Chapter 412
Theatrical Regression Life
Episode 412
Lee Jae-heonâs phrases always contained at least 50% of the truth.
This means that Lee Jae-heon must know the underlying truth in order to make a joke, and in that sense, Lee Jae-heon also had a lot of worries. Someday, there will come a time when I will have to tell you about the police officer who was Hong Gyeong-junâs gunner and Lee Jae-heonâs teacher.
âI didnât know that Noh Yeon-seok and that bastard had met in person.â
Lee Jae-heon opened his mouth, recalling the story he heard from Jeong In-ho.
ââ¦Could you tell me exactly what you want to hear? âIâm not asking you to describe my life from beginning to endâ¦â
Hong Gyeong-jun was caught up in Lee Jae-heonâs words asking him to narrow down the range of criticism.
âIâm curious as to why you didnât inform me, even though you probably knew through a previous background investigation that the police officer Jae-heon Lee met was my shooter.â
âEven if I say this, it really is.â
Jaeheon Lee wrinkled his face.
âDetective Hong Gyeong-junâs safety in the secret world is very low. Thereâs no way I could bring up such a personâs story to someone who is so anxious to take care of their own mentality, right? âBased on the details of the investigation, it didnât seem like things ended well for either of you.â
ââ¦Thatâs right. âBecause I caught it.â
Ha Seong-yoon was impressed.
âOh, Detective Hong Gyeong-jun himself?â
ââ¦I was the first to witness the scene of his crime. Well, even thinking about it now makes me feel sick, but if I had heard it from the other side, I would have been even more distraught. But why didnât they tell us in reality? âIâm sure there was a chance last time too.â
Lee Jae-heon shrugged his shoulders in response to Hong Gyeong-junâs question.
âBecause it was such a large number, I didnât have enough mental space to reveal it⦠Even if I were to investigate it, I donât know much about it other than the fact that the two of you mainly worked as a team. I donât know exactly what kind of relationship it was, but I didnât want to spoil it by pretending to know. âWe werenât close enough to have this conversation.â
âYou look at me like a soggy biscuitâ¦â
âYou really mean this.â
Lee Jae-heon clicked his tongue and looked back at Ha Seong-yoon.
âDo you have anything to ask the doctor? âItâs late, so letâs quickly clean up and go back.â
âYou look really bothered⦠um I donât know.â
Ha Seong-yoon, who was touching his earlobe, asked.
âAre you sure you werenât treated harshly by that person?â
âA harsh actâ¦â
âNo, really, noâ¦â
Before Hong Gyeong-jun could express his resentment on his behalf, Lee Jae-heonâs stomach exploded. In any case, it was truly devastating to have this image of a child abuser cast upon the police, who I found out was someone with the same face and same past life as me. I wanted to throw it all away.
Jaeheon Lee answered with a bug-bitten face.
ââ¦Yes, no. âI said clearly before that I wasnât.â
âaha.â
âI donât know what stories have been going around among you all this time, but⦠I only learned this and that from that person, but I never suffered anything that could be called harsh treatment. Of course, since I was young at the time, I have nothing to say if such teachings are described as abuse, but it did not happen like you think.â
âIâm sure you know what âsomething like thatâ means, right?â
âLook at your skill in holding the horseâs tail. I know, I know. Is that tortureâ¦? âArenât you thinking of something similar?â
âHmm, I guess there really wasnât any problem.â
âThank you for recognizing this even now.â
Jeong In-ho asked with Hong Gyeong-junâs face in the background looking relieved as if he had taken a digestive medicine.
âThen why on earth do you live like that?â
âAre you going to start a fight?â
âOh my. I made a mistake. âThen who made you like that, Manager?â
ââ¦Thatâ¦â
I got a little confused at this point.
It was an overly direct question and I was at a loss for words.
âI canât say that because Iâm just from another world.â
The world of my previous life was rife with death and violence, and those were natural occurrences. What can we expect from a world where the concept of âabuseâ was ambiguous in the first place?
Even kicking out children with no prospects in terms of talent was a common occurrence in my past life. Lee Jae-heon was also one of the children who was kicked out.
Having spent more than half of his childhood in the back alleys, he suffered a lot of what they call âharsh acts.â And he gave it back by chewing it up physically. Since I was born in a world where I didnât die, it was natural. Not only in the back alleys, but also in the sunny areas, people didnât think it was strange.
ââ¦.â
ââ¦Did I ask a question that was too difficult?â
ââ¦Itâs a bit like that.â
I wish someone could make the settings for me.
âAnyway⦠it wasnât him. âReally.â
Ha Seong-yoon asked Lee Jae-heon, who was trying to give a vague answer.
âDid you say âperfect timingâ when you summarized it earlier?â
âyes?â
âYou said that you met a police officer at just the right time twice and learned survival skills⦠âWhen you summarized it for me.â
âWhy do people in my family have such good memorization skills?â¦â
Ha Seong-yoon smiled his characteristic gentle smile as he lamented. Although it was past midnight, he had a bright smile that somehow reminded me of the sunlight. It was also an annoyingly benevolent face.
âPeople from my house. I must be your older brother, right? âI hope he is at least a father or an uncle.â
âWhat kind of strange thing is this?â
âThen, Manager, you are everyoneâs motherâ¦.â
â? âLetâs not cross our lines.â
The motherâs place belongs to our Mana.
âIf you ask me, I would be the father.â
âThen I will be your uncle. Anyway, what I want to ask is when was that âperfect timingâ? âIâm curious as to when you met that police officer and expressed it that way.â
ââ¦.â
âAre you having a hard time answering this too?â
ââ¦Thatâ¦â
Jaeheon Lee instinctively hesitated.
Iâm not sure, but it looks like it will make the settings on its own if you keep quiet.
ââ¦We met in the other side of the world.â
âI know that even if I donât hear it. âWhat Iâm curious about is under what circumstances did you meet in the other side of the world?â
ââ¦.â
ââ¦Did that police officer even save you?â
Fuck this.
âI got a lot of help. âThanks to you, I have survived until now.â
Lee Jae-heon also didnât waste his time in reality by not coming up with any hypotheses.
âLetâs sort it out.â
The ones fighting now are the managers and the writers.
Writers cannot use their power well outside of the underworld, while managers can use their power even in reality. Jaeheon Lee is now splitting his back between these two whales, and the snake cub appears to be a prototype.
âNo matter what its true identity is, it wouldnât be strange to call it a prototype, considering that it took the lead before me. Then, you can roughly get an answer to how this world works.â
The person who created this world is his wife, the author, but for some reason, she is receiving a lot of interference from the administrator. She ran a prototype before Jae-heon Lee to kill the manager for full authority, but failed and created âJae-heon Leeâ, who would not have existed originally. We are planning for the future, and that is the point at hand.
I still donât know why the prototype exists and why itâs wandering around in the form of a ghost, but I have a sense of what it should look like here.
âTo say that I received a lot of help is not enough.â
ââ¦.â
âThe fact that he even served us tea and made us sit down after barging in at this hour seems to indicate that he is willing to tell us to some extent. Could I be wrong?â
ââ¦no.â
âThen please tell me in more detail.â
When âLee Jae-heonâ hesitated, Ha Seong-yoon continued.
âYou have already told us what happened in the past. âHe said he had a bad reaction in the swimming pool because of that.â
ââ¦.â
âIf you keep equivocating, at least I can only assume that the culprit of that incident is⦠a police officer with a face like a snake.â
âyes?â
âNo matter how you think about it, thatâs the face of a serial killer.â
At Ha Seong-yoonâs words, Hong Gyeong-jun said with a hurt look on his face.
âYouâre speaking too harshlyâ¦â
âBe quiet, Detective. âI have no idea whatâs going on right now?â
âItâs true that you look like a snake, but being a serial killer was a bit harsh. âArenât Song In-myeong and Sung Dae-young in the same category right now?â
âUm⦠Iâm a bit sorry about that. âIf my misunderstanding is correct, I will correct it immediately.â
âThank you for the quick feedback.â
âJaeheon Leeâ nodded as if he had relaxed as he looked at the survivors who had become more flexible with their tongues as they said they had returned to reality. It was a gesture of surrender.
ââ¦I will tell you, so please correct me now. âItâs a bit uncomfortable for me to hear, too.â
âIf you tell me correctly. I havenât heard back yet, sir. Who is the culprit? âIt seems like it happened when I had the ability to regenerate, so it must have been a human I met in the other world⦠is he already dead?â
âAs for the dead⦠I donât know.â
Jaeheon Lee thought for a moment before answering.
âCan I just tell you that it was one of the⦠familyâ¦?â
I plan to decide who that is after seeing the faces of my family in person. There are a lot of crazy people gathered around, but there must be at least one person who turns into a mannequin.
âHa Seong-yoon, I praise your rich imagination.â
Of course, âLee Jae-heonâ has never actually entered the secret world and has never received the same education there as in his previous life. However, if the charges had to be placed on someone other than the snake bastard, the most likely suspects were the family of âLee Jae-heonâ.
âThere is a limit to the probability of introducing another character here.â
Even by the standards of this world, they commit acts without conscience, are treated poorly by âJae-heon Leeâ, and are so accessible that âJae-heon Leeâ has suffered since he was very young.
Even if he was a regular member of the underworld, heâs so crazy that youâd think he would be. A person who, even after hearing these disgusting survivors, will kneel and say, âOh, it was worth it.â A person who understands why Lee Jae-heon did not mention the culprit or hesitated to talk about it.
If all these conditions had to be met, it was only Jaeheon Leeâs actual family.
Regardless of whether Jaeheon Lee organized the setting in his mind or not, the expressions on the survivorsâ faces were not very good. Jeong In-ho stiffened while smiling, and Hong Gyeong-jun opened his eyes round. Ha Seong-yoon asked back with an expression of doubt as to whether what he heard was real and not an auditory hallucination.
ââ¦Family?â
âYeah whatever.â
âfamily.â
Immediately after that there was silence.
ââ¦.â
ââ¦.â
ââ¦Wait a minuteâ¦.â
Jeong In-ho asked, taking off his glasses and pressing his forehead. He was still smiling mischievously.
âYouâre going to a family event this Friday?â
Actually, it was a family event and a party prepared at someone elseâs house, but I didnât bother to refute it. First of all, itâs okay to see the faces of your family.
ââ¦Assistant Manager Jeong knows, but the more money a house has, the more sensitive it is to events like this. âItâs a place I canât help but call even the ugliest youngest member who always lives as if heâs not there.â
âSo youâre going?â
âI really donât know what to say.â
Even though I was joking, I suddenly burst into laughter.
âI have to go anyway.â
It may be a bit unexpected, but a funny thing happened at this point.
âItâs an event that all my nephews and nieces come to, so it would be a shame if I, as their uncle, were to miss it.â
âWow⦠Reallyâ¦â
So far, no one has mentioned the policeâs name.
The faces of the tired men laughed as if it was funny.
Jaeheon Lee forgot the name of his previous life. I donât know if it was the managerâs act or the authorâs insight, but it was an unfamiliar shock to know that he had forgotten something he cherished. To add another shock to this, the bastard in the police uniform of this world probably knew my name.
The policeman had the face of his past life. It seemed like his personality from his previous life was almost identical. He probably remembered more than the current Lee Jae-heon, and his strength and abilities were probably more complete. Unlike the current Lee Jae-heon, who is unstable and has been cut down on many things.
ââ¦are you laughing now?â
âwell.â
Is this change for my happiness or for my hell?
I donât know anything yet.
âSometimes you have to laugh.â
Ahâ¦
Iâm really upset.
(Continued in the next part)