I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul - Chapter 11

Episode 011

Before we could even ask, Seo Ji-han turned his back and left somewhere.

No one here dared to catch him.

It went away without any time to catch it, and it looked like it was too busy looking for something.

After he left, employee Seo Min-su opened his mouth with an excited face.

“This is my first time seeing it in person, but I can’t believe the rumors. “I thought you would just pretend not to notice.”

“But the face is real. Wow, you look like some kind of celebrity. “I felt it when I saw it on TV, but I heard that once you become an awakened person, you also become handsome?”

Assistant Manager Cheolsu Kim, what do you mean by that?

Is this my first time seeing this?

Have I become prettier?

I didn’t feel that way when I looked in the mirror in the morning.

What, am I the only one exempt from awakened benefits?

It’s sad that I only received one gathering skill, but I didn’t even get to modify my appearance?

While I was feeling aggrieved, our assistant manager Kim put together a tune.

“Iknow, right. He’s handsome and nicer than rumored. I didn’t think civilians like us would notice, but they even provided us with escape seats. “Conductor, that’s an escape seat, right?”

“Yes, it is a multi-person escape seat. Capacity…”

The conductor, who was fiddling with the escape seat and reading the inlaid letters, paused. When

she suddenly closed her mouth, everyone became anxious and started talking back.

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Why the capacity?”

“Is there a problem?”

The market manager who asked the question last seemed to be suffering.

He had lost a lot of blood and seemed to be in a daze.

Perhaps reading the earnestness on his face, the conductor answered stiffly.

“It’s an escape seat for five people.”

Ah.

Market Manager, Assistant Manager Kim Cheol-soo, Deputy Chief of Public Investigation, Assistant Manager Kim, and I. There

were a total of six people here.

Only then did I realize what they meant when they told us to take care of the rest.

It is an escape room for five people, so one of the six must remain here.

It is up to us to decide who will stay.

An uncomfortable silence fell.

Everyone came here because they wanted to live.

No one wanted to die.

Up until now, they had seen too many deaths and survived.

They did not want to die.

Getting eaten by the Chrysanthemums. I hated it.

“Give it to me.”

Assistant Manager Kim Cheol-soo stepped forward with a determined look on his face,

“What are you going to do?”

When the deputy manager was alert, he glanced at the market manager lying down with a pale face, and then walked towards him with a determined look on his face. “We ca

n’t take any more time. If this goes on any longer, this person will die. Then, naturally, there will be five of us. We are aiming for that. “If you’re not intentionally taking time, please give it to me right now.”

That was correct.

The market manager’s life was fading away by the minute.

Without him, we wouldn’t have been able to withstand the attack from the C-class Chungwang. I

had no intention of sacrificing my lifesaver.

The deputy manager looked at the dying face of the market manager for a moment. His face hardened as if he had made up his mind.

Then he activated the escape stone in his hand. A group of

intense lights burst out from the small stone and soon turned into a door of shimmering blue light.

It was an escape gate.

With that door in front of him. The conductor actually took a step back and said,

“Go. I’ll stay.”

“yes?”

Deputy Manager Kim Cheol-soo, who was very wary, probably thought that the deputy manager would activate the door and our team would go in first, made a dumbfounded noise.

Next, our Assistant Manager Kim jumped up.

“What are you talking about? “Conductor!”

“Let’s go. This isn’t a door that stays open all the time.”

Five minutes at most.

Maybe even shorter.

Assistant Manager Kim Cheol-soo stared at the deputy manager with an expression as if he couldn’t continue speaking, then bowed his head.

“I’m sorry.”

“There’s nothing to be sorry about.”

Since there was no time, the conversation ended there.

Assistant Manager Kim Cheol-soo and employee Seo Min-soo took the market manager and disappeared into the gate, leaving only me and Deputy Manager Kim.

“You two, go quickly.”

“But Deputy Director…”

Assistant Manager Kim cried and grabbed the Deputy Director.

But the Deputy Director was adamant.

“The door will be closed.”

As he said, the gate was shaking uneasily.

It seemed like it would close at any moment.

But when the assistant manager did not enter the gate and was just shedding tears, the conductor finally sighed and hugged the assistant manager.

“I heard it’s okay… “I’m really going now.”

The assistant manager said that this was his first company. He

often said in passing and during drinks that he would have quit the company if it weren’t for the manager.

I also agreed.

And I replied,

‘You too, assistant manager.’

‘yes?’

‘If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to go this long.’

Seeing the two people hugging each other brings back memories of the past.

A hand gently patting my shoulder when I came out of the bathroom crying due to the market manager’s verbal abuse.

Sweet drinks placed in front of

me. A team leader who made a mistake in giving work instructions and then blamed me for it, and memories of the past came to mind. A hand that gently patted my shoulder when I came out. A team leader who made a mistake in giving work instructions and blamed me for it, and covered me in detail. Deputy Manager who gave it

to me. Assistant Manager Kim who pushed away the team leader of Team 1 who was groping me at a dinner party asking if a fresh new member had arrived and dragged me out.

And they also tried to hide me in a gap in the wall when they were in a scary situation.

The gate that was shaking was no longer there. The light was slowly fading as if it was going to go out.

Yes, I decided.

I will do the right thing.

I gathered all the strength in my body and ran.

Then, I pushed the two people who were hugging and pushed them into the gate.

Sonmoa’s headbutt to the body is explosive. !

“Mr. Moa!”

The gate that swallowed the last two people with the death-like scream of the conductor closed.

All that was left was silence and me.

Finally, as a man alone, fear suddenly swept over me.

But I have no regrets.

It will work out somehow. Whatever happens

in the future, conductor. It’s obvious that it’s much better for me to stay here than to stay here alone. Because

I’m an awakened person.

Yes, I’m an awakened person.

Even if my combat power is at a civilian level, I’m better than a non-awakened person.

Put your hands together, you’re great. Put

your hands together, you’re brave.

Try your best to cheer yourself up. Even if you try to look, you can’t help but feel scared. Perhaps

because of your mood, you even felt like you could hear a strange cry from far away, like ‘Geu-uh-uh’. I can do it

.

It’s not scary. It’s really not scary.

It’s okay. It’s true.

It’s not scary. It’s not scary… ..

It was also scary.

Since I was left alone, it felt like a monster would come rushing in here at any moment.

It seemed like it would kick in through that hole where Seo Ji-han went out.

No, it won’t come.

Seo Ji-han went out that way. As I left,

I looked around the surrounding area. I must have killed all the monsters.

Look, it’s quiet.

It’s really quiet. I’m

more anxious because it’s quiet.

But if I just stay anxious, nothing will happen.

I’m not left alone without thinking. I made my own plan and stayed.

I’m alone now, but I’m in this dungeon. Inside is Seo Ji-han, who is ranked number 1.

Find him, ask him to kill a monster, then extract the magic stone using gathering skills, destroy the magic stone, and escape? Isn’t that a

neat plan?

It’s easy.

To do that, you first have to find Seo Ji-han.

Will he listen to my request?

Well, he didn’t seem like such a bad person. He even gave me an escape stone.

He won’t just say he doesn’t know me

. That’s not the real problem.

Would it be okay if I reveal my hidden skill in front of him?

Let me collect it to let him know that I’ve awakened. I guess I have no choice but to ask for it, so I’ll pass.

But it’s not good to have my hidden skills revealed.

No, it’s not very good.

I asked to be allowed to gather just once, so I let him do it,

and he pulls out a magic stone? Wow, I’m a bit lucky. There is no way it can be done.

You will definitely notice a causal relationship.

I suddenly got the creeps thinking I might get my nose pierced by the collection shuttle, but what can I do if I can’t think of a better plan?

And it’s number 1 in the rankings.

Wouldn’t there be any harm in getting to know each other?

If I go into the dungeon with him, there won’t be much danger, and when Seo Ji-han finishes hunting, I’ll just gather behind the scenes and give him a certain amount of items.

Hmm, I think it’s okay.

As I slurped down the kimchi soup from the jar, I left this deserted place.

Even if I were to go find him, I had no idea where to go, but fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to track him down.

Seo Ji-han left his traces everywhere.

The walls and floor of the road he passed were full of small holes reminiscent of perforated boards.

Just like it did when the C-class chungwangryu died. I felt like there was a hole in my body, and then it disappeared.

The chrysanthemum probably had already died the moment the hole was opened.

And the body disappeared after being picked up right away.

These are clearly traces of Seo Ji-han’s battle. If you follow this trail, you will find him.

There was silence everywhere as I walked along the holey floor and wall.

Now I couldn’t hear any screams or even Chungwangryu’s footsteps.

An empty dungeon where everyone who will die has died and everyone who has left has left.

In fact, I expected that along the way, I might be able to find one or two monster corpses that Seo Ji-han left behind without rooting.

However, no matter how meticulous the rooting was, nothing remained except traces of battle.

Since he was number 1 in the rankings, I thought he would have a lot of money and not be greedy for items, but he turns out to be surprisingly frugal.

By the way, I followed him shortly after he left and I wonder how far he had gone in that time.

No matter how much I walked, there was no sign of the battle ending.

I think I walked for almost an hour.

At first, I walked like a thief, with my eyes wide open, but as I couldn’t hear anything for a long time, my tension was greatly relieved.

Seojihan cleaned the monster surprisingly cleanly.

“oh.”

After walking for a while, I came across an unexpected object.