The Spoon Villain Is Obsessed with the Hero Again Today - Chapter 123



The Wheel of Summer (1)

Chirrr─

Late at night when everyone was asleep. In this dark mountain, the grasshoppers were singing in unison.

“Did you call for me?”

Meanwhile, I came to the valley at Park Won-hyuk’s call. It was a place that could be reached with just a few steps from the camp.

“Yeah. You came?”

Park Won-hyuk was sitting near the water, holding a fishing rod. It was a makeshift fishing rod made by tying a string to a branch.

Of course, not a single fish was caught. There wasn’t even a nibble.

“Do you want one too?”

“…I’m fine.”

Maybe because it was night, the atmosphere was very quiet. Even a small voice could be heard clearly.

It was the complete opposite of the noisy barbecue party.

“You met Basago, right?”

Park Won-hyuk asked about what happened earlier. He wondered where I went in the middle of eating meat, only to find out I had fought with some monster.

That too with Basago.

“Thank goodness. We were able to return safely.”

If we hadn’t run away and kept fighting there, we wouldn’t have made it back alive.

Thinking about it now, I realize how reckless it was to save just one Arna.

“Did I tell you before? I met Basago a long time ago.”

Like me, Park Won-hyuk here also has a history with Basago.

I decided to pretend I didn’t know.

“I heard from the representative of Yeonwol. I don’t know the details, but I know something bad happened.”

“Ryu Jung-min? That guy is always meddling….”

It was then. The fishing rod twitched. Park Won-hyuk pulled the branch with all his might.

“Ugh. It’s just weeds.”

But it was just a bunch of weeds. Park Won-hyuk stopped fishing and turned his head towards me.

He looked me up and down from head to toe.

“Was I your age? I was an intern like you.”

Did the old days come to mind? Park Won-hyuk’s face, looking at me, was filled with loneliness and sorrow.

He slowly began to unravel the past.

─It was a hot summer like now. The place was not a mountain but a coast, but anyway, I met Basago.

─I still can’t erase it from my mind. It was a really terrible battle. I lost all my precious friends there. Only I miraculously survived.

─Then, when I first opened my eyes in the hospital… when I heard the news that everyone had died… it felt like the whole world had gone dark. I even thought about dying right there.

─But as you can see, I’m alive like this. Rather, after that battle, I hardened my heart and came this far.

─Waiting for the day I would face Basago again someday… With that one desire for revenge, I was able to grow Geumseonggak like this.

Everyone lives with a goal in life.

Each goal is different. Some for honor, some for immense wealth, some for peace and stability, and some for endless knowledge.

Park Won-hyuk has one too. The reason he lives in this world.

It is revenge. He lives each day to defeat the monster that took his comrades’ lives with his own hands.

“In fact, the purpose of this camp was just an excuse to secure Seir’s sample. It was a mission to search for Basago.”

I had somewhat guessed. Park Won-hyuk wouldn’t stay still after hearing that Basago appeared.

He would have found Basago by any means. That’s why he ordered this camp.

“But it wasn’t easy. No matter where it was hiding, we couldn’t find a single hair. We deployed all the staff throughout the mountain, but we couldn’t find it at all.”

We wandered the mountain all day, but we couldn’t find any trace of Basago. Instead, we kept running into Seir.

“In such a situation, the rookie met Basago… Someone who couldn’t be found even after years of effort was discovered in one go. It’s truly amazing.”

Srrk─

Park Won-hyuk stood up from his seat. Then he slowly approached me.

“What exactly are you?”

Park Won-hyuk narrowed his eyes. He was suspicious of me.

“I’ve thought it was strange for a while. From the moment you suddenly presented the strategy for Seir to recognizing the existence of Basago. And today, you even ran to the place where Basago is.”

These are things that an ordinary person could never do. It’s natural for doubts to arise.

“Are you from the future or something? How do you know all that?”

I’m not exactly from the future, but it’s a similar situation. My mind contains knowledge of the future.

Park Won-hyuk’s guess is correct.

“Well, whatever. Now is not the time to argue about that.”

Park Won-hyuk gave up digging deeper.

Park Won-hyuk’s real goal lies elsewhere, not with me. He doesn’t have time to worry about someone like me.

“As I said before, I need to meet Basago. You must know how, right? You’ve provided solutions to every problem so far.”

Park Won-hyuk demanded a way to meet Basago from me. Just like at the barbecue party earlier.

“There is one way.”

I confessed honestly. And I showed the jewel I received from Arna earlier.

“With this magic stone, you can find out where he is.”

“That magic stone…”

“It’s Basago’s magic stone.”

For a moment, Park Won-hyuk’s eyebrows twitched. The trace of Basago he had been searching for was right in front of him. Finally, he could fight Basago.

Park Won-hyuk cautiously reached out his hand.

“But I can’t give it to you, sir.”

Before Park Won-hyuk could take the magic stone, I quickly withdrew my hand.

I only said there was a way to find Basago, not that I would give this magic stone to Park Won-hyuk.

“Why can’t you give it to me?”

Park Won-hyuk asked, narrowing his brows.

I revealed the reason.

“Because I’ll be the only one going to meet Basago. Otherwise, it would be a pointless death, wouldn’t it?”

“Haha.”

Park Won-hyuk started laughing helplessly, saying he had taken a hit.

“You really know everything. Did you even figure out that I was going alone?”

“Even if it wasn’t me, everyone would have noticed.”

If an S-class monster appeared, it should be reported immediately to the Hero Management Department or the Guild Association.

But Park Won-hyuk here is different. He plans to end everything by himself. He is the only one who has a grudge against Basago.

He judged that there was no need to drag others into the battle.

However…

“Revenge is just an excuse. Didn’t you need a reason to die?”

“….”

There is certainly a sense of revenge towards Basago in Park Won-hyuk’s heart.

But deeper than that, there is another desire hidden…

It is the desire to die.

“Do I want to die?”

“Yes, because you are a person full of affection.”

Park Won-hyuk. His skills are outstanding, but he is too soft to be the head of a guild.

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He couldn’t even solve the problem of negligence in the Gangwon branch by himself. He couldn’t throw out the employees, including Shim Jun-yong, who had been with him until now, onto the streets overnight.

How could such a person live comfortably alone, leaving behind friends who were everything to him?

“Fight Basago. In the end, Basago dies, and so do you. Isn’t that the end of the life you were searching for?”

Because he is full of affection, he also has many regrets. He can’t help but be trapped in the past. Even if he is smiling on the outside, the ghosts of those who left are crying out day and night in a corner of his heart.

It wasn’t right to survive alone, leaving them behind. I should have followed them. That guilt chokes him every day.

That’s why he came to find a place where he could end it himself.

That place was the fight with Basago.

It was the perfect stage to complete his death along with revenge.

“So I can’t give you this magic stone. Isn’t it too young an age to die now?”

“You used to tease me for being an old man…”

“That was Kang Tae-hoon, not me.”

Basago is an existence that must disappear from this world. If left alone, it will return as a greater disaster. It is right to remove it as quickly as possible.

But that doesn’t mean I intend to leave it to Park Won-hyuk. My goal is to stop Basago, not to serve personal grudges.

“So. Are you telling me to keep living? Even if I have to carry this guilt for the rest of my life?”

“You know better than anyone. That you have to live, even if it’s like that.”

Park Won-hyuk, who always wishes for death, is also an inevitable human being. Every human has a survival instinct to keep living.

Park Won-hyuk is no different. There is another mind that denies the path to death. That mind is wriggling slightly in the darkness.

It keeps burning the embers, saying that he must live on, escape the shackles of the past, and head towards the future.

The evidence of that was close at hand….

“President, you have a daughter, Ha-yul, don’t you?”