The Hero Volume 7 Chapter 12

The Hero

Volume 7 – Disjunction

Chapter 11

On TV, one could see the appearance of the Hospital.

One by one, names were being listed. It was listing all the people that had died at the incident the night before. Haneul knew that a lot of people had died, but there were much more than he thought.

Eventually, it showed the scene of a funeral with many people showing heavy expressions.

Muttered one of the fallen Heroes acquaintance.

D Rank Heroes usually weren't given the task to fight against monsters. That's why, there weren't many cases where a large quant.i.ty of them would die like this. For a situation to occur like this, not long after the previous incident.

Haneul turned the TV off.

Watching it made his heart hurt, but there was nothing he could do or change about it. As he lay on the floor staring at the ceiling, Haneul reread the messages that he had received from the Organization.

He finally noticed the message that stated the transfer of a bonus into his account.

He quickly opened his online banking. He normally had about $450 left in his account, but the numbers had now changed.

In front of the $450, there seemed to be an extra 8.

The Organization had sent him a bonus of $8,000.

This was something Haneul had never seen on his account before. When would a college student who's never had a decent job before, get to see this much money?

"$8,000?"

In all honestly, this wasn't considered to be a lot of money to the general public. The fact that there wasn't more damage to the civilians was all due to the independent actions of Silver Knight.

If Haneul was to calculate with this thought in mind, he should have received much more money than this. However, he was still only 23 years old. His only knowledge of society is the time he spent in college. That's why his sense of money was different to the general public.

Of course, even if his sense of money was on par with the general public, not much would have changed. If just looking at his achievement and contribution to the recent incident, he definitely had a huge part in it, but standards were a bit different in this world. Excluding S Rank Heroes, receiving a bonus of $8,000 was very unusual.

The Hero Organization belonged to the government, and could be said to be a special force of the military that handles the policing of monsters.

Not only that, but the national budget had collapsed and it was currently undergoing a recovery process. The government's primary focus was to respond to rifts opening and to its own survival. They honestly did not have much money that they could provide for the Heroes, so they instead provided them with much more honor and respect. Giving Heroes money that the government could not afford would only lead to self-collapse. However, if some compensation wasn't given, n.o.body would want to be a Hero. This was a dilemma that all nations were currently going through.

Regardless, Haneul was delighted with these global trends and proper wage issues.

"To think that I would be able to make so much money. Not only that, but since this is just a bonus, it's separate from my normal salary. First off, I should have a splendid dinner with father…….."

As Haneul was about to punch in a phone number, he stiffened.

This world did not have his father.

In return, he had his mother.

Mother…….As ever, it was quite an unfamiliar feeling.

Haneul was curious as to how his father was doing in his original world.

He suddenly had a thought. Even in his previous world, he only met with his father every 2-3 months. Therefore, he honestly hasn't been hit with reality yet, that his father wasn't in this world.

'If I'm not in that world, who is? Is the Haneul from this world over there?'

Without thinking, Haneul began to touch his ring. As ever, his ring did not budge as if it had become one with him.

'Would I go back to my original world if I took this ring off?'

It was strange that Haneul had never thought of this since he's been transported to this world. He just a.s.sumed that there was no way to return.

Bringing over a flat-head screwdriver, Haneul tried to push it in between the ring and his finger. That's when it happened.

Chwarak.

Haneul's eyes grew wide with surprise.

The shape of the ring suddenly changed to a shield like shape, as it flicked the flat-head screwdriver away.

'Is the ring rejecting it?'

This was a new discovery.

After that, Haneul continued to try several more times, but the result was always the same. He figured that it had always been impossible to take the ring off through outside force.

'Sigh. Whatever. Let's stop. Even if I was to take the ring off, there is no guarantee that I would be able to go back, and it would be even worse if I was to lose the strength of a Hero. Let's go out and eat with mother first.'

To sit face to face with his mother and eat; just thinking about it made Haneul nauseous, because he didn't know what he should talk about with her.

Suddenly, his smartphone blinked and a new message arrived.

– Thank you. Thank you so very much.

It was a sudden text message from Ironman. And, that was all that was written in the text.

'What is he thanking me for?'

Haneul was confused as to what Ironman would be thankful for. Thinking for a moment, he finally remembered the words that he had said to Director Park.

If Ironman was to have received a lot of money like Haneul, it was understandable to see him so happy.

Haneul always felt that Ironman was treated poorly, and because of it, he always felt uncomfortable. But now, Haneul felt much better. As he stretched out his body, a thunder rumbled down in his stomach.

"Let's eat something first."

Having made a lot of money, Haneul decided be extravagant for the first time. Something he has never been able to do till now.

Chapter 11 Completed.