Chapter 245 – Epilogue. Survival Continues in Reality as Well. (Completion) (Ending Illustration)
What surprised me the most when I returned to reality from the desert island was that my father turned out to be an incredibly great person.
Jinwoo Kang, director of the Genetic Disease Research Institute at the National Medical Center.
That was my father’s title that came up when I typed his name on the Internet.
At the same time, he served as an advisory member of the World Health Organization (WHO) and a director of the International Genetics Society.
There were as many as three universities. Seoul National University, Harvard, MIT.
As a high school graduate who couldn’t even go to a local government college, I had nothing to say even when I was called a shame to the family compared to my father.
Are you saying I’m a high school graduate who inherited the genes of my father, who had a doctorate in genetic engineering? Is there anything more paradoxical than this? It was something that didn’t even make me laugh.
“What did Mom say? “My father is a great person.”
Her mother shrugged her shoulders as if it were her own business.
“If I had known you were such a great person, I would have begged you more.”
“Isn’t it enough now? “This house, this car, everything we use, we got it from our father?”
Mom said proudly, showing off her big breasts.
“More than anything, my mother was saved by Changjae’s father and brought to Changjae. Still not enough?”
If that’s the case, there’s nothing we can do. Looking at her breasts, I couldn’t dare say they were lacking.
My mom said she suffered from a genetic disease since she was born. She was abandoned by her biological parents because of her illness, and it is said that her illness was cured while she was a subject at her father’s laboratory.
In the process, my father took my mother as his own daughter, but I still don’t understand how she ended up becoming my mother instead of my sister.
But what does it matter? To me, Mom is a mother, and to her, I am a son.
Anyway, my father didn’t do anything for me, but I think he fulfilled his role as her father just by bringing her mother.
──This is, of course, a lie.
If his father is that good, he should eat as much as he can.
“Father? “I’m Changjae.”
A person called my father whom I have not seen since my mother’s funeral 10 years ago.
I called my father for the first time in my life.
-… Yes.
Fortunately, there was no response asking, ‘Who is Changjae?’
I guess the father didn’t forget that he also has a son.
“Father. “I’m calling you to ask a favor.”
-… What is it?
“My friend is sick. “Father, please do something.”
-… Where are you going?
My father spoke slowly. He had a lot of time to think between conversations.
Moreover, the answers were always short. It was a conversation method that would make a person of the opposite sex feel, ‘This person hates me.’
“Changjae’s father is smart, but he doesn’t talk much. But he’s actually a good person, so Changjae should understand.”
If I hadn’t heard that from her mom beforehand, I would have misunderstood. As expected, my father was a cold person.
Until then, I could count on my fingers the number of times I had talked to my father.
All of those conversations were in the form of condensed short answers, just like now, so as a child, I couldn’t help but think that my father was a cold person.
But now that he’s grown up, he knows that’s not the case.
My father was just ‘a very bad speaker.’
“Say hello. Changjae is your stepmother.”
On the day of my biological mother’s funeral, what my father said to me when he brought her mother.
At that time, I naturally thought that my mother was my father’s new woman.
But that wasn’t it. Even if it was wrong, it was wrong for a long time.
Now I can interpret this statement properly.
“Since your mother passed away, I’ll have to take care of you from now on, right? But I’m very busy and can’t take care of you. But I can’t send you to daycare, so I brought someone here to take care of you instead. I will support all the financial aspects. From now on, you two should get along well.”
As these words came out of my father’s mouth, “Say hello. It became “Changjae’s stepmother.” Even the Korean language that is impossible to achieve will not be this difficult.
My father is not very good at conversation, but as long as he knows this in advance, it is no problem.
The father was actually very happy to hear his son’s phone call. So he wants to do anything. There’s just no one to talk to.
When I thought that way, I was able to make shameless requests without hesitation. Is this what it feels like to be a daughter with a foolish father?
“My friend had a heart transplant, but I think he’s suffering from immune rejection. “Father, please do something.”
-… Let’s find out.
Of course, this is Seunghee’s story.
Seunghee’s illness was completely cured with a single potion on a deserted island, but in reality, it was not such a simple problem. Seunghee was still confined to the hospital, pretending to be a sick girl.
I heard that story from Seungpil, my successor in the military.
Feeling sorry for the younger sister of my favorite successor, I knelt down and asked my father, who had been isolated from me, for help. Seungpil asks to help his younger brother.
At her son’s request, her father mobilized his connections in every way possible, and eventually got Seung-hee selected as a clinical test subject for America’s latest 4th generation artificial heart.
“Huh? “Uh, huh?”
Thanks to this, while Seunghee was thinking, ‘Huh?’, She went to the United States and received artificial heart surgery.
Under the leadership of my father, a leader in the medical field in Korea, everything proceeded smoothly. No one asked about Seunghee’s intentions.
3 months from surgery to recovery. If she spent three months in an American hospital, the foundations of most families would be shaken. As expected from Cheonjo-guk, hospital fees are astronomical.
However, since this is a clinical trial, surgery and hospital expenses are completely free. Everything from follow-up to care was free. For Seunghee’s family, it could be said that there is no luckier situation than this.
“Sergeant Kang Chang-jae! “I will be loyal until death!!”
At this point, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for Seungpil to make a fuss about me, praising me as a divine being.
I smiled and stopped Seungpil.
“Brother. What kind of sergeant are you? “When did we get discharged from the military?”
Both I and Seungpil are now civilians. He would do it if the military were to be slowly withdrawn. Even though I’m like this, the words ‘Seungpil hyung’ don’t stick in my mouth, so informal language keeps coming out.
Even though I was the senior in the military, I was clearly the younger brother in society. Because Seungpil was two years older than me.
“Hmm. “You are Seunghee.”
Today is the day we all decided to meet together to commemorate Seungpil’s discharge from military service and Seunghee’s recovery.
On the other side, Seungpil and Seunghee, and on this side, my mom and I. The four of us gathered together and decided to watch Kaylee’s volleyball game.
“Seunghee, hello. “Isn’t this the first time we’ve actually met?”
As Seungpil said, it was his first time meeting Seunghee since returning to reality.
As soon as Seunghee saw me, her lips twitched as if she was having a hard time holding back her laughter.
“Hello, Changjae oppa!”
“Okay. Nice to meet you. “It’s even prettier in person.”
“Oppa, you’re even cooler than when you had tight hair.”
This guy. Don’t show it off.
The last time you saw my tight hair was when I was on a deserted island.
“Huh? But weren’t they the same age?”
“I told my brother that I was senior. Then it’s easier for me to call him oppa too.”
“Is that so? Haha!”
… Even if Seunghee shows off, I don’t think the insensitive Seungpil will notice.
“Seunghee. “You had a hard time at the hospital, right?”
As soon as Mom saw Seunghee, she was already crying.
It’s been almost 100 days since we met since the memories of the desert island came back. In a way, I would cry because these two people were probably closer to me than I was.
“What? I’m more familiar with hospitals. Rather, an uninhabited island… Oh well, it was nice to be able to drive regularly even in the driverless era.”
“Did you see something like that at the hospital? ‘Now, kill all the tattoos in the palace!’ Haha!”
Seungpil seems to be in a particularly good mood today.
It would be nice that he was discharged from the military, but he would be even happier that Seunghee went out in good health.
Seunghee has been in the hospital for a long time, and she recently stayed in the United States for three months.
They were a heavenly family who bickered but cared for each other.
“Sergeant Kang Chang-jae. Thank you so much.”
“What, gross.”
“This is the first time I’ve seen Seunghee smile so brightly.”
“My father did it all. What? “Thank your father.”
Mom and Seunghee, who were walking ahead, were laughing and chatting about what was so fun. Since it’s been a long time since we last met, there will be a lot of accumulated stories.
“But I don’t know when Seunghee became so close to her mother.”
“… Well, it seems like we talked on the phone often. “Isn’t that usually the case between women?”
As far as Seungpil knows, the two are meeting for the first time today. Still, it must be strange because they are so close together like best friends.
It’s good that you two are friends. We decided to act naturally, right?
Let’s be reasonably friendly when we see other people.
“Aaaaah! “Sister Kaylee!”
“Seunghee. Don’t scream too much. “It’s hard on your body.”
“I heard this is okay. Ouch! Fighting Kaylee!”
From the start of the game, Seunghee was in absolute high tension.
I cheered for Kaylee with such enthusiasm, as if I had been a fan of this team since I was born.
-Bwaang!
“Aaaaah! Sister!”
I could also see how excited Seunghee was.
Watching a volleyball game in person at the stadium had a different feel than watching it on screen. Every time I hit the ball, it made a sound like a gun was being fired.
In particular, I felt like I would die if I got hit by Kaylee’s tall spike. I felt sorry for the domestic female players I was competing against.
“Wow.”
I was with someone like that, right?
… After all, wasn’t that a dream?
The more the events I experienced on the desert island overlapped with reality, the more unrealistic they felt. In particular, Kaylee felt like she would be treated like a stranger even if she met and said hello. It felt so far away.
“Ah~ It was fun~!”
After the game is over.
We exited through an exit with relatively few people.
Kaylee’s team won the game easily. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Kaylee took the shot with overwhelming power.
“Oh! Isn’t that Noah over there?”
On the way out of the stadium, her mother spotted a special guest.
It was Kaylee’s son, Noah. I only saw him once, but he looked so special that I couldn’t mistake him.
“Ouch! Noah!”
“Hey, Han Seunghee!”
As soon as Seunghee saw Noah, she ran out of joy and Seungpil followed behind.
My brother must be anxious to see Seunghee, who is not in good health, walking around like that.
“Noah, do you remember who this sister is?”
Seunghee suddenly starts talking to a foreign kid who was walking around alone.
I quietly tackled Seunghee from the side.
“Noah doesn’t know Korean.”
“Oh! Did you do that?!”
“And of course I can’t remember. “Fool.”
Either way, Seunghee continued to chatter with Noah.
Noah, who doesn’t know Korean, doesn’t know what to do and looks around for his mother.
“Han Seunghee. Why are you talking to a stranger? What should I do if my child’s mother scolds me?”
“Are you okay. Because I know their mother well.”
“Where is the person you know?”
But there is someone who knows. Strangely enough.
“Noah?”
The person I knew appeared at the end of the hallway.
It was Kaylee who had just finished the game.
As soon as Noah heard the voice calling her to sleep, she quickly ran to her mother.
Kaylee saw Noah with us and came over smiling.
“Hello, sister. Seunghee. And Changjae too.”
I thought maybe I was just pretending not to know, but it turned out to be my mistake.
Kaylee pretended to know very well.
“Huh? Do you know each other?”
“We met while camping together before and became close friends.”
I made up another excuse to Seungpil, who expressed doubts again.
Actually, it’s not a lie. First, if it is camping, it can be called camping.
“Mr. Changjae.”
Kaylee lent my ear to see if she had anything to say.
As I got closer, I could smell the sweat of a woman who worked out.
“I am in the middle of a divorce case.”
“Huh?”
Kaylee whispers in my ear in a low voice.
Why do you say that? To me suddenly?
… Well, I don’t know the reason.
After hearing Kaylee’s words, she was heartless.
After all, that was reality.
“Sister. Please invite me to your house sometime.”
“Ah! Me too!”
When Kaylee asked her mom, Seunghee quickly got on board.
“At my house? Is that so?”
Mom looks at me and smiles.
As if he was asking me for permission.
“Mother! Me too!”
Seungpil tried to join in without notice.
“You’re out. “It’s a gathering of women.”
“Ugh! That’s impossible!”
Okay. This is, after all, a gathering of women.
The gathering place happened to be my house, so I was the only one there.
So there is no problem.
“Sister, let’s all take a picture together!”
It’s a photo.
Since we were on the deserted island, Seunghee had been asking me to take a picture with her when I got back.
“Yes. That’s right.”
Kaylee also nodded her head willingly.
“Are you going to take a picture of me?”
“Uh… ? Yeah, yeah…”
The cameraman was, of course, Seungpil.
Mom and me, Seunghee, and Kaylee.
The uninhabited island family stood side by side in front of the camera.
It would have been nice to take a picture with Noah, but he ran away out of embarrassment.
“Then let’s take a picture. One, two, three.”
-Click.
“Seungpil. Should I change it and take a picture?”
“Haha… I’m fine…”
I asked Seungpil to change the picture, but the women must have thought they had taken pictures of everything, so they had already gone somewhere else. Poor Seungpil.
“Sister, when are you going to invite me home?”
“Will Seunghee be okay?”
“They said it would be okay as long as it wasn’t too harsh.”
“It’s because you’re being too harsh.”
“Tell that to my brother.”
“I’m okay with something worse.”
“You’re already doing it, right? Shamefully.”
“For some reason, my sister has a pale complexion.”
“Hmm.”
The women I met after a long time glanced at me and started talking.
It was a story that even the average person would not be able to imagine what it was about.
“Brother! We decided to meet at my sister’s house next week. “You’re okay too, right?”
“Haha…”
I let out a dry laugh.
Kaylee looked like she was intent on eating me, and Seunghee couldn’t hide her excitement. Her mother’s eyes lit up as if she was determined to take revenge for what had been done to her with the help of her group.
Will the same life as then continue in reality?
Although I was able to return safely from the uninhabited island, I may have to worry about survival in real life from now on.
“Yes. “As much as you want.”
I smiled and accepted the fight for survival.
My mother, and I’s survival period on the desert island has come to an end.
And my reality survival season was about to begin now.
(Survival story of mother and son on deserted island-complete)
