I Regressed, But the World Isn’t Destroyed - Chapter 2
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002.
Monopoly, Mad Dog, Fighting Ghost, Copy Ninja X-Kashi, Genius, First Dominant Species Slayer, Fighting God, Nine Heroes…etc.
There have been countless words used to describe Lee Do-hyeok during his 10 years as a hunter.
And the last one of them is,
‘saver.’
The only hope for humanity.
Even though in this timeline humanity will perish, in another timeline he will be the savior who will wipe out those damn alien races.
That’s what people in the future 20 years later would call Lee Do-hyuk.
But there is no more Lee Do-hyeok like that.
‘If you’re so tired of this, how do you look at other people’s faces?’
Could the members of the Death Squad and the other nine heroes have ever imagined this?
A former Transcendent Hunter and member of the Nine Heroes.
Lee Do-hyeok, who was the savior of mankind, is now···,
“Here, Mr. Lee Do-hyeok’s.”
180 thousand won.
That means, after deducting an introduction fee of 18,000 won, the remaining 162,000 won is received as daily wage.
They paid him 30,000 won more than others because he was strong.
‘Fuck.’
Lee Do-hyeok turned around after receiving the white envelope and suddenly looked up at the sky.
What you see is a clear sky, not an ashen one.
Several months after returning to prepare for the outbreak.
At that time, I didn’t have the time or the thought to look at that scenery that was different from the gray sky in my memory, but now I have the time to do so.
But that kind of freedom wasn’t welcome.
The more I look at that clear sky, the more I realize the difference from the original world.
That’s why Lee Do-hyeok felt complicated every time he looked at the sky.
A contradictory mix of emotions: frustration, futility, relief, happiness, and annoyance.
Last half year.
Lee Do-hyeok visited Bukhansan Mountain again and again.
Just in case, I searched the entire Bukhansan Mountain thoroughly.
But no matter how long we waited, an outbreak did not occur in Bukhansan.
No, beyond that, nowhere in the entire world could you find a single trace of an outbreak, a wormhole, or an alien race. Not even an alien race that suddenly appeared.
Even those who have awakened superhuman abilities.
There is also an unidentified space crack.
All that was not in this world.
In the end, Lee Do-hyeok had no choice but to admit that this place was different from the Earth he knew.
Maybe a parallel universe?
Isn’t that it?
‘No matter how much the multiverse is the trend.’
From what I vaguely remember, the multiverse was a superhero movie trend in the 2020s.
I never dreamed that something like that would happen not only in movies but also in real life.
That wasn’t the only thing that was difficult.
Adapting to a changing world.
No, more precisely, adapting to a world where nothing has changed.
The world was still as dirty and peaceful as it always had been.
In some places, an Islamic extremist armed group was taking power, and somewhere, a crazy dictator was invading a neighboring country.
Lee Do-hyeok knew very well that such an appearance was truly a sign that the Earth was at peace.
The Earth in our memories, where the Taliban’s Awakened and the Vatican’s Knights joined forces to fight against alien races, and where Israeli and Palestinian Hunters protected each other’s lives…
‘That sucked.’
No words could better describe the Earth at that time.
So, it was a good thing that no outbreak occurred.
This applies to everyone in the world.
But what about Lee Do-hyuk personally?
‘···Is it good?’
Lee Do-hyeok returned to save the world.
We’ve been preparing for this for years, even while continuing the war against alien species.
But when I actually returned, I realized that all that effort was in vain.
Of course, Lee Do-hyuk doesn’t want an outbreak to occur.
In less than a month after the first outbreak, billions of people were killed.
The rest of the world barely managed to survive in a hellish future thanks to the appearance of the Hunters.
Of course, it’s better if that doesn’t happen.
Although.
Years of effort by Lee Do-hyeok and other suicide squads were in vain.
All the hellish training I endured after my return ended up being nothing more than a waste of time.
The fighting skills he had accumulated over the past ten years were of no use.
Above all···
[Web transmission]
[A Bank] Mr. Lee Do*
Installment loan
Payment amount 2,138,465 won
Scheduled for withdrawal on July 30th
[Web transmission]
[Peace Capital] The loan is overdue
Notice of loan delinquency for Mr. Lee Do*
-As of July 26, 2024, 146,948 won in arrears occurred
[365 Help Loan Director Kim – Mr. Lee Do-hyeok. Do you know that today is the deposit date? You can’t be late like last time.]
.
.
[Loan Brothers – Please deposit 450,000 won by 6 o’clock today]
···Lee Do-hyeok became a debtor.
**
Boom, tiddik-
“I’m here.”
“high.”
Lee Ji-an greeted Lee Do-hyeok, who opened the door and came in.
Lee Do-hyuk quickly goes into the bathroom to take a shower.
Lee Ji-an looked at his back with suspicion.
Her older brother, who suddenly started acting strangely about a year ago.
He said he was independent, but he was the type of guy who would come to my house once a month and ask for money, saying he had no money.
Then, my older brother suddenly said he was busy and didn’t come to my parents’ house, and then one day he showed up looking completely different.
An attitude as if one were about to face the most important event of one’s life.
Even my body looked so much better, I couldn’t even recognize it, probably because I’d been working out so much.
‘Was it about half a year ago?’
It was probably around that time.
My brother, who had promised her and her parents several times to stay home today, left home himself and didn’t contact them for several days.
‘I suddenly thought you were crazy.’
And then, a few weeks later, he moved back into his parents’ house, saying he had finished moving into the goshiwon where he had been living separately.
I can’t tell you how surprised not only she but also her parents were to see her brother like that.
‘Hey, what is this?’
‘Mask…? What about a gas mask?’
‘Honey. Did you do some kind of multi-level marketing?’
When I first moved out on my own, I think my brother’s luggage totaled only two or three boxes.
When I came back, it had grown to dozens of boxes.
Even more impressive was the contents of the box.
‘It’s not some war material.’
It was Lee Do-hyuk who came carrying a lot of preserved food, masks, gas masks, water filters, bottled water, first aid kits, flashlights, batteries, etc. as if a nuclear war were to break out next month.
I’ve only seen that in zombie movies.
Survival supplies that the survivors are desperately gathering.
Even though he wasn’t a smoker, he had hundreds of cartons of cigarettes.
‘It’s definitely weird.’
A few months before Lee Do-hyeok came into his family home.
Lee Ji-an also visited the place where her brother worked part-time without telling her because she hadn’t heard from him for so long.
And then I heard that it had been several months since my brother quit his part-time job.
But my brother bought dozens of boxes of strange items with money from somewhere.
Is that all that’s strange?
Even after coming back to my parents’ house, there were countless strange things about my brother.
One day, out of the blue, he goes on a trip somewhere, packs a big backpack with a bunch of stuff, and comes back a few days later.
He repeated that several times, and then one day he stopped going out of the house at all.
And then he was just staring at his phone all day, so I took a peek and saw that he was searching for a lot of weird stuff.
‘···Monster, monster··· Superpowered person, hunter, awakened person···was it?’
A term that seems to come out of a novel.
I was seriously looking for something like that on the internet.
‘no way···?!’
A thought crossed Lee Ji-an’s mind as she pondered deeply.
Only then did she realize why Lee Do-hyuk had become like that.
I just guessed, but it’s probably correct.
Lee Ji-an immediately created a group chat with her parents.
A group chat with only Ji-an, her parents, and her brother.
Tok, Tododok-
-Gian: Mom… Dad…
My parents were already very worried about my brother who had changed so much.
The two of them were worried every day, wondering if something had happened.
Lee Ji-an spoke her mind without holding back.
-Gian: I think my brother… was fooled by a cult!’
-Mom: What? A cult?’
-Gian: Yeah!
Gian had seen such a documentary once.
A current affairs documentary on the subject of cult religions.
There was definitely some content about some pseudo-religions that preach the end times.
The appearance of the believers I saw back then perfectly matches the current Lee Do-hyuk!
widely-
“Phew.”
Lee Do-hyuk coming out of the shower.
Because she came out wearing only the lower garment, her well-developed muscles were clearly visible.
‘···How much must those fake bastards have exploited us!’
Lee Ji-an’s eyes shook.
How much hard labor did you have to do for your body to become so healthy?
Now I see that my palms are covered in calluses.
Do you think that traces like that would appear overnight just because Lee Do-hyeok has been working hard these days?
That can’t be true.
Lee Ji-an looked at her brother with fire in her eyes.
Then, the scratches and scars visible here and there on the body.
Are you saying that you whipped your brother for not listening to you?
Fire burst out of Lee Ji-an’s eyes.
Squeak.
At that time, Lee Do-hyuk enters his room.
Through the gap in the closing door, I could see the boxes piled up in Lee Do-hyeok’s room.
Most of the boxes have been cleared out through second-hand trading over the past few months, but there are still some that I haven’t gotten rid of.
When she saw that, she seemed to know the whole story.
‘That’s right! The world is about to end. You brainwashed me, brother!’
Clearly, my brother believed those words and bought a bunch of those things!
I guess they knew the end was coming and prepared for it.
Perhaps the day of doom that Lee Do-hyuk had in mind was the day he had strongly urged her and her parents not to come out of the house?
Then, if nothing happens, he must have realized that what he said was a lie and must have recently come back to his parents’ house.
‘The reason I haven’t had any energy lately…’
Now I understand.
Since coming back to my parents’ house, I suddenly started doing odd jobs that I hated and said I didn’t want to use my body.
When you come back, you don’t want to do anything and just lie in bed.
Sudden change in attitude and lethargy!
It was exactly the same as the reaction of believers who found out that the doctrines of the religion they believed in were in fact complete lies.
···It seemed like what I had thought was impossible was gradually becoming true.
dripping-
Lee Ji-an knocked on the door with a trembling heart.
Soon, Lee Do-hyeok’s voice was heard telling me to come in.
“Brother.”
Ji-an opened the door and carefully opened her mouth.
“Do you believe that there is a God?”
A question that came up after much thought.
“God? Well, I don’t know if there is one, but if there is….”
The answer her brother gave right after changed Ji-an’s guess into certainty.
“···개새끼도 그런 개새끼가 없겠지.”
Ugh-
Lee Do-hyeok’s sharp voice resonated loudly.
“ah···.”
Gian let out a small sigh.
Denial and slander towards God!
It was a sure thing.
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