I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 90

Under the flower (3)

While walking along the orphanage hallway with Kang Tae-woo, Hong Seok-young was lost in memories of the past.

The place where Hong Seok-young was located was not such a clean facility. It was always dark, it smelled like dust, and there were people whispering around.

It wasn’t even called an orphanage back then.

The time I was outside was longer than the time I was there, and I couldn’t even remember the faces of the teachers there anymore, but I couldn’t help but get lost in memories sometimes.

Is that a memory?

I don’t know about that.

Hong Seok-young had no desire to go back to those days. It was always dark, it smelled like dust, and I heard whispering voices.

But now, even when I think about life in the orphanage, it doesn’t bother me as much as it used to. Seokyoung Hong knew what had changed his mind.

It was simply because of one person. Just one person.

A female reporter comes to interview a young hunter who is attracting attention.

‘for a moment… .’

The only woman from the same orphanage that Hong Seok-young saw after leaving the orphanage.

‘Haven’t we met somewhere before?’

‘… It’s too obvious for a reporter. ‘Isn’t there something more impressive to say?’

‘yes? no! That’s not what I meant! Have you really never met? I’m sure I’ve seen it somewhere before.’

As if her job as a reporter was not in vain, the woman succeeded in recalling Hong Seok-young before the interview ended.

‘Hongsi!’

‘… It is true that my last name is Hong.’

‘Not Hong, Hongsi! You are Hongsi. yes?’

A faded old nickname. Everyone called him Hongsi after he broke out in hives while eating Hongsi that had been donated to the orphanage.

The guy whose face turned red after eating red persimmon. The guy who ate red persimmon and vomited. A guy who can’t even eat red persimmon properly.

Hongsi.

‘I’m Mimi, Mimi! ‘Don’t you remember me?’

Hong Seok-young opened his eyes wide.

A kinky girl who always carried a foreign doll with blonde hair in her arms, saying it was a doll her father bought her.

‘Mimi?’

The girl was adopted and left the orphanage much sooner than Hong Seok-young. That day too, Mimi was holding her doll tightly. Until her director angrily took the dirty doll away from her and threw it away.

Mimi left the orphanage without being able to retrieve the doll. Hong Seok-young looked pitifully at the doll rolling around on her dirt floor.

Just as the director said, Mimi’s doll was dirty. Mischievous boys stole her doll, cut off her hair with scissors, and smeared snot on her dress. Mimi cried as she cried. She used to wash her clothes in the tap, but her dresses never got as clean as they did the first time. The dress that sparkled in blue and silver first lost its fake jewels, then tore, and finally became tattered.

Still, Mimi cherished the doll.

Hongsi waited until the children who were playing with the dolls lost interest. The children soon left to find other toys. It was only later that I realized that even if I picked up the doll, there was no place to put it. After thinking for a while, Hong Seok-young hid the doll in a corner of the warehouse. Because he knew he would never get this inside thing out.

After that, Hong Seok-young forgot about Mimi and the doll. She runs away from the orphanage and becomes a Hunter. I thought the work of the orphanage had disappeared into the past.

Until Mimi calls Hongsi.

The small, dirty girl became a reporter wearing a tight-fitting suit and sparkling eyes.

A boy who couldn’t even remember his parents’ faces and suffered from targetless anger became a hunter.

The gap was so funny that Hong Seok-young burst out laughing.

‘uh? Huh? why? Why are you laughing? I remember… Are you doing it?’

‘okay. Now I remember. ‘I don’t recognize you.’

‘You too!’

Two people of the same age reunited after about twenty years.

And five years later, we got married.

“I heard my sister visited here a lot… .”

Lee Mi-seon’s voice woke Hong Seok-young up. Lee Mi-seon opened the door to the director’s office with a distrustful look on her face. Woo Hee-jae is not an older sister, but an aunt… While muttering, she was stabbed in the side by Lee Mi-seon.

Kang Tae-woo blinked and then followed Mi-seon Lee into the director’s office.

“There’s a place I haven’t seen before.”

“where?”

Still, unlike other spaces in the orphanage that felt a bit messy, the director’s office was definitely a mess.

The cabinet had its drawers open, showing empty space, as did other bookcases and desks. The space where her computer would have been was also empty.

Mi-seon Lee shrugged her shoulders as she looked at the place where the storm seemed to have passed.

“My sister even tried opening the ceiling.”

“The ceiling?”

“Surprisingly, there are regulars there. Do you know how many people hide things there?”

“Did you look behind the picture frame?”

“Oh my, I already saw that.”

Lee Mi-seon laughed and slapped Woo Hee-jae on the forearm. Woo Hee-jae frowned and walked away from Lee Mi-seon.

Woo Hee-jae asked Kang Tae-woo.

“So, what do you want to do here?”

“uh… .”

Kang Tae-woo approached the window.

There were many flower pots by the window. From fairly tall trees, orchids in antique flower pots, to common plants like monsteras, to plants whose names you don’t know. There were also several small flower pots on the windowsill.

The trees were still green, but the flower pots were drooping, probably because no one was taking care of them. Some were crumbly, as if withered.

Kang Tae-woo squatted down in front of the flower pot… .

I grabbed the stem and pulled it out.

“Yes?”

“Ah, why don’t you fall out?”

At first he shook it lightly, but soon Kang Tae-woo’s touch became rough. The hydrangea, which looked almost withered, swayed back and forth and fell out of the pot only after Kang Tae-woo turned it over.

Tuk.

Dirt stained the floor. The dried roots are tangled here and there. However, the heavy sound was not the sound of falling dirt.

Hong Seok-young frowned and approached Kang Tae-woo. When I peeked over the child’s shoulder, I saw a small notebook through the dirt. It was packaged in a zipper bag to prevent dirt from getting on it.

“This one.”

Kang Tae-woo picked up the notebook and held it out. Seokyoung Hong opened the zipper bag and took out a notebook.

Then he grinned.

“analog. “It’s a good idea.”

The notebook was filled with contact information. About half of the numbers were unknown cell phone numbers, and the rest were names and phone numbers of various organizations, including childcare centers.

Hong Seok-young snorted when he saw that there was a gas station among them. I felt like I worked hard in this small country. Rather, since it was small, something like this might have been possible. Because in Korea, Ark did not commit bad crimes like he did in the United States.

… laboratory.

Woo Hee-jae said that the ark is largely divided into two categories. A hotbed of crime active in America and other places, and a research lab that operates mainly in Northeast Asia.

Assuming that money earned in America flows here.

‘If there was infighting on the Ark, that could be the reason.’

If they think that the money they earn goes to a research institute that only sucks money like a bottomless poison… .

‘You said the experiment kept failing, right?’

The American side may want to completely sever ties with the institute.

Let’s think about that later.

Hong Seok-young looked at the notebook fluttering around and asked Kang Tae-woo, who was standing blankly.

“Are there any more?”

“That’s all I know.”

“okay? hmm. “But just in case, it would be a good idea to look through other flower pots as well.”

I turned over the flower pots one by one, but there was no gain other than the contact information for the hydrangea pot.

“There’s nothing more.”

Hong Seok-young could not hide his disappointment as he looked at the floor, which was a mess of dirt and plants.

“sorry… .”

“hmm? What are you talking about? Why does student Tae-woo apologize? Very nice job. “It must have been difficult to tell you, but thank you for giving me the courage.”

Only then did Kang Tae-woo relax his shoulders and smile. Hong Seok-young felt sorry for some reason and roughly shook Kang Tae-woo’s hair.

“Don’t think too complicatedly. The teachers will take care of the rest… . Right, how is Mr. Wu’s class? “I heard she listened and worked hard all this time.”

“Uh, yes! Well, I should have worked harder.”

“Are you already thinking such amazing thoughts? It hasn’t even been a month since I woke up. “It’s not good to push yourself too much.”

“But, what you taught me… “It was helpful.”

“What did you teach me?”

Kang Tae-woo’s class is taught by Woo Hee-jae. To be honest, Hong Seok-young paid little attention to Kang Tae-woo after the first day of class.

It was clear that if Woo Hee-jae found out, she would be dumbfounded and ask me if she trusted me that much.

Or they bring the child and get angry and tell him not to be so insensitive.

Even Hong Seok-young knows that he is setting boundaries too absurdly. Lee Mi-seon also pointed this out once.

‘I have a clear reason to help Teacher Wu, but shouldn’t Hunter Hong do the same?’

‘hmm.’

‘With your arms folded like that, um. Even if I tried, it didn’t work. I also told Hunter Hong, but he said he would support me as long as Teacher Woo doesn’t suddenly turn around and go around killing people.’

The love for my nephew is so amazing.

‘I can do that too, since I saved my children!’

‘The Hong Hunter I know doesn’t have that kind of personality.’

‘What are you looking at people for? ‘I am also a human being who knows how to be grateful.’

‘Who says what? But Hunter Hong has a great distinction between public and private life. ‘Do you know that I’ve been disappointed once or twice?’

Lee Mi-seon stuck out her lips and grumbled. I don’t think you’ll be fooled by that. Hong Seok-young snorted.

‘So this hunter, shouldn’t he pass on his own boundaries to me?’

‘hmm.’

‘With your arms folded like that, um. ‘Don’t do it!’

We had that conversation too.

At first I thought it was an illusion. After that, I thought about it little by little, and what became certain was after watching the video of me blocking Alex Hope.

Probably my instincts figured it out first.

“Training to feel magical power… . “If it wasn’t for that, I couldn’t have avoided it.”

Kang Tae-woo’s eyes sparkle. It made me wonder if this was the same kid who had been depressed just a moment ago, holding his sister’s bracelet in his hand.

“If the class was helpful, that’s good. “Please continue to listen closely to Mr. Woo’s classes.”

“yes!”

Well, it’s good to have something to cheer yourself up at least a little.

Kang Tae-woo played with the beads on his sister’s bracelet with his fingers and glanced at the notebook in Hong Seok-young’s hand.

“Hey, Ho, Hong Hunter?”

“Call me principal.”

Woo Hee-jae’s eyes sting. The look in their eyes tells them to be embarrassed that the title “hunter” appears before the title “teacher.”

Hong Seok-young scratched his head awkwardly. He was too hands off. I have to watch the class and talk to him, even starting tomorrow. I canceled the dungeon raid for the time being, and I also told Team Leader Kim that I wouldn’t be able to answer his calls, so I have a lot of time.

“Kyo, principal?”

“okay.”

“Well, if I had that notebook… “You can find Teacher Wu’s younger brother, right?”

“… … !”

“I heard that the lab was closed and the kids were all scattered… . There must be a list of daycare centers managed by the research center in the notebook… . “Wouldn’t your younger brother be there too?”

“… “I guess so.”

Hong Seok-young later realized why Woo Hee-jae was upset when he told her to stay with the kids.

There might be a clue to his brother’s whereabouts, but it was too cruel to tell him to just sit back and wait.

Hong Seok-young looked at Woo Hee-jae and smiled softly. Then she spoke in a more confident tone.

“okay. “I’m going to find Mr. Wu’s younger brother.”

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