Synopsis
Jongno District.
One day, when Astie was just four years old, she received a notice informing her of her father’s death.
“In accordance with Article 12, Paragraph 1 of the Act on Funeral Services, the remains of an unclaimed deceased have been processed. The bereaved are hereby requested to retrieve the enshrined ashes as announced below.”
Her father had always said strange things.
He insisted that he had come from an empire called Talocheum, and that Astie’s true homeland was there as well.
“Daddy is going to stay with Tia forever. Someday, we’ll definitely return home, and I’ll make our Tia smile in a much bigger, cleaner house.”
He said they would go home.
He promised to make her smile.
But in the end, he left only Tia behind.
Then, while searching through his belongings, she encountered a mysterious lifeform she had never seen before.
[Shall I save him?]
“D-… The rock is talking…”
[If you wish, I’ll send you back. To the place where you were born. The place where you were always meant to be. To where that man is still alive.]
Astie is given one final chance.
She can save her father and return to her true homeland.
She thought that from then on, her life would finally be filled with happiness.
“To be honest, I’ve been wondering when we’d finally meet again.”
After struggling to settle into the other world she returned to, Astie is finally reunited with her father from the past.
But… something about him is very different from what she expected.
“You’ve cut off everyone’s livelihood, yet you look surprisingly shameless, Corpse King.”
Dad, I thought you were a Holy Knight?
“I’m getting tired of this. Let’s settle it once and for all. The loser quits the business and leaves this field.”
A mercenary.
Not just any mercenary, but the commander of a high-ranking mercenary corps renowned for fighting on battlefields every day and slaughtering terrifying monsters.
“If I kill you today, I’ll reclaim first place in the hiring rankings, right?”
It seems her father had been hiding something.
Something enormous.
Something that could change everything.
