Chapter 81

“What is going on?!”

Suddenly, the door connected to the guardian room was opened, and Kim Sunghan poked his head in . His gaze went to the Dokkaebi and then turned back to me .

“A friend just came to visit . Please do not mind it . ”

“Are you alright?”

“Yes . It is well known that the Dokkaebi is neutral . It is alright . ”

It was the Dokkaebi with teleportation, who could teleport taking along a person at that . From the point of view of protecting me, you couldn’t help but mind it .

Kim Sunghan was uneasy, but closed the door . In the meantime, the Dokkaebi had been fiddling with the remote .

“Boss, is there anything fun on?”

“No, not really . ”

Following the Dokkaebi, I moved my gaze to the TV . On the news, it was saying that the overseas gathering that insisted that dungeons bursting open was something natural had terrorized the Hunter Association .

[Shouting that monsters being released through dungeon breaks were the providence of a god, they took up the streets-]

‘So those people already appeared . ’

It felt like they had come out a long time after, originally . Was it not? Since it was something from 5 years ago, my memory wasn’t exact . They could’ve been running around from time to time before they became a full-fledged social problem .

“What is this? It’s pretty!”

The Dokkaebi was eyeing the chocolate box on the table next to the bed . It was what Sung Hyunjae had given . I didn’t particularly like sweet things, but my mouth had nothing else to do, so I was just eating it, when half had disappeared . Maybe because it was expensive, it was tasty too .

“Chocolate . You want some?”

“Yeah!”

They lifted the mask slightly and put in their mouth first, before they nodded their head . They really did seem like a kid .

Still, it was time to boss them around again .

While I had gone into the dungeon and was carried out, of course the rearing facility, but also the connected building had finished its interior repair . The Suk Hayan team said that they had already moved to the building .

Since the data that was sent first was all organized, it was time to need new data .

“Our loving Yoon Yoon, have you rested a lot during this time?”

When I spoke friendily, the hands picking up and eating the chocolate stopped . Then they turned to look at me .

“You were like that last time, but you really talk like my grandmother . ”

As expected, was it their grandmother? When I checked the My Brat skill window, (Yoon Yoon-B) had newly appeared . Han Yoohyun, crazy guy .

“You have to go investigate dungeons again, so eat a lot . You can eat all of it . If there’s anything you want to eat, just say . ”

Would I not be able to buy you anything? As long as you listen to me well, I will become the heart of a grandmother looking after her grandchild .

I used the My Brat skill on the Dokkaebi, who was focusing on the chocolate again . My heart was pounding at the thought of letting them get the ultra long distance gate skill, but,

[They are an incomplete species[1] . ]

A weird message popped up . Huh?

[In order for growth, an item similar to the relevant incomplete species’ structure is needed . The completed species and the level of completion differs following the item’s characteristics and rank . ]

‘……Incomplete species . If you calculate it out, it’s a new species altogether… it is, but . ’

They called themself the Dokkaebi, so I just casually overlooked it, but if I thought about it, they were a being that definitely wasn’t human . Since there’s the system administrators and Myeongwoo’s Forge’s elemental, it wasn’t anything new . Still, the only one who had solely come directly out of this world and was active, was the Dokkaebi .

…And there might be more too .

Anyways, an item that was similar to the structure . Ah, maybe .

‘Would it work with this?’

I opened my inventory list . I saw the Nameless Demon King’s Old Spinning Wheel .

‘It’s a wheel, similar to a waterwheel, and it’s an object that is old and was used . And the rank is the high SS-Rank . ’

No matter how I looked at it, it seemed like it was given fitting this . Could the system people’s influence have gone into this?

There was no reason to refuse something already prepared, so I took out the spinning wheel from my inventory .

“Yoon Yoon . ”

“Hm?”

The Dokkaebi who had cleanly finished up the last chocolate, turned to look at me . Seeing the spinning wheel in my hand, they tilted their head .

“What’s that? It gives off a kind of weird feeling . ”

“It’s an item necessary for your growth . ”

But how do I use it? Do I just give it to them? I passed the spinning wheel over to the Dokkaebi . Holding that, the Dokkaebi doubtfully tilted their head again .

“Nameless Demon King’s Old Spinning Wheel? It’s a demon king’s item? If it’s a demon king, then it’s really scary, right? With large horns, and is red, and really big and strong!”

“Well, something like that . ”

“Then I want to be a demon king!”

It wasn’t even an nine-year-old’s future wish; was it okay to just suddenly change your species? For the future, a moment’s wrong choice- .

Ooooooong!

The spinning wheel abruptly vibrated lightly and let out a dark red light . I thought something was serious, so I held the sleeping Chirpie .

“So it’s like that . It’s really a demon king’s spinning wheel . ”

The Dokkaebi mumbled to themself .

“It’s incredibly old . Older than me . ”

“…Yoon Yoon?”

It wouldn’t be that the spinning wheel would become the basis because it was older, or something like that, right? When I checked using the Seed-Leaf skill, it was still as always .

“Alright, demon kings really are the scariest . Right . I will!”

Seureureu-

The spinning wheel collapsed like a sand castle, and seeped into the Dokkaebi’s palms, their body . Was it okay to just leave it like this? Should I block it? Of course, I couldn’t block it and I was about to call Kim Sunghan, but Yoon Yoon’s status window changed .

[1st Rank Demon Race – Demon King Yoon Yoon

Current Stat Rank SS

Possible Awakening Stat Rank SS]

Awakened Person Yoon Yoon’s written part had changed to like a monster’s . The stats were also SS-Rank . Besides that, to think it was demon race – even up to 5 years later, that hadn’t ever come out once!

“Dokkaebi!”

“I’m a demon king!”

Goooong!

Yoon Yoon’s body became bigger as if swelling . At the same time, a gloomy air burst out like it was surging . The furniture made loud noises as they broke, fell over,

Jjujuk-

Fine fissures appeared in the Hunter exclusive hospital’s VIP room’s special walls .

‘…There’s no damage to me . ’

It was probably at the level of a straw house in front of a typhoon against an SS-Rank, but I used the B-Rank shielding skill . But not a single edge of the raging power touched the shielding .

‘Is their personality the same?’

This grandmother was happy . I was thinking it was a relief and was withdrawing the shielding in order to talk, when,

Bam!

“What is going on?!”

Actually breaking down the bent door that had been rammed with a table, Kim Sunghan ran in . In the meantime, Yoon Yoon had completely changed .

It was the image that commonly came to mind for a demon king . It was exactly that .

A curving pair of large horns and giant membrane wings . Wavering pitch black hair above the red skin, a rough-looking face, and canines jutting out . The body that had become about three to four times the size of a human, had bulging muscles and was surrounded by clothes that were wavering around like black fog .

Sharp claws and even a long tail similar to that of a reptile .

Their imagination was a little lacking . Besides that, all of their optimized initial skills had changed . Even just glancing at the skill names, all of them were combat related . My ultra long distance gate……

“Han Yoojin-ssi! Hurry, ugh!”

Kim Sunghan, who tried to run toward me, was wrapped in the edges of the black fog . I was momentarily taken aback from the behavior that wasn’t like Yoon Yoon, but they were just restraining him, and no attacks were inflicted .

Kim Sunghan struggled to get free no matter what, but the fog edges didn’t move one bit . The difference in rank was too big . On top of that, they had the title of demon king, so wouldn’t they be high grade among SS-Ranks? Even just looking at the possible Awakening rank, it wasn’t S~SS but exactly SS . It meant that its rank was higher than the Babar .

“Yoon Yoon . ”

-Geureureureu

At my call, the demon king let out a heavy rumbling . It wouldn’t be that they couldn’t speak because they became affiliated to monsters, right?

The demon king that turned their head towards me heaved their body, and then opened their mouth and yelled .

-It’s scary, right!!

“No . ”

-……Why? Why isn’t it scary?

The demon king’s expression became sullen . The incredibly wrinkled face reminded me of a bulldog, so even laughter spilled out .

It was a relief . The inside was still the same . They were still our Yoon Yoon .

I put on an extremely leisurely smile and replied .

“You were much scarier when you were a dokkaebi . Do you remember when we first met? I was shocked to death . ”

-But I’m a demon king? Isn’t a demon king scarier than a dokkaebi?

“Look at me . Do I look scared?”

-Noo .

The demon king shook their head even more gloomily . Don’t act cute with that face and that voice . Cute .

“But you were scary when you were a dokkaebi . You remember me being frightened, right?”

-You weren’t scared after that!

“Everything becomes not scary once you get used to it . But I wasn’t alarmed even though it was my first time seeing a demon king . So, obviously, a dokkaebi is scarier! That ahjussi also was alarmed because I might get hurt; it wasn’t that he was scared of you . ”

The demon king turned to look at Kim Sunghan . Kim Sunghan quick-wittedly nodded his head .

-…Eh, demon kings are boring .

“They are boring . And they’re too common, and they have no individuality . ”

It wasn’t that I was looking down on an SS-Rank demon king . But a dokkaebi was better than a demon king . Putting aside the skills, above all, it was obvious that if I let the demon king loose like this, they would start to run rampant .

Just seeing how they immediately subdued Kim Sunghan, their aggression definitely increased . On top of that, if they went outside and swung their arms a little, they would quickly realize how much people were scared of them, unlike what I said .

An aggressive demon king that liked scaring people . Would it be anything other than a disaster?

-Then I want to be a dokkaebi . A dokkaebi king!

The demon king that had yelled cheerfully with a husky voice started to change their form .

Along with that, Yoon Yoon’s status window changed again .

[Awakened Person – Dokkaebi King Yoon Yoon

Current Stat Rank S

Possible Awakening Stat Rank S

Optimized Initial Skills

Progenitor of the Dokkaebi Race(L) Acquired

Dokkaebi Door(S) Acquired

Guess Who?(S) Acquired

Cloud Steps(B) Acquired]

The stat rank had been lowered to S . Compared to before, it had leapt up . The optimized initial skills also had two more compared to before . The Dokkaebi Door seemed like the ultra long distance gate skill, but,

‘Progenitor of the Dokkaebi Race?’

On top of that it was L-Rank . Even the demon king didn’t have an L-Rank skill .

In the meantime, the demon king, no the dokkaebi king’s appearance had completely changed .

“This is the appearance of the Great Dokkaebi King!”

The voice that was higher and more ringing than before, laughed cheerfully . It was a voice that weirdly tickled your heart .

The hair that was fluttering around like when they were the demon king, had changed to pure white . The mask had broken so the face was exposed .

They had clear blue eyes and the ends of the white eyebrows were long . It was still hard to tell the gender of the fancy-but-white-porcelain-like appearance filled with elegance . Even the baggy clothes that seemed like it was made from colorful cloth connected together, was ambiguous, other than that it was Eastern .

“Mr . Kim can have this!”

The Dokkaebi King took off the demon king’s horns that were left on their head and tossed it to the bed . I stopped soothing Chirpie, who had woken up and was fussing, and picked up one of the horns and checked the information window .

[Disappeared Demon King’s Right Horn – SS-Rank

It is the remaining horn of the demon king that completely ceased to exist down to the last piece . ]

‘Last piece’, so it wasn’t a normal spinning wheel . This was definitely a material item . I should give it to Myeongwoo .

“Can I know what your new skills are?”

“Yeah! They’re- . ”

Yoon Yoon, who was going to continue speaking, turned to look at Kim Sunghan . Kim Sunghan, who was searching the mood without taking his eyes off the Dokkaebi King, reflexively frowned .

“Sunghan-ssi, could you excuse us for a moment? And it seems like an explanation about the situation will be necessary outside since the noise was quite loud . ”

“Is it safe?”

“Yes, it is fine . Just, um . Something like an Awakening event? It was something like a passing gust of wind . It is fine now . ”

Kim Sunghan hesitated and then left the hospital room . Yoon Yoon nodded their head and continued speaking again .

“Progenitor of the Dokkaebi Race and Dokkaebi Door and Dokkaebi Mask . ”

Maybe thanks to the keyword effect, they obediently spilled it all in front of me .

“Dokkaebi Mask is this!”

Going ‘ta-da’, Yoon Yoon’s appearance… changed to my appearance . The face and height and body shape were all the same . Even the clothes were the hospital gown . Chirpie cheeped and was surprised .

-Chirp chirp!

“No, no . That’s not dad . ”

When I held up Chirpie, who was struggling, trying to go to Yoon Yoon, and showed it my face, its two eyes became round .

-Chi…rp?

“Turn back to normal . The kid is startled . …Can you change gender too?”

“Completely!”

Yoon Yoon said, turning back to their appearance .

“Though skills and stats don’t work . ”

If even those worked, then it would be a scam . But outwardly, it was really a complete transformation .

“Keep that skill hidden well . ”

“What? How can I hide something this fun? I should use it!”

That wasn’t good . Seeing how they were excited, it would be no use even if I coaxed them . Well, it was a type that could be used even if it was revealed .

“Dokkaebi Door is making a door that can go really far away . It has to be a place I’ve been to, and once every 10 days!”

“Please don’t use it normally, if it’s possible . It’ll be bad if you can’t use it when it’s urgent . ”

“I’ll try~ . ”

I didn’t believe them . If you’ve become a king, then change a little . Anyways, if it had to be someplace they’ve been, I should make them travel a lot even if it wasn’t for the dungeon investigations .

“And lastly, a skill for making my subordinates!”

“Subordinates?”

“Yeah, subordinates~ or subjects? So anyways, Boss Mr . Kim! I’m busy now! I have to go find things that are old and were used for a long time and thrown away . ”

“…Could it be that you can make dokkaebi? Yoon Yoon, you?”

Yoon Yoon nodded their head hard . Wow… was that okay? Unlike monsters, you could communicate and they weren’t aggressive, but it seemed like a new group of beings would suddenly pop up .

“Do you have to make them immediately starting right now?”

“Yeah! Since I’m a king . It’s my responsibility and duty!”

The voice was cheerful, but the gleam in their eyes were quite earnest . And they weren’t a guy who would listen even if you dissuaded them . Did I have to buy land and make something like a dokkaebi village? How many would there be? At any rate, since they said they had to be things that were thrown away, they wouldn’t be robbing museums .

“I’ll come back after making a lot of subordinates~ . ”

I quickly grabbed Yoon Yoon who was about to leave after saying bye-bye .

“If you’re going to find them, a place with a big population really would be good . Go to China . While you’re there, investigate dungeons too . Hm?”

Work, work . Normally, kings that were born on this ground had to work to the bone .

In the end, the Dokkaebi King promised they would also investigate dungeon and disappeared .

[1] it’s more like ‘kind, type’ I think… and the krn-eng dict also offered ‘tribe’, but anyways I thought this would be clearer than ‘kind’