Chapter 14
The protagonist’s younger brother is resurrected as a constellation 014
After getting off work, Kim Soyoon gathered us in the living room.
“Why aren’t you two going to school?”
She suddenly asked, as if she found it suspicious that we weren’t going out.
Kim Igyul, who looked like he wanted to ask why she was only asking now, answered in a calm voice.
“The school is temporarily closed.”
“Why?”
“Dungeon wave detection. Online classes.”
He added that he had mentioned it before but his sister probably didn’t remember, which suggested it had been quite some time. A senior in high school taking online classes… was that really okay?
Kim Soyoon’s face looked like it was her first time hearing this, but she quickly accepted it.
“Then what about Serin?”
“She goes to our school.”
Kim Igyul answered before I could speak.
I turned my head to look at him. He shrugged his shoulders and changed the topic before I could object.
“You came home early today.”
“Ah, I just stopped by for a bit. I have to go out again.”
Kim Soyoon pressed her forehead with her fingers, looking clearly exhausted.
Kim Soyoon was currently an A-rank hunter belonging to the Hunter Association.
I had thought Kim Igyul looked accustomed to behavior inside dungeons before, and it turned out it was because his family was hunters.
Ah, when would Kim Igyul grow that much? Nothing grows faster than running dungeons. I should go search for an undiscovered dungeon later.
Kim Soyoon, who had accepted the information about her younger brother and his friend’s studies, said she would sleep a little before going out and slowly went up to the second floor.
Watching her back, I suddenly wondered if the association president was also the same as in the original story.
If the association functioned as the management bureau’s role, then perhaps, as in the original work, a non-awakened person would be sitting in the association president’s seat?
“Unnie must really hate the association president. I heard he doesn’t even treat hunters as people.”
“That was the former bureau chief. The association president is also a hunter.”
Huh, why is this happening again?
I blinked quickly. I hadn’t expected this kind of development.
“Ah, was that so? I must have been mistaken.”
I awkwardly agreed with his words. Seeing my expression, Kim Igyul smirked faintly.
“The association president’s name is similar to yours.”
No way. It can’t be.
Ah, but whenever I kept thinking “it can’t be,” it always turned out to be correct.
B-but that guy Jin Sehyuk wasn’t the type to be overflowing with a sense of justice, right?!
However, the person I had expected came out of Kim Igyul’s mouth.
“His name is Jin Sehyuk.”
Oh my God.
The protagonist is the one twisting everything in the original story? Was this really right?
I let out repeated hollow laughs like a mad person. I started worrying whether I could finish reading the story and return safely.
“Do you know him?”
“No, well… I can’t think of anything, so I guess I don’t know him.”
I opened my lips to deny it, then quickly changed my stance. Let’s not forget that I currently have amnesia.
Relieved that I had narrowly survived, Kim Igyul added in a teasing tone.
“Really? That’s a pity. I was hoping you might remember something.”
His tone sounded as if he knew I was hiding something.
After successfully defending against the unexpected question attack, I comforted myself internally when Kim Igyul took out his phone from his pocket and unlocked it.
“If you’re curious about what has changed, it’s better to search directly.”
I received the phone he handed me in a daze.
“Use it comfortably and return it.”
You really are kind, aren’t you?
Kim Igyul didn’t even give me time to feel touched before he went into his room after explaining in detail which site had what information.
Since I needed to know where exactly I was in <End of the World> and what had changed from the <End of the World> I knew, I decided to check slowly.
I had no intention of going to Jin Sehyuk for the sake of the original story anyway, so I could treat this as checking a little earlier than planned.
First, I needed to confirm what Jin Sehyuk had changed.
Left alone in the living room, I accessed the site step by step as he had instructed.
‘Sammul Wiki’ didn’t have much credibility, but its information was updated quickly, and even rumors were written there.
‘HunMu’ was a hunter community, and only hunters could register.
Why did he tell me about this, I briefly wondered. When I entered HunMu, I was logged in using Kim Soyoon’s ID.
At this point, I became curious about what Kim Igyul was actually thinking.
I went into HunMu first.
At the top of the category, I saw the word “Boss.”
Could this be referring to Jin Sehyuk?
When I entered that category, a post titled “This Month’s Schedule” appeared at the top.
[Notice] HunMu usage rules
[Notice] Please be careful when uploading posts related to the Boss!!
[Schedule] This Month’s Schedule
Writer: BossCalendar
March X day ~ ongoing: Business trip to LA
(Private schedule, exact location cannot be disclosed.)
User1 | Boss… where are you going again ㅠ
└User2 | ??: I never said I had subordinates like you.
└User3 | Hey, don’t fight too hard.
└User1 | Ugh, I can’t even refute what the boss said.
User3 | But is it okay for the association president not to stay domestically and just travel overseas?
└User2 | ??: If I stay in the country, will dungeons stop exploding?
└User2 | ??: If my absence alone could put this country in danger, it would have already collapsed during the management bureau era.
└User4 | This guy is a real boss fanboy lol
└User5 | Said to be searching for something.
└User3 | For real?
└User5 | Dunno lol. I heard it as hearsay too.
User6 | (Comment deleted due to rule violation)
└User7 | Go ahead and keep criticizing forever, see if the boss reacts lol
└User8 | Don’t you know that thanks to the Boss, hunters are treated like people? If it weren’t for the association, we would have lived forever as the management bureau’s dogs, what are you talking about?
└User9 | User6 is seriously jealous lol. Is that life even fun?
After entering that category, the first post was “This Month’s Schedule.”
“Boss” was indeed a nickname used for Jin Sehyuk. Considering his personality, I thought he would dislike it, but he allowed it.
So Jin Sehyuk was on a business trip. Was he still searching for traces of “Jin Serin”?
In the original story, the only trace he found was the ruined school uniform of “Jin Serin”.
It seemed related to the fact that I was wearing something other than a school uniform when I woke up.
⌈Baby, what are you doing?⌋
Anser came down the stairs and settled beside my waist.
‘Just checking something.’
After patting its back, I went into Sammul Wiki this time.
「4. History
The Hunter Management Bureau was the only institution with authority over all anomalies that arose as the world changed, and was therefore considered a dream department for awakened individuals who wanted to become civil servants.
However, less than a year later, a post titled “Hunter T’s Overwork and Exposure” appeared online, branding the Management Bureau with negative images such as abuse of power, workplace bullying, and frequent overtime.
Famous hunters who could not trust the government each established their own guilds, and the number of hunters affiliated with the Management Bureau decreased.
During that period, Jin Sehyuk founded a private institution called the “Hunter Association,” which was a then-unfamiliar name, and began the campaign to erase the Management Bureau.
Backed by the enormous sponsorship of the Geonwon Group, there was no one in the Management Bureau who could stop the number-one ranked hunter.
」
“What? He had a sponsor? With that personality?”
I couldn’t help but be shocked. Jin Sehyuk was the owner of rough speech, and even in the original story, several colleagues disliked his way of talking.
Huh, this is surprising.
「The association, which was run with capital larger than taxes, easily took away the Management Bureau’s authority one by one. Honestly, those Management Bureau bastards deserved it.
Thanks to the association prioritizing awakened individuals and hunters, low-ranked hunters who were wronged or ignored no longer existed, and citizens stopped viewing hunters only as dangerous figures.
The Management Bureau, which had lost authority to the association, was divided into specialized departments such as the Dungeon Management Department and the Anomaly Research Department within five years of its establishment and disappeared into history.」
In the middle of the original story, there was an episode where the long-suppressed Jin Sehyuk overturned the Management Bureau.
If it were now, I could probably write dozens of pages of a report titled “Is the protagonist’s original story twisting acceptable?”
But I wouldn’t be able to write a conclusion section. No one knew how this phenomenon would work.
The shocking discoveries didn’t end there.
「5.1 Survival Class
After the association stabilized and the world became somewhat accustomed to dungeons and monsters, Jin Sehyuk collaborated with the Ministry of Education to open a class that taught basic survival methods as part of the regular curriculum for ordinary students.
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Thanks to this, the survival rate of ordinary people even increased if they got caught in a dungeon, and it was registered as one of Jin Sehyuk’s achievements in Sammul Wiki.
“Brother, what exactly do you do for a living…?”
The words slipped out on their own in disbelief at his unbelievable actions.
