The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 298

Episode 298: Epicenter.

“I’m their son.”

“what…?”

A man named Yunseong.

Those eyes open wide.

“You… are the leader’s son?”

A man speaking in a strangely trembling voice.

Those words seemed to be mixed with subtle emotions that were difficult to explain.

“Do you know my parents!?”

“Oh, that’s it.”

There was no time to worry about that part.

One important thing.

This man responded to my parents’ names.

I said, unable to contain my excitement.

OK.

“Chief Seo… yes. “He’s the son of Chief Seo and Brother Seokjun… I think I heard something like that.”

A man who was muttering to himself in a daze.

Yunseong comes a moment later.

He asked with a bit of suspicion in his eyes.

“Where is your house?”

“Not long ago, I lived over there in Gwangmyeong.”

“…I heard that Captain Seo’s son is now a soldier. “He wasn’t particularly good at sports, but he was upset that he had to go to a front-line unit.”

Did your parents even talk about it?

I could feel Park Jung-gu, who was standing behind me, also looking at me with puzzled eyes.

“You are a soldier. However, he was a sergeant in his later years.”

“A late sergeant?”

“yes. “This happened to me while I was on vacation in my later years.”

“The day you went on vacation in your last year was the day of destruction?”

“You… you’re so unlucky.”

In that conversation between me and Yunseong.

I heard Jung-gu behind me mutter something as if he was dumbfounded.

In reality, there were only a few days left.

That didn’t matter.

“…I guess that’s right.”

After hearing my answer, Yunseong seemed to confirm that what I said was true.

I thought about it a little bit.

“Do you know your parents?…”

A moment later.

He nodded and said.

“Of course I know.”

“how…!”

“Those two people…”

Yunseong sighs.

“Because they were awakened people who were active in the central branch right here.”

* * *

Parents.

I heard you were active here at the central branch.

In those words.

I was astonished.

‘Your parents are alive?’

To be honest.

I was thinking that there was a high possibility that those two people had already passed away.

Because the number of people who survive in this world is much smaller in the first place.

It’s probably a natural thought.

When heading towards this central branch.

The reason I couldn’t even think about finding my family.

I think that if you expect too much, you may be disappointed.

It was also because I was consciously lowering my expectations.

however.

‘It was alive…!’

Those two survived that destruction.

This means that he was working as an awakened person.

Right here.

Here I stand!

“Where are they now?”

I couldn’t hide my excitement.

He grabbed Yunseong’s shoulder and asked him where his family was.

‘If only I were alive!’

It’s a tough world, though.

I am a person who has developed my own strength in Gangwon-do.

‘If you’re dead, there’s no hope, but if you’re alive.’

If I use all my abilities.

Even if something happens in Gangwon-do.

I was confident that I and my parents could somehow be saved.

Even if what we do here is wrong.

Even if they say they won’t be able to save the people of Gyeonggi-do.

As long as it’s just protecting my family.

As many times as you want…

“Those two people.”

“yes!”

“I have been active with the president of the association since its relatively early days.”

“…?”

however.

After hearing my question, Yunseong did not tell me the location of those two people.

Suddenly they started talking about something else.

“Your parents, Captain Seo and Brother Seokjun, were very capable people. “I have benefited from them several times.”

“…Why are you suddenly saying that?”

“Especially in the case of your mother, she was truly a womanizer. Even in an elite combat team, he was even in charge of the role of leader of 10 awakened people.”

It’s clear what he’s telling me.

It was a story about the family I was so curious about.

“So why are you saying that?”

but.

I never felt comfortable hearing that story.

‘To say something like this.’

What is he trying to say?

It was a little unexpected.

“Hey, Yunseong.”

It seems I wasn’t the only one who had expected that.

Park Joong-gu’s expression frowned.

“No way about that.”

“…Probably what Mr. Jung-gu expects is correct.”

When I said that I suffered an accident while on vacation in my later years.

Did Jung-gu say that I had no luck at all?

“You… did you say Shin Young-jun?”

“yes.”

The story about vacations in the later years was a lie.

I really have no choice but to agree with that statement.

“I’m really sorry, but I have to give you some bad news.”

okay.

Shit.

“Your parents were awakened people who were considered the elite of this central branch. And not long ago… the entire elite was deployed for some kind of operation.”

What is this guy’s life?

Really like a dog.

“Now including the president of the association who commanded the operation.”

Sometimes ominous predictions go wrong.

“Everyone has gone missing.”

Not even once.

* * *

“…Are you okay?”

“yes? Ah… yes.”

“You don’t look okay at all.”

After joining the central branch.

We were first guided to one of the buildings inside the wall.

For this central association.

Currently, most of the people are missing, so there are a lot of empty rooms.

“…what is it.”

Let me sit there blankly.

Park Joong-gu scratched his cheek and said.

“What I said on the way here. “It’s just something I said… so don’t worry too much about it.”

“….”

I wonder what he is talking about.

I found out right away.

-The golden time has already passed… I can’t believe it, but I guess I can say that the president of the association and that raiding party were virtually wiped out.

The golden time has passed.

Attack party… that is.

My parents too.

This means that there is a high probability that he is already dead.

“That’s just the way it is! In fact, many people think that he may still be alive. Actually, what do I know? I like fighting, but I don’t even know words like golden time or anything like that. “Isn’t that right?”

“…yes. Thank you.”

“Okay.”

Unfortunately.

That comfort didn’t help me much.

“I roughly understand what you’re feeling. “But I still have to eat, right?”

“….”

“The food here is pretty good, so people who come and go definitely go there at least once… damn it.”

Although it seemed like he was saying something.

It didn’t reach my ears properly.

“…The humans from the southern branch have not arrived yet, so it will be a while before the meeting begins.”

“Is that so.”

Jung-gu looked down at me as I answered soullessly.

He soon sighed and said.

“The southern branch is the farthest from here, and they weren’t always good at keeping their appointments. “I’ll have a day or two to spare.”

“yes.”

“I know it’s not something I can easily overcome because I’ve experienced it myself… but I hope you can calm down a bit in the meantime. “You know that this meeting is a very important meeting.”

“…yes.”

“…Whew! “I’m going.”

Jung-gu leaves the room.

After a while.

I raise my head in a daze.

I looked around the room I was assigned.

It was said that there were many empty rooms due to the disappearance of the association’s elites.

To put it another way.

This means that the rooms previously used by the elites of the old association have been given to those who are visiting now.

Among them, the place I was assigned to…

Was it because they were considerate in their own way?

‘The room my parents used…’

It was the room my parents used.

Even when I first entered this room.

A landscape so different from our house.

I couldn’t quite believe that my parents lived here.

but.

I sat blankly and looked around.

“That wallet is mom’s… and the watch is dad’s.”

Familiar objects began to appear one by one.

First time seeing it since Doomsday.

Things that are very familiar to me.

‘I thought that if my parents were alive, they would be near this central branch.’

Because my house itself was around here.

My father commuted to Seoul to work.

Doomsday fell on a weekend, so you would have been home.

but.

My father was a person who stayed at work and slept every day.

He wasn’t very physically strong.

To be honest, I wasn’t the type of person who could adapt to a world like this.

My mother has an active personality.

It was our family’s daily routine to hold on to our father so tightly.

‘I can’t believe two people like that endured that chaos and survived.’

Even.

‘It was to the point of being called elite.’

Huh.

I just laugh out loud.

“Besides, you’ve reached the level of leader?”

Should we call her Mrs. Seo?

It was not just a combat position, but a position that stood out in its own way.

“Haha… you’re really amazing. “Hehehe…”

Contrary to my expectations, I thought they would not have survived.

They haven’t even survived in this world.

He succeeded in increasing his strength to a level that can be counted on one hand.

This is great.

I also thought that they were not my parents for no reason.

but.

As a result.

“Ugh….”

It would have been nice if I could just survive.

It would have been better if those with little strength had been lucky enough to have survived.

Because I became stronger for no reason.

In the end, it ended up disappearing.

“Like a dog…” As

the vision in front of me became blurry.

I lowered my head and pulled out my hair.

“Fuck….”

Beyond Gangwon-do, I really did my best to survive.

I gained strength in the process of surviving like that.

Through that power, he came to Gyeonggi-do to save others.

but.

‘If I can’t protect my most precious family… What’s the point in doing something like that?’

To be honest.

In the first place, I had no expectations that the two of you would be alive.

Because I know that if I have expectations, I will only get hurt.

I only experienced this now.

Everyone who lives in this world suffers from that to a greater or lesser degree.

I have already experienced the loss of someone precious to me.

Something everyone has experienced in this world.

Me too.

Even if I hear that the two of you have already passed away.

I was preparing my heart to endure it somehow, but…

‘You were alive until winter came?’

The people of this central branch set out to find the cause of that cold.

He said it was less than I thought.

“Then what is it?”

What this means is simple.

“If only I had come over a little faster.”

At the point where I figured out that I could get over that [barrier].

What if he had somehow crossed over to Gyeonggi-do?

‘Maybe if I did that.’

The two people before they went missing.

I was able to find it.

“Fuck you… Fuck you…”

I was giving up.

If only I had pushed harder and not given up.

The story could have been different!

‘The reason you two went missing is because of me.’

That feeling of guilt.

It was even trying to break my heart, which I had prepared myself for.

“What is that bastard who is the president of the association doing?”

Didn’t you say he was very strong?

You must have gained your own experience in this world.

‘But are you so foolish as to not distribute your power and dump them all in an uninvestigated place? Did you fucking not finish it? ‘Are you a guy who doesn’t know the basics of strategy and tactics?’

‘Instead of sending all the troops from the beginning, even if you invested time, you should have sent reconnaissance and attacked safely. With what kind of confidence can you destroy the entire army, you idiot…’

‘Because you are strong. Because you’ve never lost… Did you think you’d win again? With such arrogance, he drove his followers to their deaths?’

It’s already too late, at least.

This is all I can do.

That strategy failed.

All I can do is blame the humans here…

“No.”

I don’t think there is any.

I was pulling my hair out and swearing.

“Yes… I said she was missing…”

A thought suddenly occurred to me.

I raised my head and muttered.

“Death is not confirmed.”

According to Park Jung-gu.

The northern branch suggested that troops should be dispatched to check on their fate.

It was a failure due to rejection from other branches.

at last.

The person who found my parents’ bodies was nowhere to be found.

A head that only spewed out ominous imaginations.

It starts spinning rapidly.

‘Park Joong-gu said that since the golden time has passed, everyone is probably already dead.’

When I heard that my family was among those elites.

It seems like I made a mistake then.

He told me not to worry about what he said.

‘Maybe it’s something you really don’t need to worry about.’

In a room left alone.

Among the family items that remind me of old, familiar memories.

I thought as I wiped my face.

‘Golden time and all that. at last. It’s a story created based on ordinary humans, not awakened people.’

past.

A martial art that was created for humans.

As if it didn’t mean much to the awakened ones.

‘Existing common sense does not apply to awakened people who have physical abilities that exceed common sense…’

Then.

Even now, quite a long time has passed.

Isn’t there still a possibility that they are alive?

-Nonsense.

In a corner of my mind.

That’s such nonsense.

-No matter how powerful an awakened person is, it is impossible to survive in this environment for more than a month… This

is absurd sophistry.

There were also thoughts claiming that.

‘No matter how low the probability is… it exists.’

I am.

I decided not to turn my attention to such thoughts.

Why did my parents go missing?

Even though I could have come straight to Gyeonggi-do.

This was because they wasted time on the other side in pursuit of safety.

Purely my fault.

“…If you go looking for it right away, you might be able to find it.”

And I am.

Even though I make a lot of mistakes.

He wasn’t a guy who repeatedly did wrong things.

‘The leaders here said they were skeptical about finding out the cause of the cold, except for the leaders in the north.’

I immediately got up.

Unfortunately.

There was no time to persuade them right now.

In the first place, there are still a few days left until that reconciliation.

It’s a situation where not everyone is gathered here.

so.

“water drop!”

I look down.

He spoke into the shadows.

“How far did the playback go?”

OK.

A voice answering my words echoes from the shadows.

=The recovery itself has been completed.

“And now?”

=Currently, the next step, the self-replication process, has begun… A total of 2 bodies…

“That should be enough. “I’m sorry.”

When crossing the barrier.

This guy had to have a long recovery period due to the intense heat.

“It’s okay if it’s a little late, so let’s spend some time in advance.”

=As the lord of the castle wants….

I take out the kitchen knife.

The jelly part, excluding the core, was cut from a slime-shaped creature.

[Legion’s Droplet Jelly]

[Characteristics when consumed? [Environmental fairy tale….]

‘This will be all the food you need.’

[Environmental assimilation], which provides the highest level of hiding ability,

is the most popular dish in Gangwon-do.

The effect was powerful and suited my fighting style best.

Besides that, there are quite a few battle rations that I have made.

I am confident that I can withstand even this harsh environment.

“Vampires.”

-yes! Master’s master!

“You will be going to a very dangerous place. Be as nervous as possible and be sure to protect yourself.”

-All right!

The power is also quite high.

After making my decision, I immediately left the building.

‘It’s a waste of time to explain to others.’

Instead of the main gate in a closed scene.

Looking up at that high wall.

[Assistant Chef]

skill activated.

Stepping on the handle of the kitchen knife.

Let’s get to the top of the high wall.

Whiiiiing –

Covered by a raging snowstorm.

I saw a pure white world.

and.

‘Destination is southeast.’

I am.

I threw myself into that pure white world.

There is no map or anything like that.

Fortunately, there was no confusion about where to go.

‘A place where the cold gets stronger.’

Just head there.

Because one day you will be able to reach your destination.