#Episode 11
It was intense.
The gaze of my sister looking at me while sitting on the bed, or the gaze of hundreds of people looking at me from outside.
“If this continues, it’ll get pierced.”
I looked at my older sister for a moment. She was similar to the older sister in my memories, but a little different.
Should I say that it seems like you’ve had a hard life? He smiled gently.
“Why did you become so suspicious when I didn’t see you?”
I slowly got up from my seat.
I walked around the room. I gently swept the desk with my hand. There wasn’t a speck of dust.
“I guess you were still cleaning. Is that right?”
“huh.”
I walked again. The window was very small. A shabby room that didn’t fit in this big house. And a small window. The details were too fine. This was proof that my sister remembered those days very well.
“You didn’t trust that two hundredth apostle who was pretending to be me?”
“I believed it. But as time went by, things got stranger.”
“What was strange?”
“Actions or things like that.”
I looked blankly at my older sister.
My sister continues speaking at my gaze telling me to speak more.
“It felt like acting.”
“performance?”
“He is the younger brother of Jin Song-yi, the most outstanding awakener in South Korea, but he is a non-awakened person, and every novel he writes is a poorly written one. Every little detail that happens during that process is a little off. The changes in facial expressions according to emotional changes, and the actions that a normal person would normally take when something happens, are all unnatural.”
I listened to my sister’s words without saying anything.
“People don’t change easily. The you I know in the past wasn’t like that. You were very free-spirited and full of responsibility.”
“I?”
“Yeah, you, at least that’s how it seemed to me. You had a clear line between what you had to do, what you didn’t have to do, and what you absolutely had to not do, and you kept to it. Now that I think about it, I guess I matured a little too quickly. And.”
and.
“You said August 16, 2024? I still remember you saying you were going to the Cheongju outlet. You said you went missing that day, but in my memory, you were taken away in an ambulance that day. You passed out on the crosswalk.”
It seems that I have definitely changed since then. As we are having this conversation, my older sister asks me a question.
“Are you really Sihun?”
“How many times do I have to tell you? I said it’s true.”
“… … Where the hell were you? And what is that power? Honestly, I don’t understand it right now. I’m so confused.”
I just leaned my back against the wall.
“It’s a long story, would you like to listen?”
My sister nodded. I began to tell a story in a quiet voice. A story about the kind people who treated me to a meal when I was first summoned to another world and couldn’t speak the language, and the many monsters that appeared there.
And what happened to the 200 people who fell to Titan with me, and how they died.
I’ve tried to summarize all of this as much as possible. If I were to talk about this at length, it would be endless, so it’s best to talk about it briefly.
My older sister was hesitant at first, but as she listened, she became absorbed in my story and eventually nodded.
I couldn’t make any expression at that look of acceptance.
“That’s my brother.”
I really couldn’t even make any facial expression.
“Sihu, you’ve worked hard. Really… … you’ve worked hard.”
As she said that, my sister hugged me. Her hand stroked my back.
Watching the whole process, I still kept a blank expression.
Because I know that my older sister, who speaks like that and acts like that, isn’t sincere.
I couldn’t say anything.
He pushed his sister away and sighed.
I have no talent for persuading people. I usually solve things with my fists.
That’s how I lived. For me, this situation right now is really, really difficult.
“Sihu, what’s wrong?”
I was silent at my sister’s question.
To be honest, I was expecting a situation where he would immediately recognize me as his younger sibling and burst into tears. But things don’t always go as planned in this world.
The world is already unpredictable, but the human heart is even more unpredictable.
I asked my sister.
“How did you feel earlier?”
“Just now? When are you talking about?”
“Before I faint.”
“… … I thought I was going to die.”
My sister felt right. If I hadn’t stopped my fist there, my sister would have died inevitably. What this means is very simple. The gap in power between me and my sister is unimaginably long.
And now my older sister is ‘acting’.
“Are you worried?”
“what?”
“Are you worried about those people outside?”
“… … .”
“Aren’t you worried that I’ll kill all those people and my sister too? You’re acting like you’re my sister, even though you’re not sure if you’re my sister. That’s why you’re acting like this.”
My sister didn’t say anything.
“Maybe it was my mistake. I tried to control it, but I think it was a little too much.”
This is reality. In a world that has changed, your brother who has been missing for 10 years has returned alive and is displaying powers that are almost inhuman. How can you believe this?
Ultimately, it’s a question of power.
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This power to transcend the gap became an obstacle.
Even though I thought that way, I couldn’t help but admit that this was reality. My sister was reacting very realistically right now.
“I don’t think that’s the case today.”
If you miss someone for a long time and miss them again, you will become like your older sister. If I were your older sister, I would probably act like you now.
I just stretched my hand out into the air.
The space distorts and my hand enters it. Then I slowly pull my hand out. I was holding a book in my hand.
“If there’s anything like translation magic, try to find it and learn it. This book contains most of the things I’ve experienced during my ten years on Titan. If you learn translation magic, you’ll be able to read it.”
I just left the book on the desk.
Speaking a little emotionally, time in this room that had stopped began to flow.
“This is precious. It’s really precious. I hope you don’t damage it or lose it. I hope other people don’t touch it or anything like that.”
I continued walking. After reaching the front door, I turned my head.
“I’ll come when I feel better, sister.”
Just went out.
The night air is quite refreshing. Hundreds of eyes are looking at me at the same time. I ended up laughing.
And at the front was Chief Secretary Yoon Young-soo.
I walked towards it.
“I think my older sister told you to withdraw, but you didn’t withdraw?”
“… … What did you do with the Master?”
“Well, what should I do?”
Yoon Young-soo gripped the sword he was holding tightly.
“I will attack you. I will risk my life and attack you no matter what.”
You saw it right. This man is loyal. A man who is loyal enough to even throw away his own life. Such people have absolute faith in their own judgment and have a spirit that does not doubt.
He smiled softly.
“Nothing happened, and nothing will happen in the future. And.”
“… … .”
“I like you. You’re good at your job, you seem quick-witted, and most of all, I like the fact that you care about my older sister and are sincere.”
I reached out and touched Yoon Young-soo’s shoulder. He flinched. According to my feeling just now, Yoon Young-soo was trying to avoid my hand. But how easy is that? No one can avoid my hand.
“Please take good care of my sister in the future. If something happens that you can’t resolve on your own or if something serious happens to my sister, call me. I’ll be there right away.”
After hearing that, Yoon Young-soo asked a question that he absolutely had to ask.
“If there is no phone number, who should I call?”
“That’s right. Um… … There is someone I owe you a favor of. Do you know Jeongbin from the Cheongju Gate Safety Management Team?”
“… … I don’t know.”
“Can you figure it out in a day?”
“It won’t even take a day. Five minutes is enough.”
“I’ll be there, so contact me separately.”
He turned around and started walking.
The night air was cold.
Not everything went as planned, but I am still satisfied. Time will solve everything, and I also need time to adjust to this place on Earth.
There were people whose eyes met mine here and there, but I didn’t care.
I just smiled softly. Those who see my smile flinch. What’s wrong with that kid? Something seems to have changed.
He had that kind of expression on his face, but I just let it be.
It’s been a long day.
* * *
“Our chief secretary, you really don’t listen to me.”
Yoon Young-soo turned his head at the voice coming from behind him. He saw Jin Song-i smiling awkwardly there. It certainly didn’t seem like something had happened inside.
Yoon Young-soo answered reflexively.
“sorry.”
“No. I know how you feel, so I can’t say anything else.”
Jin Song-i looked at Jin Shi-hoo, who was walking over Yoon Young-soo’s shoulder.
“I’ve always dreamed of my brother coming back, I’ve always waited for him, isn’t it strange?”
“No. Anyone can act like a master.”
Jinsong shook her head.
“What should I say? I’m still confused. The two hundredth apostle? He was acting like my brother.”
“I’m also confused. To be honest, unlike the Master, I didn’t feel any sense of discomfort.”
Of course, Yoon Young-soo doesn’t know what Jin Shi-hoo was like as a child. He’s never seen him. The sense of discomfort he’s talking about now is that ‘power’.
The two hundredth apostle who pretended to be Qin Shihou, not Qin Shihou.
His strength, from the perspective of Yoon Young-soo who watched from the beginning to the end, was almost on the same level as Jin Song-i’s current strength. Maybe even stronger.
You hid that power and lived as a normal person for 10 years?
Although Yoon Young-soo had a calm expression on the outside, he was complicated on the inside.
I lived thinking of the gate itself as an enemy, but in fact, there was an enemy greater than that, so it was bound to be complicated.
Jinsong continues speaking.
“Ten years, that’s a long time. I’m just saying this now, but for ten years, I’ve had a lot of strange thoughts about my brother. I’ve had more than one or two blood tests done in secret to see if he’s really my brother. And they all matched.”
Yoon Young-soo looked at Jin Song-i quietly.
“But, every time the results kept saying that this was my little brother, my intuition kept screaming. This wasn’t right, something was wrong, I couldn’t tell anyone. The results were definitely not manipulated, but I was just a crazy woman for doubting myself. But my intuition was right.”
This time, Yoon Young-soo listened to Jin Song-yi’s words quietly. There were other Awakened people around him, but they didn’t come here.
Now is the time for just the two of us to talk.
“Chief Secretary.”
“Yes, Master.”
“That man is my brother. His eyes, his actions, his nuances, everything about him is my brother. He’s the Shi-hoo who supported me when I was young. Just.”
Jinsong laughed awkwardly once more.
“I just came back because I got too strong.”
