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I think I only vaguely knew it.
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At the peak where I had to swallow countless crises, I believed that reaching it would bring some kind of change.
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Like the world’s end, the final boss of a game?
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Or the disappearance of my immortality, the power that had stopped aging?
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In any case, I expected some great transformation.
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But this… was beyond anything I had imagined.
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“Bwaaang!” Â
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An 8-ton truck barreled into me.
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If it were my past self, or just an ordinary person, I wouldn’t have survived the impact.
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But—
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Pat!
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As the collision happened, I pulled my body backward.
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A sequence of movements to disperse the shock.
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The moment my will was activated, my body responded naturally.
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However—
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‘…Too slow.’
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This wasn’t the reaction speed I had anticipated.
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Because of that—
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“Kwang!” Â
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I couldn’t completely dodge it and ended up getting hit by the truck.
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Of course, it wasn’t like the truck was crashing at 100 km/h; it was just a minor impact.
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“Kudang-tang.” Â
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I was pushed far away by the shock-dispersing movement.
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Under normal circumstances, I would have immediately checked the person’s condition. Â
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But—
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Buuuung!
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The truck didn’t stop.
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It was, how should I put it—
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As if it was stepping harder on the accelerator pedal to ensure the kill.
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‘They say if there’s an accident, it’s better to die outright.’
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I vaguely remembered hearing that.
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It’s supposedly more financially sensible to kill someone in an accident than to pay hospital bills.
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I couldn’t tell if the truck driver was really thinking like that as he kept pushing forward.
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But one thing was clear.
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‘He won’t stop until I’m dead.’
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He had no intention of stopping until my life was surely ended.
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I jumped to my feet.
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Though I had dispersed the shock, a dull ache lingered all over my body.
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‘Definitely different.’
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I wasn’t in the state I’d spent hundreds of years perfecting as a Knight at the pinnacle.
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There must have been some adjustments and changes after returning to the modern era.
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Maybe that was natural.
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After all, no time had passed; I had simply returned to the moment of dimensional travel.
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But it was enough.
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I shook off the questions swirling in my mind.
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What mattered now wasn’t my physical state.
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Buuuuung!
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The truck was still racing toward me at full speed.
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Pa-at!
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I pushed off the ground and leapt toward the passenger seat.
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“Kwachachang!” Â
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I shattered the solid glass door in front of me and landed in the soft seat. Â
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“Hu-up!”
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Glancing at the truck driver, who was stunned, I said,
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“Stop.”
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With my voice low and commanding,  “Kkiiik! ”Â
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The truck finally braked and came to a halt.
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I looked at him.
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He looked to be in his forties.
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His unkempt beard was rough and scruffy, and every inch of him bore the signs of a hard life.
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And—
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Tremble tremble tremble.
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He was shaking.
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Being hit by a truck and then jumping into the passenger seat like that—
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He must have realized I wasn’t an ordinary person.
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He must have understood by now that resistance and rebellion were pointless.
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And—
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‘Something’s there.’
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I had lived for hundreds of years.
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Thanks to that long life, I had awakened the Soul-Reading Mind’s Eye, allowing me to read people’s hearts.
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Extreme tension, anxiety, and fear.
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This man carried emotions beyond merely causing an accident.
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Most likely—
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“…Someone hired you, didn’t they?”
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There was clear evidence that he was contracted by someone to kill me.
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“W-what are you saying… guh!”
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I immediately grabbed his throat.
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“Keh, kehek!”
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He struggled to breathe, making harsh sounds.
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I had no intention of having a long conversation with the one who tried to kill me.
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“Don’t try to outsmart me. Just answer my questions.”
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After the first warning, I asked again, “Who hired you?”
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But—
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“N-nothing…”
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He feigned ignorance.
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So—
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“Crunch.” Â
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I snapped his right index finger the opposite way.
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“Ahhhk!” He screamed in pain. Â
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But his scream didn’t elicit any reaction from me.
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“Who hired you?”
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I repeated the same question, loosening my grip on his throat for a moment.
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“W-why are you doing this? I didn’t…”
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“Crack!”Â
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This time, it was the ring finger.
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Not bent like the index but pulled out entirely with immense force.
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“Ughhh-aaah!”
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His scream was like a beast’s howl.
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The pain of having a finger ripped out wasn’t something ordinary humans easily experienced.
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Ah, correction.
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Though it was common enough on the Gritia Continent where I had wandered for centuries, here it was rare.
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“Who hired you?”
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I said nothing else.
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I wanted him to understand that this was the only question I cared about.
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If he didn’t answer, he would continue to suffer.
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“I-I don’t know who!”
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Finally, a different answer.
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But it wasn’t the one I wanted.
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When he tried to reach for his fingers, “Please, I really don’t know. All contracts were strictly exchanged on parchment documents…” Â
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I stopped his movement.
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Not a lie.
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No matter how much the world changed, even if death was common, no fool would leave traces in contract killings.
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But from this, one fact was certain.
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‘Someone wants me dead.’
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They even went as far as hiring a hitman.
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The name that immediately came to mind was—
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‘Ha Yeon Lee.’
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Once my wife, once the closest person to me, now worse than a stranger.
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If anyone could mastermind a contract killing against me, it would be her without a doubt.
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Because to her, I was nothing more than an obstacle.
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‘How strange.’
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Somehow, it was a curious feeling.
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Until just a moment ago, I hadn’t even been aware of her existence.
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To be precise, I had forgotten.
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There was no time to dwell on petty grudges on the Gritia Continent.
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Hundreds of years had passed.
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I thought I had long forgotten those old resentments.
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‘Because I’ve returned to the modern era?’
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Both my body’s condition and the resurfacing grudges felt unfamiliar.
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But at the same time, a strange sensation as if I had found my place again.
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“Ugh_”
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The groan near my ear pulled me out of my thoughts.
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I stared at the driver clutching one hand.
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“Affiliation?”
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“N-none. I just heard there was big money to be made…”
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Broken by the pain, he was telling the truth.
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What I could glean from this was—
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‘Digging any deeper won’t get me anything.’
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The client’s identity was thoroughly hidden.
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Even if I questioned the man who had thrown himself into this for the money, there was nothing I could find out.
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“P-please spare me. I was blinded by the money. I have a wife and children to feed…”
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But he couldn’t finish his sentence.
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Sleek, thunk!
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His neatly severed head rolled onto the truck floor.
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No weapon.
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Just the edge of my hand created the scene.
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Is that possible?
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It is.
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A body that has reached a certain level becomes a weapon itself.
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“Puhwahak!” Â
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A fountain of blood gushed from the severed end.
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Taking a life.
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Some might feel guilt or disgust about it, but not me.
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“If you’re going to try to kill someone, you should know you can die, too.”
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Family to protect?
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That’s none of my concern.
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What mattered was that he tried to take my life, failed, and paid the price.
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Nothing more.
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“Return, huh…”
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I had come back.
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To a world that welcomed no one.
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Returned after hundreds of years.
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Normally, it shouldn’t feel real so easily.
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‘Interesting.’
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There was nothing unfamiliar or awkward.
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It was as if I had lived here until moments ago.
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Perhaps a kind of ‘adaptation’ from crossing dimensions.
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Of course.
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‘But that’s not important.’
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After hundreds of years of wandering, I had returned with one clear purpose.
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Revenge.
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To give back to Ha Yeon Lee and everyone involved the misfortune and pain I had endured.
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***
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What is the most important thing for revenge?
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Power.
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In the past, I had no power, so I was at the mercy of Ha Yeon Lee and her associates.
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Back then, I was nothing more than a toy they could play with.
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Like a mosquito or dragonfly from childhood—something to dissect and kill whenever they pleased.
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But now?
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The centuries I spent on the Gritia Continent were not wasted watching clouds drift by.
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I reached the pinnacle of the continent, becoming the No.1 Knight.
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If I could use that power fully, I could have overwhelmed everyone without worrying about their reactions.
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But the world was not that simple.
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‘…My physical training level isn’t what it used to be.’
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There had been changes while crossing dimensions.
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Compared to when I defeated the empire’s No.1 Knight, I was now at one-hundredth of that strength. Â
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Of course, even that was strong enough, but the problem was Ha Yeon Lee and the Shinhwa Guild had become giants.
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I couldn’t overpower them.
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So I needed a plan for my revenge.
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Usually, it would be a thorough and complicated plan, but surprisingly, the answer was simple.
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[The Tower. Your answer lies there.]
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A note I hadn’t realized was in my pocket.
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If it were just a note, I might have dismissed it as nonsense.
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But it was—
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‘…parchment from the Gritia Continent.’
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Not ordinary paper used in the modern world.
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A piece of parchment inscribed with the common tongue of the continent.
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I realized this note was some kind of marker.
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Therefore, my first objective had to be climbing the Tower—not to kill anyone, but to ascend it.
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But—
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“Heyyy.”
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Before I started climbing the Tower in earnest, I stopped by a boarding house.
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I had nothing to pack.
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I just wanted to check the place out once.
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But I never expected a guest waiting for me there.
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“I was worried you might’ve died somewhere.”
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A group with bitter smiles.
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‘Sung-ho Choi.’
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An employee of Sandeul Money.
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I had no choice but to borrow from private lenders to fund Ha Yeon Lee’s awakening.
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Loans on the shop and house weren’t enough to cover the amount.
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I thought she had paid the remaining balance with the contract money received after awakening.
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‘Naïve.’
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Would it have been different if I knew she had other intentions?
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No.
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I’m certain it wouldn’t have changed a thing.
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Power.
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Once she gained power and influence, if she wished, I was doomed to be swept away anytime.
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“Seeing you alive is a relief. So… shall we start the work we put off?”
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“Kikiking!” Â
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He scraped the floor with an aluminum bat in his hand.
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The battered bat was the source of my terror until recently.
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Whenever I failed to repay interest on time, that bat would fly at me, branding pain all over my body.
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I tried everything to avoid that pain.
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Crawled like a dog.
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Licked the spit I had spat on the floor.
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They even urinated on me.
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They thoroughly erased my identity.
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Was there a reason for that?
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I hadn’t thought about it back then.
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But now, I knew to some extent.
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‘They were ordered to do so.’
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The cruel torment was meant to induce suicide.
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Who would benefit from my death?
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Ha Yeon Lee?
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Don’t be so simple-minded.
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Maybe it was someone high up in the Shinhwa Guild, currently in a close relationship with her.
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Whoever ordered it didn’t matter.
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The fact was clear: they harbored hostility and murderous intent toward me.
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“Come here. Since you’ve been dodging me, it’s time to settle the debt, right?”
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And he unzipped his pants.
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Not only Sung-ho Choi but the surrounding thugs were the same.
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They intended to begin the process of erasing my identity.
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But unlike before, the same scene didn’t unfold.
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Instead—
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Pat!
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I moved like a single streak of light.
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A moment was all I needed.
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“Ugh!”
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The time it took to grab Sung-ho Choi’s most precious part as he lowered his zipper.
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“Uh, uh…?!”
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Startled by the crushing grip, he tried to say something, but—
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Peurak!
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My action was faster than his words, bursting what I held in my hand.
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“Ughhhh-aaah!”
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His beast-like scream echoed throughout the room.
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holy, lmao
if mc will not kill his traitor wife, ill gonna rate this to 1 at NU