Maxed Out Leveling Novel

Chapter 3

1. Return (2)

“me… … know?”

After all, violent crimes are more likely to be ignorant criminals! No, this isn’t the time to be idle like this.

Surprised by the opponent’s intense reaction, Cha Eun-seol took a closer look at the opponent’s face.

None of the men she knew had her hair or beard this way… … .

‘Wait a minute.’

Are you an acquaintance who tried to change your style after not seeing each other for a long time?

Draw a picture once in your mind. Trimming long hair and removing beard.

“… … uh?”

Cha Eun-seol blinked his eyes.

He denies the conjecture that came to mind. It was incredible.

Still, he contrasted it with his memory, just in case. The face he sees in the picture every day overlaps the face in front of him.

He thought he was someone he didn’t know and didn’t know when he saw him. His long hair, shaggy beard and quaint clothes obscured recognition.

But when he found out, he was so similar that I wondered why he didn’t notice in the first place.

“no way… … .”

Her family, whom she loved and loved so much as a child.

A person who gave up that he would never see him again after a year, two, and ten years after he disappeared.

“······brother?”

Cha Eun-seol muttered without realizing it.

“Yeah, it’s me.”

Cha Shin Hyeon nodded his head vigorously.

Cha Eun-seol’s voice began to shake little by little.

“Are you really my brother?”

“Well, do you want to be sure if you do a genetic test? Actually, I’m also a little skeptical about whether you’re Eunseol or not. Because an elementary school student who used to be shy has turned into a young lady.”

Cha Shin Hyeon jokingly said.

But Cha Eun-seol was still hesitating. He wanted to believe him, but he had been apart for too long. He couldn’t open his heart easily.

Cha Shin Hyeon, who can’t be ignorant of Cha Eun-seol’s flustered feelings, briefly reflected on her memories of the past. No matter how many years passed, a significant part of her memories with her family remained. What happened to her sister?

“By the way, until you were in kindergarten, I hugged you a lot.”

Cha Shin Hyeon said with a faint smile.

“It’s not because it’s too heavy anymore, it’s because I’m all grown up and I can’t hold her.”

I don’t know if it was two or three years old, but if there is a nine-year difference, it can be said that there is no need to fight with the younger brother.

Cha Shin Hyeon always loved Cha Eun-seol, and Cha Eun-seol followed her.

He often hugged and carried him until middle school, but as Cha Shin Hyeon went to high school and Cha Eun-seol entered elementary school, it became difficult to hug him.

because it’s heavy

There were times when Cha Eun-seol cried while saying that honestly.

In other words, what Cha Shin Hyeon said was something that anyone would not understand unless they were really between siblings.

“Ah······.”

After hearing those words, I couldn’t believe it anymore.

Cha Eun-seol’s eyes filled with water.

His hands lost strength, and two daggers fell helplessly.

Worried that the blade might hit the floor, Cha Shin Hyeon slyly put it down with a sword, but Cha Eun-seol couldn’t afford to worry about that.

“brother!”

Crying, Cha Eun-seol was embraced by Cha Shin Hyeon.

Cha Shin Hyeon’s shirt front was rough, but she didn’t mind.

Burying her face in her brother’s chest, she wept constantly. She wept as if she had returned to being an eleven-year-old child.

“Where did you go now? … No, thank you for coming back……”

“I’m sorry. Sorry.”

Continuing to wipe her sister’s back, Cha Shin Hyeon apologized and apologized again.

Even if the disappearance was not intentional, it was not enough to apologize in a hundred words because he did not know how much his family must have suffered after his disappearance.

how long has it been

After crying, his eyes were swollen and sobbing, and it was only when his throat stopped, that the cold Seol seemed to have calmed down a bit. As her belated shame rushed in her, she secretly pulled away from her Cha Shin Hyeon.

“Are you okay?”

“······Huh.”

With a sigh, Cha Eun-seol answered.

“I’m resting on the sofa. just a second.”

Not forgetting her dagger that had fallen on her floor, she took it and entered her bedroom.

Soon after, she hears the sound of water. It looks like she’s washing her face.

After a while, Seol-eun, with her clean face, came back to the living room.

“Why are you sitting on the floor?”

“Come to think of it, the sofa is beige, and these clothes are not very clean. Because I don’t want to see it when I get on it.”

“What are you looking for?”

“It doesn’t matter as the floor is comfortable. Even then, there is nothing wrong with talking, right?”

“Then I will sit on the floor.”

The brother and sister were equally stubborn in strange things.

Cha Eun-seol sat facing Cha Shin Hyeon.

The atmosphere was also relaxed and Cha Shin Hyeon spoke up first.

“My room looked almost exactly like the last time I remembered it. I thought the time was running out.”

“I was only cleaning, but I didn’t touch anything. The clothes are old, so I kept them in a separate box. Her mother did it because she never knew when her brother would come back.”

“It was. What about your parents?”

If only 14 years have passed, even my parents are just looking at their 60th birthday at best.

He wasn’t young, but he wasn’t very old either. Considering the average life expectancy at that time in 2011, it is still time to correct it.

As such, Cha Shin Hyeon’s question simply meant whether he lived apart from his parents or went on a trip.

However, when he heard the question, Cha Eun-seol’s expression suddenly darkened.

“He died. Four years ago.”

“······what?”

Cha Shin Hyeon’s expression hardened.

“I was in a car accident with my family. The oncoming truck crossed the center line because of drowsy driving. I was in the back seat, barely living, but my parents…”

As if thinking about that time, Cha Eun-seol was unable to speak.

It was a very shocking story for Cha Shin Hyeon, who, of course, thought that her parents would be okay as she and her sister were safely released.

After not speaking for a while, he let out a heavy sigh.

“I’m sorry. I was just talking about it.”

“Nope. My brother should know too. It’s not something you can hide.”

Cha Eun-seol shook her head.

“Honestly, if it’s been 4 years, it’s time to be okay… … . Because now my brother is back. I’m happy enough to have a family again.”

“… … okay. If you think positively, it’s good to have you too.”

That was correct. Just when he was in Moorim, he thought he would never see his family again. It’s certainly sad that your parents passed away, but where can you even meet your younger sister?

“that… … Where have you two been?”

“I took you to a nearby temple. Where there is Bonandang.”

“Give me your address later. Find it.”

“Huh. Let’s go together on the weekend.”

The brothers and sisters brushed off the complicated examination while having a calm conversation in a subdued voice.

It was foolish to cling to the pain of the irreplaceable past and continue to struggle. The two of them are mature enough that they aren’t depressed.

“Anyway.”

As if to change the atmosphere, Cha Eun-seol opened her mouth again with a bright tea.

“He seems to have grown a bit taller, he has a lot of muscle, and if he only trims his hair and beard, he will look a lot younger than his age…”

“However?”

“It just looks great. Do you know that your voice has gotten really weird? The clothes are ugly too. Where did you film a historical drama?”

“The environment in which I lived was unavoidable. It will take quite some time to fix. Do you want to understand?”

Cha Shin Hyeon replied with a bitter smile.

“It doesn’t matter because it makes sense. But where and how have you been living for the last 14 years?”

“That’s what I want to ask. What the hell has happened in the past 14 years, that you’re trying to cut down a murderer with a dagger in both hands?”

“I became a hunter just like my brother.”

Cha Eun-seol shrugged.It was a gesture that meant that it was no big deal to her, but, unfortunately, from Cha Shin Hyeon’s point of view, it was rather a questionable answer.

Hunter? like your brother?

“What do you mean, Hunter? Did she become a hunter? Do hunters these days use memory instead of guns to catch animals?”

“… … Is that a gag?”

“I’m asking because I really don’t know.”

Cha Shin Hyeon replied seriously.

Cha Eun-seol pursed her lips.

“Does it make sense to be a hunter and not know what a hunter is? Even if I am an archer class who is weak in close combat, I am not capable of being overpowered by ordinary people. Is your brother a warrior class? With bare hands, is it the fighter side?”

“Again, now I don’t understand a word of what you’re talking about. I’m not kidding. My knowledge stopped at the point where I disappeared.”

At Cha Shin Hyeon’s serene voice, Cha Eun-seol finally realized that his brother wasn’t joking.

she asked cautiously.

“Have you been imprisoned somewhere?”

“I will explain it step by step, but for now, you can think of it in the same way. So I have no idea how the world has changed in the last 14 years. I’d appreciate it if you could explain it in consideration of that.”

“Yeah, it was. So where should I start explaining? A lot has changed compared to back then…”

Cha Eun-seol, who was groaning, immediately met his palm.

“right. If you just say “Hunter” on the Internet, it would be very good on Wikipedia. It would be neat and understandable to see it from the beginning rather than explain it with Junggu Heating, right?”

“Ah, the Internet… … It’s a word I haven’t heard in a long time.”

“Are you tired right now?”

“at all.”

“Then see you now. There will always be things you don’t know, so I’ll explain.”

Saying that, Cha Eun-seol turned on the TV in the living room.

When the set-top box was operated with the remote control to bring up the Internet window, Cha Shin Hyeon muttered as if it were strange.

“Now it’s happening on TV as well.”

“Huh. These days, TVs can be used like a simple computer if you request a service. Actually, I usually don’t use it very often except when watching YouTube on a big screen.”

Cha Eun-seol, who accessed the Korean version of Wikipedia and searched for Hunter, handed the remote control to Cha Shin Hyeon.

“You can use this to scroll like a mouse wheel. Easy to read.”

“Thank you.”

Cha Shin Hyeon nodded and looked at the TV screen.

[Hunter]

For Hunter, the traditional meaning of hunter, see this article (link).

Monster Hunter.

A generic term for people with special abilities to deal with monsters. The official name is Monster Hunter, but in Korea, it is usually abbreviated as Hunter.

“this······.”

Less than 10 seconds after starting to read the first paragraph, Cha Shin Hyeon muttered mercilessly.

“What are you talking about?”