Chương 811: Afterstory 3 - Back

We are called in by the police and questioned.

We meet the victims, and after causing them a slight mental shock, we are able to receive an amicable settlement and be released.

Our workshop ends like that.

Returning to SJD Company, we return the company SUV to the garage.

Now, if we input a signal that only we know, this SUV transforms into a puppet called Three-Headed Dinosaur General.

If we ever go again to some quiet place, it is definitely a function I want to try using.

I return home and call my mother and father first.

In truth, I should have called on the first day...

But because I was soaked in ecstasy after returning from being at Mount Sumeru for too long a time, I momentarily failed to think of that.

For a while I have a hard time figuring out how to operate the telephone magic artifact, but soon I am able to use the magic artifact skillfully again.

"Yes, Mother. Are you doing well? Father... ah, he went to the potato field, you say? That damned potato field..."

Their familiar voices greet me.

I talk with my mother and father for a long time.

Father, who supposedly went to the potato field, also soon comes back and talks with me on the phone.

"Hey, yeah you brat. Are you doing well?"

"Yes... I am doing well. I will come down on the weekend."

"All right, don't overdo it."

"Yes."

"Then I'm hanging up?"

"Mother, Father."

To the two, whose voices I hear for the first time in a long while, although it is embarrassing...

I say the words I really want to say.

"I love you. And thank you."

For a brief moment, silence passes.

And then the two of them make a fuss.

"Goodness, how cheesy. Did you eat something wrong?"

Although they feel embarrassed, I can feel heartbeats of joy.

"Kukukuk..."

This simple and embarrassing thing.

I haven't been able to do it for far too long.

"I'm hanging up. See you on the weekend."

"All right~" After hanging up the call with the two of them...

After returning as the Earthling Seo Eun-hyun for the first time in a long while, savoring my connections on Earth...

I then enter my roughly ten-pyeong room, sit down, and laugh.

"I should at least... buy them some presents."

Ji Hwa, who is now using Oh Hye-seo's body, goes to Oh Hye-seo's house.

"Hmm, so this is what they call an Earthling's house?"

It is full of fascinating things.

Among them, the most fascinating thing is the small, rectangular magic artifact.

This magic artifact called [smartphone] can gather and search all kinds of information on this planet.

"It roughly passed by in Seo Eun-hyun's memories, so I don't really know it well. I should take this opportunity to broaden my knowledge of Earth's civilization."

It is Oh Hye-seo's body, but now, by Ji Hwa's power, it has been changed into her appearance from her mortal days.

In any case, from now on she is now going to live as a completely different human being, and she plans to live enjoying the things called the daily life and culture of Earth together with Seo Eun-hyun's group.

"First of all, this weekend... on this day that they say Earthlings rest, I will use this magic artifact to investigate everything about Earthlings at least once!"

And so, in order to know everything about Earthlings, from that day onward Ji Hwa starts living immersed in the search magic artifact called smartphone.

"I'm home..."

Kim Yeon returns to a room where there is no one.

In one corner of her room, a portrait photo of her grandmother is hanging.

"I really... missed you, Grandma."

Looking at the photo, Kim Yeon trembles.

With her abilities as they are now, she can bring her back to life.

However...

She clenches her hands tightly and shakes her head.

A person who has passed is a person who has passed.

"... I, I will definitely live happily."

If one is seized by the past, that is nothing but the birth of yet another Future King.

At least on Earth, drawing her own line and deciding not to wield terrifying authority as before...

Kim Yeon takes her gaze off her grandmother's portrait photo.

Tok— And then, sitting on the edge of her own bed, Kim Yeon looks out the window.

"Haahh..."

From the sky, water drops are falling.

Today is Thursday the 26th.

Tomorrow, she is going to take a day off.

However, when she just lies around doing nothing for the first time in a long while, it feels as if her hands are itching.

After lying down for a while, Kim Yeon decides that first, for the first time in a long while in the body of a mortal, she will wash under a warm shower.

"After washing... I should contact Min-hee Unnie and go eat french fries."

For the first time in a long while...

From the standpoint of an ordinary person, she will try chatting, go to a karaoke room, then come back and watch to her heart's content the dramas she used to watch in her Earth days.

And this weekend, she is planning to go to Seo Eun-hyun's house.

Since, if it is Seo Eun-hyun, he will probably go to his parents' home, she should follow along once and introduce herself.

Oh Hyun-seok returns home.

"Honey, you are back?"

As soon as he steps inside, he hears his wife's voice.

A strange gloom, still unable to overcome the sorrow of the miscarriage.

Inside the house, the ultrasound photo of their baby is hanging in a frame.

Oh Hyun-seok looks at that sight for a moment, then goes to his wife and hugs her from behind.

"... I'm home."

"Why are you like this... all of a sudden?"

"Honey."

Looking at his endlessly small wife...

Holding her in his arms, he speaks.

"Let's... have a second child."

"What...?"

"This time... there will absolutely be no such thing."

There will absolutely be no sad past like a miscarriage.

Because he will make it so with his own hands.

This time, he is going to overcome it together with his wife.

"Our baby. This time I will definitely... definitely protect them. So honey... now... let's finally let go."

As he tightly hugs his wife, who still cannot escape from their first child... Oh Hyun-seok pours out his true feelings.

That day, At Oh Hyun-seok's house, many voices full of intense emotion resound.

There are also sounds as if something is breaking and being thrown.

But that evening, In the end...

The two of them hug each other while crying.

Because they went through that pain, they finally decide to break free from the past.

"This weekend. Let's definitely have one. After the second, let's also have a third..."

Holding his wife and crying, Oh Hyun-seok conveys his resolve.

This weekend, Oh Hyun-seok is once again going to receive a new life.

Kang Min-hee returns home.

"I should throw all of this away."

After throwing all the cigarettes she had bought in the house into the trash can, she cleans the house thoroughly once.

"I've come back..."

Looking at the now clean inside of the house, she lets out a sigh.

A world full of many complicated and headache-inducing matters.

To Earth...

She has returned.

"Huu..."

From Kang Min-hee's breath, a small ghost is created.

The split soul created from her split soul flies far away.

Reading history, the split soul goes to seek out her old connection.

The shaman who, while trying to cure Kang Min-hee, instead went crazy.

The split soul goes before that shaman, who is hospitalized in a mental hospital, drooling while wearing a restraint suit.

"Kki, kkiiikhik! Kkihihihihihik! Again, again, it is you! Yes, what wisdom have you come to bring me this time!? Ahh, aaaahhh!

That One is whispering, the Almighty Future King Fate Supreme Deity Hong Fan Gu Ju is whispering wisdom into my ear and is calling me to the Sumeru Three Heavens Great Thousand World, That One is sitting upon a gigantic lotus, on a high and dark throne of darkness made from the attraction force of fate, and is beckoning to me, O child, refined in the fate of sorrow among the fragments of the Absolute of Miracle, now let me go, for I am one who must help the story that will reach That One and also reach the hope of the future..."

"The existence you saw through me has been annihilated."

"Huh?"

Kang Min-hee calls the name of an existence that has a name equivalent to that existence.

From Seo Eun-hyun's side, a slightly puzzled feeling briefly comes, but he soon grasps the situation and lends her a part of his wisdom.

"[The Crystal King Star Genesis Supreme Deity]. That existence passed through all adversity and finally reached the end of the story."

Kwoooong!

Wisdom collides with wisdom, and suppresses the presence of the huge existence that has taken root in the shaman's mind.

Since Seo Eun-hyun has lost the position of the Ender Supreme Deity, he has become the Star Genesis Supreme Deity.

However, because he is the Owner of the Crystal Throne, he has not completely lost the title and rank of Crystal King.

But conversely, the Future King Fate Supreme Deity is completely annihilated.

He lost some of his title and rank, but compared to an existence that is completely annihilated, it is far more powerful wisdom.

Kang Min-hee gives salvation to the shaman who has gone mad because of her.

"Please, find peace."

"Aaah... aaaah..."

Receiving the [wisdom] of the Crystal King Star Genesis Supreme Deity, the shaman feels that that nightmare-like existence in her memories is being swept away.

Right after, the [wisdom] of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity seals the shaman's memories.

After a while, the shaman will wake up.

And although she will lose her memories up until now due to amnesia, in the end she is bound to return to her right mind.

For the wisdom of the Star Genesis Supreme Deity will not needlessly dig through and ruin her soul, will not give her wisdom and power she cannot bear, and instead will revive her through the Apex of Life-Saving Arts.

From now on, she will only be reborn as a true shaman in a state where her spiritual inspiration is much better.

"I am sorry. Now please... be happy."

Offering words of thanks to the shaman who tried to help her out of goodwill, Kang Min-hee retrieves the split soul.

"Huu..."

This weekend, Kang Min-hee also plans to go see her parents.

And...

She is going to tell them that now she really no longer sees things like ghosts.

That everything is cured.

So...

She plans to go tell them that now they no longer have to be bound by the unhappy past.

Diririririk— Seeing the call coming from Kim Yeon, she smiles faintly.

Today is Thursday.

There is one day left until the weekend, but she decides to take a day off tomorrow and go have some fun for about a day.

Jeon Myeong-hoon is invited to a small party that only members of the Jeon family clan and the owner groups of a few mid-sized groups can attend.

As soon as he arrives, he is annoyed at the fact that he has to do this bothersome thing, but he cannot help it.

Because it is an order from Jeon Myeong-cheol, who provided them with a villa and let them have an enjoyable workshop, he has to comply.

"Right, Myeong-hoon-ah. This is Miss Lee Seo-ah of the IHJ Group. She is a precious person of the group that is going to do a joint project with our group this time, so treat her well."

Introducing one of the family members of the owner of another group to Jeon Myeong-hoon, Jeon Myeong-cheol whispers in Jeon Myeong-hoon's ear.

"Stop giving us trouble and secure this young lady well. The IHJ Group owner family is a collateral line of the owner family of the major conglomerate S Corporation. If we seize this opportunity, our company might be able to form a connection with a conglomerate. Stop doing embarrassing things like making moves on your deputy or manager or whatever, and get a grip already and do at least something that helps the family."

"..."

After saying that, Jeon Myeong-cheol lightly pats Jeon Myeong-hoon's shoulder and then steps aside to give him space.

Lee Seo-ah comes up to Jeon Myeong-hoon and smiles brightly.

"It seems the elders of your family are quite strict. Actually, in our family..."

"Um, I am sorry, but."

When Lee Seo-ah tries to come closer than necessary, Jeon Myeong-hoon takes a step back and speaks with a serious face.

"I already have someone I love. Getting too close to another woman is discourteous to her."

"Pardon? No... our meeting is practically something the elders of our families..."

"I do not know about things like that. It is just that I have something more important than family and the like."

Jeon Myeong-hoon looks out the window of the party hall.

Dark clouds are gathering. Thunder also rumbles. But the wind looks refreshing.

'She hasn't been born yet, has she?'

But someday, surely...

She will reincarnate again.

Jeon Myeong-hoon himself also knows.

He has not completely escaped from the past.

However...

'I am not going to revive her with my own hands.'

He is going to hope that someday she will be born again, that they will meet once more as a new connection and make a new beginning.

And if that newly formed connection passes through a single lifetime and ends, only then, he thinks, he will be able to let her go.

'I will wait for the day I meet you again, So-hae.'

With a faint, wistful expression, thinking of her who will meet him again in the form of a new connection...

He bids farewell to Lee Seo-ah and leaves.

The faces of Jeon Myeong-cheol and the IHJ Group people watching that sight grow sour, but Jeon Myeong-hoon does not care at all.

"This weekend... they're going to make a fuss."

But it does not matter.

The one who still has not completely escaped from the past is himself.

But soon, he will be able to break free.

Before such a fact, problems like family cannot torment Jeon Myeong-hoon.

Thinking of the family members who are going to call him in on the weekend and hurl all sorts of verbal abuse at him, he resolves to face them proudly.

Seeing such a Jeon Myeong-hoon, Lee Seo-ah instead blushes, but that is nothing he needs to pay attention to.

Deolkeok— After briefly reporting the things that happened at the workshop, parking the SUV in the garage, and, for the first time in a while, handling a few company tasks, Kim Young-hoon finally returns home late in the evening.

"Huuu..."

Kim Young-hoon looks at the front of his house.

From inside, he feels bustling presences.

He scratches his emptied head a few times.

It is still a body he is still not used to.

Planning to quickly train it and, with the excuse that he is taking hair-loss medicine, grow back his hair, he grasps the handle of the front door with a trembling hand.

His body is unfamiliar, but a place his heart is all too familiar with.

His home.

The place where his son and daughter and wife are.

Dalkak— Kim Young-hoon opens the door.

Handing over a bag of snacks he bought on his way home, he smiles brightly.

The children welcome him, and he sees his wife preparing dinner.

It is a warm, familiar evening smell.

This weekend, it seems it would be good to go on a picnic with the family for the first time in a long while.

'We should go on a picnic near my parents' home and also go see Mother and Father.'

On the way up, he will also drop by the Oh family, his wife's side, and pay his respects.

As he makes a few plans in his head.

He finally speaks the one sentence he has waited and waited so long to say.

"I'm back."

This weekend, everyone is going to be busy.