The Constellations Are My Disciples - Chapter 10
◈ Episode 010. Murderous Slayer (2)
Bah!
[Sleep!]
“Search!”
Bye!
[No story-!]
“Search!”
[Off!]
“Please search!”
Kim Joo-hyuk’s hands and feet move constantly, beating Barce’s entire body, and Barce fills this empty space with various screams.
How long has it been like that?
[Now that-]
Baaaaaak!
“Stop it! “You still need to be beaten more!”
Bye!
“This is the crime that destroyed my future!”
Wow!
“This is the crime of blowing half of my notes!”
[That’s not what I did! Gong!]
“Shut up!”
Sigh-!
“Just search, you bastard!”
Even though quite some time had passed since he started harassing Barce, Kim Joo-hyuk beat Barce without even a single break.
“Huh…”
[Off…]
Only when Kim Joo-hyuk realized that quite a bit of time had passed by his standards did he stop beating, look at Barce, who was lying in a mess, and ask.
“Then why are you here?”
Unlike before, Kim Joo-hyuk asked in a refreshing voice, as if his stress had been relieved.
[…Is he a psychopath?]
“Wrong.”
[Then isn’t it?]
“I’m not the psychopath, you’re the one creating the psychopath. OK?”
[…]
Barce looks at Kim Joo-hyuk with salty eyes. But Kim Joo-hyuk really thought that way.
No matter how shitty Kim Joo-hyuk’s personality was, he wasn’t the kind of person who would immediately throw a punch at someone face-to-face.
‘That bastard deserves to be beaten.’
How much damage did Kim Joo-hyuk suffer because of that bastard?
He built up status, money, and fame so that he could live a decent life right away, and as if that wasn’t enough, he also made five disciples who could take care of him smoothly until his old age.
Moreover, how much time did it take to make those five disciples?
To be honest, Kim Joo-hyuk was a bit rough, but thanks to him, his students were strong enough to at least not go around getting beaten up.
In short, Kim Joo-hyuk went all in for a happy retirement in his last life.
But what about this kid?
“Oh, thinking about it makes me angry again.”
Sigh!
[Gyeong!]
By killing Kim Joo-hyuk, they prevented him from enjoying everything he had created.
A retirement that has been prepared for decades!
Don’t let me enjoy it even once!
[Okay… how about we just stop now? If you attack me any more in this state, I too…]
“What about you too?”
Startle.
Even though he was clearly in an image world with no magic power, Barce quickly changed his words as he felt as if fraud was creeping up around his body.
[More than that, aren’t you curious about this place right now?]
“…This place?”
At Barce’s words, Kim Joo-hyuk was only then able to look around and notice something strange about the place.
“…What is here?”
What Kim Joo-hyuk saw was a gray space.
A space where there is really nothing and everything is gray.
[This is a world of images.]
“A world of images?”
[Yes, to be precise, it would be easier to understand to say that it is a space within a relic. I can’t guess how much information you got, but do you know about the holy relics?]
In response to Barce’s question, Kim Joo-hyuk recalled what he learned in the last class and nodded appropriately.
“So this is inside the relic?”
[That is correct. The image of me that you are seeing is only a body embodied in the world of images, and my body already disappeared 300 years ago.] “…Wait, so that
means you are in a holy relic?”
[Right?]
“So you’re saying you’re a constellation?”
Barce grinned and answered Kim Joo-hyuk’s question.
[That is correct. I became a constellation.]
“Look at your smile, you’re so unlucky.”
[….]
“What you looking at?”
[I have to say this, but you are hitting the candle.]
“I want to play something other than the candle. Can I do it now?”
Barce quickly looks away at those words and looks the other way.
Kim Joo-hyuk looked at Barce with a puzzled expression and spoke.
“Are you really Barce? “Why does it seem so different from 300 years ago?”
Kim Joo-hyuk recalled the image of Barce he last saw 300 years ago.
The image of Barce, who had such overwhelming power that he was called the King of Destruction, and who personally dragged the Tower of Destruction down to Earth and befriended him.
At least, as Kim Joo-hyuk remembers, Barce at that time was very serious and quiet, even if he wasn’t cheap.
[Well, if you ask which one is my real personality, this one is my real personality rather than that one.]
“Damn.”
[What are you talking about?]
Barche’s question.
However, Kim Joo-hyuk shook his head as if he was tired and then spoke.
“That’s okay. Now, please explain.”
[…What explanation are you talking about?]
“?”
[?]
Baaaaagh!
[Gyeong! Why on earth are you hitting me! It wouldn’t have mattered if it were 300 years ago, but now I have no strength, so getting hit is extremely painful!]
“If you stop acting so harshly and don’t say anything, I’ll hit you again.”
[I get it! I got it!]
Kim Joo-hyuk puts down his raised hand at Barce’s scream-like shout.
Barce, looking at him like that, sighed and spoke.
[I can’t even play pranks… I’m just asking this just in case, but what you want to know is about the notification window, right?]
“That’s right.”
[Then, can you tell me what is written on the notification window?]
In response to Barce’s question, Kim Joo-hyuk frowned as if it was strange, but opened his mouth.
“At the top, it said the sound of the Tower of Destruction reappearing, and then it just said to go to the Constellation Room and find the weapon and memories?”
[Are there any other sentences?]
“There are, but they are all painted in black squares so I can’t read them.”
Barce responded to Kim Joo-hyuk’s words by nodding his head and spoke after some time.
[First of all, I would like to talk about what I found out. Would you like to listen?]
“Didn’t you figure it out and do this without even thinking about it?”
Barce shook his head with an expression that asked Kim Joo-hyuk what he was talking about.
[Could I have done it? After I was killed by you, I have been living here without any power for 300 years.]
“…Then what?”
[So, I will tell you what I have figured out in my own way.]
Barce said that and looked at Kim Joo-hyuk.
Kim Joo-hyuk immediately looked at him with a strange expression and gestured with his chin.
The story started with him.
Kim Joo-hyuk listened to Barce’s story for a while, then nodded and summarized the content.
“So, to sum it up, after you were killed and destroyed by me, when you opened your eyes, you had turned into a constellation and were trapped in a holy relic, losing all your power?”
[That’s right.]
“So, while you were confused because you didn’t know what the hell was going on, a system window popped up for you too?”
[That’s right, in my case, a system window popped up asking me to contact you and retrieve my memories.]
“Nothing else pops up?”
[I’m sorry, but that’s the end. Contact the reincarnated ‘Kim Hyeon-oh’, at least in my system window. The only thing that came to mind was this.]
“So what you thought was that all of this was done by ‘him’ who made you the owner of the Tower of Destruction… What do you mean?”
[right. To be honest, it wasn’t until I met you that I remembered that there was someone who made me the owner of the Tower of Destruction.]
“Who is that person?”
[I don’t know, it’s really strange, but it’s blank, as if only that part of the memory has disappeared. All I know is that someone made me the owner of the tower.]
“…Then the person who made you the owner of the tower ultimately reincarnated me and imprisoned you here?”
[Well, at least that’s my guess. By the way, don’t you remember anything?]
“Me?”
[Yes, if I remember correctly, didn’t a system window pop up asking you to find the weapon and your memories?]
“But…”
Kim Joo-hyuk searched his mind carefully, but nothing in particular came to mind.
‘No, I don’t remember losing it in the first place…?’
Barce says that there are parts that are missing, as if the memories are cut off, but Kim Joo-hyuk did not have any such parts.
The same thing happened right away at the Tower of Destruction, and even when he thought back on his previous memories, not a single one was cut off.
Everything is just fine.
‘what?’
As Kim Joo-hyuk tilted his head as if it was strange, Barce shrugged his shoulders and spoke.
[Well, if no special memories come to mind, maybe the next time you will find them will be.]
“Next?”
[So, didn’t you say that what was floating in your status window were weapons and memories?]
“That’s right.”
[Then, since you found the weapon, won’t it be a memory to look for it next time?]
“Ah, so you’re saying this is where the weapon is?”
[That’s right.]
At Barce’s answer, Kim Joo-hyuk frowned for a moment as if it was strange, but then said with a puzzled expression as if he realized something.
“No way… the place you are in right now….”
[That belief is correct. I have become a constellation by using one of the weapons you used, the ‘Chongeom (忖劍)’, as a holy relic.] Ha
.
“That’s crazy.”
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“…I guess you didn’t do anything strange?”
“No.”
“…really?”
“No, I heard you could die from mental contamination if you go down to the second basement level in the first place?”
Outside the Constellation Room building.
Kim Yi-gun looked at Kim Joo-hyuk, who was standing looking at him, and nodded his head strangely.
‘It certainly doesn’t seem like I’ve been mentally contaminated…’
“Anyway, I’ll go then?”
“…i get it. “Go back.”
Thanks to Kim Joo-hyuk, who opened his mouth before Kim could ask, he answered by nodding without realizing it.
‘…What is this uneasy feeling?’
Kim tilted his head as he looked at Kim Joo-hyuk, who was leaving the building normally.
and. Kim Joo-hyuk was walking towards the dormitory while sorting out what happened in the Constellation’s room.
“Hey, you’re cumming.”
“…?”
I could see gangs of gangsters jumping out as if they had been waiting.
“We said we’d see each other often, right?”
A gang of thugs approaches with strangely twisted smiles, and Relic of the Sunrise family is smiling in the middle.
They formed a gang of eight people and walked up to Kim Joo-hyuk and stood in front of him with expressions of triumph, as if they had won.
“Nice to see you here?”
Kim Joo-hyuk glanced around at those words.
What you see is just a single line of unpaved roads.
Since the Valhalla site was large and the Constellation Room was located away from other buildings, the place where they were now was out of sight of the surrounding people.
“….”
Realizing that Kim Joo-hyuk looked around and noticed the situation, Relic showed a sadistic smile and opened his mouth –
Baaaaaa!
-I couldn’t.
As Reric flew away in an instant, the frozen gang looked at him with blank expressions, unable to figure out what had happened.
“Ah, this heavy and cool sensation. “It’s been 300 years.”
Kim Joo-hyuk.
“It was a car that I was tired of for a long time while holding back my anger.”
With a smile like the devil.
“Now it’s time to return to Kim Joo-hyuk, the hair-slayer!”
I took out my sword.