The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King (Novel) - Chapter 145 - I'll Let It Slide Once

Chapter 145 – I’ll Let It Slide Once

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Translated by Pratt

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At Yangsan Port of the Samhan Empire,

the container ship that had departed America returned safely once again.

Bwooooooo!

The perfect restoration of the sea route.

The ship’s horn sound that dispelled every last doubt and concern.

Following the Emperor’s order that an event even more splendid than the one in the Republic of America be held without fail, Yangsan had become the site of a great festival.

The ship began berthing at the port.

Even in broad daylight, fireworks spread across the sky.

A military band drawn from the Imperial Army played a solemn march.

Flower petals were scattered in every direction.

Citizens cheered while holding flags and placards.

And a splendid carpet had been laid out, with the Emperor and high ministers having come out in advance to greet them.

Applause and cheers continued.

A boarding staircase approached the ship.

The sailors waved their hands and came down one after another.

Since there were people who had boarded for apprentice purposes as well, there were quite a lot of them.

The ordinary sailors, engineers, and navigators disembarked, and finally even Do Min-su and Captain Jang Dong-jo had come down, when,

“Your Majesty! Captain Jang Dong-jo of `TJ` and 105 sailors report that we have arrived safely at Yangsan Port. Loyalty!”

“Enough. What report is this when you’re civilians now? More importantly, where is Chairman Kim?”

“Ah! W-well, th-that is…”

“Hm? Why?”

“He vanished suddenly. He was certainly still on board until just before we entered port.”

“Huh.”

Had he run away because the welcoming ceremony felt burdensome?

It had been a long time since he had last seen his face, and he had hoped to take a look.

Then Geum Su-ho subtly drew close beside him and whispered,

“I think I know where he went.”

“Hmm, perhaps?”

“Yes, the Republic of Moscow, I imagine. Chairman Kim must also have seen the footage. And he likely found suspicious points too.”

“I see. If he didn’t move, that would be the strange thing.”

The Imperial Policy Institute too had already grasped it.

The Moscow civil war was a bizarre war.

The initial lines of confrontation between the kingdom army and the republican army had long since collapsed.

Now the situation was such utter chaos that one could not tell who was the enemy and who was an ally.

The most horrifying part of this war.

Dead humans were rising again.

Scenes one would normally see only in zombie movies were being reenacted.

A world of corpses, an outbreak of undead.

That was what must have moved Chairman Kim Tae-ju.

What on earth was the cause?

All sorts of guesses ran rampant, but there was no answer.

A phenomenon caused by the side effects of mana, like demonic beasts and demonic humans? Or perhaps the doing of an awakened possessing a peculiar skill? If not that, then some disease spread by a hidden force?

Thus the Kingdom of Moscow was a hell.

Countless citizens had already fled the kingdom and were still fleeing.

The Samhan Empire embassy too had collected the expatriates and escaped the Kingdom of Moscow.

So the situation was such that information about what was currently happening there had been cut off.

The European Empire had declared intervention.

It had issued a general mobilization order, but beyond that there had not yet been any particular movement.

“Honestly, I’m more worried about Alex Caesar than about the Moscow civil war.”

“I agree. Even now, isn’t he waiting? As if…”

“As if he wants the war to expand?”

“Yes. To all of Eastern Europe.”

“Well, would that bastard stay still? He’s a war maniac.”

Of course, the Samhan Empire too was at war.

But it fought only demonic beasts.

It subjugated demonic-beast concentration zones and made those lands Samhan territory.

By contrast, in the European Empire, the targets were states.

The purpose was to expand territory through wars between humans.

“That bastard Alex might even have engineered the war.”

“Not that. He merely seized an opportunity.”

“…Hoo, Chairman Kim must not come to harm.”

“Indeed. Humans are often scarier than demonic beasts.”

* * *

Tae-ju stopped by Gurye briefly, took Ilbaek with him, and headed for Moscow.

Swaeaeaeaeak!

The Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword flew northwest.

He needed an assistant.

If it was Ilbaek-Ibaek-Sambaek, they would be more than capable of doing their part.

At the moment it was Sambaek.

“Niaaang?”

“That’s right, the Titan Eagle, it was white. And its feathers were so splendid.”

“Niaong!”

“It really was impressive, flying through the sky and even carrying a person on top of it.”

“Kyaaaak!”

So it was sulking.

Well, he had praised that pet demonic beast from America right in front of Sambaek.

At that instant!

“Kyak!”

It let out one hiss in Tae-ju’s arms.

Then,

spat!

it leaped up into the empty air.

As if to show that it too could fly through the sky.

“Ooooh!”

Already Sambaek had become a distant dot.

‘It’s flying, a cat?’

But then.

Ssyuuuuuuung,

Sambaek fell even faster than when it had jumped.

“Nyang?”

“…Honestly.”

As if a cat would fly.

Maybe if it had wings.

Swaeaeaeak!

Tae-ju moved the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword and caught the falling Sambaek.

“Niaaaang…”

“Yeah, let’s both keep getting stronger. Won’t the day come when you fly through the sky too?”

“Niang!”

Tae-ju called out Ilbaek-Ibaek-Sambaek one after another and fed each of them one heavenly peach.

Of course, he too took out and ate one top-grade heavenly peach.

He flew for a long time.

Before long he arrived above the Kingdom of Moscow.

“…Haah.”

The moment he arrived, he knew.

The horrible demonic qi spread widely throughout all of Moscow.

There was too much of it, and that was the problem.

So it was difficult to pinpoint the black magician’s qi.

‘Should I have come a little earlier?’

There had been no help for it.

The safe crossing of the Pacific had come first.

‘I just have to catch them now, even if it’s only now.’

Tatatang! Kwakwaang! Kwaaang! Kwang!

Only gunshots and cannon fire could be heard from every direction.

Ahead lay the Kremlin Palace and Red Square.

Yet not a single person could be seen anywhere.

‘How long has it even been since the war broke out…’

Even if it was a city-state with narrow territory.

First, he should go to the place where the smell of demonic qi was strongest.

“Nyaang?”

“Yes, over there, right?”

“Nyaaaang…”

It was nearby.

The Greek Orthodox cathedral built south of Red Square.

A filthy stench billowed out of it that was enough to call it a pit of demonic qi.

Tae-ju entered the cathedral.

At that instant!

“Kereuk!”

“Kiek?”

“Kreeeeek!”

There were well over a hundred undead filling the cathedral.

Zombies and ghouls, and skeletons with only bones left.

But these were not demonic beasts.

They were merely humans.

“Tsk.”

People who had committed no crime before death.

Yet they had been unable to enter rest and remained behind as these hideous undead.

The reason they were inside the cathedral.

The sinister magic formation drawn on the floor of the chapel, a round circle with a pentagram pattern inside it.

Uuuuuung,

it glowed a dark blue while giving off thick demonic qi.

‘They seem to be guarding this, probably.’

He could feel both demonic qi and mana at once.

For now, let him destroy the magic formation inside the cathedral.

When Tae-ju approached, the undead shrieked and rushed him.

“Ilbaek!”

“Nyang?”

“Send them on their way comfortably. They were still people when they were alive, after all.”

“Nyaang!”

Ssuuk!

Ilbaek enlarged his body to a medium size.

“Krrrung,”

spat!

and charged at the undead.

Kkwajik!

Pasak!

Heads flew off with a single forepaw strike.

By now he had eaten quite a lot of heavenly peaches.

Ilbaek’s strikes carried the power of immortal qi that repelled unclean things.

The undead could not even touch Ilbaek.

Tae-ju too took out the Divine Spirit Throwing Knife from infinite space.

This too was a weapon brimming with immortal qi.

He stabbed it straight into the center of the magic formation.

Puuk!

At the same time he activated Poison Ward and infused it with poison qi,

pasasasasasasasa…,

the magic formation vanished in an instant.

‘That’s one destroyed.’

Could there really be only one?

Moscow was still full of thick demonic qi.

Surely there would be more.

Looking carefully, he saw a black line leading outside the cathedral.

A line connected to the erased magic formation.

‘Something like a power line or communication cable?’

In other words, a demonic-qi transmission line.

It seemed that the demonic qi continued somewhere through that line.

Tae-ju came out of the cathedral and followed the current of demonic qi.

The demonic qi led to a large building.

When he read the sign, it said Moscow National Library.

“Fuck.”

The library too was crawling with various undead.

And on the lobby floor of the library, a magic formation glowed.

His chest ached.

Poor souls that had already died yet could not enter eternal rest.

Those black-magician bastards deserved to be torn to death.

“Ilbaek.”

Tae-ju’s voice sank heavily.

Sensing that, Ilbaek too,

“Krrr…”

“Send them on their way.”

“Kyaak!”

Thus he destroyed another magic formation.

And just as in the cathedral, from the library too a demonic-qi transmission line led somewhere else.

Moreover, these undead were using firearms.

If so, there was no law saying they could not also use modern weapons with even greater firepower than this.

‘…Surely it isn’t possible for them to use nuclear weapons too?’

That was something that absolutely must not happen.

It had to be stopped before then.

* * *

The Demon Beast Realm.

The yokai, including the Chaos Demon King, had already scattered in all directions.

And Great Sage Equal to Heaven?

He had been subdued by the immortals.

At the center of the Demon Beast Realm lay a huge rocky mountain.

It had not originally existed there, but had been hastily made by piling up large rocks the immortals had brought.

Talismans were plastered all over every rock.

And Galhong’s and Ghost Valley’s strange-gate formations had been engraved there too.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s body was pinned beneath the rocky mountain, with only his head sticking out.

The immortals were crouching right before his head, pointing fingers at him.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven had already let go of everything.

Because the Heavenly Peach, which had been everything to him, had vanished like bubbles.

“Bastard, look at those eyes!”

“Want to die?”

“Heh heh, what are you going to do by staring like that?”

“Hm, annoyed, aren’t you? You can’t do anything, can you? Doesn’t it piss you off?”

Tang Gun-ak too had no mind to forgive him.

The Heavenly Peach had almost been stolen.

He had to pay the price thoroughly.

But.

“Couldn’t you pleeease forgive him?”

“…Hmm, t-that is.”

“You said you’d grant my request.”

“…”

Bright Maiden’s request to forgive the monkey and release him.

This was awkward.

How much of a shock had he suffered because of this bastard?

“Could I not grant some other request? How about a luxury handbag?”

“I already have oneee.”

“A sports car?”

“Mmm, I do want oneee, b-but I feel sorry for Mr. Monkey…”

Bright Maiden had her stubborn side too.

She showed absolutely no sign of backing down.

“Please withdraw the request. If I release him, it feels as though he’ll cause trouble again.”

“Trouble…, ah! Right! A little while ago I met some lady, and she told me to pass this to Poison Immortal.”

“…Some lady?”

“She said that with this, even if he causes trouble, there won’t be a problem.”

Bright Maiden took from her bosom a round metal headband and handed it to Poison Immortal.

“This is?”

Then the immortals came crowding over in a swarm.

“It’s the tightening band, isn’t it?”

“Right. It is.”

“Oh! Great Sage Equal to Heaven only tastes right when he wears the tightening band. Let’s put it on him at once.”

“But who did you say passed it along?”

“She said some lady.”

“It must be Guanyin. For one who claims to be a Bodhisattva, she has an underhanded side. Isn’t this just a scheme to foist off the troublemaker of the Tathagata Realm onto us?”

Tang Gun-ak slowly examined the tightening band in his hand.

He could see writing engraved on the inner side of the band.

‘This must be the incantation.’

What should he do?

With this, it did seem that the monkey would not be able to do anything.

And there was Bright Maiden’s request.

And just now Immortal Realm World was also lacking manpower…

“Very well. I’ll release him.”

“Thank youuu!”

He would let it slide once.

He would work him to the bone.

Tang Gun-ak walked up to Great Sage Equal to Heaven with the tightening band in hand.

“Haa.”

The moment he saw the tightening band, Great Sage Equal to Heaven sighed with a resigned expression.

As Tang Gun-ak tried to place the tightening band on his head,

“Damn it! Kill me instead.”

“Do not get too angry. This may become a blessing for you.”

“What? A blessing?”

“Have you ever heard of the Immortal Realm Multiplex?”

“…Multi?”

“You won’t be bored. Rather, the Immortal Realm will feel like heaven. If you only listen to me well.”

“W-what?”

“For now, come with me and let’s watch an episode of Dragon Ball. It’s truly very fun.”

Great Sage Equal to Heaven wore a bewildered expression.

What was a multiplex, and what was Dragon Ball?

It was then.

Jjiriririr.

The delivery signal rang out in Tang Gun-ak’s mind.

“It’s up.”

At once Sword Immortal came running at full speed.

His face was full of expectation.

“S?”

Tang Gun-ak checked the shared storage.

“It came.”

Sword Immortal raised both hands high and let out a shout of joy.

“Uahahaha! Who am I? Sword Immortal? No. I am the owner of a convertible open car!!!”

Tang Gun-ak took the items out of the shared storage and put in the Heavenly Peach first.

He put nothing else in.

Only the Heavenly Peach and the letter containing the precautions for consuming it.

Thus Tang Gun-ak at long last succeeded in delivering the Heavenly Peach to Earth.