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Chapter 6: The reason for remembering (1)

“…Huh?”

A confused noise came out of Choi Han’s mouth.

“Hmm?”

Raon, who stopped being invisible for a moment, tilted his head in confusion. The white-haired red-eyed young boy didn’t care and walked toward Cale.

The young boy was around 160 cm tall, just around Rosalyn’s height, and seemed to be just a bit older than On.

His white hair was extremely silky and might even seem to glow like silver under the sun if seen from the right angle. His red eyes were brighter than Rosalyn’s red eyes and, this too, if seen incorrectly, might be mistaken as orange.

“Cale.”

The young boy spoke to Cale, who was silently standing there with a scowl on his face.

“It’s been so long, but you didn’t come. So I just decided to come myself. Is that not okay?”

“…Mm.”

Cale groaned before looking down at the young boy who stopped one step in front of him and responded.

“Team leader?”

“Yes, it’s me.”

“Haaa.”

Cale let out a deep sigh before brushing his face with both hands. The young boy smiled after seeing that Cale’s eyes were fluctuating deeply.

Cale nonchalantly commented at that moment.

“Are you making sure to eat?”

“…Huh?”

Cale was looking over the young boy with a significantly grumbling gaze.

The young boy had a blank expression on his face as he blinked. Cale didn’t care, yet he was struggling to say what was on his mind because there was something he didn’t like but he didn’t know whether he should say something like this at their reunion after such a long time.

“A bit, a bit-”

Raon came over to the young boy’s side and commented.

“He looks feeble! Are you not eating properly?”

“…Huh?”

The young boy asked back in confusion when Choi Han came over to his side as well, inspected him from head to toe, and spoke in a concerned tone.

“Does the God of Death make you work without feeding you? Or were there a lot of difficulties in your life after your reincarnation? Why did you live such a hard life instead of coming to find us sooner?”

Choi Han, who seemed to have already come up with his own story, rambled on.

“…Ha!”

The young boy scoffed in disbelief.

“I’m not sure whether this is exactly as I expected or completely unexpected, but… I can feel it now that I’m seeing you guys like this.”

The young boy extended his hand toward Cale while speaking in his unique tired voice.

“You’re good people.”

Cale looked at the extended hand for a bit.

The hand was already full of scars and calluses.

“It’s been a while, team leader.”

Cale shook his hand and greeted him for the first time in a very long time.

The reincarnated team leader’s age and appearance were quite different, but there were a lot of similarities as well. He looked like how Lee Soo Hyuk might have looked when he was younger.