Chapter 249

Truck driver, Kang Seok-Du, clutched his twisted ankle and screamed.

“Ahhhh! You bastard!” The bones he had barely managed to piece together just before began to twist around again. As the areas between his bones and joints scratched each other, a dull pain spread from his soles to his hips. When he gained his senses, the vessels in his eyes had popped from the increased pressure around the area.

Huff. Huff. Huff.

Kang Seok-Du checked his twisted ankle. It was twisted much more than before. Since he didn’t give muscles and joints enough time to heal and stabilize, bones that had been moved out of place were more easily twisted with even less force. He needed to endure the pain and put it back into place again. Yet, he couldn’t do that while the crazy bastard—Bong Tae-Yoon—was watching him.

He was nineteen years old right now, but who knew how many more years this monstrous demon actually lived? Kang Seok-Du looked at the madman standing in the opposite direction from him. Tae-Yoon spat out the blood that had collected in his mouth to the floor. Though his face was quite beaten up, he still maintained his original beauty and gazed arrogantly at Kang Seok-Du.

“...Why don’t you go? Let me see how far you can go.” Tae-Yoon even proclaimed to let him go as if he was going to be the one hunting now.

Kang Seok-Du, who had been the hunter until now, didn’t feel pleased about their change in roles. Yet, it wasn’t like he could continue staying here. If he remained in this place and got his other leg twisted up, it would be like he was giving himself up for torture.

‘Shit! Shit! Shit!’ Kang Seok-Du cursed inside his mind and crawled back towards his car. He leaned his body against the tire and touched his twisted ankle again.

‘Let me do things one at a time. One at a time,’ he thought. He inhaled sharply and put a towel in his mouth to prevent himself from accidently cracking his teeth.

“Ahhhhh!” While twisting his ankle, he felt a prickling pain that climbed up all the way to the back of his neck and spread. All the muscles and bones in his body vibrated from the pain. His vision turned completely white and blood soaked the towel he was biting on.

“Haaa...haa...haa....” Though his ankle returned to its original angle, it was a mystery whether it could still maintain its original functions.

No, it probably couldn’t. His body was already full of parts that could no longer resume its original functions. The muscles in both of his arms had already deteriorated to the point that he had severe muscle tremors and had trouble eating. His pectoralis major, trapezius, and erector spinae muscle all showed signs of muscle deterioration too. This was the price of pushing his body beyond human limits. Yet, he simply brushed it off, thinking he could easily get a new body once he finished all these missions.

[Within one year, kill Bong Tae-Yoon and then, annihilate all the Siren members.]

[Upon success, the overturning of this world]

[Upon failure, death]

It was a very simple but direct message. Yet, the result of success was anything but ‘simple’. ‘The overturning of this world’— he didn’t understand what this reward was at first but as time passed, thoughts came to his mind as if he was receiving a revelation. Two sides existed in this world and one side was the one that moved this world to its original direction while the other side moved to overturn this world; it was the world of reversal.

When the power of the original direction’s world was strong, the world of reversal couldn’t use its powers properly and was only pushed back. Yet, as one stumbled on a pebble on the ground, there were times when the original direction’s world was pushed back too. Those were the rare moments when the world of reversal could push back the original direction’s world.

Click. Kang Seok-Du closed the car’s door, gripped the car handles tightly, and waited. After counting to ten, he planned to go outside and run with all his might.

“1...2...3...4.” Numbers flowed out of Kang Seok-Du’s mouth. “8...9...”

Then, the moment he opened the car door to leave, a voice other than his said, “10.”

It came from the passenger seat right behind the driver seat. There were two pupils staring at him. It was Bong Tae-Yoon.

“Fuck!” Tae-Yoon had already been in the car since he first came inside. Before he could run away, Tae-Yoon soon caught him again. He did a head-lock on Kang Seok-Du and wrapped his arms around Kang Seok-Du’s neck.

Gasp!

As strong pressure became applied around his neck, Kang Seok-Du felt his oxygen level drop sharply. Though he scratched Tae-Yoon’s forearm with his fingernails, he only got some bits of flesh and Tae-Yoon didn’t loosen his grip. Tae-Yoon’s eyes that he saw through the back mirror were simply calm and peaceful. He didn’t feel any trembling or movement in Tae-Yoon’s eyes, and those eyes pushed Kang Seok-Du into a deeper state of anxiety.

It felt like a sure and absolute death would swallow him up calmly like this. The more evil a person was, the more attached they were to living, and Kang Seok-Du felt a stronger survival instinct than anyone else.

“Ahhhh!” He borrowed the system’s power to draw out a strength that surpassed a human’s limitations. He grabbed Tae-Yoon wrist and threw him outside. Yet, Tae-Yoon didn’t remain still. He pushed himself in the center console between the driver seat and the passenger seat next to it.

Then before Kang Seok-Du could escape, he activated the car. Even in that short period, Tae-Yoon’s hand exactly found the place to insert the car’s key and stuck the key inside. As expected, Tae-Yoon was the one who had the car key.

Tae-Yoon pressed on Kang Seok-Du’s right thigh hard. The activated engine made the entire car lightly vibrate.

“What the...” Without giving Kang Seok-Du a break to even think, Tae-Yoon gripped Kang Seok-Du’s neck. The strong grip tightened around Kang Seok-Du’s respiratory tract. Then, with skillful movements, Tae-Yoon pounded on his thigs again and Kang Seok-Du’s feet moved to the gas pedal unbeknownst to his will. He realized that things would be over the moment he stepped on this pedal.

In this period of peace, it was a ‘car’ that killed more people than a knife or a gun. And right now, they weren’t on this vehicle for the purpose of transport but as a mean for joint suicide. Though his head rang alarm bells to tell him of the danger, there wasn’t much he could do. All he could do was put more strength in his thighs and resist from stepping on the gas pedal with all his might. Yet, even that became impossible with Tae-Yoon’s machine-like order.

“Step on it.”

—Step on it

Brooooom!

Kang Seok-Du stepped on the gas pedal with full force.