Nephilim

Limbo World

"I didn't do anything to them. I did..... to you."

"What?! Me?!"

"Welcome to limbo." Lee Byung Hun continued. "This scroll can summon people into limbo. You just entered limbo. Limbo is the underworld, a dark world. But this place was not as damaged before as now. A war caused all these. The creatures you saw in your dreams are demons. They have souls."

"Then what exactly are you, arjussi?"

"I am a demon. Only you can see me in your world, which we call the outside world. I made sure only you can see me there."

"Why?"

"Well, it is because of your parents." Lee Byung Hun sat on a bench near the pond.
"Come. Sit here. It's a long story."

Yoona took a seat.

"There were two groups of legendary enemies in limbo, angles and demons. About twenty years ago, a mysterious fate made a demon and an angel fall in love. Devil, the leader of demons, found out. So, he killed that demon. Unfortunately, the angel that the demon he killed fell in love was the Angel Queen.

The Queen was very angry and thus she declared war to the demons. The war of angels and demons started then. Little did anyone know, the Angle Queen was pregnant with the demon's baby.

The Queen bore the child during war. At last, when she knew that angels were losing, she gave the nephilim (half-angle half-demon) child to an angel and told them to run away to the outside world. Devil then conquered heaven and slew the Angel Queen.

Worse, he destroyed the tree of life, the source of all angels' life. That made the whole angle kind extinct. But the nephilim child was not effected."

Lee Byung Hun looked intensely at Yoona for a moment and said,

"Yoona, you are that nephilim child."

"Wow!! From your words, my father is a demon and my mother is an angle. Wait! You said that I am a nephilim. But why do I  have characteristics of neither a demon nor an angle? For example, you are expert at scaring the freak out of people."

Yoona seemed like she was thinking about something seriously. Suddenly, she stood up and stepped away from Lee Byung Hun.

"Wait! You are a demon! So you came here to kill me!!"

"No. I'm a demon but I was from your father's side. I fought for him when the Devil tried to kill him. But he ordered me to protect your mother and sent me to heaven."

"Did the angles accepted you?"

"Your mother was the Angle Queen. And she accepted me since I was a man of your father. When the demons destroyed heaven, I fell down here, to the limbo."

"You mean I can trust you, right? Then why are you telling me all these things?"

"The Devil is an immortal. But he becomes the weakest when all eight planets form a line. This happens once in every three thousand years. At that time, the Devil can be killed easily. The problem is, after the planets form a line, the Devil becomes more powerful than ever. The day when the planets will form a row is three days later."

"What does it have to do with me? Why don't you go kill him yourself?"

"Normal people can't kill the Devil. Only a nephilim can. And only a nephilim can bring him back to life. I think you know why I came to you by now."

"Am I really that thing? A nephilim? Why didn't aunty tell me?"

"Your aunty is an angel, too. She wasn't killed because she was in the outside world. And not telling you anything was the Queen's command. She wanted both of you to live peacefully."

"Oh, that must be why she told me nothing. Let it be that I am a nephilim. How can a normal teacher who holds a pen kill the Devil in only three days?"

"That is why I came into your dreams. About two years, I taught you how to fight with all possible different creatures. You think you don't know a thing but when the time comes, you'll see that you are more than ready."

"Really? What if I reject you, thinking that you are just a fool?"

"I told you that the Devil becomes the weakest when all eight planets form a line. When that happens, the Devil will have enough power to destroy the outside world. Normally, the weapons in limbo cannot affect the outside world. But they will be effective when the Devil becomes powerful again. So if you can't or don't kill him in time, he will destroy your world. "

"I am left with no choice, then." Yoona sighed. She did not want to be in that mass but she could not just ignore the fact that her world was going to be destroyed, could she?

Just at that moment, the both of them saw black things that looked like birds, flying towards them.

"!! They are harpies. They found out that you are here!"

"Harpies? What are harpies?"

"A harpy is a dark angel. It must be the Devil who sent them. I think he knows that a nephilim is in limbo."

Lee Byung Hun took out a scroll which was as big as his palm and open it. Then he put it on the ground.

He bit his thumb, making his blood drip off a bit. He then pressed that thumb in the center of the circle which was on the scroll and shouted, "Demon Style : Rider Jutsu."

With a loud "Boom", smoke appeared. When it disappeared, a Harley Davidson motorcycle came into sight. It had a front wheel and two engines instead of a back wheel. Because it had one wheel only, the front part of the motorcycle was higher and the hind, lower.

"Well, here is your ride." Lee Byung Hun hopped onto it.

"Come here."

"This thing don't have a back wheel. How am I supposed to ride this?"

"It's the same! It just have two engines instead of a wheel!!"

"Are you sure it is safe? I'm scared, arjussi."

"Just hurry up!!" Five harpies behind them were getting closer. Yoona climbed onto it, shaking.

"Don't touch the engines. They are hot. If you don't want to fall, um... h-hug me."

"What?!"

"Nothing. I said hold on tight."

"Vrrooom" Lee Byung Hun started the engine and fire came out, as if the motorcycle was a dragon breathing fire.

They left the park and reached the road. The cars on the road were pitch black. They looked burnt. All the buildings were destroyed. And there was no sign of life except them and the harpies.

One of the harpies was reaching them. So Lee Byung Hun gave Yoona his gun.

"Here. Shoot it."

"But how? I've never used it before?"

"You just have to pull the trigger, for God's sake!!"

Yoona was frightened but still shot the harpy. The whole gun shook, making Yoona  freak out. So she threw it away.

Lee Byung Hun caught the gun Yoona dropped. The harpy was dead as it was shot in the head.

"Oh!! Arjussi, I'm really sorry. It was my first time using a gun. I promise I won't do it next time."

"Next time, I'll shoot."

They kept on going until there was a crossover in front of them. It was broken from middle, which made it look like a set for stunts.

"Arjussi, what are you doing? We can't go now."

"We can." Lee Byung Hun drove towards the crossover. The four harpies followed, too.

When the reached the middle, Lee Byung Hun sped up and lifted the front part of the motorcycle. It literally flew.

At that moment,

"Arrghhh!!!!!" Yoona was hugging Lee Byung Hun from behind and screaming her lungs out.

"Look carefully. This is how you shoot." Lee Byung Hun leaned behind and shot down two harpies with the two guns in his hands. He then kept his guns and held the handles back.

"Now, hold on tight!" He warned Yoona.

The motorcycle landed perfectly. As soon as they reached the road, Lee Byung Hun put on the brake suddenly, so the hinder part of the motorcycle sprang. Immediately, he pulled the lever again. Fire gushed from the engines and the last two harpies became fried.

"Arrghhh!!!!!" Yoona still couldn't stop screaming.

"It's okay. We are back on the land. You can stop screaming now."

"I don't think I can kill the Devil at this rate."

"You feel like that because of your fear. But you can do this. Only you can, not even I can defeat him. So get rid of that fear."

"Andwe. I think I'm going insane."
Just then, fat creatures with wings came out from the ruined buildings.

"! He sent bathos this time!"

"Harpy? Bathos? They all look the same to me, flying creatures."

"They aren't the same. Harpies are dark angles. They fight close to their enemy. But bathoses fight from afar."

"How do the fight?"

"They drop bombs."

Suddenly, a ball of fire approached them.

"!" Lee Byung Hun said. He pulled the trigger towards it and the ball exploded near a bathos.

"So is that a bomb?"

"Yes. How many bathoses left now?"

"About ten."

Lee Byung Hun crashed into a car, making it spring. He then shot it. The car blew up and kill about five bathoses.

But in front of them were two lion-like creatures with spines like a porcupine's on their backs.

"What are those?!!"

"Rages. Be careful of their spines."

The two rages threw the spines towards them. The bathoses were getting closer, too.

"Dammit!" said Lee Byung Hun.

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So, this is an action-packed chapter. I'm really sorry if you guys are awkward reading  this. I have some difficulties in translating such chapters due to my lack of vocabulary. I hope you will enjoy the chapter anyways.

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WonHakWoon
#1
Keep up the good work
WonHakWoon
#2
It's great to see you update, because I nearly forgot about this