'Was it?'
[ He had to go to the capital. Then even more things will change.
Cale put a piece of paper on the desk as he looked toward Choi Han.
"There is a way for you to pay back for the meal, but I need to first determine whether you will be capable of doing it. In simple terms, this is an interview."
"Please go ahead."
Choi Han immediately agreed to Cale's talk of checking his qualifications. Cale started to ask.
"Do you know how to protect people?" ]
"I don't think I can." Choi Han* replied. Every person he tried to protect dies, he failed at protecting people from Harris Village to Plaza terror incident to where they are now. He had save people less than the people who died.
[ "... What do you mean?"
Choi Han flinched for the first time and asked after a moment. Cale's gaze started to turn sharp. He was looking at the piece of paper on the desk and not at Choi Han.
Although he had to quickly change the plan, it might bring him more gains than before. He could prevent Choi Han's party from getting the ancient powers while taking the ones that he needs for himself.
Those powers were useless to them anyways. ]
"That trash really to them all for himself."
"I am getting tired of them, when can they learn to shut up."
"Maybe when former Leader wakes up."
[ Cale kept his gaze on the paper as he continued to speak.
"Simple. Are you capable of protecting people instead of killing people?"
Silence filled the room. Choi Han did not have an answer. Cale removed his gaze from the paper and looked at the person sitting on the chair. Choi Han was sitting there with his head down, but eventually answered.
"I am not sure."
Tsk. Cale clicked his tongue. This was why it was dangerous to provoke Choi Han right now.
"But you can kill someone?"
The answer came easily this time.
"Absolutely."
"Then you should be able to protect people as well."
Choi Han's eyes shook for a moment.
"That is difficult."
"But difficult does not mean impossible."
There were not many things in the world you could avoid because it was difficult. The life that Cale had lived was like that. ]
"Well yes, we all lived a difficult life but we didn't mind it. We lost precious people" Kim Min Ah looked at her brother, " But we survived in the end."
"Don't lose hope you guys have time to get information and you are lucky that the person helping you is Cale Henituse."
< They are right you all got the chance to see this because of your Cales and Kim Rok Soos. >
[ That was why he was so happy to possess the body of a trash like Cale who could do whatever he wants. But, unfortunately, there was now a mountain he needed to first climb in order to have that damn peaceful future.
Cale was looking for someone to climb and flip that mountain for him. ]
"But Human flipped the mountain himself." Raon stated it, "He makes a small situation into a bigger problem."
Alberu puts his hands on his head, "Raon-nim is right, every time something happens it always leads to this headache dongsaeng of mine."
Soo Hyuk* asked Rok Soo*, "You won't be like him, right?"
"What are you saying, Lee Soo Hyuk-nim? I won't be like that troublesome person."
'That troublesome person is your counterpart.'
Soo Hyuk* and Jung Soo* glances at each other and shook their heads in defeat. They knew they get themselves into trouble with him and they wouldn't mind it.
[ Choi Han had a bitter smile on his face.
"I guess that's true."
"Yes, it is. Now the final interview question."
"Yes. Please ask."
Cale looked into Choi Han's firm gaze as he asked the last question.
"What is your name?"
"You don't know my name?"
'Of course, I do. You're the person who was going to beat me up.'
"I have heard from other people, but I want to hear it directly from you."
"Choi Han."
Choi Han reached his hand out.
"My name is Choi Han."
Cale shook Choi Han's hand.
"Great. I am Cale Henituse."
The short conversation called an interview quickly finished. Of course, it was a passing grade. ]
"That's sad, Uncle." Jung Soo* teases his uncles, "Just passing grades."
"I know I'm slow but not slow right?" Choi han asked Alberu, who ignored him. He then turns to Rosalyn for acceptance.
"You aren't." Rosalyn said. "You are bad at ____"
Alberu, Rosalyn and Lock laughed at the muted answer. "I can't believe that's a spoiler." Choi Han wanted to dig a hole and cover himself.
[ Cale pushed the paper on the desk toward Choi Han.
"The way you can pay me back is simple."
There were two names written on the paper. It also indicated where he would meet them.
"Go to the capital with these people."
These were the party members Choi Han would meet on his way to the capital. Beacrox and these two people would grow and get strong with Choi Han until volume 5.
Rosalyn and Lock. ]
"That's the reason why you talk to me."
"Yeah, I thought you knew Cale-nim."
"You wouldn't have been friends with me if young master Cale tells you to not talk to me?"
"Yes?" Choi Han answers politely, and doesn't know what to make Rosalyn mad at him. He wasn't close enough to make friends with other people during that time, he was still suspicious about everything. He learns to trust Cale because he help him.
"Honestly, same. Gosh, we too attached to him." Rosalyn can't believe her own words and she knows how much Cale means to them. If he says to them not to get close to someone, they will do it without questioning it.
[ One was the princess of a neighboring kingdom who was returning to her kingdom after surviving an assassination attempt, and the other was an injured kid. Of course, that kid was the heir to the Wolf King. It was possible for him to transform into a wolf.
Princess Rosalyn was strong and cold. She had the most explosiveness after Choi Han and used her strength logically.
She was not interested in taking control of the throne. Instead, her goal was to create the continent's greatest Magic Tower, and she would grow into a hero as she moved closer to her goal.
'The Archduke of the kingdom, who attempted the assassination on Rosalyn, will be tortured by Beacrox in the future.' ]
"That's what you guys did to him?" Rosalyn asked, her counterpart replied back, "Yeah, what did you guys do to him?"
"We ____________ " Rosalyn answered.
"What?" Rosalyn* would laughed hard if she knew what they did to the archduke.
< Spoilers >
[ Cale's heart started to shake as he recalled just how clear and descriptive that torture scene had been in the novel. His heart seemed to be shaking quite a bit these days.
"Rosalyn. Lock."
Cale nodded his head at Choi Han's voice.
"Yes. Those two people. I'm glad you know how to read."
Choi Han continued to stare at the two names. Cale's gaze fell on the name Lock.
Lock. This world had other races such as Elves, Dwarves, and Beast People. However, the most secretive of all races were the Beast People.
Beast People. This included beasts, birds, and even insects. Beast People were different from monsters because of the existence of a conscience. ]
"That novel has a lot of information on beast tribes. Its a guide book for him, isn't it?"
< You're right, it was written to be a guide book. >
"You're avoiding that most important question. Was it is written for him?" Cale* points at Cale on the bed.
< ... >
"What!" Rok Soo questioned. He did hear there a reason why Cale was sent to his place. Was there something else to it.
"Hahah, I already guessed why my counterpart was the one who had deal with the God of Death." Cale chuckled. "But who was a guidebook for that, I don't know of."
Cale's crew can't help thinking who was supposed to go to their world. No one can compare with what Cale can do. Choi Han already guessed. "You know, don't you instructor-nim?"
"I did guess, student-nim. But it's not definite answer."
"With the God of Death bastard, it's possible."
[ 'Lock has the purest blood of the wolf people.'
Lock had received the bloodline to dominate the wolves. The Beast People with the purest bloodline tend to look weak and average when they are in their animal form or their human form. However, once they enter their berserk state, they become more cruel and violent than anyone else. And Lock was the only survivor of the entire Blue Wolf tribe. ]
Lock, who knew about it after hearing another Lock said it, didn't mention it. His ten siblings pulled Lock* to a hug, they are calming him down. Rosalyn* and Choi Han* thank Lock* siblings to calm him down. Pendrick sat beside them, to soothe him down.
[ Cale took a map out of a drawer and opened it up on the desk.
"You will start the journey with me."
He then pointed to a location on the map.
"We will separate at this point. You just follow what I wrote on the paper."
Choi Han didn't ask any questions and just quietly listened. Cale watched Choi Han for a bit. There was a reason Choi Han had to go with him until that specific point.
'I need to avoid the crazy dragon.' ]
"What dragon?"
"Me?"
[ The beginning of 'The Birth of a Hero.' Like any other novel, new villains had to appear after Cale. However, those villains were not easy picking like Cale.
The next villain involved a Marquis who led one of the noble factions. Throughout the beginning of the novel, he gets in the way of the crown prince and Choi Han. He ends up being ruined around volume 2, but Choi Han runs into the Marquis for the first time on this trip to the capital.
That bastard raised the crazy dragon.'
It definitely was a crazy dragon.
It was still just a baby dragon. That black dragon was being tortured by the Marquis's future successor in secret. They were training it to obey the Marquis's commands. ]
Both Alberu can't believe this happened in his kingdom. Alberu can't believe that the sweet Raon was tortured, he was so well fed and happy, Cale took care him well.
"Who dares to do that to a dragon?" Dodori* glared at the nobles, his eyes slanted. The dragons* can't believe there were people who tried to tame a dragon.
[ 'They're crazy too. Dragons are the strongest beings in the world. How do they think they will be able to tame a dragon?'
It actually does make sense.
The Marquis managed to get his hands on a Dragon egg through the secret organization and chained it down with mana restricting chains as soon as it hatched. ]
Half-dragon blood who had his human body. "I'm sorry." Half-dragon blood muttered, Lord Sherrit replied back, "It wasn't your fault."
"Yeah, it wasn't your fault." Raon replied.
[ Cale could not fathom the extent of the strength of that secret organization.
But would dragons be called the strongest beings in the world for no reason?
This black dragon, that was less than 5 years old, was still a dragon. In the end, the dragon goes crazy and berserk.
It may be young, but in the novel, it exploded with enough mana to remove the mana restricting chains. Since its mana was restricted, the mana it exploded was actually its own life force. ]
"What?" Eruhaben is getting a bad feeling, Lord Sheritt mana was already floating around.
[ After living in a cave and being tortured every day without ever being able to see sunlight, the young dragon cuts into its own life force to find freedom.
After managing to escape, the dragon ends up losing its rationality and goes berserk.
The village that Choi Han is staying at the time almost ends up in danger because of the berserk dragon, and Choi Han ends up fighting against the black dragon.
[Choi Han gazed at the small dragon that was less than 1 meter long. It managed to blow up a mountain with that small body and put the villagers in significant danger. However, Choi Han could not easily attack this dragon.]
[The eyes of this dragon that had lost its rationality, were in pain and full of sorrow. However, the black dragon's mouth was smiling. Choi Han found that to be extremely sad.]
Choi Han ends up killing that black dragon and gifting it the freedom called death. ]
The air got so heavy, all three Lord Sheritt, Eruhaben and Choi Han almost dash towards Choi Han*. But the System restrained them from their position. Choi Han* moved away from his nephew, so he can receive whatever the others will throw at him.
"Let us hit him." Eruhaben tried to get away from restraints.
"I let you get a punch when you attack Cale-nim but you kill a child, a child that has not seen the outside world."
Choi Han* would accept all the beating they were going to throw at him. He killed a child. He knows the consequences and the pains of a parent. He is a murder.
"Goldie Gramps, Choi Han and mom, he did the right thing."
"Thats not freedom, my son."
"That's freedom for my other self, he would die either way. Choi Han* save the village from my counterpart berserk." Raon expained, "Unlike human who had the novel, Choi Han* didn't know about me inside the mountain."
Cale who woke up from the loud noises, "What's happening?" And look at the screen and the subtitles. "Oh."
Raon flied to Cale, who pat him, "I was explaining to them about that was only way of freedom for my other self."
Cale slowly explained it like he is talking to kids, "Choi han* didn't have the guidebook. Calm down. He didn't know anything about Raon torture."
"But Cale-nim," Cale cold blank stare at Choi han and Eruhaben. "Fine I will let this go, unlucky bastard."
"I'm not forgiving my own counterpart for this but I will let this go."
"Choi han*, sorry my anger got the best of me." Lord Sheritt explained.
"No, I was the one that killed your child in this world."
"Fate is quite cruel to you too, Choi Han*."
Cale dragged himself and Choi Han to sit beside Eruhaben with Raon, "Raon, did you greet yourself to everyone?"
"No." Cale urged him to greet them, and Raon took the chance to greet them, "I'm Raon Miru, a total of 7 years old. I am Human's greatest bodyguard because he is weak."
Cale patted Raon's head, "Yes, I am weak."
"He pacified them by seating beside them and asking Raon to greet them."
"That's so scary."
"Hero-nim kill a dragon."
"He killed dragon-nim."
"He is a bastard."
"One more word about that, I will end you myself."
"How are you gonna do that, you trash."
A blooming scent of death and fear enveloped the rooms, even the dragons were holding on to their seats. Those who had experienced this chuckled, one of the nobles asked them "Why are you guys chuckling?"
"Why not, we all had experience near death during the wars." Alberu answered them. "We survived the wars."
"Same here, we survived for the monsters in our world." Kim Min Ah replied, "Death hangs around us."
Nameless 2 (TBOAH) knew what would happen in their world, they had to placate the other world so that they could have their information. They survived a 20 year war that was compressed to a 2 years war.
"If you can't handle this, you can't defeat White Star." Cale warned them, Raon commented back, "Human, that's not the whole power." Cale chuckled, "Yes, this half of it. Any one wants another go but more than what I put."
No one answered. "Good."
"That was terrifying."
"Former Leader is scarier now."
"When was he not scary?"
"Facts."
[ Cale had to go to that village.
'Either Choi Han takes care of it or I prevent it from going crazy and find a way to release it.'
There was no other choice because it was on his way to the capital. He would need to take an extremely long detour to avoid that village, and that would require a long time and change the flow of the story. He would also be late in arriving at the capital if he took that detour.
'For being a crazy dragon, it's described as being a really cute dragon.' ]
"I am a cute dragon right?" Raon flies to Choi Han*.
"You are. Thank you for forgiving me." Choi Han* as he pats him. "That wasn't your fault."
The kittens moved away that Cale* and stayed with Raon was staying at Choi Han* lap. They place themselves at Jung Soo* and Hyung Soo* laps. Rok Soo* feeds them cookies.
[ The novel described it as a cute black dragon with short legs. It mentioned that it was even scarier that such a cute existence had gone crazy and caused chaos. Cale decided to stop thinking about the dragon for now, and instead gave Choi Han the rest of the order.
"Come to the capital with the owners of these two names. That is your way of paying me back."
Choi Han asked as question.
"...I just need to protect these two people?"
"If you want to."
These two people should be strong enough to not require Choi Han's protection. Especially princess Rosalyn, she wouldn't even budge an inch even if a truck load of Cales with the Indestructible Shield attacked her at the same time. ]
They all imagine multiple small Cales with their own shields. His thoughts are adorable.
"Pftttt, young master is so cute." Rosalyn laughed. Cale pouted.
[ "Do as you wish. However, you must definitely come to the capital. You must also meet me there without being injured. You can at least keep yourself safe, right?"
Cale and Choi Han should have no reason to meet again after that. Choi Han has another negative encounter with the secret organization after getting involved with Lock. Meeting with Lock should allow Choi Han to stop the danger in the capital like in the novel.
"Why are you not answering? Can you do it?"
Choi Han's gaze became a bit clearer.
"Yes. I can do it."
He seemed to be speaking in a more respectful tone than before, but Cale just let it be. He relaxed a bit after seeing Choi Han put the paper in his chest pocket.
'I should have been drinking as I did that.'
It was really tiring to talk to Choi Han with Cale' body.
"You can leave now."
Cale waved his hand at Choi Han. Choi Han started to walk toward the door after seeing Cale's gesture. Cale leaned his back on the chair and watched Choi Han reach for the door before starting to speak again.
"In addition, everything we discussed here is a secret. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that?"
Choi Han did not look back and answered as he opened the door.
"Of course."
Choi Han's voice seemed to indicate that he was smiling, but Cale did not care. Once he was alone,
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