In the Name of God - Chapter 28.2
If I think about it coldly, it really makes no sense, but the naive Seong Do‑yoon believed it completely. He had no idea the money came from Seong Do‑wan.
However, foolishly, Seong Do‑yoon got scammed once more—this time by the only friend he still kept in contact with.
By now, he truly could be called the icon of misfortune.
‘That must be why Seong Do‑wan thought a large sum of money would be dangerous.’
Realizing this unintentionally, Seong Do‑wan changed his method and began sending Seong Do‑yoon a fixed amount every month, disguised as government support. Even then, he kept it just enough for living expenses, worried that a large sum might get scammed again.
Seong Do‑yoon, knowing nothing, constantly worried about when it might stop, growing more and more worn down every day.
“Hyung must have loved it, right? Watching me rot away in my room, unable to do anything. How nice it must have been not to be held back by your incapable younger brother.”
Seong Do‑yoon’s memory still holds the words he once muttered alone in his room.
“Let’s just do nothing like this. I don’t want to be hated by hyung anymore.”
Truly foolish.
His older brother had never hated him even once.
“Imagine how annoyed hyung must have been seeing me, who should have stayed hidden and dead quietly, now coming out all timidly just because I became an awakener.”
I wonder if Seong Do‑wan knew how ecstatic Seong Do‑yoon had been the moment he realized he had awakened.
He had finally felt capable of doing something, thinking that hyung would no longer look down on him, that he would no longer be hated, that he could meet him again, and he had been jumping for joy.
He surely never expected that the first words from his older brother upon meeting again would be an order to stay home if he wanted to live.
‘Ah…, this is annoying.’
Seong Do‑yoon, what kind of person are you that endured all of that without saying a single word?
‘Don’t worry. I’ll get angry for you.’
Filling my gaze with resentment toward Seong Do‑wan—for not protecting his younger brother, for despising and abandoning him, for making him taste the depths of misery and frustration—I glared fiercely.
“You know, when a person faces death, a lot of things inevitably change, right?”
“…What?”
Facing death.
Just that phrase made Seong Do‑wan’s face falter instantly.
“I almost died in the third dungeon.”
“Is that true?!”
Seong Do‑wan’s large hands gripped both of my arms. The pain shot up, and my eyes twisted instantly.
“That’s why I told you not to go into dungeons back then…!”
Hearing my grimace, he quickly let go.
I rubbed my sore arms and stepped back. Seeing the distance I created, his eyes shook slightly in surprise.
“You like investigating me, right? Then you’ll know how many died in the third dungeon I entered.”
I sneered at the flustered Seong Do‑wan.
“Four people died at once. I ran, but the survivors used me as bait and escaped on their own.”
I could hear the crunch of his teeth. It was so loud and clear that I almost worried if they were okay.
“At that point, I felt so unfair. Why am I so unlucky? Why was I born to go through this?”
This was true.
In Seong Do‑yoon’s memory, some of the bitter murmurs of despair remained.
I poured all those feelings of injustice and sorrow onto Seong Do‑wan.
“Living each day helplessly was unbearable, and now I was supposed to be left as bait, hit by monsters and die. Why should I? Why only me?”
The threatening aura from Seong Do‑wan had vanished. Only a dark confusion lingered faintly, revealing glimpses of his hidden guilt.
“You want me to stay locked up at home again? To go back to the time when I was so scared and terrified I thought I’d die?”
No, I cannot live like that.
Now that I am Seong Do‑yoon, I cannot live that way.
“Fuck that.”
I raised my middle finger mercilessly toward the shocked Seong Do‑wan.
“I will do whatever I want. Just like you did.”
Ah, that feels good.
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