ALL NOVEL chapter 1
1 – Escape from the Unemployed (1)
When I first returned to Earth, everything was fine.
The best thing about it was that even though 20 years had passed in the other world, only 5 years had passed on Earth.
‘Has the time axis between Earth and the other world been shifted?’
I don’t know why in detail, but anyway, the fact that only 5 years had passed on Earth was not a bad story from Eugene’s point of view.
After returning to Earth, she was prepared in her heart to be treated like a 38-year-old uncle, but in reality she was not very happy with it.
In addition, my parents, who I thought might have died in the worst case, were still alive because only 5 years had passed at the most.
“Mom… And dad… “
“Oh, Eugene!”
“Brother!”
After 20 years like that, after 5 years if you count the time on Earth, the family members hugged each other and cried.
I thought that not only demons but also humans were mercilessly sliced up in the other world, and my emotions were worn out and withered, but fortunately, it seemed that the sensitivity remained deep in my heart.
“By the way… “
Towards the end of the touching reunion where they hugged each other for a long time and shed tears, his parents and younger sister, Winter, asked him a question.
“Where have you been for the past five years? “
It was a well-expected question. And at the same time, it couldn’t be a really embarrassing question.
“Um… That’s…”
“Even if I reported a missing person to the police, there was only a response that there was not a speck of dust, and no matter how much I looked at the CCTV, I couldn’t find a single hair. What the hell happened?”
“Ha ha ha…”
Actually, answering that question wasn’t that difficult.
Then, where is the best place to start talking?
So 20 years ago… So, 5 years ago in Earth time, he was unluckily taken to another world, and since those who summoned Eugene called him a hero?
For the first three years or so, I was very busy adjusting to the world, the sword I held for the first time was very heavy, and when I killed a goblin, I vomited all day and couldn’t sleep at night.
I thought all I had to do was kill monsters, but after betraying humans and killing bastards who were on the side of the demons, I think it’s safe to say that I had nightmares and trembled with guilt for killing humans.
About 10 years passed, and after going through about 30 or so death hurdles, eventually defeating the weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings, the Tyrant King, Werewolf Kazan, and delaying the invasion of the Demon King even slightly. ?
As a necromancer, he crushed all the bones of Arch Lich Dekels, the Immortal King who had a history of annihilating 10,000 armies alone.
He killed Atram, the king of giants who boasted that he was born with the greatest strength among the giants since the creation of the world, by slicing his whole body into pieces.
Lastly, the Death Knight, which was created by raising the corpse of the greatest king among all human beings, turned him into ash at the end of a quarrel with Cardenak, the King of Death.
Finally, after uniting the power of all mankind and all the different races into one, they charged into the castle of the Demon King, and after a week-long fierce battle, they succeeded in taking the head of the son of the Demon King with his care.
Should I explain from beginning to end that after digging all the way to the cornerstone of the castle, I found an ancient gate that allowed for dimension movement in the basement of the castle and rode it back to Earth?
‘I’ll trust you no matter how hard I try.’
Recalling her own spectacular journey over the past 20 years, Eugene cupped her face with her hands.
No matter how you look at it, what he’s been through over the past 20 years feels like cheap fantasy fiction, and doesn’t feel the slightest bit realistic.
Even if he mustered up the courage to confess the whole truth, wouldn’t Eugene’s family assume that he was dragged somewhere and beaten too many times over the past five years?
On a happy day like today, his family didn’t get their one and only son back, but they took on a mentally ill person.
“Uh… therefore… kidnapped hmm… So, I was drawn to Europe. Should I say he became a secret agent…? Like the CIA.”
“A secret agent?”
At those words, the eyes of Eugene’s family instantly widened.
“Um… I don’t know what happened either, but when I came to my senses, it was just Europe? I was in the same place And some guys who seemed to belong to a secret organization gave me a weapon and told me to be a killer to clean up the trash. He even threatened me that I might die if I didn’t listen.”
Actually, the CIA and the secret organization were words he said loosely, recalling a movie he had seen in the past, but fortunately, Eugene’s family seemed to be willing to believe his excuse.
“The secret agent in the movie like that? 20 Years of being infused with combat skills… No, he worked hard for 5 years. You know, a killer who specializes in killing bad guys, or something like that.”
To be honest, it was an absurd story even for Eugene himself, but it was a hundred times more persuasive than a fantasy story about being taken to a different world where swords and magic exist and then returning again.
“… You killed someone? Brother?”
“It’s nothing to be proud of, but… He has no intention of making excuses. But, as he just said, he only killed as many bad guys as possible. Because that was the best thing I could do.”
When Eugene said that with a gloomy face, his parents and younger sister, who had forgotten what to say for a while, looked at him with some depressing faces.
To tell the truth, the current Eugene didn’t feel any guilt about killing people.
‘Why did you kill the scum who sold their souls to the demons?’
Although he knew for sure that the world would perish if he lost the war against the demon king, he could have killed as many madmen as he could lick the soles of the demons and serve them.
Of course, he couldn’t say this, so he kept a gloomy expression on the outside.
“… Yes, my brother must have had a hard time too. I’m sorry for reminding you of painful memories.”
“Well, it’s okay. Because it is all over now.”
In the first place, everything said about being a killer is a lie, so what’s there to be hurt about?
Eugene shrugged his shoulders and said that, but Winter shook his head as if he couldn’t agree with him.
“No, that’s not what I mean, you mean you’ve been raised as a secret agent for the past five years. While others spend their youth in high school and college.”
“… Youth?”
When the word ‘youth’ came out of Winter’s mouth, Yujin unknowingly frowned at her.
‘… Come to think of it, is that so?’
If Eugene hadn’t been dragged into another world by winning with a dog’s odds of 1 in 7 billion, he would surely have enjoyed a normal life like other ordinary people.
There weren’t many, but I might have enjoyed my high school life with my close friends, maybe even made a girlfriend, and I might have gotten into college after taking the college entrance exam and enjoyed my campus life.
But that’s the case if Eugene wasn’t taken to another world.
Under Korean law, Eugene was a middle school graduate.
Because he’s 18… So, when he was in his second year of high school, he was suddenly kidnapped into the world.
‘f*ck.’
38 Years old… In this world time, he was 23 years old, and the thought of having to study Guk Yeong-soo now made him feel dizzy.
There’s no way he’s remembering the contents of the textbook he learned at school 20 years ago, so should he even apply for learning now and Kumon?
‘Let’s do something, let’s try something. Everyone else has done it at least once, so is there anything I can’t do?’
If you’re not going to live with the title of middle school graduate for the rest of your life, and if you’re not going to be able to find a job and live part-time, shouldn’t you at least pass the GED?
On the day Eugene returned to Earth, he bought several books related to the GED.
If he had to take the GED anyway, he wanted to start studying right here, without wasting time.
And two months later.
“… Ha, this is not easy… “
Yujin sighed as he looked at the GED problem books piled up like a mountain in front of his desk.
No matter how he thought about it, studying seemed far from his aptitude.
Anyway, I thought it would be wise for Eugene to find another way to get a proper job.
“Is there any job where you can earn money while playing games?”
Eugene laughed dejectedly and muttered something like that, but deep down he knew very well that what he was saying was nonsense.
Well, can there be such a good job in this world?
Like that, Eugene sighed as he ate a meal prepared by his parents today, and drank a cola he bought with the pocket money his parents gave him.
Today, he was still unemployed.