fifth, but he would always disappear before forty sixth scenario.

'He is a very indifferent, but at the same time very affectionate person.'

He was also a person who put great importance on his 'companion' and would do literally everything for them, no matter what.

But his criteria for a companion was well over the moon. Even Yoo Jonghyuk was not able to become his companion in any of rounds.

'He would only accept Yoo Jonghyuk as an ally and always draw a line between himself and others.'

Actually, the relationship between Cale Henituse and Yoo Jonghyuk was quite unique.

They had a very complicated relationship with eachother throughout the novel. They could become allies or enemies depending on their first meeting or the way Cale Henituse decided to act.

'Even Anna Croft couldn't predict his future.'

He was quite an unpredictable character, but there was something that never changed in any of rounds.

No matter where and how they met, it will end always the same way. Cale Henituse, with a red book in his hand and his normally reddish brown eyes glowing red  while red leaves surrounding him, would stare weirdly at Yoo Jonghyuk for a few seconds before declaring he would help him once unconditionally.

Even when they happen to be enemies, he would spare Yoo Jonghyuk once and say that he has to keep his promise.

He also almost never killed Yoo Jonghyuk even when Yoo Jonghyuk tried to kill him. Not that he couldn't, he just would say he thinks killing Yoo Jonghyuk is too bothersome and would just let him be. He actually only killed Yoo Jonghyuk only once.

'He really is weird.'

Cale Henituse was a character that didn't appeared in Korea for the first few scenarios. Considering his appearance and name alone, it was actually surprising that he suddenly popped up in Korea.

Everyone in the novel and even the reader, Kim Dokja, had thought he was a foreigner and was somehow thrown to Korea because of a scenario. The fact that he said he was in England during the starts of apocalypse only made that assumption more solid.

'I was shocked when I found out he was in Korea during the first scenario.'

He was incredibly reliable as an ally and extremely disastrous as an enemy.

That was why, at some point, Yoo Jonghyuk deemed him an enemy that needs to be eliminated. So he decided to get rid of Cale Henituse at early scenarios. It was then that he found out Cale Henituse originally lived in Korea.

Yoo Jonghyuk decided to kill him immediately after start of apocalypse and before he could go to England.

'But no matter how many times he tried, he couldn't do it.'

He couldn't even scratch him. It wasn't because of Cale Henituse himself, too. In fact Cale Henituse didn't fight in the whole novel even once. 

'Sage's eyes never worked on him, too.'

Sage's eyes always got blocked and nobody truly know what attributes or skills Cale Henituse had. Even Kim Dokja, who had read Way of Survival till the end, didn't know anything about his powers other than him having a somewhat good memory and being a strategist.

'Yoo Jonghyuk just never could get past Cale Henituse's companion.'

It was just that his companion was too strong from the very beginning. It was to the point that even constellations and dokkaebies thought it was absurd.

And that wasn't all, too. There were some constellations who would always follow Cale Henituse and help him while giving him tons of money as if nothing. They would even some times ask him if he needs more money.

'Specially his sponsor, Eternal Rest, and the other weird one, Castle of Light.'

kim Dokja didn't know the identity of those constellations, but knew that they were extremely strong and rich. They were also very overprotective of their incarnations.

Eternal Rest was a simp for Cale Henituse and would always call him 'my child', never even minding how much he was getting cursed at by Cale Henituse.

Castle of Light was a total weirdo with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Thought, no matter which personally, it would just simp over him and give him coins.

'At some point I wondered if they would give Cale Henituse money just because he was breathing.'

Kim Dokja didn't know, but it actually was the case.

[A few constellations want you to move to a new place quickly.]

Kim Dokja had used 500 coins to buy Ellain Forest's Vital Force to help him sleep because he thought it was too dangerous to move while exhausted. 

The Ellain Forest's Vital Force quickly recovered fatigue and wounds in exchange for two hours of sleep. In other words, it was an expensive item.

"...I really want to go out."

He talked to himself while stretching his body. The dream he just had was still clear. Maybe it wasn't a dream.

'Anyway, as much as I want to meet Cale Henituse, it is impossible for the time being. He would have gone to England right now. I bet Yoo Jonghyuk would want to meet him, too.'

The Cale Henituse in the second round had low-key warned Yoo Jonghyuk to only trust himself before disappearing. Yoo Jonghyuk only understood its true meaning after getting betrayed by Anna Croft, but it was too late.

'Even thought he is extremely hard to understand and convenient to become an ally, he likes making deals.'

Cale Henituse liked making deals –that were mostly to his advantage– very much.

'And I know what he wants the most. I just need to meet him somehow.'

Kim Dokja only needed to wait for Cale Henituse to come back to Korea.

Kwajijijik!

He heard the sound of an electric current scattering and Bihyung disappeared without a word. Maybe he went to do his job.

Kim Dokja sighed with relief.

The stream contract with the dokkaebi. It was a gamble that Kim Dokja never would've attempted if he hadn't known about Bihyung from Ways of Survival. But surprisingly, he did it calmly. He had never succeeded in any contracts in 'real life'.

[The exclusive skill, 'Fourth Wall' is in use.]

'...This is real.'

He inserted strength to his right hand holding the thorn. He really thought this world was reality.

[A few constellations want you to act.]

Well, there was no time to worry about it. He swung the thorn as hard as he could at the stomach wall that lost its elasticity. At the same time, there was the sound of something collapsed and water pouring out. He plunged into Han River.

"Puah!"

Fortunately, he didn’t see any other ichthyosaurs. Small seawater species approached with curiosity but no hostility was felt. Not all creatures would attack humans.

Dongho Bridge was over there.

Kim Dokja used a piece of the ichthyosaur corpse as a floatation device and made his way towards dry land.

His skin was cold from the cold water but he couldn’t worry about it. After 30 minutes of swimming, his hand reached land.

[A few constellations are nervous looking at you.]

Normally, danger would immediately come after this message popped up.

[The constellation 'Abyssal Black Flame Dragon' is making an insidious smile.]

It was a pity for the constellations but something bad wouldn't happen to Kim Dokja. It was because he already knew the dangers.

[You have entered the region of the second main scenario.]

[The land in the scenario area is deeply polluted.]

[Be careful about your breathing and move underground as quickly as possible.]

The message said this but in fact, he shouldn't be on the ground from the moment this scenario started.

Why? He looked at his skin.

[You have been exposed to poisonous fog.]

The skin touched by the violet fog turned black.

Kyahh!

Once he followed the source of the fog with his eyes, he saw a monster making terrible cries.

It was a massive monster over 30 metres big. This fog was the fart of the grade 7 monster, 'great poisonous rhinoceros'. The rhino snorted and confronted a monster in the fog, which seemed to be an insect king species based on the shadow.

Kuaaaah…

The struggle in this new world wasn’t just for humans. The monsters were also fighting for their homes.

Kim Dokja moved while holding his breath as much as possible.

They were grade 7 monsters like the ichthyosaur but he couldn’t do anything about them right now. In the first place, he could kill the sea commander because he was prepared.

[You have used the Ellain Monkey's Lungs.]

The monkey's lungs was an item he bought in advance that could be used as a substitute for an air purifier for 20 minutes.

[A few constellations admire your readiness!]

The aboveground station, Oksu Station had already bee destroyed. The nearest underground station from here was 'Gumho Station'. He thought Maybe the others had moved there.

Kim Dokja moved quickly while avoiding the small species that were eating the corpses. He only had 20 minutes, so he needed to move as quickly as possible while securing supplies.

The first thing he needed was clothes. His outerwear was melted by the ichthyosaur's fluids so it was necessary. Of course, there were many of them all around but… he felt uncomfortable.

Then again, he didn't have another choice.

•••

'It hurts.'

Cale felt like his internal organs were on fire.

A hand gently caressed his hair.

"How are you today?"

Cale ignored him. He didn't want to waste his remaining energy on some bastard.

"Hmm... You're ignoring me again. What to do?"

Another hand pressed on his stomach, precisely on the stitches from his earlier surgery.

"Ugh!"

Cale couldn't hold back his groan.

"–ake up!"

"Beautiful."

The man, Davis, said as he continued to caresse his hair.

"You are much more beautiful when you're in pain."

'Fucking psycho...!'

Cale could feel his hospital gown getting wet with his blood. His injury was opened again.

"Red really suits you."

Cale didn't want to listen to this psycho anymore. He just wanted to faint.

"Human! Auntie said lunch is ready, wake up!"

Cale opened his eyes. He cautiously observed his surroundings and relaxed when he saw Raon.

'...It was only a dream.'

It wasn't anything new, he was already used to it. Its frequency had decreased too. He just needed to ignore it.

Cale stared at Raon, who must has been trying to wake him up for a while now. He didn't seem like he noticed anything about him having a nightmare.

'That's good. I don't want to make him worry over nothing again.'

Cale didn't notice how Raon was observing him stealthy since earlier. How could he not be aware of his human's nightmares?

He would just feign ignorance to not make his human feel even worse and try to hide everything even more. He then would comfort his human slowly and make sure he is feeling better.

"Human, you're finally awake! Hurry up, lunch is going to get cold!"

It has already been a few days since apocalypse started. Cale and his group has been resting in home while ignoring the monsters that were hovering outside of the barrier surrounding their home.

"...Okay."

He finally got up. He couldn't help but grumble, thought. He didn't get to enjoy his sleep because of an annoying nightmare.

'Why the hell can't humans photosynthesis too?'

How convenient it would have been if he could just photosynthesis and didn't need to use extra energy to go to dinning room and eat. Not to mention the extra sleep he could get.

'Ah, how wonderful would it be if it was possible, just like in that game...'

He froze on his way to bathroom.

"Hmm?"

"What is it human? Are you okay?"

Cale didn't answer him, he was in shock because of what he thought.

'Wait. This... It seems possible?'

The whole world had turned to something like a game with a system, then...

'Won't there be something that could help me photosynthesis?'

"Human? Are you sick again? Didn't you say you were completely healed?"

"No, I'm fine."

He started to walk again, this time more energetically.

'I need to look into this. There is a chance that It's possible.'

For the first time, he thought this type of apocalypse may not be that bad.

He didn't notice the baby dragon who was looking at him with a dark face.

'Whenever human says he's fine, he's lying. Did his nightmares worsen? Is he in pain again?'

Raon felt angry again.

'It's all that motherfucking God of Death's fault. I have to kill him before he manges to mess with my human again!'

Raon firmed his resolve once again before going to inform Cheong Sun Young of Cale's awakening.

A few minutes later all of them were eating lunch together. Cale stealthy observed his assistant and caretaker. He was glad that they didn't seem to be too much effected by the sudden change of world.

He looked towards his assistant.

'Dang Chin Mae-ssi is a orphan and doesn't have a relative.'

Dang Chin Mae was in his thirties. Just like Kim Rok Soo in his thirties, he didn't have anyone, too.

He then looked towards Cheong Sun Young.

'...She won't look for her bastard of a husband, right?'

Cheong Sun Young was in her fifties. She was a single child and her parents had already passed away. She was married but didn't have a child. Her husband was a garbage that Cale wanted to smack the back of his head a few times, but couldn't do anything since his caretaker never mentioned it.

She also didn't have a great relationship with her other relatives or in-laws, so Cale decided to not look for her garbage of a husband unless she asks him to.

Cale cut Raon's steak for him and casually dropped a bomb.

"We'll be leaving for England."

Everyone stopped eating at stared at him.

"Why so suddenly, human?"

"That's right, Cale-nim. Didn't you say here is the safest place? Why do you want to go there suddenly?"

Cale cleaned Raon's face with his handkerchief and answered indifferently.

"Ahjussi, Didn't you say Dr. Cha went to England for a conference?"

"Ah."

Dr. Cha. Cale was referring to the doctor Choi Jung Soo had found for him that has been taking care of Cale all this time.

Dang Chin Mae gasped in realization. He was feeling moved that Cale was showing his care for them a little more openly now.

He came back to himself after hearing Cheong Sun Young's confused voice.

"Hmm? Chin Mae-ssi, didn't you tell me that he came back because of a patient a few days ago?"

"Huh?"

Cale turned his head and stared at him.

"Ah! I was going to tell you about this while taking you back home from amusement park, but it just slipped my mind."

Dang Chin Mae smiled ad continued.

"Dr. Cha Tae Hyun arrived to Korea when you were in amusement park. He called me to say he will be coming to check on you in a few days..."

Dang Chin Mae trailed his words. Raon turned to Cale and shouted out worriedly.

"We need to find Doctor gramps, human!"

Cale nodded at him. He could have looked for him earlier had he known he was in Korea, even if he was in pain until yesterday.

They needed to look for him immediately.

'The scenario wanted to send all of people inside of subway stations, then he may be in a subway near his home.'

He needed to check the subway stations around Cha Tae Hyun's house.

'I should start from the nearest one.'

And he nearest subway station to Cha Tae Hyun's house...

'It's Chungmuro station.'

"Auntie, Ahjussi. Please pack everything you need. We will be leaving for Chungmuro as soon as you are ready."

Both of them nodded. Cale cleaned Raon's mouth with his handkerchief again.

After eating their lunch, Cale went back to his room. He wanted to sleep but suddenly remembered his thoughts from before. He also remembered that he still hadn't checked his attributes window.

'Should I check it now?'

He had pushed checking it until now because he had a ominous feeling about it. Cale sighed and finally activated it.

<Attributes window>

Name: Cale Henituse

Age: 18 years

Constellation support: Eternal Rest

Personal Attribute(s): The one who sealed a God (Myth), Transmigrator (Myth), Reincarnator (Myth), Dimensional saviour (Hero), Loved by the Gods (Hero), Loved by Nature (Legend), Friend of Dragons (Legend), Saint of Death (Rare), Master Strategist (Rare)

Exclusive Skills: [Glib Tongue Lv.10], [Scam Lv.10], [Indestructible Shield Lv.max], [Vitality of Heart Lv.max], [Sound of the Wind Lv.max], [Dominating Aura Lv.max], [Fire of Destruction Lv.max], [Giant Cobblestone Lv.max], [Sky Eating Water Lv.max], [Blood Drenched Rock Lv.max], [Annual Rings of Life Lv.max], [Record Lv.???], [Instant Lv.???], [Embrace Lv.???],...

Stigma: [Vow of Death Lv.1], [Divine healing Lv.1], [Curse of Death Lv.1]

Overall Stats: [Stamina Lv.6], [Strength Lv.4], [Agility Lv.6], [Magic Power Lv.100]

"What in the fucking hell...!"

Cale rubbed his eyes. He couldn't believe the bullshit he was seeing.

He stared at the window again.

'It's fucking same...!'

The window hadn't changed at all. His eyes shook violently.

"Human? What's wrong?"

Raon who just entered the room saw his utterly frightened human.