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Yoojin POV

(This is happening in the SS boss dungeon they killed the giant toad, Yoojin has consciousness)

I was barely able to stay awake, that skill had an effect on my stamina a lot. A system message came in front of me and I read it. 

*Apologies Honey!*

"What-" I said out loud but my body started to glow. Before I could pass out we were teleported to somewhere then I blacked out.

Cale POV

Finally, the dumb White radish has extended my slacker life by 3 years! Now I can rest and have a day off, as I was closing my eyelids I noticed that my surroundings were black. I didn't close my eyes yet though, I blinked them open, I realized I was in a black void! "F##k you goD!" I swore at that useless god who was probably behind this.

Dokja POV

I was being strictly watched by my companion because I sacrificed myself again and he's really, really mad like holy f##k. I suddenly got a hidden scenario message. I looked at Biyoo, I thought she turned off the channel? I quickly read the scenario.

< A Hidden Scenario has Arrived! >

[ Hidden Scenario: In Another world with Otherworlders ]

Category: Hidden

Difficulty: SS+

Clear Conditions:

◼️◼️◼️ ◼️◼️◼️◼️ ◼️◼️◼️◼️ ◼️◼️◼️ ◼️◼️◼️◼️ ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️

Compensation: 

1. 100,000 coins,

2. ◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️◼️

Failure: Stuck in another world

< Getting teleported in 60 seconds >

Wait- getting teleported like I can't accept the scenario?

I was being teleported and before I could process what was happening I was teleported to a black void….

Yoojin POV

I was awakened to a ringing pain in my head, maybe it was a result of passing out…

As I awoke, I was met with the sight of a crimson haired child who was skinny with pale skin and hazel-brown eyes, and a black haired child with even paler skin and even skinnier and had black eyes. When I got up using my hands, the sight of my eyes was lower than what I remember. Look, I was just about average according to Korea (5,9 or 175 in) but I was way shorter than that. I reached out my hand to the other kids and realized, I was a kid. My hand was small, my height was short, and I was about the same height as the kids.

The black haired kid looked over to me, "Hyung, are you ok?" The kid asked, crap, I don't know who that is. I'll just say something, "Yeah dongsaeng, why'd you ask?" I questioned, the other kid looked over and opened his mouth to speak, "Are you sure hyung? You're bleeding…"

Bleeding? I touched my head where the ringing pain was, crimson blood covered my fingers like a glove. I motioned my hand down and looked at the blood, the blood was overall concerning since it was warm and fluid meaning that this was new. The other thing concerning was that the arm of this child's body was filled with scars, some were old with dried blood, others were new with open cuts. I analyzed the other kids more closely, they didn't have too many cuts but they did have roughed up appearances.

Neglect? No, it's abuse. These poor kids… I'm mentally a grown adult so I'll take the beating. I have been beaten harder in my first life before I reversed time and they're still kids. This child that I took the body of did good protecting them, I don't know what happened to them but I'll keep their probably dying wish.

Suddenly, 'our mother' came into the room, she walked over to us and tried to kick the black haired child but I moved him out of the way. "Kim Yoojin! Give Kim Dokja back now!" She shouted, apparently my name I Kim Yoojin but f##k no! She started to try to hit the red hair child but I took the kick.

It hurts a lot but the pain will eventually numb down, that's what happened in my past life. I was suddenly kicked in the stomach, "Since you wanna play hero again you can take the beating for both of your brothers!" She smirked as she stepped on my leg, I yelped in pain and she continued to abuse the living crap out of me. By the time she was done I got a lot more bruises, I think the kids are fine but this body is seriously hanging by a thread. I managed to get up even though my ankle was stinging with pain, I hugged 'my little brothers', I think they're used to this cause they've been at it for a long time.

Surprisingly they weren't crying but were looking at me with a cold glare, I could feel that it was that their stares were on me but not the cold glare… "Are you guys ok?" I asked, "I'm fine hyung, you should ask dongsaeng that." Dokja told me, I looked at the red haired kid, "I'm fine hyung-nims." The red haired kid replied, "We should be asking you if you're ok hyung." The red haired kid stated, I sighed, I guess they care for their older brother who's no longer here.

"I'll be fine." I responded, "No, hyung needs to get himself patched." The red haired kid said angrily while dragging me to the bathroom where he found a med kit. The red haired kid started to patch me and I decided to look at his window.

Name: Rok Soo Kim

Species: Human (?)

current stat rank: F

potential stat rank: S+

Unlockable skills: The Indestructible Shield,The Sound of the wind, Dominating Aura, Fire of Destruction, Super Rock, Sky Eating Water, Blood-Drenched Rock, Annual Rings of Life, instant

Skills: Vitality of the Heart, Record

What the f##k?? My little brother is overpowered just like my by blood younger brother! Let me check Dokja!

Name: Dokja Kim

Species: half Constellation, half human

Current stat rank: D

Potential stat rank: S++

Unlockable skills: Will to Live, Sacrificial Will, Angel Transformation, Demon King Transformation, White Purity Star Qi, Otherworld-Interpreter, Lie Detection.

Skills: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Reading Comprehension, Fourth Wall, Bookmark, Character List/profile.

So he's half human? He can turn into a demon king and angel? Cool, I'm internally crying. Kim Rok Soo finished wrapping my injures, "Thanks Kim Rok Soo, love you." I thanked, I had to use my skill on my brother.

[ The target feels slightly affectationate towards you ]

"Welcome hyung…" Kim Rok Soo smiled a bit, "Hyung are you feeling better?" Kim Dokja asked, "Yeah." I answered, I got up from the bathroom and looked out the window of this old dusty house. Just walking inside the house made it feel empty, "It's getting late, let's sleep." I told them, they nodded and went to bed.

As my dongsaengs went to sleep, I covered them just in case if our "mother" would come in our room to hit them. I slowly closed my eyes and feel to sleep.

I was walking in the house, footsteps loud and creaky on the old wooden floors. I slowly slid the door open into the living room to sneakily get food, my younger brothers were starving, mom forgot to feed us again. Ever since she became a D rank she has been hurting me and my siblings, I've been trying my best to protect them. I slowly crept into the kitchen, feeling my heart pounding in fear, I slowly started to take food from the kitchen. Making sure to get extra so I don't have to sneak in again.

"Kim Yoojin, what are you doing?" I heard an angry voice behide my back, I slowly shifted my head from the snacks to the voice praying it wasn't her… to my biggest fear, my mom caught me stealing snacks. "Answer me you insufficient child!"She shouted at me, I tried opening my mouth to talk but I was trembling in fear. Suddenly she reached for a book and started to swing it at me.

I dodged some but she kept on hitting me, the pain was ringing and my mind felt blank. I watched as she threw down the book and stormed to her room, I tried tk stand while I had the chance but my legs were wobbling from the pain and I fell down hitting my head. My mom came back with a knife and started to kick me, she aimed for my head a lot, I felt too weak to move but I forced myself. She sudden landed a blow on my stomach with the knife, I coughed up blood and she stopped. She then left me while I had to get my mind sorted out.

Blood? Coughing up blood could mean internal bleeding, we're too poor to afford a hospital… I crawled to my room where my younger brother were sleeping peacefully, I was covered in blood. My own blood slid down from the cuts my mom reopened and the new wounds she caused, I held my brothers. I think i hit my head really hard cause blood kept dripping down on to the mattress. I hugged my brother tighter, I won't be able to make it to the hospital… God, if you're there, please protect my brothers from my mom…

I blinked my eyes opened, a dream? No, it's like Sally… the finally memories of this body… I'm really just dragging around a corpse and pretending to be these guy's brothers. I'll grant your wish of protecting them, you poor child. As I was thinking about how sad the child's life and death was, I heard the door creak open...

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January 30th, 20##

Fate didn't like me today, I quickly acted asleep, I mean. Who else would be in this house besides me and "my brothers". I heard steps creak on the poorly made wooden floor, I peeked my eyes open. I saw the woman grit her teeth and clench her fist, it was more clear than day that she was mad at me for protecting my siblings. 

"Ugh, Yoojin Kim. You shouldn't be protecting those inhuman beings."

Inhuman beings? How dare she insult her own kids…"I swear, I f##king saw Dokja glare at me with killing intent. Not to mention the pressure that came with its eyes. Your dad left me because of them…"

Why is she talking to herself and why the hell did she call her kid it? 

I protectively clinged onto the kids, I hope she won't try to do anything. She picked me up with a strong hold, she was definitely a D rank and she didn't know how to handle a child. "I'm sorry for hitting 2 days ago, I'm glad you survived. Since you look like me you probably have the same potential as me, don't worry baby I'll protect you for those inhuman beings." She apologized, you failed as a mother, it's already too late cause your child is dead because of you! 

Also stop holding me so tight, and sorry to disappoint, I'm just an F ranker! "Ugh, every time I look at that red head, I get reminded of his insolent father. This beautiful looks but stoic face will blind any women but his personality probably took off of his s##tty personality of mentally abusing me." She kept yapping, you are the only problem. Kim Rok Soo is stoic but has a kind heart. 

He helped me, I know he could be bad but he's just a kid. Don't take me away from the kids who need my help, you monster! I watched as she took me away, I saw my "siblings" go further and further away from me. I'm no match for this monster, however, we'll definitely leave.

POV: Kim Dokja

When I blinked my eyes open, I saw hyung missing. The other worlder seemed to continue to sleep, I remember meeting him at first. I was so confused about where I was I accidentally shouted it out loud… Fourth wall, you said Yoojin looked at my status. Why didn't you block his access?

[ W e'v e tr av e l ed a c ros s to o mu c h w o r lds a n d a n e n t ity h a s wea k e n m e ]

[ I w i ll rec o v e r w it h ti me ]

[ t he en it y h e go t h is p o w e r fro m I s st r o ng e r th a n m e ]

Entity? Stronger than fourth wall is something, I cannot connect with the star stream either. Does it work like phones? When you're too far away the signal goes out, and they say they're the star stream. I got out of bed and went into the kitchen, hyung wasn't there, I went to the bathroom, hyung wasn't there, I went into the living room, hyung wasn't there…

Now, there's only one place where he could be. In “mother's” room, I silently opened the door. I felt my eyes widen as my “hyung” was awake and looked miserable like he was awake the whole entire night. We both stared at each other for a bit but then I helped Hyung get out of our “mother’s” arms, “Hyung, are you ok? Did she hurt you?” I asked, I felt a bit worried, his older brother had lost his siblings because me and Kim Rok Soo took the bodies of them.

They might be alive however, this guy was protecting imposters. “I’m fine… you shouldn’t have come into the room, what if our mother was awake?” Hyung continued, “Go wake up Rok Soo, I’ll make us something to eat.” Hyung said, I reluctantly nodded and quickly left the room to awaken that other worlder, once I arrived in the room, I shook the guy awake. “Rok Soo, wake up!” I whispered trying not to awaken that monster of a mother up, I saw the young black haired male slowly groan as his eyes awakened.

“What do you want, Dokja? “ He asked, “Hyung is making us dinner, hurry up before ‘our mother’ wakes up.” I explained, at the word of hyung I could see his demeanor switch slightly. He got out of the bed and changed before we both headed to the kitchen where we saw our plates on the table, it looked like hyung was finished with the cooking. I sat at the table and watched as Hyung helped Rok Soo get seated.

POV: Han Yoojin

There wasn’t enough groceries for 3 plates, only one so I split the small portion into even smaller portions for my brothers. I remembered what Myungwoo taught me about his cooking. I was able to replicate some of the steps but I forgot some, so I’m relying on the spices to fix the dish. I helped Kim Rok Soo up because even though he looked to be around 5 years old, or maybe due to malnourishment he was shorter for his age or something. Even though I was pretty boney probably because the previous owner probably gave all his food to his siblings and didn’t really focus on himself. 

However, I had to worry about Lunch and Dinner. I think today, we have to starve because we don’t have enough food in the fridge and financially to make any food. Maybe I’ll do what I did in my past life to support Yoohyun, I’ll act 16… I miss you dear Yoohyun-dongsaeng

I watched as they both ate and scanned their faces for their reaction to Myungwoo’s edited recipe. The first to react was Dokja, he was sometimes stoic but did react sometimes. Maybe it was due to the abuse… I watched as he gave a soft smile and I looked over to Kim Rok Soo, his features softened more than usual as he ate the food with some sort of dignity that only a noble would have. “You know, I love you Dokja and Rok Soo.” I said while smiling, however, I think Dokja thought I was ugly as he choked on his food.

[ The target feels slightly affectionate towards you ]

I immediately ran over to him, “Are you ok? What’s wrong?” I asked, “I’m fine.” Dokja replied why wiping away the food near his lips. Dokja then continued to eat his food while Rok Soo shook his head.

Once they both finished I quickly took the plates and washed them and put them back where they belonged, I backed ‘my siblings’ into the room. Just then, I heard footsteps of that woman roam through the hallways of this tiny house. I peeked outside the door, I saw the women open the front door and leave. I quickly slid the door open and went into our ‘mothers’ room.

I looked through the cabinets and closet until I found what I was looking for, Dokja, mine, and Rok Soo’s birth certificate. Dokja was 6, Rok Soo was 5, and I was 7. I took the birth certificates and went back to our room, as I played with my so-called siblings. I heard the front door creak open, she was back. Before I could order my siblings to hide, our ‘mother’ had already stepped into the room. I watched as she glared at my siblings with a sinister smile and an alcohol bottle in her hands.

I quickly moved in front of her and my siblings. I remember from the nightmare last night that this woman whenever she came back drunk meant that she had gone gambling putting us into more debt and she would be usually harsher on those days and from her look. I can tell she was pissed at my siblings. She slapped me across the face, and as she was about to slap Dokja I quickly took the slap in his place. She growled as she punched me in the guts, her fists hurt as I winced in pain.

I really didn't get this woman, she loves me one moment but she abuses me the next?

I held my stomach as she swiped my legs and I fell, then aimed at Kim Rok Soo but she missed and hit the mirror behind Rok Soo causing some of the sharp pieces of the mirror to scratch Dokja and Rok Soo but mother’s hand remained fine. “Dokja and Rok Soo go to the bathroom and lock the door!” I shouted as the women started to throw things around the room, she then kicked me towards the wall and I shielded my ribs so they wouldn't get damaged. When I looked towards Dokja and Rok Soo, they did have a glare that was sharp enough to cut a diamond. 

I could see that woman had a cold sweat run down her cheeks as she quickly turned around to meet the black eyes of Dokja. She returned the glare to Dokja, and punched him in the stomach “YOU DARE ORDER ME AROUND YOU DAMN BRAT, NOBODY LIKES YOU AND EVER WILL!” She shouted and continued to slap and punch Dokja, I immediately got up and shielded both the tiny kids in my arms. Sure, it was easy to shield both of them because they’re tiny for being 6 and 5 but this body was so weak that it hurt for even one punch or kick! When it was all over, my back aches and I think my bones were shaking, wait- no, I was shaking

I watched as she left the room, I looked down at my siblings and my body gave out on them… as I watched as my eyes slowly closed as I fell on my siblings I couldn’t help but be a bit happy I helped today…

When I regained consciousness I noticed that my siblings were sleeping on each side of me, I smiled and slowly patted their heads, it was but it wasn't night. I snuck out of bed and I accidentally stepped on a mirror shard I forgot to clean up, its sharpness made my foot bleed. Wait, what if my siblings get hurt by stepping on these shards? I used a worn out broom near the bed to sweep up the shards to the corner of the room. Sure, I winced in pain as the cut on my foot touched the cold, wooden, messy floor but it was for my siblings so I kept going. 

Once I finished, I bandaged my foot and was about to go to bed but then I heard yelling from the living room, behind the door it was muffled so I curiously put my ear against the closed door. “Ugh, that fucking son is useless, he values his inhumane siblings!” I heard her shout, I knew I should’ve stopped there for my mental health but my curiosity was a drug and my mind fell into the drug’s bait.. I heard her coming towards the door, I felt my body stiff and couldn’t move, what happened to my fear resistance? I think it got sealed… 

The woman opened the door, when she saw me she pulled me to the couch, probably for scolding… 

“I am your f##king mother, you listen to me! You have no AUTHORITY to speak to me without permission, if you do ANYTHING WRONG, you WILL LIVE ON THE F##KING STREETS, you AND your siblings!” I felt my body shaking, trembling… It would be fine if it was just me but my siblings? I cannot let that happen… I tried to speak up, key word, tried.

Within a moment, I felt a slap go across my face. I knew she purposefully kept her nails long so that it hurts more when she slaps us, “YOU INSOLENT BRAT, YOU DARE TO TRY TO SPEAK UP TO ME WITHOUT PERMISSION?!” She shouted loud enough to break eardrums, I hope Dokja and Rok Soo are still asleep.

(A/N: Don’t worry, Cale is asleep…)

“I’m sorr-” I was interrupted by another slap across the cheek, my eyes widened in surprise. “I TOLD YOU YOU NEED PERMISSION TO SPEAK YOU INSUFFERABLE BRAT! I HAD F##KING HIGH HOPES FOR YOU! BUT YOU’RE JUST AN MOTHERF##KING ORDINARY, MEDIOCRE SON!” She shouted again but it wasn’t as loud as the first and second slap she gave me. 

“Your siblings will all die eventually, why do you even care? This is why you’re weak because you care for those inhumane beings.” Her tone lowered to a careful and soft tone, don’t listen to her, don’t listen to this manipulative bastard… My train of thoughts were interrupted by pain in my stomach. I felt her fist punch me in the stomach and I coughed really hard because it was unexpected. 

“DON’T ZONE OUT WHEN I’M TALKING YOU BRAT!” She yelled and slapped me across the face harder this time and louder than the first and second slaps. “GO TO YOUR F##KING ROOM!” She ordered, good, I was glad to go there. I went to my room without even turning back to look at that sorry excuse for a mother. 

When I opened the door and turned around to close it, I felt a warm embrace around me. I flitched and accidentally shut the door, I looked down to see Dokja’s worried face and Cale’s frown. “Hyung, are you ok?” “Dokja is right, are you ok? Hyung I got bandages, tell me where it hurts.” The two asked, I smiled slightly and ruffled their hair. 

There wasn’t much of a height difference between me and my siblings however, there was still a personality difference. “I’m fine, let’s go to sleep.” I lowered my tone with a small smile tugging on the corners of my lips. While we walked to the bed, the calendar fell and I picked it up and flipped it to our month of January. But before, I saw Nam-yong Kim’s birthday on February 1st. 

This is probably the birthday of the viper living in this household, her birthday was coming up. I think we would have to get her a present so she won’t be mad. 

“I’m gonna go and get a job.” I explained, “But hyung, you’re not 16!” Dokja shouted in a whispering tone to not let mother hear him, “No, but we need money so we can eat.” I replied, “I’ll help too then.” Rok Soo commented, huh, I don’t want my siblings to do manual labor at 5 and 6!

“It’s fine, once I have enough money, I’ll buy us yummy food to eat and celebrate birthdays together. The only thing you guys have to do is get good grades in school while it’s free of charge but it’s winter break right now so you don’t have to worry.” I explained, they looked at me still very worried. “Ok, hyung. You better get better…” Rok Soo responded not too eagerly.

With that. I tucked them into bed. I watched as Dokja and Kim Rok Soo slowly drifted to sleep and I slowly fell asleep soon after.

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I was walking in an alleyway, my thin, worn out clothes were not fit for this type of weather. Me and my siblings lived in the poor parts of the city, there weren't many hunters that lived there. Mostly, E ranks and F ranks. That’s why most of our neighbors feared our mother and she was the landlord, sometimes she would beat us out in public and everyone would turn a blind eye knowing they stood no chance. I remember I used to ask people for money, most people would give it to me since they feared my mom but after she beat us in public they still gave our mother money anyways since she was landlord.

That was until mom beat us in public, everyone found out our mom hated us more than anything.

After that, no one wanted to give us money, hell, they even bullied us infront of our mother and she would laugh at it. That kept her violent nature away by seeing us and especially Rok Soo struggling and being hurt by others. I get that they all did this so they don’t get hurt but that’s not an excuse to justify your actions. I learned flight or fight. I know it’s something I shouldn’t be taught but in this cruel world, it’s important to me.

I dropped my siblings off at school, school was free, it was pretty far from our house that’s why we woke up early in the mornings to walk there. I made sure that they always had a clean uniform to wear when going to school and nice shoes so no one would bully them, however, I think people still bullied them because our mom never came to parent teacher conferences. I think we were too scared to tell anyone about our mother after all, rankers were highly respected and very, very, few were in jail. I remember asking a stranger named, oh, I forgot his name. I was trembling and asking for help to act as our dad. I never trusted strangers but his looks gave off a warm feeling that only some felt.

I wonder how he’s doing today…

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Ugh, another one of those sad memories. I thought, when looking at my cold sweat that ran down my body, everytime it reminded me that I’m not the older sibling of these kids…

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Chapter 3

January 31st, 20##

Will this nightmare ever end, this morning we snuck out, it was nice to feeling the warmth of the sunlight and not the lights shining on our skin. “I think the outside is better, we don’t have to be in that dark home. Don’t you think Rok Soo and Dokja-ya?” I asked with a smile like nothing happened last night, “Sure, whatever you say hyung…” Rok Soo said while looking at Dokja, “Mhm, I agree with Rok Soo dongsaeng.” Dokja replied while forming a small smile.

Some people stood in front of us, I didn’t really care and looked around the city they would proabbly walk by anyways. It seems we were in the poor parts of town, you could see the city far away but walkable distance. Before I could process more things I was slapped. “I heard you angered the landlord today.” The guy said in a cold tone, he was a couple of years older than me but what is he doing to a kid?

“Lowly, disobedient, kids like you who insult the landlord will be punished, I bet she’ll even pay us for giving you guys some discipline.” The guy voiced out his thoughts, I quickly snalled out of my thoughts and stepped in front of my siblings. I grabbed Dokja and Rok Soo, and I dragged them to a nearby forest. However, the men were quick to catch up, so I managed to hide with my siblings in a nearby bush not too far from the city. After all, getting lost is the second to worst thing to happen.

Why was this part of the city so messed up? Wait- I forgot that the police are just normal people, unlike how the city has so many E rankers, and F rankers… I snapped back to reality when Dokja was suddenly caught, he was panicking when I looked into his eyes but calmed down suddenly. A cold sweat ran down my cheek as I looked at the supposed E ranked hunter in front of me. I was scared but I was even more scared that Dokja would be hurt.

“Dokja!” I shouted and kicked the guy where it hurts, he immediately dropped Dokja and I caught him by diving to catch him. The dirt and grass hurt but that didnt matter, the man was pretty muscular for an E rank and had that bandit face in every show, his clothes were ripped and the brown shirt he was wearing had very thick cloth good for the weather except the cloth was ripped. He quickly recovered and punched me in the stomach with full force, I quickly covered my chest as he punched me and was sent back a bit from the punch. I quickly shouted to Dokja, “Dokja, take Rok Soo and hide!”

However, Dokja refused and started to throw punches at the man, he could block them all but Rok Soo kicked him from behind, faltering his movements. “How dare you hurt hyung!” Dokja shouted as he kicked the guy in the crotch again, the guy did a surprise counter attack so I launched myself at the guy slapping him across the face. “Don’t touch hyung, he has done a lot for us.” Rok Soo said and he jumped on the guy’s stomach and started to beat the crap out of the guy. 

Before things escalate too far, I stopped Rok Soo from killing the man, this was because any child would regret killing someone, but not me though. I can kill perfectly fine…

POV: Cale Henituse/ Kim Rok Soo

I watched as hyung started to beat the crap out of that man, honestly, I feel bad for this child whose protecting imposters disguised as his siblings. I looked to my side and I saw new people with angered faces trail to the forest, I tapped Dokja on the shoulder. I remember our first meeting so clearly…

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I woke up in a strange place, the ceiling was not as fancy as I remember and the smell of money was small. I quickly sat up, were we robbed? I looked down to see baby hands, that damn god! It’s all his fault! Choi Han will most likely burn his temples for me.

(A/N: Yes, Cale can smell money)

I got up, my legs kinda adjusting to the new height and new body. I looked at the mirror near the window, I caught the glimpse of my red hair, pale skin, and hazel eyes. It seems I have the body of Cale Henituse as a child. I quickly looked around the room to get any idea of this body. There was a boy laying on the ground with blood dripping from his head, it was still warm but it might’ve been fatal to the boy.

I looked at another boy who I shared the already small bed with. I continued looking around and found a dairy, I flipped through the pages using record to record all the pages just then I found the word abuse. I read through the page.

Dear Dairy,

Today mom hit me again, I was shocked to the core. Hyung has protected me from my mother and he’s super kind to me and Dokja even though he’s the favorite child. When I needed homework, hyung helped me with hard problems! I love Hyung and my brother Dokja!

Your only writer, Kim Rok Soo

Hm? Kim Rok Soo? That’s probably my name since I look like the youngest out of the entire group, it’s been a while since I’ve been called that name. “Ugh, where am I?” I heard a voice behind me say, I look behind me to see a kid a bit taller than me standing up, although he wasn’t the kid with blood on his head. Where am I?

It’s probably a night stir up, “You’re at home hyung.” I answered him which startled him, “Huh? Hyung? I think you have the wrong person, kid.” Dokja questioned, I face palmed.

This was definitely a different kid, “Look, in the mirror.” I ordered, I saw the kid turned towards the mirror and his eyes widened slightly but then returned to normal. His face was also a little blurred now that I think about it, I think my vision in this body has gone worse. “Huh, my body has gotten smaller… Was it because of a scenario?”

You could tell from his voice that he was shocked, “No, now, you’re in another world, lucky for you, I am too.” I explained, the guy seemed to connect the dots together, I guess I guessed right, “I see, so in this world, we’re brothers?” He asked, “Wait, you’re also not from this world?” He asked the obvious, “Yes.” I replied while looking out the window, although it looked like the slums, we were in the poor part of modern korea.

“So this person or kid, is our hyung-nim, you gotta act like it if he wakes up.” I told Dokja, “I’m Kim Rok Soo, you’re Kim Dokja but I don’t know this guy’s name.” I stated, “Also, our mother is abusing us.” I added which made the kid freeze in response, he looked like he was having an anxiety attack but was slightly panicking. Just then the kid got up, he looked badly injured, I couldn’t say that I didn’t feel bad for him…

After all, he was getting abused, all he did was be born…

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I tried to kick the guy but he grabbed me and threw me, Dokja caught me before I hit anything. Hyung ran to us, “Are you both ok?” He asked while looking for injuries, just then the man charged at hyung. Hyung was punched in the stomach and we were slapped across the face, we protected ourselves and watched as hyung got up to protect us. Why did people like to torment kids?…

It keeps reminding me of my trauma in my 1st Kim Rok Soo life, when my uncle would hit me constantly and not feed me because he spent most of the child support money on gambling and for his own needs. I didn’t want hyung to get hit, he did so much for us already even though we aren’t even his siblings. The people close to him are deceiving him which will affect him mentally and the abusers will affect him physically, I cannot let him get hurt again. I kicked a guy in the nuts and Dokja seemed to get my idea and helped me beat up the guys.

Hyung, being the caring, loving, brother. Also helped, he would distract the men so they wouldn’t hit us and be distracted by him, however, he was taking some blows from them… we quickly finished up the work and had to chase the guys who hurt hyung, he wasn’t too badly injured, just a few wounds. However, that kinda made my blood boil…

(A/N: Is it because you didn’t get to sacrifice yourself instead Yoojin did?)

I looked at hyung, he was the most injured. He has bruises visible on the tattered clothes he wore and his nose was dripping with blood. I quickly ran over to help hyung, this idiot!... Wait, why am I feeling so attacted? Is it because he's this bodies brother or is it because of my own feelings, nonetheless…

These people who hurt hyung, will pay, he’s just a child! “You dare hurt our hyung?!” Dokja shouted, reflecting on my own feelings. While throwing the hardest kick to the nuts to the closest abuser/bully near him, his anger was understandable… After all, hyung is just a child. 

I kicked some guy in the stomach but the others seemed to take a stance.

I was punched in the back suddenly and Dokja got kicked but blocked the kick. I tried to kick the guy but the other one slapped me. “You dare order us around like you’re actually worth something? You’re very wrong, no one will love you ever.” The guy said and everyone around me except for Dokja started laughing like a maniac.

I felt someone tap my shoulder, I turned around to see hyung. He grabbed me and Dokja and started to bolt into the forest. I turned on record so we can get back home. Hyung stopped after a bit, he was probably tired. I looked at his tired, bruised up face, oh hyung…

“Hyung, are you ok?” I asked but I already knew the answer, his clothes were messed up from the men, he looks even more tired because of him bolting us out of there. “I’ll be fine.” Hyung said with a tired smile to reassure us, however, I think it made me and Dokja worry even more. I hugged hyung and Dokja followed after me.

I knew what the people said was true, nobody cares for trash, however, there’s always someone looking for you even if you are trash. So far, in this cruel world, Hyung and Dokja are people I can trust, we only need each other… “Hyung, you need to rest.” Dokja voiced out but deep down it really feels like he is commanding hyung to rest. I agreed with Dokja, hyung needs to rest for once. 

Yoojin gave a worried smile and sat down on the grass. I looked around the forest, it was much more peaceful than our home and the poor part of the city. I loved the soft rustling of the leaves, the short grass with tiny insects that did little harm… My siblings look so peaceful while we’re in the forest, it seemed that the forest would protect us from the adults who liked to see children cry, suffer, and get injured. After a bit, it got late, hyung spoke up, “Let’s go back guys-”

Hyung was caught by the realization that he ran too far into the forest and it was clear on his face, “It’s fine hyung, I remember.” I spoke up pushing away some of his worries, and Hyung patted me on the head lightly with a genuine smile we haven’t seen in a while, “Good job Rok Soo!” Hyung praised me, I looked at Dokja, oh how he was jealous that I got the smile from hyung and not him. I used record to trace back where we came from and we ended up back at the city. We sat on a hill and watched the sun set before heading home, we tried to stall before coming back home.

Our steps were the only thing stopping our journey from being completely silent. I’m pretty sure we’re all just tired and want to rest but we know that nightmare won’t end if we go home. When we arrived at the old looking retirement home, Dokja helped sneak us in. He climbed up to the window and opened it, then he went inside and brought a small ladder bigger than him. He gently lowered it down and hyung took it and placed it onto the ground. 

We left the ladder there since our ‘mother’ never really went outside and when she did she would mostly come home drunk and had a new item she bought with the gate money, like one time she brought home a whip that was supposed to be used on monsters but instead used on children like me and Dokja. It was strange how she almost never hit hyung with the items but he always tried to protect us so she had to hit him anyway. She probably thought we were monsters cause we would glare at her whenever she hit our hyung. Hyung praised Dokja like how he did with me which lightened his mood more.

 I rolled my eyes and grabbed the medkit. First I did Hyung's wounds then Dokja's and lastly, mine.

To be honest, hyung reminded me of someone important, Ohn who'll always protect her brother… "Hyung, are you feeling much better now?" I asked, he nodded, good, he's much better. Then I remembered, my ancient powers are sealed, and Dokja told me his magic is also sealed until we grow up. Dokja also said that Yoojin will unlock some unique powers when he also grows up.

I guess we’ll all have powers when we’re older or somehow unseal them… My slacker life was just doomed to fall wasn’t it, out of all the things I missed at home it was my slacker life. Anyways, Yoojin carried me to bed since I was worn out. I wanted to stay up to protect him but I felt my eyelids grow heavier and I ended up sleeping…

I woke up, and I saw hyung sleeping on the ground again, this kid! I got out of bed and tried to carry hyung onto the bed, “Dokja, wake up!” I shouted but not loud enough where it would wake up our mom or hyung, “What?” He asked as he stirred from his sleep, “Help me bring hyung onto the bed.” I ordered, not like he’ll refuse the request anyway since our hyung is very important to us. 

He got out of bed and started to help me put hyung onto the bed, I sighed and bandaged up new wounds he probably got last night, even though he says he’s fine he’s always made me worried, is this how my family felt? Just then, hyung woke up. “Hm, today, you guys have school. Get your things ready.” Hyung said as he got up, we both scrambled to find our stuff, we’ve only been in the world for 2 days. I got my bag and school supplies, and uniform that covered up my bruises, we just got out of winter break so it should be ok… 

When we got our stuff hyung took us to school, I remembered I had to remind him that we had school tomorrow, we got out of the house before that women could wake up and now we are holding hyung’s hand. Since yesterday, we had to be careful of the outside and inside of our ‘home’. I looked at the people we were avoiding, although they looked weak. Hyung decided to avoid them anyways to be on the safe side, I think he is now living a flight-or-fight lifestyle after yesterday's encounter. After a long walk that was made even longer by trying to avoid the people we saw, we finally made it to school.

Wait? Isn't a fight or flight lifestyle bad?! It could cause Immune system suppression, Physical health issues, Mental health issues?! Ugh, this will be a pain. Just then we found the school.

I did expect hyung to come with us into school, after all it was about to start but no. “I love you Rok Soo and Dokja.” He quickly said and left, he’s not leaving us right? I thought, I looked at Dokja who was probably thinking the same thing. We both entered school and prayed (not to goD of course) that hyung would be back.

As we entered school, I was quickly surrounded by people who I supposed were my friends while Dokja ran into someone and he got made fun of. There was a strict no shoe policy so I had to substitute my shoes for slippers and I went over to Dokja-hyung. “Excuse me, why are you bullying my hyung?” I asked, the guy looked shocked and as expected since my reputation is really good he backed down but many people were looking at my and Dokja’s way which gave my body the shivers remembering yesterday’s experience. We both quickly went to class, it was a relief that we had class together.

While I was learning the subjects, not really learning, I knew it all already. The teacher seemed to try to target me by asking multiple harder questions than she was teaching, “Rok Soo, what is 26 plus 39?” She asked, “65” I replied without having to think. "Dokja, what is 16 plus 29?" She asked Dokja and I sat down, "45."

Dokja wasn't even trying right now, it was just too easy. I saw the women look startled, "Yes, that's correct. Today we are taking a pretest, make sure to write your name and no cheating." She said while staring at Dokja, the women stared at him, he did nothing wrong! I looked at the test half tiredly, seeing the women staring at my sibling kinda made me not want to do this test.

Nonetheless, I had to take this test so I picked up my pencil and started to write the answers that I didn't even need to think about. When I finished I added little doodles for fun and out of boredom, "Rok Soo Kim, what are you doing?" I heard the familiar voice of my teacher ask, I really didn't want to ask for her name, after all, why learn something so useless? "Doodling cause I'm done." I replied innocently enough.

"You're not supposed to be doing that, give me your paper." She commanded firmly not believing I completed it so I just sighed and handed her the paper. After the 1st period, me and Dokja had to separate for the 2nd period. My second period was English while Dokja was Gym. I went inside the classroom and sat down, the teacher started teaching English so I had to stay and listen through the boring easy lesson.

"Alright today we're gonna learn about simple English antonyms." The teacher seemed ecstatic about teaching, however, I wasn't and just listened while everyone else took notes. I don't want to do something useless like take notes and I don't want to stand out much, I wonder how Dokja is doing? The guy continued to ask questions and I felt myself drifting to sleep once again, "Kim Rok Soo, what is the antonym of sad?" The teacher asked, I sighed, "It's Happy."

I said, he probably asked me that question to ask if I was paying attention. "What does antonym mean?" He asked, trying to embarrass me in front of the class, "It means the opposite of a word, for example, the antonym of mad is calm." I explained, then he backed down and continued teaching. Finally, the 2nd period was done so I went to the 3rd period.

I hugged Dokja when I met him, I'm still scared that hyung might have abandoned us but he wouldn't do that… We both walked together to 3rd period. A lot of people were watching but I didn't care. I have Dokja and Hyung, that's all I need in this world. I went into 3rd period class which was social studies.

I sat next to Dokja and surprisingly, the social studies/history teacher was chill. I checked my last report card and I had an A in her class. Today she said she didn't care how we learned as long as we succeeded and she will call you out if you are doing really bad in her class and have horrible habits. She was definitely a foreign teacher but I'm happy cause she's chill. I already learned this stuff and I didn't criticize her teaching technique but it could use some help. 

"Kim Dokja, when was South Korea founded?" She asked loudly, it startled me and Dokja cause she said Dokja’s name loudly which mostly matched mother… "August 25, 1948." He replied quickly, "Kim Rok Soo, what is our national anthem?" She questioned, "Aegukga, that patriotic song."

I answered, this was just based on memory, nothing beats my memory. After the 3rd period, we headed to the 4th period and everything went smoothly besides missing Dokja a shit ton more than before. After school, Dokja actually was clingy to me more than before and kept saying how much he missed me and how everyone looked like they wanted to hurt him. Seriously? Is this how an adult acts in an abused child's body.

Not gonna lie, being abused first brought back memories of my uncle but my hyung always cared for me. Along with Dokja-hyung even though he knows I'm mentally a man. We stood outside of the school praying to the God of fortune (GoF) not like he ever answered my prayers to make our hyung come back. As more and more kids left, I kept hoping, "Dokja-ya, Rok Soo-ya, am I late?" I heard a voice ask behind us.

I turned around to see hyung tired and panting like crazy, it was clear he came running over here but his appearancewas messed up, what was he doing? "Yes, very late hyung." I pushed my thoughts out and couldn't help but smile while holding Dokja's hand. Dokja ran over to him while holding my hand, forcing me to be dragged by Dokja as he jumped on hyung. Dokja held onto Hyung, and I also hugged hyung.

Hyung caught both of us and chuckled, he carried me and held Dokja's hand as we walked back to the cold, place that could not even be described as home. As we walked back, it got dark and we went to the forest to hide away from mother since she'll probably know that hyung has left home. I've listened to the way she talks to hyung, she's trying to manipulate him. Also as a manipulator who is trash that deserves to burn in hell, I can recognize a fellow manipulator just from a small talk with her. We went on the same hill as yesterday, the green grassy grass with small insects that did little harm, a hill elevated taller than all the trees, with one tree at the top. 

This kinda reminded me of the man eating tree where I got Vitality of the Heart. However, there was a ditch instead of a hole next to the tree. I know deja fu hits hard sometimes but am I imaging it or this looks like the place of the man eating tree… I snapped out of my thoughts and watched the sunset. Those thoughts were still at the back of my head but I brushed them off because it was calming being next to my siblings.

We were on the grass with Hyung in the middle, Dokja to his left and me to his right. We both laid our head on his shoulder and hyung hugged us. I watched as the sun fell below, behind the trees, hiding away from us. The air became colder but for some reason it felt a bit warm. I looked up at the sky, the clouds became a misty dark blue color and the sides facing the sun became the perfect gradient of orange.

 If I had to describe the sunset, I'd say it felt like the cold, misty clouds meeting the warm, joyful, and radiant sun.

I felt myself enjoying the sight and I felt myself become at ease like all the worries and problems of the world had suddenly faded away… And before I knew it, my eyelids slowly shut.

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February 1st, 20##

Repeat, my hyung kept getting hurt over and over again, it was like a repeating cycle because when I stirred in my sleep and felt a hand shake me ro reality. I woke up to see Dokja's face and when I looked to the side I saw hyung who was red blood about the same color as my hair except it flowed down hyung's face like a small stream. I immediately jumped onto my feet and checked his injuries, I pulled off his shirt and he just looked more scared than in pain. I saw multiple purple shadow colored marks, you could see many darker purple dots spaced out that covered the swollen mark.

Even worse, what looked liked to be tons of warm blood, that matched the color of my hair flowing down from long, wide, cuts that covered most of hyung's chest. I shifted myself towards the back of my hyung to check there and I unconsciously made fist clenched at the sight of long cuts that looked to be decorating hyung's back. The irony smell of the blood ran up into my nose, most of the cuts looked to be a knife or dagger that split hyung's skin open like paper. "Hyung, explain." Dokja ordered, I loved Dokja cause he was really good at reflecting my feelings.

"Uh, you both fell asleep while watching the sunset so I carried you guys home… after I put you guys into bed and went to the kitchen, mother grabbed me and threw me onto the couch." He continued, "She had gotten a new item that's used for monsters and used it on me unless I copied what she said. She kept saying how I should trust her and how you guys should die so of course, I didn't do that." He explained, hyung was truly loyal but at the cost of this?

"Hyung, I don't care if you insult me, as long as you don't get hurt I'll be fine with it." I expressed, "I agree with Cale-ya, your safety has become our top priority." Dokja added, "I don't care, you're my siblings saying I hate you will make me regret it for life!" He shouted but in a whispered voice. Haah, I swear, hyung matched me and Dokja's sacrificial tendencies sometimes.

"Hyung, today's the woman's birthday.” I told hyung, hyung nodded and we snuck out, it’s not like we cared for her, we just wanted to get her a gift so she would not get angry at us. As I climbed down the window and Hyung helped me get down safely we quietly went to get the present at a nearby store. I looked around the store, there were old books and roses that were neither new nor old. I looked at the roses and decided to get them for that woman, we each got two and hyung spent money for us.

(A/N: Honestly regret not making her birthday on April 1st, April fools day…)

Hyung somehow got a job, he told us about it and I'm not happy about it. He's risking his education because of us, me and Dokja are grown men but you're still a child just don't work! "Hyung, can we skip school today to help you with your job?" Dokja asked, thank you for reflecting my feelings Dokja! "No."

Hyung replied and we were swept to school like always, I honestly hated the kids here. They're like two faced bastards to Dokja-hyung, they're kind in front of him when I'm with him but bully and insult him behind my back. I entered school, Dokja followed behind me.

(Time skip: after school)

Yoojin came back and gave us the flowers we picked out. I got a red spider lily and a black and Yellow flower. Dokja got a black rose, and a white lily, while Hyung got a dark red rose and a blue rose. We went back home, hyung took out a small cake, we didn't want to do anything grand for her after all,, I doubt she even celebrated our birthday. We forced ourselves to go to her room.

The safest option to wake her up was with hyung, hyung shook her awake, she probably had some alcohol cause she reeked of it. The woman woke up and was about to hit hyung for waking her up. "Happy birthday mom!" I shouted, she stopped immediately and rolled her eyes. She only accepted Hyung's gifts and reluctantly accepted out gifts.

It was quick and hyung took us out of her room, we then continued our day cause the woman was stuck in her room.

December 31st, 20##

POV Yoojin

It's self confidence that our mother has to be able beat us for 5 years straight is crazy and I feel like dying. 5 years in this house was f##king s##t but my siblings honestly made it better, we bonded over those years a ton (They talk more to me now). That monster of a ‘mother’ continued to abuse me and my siblings… It was currently night but I stayed up and stared at the beautiful stars which reminded me of Dokja’s eyes and the eternal beauty of Rok Soo who told me to address him as Cale. Our bond over the 5 years has changed greatly because sometimes I can rely on my dongsaengs and they started to rely on me more, as I tucked my siblings to bed in the small one person bed I decided to watch as Cale would drift asleep and Dokja slowly closed his eyes. 

However, that wasn’t today… 

Without warning, Cale started to cough up blood. I quickly picked him up, he was heavier than me at this point because I always gave him (Forced him to eat) my food. I knew coughing up blood was a bad thing that could mean, internal bleeding? But how?

“Now is not the time to question it. Hyung.”

I heard Dokja say, he grew up to be so stoic and his face… he’s still as handsome as ever but his face has been getting more blurred over the years. “You’re right.” I responded and carried Cale out the window. I had gotten into the habit of sneaking out to buy food with the money I earned while pretending to be 16. 

Dokja followed me out the window, I quickly ran with Cale in my arms (carrying him princess style), he was still coughing thick, warm, blood that slowly turned black. I didn’t know where the nearest hospital was and I didn’t want to ask anyone because they could be trying to take advantage of me or Dokja and especially Cale since he's very weak right now. I felt chills go down my spine as many people looked our way, it was like a flashback, the gazes our neighbors bore into the scars our violent excuse of a mother gave us in public and people would just watch knowing they stood no chance against the D ranked hunter, hell, she even threatened to harm them if they spoke up or told the authorities. I kept on panting as I ran with most of my might. I didn’t have too much stamina due to giving my siblings most of my food but I spotted a hospital in the distance…

A million thoughts were racing through my mind, what if the hospital workers harmed us, what if they rejected us, what if they contacted our ‘mother’? Since when did I develop trust issues?? Was it because of the abuse? But I’m mentally an adult… Even with my doubts I was forced to trust people with my dongsaeng…

“Hyung, Cale is in pain, we don’t know what’s gonna happen but we have to trust professionals with this matter. Cale is unconscious and is still coughing up blood, we can probably stay by his side too…” Dokja explained while taking Cale out of my arms, I reluctantly nodded and we continued to move to the hospital. Once we arrived through the entrance of the emergency room, I carried him to someone, "Please help Rok Soo, he's coughing up blood!" Dokja shouted, I held Cale who was still coughing red blood that is now black.

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The woman looked shocked and took Cale from my arms. She started going to the room called the ICU so I followed her keeping a watch on Cale. I held Dokja's hand so he didn't get lost. I think it was more for me because I was panicking like crazy. When I tried to follow Cale into the room but the people said we were too young. 

We had to wait outside for them to finish, Cale was being moved to multiple rooms but we were told to wait here. I didn't trust the doctors but Dokja made me wait here, after a bit, a doctor came to us. "Where are your parents?" She asked, "Our parents are on a date!" I shouted the most convincing answer, she nodded.

"Well, we couldn't find what was wrong but we suspect that Rok Soo Kim has… awakened. Or maybe it was because of the many scars on him." She explained, what? Awakened? He is so young though!

Crap, she saw the scars. "Yeah, Rok Soo is very clumsy. He always scraps his skin on sharp objects like knives, he's always been curious and I think that is what sets him apart from other people." Dokja covered it up, why did he cover it up? He was also clenching his teeth and he looked angry but calmed down.

He was planning something, his face looked like those in my past past who have hurt me more than I could ever imagine.

"Us see him please." Dokja requested, the women nodded and led us to a room, while we were walking, we passed by a man, tall and had black eyes with black hair. I could feel his energy, when we walked past him, he was strong. I refocused on checking Cale but I heard footsteps from the powerful man stop. I continued walking and we arrived inside Cale's hospital room.

God how I hoped the one being in that bed was me, I hugged Cale, my dear youngest brother. "How much is the hospital fee?" I asked, "525,126.83 won."

(A/N: About 492.56 usd, and no, I didn't make this up, X ray, along with CT scan and the ICU room is 525,126.83 won according to some hospitals in south Korea, wait… I forgot to include taxes!! Whelp too late. TT TT)

We didn't have a credit card on us but then Cale gave us mom's credit card, he swept it before leaving knowing we'd have to pay. I sighed and took the credit card and gave it to the woman, she looked surprised. "How do you guys have a credit card on you?" She asked, "Mom and dad gave it to us before they left since they were gonna pay with cash." Cale explained, and I and Dokja nodded.

She looked suspicious but took the credit card and came back with a receipt, "So, who's the oldest?" She questioned, "That would be me." I said, she took me outside the room. "Do you wish for me to send Rok Soo to the evaluation center?" She asked, "I already had horrible experiences with the awakened center, "No miss, he is too young to be a hunter and he is my sibling, he shouldn't be harmed." 

I explained without using the awakened center as my reason not to send him, she respected my opinion and we were discharged from the hospital. We were lucky we even had enough on this credit card, when Cale and Dokja started helping me I remember how we got much more money however, mother kept on gambling so it was pretty hard to settle the debt. As we walked home I kept on remembering the things that happened in 5 years… We used our moms credit card as our money stash cause we were too young to have one ourselves. Now we have 11955424.42 won left.

(A/N: 8,930.16 usd)

Working on the weekends for 5 years helped me gain a ton of money but school supplies, food and drinks, clothes all were expensive. We went back home, and snuck inside. I rushed my siblings upstairs and listened in the mother's room. She wasn't there so I went to the kitchen where mother was holding a hunter's item! "Don't worry Yoojin, I'll save you from these monsters, if I stab someone with this item the possession of the monster inside them will go away!" The crazy woman shouted, I looked onto the counter, as I suspected, drugs.

That weapon, I recognized it, it's a blood dagger. It uses the blood of enemies to become stronger, it was a popular item among assassins in my… Um past past life. The woman shouted at me, "Come here Kim Yoojin!!" A cold sweat ran down my cheek as I ran away from the crazy women. I can't scream, that'll attract my siblings downstairs which will make my life harder. 

But as we ran around the kitchen like a game of cat and mouse, I heard my siblings rush downstairs… S##t, this situation could give them trauma! The women looked towards Dokja and Cale.

I quickly punched my mother and she dropped the item, I quickly picked it up. I grabbed Cale and Dokja and moved them to a corner, then I covered Cale’s and Dokja’s eyes and watched as our mother approached us. 

“Cale, Dokja, close your eyes and cover your ears!” I shouted in a hurry, Cale hesitated then followed but Dokja stared at the item in my hand, his eyes shaking. By the time mother approached us, Dokja still hadn’t covered his eyes. I knew I had to kill her but I couldn’t do that while Dokja was looking, the trauma that would be left! Mom smacked the item out of my hand. I took a step back as the time went flying near the corner, mom walked over but somehow Dokja picked up the knife first… 

“Dokja Kim!” I shouted in a warning tone, but with one quick motion, Dokja slapped mother and stabbed her with the item. As her body fell, I quickly ran towards Dokja. The trauma that would be left as he grew up, “Dokja, we'll be fine. Don't do it again, no more killing, just forgive." I tried to convince him.

POV Dokja

I watched as Hyung tried to convince me to forget what just happened, it was fine cause I've killed many but I didn't hesitate to kill her cause she hurt hyung. It felt calming. "Ok hyung, let's leave the house cause those loyal dogs will come back for their master." I told Hyung, referring to those neighbors in Guryong town. I looked at hyung.

"I am Yoo Joonghyuk." I say, hyung shook his head while wiping blood off my face. Cale opened his eyes and ears, he was surprised to see blood and mother laying on the ground but he took out a handkerchief and started to clean me up. "Dokja-ya you have to stop thinking that you're Yoo Joonghyuk, you have said that multiple times on important events in your life, or when I or when Cale was injured, you worry me." Hyung expressed, hyung grabbed my face with his hand and started to wipe the blood on my face.

"Dokja-ssi, what did you do?" Cale uttered menacingly, "Calm down Cale-ya, let's hide the body." Hyung pleaded with Cale, Cale sighed and started to drag the body across the ground not caring about honoring it. 

You see, when I was young. My reaction to stress was self harm however in this body, my reaction to stress is… Vomiting. I vomited on the ground while shaking, god being in a kid's body as a full grown man Is hard. 

Hyung started to clean me up and by the time he was finished, I helped Hyung clean up the blood stains and Vomit. While cleaning the stains, a black flowy, dark purple figure that looked to be a knight was in the shadows. I tried to fight it but every kick I did ended up being deflected or the knight regenerated, was it here for me? For Cale or hyung? I grabbed the nearest thing to me which was a vase and threw it at the knight but it regenerated once again. 

Hyung came into the room hearing the loud crash. He looked shocked and dragged me out of the room. He took Cale and we ran outside, "What was that thing Dokja?" He asked, "I don't know but it suddenly appeared and every blow I landed it regenerated!" I revealed to hyung which also got Cale surprised, but then the shadowy knight bumped into us and knocked out hyung. 

Cale was gonna use his powers but the knight also knocked him out, I quickly made sure my siblings didn’t fall onto the ground harshly. I looked up at the knight, “What do you want with us?” I asked, the knight pointed at me. “My lord wants you.” The knight said, “Fine, just don’t hurt my siblings.” 

And I can definitely save them while fulfilling this quest, they will probably hate me to the end of eternity but I love them.

I requested, the knight nodded but before we could take another step Cale stabbed the knight with the item I killed mother with, I thought it was still inside her body and how did he recover so quickly from being knocked out? Cale continued to stab the knight, but then more knights started to appear. Cale used his ability that I haven’t seen before to shield us, he got his abilities back, did i get mine back too? “Cale, I wanna test something.” I said, “Mind taking down the barrier for a second?"

I asked, he sighed then took down the barrier trusting me and I launched myself at the knight then I punched the night which made it go flying, I continued attacking the knights, “Cale-ya, make sure hyung recovers!” I shouted, I saw some of those hunter guys come this way after hearing my voice so I grabbed Cale and hyung and started to bolt the other way leaving the hunters to deal with those shadowy knights. We hid in an alleyway safe from those knights until I saw a man, I recognized him from the hospital. I went in front of hyung and Cale, “Who are you and what do you want?” I asked, even if we have seen each other before, I cannot trust him whatsoever. 

He looked at us and I blacked out after I felt one of those shadow knights knock me out...

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(This is a different universe where they always lived with Sung Jin Woo but they're still not too open to him..)

I blinked my eyes open, I rolled out of bed and my feet hit the unfamiliar cold wooden floor. There wasn't the creaking sound of old wood. As always, I was the last to wake up. I headed to the closet and put on my school uniform. Since I was smart, I have gained popularity at my new school, Jinwoo enrolled me in.

I got my notebooks and the unfinished homework that I could do in a minute. While Dokja skipped some grades making it to high school level, I chose to only skip some grades making this my last middle school year. I wasn't able to protect Dokja-ya but Dokja promised hyung he will fight back at anyone who made fun of him. I knew this wasn't true, Dokja-ya's self confidence and self esteem has been low. Hyung knew that and was worried. With that, Jinwoo drove me and my hyungs to school.

Sure, it was my birthday. No one knew that though, I rolled my eyes as I stepped into the school campus.

(Time skip: after school)

School was as boring as ever but it wasn't hyung that waited for me outside the school Gate. It was Dokja! "Where's hyung?" I asked worriedly, "Let's get ice cream!" Dokja-ya dodged the question.

I was the master of that! Did something bad happen to hyung?! No, Dokja-ya was too cheerful for that, even though his face is kinda blurry, his actions show otherwise. Dokja dragged me to an ice cream shop, he paid to get some ice cream for both of us. I looked at my lemon flavored ice cream…

I ate the sour ice cream as Dokja went to do some activities with me. "Why are you stalling? We usually go home to play with hyung but today is different." I questioned Dokja, "It's nothing, hyung is just doing some activities for after school so hyung told me to play with you while he was gone!" Dokja replied, liar.

I decided to go along with the excuse, "Ok, as long as you promise nothing bad happened to hyung." I said while watching Dokja's body language. "I promise!" Dokja shouted confidently while we were heading to the playground, and we arrived at the playground. It was empty so we played together.

"Tag you're it." Dokja shouted while he softly touched me, sudden touches made me flinch as much as I hate to admit. I tried my best to tag Dokja but I quickly fell short, then, I tried to get closer but Sokja was an expert at this! I noticed Dokja hiding behind the playground but I pretended to be indifferent, "Dokja?" I asked in a confused tone, then, I quickly tagged Dokja while he was off guard.

As I was running away from Dokja with my ice cream still at hand, I bumped into an adult and fell to the floor. "Ugh, sorry." I say, Dokja got to my side and helped me up. I realized I got ice cream on the man's clothes, "Hey, look what you did to my clothes." The man shouted while pointing at the yellow ice cream on his pants.

"We're sorry!" Dokja shouted. The man rolled his eyes, and Dokja quickly dragged me out of there and left some money on the ground. We weren't good at social interactions and this is the reason we avoided school events as much as possible. Dokja then got a text and he smiled.

I tried to peek at the text but Dokja quickly turned off his phone and looked at me with his smile, at first I thought it was his scammer smile but when I squeezed my eyes harder the distorted smile came off more sincere. Dokja's face wasn't that blurry now that I think about it, it was almost clearcleat… maybe my eyesight was just bad. "Let's go home Cale-ya!" Dokja shouted happily, something big was about to happen, my gut was telling me.

(A/N: Is it the apocalypse again? Also keep in mind, the closer they are to Dokja, the less blurry fourth wall is, Fourth Wall is also weak due to not interacting with characters of the web novel...)

We walked back home in silence, our footsteps echoing in the silent city it was late at night, some cars came and went along with some clattering whenever we passed a restaurant. Then we made it to the apartment building, we entered and used the elevator to get to the floor. We entered the elevator, we pressed the button and up we went. Then I heard, "Ding!" We walked out the elevator and entered our apartment.

As Dokja creaked the door open and we went to our room that we shared, Dokja let me open the door first which was weird… I slowly turned the handle, Dokja and hyung didn't prank me so what was going on? Just then, my eyes widened and my mouth slightly gaped at what I saw… My hyung stood next to a small cake slice with a present and a candle! They knew my birthday?

My eyes felt watery and my face slightly got red, a single tear shed from my eye and hit the ground with a splat. "Happy birthday, younger brother." Hyung said at the same time, it's been so long since I've celebrated my birthday… I ran to my hyung and hugged him, my tears couldn't stop running even though this moment was supposed to be memorable and Wholesome.

I felt my brother's gentle hand caress my hair as he patted my head like a dog, I haven't felt this loved in ages. It was an entirely different feeling than what I imagined since I was Kim Rok Soo, I felt Dokja shut the door and embrace me and hyung for a group hug. "I love you guys so much!" I shouted in a whisper so I didn't wake up Jinwoo or his sister. I opened the gift they got me as I pulled on the ribbon and it became undone in my hands. 

I slowly opened the box, a Blue-tongued skink key chain and a beautiful black dragon origami. "I noticed how you drew a black dragon in your notebooks all the time so I decided to make you one, we didn't know what you wanted the most cause me and Dokja ended up fighting for what you wanted… So here's money, you can use it to buy what you want." Hyung gave me 50,000 won and just like that, I celebrated my birthday eating my cake with my two amazing hyungs.

As we cleaned up, Dokja was reading that stupid novel he was always talking about! I poked hyung and pointed to Dokja, "Let's see what he is reading on his phone." I whispered into my brother's ear. We sneakily peeked into what Dokja was reading, I read the words on the phone, Yoo Joonghyuk... Blah blah blah blah, it was useless but he is always on his phone!

Then hyung whispered into my ear, "I don't see any words, he's just staring at a blank doc." Hyung whispered, huh? But I can see it perfectly well...

Chapter Text

POV: Cale

However, when I blinked my eyes open and looked around, we were knocked out by knights, where are we? I got out of bed and looked around the room, there was a bed where my siblings slept. There was a closet but there wasn't any clothes, then I slowly stepped to the door, I peeked open the door to see the man we saw at the hospital. He was the last thing we saw before we blacked out. Who is he?

Did he fight those shadows? No, I cannot make assumptions. The man's eyes made eye contact with mine and I flinched in surprise, I didn't expect him to notice me. He walked over to me, I quickly ran back to my siblings, he might hurt my siblings! When he entered the room, I looked up at him.

"Are you ok?" The man asked, should I answer? "Yes." I said, the guy looked me in the eyes. He then sighed and bent down trying to get eye level with me.

"What's your name?" The guy asked, I would usually let hyung answer this, perhaps I accidentally relied on him too much. "What's your name first, where are we?" I heard the familiar voice of hyung ask, I looked back to see hyung get out of bed and come over to my side. The guy looked at hyung.

"I'm Sung Jinwoo and I'll be taking care of you guys since your mom is dead." The guy named Jinwoo answered, "... I'm Yoojin, this is Cale and the one sleeping is Dokja." Hyung answered, we haven't talked properly with anyone else besides each other so I'm guessing hyung is trying to step out of his comfort zone. It is hard to do that as most children would stay inside their comfort zone because they are scared to get even more hurt.

"Why did you adopt us?" I questioned, why adopt children you just met? Especially children on the street. "Who wouldn't want to help out people, especially kids on the streets?" Jinwoo answered, I mean I did adopt Ohn and Hong from the streets…

However, hyung didn't seem to trust him. I don't blame him, after all he's still a child and has probably developed trust issues due to the trauma. I was lifted off the ground, when I looked up it was Dokja-hyung. "And who's this?" The guy asked, he held a stoic face but I have a gut feeling that he knows.

The air around him felt mysterious and eerie.

"I'm Kim Dokja." Dokja-ssi introduced, the guy nodded and left giving us some space, Dokja put me down onto the unfamiliar floors and I walked to a closet. There were no clothes there, only long female things. I explored the house being careful not to run into that old man. Hyung went to use the bathroom in our room to shower while I talked with Dokja.

"He has an eerie air around him." I told Dokja who nodded, "I don't trust him, he's a hunter since he was able to fight the shadows or… maybe he didn't, whatever it was I don't trust him." Dokja expressed, I nodded, we can't trust him, he's too mysterious and eerie, he didn't give as many answers as I would like too. I wish I had my slacker life, oh God of slacking, why do you not give me your blessing?

I found a game of monopoly, so we played for a bit. After a bit, poor hyung kept getting scammed by me and Dokja, it was kinda funny how he realized as soon as we did it. Most wouldn't haha, just then, Jinwoo came into the room. We looked at him, he kept his distance. "We're gonna go shopping since I don't have clothes for you guys." Jinwoo told us, shopping?

I'm not sure if we have a choice anyways, afterall, if we want to stay in this house, we gotta obey. Some perks of this house was that the house wasn't always cold, we had a soft bed, we could probably sneak to the kitchen easily, and Jinwoo wasn't hitting us. Hyung picked me up and we went outside, we hadn't changed our clothes in a while, we had to save money, I also couldn't bear to see the low balance in my mother's account. We drove in Jinwoo's nice car. I haven't seen cars in a while, I was buckled up to the seat by hyung and I looked out the window.

It was the Shinsegae Centum City Department Store. We entered and we started to shop for clothes, I went into this store, it had very good clothes. I never got used to wearing these torn clothes, Jinwoo gave me a budget of 139,200 won.

(A/N: 105.50 USD since I know some of you people are too lazy to do the math… I am too that's why I used a calculator)

I looked around and bought clothes for me and my hyung, I knew they had no sense of fashion. I mean Dokja-hyung was wearing a white coat with a black undershirt while Yoojin-hyung was wearing a jacket and  his undershirt was a freakin hoodie. I found nice clothes in and out of stores, not gonna lie, I was surprised he let us roam free with 139,200 won. Maybe it was because we couldn't even buy food for a month with that much or maybe it's something else, probably the latter. I even got to scam a few people into me spending less money.

When I finished scamming people, it wasn't really scamming. I got some deals and this childlike, dirty, appearance makes people trust me more hehe. I went back to the place Jinwok told us to meet when we were finished. I was the last to come but I got the better deal. Maybe I could teach Hyung how to scam, no, he might hate me!

"Omg, Cale-dongsaeng! I was getting worried that you were kidnapped." Hyung exclaimed, hyung helped me carry some of the bags and I looked at Dokja-hyung. "Geez, what took you so long dongsaeng?" Dokja asked me while Jinwoo sat and watched our interaction.

I saw them follow me from behind like they were slick about it, it made things easier since I was worried about them a lot. "Alright, we should go now." Jinwoo interrupted, we went back to the car, Jinwoo followed us from behind, we made it home and were surprised to see a woman. No, it was a teenage girl… The girl looked at us.

"Jinwoo, who are these kids? Wait, don't tell me you had children, don't worry I'll keep it a secret!" The girl shouted, yeah shouted out what you said you were gonna keep a secret isn’t a secret anymore…

(A/N: Deja fu anyone?)

Not gonna lie, I felt like something was watching me… I knew my brothers were following me and watching me but I felt like there was maybe something else, maybe my gut is wrong? I brushed those thoughts to the side and looked at the girl who was currently talking to Jinwoo, “These are my adoptive kids, Dokja, Rok Soo, and Yoojin and this, kids, is my sister.” Jinwoo explained, sister? I looked at the girl, I guess they do look alike then.

POV: Dokja

I looked at the girl, her personality kinda reminding me about someone… I should also look into the shadow’s thing, without the shadow monarch I cannot go back to my world. Those knights seemed to appear from the shadows so they’re probably the shadows but what did the shadow monarch want to do with me? I felt hyung tap my shoulder, I looked up, I guess I spaced out a bit. Hyung and dongsaeng went with me to the room.

Dongsaeng went to the bathroom to shower and I put away the clothes he bought. When I looked through the bags I saw clothes that didn’t fit him, was he caring about us? Aww he is so kind but I can’t assume things, I put away the clothes on hangers. He bought really cute clothes that look so fashionable even without anyone in them. I looked over my shoulder and I saw hyung cleaning up our room from the unfinished game on monopoly we were playing, it’s been a bit since things have been this calming.

I mean, first being abused by my dad, then having many reporters surround my house and be used as a money bag by my uncle, then an apocalypse in my world were I got no rest but I did live my dream, lastly, abuse by my mother this time however now I had siblings who took care of me, and now a suspicious guy adopting us. Cale got out of the shower fully dressed in pj’s, then he collapsed on the bed like a tired, busy, man. I then went to take a shower, it was really refreshing to finally have warm water wash away all the dirtiness on me. I quickly finished, however, because I didn’t want hyung to wait to shower because of me. I put on my pj’s that hyung bought for us, he really is the most thoughtful person in this world. I then fell onto the bed just like my sleeping brother, he was so adorable!

At night I might sneak out to investigate those shadows, I have to somehow help the shadow monarch, although I might have a hard time saying bye to my hyung and dongsaeng… Yoo Joonghyuk did help me not die but hyung and dongsaeng protected me from the abuser… When I have to decide I’ll be missing the other either way, but I’ll handle it later.

[ Ki m D o kj a t h ink s w hy c a nt t h ey b o th b e w it h m e ]

I would argue with you fourth wall, but I guess he was kinda correct after all. I still probably have a ton of time to think it through and I could probably reach a compromise by the end and I would have to talk it out with my hyungs and stuff. I heard the door click open and hyung joined us on the bed, I slept on the other end of hyung so I had to get him to let him in but it was worth it, we outgrew our old bed so we never got to sleep together without squishing each other. I watched as Hyung fell asleep next to the already asleep younger brother. I made sure they were asleep before sneaking out of the house. I stole the key to the apartment and ran off to the town.

[ Demon King of Salvation transformation activated ]

I quickly flew over to the place where I was knocked out, there were almost no security cameras because the town couldn’t afford them. I made it to the exact spot where I first saw Jinwoo, I looked around, there was nothing to be seen, no evidence of fighting or blood. Was Jinwoo strong enough to fight the shadows without a single scratch or was something else going on? Just then I spotted one of the shadow soldiers, I wasn’t dumb enough to ask them for a meeting with the shadow monarch after all, they might think I have bad intentions and probably not know much about the shadow monarch as I tried asking and looking through stuff but couldn’t find it. I guess my best chance is to follow it to their leader but that’ll be hard knowing they travel through shadows. Speaking of shadows, where did the shadow come from?

I pushed those thoughts out and quickly fought the knight, he didn’t use a sword or weapon and last time we met they said that their leader wanted to see me. “What does your leader want from me?” I questioned, the shadow knight didn’t respond, I knew I had to escape them, fighting is useless against unless you know their weakness or their leader. I quickly left, I still had the key in my hands, I shouldn't go back home cause the shadow might attack my siblings again. I look back, it seems I lost them and I was near my house… Strange.

I quickly entered the house, only to be confronted by Jinwoo. "So, why were you outside?" Jinwoo asked, "How did you know I was outside?" I asked, he looked at me, is he the shadow monarch? Jinwoo sighs.

"I was awake when you went outside, I heard the door close." Jinwoo stated, I sneaked out and closed the door very quietly, I had learned to close the door so quiet only a mouse would hear it. "Fine, you caught me, bye." I left, I couldn’t really hold a conversation without my siblings, maybe I've become too reliant on them… I went to the room and closed the door, not before hearing Jinwoo sigh.

I went onto the bed quietly, and slept.

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When I looked around, I saw a black foggy plane, you couldn't see anything beyond the darkness. The ground was made of tiled concrete and was the only thing worth noting. I know this is a dream but where am I? When I turned my head back forward, I saw myself… It wasn't me, but this body's previous owner, I could tell because the person in front of me was younger and different from my past personality.

[ The fourth Wall is shaking ]

What? Shaking? Isn't this a dream why are you here…?

"Dokja Kim, thank you for taking care of my siblings. Something I was unable to do." The other 'me' thanked me, "It's really nothing." I humbly responded, "As a gift, I'll tell you something and give you something." I looked at the other 'me'.

"Jinwoo, cannot be trusted, he isn't the kind person you think he is. Follow him into a dungeon and you'll see what I mean." The previous owner continued, "Look inside your coat, I gifted you, even though it wasn't Me who gave it to you, it'll come in handy later." Ugh, this is giving me the chills. I thanked the owner.

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When I blinked my eyes open, I saw my hyung and dongsaeng sleeping next to me. I looked down to see I was wearing my white coat from my previous life, it was oversized but I'll make it work… Somehow. I put my hand inside the pocket to pull out unbroken fate! I quickly put that sword back inside the pocket.

How would I follow Jinwoo into a dungeon? Just then, I heard Jinwoo take a call, he then packed up to leave the house. I then woke my siblings up, "Wake up, we're following Jinwoo into a dungeon, quickly, we have no time." I told hyung and dongsaeng, they blinked at me with surprise. Hyung got out of bed and didn't question things, he always trusted me.

Cale However, was suspicious but wherever hyung went, we would follow along. I would go alone however, I might have just a little, a little, separation anxiety.

[ Li a  r ]

When I heard the door click meaning that Jinwoo left, we quickly left the house quietly. We quietly followed him, I made sure my footsteps were as quiet as a mouse, Cale lazily used one of his powers. Somehow, we lost Jinwoo. I thought it wasn't a coincidence, Jinwoo must've noticed us, but how?

"Dokja-hyung."

"He's over here." Cale announced and we followed him over until we were at a mining site, we silently observed Jinwoo talk to the people shortly before entering the portal. Once they entered, we snuck around the guards, now we just had to get past the portal guards… How are we gonna get through? Maybe I could distract them.

Suddenly, I was pulled by a hand I recognized, Hyung. We were using Cale's powers to go faster than the guards didn't realize us by the time they both looked to the side. Wow, hyung is so fast at making decisions and being able to execute them. We entered the portal. However, it wasn't what we expected.

Jinwoo was being escorted by Orcs! "Do we help him?" I asked hyung, "Well, we need food and a comfortable life so Cale-ya can get his slacker life. The gate is being blocked off by a magical barrier so the only way to escape is by defeating the boss. So in other words, we don't have a choice." Hyung explained and Cale nodded happily, he happily agreed to hyung whenever he was a suck up!

"You're so smart, hyung, you're amazing!" I commented, well, I was a suck up too. But who cares? It's for hyung!

"For once I agree with Dokja-hyung." Cale added.

This little rascal! Our conversation was interrupted by orcs, they noticed us because we were too loud. "Kill them?" I asked, "Kill them." My siblings replied, we launched ourselves at the approaching orcs.

I pulled out my unbreakable faith, slashed into the orcs one by one. I heard the sounds of fire probably from Cale and the sounds of a sword clashing onto something, I kept on fighting my battle. I can't get distracted and look over at my siblings. Before I knew it, the orcs died as soon as they came. I made sure hyung and dongsaeng weren't injured and hyung inspected the bodies of the orcs.

"Hm, we must've entered an A-rank dungeon. These are high orcs, we have to get going quickly, Jinwoo might not be able to make it." Hyung inspected the orcs, "Hyung you're so smart." Me and Cale commented in sync, we all traveled through the high orc's territory. There were many caves but luckily we used Cale's abilities to navigate through the confusing tunnels.

"You have such a good memory Cale-ya, no wonder why you get such good grades." Hyung praised me, which got a pleased expression from Cale and made me let out a small pout. Then, we encountered high orcs, I was fast to eliminate them, now  hyung will give me praise! As we walked I waited for my praise… We continued to walk which made Cale smirk.

He knew this ticked me off! "We're here." Hyung said which made me focus forward, we saw a lot of high orcs. "Everyone charge!" I heard a bloody scream yell, hyung covered our eyes.

I couldn't see anything but the loud crashing and screams of a human. I covered my ears. Hyung stopped and we saw Jinwoo talking to the man, it was too low for me to hear. "I don't think you guys should be here, let me handle it, you guys are still growing and shouldn't witness this." Hyung expressed, concerned.

"No need to worry hyung. We'll protect you." Cale replied with an indifferent face, however, we won't spout nonsense when it comes to our hyung. He protected us for years and now that we have the opportunity to protect him, we will take that chance over and over again. We saw Jinwoo smash a high orc up and down.

Suddenly, shadows began to rise up from the ground… Is Jinwoo the shadow monarch?! "Stay here, I'll go rescue the other hunters-" "We're coming with you hyung!" I interrupted hyung and me and Cale went into the battlefield, I can't wait to use unbreakable faith again! However, I can't believe that Jinwoo actually kidnapped us…

At Least he isn't hitting us.

I stuck near hyung along with Cale, we had to make sure he was safe, he was weak after all, just like Cale. "Dokja-ya, if you're gonna fight you need to focus." Hyung told me while fighting off one high orc, I helped hyung by using my sword to disconnect the head of the orc. Activate bookmark 6.

[ Bookmark Slot 6 activated]

[ The exclusive skill Electrification lvl: ??? Has been activated ]

[ Your incarnation form is not suitable for the skill Electrification ]

[ Due to Incompatibility with your incarnation form. Electrification has been temporarily adjusted ]

[ The exclusive skill Electrification lvl: 20 Has been activated ]

My body turned blue and I turned small and started to cut off the heads of high orcs with ease. I looked at the soldiers of Jinwoo, everyone had secrets but he technically kidnapped us so I wasn't happy with him. I continued to fight high orcs, I looked at Cale, his shield had activated, it seemed like he missed an orc or something. I wanted to use the demon king Transformation but that'll attract attention. I for some reason helped one of Jinwoo's soldiers kill a high orc, I also noticed how some shadows seemed stronger than the rest.

"What are you three doing here?" I heard a cold voice ask, I turned around to see Jinwoo holding a dagger. I held up my guard, "Hymn of the fire dragon." I heard the boss say, I was covered in a shield barrier, it was Cale protecting me. When the explosion finished, I turned Electrification off and quickly headed to Cale.

"Cale! Are you ok?!" I asked, he was coughing up blood again! "Cale, this is why I told you guys to stay away from the battlefield." Hyung added.

"I'll be ugh, fine." Cale said as he coughed up blood, I looked at Jinwoo, was  it just me or he seemed… Mad… the shadow soldiers were set on us and Jinwoo quickly went to defeat the boss, soon enough Cale stopped coughing up blood. Hyung carried Cale like he was carrying fragile glass.

My two siblings are so weak haha… Just then, I heard loud explosions, I looked at the source, Jinwoo was fighting with the boss. "Cale, are you feeling better?" I asked, "Yeah, kinda exhausted my mana in the fight." Cale responded, he tried to reassure me and hyung but seeing him smile made me more frustrated.

Is this how my companions feel? I guess I'll apologize to them when I get back…

A shadow handed me a potion, "Give it to Cale, it's a mana potion." Hyung told me, he recognized the potion at first glance? Hyung's so smart! I took the potion and made Cale drink it, he definitely recovered his mana cause he looked less pale now.

"The potion is probably from Jinwoo, he's holding a potion right now." Hyung explained, then I watched the shadows of high orcs arise from the ground, the stronger shadows started to kill as many warriors as they could while we were left with the new high orc shadows. I made sure to kill more orcs, I didn't use too many abilities just straight up killed them with my unbroken faith. "Hymn of agony, Hymn of frenzy, Hymn of Blindness."

I looked at the party next to me, they were in pain, I quickly looked back at hyung and dongsaeng. However, the shadows of the high orcs brought me back to them, ugh this is so annoying! I can kill too. I want praise from hyung! However, that wasn't improtant at the moment so I inspected my siblings.

"Are you guys ok? I saw the other humans get affected by the Hymn or whatever." I asked, "We're fine." Cale lazily said, however I didn't trust hyung so I inspected him, thankfully I didn't find any scars on hyung or affects of the hymns. I wondered how they countered it.

I countered it because my levels were too high to be affected… I think.

POV: Third Person

'How come we didn't get into the action?! We could've gotten riches from killing the boss!!' Cheapskate yelled.

'WAHHH Cale!!! If it were for me you would've been affected! We were gonna die!' Crybaby shouted in a certain red head's mind.

If it weren't for crybaby healing his body from the curses Cale would've been affected.

(A/N: I forgot about AC!! How could I? They're one of my favorite characters!!)

"I know, thank you." Cale responded to the crybaby meanwhile, Yoojin looked at his system. His curse resistance had countered the curses. Kargalgan meanwhile was surprised, humans have deflected his power and it felt like it was ◼◼◼◼◼◼…

The siblings watched as Jinwoo fought with the high orc, Dokja was amazed  by how strong Jinwoo was. 'If he's not the protagonist because of his handsome face and strength then that's bullshit!' The squid thought while looking at the protagonist of solo leveling. Yoojin and Cale just watched like it was an everyday thing because when they were in their world, it was. The shadows of the high orcs kept protecting the siblings as they were commanded.

'He reminds me of the protagonist Choi Han, hmm Choi Han… that Dog…' Cale thought while slightly red, 'I miss my baby brother Yoohyun…' Yoojin thought while looking at Jinwoo. The Shadow Monarch never fails with his task as he fights hard with the orc.

"Ugh, he's so cool he reminds me of my protagonist!" Dokja shouted out loud which made the shadows and his brothers look at him, he turned his head in embrassment.

[ I di ot ]

'Shut up!'

Kargalgan then realized how much his enemy seemed to want to protect the children, he ordered the orcs of whatever remained of his army to attack the children. He continued to shout Hymns. Meanwhile the so called kids weren't worried at all, Dokja knew the match between him and the orcs was bad. "Wrong call." Dokja pointed out, he swung at an orc and escaped the small confinement Jinwoo tried to make. He quickly sliced the heads off many of the orcs.

This made a certain monarch disquiet.

Kargalgan used Jinwoo's panic to his advantage and grew several times bigger. Jinwoo quickly returned back to senses quickly and attacked, just then, he got a message from the system.

[Mp: 0/4526 ]

POV: Cale 

Hyung was still carrying me with his soft arms, he was very gentle when carrying me. Hyung carried me like I would break if the wind blew me, I had stopped coughing up blood but dizziness was annoying, it was the after affects. I watched Dokja slaughter Orcs, then I looked over my shoulder to see a giant wild-like bear burst open the head of an orc. The winds of the battle seemed to get harder as the battle onsued. When I looked back at Dokja-ya, I saw him get captured by another shadow which made me chuckle a bit.

'Cale!! Why are you chuckling at such a gruesome fight? Wahhh!!' Crybaby shouted inside my mind. I couldn't help but smile.

Oh yeah, Jinwoo better make it up for kidnapping us. Kidnapping is not ok, whether he did it out of good intentions or not, he is still a kidnapper.

(A/N: Not me being mad at everyone who thinks r**e is romantic! It's victim and abuser here!)

"Hyung... We shouldn't trust Jinwoo." I point out catching the eye of the shadows and a nod of my hyung, then I felt my eyes slowly shut, I was so tired...

POV: Dokja

I watched as dongsaeng fell asleep, one of Jinwoo's shadows soldiers, Iconically the one who chased me down the last time, was protecting me from all the high orcs coming at me. "Let me go." I command the shadow who shakes its head, oh yeah, wasn't I supposed to aid the Shadow Monarch?

Ugh it's Jinwoo isn't it?

I hear something from Jinwoo that caught my ears. "I have bad memories with Giant enemies, your trying to embrass me infront of my kids aren't you?" Jinwoo shouted out loud, kids? Ugh! You kidnapped us for God's sake we aren't your kids!

I wanted to release my status but it'll affect my siblings too so I didn't! Then, I got a message.

[ The dungeon boss has been slain ]

I quickly kicked out of the shadow's grasp and headed over to Jinwoo, the remaining orcs seemed to have learned their lesson from their brothers as they made a path for me. Jinwoo bent down and started to extract the shadow, "What are you doing?" I asked, of course I knew what he was doing so why did I ask that? Then, a shadow of the boss emerged, ugh, this stupid handsome protagonist! Jinwoo turned around and looked at me, we made eye contact.

"Dokja?" Jinwoo asked, "Who else?" I answered, "Why did you follow me into the dungeon?" Jinwoo questioned, I rolled my eyes, "Why did you kidnap us and lie to us?" I inquired, Jinwoo stayed quiet.

"Let's talk about this later? What should I name this guy? It was something Kar..." Jinwoo changed the subject, this punk. I looked at the orc.

"How about Tusk?" I purposed, "Hm, I was thinking of the same thing." Jinwoo smiled, "Let's go with Tusk." Jinwoo answered, then, I saw my hyung walking towards me with dongsaeng in his hands. I run back to hyung, I was beginning to become taller than hyung.

"Hunter Sung Jinwoo." I heard someone call out, when I turned around I saw saw a man with ginger hair and midnight black glasses. I looked back at Jinwoo to see his flustered face, for a shadow monarch, he is too funny, I let out a small chuckle. Jinwoo suddenly halted, as if he froze up, I looked up to see a small smile on his face, he picked me up, "Aw, Dokja-ya laughed and smiled at me." Jinwoo replied with a smirk like expression that made my nerves shout.

The people with Sunglasses (Was it prescription?) Stepped up infront of us, Jinwoo was still holding me much to my hyung's dislike. Hyung's liking of Jinwoo has gone below the charts! The people were discussing something but one of the men turned to me, "You are an unlisted hunter, please go to the Center-" "No, he is not going there to get evaluated, he is my  son and he shouldn't be risking his life." Jinwoo interrupted the man before he could put a thought about becoming a hunter inside my head.

We walked away from the other party as they thanked Jinwoo and my siblings. Jinwoo carried me home, or so I thought. We weren't heading home, but some other direction! Oh right, I had to talk to Jinwoo about that. I looked at Jinwoo who was still carrying me.

I had to assist this man but why should I do that if he has kidnapped me and worst of all, kidnapped my sibling? "Jinwoo... Why did you kidnap me and my siblings?" I inquired from the monarch, Jinwoo stopped walking. Whatever comes out of that mouth, I'll use lie Detection!

Jinwoo then continued walking, "If... I am being honest here, I felt that you guys were strong. I passed by you two in the halls of a hospital while visiting my mom in the hospital... At first, I wanted to put you guys on a tight leash, kill you guys and make you a shadow if I must..." Jinwoo paused letting us take it in...

"However, some reason. I felt like you were familiar to me so I waited, I noticed you went out." Jinwoo explained but I felt the stare of my hyung, he's pissed! "In the end, I couldn't kill or even put a leash on you guys so, I adopted you guys." Eh?

"Why did you even adopt us in the first place?" My thoughts rolled off the tip of my tongue, "I couldn't kick you guys out, I decided that I want to find out why you are familiar to me." I see, for his own entertainment... Before I ask more questions, we entered a café, Jinwoo went up and bought some things. He came back to us and set the food down in the table.

"Eat this if you want, they sell good things here." Jinwoo explained before sitting down with another male, "I don't trust him." Hyung expressed, pretty reasonable if I say so myself. Jinwoo's just using us for his entertainment, we shouldn't rely or trust him cause he can throw us out any time. I nod at hyung, he was so smart!

"I agree..." Cale-ya agreed while sitting down, Cale opened the bag however and started to stuff his mouth with sweets. "These are pretty good, I guess we can forgive him this once but that's it!" Cale-ya expressed with a flushed face, hyung sighed, I can see hyung's point of view right now... Dealing with us who are too forgiving, I have to forgive that bastard protagonist because I have to assist him!

POV: Han Yoojin

I really didn't understand Jinwoo at all... Wait, it wasn't that I didn't understand him, it's just that this situation kinda reminds me of my younger brother's situation where I misunderstood him and made him suffer... Why can I have a happy life? I don't deserve it... I should put more thought into my decision...

Jinwoo has some alternative motive doesn't he? "Let's observe him, we'll see if he's trust worthy." I purpose, my siblings nod. Then I reached into the bag, seeing my siblings  enjoy it makes me curious. As I bit into the macaroon, I felt the creamy texture and the sweet taste fill my mouth.

I felt my sparkle as I ate these macaroon, this dessert is so good! I continued to munch and munch until the macaroon was gone. After a bit of eating, the macaroons and all the desserts were gone. I grabbed my wallet to get more for my siblings then Jinwoo swept me into his arms. My younger brothers immediately got up from their seats.

"Uhh, Jinwoo. Did you finish talking?" I asked, "Yeah, infact, this is Jinho, he'll be watching you when I don't have the time." Jinwoo answered, we aren't babies, plus my siblings are more mature for their age thanks to trauma! Jinwoo smirked while looking at my expression, this jerk!

(A/N: He wasn't smirking, he was smiling at how adorable Yoojin was)

I looked at Jinho with a glare which got a small yelp from him, hmm, maybe having him as a babysitter isn't so bad. Jinwoo smirked again as he carried me home. It seems he was watching us a lot because my siblings follow me almost wherever I go, he's using me, how annoying! I try to get myself down but he holds me close tightly. I roll my eyes as we go home, this dumb shadow king?

Is he a shadow king? Protagonist is a better word to describe him. This dumb Protagonist is too good for his own good!

Extra:

Back on Cale’s Earth:

“Why do I feel like I’ve been cursed out so many times? And why do my temples keep burning down? And why won’t Cage/Kage talk to me!?...” A certain god asked, “Maybe it’s because you did something to humanity's favorite human?” God of Sun (goS) replied to the god’s comment.

Meanwhile with Cale's group…

"Let's burn that dumb god's temples!" Shouted the small chubby black dragon, "You're right Raon-ssi!" Choi Han agreed with Raon and they continued to burn the temples down. "Ugh dongsaeng, I should put you on a leash or something, everytime I keep my eye off you you cause trouble.." The Sun of the empire cried in despair, Clopeh meanwhile, was praising his legend.

"Fuck God of Death nya!" "Yeah nya!" The two red and silver cat tribe kittens shouted, "Who taught you that!?" Asked Eruhaben or also known as the father.

Back on Dokja’s Earth:

“No, I don’t know where Dokja went, that guy disappears and reappears all the time.” Lee Jihye told some constellations.

[ The constellation ‘Secretive Plotter’ Sighs ]

[ The Constellation ‘Demon Judge-Like fire’ is panicking ]

[ 500 coins donated ]

“Why do I feel like that squid is doing something stupid behind our backs?” Lee Jihye sighed and sat down, she was very tired and looked at her master who was currently contemplating on killing Dokja even though he had already killed Kim Dokja.

'Aren't they married? So… Master wants to kill ahjussi… the other way?!' Jihye thought with flushed cheeks, she had pieced together 51% of a puzzle!

Jihye then stares at the younger ones Including Biyoo who are whining and crying in Sangah's arms, she stares at a certain person with black hair who's jealous but won't admit it in the background. She also looks at Heewon who's been killing monsters as a coping mechanism? And the big teddy bear who looks sad but won't admit it looking at the kids.

"Someone was being dramatic for money." Commented Sangah while looking at Sooyoung who cried a river for a squid. Then, out of rage cooked and ate a squid she found. "I milked the constellations for that money!" Sooyoung shouted proudly like a cat.

Meanwhile with Plotter…

"I saw him disappear, one. First we gotta figure out how to-" 999 was interrupted by a notification.

[ A Hidden Scenario has arrived! ]

The Secretive Plotter looked at the notification with newfound interest, "I see, get ready, all of you. We're heading to a place...

Back on Yoojin’s Earth:

Song Taewon has been constantly working, then he got a call... He immediately ran outside and went to the site, what he saw was chaos.

Peace was Burning down building along with Yoohyun, although it was a criminal organization building, Peace mauled at criminals searching for his father.

Yoohyun burned through criminals with his sword, their faces will be unrecognizable in the mug shot.

Song Taewon immediately went to the floor the S rankers were attacking, "What do you think you're doing hunter Yoohyun Han?" Sing Taewon asked, a cold sweat running down the sides of his face as he looked at the burnt, crisp, faces of the criminals. The fire was scorching hot, multiple sweats ran down Song Taewon's body. "Where is my hyung?" Yoohyun questioned while holding the hair of the criminals leader, Yoohyun ignored Taewon.

Then Taewon saw gold chains along with golden hair wrap around him and saw Sung Hyunjae, "Where is my item?" A cold, voice inquired from Taewon, sure, Hyungjae can be gentle and kind however. His item was missing, although not shown to the public, Hyundai does have a tendency to be protective of his item. "Please refrain from harming the organization any longer, we are focusing on finding hunter Han Yoojin." Song Taewon tried to calm down the poked bears, no, you couldn't even call them bears, monsters was the right words.

It seems the leash got loose on these monsters...

Time Skip: A day later

Yoohyun strolled through the dungeon killing A class monsters with ease... He was scared, angry, confused. Where was his hyung, then, he got a notification...

Hello! Yoohyun Han!

Please get ready as soon, you will need to go somewhere important. Please inform people of your leave but DONT tell them why!

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POV: Dokja

It was hard getting to this center but we made it, and another note, Jinwoo is very popular. I looked outside the window, only I was brought to this event because Jinwoo wanted to bring one of us along, Yoojin and Cale were scared of attention but I was curious and I could protect myself unlike hyung, Cale could've came but Cale just wanted to sleep. Hyung insisted he would go with me but I told him to keep an eye on Cale-dongsaeng, "Who's that?" I asked while looking at Jinwoo there was a black haired, and red shirt man near the center, "I don't know and you don't have to look at me while speaking." Jinwoo answered, I was getting anxious from the attention we would receive over there.

Dongsaeng didn't allow me to wear my white coat I always wore, instead he made me wear a stylish white blouse with a low V-neckline, cinched at the waist by a black belt. From the belt, glistening star-shaped chains dangled. Beneath the blouse, a tight fitted black long-sleeve undershirt, with buttoned ruffles around at the sleeve ends. My hands are covered in a black leather fingerless gloves. The loose, high-waisted shorts hung from my frame, paired with black socks and black boots with laces and multiple layered silver necklaces hung from my neck.

(A/N: You know that Cale didn't want Jinwoo to outshine his brother in fashion, where does he even get his clothes from??)

"You didn't have to come with me, Dokja-ya." Jinwoo explained while stepping out of the car, I followed him out, "... I honestly hate being away from my hyung and Cale-ya." I explained, he did notice how on the car ride towards the center I was getting anxious and the whole car ride I was texting hyung and Cale. Jinwoo tried to hold my hand but I flinched back, he sighed.

"Since you don't wanna hold my hand you better stay close by." Jinwoo stated firmly and I forced myself to nod, it was ok to stay with him cause at least he provided food without us needing to work and it was always dongsaeng’s dream to slack off living the rich life… I followed him as he squeezed through the crowd, I was able to fit through without being noticed as much as him since I was still as skinny as a toothpick according to Jinwoo. My heart rate went up as people were recording us as we stood in front of everybody so Jinwoo tried to make it fast, "Hey! Who are you?"

The tough guy shouted which made me cover my ears and remember all the shouting that my hyung had to face along with the times where mother shouted to our faces, Jinwoo went in front of me, shielding me from glances of people who I didn't know. "Are you with the association?" The guy asked, "Don't you see all the reporters here?" The guy scolded us, and I continued to tremble a bit.

[The 4th wall has offset some of your fear!]

[ The 4th Wall us trembling! ]

"You two can't pass through them!" The guy shouted, I could tell it got Jinwoo pissed because his aura started to leak out. "I have business with the association now, please step aside." Jinwoo asked firmly, "You can't enter right now, go back to where you came from." The tough guy stood his ground, I really wanted to hit him...

"You can't pass through here so go away!" The guy shouted, I was about to punch him until I heard a voice, "On whose authority are you trying to send him away?" I looked behind the tough guy to see an old man, "Go… Chairman Go Gun-hee?" I heard people shout, was he that special oh yeah, I forgot chairman’s are special and we learned about him in school.

The old man smiled, "That man is his guest and that is his child who is also welcome." Gunhee announced, "Mr. Lee Min Sung, I'm sure you already know who allowed you to hold a press conference here?" Go Gunhee asked to confirm, "O-of Course." The guy stuttered, "Hunter Sung Jinwoo and…" Gunhee looked at me expecting me to answer.

"He is Sung Kim Dokja and Kim Dokja as in reader." Jinwoo answered for me, Gunhee was surprised that Jinwoo answered for me but didn't decide to press on it. I went inside with Jinwoo and I heard talking behind me but I ignored her and texted Yoojin-hyung and Cale while also reading my manhwa. The adults kept on talking but I didn't care and continued reading my manhwa with the phone hyung bought for me. I didn't really need my phone much but I needed to text hyung and the key chain Cale gave me.

The chairman guy kept looking at me warily, many people we passed also the people I passed by looked at me while their faces were pale. Were they shocked that I was with Jinwoo and that this cold hearted guy actually had a child?

Hyung didn't get Cale a phone because he was too young. According to hyung, I looked up and listened in on the conversation, "Before we start the evaluation, we'll confirm your abilities to assign your class. What kind of abilities do you have?" The guy with glasses asked, "I can do something like this." Jinwoo stated that a blue shadow knight arose from the ground like how it did on the day I was cleaning up the blood stains.

"Is this… a summoned creature? You can control creatures?" The guy asked, "Hunter Sung Jinwoo, are you saying that this is your full capacity of your ability?" Gunhee asked, I watched as Jinwoo hesitated before summoning more shadows.

Everyone in the room, (besides me of course) was surprised about the sudden rising of shadows like zombies I'm the ground. "I can summon about a 100 of these creatures." Jinwoo explained, "O-one hundred? No way…" The guy muttered, dude, don't you see how powerful Jinwoo is just by his mana?

"O-oh, I heard that your son possessed skills, mind if we test it?" The guy asked, he has been staring at me for a while. "Only if he allows it." Jinwoo answered, hmph, hyung told me to not reveal all my powers but said minor,less stronger powers might be ok… I shook my head while looking at the messages my hyung sent me.

Hyung was so worried.

"He said no." Jinwoo answered, he then left and went to get his association card. "Uh hubae-nim." The guy with orange hair called out to me.

(A/N: Hubae-nim is a Korean way to address someone younger than them, when meeting someone for the first time koreans like to use honorifics)

I looked at the man, he was definitely an S rank so I bet he can feel the aura that I'm letting out. "Are you sure you don't want-" "No, I'm too young to be a hunter according to hyung-nim." I replied, cutting him off. I knew I would get in trouble for this but hyung-nim's rules were to not trust people easily besides from him and Cale-ya. However, I took it as to not trust anyone but hyung-nim and dongsaeng.

Just then Jinwoo came into the room, the guy looked at me then at Jinwoo, "Mr. Sung Jinwoo, can you and your child spend some of your time?" The orange haired guy didn't even get to state why because Jinwoo cut him off, "I'm sorry, but I still have something left to do and Dokja-ya's siblings will get mad at me if I don't return with him cause they all have separation anxiety." Jinwoo tried to hold my hand again but I just followed him from behind. "Huh? That exit is!" The pink-haired man shouted from behind us.

"I wouldn't leave through that exit if I were you." The orange-haired man expressed but Jinwoo opened the door and we were met with flashes and the repetitive sound of the camera's clicking, "Huh? What is this?!" Jinwoo asked as he surprisingly looked at the crowd, I hid behind Jinwoo. Many people started shouting trying to get Jinwoo's attention, many people were looking at me and asking me questions.

I'm sure hyung is watching and I'm sure as day that he's not happy, "It'll get tiring if you deal with them. Let's go, we'll escort you to your place." The orange-haired man offered, Jinwoo suddenly held my hand, softer than I expected and weird since I've never held anyone else's hand besides from hyung and dongsaeng. He moved with a fast pace that would usually be invisible to the human eye but I could see he ran around the reporters while holding my hand. "We're ok." Jinwoo replied and got me out of the uncomfortable place, I snatched my hand back out of instinct.

He walked me to the car and we drove to the house. The moment we opened the door we (or I) were greeted by Cale and Yoojin. "Dokja-ya are you ok?" Hyung asked worriedly while holding Cale in his arms like a princess as he slept, "I'm fine, I didn't like being recorded however Jinwoo got me out of there quickly." I explained, hyung nodded with a smile.

"Get ready, we're heading out again." Jinwoo explained, I sighed as hyung took me to my room and started to get dongsaeng ready. While hyung was holding dongsaeng with one arm and holding my hand, dongsaeng stirred from his sleep and I could see his eyelids open up and his eyes looking around. "Morning Dongsaeng~." I greeted which ended with me getting another stoic look from dongsaeng.

Cale got down from Hyung's arms and started to get us dressed. I sat down while Cale dressed in a dark red knitted almost sleeveless shirt with a white collar, under his cotton shirt was a long sleeve shirt which had a dark red stripe at the bottom of the sleeve and the undershirt was loose and slightly bigger than the knitted shirt so it showed at the bottom, a cute heart necklace, a black belt, and dark brown pants with shining shoes. Hyung wore a short sleeve pastel blue shirt, he had a white jacket around his forearms that was a bit oversized causing only his fingers to be visible, his white high shorts with black laces, and a white and blue laced boots.

We followed Jinwoo into the car with me holding dongsaeng with one hand while holding Hyung's hand with the other. As we got into the car and drove to some random place I felt Dongsaeng sleep in my arms. As we sat inside the car, dongsaeng slept on hyungs shoulder while I leaned onto the other side of Hyung's shoulder. After a long drive we arrived at a place hyung brought us out and we followed Jinwoo inside and met with an old man with a mustache and glasses. Jinwoo gave him a red orb, where did he get that from?

He didn't have it in the car… Jinwoo then gave the clerk the red orb and the clerk started to analyze it. I looked at hyung who was still holding dongsaeng. He was shaking so I took dongsaeng out of his hands for him.

"I've been appraising artifacts for a very long time, but this is the first red dyed orb that I've seen…" The guy expressed, right now neither me nor my siblings are surprised. I'm not sure why hyung isn't surprised but I know Cale has stronger things in his world. "It really is able to amplify magic by 100%." The guy explained, well that's nice I guess.

"Where did you purchase this?" The guy asked Jinwoo, "I found it in the dungeon." Jinwoo answered, he's hiding something because he left the answer vague, he's usually more informative.

[ Your understanding of Jinwoo Sung has increased! ]

"You found this in a dungeon?" The guy asked, "Would you like to auction this item off at our auction house? We can help you find the best price." The auctioneer explained.

"I'll think about it, is it possible to purchase artifacts with fire resistance?" Jinwoo asked, I looked at hyung, he's probably gonna go into a dungeon if anything. However, how does he know this dungeon has fire? Is he like me and Cale who transmigrated into our world? (I didn't really transmigrate however) The guy looked surprised.

"Fire resistance?" The clerk asked, "Would it be difficult to obtain?" Jinwoo asked, "Not at all actually, are you gonna use it for your other son's? I heard that only one has awakened a power." The guy asked while looking at me, why are you looking at me?

Jinwoo frowned, "No, I'm not gonna put my sons into any kind of danger." Jinwoo answered, the guy nodded then continued, "Artifacts with elemental resistances are usually expensive so we don't put them up for sale online. However, it's still easy to obtain." The guy explained, "Among the different magic types, Fire is the most common." The guy explained, "Please follow me." The guy requested, we follow him into a luxurious room filled with flashy looking clothes.

Wait, didn't Cale say that he had elemental abilities?

"Do you like anything you see?" The guy asked, while the adults continued to talk, I looked at Cale. "Hyung-nims, do you think it's ok to have these behind these thin glass boards?" Dongsaeng asked, oh, he woke up, "I honestly don't think so but I can see mana flowing from the panels so maybe it's mana repellant?" I commented, I touched the glass.

A small Crack appeared and I quickly backed away. We saw Jinwoo leave so we all followed him not wanting the shadows he put in our shadows to lift us up and carry us towards him. I looked at Jinwoo who was purchasing daggers, I went to the sword section and my siblings followed me. I took out my coat and pulled unbreakable faith from the pocket. I do wanna know how expensive this sword is as a star relic.

"Hello, are you here to sell that?" A lady asked, "Can you see how much it's worth?" I asked while giving her the sword. I didn't trust her but she was weaker than me so it's fine, "Wow, the amount of magic power this sword holds… It could go for around maybe 120 million won (89,509.84 usd) at the least." I jumped at the amount and looked at Cale who looked like he planned to sell my sword.

I grabbed the sword back and put It into my coat where it was safe and sound. When we drove home, there were many reporters flashing cameras at our apartment. Jinwoo looked at us and smirked, "Say 'please help me get through the crowd papa or dada and I'll help you get through the crowd.'" Jinwoo stated, heh, luckily, I could do that myself. We got out of the car and I held hyung in my arms.

[ Personal Skill, Bookmark, has been activated ]

Activate bookmark 2.

[ Bookmark two has been activated ]

[ Way of the wind activated ]

[ Due to Incompatibility with your incarnation form. 'Way of The Wind' has been temporarily adjusted ]

[ The exclusive skill 'Way of The Wind' lvl: 20 Has been activated ]

What a general pain in the ass!

With hyung using an ability I assumed made him faster, we ran around the crowd and into the apartment. All the reporters only felt a strong gust of wind, before we knew it, we were at the front of the apartment and knocked on the door. Jinah opened the door and we rushed inside. I knew Jinwoo was right behind us but I didn't give a s##t. As we entered I watched the reporters trying to get a hold of us which made me and my siblings back away from the window in our room.

Jinwoo moved us into his mother's room since we all refused to sleep in his room with him, Cale-dongsaeng said that it made Jinwoo sad. Cale and hyung wanted me to go to bed, Cale especially because he knew that I was abused and that reporters would come to my house often. "Should I go down and tell them to leave us alone?" Jinwoo asked, I got out of bed much to my siblings' disappointment. I peeked out the door and saw Jinwoo and Jinah.

Jinwoo looked disappointed right now as I watched them argue and suddenly the doorbell rang. "I wonder who that is." Cale said from behind me, he peeked out the room and saw a man with a backpack... Oh, it was Jinho! We made eye contact and the young man looked away, I guess he is scared of me!

Jinho started to tell us about what happened, useless infomation if you ask me and Cale, I don't know about Dokja however. Jinwoo slammed the door in the guy's face, that isn't a way to treat guests no gonna lie. I yawned and went to our room, my younger brothers followed me and we slept on the bed together.

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I blinked my eyes awake, where am I? I got up and walked around?

“Hi honey!“

Oh, it was the system the volleyball to be exact. “I thought you guys could only talk to me in a dungeon.“ I questioned, then again, this might be another one of their lies.

“Well, this is technically a dungeon… And by the way! Your hunters are going crazy!“

“Yeah, I knew that would happen. Why did you guys teleport me without telling me or my permission?“ I asked.

“We were in a hurry! One of the world's have gone out of control for some reason and you need to gain 50 S-rankers so we thought this would help. You can teleport them and you to another world!“

They're not telling me about it all again, this trust I have for them is getting thinner and thinner.

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(This doesn't take place in the story, sorry and it's short! I'm so sorry my dear readers)

POV: Kim Dokja

Today was my birthday that I only ever celebrated with my dear protagonist, Yoo Joonghyuk… I got up from the bed, I've never really enjoyed my birthday as much as I should. My birthday really just represents the day I was born into the world and made from my abusive parent… I walked into the kitchen, I saw hyung and Jinwoo making something… I rolled my eyes, whatever hyung makes is good but I don't know about Jinwoo.

Cale-ya say down next to me, “Happy birthday Dokja-hyung.“ Cale greeted, eh? How'd he know? “Cale-ya, thanks but How'd you know, I didn't tell anyone.“ I questioned, Cale pointed to hyung.

Oh, right. “Hyung is the best.“ I said, Yoohyun who heard us as he walked into the dinning room agreed. “Yeah, my hyung is the best.“ Yoohyun commented proudly, this bitch!

Since it was my birthday, hyung would pay more attention to me! Just then, hyung set down a large batch of seaweed soup. Hyung patted my head which made Yoohyun scoff. Then we ate the seaweed soup, it was delicious, as expected from hyung! Hyung left and came back with something, a present.

“What is that?“ I asked, “See for yourself.“ Hyjng replied, I opened the present being careful cause it was a gift from hyung, afterall. When I opened it, I was met with a black scarf and a squid plush that looked to be crocheted. “Cale made the scarf and I crocheted the squid, Yoohyun said that you loved squids.“

Hyung explained, Yoohyun! That pyscho! I will have my revenge some day! “Thank you hyung and Cale-ya… and Yoohyun.“ I rolled my eyes as I thanked Yoohyun.

Jinwoo patted my head and gave me some cash, wow! I get to buy hyung things now!! I took out my phone that I only used for reading and took a picture of the gifts… This was the only and most precious picture I had on my phone… This was the beat birthday ever…

I felt a drop of water coming down from my eyes, it's been so long since I've celebrated my birthday with others. I didn't even tell my companions about my birthday yet hyung knew… More drops continued to drop from my eyes.

[ The 4th wall is shaking! ]

Hyung immediately came to my side and so did Cale. Yoohyun followed hyung but didn't really comfort me… This was my best birthday ever… I wish time could stop, I wish my other family was here to celebrate… I wish, I could stay with my brothers and be with my family…

Meanwhile...

Yoo Joonghyuk was leaning against the wall, he was staring at the company worry about Kim Dokja. Just then, Yoosung went by his side. "Its ahjussi's birthday... Yet here's not here to celebrate it with us." Yoosung revealed which everyone looked at her.

Sooyoung interrupted, "That dumb squid never told anyone!"

[ The constellation 'Demon Judge Like Fire' shouts and donates 1,000 coins to the incarnations 'Yoosung' while singing praises of the incarnation "Kim Dokja' ]

"That stupid squid..." Yoo Joonghyuk curled up his fingers into a ball, he remembered that Dokja told him about it... He remembered, he just never celebrated with him. Yoo Joonghyuk went into a kitchen and started to do what he was good at, baking. Yoo Joonghyuk took about 20 minutes before coming back to a sulking members.

Yoo Joonghyuk slammed the cake on the table, everyone was surprised but Gilyoung. Gilyoung whispered into Yoosung's ear, "Told you hyung is gay, pay up."