I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Chapter 124 Final Chapter: Bad Ending

There was no need for words between us.

The only thing needed was fists, representing our inability to understand each other.

“Grkrrrr…”

“Kraaaaaaah-!!”

Black lightning surged simultaneously within both of our bodies.

Then, the two monsters of Jamsil charged straight at each other.

Boom!

We each landed a national disaster-level punch to the other’s face.

Even just that one strike caused the ground to tremble, and everyone living across the Korean Peninsula suddenly crouched in response to the shaking.

Bang!

“Kujin Karate…”

“Grkrrrr!”

‘Basic upward kick!’

The kicks that struck each other’s shins created a massive hole in the sky above us, piercing through the clouds.

It was truly a declaration of supreme dominance over all things in heaven and earth, the concept of “Tenjō Tenga Yuiga Dokuson” (天上天下 唯我独尊).

Both of us, transformed into monsters, continued to unleash nothing but relentless, unguarded attacks on each other.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

“The ground is shaking…!”

“It feels like the entire earth is trembling!”

“We need to move further! As far away as possible!”

Even though they thought they had put enough distance between themselves and the fight, hiding behind high-rise buildings only resulted in the buildings swaying, and even lying flat on the ground made their bodies bounce up and down like rubber balls.

Riverine used her threads to stabilize Ria, who couldn’t keep her balance, and, looking at Yulian, who was at a loss for what to do, she shouted.

“What are you doing?! We need to run!”

“But… Father…”

“Ugh, seriously! Shin-woo said he’d be fine, so he will be! Got it?”

Despite Yulian’s tearful state after being scolded by her father, Riverine grabbed her and started to run as far away as possible.

Meanwhile.

Kujin Karate.

Straight punch.

Joint kick.

Elbow face kick.

Spinning kick, and so on.

Using numerous techniques, the Shin-woo from the past came to a sudden realization.

This guy was really me.

Every move he made was blocked mid-execution.

Conversely, every attack I made was blocked by him.

It was only natural since we were the same person.

Who would know the weaknesses of my techniques better than myself?

“Straight…”

“Punch!”

Bang!

Our jet-black fists collided, and we stood still, staring at each other.

Then, for the first time, the future me spoke.

“The me from this era was a pushover.”

“…?”

“In the language of this era, I was a ‘sweet potato.’ Despite my great power, I was indecisive, lacked ambition, and had nothing in my head except clearing the game story, just like a typical protagonist in a transmigration novel.”

“What are you trying to say…?”

“I’m just saying I was ignorant. A pearl necklace on a pig’s neck. Even though there was an easy path forward, I was too afraid of a little sacrifice and ended up like a tiger among a flock of sheep.”

The first round of our Kujin Karate duel had just ended.

The rest time would be roughly one to two minutes.

After catching my breath, I would immediately move on to the second round.

During that brief pause, as I listened to the story of my future self, I couldn’t help but feel a complex mix of emotions.

“What happened to you that made you change like this?”

“……”

“Answer me! Honestly, I don’t think of you as me.”

“…The moment my future self came to the past, the course of history in this world started to diverge from my world. However, that doesn’t mean there’s a guarantee that you won’t become like me.”

But on the flip side, there was also no guarantee that I wouldn’t end up the same.

“You’re asking how I ended up like this?”

“Yes.”

“If you’re curious, I’ll tell you. It’s a very simple story.”

After saying a few words, the future Shin-woo threw a straight punch at the past Shin-woo, and the past Shin-woo countered with his own straight punch.

As their fists collided, fragmented memories from the future monster’s more advanced cells began to flow into his past self.

“?! What is this…”

The scene that followed was of a world engulfed in red flames.

People who seemed to be civilians screamed for help, while tanks carrying shells rolled over them without concern.

Crash.

Next was a scene of a desolate desert with not a drop of water, where refugees were desperately begging for water.

The people who had been kneeling and pleading soon began collapsing one by one from dehydration.

And then, the scenes that followed were all similar depictions of hellish situations.

Hell upon hell, a continuous stream of horrific “memories.”

“What the hell is this…?”

“It’s simple. This is the world right after I cleared the game.”

“What did you say?”

“To be precise, this is the world that was destroyed because I did all the work the entire world should have done on my own, leaving nations with nothing but surplus power to compete with each other until they eventually wiped themselves out.”

I swallowed hard.

I couldn’t believe it.

Because, after all, I had thought that clearing the game in *Hunters Blood* would lead to a happy ending.

That was why I had struggled and worked so hard, believing that if I solved everything on my own, the world would become peaceful.

…But was this the conclusion I was heading towards?

“A child’s lie can’t deceive adults forever.”

“……”

“If things had gone as they should have, your identity would have been exposed during the North Korean invasion part.”

“What?”

The future me was telling me that during the last episode of the early stages of *Hunters Blood*, my identity should have been revealed during the North Korean invasion part, where a national disaster-level monster from North Korea crossed the 38th parallel and descended into South Korea.

“Is that… really true?”

“Yes. Twenty years ago, I openly transformed into a monster in front of people to save some kid whose name I didn’t even know. And that was the beginning of all my misfortune.”

Then, more memories of the future me began to flood in.

At first, I was labeled a monster and became the enemy of humanity, but thanks to my wealthy parents and the connections I had made up to that point, I barely avoided becoming a target for extermination.

But that was all.

From that point on, I began to be treated like a monster, and as the story of *Hunters Blood* progressed toward the later stages, I felt the scorn and contempt from people intensify.

Then, at the moment when I finally defeated the final boss…

“Die, monster!”

“Kill it too!”

“Shin-woo…”

“Sophia, duck!!”

It was as if they had been waiting for it.

The global military forces, who I thought had gathered to help defeat the final boss together, turned their weapons on the exhausted future me and Sophia, who was by my side.

Fortunately, I managed to escape without being killed, but Sophia, who was just a slightly stronger human, was not as lucky.

“Her brain is severely damaged.”

“…What?”

“So… it will be difficult for her to speak again…”

With the help of the Monster Group, I managed to make her capable of moving at the very least.

But at that moment, when everyone should have been happy, she became a vegetative state, unable to speak.

And that wasn’t all.

“Auntie! Uncle! You need to escape quickly!”

“No. We’ll stay here until the end.”

“Yes, if we run away, it’ll seem like we really raised a monster. Shin-woo, we’ve never regretted accepting you as part of our family.”

My parents, who had been branded as traitors to humanity along with me.

The future me desperately tried to evacuate them somewhere safe.

But they rejected my offer.

Because they were proud.

They told me that running away now would only make it seem like they had really raised a monster and that they would stay just as they were.

Not long after, they too were put on trial by humanity and executed.

Hell.

What I was seeing was literally a living hell.

If this wasn’t hell, then what was?

“Do you understand now?”

“…!”

“Even if you save the world, all that awaits us ‘monsters’ is a life in this kind of hell.”

At some point, I stopped throwing punches and found myself back where I originally stood.

It seemed the memory flow had been cut off.

“So… so, you killed humanity. You killed everyone around you?”

“I didn’t kill them, I judged them.”

“Judged…?”

“Yes. I already possessed the power to destroy the world. Isn’t it ridiculous to say that someone like me ‘killed’ some primitive creatures?”

“…What?”

I finally understood.

Why the future me had become a completely different Han Shin-woo from the current me.

He no longer saw himself as human like us.

He thought of himself as a ‘god.’

“I lost my parents, and I lost the person I loved most. So, I decided to take revenge.”

“To the extent of wiping out all of humanity…?”

“Yes, to that extent. I turned every land on Earth, except for the Korean Peninsula, into a fiery wasteland where no life could survive. I waged a one-man war against the world, and I finally won.”

“Then where do you live now?”

In the future, where the world outside the Korean Peninsula had no place to live.

In such a bleak world, where did this guy raise a child and establish a home?

When I asked out of suspicion, he quietly shook his head before answering.

“I live now… with the ‘humanity

‘ I created.”

“The humanity you created…?”

“Yes. Do you remember the last of the three expansion packs we pre-ordered for *Hunters Blood* before we got transported into this world?”

“The last one…? You mean the Human-Type Monster Expansion?”

“Yes, that one.”

How does that have anything to do with what’s happening now?

Even at this point, I was still clueless, my mind filled with question marks.

“That expansion pack was about ordinary monsters, which had little to no intelligence, suddenly gaining intelligence and becoming human-shaped monsters.”

“…?! Wait a minute, you’re not saying…!”

“Yes, I had already obtained the monster that triggered that expansion pack long ago.”

Then, after extracting the genes from that creature, I researched and created a result, which I injected into all the monsters that had appeared on Earth.

Thus, he had cultivated a new form of humanity—non-human, human-shaped monsters—as his citizens.

“This is insane…”

The kingdom that my children had mentioned that the future me ruled.

When I first heard about it, I thought it was just a bluff.

I thought it was impossible to establish a kingdom worth calling a nation after humanity had been wiped out.

I assumed they were just living on their own and had whimsically named it a kingdom.

But to think he could cultivate intelligent human-shaped monsters like Ria and create a nation powerful enough to be called a kingdom with them…

“I became the god of a new world.”

“What the hell did you do…?!”

“And in the name of that god, I declare.”

In the next moment, the future Shin-woo’s monstrous body, which had already transformed once, began to surge again with black lightning.

“I will take back what is most precious to me.”

“!!”