Episode 369
Is this what it feels like to have your hair turn white?
Yunhee was experiencing that when she was too surprised, she couldn’t speak.
Yes, as always, I thought Choi Jun-ho might suddenly show up like this.
Because he’s that kind of guy to begin with.
He is someone who is not considerate at all and always does what he wants.
However, I know very well the heart that gives to myself and my family.
That’s why I didn’t try to have false hopes. Although there are signs that Choi Jun-ho is alive everywhere, these are only hopes, and looking at it coldly, the fact that he has not been seen for a year means that there is a high probability that he is dead.
If not, he would have shown himself.
I just pretended to calmly accept it because there were many people around me who wanted to believe that my brother was alive.
Just when I was feeling like giving up, he suddenly appeared.
In the end, Yunhee overcame all the emotional turmoil and raised her voice.
“What! “Why does it appear like this!”
“Long time no see.”
“Are you saying that after appearing for the first time in a year?”
“There were circumstances.”
“What kind of situation is that! Do you know what happened because you weren’t there?”
I was glad to see Choi Jun-ho gone for a moment, and the situations I had been through hit me like waves.
I shouldn’t have vented that resentment on my brother, but it kept coming in like a tide.
Yes, it was my own mistake.
“….”
But Choi Jun-ho calmly accepted it all.
Instead, he held out a glass of water, took it, and drank it down in one go.
“ha!”
Is it because he vented his emotions to the fullest?
I feel a deep sense of exhaustion envelop my whole body.
“sit down. “Tell me what happened.”
* * *
A year is an infinitely short time, but to some it can feel infinitely long.
Listening to Yoonhee’s words, I and the people involved could see that the past year had been a time of hope torture.
“I didn’t know that I would reveal this in just one year.”
“Isn’t that what you meant?”
“Half of it is true, half of it is not.”
“What are you talking about?”
“It means he didn’t disappear for a year intentionally.”
“…Was the injury serious?”
I wasn’t going to go into detail, but when Yunhee pointed it out, I had no choice but to agree.
That was also the most convenient excuse.
“So it took a while.”
“It seems like the Hell Master was strong. “Seeing as how the head breaker of the world almost died.”
“….”
Normally, I would have dismissed it as nonsense, but it is true that I suffered serious injuries due to Hell Master.
In particular, using it to remove a hematoma was a huge risk that almost killed me.
It was to the point where even Super Regeneration couldn’t dare. Looking at it this way, what Haematoma said was also true. It means that if you die, I will die too. If I had stayed in the past and not become stronger, I too would have met my end.
“So are you okay now?”
“There is no problem with moving.”
“Is that the end?”
“What more do you need?”
“Are we going to be able to live like we used to?”
It contained several meanings.
The biggest thing is probably related to my strength.
I nodded.
“I came because it wasn’t too much of a problem.”
I calmed down Yunhee, who kept asking about my condition, and asked her in detail about what had happened over the past year.
Yunhee, whose excitement had not yet subsided, began to talk to me without any hesitation.
As a result, although not in detail, I was able to know roughly the situation in neighboring countries surrounding Korea and the situation of the people around me.
“That’s bullshit.”
“It’s a mess that someone made.”
“Are you talking about me?”
“Then it wasn’t?”
“Why, the person concerned is the most carefree. “People around me are dying.”
“Now the other guys will die too, so it’ll be okay.”
“uh?”
Yunhee, who had paused as if she didn’t understand what I was saying, looked shocked as she realized something.
“Are you really going to kill everyone I told you to?”
“Not right away.”
“In the end, we’re all going to kill them.”
“How can they kill everyone just by listening to what you say? “You need to listen to what many people have to say.”
“…Surprising? “I thought he would run right away and kill everyone.”
“Shouldn’t you first think about how much trust you have in what you say?”
This guy is a guy with enough resentment and feelings.
Well, it’s right to be prepared to do that if you’ve earned Yoonhee’s grudge.
Only then did Yunhee realize the meaning of my words, and a spark flew in her eyes.
“So you didn’t believe me just because I was saying it? “Are you kidding me?”
Although there was a lot of heat, the awkwardness of not seeing each other for a year was completely resolved.
In my last life, I didn’t even have the courage to solve that.
Now that the hematoma has disappeared, I feel that the situation surrounding me has changed a lot.
“Now let’s rest.”
I tried to rest at home for the first time in a while, but Yunhee wouldn’t let me go.
“Yes, look at your parents first.”
“Can’t we go a little slower?”
“Are you saying that now? Do you know how worried mom and dad are? let’s hurry! “Let’s go!”
Yunhee almost forcibly pulled me as I hesitated and took her with me.
Is it because of my experience in my last life? When I’ve been away from home for a long time, I have some hesitation about going back.
I have concerns about whether I will be welcomed at home and whether I will be a burden to my family.
When I was a hematoma, I could see that my family had been imprisoned in a prison called a world without bars for the rest of their lives, which left quite a big scar on me.
So I hesitated, but thanks to Yunhee, I was able to solve it easily.
I was able to relax for an hour while seeing my parents who were relieved and said that they were glad that I was safe.
I realized that the me I was when I had a hematoma and the me I am now are different.
I feel like the worries that were in the back of my mind are completely washed away.
“What will Junho’s mom do for us?”
“Soybean paste stew.”
After returning home after a long time, I wanted to eat the soybean paste stew that my mother made.
“You just ate soybean paste stew and three bowls of rice!”
Meanwhile, Yunhee did not forget about the dispute.
* * *
After a long time, after filling my stomach with the soybean paste stew my mother made, I returned home and lay down in bed.
Now that I’ve officially made my appearance, it’s time for the guy with the scent to show up.
Sure enough, there was a guy who suddenly appeared with a secret presence.
It was Yongyong.
[Long time no see! How have you been?]
“Uh.”
[I was worried because the traces were broken. There was no way you were dead, so it was strange why no traces were found.]
There is no need to reveal your weakest moment to Yongyong.
The guys called Shinsu are a race that lives in the best of themselves.
If that pride is cracked, you don’t hesitate to take action.
The same thing happened this time when I tried to kill the Hell Master and get the instant death gift.
As a result, I did not receive the instant death gift. As a result, I faced the risk of death. However, as a result, he was able to understand the essence of Shinsoo and become stronger.
“How have you been?”
[I carried on as usual. While I was waiting to see when you would show up, I was worried about you, so I tried to track him down. Hmm!]
As he spoke, his dark inner thoughts were flowing out.
[Anyway, congratulations! That gift was really not easy, but you used it to get rid of all your worries?]
Yongyong is the one who knew that I was trying to remove the hematoma using the instant death gift.
At first, they jumped at me thinking it was a crazy idea, but then they showed interest and said it might be possible.
And it was a success.
Instead, I had to endure enormous damage in the process.
[Still, the damage must have been great, but I overcame it well.]
“Because a part of me was gone.”
Not everything the hematologist said was a lie.
In obtaining blood feeding, I gave my all to that gift.
As a result, I was eaten by the blood-feeding, resulting in me becoming the blood-feeding and the blood-feeding becoming me.
It has been a long time since it became a fairy tale, but it was something that could not be separated even if someone tried to separate it.
This is because the moment you separate from someone, your very existence can become dangerous.
That was cut off with Hell Master’s instant death gift.
Of course, most of what Hematology said was false.
If he healed soon and I had a hematoma, I would have died from the instant death gift.
Because it was a separate personality, only the hematoma died and disappeared.
It’s like I got hurt by my own tricks.
However, the role it took in parasitizing me was so significant that my life was in danger.
It was the biggest reason why I couldn’t show up for a year.
There are a few more little things here though.
Meanwhile, Yongyong was circling around me.
[Sniff, does this smell like Hyuna?]
“I stopped by there and met and talked a bit.”
[Why did I leave you out!]
“So you’re saying I have to call you from Mt. Baekdu to talk to Hyuna?”
[There’s no need to go that far, but it’s still disappointing.]
Of course, for Yongyong, whose only friend is Hyuna, even that behavior may feel disappointing.
[…I really don’t like the way it’s handled. Even though a year has passed, you still haven’t changed.]
People originally change when they die. And as a result of killing countless villains, most of them just pretend to change before they die.
[I thought it might have changed since half of my soul was gone.]
“That guy is half of my soul?”
[Yes.]
“It looks like you want to die.”
[I thought things would change a bit.]
Yongyong sighed deeply.
[You insisted that you went crazy because of that guy, so I thought about it just in case, but it turned out just like that. You were you.]
“What do you mean?”
[You are the one who has passed the expiration date. congratulations. You are the most expired human I have ever seen! Are you happy? Yongyong!]
He was yelling at me so much that I grabbed Yongyong and started beating him mercilessly.
[How? It hurts more!]
“My understanding of Shinsoo has improved.”
The Hell Master’s Instant Death Gift removed the hematoma and at the same time I attempted to obtain the Hell Master’s Instant Death Gift.
As a result, I got a gift but failed to use it. There was a lot of story in it, but there was no need to tell it to Yongyong.
One possibility was the relationship between my Gift and the Divine Beast.
I plan to find out about this little by little.
“Don’t fuss from now on.”
[If this happens, should I also take action?]
“Why don’t you try it?”
[Why do you think that making countermeasures is all about rushing in?]
“Or else.”
[Oh, your personality is still the same. Then, will you rest for a while?]
Yongyong predicted that I would rest as my condition was bad, but I had no intention of doing so.
“I need to move.”
[Moving?]
“While I was away, the number of people to kill increased.”
The truth that the world is wide and there are many people to kill applies here as well.
[This is why humans are stupid. Couldn’t they stand it and were taken by you?]
“It wasn’t that they were taken, but they were showing their greed.”
You voluntarily gave in to me, but you won’t feel the point in giving in as long as you think I’m gone.
I tried to retrieve it again, but I showed up.
If you put your mind to it, there is no problem, but if you take action, of course it becomes a problem.
The time I spent recovering from my injury unintentionally became a time of conflict.
[You, too, are amazing for not being able to endure that and trying to move on.]
Yongyong will make time for you sooner or later, so just wait patiently.
[Am I a pet? [Do as usual.]
It was treated the same way as usual.
[How are you going to step forward? Appearing in public?]
“I thought about that too.”
If it were me in the past, of course I would have done as Yongyong said, but since I’ve been staying for a year, I’m going to listen to many people’s stories about what happened during this period.
I asked my family to keep it a secret for the time being, so I plan to go to the Blue House first.
If it was the Cheon Myung-guk I knew, there was a 100% chance that he would have accumulated information to provide to me.
[You’re not meeting that less crazy person?]
A less crazy person? I guess you’re talking about Berserker.
Of course we plan to meet.
“I should meet him last.”
However, since it was the main dish, I planned to whet my appetite first and take my time to savor it slowly.
I need to hold you accountable for hiding your full recovery from me.
First, I have to go to the Blue House and make a list of who I want Cheon Myeong-guk to kill.