You Didn’t Tell Me the Start of My Transmigration Was a Gate - Chapter 371



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Special Extra Episode 10

As I held Yunwoo Lee’s hand before returning and burst into laughter without realizing it, his expression changed subtly.

The face that had been struggling to understand what I was saying just a moment ago has now changed to one that is trying to gauge whether what I saw was real.

After the brief handshake, he looked down at his hands and let out a small chuckle.

“… I guess it’s time to die. I’ve seen Hunter Han Seo-ha’s smiling face.”

Ah. Was that why?

Certainly. Before my regression, I rarely smiled. Now, I have a stiff facial expression, so I am often misunderstood, but it is nothing compared to before my regression.

When everyone’s eyes turned to me before I returned, he frowned slightly. His expression was so cold and fierce that I couldn’t help but wonder if he knew how to smile.

“Only the face is the same.”

“Even so, it’s basically the same person, just with a different environment. Who would have thought we’d see something like this from Hunter Han Seo-ha?”

Lee Yun-woo before the regression… , for convenience, this is the 1st round and I am the 2nd round, so let’s call him 1st Yun-woo. If I call my Lee Yun-woo 2nd Yun-woo, it will rhyme perfectly.

Anyway, Yunwoo smiled as if he found this situation quite interesting.

“It’s basically a parallel world, but the main content will be very different.”

After saying that, I realized anew that I had changed a lot of things after my regression.

“I’ve read various hypotheses about parallel worlds, but I never thought I’d see myself in a parallel world like this. I’d like to talk to my counterpart from that world, too.”

1st Yunwoo looked at 2nd Yunwoo and said. I didn’t really want to recommend it.

That would be the case, because comparing the two would make the miserable ending of this world even more painful.

Even though it wasn’t the real world before the return, but a world realized by items, I didn’t want to instill doubt in those who were already having a hard time that their choice might have been wrong.

“If I have time.”

“I’m sorry I was so inconsiderate to the guests who came from beyond the dimension. I’ll provide you with a place to stay in the building today.”

As Yunwoo picked up the receiver on the desk and spoke, a staff member came in and bowed in greeting.

“I will guide you to the hotel.”

“I know I may not be able to treat you well due to circumstances, but I hope you rest comfortably.”

“Thank you for your concern.”

1. I bowed to Yunwoo and greeted him, and a deep interest crossed his face.

“Look at this. That social hunter Han Seo-ha. I can’t believe it even though I’m looking at it.”

“… … .”

Behind me, I heard Yunwoo whining to me before I returned.

I could also see that before the regression, I naturally ignored this.

***

“You can stay here. If you need anything else, please ring the bell here.”

The guild members of the office bowed and left. I and Yunwoo were assigned two single rooms next to each other, and as expected from a hotel, the rooms were clean.

‘The lobby I saw on the way up wasn’t like that though…’

In a world where every meal and bottle of water is essential, there is no time to clean and organize the hotel lobby.

At least the room is clean since it is under the management of the headquarters. We have to accommodate foreign hunters and VIPs.

Just looking at it, you could tell how poor this world was.

widely.

“so.”

Lee Woon-woo came to my room and said as he closed the door.

“How did this happen?”

The inevitable moment has arrived. I’m not the type of person to just gloss over it, so I need to explain it properly… .

I pulled up a chair and sat down, opening the door.

“Do you remember the alarm you saw when you first came here?”

“okay.”

Lee Yun-woo easily remembered the name of this place.

“It was called ‘The Forgotten World.’”

“Yes. Because this world has been forgotten, literally, by everyone. Except me.”

The world that contained the blood, tears, and struggles of countless people was so cleanly wiped out.

I’m the only one who remembers this place.

I am the only one who has to shoulder their sacrifices.

‘Because a bet with Kronos changed everything.’

Strictly speaking, it may be I who made them forget. It’s not that I hate the current world where we achieved complete victory.

However, it is bitter that even the noble sacrifices of those who gave their lives to protect this world have all been for naught.

“… The person with the same face as you earlier. The one with the scar on the tip of his chin.”

“huh.”

“I’ve seen it.”

Lee Yun-woo looked down and seemed to be reminiscing about the long past. His fluttering eyelashes looked just like the fluttering wings of a butterfly.

“I’m talking about the memories I saw when Hunter Choi Seok-cheol searched my memories.”

Immediately after the Hunter Exam, Choi Seok-cheol of ‘Cheonlian’ said this while searching through our memories.

He said that he would try to only look at the memories of the Hunter Exam, but memories are inherently heavy and light depending on their ‘weight’… so he would naturally flow towards the heavy memories.

At that time, Lee Woon-woo saw the memories before his regression.

“The memory of you dying. The you in that memory… had that kind of face.”

I didn’t know whether to praise his observation skills or to console him for his pale face.

Lee Yun-woo pressed his temples as if he had a headache and sat down on the bed.

“What on earth is going on? I thought it was strange even then. I was seeing things I’ve never experienced and calling them my ‘memories.’”

Lee Yun-woo seemed to have finally found a clue to resolve the discomfort that had persisted for a long time.

“It was too vivid to be just my delusion. So, since wizards often make prophecies, I was worried that it might be like that… .”

“This is what happened in this world.”

I told him the truth.

“Exactly, what will happen in this world.”

“… … .”

“… I have been asked many times how I was able to return alive after the war with Toluk.”

“okay.”

“I made a bet with Kronos.”

Lee Yun-woo’s face became even more serious. He seemed to be piecing together the puzzle of my past actions and what I was saying now.

“…What bet?”

“As you may have noticed, we were losing in this world. We were on the verge of extinction, consumed by the Tolluk and the Contamination. We fought for the survival of humanity, and came into contact with Cronus.”

I continued speaking slowly, trying to convey objective facts without emotion as much as possible.

“Cronus, if I lost all my memories of the bet and went back in time, and met myself again… .”

I looked closely at Lee Yun-woo’s face. I half-expected his reaction.

“… Even then, I made a bet on whether I would offer my soul or not.”

“so.”

“I won.”

“To be exact. … If you gave your soul, you would have won?”

I tried to let it slide, but Lee Woon-woo kept nagging at me. Tsk.

After clicking his tongue inwardly and nodding, Lee Woon-woo’s face distorted like that of a demon.

“it’s crazy?”

“In the end, it’s okay because I won the bet.”

“Ha. So, you don’t remember making that bet, and when Kronos asked you for your soul, you said you would give it to him right away?”

Lee Yun-woo crossed his arms and stared at me with a crooked expression. If I say something wrong here, I’ll nag you for at least three days and nights.

If Hye-won hears about it, they’ll take turns nagging me. If Pyo-yeon-won and Da-jeong join in, it’ll be even worse.

I chose my words slowly.

“…I just thought that if I could give my soul to save the Earth, it wouldn’t be a bad deal.”

“Hansuhha!”

Unfortunately, my answer may not have been a good choice.

Lee Yun-woo shouted my name, clenched his fists, and trembled. It felt like static electricity was flying around.

“Calm down. In the end, I survived, and I won the bet, so all the contamination was gone.”

“Ha. You really. That’s not the issue right now… .”

Lee Yun-woo frowned as if he had no idea where to start explaining. But even if I went back, I would make the same choice.

Why wouldn’t I want to spend my everyday life with my loved ones?

Unlike before the regression, there were too many precious things in my life now. In a way, it may have been as Cronus intended, that I couldn’t abandon them, so I chose to destroy myself together instead.

But… I had a bigger wish for my loved ones to live happier lives.

“… Alright. Be prepared when you go back. Anyway, this is… the world where Earth was defeated before you made the bet with Kronos?”

“It seems like a world created based on my memories from back then.”

Because I’m the only one who remembers this place.

“… … That unpleasant memory wasn’t a dream, it was real.”

Lee Yun-woo muttered in a faint voice. I don’t know what he saw. But… When I met my end after being stabbed by Enoch’s spear, we were participating in the final battle where everything was at stake.

‘There’s no way Lee Yun-woo would have been missing from that battlefield.’

So I guess Lee Yun-woo must have watched me get stabbed by Enoch’s spear.

The Hunter’s excellent visual acuity and memory would have ensured that he would never forget it.

‘… … It is a cruel thing to see the end of a comrade in person.’

I couldn’t even guess what Lee Yun-woo felt at that time.

I didn’t say that the beginning of the regression was the gate.