The S Classes That I raised:Geunseo( 근서) 218+

Chapter 274: Revisiting (2)

"What, what are you talking about, that's..."

I was trembling. I was scared.

"Even if you awakened, why would you become a hunter? You're still young, not even an adult..."

Han Yoojin's brother is an S-rank awakened. Even saying that didn't really hit home. After the shock of the first dungeon, awakened individuals started appearing, and things were gradually falling into place, but for ordinary people, it was still nothing short of a disaster.

The dungeon and the monsters were just unknown fears, that's all. Even for me.

"Just stay home instead of going out for no reason."

My brother said straightforwardly. Until now, Yoohyun was showing signs of worrying about me too. If at this moment I had just listened to my brother... No, let's not think useless thoughts. Eventually, the lizard would have approached Yoo Hyun, and then we...

"Yoo Hyun! Han Yoo Hyun!"

My brother left my side. Lost in thought, I couldn't accept it. I struggled futilely to somehow return things to the way they were. Even though the world had already changed.

"Yoo Hyun, please..."

I held onto the phone, pleading. The background was my old house. My face looked haggard. Memories of not eating or sleeping properly flooded back.

"Don't do anything like a hunter, okay? It's dangerous. If something goes wrong in the dungeon, they might not even find your body. Not even a body... But why are you going there, Yoo Hyun?"

An S-rank hunter. At a time when the dungeon difficulty was still low, it was a grade that didn't need to be worried about. But as I was at that time, I didn't feel it at all. All the rumors I heard were ominous, and the TV constantly talked about the dangers of dungeons and monsters.

Lacking equipment, lacking hunters, and even more lacking experience, it was a time when even low-level dungeons saw lower-ranked hunters dying left and right. Failed dungeon conquests, awakened individuals who never returned, injuries, deaths, disappearances.

Every day, I felt my blood drying up. Would a familiar name ever come up on the list of injured, dead, or missing? I had nightmares several times.

"I'll do better than my brother. To make sure there are no shortcomings, I'll try harder..."

It was quiet beyond the phone. That fact shook me more than my current self, more than the memories from that time. What thoughts were going through their mind as they listened to me? They must have known what I was going through, but with what feelings?

I cried.

"...Please don't go into the dungeon."

Yoo Hyun.

I didn't understand, and my brother couldn't back down. In the face of sudden and drastic changes amidst the confusion, both of us were young and immature.

I didn't even touch the money Yoo Hyun sent, returning it with trembling hands. To me at that time, it was a terrifying sum of money, almost equivalent to my younger brother's life. Yoo Hyun probably hoped I would accept it and live safely on the money for daily expenses, but as someone who trusted sending my brother to his death, I couldn't accept it at all. Instead, I was overwhelmed with helplessness. There was nothing I could do. My feet were like lead. Being dragged into the military might have been a blessing in disguise, as I was writhing in chest pains that felt like my breath was being cut off.

I was assigned to a unit that did auxiliary work related to the dungeon. Looking back now, it seemed like Yoo Hyun's influence was behind it all. To stop me from dissuading my brother and to protect me as I roamed around the dungeon and even the breaker zone, and to inform me about the changed world.