The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 147

Ch 147: Kim Giryeo （3）

This was a confirmed matter since Lee Hwayoung’s escape.

‘If I live like this, what future will I have?’

Kim Giryeo was greatly shocked by his mother disappearing with 27 million won, and in a situation where he was barely holding on, his leg was severely damaged.

If he had just been a healthy man in his 20s, he would have overcome this hardship gradually.

But the loneliness he had lived with his whole life eventually became a great poison in his life.

Giryeo had recently developed several symptoms in his body.

Putting aside the fact that he didn’t want to eat, when he somehow forced food into his mouth, his stomach felt bloated and he couldn’t digest it.

Moreover, his forgetfulness had worsened.

It was as if his mind was always hazy like it was foggy, and when he opened a book, he couldn’t even concentrate on reading the first page.

At this point, it was inevitable that he would realize that there was a problem with his health.

However, Giryeo did not attempt to treat it.

Honestly, going to the hospital wouldn’t fundamentally change the situation he was in.

Besides, even if he solved this kind of mental problem, he was still going to be……

“Ahem.”

Giryeo put down the cigarette he was smoking in an ashtray full of butts.

Anyway, he was aware of his condition. And at the same time, he made a certain decision.

Thinking about it, he had been working hard at part-time jobs to earn money since high school, but it seemed like he had never spent money for himself.

Giryeo decided to do all the things he wanted to do while he was at it.

He decided to use two months’ worth of wages he had earned from daily work for this.

When he organized the things he wanted to do, the list came out to about 20 items.

But the completion didn’t take long.

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Bucket List

① Ride a cable car

② Donate to a shelter

③ Buy coffee at a cafe

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Most of his wishes were modest.

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⑮ Dye his hair

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A little while later.

Giryeo visited a hair salon to accomplish the last remaining item on his bucket list.

“Welcome~”

Perhaps because he had never cared about grooming his appearance in his life, he felt awkward from the moment he entered.

“Please have a seat here. How would you like your hair done?”

“Well, that is…….”

But Giryeo had come after deciding exactly what style he wanted.

Tap. Soon after, he sat in a chair and pointed to one side of the hair dye color chart.

“Please dye it like this.”

“Blonde? To get the exact same color, you’ll need to bleach it at least twice~”

“Yes. It’s okay.”

And the reason why he was trying to dye his hair blonde was…….

Actually, one of Giryeo’s classmates always had his hair dyed blonde.

It was that student council president who gave the graduation speech at the time of high school graduation.

He was from a wealthy family, and he was good at studying.

He even had a good personality, so he often talked to Giryeo, who had a narrow social circle.

‘He was really nice.’

When he thought about getting his hair done, the image of that student council president suddenly came to mind.

Seeing that he suddenly wanted to imitate him, it seemed that he had admired that classmate from before. Or maybe he was jealous.

“Okay, it’s all done~ Wow, the color came out so beautifully.”

But as expected, doing something like dyeing his hair didn’t really change him much.

He just felt a dull feeling.

‘It’s not that great.’

Still, he had tried everything he wanted to do with this, so was it okay now?

Giryeo paid for the hair dye and headed home.

And he never came back out again.

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『All personal information and downloaded apps will be deleted, and deleted data cannot be recovered.』

『Delete All / Cancel』

The first thing Giryeo did when he got home was to reset his phone.

He somehow wanted to organize things.

The next thing was cleaning his room. Originally, he had planned to throw away all the books in his house after this, but he belatedly remembered that he had already done that.

“Right. I put the textbooks out last week.”

Seriously, what’s with his memory.

Actually, Giryeo had hoped that he would feel like he wanted to live again while completing his bucket list, but as you can see, the attempt was a failure.

No matter how much he struggled, he couldn’t regain his lost motivation.

“I’m tired…….”

At first, he was only annoyed by working and eating, but now he was annoyed by moving, and even thinking.

Then, what kind of ending would a weak person who was driven to this state have?

After that, Kim Giryeo stayed cooped up at home and really did nothing.

It was because he couldn’t feel any hope in his future.

While he was in seclusion, it was common for him to skip meals, and there were days when he didn’t drink water all day.

Strangely, at one time, he would feel hungry if he skipped a meal, but as time passed, he gradually stopped feeling hungry.

Days of listlessly sleeping, not even knowing what month it was or what time it was.

Then one day.

Giryeo woke up from his sleep and got out of bed after a long time.

“Ugh…….”

That day was especially strange.

Putting aside the headache that was pressing down on his head, his body was just too cold.

When he looked at his phone’s lock screen, it was July and the weather outside was 29 degrees Celsius. But he was so cold that his body was trembling?

Giryeo first got out of bed.

He didn’t know why, but he thought that taking a warm shower would make him feel better, so he took a shower. He also shaved after a long time.

“It’s cold.”

And after finishing his shower, he checked the hanger to get dressed, and that’s when a certain black cloth caught his eye.

A 20,000 won suit set that he had bought in advance to wear when the day came that he would have a civil servant interview.

It was a new set of clothes that he had never worn since he checked if it fit him.

‘What a waste.’

Giryeo put on the suit he had hung up, following a sudden thought.

‘How do I tie this again?’

But even this became annoying halfway through, so he threw the tie away and fell back onto the blanket……

That’s when it happened.

Giryeo noticed that his body condition was very different from usual.

It was the middle of a sweltering summer day outside, but his body kept trembling, and above all, he was so abnormally sleepy that he couldn’t even utter a word.

‘Ah.’

Right. It was today.

It was then that Giryeo sensed his approaching death. And he thought quietly.

Come to think of it, he had good eyesight and was still young. Perhaps even if he died like this, he would have quite a few usable organs.

‘If I want to donate my organs……. I think I heard that I have to do some kind of pledge…….’

If he had known this was going to happen, should he have gone through the donation process in advance?

Even in the moment of his death, Giryeo had no resentment towards the world. He was just a bit bothered that he was abandoning the patients who needed organ transplants.

‘What a waste.’

He stared at the ceiling for a long time, and then slowly closed his eyes.

‘If there’s anyone who needs it……. it would be better for that person to use them.’

Tears that had welled up flowed between his closed eyes.

The man lying in his place let out a long sigh.

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When he opened his eyes again, what he saw was a familiar scene.

The ceiling of his old one-room apartment, which had turned yellowish.

“……..”

I, the soul of inertia.

Had shaken off the shocked An Yunseung and barely returned home.

And as soon as I heard Lee Hwayoung’s name, I had been collapsed for a full 7 hours since then, sorting out the memories that had begun to flood in.

Anyway, that was over now.

With the memories from just now, Kim Giryeo’s past did not come up anymore. The body’s owner had passed away at that point.

“So that’s what it was.”

Now it was clear.

Kim Giryeo had not simply starved to death.

The owner of this body had lived a life filled with loneliness, and he had clung to his mother to resolve it, only to be abandoned again.

His cause of death was solitary death.

It was starvation, and it was suicide.

Coming this far, the questions surrounding reincarnation were finally slowly being resolved.

‘The reason why Kim Giryeo’s brain had empty memories.’

The 『reincarnation』 magic I used needed to restore the corpse to the best possible condition before entering it.

But there were limits to that process. For example, it was difficult to return an 80-year-old’s corpse to his 40-year-old self.

The basic system of my magic was to restore the body to be occupied to the state it was in a few weeks before death.

But as you know, Kim Giryeo was already like that from around that time…….

“His forgetfulness was severe.”

Brain damage caused by severe depression.

I hadn’t considered this kind of thing as a variable in reincarnation magic.

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8 AM.

Lee Hwayoung sat in front of her vanity mirror from early in the morning.

Today was the day she would meet her son. And not just any ordinary son…….

『（Breaking News） Korea, 4th S-rank Appears!』

Her son, who was an S-rank hunter.

She didn’t usually watch the news, but even so, her child’s news was bound to reach her ears.

That he had risked his life to retrieve the body of a D-rank Awakened One.

That he had killed all the sirens.

Anyway, that S-rank had shown unbelievable feats in just a few months since revealing his identity.

“Oh my god! Gi, Giryeo……. Became an Awakened One?”

Lee Hwayoung recognized her son’s face in the news and decided to contact him.

It had been quite a while since they had lost contact, so it was difficult to find his phone number, but fortunately, she found the necessary records on her phone a while ago.

『Blocked Numbers List』

1533-09….

02-2109….

010-1287….

“Ah! 1287! This is it, this one.”

Honestly, she couldn’t say that she had no hesitation in this process.

Because she clearly remembered the last time she had seen her son.

━Giryeo, can you help your mom just once?

The time when she borrowed 27 million won from her son and left the house.

Of course, she also felt sorry. But she didn’t have a choice either, so what was she supposed to do?

“Sigh.”

The days when she was struggling with the loan she had recklessly taken out when she was young.

Lee Hwayoung had accidentally checked Kim Giryeo’s bankbook while cleaning the house.

『₩27,001,839』

When you’re being harassed by debt collectors every other day, it’s natural for anyone to fall into temptation when they see such a large sum of money.

‘There’s no woman in the world who wouldn’t do that.’

Hwayoung thought that her choice was not the kind that could be easily criticized.

And the reason she left the house after that was…….

It was only because she felt sorry to Giryeo, and she knew it would be difficult to pay off that debt with her restaurant job, so she avoided seeing him because she felt ashamed.

If you think about it, this was all caused by her son putting pressure on her to pay back the money.

If he hadn’t done that, she wouldn’t have run away.

27 million won. He should have just given that much to the parent who gave birth to him out of gratitude.

“Anyway, that guy was really…….”

But now, all these trivial worries were over.

Giryeo had awakened as an S-rank in the meantime.

Her kind son, who had escaped poverty, would forgive her for a brief mistake.

Didn’t he receive her call so happily just yesterday?

As if he had forgotten all about the past!

“Oh my, I’ve been so worried because my back has been acting up lately…. Finally, my luck is turning around in my old age.”

Lee Hwayoung hummed and touched up her makeup.

Then, let’s go see her son.

She arrived at Mapo Station not long after.

From here, she went straight down the main road, and after walking for a few more minutes, she finally entered an alley.

“I’m here for the first time, so I don’t know where anything is.”

Let’s see, she was sure that her son said he lived around here…….

“Ah!”

Just as she was about to call him and was rummaging through her pockets, she saw someone walking towards her in the distance.

A young man who was wrapped in a jet-black suit that looked like it was from a funeral.

“Giryeo!”

Lee Hwayoung waved her hand after finding her son.

Her son, whom she had met after a long time, looked much better than before.

She had recognized him since he appeared on TV, but how much money did he make to be able to wear such nice clothes so easily?

“Have you…. been well?”

Hwayoung put down her luggage bag and hugged her son tightly.

“I’m glad you look healthy. Even though your mom has been living a hectic and difficult life, I never missed a day of praying for our son to be well.”

Originally, she had planned to explain her situation and how she had been living all this time after this.

“Giryeo, I’m telling you this now, but the truth is, I had a certain situation back then…….”

“Mom.”

“Uh, yes?”

But her son cut off her words and brought up a new topic.

“I have something to ask.”

He looked down at Hwayoung with his sanpaku eyes.

His face, which showed that he had inherited his father’s blood so strongly, was as it always was.

“Come to think of it, it’s strange that I have so few memories related to my dad.”

“Huh?”

“What is Dad doing now? Do you happen to know his contact information?”

But she never expected such a question to pop out.

Hwayoung was greatly flustered and replied.

“What are you talking about? That, that man died of lung cancer a long time ago. It’s been a while.”

“Ah, I see.”

Did I not tell Giryeo this story?

Hwayoung released the hug and tilted her head. But the other person only mumbled incomprehensible words even at this moment.

“So there was a family history.”

The blonde hunter asked Hwayoung, who was in front of him, an additional question.

“Mom, but don’t you notice anything different about me?”

“Different…?”

“Don’t you feel anything when you see me?”

Was this a light joke that a young child was making to his family?

“Well, how could our son have changed…….”

Hwayoung pretended to think for a moment after hearing those words, but in fact, this was a problem that didn’t even need to be considered.

This hunter was someone whose differences from the past could be easily found.

“Right. You dyed your hair beautifully! Hoho, son. Did you happen to get a girlfriend? Why are you all dressed up?”

She said with a smile.