Awakened Registration

    Drinks have been served since noon.

    Chilled chicken was placed, and rice was scooped over roughly boiled kimchi stew.

    Junho''s face was still confused.

    "I still can''t believe it."

    my brother will come back

    10 years gone missing. I thought he was dead, but he came back alive. Just like when I was young. It''s full of questions

    "How did you not get old at all?"

    I do not know.

    "What have you been doing? Where have you been?"

    "Why are you in such a hurry? Have a drink first."

    Suho''s eyes widened as the glass of soju collided and swallowed.

    Hey, this was soju. If there was alcohol, the last millennium would have been a little more interesting.

    Suho, trembling, held out his glass.

    "Give me some more."

    "Uh, yes."

    Suho drank three cups in a row and smiled satisfied.

    "Now tell me. What have you been doing all this time?"

    "I want to ask. What did I do before I went missing?"

    "I just went to college."

    "Isn''t something must have happened before it disappeared?"

    "Are there one or two people missing during the Cataclysm? I thought you were eaten by a monster."

    If it''s a cataclysm, even Suho knows it.

    The day we were connected to various worlds after the first dimensional collision and received an extraterrestrial invasion. The day when 10% of humanity died.

    "My parents also died then."

    It''s still sad just to think of his existence, but Junho''s eyes were blurry for a moment because of the years he had lived.

    okay?

    Suho poured his bitterness into a glass of soju.

    Well, this is somewhere. I didn''t expect a reunion with my family in the first place, because I met my younger brother.

    "Give me another drink."

    "By the way, how did it go?"

    Junho asked while pouring soju. Where did hyung come from and what did he do after 10 years?

    "When I opened my eyes, it was a strange planet. How did you come back from living like this."

    His brother''s eyes fluttered at the calm words. You were in another dimension.

    The returnee who only appeared on TV is hyung.

    My brother must have suffered just as much as himself.

    "Are you hurt anywhere? OK?

    "Big, sweet, sweet. I''m fine.

    Suho, who emptied the soju at once, held out a glass.

    "Why are you eating so quickly?"

    "It''s delicious."

    Try it in a thousand years. Drinks run over

    "How did you live? I have a son who is so bright."

    "My only treasure."

    "Damn it, it''s all grown up. Who is your mother?"

    "Uh ."

    At that time, Geon-woo, who was quietly eating only chicken, suddenly intervened.

    "Can I play with that dog?"

    Huh? Why don''t you eat more?

    "I''m full."

    "Yeah, then."

    As Geon-woo quietly left, Jun-ho let out a light sigh.

    "I left."

    "Are you dead?"

    I looked at my older brother who spoke death so calmly. The face of his sullen older brother was like a man with dry emotions.

    Junho drank a glass of soju and said calmly.

    "I must have been very lonely because my older brother disappeared, my parents died, and I was all alone in the world."

    After pouring in soju, Junho calmly recounted the past.

    "I met a woman in a similar situation to me. Then I had a child."

    The tone of the voice was feminine, but the hard life of the past was buried.

    "I dreamed of a family, but it wasn''t. I had a baby, too, because it was a little sloppy."

    That''s just how things were then.

    I drank soju again, probably because of the memories of the past.

    "He was a pretty kid."

    so?

    "What is it? I just went my way."

    "Are you and the kids left?"

    Huh.

    "It''s a bitch."

    leaving your child behind

    "Aww, you still shouldn''t talk like that."

    "You are an asshole."

    heavy There is nothing to say as a fact.

    " right. Because I didn''t have the ability to leave." If she had been rich and not poor, she wouldn''t have left either.

    "Ah, okay. What do each of you live? I have no regrets now. All I need is Gunwoo."

    "Ugh."

    The brothers'' glasses clashed again and the soju was emptied.

    "What is the debt?"

    "How do you know?"

    Junho was startled.

    How much is it?

    My brother, who could not continue to speak, suddenly asked.

    "Why are you being so direct?"

    "You too have been talking to yourself for a thousand years."

    Huh?

    "So how much?"

    Junho said hesitatingly.

    "Fifty million won."

    Huh? How long?"

    Suho was surprised.

    How can life be so hard with that much debt? According to Suho''s calculations, it''s money you can earn by hunting a few times.

    "How big is five thousand!"

    Life after the collapse of the social system after the cataclysm was miserable. There were a lot of bankruptcy bankruptcies, and no loans came out to a 20-year-old who had nothing.

    I had to live with my newborn baby right away, so the only place I could borrow money was from a private loan.

    The life of my younger brother, who is struggling with the weight of debt, is pitiful.

    "Anyway, I will pay you back."

    done.

    Suho tilted his head at Junho''s refusal. What kind of pride is this?

    "I''m fine these days. It is being established."

    Only viable cities survived, but logistics exchange with other cities was necessary.

    Field roads are dangerous, but beware of crack alerts.

    You just need to drive well. It''s a better income than any job you can find in the city.

    "Is that truck yours?"

    "No, it''s the old woman who owns this house."

    For Jun-ho, Lee Sook-ja, the owner of this house, is a life saver.

    He even rents out trucks that are not in use, and provides food for Geonwoo whenever he is away. In addition to the monthly rent, a small amount of case was added, but it was a long way to repay the favor.

    Good. I have a good idea. When I hunt monsters, you move the body to the truck. working together. What do you think?

    Would this reduce the burden on my brother a little? Junho asked again, surprised.

    "Are you a mercenary?"

    no.

    uh?

    "I should have tested it."

    Ah, come to think of it, hyung has been spending 10 years in another dimension. You probably don''t know anything about the social system after the Cataclysm.

    "Aren''t you Awakened?"

    uh.

    That''s a stupid question. If you are not an awakened person, you cannot use the portal itself, so you cannot go to another dimension.

    "Have you done any ratings?"

    "It must be F-class."

    uh?

    Confusion flashed in Junho''s eyes.

    What did he expect?

    brother! If it''s an F grade, what''s the difference from ordinary people? What is your superpower?"

    "I can make bread and water."

    "Huh."

    It''s the most absurd superpower I''ve ever heard. Awakening superpowers don''t necessarily have to be in the combat series.

    It''s very easy to get a job in a hospital even if you have superpowers in the field of therapy.

    Not everyone who is Awakened works as a mercenary and becomes a soldier. There are far more people living with ordinary people.

    The F-rank does not represent combat power. He just had one superpower and had the qualifications to use the portal.

    This is the level of ordinary people who have been issued a dimensional travel passport.

    What about the superpower to make bread and water?

    It would be a useful skill in remote areas where food is not available. Perhaps the older brother survived because of that superpower.

    brother. Not all mercenaries do. There is no need to be in danger because of me."

    "Ugh."

    Seeing his younger brother worrying about him, Suho smiled.

    do you care about me

    Me, who reigned as the king of the forest, at the top of the ecosystem pyramid?

    He took out 2 million won from his pocket.

    "The money the goblin caught yesterday."

    " ."

    Junho''s eyes flutter violently. There is no proof as convincing as money. Unless you''re lying with the stolen money.

    "My little brother has grown a lot."

    uh?

    "I''m going to go crazy with my brother."

    Seeing his big brother smiling, Junho flinched without realizing it.

    *

    It was the next morning.

    One day is a very short time for brothers who are reunited after 10 years. It was yesterday when we talked more about the future than about the past.

    "I will go."

    "Oh, bro. I have to go with you... ."

    "Am I a kid? Take this."

    When he saw 1 million won, Junho waved his hand.

    "I have money too."

    "Just take it. What''s left is to buy something delicious."

    The brothers had a lot to prepare for hunting. Junho also decided to repair an old truck and buy some equipment.

    Suho moved for administrative processing such as opening a bank account and registering awakened people.

    ; Awakened Management Bureau

    Suho, who set foot in the building he returned to after a day, received it from the staff.

    "You measured it yesterday. Because the measurement is free only once a month, you have to pay 500,000 won for the re-measurement fee."

    When Suho took out a bill and paid, he had only 600,000 won left in his hand.

    "Anything is money."

    It seems to understand the civilized world a little more.

    Suho arrived at the measurement room on the 3rd floor and waited for his turn.

    The state provided various welfare benefits to prevent the outflow of awakened people to foreign countries and to ensure efficient management.

    Grade F is for mobile phone payment and communication cost support.

    It is a benefit, but some see it as surveillance. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it can always identify the location and send a rescue signal.

    "Customer number 57."

    After waiting for a long time, it was his turn and he stood in front of the measurement room, and he was the same employee as yesterday.

    uh? He came in one day."

    Humans need to accumulate dimensional energy to awaken their superpowers.

    The most common and common is killing monsters to steal their dimensional energy.

    "Did you gain some experience?"

    Commonly referred to as experience.

    "I caught a few."

    "You just feel it when you wake up, right? I feel like I''m leveling up."

    "Do other Awakeneds also level up?"

    "Ah, that''s the analogy. Doesn''t it feel like something new is being born?

    Instantly, a tingling sensation ran through my body.

    "What is your superpower?"

    As Suho was contemplating what to say, the employee opened the door to the measurement room and said:

    "You have to register later anyway, so go to the ability room."

    Suho went into the measuring room and lay down on the measuring device like a stone bed.

    Papa!

    As the soft light gathered, I could feel that eerie gaze.

    A dirty feeling as if you were scanning yourself thoroughly in front of your nose.

    ; User recognition completed.

    ; Register to database.

    ; Unauthorized access.

    ; fatal error... .

    ; Acquire permission.

    ; Access the data.

    ; Status window is activated.

    Huh?

    When the measurement was finished, his gaze disappeared.

    Suho raised his upper body and made an impression.

    It was very simple on the other side of the planet, but when I return to Earth, I see a lot of different messages.

    I was going to check the status window, but an employee opened the door.

    "Come out!"

    There were many people waiting in the back, so Suho, who emptied the measurement room, looked at the LCD screen with the staff.

    ; Measured energy 110

    "You see here? You are 14 higher than before. congratulations. You can go to the first basement floor."

    When Suho went downstairs, there was an information desk.

    "Park Soo-ho?"

    Yeah.

    "Congratulations on your awakening. Can you guess what kind of superpower it is?"

    I hesitated about what to answer, then just told the truth.

    "You can make bread and water."

    The remaining achievement points are 4.

    That''s the only thing I can live with.

    Ah! It''s a real world superpower. Would you like to come this way?"

    There were many spacious rooms in the basement, and they were built strong enough to demonstrate combat skills.

    Suho was guided to a simple room.

    Cameras were installed everywhere, and an archivist was sitting on the desk in front.

    "Would you like to implement it?"

    "It is."

    Suho opened the achievement shop and bought a piece of bread and water. The remaining points are now 1.

    Papa.

    The archivist''s face became intriguing as water bottles and bread emerged from the air.

    "You''ll have to look through the records to find out, but this is the first time I''ve ever seen an implementation like this. haha. How often can you use it?"

    "I can''t now."

    "Yeah?"

    Looking at the bewildered archives, Suho corrected his words a little.

    "For every goblin we catch, we can get about a bottle of water."

    "Hmm, isn''t there a delay in implementing the ability?"

    do not have.

    After exchanging a few more questions and answers, the archivist seemed to have roughly grasped what kind of superpower it was.

    "It seems that the teacher uses the remnants of dimensional energy obtained from monsters rather than magic or life energy for the real world, especially the base energy."

    "Well, it would be similar."

    If residual energy is an achievement point.

    "Well, it''s a skill that can be very valuable at times. I hope that you will contribute to the protection of mankind by further developing it."

    After finishing the greeting ceremony, I headed to the issuance section on the 2nd floor to complete the Awakened Registration.

    I picked up the waiting number and tried running the status window once while waiting.

    "Status window."

    Papa.