“Are you crazy!” Dongchul shouted in anger. Well, it wasn’t much of a rage, he actually seemed more sad than angry. He couldn’t help but worry every day and all the time he spent worrying for these past three weeks had all gone to waste.

  He made that decision because he wanted Jaehwang to trust him.

  “Why are you so mad?” Jaehwang asked. He thought that Dongchul wouldn’t care so much since he really didn’t seem to want to go in the first place.

  “I-I…… Ugh!” Dongchul shouted as he fell to his knees on the blue marble floor.

  —Why is he acting like this?

  —You must have done something wrong.

  The spirit replied. Jaehwang hated to see his friend so stressed out.

  “Dongchul.”


  “What!”


  “Is there a reason that you’re here?” Jaehwang asked. Dongchul then stood back up on his feet and took a deep breath.

  He was there to receive Gwanjae’s training but he couldn’t really say that.

  “Well…… I……” Dongchul said as he thought about what to say. “Jaehwang.”


  “What is it?”


  “I-I…… Can I get hospitalized for a month?”


  “You?” Jaehwang asked with a confused tone. Was he talking about the time he was hospitalized because of him? Jaehwang didn’t know what to say. “Well……”


  “Of course,” Dongchul replied. He couldn’t even say anything about the injury he had, that was the reason he spent one month in the hospital. He felt like his life as a hunter would soon be over if he spent his time in a hospital to recover from that injury.

  It was because of Gwanjae that he was able to get back his strength as well as his hope as a hunter. It happened before when he was hunting a high-ranked monster, he got terribly hurt and he had to be hospitalized for three days. He really thought back then that he would actually die.

  Jaehwang then finally replied, “It is a possibility but…… Why are you bringing this up?”


  Dongchul then looked at him with a shocked expression. “A possibility?”


  “Yeah, a possibility. It was difficult in the past but now it could be possible,” Jaehwang replied but Dongchul didn’t look too happy with his answer. Did he believe that it was easy to recover from something like that? Did he think that he would be able to recover from anything?

  “.……”


  Someone then walked into the training center where both of them were. It was a short guy carrying some armor in his left hand and his presence gave them an uneasy feeling. It was Choi Chin-ha. Dongchul and Jaehwang then walked up towards him.

  “Hello,” Jaehwang said, greeting him politely. Dongchul looked down at Mr. Choi, who was sitting on the floor, and said,

  “You……” Dongchul said, looking down at him and Mr. Choi looked back at him with a sharp look in his eyes. “It’s you……”


  “Ah…… you’re the one who wanted to get stronger.” Mr. Choi remembered what Gwanjae told him.

  “Yes sir……”


  ***

  “Am I that someone you admire?” Gwanjae said and Mr. Choi nodded his head in agreement. Mr. Choi was sitting in a chair on the other side of his desk at this unplanned meeting.

  “So, these people these days have been very impatient.”


  “He surely won’t be able to endure even a few days of this training. I know he’s going to give up. It can be hard even if they’re the ones who wanted to do the training in the first place,” Gwanjae said with a serious expression and Mr. Choir began to look a little nervous.

  “I see. The why would anyone even want this?”


  “Well, training could be enjoyable too but the most important thing is, that man wants to get stronger,” Gwanjae replied.

  They then heard a strange noise from out of nowhere in the middle of their conversation.

  Mr. Choi turned his head but nothing was there. A cold breeze just blew past them.

  “I think that they’re lonely. They don’t seem to be too happy……”


  “Yeah……” Mr. Choi’s face then turned red. He didn’t seem to be doing so well, he looked like he needed some medical treatment. Although Mr. Choi wasn’t mad or anything, he didn’t feel too good.

  Gwanjae then said, “Are you okay?”


  “Yeah, I’m fine.” Mr. Choi replied and signed. That was all. Gwanjae stopped talking and the conversation was then over.

  The night came and the stars were out in the skies, Gwanjae sat on a chair at a table next to Mr. Choi. “You’re mad, aren’t you? If you made it then we could take care of that. Easy. Got it? You’ll get stronger too.”


  Mr. Choi became Gwanjae’s close friend, he’s almost like a brother to him — although he seemed to be in a bit of a bad mood.

  “Why are you telling me this?”


  “I don’t really know either,” He replied. Gwanjae then got up from his seat and let out a huge burst of his powerful energy. “Some instructors will be here soon to teach our men about mental strength. Let’s talk a little more until then……”


  “Alright.”


  “Even I’m included……”


  “I know.” Mr. Choi began to nervously sweat as he nodded his head. On the inside, he knew that Gwanjae was the main culprit in this situation with Dongchul.

  “Would he die……”


  “What?” Gwanjae said in shock towards Mr. Choi’s question.

  “I could never imagine anything like that happening. He just said that he wanted to be stronger. I hope that everything will be handled as it should be.”


  “Alright.” Mr. Choi replied. However, he then asked, “Do you think Dongchul will give up at some point?”


  “Of course not,” Gwanjae assured him.

  ***

  Jaehwang and Dongchul who was sitting close by looked over towards Mr. Choi and Gwanjae, both of them looked a bit shocked. Dongchul looked in their direction but Mr. Choi avoided to make eye contact. Jaehwang, on the other hand, was sitting alone on a couch where his best friend kept his distance from since he was still a little bit angry. He wouldn’t have to go through this in the first place if it wasn’t for him.

  The moment Mr. Choi looked over towards Jaehwang, he was shocked. He was so close by. It was so strange because he could recognize his face. Pictures of him went around online due to the girls going crazy over how handsome he was.

  It was so weird to see him with his very own eyes, however, he was getting a strange feeling from him.

  “Who are you?” He haven’t seen Jaehwang in two months but he felt that he had changed a lot since then. Mr. Choi then looked into his eyes……

  ‘That look……’


  Mr. Choi thought to himself.

  The Successor 2, The end.