The Shaman Wants Transcendence

3 – Death Is Not the End

Jinseong got dressed and headed to the restaurant.

As soon as he heard Seline’s message, he changed his clothes and moved, but it took quite a while before he reached the restaurant.

There were several reasons for this, but one was that the unnecessarily large mansion had to walk for a long time just to get to the restaurant. And another thing is that I had to stop in the middle to control my mind because the useless and expensive works of art that I saw in the middle of it were annoying.

The most important reason was that this rich piece of art reminded me of his days as a mercenary, especially after the outbreak of World War III.

The restaurant that took such a long time to arrive is truly spectacular.

On a long and large table reminiscent of a table of an aristocratic family in the old days of the Middle Ages, colorful and heavy dishes that would upset your stomach await you if you eat it in the morning. It was papered in a Western style, perhaps because of the importance of appearance, and the family members sitting at the table were eating it as if they were used to it.

‘It’s a spectacle.’

There is no such thing as a sleeper.

“You’re late.”

And the poorest of the poorest, the one who made the family scene such a mess, stared at him and opened his mouth. It was Lee Yang-hoon, the head of the Lee family where Jinseong stayed, and the chairman of Gwangyang Group.

“Yes.”

The question and answer ended with that.

Jin-seong went to the empty seat with a nonchalant face and sat down, and Yang-hoon Lee also started to eat what he ate without expressing anything different.

But after that, the door rattled and opened again, and the situation changed.

A woman came in who had the same face as Lee Se-rin, who was eating rice with her whole body exuding gloom, but on the contrary, insisting with her whole body, ‘This is what it is like to be lazy’.

“Why are you late?”

Yanghun Lee asked ferociously at the woman who came in late but had a confident attitude.

If I don’t like the answer, I’ll play a kyung right away.

Lee Yang-hoon stares at me while saying that with his eyes.

“Oh, it’s noisy. People can be late by accident, because they’re like kkondae.”

After saying that, she went and sat down next to Jinseong. And as soon as he sat down, he poked Jinseong’s side with his index finger and whispered.

“You’re a complete keut, aren’t you?”

Lee Yang-hoon’s face turned red at the sight, but he sighed deeply when he saw Jin-seong’s smiling face.

“Iarin. Come to the study after eating.”

“Yeah-yes-“

Lee Yang-hoon, who couldn’t bear to get angry in Jin-seong’s presence, chose to suppress his anger and then explode it. However, Iarin answered insincerely whether he said so or not and began to eat the food on the table.

Looking at it, Jinseong felt longing.

‘It’s been a while.’

The scenery of the time when I was protected in the mansion, which I hadn’t even thought about when I was crazy about witchcraft and money.

It was quite comfortable, and it was such a scenery that you would want to sit down as it is.

But that can’t be the case.

‘I made up my mind to dedicate my soul to witchcraft, so that decision must come true.’

Jinseong smiled and opened her mouth.

“I have come to an epiphany.”

Enlightenment?

The people at the table lifted their heads and looked at Jinseong at his sound.

Lee Yang-hoon’s wife, concubine, and daughters…

All eyes were focused on him.

A sudden realization without any context?

Of course, I can only be puzzled.

Jinseong opened his mouth while receiving their gaze.

“Enlightenment takes a long time, but it itself comes and goes in an instant. My realization came like that.”

“No, did you really go crazy after only digging into witchcraft…”

I heard a muttering next to me, but Jinseong continued talking without hesitation.

“All reason is in all things, and all things contain the answer to the world. Just like the rising tide, led by the moon, the realization that came to me came like that.”

Lee Yang-hoon opened his mouth as if he was dumbfounded.

“Yes, enlightenment. What kind of enlightenment?”

“It’s about a groundbreaking alternative to breakfast.”

“Alternative way?”

“That’s right. Breakfast is an act of preparing to greet the daily life after bondi in a thorough state. Then, if we simplify the process and meet the requirements, we will have extra time, so how can this not be a benefit?”

Everyone was silent at Jin-seong’s unnecessarily archaic and weighty voice, and Jin-seong’s twisted words that were difficult to understand at once.

“So what do you mean by putting it in a nutshell?”

“How about replacing my breakfast with nutritional supplements from now on?”

And when they realized the true meaning of Jinseong’s words, everyone had no choice but to laugh.

Needlessly serious, with the tone of a fortune teller looking at some great fortune, it was like a child’s complaint, ‘I don’t want to eat breakfast’, so I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

“I think I’ll make progress in magic now that I’ve come to realize this restless body, so I’m going to practice asceticism without any attachments to food or drink.”

“No, hu. Got it. I can’t help it with enlightenment…”

Yanghun Lee tried to say something, but gave up and let out a deep sigh.

“Yeah, I know… Since when?”

“Beginning is like a thunderbolt, and it is possible only when dark clouds are gathering.

“…Okay. You don’t have to eat breakfast from now on. I’ll have my person send you simple food and nutritional supplements.”

* * *

Jinseong had a very ambiguous position in this house.

His real name is Park Jin-seong.

He was a complete stranger, not a drop of blood mixed with the Lee family.

If so, were your parents close?

It wasn’t.

Park Jin-seong’s parents, now deceased and absent, had little to do with the Lee family. To be precise, the group to which Mr. Lee’s family belongs and the group to which Park Jin-seong’s parents belong had a relationship, but it is also difficult to see it as a favorable one… In other words, it was an almost adversarial relationship.

If so, whether the Lee family was the guardian of Park Jin-seong was ambiguous.

First of all, the legal guardian of Park Jin-seong is a distant relative of the Park family. He actually has only a nominal guardian, who may be alive or dead. However, in reality, the Lee family acts as guardians until the day Park Jin-seong becomes an adult.

If you’re a guardian, you’re a guardian; if not, you’re not. A really complicated relationship.Was

What’s more ambiguous is that the side that sponsors and supports usually becomes the A and the side that is sponsored becomes the B, but the Park Jin-seong and Lee families have a truly bizarre relationship where each other becomes the A and the other becomes the E.

‘The Lee family had to take care of me until I was an adult.’

It was a kind of unfair contract.

He can live with full support until his adult years, that is, one year from now.

What is paid in return?

Does not exist.

It was a perfectly unfair contract.

How can such a contract be established…

‘There’s a really long story.’

It’s not just a story, it’s a story that’s so absurd and absurd that it makes you burst into laughter several times.

“Accept coincidences as coincidences, and pay the price of your choices.”

But no matter how complicated it is, the causal effect is clear.

The starting point for the two groups to fight was the Lee family’s futility, and his parents died in the process. And the two organizations ordered the Lee family to support him as a sense of atonement.

However, the process is so coincidental that it feels like fate, and the death of his parents is not the fault of the Lee family, but his own business.

All of that may just be the future that will come naturally.

“ॐ-“

However, since they are twisted like this, of course, the relationship is bound to be ambiguous.

It’s because cause and effect are intertwined, but the people of the Lee family weren’t bad people.

In the case of Chairman Yang-Hoon Lee, it was because he had a strong spirit of being a prodigy, but at least he was a person who knew noblesse oblige. It’s because you know it clumsily, at least the thoughtfulness itself wasn’t bad.

If he had been born into a prestigious family and received a proper education, he would have become a respected and wealthy man.

Even Jin-seong, who has feelings close to hatred for the aristocrat, did not have bad feelings for Chairman Lee Yang-hoon, so at least it was clear that he was a good person.

Chairman Lee Yang-hoon’s wives and concubines were also not harsh. Judging from the fact that Se-Rin Lee and A-Rin Lee, who were born of a concubine, have lived their lives receiving plenty of love from their wives and two wives, their personalities were not bad. Of course, there were twists and turns, and there must have been many stories… At least the personalities of the two, as seen by Jin-seong, were good.

So does her daughter.

At first glance, Arin looks like a jerk, but she doesn’t bully others, and she has a flawless personality, except for the disadvantages of being a bit of a waste of money and a bit of vanity. She also said that in the case of her twin sister, Celine Lee, she was gloomy and had idiosyncratic hobbies, but she was not a bully either. Rather, she would suffer if she was harmed, but she would never bully others.

It is not easy to have only such people in a wealthy family.

Even in the place called her famous house, idiots would come out from time to time, and people who would throw away their lives or ruin the lives of others would almost always appear.

Yes, it was a very harmonious family, a good family.

To the point where it’s embarrassing to have Jinseong in it.

That’s why we couldn’t help but be more ambiguous to each other.

If their personalities were harsh, they would have been able to say that the death of Jin-seong’s parents was an accident, and if Jin-seong could hate them, at least it would have been an opportunity to end this ambiguous relationship.

As a result, Jin-seong had no choice but to leave this house as soon as he became an adult.

ThisEven when they became adults, they would have supported Jinseong, the ambiguous relationship would have continued, and later they would have become shackles to each other.

‘There was no problem with eating and living because there was a magic spell that I had learned.’

Since middle school, he has been constantly interested in and learned witchcraft, and by the time he becomes an adult, he has reached a level where he can earn a living, so he naturally chose the most lucrative job as a mercenary.

It was risky, but it was a job with many advantages.

Being able to roam the world, being able to meet many kinds of people, being able to come into contact with the unknown world of back alleys, being at high risk, but being able to make a lot of money, being able to die somewhere The fact that you can develop combat abilities that you wouldn’t expect, etc…

It was a very good job, except for the huge downside of being in danger of one’s life.

‘That dangerous downside also disappeared later.’

Mercenaries are dangerous because they have to do dangerous missions.

Commitment to conflict areas, assassination of key factors, security of key factors, search, destruction…

Even slaying wild beasts, hunting bounty, and caring for dangerous pets.

From one to ten, there was nothing that was not dangerous.

Can’t you choose something that isn’t dangerous?

Can’t choose

If it wasn’t dangerous, why would they use their own people and spend money to hire mercenaries?

So, being deployed means being on the front line, and being discarded was a daily routine. He didn’t openly kill them because he had a contract, but he didn’t even try to keep the mercenaries alive.

It was only natural that he was not his own person anyway, and that he was a stranger, and depending on the situation, the more the mercenary died, the lower the request fee he had to pay.

So, the place a mercenary goes is a dangerous place, and even if it is not dangerous, it becomes dangerous.

However…

‘The Third World War broke out.’

The whole world has turned into a dangerous place.

The African continent has become a den of madmen who remodel the human body, saying that they must return to the beginning, and Europe has become a battlefield where mad dictators fight with their armies. America has become a town where nuclear weapons and great sorcery come and go, and the fear of war has risen in Asia as well.

While the whole world was engulfed in the flames of war, lunatics who could generate military-level power by themselves emerged from all over the place and became a mess, using ABC weapons (Atomic, Biological, Chemical weapons) to fight them It has become.

‘But surprisingly, the world was working surprisingly well.’

It would not be enough to describe it as the situation five minutes before the apocalypse, but strangely, the world went well. Passenger ships and passenger planes exploded at any time of the day, but trade worked surprisingly well, and terrorism broke out in each country’s capital or important facilities every day, but people who had already accepted death as a daily life lived as usual. Lived

Even if a building exploded and hundreds of students died, schools continued to operate, and even if a provincial city exploded in a nuclear explosion, the entire country’s administration did not become paralyzed. Even if they fired missiles at each other and went wild, trade was carried out in secret, and a truce was reached even if it was an enemy country, and war was declared again even after a ceasefire.

I don’t know why the hell it went back, but somehow it went back with a creak.

Even if World War III broke out, the world did not perish.

If I had to forcibly guess the reason, there would have been the efforts of countless people who didn’t want to live in hell, the sense of crisis learned from history, and the efforts of one-man corps-level talents.

‘A hero, a hero. There is one in this house too.’

That buck

As Jinseong was lost in his thoughts, footsteps were heard outside the door.

‘Light, irregular footsteps. A woman of small stature. ‘

– Smart.

“Brother, do you have…?”

Lee Se-rin entered with a knock.

“Hey, that, nutritional supplements and food. It’s food…”

Lee Se-rin smiled awkwardly as she put the thing she had wrapped up and brought on the floor.

It was like seeing a frozen squirrel after witnessing something strange while running around with an acorn, which naturally made her desire for protection bloom, but instead of the desire for protection, Jin-seong came up with something else.

That was the image of Lee Se-rin from the future.

‘It looks harmless. It’s hard to believe that the old man who destroyed Kyoto alone.’

When Jin-seong was about six years into her mercenary life, a unified Korea and Japan entered an all-out war.

After amending the constitution to allow it to have an army, Japan chose the Republic of Korea as its first target to project its power.

There are only two countries that Japan can touch, China and Korea, but China was a dinosaur that was not easy to touch because it was armed with various magic and the latest science.

On the other hand, the Republic of Korea had strong witchcraft, but many witchcraft that were destroyed and plundered by Japan during the colonial period had not yet been able to recover the damage, and weapons were not developed properly because of the United States and China. Since there was no nucleus there, it was considered a worthy opponent.

Even the northern region, which was taken away by a puppet group in the past and barely regained, has become an uninhabitable land due to the depletion of intellectual power due to the puppet group’s excessive use of magic. There must have been a calculation that if you use the north, which has become Mujugongsan, you will be able to start with a good start in South Korea.

Not only that, but there were also pro-Japanese factions that had been planted since the colonial era, and there were memories of an easy merger in the past, so there would be no better opponent than South Korea in Japan.

Japan continued to cause friction by causing territorial disputes over Dokdo and Block 7, and started a war by bombarding Pohang with missiles and shelling with surprise attacks without a declaration of war.

The Republic of Korea responded quickly, but the industrial complex in Pohang was already destroyed, and difficulties blossomed from the start of the war. In addition, Japan infiltrated the north and landed a lot of special forces to commit terrorism, and spread throughout Korea to carry out guerrilla activities, continuing to cause chaos.

The enraged Korean side decides to inflict sabotage and terrorism on the Japanese mainland in the same way, and in that way, capable people with the power of a one-man corps are infiltrated.

A total of 4 talented people dispatched to Japan.

Among them, Se-Rin Lee was a competent person in charge of the Kyoto scorched-earth operation.

‘This squirrel-like child.’

Jinseong took her food from her with her thanks, then looked at the back of her head.

What enters his gaze is empty space. A hazy, distorted atmosphere seemed to fade, but nothing more was visible.

‘I must restore the state quickly.’