Nari’s father’s expression hardened. Soon, he made a dumbfounded expression and lowered his two arms.

“I can create legal documents using Kang Hana’s statements and actions during her lifetime when necessary. It’s a part that she allowed during her life.”

As Nan spoke, a sobbing voice echoed throughout the room. Nari’s father nodded his head.

“…That’s right. She said that. She said to take care of Nari, but I completely forgot about it. Just… I only remembered it now. What have I done wrong to Nari…”

Nari tried to rush out from behind the Buddha statue, but Ihyeon held her tightly. Seeing Ihyeon shaking his head, Nari made a determined expression and said,

“It’s okay.”

Surprised by her calmer-than-expected demeanor, Ihyeon let go of Nari.

“…Okay.”

She released her perception inhibition and walked out from behind the Buddha statue into the room. Startled by her appearance, Nan and Nari’s father blinked their eyes.

“Young lady Nari?”

“Nari? How are you here…?”

Nari took steps towards her father. However, she no longer cried or frowned.

It was a firmly determined expression and action. Surprised by her momentum, Nan briefly stepped aside. Nari looked down at her father.

“Dad.”

“…Yes, Nari.”

“I needed you, Dad. Not Mom.”

“Nari.”

“I didn’t wish for Mom to come back, I just thought I could overcome this sadness and live on with you, Dad. I needed a guardian.”

Suppressing her sobbing voice, Nari closed her eyes tightly, then opened them and clenched her fists, looking at her father.

Nan watched tensely, thinking she might hit her father once, unable to control her emotions, but that was it.

Nari was slowly and well controlling her emotions.

“Do you know how long you’ve hurt me and made me unable to trust you? Even if you apologize, I’ll never forgive you, so keep that in mind.”

“Yes, but I’m still sorry. I’m sorry, Nari. Dad is sorry…”

“Now I won’t care about you anymore.”

At those words, Nari’s father, who was sitting on the floor, looked up at Nari.

The father and daughter, who looked exactly alike, were looking at each other in the room. Nari continued speaking with a determined expression.

“I don’t need you anymore. There are many people who can protect me besides you. And I can protect myself too. So I won’t care anymore. I won’t care at all what you do or where you go from now on.”

“Nari…”

Nari looked straight at her father.

She thought her heart would soften if she heard her father’s apology. And she thought she would love him again.

And then she thought they could live on again, albeit awkwardly.

But Nari was finally able to let go of her affection for her father.

Through this series of events, Nari realized that there were many people around her who cared for her.

And she remembered the many forms of family she had been through.

Jung Suho, who was more like a childhood friend than siblings, although they lived together like a pseudo-family.

Kang Ihyeon, who was not treated well by his original family, but actually lived like a real family with Min Jaewon and Min Jaeyun.

And her mother, who made her godfather for her.

If one could not expect affection or protection from their own family, they could create people outside who would protect and love them.

Now that she let go of the desire for her father to protect her and be on her side, she felt sorry for him. Her father, who was still buried in the remnants of the past with her mother.

“I’ll consider the money you’ve taken from me until now as if it never existed. But still, return the money you received from Suho to him, he gave it to me. Not to you.”

“…Okay. I’m sorry. Nari. I’m sorry.”

“But since you took good care of me when I was young, I’ll only hate you this much. Got it?”

Father just nodded his head a few times. Nari sighed and looked at Nan.

Seeing him looking slightly startled, Nari frowned and spat out her usual blunt words.

“What are you doing? Let him take Dad away.”

“…Ah, yes. Hey! It’s over. Take him away!!”

At those words, the people waiting outside the door supported Nari’s father and took him away.

Watching her father leave the room, Nari blinked once.

Nan looked at Nari with a startled tone.

“We agreed to give a 24-hour grace period, didn’t we?”

“Grandma Nahan told me. To verify. She said it was the survival skill that saved me. So I came to verify.”

“No, how did you come here?”

“I’m an Awakener, you know? I used Illusion Technique to hide behind that Buddha statue.”

As Nari pointed to the Buddha statue, Nan looked at the giant Buddha statue modeled after Kang Hana.

“…And who is that?”

Oops! Kang Ihyeon crouched behind the Buddha statue.

‘I’ve been caught…!’

Kang Ihyeon, who had his eyes tightly closed for a moment, timidly came out next to the Buddha statue. Nan’s eyes became puzzled.

“Hunter Kang Ihyeon? Don’t you live in Seoul?”

“Ah… Hello. That, um, nice to… meet you for the first time!”

“Why are you here…?”

Nan, who had been expressing doubts for a moment, spoke with wide eyes.

“No way, are you…? Young lady Nari, why are you dating Kang Ihyeon of all people? Are you two like Romeo and Juliet?”

At the mention of Romeo and Juliet, the two’s expressions turned to shock. Without anyone saying anything, excuses followed.

“Ro, Romeo and Juliet, you say!”

“What are you talking about?! We’re not in that kind of relationship?!”

At that answer, Nan’s eyes became drowsy again. He put his glasses back on and pressed his forehead with one hand.

‘What do you mean you’re not in that kind of relationship, but as soon as she tells you to come down, you abandon everything and immediately take the train to Busan. It’s 100% a budding romance.’

Feeling a throbbing headache coming on, Nan sighed and then suddenly realized something strange and abruptly raised his head.

“Wait a minute. The trains to Busan should all be sold out now. Even if you came by car, you couldn’t have come this distance so quickly.”

At those words, Kang Ihyeon avoided his gaze. Nari fidgeted her fingers with a pondering expression for a moment.

“…Young lady Nari, you were an Illusionist-class. And yes. That’s right. Come to think of it, there were times when a black fog briefly appeared. I thought I saw it wrong. Because there’s only one person who can shroud themselves in black fog.”

“Ahem, hmm… Ahem.”

“Strangely close with Kang Ihyeon…”

“Well, I could have hidden it if I wanted to. But I intentionally revealed it to tell you. Because now I know how important your mother is to you!”

Nari avoided her gaze while fake coughing. Nan’s mouth gradually opened. His words quickened as he grasped Nari’s identity.

“No, but how can that be possible? Is that possible? That, completely reproducing another person is impossible. Everyone says…”

Nari fiddled with the hair on the side of her head and turned her gaze. After pondering for a moment, she looked up at Nan again and grinned. That expression resembled the one he often saw in internet news.

The expression that the World Ranking #1, the ‘Black Illusion,’ always playfully smiled with.

Nari spoke in a confident voice.

“No? I can do it.”

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“Yes, it seems you’ve decided to believe.”

And back again inside the Victory Tower.

Nari looked at the jade-colored corridor. Frames were hung in a row.

Nari, who was walking with Nahan, suddenly looked at an empty frame.

“Yes, for now. …Because you don’t seem like a bad person.”

Nahan smiled kindly at Nari. Nari mumbled in embarrassment at that.

“…Um, thank you for… letting me face my father.”

“What have I done, you developed yourself. Nari.”

Nahan looked at Nari. Nari felt a strange sense of unease in his kind green eyes.

Arahan, one who has been enlightened and escaped the cycle of reincarnation. She heard that reincarnation literally means ‘being born again into the world’.

Nahan, who noticed Nari’s unease, smiled.

“Yes, since I have been enlightened, I will never be born again.”

“Not read…”

“I saw it. Since I’m interested in you, I can also see what you’re thinking.”

Nari blinked. Then she looked at the empty frame. If they’re interested, they can read what you’re thinking.

Nari, who repeated those words, quietly tried to retrace Nahan’s thoughts.

And she mentioned a doubtful guess.

“I saw Nan’s skill. It brought out Mom’s memories and statements during her lifetime.”

“Yes, I can freely bring them out within the ‘permitted range’ that Miss Kang Hana allowed.”

“Then is this also Nan’s work?”

Nari looked at the frames. A memorial hall that reproduces her mother’s memories during her lifetime as they were.

Isn’t there a part related to the skill?

At Nari’s words, Nahan nodded his head as it was.

“Then… is the reason Grandma doesn’t leave this place… because she’s already dead?”

An empty frame. Nahan who can’t leave this place. And the faint spiritual energy that always emanates from his body.

It’s not that he doesn’t care about the power spreading through his body. It was ‘leaking’.

Since no one knows what kind of influence one’s power will have on others, it was courteous to control the power.

Except for Nari, there were no hunters who were S-rank but couldn’t control the leakage of their power.

Even Nari only leaked power to the extent that her power leaked out only when she became emotionally agitated due to the influence of ‘mental strength’.

At those words, Nahan smiled kindly. Nari bit her lips tightly.

Nahan shook his head again and said,

“I haven’t died. My age has already far exceeded the average life expectancy. My spiritual energy has simply ‘extended’ my life because I have a reason to stay here.”

Is that reason perhaps transmission? Nari, who was about to say the lingering words, swallowed them firmly, and Nahan, as if he had already read her thoughts, patted her head.

And hugged her tightly.

“Although we’ve only met for a few hours, thank you for calling me Grandma. I’m glad I got to meet you before my limit came.”

“…Grandma.”

“I just wanted to see you one last time. Whether you were doing well, it felt like I couldn’t die until I saw you. So I asked my son to sustain my life like this. I was really happy to meet you like this. Nari.”

Nari hesitated and carefully hugged Nahan. She felt a sense of clarity unique to spiritual energy.

The light emanating from Nahan grew bigger and bigger. Nari lowered her eyes at the faint light.

She held back her sobs, trying not to cry, and hugged Nahan tightly.

“I, I’m just grateful for everything. Every…”

“I only said a few words, it was you who saved yourself.”

Her body gradually became transparent, and the green spiritual energy began to form a halo.

Even though she met her for the first time yesterday, she could become this attached, she could become this sad.

Nari closed her eyes tightly.

She felt like she could understand a little of the feelings of Nan and Nahan, who cherished her from the beginning.

“…Thank you. May you rest in peace. Grandma.”

Nari heard Nahan’s soft laughter in her ear. And slowly, her body turned into a halo.

Nari looked up at the corridor endlessly.

That light lingered inside for a very long time before disappearing.

[Notice! There has been a change in the ranking of South Korea!] [Top 5 Rankings

1. Rude

2, Kang Ihyeon

3. Min Jaeyun

4. Baek Jangmi

5. Jung Suho]

And so, a star of South Korea went out.