## Chapter 1535 – Chronicles of the Black-Haired Foreigner – The Demon God of Another World

Anyway, since I had a few things to talk about, I immediately set up a place. I cleared the sofa and everything to make space in the living room, but when it comes to Korea, isn’t sitting on the floor better than chairs?

So, we all sat in a circle on the living room floor.

“Are you that surprised?”

That bastard Geun-soo was still in a daze.

“Of course, I’m surprised… The famous Cheonma Shin was actually Geun-tae hyung.”
“Ah, damn it, the name Geun-tae sounds so awkward. Just drop the ‘tae’.”
“What? Why?”
“I abandoned that name.”

Then, my father frowned, violently tearing open a red ginseng stick and said,

“This rascal… throwing away the name his father gave him.”
“Hehehe, I bought red ginseng, so be quiet.”

In the old days, upon hearing those words, he would have jumped up in anger, scolding me with fierce punches, but my father just grumbled.

He was definitely getting old.

His wrinkles had increased, and the overflowing strength he used to have seemed to have almost completely disappeared. His hair had also turned completely white.

“…Do you think everything will be solved with red ginseng?”
“Then should I give you more red ginseng?”
“…”
“Dad, change your name too while you’re at it. Change it. What kind of name is ‘Mal-soo’? Wasn’t it ‘Mal’ (末) for ‘end’ and ‘Soo’ (手) for ‘hand’?”

‘The last hand’ was an absurd naming method. When I looked at it, my grandfather must have been crazy too. I barely remembered him, but seeing how he messed up his children’s names, he was definitely a psycho.

There’s no basis in the name, damn it.

Even my name was Geun-tae, using ‘Geun’ (斤) for ‘axe’ and ‘Tae’ (泰) for ‘big’.

A naming that meant to become a person like a big axe.

“…How can I change the name your grandfather gave me?”

ㅡSuck.

My father sucked on the red ginseng stick as if dissatisfied and turned his head away.

No. Seriously, I can’t get used to this. I’ve already seen his affectionate side and seen him cry because of me, so I slowly started wanting to see the original dad again. No matter how I thought about it, continuing to see him like this was a bit much.

Should I feed him a lot of red ginseng to bring him back to normal?

Actually, right now, I don’t care whether Dad becomes such an old-fashioned tyrant or not. So, instead of him being like such a listless person, I just want to see his energetic self like in the old days.

Well… he lost his strength because he lost me.

That’s a pity.

“This father didn’t raise you like that, Geun-tae. Have you forgotten everything?”

Damn it, how did he raise me?

“No, but why has Dad’s way of speaking changed like that?”
“If you’re going to talk about that, hyung’s way of speaking has changed a lot too…”
“Really? Whatever. Anyway, I’ll say it properly again. I’ve returned to say hello. It’s nice to see you after a long time. Geun-soo, how have you been while I was gone?”
“Ah…”

At my words, Geun-soo scratched his head.

“A lot happened after hyung disappeared. Gates suddenly started appearing, and monsters showed up… I don’t know if it’s because of that, but there were a lot of missing people too. Anyway, it felt like we were at war.”

Missing people, huh.

“I thought hyung was either kidnapped or went missing during the gate incident… It happened not long after hyung disappeared. There were quite a few missing people.”

From what I heard, there were quite a few people who disappeared without a trace after the gate incident broke out. It was something that happened because of the gaps that the Lich had made everywhere. It was only natural.

Of course, the probability of them coming to the world I was in was almost zero. They were likely shot out into truly random dimensions.

And I still haven’t found any other normal worlds besides Earth. The dimensions I found were all absurd. If the missing people were ejected into such places, they would have just died.

“Hmm, is that so? That’s roughly right. The gate incident. It was for a similar reason that I went to another world.”
“I knew it… There was a lot of talk about that. That you went to another world.”
“It was just a guess, but it’s accurate. Anyway, what are you doing these days, Geun-soo?”
“Ah, I… I’m following hunters around, doing porter work.”

What?

“Porter?”
“Yeah… there’s this thing where you do odd jobs for hunters. I’m living by doing that.”
“Oh. I know. But why are you doing that? You’re not an Awakened, are you?”
“A lot of porters aren’t Awakened.”

He was doing such dangerous work.

If I give him some of the jewels I brought, he won’t have to do that kind of work anymore.

“Okay, whatever. I roughly understand. I guess you’ve been living well.”

I roughly knew what Geun-soo had been doing.

It’s enough that he didn’t die.

At that moment.

“J-really… really Geun-tae…?”

My mom, who had been looking at me with an anxious expression, called me.

“Of course, it’s me. Why can’t you still believe it?”
“You’ve changed so much…”

My mom, whom I was seeing after a long time, had more wrinkles on her face.

Looking back, it seemed like my mom wasn’t a proper mom. I only remembered her not caring much whether I was beaten by my dad or not.

It was truly an absurd family.

It was an old-fashioned family itself, so my mom hardly interfered with my dad. That was probably the reason. She probably thought my dad would take care of the education.

Still, it’s nice to see her like this.

I thought about my mom a lot in the early days of my life in the other world.

“No. But even if I’ve changed a lot, Dad recognized me, but Mom can’t recognize me? Does that make sense? That’s really absurd.”
“You’ve… come back well… You’ve really come back well… *sniff*.”
“Why are you crying again.”

My mom covered her mouth with her hand and started crying. Seeing her cry makes me feel so bad.

“Don’t cry. Listen to my story. I’ll briefly tell you what I’ve been doing.”

As I said that, my father looked at me.

“…You didn’t go to another world, did you?”
“No. You even figured that out?”
“Ah… Eating red ginseng seems to be clearing my head.”

If you watched the news, you’d know everything, so what are you talking about.

“I always looked at the news about you, Geun-tae. Just like how gates appeared on Earth and the world became like this… I thought you might have gone to another world too. Like a monster crossing over from another world to this world.”
“That’s accurate.”

It’s a bit awkward to hear words like ‘gate’ and ‘monster’ coming out of the mouth of my father, who used to be so old-fashioned and rigid, but if he understands that much, it’s easy to explain.

“I was sucked into another world for a similar reason to why gates appeared on Earth. Maybe all the missing people who disappeared after the gate incident disappeared with a similar feeling to me.”

I was lucky.

At least it was a world where people lived.

“Anyway, I already explained it all on TV. Dad, if you watched the news I was on, you’d know, right?”
“…A world like Lineage.”
“Damn it, Lineage again.”
“Thinking about that… I thought of you, Geun-tae.”

Auto-hunting, damn it.

“But wasn’t it helpful? It was all Lineage that this father made you do, thinking of you. If you went to a similar world… it would have been helpful.”
“It wasn’t helpful at all, you damn it. What kind of person in the world makes their own child do auto-hunting?”
“…Because you liked games, Geun-tae.”
“What?”
“That’s why I made you do it. To let you use the computer a little more.”

What the hell is this nonsense?

“Damn it, what? Does that make sense?”
“Hyung! Hyung! Calm down! Dad’s just like that!”
“No, what, do you think I’m going to hit someone? Stay still.”
“Anyway, hyung! Then everything you said on the media from when you first came… was all acting?”
“Yeah. It was acting.”
“Oh my god…”
“Honestly, I had to act. It’s better for achieving my goals.”

As I said that, Geun-mi, who was looking at me, said,

“But oppa, you acted like a god who really came from another world and then came to say hello like this? What if we say something? Then you’ll get caught.”

This damn son of a bitch.

“Hey, you bastard. Do you think you can talk? If you don’t want to die, shut your mouth.”
“W-what? No, I didn’t really say I was going to talk. I was just pointing it out. Why are you threatening me?”
“Kim Geun-mi, you damn it, just try saying something. I’ll beat you with an Oedipus mask until you’re half-dead.”
“Ah! I got it! What, beat me up! What, it’s been more than ten years since we’ve seen each other, but the way you talk is exactly the same as before, really!”
“I’m a consistent person. Anyway, just live without saying anything. I’m really going to beat you up if you say anything.”

Ah, damn it, I was so worried before coming, but when I actually came, it was nothing. It was just a matter of threatening them as the eldest son.

But well, it’s not a sincere threat.

Strangely, when I see Geun-soo and Geun-mi, I just start swearing. It’s like swearing at Il-ryong and I-ryong.

“Geun-soo. Are you going to go around telling people too?”
“Uh, uh? Ah, no! I won’t say anything! Who would believe such a story anyway… I’m still feeling unsettled.”
“Hehehe, this bastard knows how to handle himself. But what has Kim Geun-mi been doing?”
“I’ve just been working.”
“Really? Well, I guess you’ve been living well on your own. Okay. It won’t look good if I just threaten you, so take some gifts.”

ㅡWhirr.

I immediately took out the treasure sack I had kept in the barrier.

ㅡClatter.

And immediately poured it onto the floor.

“Gasp!”
“Oh!”

A golden wave.

Gold rings. Gold necklaces. Gold ornaments. Rings studded with jewels, etc. I put down a pile of gold and jewel types that are easy to convert into cash. If I sell them properly at the current Korean market price, I could probably buy about ten apartments in prime locations in Seoul.

I could give more, but too much wealth might bring disaster, so I only put in this much for now.

“If you don’t want to die, share it nicely. If you fight over this, I’m not lying, I’ll beat you all up until you’re on the verge of death.”
“O-oppa…! *sniff*! *sniff*!”
“Hyuuung…!”

Geun-mi and Geun-soo burst into tears.

But my father and mother’s reactions weren’t that dramatic.

“What. Aren’t you surprised? It’s treasure?”
“Rather than treasure… the fact that you’ve returned, Geun-tae…”

My mom was about to cry.

“Is it better? Hehehe, but I haven’t completely returned. No. I can’t return. I have my own life.”
“…Is that so.”
“Yeah. But don’t be sad. I’ll come sometimes. I’ve become incredibly successful anyway, so what does it matter.”

I didn’t tell my mom that Claudia had become my new mom… No. Can I even define Claudia as a mom? Isn’t she above a mom? Like a mom from a higher dimension? I’m confused.

“More than that… Geun-tae, you.”

My father’s voice scattered my thoughts.

“I told you not to use that name.”
“There’s another important story, isn’t there.”
“What?”

What important story?

I tilted my head for a moment, and my father opened another red ginseng pack and sucked it down.

And.

ㅡThwack!

Slapping the empty red ginseng pack down.

“If you brought a daughter-in-law, you should have her greet this father.”

He said, sounding slightly angry.