Chapter 84
Chapter 84
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 84
Chapter Title: Family Reunion
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Mapo, three days after the Black Gate closed.
Go Yohan.
“…….”
For the first time in ages, he had put real thought into his outfit.
It wasn’t just because he usually didn’t care about his appearance.
It was also because he couldn’t properly use equipment items, so he’d always stuck to comfortable clothes that let him jump into battle at any moment.
“…Captain.”
Yun Seung-ah’s face flushed red.
“My eye for fashion was spot on.”
Greed smiled in satisfaction.
And then…
“Wooow!”
Enbi let out a frivolous squeal.
Even though Go Yohan had put effort into his look, it wasn’t a suit or anything flashy.
Just a crisp shirt and slacks.
It resembled that old Monami look that had been trendy once, but it worked because the one wearing it was Go Yohan.
“You should dress like that more often.”
Lee Jaekyung chuckled as he said it.
“The car’s ready.”
“I’ll be off.”
Go Yohan nodded and stepped out of the church.
Yun Seung-ah followed as if to see him off.
“You’re going to get even busier now.”
“Of course.”
They exchanged brief words on the way to the prepared vehicle.
“I wonder if I’m putting too much pressure on you.”
“Don’t say that, Captain. Just being of any help to you makes us all happy.”
“It makes me feel sorry too.”
At Go Yohan’s words, Yun Seung-ah stopped.
“…Please don’t say things like that.”
Go Yohan stopped as well and looked at her.
“Things like that only hurt us more.”
“…….”
“She’s right.”
The apostles from inside the church came out one by one, looking at Go Yohan.
“We’re not suffering, Captain.”
Enbi said.
The reason Go Yohan had kept divinity at arm’s length was mostly out of consideration—he didn’t want divinity to get tangled up with demons and the like.
He didn’t want them to face the same finger-pointing he did.
But part of it was…
“There are these noonas here, and my little sis too.”
A sense of guilt toward the apostles.
A forced fate, lives little more than weapons created to fight demons.
Go Yohan wasn’t free from that responsibility, so perhaps he’d wished to end up alone like the apostles.
“If Jaekyung hyung is Mom and the Captain’s Dad…”
Thwack!
Greed punched Enbi on the head.
“I agree the Captain’s like Dad, but Jaekyung hyung as Mom? No way.”
“Ow! I’ll seriously kill you!”
And then.
“We’re family too.”
Yun Seung-ah said.
“A family you brought together. So you don’t need to feel sorry anymore.”
As if it were that easy.
“Yeah.”
But sensing the words might drag on, Go Yohan just nodded and got into the car.
“Make sure everything’s prepared.”
“Take care.”
“Come back safe, Captain.”
“Have a safe trip.”
The vehicle started moving amid their farewells.
It had only been three days, but so much had changed already.
And that change was, without a doubt, just the beginning.
“Then, off to your place.”
“Please.”
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The Sacred Mansion bustled for the first time in ages.
Lately, it had been practically empty.
The bloodline that could call themselves its owners were all holed up in the guild or thrown into raid schedules, so it was only natural.
Really.
“Ma’am, what can I help with?”
Life was finally stirring again.
“Then, could you help with the chicken?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
Clean the mansion spotless, prepare the food.
The main dishes were mostly handled by the lady of the house, Shin Sookyung, so the staff’s jobs amounted to recleaning cleaned areas and ensuring not a speck of dust remained.
“Thank you, as always.”
“Oh, don’t mention it. You know everyone envies us?”
The staff replied to Shin Sookyung.
That was when.
“The car’s here!”
At the shout from one of the mansion’s guards.
“We’d better hurry.”
Shin Sookyung rolled up her sleeves and dove into cooking.
No way the regular staff could keep up with her when she was using player strength.
“Mom! I’ll go get him!”
Go Minji came into the kitchen and said to Shin Sookyung.
Then she rummaged through the fridge and grabbed something.
“Hey!”
Shin Sookyung yelled as if to stop her.
“No way! I’ve been waiting for this forever.”
Heh.
With a wicked grin, Go Minji vanished in an instant.
Go Minji arrived outside the mansion just like that.
“That jerk’s just gonna leap out anyway.”
She muttered in annoyance at the entering vehicle.
“…Miss, using mana outside gates is strictly forbidden for regular players…”
Yoo Moonsu, the mansion’s security chief who’d come with her, said cautiously.
“Is that jerk a regular player?”
“…….”
Yoo Moonsu couldn’t easily respond to Go Minji’s words.
She wasn’t wrong.
“The whole world calls him the archvillain, but he only follows the rules when it suits him.”
The Mapo Black Gate.
The overwhelming scene of Go Yohan and the masked figures that day had shocked the world.
But it also instilled fear in countless people.
The gate break, the massacre of beasts and demons.
Some cautiously posted their thoughts on social networks.
-Who’s… the real demon here?
An overwhelming power that hadn’t existed before.
And the scene of slaughtering the association chairman without a care for onlookers.
More villain than hero, they gossiped.
The association should restrain him again, the crisis is over so punish him, and so on.
“Fucking idiots.”
And then? And then what?
Who could even capture Go Yohan in the first place?
Regular folks might not get it, but the higher your status, the more you owned, the more you saw.
And the power Go Yohan revealed this time—some of it was truly overwhelming.
“…Miss.”
“Mister. Why keep calling me Miss? Sounds like I’m nobility or something.”
“…….”
“Just call me Minji.”
Go Minji strode forward after saying that.
Meanwhile.
Click.
The back door of the stopped car opened.
Whoosh!
It all happened in an instant.
Berserker, the world-renowned powerhouse Go Minji, exploded her mana without warmup, and it surged to her fingertips and toes in a blink.
She leaped out without hesitation.
“……?”
Go Yohan, stepping out from the back seat.
Swish.
Dodged with just a slight twist of his body.
Boom!
An explosion rang out.
The car door Go Yohan had been holding shattered like it burst, and with it.
Roll roll.
Go Minji tumbled like a ball.
And one more thing.
“…Aaaagh!”
Go Minji’s face was smeared with something white.
“Couldn’t you just let me hit you for once?!”
Screamed Go Minji, covered in tofu.
“…How do you get more childish with age, noona?”
Go Yohan’s dumbfounded voice made Go Minji snicker.
Heh.
Go Yohan too.
And by then, Shin Sookyung and Go Woojin had come out to the mansion’s entrance.
“Welcome home.”
“You’re here.”
Go Yohan walked toward them.
“I’m home.”
“Hey! Help me up!”
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Go Minji’s plan to smash tofu into Go Yohan’s face failed.
In that split second, Go Yohan twisted away, and Go Minji—who’d gone all out—lost balance, but as a top ranker, she tried to recover with mana.
“That jerk… did it on purpose.”
But Go Yohan’s foot, which had brushed her in that instant, ruined everything.
Swish.
Now freshly washed and wiping her face with a towel, Go Minji grumbled.
“You have no idea how much grief you’ve caused this noona—let me land one!”
“…….”
But Go Yohan couldn’t afford to care.
“What… is all this?”
“What else? Mom made it all herself since you were coming.”
The table overflowed with food.
He was surprised once by the quantity and variety.
But the real shock was something else.
Heh.
Go Minji’s triumphant smirk.
“Tofu.”
Tofu kimchi, tofu stew, grilled tofu.
That’d be one thing.
But why was there tofu salad as a side with the chicken?
“Our family’s first criminal’s come home, so Mom went all out.”
“Minji!”
Shin Sookyung scolded Go Minji.
“That’s how it’s done, apparently. So he won’t leave again.”
Shin Sookyung smiled as she said it.
“Of course, it’s got nothing to do with my son, but I got carried away anyway.”
“…….”
Even Go Woojin, who rarely showed emotion.
“…….”
And Go Jaehan, who’d arrived unnoticed and sat at the head.
“Ahem.”
Seemed equally flustered.
“You’ve… worked hard.”
Go Yohan, who’d been flustered, soon smiled too.
A feeling he’d thought he’d never feel again.
“…It’d be nice if Yunsu were here too.”
Shin Sookyung said in a slightly heavy voice.
Shinseong’s second son, Go Yunsu.
Before Go Yohan, he’d been Shinseong’s biggest problem child.
“Mom, anyone’d think he was dead.”
Go Minji pouted.
“It’s not like he can just come and go easily. He’s settled in, so don’t worry too much.”
Two years ago, Go Yunsu had left Korea too.
Unlike Go Minji who went to America, Go Yunsu was in England, another player powerhouse alongside the US.
“Hyung Yunsu’s doing fine.”
At Go Yohan’s sudden words.
“You’ve been in touch with Yunsu?”
“No, just hearing updates.”
Shin Sookyung brightened.
“He’s doing well.”
Given his special situation, they couldn’t help but worry about Go Yunsu.
Go Jaehan added a word, and Shin Sookyung nodded.
“…You’ve done well.”
It was sudden.
The voice of his father Go Jaehan, usually so terse and gruff.
“And.”
Even as the world feared Go Yohan and pointed fingers.
“I’m proud.”
Go Jaehan said that.
“Let’s eat.”
For the first time in ages, a meal with family.