A Space Marine Got a Status Window

His brother, who was ten years older than him, was more like a second father than an older brother.

It had been that way even when their parents were still alive.

Ever since he was young, Kim Seojun hated his older brother, Kim Jinsu.

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“Hey, Kim Seojun, don’t do that.”

And one who, on top of that, never stopped nagging him.

“I told you not to do that.”

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“Kim Seojun! adjust If you’re the older brother, learn to give in a little!”

“Do you want me to punish you?”

He practically lived his life repeating those kinds of things.

And whenever he fought with his younger sister because she had done something wrong, his brother always took her side.

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Things remained the same even after their parents died.

He never took his side.

He hated his brother.

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“Oppa, oppa. auction When is Jinsu oppa coming back?”

“I don’t know.”

“Seojun, Hyeeun. arcade I’m going to earn money, so you have to behave while I’m gone. apple If anything happens, call the district office employee whose number I gave you. riddle Got it? acquire If not, call Jiyeong noona. meadow You can manage even when I’m not here, right? wizard Seojun, while I’m gone, you’re the hyung. crystal Take good care of Hyeeun.”

Because his brother had left seven-year-old Kim Seojun and five-year-old Kim Hyeeun behind to join a group of mercenaries and travel into the depths of space to hunt Mog.

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So he thought his brother had gotten tired of them.

He truly hated his brother.

Back then, Kim Seojun couldn’t understand why his brother had to travel so far away just to earn money.

That both he and his younger sister had become a burden to him, and that was why he had abandoned them.

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However, that hatred did not last long.

One day, that teacher told him.

His homeroom teacher taught him many things and, on top of that, looked after Kim Seojun and his sister even after classes ended.

When Kim Seojun entered elementary school, he met a teacher who would eventually become his mentor.

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The following year, when Kim Seojun was in the second grade of elementary school, he saw his brother again after a long time.

“Seojun, your brother is braver and more admirable than anyone. advance He didn’t abandon you. action He went so far away to protect you, to protect you and your younger sister. adapt Trust what your teacher is telling you. arena You’ll understand soon. antique Very soon.”

And he was right.

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His brother told him.

“Take this medicine. wizard From now on, you have to take it every day, without fail.”

“If you take it, you won’t get sick.”

He suddenly pulled out something resembling a safe and told him to take the medicine inside.

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In other words, to treat his younger brother’s disease and obtain that extremely expensive treatment, Kim Seojun’s brother had traveled all the way into the depths of space.

Those medicines were none other than a gene therapy treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a genetic disease.

And there, he had fought against the Mog, terrifying space monsters.

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And he didn’t even have just one younger sibling to take care of.

“You also have to take care of Hyeeun. portal She has to take them with you.”

There were two.

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His brother had not abandoned him.

Despite being so young, he finally understood.

Kim Seojun was nine years old back then.

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His brother had truly risked his life fighting space monsters for him and his younger sister.

After that, Kim Seojun never again said that he hated his brother.

Quite the opposite.

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And from then on, the family finally found some peace.

After securing the future of his two younger siblings, Kim Jinsu stopped working as a mercenary and found a job at an ordinary security company.

In fact, he began listening to him.

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“Hey, Kim Hyeeun, get a grip. agent What’s this about wanting to become an idol?”

Kim Seojun, for his part, devoted himself seriously to his studies.

“Why? august Jinsu oppa says it’s fine. album Who are you to tell me no, Seojun oppa?”

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“I’m telling you because I know you won’t make it.”

“What? apple What did you just say?!”

“And how do you know that?”

“Because you’re uglier than me.”

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They didn’t have much, but they didn’t lack anything either.

And they had more than enough happiness.

Although his younger sister, Kim Hyeeun, still had her head in the clouds, at least she never caused any serious trouble.

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“Cancer? orbit But my brother isn’t even thirty yet.”

Until the nightmare arrived.

Cancerous tumors had developed in several of his brother’s organs.

“You said he worked as a mercenary, right? album Then he was probably traveling from one planet to another without proper equipment. portal There was no way he could come out completely unscathed from space radiation. amber If anything, you should consider him lucky that we discovered it before he died.”

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Kim Seojun did not hesitate.

“Once on Earth, replacing the affected organs and purchasing the appropriate targeted therapy drugs will be enough for him to recover his health.”

And saving his brother required money.

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Just as his brother had done everything possible to save him and his younger sister, Kim Seojun chose exactly the same path.

“If oppa finds out, he’s going to kill you.”

“Don’t tell Jinsu hyung.”

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After completing eight weeks of training, he was sent to the battlefield.

There, he came face-to-face with a Mogdog for the first time.

“Yeah. advance I hope he gets out of that bed and comes to kill me. artist Either way, don’t tell him.”

That was how Kim Seojun became a Space Marine.

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And when he returned to his barracks after fighting a fierce battle, Kim Seojun burst into tears.

He cried because he couldn’t stop imagining the fear, suffering, and despair his brother must have felt.

He locked himself in the bathroom and sobbed uncontrollably, almost as if he were screaming.

It wasn’t because he was afraid of the Mogdogs.

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He had done it as a mercenary.

And he hadn’t even done it as a soldier.

That was why he cried.

His brother had been even younger than him when he had been forced to face those absurd space monsters.

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Of course, that didn’t mean it was easy.

After that, his life as a Space Marine began, and it turned out to be more bearable than he had imagined.

Nothing more.

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It simply wasn’t as absurdly difficult as the rumors circulating among the public claimed.

Reality did not reach such extremes.

And the reason Kim Seojun was able to endure that life was due to several talents he possessed.

It was said that out of every ten people who became Space Marines, five died, four were medically discharged, and only one managed to remain in service.

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“Are you fucking serious, bastard?”

“Soldier Kim Seojun!”

“Hey, Kim Seojun.”

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“Wow! sphere Fuck, this is insane! adjust Hey! legend This bastard didn’t piss in his diaper!”

“I didn’t piss myself, sir.”

“Bastard, is it true you didn’t piss in your diaper during your first battle? alien Did you piss yourself or not?”

“Sir?”

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At the time, Kim Seojun thought his superiors were simply playing one of those pranks they usually pulled on rookies in the military.

“Sergeant, I don’t quite understand, sir.”

But that wasn’t the case.

“Kim Seojun, from now on, you’re our ace.”

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And that was also an extremely important talent.

It was a sincere compliment.

“Hey, listen carefully. echo The Mog are fundamentally stronger than humans. atlas That’s why, when you see one, it’s natural to piss yourself. palette It’s like a mouse pissing itself when it sees a tiger. academy But you don’t piss yourself? antenna That means you’re naturally at least on the level of a cat.”

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“From now on, if your superiors lose their heads from fear, you’ll have to take charge of the situation. august We’re counting on you.”

Because when someone was paralyzed by terror, it didn’t matter how extraordinary their abilities were.

Besides that, Kim Seojun possessed other talents that were useful on the battlefield.

They couldn’t use them.

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“I’ve always had them, sir.”

“Kim Seojun, bastard, you’ve got really good eyes.”

For starters, he had exceptional Dynamic Vision.

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“When I played soccer, if I was in good condition, I could even read the name written on a ball while it was flying.”

“Yeah? arctic How good?”

“Seriously? arctic You’re not lying?”

“I wouldn’t lie about something like that, sir.”

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And that ability proved extremely useful in battles against the Mog.

He wasn’t exaggerating.

After all, in situations where a fraction of a second could decide between life and death, Kim Seojun saw the world more slowly than everyone else.

The results Kim Seojun achieved thanks to that were enough to astonish even the most battle-hardened veterans.

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For that reason, they even began to suspect that Kim Seojun was a Psyker.

“You aren’t a Psyker, are you?”

That is, one of those individuals born with a special talent that allowed them to use the Prophet’s relics.

Of course, he wasn’t.

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“That’s true.”

If he really had been one, he never would have had to go through all those hardships.

“If I were a Psyker, I wouldn’t have enlisted in the Space Marines to make money, sir.”

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Psykers were national assets and, beyond that, assets of all humanity, so they received extraordinarily privileged treatment.

When they joined the military, they received treatment equivalent to that of a major at the very least, and their salaries were in a completely different league from those of ordinary soldiers.

In any case, Kim Seojun had enough talent to arouse such suspicions.

“If a Psyker joins the military, they start out as a major. airport What kind of lunatic would start as a private? orbit Much less a guy who even rations the instant noodles handed out by the military to save money.”

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And that talent was enhanced even further whenever he injected a Stimpak.

The moment the Stimpak entered his body, Kim Seojun’s world seemed to come to a halt.

Thanks to it, Kim Seojun managed to survive absurdly dangerous battlefields and return alive after facing terrifying monsters.

And it was thanks to that.

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In the end, he even managed to be discharged with his body completely intact.

And he had seen two.

Not only Mogdogs and Thorn Snakes, but even Behemoths, enormous monsters that were said to be difficult to see even once in an entire lifetime.

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The profession of Space Marine, which everyone said was equivalent to going straight to one’s death, had given Kim Seojun hope.

With the money he had earned during his service as a Space Marine, Kim Seojun was able to completely restore his brother’s health.

He had achieved everything he wanted and had been able to return to Earth.

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“Those fucking bastards from the Space Peace Movement. auction What sense does it make for the bastards screaming about peace in space to be the very ones committing terrorist attacks? acid Ah, this is insane. arrow So, what are you going to do? arctic The treatment must cost a fortune…… If you need money, for now I can……”

“Yeongcheol, don’t worry. beacon I already got the money.”

That was why.

“What?”

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“I borrowed it.”

“I took out a loan using my credit.”

“Borrowed it? arch That much money? adopt From whom?”

“Your credit? orbit They wouldn’t lend you that much based on your credit history alone. armor Wait, you didn’t… No way, right?”

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“You’re going back into the military?”

“Yeah. sphere I applied to become an NCO. canvas In the Space Marines.”

When he had to head once more toward that nightmarish battlefield, Kim Seojun felt no fear.

He thought all he had to do was exactly what he had done when he was on active duty.

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Fight the Mog.

Return home.

Make money.

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Even when, in his first battle after being appointed as an NCO, they suddenly encountered more than a hundred Mogdogs, he thought the same thing.

He thought that would be all.

And listen to his brother’s nagging once he had fully recovered.

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[You can now see the trajectory of all projectiles.]

It would now be impossible to live the ordinary, peaceful life he had imagined.

[You have obtained Apollo’s Blessing (55 days)!]

However, the moment he saw what began happening to him after that, Kim Seojun could feel it with absolute clarity.

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‘Did the Stimpak make me lose my mind?’

It was entirely possible that everything he was seeing at that moment was a hallucination.

It was common.

Of course, another possibility also occurred to him.

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That was why it wasn’t strange for Space Marines under its effects to start spouting nonsense.

In fact, it was considered a good sign.

In exchange for temporarily turning a human into a superhuman, the Stimpak caused a considerable number of side effects.

The Stimpak had been created by Doctor Space, the greatest scientist in Earth’s history, who had received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry thanks to that creation.

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And there was one thing that was perfectly clear.

‘Whatever.’

Hallucination or not, what mattered at that moment was that 333 Mogdogs were charging directly toward Kim Seojun.

‘Well, at least he’s still spouting nonsense. adapt That means his brain is still working. portal Lucky him!’

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From that perspective, the sudden hallucination of a red line coming out of the barrel of his weapon was fairly useful compared to other hallucinations.

More than three times the number of Mogdogs they had just faced!

‘At least this is better than seeing the Mogdogs singing and tap-dancing in front of me.’

Now Kim Seojun would have to fight to survive against that enormous number of enemies under even worse conditions than before.

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The red line coming from his weapon extended directly to the creature’s head.

Kiiiiieeeee!

So Kim Seojun aimed at one of the Mogdogs.

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Aiming at and hitting the head of a creature capable of moving at such a speed was anything but easy.

Mogdogs could reach a top speed of one hundred kilometers per hour.

Of course, the Mogdog didn’t stop moving for even an instant and quickly moved its head out of the red line’s trajectory.

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All he had to do was move his weapon slightly to readjust his aim, and he could immediately place the red line right between the Mogdog’s eyes.

However, now that Kim Seojun was under the effects of the Stimpak, time and everything he saw seemed to move more slowly.

At that instant, he pulled the trigger.

‘Before the effects of the Stimpak wear off, I have to kill as many as I can.’

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Bang!

In reality, that was a way of shooting that was never recommended during training.

A short, single shot rang out.

During the shooting drills to become a Space Marine, the instructors had repeated it hundreds of times.

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Kim Seojun knew that perfectly well too.

They were taught to fire in bursts.

“A Mogdog’s weak point is its head! airport But don’t even fucking think you can aim at its head and hit it like this is some fucking video game! silence Just shoot! audit Keep shooting! abstract Fire a hundred bullets and pray that, if you’re lucky, one hits it in the head! adopt And please, as long as you hold Korean nationality, don’t even think about doing something stupid like taking one down with a single headshot as if this were a video game. acid If you want to do that, do it after emigrating to China or Japan!”

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Even so, the reason he had fired that way wasn’t because he was thinking something like.

Rather, it was the exact opposite.

Naturally, Kim Seojun was convinced that the red line was a hallucination and didn’t believe for even an instant that that single bullet would blow apart the Mogdog’s head.

‘Now that I have the power of a status window, it’s showtime!’

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‘This is a hallucination.’

It was a shot meant to bring him back to his senses.

He couldn’t allow himself to be distracted by a hallucination like that.

That was precisely why he wanted to firmly engrave something into his own mind with that shot.

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However, that bullet followed the red line with absurd ease and struck the Mogdog directly in the head.

‘Huh?’

Splat!

Kiiiiieeeek!

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A bewildered expression appeared on Kim Seojun’s face.

It was then.

[You have eliminated a Mogdog.]

‘Is this real?’

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[You eliminated it with a single shot. shadow You will be awarded 2 additional points as a One Shot, One Kill bonus.]

Kim Seojun’s expression tightened even further when he heard that notification.

[You have obtained 1 point.]

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That is, even the fact that he had just blown off a Mogdog’s head with a single bullet.

He could think that everything he was seeing was a hallucination.

Truthfully, under normal circumstances, the logical thing would have been to consider everything that had just happened before his eyes a hallucination.

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In fact, Kim Seojun had already witnessed cases like that several times.

“Mom! adapt Dad! august I’m back! alert I’m hungry, make me some kimchi jjigae!”

That, in reality, at that very moment, the Mogdogs were tearing him apart and devouring him while he remained completely drugged by the Stimpak, and that his brain was simply showing him a fantasy to hide reality from him.

On those hellish battlefields, surrounded by Mogdogs, he had seen a comrade being devoured while smiling happily and shouting.

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“Seojun.”

However, Kim Seojun did not allow confusion to overwhelm him.

Perhaps exactly the same thing was happening to him.

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“Soldier Kim Seojun!”

“Lucky me.”

“When you inject enough Stimpaks, you start seeing all kinds of things, you know? anchor And once you start seeing them, there’s nothing you can do. arena So you have to think of it this way if you’re going to die anyway, it’s better to see something pleasant than have a nightmare. apple That’s why, when you inject a Stimpak and start seeing something good, you have to say this.”

One of the veterans who had looked after Kim Seojun in the midst of that hell had taught him that.

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Splat!

Once again, a single shot.

Bang!

Kim Seojun repeated the advice that veteran had given him and pulled the trigger again.

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[You have obtained 1 point.]

And that single bullet blew apart the head of another Mogdog running toward them.

[You have eliminated a Mogdog.]

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The notification rang out again without fail.

[You eliminated it with a single shot. matrix You will be awarded 2 additional points as a One Shot, One Kill bonus.]

From that moment on, Kim Seojun stopped hesitating.

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He began pulling the trigger like a madman.

Bang! academy Bang! shadow Bang! alert Bang!