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Have a birthday that will forever be remembered.

After that, everyday life continued without much difference.

Going to school at the academy.

Take classes and practice dungeons.

I work part-time on the weekends.

Sometimes I go out to the city and hang out with Isabella and Seo Yi-eung.

As I was so busy, four months had already passed since I entered the academy.

And today is a public holiday.

I went to a mental hospital, a visit I had been putting off.

When viewed objectively, the condition has improved noticeably…

In my desire to be reborn as a completely new person, I tried to be a little greedy. Because in this world, as much as there is magic, medicine to treat the mind is also developed.

There was no financial burden.

I had saved up quite a bit of money through my part-time job, so I had plenty of money to spare.

So, the place I visited this time was Hunter Specialty Hospital.

I found this place after being introduced to it by Santoto.

It is a hospital that only accepts people with a hunter job, but academy students and retired hunters can also use it.

“Um···.”

Inside the counseling room.

The doctor sitting across from me rested his chin on the back of his clasped hands and stared at me.

The expression looks very serious.

Sensing that the atmosphere was unusual, I swallowed my saliva.

The doctor was still staring at me, and slowly spoke.

“You look good.”

“···Yes?”

“You look good. Without realizing it, I was mesmerized and enjoyed it.”

ah. I was just appreciating it.

You’re making people tremble by crumpling your expression for no reason.

The doctor sat upright in his chair again and stroked his chin.

“With a face like this, why do you have gynophobia? Have you ever been forcibly molested by a woman before?”

“No. Rather than being molested, I was just subjected to simple harassment.”

“It’s harassment…. What kind of crazy people are harassing a handsome man like Ha-hwi? These crazy people I don’t understand.”

A doctor with an expression of disbelief.

It was an understandable reaction.

If you look at my face now, you won’t believe it.

If I had had this face in my past life, I probably wouldn’t have been bullied.

“Mr. Ha-hwi. Could you please tell me what you experienced?”

The doctor asked cautiously.

It’s painful to think about the past.

Still, I decided to gather my courage and tell everything.

Because this is all part of treatment.

So I recalled the nightmares of my past life and told the doctor step by step how I ended up in this situation.

***

“I can’t believe you experienced something like that…”

The doctor’s voice trembles with anger.

She clenched her fists and clenched her teeth as if this had happened to her.

A doctor who empathizes so much with a patient’s pain.

Somehow, my faith in her became stronger.

As a patient, if a psychiatrist responds like that, I have no choice but to trust him.

I don’t trust a doctor who treats psychiatrists but is just rigid in his work. After all, it’s about healing people’s hearts.

I thought it was a good idea to come to this hospital.

I guess Professor Santoto didn’t make the recommendation for nothing.

The doctor gave me various comforts for a while, and when my hands stopped shaking, he started talking in earnest about how to treat the trauma.

“Of course I will prescribe medicine… I would like to do some rehabilitation training as well. Would that be okay?”

“Rehabilitation training?”

“Yes. For people like Ha-hwi who have been bullied, there is a special rehabilitation training offered at our hospital.”

“Can you tell me in detail what kind of rehabilitation training this is? I will listen and decide.”

“To put it simply, it is training to enter a virtual space and directly eliminate the cause of trauma. In other words, change the past that you couldn’t resist and take revenge on the people who harassed Mr. Ha-hwi.”

“Revenge…?”

“Yes. Although it is just a fake revenge in a virtual space, it will still be quite helpful in overcoming the trauma. Since Ha-Hwi is an Academy student, have you ever entered the Welcome Dungeon? It presents a more realistic space than the illusion dungeon. To the point where I can’t distinguish it from reality at all.”

Even pain can be felt in the virtual space of the hospital.

There is one difference from reality. Just don’t die.

The doctor added that.

“So, you’re telling me to get revenge on the people who bullied me there?”

“It is recommended that you do so, but there is no need to seek revenge. There are many people who have a personality that makes them unable to take revenge. It’s okay just to resist the people who harassed Ha-hwi. That’s enough to shake off the memories of the past, when you couldn’t do anything and just suffered.”

“···But how do I know and implement the people who harassed me?”

“When you enter the device, the device reads Ha-hwi’s memories and then creates the characters in those memories. So, what are you going to do?”

Are you going to proceed with rehabilitation training?

In response to the doctor’s question, I lowered my head and thought for a moment.

Would that help?

They say that rather than feeling exhilarated after taking revenge, it feels vain.

‘ah. I said it was okay to simply resist.’

In my past life, I couldn’t even dare to resist.

It was an environment where it was impossible to rebel against them.

Because there was a powerful ally behind them.

It’s not like an older brother or a gangster boyfriend that you only know, but a huge confidant like your father who is a member of the National Assembly or the father of the CEO of a large company. Most of the women who harassed me were chaebols.

‘If it’s in a virtual space, there’s no going back no matter what kind of revenge you take, let alone rebelling.’

I raised my head again.

And today, for the first time, I looked straight into the doctor’s eyes.

“Have you made your decision, Mr. Ha-hwi?”

“···Yes. I’ll give that rehabilitation training a try.”

I decided to give it a try.

Revenge, not resistance.

I don’t know how the revenge will end.

Maybe because of that, the trauma may disappear completely.

I have to try everything I can.

‘Once I get in, I’m going to punch those bitches in the face. Anyway, it doesn’t matter what you do in virtual space.’

Assault is assault.

I just acted simply and had no intention of taking great revenge.

“Will rehabilitation training begin today?”

“No. Because the rehabilitation device is still being repaired. It broke down not long ago. Rehabilitation will begin in 15 days and will be conducted three times, once a month.”

“I understand. But can you tell me what the cost is?”

“1 million won per session, so a total of 3 million won.”

“······.”

“It’s a bit expensive, right? Haha.”

Should I just cancel…?

***

Payment completed.

Everything, including medical expenses and rehabilitation training expenses.

It hurts my bank account, but when I have to spend money, I have to spend it.

After finishing my errands at the hospital, I took the prescribed medication and returned to the one-room building.

And while going up the stairs.

“uh···.”

I made eye contact with a woman who was coming down the stairs.

It was a woman living in room 303.

“···Hello.”

I bowed my head to her first and said hello.

“Yes, yes… Oh no… Big, big! Hello…”

The woman in room 303 also hurriedly cleared her throat and said hello.

I thought she was a strange woman at first.

So, I tried to avoid making contact as much as possible.

But it was thanks to my gaming friend Shuboma that I started greeting him like this.

‘Hey. There’s that neighbor you talked about last time…’

‘neighbor?’

‘The neighbor who memorized a strange spell and glared at me as if I was going to kill him…’

‘iced coffee. that person? ‘Why that person out of nowhere?’

‘I, I thought about it carefully… That neighbor wasn’t a strange person, but maybe he just wanted to say hello to you at that time…? The voice was so low that you couldn’t hear it and just left, so she misunderstood and looked at you in a negative light…’

‘is it? I’m not sure. ‘I don’t really care.’

‘Just in case, next time you meet, listen closely to that person’s voice. Are you saying hello or not? In my opinion, that neighbor is not a psychopath, but seems like a normal person.’

‘okay. But didn’t you say that you first got the feeling that that person was mentally ill? ‘Why did you suddenly change your mind?’

‘···I guess I had a bad feeling because I wasn’t feeling well at the time.’

This was the moment we greeted each other.

When I looked really closely and focused on the voice of the woman in room 303, I realized that she was not reciting a curse spell, but rather saying hello.

After that, we cleared up the misunderstanding.

This is how we greet each other every time we meet.

and···.

Now I know why Shuboma suddenly defended the woman in number 303.

The reason is,

“The weather is nice…”

“It’s raining.”

“Ah, ah… I like rainy days…”

Because that woman in room 303 is Shuboma herself.

Plus, he knows that I am his gaming friend, a ‘Jjinta Angel’.

in other words.

The point was that we knew each other’s identities.

When we meet in real life, we just pretend not to know each other.