The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 317
Episode 317: That doesn’t make sense.
“Leaving you alone to face such enemies…!”
A monster you only encounter suddenly.
Although the monster was approaching without hiding its anger.
Yunseong could not make a decision easily.
“How can you do something like that!”
Be honest.
Yunseong is this man in front of him.
I was suspicious of Shin Young-jun.
‘He is the son of Captain Seo Young-hee.’
When I first heard that story.
What came to mind was joy.
-Yunseong, you are so big, why are you so timid about cutting?
From the time when he first joined the group and hadn’t even awakened yet.
It was Seo Young-hee and Shin Seok-jun who took great care of him.
And what came right after.
A little bit of sadness…
and ‘a huge amount of guilt.’
Because those two emotions dominated my mind.
He couldn’t think deeply.
I told Shin Young-jun the story of the couple.
After a long time.
I recognized that it was a mistake.
‘I am the one leading this group now. That’s why I should have been more careful.’
Information about the son I heard from the two couples.
I inadvertently ended up believing what that man said because it was somewhat consistent with what he said.
If you think about it carefully.
Even that could have been a lie.
Some people may be thinking, how can you lie about something that only you know?
Yunseong was different.
‘Perhaps the enemy might even be able to find out things that only they themselves know…’
That fact.
Because only Yunseong knew.
so that.
He belatedly became wary of that man.
As for the warning the man gave.
Although I thought it made some sense, I deliberately ignored it, seeing it as an attempt to get involved in the group’s decision.
‘You were careless again, Ha Yun-seong…!’
and.
The result is this.
You dare encounter a monster that you could have avoided if you had listened to the warnings.
We are in such a dangerous situation.
Even….
‘It happened because I ignored the warning. That young man…!’
That guy who warned me.
Shin Young-Jun says he will take charge of this place.
He was telling them to run away.
“If you encounter something, someone has to solve it… That’s right.”
“I’m glad you understand. I wish you could go quickly…”
“But it doesn’t have to be you.”
Yunseong bit his lip tightly.
“It happened because I was careless… so it’s right for me to solve it.”
He tightened the hand holding the great sword and took a fighting stance.
He said, stepping forward.
“I’m sorry for ignoring the warning. “I will catch those monsters, and you run away!”
“…?”
“I couldn’t tell you at the time, but I have owed my life to Captain Seo and his wife several times. “It happened because of my mistake, so I can’t cause trouble to the leader’s son!”
It is said that he is not a particularly strong person.
Nevertheless, he is an awakened person who has accumulated his own experience.
He stirred up the momentum of his whole body.
When trying to block those monsters.
Seeing Yunseong like that.
Shin Youngjun….
“…what kind of nonsense is this guy talking about?”
“Huh!?”
Holding on to Yunseong’s neck.
I threw it back there.
Yunseong throws himself on the floor and makes an embarrassed sound.
He quickly got up and looked ahead.
“Damn it…”
The approaching monsters had already arrived right in front of Shin Young-jun.
The distance has widened to the point that even if Yunseong runs from now on, it won’t mean much.
“If someone tells you to go, just go.”
“But still!”
Even if it’s a little late.
It was Yunseong who was about to run towards the monsters again with his great sword.
“Most of those people were low level.”
“…what?”
“It doesn’t matter if they’re just low-level, but aren’t they people who have little to no know-how to move around in this world?”
At the sound of Shin Young-jun shouting as he walked towards the monsters.
Those steps falter.
“If you don’t have a proper commander, you won’t be able to join a nearby group and you will freeze to death.”
“….”
“Are you going to leave it like that?”
Yunseong looked like he was in trouble for a moment.
He immediately clenched his teeth and shouted.
“I’m sorry…!”
So in the end.
Yunseong gave up an innocent young man as food for his enemies.
I had to run to join my group members.
* * *
A sudden encounter with a monster.
As soon as I realized that the monster was stronger than I imagined.
Low-level group members decide that they cannot defeat that monster.
Started running away.
Of course, he was part of the rearguard of that group.
A man who had no choice but to follow others as he had no connection to the combat profession.
‘What is it!’
Howard was also part of the getaway caravan.
‘What the hell! ‘What kind of situation is this!?’
Of course, because I was in the back row, I didn’t even see the monster.
Howard, who had been caught up in the sudden move, had no idea what was going on.
“Everyone detour to route 3!”
“Mr. Yunseong!”
“I will lead the way, so follow me!”
Fortunately, Ha Yun-seong, who was holding onto the monster in the middle, returned.
As I began to lead the group, the confusion subsided a little.
I succeeded in escaping to some extent.
The group discovers another route and begins to rest in a safe area there.
Only then did the man finally regain his composure.
Howard.
“Hey, Yunseong.”
“…You must be Yang-sik.”
“I told you not to call me by that name.”
I approached Yunseong, who was taking a deep breath, and spoke to him.
“Anyway, I heard the general story. “Super strong monsters have appeared on the front lines?”
“I see.”
“Okay, I understand that’s why you ran away. “It’s not…”
What he said to Yunseong.
This was to resolve a question I had been wondering about earlier.
“Where did Youngjun go?”
A man who was clearly moving next to him while he was moving.
Because Shin Young-jun was nowhere to be seen.
“….”
“hey?”
however.
Despite Howard’s question.
Yunseong just frowned and did not respond.
‘…This can’t be right.’
Howard is confident that he is quick to notice.
Howard, seeing that expression, frowned and said,
“I guess something happened to Youngjun.”
“…I’m sorry.”
“You bastard…!”
Howard was furious and grabbed Yunseong’s shoulder and shouted harshly.
“What happened!”
“…those monsters were too strong. “It’s at a level that our current group can’t shake off.”
“So, so?”
“…Someone had to hold the monster by its ankles while the group escaped.”
“This crazy bastard…!”
Howard felt the blood rush to his head.
When I first met Shin Young-jun, I didn’t have such a good image.
No, it could almost be considered the worst.
but.
After his anger calmed down to some extent, things were a little different.
It’s a little different from what he’s been practicing his whole life.
A person who had reached great heights as a chef.
Every single concept he taught me as a [chef] was something he could never have imagined.
What hardships did you have to go through to obtain that knowledge?
Howard couldn’t even guess.
‘I still have a lot to learn.’
Compared to my skills, there were a lot of things I didn’t know.
Watching them absorb the techniques he taught at an incredible rate.
He also wondered if the teacher who taught him felt this way.
‘There’s still a lot to teach.’
however.
what?
“Someone had to stop it?”
Howard exclaimed in bewilderment.
“Then you should have stopped it, you bastard!”
“I thought so too, but we need someone to lead this group and run away…”
“Oh, so? To help people evacuate safely, they threw an innocent little boy as food to the enemy? “That is a truly rational decision.”
“….”
“Oh, now that I think about it, is this what it is? Youngjun is not a member of our group or guild. Did you think that there would be no damage to electricity if you threw it away? “That’s great leadership!”
That overtly sarcastic tone.
Yunseong frowned and turned his head as if he didn’t want to talk about this anymore.
of course.
“Wouldn’t this have happened if you listened to Youngjun in the first place? huh?”
Howard wasn’t the kind of person who would shut up about that.
Kitchen work is so hard that most people who have worked in the kitchen for a long time have a rough personality.
Howard, who was not a gentle person to begin with, was in an even worse case.
There’s no way he could stay still even after going through something like this.
“It’s because I don’t understand even when I think about it again. Why didn’t you heed the warning? Same goes for when there’s an argument in a restaurant. Didn’t you like it when the little guy told you to do this and that? huh?”
“…I am in a position to lead this group. At first, I let my guard down inadvertently, but there were a lot of suspicious things about that man. “He was a guest of the Northern Branch, so we couldn’t kick him out, but as the leader of the group, we had to check his interference in our affairs.”
“Ah, is this what the result of that control looks like now?”
“…I regret it too.”
“That’s amazing. “You can’t believe you put a person in harm’s way and then regret it.”
In those words.
Yunseong said, clenching his teeth as if he couldn’t hold back any longer.
“Stop.”
“Why should I stop….”
“Then what are you going to do with me!”
It was as if something in my head that I had been holding on to for a while had been cut off.
Ha Yun-seong shouts harshly.
“Should I have rushed in to save that friend and died there with him!?”
“….”
“The people here are scattered without a commander, leaving everyone to freeze to death? huh? “Should I have done that?”
After pouring out a bunch, Ha Yun-seong huffed as if he was filled with indignation.
Soon, he covered his face with both hands and lowered his head.
“It’s me… I didn’t do it because I wanted to do it this way…” “
…”
“Damn it. “As acting president of the association, do you think someone took on this position because they wanted to?…”
He muttered in a sobbing voice.
“I’m tired of abandoning people and running away…”
I don’t mean for anyone to listen.
An atmosphere that makes you feel like you are talking to yourself.
“If it weren’t for the president of the association, I wouldn’t have been in this position…”
“…What the hell are you talking about?”
To Howard, it just seemed pitiful.
Still, I didn’t question it further.
“We will have to send a rescue team as soon as we reach the southern branch.”
“…It would be meaningless. The strength of the monsters I felt was beyond imagination. “He is not a monster that one person, not even the president of the association, can do.”
“Stop talking bullshit.”
The situation has already happened.
Because there was nothing more meaningless than wondering who was to blame.
“Maybe that guy is a lot stronger than you think.”
“…is it?”
“Of course, I wouldn’t be able to kill those monsters alone… but I might have succeeded in somehow shaking them off and even hiding nearby.”
“…!”
Yunseong also raised his head at those words.
Because there was a thought passing through my mind.
The weapons the man was holding were two daggers.
You can roughly guess the other person’s occupation by looking at their weapon.
‘Probably the assassin family.’
Outwit the enemy.
This is a job that specializes in hiding.
“The problem is that he doesn’t know the route to the southern branch.”
“…Right.”
“Even if you manage to survive somehow, if you don’t know the way around here, the whole surrounding area is just a white space. It’s close to impossible to return on your own. We must arrive at the southern branch as quickly as possible and then send a rescue team to the area where we encountered that monster. To do that…”
“I shouldn’t be doing this.”
After Yunseong picked up the great sword that was lying on the floor.
He said as he got up.
“I’m sorry for showing you such an ugly picture.”
“I wish I had come to my senses by now.”
“…The group members must have had enough rest at this level.”
Let’s look around.
I could see the group members who had gathered in the commotion looking in their direction, wondering what was going on.
‘Now that things are like this, let’s head to the southern branch as quickly as possible.’
Although it might be a little awkward to ask for help from other branches.
I would have to endure that level of embarrassment.
They headed toward the southern branch at full speed.
Shin Young-jun, who may still be having a hard time trying to ward off monsters.
To dispatch troops to rescue him.
* * *
“…therefore. “Are you asking me to lend you some troops?”
and.
When they arrived at the southern branch.
“The stranger who also participated in that meeting… To rescue Shin Young-jun?”
“That’s it.”
The three leaders of the southern branch.
Among them, Jo Beom-seok is the central character.
“I’m sorry for refusing your request, but I don’t think I can accommodate that.”
I flatly refused their request.
but.
It’s a waste of troops.
It’s such a difficult request.
“Of course.”
It wasn’t for that reason.
A very reasonable reason.
“You ask me to lend you troops to save people who are already here….”
“….”
“That doesn’t make sense.”
Three leaders representing the Southern Branch.
And next to them.
“Don’t say too much.”
Sitting in front of a warm fire.
Warming up and drinking tea….
“You may be confused since you were attacked by a monster.”
There was Shin Youngjun.