little me (3)
Ever since I found out that I came from the future, I had no intention of hiding the fact that Uirok was me.
I thought it would be discovered soon anyway, and if I tried to hide it, it would only clutter my head and there would be no benefit. However, I felt like I was losing even talking about Miju and Goju with my mouth, so I waited until Hong Seok-young pretended to know.
Isn’t it true that the one who is disappointed is the one who opens his mouth first?
“Were you waiting for me to tell you?”
Hong Seok-young made a bewildered expression.
“why?”
“just?”
“Haven’t you ever heard that you have a bad personality?”
“I’ve heard it a lot.”
Hong Seok-young stared at me without saying a word. If I had been scared by those eyes, I wouldn’t have gone out to Myeong-dong in the first place to try to deceive Hong Seok-young.
I snorted.
“When on earth did you notice?”
In other places, he was as quick as a ghost, but in places where he thought he would naturally notice, he was strangely oblivious.
If I thought I couldn’t notice, I tried to find the right opportunity to say something.
Hong Seok-young said with a humble expression.
“no… “Both you and I were out of our minds at that time.”
If you say that, I don’t have anything to say either.
Hong Seok-young, who was muttering a few useless words, calmed his voice before getting to the point.
“Then what happened to you calling yourself a whistleblower?”
I answered truthfully.
“You haven’t corrected the amazing illusion that was coincidental?”
“mistaken?”
“At the time I was in, I was now a ten-year-old kid. “What does being a whistleblower know?”
“… … .”
Complex emotions passed across Hong Seok-young’s face.
It seems that the story about Ui-rok being me and the fact that he was locked in a research center without a proper birth registration have finally been matched.
I continued speaking calmly.
“Originally. “The Ark’s laboratory at the training center should still be there.”
Do not mix in unnecessary lies.
“Until next year, when you lead other hunters to attack.”
“next year?”
“I don’t know how the situation unfolded at the time, so don’t ask. The next year, I was rescued by my former teacher, and that became our fate. She was staying at an orphanage, and the teacher was doing volunteer work… “She came looking for something.”
“hmm… .”
This is all true too.
Hong Seok-young is from an orphanage. She made sure to donate at least once a year, and after she got married, she accompanied her wife on her volunteer work. After her wife died she stopped, but after her son died she started again.
“So I took you on as my disciple?”
“It wasn’t like that right away.”
I shrugged my shoulders.
“He took care of me as my sponsor or something. Just like what you are doing to Hye-eun Yoo and Yoo Ji-eun now.”
If there is a story you want to hide, it is best to hide it in the truth. In the end, if you lie too much, you end up lying again to maintain it. If you repeat that, the chances of getting caught only increase. If even one thing starts to get confusing, everything will go wrong.
The most natural lie is a single lie hidden among many truths.
Besides, I’m not lying right now. There’s just one thing I don’t want to say.
“You told me later that when I was in daycare, the teacher said it reminded me of her childhood.”
Everything I am telling Hong Seok-young now actually happened.
However, I left out the story that my father adopted me.
“The reason they sponsored me was because they cared so much that they came to see me and found out that I had awakened.”
“Ah, awakening.”
Hong Seok-young nodded with a look on his face that showed that he knew roughly how it went.
In the end, this is also you. You can guess what will happen next.
“Registering as an awakened person or something… You took care of various things. Whenever I have time, I learn how to control my strength… “He told me about those things one by one.”
“And then you entered a demonstration high school.”
“yes? no. “I went to a regular high school.”
“… Are you my heir? “Didn’t you go to the demonstration high school?”
“When I was in middle school, I thought a lot about my career path. Yoo Ji-eun, that lady, she made a lot of noise asking me to come into the demonstration school, but since she was right next to me, I felt a sense of opposition… .”
It’s absolutely not my fault. Hong Seok-young’s expression became subtle, but she pretended not to see it. She didn’t see it.
When I say this, it sounds like I didn’t enter the academy because of Yoo Ji-eun, but that wasn’t the case. No matter how much I do, I don’t make decisions that will control my future life just because of Yu Ji-eun.
There were more problems back then.
Hong Seok-young in front of you will never know.
For example, Yoo Ji-eun was temporarily dispatched to the academy as an assistant.
“So you went to a regular high school?”
“The teacher said that as long as a hunter is good at fighting, what does academic background matter?”
Hong Seok-young nodded with a serious face.
“That sounds like something I would say.”
“Because that’s what you said.”
Seokyoung Hong corrected his words.
“That’s what I’m going to say.”
“Yes.”
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Although this is not something the principal of a pilot high school would say, it was something he actually said. When Yoo Ji-eun made a fuss to get me admitted to the academy.
While Yoo Ji-eun was holding the back of her neck in shock, I corrected my father’s words.
‘I’m not going to be a hunter.’
If Yoo Ji-eun saw me like this now, she would have laughed at me for a long time.
“It was after I graduated from college that I started working under my teacher in earnest.”
“hmm… . good. “Let’s hear that story later.”
I shrugged, indicating that I could do as I pleased.
Hong Seok-young did not take his eyes off me and then asked carefully.
“Your brother… So, you young one. Lee Rok-i, you are ten years old.”
“Just sing it the way you sing it.”
“… “He thought you were his older brother.”
“That’s because I have a brother.”
“That brother. if.”
There is no way I couldn’t have remembered the story that Hong Seok-young quickly pieced together even with only a few fragmented clues.
The moment has finally come to say what I’ve been ignoring, ignoring, ignoring for the past few months.
“I said I found someone who could help me.”
“… … .”
“Get us out.”
Hong Seok-young opened his mouth slightly and then closed it. A glimpse of regret flashes across her face. If she had known something like this would come out, she would not have said her words so lightly.
Life is like that. Nothing goes as expected. It must have been the same for my brother.
“That was the last time I saw my brother. “It was already several months ago when I went back in time.”
If I had known that he wouldn’t come back, I wouldn’t have sent him away like that.
Even if I couldn’t stop it, I would have at least called him brother one last time.
I laughed bitterly.
“If I was going to come to the past, I think it would have been better if I could save my brother. But there was nothing I could do about it back then, so there’s no way I can change it now.”
“… that.”
“This is something I didn’t even tell the teacher.”
Hong Seok-young listened to my story in silence.
“… “It must have been a difficult story, but thank you for telling it.”
“yes? no. It’s not a particularly difficult story. “I was planning to talk to you before the forum opened because you weren’t paying attention.”
Still, Hong Seok-young’s face did not brighten.
Was the childhood story of a non-existent student that shocking? Well, it would be a lie to say that it wasn’t difficult at all.
But I have no intention of clinging to that memory forever.
someday. Yeah, someday.
I was planning on telling my father everything.
Instead of pretending to be calm, I tried to talk about my brother and my name, calling him father out loud for the first time.
It is impossible to imagine my father being angry. He would just smile like usual, pat my shoulder, praise me for my hard work, and hug me tightly.
I will tell you that you can go back to your original name if you want, or that it is okay to use your brother’s name. Even if I told you that it wouldn’t be a bother if I changed your name now, you would make an indifferent expression as if you didn’t mind.
Then he will say what he always says.
‘Son. ‘I said that if there’s anything you want to do, this guy will do it for you.’
In the twenty years that I lived as Hong Seok-young’s son, there was never a time when his words were not kept.
I had faith that my father would support me no matter what I did. Even if I committed a crime, it was clear that my father would stand by me until the end.
So I tried to live more tenaciously and correctly. Because I didn’t want to hear that my father’s life was ruined because he misplaced his son.
“I have something I would like to ask you.”
Hong Seok-young looked at me with puzzled eyes.
“I’m chasing the Ark anyway… “Aren’t you still looking for Mr. Kim?”
It was assumed that Kim and the whistleblower would have died the moment contact was lost anyway. Nothing changes. If it were Hong Seok-young’s personality, he would at least investigate how Kim died, but considering what his father said while drinking, there would have been no progress.
“As far as I know, you couldn’t find it when I was there.”
Hong Seok-young, who must have already guessed what I said while listening to me, did not show any signs of disappointment.
My father would not have been negligent in looking for Mr. Kim. He must have searched as much as he could. Even if he couldn’t find the body, he would at least want to find out how he died.
The records of the Ark remaining in the magic clock only lasted about two years after I was rescued. The final report ended with the confirmation of links to pharmaceutical companies and the arrest of all those involved.
Kim and Kim Yu-hwa still remained missing.
If Kim is like this, what about the whistleblower whose name and face Hong Seok-young didn’t even know?
This is a person born and raised in a pseudo-organization that did not exist in the first place. There is no way there are proper records.
When I had the strength to do something, there was nothing left. If I had known that, I would have sought help sooner.
like now.
You may or may not be able to find it. But at least as a younger brother, I can finally do my best for my older brother.
“Wouldn’t it make a difference if I helped you?”
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I opened the Notes app on my tablet PC. The letters are scattered and crooked, as if they were written with fingers.
As you turn the page, the letters become organized little by little. After about twenty pages, the handwriting became neat for a child.
1 Go to the movies
1-1 Eat popcorn
1-2 Churros?
I didn’t know this would come out before school.
Maybe it’s because I talked about school first… .
Lastly, Seokyoung Hong asked me.
‘Then what is the name Woo Hee-jae?’
I looked back at the current situation for a moment. I think I can take him out to the movies at least. Since I wrote it down first, I think it’s right to do this. Among the movies released now, are there any that Ui-rok would like to see?
‘Of course it’s my brother’s name.’
‘Is Ui-rok your real name?’
‘yes.’
‘… ‘Are you okay?’
There was a lot contained in that question.
I heard you’re a guy who only notices things when you really don’t like him.
‘He and I are completely different people now. ‘I grew up without an older brother.’
‘… … .’
‘So it’s okay.’
Because Hong Seok-young’s son was Woo Hee-jae, not Woo I-rok.
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