Have a Meal Before You Go - Chapter Pr 2

Chapter Prologue 2

The Strange Restaurant (1)

It’s been 30 years since monsters have appeared on Earth .

Around the same time people had awakened supernatural abilities and were being called the Awakened . There was no specific reason behind why these had happened, however the sky had split open and the monsters had suddenly appeared .

Nowadays it has been decided that it is to be called a “dimensional gap” . A passage which had appeared from a world from another dimension and so that world’s monsters had trespassed onto Earth .

Anyway .

The Awakened were what could face the monsters .

The world shattered and nations collapsed . A lot of people died and under such circumstances time passed .

The Awakened combined their strengths, and responded by laying down roots of a new civilisation and thus Earth entered a new era .

During that process the world became more and more stable and regained some semblance of peace .

As it became bearable to live the culture of the past came back . Cafes, pubs, motels, markets and……

Another example is a restaurant .

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[A Rank 4 monster, the Velto Muli, has appeared at the Seodaemun intersection!]

[It’s an emergency warning!]

[The current dispatched Awakened is sir ‘Kim SangHu the Magic Spearman’ together with team ‘Zenkark’ . ]

The radio told the news loudly .

If it was a Velto that meant it was a giant ostrich-type monster . Its size was really big and extremely ferocious and so it was a monster that  even Awakened had difficulties with .

Tatatatatak!

In the group of Awakened running towards Seodaemun, there was a male who was in the lead rushing and holding a long spear . He was one of South Korea’s five Rank 2 Awakened, Kim SangHu .

Oooong-!

As the spear he was holding got covered with a strange heat, the spear grew  to ten times its previous size at least . Like that he looked towards the Veltos .

Above the buildings, long heads showed their face .

One, two, three …… a total of 10 . An ostrich head with a long neck that couldn’t be mistaken could be seen from afar . Although the problem was that it was excessively big .

Ten Veltos .

“Damn, why is there suddenly a Velto . ”

Kim SangHu spit out curses and deeply sighed . Then he gathered his strength to throw the spear held in his right hand .

Suddenly .

Gilululululuk!

A roar sounded out . At the same time the Veltos’ heads in the distance disappeared one by one .

“Oh?”

One of the Awakened following behind cried out .

“Uh…… Boss! All the Velto bastards died?”

“What?”

Kim SangHu and the raid team Zenkark defended Seodaemun .

They hadn’t heard anything about any stronger Awakened being deployed at Seodaemun .

Then who dealt with the Veltos?

Kim SangHu who hastily ran towards where the Veltos had fallen couldn’t help but have his mouth wide open .

They were dead . They were certainly not breathing . Also, each of their bellies were cut out .

“……”

It was unbelievable . All 10 of the Veltos were dead but the person who killed them couldn’t be seen . Besides, looking at the speed in which they were killed, at least a military unit of ability users must have been deployed .

However, there was no one .

“Isn’t this that Blade Queen? I think she wreaked havoc in other people’s area to get some achievements under her name?”

“If it’s her she got placed near Hongdae . And also she’s this strong? That makes no sense . ”

“Yeah . ”

The Awakened Association attach a code name to each person once they’re a Rank 2 ability user . It could kind of be seen as nickname, but Blade Queen and Kim SangHu were Rank 2 ability users who were always squabbling .

Kim SangHu chewed on his lips .

“What shall we do Boss?”

Right away he shook his head .

“Put up the achievement that we killed it . There’s no other alternative as whoever killed it didn’t say anything and left . ”

“Yes . ”

Kim SangHu carefully examined the fallen Velto corpses .

At the top if each of their heads there were traces of a deep blow .

‘One blow . ’

That meant one blow was used to kill the Velto . In his thoughts, no matter the method, there was no Awakened who could do this .

‘Exactly…… Who is this?’

The ranks of the Awakened go from Rank 10 to Rank 1 .

You could see it as having awakened a stronger ability as the number grew smaller . In Kim SangHu’s thoughts, even Awakened classified as Rank 1 could not deal with Veltos this quickly .

Existences that have awakened abilities above Rank 1s were declared as ‘Rank 0s’ but the meaning of that was that the amazingness of the ability could not be judged .

However, a rank 0 has yet to appear .

‘Shit . ’

That was not the only suspicious thing .

Near each monster’s heart there was a thing called a ‘Magongsok’ . That Majongsok was a product that sold at a high price due to its usage as energy .

These Veltos definitely had Majongsoks but the Majongsoks were untouched . Why was the belly flesh cut out? Was there a reason for it?

“For now…… Collect the Majongsoks and contact headquarters to call for the Corpse Disposal Squad . ”

“Yes Boss . ”

The Majongsoks would go to headquarters and the monster corpse would be slaughtered and go to the markets . Domestic animals such as cows and pigs were hard to come across these days so monster meat was quite the excellent cooking ingredient compromise .

Somehow a gloomy wind was blowing .

Anyway .

Kim SangHu looked a the surrounding buildings . The buildings were partially destroyed and collapsed but luckily the area where the Veltos fell was where there were no residents .

He let out a breath . But suddenly, his attention went towards a shabby shop .

[Restaurant]

A restaurant . That’s absurd .

He smirked and shook his head left and right .

“The owner is lucky . ”

If the Veltos had fallen in the opposite direction  the restaurant would’ve been completely destroyed by the corpses of the Veltos .

He gave the work to his lackeys and left via an alleyway . He had no thoughts about eating . All he had was the mind to drink some beer .

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Jek Jek

The man opened his closed eyes at the sounds of the sparrows’ chirping . While yawning lazily and scratching his belly, he took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth . In no time the morning sun had risen .

Seodaemun alleyway .

This place still had the smell of the past . That’s why the man liked it

Giiiik

After opening the door he lifts his neck towards the sky and closes his eyes slightly . Being warmed by the sun, the sleepiness went away and vitality gradually filled him up .

The man turned his vision away and looked at his store .

[Restaurant]

He lit his cigarette during that time and went back inside his store and stood in front of the kitchen .

On top of the rectangular board, a stove embedded with 4 pinky nail sized Majongsok .

This was one of the new kitchen utensils made out of Majongsoks . The man put a frying pan on top of it . After pouring a little bit of oil, heat came up with a -Chiiik- sound

The Majongsok was an object that could easily change the current structure of society .

It was only recently that all things in the world running off ‘fuel’ was being substituted by Majongsoks but it was clear that this would accelerate .

It was 10 in the morning in no time .

It was time to eat breakfast

The man went towards the refrigerator silently . The refrigerator, which had a fist sized Majongsok embedded in it, had its characteristic of cold air being carefully maintained . It was an amazing thing

Inside the refrigerator, there were 10 large pieces of meat packing it full .

The pieces of meat were full made up of lean meat .

It was purely lean meat without any feeling of fat on it whatsoever . The lean meat was sliced once into two big thumb width pieces .

The meat, which was around the size of two hands put together, was earnestly cut with a kitchen knife .

After that he sprinkled on salt and pepper and then applied on the oil evenly .

Chiiiik-!!