The Frozen Player Returns

ze the entire world…”

“Don’t get started again.” He shook his head and finished his beer before standing up.

She scowled.
“It’s true! Why won’t you believe me?”

“I do believe you.
You’re so much stronger than the Nine Heavens.” He chuckled as he walked to his bedroom.
He felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

 

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The two of them had a lot to do in the next two days.
Seo Junho had to hurry if he wanted to win the bet he’d made with Gong Juha; there were only ten days left.
So from the moment he woke up, he sat down at his desk and started memorizing all the information about the 2nd Floor.
When lunchtime rolled around, the Frost Queen appeared before him.
She looked extremely exhausted with her hand on her forehead.

“Phew, it’s hard work to watch dramas and movies all day.”

“…Get out.”

He couldn’t neglect his training either.
He spent an hour in the morning and evening sweating in the training room.

After a week, Seo Junho finally stood up from this desk.

“Are you finished?”

“Yeah.” He tapped his head with a finger.
“It’s all in here.”

“Hm, it seems that you are smarter than you appear.”

Seo Junho grinned.
He put on a coat and stepped out of the house.

“Are you not going up?” The Frost Queen asked as he pressed ‘1’ on the elevator.
She’d assumed that he was going to meet Shim Deokgu.

“No.
I need to say goodbye to some people before I go to the 2nd Floor.”

Kwon Noya, Kwon Palmo, Cha Si-eun, Shim Deokgu, and his friends.

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“Woojoong.
Hey, Woojoong.”

He let out a long sigh.
There was only one person in the world who would call him so casually: the Guildmaster of Silent Moon and his childhood friend, Son Chaewon.
She also happened to be his boss.

“What?”

“Hey, do you remember what your mission was? Did you forget after chasing him around for so long?” She was sitting on the mahogany desk of the Guildmaster’s room, smiling cheerfully.

It made him nervous whenever she made that face.

“…Of course not.”

“Right? There’s no way our super elite Sword Saint Kim Woojoong would forget, right?” She nodded and held out her hand.
“Where’s Final Horizon?”

“…”

The only reason he’d chased Kal Signer for so long was because one of the nobles wanted the bow.

“Say something.
You killed him, didn’t you? I’ve seen it all over the news.”

“Yes, I did.
I killed him.”

“…You don’t have to be so serious.
Who else would kill him besides you?” She tilted her head.
“But why didn’t you bring back the bow? Was Kal Signer way stronger than you expected?”

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“…” If he’d wanted to, he would have been able to kill him with a wave of his hand, or torture him until he spat out everything he knew.
But he hadn’t been able to do either of those things because Seo Junho had killed him before he could.

Kim Woojoong knew that he had Final Horizon, but he hadn’t asked him to hand it over.
It belonged to Seo Junho.
After all, he hadn’t lifted a finger in killing Kal Signer.

Seo Junho had fought and killed him alone.
So it was his spoil, and his alone.

“I killed him by accident.”

“What?” She didn’t believe him for a second.
How could the perfect Kim Woojoong make any kind of mistake? “Hey… Are you okay?” She looked worried.
No matter how important the quest was, he was her friend first and foremost.

“I am.”

“That’s all that matters.
As for the quest… It’s a shame, but there’s nothing we can do about it.” The quest had come from one of Ruben’s dukes, so if they succeeded, Silent Moon would have become the strongest guild in the empire.

But she didn’t linger on what had already happened.
“I’ll report to the duke myself.”

“I’m sorry.”

“I said it’s fine.
No more apologies, okay?” She chuckled as she shook her head.
“So, what’s the real reason? Don’t give me a lame excuse like that.”

She didn’t believe me. He sighed.
He had never been able to lie to Son Chaewon.
She knew him better than his own mother.

He thought for a second.
He had no intention of breaking his promise with Seo Junho, but for some reason, the thought of him made him laugh.

“…What’s with that? I haven’t seen you laugh like that in a long time.” She sounded bitter.
It was the first time in four years since she’d seen him make such a bright expression.

He looks happier than when he became the Sword Saint. Her curiosity made her impatient.

“I couldn’t retrieve Final Horizon, but I got something much more valuable.”

“And what would that be?”

Kim Woojoong looked out the window, into the never-ending sky.
He smiled.

“The future.”

He could see that man’s face etched in the clouds.
It was as if he were looking at his past self.

 

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