The Returner

“It's going to flip over, really. ”

“… Why? ”

Seo Ah-young wipes the stain with her fat face and rubs her stomach.

“I can't digest it. It's a lot of pressure. ”

“No, why all of a sudden? ”

Seo Ah Young yelled with a red face.

“Why?”

“No, she's a big girl. ”

Seo Ah Young smiled.

“Well, what do you think? We're the only ones here. ”

“ ……. ”

Choi Jung-hoon shakes his head.

Are you saying we're the only ones here to show ourselves that?

“Weren't your youth in the '90s? It was a fashionable time in the Navel. Where did you leave your eyes? Are you a pervert?”

“I only studied at that time! Oh, no, not this. I was a kid. How old are you? ”

“A little bit. ”

Seo Ah-young laughed and looked at Choi Jung-hoon. Choi Jung-hoon slightly turned his head as he spoke of his age.

“Oh, are you pretending to be young? Did you see that? ”

“I'm not upset. ”

“You look upset. ”

“I'm not upset. ”

Seo Ah-young tapped Choi Jung-hoon's shoulder.

“You don't have to be so stuffy. There's no order to go. We could all die today. So it's not unfair to grow old. I'm gonna live a little longer and die. ”

Choi Jung-hoon snorted.

“Who's gonna die? ”

“… of course. I made a mistake.”

Even though I was thinking that, I shouldn't take it out of my mouth today. 'Cause everybody could really die.

Normally, that would be a joke, but it shouldn't even be a joke today.

“I'll buy them all. ”

“ ……. ”

“I think so. If not, there's no reason to endure that hell of a training. ”

“Well……. ”

Seo Ah-young nodded.

In retrospect, those were some really shitty times. Every time Mana dug into his body, he felt the urge to blow off Lee Hyuk's head and the urge to bite his tongue, not once or twice.

If they had endured that much pain and the result had been exterminated after three days, it would have been better to bite their tongues and die.

Seo Ah-young couldn't bear it.

“Can you do it? ”

“Of course you do. ”

Choi Jung-hoon frowned and said.

“You were trained to win. You have to survive because you have to survive. ”

Seo Ah Young nodded quietly.

In principle, it was true, but she knew that the reality was not so pleasant, and she knew Jung-hoon Choi.

“What will you do if you survive? ”

“… what are you doing? ”

“You know, just stuff like that. There is no guarantee that solving this will lead to a life completely unrelated to monsters, but at least it will be more relaxing than now. ”

“Of course.”

“So is there anything you want to do? ”

“… I don't think so. ”

Seo Ah Young smiled.

“Previously, I was annoyed and angry that monsters were running around. I thought it was too hard, but if you look back now, it was heaven. ”

“Will that work? ”

Choi Jung-hoon scratched his head.

Even back then, leaving work was as untouchable as the legendary giraffe, but at least it didn't feel like Paris' life, or the burden of humanity's extinction when lost in this fight.

We had enough time to postpone it for tomorrow if we didn't feel right.

‘That's a relief to hear. ’

If I could just go back to my life then, I would be happy to accept my feelings right now. I thought life was relative, but I never thought I'd get to think about it.

“What do you want to do when you get back? ”

“Well……. ”

Choi Jung-hoon said with a clean smile.

“Leaving.”

“Yes?”

“I want to get rid of the company. ”

“Phew……. ”

Seo Ah-young stared at Choi Jung-hoon dazed.

This Human gets off on the right foot and falls into a strange place every once in a while.

“Why the company? I'm trying to make a living."

“Aigoo, don't you have somewhere to work? Now that the world is stable and I can find my life, I just want to get to work on time and get to work on time. I feel like I've lost myself to success and responsibility. ”

“I know what you mean. ”

But there were some things that I didn't understand.

“But wouldn't that be a waste? Choi Jeong-hoon's stacks will never be small. ”

“Too bad.... ”

Choi Jung-hoon shrugged.

“There was a time when I was obsessed with that. I knew Lee Hyuk and thought I had a rope to climb up to the top. ”

“The rope was rotten. ”

“… to be precise, the rope itself was sturdy, but it had a lot of thorns embedded in it. ”

Choi Jung-hoon trembled.

“Anyway, there was a time when I thought about it, and I gradually felt that I was going up. ”

“What do you think? ”

“So what are you going to do if you go up there? ”

Seo Ah-young looked at Choi Jung-hoon with two eyes.

“It's definitely fun to use power and control other people's minds, but I couldn't do it because of my nature. Eventually, I realized that the more I went up, the more I did, the better I didn't get. ”

“... If we go up there, can we leave it to the people below and sit in your chair and play with your phone games? ”

“Nature……. ”

Seo Ah-young nodded at the bitter words of Choi Jung-hoon.

No matter how much I think about it, I can't imagine Jung-hoon sitting at his desk playing.

‘I'll be home on time. ’

There was no way a workaholic could go home because my work was done. I will make things happen and do things again and again until they are not. It was a ridiculous and pathetic life, but it was a hardship created by Jung-hoon himself.

“I wish I could live with that. I enjoy hobbies, I get married, I have kids. ”

“… do I get married alone? ”

“We don't have time. We just need time. ”

“I'm a maternal solo. Strangely, I can't meet a woman. ”

Seo Ah-young stared at Choi Jung-hoon.

“Why, why? ”

“No, I'm talking nonsense. Am I not a woman? ”

“We can handle the day-to-day entanglements. But I couldn't meet him in the corner. ”

“You've seen me around the corner a lot. ”

“ ……. ”

Choi Jeong-hoon, who was speechless, asked for another answer.

“What kind of man talks that much? ”

“I didn't change my mind. I turned my head.”

“Really……. ”

“I'm sorry."

Choi Jung-hoon smiled bitterly and looked at the distant sky.

Can you really live like that? ’

Normally.

Will I be able to go back to being normal and live like everyone else?

It was a dream story.

‘Survive the story now. ’

Unfortunately, the chances of survival are not so great. The horsemen and humankind's power cars were bigger than I thought.

Lee Hyuk and Alpha will make variables, but it was almost impossible to win without damage. Those who have to support them below will have to take enormous damage.

Perhaps most of them…….

“What are you thinking? ”

“No.”

Choi Jung-hoon shakes his head.

That's why you can talk about dreams. Stories that seem realistically possible are embarrassing to talk about, but stories that seem realistically unlikely are not hard to tell.

“I'd like to live with that if I could. ”

“Yeah, me, too. My wish is to meet a man who has a lot of money and not work anymore. ”

“You have a lot of money. ”

“Are you compared to Mr. Choi Jung-hoon? I know that negotiating with the United States and foreign countries has cost me a lot of money. You don't know what NDF kids like about their severance pay, do you? ”

“Phew……. ”

Choi Jung-hoon asked with a blank face.

“Why is that their severance pay? It's my money.”

“They said they'd stab you in the stomach if you didn't get it right. ”

“Bastards.”

Where did all the comrades who fought together go? No matter how desperate the world may be, stabbing a colleague.

“So you should have eaten properly. ”

“What I ate was not even the blood of my new feet compared to what Lee Hyuk ate. Literally a fee. ”

“They say it's almost corporate gross. ”

“... It's not that bad. ”

“You look like you're about to get stabbed. ”

“ ……. ”

Choi Jung-hoon avoided Seo Ah-young's eyes.

“That's why we have so much money. ”

“Yes, I have a lot of money. So?”

Seo Ah Young smiled lightly when Choi Jung-hoon came out stiff.

“That's fine. ”

“Yes? What... ”

Choi Jung-hoon, who recalled what Seo Ah-young said, shut up.

“If I survive.”

“Yes, if you survive. ”

They didn't say anything for a while and looked forward.

Both survive.

They knew best how hard and difficult it was.

“As long as I live.... ”

At that moment, a huge Mana rushes in front of them. It was a moment of resentment that I could feel Mana now.

“Hey, you should be a little late. ”

Seo Ah Young grinned as Jung-hoon grumbled.

“They all are. If life is so dramatic, how hard can it be? ”

“… you don't watch dramas, do you? ”

“Yes?”

“No one lives as hard as the main character in the play. ”

“... It's the worst. ”

Seo Ah-young shakes her head and raises her hands lightly.

It's a start.

If they can survive until sunrise tomorrow, they will be victorious.

* * *

“Here we go.”

“Mmmm... ”

Song Jung-soo and Yoon Young-min were looking at their vision with a serious face.

“Call Christopher. ”

“Yes.”

Yoon Young-min sighed low, checking that the secretary was moving immediately.

“Can you stop it? ”

“You have to believe that. ”

Song Jeong-su looked at the screen with her sinking eyes.

‘I thought I'd lived to the fullest...... ’

The final battle was about to begin without fail to enjoy the joy of victory. When I thought that the fate of humanity was determined during this day, the cold sweat flowed down my back without stopping.

“The military agreed as much as possible, and they also received M-3 support from the United States. I brought all the troops from Japan, so I can be proud that I did everything I could. ”

It may be a separate question, but at least I did my best not to leave any regrets.

Song Jeongsoo looks down at his hands that are not in power.

‘Limits.’

His body has now reached its limit. From now on, it is time to endure with your mind.

Song Jong-soo burst out a low smile.

How about someone else? We only have a day left.

If everything was decided for just one day, there would be no time to survive that day and die.

Song Jong-soo opened his mouth with a puffy eye.

“Let's get started.”

“Yes.”

Yoon Young-min nodded with a stiff face.

Now the battle for everything begins.