I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Chapter 126 The One Called Father

Once more.

A much more powerful earthquake swept across the entire Korean Peninsula.

“Urgh?!”

“Everyone, press your bodies to the ground! If you’re not careful, you’ll be thrown off!”

The sheer force was so immense that every building in Seoul tilted.

Even the Hunter Association building, which was designed to withstand a nuclear bomb, wasn’t immune.

“T-The Hunter Association building…!”

“!!”

The Hunter Association building, struck not from the outside but from within, began to collapse the moment the tremors subsided.

Thud!

“Lorensky.”

“Jin-ah…”

As the building slowly crumbled, Barbachov Lorensky, the Soviet Union’s only national power-level Hunter, landed in front of them.

“What happened?”

Jin-ah Lee immediately asked him for a situation report.

And…

“…”

Lorensky remained silent.

Instead of answering, he simply pointed his thumb at the collapsing building.

Following his gesture,

Step, step.

“…!”

“He survived that explosion?”

“Truly a great evil. It seems the future world was destroyed by that demon.”

Despite having taken a nuclear bomb-level explosion head-on, the future Shin-woo emerged from the burning Hunter Association building as if nothing had happened.

‘I need to resurrect Lu Bu Fengxian, but… Do we even have time for that?’

One wrong move, and it would mean instant death.

Jin-ah instinctively knew this.

They were only still alive because the man hadn’t yet found them worth killing.

Or perhaps, as Jin-ah surmised, he had a different objective.

As she had guessed.

“Sophia.”

“…Shin-woo?”

“It’s been a while.”

The future Shin-woo paid no attention to anyone else, his focus solely on Sophia.

Sophia, on the other hand, was shocked by the appearance of the man she loved, so different from the Shin-woo she knew.

Seeing how worn out, haggard, and barely alive the future Shin-woo looked, she covered her mouth with her hands.

“Are you… okay?”

“What… do you mean?”

“You look so tired, Shin-woo.”

“…!”

Sophia had only expressed concern for Shin-woo.

But the future Shin-woo, seeing hope, compassion, and love in her words.

“Thank you, Sophia. As always, there’s no one like you.”

“Shin-woo…”

“It feels much better to hear concern from you once than to hear it a hundred times from Ria or the other queens.”

He wanted to take this beloved person back to his world as soon as possible.

To quickly seat her on the throne of the queen, right beside him.

To bestow upon her the wealth and honor that none of the other queens had ever received, the future Shin-woo began walking toward Sophia.

But despite knowing it shouldn’t be this way.

“Don’t come any closer!”

“…What?”

“Please… Please, don’t do this, Shin-woo.”

Sophia extended her hands, trying to stop the evil god’s approach.

Her eyes welled with tears, sorrowful that she had to say such things to the same Shin-woo she loved, but knowing it was necessary.

“This isn’t your world.”

“Sophia…!”

“What on earth did you do in the future?! You fool! Did you really… really kill everyone in the world?”

She decided to ask him directly.

The emotional reunion was secondary; she wanted to understand Shin-woo’s intentions.

Then, after a brief pause, the future Shin-woo, his lips tightly bitten to the point of drawing blood, responded.

“…Yes.”

“!”

“It was I who destroyed humanity in the future.”

“But why…”

“Because they betrayed us first.”

It was a truth that would be revealed to her once she entered his future world anyway.

With that thought, the future Shin-woo began recounting all his actions up until now to Sophia and the others present.

And once his story ended, Jin-ah’s group was plunged into a deep silence.

“You turned the entire Earth, except for the Korean Peninsula, into a sea of fire…?”

“This is… far more bleak than the story Jae-won told us.”

“W-Wait a minute! Does that mean there’s no candy or sweets in the future?!”

Even Eve, who had narrowly survived by clinging to Joan of Arc just before the explosion, was now awake and shocked by the situation.

“So you’re saying you did all this for me…?”

“Yes, it was for you, but also for myself.”

Sophia, making eye contact with the future Shin-woo, whose eyes were now filled with life, asked in disbelief.

“Then why did you treat your children that way?”

“…Huh?”

The unexpected question made the future Shin-woo, who had been about to smile, suddenly close his mouth.

“You said that you took your children—your own flesh and blood—to the battlefield.”

“…? And so?”

“And so?! You took your children into a blood-soaked war, and then you sent them to the past as well…”

“Sophia, you’re worrying about children that aren’t even yours? You’re so kind.”

“Shin-woo, you fool! This isn’t something to brush off by calling me kind!”

Even if she hadn’t given birth to them herself.

Even if she hadn’t met them yet because they had been kept away from her for their protection.

Sophia knew she could love and care for these children, who shared the blood of the man she loved, as if they were her own.

Having already met her biological son, who had grown up alone and been deeply hurt.

The way Shin-woo was using his children like disposable tools made her shudder.

“They’re your children… No, they’re our children! I became certain after meeting Jae-won. Even if they were born from another woman, I could still love them like my own.”

“Sophia…”

“They could be Jae-won’s strong brothers, sisters, or siblings. Or children Jae-won could protect! But how could you, as their father, do this?”

“Jae-won… Is that the name of the son we had?”

“Yes! And not just him, but all the children you had with other women… All the children you had with Ria—they’re all your sons and daughters!”

Sophia’s voice rose as she breathed heavily in frustration.

Why had he changed so much?

Why had he become so broken?

Why, after all this pain and struggle, had the future Shin-woo ended up like this?

As she scolded him, Sophia couldn’t help but cry, realizing how powerless she had been to help him.

And as she wept, the future Shin-woo began walking toward her to wipe away her tears.

“Sob… Don’t come.”

“No, I will.”

“I can’t go with you…”

“That’s not for you to decide.”

“If I go with you, what will happen to the Shin-woo left in this world…”

“This is a parallel universe. Forget about someone like him.”

He decided not to listen to Sophia anymore.

If he opened his ears any further, he would waver and might not even be able to hold onto her.

And humans always fear the unknown most.

She might hate him now because she didn’t know the future world, but once she saw the empire he had created, a place where no one could feel any kind of misanthropy…

‘I’m sure you’ll come to love it too.’

With this certainty, the future Shin-woo started walking faster toward Sophia, who was trying to back away.

“Jin-ah Lee! Are you just going to stand by and watch?!”

“Tsk…!”

Once Sophia was sent to the future, this world was doomed.

It was all or nothing.

There were no other options left.

“Urgh… What happened?”

“Lu Bu Fengxian, are you awake?”

“Did I lose…? Heh, who would’ve thought I’d taste defeat. This is interesting.”

“How can you be laughing in a situation where the world is about to be destroyed?”

Lancelot, Lu Bu Fengxian, and Joan of Arc.

Three humans who had once been hailed as heroes, now far surpassing the level of national power-level beings…

Along with Jin-ah Lee, who was once an American national power-level Hunter, and Lorensky, the hero of the Soviet Union.

“It’s a combination we absolutely can’t win against… But we have no choice!”

“There’s no way out, whether we die now or later!”

Even though it was a hopeless fight, they were determined to go down swinging while the future Shin-woo was distracted by his conversation with Sophia.

“Kraaaaaaaaaa-!!”

“?!”

“Huh?”

“You are…!”

But just as they were about to charge to their deaths, a roar echoed.

And then, from the side, black lightning crackled as someone flew toward the future Shin-woo’s head.

Clang!

A jet-black blade.

“Don’t you dare…”

“I see… So, you must be…”

“…Touch my mother!!”

“Jae-won!”

After losing consciousness following his defeat by Leon, Jae-won had finally awakened.

Quickly assessing the situation, he transformed into a monster similar to his father and leaped into action.

“That form! That shape! You really are my true son.”

“Is that so? Then leave me out of your twisted family. Unlike you, I’m still ‘human.'”

Crack, crack, crack.

As expected, even the holy sword couldn’t leave a scratch on the jet-black skin.

Jae-won, feeling the overwhelming difference in power between their monstrous forms, was racking his brain, trying to figure out how to deal with this bastard.

But before he could trade a few more blows, without even having time to block a fist coming down from above…

“Hey, you…”

“?!”

“S-Shin-woo?!”

“You bastard!!”

Crash!

A jet-black fist struck the future Shin-woo in the face.

Having run all the way back from North Korea, the present Shin-woo, who had replenished his energy by chomping on tanghulu, delivered a blow filled with rage.

“Urgh…”

BOOM!

For the first time,

The future Shin-woo, caught off guard, was sent flying, crashing into the partially collapsed Hunter Association building.

And in that unexpected moment of reprieve.

“Lancelot, protect me.”

“…?! Jin-ah, you’re not…!”

“Yes. I’m going to use the trump card.”

Jin-ah, who was already on the edge of the cliff, knew this was her only chance.

There was no other opportunity, so she quickly retrieved a coffin from the shadows.

Slash!

She began a forbidden ritual, bleeding into it.

“If the power of humans isn’t enough… I’ll resurrect a being that once rivaled the gods, a ‘demon’ from hell.”