I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 61

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Episode 61
61: It’s Not a Lie
Vroom.
Stepping out of the taxi, Dohyun gazed at Dohyun’s family apartment—a place he hadn’t visited in quite some time—and thought it felt good to be back.
The taxi fare from Seoul had come to fifty thousand won, but he didn’t mind it much.
He could afford that much now, after all.
Still, there was a hint of regret, and Dohyun found himself thinking seriously about it.
‘I should buy a car, shouldn’t I?’
People said it was convenient to have one, and Dohyun himself believed a car was necessary.
A luxury vehicle was out of the question, but a decent car seemed manageable.
As Dohyun entertained these thoughts while carrying his bundled luggage toward home, an unexpected obstacle awaited him at the door.
He stared intently at the entrance door for a long moment, but it gave no response.
‘What was the code again?’
It had been so long since his last visit that the number had slipped his mind.
After a brief moment of deliberation, Dohyun had no choice but to press the doorbell.
The electronic chime rang out—ding-dong—and not long after, a familiar voice came through.
-Who is it?
“It’s me.”
-Huh? Oppa, you can just enter the code and come in.
Still as blunt as ever—his younger sibling had no filter whatsoever.
When Dohyun scowled at the intercom camera, the teasing voice of Lee Dohee rang out, and the door swung open.
-Forgetting the code!
Whirrrr.
As the entrance door opened along with Lee Dohee’s mocking voice, Dohyun thought to himself.
‘You’re getting no allowance.’
I’ve already decided—you won’t be getting any money from me.
With that, Dohyun stepped into the entrance and boarded the elevator, pressing the familiar floor number.
The elevator rose with a mechanical hum as the 11th floor button illuminated, and it wasn’t long before he arrived at his destination.
The moment he stepped out of the elevator, he pressed the doorbell of his home, and as if she’d been waiting, Lee Dohee immediately opened the door for him.
Then—
“Whoa? What is all this?”
Seeing Lee Dohee’s shocked expression at the mountain of gifts Dohyun had brought, he smiled with a triumphant expression and said.
“Gifts for Mom and Dad.”
“What, what!? Could it be…!?”
Watching Lee Dohee’s expression—as if asking whether he’d somehow gotten a job—Dohyun spoke curtly.
“Move aside.”
“Wow, wow…”
“Sigh.”
His younger sibling actually thought he’d gotten employed—with that exact expression, she stepped out of the way. Dohyun shook his head and clicked his tongue. He wasn’t sure why his younger sibling was like this, but figuring that siblings were just that way, he simply ignored her and walked inside.
The moment Dohyun entered the home, a warm voice called out from the kitchen.
“You’re here!”
Watching Han Seunghee rush out of the kitchen wielding cooking utensils, Dohyun couldn’t help but let out a quiet chuckle.
As Dohyun nodded, thinking he’d need to visit more often, Han Seunghee’s eyes widened at the sight of the shopping bags piled high in his arms.
“W-what is all this!?”
Unfamiliar with the sight of her son arriving suddenly with shopping bags stacked upon shopping bags, she swallowed hard.
Han Seunghee wondered if her son had perhaps found employment.
And then she asked directly.
“Did you get a job!?”
Faced with Han Seunghee’s characteristic bluntness, Dohyun offered the answer he’d been rehearsing in the taxi the entire way over.
“Well, something like that.”
He wondered if becoming a Hunter counted as getting a job, but he had indeed obtained a profession that earned money, hadn’t he?
At least it wasn’t a lie.
Han Seunghee’s expression shifted to surprise at his answer, her mouth falling open, and then—
“Oh my, I’m losing my mind. The meat will burn.”
“Huh?”
With that, Han Seunghee hurried back to the kitchen in a flurry.
Though one might have expected her to show more interest in him, Dohyun found himself smiling softly, thinking this was exactly like his mother, as he set the shopping bags down in one corner of the living room.
As he was setting down the bags one by one, Lee Dohee peeked in with a grin and asked.
“What about mine?”
I’d seen shamelessness before, but this was something else.
Dohyun looked at his younger sibling with an incredulous expression, and when Lee Dohee gazed at him expectantly, Dohyun spoke as though it were obvious.
“Why would there be?”
“Seriously? If you got a job, shouldn’t you give your little sister pocket money and buy her gifts!?”
“Ugh.”
“Lee Dohee! Your brother just got here—are you going to pester him!?”
Han Seunghee scolded Lee Dohee from the kitchen, and Lee Dohee protested indignantly.
“But Mom! He didn’t buy me a gift!”
“What have you done to deserve a gift from your brother? It’s summer break and you’re sprawled out in bed until noon!”
“How is that even relevant!?”
Even Dohyun thought it wasn’t particularly relevant, but with his mother taking his side, he didn’t complain and instead relaxed, washing his hands and feet in the bathroom before settling onto the sofa.
Then, with a triumphant smirk, he glared at Lee Dohee, who trembled with indignation.
The familiar air and atmosphere.
Experiencing it again after so long, Dohyun sat comfortably on the sofa.
‘Yes, this is home.’
As Dohyun was relaxing, Han Seunghee called out.
“Dohyun! Lee Dohee! Set the table and put out the spoons before we eat!”
“Okay!”
“….”
Hearing the familiar call before mealtime, Dohyun rose from the sofa he’d just sat down on and began wiping the table, while Lee Dohee started laying out the spoons.
Once the spoons were all in place, Han Seunghee, who had prepared a generous spread, began setting down the side dishes.
My eyes widened at the sight of the bulgogi, pink sausages, freshly made seasoned water dropwort that looked tangy, and various side dishes spread across the table.
I’d been earning decent money lately, so my meals weren’t lacking, but how long had it been since I’d eaten home-cooked food like this?
Thinking that this spread was even better than what they served at the Hunter Training Center, I found myself naturally taking a seat.
And as if those generous side dishes still weren’t enough, Lee Dohee grumbled in complaint.
“You make all the delicious stuff when your brother comes. Do you make it for us on normal days?”
“Your brother comes so rarely—why are you jealous over something like this?”
“Ugh.”
Hearing Han Seunghee and Lee Dohee say that, I decided I really needed to visit more often from now on.
True, I hadn’t come much since getting employed. It was the same even before graduating university.
I’d been so busy that I’d neglected my family.
‘Well, at least I know better now.’
With that thought, I began picking up my chopsticks and eating from the abundantly laid table.
Each side dish was something I couldn’t dislike, but perhaps because it had been so long? Everything tasted far better than usual.
It really was delicious after all this time.
I rarely ate kimchi unless I went to a restaurant, but the homemade kimchi from my family home was definitely much more delicious.
As I ate with such enthusiasm, Lee Dohee and Han Seunghee watched me eating like a whirlwind, looking somewhat bewildered.
Since becoming a Hunter, my appetite had naturally grown proportional to my physique, far exceeding that of an ordinary person.
Given the strength contained in my body, it was only natural, but Han Seunghee and Lee Dohee couldn’t help but be amazed.
“Really, did your brother always eat like that?”
“I mean, seriously. Did he not get a job but become a mukbang YouTuber instead?”
“This girl and her words…”
I was about to scold Lee Dohee for spouting nonsense, but watching how I ate, it was actually believable enough that I could’ve become a mukbang creator.
Still, it was better to eat well than poorly, so Han Seunghee didn’t worry too much about it and began eating as well.
I ended up serving myself five additional bowls, and as Han Seunghee and Lee Dohee watched with their tongues out in amazement, eating while watching me actually felt like watching a mukbang video.
Once the meal wound down appropriately, Han Seunghee, unable to contain her curiosity, asked me a question.
“So which company is it? What kind of work do you do?”
At this question befitting a mother, I chewed thoroughly what I was eating, swallowed, and then answered.
“I got into a decent company.”
“That’s what I’m asking—which decent company?”
Han Seunghee pressed persistently, but I’d already anticipated this much and gave a prepared answer.
“It’s a company that collaborates with the Hunter Association. We classify items and textbooks and things like that.”
Since I was a Hunter belonging to the Hunter Association and had actually classified items and textbooks in the Black Gate, my story wasn’t entirely a lie.
Unaware of this, Han Seunghee nodded, thinking it sounded like a good company.
“Oh wow, I’ve heard there are a lot of those companies these days. If you’re collaborating with the Hunter Association, it must be pretty big, right?”
“Mom? If they work with the Association, they’d have to be at least a mid-sized company. How did your brother even get into a place like that?”
When Han Seunghee, not knowing much, said that, Lee Dohee spoke as if exasperated.
Simultaneously revealing the deep-rooted distrust of an older brother that only a younger sibling could show, I smiled and said.
“You’re really broke, aren’t you?”
“Ah! I’m, I’m sorry. Older brother, haha, what would I know, haha.”
“What are you looking at? Thank you for the meal.”
At those words, Lee Dohee stammered awkwardly, while Dohyun rose from his seat, remarking that the meal had been delicious.
Though his stomach wasn’t completely full, watching her eat made it feel like he was watching a mukbang YouTuber, so he figured he’d eaten enough and should stop here.
Since he hadn’t exerted himself physically today, he wasn’t particularly hungry anyway.
As Dohyun stood, Han Seunghee and Lee Dohee cleared their rice bowls, and Dohyun helped organize the remaining side dishes and tableware.
While tidying up, Han Seunghee said:
“There’s some left over—want to take it? Oh, that’s right! Kimchi! You’ve run out of kimchi, haven’t you? Take some while you’re here.”
“How am I supposed to carry all that? I’ll just come by often to eat.”
“Ugh, and here you are, employed now, saying you’ll visit often. Or I can bring it to you.”
Those small, casual words somehow felt precious to me, so I couldn’t say anything more.
Once the Dining Table was cleared, Han Seunghee looked at me and asked again.
“It’s Wednesday today—did you take a day off?”
“We have flexible work hours at our company, so I can come in whenever I want.”
This wasn’t a lie either.
Couldn’t one say that Hunters embody the very essence of flexible work arrangements?
Freelancing and flexible hours are different, you say? Either way, they’re similar enough—not a lie.
In any case, upon hearing this explanation, Han Seunghee tilted her head in confusion, while Lee Dohee, on the other hand, spoke with genuine astonishment.
“Flexible work hours?”
“Wow, what an amazing company!”
I still wondered how my older brother had gotten in, but I held my tongue for the sake of allowance.
Dohyun shook his head at Lee Dohee’s reaction.
Was allowance really that good?
In any case, I’d eaten home-cooked food and shown my face after a long time, so it was time to leave. Staying longer would only invite more questions, so the best strategy was to slip away now.
Who knows—when Father arrives this evening, my cover might be blown.
“I’ll come by again soon.”
As Dohyun stood and said this, Han Seunghee’s expression turned wistful, but perhaps she couldn’t hold back her son, so she simply said:
“Yes, come again soon, son.”
Those words, which seemed to carry the meaning that this place would always be here for him, made Dohyun chuckle softly and nod, before pulling out a pre-prepared envelope.
It was a fairly thick paper envelope containing one million won.
It wasn’t stuffed to bursting, but it wasn’t meager either.
“Oh, you shouldn’t have…”
Yet seeing Dohyun give her allowance from his first paycheck, perhaps because she felt proud, or perhaps because it suddenly struck her that he’d grown up, Mother Han Seunghee’s expression turned deeply moved as she accepted the thick envelope.
“Share it with Father too—that’s from him as well.”
“Understood.”
“What about me, what about me, what about me?”
Seeing Dohyun hand the envelope to Han Seunghee, Lee Dohee loudly interjected, and Dohyun chuckled, casually handing her a stack of cash.
“There you go.”
“Wow! Wow! 100,000 won!? Oh, big brother, what’s gotten into you!? So, so this is what it’s like being a mid-sized company employee!”
Watching Lee Dohee act up again, Dohyun laughed softly and left the Family Home.
‘It’s nice to be back after so long.’
Thinking it had been good to visit, I returned home and was reading a textbook on Hunter history when—
That evening, I received a call from Father for the first time in a while.
“Yeah, Dad.”
-So you got a job?
“Yeah, I gave Mom some spending money. You got it, right?”
-Ha ha, well then, kid. Why are you giving so much?
I suppose dividing it into 500,000 won each was quite a substantial sum even for an ordinary household.
But then.
-You must be struggling too, so thank you for giving 300,000.
“Huh?”
-You must be tired, so I’ll hang up. Work hard.
“….”
I couldn’t say anything more and scratched my head, thinking of Mother Han Seunghee.
It seemed Mother had skimmed an extra 200,000 won for herself.
‘I’ll have to send her some separately later.’
I chuckled softly at the thought.

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