Favorite disciple (6)
He did not avoid Hong Seok-young’s gaze.
“There’s nothing more to hide, right?”
Hong Seok-young also looked straight into my eyes and spoke softly.
You have nothing to hide?
Why not?
Slowly, reason caught up with the senses that had been paralyzed by Hong Seok-young’s remarks.
Lee Seong thought over Hong Seok-young’s words and laughed.
Am I his successor? Nonsense.
It was Oh Hyun-wook who was mentioned externally as Hong Seok-young’s successor. However, there were many voices within the management office that thought it might be Yoo Ji-eun. I was one of those voices.
Since Oh Hyun-wook was from an outside guild, it would be difficult for him to be the perfect successor to Hong Seok-young. On the other hand, Yoo Ji-eun graduated from the administrative office, and even when she was in a pilot high school, her father was by her side and taught her. At least among those who graduated from Demonstration High School, no one has received as much teachings from his father as Yoo Ji-eun.
me?
I’m not from a pilot high school.
… This is a joke.
No, it’s actually not a joke. The reason I was able to learn from my father was because it had nothing to do with the pilot high school.
What could it be for? He learned because he was a son.
And regardless of whether he is a pilot or a son, he can become the successor just because he resembles Hunter Hong Seok-young’s movements?
Hong Seok-young’s status in Korea is not that low.
Why was Yoo Ji-eun treated as successor instead of Oh Hyun-wook?
Like his father, he conquered dungeons at a breakneck speed, worked hard to conquer unexplored dungeons, and even took the lead in community service activities whenever he had time. Yoo Ji-eun was always next to her father at official occasions. It’s not me.
Did I call Yoo Ji-eun my father’s favorite student for no reason? It all happened because of all these circumstances.
The successor was Yoo Ji-eun. The moment I decided not to become a hunter, that’s what happened.
So, when I went through the dungeon in place of Tae-kyung Han, whose license was suspended due to disciplinary action, my father stopped everyone from drawing attention to me. My hunter rank was treated as a kind of secret.
That was why Yoo Ji-eun called the day a parachute. He has no intention of coming forward and is only protected by his father.
… I was probably the one who could be said to be my father’s favorite student. A disciple who inherited everything from his father. But he had no role beyond that. Because I didn’t want it.
‘Heejae. ‘I’ll let you do whatever you want.’
I relaxed my shoulders. Now I can finally admit that fact.
I can roughly guess what Hong Seok-young is expecting from me right now. Around the time when the demonstration high school was turned into the Hunter Academy and the Management Office was created, his father would often lament that he was short of hands. Because he often said he wished he had two.
But suddenly a man presumed to be his successor appears from the future?
If you’re the successor, you probably know your intentions, right? If you came from the future, you would know the shortest route to your goal, right? Don’t you know what you shouldn’t do and what you should do?
I think it’s a great workforce. That’s what being a successor is all about. Eldest Yoo Ji-eun also served as a pinch hitter whenever his father was away.
I didn’t want to be treated like that. Because I was my father’s son. Aren’t children supposed to be embarrassed by their parents? I also wanted to be sure that my father would not abandon me even if I behaved like this.
And I can only tell you now that at the time, I suffered from a sense of entitlement that my father was trying to do for me what he wanted to do for his own son. That was also the cause of my terrible puberty. I was really young too.
My father said that he saw himself in me, not his real son, but I wasn’t naive enough to believe that. Deciding not to become a hunter was an extension of that, but working alongside my father was also an extension of that.
I finally realized it.
I am my father’s son. Son of Hong Seok-young.
A father who wanted to teach his son everything,
A son who wanted to follow everything his father did.
I understand because I am in the position of teaching children. How cute it is that they wiggle around trying to do something I tell them.
shit.
I mean, put it into words.
… No, if you think about it, my father expressed it well enough. I just couldn’t accept it properly.
‘Is it okay if I’m not a hunter?’
‘hmm? ‘You said you don’t want to be a hunter?’
‘yes.’
‘Then don’t do it. ‘It’s a good job to die in early.’
‘You’re a hunter too.’
‘I haven’t learned anything, so I keep doing this. Heejae, you’re smart, so you’ll be good at anything you do.’
That must have been sincere too.
If my father really wanted to make me a hunter to succeed him, he would have persuaded me. Could it be that he couldn’t get what he wanted by coaxing a child in his early teens?
I saw Hong Seok-young looking at me with eyes filled with anticipation.
heir. Be the successor.
“What if I’m not the heir?”
“hmm?”
“Is there a problem if I am not the successor?
“Rather than a problem… .”
Hong Seok-young blinked.
“You copy my movements like that?”
“It could be a doppelganger, right?”
A monster that mimics the appearance and abilities of its opponent. Doppelganger.
At my words, Hong Seok-young just kept blinking and then burst out laughing.
“Do you think future monsters will reveal that they are monsters?”
“… … .”
“Or has the lifespan of monsters been resolved in the future? Can you survive for more than a month after leaving the dungeon? Then tell me in advance. “Because it hurts a lot.”
“… no. “In the future I come from, I only have one month to live.”
This is why humanity was able to remain a predator on this planet despite Dungeon Break happening so quickly.
Monster’s lifespan.
In Korea, the land mass is small, so when a dungeon explodes, hunters immediately take care of the problem. However, even in the United States, Africa, and even Japan, where there are many mountains that people cannot visit, monsters are often missed.
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Unless monsters attack private houses, leave them alone. If you last just a month, you’ll die on your own. How thankful I am. Otherwise, about half of humanity would have become prey to monsters by now.
“Looking at it, it seems like that happened back in the past in Myeongdong. then… Has it been about four months? “Monsters can’t live like that.”
“… … .”
why… Logical, right?
It’s annoying, really.
Rather than believing that he is a monster, it is better to believe that he is human, and that he is his successor. It was good, but for some reason, looking at that smiling face made me cry inside.
“I am a monster, and I could have stolen this human body.”
“Did you?”
“… … .”
shit!
“I don’t know if there are monsters that take over human bodies, but… .”
I do not know either.
“What such a vicious guy does as soon as he comes to the past is to save fifty civilians and aspiring hunters? It doesn’t matter if you’re a monster or a human. Either way, I’m just grateful.”
“… … .”
is it.
In the end, saving the children at that time was the right choice. I didn’t even have the option of not saving it in the first place.
Still, it is enough if the result of acting according to my father’s teachings is my father’s faith.
Of course, I know full well that the man in front of me is not my father. Just as Mini-me couldn’t grow up to be the man who had Hong Seok-young as her father, that man couldn’t grow up to be the man who had Woo Hee-jae as his son.
So I will not become Hong Seok-young’s son.
I will not say that I became your son and inherited everything from you.
Because I can’t have it again.
I sighed. Like someone who realized that arguing like this was useless.
“yes.”
“hmm?”
“what… The successor was somewhat vague. “You didn’t say it out loud.”
“okay?”
“Honestly, I didn’t want to do it either, but… .”
“Did I order it?”
“Rather than telling me to do something, he gave me something to do.”
“That’s exactly what I would do!”
Hong Seok-young smiled arrogantly, not knowing what others were thinking.
* * *
I got caught up in the rumors of Hong Seok-young’s successor and ended up saying absurd things.
Actually, this wasn’t what was really important.
“Tell me more about the monster from the future.”
My father never said anything like that.
“Didn’t I tell you that?”
“I didn’t.”
“okay? I wonder how I could have solved it in the future. “What year did you come from?”
“… “The year is 2041.”
“Twenty years later. I also only heard fragments from them, so I don’t know the details. “Most of them thought I was an enemy of Cheolcheon and tried to kill me.”
Hong Seok-young said casually. It seems like assassins from the future are not going anywhere.
“Was there anyone other than the fairy?”
“There was. The most common ones were fairies, other than that… There was one dragon. There was also a ghost type… .”
Quite a variety of monsters are mentioned by Hong Seok-young. I heard they met in about ten dungeons at most. For that matter, there were many types.
I glanced at the horsepower clock. There is no information about overseas hunters, but it is different when it comes to dungeons. Information about the dungeon you conquered is disclosed as good reference material. I don’t know if there is any information on this dungeon that Hong Seok-young conquered when he was young… There is nothing to lose by looking for it.
no. If you think about it, there’s no need to hide the magic clock.
I don’t want anyone to know that I am his adoptive son, but there is no need to hide any other information. On the contrary, it is easier for me to prepare for the future if I confess more.
For example… Like a moving dungeon with centipedes.
“I haven’t seen you in a while though. Have they changed their strategy? .”
Hong Seok-young grinned.
“Because you came to the past, they may have lost their way to the past.”
“… … .”
I don’t think so.
I pondered whether or not to correct Hong Seok-young’s words.
Isn’t there one more credible reason?
There may no longer be a need to go back to the past.
He succeeded in killing his father, whom he had wanted to kill, and humanity was in a situation where it could be considered extinct. What did that unknown clock say to me?
Last survivor?
Since it was said that the possibility was confirmed, there must have been more survivors at that point. But that’s it.
“Right before I came back to the past.”
“hmm?”
“It’s all ruined.”
“… hmm?”
“Isn’t it obvious? If the future were smooth, would you have moved on to the past? Because it was a mess, I moved on to the past. No, to be honest, I had no intention of falling.”
I remember that day. An acrid smell lingers at the tip of my nose. The grumpy-faced pilot who dropped me off. Charred corpses rolling around the streets. In the meantime, he was breathing quietly…
Yoo Ji-eun.
“They said they were all dead. “Both the teacher and Yoo Ji-eun.”
I closed my eyes.
“I wanted to run away. Even in that situation, I didn’t want to die. “The guy who burned down Seoul saw me, and there was no way I could catch him.”
“… … .”
“I wasn’t sure if I could escape or not, but I still had a glimmer of hope. “If it meant sending me back in time, I wouldn’t have done it.”
For the first time since returning to the past, I revealed my feelings honestly.
“It would have been easier for me to die there.”
match.
“Don’t say things like that so carelessly.”
And then he got slapped by Hong Seok-young.
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