Nice to meet you (1)

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A meteor shower was pouring down in the starry sky. It was a sight that anyone would admire, but not Yoo Jonghyuk.

「 It is starting. 」

The meteor shower was the precursor to the third main scenario starting. Now Seoul would be destroyed one by one according to the scenario.

Yoo Jonghyuk looked up at the sky before bowing his head and looking at the Han River.

The landscape around Dongho Bridge was quite desolate since the large group of ichthyosaurs had recently moved downstream.

「 It was too much. 」

It had already been three days since Kim Dokja entered Han River. It might've been too much to demand that he catch the ichthyosaur at the first level.

「Indeed, it would be hard for me to catch an ichthyosaur in three days. 」

But it would be impossible to take him if he couldn't do this much. If he couldn't even do this much, it would only hinder Yoo Jonghyuk.

「 A prophet isn’t a big deal. 」

Yoo Jonghyuk closed his eyes with disappointment. He would go on his own again. Without any companions.

It wasn't a big deal. He had been alone all this time.

「 This time I will definitely change it. 」

Yoo Jonghyuk turned around.

But maybe he had turned away too soon.

•••

"Wait...!"

[W-What?]

Kim Dokja blinked several times but could only see a grey-white ceiling. He was still inside the ichthyosaur. He turned his head and saw the surprised dokkaebi, Bihyung.

"...I had a dream."

[Ohu, are you trying to raise curiosity? It isn't bad?]

He didn't mean to do such a thing but he didn't mind the misunderstanding.

'That damn protagonist is hunting me even in my dreams.'

He was quite annoyed. He was annoyed that that bastard had given up accepting him as a companion even in his dream.

"...He shouldn't be harder to convince than Cale Henituse, right?"

Cale Henituse.

He was a very mysterious side character in the novel, Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World.

'If there was a fourth way to survive in the novel, it would be Cale Henituse.'

He was the unofficial fourth way to survive in apocalypse. He was the best strategist in the whole novel no matter in which round he was, and survived in each and every round.

'He is also described as very handsome and at the same time very beautiful.'

It was mentioned in multiple occasions that he has a ethereal appearance that can rival the protagonist.

He was a total oddball who would do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, and would always disappear at some point. The time of his disappearance would vary from as early as tenth scenario or as late as forty fifth, but he would always disappear before forty sixth scenario.

'He is a very indifferent, but at the same time very affectionate person.'

He was also a person who put great importance on his 'companion' and would do literally everything for them, no matter what.

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