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◈ The S-Classes That I Raised ◈
Chapter 3: My Younger Brother Is Strange (1)
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I was sitting on the edge of a bed, not atop a dragon’s corpse. The overpowering stench of blood was completely gone. Even the clothes I was wearing had changed.
‘...Did I really return to the past?’
For now, I couldn’t open my status window. I didn’t have an inventory either. Five years ago, I hadn’t awakened yet.
‘That brat Yoohyun was already a successful guild master.’
Haeyeon Guild. A guild that grew rapidly through its small elite force, eventually becoming Korea’s undisputed best.
Of course, I hadn’t been able to join. ...Quite a few guild members hated me, too.
‘I must’ve heard “Stop hanging around the guild master and get lost” about a hundred times.’
Ugh, petty bastards. Fine. This time, I’d live quietly.
When I searched my pockets, I found a phone. The date was... Oh, it really was five years ago. The most recent message was...
‘Wait, this is an awakening broker?’
There was a conversation with an awakening broker from this morning. The moment I saw it, memories of the past came flooding back.
‘So this is when I came back to.’
It was the third year since dungeons appeared in the world and Awakened Hunters emerged. Society had changed drastically, but it was gradually settling down.
Back then, I’d been writhing with inferiority while watching my S-rank Awakened little brother succeed. I’d clung to the foolish hope that I could become like him too, if only I awakened, and so I contacted an awakening broker.
An awakening broker. Simply put, a scammer.
They took enormous sums of money while claiming that even non-Awakened people could awaken if they cleared a dungeon, then illegally brought them inside. Most either took the money and disappeared or, even if they did bring someone into a dungeon, offered no protection. They were the worst kind of scum.
‘Clearing a dungeon doesn’t make you awaken in the first place.’
A dangerous environment like a dungeon made awakening more likely, but it had nothing to do with clearing one. That fact would become public half a year later, when the Korean Hunter Association created safe awakening facilities and brokers disappeared completely.
Anyway, I’d packed up a pile of money to meet that broker, only to...
‘Get caught and dragged here by one of my brother’s subordinates.’
Yeah, I remembered now. This was one of the guest rooms in the Haeyeon Guild building.
Soon, that brat would come in and lecture me with an expression that said he was sick of me. The moment I thought that, the door flew open. Han Yoohyun stepped inside.
Speak of the devil.
“Hyung.”
My living little brother called out to me. His face as he looked at me was incredibly young. He wasn’t that old even five years later, but right now, he really was young.
He was twenty now.
He’d only just become a legal adult. In a peaceful world, he would still be a student. Or he might have just enlisted. The military still existed, after all.
‘He was exempt because he was an S-rank Awakened.’
I had served. There were supposedly a lot of people who awakened in the military and got discharged early, but I hadn’t awakened. Even if I had, I would’ve only been F-rank and served my full term. Military exemption started at E-rank.
Anyway, that brat was doing so well that he hadn’t even needed to enlist... Ah, my inferiority complex was about to flare up again.
Let go of greed. Let go of worldly troubles. Namu Amitabha.
I rose from my seat and approached Yoohyun, who was wearing a sulky expression. Seeing him up close made the passage of five years feel even more real.
At the time, before my regression, I hadn’t thought much about it. Looking back now, though, that young brat must’ve had it rough. Even as an S-rank, building and growing his own guild couldn’t have been easy.
And all the while, his one and only older brother had been running around causing trouble.
...I really was at fault.
“About dungeon brokers...”
“Sorry.”
I apologized first. My little brother, who had been about to start lecturing me, snapped his mouth shut.
He stared at me as if I were some creature he had never seen before.
“I won’t do it again.”
All of it. I was just going to live quietly, knowing my place from now on. Yoohyun looked confused, then cautiously opened his mouth.
“If you caused some huge problem or something...”
“It’s not like that.”
This brat really didn’t trust his own brother. Not that I could blame him.
I smiled and lightly tapped his arm.
“I just sat down and thought about it, and I realized I’d been immature.”
A dragon’s shell was nice and cool, perfect for clearing my head.
My little brother looked flustered by my slightly embarrassed words.
“No, it’s not like you were that immature... I mean.”
“What do you mean, no? Hey, can I hug you?”
“Huh? Y-yeah?”
“It’s been a while.”
It had been a while for him, but not for me. I could still vividly feel his body growing cold beneath my hands.
“...Do whatever you want.”
Yoohyun hesitated, but nodded. Seriously, what was he being shy about? His older brother just wanted to hug him once.
Though I was getting goosebumps myself.
I stretched out my arms and pulled my little brother, who had grown so tall, into a hug. Before he awakened, he had been even smaller than this.
“My little brother, Han Yoohyun.”
The body in my arms was warm. I could hear his slightly quickened heartbeat and breathing.
A deep sense of relief welled up inside me, along with something that made me say words I normally never would.
“I love you.”
His body jerked. Hey, I was embarrassed too, so don’t say anything. Just...
[Awakened ‘Han Yujin’ registration complete.]
...What?
[Legendary-grade title ‘Perfect Caregiver’ granted!]
Huh?
[The effects of the title ‘Perfect Caregiver’ are activated.
Perfect Caregiver bonus skill: My Kid Is the Best
Awakened ‘Han Yoohyun’s’ growth rate is doubled.
Duration: 3 days]
What the hell?!
This was insane. What kind of broken skill was this?
The Caregiver title was fairly common. Any parent or sibling who cared for and raised an Awakened could easily obtain it. They didn’t even need to be related by blood.
If the person being raised was C-rank or higher and they had a good relationship, the title appeared nine times out of ten. For a C-rank to B-rank person being raised, it was Clumsy Caregiver. For an A-rank, Passable Caregiver. Finally, for an S-rank, it was simply Caregiver.
There were no Awakened above S-rank, so I had thought Caregiver was the highest title.
‘Perfect Caregiver? What the hell is that?’
On top of that, it gave a growth-rate buff of two times.
My old Caregiver title gave at most a ten-percent additional growth buff. It only lasted a single day, too. But twice the growth rate? That meant reaching a year’s worth of levels in half a year.
‘No, more than levels, skills. The higher a skill’s rank, the damn slower it grows!’
Wow, this was completely broken. If I applied the buff before entering a dungeon, he would come out having grown at light speed.
“...Hyung?”
“Uh, yeah. No.”
I’d been so shocked that I had kept hugging him.
When I hurriedly let go and stepped back, Yoohyun cleared his throat with a slightly red face.
“...I’ve acted forcefully a lot too, but thank you for saying that, Hyung.”
“D-Don’t thank me.”
“...”
“...”
An awkward silence settled between us. Um. Ahem.
Just as I was beginning to think I wanted to smash through the window and jump out to escape the strange atmosphere, Yoohyun spoke first.
“...Do you want to have dinner together later? It’s been a while.”
“Yeah, I’d like that.”
“Okay. Then, I have work to do.”
“Yeah, good luck.”
My little brother left and the door closed. I tore at my hair.
‘Wow, fuck. That was painfully awkward.’
Was dinner going to be like this too? It had only been three years for Yoohyun, but it had been eight years for me. Maybe I shouldn’t have agreed. Even now, I could still cancel...
The door flew open.
“I forgot something.”
Yoohyun, who I thought had left, opened the door again. He startled the hell out of me.
“Delete the awakening broker’s contact information.”
He looked at the phone on the bed.
“Though I’ll make sure they can’t answer even if you call.”
“...What?”
Surely I was mistaken in thinking he meant he would hunt down that broker and beat the crap out of them.
Even after he finished speaking, Yoohyun didn’t leave. He just stared at me. ...Was he telling me to delete it right now? When I picked up my phone and showed him that I had deleted the broker’s contact, he left with a satisfied expression.
My little brother’s attitude felt a little unsettling, but more importantly...
‘My status window!’
I hurriedly opened it.
[Awakened Han Yujin
Titles: Dragon Slayer (L), Perfect Caregiver (L)]
Wait, hold on. Dragon Slayer?
‘Why are you here?’
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