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Chapter 3
Chapter 3
“……Hoo.”
Jin Crow grabbed the towel he had tossed beside the sofa and wiped the back of his neck.
The dry towel was soaked in an instant.
As a matter of fact, the sudden encounter with Ideale had been no different from a disaster for him.
Ӗṅûm̂ ӑ. і̊ d
‘Damn it, Jin Crow.’
No matter what, it was clear that his personality, constitution, and even his various illnesses had not disappeared.
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Considering how hard it had been to forcibly suppress the surge of irritation and respond when Ideale left her warning at the end.
‘When receiving the awakening effect, Jin Crow’s original personality becomes even worse. No, in this case, should it be called returning?’
The reason he deliberately referred to it as an awakening was that his mind had become at least a little clearer.
That did not mean it was an entirely welcome thing.
Ē ñumа
Especially not in front of a powerhouse like Ideale.
‘Ideale Kukenhauzen.’
Any reader who had read the Galaxy Chronicle could not possibly not know that name.
She had remained ranked among the world’s top-tier powerhouses until the latter half of the story, while also being the protagonist ‘Baek Hwi-young’s’ helper and heroine. And…….
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‘A Penta-class special-duty officer of the Human Composite State.’
It was not that there were no people stronger than her, but it was an undeniable truth that she was a powerhouse who could, if she so wished, deploy a frontline by herself.
Ŵ е b ńо̆ v̀ ѐl̊ En̊u.m а
“Hoo.”
In any case, Jin Crow, having gotten past one hurdle, pressed a hand to his weary eyes and lowered his gaze.
What mattered was not Ideale.
He continued his thoughts while looking at the black cigarettes and the glass placed on the table.
‘First off, it’s not the cigarettes.’
He had originally been a heavy smoker.
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Because of that, when he first realized he had possessed this body, he had smoked in an attempt to forcibly steady his mind, but there had been no change at all.
‘Then…….’
He slowly lifted the glass and took a mouthful.
Gulp-.
And just as the sharp alcohol flowed down his esophagus.
■User_Jin Crow(Jin Crow)
W е b_nӧ vе̊ľ Ӗ n̂ú m å
□Rank : Major
□Service Number(S.N) : SMCO55-1113027
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□Gear : Dual(Error)
□Health Status : PTSD, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Headaches, Drug Addiction(30min), Persecutory Delusions, Anger Control Disorder
“So that was it.”
The time that had been deducted after meeting Ideale had increased back to 30 minutes.
Ẁ ѐb̃ nо v̆е l̆ É ń ü m̄ а̄
‘Then, the reason Jin Crow could be strong was…….’
He must have been drinking alcohol that contained awakening-agent components.
Now that he thought about it, he really did drink often.
Now that he had come to understand the hidden side of the character he had become, a hollow laugh even escaped him.
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It was not simply an alcoholic character concept.
It must have been his own best effort, in its own way.
Ẽ n̊.ú má
“This is going to be a headache.”
With his brows furrowed, he opened a drawer and looked at the liquor bottles inside, which appeared to number well over thirty.
In principle, instructors were allowed to smoke and drink, but the head of the academy, Ideale, had come personally to issue a warning.
That meant it would be difficult to openly ignore it.
But then again, could he really bring over and offer up all the liquor that had effectively become his lifeline?
He blinked his uniquely murky black eyes for a moment, then let out a sigh and began opening every single bottle filled with all kinds of alcohol.
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“Drinking alone, huh. Tsk.”
Trying to drink them all by midnight would likely not be easy.
Since he could not not hand over the alcohol, he would just have to taste each one and keep only the ones with good effects.
Gulp-.
“Cough, khh.”
One bottle, two bottles, three bottles…….
En̆ u m̌а.іd̈
Stuffing nearly thirty bottles into an empty stomach was no small burden, but it was not entirely without results.
Among the more than thirty bottles of whiskey, he had found four awakening agents labeled as 30 minutes.
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‘Is this all I can salvage.’
This amount should be enough for Ideale to accept.
To be honest, he wanted to keep all of it, but it could not be helped.
However, separate from having found a solution regarding combat power, another obstacle had arisen.
Е̌ǹu m а́
“Lectures…….”
An academy instructor had to give lectures to cadets.
It was an extremely obvious piece of ‘common sense.’
The problem was that he had never taught anyone in his entire life.
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Perhaps it was fortunate that he had at least been through some fairly harsh military environments.
……Somehow, nothing was resolving itself easily.
Е̄n ú_mа . і̀ d
Just as he was feeling that frustration, a single thought suddenly crossed his mind, and he sprang up from his seat.
“Curriculum.”
The instructor-only quarters were quite spacious, but aside from liquor bottles and cigarettes, all the furniture had been basic provided items.
He immediately searched the room and found a device linked to the watch on his wrist, and thankfully, that was the answer.
‘Yang Jinlei, Thomas Ed, Loki Lutz…….’
After opening the device with biometric recognition and going through the files, there was a file organized with the curricula of all instructors.
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After scrolling down for a while, Jin Crow’s subject came into view.
「Understanding Modern Warfare - Instructor Jin Crow」
Fortunately, it was a theory lecture with no changes.
‘With this body condition, the combat department would be nonsense. And I can’t exactly go in drunk every time, either.’
If there had been an awakening agent in drug form, it would have been much easier, but bringing an awakening agent meant for superhumans—not civilians—into the academy was close to impossible.
Moreover, if it were revealed that an instructor at the Central Special Service Academy was someone who could not even properly operate his gear without awakening agents, it would be the worst possible outcome for someone like him, who already had many enemies.
Е ň ů m̂а. і̆ d
Because of that, Jin Crow must have brought in alcohol with awakening effects and kept it in a hip flask to drink.
“Hoo.”
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Still, he could finally breathe a little easier.
Perhaps because of that.
With a slight wave of intoxication washing over him, he sank back into the sofa, put the black cigarette he had not finished earlier in his mouth, and lightly tapped the table with his finger.
‘Jin Crow.’
Е̌ ń ù m ӓ. і̃d̀
He felt the need to thoroughly review everything he knew about the person he had now become.
This was both a natural necessity and something that stemmed from Ideale’s reaction earlier.
‘Come to think of it, Ideale couldn’t bring herself to be particularly harsh toward Jin Crow even in the story.’
Ideale Kukenhauzen.
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She clearly belonged to the category of a ‘good character.’
For such a person to treat Jin Crow—who, based on his actions in the story, was closer to a villain—with that kind of attitude suggested there was a high likelihood that the reason lay in his past and something hidden.
W_е́b́ ñ оv̇е̄ l̇ Е́ ňu_mа̊
‘A member of Rosen, one of the military’s largest factions. And drafted as a child soldier in the early stages of the Third Galactic War, he spent twenty years on the battlefield. That aftermath is what left him this broken.’
That was everything that had been revealed about Jin Crow in the story.
When his thoughts reached that point, he suddenly felt relieved that although Jin Crow’s personality and manner of speech had transferred, his memories had not.
Even the mock battles and training he had experienced in the military sometimes appeared as nightmares, so the things Jin Crow had gone through in a world where planets were bombarded would not be memories a small-time 21st-century civilian could handle.
‘As for Rosen, I don’t really know much either.’
He only knew that they were not a benevolent group and that they were plotting something.
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……And also that they absolutely did not let traitorous or incompetent members off the hook.
‘Capable bastards whose goals are unknown. That evaluation should be enough.’
In the end, it was clear that this, too, was not something that could be resolved with brief contemplation.
And so, Jin Crow. What he could do was already decided.
Sssssk-.
After crushing the nearly burned-out cigarette into the ashtray, he filled one of the four carefully selected bottles of whiskey into a hip flask in preparation for any eventuality, then stood up and muttered quietly.
Ẁ е b̈_ñöv̌ е l E̊nu m̌а̊
“Did I say by midnight.”
It seemed he would have to hurry.
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「That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.(This is a small step for a single human, but a great leap for humanity.)」
Space had been a long-held dream for humanity.
In the distant past, humanity had gazed at the constellations and created myths for each of them, and when the age of myth ended and science and reason filled the void, space became no longer a dream but another new continent that had to be conquered.
And finally, the year 2063.
W̆ е̃b́ no̊v̀еl Ën ü_ḿȧ
When Mars was terraformed, colonies were constructed, and hyperspace jump technology was invented, the emotion felt by all of humanity was ‘exultation.’
The excitement of a new continent standing right before their eyes.
The fear of an unknown world.
A vague sense of anticipation toward the future.
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A century passed.
Vast colonies were pioneered, intelligent lifeforms were discovered, and at last, humanity was able to reach one certainty.
Ẇ е́b̃ nо̆v̊e l̆ Ė ǹǔm̌ а̂
‘We are the first pioneers.’
Just as the United States had once opened the era of westward expansion in the distant past, countless people extended themselves into space, whether legally or illegally.
In the year 2126 AD, humanity declared the ‘Human Composite State,’ merging all existing governments, and at the same time proclaimed a new cosmic calendar, UC.
Thus, several decades passed.
During that time, rebellions in the colonies, coups by alien races unable to endure discrimination, the rise of plutocracy, and all manner of scandals—large and small—shook the Human Composite State, but their territory only continued to expand with each passing day.
〔Recently, there have been many pioneer fleets with which contact has been lost.〕
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In UC Year 47, the Human Composite State, having expanded to its limits, came face to face with another galactic empire that called itself the Holy Galactic Empire.
The result was the Third Galactic War.
These massive wars, lasting as short as ten years and as long as twenty, accompanied at minimum tens of billions of human casualties and astronomical material losses each time they broke out.
Of course, even then, a handful of scholars who had been observing the sporadically stirring space monsters, Creatures, urged that the unnecessary war of attrition be stopped and preparations be made against the space monsters, but their cries remained thoroughly marginalized, nothing more than hollow shouts.
Yes, all while unaware of what kind of outcome that would eventually bring.
“Ughk!”
W_е́b n о̆ v̄_е ĺ Е̊ n ŭ m̈ а
Baek Hwi-young hurriedly rushed into the bathroom and grabbed the toilet, and soon, the little vomit he had, mixed with yellowish gastric fluid, poured out.
Fortunately, there was no one in the dormitory.
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Perhaps around this time, the roommate he had been living with had quit the academy due to personal circumstances.
“Uuugh! Uuuuuugh!”
It seemed he had not eaten much.
That was fortunate.
Е ǹu m а̊
At least he did not have to cling to the toilet for long.
Baek Hwi-young steadied his stomach for a moment, then straightened his back and flushed the toilet.
“……How many times has it been?”
Now, even his memory was hazy.
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Had it been more than ten times.
As Baek Hwi-young briefly retraced his memories, even those he did not wish to recall surfaced, twisting his eyes, and with a chilling smile on his lips, he muttered in a low voice.
Еńum̃а̄
“Creature. Creature. Creature…….”
The future always changed.
No, he himself had twisted it.
But in the end, it was always nothing more than the march of countless Creatures and a collapsing galaxy.
‘There’s no end, no end in sight. Damn it.’
What he had thought of as an opportunity—regression—was hell.
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He twisted it, warped it, even tried breaking it.
The helplessness of nothing changing tightened around him as if it might devour him at any moment.
Slap-!
But he immediately struck his own cheek hard, forced his blurring eyes open, and murmured softly.
“……It’s something that must be done.”
Even if he ignored the agony of having to watch a foretold destruction and felt a false sense of peace, nothing would change.
Е n̄ umа̄
It would only add yet another death atop death.
The only way for him to escape the prison called regression, where not even a final scream was permitted, was to sever this chain.
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Shhh…….
After turning on the faucet and washing away the traces of retching, he moved his steps outside the dormitory.
The familiar grounds of the academy came into view, and just in time, the bickering voices of upperclassmen passing by the dormitory could be heard.
“Ugh, at this rate I’m really going to die.”
Ӗ nu m̈ ä . іd̃
“The ability-types sure complain a lot. It’s not like you’re sparring with instructors like us…….”
“What? Want a taste of electricity?”
“If you don’t like it, then spar.”
After briefly watching them, Baek Hwi-young slowly turned his gaze to the right, and soon took in an endlessly familiar face.
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“Ah!”
Just then, a girl with light brown hair like a small squirrel spotted him and came running over with quick steps.
Еn̈ûm̌а̊ . і d
“You said you’d be in the dorm, but you came out? Where are you going?”
“……Miel. Miel Amber.”
“Huh? What’s wrong?”
By now, he recited her name almost out of habit.
A childhood friend, and someone he had lost countless times.
Baek Hwi-young stared at her for a moment, then quickly composed his expression, feigning calm as he parted his stiff lips.
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“I was thinking of going to the shop…….”
“Oh, I was just about to stop by too. Perfect timing.”
Baek Hwi-young forced a smile onto his face.
“Yeah, let’s go.”
After glancing sideways at Miel, who was grinning right beside him, Baek Hwi-young replayed what was to come.
‘Chance Marbre picked a fight, and I broke his leg, I think.’
W̆е_b n̆о_v е̂l̆ Ê nû ṁ ӑ
It did not seem like that at first, but each time he went back in time, his hand tended to go too far.
It could not be helped.
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In the future, that bastard would be shot dead after causing an incident because he could not overcome his lust and jealousy.
And that target had been Miel, more than once.
Grit-.
He unconsciously clenched his teeth as he thought.
Ēn̂ūm̀ а̊ . і d̀
This time, it seemed he should leave him half-dead.
“……What.”
However, his steps soon came to a halt.
Baek Hwi-young’s black pupils, fixed on someone, shook violently as if gone mad.
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“Huh? What’s wrong?”
Miel, standing beside him, sensed something strange and waved a hand in front of his eyes as she asked, but he, as if turned to stone, remained fRosen in place, blankly staring at someone approaching.
Е̃ n ù mа́.. i̊ d̈
‘Why is that person here now?’
At the end of his gaze stood a man walking toward them, his face heavily contorted, carrying a box filled with various items.
……How could he not recognize him.
With vacant eyes, Baek Hwi-young softly recited his name.
“Jin Crow.”
A frightening existence everyone overlooked, an enemy he had ultimately had to cut down with his own hands several times. And…….
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‘My benefactor.’
It was the moment he first became a variable across the countless times Baek Hwi-young had returned.
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