Global Awakening: Only I Can Respawn

Either way, YuWon was happy to see all of them were safe. After all, the more of them were there, the more he could use them as shields. They shouldn't mind it either way, as he had essentially saved them, whether they knew it.

Life for a life. I like the concept.

"Shall we go?" Yuna asked.

YuWon nodded, and the four of them entered the subway station. The Americans and Portuguese followed. But contrary to their expectations, they found the entire place deserted. There were no signs of humans or monsters.

There's no train here either.

Confused, YuWon checked the quest, and sure enough, they were supposed to board a train.

Don't tell me I'd have to go bumping my head between platform numbers... I'm no wizard!

The only thing there was a convenience store. It looked strange. There were no lights there, yet they could see the store was well-stocked. It almost looked untouched by time and monsters.

Unlike before, the international friends didn't waste any time and headed inside the shop to loot everything they could. Yuna wanted to leave, too. Resources, no matter how small, were a treasure in an apocalypse.

However, YuWon held her back. Yuna turned and saw none of them were ready to make a move.

"They'll take everything—"

"Let them," YuWon replied.

It wasn't like YuWon lacked any resources. He had food, medicines, water, and everything necessary stored in the Phantom Bag. Although he didn't want to tell Yuna about it just yet.

"Oh, come on!" Yuna rolled her eyes, trying to push YuWon's hand away.

However, YuWon's grip only got tighter, and he mumbled, "If you want to work with me, then you follow every word I say. If not, you can leave any time."

With that, he let go of her hand and stepped back while the other looted everything. Yuna stared at the store for a second before stomping her foot and quietly retreating to YuWon's side.

"If you weren't handsome, I would never obey you!" she pouted, but her actions only made YuWon roll his eyes.

She was supposed to be the same age as them, but from her antics, no one would ever guess it. At first, he thought it was a part of her charm, but now he could only cringe whenever she acted like that.

"You're a strategist," YuWon finally explained things to her. "You can't be that stupid."

Yuna didn't reply as she saw the strangers filling their backs with goods... too much goods. Then it hit her.

"Bait..." she mumbled.

YuWon smirked and nodded. The Americans were carrying bags twice their size. While the Portuguese, at least, had some presence of mind and distributed things in small bags.

They are more aware of the dangers.

Carrying such bags would not only slow the carriers, it would also make them appear bigger to the monsters. It was natural for the predators to go for the bigger prey first.

That's why YuWon didn't stop them or interfere with them either way. Plus, he wasn't in a place to judge them.

Every zone had unique problems, and he didn't know what their lives were like. But from the way they were hoarding stuff, it didn't seem like they were having a good time.

But then something weird happened. One of the American females, the one with red hair, took out some small vials and placed them on the counter.

A second later, the vials disappeared and a ghostly figure appeared behind the counter, standing where a cashier would normally be.

"What the hell?"

Yuna expressed everyone's emotions right then. Everyone but the Americans seemed surprised. As if noticing everyone's gaze, the other girl smiled and waved at them.

YuWon's thought process was something else entirely. The woman's actions were too arbitrary and sudden to be accidental. She knew what she was doing, but how?

Could she be like me?

The strange thought crossed his mind. He wondered if that was the case and much like him, the woman too was a [Revenant]. YuWon wanted to confirm his doubts. He couldn't let the matter rest.

It's not like I can ask her if she can respawn.

Gina noticed YuWon's worried gaze and held onto his arm. "Is something wrong, husband?"

Snapping out of a daze, YuWon shook his head. He realized how stupid he was being. How could there be two respawners? How would something like that even work? If one of them died, then would they both respawn?

For now, let's keep an eye on them.

However, it wasn't only YuWon monitoring them. The Portuguese also took notice of them. But their behavior changed immediately.

The woman was talking with the ghostly husk, trying to buy something. So the Portuguese turned to the men. They didn't ignore them and one of them even wrapped his arm around a girl's waist as they kept chatting casually.

The two groups had joined forces, and now the men were eyeing YuWon and the girls. One didn't need to be psychic to know what they were thinking.

For a moment YuWon wondered if he should send Yeji or Yuna their way just to get the truth. But shook his head. It wasn't worth the trouble. His eyes shifted back to the girl at the counter and his eyes went wide.

How the hell...

YuWon did not know how, but the woman got three Phantom Bags. The other Americans quickly took one each and shoved their packed bags inside. They would not be the decoys YuWon was planning them to be.

However, that didn't surprise him half as much as the woman did when she turned and smirked at him. Even Yeji was confused about why, but all the Americans were smiling at YuWon as if they were aware of something that they didn't know.

This doesn't look good... at all.