Bjorn Yandel the Barbarian

Flash-!

As the dawn breaks, light from beyond the horizon begins to color the entire world in an instant.

Whaaaa …

The wind blows so hard that it feels like you’re being sucked in.

Beep be …

New knowledge began to be imprinted on my brain, accompanied by tinnitus and headaches.

Oh, isn’t this new knowledge?

“Whew, now I can live”

In my dream, when the psychiatrist told me to speak Lapdonic, I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t say anything and just opened my mouth.

Well, it doesn’t matter now that I’m back.

Swish·

Look down at your hands.

Unlike Lee Han-soo’s small hands, the hands of a savage are rough, rough, and thick-veined.

Kwak·

I checked my body condition by repeatedly clenching and unclenching my fist several times.

Crack, crack, crack

The familiar sound of shoes is heard from afar.

When I turned my head to where the sound came from, it was as expected.

Again-·

The girl I saw briefly when I was dragged into the dream world appears like a ghost and approaches me.

“Ellis Groundia”

As soon as I recited the name briefly, the witch of the earth stopped walking and stared at me.

“I clearly told you not to come back.”

“······”

“Why on earth did you come back?”

A voice that somehow has a sad feeling in it.

I answered with a smirk.

“Because this is where I should be.”

But wasn’t this enough of an answer?

The girl who heard my answer looked up at me with an indignant expression and continued to argue.

“It was a world where your dreams came true.”

“But it was fake.”

“You know it’s not fake, right?”

Well, well····

Certainly, the more time I spent there, the more I could sense that it was not just a dream world.

But as I said before,

“It doesn’t matter. It’s not my place.”

The girl was silent for a while as I resolutely declared my intention.

Whaaaa …

The wind that blows constantly

And as time passed, the world became more than half white.

Support support support-·

A line between darkness and light is drawn between me and the witch of the earth, with the sound of something breaking.

“I think I made my intentions clear, so should I send you back now?”

When I asked after a brief but long silence, the witch of the earth clenched her fists like a child.

“You will have a harder and sadder time there.”

Oh, it’s going to come out like this?

“Do you still want to go back?”

It was a childish question that suited the appearance of a girl, but I listened to it seriously and answered it.

“Oh, but I’ll go back anyway.”

There is no disagreement at all that this is a shitty world where we must always be on guard and worry about our own survival and that of our colleagues.

“You will lose something precious again. You will despair so much that the pain you have experienced so far will no longer be pain.”

Just hearing that kind of story makes me breathless.

“So what do you want me to do?”

Isn’t that what life is all about?

It’s so hard and painful that I always want to run away.

And Lee Han-soo always ran away from reality, so he lived his whole life without knowing.

That running away is not the solution.

What the warrior’s life taught me

Yeah, so····

“No matter how much it hurts, I will move forward.”

“No matter what kind of shit happens, I’m going to struggle desperately to survive until the very end.”

“Because I am a Barbarian.”

With those words, he takes a step beyond the dark boundary where the girl was standing, and the girl takes a step back.

Shh …

Somehow, the darkness decreased as I advanced.

Oh, isn’t this interesting?

Turbuck

Take a bigger step forward

The girl didn’t back down.

He just stood there and spoke to me.

“you are····”

Turbuck

“So you chose the life of Bjorn Jandel?”

Turbuck

The witch who was looking at me had an inexplicable, vain smile on her lips.

“You too··· were no different from us in the end·”

···huh?

“Us? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

I stopped walking and asked a question that suddenly arose, but there was no answer.

“Even though you pretend not to run away, you end up running away.”

“No, but what does that mean—·”

That was the moment when I took a bigger step forward while saying that.

“Yes, we were right after all.”

The girl turns her back and walks away into the darkness.

Crack, crack, crack

The sound of footsteps getting further and further away

And the darkness decreases accordingly.

“Hey wait!!”

I tried to follow her, but for some reason, the distance between me and the girl walking slowly did not narrow at all.

Again-·

When even the faint sound of footsteps disappeared and the whole world was covered in light,

“Jan··· Nam···! Baron Del···!”

A man’s voice resonates throughout the space like thunder.

The voice that had been intermittently interrupted as if there was noise became clear at some point.

“Ahhh! You bastard Baron Yandel!”

“ha····”

The ending was a little awkward, but…

“Ah, come on! Wake up now, Jebaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!”

“I’m awake, so stop shaking me.”

“···uh?”

Finally back·

To where I should be

***

Actually, I was a little worried

Where will I go after clearing [Dungeon and Stone] again?

Could it be that I have to start over from the beginning again, in the body of a completely different barbarian?

Or maybe I’m waking up in a world a few decades ago… or a world a few decades later…

My colleagues and I disappeared into the back alleys of history.

Will only a few who survive in the future greet me as old people?

Well, if I were to just talk about the results, it ended up being a delusion.

“I woke you up and told you to stop shaking”

When I opened my eyes, I was on the deck of a ship.

I was lying on the floor, soaking wet, and Baekho Lee was shaking me by the shoulders…

“···Huh? Tongue··· No, Baron? Huh! I’m awake! Are you okay?”

Instead, when I opened my eyes, Baekho Lee stepped back as if he was embarrassed.

I checked the most important things first, quickly and briefly.

“What’s the situation now? Is it an emergency?”

“Oh no, the danger is over.”

Oh, that’s good then.

The last memory was of being chased by Dryson and falling into the water, and I thought it was an urgent situation to wake him up so desperately.

“What time was I asleep?”

“It hasn’t been that long…”

“Exactly on time”

“Uh… about 30 minutes?”

30 minutes····

I feel fortunate, but also feel empty.

I stayed there for at least half a year.

“What about the other kids?”

“The wizards are exhausted and have gone into meditation, and the rest, as you can see, are fine.”

Okay, it seems like nothing special happened while I was sleeping.

So I also took some time to listen to the circumstances.

“Tell me what happened when I fell from the ship. Tell me everything.”

Lee Baek-ho also started talking right away, thinking that sharing information was a priority.

To summarize, it was a simple story.

“As soon as I saw the Baron fall into the water, I jumped down.”

Baekho Lee jumped into the water to save me.

By the way, I almost died because the monsters that woke up during the process kept hitting me····

‘Just ignore the useless detailed tales.’

Baekho Lee, who used his wit and resourcefulness here and there, eventually succeeded in rescuing me from sinking in the water.

Wasn’t it fortunate that the Barbarian’s skeleton itself was heavy and that he was wearing armor?

If not, Baekho Lee explained, he would have been swept away by the current and fallen into the waterfall, and if that had happened, there would have been no way to save him.

“Then I barely managed to get back on the boat and quickly ran away.”

“That easily···?”

I didn’t really understand it just by listening to the story.

Even if the wizards burned all their magic power to activate the defensive magic circle on the ship, it is questionable that they were able to hold out long enough to save me from Dryzen, a first-class ‘special boss’…

After that, it just ended with ‘I just ran away’?

“Honestly, I understand that you don’t understand. That’s all. You just let them run away when you ran away like crazy. In the first place, when you were holding out on the ship, you just poked them a little and that was the end of it.”

According to Baekho Lee’s explanation, there were many questions about ‘Dryzen’s’ actions.

Well, it wasn’t originally such a gentle monster.

But since he said so, let’s just move on for now…

“But then why did you wake me up so urgently? It looks like there wasn’t anything particularly dangerous going on.”

Lee Baek-ho’s expression changed very strangely when I asked him the following question.

“You ask because you don’t know? No… Oh, I don’t know.”

“What do you want to do?”

When I gave him a look of bewilderment, Baekho Lee repeatedly coughed and continued answering as if nothing had happened.

“Ahem! Of course it had to be urgent! The Baron’s heart stopped at that moment!”

“···what?”

“I was so surprised when I thought you were really going to die, Baron!”

When I saw it then, I realized that Baekho Lee was in a terrible state.

It seems like it’s not an exaggeration to say that he almost died after going into the water.

Not only was it completely soaking wet, but equipment was broken here and there and there were unhealed wounds everywhere.

‘Is that why you cried so much when your heart stopped in that state?’

I was so embarrassed that I seriously considered pushing Baekho under the boat during a sudden moment of chaos.

but····

‘But anyway, he saved me for a reason. He didn’t do that because he was truly thinking of me, right?’

If you think about it, Baekho Lee also had a purpose and he saved me with all his heart for his own benefit.

So, don’t be too thankful.

Isn’t this the kind of thinking that fits the ruthless Lapdonia?

“Lee Baek-ho, I have one question.”

“What is it?”

“No, no, it’s nothing.”

“What is it? Hyung, do you want to see me go crazy?”

I flinched at the sudden call of ‘hyung’, but fortunately the rest of the members didn’t seem to care.

Well, to begin with, Baekho Lee is the type of guy who says whatever he wants to anyone.

“What! What! What! Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!”

“I said it’s nothing”

“Ahhh!! I think I’m going to go crazy even more!!”

As I watched Baekho Lee, who was several times louder than usual, I thought about just telling him to be quiet, but I thought about it calmly and decided not to.

That would be the case···

‘Why didn’t you just let me die?’

This is the question I originally wanted to ask.

Well, this guy was the one who once planned to kill me and resurrect me with the ‘Stone of Resurrection’.

Today, if I died, I could have used the ‘Stone of Resurrection’ that I had to revive myself. Then, I could have cooked myself with my memories erased and controlled me as I pleased.

but····

‘You didn’t know, right?’

If you think about it, from this guy’s perspective, I can’t be sure if I have the ‘Stone of Resurrection’ right now.

Misha may still have it, or it may be that I have left it with someone I trust.

Well, he’s a smart guy, so he probably figured that I had the highest chance of having the ‘Stone of Resurrection’.

‘My subspace can never be opened before it kills me, so it must have been like gambling to him.’

So I cut off the question itself midway.

Well, the moment I mention this, this guy is informed that I am keeping the Stone of Resurrection.

It could act as a variable later on…

‘It really feels real that I’m back.’

As I was thinking about that and smiling, Baekho Lee asked me with a face like something had come to mind.

“Oh, right! Now that I know what question you were going to ask, can I ask you one more thing?”

“Try it”

“He smiled occasionally while he was passed out······”

“however?”

“What on earth did you dream about?”

I thought about Lee Baek-ho’s words for a moment.

‘What did you dream about······’

If I were to be honest about what I experienced there, I would probably look like a weirdo.

As I appeared to people in that world,

Even if you talk about the witch of the earth or the parallel world or whatever, they’ll think you’re hallucinating while sleeping because of the field effect.

‘It’s kind of funny when you think about it like that.’

But what’s even funnier is that I actually don’t know either.

Are the things I experienced really a dream or have I actually been to the real world?

Is the witch I met during the process real or an illusion?

Heart- ·

I’m still a little confused.

Actually, for some reason, my memories from there have been fading since I woke up.

When I wake up from a dream, I only remember a few scenes that were impressive.

“Why can’t you tell me? Did you have a dirty dream? In short, you were trapped in a hallucination made up of a series of orgasms and couldn’t get out or something like that…”

“That’s not true, so don’t talk nonsense.”

“Then what is it? Can’t you tell me this much? Between us…”

What on earth is going on between us?

I wanted to ask a question and scold him, but I was sure it would only make the story longer, so I just kept it short.

I don’t need much.

Something you should experience at least once in your life.

“It was just a dream”

Therefore, there is no reason to regret it.