Back in the store.
A panicking pot-bellied uncle searched all over for the teenager who dropped the warning, but it was like the man vanished out of existence!
“Nowhere to be found! Where did that kid go?! Did he return to the village? Damn it. Hopefully, Taylor will find him there...”
Such frantic behavior certainly didn’t escape Chae Yoona’s eyes.
After observing for a while, she went up to strike a conversation.
“My, my… Mr. Kim, you don’t look too well. Is something wrong?”
Facing this big beauty that he used to flatter, Kim Sungho didn’t even bother keeping up any false pretense anymore and simply brushed her off.
“Ohoho… nothing, nothing. Everything is fine… hohoho.”
That’s what he said, but anybody could tell there’s something wrong.
Too bad Kim Sungho didn’t give her any chance to dig deeper. “Hoho, excuse me, Miss Yoona. I need to go...”
Like a ghost rushing to reincarnate, the man rushed into the men’s restroom nearby.
Thud! The door slammed shut. Kim Sungho’s beady eyes searched left and right.
Unable to find anything to block off the restroom door, he could only settle for the second best option: locking himself inside a stall.
Clack! The sound of the latch locking finally loosened up all the built-up tension and he collapsed onto the toilet bowl.
“W-What do I do…? What should I do?”
Remembering what he saw in his Monsterpedia, Kim Sungho felt his scalp go numb!
Who expected a familiar face... would turn out to be a ticking time bomb!
Fearing that his bad acting will trigger something, he didn’t even dare go rejoin the team outside!
Alas… what must come will come. Even if he tried his best to avoid them, nothing stopped them from coming to look for him.
Knock. Knock. Knock!
“Manager Kim? It’s me.”
Through the opening below the stall door, Kim Sungho stared at the familiar shoes outside and timidly asked, “Just you?”
“Just me.”
Knowing hiding won’t solve anything, Kim Sungho did his best to calm himself, but when the door opened, his face still looked uglier than crying. “Mr. Kwan…”
Kwan Minhwoo frowned. “Tell me. What happened?”
Kim Sungho wanted to put it into words, but he believed it was better to show then tell. He simply took out his Monsterpedia and showed the new entry to the four-eyes.
[Mob Name] Creeper
[Type] Demonic Spirit
[Entity ID] Han Duri#50
[Ability] Painted Skin, Corpse Blood, Fear Sense, Self-Destruction, Block-Destruction
[Weakness] Cat
[Loot Chart] ???
Kwan Minhwoo’s eyes narrowed into pinpricks and his mind almost short-circuited!
How is that possible?! The Han Duri that could walk and talk to them perfectly fine actually turned out to be a monster?! Wait—
“Not good!”
Seeing the face of the four-eyes turn ugly, Kim Sungho almost jumped back to hide in the stall. “M-Mr. Kwan, w-what’s wrong?”
Kwan Minhwoo took a deep breath to calm himself down and honestly reported what happened.
“Under that mutt’s aggressive support, we already decided to let that thing rejoin our team. Now we’re all just waiting on your and the baldie’s votes...”
Kim Sungho’s legs quaked and he held onto the stall door for dear life. “Mr. Kwan, w-what do we do? I-I don’t want to go out there! That’s a bomb! A living bomb!!!”
The middle-aged man looked like the fear of death took over his instincts.
Alas, Kwan Minhwoo couldn’t blame him.
It was only normal for most in this situation to be scared.
They weren’t superman. A boom and it’s all over for them.
Truth be told, if it’s possible to safely live out there at night, Kwan Minhwoo didn’t even wanted to deal with this mess!
Unfortunately, staying in this base was their safest bet for now, especially since his own special power still lacked a few critical props to activate.
There’s no choice but to take care of the danger, no matter how risky it is.
“Manager Kim, stay here, or leave the base temporarily. Your choice.”
After saying that, Kwan Minhwoo turned to leave.
“M-Mr. Kwan, where are you going?”
“To solve the problem.”
The door swung close, separating the world of cowards from the brave.
Kim Sungho slumped down onto the toilet seat and never felt so bitter. Still, he believed: “I’m not wrong.”
Cowards might get looked down upon, but being brave might not necessarily lead to a good outcome.
Outside, the brave four-eyes did his best to straighten out his mood and headed back to the store front.
There, he spotted the Park-Han duo already back inside the store and hounding the beauty in a red dress like horny dogs.
Nothing appeared out of the normal. Just men doing men things.
If it weren’t for the fatso’s special ability, they might’ve never known until it was too late.
Good thing there’s still a chance to change things.
Now, he had to convince them to take it outside… without alerting the monster among them.
Acting like everything was normal, Kwan Minhwoo moved to rejoin the group.
“Oh, four-eyes, you’re back. Where’s the fatso?”
As soon as Park Insu asked that, Han Duri looked over with a strange smile on his face.
The same smile as before, only now, it appeared quite creepy to Kwan Minhwoo.
Still, nothing showed on his face and he smiled back. “Mr. Kim has a bad stomach, and told us to go on first. He’ll join us in a bit after regrouping with the baldie.”
“Madaraka, what’s that supposed to mean? Is he just finding an excuse to avoid us? If he’s unhappy with us, just say so. We’ll break up our team and return to before!”
Since his partner was back, Park Insu said this quite confidently because he believed the scale of power has finally tipped back his way!
But that only made Kwan Minhwoo want to curse inside!
What time is it? Still thinking about doing a power grab?!
Too bad it’s impossible to berate this brainless dog for that, lest he triggers the bomb prematurely.
Unfortunately, the more one fears something happening, the more likely it is to happen.
“Mr. Kwan… what’s wrong? Why do I feel like you’re keeping something from us?”
That call out from Han Duri made Kwan Minhwoo’s heart do a double-flip! Fortunately, decades of experience as a director helped him keep his face straight.
“Mr. Han, you’re thinking too much.”
“Oh really? Then why do I sense...” The smile on Han Duri’s face stretched wider… way wider. “...Fear? Ssssss~”
At this point, even the dumbest mind knew something was wrong, especially since the perfectly normal human body next to them was abnormally inflating like it was about to explode!
Park Insu instinctively activated his beast transformation, and Kwan Minhwoo yelled out, “Take him down!”
But everybody’s reaction was still a step too slow! The bomb already swelled to the critical point, ready to destroy everything!
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