Regression Life of a Retired S-Class Mercenary



Episode 1. gate crasher

Deep in the deep forest.

It was a location that could only be reached by climbing a mountain road for two hours on foot from the nearest road.

MBS PD Choi Yoon-ho drank a bowl of cold water on a bench in the front yard of an old house in such a corner.

“Kaaa! good night!”

In response to his reaction, the man who was arranging the dried boar skins on one side shook his head with a puzzled expression.

The man’s shaggy hair and beard made it difficult to see his face properly.

months. Sasak- Sasak.

As the kitchen knife in the man’s hand moved quickly like flowing water, the gap between the leather and the meat split open.

It is questionable whether even a leather expert or butcher can show such skill…

Choi Yoon-ho hurriedly put the bowl down and smiled smirkingly.

“hehehehe, Kangsu. No, Mr. Han Kang-soo. Are you really not going to show up? You are the best among the natural people who appeared in our ‘Live in Nature’.”

“Yunho hyung-nim, I clearly said I didn’t like it.”

“Why don’t you think about it again? I will take care of the performance fee generously. And nothing will break or get in the way.”

At Choi Yun-ho’s persuasion, the man called Han Kang-soo frowned.

“It’s disgusting. And I hate it.”

“Sheesh! hey! It’s already been 7 years. I came here for a break from time to time, but isn’t this enough for me to listen to?”

“I didn’t accept my older brother who was wandering on a mountain road seven years ago. It is the biggest regret of my life.”

“Tch- Then, would your temper have been relieved if I had been in distress and died?”

At Choi Yun-ho’s outraged reaction, Kang-soo stopped the knife he had been working hard on and looked at him calmly.

“It’s a bit of a waste.”

“Did you say everything!”

“If you want to rest a little bit and go down, stop here.”

“Are you really going to do this?”

“I am serious.”

“Eight! What would you do if you came up hard every spring, summer, and fall for 7 years and chatted! There is nothing to come back!”

Meanwhile, there is no winter.

His condescending tone made Kang-soo even more absurd.

“You talked to yourself like a radio, didn’t you?”

“It all becomes blood and flesh! Um- that’s information! Express information!”

“Why do we need to talk about the outside world when we live in the mountains?”

“Then there will surely come a day when you get tired of it! really! Or you could go on to something else. At that time, the day will come when you will thank me!”

Choi Yun-ho sighed while boasting.

Of course, Kang-soo only shook his head.

“Are you going to stay here? Aren’t you working?”

“You’re doing it right now! So, teacher Han Kang-soo! How to appear or not? Just once!”

“I don’t think you want to come here again.”

Choi Yun-ho let out a sigh at Kang-soo’s expression, which became more serious than before.

“Ehh- I never thought I’d meet a person who didn’t pass 10 times in my 16 years as a PD.”

In the end, Choi Yun-ho trudged over to the flat and took the bag he had brought with him.

“Sometimes there are trees that don’t fall. Go down carefully.”

“Goodbye! Come back later!”

Choi Yun-ho slung his bag over one shoulder and entered the forest path that was not properly identified.

Because the bushes were so dense, it wasn’t long before Choi Yun-ho’s back was invisible.

“I will live for a while.”

Kang-soo set aside the boar skin he was organizing and headed to the backyard to pick up the herbs he had dug up and dried in the shade yesterday.

It has already been 9 years since Kangsu started living in the mountains. Every day was quiet and full of little things.

That’s why I hated loud things happening.

I always wanted to live like now.

“···hmm?”

Suddenly, I felt a presence in the front yard.

Kangsu sighed heavily and said as he walked to the front yard.

“Look at this. Brother Yunho. If you’re trying to make an excuse that you left something this time…”

Kang-soo, who continued to speak with a straight face, stopped talking.

It was because the person who entered the front yard was not Choi Yun-ho.

A man in his mid-fifties who wears glasses.

On the outside, he was wearing mountaineering clothes, a white shirt around his neck, and even a red tie.

“who are you?”

At Kang-su’s question, the middle-aged man takes out a business card from his pocket and holds it out.

“My name is Song Tae-joon, a lawyer at the law firm Haesong.”

“A lawyer…? How did such a person come here? Are you in distress?”

Hikers who used to climb the mountain where there are no mountain trails sometimes came in in distress.

However, it was said that he was in distress, so his clothes were neater than expected.

The shirt and tie were also undisturbed.

“It is not distress. Rather, Han Jin-hye’s son, Han Kang-soo, are you right?”

It’s been a while since he heard the name of his mother who passed away dozens of years ago from someone else’s mouth… Kang-soo’s expression hardens in an instant.

“That’s right, but…what did you come for?”

“I came here at the request of Han Kang-soo’s biological father.”

Kang-soo had no choice but to harden his expression more than before.

“I don’t know how they found me, but I don’t want to know or get involved in his business.”

“It’s a will!”

“…Yoo… the words?”

“Jin Soo-hyeok, the biological father of Han Kang-soo, died in a traffic accident on a road outside Yangpyeong at around 6:30 am today. I came with a request to deliver a will at the same time as the fact of death.”

Kangsu had never seen his father since he was born. I didn’t hear about anything until after my mother died.

It seemed like he didn’t say it on purpose. I didn’t even wonder because I trusted my mother.

The first news of such a father was to hear the obituary (訃告).

“I am not interested.”

“To be honest, Mr. Jin Soo-hyeok, no. Suhyuk is also my friend.”

“So what do you mean?”

“Soo-hyeok always missed Han Jin-hye and her. I found out about you too late, but because of my location and circumstances, I couldn’t meet or even contact you.”

“I don’t want to hear any explanation.”

“Of course it doesn’t sound like that. And I’m here to deliver only the things left by the will. Open it or burn it, whatever you like. I’ll just go back.”

Song Tae-jun took a box out of the bag he was carrying on his back and put it on the table.

A wooden box measuring 30 cm wide, 10 cm long and 5 cm high.

“I leave as requested and return.”

“…”

Song Tae-joon entered the forest path he had entered.

In the meantime, Kang-su’s gaze stayed on the wooden box.

A father I had never seen before. It was the first time I heard the name Jin Soo-hyeok.

From the time I was born, I was named Han after my mother’s surname, so I lived without even knowing my father’s surname.

If you have a little bit of curiosity…

When my mother passed away, I was in my second year of high school. It was only at the time when the question of the existence of a father, which had been heard among mother’s acquaintances in the middle of a modest funeral, arose.

“hmm···. You don’t have to come now.”

There must be a reason why my mother didn’t tell me until she passed away.

Kang-soo wanted to protect her mother’s will. Soon, he picked up a wooden box and headed for a cauldron on one side of the front yard.

‘… to live?’

Kang-soo was startled and tried to twist his body as chills ran down his spine at the cold feeling that seemed to squeeze his heart for a moment.

Suaaa! Pak!

At the same time, something pierced Kang-su’s chest. It was a bullet.

Kang-soo dropped the wooden box he was holding in his hand.

‘sniping?’

Kang-soo, who immediately fell to the floor with the box, tried to get up but couldn’t get his strength back.

The river’s blood gushed out on the floor full of bushes.

“Kuh, kuhhip!”

Kang-soo’s gaze, which had been stooped to the side, became increasingly blurry.

‘Did the bullet penetrate the large blood vessels and nerves near the heart…?’

In the meantime, after some time, the bush moved and a man walked out.

The man grabbed Kang-su by the feet and dragged him into the house.

The wooden box that had been dropped earlier was also thrown aside.

‘What, what are you trying to do?’

Kang-soo, who was gradually losing energy, could feel the flames soon after. Red flames soared through the blurred vision.

Then, through the flames, a tattoo was seen on the man’s left forearm.

A picture of a crossed sword and spear behind a lion’s head.

‘Savnak…?’

Kang-soo recognized that, but had a hunch that only death was left to him.

Then the voice of a man wearing a mask is heard. It was Japanese, not Korean.

“Target taken care of. Ask the client to complete it.”

Still, I could hear it well enough.

‘Of, request? More than that, in Sabnak… how?’

Before he could feel the pain of the flames, the consciousness of the precipitation quickly faded.

Then the flames engulfed everything along with Kang-su’s house.

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Kangsu’s gaze changed in an instant. There was a rumbling sound all around.

To-do-do-do-du-!

It was in the middle of a battlefield where gunfire could be heard. There, Kang-soo gasped for breath as he leaned against the wall resounding with an explosion.

‘This is obviously a rebel battle in the Barentu region of Editrea. That’s obviously coming out…’

In the battlefield, Kang-soo watched the situation while floating in the sky.

It was the first battle that UBT, a secret special operations unit under the Special Warfare Command, participated in after its establishment.

The situation changed quickly.

Numerous missions as a UBT member flowed like the wind.

Then Kangsu became a mercenary, not a soldier.

Ride and ride! Tattang! Tattang!

‘Is this when you were at Nightwing? What is this? Are you a kaleidoscope? He’s already dead?’

In the meantime, the battle in the city of Tshikapa, in the southwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, came out.

From there, Kangsu ran through the gaps on top of the building and quickly defeated the enemies.

There, the enemies were ‘Savnak’.

worst mercenary. Even in the mercenary market, which does not choose any means or methods, there are rules.

‘Savnak’ was a place where only the mercenaries who were so bad that they couldn’t handle it there.

The same was true in the battle of Tsikhapa.

Sabnak belonged to the rebels as a mercenary and slaughtered civilians indiscriminately.

It did not discriminate between women, the elderly and children. Among them, the women considered it a miracle if they were not raped.

“Look for the Night River! Find it and kill it!”

It was Kangsu’s name when he was a mercenary.

Kangsu quickly defeated Sabnak’s mercenaries.

‘that’s right. It was like that… I killed them all at that time.’

Even the last Savnak mercenary was defeated. After that, all of the Sabnak mercenaries were erased from the mercenary market.

Time passed again.

This time, Kangsu was wearing a neat suit, not a combat uniform.

“Soo, thank you again.”

“It was something I had to do.”

A middle-aged man held Kang-soo’s hand and sincerely thanked him.

It was when he belonged to an Italian special security company called ‘Egisto’, which was exclusively for VVIPs in Europe.

The name ‘Soo’ that was just called was also a code name I used while still at Ejisuto.

‘I lived a really noisy life.’

Memories of being in Ejisto also passed quickly.

It wasn’t until I returned to Korea as a smuggler after six years that the speed slowed down.

When I was in the mercenary camp Nightwing and the security company Ejisto, I lived as a different person.

Real identities can be a weakness, so living under fake identities provided by both sides was the rule.

In addition, since he had left Korea as a smuggler, there was little fear of being tracked down.

After Kang-su returned to Korea, he went into the mountains to find his mother’s ashes.

I wanted to live a peaceful and quiet life more than anyone else.

‘What can I do now? What should I do!’

What can a dead person do?

Even now, if he faced Savnak who killed him, he wanted to tear him apart.

Kang-soo, who kept screaming, floated around in the darkness as if the video had turned off.

Then I see a faint light on the side of the darkness. Kang-su’s body began to get closer and closer to the light.

“what! What!”

The light that suddenly began to emit like a flash swallowed the precipitation. It was as if dozens of flash grenades had been thrown in front of my eyes.

The dark place became so bright that I couldn’t even open my eyes.

“aaagh!”

Along with the light, the heat seemed to be transmitted.

Kang-soo, who was in pain, suddenly opened his eyes as if he came to his senses.

For a moment, it seemed as if my breath had stopped, but I couldn’t breathe properly.

“Ouch! Wow! Wow! Come on!”

It seemed that it had been sucked into the depths of the sea and then pulled up.

Returning life of a retired S-class mercenary