The Mythical Hunter has Returned - Chapter 18



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Episode 018

“Who’s next?”

“Now it’s my turn.”

At my words, Radgrid, the Valkyrie symbolizing wisdom who was watching, took a step forward.

Although wearing a pink tracksuit and wiping cookie crumbs from the corner of your mouth seemed far from wise.

Before I knew it, I was even wearing a helmet with Valkyrie wings, but even if I wore a Valkyrie helmet while wearing training clothes, it didn’t give me the lost dignity.

“I saw you pass the test of strength. But this ordeal will not be that easy.”

She opened her mouth in pride.

“First of all, we will proceed with basic procedures before raising any issues. “I left out the idiot who only seeks power.”

“what?”

At Radgrid’s words, Landgrid, the Valkyrie of power who had just fallen, screamed.

Anyway, Radgrid closed his eyes and concentrated.

A dazzling light erupted from her body.

“I am Radgrid, Valkyrie of Wisdom. “Name the challenger.”

“Kim Do-jin.”

“Are there no positions?”

“doesn’t exist.”

“good night. Kim Do-jin, you have earned the qualifications to take on the test of wisdom.”

A test given by the Valkyrie of Wisdom.

This test of the challenger’s wisdom was similar to the test of the Sphinx in the myth of Oedipus.

A riddle that requires you to guess the correct answer by turning the words around.

‘I know some of the problems thanks to Lee Su-yeon’s constant advice.’

I heard it directly from Suyeon Lee in my past life.

She told me about her encounter with Valkyrie several times.

-They were amazing people. Each test has a different method, and one of them was Valkyrie, which gave fun riddles! I thought there were about 10 problems… .

After finishing speaking, Radgrid pulled out his sword from his waist.

“It’s a pretty difficult problem. “If you want to solve it, you will have to make the appropriate determination.”

“Please tell me.”

She continued speaking with cookie dust on her mouth that she could not completely wipe off.

“I raise the dead. It can make you laugh or it can make you cry. I, who makes the old young, am born in a split second, but at the same time last a lifetime. Who am I?”

She raised the question in a solemn voice and looked at me.

‘thank god.’

The problem I heard the most about came up.

“The answer is memory.”

“Think about it carefully. I will give you plenty of time… huh?”

Radgrid, who was speaking in a triumphant voice, looked at me with a puzzled expression.

I was confident that I would never get it right, but my voice sounded as if the wind had been knocked out.

Was it because she guessed it too quickly?

“Well, can you be sure about that?”

“yes. “I’m sure.”

“… … .”

“The problem is too easy.”

“… “It’s easy?”

Radgrid, facing me, asked in a bewildered voice.

Raising the dead.

A being that makes me laugh and cry.

It’s not enough to make an old person young, but something is born in a split second and lasts a lifetime.

On the outside, it might remind you of a mythical angel or a spirit creature that lives forever, but that was just a mysterious trap.

It is also said that it brings the dead back to life.

It is said that one lives forever.

The whole saying that it gives you youth is a play on words.

‘So it’s a mystery.’

It should not be overlooked that this is a mystery.

The answer to this problem was an abstract concept, not a concrete object.

Memories can bring to mind the dead at any time.

Memories become memories that can make people cry or make them laugh at any time.

An old man who remembers the past could become a young man or a young boy at any time.

And recorded memories could last a lifetime unless the records were destroyed.

-Isn’t it amazing? If you think about it, I am putting in this book a being who can live eternal life!

In her previous life, recorder Lee Soo-yeon recalled Radgrid’s problems every day and felt a sense of duty in her work.

“I hope you give the next challenger a slightly more difficult problem.”

“… … .”

Radgrid closed his mouth at my words.

Didn’t I know I could guess it so quickly?

“Keu, keuhm! “That is correct.”

Although she was embarrassed, she declared the correct answer.

The second trial, the Trial of Wisdom, also passed.

“I think there’s one last test of courage left.”

I saw Reginleif, the Valkyrie of Courage, wearing a yellow training suit, who was looking at me with a smiling face.

She smiled at my words and shook her head.

“You have already passed my test.”

“You passed the test of courage?”

“yes.”

At her words, I reflexively looked back.

The Valkyrie’s Gate cannot be opened unless you have the courage to be recognized by God.

The very act of me opening that door and entering was a test.

“Then the life I felt when I grabbed the doorknob… .”

“that’s right. It was a life I spent. “You came in after overcoming my threats and threats.”

“You knew I was here.”

“Yes, I said that about the delivery driver on purpose. Catch your opponent off guard. “Isn’t this the basics of warfare?”

Reginleif’s mouth and eyes were smiling, but he was glaring at me with eyes curved like a crescent moon.

Valkyrie doesn’t seem like a very personable person.

“So you have the right to meet Brünnhilde?”

“of course.”

Leginleif answered me in a tone that had suddenly become more polite.

“The challenger is qualified to face her and take the belt from her.”

“Then I would like you to guide me.”

“All right. “Please follow me.”

The Valkyries stood up and took the lead.

They opened the door next to the living room.

Crash.

When Reginleif turned the doorknob, the door opened with the sound of the lock being released.

Sure.

It seemed like an ordinary visit, but the sound of the door opening was anything but ordinary.

A sound like an iron door opening tormented my ears.

The door opened.

“Brünnhilde is sleeping there.”

Reginleif pointed inside.

“Aren’t we coming in together?”

“yes. We are only the gatekeepers protecting this place, but we are not qualified to enter. Kim Do-jin is the only one qualified to enter here.”

“All right.”

I went inside with the guidance of the Valkyries.

Even though it was inside a building, light was coming in through the open sky.

The pouring light shimmered and illuminated the altar in the very center of the room.

And a brown-haired woman lying on the altar.

Brünnhilde, Queen of Iceland and a Valkyrie who roamed the battlefield.

She, the Valkyrie who was supposed to guide the souls of warriors and heroes to Valhalla, was now lying on the altar with her eyes closed as if she were sleeping.

Unlike other Valkyries who were wearing training clothes, she was wearing a Valkyrie helmet embroidered with feathers, chain mail, gauntlets, and combat boots.

She was dressed as if she could go into battle at any moment, and in her hand on her chest was the sword she always carried.

She was lying alone on the altar, sleeping quietly, as if she had been punished by Odin in the myth and fell asleep.

I knew why she was sleeping like the dead.

“Odin… .”

Odin did not simply punish Brünnhilde with house arrest.

Odin wants to use humans to go to a better dimension.

To him, humans were the object of domination and a means to achieve his goal.

However, the Valkyries, including Brünnhilde, did not follow Odin’s will.

Unlike Odin, who reigned as a god, Valkyrie, the leader on the battlefield, was closer to humans than any other gods.

I saw countless people on a battlefield filled with cruel death and felt their lives.

In particular, Brünnhilde, who was both a Valkyrie and a human wife, strongly opposed Odin’s opinion, and Odin cursed her.

It was something I read in a book left to me by a recorder who loved the stories of the Valkyries.

‘Eternal sleep.’

In exchange for her going into a sleep from which she could never wake, the other Valkyries were spared their lives.

The other Valkyries stopped guiding human souls after that incident.

He realized the meaninglessness of that act.

Most of the Valkyries left for their own lands to live their own lives, and only the three Valkyrie sisters outside the gate became the gatekeepers of Brünnhilde’s bedroom.

That’s why it took courage to the point of threatening God to enter the house.

“Finally, I have to get the belt from the person involved.”

I walked towards the altar where she was lying.

Sssss.

When I got close enough to clearly see Brunnhilde’s lying figure, her surroundings began to tremble.

-Who are you?

And Brünnhilde’s resignation appeared.

Due to Odin’s curse, her thoughts that were attached to her body and could not escape were looking at me.

-Who did you receive the iron, the material for that weapon?

Her eyes fell on the sword at my waist.

“I received it from a messenger in the Labyrinth of Herpa.”

-Ah, it’s her.

“Do you know each other?”

-We crossed swords once on the battlefield. He was especially strong among the gods of this world. She can feel her energy. Are you an apostle who believes in the god of this world?

“No, I don’t believe in God.”

-But why did you receive something from a god from another world?

There was one reason.

“Because it helps.”

He planned to use every means possible to take revenge on the gods.

It didn’t matter whether it was an item from a god in the other world or a weapon from a god in human history.

-That’s right, humans have always been like that. I understand. The fact that you, who don’t believe in God but are holding a sacred object, came to me because you need something, right?

“I need your belt.”

-What are you going to use my belt, which I can’t even wake up for, now?

She asked with a sincere voice of ignorance.

“I’m trying to give it to people who need it.”

-… Did Gunther send you?

“Gunther did not send me. Rather, he is closer to a person who needs gunteo.”

-Giving him my belt won’t change his mind.

“We didn’t break up because we both wanted to, right?”

Suyeon Lee said that Brünnhilde and Gunther divorced.

In the process of divorce, Brünnhilde took away all the things that could remember her.

It was a silent sign to forget yourself.

Because humans were animals of forgetfulness.

-It’s already been more than two years since I broke up with that person. He must have forgotten that one too.

“well. “Will the memories we had together disappear so easily after marrying the woman we like?”

But there was something she didn’t know.

Humans are often referred to as animals of forgetfulness, but even such people had memories they could never forget.

Memories made with someone you like.

As a Valkyrie, she didn’t know that even if the clear memories gradually became blurred and faded, the emotions of those times would remain with that person forever.

-Gunther still misses me? That can’t be possible. How harshly did I break up with you?

I didn’t bother to answer her monologue.

She would know better than anyone else.

What must Gunther have been feeling?

I wouldn’t have said anything.

The reason for breaking up and the reason for leaving with all my belongings.

The story that Brünnhilde broke up because she was cursed by Odin should not be revealed, so it was hidden.

‘If Gunther finds out, he will go for revenge.’

Now that he knew that, he must have left quietly.

Brunnhilde, who was lost in thought for a moment, looked at me and said.

-You’re trying to take advantage of that person’s heart.

“you’re right.”

Gunther still hasn’t forgotten her.

Even in my past life, I challenged the Valkyries several times to see Brünnhilde, but I was never able to open the door.

Because I couldn’t bear to face it.

The reality that Brünnhilde may have really abandoned her.

I was planning to take advantage of Gunther’s feelings.

If you want to lead a negotiation in a better position than your opponent, have what they need.

That was the basis of negotiations.

-Can I ask why it is him?

I looked at her.

A Valkyrie who was robbed of her freedom while resisting for humans rather than the gods who served her.

A woman who was cursed into eternal sleep for the survival of her people.

“For the same reason as you.”

-… I don’t understand.

“I intend to ruin all of Odin’s plans.”

To be precise, it is the entire plan of the gods to use humans to leap to a better level.

She paused for a moment at my words and then asked.

-You don’t know what it means to confront God, do you?

“I know. So, I plan to do whatever it takes.”

I would not hesitate to take advantage of the other person’s feelings.

-I want to deny it, but you are an honorable warrior who has come this far with the right qualifications. I accept that request.

Brünnhilde nodded.

As her thoughts beckoned, the cabinet next to the altar opened and her belt floated in the air.

-This is my belt. It was a gift I gave to Gunther after spending a night with him. She brought it back with her when they divorced, and declared to him that she would never give it back.

“thank you.”

I got her belt.

-I hope that plan to go against God’s will succeeds.

Brünnhilde’s thoughts smiled bitterly.

It was a bitter smile filled with the regret of someone who had already resisted God and experienced failure.

“Don’t worry. “I will definitely do it.”

I put the belt I received from her into my kibishi and left, nodding.

“I’ll bring Gunther with me soon.”

-… … .

She didn’t refuse.

They just stay silent and see me off.

“Did you have a good time meeting you?”

As I left Brünnhilde’s room, the three Valkyries saw me.

Although he was still wearing his training clothes, the saggy appearance that I had first seen was nowhere to be seen.

The women, who gave me a feeling of elegance just by standing there, bowed their heads to me.

“The interview was successful. “I’ll come back again later.”

“We await the return of the honorable warrior.”

After parting ways with the girls, I headed to Incheon, where Gunteo is located.

* * *

Kikluk! Kikluk!

When I arrived at the coast of Incheon, the salty smell of the sea stung my nose.

At the same time, the cries of seagulls were echoing in the distance.

The coast not far from Incheon Port.

It is said that King Gunther lives in this place, which is embarrassing to even be called a city.

“The Vikings, who once ruled the world, went fishing in the West Sea. “It doesn’t suit me.”