Chapter 523

Chapter 523

C523

"We won!"

Son OhGong's shout echoed in the sky.

That shout was the signal.

"Aaah!"

"We won! Aaah!"

"I'm alive, I'm alive!"

The joy of victory. The joy of having survived.

Rankers, intoxicated by victory, screamed. As they shouted until the earth trembled, Son OhGong, who shouted first, collapsed backward.

Plop.

No more enemies approached.

All tension faded away, and there was nothing left to do.

Still, it felt good, and a triumphant smile escaped.

"Good job."

"You fought well, Monkey."

"We did it, in the end."

Son OhGong's comrades approached him.

While Son OhGong smiled widely, he saw the figures of his comrades gradually fading away.

"Are they leaving already?"

At Son OhGong's question, Odin nodded.

"The time is up. The path is gone, so we have no choice but to return."

"Ugh. I'm fine."

Unlike his fading comrades, Son OhGong was fine.

Unlike his comrades who had forcefully opened the door, Son OhGong was completely subservient to the timeline of this place.

Son OhGong clicked his tongue in disappointment. On the other hand, he was also worried.

"What will you do with the other side?"

Although the battle in this place had been won, it was different on the other side.

Yog-Sothoth was still there, and on the other hand, there was no way to cross from here.

"Mimir said that if we solve this side, everything will be fine."

It was an incomprehensible statement.

After studying the Clock Movement together with Odin, and since Zeus came to the future, Odin thought that the two worlds were completely separate.

But would everything be fine when they returned?

"I thought they weren't connected and were parallel worlds... Isn't that right? Or maybe that guy has another trick up his sleeve, but we'll know when we go back."

Despite that, Odin believed in Mimir's words.

Odin and his comrades' trust in Mimir was almost absolute. So far, there was nothing that had not been true of what he had done and said.

"Yes. If that guy says so..."

Son OhGong nodded and got up with difficulty.

He couldn't bid farewell to his comrades lying on his back.

"Goodbye, friends."

Whoosh~

The comrades scattered on the battlefield disappeared. Son OhGong looked at them with melancholic eyes as they faded away with a faint halo of light.

Now everything was over.

Really...

At that moment...

"And YuWon?"

Pandora, who had been looking around for someone since the battle ended, approached Son OhGong and asked.

"Where is he?"

Clearly, he had appeared on this battlefield. Pandora was sure she hadn't seen things.

But YuWon's figure was nowhere to be seen.

"Eh?"

A bewildered and silly face, as if asking what was that. Normally, Pandora thought that face was amusing, but at that moment, that expression seemed creepy to her.

Son OhGong didn't remember YuWon.

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The war had ended.

The Tower had experienced a period of turmoil for quite some time. The power shift among the Great Guilds due to Odin's death and the war led the Tower to a different kind of chaos.

Fortunately, the one who resolved that turmoil was Zeus, who had returned to life.

"From now on, Olympus will form an alliance with Asgard."

The alliance between Asgard and Olympus.

Despite Odin's death, Asgard's strength remained the same.

To that was added Olympus and Zeus.

A force with power that no one would dare to challenge.

Moreover, in Olympus, not only Zeus was present.

Pandora took a bite of cake and chewed it.

"Why don't they remember?"

Suddenly, her hands began to shake.

It had been more than twenty years since she awaited him, but he still hadn't returned.

"Why... did you leave?"

The woman eating the cake couldn't help but sob. She wanted not to cry, but she couldn't. So she started eating the cake again to avoid having to move her hands nervously.

Meanwhile, Pandora repeated over and over in her mind, preparing for that moment that might come.

Kim YuWon.

Even if everyone had forgotten, she would never forget.

And she would wait.

She would wait for the one who entered through that door not to be Hercules or Son OhGong but the one she was waiting for.

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Chiki-chiki-cha-cha-cha-choco-choco-cho!

Chiki-chiki-cha-cha-cha-choco-choco-cho!

Clack!

Turning off the alarm, YuWon got up with half-closed eyes.

He had been told not to set a song he liked as an alarm. Although it was an anime song he had liked since forever, it was too noisy to listen to in the morning.

"Ugh!"

Stretching his arms, YuWon looked at the smartphone in his hand.

[AM - 7:30]

It was quite early for a normal day.

He wanted to sleep a bit more, but he couldn't.

He couldn't be late on the first day of classes. Quickly, YuWon got out of bed and headed to the bathroom next to his small apartment.

Ssh-!

After taking a warm shower and drying his hair, he came out.

The school was not far. He had found an apartment close to the school, so he could go to class without spending money on transportation.

However, the rent was higher than that of other apartments.

"YuWon!"

While climbing the hill towards the school's main entrance, he heard a voice calling him from behind.

He turned around and saw his classmate, Han DaEun, running towards him.

"Is your leg not hurting?"

"I called you from far away, but you ignored me," said DaEun.

From her reaction, DaEun, she, seemed to have been calling for a while.

But YuWon couldn't hear her from afar because he had headphones on.

"Again with that song?"

"Yes."

"Why do you always listen to the same thing? Is it a concept?"

Not only once a day but every day.

YuWon listened to the same song over and over again, even if it wasn't from his generation.

Some people looked at him strangely, but well.

Even if a person is strange, if they're handsome, they'll always have friends. Plus, YuWon had a good character, except for his habit of listening to a strange song over and over again.

"For Son OhGong."

"Why Son OhGong?"

"I don't know, I just feel familiar with him."

"If that's the case, why don't you listen to Dr4gon B4ll too?"

"It's not the same, I don't know."

After answering like that, YuWon took the earphone from Han DaEun's ear.

The same song played again in his ears. Even though he had heard it thousands of times, YuWon kept listening to it.

No matter what Han DaEun said next to him.

YuWon focused more on the song.

"Son OhGong, Son OhGong..."

While listening to the song, YuWon kept thinking.

Son OhGong.

He was just a character from an old anime, and he only appeared in the mythology of "Journey to the West."

However, for some reason, YuWon didn't feel that Son OhGong was a fictional character from a mythology or a cartoon.

'...I know it's strange.'

Nevertheless, YuWon began to obsessively listen to this song at some point.

He felt that if he kept listening to this song, he might remember something.

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