Became the Transcendent Monarch of the Corner of the Room - Chapter 1

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Episode 1

“It’s been a while, Chairman Choi.”

“How long has it been? I was starting to forget what you looked like.”

Chairman Choi Seung-hyun.

He smiled brightly at his old friend’s greeting.

Every day was filled with nothing but business talk, family matters, and troublesome affairs.

To have a friend with whom he could speak openly and honestly from the heart.

“I’ve been hearing good things about Chairman Choi’s [Manwol] Guild. From what I hear, every business you touch and every dungeon you conquer is a resounding success?”

At his friend’s words, Choi Seung-hyun wore a subtle smile.

It certainly wasn’t wrong.

Korea’s top Hunter Guild, Manwol.

It was famous enough that everyone would recognize the name.

“Well… I’ve been lucky.”

“Lucky? If anyone heard you say that, there’d be trouble. These days, friends are desperately struggling just to get a foot in the door at Manwol.”

“Is that so?”

“I envy you. Whether as a Hunter or in business, there’s nothing you haven’t succeeded at. And your family too…”

Gasp!

The friend who had been speaking across the small round table.

He was about to continue when he unconsciously covered his mouth with both hands.

“…”

“S-sorry, Chairman Choi. I didn’t mean to bring that up.”

“…It’s fine. It’s been quite a while since we met, so it’s natural to be curious.”

Choi Seung-hyun’s face hardened.

The atmosphere instantly froze.

Had he made some terrible mistake?

His friend broke out in a cold sweat from just one comment.

Chairman Choi waved his hand as if it were nothing.

“That boy… He’s still the same as always. My sore thumb.”

Choi Seung-hyun’s fifth son, Choi Hyun-min.

He was as famous as Manwol Guild and Choi Seung-hyun himself.

Of course, in a bad way.

“…I understand he still hasn’t awakened…”

“So how could my heart not burn with worry? The other boys awakened early and are blooming with their talents… But that boy is nearly thirty and still in this state…”

Of Choi Seung-hyun’s five children, the first four had long since completed their awakening.

One awakened at eight years old and became a ranker.

Another gained fame by clearing dungeons at incredible speed.

Choi Seung-hyun himself was a top-tier ranker.

And his four children displayed overwhelming talent as well.

Other Hunters and even the media couldn’t help but pay attention to the fifth child.

Yet the last flower never bloomed.

With its bud tightly closed, how many years had it been causing anxiety?

Many people’s expectations had vanished somewhere.

And what remained was the ugly duckling of the prestigious Hunter Guild Manwol.

Only Choi Hyun-min.

“Ah, r-right. Sorry about that. Come to think of it, I have an important meeting coming up…”

“Has it gotten that late already?”

“We should at least have a meal together… This is quite embarrassing.”

“If you’re busy, it can’t be helped. I can’t force a guest who wants to leave to stay seated.”

Had something suddenly come to mind?

The guest hurriedly gathered his jacket and stood up.

Chairman Choi muttered regretfully at his friend’s words.

“T-then… see you next time. I’ll contact you again.”

His friend left hastily with a flustered look.

Choi Seung-hyun could only smile bitterly at the sight.

“Next time… If there is a next time… Let’s do that.”

***

Gasp.

Huff. Huff.

Around the time Chairman Choi Seung-hyun was seeing off his guest from Manwol.

In the most secluded room of Manwol Estate.

Even there, the sounds from outside could be heard.

‘Did a guest come?’

Huff.

Gasp. Huff.

Wine-colored carpet.

Block toys scattered carelessly on top of it.

Castles and fighter jets.

And even mammoths and Primitive Tribes.

Countless block toys filled the isolated room.

And in the middle of it all—

Clatter.

There was Choi Hyun-min.

“Finally… they seem to have left.”

Unkempt black hair.

Hollow light brown eyes.

In his callused hands, he held a crude wooden sword.

‘Was it another guest because of Hunter business or something?’

Choi Hyun-min disliked guests.

On days like today when outsiders came, they would always talk about him.

Manwol’s only blemish.

Choi Seung-hyun’s sore thumb.

It had been nearly ten years since he’d been confined to this room.

Yet people still only talked about Choi Hyun-min in that way.

“Hunters, awakening… I’m so sick of it all…”

Words that instinctively slipped from his mouth.

Even so, the walls of his room were covered with photos and analysis articles of high-ranking rankers.

Things he had put up when he first started Hunter training, but still hadn’t taken down.

As soon as his eyes met them, he unconsciously hung his head low.

Thud.

When he tensed and then relaxed his grip, the wooden sword fell helplessly.

“…”

Then with a small sigh, he picked up a block toy from the floor.

A block made in the shape of a person.

These guys wouldn’t need to worry about such troubles.

‘Their heads can be taken off and reattached, and their arms and legs can all be replaced.’

His eyes met with the human-shaped toy.

It had a bright yellow head with just two dots for eyes.

Naturally, the pupils didn’t move at all.

Choi Hyun-min stared at it for a long while, as if having a staring contest.

Then suddenly—

He carelessly threw it on the floor and slowly got up.

Swoosh. Swoosh.

With each step he took, the toys scattered on the floor parted like seawater.

Thud.

How many steps had he walked like a zombie, soulless?

A long desk blocked his path.

His gaze naturally turned toward the desk.

On top of it was Choi Hyun-min’s most cherished block toy.

“What do you guys think?”

Hair disheveled wildly like a primitive man.

Crudely worn animal hide and a wooden spear raised toward the sky.

Next to it, a mammoth dozens of times larger was fighting against the primitive men.

‘I wanted to become a hunter too.’

He naturally picked up the primitive man holding the spear.

Then he poked the spear toward the mammoth.

The block toy fell over weakly to the side.

Choi Hyun-min stared blankly at the sight and then let go of the primitive man.

‘What kind of pipe dream is this when I can’t even awaken…’

Thump.

He collapsed powerlessly to the floor.

The blocks underneath poked and jabbed at his body.

But that level of pain didn’t matter at all.

‘If only I could awaken.’

He learned swordsmanship and trained his body.

He made every effort to become a hunter well into his twenties.

Yet the fact that he couldn’t even awaken hurt far more than stepping on block toys.

Choi Hyun-min stared blankly at the primitive man, then lay down flat on the floor.

Then he immediately closed his eyes.

A small block was clutched in his palm, which had developed hard calluses.

As always, if he slept like this… he would become a little numb.

He closed his eyes like that.

***

-Wake up.

“Mmm…”

-Wake up.

What’s that sound?

Did the secretary open the door without permission again?

When he fell asleep on the floor instead of the bed, the secretary would sometimes sneak in and wake him up.

Is this one of those times?

Choi Hyun-min, who had fallen asleep on the block toys.

He gently opened his eyes at the sound of someone calling.

-You need to get up right now!

Someone shouts angrily.

No, more than that…

Who is it?

It’s a voice I’ve never heard before.

Could it be a burglar?

“Ugh…”

Choi Hyun-min opened his eyes with a deeply furrowed brow.

He turned his head toward where the voice came from-

Huh?

“Who are you?”

No one there.

He definitely heard a voice.

But when he turned his head in that direction, no one was there.

Did he hear wrong?

He quickly turned his head left and right.

The room was only filled with Choi Hyun-min and scattered block toys.

Nowhere could he see any sign of a person.

“Did I hear wrong…”

A dream?

Or hallucinations?

To think he’s reached the point of hearing nonsense.

-What are you looking at?! Here, over here!

Just as he was shaking his head to clear it.

The voice came again.

‘Below…?’

Not behind, not to the side.

The direction the voice came from was below.

He sat up from the floor.

Then the moment he looked down.

“Uh… Huh…?”

The primitive man block toy was shouting toward him.

At most the size of two or three finger joints.

The guy’s voice was also so small that he had to concentrate hard to hear it.

“Am I dreaming…”

Maybe he didn’t wake up properly from sleeping on the floor.

It’s not even a person.

There’s no way a block toy would talk to him like a human.

Choi Hyun-min rubbed his eyes with blurry vision.

However, the primitive man shouting in front of him didn’t disappear.

Instead, he urgently waved his spear and raised his voice toward him.

-It’s urgent! Get up! Please help us!

“Help you?”

-Can you hear me now?

Can we… communicate?

Choi Hyun-min looked down at the guy with bewildered eyes.

Soon he lowered his body and made eye contact with the primitive man.

“Can you hear what I’m saying?”

He knows who that guy is.

Among the block toys he had placed on the desk, the Primitive Tribe set.

It was the leader among them.

Since these were blocks he had collected since childhood without throwing away, he had even given him the name ‘Hans’.

-Of course I can hear you! But this isn’t the time to be doing this!

“What do you mean?”

When Choi Hyun-min asked, Hans’s toy face contorted greatly.

-At this rate, we’ll all starve to death! We need to eat!

Starve… to death…?

Block toys?

What on earth is he talking about?

Am I really hearing this correctly right now?

“This is ridiculous….”

I guess this really is a dream after all.

It’s already strange enough that a block toy is talking to me.

And the content completely throws any sense of reality out the window.

Even so, Hans was stubborn.

-They might really die! They’re hungry!

Ugh….

What nonsense is he spouting.

Still, since I’ve had this guy for so long.

Choi Hyun-min figured he’d humor him and slowly got up.

Then he approached the desk where the Primitive Tribe toy was placed.

“Huh…?”

What’s this?

Did I arrange the toys like this?

The Primitive Tribe toy was based on the concept of primitive people hunting a giant mammoth.

If it was arranged the way I had assembled it, it should show various primitive people bravely fighting around the mammoth.

‘Really…. they’re hungry?’

Did all those primitive people toys conspire together or something?

They were collapsed on the ground, clutching their stomachs and writhing around.

-Hungry…. So hungry….

-Someone give us food….

-Oh god…. Please save us….

This is real?

Choi Hyun-min stared at the primitive people with bewildered eyes.

Meanwhile, Hans stepped on the chair and jumped up, reaching the top of the desk.

-Look at this! At this rate, we’ll all starve to death!

“I just need to give them food?”

When I was just listening to what he said, honestly I couldn’t trust him.

But seeing it with my own two eyes like this, I couldn’t help but believe it.

Hans nodded vigorously at Choi Hyun-min’s question.

-Please…. I’m begging you.

He muttered in a serious voice, then bowed toward him.

‘Food…. I guess I should search the kitchen.’

What kinds of things should I bring them?

Just as he was pondering this.

Ding.

A clear alarm sound brushed past his ears.

Along with it, an absolutely unbelievable message appeared before his eyes.

[A Quest for Awakening has been activated.]

[Awakening Ability: ???]

[Grade: EX]

[Description: The path to becoming a god of a new world has opened.]

[Please fulfill what your creations desire.]

Awak…ening?

Me?!

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