One year ago, when this world got half destroyed.
One year ago, people lost their loved ones.
One year ago, population declined from 8 billion to 3 billion.
One year ago, I lost everything, my family, my house, my sanity, even my one kidney.
One year ago, they came and destroyed everything.
Portals opened in every part of the world and when they opened, sky filled with smoke , building started burning , accidents , murders, rivers were coloured red with blood, screams could be heard from every street, city, village and country.
I remember each and every second of it, my mother's car burning with her inside in it , my father got an heart attack and died on spit, whereas my brother screaming in agony and pain as his limbs were getting chewed up by them.
I was a coward, hiding inside the cupboard with my 4 year old niece crying but couldn't gather the courage to go out and save them. Saving my brother meant fighting with that thing and I was scared, very scared. But I heard my brother's last words before that thing swallowed him whole.
"Protect her Y..yu..yuri.
My baby.
Protect arghhh...her And live.
Please liv-"
It's been a year since that day. After 2 days gates closed and before that monsters went back leaving only pain and tears behind. The t.v showed all the ruins from every part of world. People had lost everything and to survive they needed food and shelter, I lost mine too.
I was wandering with my niece on the road that's when they found me.
The loan sharks.
It turned out my brother took some loan from them and was going to pay back in 3 months. I didn't know but they had contract signed by my brother. I plead them to let me go but got beaten up badly and dragged to some underground area. I lost my kidney that day and without any medication or treatment, cut got infected and I ended up taking more loan. My niece , jimin was also getting sick because of lack of food.
After 6 months, officers from government of korea, who were alive gathered and decided to offered some help to citizens. Shelters were opened and food was given to needy ones, me and jimin got too.
I tried to find job based on my college degree but there was no company was running who could give me job in computer tech. After all buildings were destroyed and which survived , their employees and employers didn't survive. It was a total disaster.
As the last resort, I got a job as food distributors, pay was less but better than nothing. Most of which went to loan sharks and remaining for rent. I decided to stay to rental apartment for jimin safety too.
There were many perverts in shelter.
My aunt, mother's sister opened a daycare for children whose parents were working for many hours, made a good money actually. It was free for me as we were family.
After completing my college degree at 23 age, I came back home, 1 month before of gates opening. I met her again after few years, she was strict and proud of her both sons and their little families. She was the best grandmother for her four grandchildren but then she lost everything and she is just a old woman with a sadness on her face.
It's just us 3, together. I asked her to stay with us in my apartment and she agreed. The main reason was jimin who make her remember if her little grandchildren.
"Oh my. Look look. Is that rose? The S ranker. What's she doing here?"
Rose, a S ranker, one of the S rankers in korea.
After world had lost all hope, few people gained some mystical powers to fight these monsters and clear the dungeons which are now managed by elves.
These elves came to earth through the same gates and gave a prediction that there is only 2 years left before the dooms day. On that day, gates will reopen again and monsters will come again. To prevent that 1 gate will stay open in each country such as America, Russia , China, India , Japan, korea etc and they will be manage by elves. Few small countries will share the gate and clear the dungeons , mostly the small countries. South Korea and North korea share the gate.
South Korea's population shrink from 51.68 million to only 20 million. And in this small population only 5 people become S rankers. There are other ranks too after S and they are A,B,C,D,E,F.
Govt. gave them money and a luxurious life to these rankers for clearing the dungeons. Few countries totally forgot that dooms day is for whole world not just for 1 country and they started recruiting S rankers from other countries to clear their gate's dungeon by giving them more money. Some S rankers became greedy while some chose to fight for everyone.
There is specialty about rankers. They are decided into 2 categories- intellectual and physical. USA had more physical type S- rankers so their government decided to recruit intellectual types from other countries such as China, India , Japan and South Korea. Mainly were from India and China, as their citizens are more into science and maths stuff and also for their calculations and logical thinking.
Rose, a 20 year old girl become a S-ranker and chose a luxurious life in korea. Newspapers are filled with her outbursts , screaming at others and being arrogant. But Korean government choose to ignore it as she is one of intellect type. Korea only have 2 of them.
Jimin would be missing me. I should leave now. I thought.
I packed my stuff and got out of there. It was crowded on street because everyone wanted to see Rose. I already packed the food and bought some clothes for her.