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I Tamed the First Rank Chapter 46

Writer's picture: HoshiMiyaHoshiMiya

Updated: Jan 21

"Kiruk..! T-he King's son…! Wait, huk...'


"Shut up."


Hyeon Gyu-ha's chilling rebuke pierced the tense silence. The stranger's slurred words, twisted by his grotesque mouth, seemed to grate on Hyeon Gyu-ha's nerves.


"Judging by his appearance, he must be the first human, at least the first one to cross the boundary line."


The first human created by the creator god Doomnezeul and the evil god Nekuratul, creator god(창세신) rolled his five eyes as if he was glad to be recognized, and laughed.


"I told you to shut up."


Hyeon Gyu-ha took out his gun and fired. Bang. Bang. Bang. Red blood and flesh splattered. Even the echo of the gunshot was consumed by the darkness, and the creator god, who was hit by the bullets one after another, lifted his normal face.


“Urgh! I can't die under a human’s weapon…!”


“I know that. Even though it seems that way, having lived for a long time, you must be almost a demigod. But I'm not.”


A look of bewilderment filled his five eyes. The gun was now aimed at Hyeon Gyu-ha’s own head, not the creator god.


“It really annoys me. It’s enough that you manipulate other people’s lives, so why did you come out again? It’s annoying, bothersome, disgusting and tiring. I want to just let you all go and die. At least my mind will be at peace.”


"Kak! Don't die, King's son!"


"Is that all you want?"


His fingers pulled the trigger without hesitation. Taang!


A single ray of smoke scattered, and the creator god, who barely caught his hand and turned the gun to shoot himself, moved his blood-soaked mouth urgently.


"King! I've been waiting…! Kaugh! For the King's son to come!"


"I've collected half of the fragments in 20 years, so tell them to wait another 20 years."


"Lard might be destroyed before that. Kirr."


"It's not my fault."


"Kugh! This will help."


The creator god held out his hand. Hyeon Gyu-ha's eyes narrowed. It was a single eyeball the same color as his.


"Whose eyeball is it? It seems unlikely that my father would have plucked out his own healthy eyeball, so is it my aunt?"


Keeruk. It’s the dead king’s eyeball.”


“It’s my aunt’s eyeball.”


Hyeon Gyu-ha sneered and took the amber eyeball.


“I’ve never seen you properly when you were alive, but I keep greeting you with the pieces of my aunt's corpse.”


He crushed and burst the eyeball. The eyeball disappeared as if it was sucked into the pendant with a line of blood. The pendant, which had been emitting an amber glow, soon began to ripple with its original blood color. The blood color seemed to be darker than before, but it also seemed like it wasn't.


It doesn't matter. Hyeon Gyu-ha threw the pendant into the inventory without thinking.


“Is this the end of it?”


There was no need to hear the answer.


Even the third new Ursitoare had to endure damage to his existence in order to cross the boundary of the world and reach human perception. The creator god’s body, which had barely held on, was already collapsing.


The creator god had risked eternal extinction and crossed the boundary of the world for the sole purpose of fulfilling his role as the king’s messenger.


That extinction was also not under Hyeon Gyu-ha’s jurisdiction. He had a much more important matter.


“Do you know anything about my partner? I had no clue until now, but he suddenly appeared a while ago. What on earth is this?”


“The king, we’re… wait! Kyarr! The king’s son!”


The creator god said what he wanted to say until the end and disappeared. In the darkness that had returned, Hyeon Gyu-ha swept his hair back in irritation. The light-colored hair seemed to shine thinly in the darkness, then soon fell away.


I’m so confused. The king. The king’s son. The world that is going to perish. What is it all about? Why is Hyeon Gyu-ha involved?


【You have a difficult expression.】


As if she knew his feelings, the third Ursitoare softened her static, calm gaze.


【There’s no need to complicate things. Among the countless worlds, there is a world facing destruction, and there is a final king who supports that world, and that child is that king’s only child.】


“Why is Gyu-ha-ssi…?”


【This 'Iron Age' you live in is a world of only humans, independent, without gods or kings, so it may be difficult to understand.】


"There is no king in our country, but other countries still have constitutional monarchies..."


【It is not a king in the sense of a ruler of humans. It is difficult to express it clearly because there is no word that is commonly used in human language to describe it… Yes. Let's think of this world as a house. What is the most important thing in building and supporting a house?】


“Like the main beam or the cornerstone?”


【Yep. The one who has been given the rightful mandate by the gods to maintain and support the house called the world, that’s the type of ‘king’ I’m talking about. The ‘king’ is proof and grace that the gods like me look down on humans. When a natural disaster occurs in your world, didn’t the ruler of humans pray or ask the heavens?】


It was definitely like that in the past when human cognition had not yet reached the realm of science.


【That’s because even though the gods of your world have left, there are still memories of a ‘king’ who was given the rightful mandate by the gods at one time performing miracles that could control or predict natural disasters. For example, the story related to the Great Flood, which is a common memory among humans, would be an example.】


It was a story that seemed vague. It’s true that there are flood stories in Korea and all over the world…However, Hyeon Gyu-ha is the one who is such a being. It's even more confusing when you say son.


【Little baby.】


The third Ursitoare embraced In Yoo-shin with a deep and calm gaze like a waveless sea.


【I am the god who foresees fate. That child originally only had a destiny as a hunter, but 19 years ago, when your fate intertwined with his, a new path to the future opened up.】


Before he could even ask what it was, his consciousness became hazy. A whisper came from the other side of his consciousness that was fading away.


【This memory must be confusing to you now, so I will take it back. Instead, I will give you a small gift. Would you like to take it? And…】


A faint smile seemed to pass by.


【There is a lost, sleepy whale by your side. It won’t be of much help to keep it by your side, but please take care of it so that it can return home safely.】


“…Shin-ssi, Yoo-shin-ssi.”


The first thing he felt was a gentle hand sweeping his hair. Then a worried voice. When he opened his heavy eyelids, he saw gentle eyes there. Dark amber eyes that always followed me.


His throat suddenly became dry.


<He was like a foster father who raised Hyeon Gyu-ha like his own child. And 14 years ago, he died, due to Hyeon Gyu-ha.>


Gong Tae-seong's words rattled in his heart. But above all, the emotion that came to mind was.


"You're alive."


Hyeon Gyu-ha's lips turned up softly.


"I won't hide and die alone without telling you. More importantly, why were you sleeping here? Do you have some kind of sleepwalking disorder that I don't know about?"


Startled by those words, he looked around and saw that it wasn't the playground. It was even the road outside the center. In front of a car that had been cut in two after tripping on the border.


Frightened by the fact that he was lying alone on the road, In Yoo-shin quickly replied to Hyeon Gyu-ha.


"W-why am I here?!"


"I just asked you that."


"Uh, uh… So I remember going out to find Gyu-ha-ssi earlier, and, um, meeting a monster and breaking the essence of the poison I received from Team Leader Choi…"


"Ah, so that's why there was poison smoke here."


I could see the remains of the monster slowly disappearing. It seems that thanks to the poison smoke, I was able to avoid being attacked by the monster. I don't remember why I lost consciousness, though.


"I don't think Choi Jin-hyeok gave you any poison that would harm you."


“I wonder if I have an allergy to poison that I don’t know about?”


“If you have such an allergy, I should get some poison from Choi Jin-hyeok and use it to put my Master to sleep.”


In Yoo-shin, who was on high alert, quickly distanced himself from Hyeon Gyu-ha. Even so, he only managed to hold his jacket with three fingers instead of five.


“Wait a minute.”


Suddenly, Hyeon Gyu-ha ran his thumb across In Yoo-shin’s cheek. A drop of blood stained his fingertips.


“Oh, are you bleeding? I think you got a cut when you fell.”


“This kind of wound will get better with saliva.”


That’s right. It didn’t sting and it didn’t seem to bleed much, so In Yoo-shin just rubbed it with the back of his hand and tried to forget about it, but a heavy presence appeared on his face.


As he was having a vague thought that Hyeon Gyu-ha’s face was getting closer, he bent down deeply as if he was going to whisper something in his ear.


Suddenly…


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