Seoul Station’s Necromancer Chapter 2:
Chapter 2 – Finally Seoul! (2)
The bullies coughed several times . They stealthily got up, then they hurriedly ran away after surveying the situation . Woojin thought about chasing after them . However, he didn’t have any reasons to chase after them, so he left them alone .
“Th . . thank you very much .
Do-jaemin approached him, and he bowed his head . This strange person was wearing weird clothes, but he had helped Jaemin .
“Ah, it is nothing . However, let me ask you a question . ”
Jaemin started to come up with a story when he heard Woojin’s words . Since he had rescued a kid from being beaten by bullies, he thought he would ask a question like ‘Why were they hitting you?’
Of course, this was assuming he was a normal adult .
“What’s today’s date?”
“Yes?”
“I’m asking for today’s date . ”
“Ah, it is November, 10th . ”
“What year is it?”
“It is 2015 . ”
“What?”
Kim-woojin was so surprised that he didn’t speak for a long time . He had bee ‘summoned’ to the other world on the year 2010 . He was in his 3rd year of high school .
“Ha . What is happening?”
He had spent twenty years over there, but only 5 years had passed on earth . Woojin pressed his hand against his temple as he ordered his thoughts .
“Maybe this is better for me?”
He had thought 20 years had pass here, and he would have never suspected otherwise . This was why he thought it would be impossible for him to find his family again . However, if it had only been 5 years, then they might be living in the same house .
If he thought about it, it wasn’t a bad situation .
He looked for a mirror in his surrounding, but he couldn’t find one . Woojin’s eyes once again looked towards Jaemin .
“Hey, how old do I look?”
“What?”
Should the idiom, ‘out of the frying pan into the fire’, be used in this situation? He had escaped the bullies yet he might have been caught by a crazy person now .
Jaemin thought about what to say, but he decided to speak as he saw it .
“Around twenty two . ”
“Is that so?”
‘Did my body get younger? Did I find my youth after I lost all my magic? Or, was my body restructured?’
He’ll gradually puzzle over it, but Woojin had to resolve some urgent business first .
He had returned after twenty years, but only 5 years had passed .
His most urgent priority was to find his family . He couldn’t remember his home phone number, and of course, he didn’t remember his family’s phone numbers . Fortunately, he was at the high school he had attended, so he remembered how to find his way back home to his family .
If they hadn’t moved away, he’ll be able to have a reunion with his family today .
The problem was how would he get home?
It was a distance where he couldn’t walk it . The distance was equivalent to taking a subway through seven stations . Woojin’s eyes looked to be uncertain .
“Let me borrow some money . ”
“What?”
“Let me borrow some transportation fee . ”
Jaemin regretted not running away with the bullies . He didn’t dare to refuse him . He had taken out the bullies with one blow, so if Jaemin refused, his fists wouldn’t forgive Jaemin .
Jaemin turned out his pocket, then he pushed forward all his money .
He had 7300 won .
“Thank you . I promise I’ll pay you back . ”
“N . . no . You don’t have to . ”
“Uh-huh . Do you see me as someone, who would extort from a kid? I’ll pay you back . ”
Woojin rooted through his pocket, then he spoke as if he had forgotten something .
“Oh yeah . I don’t have a hand phone . Write your phone number on a paper for me . ”
Jaemin followed Woojin’s words, and he took out a notebook from his backpack . He ripped the corner of the notebook, then he wrote his phone number . He thought over dozens of times whether he should write his phone number or if he should write a fake number .
‘Eh-it . He won’t be able to tell . ’
Jaemin purposefully wrote down a fake phone number . He didn’t want to be called out, and be extorted again . He wanted to get out of here as fast as he can before the man could harass him .
“All right . Big brother will contact you, and I’ll pay back the money . ”
“Yes . Have a nice day . ”
Even if the man doesn’t pay him back, Jaemin wanted to quickly vacate this place, and he never wanted to see the man again . Woojin was alone again . He left the incineration plant then he walked around the school .
“Ha . The memories keeps popping up into my head . ”
Only five years had passed, but it had been twenty years since he visited his school .
“I’m 24 years old? Mother and father should be over 50 years old now . ”
When he thought about his family, his heart was deeply moved again . He had endured the hellish time, as he wished for the day he would once again return to his family’s embrace .
“I wonder if Sooah grew a lot?”
His youngest sibling, Sooah, was 2 years old when he left, so she should already be 7 years old now . Woonjin’s steps quickened as he thought about his family .
When he walked on the side-walks after exiting the school, every person he met whispered behind his back . It was understandable since Woojin’s clothes was in rough shape .
Maybe it was the effect of the Dimensional Travel, but his equipment had evaporated . Woojin looked like a mess . Even the shoes he wore were leather shoes, so he would look strange in the eyes of the people .
“Jeez . ”
He was unnecessarily embarrassed, but it couldn’t curb Woojin’s spirit . Woojin’s mental state had transcended the point where he wouldn’t lower his head, because of his clothes .
It’ll only be embarrassing until he had reached his house .
Woojin tried hard to ignore the whispers emanating from the people, and he found the subway station .
“Huh? Why is the military troops here? Was there an accident?”
Soldiers were clustered around the entrance to the subway station . It didn’t seem like a training exercise . They even put up a steel fence, and they had guards posted .
“Jeez . What is this?”
Woo-jiin tried to talk to a pedestrian passing by at that moment .
“Excuse me . I would like to ask you a question . ”
“Ah, I don’t believe in it . ”
An older woman in her 40s replied in annoyance as if she had seen some kind of insect . She hurriedly moved her feet, and she disappeared in haste .
What is this? It felt weird .
He quickly stopped two female students, who seemed to be high school students .
“Excuse me . ”
“Ah, let go of me . I don’t know anything about religion . ”
Woojin became angry at the irritated response, but he tried hard to calm him heart .
“I’m not here to ask you to believe in a religion . What are those soldiers doing over there? Are they training?”
“Of course, the soldiers are guarding the dungeon entrance . Ah, let me go . I have to go to my tutoring school . ”
The female student broke free from Woojin’s grasp . She started walking away, while she rubbed her arm as if his touch was unclean .
“Ha, how rude . ”
He guessed people referred to the subway station as dungeons . He thought the five years was a short time, but apparently it wasn’t .
“I guess it is a popular slang used by the kids . ”
Well, he did the same thing when he was in school .
Short-handed words and slangs changed incredibly fast with the development of the internet . It wouldn’t be surprising if someone like Woojin from 5 years ago would not know these terms .
“Huh? There are no soldiers over there . ”
After confirming no one was present at the entrance of the subway station across the street, he crossed the street . When he descended the stairway of the subway entrance, he saw iron bars and a steel door like one would see in a prison .
“What the heck? Why did they block this place off?”
No wonder no one was here . They had shut this place down . Woojin looked across the steel bars, and he saw light coming from the subway tunnel .
The steel door was locked with a sturdy lock . He looked around his surrounding and he saw a small booth like the apartment guard booths . He looked around inside, and he saw a bundle of keys . He took it and he tried to open the lock .
Click .
“What is this? Did the subway workers go on a strike?”
He returned the bundle of keys to the booth, then he headed toward the other side of the steel door . There were no one underneath the blinking florescent lights, and the atmosphere was quite creepy .
“They might have shut down the station instead of going on a strike . ”
If the station was shut down then there was no chance they would operate the subway train .
Woojin was about to turn around when it happened .
<You have entered the dungeon at Gwachun Station’s 1st Exit . >
“Huh . What is this?”