Trait Absorption Hunter Hunter Part 2 Episode 80
80. Kogo’s Past
‘Your mother?’
Choi Sung-min looked at the sleeping old woman’s face.
Now that I look at it, they seem to resemble each other.
‘By the way, you want me to erase all my memories? And even the memories of my biological mother who gave birth to me… ?’
Choi Sung-min spoke with an embarrassed expression at Kogo’s unusual request.
“Excuse me… Mr. Kogo? If I didn’t mishear, are you telling me to erase all of my mother’s memories?”
“Yeah. You heard me right.”
“Do you know what it means to erase all memories?”
Erasing all memories means making someone an idiot.
Not only do they lose the ability to speak the language, they also lose their own identity.
In short, it was no different from turning it into a corpse.
“When you open your eyes later, you won’t even recognize him as your son. Do you realize that?”
“I know. That’s why I’m telling you to erase it.”
‘Knowing this, yet still making such a crazy demand… … .’
It was absurd, but there was only one thing Choi Sung-min could do.
‘I have no choice but to do as I am told.’
If you don’t want to die fighting Kogo here.
‘Of course I could run away if I wanted to. I’m faster than you. If I cast invincibility on Kogo’s mother and run away, I’ll be able to escape without taking any damage.’
But the problem is that the transformation is undone if attacked.
‘Well, since you’re wearing a black mask, your identity won’t be revealed… … but the real problem is that your transformation ability will be revealed.’
If such abilities are discovered, it will be difficult to disguise them in the future.
‘What if Kwak Min-cheol hears the news and attacks me, who has transformed into Song Chi-hyeon, under the pretext of testing?’
Not only now, but even future plans to conquer the Great Hero could go down the drain.
‘That won’t work.’
If possible, this should be resolved without causing friction with Kogo.
“Whew… … I understand. Don’t blame me later.”
Seongmin Choi placed his hand on the old woman’s head to comply with Kogo’s request.
There was no choice.
“How long does it take to erase memories?”
“I can finish it in less than 10 minutes.”
I could have finished it in a second, but I made it long on purpose.
There’s no benefit to revealing information to the enemy.
After about ten seconds, I closed my eyes and placed my hand on the old woman’s head.
Clang-
‘This is… … .’
Images passed before my closed eyes like a panorama.
‘The old woman’s memories?’
From when I was very young until recently.
I was able to freely view all the memories stored in the old woman’s head.
‘Is it because I’ve lived a long life that I have many memories?’
Anyway, when you check your memories, time slows down.
Even if you play a movie-length memory video, not even a second actually passes.
There is nothing you can’t see because you don’t have time.
‘I’m curious, can I see a few?’
Could it be that a glimpse into Kogo’s life could help us deal with him?
With that in mind, I looked through the videos sorted by date.
If it’s a memory that’s going to be erased anyway, there’s no harm in looking at it.
‘Shall we start from here? From when Kogo woke up 22 years ago.’
Manipulating the memory images wasn’t difficult.
If I put my mind to it, I could do anything: select, play, go back, skip, etc.
So there was no need to look at everything from one to ten.
‘I should just roughly skim through the necessary parts.’
Since it was such a large volume, I quickly went over the parts that could be skipped.
‘It was a happy family. It looks like they’re happy to have become a hunter.’
Kogo, who lived with his parents, awakens as a hunter at the age of twenty.
His joy at receiving an S-class trait is no different from that of any other young man.
‘How did that guy become a heartless murderer?’
With that in mind, I was looking through the videos for what felt like 30 minutes.
The reason was revealed.
A father who failed in business borrows money from gangsters to try something new, but fails again.
Eventually, unable to repay his mountain of debt, he runs away and is caught by gangsters, who then have his organs harvested.
The mother, who had to watch the scene from the side, collapsed from shock, and the father eventually died.
‘Crazy… … This kind of thing… … .’
All of this happened within the four hours that Kogo, a C-class hunter, entered the dungeon.
‘Fortunately, my mother was rescued in time… … .’
My father died with all his organs removed.
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It was from then on.
The smile disappeared from Kogo’s face.
He became an emotionally worn-out killing machine.
‘… … .’
Choi Sung-min silently turned over the memories from that time.
After looking at it like that for a while, I finally started thinking about it when I remembered something recent.
‘I understand now. Why Kogo became a crazy murderer. Why he asked to erase his mother’s memories.’
When Kogo found out that gangsters were involved in his father’s death, he ran away from home.
When my son returned at dawn, he looked miserable.
It was to the point where I could only see that he had taken a bath in fatigue.
The son speaks to his mother.
Don’t worry anymore, I’ve avenged my father.
I thought I could live comfortably with my mother like that, but that wasn’t the case.
My mother, who was kidnapped with my father at the time and witnessed the organ harvesting process, suffered from PTSD.
It was post-traumatic stress disorder.
That tormented my mother for years.
He was so miserable that he tried to kill himself by harming himself.
Kogoga stopped him from committing suicide several times.
The reason my mother was in the intensive care unit was because she tried to commit suicide by ingesting pesticide and fell into a coma.
‘This is why I asked to erase my memories. I didn’t want to see my mother suffer anymore… … .’
I could guess at a glance why Kogoga was killing the gangsters.
‘The guy also suffered from PTSD. He was shocked by the loss of his father.’
He must be extremely stressed because he lost his father and his mother became like this, both because of gangsters.
‘So, do gangsters go around killing people like crazy?’
The image of Kogo slaughtering dozens of people at the club came to mind.
No emotion could be felt from that expressionless face.
‘You’ve been repeating the same massacre without asking questions so far, so it’s understandable that you wouldn’t feel inspired.’
It’s understandable how the guy became a murderer.
I also admit that I had a regrettable past.
‘But you don’t kill innocent witnesses.’
Choi Sung-min agrees with killing gangsters, but he goes too far when he touches civilians.
That was the difference between Choi Sung-min and Kogo.
‘If it were me, I would have taken steps to prevent innocent people from being harmed, such as sending the customers away before killing the gangsters.’
That’s why, although the story is sad, I don’t feel sympathy.
In any case, the massacre of civilians was unacceptable.
‘Still, I agree to erasing the memories.’
It’s best not to recall bad memories.
It would be better to take this opportunity to get rid of it.
Especially if you have suffered for years because of that memory.
‘I will delete everything as requested. Even my memories with my son will not be left behind.’
As I wished, the images that had been floating like a panorama began to disappear one by one.
Both happy and painful memories, everything without leaving anything behind.
Only after all the memory images had disappeared did time return to normal.
But Choi Sung-min still closed his eyes and let time pass.
‘No need to tell me that I can erase it in a second.’
After about five minutes, I finally opened my eyes.
“Are you done?”
“yes.”
“That’s fast.”
I would have thought that 5 minutes was fast, so what if I had said 1 second?
Perhaps he might have cast a wary eye again.
“Are you sure you erased all of your memories? Without leaving a single one behind?”
“Yes.”
Kogo looked at his mother’s face quietly.
My mother’s eyebrows, which were always furrowed, had now smoothed out.
-You suffered so much, but I guess you are finally at ease now.
A sense of relief appeared on Kogo’s previously indifferent expression.
‘Did you know how to make that kind of expression?’
While I was secretly surprised, Kogo looked over at me.
“They said you could erase memories, and it really was.”
-To be honest, I was half in doubt.
“Of course. Who would I lie to?”
-If that was a lie, you would have died right here.
The thought of Kogo made me feel creepy, but only for a moment.
-I owe that guy.
Reading his thoughts, I could tell that he was secretly grateful.
‘Thank goodness, he won’t kill me right away.’
I was worried that he might kill me now that he had achieved his goal.
Fortunately, Kogo liked Oh Gwang-taek’s ability.
Rather, he even looked at Choi Sung-min, who relieved him of his worries throughout his life, with friendly eyes.
“Actually, I did have the intention of killing you.”
“yes?”
“You helped me, so I’ll at least spare your life.”
Choi Sung-min smiled bitterly at Kogo’s antics.
“Haha… … Go, thank you.”
“You can go back now.”
‘빌어먹을 새끼. 나한테 빚졌다면서 이렇게 부려 먹고 끝이야?’
Although he was angry inside, Choi Sung-min had no choice but to act as if he was bowing in gratitude.
“Then I will go now.”
“Okay. Don’t go around talking about what you saw today.”
“I will keep today’s events a secret until I go to my grave.”
As I was leaving the hospital room saying things I didn’t mean, I heard Kogo’s words.
“Oh, and check your phone often. You never know when you might get called again.”
“Yes, then.”
widely-
Seongmin Choi left the hospital room and sighed in relief, furrowing his brows.
‘In other words, are you saying you want to exploit me again?’
Although I did some free volunteer work chasing after snorers for about two hours, I didn’t end up with no income at all.
‘Kogo is looking at me favorably. I’ve made a connection with the great hero.’
This means that Kogo’s guard has been broken down and a situation has been created where he can let his guard down.
‘It’ll be easy to take him by surprise next time we meet.’
I don’t know when that will be, but I need to build up my strength until then.
Enough to assassinate Kogo.
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“f*ck!”
Kwak Min-cheol hit the desk nervously.
Kwajik-!
It split in two because I couldn’t control my strength, but that’s not important.
‘There is no evidence, there is no evidence!’
We checked the CCTV and checked to see if there were any witnesses, but we couldn’t find anything.
No matter how much I look, I can’t find any evidence that Song Chi-hyeon killed him.
‘That kid is definitely the culprit… … .’
It was clear who was the mastermind behind the massacre of Yang Baek-du and his family, but there was no solid evidence.
All I have is a feeling.
‘The bastard I planted for him isn’t helping either, tsk.’
The spy gun I planted just in case something like this happens is completely useless.
‘I didn’t know that Song Chi-hyun was this thorough… … .’
When I visited last time, I shouted at them to take care of any evidence that might have been left unattended, and they really did take care of it cleanly.
‘I never thought I’d kill the members of Team Crush that day.’
According to what the butler reported, Song Chi-hyun called the cleaner and found Team Crush’s body.
‘He killed her. To destroy the witness.’
We didn’t know it until now, but it seems like the Team Crush members had evidence.
Otherwise, he would not have killed her on the same day he warned her.
Above all, it was possible to have reasonable suspicions because it was Yang Jo-young’s team.
‘Besides, I can’t even find where his direct subordinates have disappeared to.’
I went to interrogate his subordinates, but it was unclear whether they had risen into the sky or fallen into the ground.
‘Does it make sense that not a single trace of them can be found?’
No, I was able to find one.
The subordinate of a guy who comes to work at the association regularly.
‘You said your name was Choi Sung-min, right?’
If you dig into it, you might find something.
Kwak Min-cheol called immediately.
To the position of Team Leader 1 of the Hunter Management Department.
