84 – Return (3)
“… ?”
At first I didn’t know it was Ymir. I thought she looked like someone. Even though they look similar, the atmosphere they give off is very different.
“Ugh!”
If it was a stranger, it was only after he got close enough to look rude, that he properly identified his identity. Moyeji exclaimed in surprise.
“Hey! You!”
Choi Ji-seong, who came along belatedly, was not as good as Mo Ye-ji, but she was very surprised.
“Oops! What!”
The dead have returned. No, the person who should have died has returned. Choi Ji-seong rubbed his eyes repeatedly until his eyes hardened like a plaster cast and turned red.
* * *
Maybe it’s because he stopped by the inland region closest to the island.
I met the children unexpectedly.
“Hey.”
I awkwardly waved my hand.
“It’s been a while.”
“Uh… ….”
“Oh… , Long, long time?”
I was completely unaware of the ramifications that would occur after I disappeared. Because I had never thought of it that way. So I couldn’t understand their reaction. No, it took me a while to understand.
“You, what the hell, what, what, no, not this… you dungeon… No, you are Ymir right?”
Choi Ji-seong stuttered and confused like an old man, and Mo Ye-ji suddenly sniffed.
“I knew you were alive!”
She ran up to her and hugged me. I was having a strange thought then. If she had just come out of the dungeon, in the same beggar’s outfit, with her scruffy face, would she have approached me without hesitation? Come to think of it, I wonder if my body smells. Although the dirt has been pushed away for a long time in the bathroom, the old dirt that has been accumulated for over a hundred years does not come off easily.
Why are you thinking like this?
It’s been a long time since I met someone I know, so I’m confused.
“You, you, so, how, no, are you okay?”
Choi Ji-seong still looks dumbfounded.
“I’m fine.”
“How?”
“What?”
“No, how did you get out of the dungeon? No, is this a bit strange? When did you come out of the dungeon?”
“A while ago. It came out this morning.”
Choi Ji-sung and Mo Ye-ji opened their mouths to the limit when they said that they came out this morning. Mo Yeji was still so close to me that a little bit of saliva flowed from her mouth, but she didn’t even notice it. You seem very surprised
“Wait a minute… If you came out this morning. Oh my god! You mean you were in that dungeon for five years.”
“I didn’t believe it, but you were still alive in that dungeon. Have you been through a lot? Are you okay? Where are you sick?”
When I was in a dungeon, I always kept silent. I spent over a hundred years restraining all my desires in a quiet silence where even the sound of my breath seemed to freeze. That’s why I felt uncomfortable with their emotions pouring down like a rapid-fire cannon. A loud radio frequency seemed to crackle.
“Wait a minute. I’ll tell you slowly. Let’s settle down somewhere.”
At my words, Mo Ye-ji and Choi Ji-seong nodded.
“Yes.”
“Let’s do it.”
We headed to a nearby cafe.
* * *
I talked to Choi Ji-sung and Mo Ye-ji, and while listening to the children’s trends, I also heard a lot of information. There were many more things I wanted to ask, but I couldn’t properly ask them because the questions were pouring in. The fact that I’m alive is such a surprise.
In particular, Choi Ji-seong showed an uncharacteristically weak figure and was welling up with tears. He kept saying, “I’m glad, I’m fine,” As if breathing, but I didn’t hang out with him. Judging from his long memories, my disappearance must have put a lot of pressure on him. He seems to be feeling guilty for my disappearance.
While they were dumbfounded that I had spent over a hundred years in a dungeon, they genuinely worried about my health.
In particular, Mo Yeji asked me one by one about how I had endured in the dungeon, whether there were any abnormalities in my memory, and whether my mind was fine.
“I said it before, but I’m fine.”
It was only when I spread my arms out and made a salty gesture that they properly grasped my condition.
Choi Ji-seong said.
“Yeah, come to think of it, how could I have been locked up for so long?”
“How can you be so fine?”
“Ugh.”
“I had the ability to make bread and water. Thanks to that, I didn’t have to worry about making a living.”
I covered it up with lies. Choi Ji-seong knew that I could make bread and water, so I was easily convinced, but Mo Ye-ji, hearing it for the first time, was not easily convinced. I said that every time I exercised that ability, my sacrifice was required. Then she remembered the bread she ate then and asked if she had sacrificed herself for her children. Then she asked why she didn’t touch the bread herself. Instead of answering, I just grinned.
I can’t eat my own body.
Since the children disappeared, I have never once mimicked a tentacle into an edible plant. I was supplied with energy only through the photosynthesis skill, but sometimes, very occasionally, I bought basic bread from the store with the achievement points achieved in the dungeon and ate it. The problem was that the only bread sold at the store was basic bread, so the taste was too healthy. It is said that it has no taste.
“Thank God. Really.”
“Thank God.”
After persuading them with random words, I chatted with them about this and that. Then, I noticed a gloomy expression around Choi Ji-sung’s eyes. After the surprise of finding me disappeared, it seems that the shade appeared belatedly.
“Hey. So how are you guys these days? I get along well?”
Mo Ye-ji smiled bitterly at my question, while Choi Ji-seong hardened her face for a moment and then let her go. Mo Ye-ji is a negative child by nature, so it is natural for her to smile bitterly, but not Choi Ji-sung.
“Just what….”
“Why?”
“No. It’s just a family matter.”
Ah, come to think of it, there is a problem with the guild.
It reminded me of it belatedly.
Choi Ji-seong is the protagonist of this world. All narratives revolve around him. After graduating from the academy, he devotes his time to solving family problems.
I have classified the information I remember and the information I do not remember. After reading the novel roughly, most of the narratives I remember are focused on Choi Ji-seong. So I quickly figured out what problem he was facing.
If I help you, things will go faster.
As I was thinking about that, Mo Yeji said.
“Hey. However. What are you going to do right now?”
“What?”
“You don’t have to prepare for identity recovery. Do you have a place to stay now? Isn’t it?”
Do you have a place to stay?
“No.”
“Then stay with me for a while. Your parents won’t be there, so I’ll help you for a while.”
As she spoke, Mo Yeji’s eyes looked a little hazy. I shrugged.
* * *
The man who founded the pinnacle guild, Choi Ji-seong’s father, Choi Kang-chul, is a dragon. Of course, there is no way that he has a mixture of human and bloodlines. He made a false identity while playing games, and the identity of Choi Kang-cheol was that of a small child adopted by an ordinary house.
A small child died after being brutally abused by his parents and siblings. Choi Kang-cheol incinerated the boy’s corpse, and he became the boy himself.
He accepted his harsh life with freshness. Because he found it very funny that he was being abused by mere creatures.
Since then, he has demonstrated his ability, has become very successful as a hunter, and has established an apex guild. And he married a woman roughly of his class and gave birth to Choi Ji-seong. Unfortunately, the woman died while giving birth to Choi Ji-seong. Because giving birth to a dragon’s blood was a difficult task for an ordinary woman.
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After the death of his wife, Choi Kang-chul wandered around his outer estate. In the midst of his boredom, he taught a hunter who looked like a bandit his martial arts. He even made his own martial arts into a book and hid it like a gift.
He met Yu Da Ye while living a leisurely life like that, and he couldn’t escape the misfortune. Eventually he was killed. He became an item material for Yu Daye.
People leave their names when they die, and animals leave their skins when they die.
As a dragon, he died and left behind dragon material, Choi Ji-seong, and the peak guild. And the vertex guild was on the verge of being handed over to siblings who were blood different from childhood.
“Choi Ji-seong, how to deal with that kid… ?”
Choi Gang-cheol’s older brother, that is to say, Choi Ji-seong’s father, Choi Il-han muttered as he scratched his beard. He was a handsome middle-aged man.
“The last assassination failed, brother.”
Beside him was Choi Ji-seong’s uncle, Choi Yi-han. Choi Yi-han didn’t have a single strand of hair, probably because he liked freebies.
“If I had known it would be like this, I should have stepped on it before I was bigger…. I treated him as his nephew, but he is running rampant without knowing the fountain.”
“Ji is very insidious because he resembles his father. He doesn’t have any cute corners.”
They didn’t realize that thanks to Choi Kang-chul’s grace, they had a place in the guild. In particular, Choi Il-han considered his family a kind of tool. A tool he was free to use when it was convenient for him. Choi Ji-seong, who does not listen to him, is a useless tool.
“I should have stabbed you with a single knife when I was innocent like a child….”