Chapter 3 – Adopted the Main Character.
Tracking… Tracking…
It’s raining.
Under the hazy gray sky, people dressed in black are standing.
Ten families that were said to have slain the demon lord summoned to this world in the past.
One of them, Baek Seo-moon, a member of the ‘Baek’ family, had a funeral today.
Although they are collateral, the Baek family is the Baek family.
Baek Seo-moon was also a b-class hunter and lost his life by a monster attack while hunting for the White Dragon Guild under the Baek family.
In order to commemorate this, not only blood relatives of the Baek family, but also some famous people in the political world and the talented family gathered. Rather than those who had a relationship with the dead Baekseomun, it was a car of courtesy to the Baek family.
“Accident while hunting in the White Tiger Guild.. This must be a big mistake.”
“Even the dead are from the hundred families?
Outsiders chatting with a murmur expressed their astonishment at the accident.
In the Baekryong Guild run by one of the 10 families, the Baek family, it was really hard to happen that a blood relative of the Baek family died.
Even a person who had just become a hunter and was not a kid, but a top b-class expert, had died.
A gun was fired at the shooting board, and the bullet ricocheted, causing the shooter to die.
‘I’m stuck…’
‘This time too…’
The blood relatives of the Baek family who participated in the funeral all looked in one direction as if they knew something.
“…”
There, a child dressed in black was sitting on one side, kneeling.
Flawless red hair and yellow gold eyes.
The child, who had the impression that he would have looked quite cute if he had smiled, was looking at the picture of Baek Seo-moon placed in the middle of the podium with a completely indifferent face.
– If it wasn’t for you guys, Sunah would…!!
– Are you sure my son is right?!
Even though he was already dead, Baek Seo-moon’s voice kept repeating in the child’s head.
‘Father..’
Baek Seo-moon was the child’s father.
Child, Baek Sang-hyeok continued to examine Baek Seo-moon’s face in the frame. He wrote a picture of him smiling, but it’s so awkward. That would be the case, and Baek Seo-moon had never laughed at himself.
– Suna died because of you!
Baek Seo-moon had never sent a warm look to his son, Baek Baek-hyuk. He always looked at me with a cold, resentful gaze.
When Shin-hyeok Baek was self-taught while watching TV and the Internet, the first thing he understood was ‘If it weren’t for you,’ so he wouldn’t have to tell Baek Seo-moon how he would have treated his son while he was growing up.
‘..Dead. Father.’
The young child looked at ‘Father’, not ‘Dad’.
He has never been called daddy, and by strict upbringing he did.
He was obviously not saddened by the death of his one and only father, even though he had been father and son for years.
‘It’s nothing.’
Like his mother, who died giving birth to him, he felt nothing about his father’s death.
That would also be the case because neither of them had any heart-to-heart exchange with Baek Hyuk and himself.
My mother died without ever seeing it. Even though my father is alive, he never talked to me.
‘What am I going to do now..?’
All young Shin-hyeok could do was kneel in a daze in front of his father’s picture.
Jerk, jerk, jerk.
After a while, the outsiders who came to pay condolences and the direct relatives of the Baek family who came to show their faces for a short time all left…
“Whoa. It’s unfortunate at such a young age.”
“To think that a perfectionist like the White Paper Hunter died in a hunting accident…”
Those who remained were those who had a close relationship with Baekseomun or those of Baekga, a collateral line with relatively close kinship.
“By the way, what will he do now?”
“I mean, both of my parents passed away at a young age, so someone has to take care of it.”
Those who remained looked at the child, Shin Hyuk, and looked at them with sympathy.
“Then what should I do with that child? Since he is from a hundred families, can’t he be sent to an orphanage?”
Those who had been looking at Shin-hyeok with sympathetic eyes hurriedly look elsewhere at the word someone in the collateral said.
“Is anyone there…?”
“Then, how about the person who spoke up takes over?”
“Huh! What do you mean?! You want me to take care of that child?”
“No! Didn’t you just say that since you’re a child from a hundred families, you should take care of them? And I know you’re related by blood to that one…”
Soon, the people of the collateral began to quarrel over the treatment of the child.
Everyone agreed that since he was a member of the Baek family, someone from the Baek family should adopt and take over.
However, the existence of the child itself was a problem.
If it was just an ordinary child from a white family, someone with enough space would have adopted the child without complaining. However, Shin Hyuk did not have the slightest element of being a Baek Family, considering that he inherited the blood of a Baek Family.
Instead of Baekga’s unique white hair and blue eyes, he has crimson red hair and his eyes are also yellow.
When Baek Seo-moon’s wife first gave birth to Shin Hyuk, she wondered if she had an affair, so she did a genetic test.
All of the people sitting here now had white hair.
In addition, it is also a problem that it is red.
The name of the rival family of Baekga is the blood family.
All members have red flags like blood. However, since Shin-hyeok’s hair color was, of course, red-handed, he was reluctant to see it as a person from a hundred families.
‘The mother died while giving birth to that child, and now the father died in a mysterious accident? It must be demonic.’
‘He’s a cursed child… I don’t know what will happen if I bring him into the house!’
Shin Hyuk’s hair color.
The feeling that his own parents were preyed upon.
And since he did not shed a single tear even after his father died, none of Shin-hyeok’s relatives wanted to take care of Shin-hyeok.
‘Everyone… Hates me… Like my father…’
Shin Hyuk had a clear ear.
The whispers of his relatives, who did not even know his face, could be heard in Shin Hyuk’s ears.
‘Maybe I’d rather be gone.’
Shin Hyuk’s yellow eyes gradually lost their vitality and turned into dead eyes.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
At that time, the sound of heavy footsteps echoes the funeral hall.
“Ehhh?!”
“What…! Orc?”
The people of the Baekga, who had been talking loudly in the back, burst out in surprise.
“Excuse me for a minute.”
A heavy voice is heard.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
The noise, as if the ground was being pounded with a pillar, moved right behind Shin-hyeok.
“…”
Even in a situation where anyone would look back, Shin Hyuk was only looking forward.
Sigh..
However, Shin-hyeok slowly turned his head and looked back at the hand gently and carefully stroking his hair.
A stiff black suit is visible along the silver watch. Just looking at it, he could only see the tip of his black pants and top, so Shin Hyuk lifted his head and looked up.
‘Giant..?’
Even when he looks up, the top of his head seems so far away.
Until now, when I saw adults, I had all raised my head and looked up, but the person in front of me right now is on a different level.
“You are Baek Hyuk.”
Saying that, the man slowly lowered his stance, crouched down, and met his eyes. Even though Shin Hyuk was standing, the squatted man’s head was one bigger.
“Who are you?”
“The man who will be your father.”
He takes off his glasses while saying the most awkward word, ‘Dad’, which he has never done before.
“..!”
A face that surprised Shin Hyuk, who had been numb through many things.
It’s a face that looks like a mountain gorilla with two spoons of ‘savagery’ added to it. The man put on a relieved expression when he saw Shin Hyuk, who was surprised but did not express disgust.
“What…What does that mean? To be that child’s father…!”
At that time, a middle-aged man who overheard the conversation between Shin Hyuk and the man came running.
“It’s literally. I want to adopt this child.”
“Are you from a hundred families?”
“I am an outsider.”
Baek Seo-moon’s uncle, Baek Choong-hyeok, questioned the man’s answer, and made a puzzled expression.
Why did you worry about the treatment of your child? It was because he was a man of a hundred families, so he could not be siphoned off. If there were no such restrictions, he would have entrusted the vaccine revolution to an outside incubator without worrying.
No matter how much he inherits the same blood, no one wants to play the cursed child who caused his parents to die suddenly.
“Thank you for pitying the child, but this is a hundred family business..”
Chuck-!
When Baek Choong-hyeok tried to reject him, saying that it was rude, a large man held out his hand.
Baek Choong-hyeok flinched for a moment with his manly appearance and his log-like arms.
[ Cheols Pharmaceuticals – Chairman Cheols Kim ]
There was a brief company name and name written in black ink.
“Chairman of Cheol..Chels Pharmaceuticals!?”
But the power of those few letters was truly amazing.
“Why do you…”
“I run Cheol’s Pharmaceuticals.”
“..!!”
Not only Baek Choong-hyeok, but also the people in the Baek family in the back widen their eyes.
Where is Cheols Pharmaceuticals?
It is a company that sells the world’s only rapid recovery drug.
In the world of hunters, healing wounds is directly related to life, so the supply of quality recovery medicine was a very important issue.
In such a situation, Cheols Pharmaceutical’s rapid recovery drug, which instantaneously regenerates severe injuries as well as amputations, was coveted by most large organizations and could not be obtained even with money.
‘The man in front of me is the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals..?’
The Baek family also uses monster hunting as its main source of income among various businesses.
He wanted the world’s only rapid recovery medicine, Cheols Pharmaceutical’s HP potion.
Already, the successor level of the Baek family or the highest ranking executive of the family requested a contact with the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals, but the Cheols Pharmaceuticals side refused with a single knife saying that they did not cooperate with any organization and only sold limited quantities on a first-come, first-served basis. Have ever
“Jung…Are you really the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals?”
“That’s right.”
However, all of a sudden, the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals appeared at the funeral of an inconsequential collateral figure of Baek Seo-moon.
‘…Really?’
To be honest, I couldn’t believe it easily.
It has never been invited, and there is no reason for a big man like the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals to come here. I thought it might be a scammer, but when I thought about it carefully, the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals was famous for being very unique in appearance, and he completely matched the person I heard right in front of me.
“Are you familiar with Seomun?”
“In the past, because of Mr. Baek Seo-moon’s wife, he sometimes visited the pharmaceutical research institute I was running.”
“Ah!”
Hearing Cheols’s words, Baek Chung-hyeok opens his mouth and expresses his understanding. In the past, he had gone everywhere to get medicine to treat his sick wife.
‘Because at that time, before the company called Cheols Pharmaceuticals was formed… There is a chance that this guy from the preface will meet this big man.’
It made sense up to that point.
However, why the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals said he would adopt Baek Seo-moon’s son could not be answered.
“The deceased… Seomoon had a few drinks and became friends. One day, Seomoon came and had a drink.”
“Hmm..?”
“My wife passed away while giving birth to a child. I’m worried about the child who will be left alone if anything goes wrong while I’m working as a hunter. So I answered this. If the child is left alone and there is no one to take care of the child, I will I will take care of the child as…”
“So that’s what happened…”
Baek Choong-hyeok made a face that sympathized with Cheols Kim’s words, but inwardly he thought of the white paper that he had no words about even though he had a relationship with the chairman of Cheols Pharmaceuticals.
And he continued to think for a while.
“I understand what Chairman Cheols meant. That child is a descendant of the blood of a hundred families. It cannot be adopted by an outsider.”
He told Cheols he couldn’t send the child away.
It was not because of the child, but because of the principle of the family principle that the blood of the Baek family could not be leaked outside.
“I heard earlier… It seemed that all the hundred families were reluctant to take care of that child…?”
“…”
As Cheols said, everyone in the Baek family, including Baek Choong-hyeok, who was standing in front of them, was reluctant to take care of the child.
Because he was a cursed child and he had no particular magical talent, so there was no merit in adopting him at all.
“If you help me with the process of adopting that child…”
Cheols took a step closer to Baek Choong-hyeok.
“I think the partnership between Cheols Pharmaceuticals and the Baek family can be successful through the story with Mr. Baek Choong-hyuk.”
It was Baek Choong-hyeok who flinched at the mention of his name that he hadn’t even said for a moment.
‘Thanks to me, my family signs a contract with Cheols Pharmaceuticals, which no family has ever signed a partnership with? If that’s the case, I might be able to go to the center of the family as a collateral!’
What follows blows everything out of my head so far.
“Joe..It’s good, Chairman! It’s not like this, you can take the child right away! Seomun’s father passed away a long time ago, so I’m the child’s guardian! I’ll take it right away and there will be no problem. Hehe.. Yeah yeah!”
Baek Choong-hyeok recommends Cheols in a servile manner while rubbing his hands. Her face, already full of anticipation, was looking at a rosy future.
‘I’m more pissed than when I saw it on the game screen’
Cheols was smiling, but deep down he thought he wanted to punch Baek Choong-hyeok in the face.
In order to take personal advantage of his nephew, who does not want to take care of himself, he is passing on his nephew, who must have had a tough appearance and personality like himself, to Lee.
‘My purpose is extremely impure, but at least it’s better than leaving it to these people.’
Cheols turned his gaze away from Baek Choong-hyeok and looked at the child.
A child looking up here with unfocused gold eyes as if his heart had been closed.
“Would you like to come with me?”
Let Cheols bend down on his back and hold out his hand.
Nod
The child took Cheols’ hand.
You can see it through the eyes of a child.
Everyone here doesn’t need him, and only the giant man in front of him wants him.
“No! If you send that child to an unknown outsider who is not even a hundred people!”
“He’s either taking charge or shutting up! Besides, do you know who he is!? He’s the one who’s going to do big things with the Hundred Family in the future!”
Cheols and Shin-hyeok left the funeral hall, leaving behind the argument that came from behind them.
