Rasputin of the East

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21st century, Korea.

“Hey, Joe!”

As I waved my hand, a man my age in glasses turned his head.

“Are you here?”

“Is it hard to see your face?”

Even though history has changed, he’s like a child whose face it’s hard to see.

No, there are some that are harder to see, so this guy is a fairy.

“What do you want to eat?”

I said looking around downtown Seoul.

It was very different from the Seoul I knew.

First of all, the city itself is large and beautiful.

In fact, it was predictable. Even Constantinople had the size of a Jeju-do, and the global trend is to unite the mega-metropolitan area into one.

Besides, the city planning would have been under the influence of Russia, so there would be no choice but to come up with a large and beautiful territorial standard.

“These days, the Federation of Independent States has also changed a lot, so I went on a business trip to see it.”

“Old Chinese? Are you going on a business trip there? It’s not like arms trafficking, is it?”

“hey. Am I a programmer?”

“Where? Hong Kong?”

“Shanghai.”

“Shanghai? Wasn’t it restored after the nuclear explosion there? Do you have anything to fiddle with the computer there?”

“It’s not a computer, it’s a satellite relay station.”

“… Is there anyone out there who can receive such a thing?”

“Everyone who sees it, everyone who has the ability to get a smartphone gets it first.”

“By the way, you’re also sassy. Wasn’t it an area that sometimes goes down to the Renyun River, and that the government does not guarantee survival under the Renyun River?”

“Well, we don’t work with the government. However, when entering, heavily armed PMCs carry guns and escort them.”

“There was talk of the Russian government trying to expand its territory.”

“It’s useless, what are you going to do with that underdeveloped town? If I took it, it would be as far north as Shandong would be inhabited, and the Russians don’t even come close to the south of Shandong. Rather, it is more realistic to say that the Indochina Federation is invading the Philippines or that India is attacking Indochina. That inland is uninhabitable. There is no farming.”

“What do you mean, did the Yangtze River dry up?”

“The Yangtze River is okay, no, it’s okay, isn’t it? These days, it’s not a robbery, it’s a stream. I mean the northern part, but even looking at it, I feel a bit skeptical, but I wondered if I could extract what I invested in.”

No, what the hell did you do to the Yangtze River to make the Yangtze River the longest stream in the world?

There is no yellow river now.

As the Yellow River went through World War II and the Chinese nuclear attack, the flow could not be twisted at will, so it completely merged with the Yangtze River. The Yellow Sea is no longer the Yellow Sea.

So, although there is a place on the Yellow River, the water flows to the wrong place and joins the Yangtze River, so should it be said that only the river bed remains?

Of course, the mud cannot flow alone without water, so it does not flow into the sea as it did when the Yellow River existed. Eventually, the Yellow Sea ceased to flow and the mud that had already spread settled down, and the Yellow Sea was no longer the Yellow Sea.

“Let’s go and talk, would you like some vodka?”

“You know I don’t drink.”

In Korea, which has changed history, vodka is replacing diluted soju.

To be precise, it is vodka mixed with aspartame and water.

And in the first place, I hardly ever drink then or now.

Actually, there’s nothing different about this guy, so the sound of drinking was close to the sound he had just made.

We went into a nearby restaurant, ordered food, sat down and chatted while waiting for our food.

“It’s hard to see your face too, you said you went to Mars.”

“Well, that’s it.”

I picked up a pen.

“I want to apply to the Austria-Hungarian side, because it is also possible to cross-apply for foreigners.”

“Isn’t language the biggest barrier there?”

“Instead, the exam is easy.”

“Well, that test was easy because there weren’t many applicants.”

Soup was served as an appetizer. We chatted as we ate spoonfuls of soup filled with eggs, sausages, bacon, potatoes, onions, and parsley.

The languages spoken in Austria-Hungary are so diverse that even the inhabitants of Austria-Hungary are unaware of them all.

Therefore, even the civil service examination is the maximum to take three languages, but for the Mars Sheriff Examination, you must be fluent in about 20 languages by adding a few foreign languages to your mother tongue.

It’s absurd to say that the Austrian-Hungarian residents themselves don’t do it either. Even if foreigners are eligible to take the exam, and no matter how easy it is, there is no reason to take the exam.

Of course I am the exception. I learned it all in my past life. After running around the world all my life, it worked. It was almost practical.

“If we go to Mars, it will be difficult to meet.”

“That’s right, it’s so far away.”

The two of us quietly served the soup.

friend.

A close friend whom we first met when we were 7 years old and have been together ever since. If there was a common stilt gou, it would be this guy.

As in previous lives, my family, my relationship with this guy, and other people I know, have not changed as history has changed. caring or what

“Aren’t you married?”

“You have to have a suitable partner, and you aren’t doing that either.”

“You have him, that…”

“Shut up.”

I giggled and laughed.

Yeah, I know he’s not dating her. I just do it because it’s fun for everyone to make fun of them.

First of all, the two don’t match. It was like that in the past, and it’s dead now.

The world has changed, but how fortunate I am that the people I know haven’t changed.

Rolls of food were served on trays. It was fried with minced meat stuffed with vegetables and cheese.

“Cheers.”

“What a toast, I don’t even have alcohol.”

I just wanted to do it.

“For the world.”

“…… I don’t think you’ve been drinking, did you eat something wrong?”

When I saw my friend pretending to be sniffing the soup bowl, I laughed.

“Hey, Jo, don’t you hate that I try to form a little bit?”

“Oh yes.”

The guy took off his glasses to see if his glasses kept steaming, and then bit the dumplings…and almost spit it out.

“Oh, hot.”

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Molten cheese porridge inside. An ordinary Korean in the original history would have been terrified to see it.

“Oh, cheese? this?”

“You don’t like cheese?”

“Eat all of you.”

“These are meat dumplings, eat this.”

What I don’t understand is that he doesn’t like sweet things, he hates fatty foods, he hates dairy, he doesn’t even like to eat a lot, he doesn’t like meat or fish. He should have been born in England.

I don’t eat to enjoy the taste, I just eat anything as long as I can fill my stomach, and since they say I’ll buy you a meal after a while, I dare to choose the cheapest house.

The main dishes, Shashlik and Gowampki, came out, and I looked down at the guy sitting next to me while I was muttering.

“I said I bought you, but why aren’t you eating and I’m eating alone, grab some and eat.”

“It’s because I’m full.”

“……”

I’m full, but I can’t eat more. Do I have to eat the whole dessert by myself?

Anyway, even in my previous life, I took the meat buffet to my 100th day off, but I’m still skeptical about what to eat here, I think of it as a past life.

If I hadn’t met this guy since I was 7 years old, I’d have wondered what’s wrong with me. , No, did Mrs. Kim master all kinds of dishes to feed her somehow?

‘….Hey, feed my son well and send him away. It would be good for him to follow half of your appetite.’

Well, I don’t eat a lot because I’m a glutton, but because I burn a lot of calories to maintain my physique, I eat that much. Judging by my eyes like that, that guy’s body is very poor.

No matter how many friends they are, they don’t like meddling in other people’s lives, and they just keep their mouths shut because they think it’s not polite.

“Still, I would be quite surprised if something like a wedding invitation suddenly flew to me without saying a word.”

“Aren’t you going to send me a wedding invitation?”

“…even if you talk perfectly, you understand like a dog.”

Laughing, I put a piece of meat in my mouth.

“……The world is changing day by day, you remember our chemistry teacher, when I was a freshman in high school.”

“Oh, he? You were the homeroom teacher in your class.”

“He said there was nothing around here 30 years ago, like that station and the school building? Even that was a few kilometers away and there was nothing but two of them, but there are already so many buildings like this.”

Well, even before we were born.

I closed my eyes as I remembered the old Master’s face for a moment, who couldn’t use all four legs of a certain brand of sweets, and used to laugh at me hahaha.

Originally, this place and my hometown were nothing more than the sea when I was alive.

So as the emperor of the Russian Empire, he could not step here. A city without a hometown has no meaning—even though it wasn’t a city at the time!—even when I came to Korea for the summit, I didn’t go there.

‘At that time, I was born here, grew up here, graduated from elementary school, middle school, and high school here, inherited my father’s job here, worked as my father taught me, married a suitable woman, saw my children, and those children became mine. It was heartbreaking, it made me smile, and when I finally grew up and walked away, I grew old and I knew how to use a cemetery in this city. Or the ossuary.’

as an ordinary person.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the whole world was involved in my ‘original body’, but it is not an exaggeration to say that the 3rd World War that sparked that spark on the Korean Peninsula, the 1st World War caused by the Sarajevo Incident, and the 2nd World War caused by Adolf Hitler’s aggression ambition, Two soccer teams had children to build, passed them on to the throne, and lived with the help of their granddaughters. Growing old, withered, and feeble, he passed all power to his son, and he and his wife shared the cemetery in the imperial mausoleum.

And I got this body.

‘Come to think of it, I participated in all three world wars, is there such a person?’

Not by past life standards, and probably not even by today’s standards, because as far as I can remember, the last veteran who fought in World War I died before World War III broke out.

And even here, there is no World War III yet.

‘World War III, World War III.’

I felt an unwelcome flashback coming. In the darkness beyond my face reflected in the glass window, memories of the Third World War of the Lost World began to haunt me.