I double-checked the writer’s ID, but no matter how many tis I read it, the letters remained the sa.
Gu Seohyeong. The fact that the na of the enchanter is here must an one thing.
***
Tang, tang, tang.
A sound of sothing splattering echoes across the cold marble table. This was the explosive noise that occurs when an enchanter infuses magic into equipnt.
– Hunter, what brings you here…?
– Perhaps permission…
However, monts later, the commotion outside the workshop grew so loud that it drowned out the enchanting sounds. However, the enchanter seed to expect this and spoke to the guards nearby.
“Is there an S-class hunter outside?”
“Yes?”
“If so, please let him in. Ah, I’m sorry, but could you all step aside for a mont?”
Soon, Gu Seohyeong was able to have a private eting with the guest who arrived at the workshop.
Standing before her was a man with bright hair and monolid eyes. It was none other than Kim Kiryeo, who had once introduced himself as an F-rank Hunter, now visiting the Enchanter’s workshop.
“Wow, you ca so quickly. Were you in front of the association when you called earlier?”
The Enchanter adjusted her glasses and attempted to lighten the mood with a casual remark. However, the response she received was sowhat stiff, indicating an underlying tension in the air.
“Gu Seohyeong.”
Kiryeo first asked a question. In a way, it wasn’t an exaggeration to say that he had co all this way just to confirm this.
“Were we classmates?”
“Mhm.”
“But why haven’t you told until now?”
The brown-haired woman answered calmly.
“…You were the one who pretended not to know first.”
Is the sadness felt in this sentence rely an error in judgnt by the alien? The wizard, who has taken over a human body, montarily panics at the other’s words, but Seohyeong continues in a grumbling voice.
“Anyway, you haven’t changed a bit. Is it because I’ve beco too pretty for you to recognize ? Huh?”
“Ah.”
“If there was sothing I had changed, I wouldn’t feel so wronged. Honestly, I thought you had completely forgotten about , so it felt a bit awkward to show it all this ti. You know?”
However, there was no response. The blonde S-rank hunter rely stood there, staring at Seohyeong’s face.
‘Hmm…’
Honestly, from this side’s perspective, it’s enough to drive anyone crazy. To finally et soone who had been close to the body’s original owner, who would have thought that his mories wouldn’t co back even after eting him face to face like this?
‘Anyway, it’s clear that we’re definitely classmates, right? Yeah. So that’s why that Earthling suddenly suggested we drop the formalities.’
After a brief mont of hesitation, the alien archmage finally opened his mouth.
“Seohyeong-ah.”
“Why?”
“Can you tell how close we were during our school days?”
“What?”
“I’m sorry, but I forgot all about that.”
The most urgent task now was to fill in the gaps in his mory.
He was eager to gather information about the body, even if it ant relying on soone else. Gu Seohyeong readily agreed to fulfill the request of her classmate.
“Do you forget things easily?”
Anyway, willingly
***
The story returns to the ti when Gu Seohyeong was in her third year of middle school, at the mont when she was threatened by delinquents and a certain male student helped him.
“Hey! What are you guys doing?”
First, let her explain the background. Gu Seohyeong and Kim Kiryeo were in the sa class during their third year of middle school. However, Seohyeong didn’t morize his na until the end of the first sester. That’s understandable, because she had never had a separate conversation with her classmate Kim Kiryeo before this incident.
“Are you okay?”
“….”
“For now, let’s stay away from those guys.”
The person with attendance number 1 was a so-called quiet student. He didn’t cause trouble, nor did he stand out in any particular way. He was always in the corner of the classroom, blending in and going about his school life quite quietly.
“The police will be here soon.”
Gu Seohyeong listened to the voice trying to reassure her as she read the na tag in front of her.
[Kim Kiryeo]
And she decided to rember the na of the student who saved her, thinking she would always be grateful to him. This was the first impression of him that remained in Seohyeong’s mind.
But one day, Gu Seohyeong noticed that the student she rembered had co to school looking different from his usual self.
The edges of pain relief patches were faintly visible above his uniform. If he had so many patches on his body, did he suddenly start exercising intensely recently?
A few days later, Seohyeong found out the truth about the patch and was utterly furious. The truth was, Kim Kiryeo hadn’t been exercising at all, but rather, because of the incident that day, he had gotten into serious trouble with the school bullies.
“What? This was all because of them?!”
Gu Seohyeong had been mistaken about the reason she was no longer being bullied. After she had threatened to report them if they ssed with her one more ti, surprisingly, the bullies stopped bothering her.
“These crazy guys…”
However, the reason things had quieted down around her was simply because, behind the scenes, the target had changed. The group that used to bully her had shifted their attention to Kim Kiryeo. In fact, they were now using even more violence than before.
“I really can’t take it anymore! I don’t care if it makes headlines or not, I’m going to expose everything. Kiryeo, report it right now! And get the school violence committee involved too!”
Gu Seohyeong, saddened by the fact that even the friend who had helped her was now suffering, cried. She was determined to punish the bullies, even if it ant enduring the unwanted attention of the public.
“That’s enough.”
However, only one student firmly stopped him.
“Just leave it alone.”
Eight years ago, Kiryeo had said, “You’re going through a really tough ti right now, wouldn’t it be too much to worry about this? It’s not like anything is broken, so honestly, I’m not sure if the teachers will even take this seriously. And lastly, I want to ntion that I’d also prefer not to escalate this matter due to my personal circumstances.”
“We’ll be graduating soon anyway.”
The tone of the boy’s voice felt almost transcendental, as if he were an S-class hunter from eight years in the future.
“Still…”
Gu Seohyeong tried to persuade him to report it several more tis after that, but the other person was quite stubborn.
Moreover, a few days later, he told her not to talk to him anymore. He suggested that it would be better to keep her distance, as the group would spread strange rumors if a celebrity got too close to soone of the opposite sex.
“You can stop pretending to know each other now.”
At this point, their relationship was worse than before the incident.
‘Does this kid hate ?’
As a child, Gu Seohyeong briefly questioned this. If Kiryeo didn’t want to get close to a celebrity, then why did he muster the courage to save her?
As you know, school violence is predicated on the presence of many bystanders. Helping the victim of bullying can put them at risk of becoming the next target—sothing that actually happened to Kim Kiryeo—so most people are forced to remain silent.
“Why did you step forward?”
But Kiryeo answered this question quite simply.
“Oh, actually, I was bullied for a short ti in elentary school too, you know?”
“Ah.”
“But when I see all the students gathered in the playground on days like the sports festival, I can’t help but feel this way.”
“What do you an?”
“If only there was one person on my side out of all those students, I would have no more wishes.”
Really, just one person.
He continued the conversation normally.
“So I’ve just thought about it since then. I decided that when I see soone struggling in the future, I won’t ignore them…”
Kiryeo said that his intervention was purely for his own satisfaction, and since he was content with the outco, he told her not to worry about it anymore. With statents like these, his character could be naturally inferred.
“I see.”
Kim Kiryeo was a good student. Moreover, he was a precious connection that helped Gu Seohyeong endure her hellish middle school years.
However, that childhood friend saved her once again as an adult.
“I was really surprised when I put on my glasses and saw your face.”
Finishing her recollection, Seohyeong tied her disheveled hair back up again.
“By the way, Kiryeo, you haven’t changed at all, have you? You’ve always been so blunt, just like before~”
She started reminiscing in a bright tone, but sohow, as the story progressed, her expression gradually grew dimr.
“It’s the sa when you see soone in need and help them.”
And the reason Seohyeong’s expression darkened was.
“I still rember what kind of person you were…”
Kim Kiryeo hadn’t recognized her at all when they reunited. The experiences they shared, her na, and even her face—none of that seed to matter much to that S-class hunter. Thinking about it made her feel rather depressed.
“Wait a minute.”
But at that mont, the man sitting across from Seohyeong noticed her expression and said casually,
“Gu Seohyeong, there’s sothing you need to know. This is a bit of a secret, but…”
“Huh?”
“The reason I didn’t rember you is due to a sort of pathological issue.”
He was confessing the truth.
“I lost my mory.”
“What?”
“I lost my mories haphazardly due to brain damage. For a while, I even forgot my own na.”
The creature wearing soone else’s skin comforted Seo-hyung as he said that.
“Anyway, that’s why I didn’t recognize you… If I had been in my right mind, I probably would have recognized you right away. So please don’t take this too personally.”
In response, Seohyeong’s eyes widened in shock as she asked back.
He lost his mory?
“Oh, wait. mory loss?! Did that happen while you were working as a hunter?”
The man in the suit nodded slightly at the question.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t entirely incorrect since Kim Kiryeo had reincarnated after completing his registration as a hunter.
“Oh my gosh! I heard your job was dangerous, but I never imagined you went through sothing so serious…!”
Seohyeong muttered with a serious expression, but then the alien archmage smoothly changed the subject.
“Don’t worry. I’m a lot better now. As you can see, I’m doing fine in my daily life.”
“I, is that so?”
“Anyway, since this is the case, would you mind telling more about my past?”
“Ah.”
“I thought I might rember sothing if I listened to you.”
However, Seohyeong made a troubled expression.
“Sorry, all I know is up to my third year of middle school…”
Of course, she didn’t know much about Kim Kiryeo’s past either.
“You were the one who kept your distance from , and that happened the year we beca high school students.”
“Dungeon Shock?”
Seohyeong nodded and recalled the past.
“Of course, after the shock had subsided, I rembered the email where we used to exchange video files and tried to contact you, but… at that ti, you didn’t reply.”
Up to this point, Kim Kiryeo’s whereabouts after entering high school are completely unknown.
“That’s why I thought you were dead.”
Why hadn’t Kiryeo checked that email? Seohyeong wanted to ask that if he were alive, he should have at least replied to her, but she quickly stopped.
‘No, there might have been so circumstances. Kiryeo must be frustrated not rembering right now, so I shouldn’t put any pressure on him.’
It’s okay. No matter how fate has twisted, she has ultimately reunited with her benefactor.
Gu Seohyeong looked at the blonde awakener dressed in a suit and smiled casually.
“Anyway, do you know how shocked I’ve been lately? Hey, you said you were F-rank, and then suddenly you show up as an S-rank hunter…”
Her old friend wasn’t much different from the one in her mories.
The sharp Sambaegan eyes. While she couldn’t say it was a good thing, it certainly left a strong impression on her mind.
Seohyeong stared at Kiryeo and said,
“Still, I was really happy when I heard that you were an S-class.”
As she spoke, a faint glimr of tears gathered at the corners of her eyes while she smiled.
“I’ve always thought that good people like you would do well in the future.”
“….”
“But I never thought this would actually happen.”
However, there was no response. For so reason, the blond man had been staring at the window without saying a word since earlier.
“Wow, look at ! Can you wait here for a mont? By the way, I have an enchantnt I need to finish this morning. I’ll be right back!”
While Gu Seohyeong went off to work, the man sitting in the corner seed lost in thought.
Tuk, tuk.
He tapped his index finger against the table, creating a rhythmic sound.
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