Hoarding in Hell Novel

When I opened my eyes, I saw a familiar sky.

The difficulty I always see: It was the red sky of hell.

The surroundings were all red thanks to the traces of Ghaul's spear blades decomposed into rust.

It was like coming to a hill made of red sand.

Hyunmoo was worried about tetanus for a while, but it seemed like she would make a noise no matter who she talked to if she was joking.

'Gawl... … I can't see you.'

Hyunmoo's memory was cut off at the moment when everything around him turned red.

It looked like someone was whispering something into his ear, but he couldn't remember who it was.

I just remembered Gawl disappearing in the red sand wind.

Behind his back was Yerdan, who had become a wolf. It looked like he was crouching down and protecting Hyunmoo.

Although the fur was rough, I was satisfied because it was soft and fluffy, which is hard to find in Hell.

Although Kirson, Kazat, and Ha-hyeon were nowhere to be seen, they could understand it.

You must be busy just rectifying this situation now. A master who is unconscious and fainted is of no use.

Then Hyunmoo felt someone's silent gaze and turned his head. Someone was crouching by the sand dunes and looking at him.

"Who is it?"

Hyunmoo raised his body and looked at his opponent.

He tried to focus on his opponent, but he couldn't keep a close eye on him. It was constantly distorted like a haze, and its appearance itself was constantly changing.

It felt more like a crouched darkness rather than something real.

"Are you out of your mind?"

It was a strange voice.

It was a woman's voice, but it sounded like the growl of a wounded beast, or the sound of a vanishing wind.

In front of Hyunmoo, Yayul the Redeemer, who had been cut off by Gowl, and Tom, who had been caught up in a storm of blades, were placed neatly.

"Who are you?"

Hyunmoo asked, placing the Redeemer Yayul again on the shoulder of his left arm.

Redeemer Yayul naturally engulfed his cut flesh and re-attached, as he had done from the beginning.

Seeing that it was encroaching even deeper than before, Ghaul's influence seemed to have completely disappeared.

Then a beep sounded.

[August, the star of monsters, is watching you.]

'It's a star of monsters... … .'

Hyunmoo recalled the memory of being helped by the Star of Monsters.

The first was after completing the ordeal of the starving star, Yogulem.

Under the circumstances, the person in front of him seemed to be his agent.

"Why did you help me?"

Augusto's agent didn't say anything.

Hyunmoo felt the Redeemer Yayul fully established, and relaxed his body.

While he lost consciousness, the wounds seemed to have healed as if the family had given him a potion, but it seemed that it would take a long time to find his condition.

After Hyunmoo died, he missed the days when his body was completely healed.

Picking up the tam and approaching him, Augusto's agent immediately opened his mouth.

"Don't come close.""Why?"

"Because I could die in my current state."

Hyunmoo said it was a threat, but found that the stones around Augusto's agent were crushed, tanned, melted, and then clumped together again.

An invisible, unparalleled force was oscillating around her.

Hyunmoo took a seat at a reasonable distance.

"Did you save me?"

"Don't take it too seriously."

she said, biting her lips.

"I'm just doing my job. In this day and age, there's not much left for me to do."

"What are you going to do?"

"The fence of mankind."

Hyunmoo laughed at the grand answer he hadn't thought of.

Augusto's agent raised her head and stared at Hyunmoo.

Hyunmoo also stared at her in front of her, but couldn't recognize her face in her darkness.

Her voice seemed familiar, yet unfamiliar.

"That's what I learned. There's nothing I can do about it."

Augusto's agent muttered quietly.

"It was mankind's hunting dog, it was also a watchdog, it was a fence and a spear. But I failed at all of them."

A watchdog with nothing to protect, a fence with nothing to contain.

Augusto's agent described himself as such.

Certainly, if her mission is to protect mankind, it is not enough to say that the current situation is a complete failure.

The extinction of mankind is certain. But it was also an impossible task from the beginning.

Ultimately, everyone will be subordinated to one star, so how do you stop it?

"The shepherd dog protects the sheep from the wolf, knowing that the shepherd will slaughter the sheep."

She added her explanation calmly in her weary voice.

"Don't ask me complicated things, because I have a hard time staying conscious just thinking about one purpose."

As the saying goes, it seemed difficult for her to keep her fixed shape.

She was merely taking the form of a woman in a series of numerous forms.

The repeated destruction around her seemed to be because the power she had not properly controlled was constantly leaking out.

She was still a strong fence, worn and broken here and there, a shepherd dog, old and injured, but still sharp-toothed.

"Oh, yes. It's complicated."

Hyunmoo crossed her arms and said.

"Then I can omit the words thank you. I'll understand that you just kicked me because I saw Ghaul on the way. In the meantime, I escaped the crisis by accident. There's no need to feel repaid or feel indebted, right?"

"I do not need."

"It's nice that it's clean. Then... it's a bit hard to keep calling me an agent, but what can I call you?"

Augusto's agent was silent again. After a long silence, she finally opened her mouth.

"Agents are ultimately called by the name of the star he serves. I too have been called by the name of Augusto..."

"Oh, sir. Let's not talk complicated. If you call it that way, it's confusing, so please tell me your real name.

Augusto's agent's eyes flickered for a moment. She paused for a moment and then opened her mouth as if it were the first time she spoke.

"Adam Fort."

***

At her answer, Hyunmoo opened her mouth. Hyunmoo, who was absurd for a moment, smiled and asked if it was true.

She said, "Adam Fort? Is that Adam Fort? Hmm. I thought there was something there."

"Do you know me. I know you too. Kang Hyunmoo."

At Adam Fort's reply, Hyunmoo grinned.

"Yeah, but it seems like we're completely different people from each other, don't we?"

Kang Hyunmoo, whom Adam Fort says he knows, is the Kang Hyunmoo of this world.

Adam Fault, whom Kang Hyunmoo says he knows, is Adam Fault in Hyunmoo's world.

"Okay, Adam. I'm sure it's business for you to stay here and talk."

"okay."

Hyunmoo gestured for him to speak. Adam crouched down, quietly raised his hand and pointed to the hearthstone that Hyunmoo had around his neck.

"That's a sign of promise. As long as you've become a star, you'll know what that means."

"okay."

The last collateral left by mankind. struggle to survive. Humanity's last chance monopolized by Hyunmoo.

"The last command I received was to protect humanity, but the last remaining human beings have asked me to do something else. To be the guarantor of their promises."

"A surety of promise?"

"It was to see if the promise was kept. And I wandered around the area for a long time, watching. There was no unnecessary intrusion, there was no intentional damage to the promise."

"...Wait, I remember I died quite a bit? You didn't say much when the Apostles attacked."

"You're coming back to life."

Adam silently looked at Hyunmoo and said.

"Death and resurrection were intended in the promise. Those who can endure the suffering become the heirs. Even when the apostles attacked, I judged it to be at a level that I could handle. I gave them enough time, but I couldn't overcome it."

"Did you think you could handle it?"

“You should be able to afford it.”

Don't you think that the average level of the human race is the same as you? If Adam Fort was a shepherd dog, he thought that he might only raise sheep that climbed up after dropping them off cliffs.

“What if I had succumbed to the temptation of the stars and passed over?”

Adam looked intently at the hearthstone and said,

"Then I would have removed you and found another heir to the promise. Because the promise didn't come true."

Hyunmoo tried to laugh. But the corners of his lips did not rise.

Even in Montstrille's story, Adam Fort said he had already removed several agents.

Of course, Hyunmoo can do anything on the difficulty level: easy or normal. But Adam Fort has been consistently dealing with the stars from time immemorial until now.

Losing its shape, the runaway of power, and the wounds resulting from that endless battle.

Then Adam muttered helplessly.

"To be honest, my condition is not normal. I had to keep in mind the possibility of killing you if I intervene in a rushed state. So I wanted to end it with a threat as much as possible."

Then Adam added a few more excuses.

"More than anything else, if I intervened, there was a possibility that it would grow into a fight with other stars. Then in that fight, if I became weaker than I am now, the promise itself could be ruined."

"Is that weakened?"

Hyunmoo asked absurdly, but Adam ignored it and continued.

"So I ask you as a surety of the promise."

Adam's bright yellow eyes shone like stars. It was a hungry beast, and it was also the eyes of a cold judge.

"Are you ready to take charge of humanity?""no."

***

Hyunmoo answered with a single smile. It was an immediate answer without worrying for a second.

After a moment's silence, Adam realized later that Hyunmoo had answered.

Even her was embarrassed by her response so quickly.

"Responsibility. They're trying to get rid of an absurd burden. Who's doing that?"

"...you are responsible as heir to the last legacy of mankind..."

"Did I ask for it? Did I say I would? If not, can you take it back? In the first place, I said that my promise ended because I became a star, but obviously."

Adam Fort seemed to have forgotten what he had to say.

Because of the darkness, his expression was unrecognizable, but as his appearance changed rapidly, the rising darkness shook unstablely.

Hyunmoo felt her destructive power engulf her to a place she judged to be a safe zone, and she backed away slightly.

It looked like it could be like a dented can if done wrong.

Adam shot at Hyunmoo.

"According to the Inheritance Act, the heir is liable for the donor's assets as well as liabilities."

"...are you serious? You're talking about the inheritance law here?"

"I'm just giving an example. I can't say I'm going to throw away anything bitter just by looking at the sweetness."

“No matter what you say, I have no intention of taking responsibility? I am a wild, narrow-minded, and mean-spirited breed of interest, so all sorts of garbage stars are looking at me. Isn't that a little sorry for humanity?"

“No, even if you don’t want to take responsibility, you’re going to lower yourself like that…”

Adam bit his mouth. Hearing it, he seemed to think Hyunmoo's words were plausible. She let out her long sigh after a long silence.

"It's fine... I'm exhausted. I just wanted to know who the heir of the promise is."

Adam's voice seemed genuinely weary.

Whether the successor of mankind was trash or the promise was thrown into the trash, it was enough if he knew there was nothing more he could do.

"I've seen a lot of people up to this point. But in this difficulty: hell, you were the only one who didn't succumb to the end, and you were the only one who survived. Maybe you're the only trash you can survive in this trash can."

Even outside the darkness, where the expression on his face was unknown, he felt melancholy.

Hyunmoo was about to give her a positive response, at least in terms of her service, but it seemed that she had to lower her expectations drastically from the beginning, so that her expectations would disappear.

It's difficult if you ask me to pay off the debt I saved.

Still, with a little conscience, he decided to tell me the best thing he could do.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to let the human race perish. I love the world right now."

Adam Fort seemed a little refreshed at those words.

Of course, it seemed that even Adam could not specifically imagine what the world would look like when a person who professed to be 'human garbage' said 'I like it'.

He didn't even have the energy to imagine it.

More than that, Hyunmoo suddenly noticed what Adam Fort had said.

"Wait, you saw a lot of people? Difficulty: In Hell?"

“Did you think you were the only person who could have become the heir of the promise?”

"Huh? But looking at the titles and traces I received, it seemed like I was the only one."

Adam Fort raised his hand and flicked his finger up.

At that moment, the hearthstone hanging from Hyunmoo's neck floated upward. Adam Fort looked around the hearthstone and opened his mouth.

"Difficulty so far: A total of nine candidates have visited Hell. Seven of them returned to their world and committed suicide, and one became a psychopath. You're only ninth."

Kang Hyunmoo was surprised to hear that there were eight other candidates besides himself. But what surprised him even more was Adam Fort's subsequent words.

She tilted her head and spoke her words.

"But it's strange. Normally, the ninth should have been Lee Ji-tae or Red Butterfly. But why are you here?"

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