The Player Who Returned From The Apocalypse

Chapter 2

When Sungjin opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a white ceiling.

White fluorescent lamps, now known as relics of the old days, were hung here and there, and people in white patient clothes were lying beside them.

What? What happened?

I didn’t believe in the afterlife, but it’s different from that. It’s like,

Isn’t it like the old hospital?

can not understand. My head was messed up.

Obviously, the world was destroyed, and he died with his head split in an unidentified thing.

But how do you live in a space like this?

I hurriedly looked to the other side, and outside the window was a building, a city, and the sun was shining.

“Nonsense.”

What I saw outside was the sight of Seoul I had only seen in the past.

Maybe it was spring, there was a cloud of fine dust, but the sky was clearly visible and cars were passing by.

It’s like going back to the past.

Sungjin forced his body to stand up.

“Your arms are fine.”

Obviously, his right arm was eaten by a dragon. That’s why I couldn’t put it back together and I was destined to live with one arm forever, but now the arms are just sticking together.

Among the recovery skills, I had never even heard of recovering a severed body without the original body part. I could guarantee this because I knew most of the skills and had even mastered them.

Seongjin grabbed his dizzy head and struggled to get out of bed.

That was then.

“Kim Seong-jin, you’ve come to your senses.”

A nurse approached me from behind. Then he grabbed Seongjin’s shoulder and tried to lay him down again.

“You still need to rest, so lie down.”

“Hey, where are you?”

Will you ever answer that it is heaven? In fact, was it all a long, very realistic dream? Or was it not a false delusion?

I had all kinds of thoughts in my mind, but when someone who could answer my question appeared, I grabbed her hand in a hurry and asked.

The nurse seemed bewildered for a moment, but she answered immediately.

“Um, ah. And you don’t know that I came here unconscious. This is Seoul Hunter Hospital. The patient came from the gate because he was injured.”

Apparently, he had been transported from the gate, stunned. Besides, Seoul Hunter Hospital.

Hunter Hospital refers to a hospital that mainly treats hunters. There is one for each region, and as she said, they were doing activities such as free treatment for hunters who were injured in dungeons and gates that appeared in the world.

All the doctors here were Awakened, and those with healing skills or magic were waiting.

Of course, this was a thing of the past. past?

As I thought about it, my head suddenly flashed.

Then she moved her hand and looked through her system log.

The system logs were arranged in chronological order, of which he was interested in the last and most recent messages.

[He died. A special skill, Return (回歸) is activated. ][ The set time is 10 years. ]

The message was unkind, but I was able to judge it by summarizing what had happened so far.

I mean, back to the past.

That is… .

Sungjin asked the question again about her sudden memory.

“Is my mother in this hospital now too?”

“Oh, yes. Are you talking about Lee Mi-young? You are in the next room. You came to visit me every time you came, but I can’t remember… Wait, Kim Seong-jin!”

Hearing the answer, Seongmin jumped off the bed and ran past the nurse who was trying to stop him without thinking twice.

His body couldn’t keep up with his head yet and he nearly fell several times. He didn’t even think that he shouldn’t run in the hospital.

just,

mother is still alive,

Only that thought filled her head.

***

“Mother….”

Sungmin saw her mother in the intensive care unit, approached slowly and carefully grabbed her hand.

He barely felt any flesh and his skin was cold. Her weak finger bones felt like they were about to break with just a little force.

Her mother had a respirator in her mouth and a ringer in her bare arm. Her eyes were still closed, and her skin was pale enough to show the veins.

But her pulse was beating.

‘live.’

it became

I feel like I want to hold her hands tightly and say thank you to the God I didn’t believe in. She felt like she wanted to hug her mother tightly.

Tears were dripping down from her eyes. She is so grateful for the situation she is now.

The disease that her mother suffered is an incurable disease that has not yet been named in this era.

If you get this disease, your mind will die completely, just like a vegetative person, and you will be engaged in activities to maintain life.

If you get sick like this, people around you will have a harder time. It costs a lot of money to sustain life. Fortunately, in the case of this disease, the state provides some support, but that is only true if the hunter in the family does more than a certain amount of activity.

For this reason, Sungjin, she became a Hunter.

Although she is an Awakened, she may be reluctant to fight a monster with her life risking her life, but she intervened in this to save her mother.

‘But in the future he died.’

Despite the care and efforts of her family, her mother’s body continued to weaken and she fell into rest three years from now.

It was like this from the beginning. When I got this disease, it had to be treated within three years.

‘No, it’s not even a disease in the first place.’

curse

In the future, this could be determined. The reason that the disease could not be cured was because it was not a disease in the first place, and the reason that Awakenedja’s healing skills and magic did not apply was because the level was low.

So she had nothing but to slow the progress.

“If you’re still alive…”

can fix it

Only the present has not been able to lift this curse. In the future, this was identified as a curse and the monster that placed the curse was identified.

Being the monster that killed his mother, Seongjin also remembered it clearly and knew how to break the curse.

– Kill the monster

This was the simplest way to break the curse.

There was no other way, but it was much more complicated than this.

“Patient Sungjin. You are not allowed to run in the hospital. And what do you do if you enter the intensive care unit without requesting a visit? Please return to your seat quickly and lie down.”

The nurse who came after him approached him quietly but spoke in a high pitched tone that he could hear well. He seemed very angry.

“I’m sorry. I suddenly miss my mother.”

“I’m doing well, so don’t worry too much. And even if you want to see me in the future, please apply for a visit and come in. How did you open the door and come in?”

Saying so, the nurse put a slipper down on the floor. He ran without even wearing shoes because he was running too crazy, so he brought it himself.

Surprisingly, I thought that she was a nurse who was able to give great care and wore it.

And when I looked at the table next to my mother, I saw a vase of blue carnations and red roses.

Although the combination cannot be said to be a good match, it was very symbolic.

‘I don’t think the date has passed as much as I thought.’

Every time I visit this place, flowers are constantly placed. Because the place is a place, it was not a living flower, but a harmony.

When he came, he put blue carnations and his father put red roses.

It was an idea she had on her own, she thinks that her mother loved the carnations that her mother receives on her mother’s day and the roses she receives on her wedding anniversary.

There were not many flowers yet. I had little time to spare.

“I can’t give you flowers this time.”

“You can give it to me later. Lay down now. Kim Seong-jin is also a patient now.”

When the nurse urged him to return to his place quickly, Sungjin had no choice but to put on slippers and walk.

When he came in, he forcibly opened a door that didn’t open well, but luckily it seemed fine.

After moving to the original bed and lying on the bed, the nurse left the room with peace of mind.

woo woo woo-

I wondered where the smartphone was, and it was here.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

After a little while, he calmed down and was able to recognize reality properly, but it was the smartphone that was ringing in vibrating mode that caught his attention later.

Sungjin immediately heard it and confirmed it.

It wasn’t a phone call, just a text message.

[It’s my dad. I heard you were hospitalized again, are you okay?][Good morning. This is Gunho. I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can join the party anymore. I wanted to raise him as a tank, but frankly, it’s dangerous, so it’s difficult to carry him around.]

Only two texts came from different people.

One was from his father asking how he was doing, and the other was from a party leader he had been with before he was taken to the hospital.

They were going to throw themselves out of the F-class.

it could be. Because he was still an F-class beginner and was hospitalized after being injured.

‘It’s been a while since I properly understood the effect of this title.’

Until then, it had only caused inconvenience to others. Like the last text message, being kicked out of a party and hospitalized at Hunter Hospital were routine.

Sungjin sent a text message saying it was okay in reply.

However, he did not explain the title.

‘It takes time to grow, but there is no need to raise expectations for nothing.’

Being kicked out of the party was very good news. Because he did not know what he was doing at this time or what party he belonged to, so he was able to realize that he had become a solo body like this.

“Maybe I can do solo activities for a while.”

Because I have confidence in my skills.

Sungjin mumbled that, lying on the bed and flicking his fingers to operate the Hunter system.

Just like a stereoscopic image, if you pretend to press the icon in front of you with your finger, the information will come out. He was doing a little manipulation like that.

“what.”

He noticed something odd.

“The item is… as it is.”

All of the items I used in the future, which reached the peak as a hunter,

It remained intact in the inventory.