Regressor’s Life After Retirement

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[ (Side story) Don’t you need a part-time job? ]

“That woman… is she who I thought she was, right?”

“…Am I looking at something wrong now?”

Baek Young-hee was unable to give any answer to Nam Gung-hyeon and Alina’s questions.

Because she was just as surprised.

“How…”

When Daein ran in the direction from where the flames appeared with a serious expression, the three immediately gathered their troops and tried to follow Daein.

But the great man came back soon after.

…with a stunningly beautiful woman next to him.

“oh my god! “All the sisters are gathered together, right?”

The woman who came with Daein smiled brightly.

Fiery red hair hanging down to her waist.

A face that can only be admired and a slender body that can wear casual clothes like a model.

‘No, let’s say you can do that!’

Neither Baek Young-hee nor the other two were women who could be put down as characters.

The problem is….

“Younghee! Hyeonni unnie! Alina!”

The woman next to Daein ran over and hugged Baek Young-hee, Nam Gung-hyeon, and Alina in turn.

“!!”

Leaving behind the three people, who were frozen in shock, the woman went back to the great man, poked him in the side, and said playfully:

“oh my god. “I guess you’re still popular here?”

“Truly…”

The great man shook his head as if it were absurd. He said to the people who came to meet him.

“Let’s go inside first. “I decided to hear the details there.”

The great man went straight into the simple command barracks, and the red-haired woman followed behind him.

Only after the two people disappeared from sight did the three women’s thinking circuits begin to work again.

“I just… right? “She’s Lily, right?”

“They say we’re older sisters….”

“You’ve already grown that much? How can that be? “When I saw you a few months ago, you were still a teenager!”

“This is against the rules… It’s hard to win even as a child…”

Baek Young-hee placed a hand on the shoulders of Namgoong-hyeon and Alina, who were muttering in shock, and sighed.

“I don’t know if it’s any consolation. “First of all, that girl is not the Lily we know.”

“what?”

“What do you mean?”

“How should I explain it…”

Baek Young-hee paused for a moment before continuing.

“You both know that in the past, Vice President stayed alone in the demon world and tried to die, right?”

The two people nodded.

In the final battle with Baal, the landlord suffered irreparable wounds, and after sacrificing himself to save others, he remained alone in the demon world and met a violent death.

―This is the story of a hero lessor known to the world.

However, people who were close to Daein knew the real story after that and also knew about the being who saved Daein from almost death.

“…then?”

“That kid just came from the future?”

The two of them finally remembered that fact. It was the first time the two had seen Lily from the future in person.

Only Baek Young-hee had seen her in person before.

“that’s right. “It’s a different future than here… I’m Lily from there.”

‘I said that the future is one without the Vice President.’

Baek Young-hee, the only one among the three who knew this fact, looked at the girl’s back with a slightly sad expression.

But that and the situation they were in now was another problem.

“But is it okay to keep coming back from the future like this?”

“I have doubts too. “I don’t know, but if the future interferes with the past, wouldn’t the future be distorted?”

In response to the two people’s obvious questions, Baek Young-hee shook her head and said that it was not true.

“What kind of parallel universe is that… Oh, I don’t know. “I came out the door too?”

Baek Young-hee, who gave up on complicated explanations, shook her head and walked towards the barracks.

Immediately, Alina and Namgoonghyun followed her to her left and right.

“Anyway, one thing is certain.”

Lily is an adult, not a child.

I don’t know what brought her here again this time, but…

Baek Young-hee sighed softly and said.

“It means that an incredibly powerful enemy has appeared.”

“I agree.”

“No matter how you look at it, that’s a foul.”

The other two people nodded as if they agreed with that statement.

***

“Now explain. “What happened?”

As soon as Daein entered the barracks, he demanded an explanation from Lily.

“Why were you there? What on earth are these Red Fingers? And in the world you came from… town?”

“Wait a moment. “I’ll tell you at once when the others come too.”

Lily put one of the cookies prepared in the barracks into the man’s mouth and chewed it in her own mouth as well.

“oh? This is very delicious. “Where did you make it?”

“kid. “If you eat while walking around, it will spill, so just sit there and eat.”

“…….”

At those words, Lily looked at the great man with surprised rabbit eyes.

“why? what?”

The great man looked at Lily with an expression like, ‘What kind of prank is this?’

However, Lily slightly avoided his gaze and scratched her head awkwardly.

“No, it’s awkward because it’s been so long since I heard this nagging.”

“What do you mean?”

“Because there’s no one over there to nag.”

“…….”

Fortunately, the awkward atmosphere disappeared as the three women representing each dimension and Wang Gu-ho and Min-jae entered the barracks.

“and! “Are you Goo-gu and Min-jae?”

Lily, who saw Wang Guho and Minjae, jumped up from her seat and welcomed them both.

The two men covered their mouths in shock.

“Brother Mi Minjae. Lily called me by my name for the first time.”

“Me too! Is this a dream or reality?…”

“Why are they like that?”

They were two men who were moved by points that Daein could not understand at all.

Once everyone who could gather had gathered, Lily began the briefing.

“Let me introduce myself first. I am from the future. A parallel universe that branched off from a certain event… I’ll skip the difficult words. Anyway, just know that she’s a little older than the little Lily you all know.”

Frown.

Lily winked playfully and continued.

“The reason I came here is to eliminate an organization called Redfinger. “It’s been a while since I’ve been tracking them, but I just caught their tail.”

Lily took out a fist-sized red crystal from the front pocket of the hoodie she was wearing and showed it to her.

“They made this. “They are hiding like cockroaches in various dimensions and secretly making things like this.”

The great man slightly raised his hand and asked a question.

“I have a question. Are they dangerous enough for you to come here? I personally did some research, and to that extent…”

“It’s dangerous. a lot.”

Lily’s expression was stern.

The playful expression from before seemed like a lie.

“They caused destruction or close damage to several dimensions in the dimension hub I manage.”

Sigh….

The hand holding the blood crystal gained strength.

Lily managed to speak without breaking it.

“…I thought they found the base and burned it all down, but it seems like the few who escaped earlier escaped all the way here.”

“You ran away from your world and came here?”

The person looked like he didn’t understand.

It wasn’t just an interdimensional gate, but crossing a parallel universe wasn’t usually difficult.

“I guess that’s it.”

Lily said, paying attention to the man’s expression.

“The last time I came here, the gate was connected and I think they came over too.”

“…….”

The atmosphere in the barracks became a little awkward.

In other words, it meant that all of this happened while changing the future in which Daein’s death had been decided.

Everyone looked at Daein’s expression, worried about his reaction.

“okay? “Then we have to catch him quickly.”

Fortunately, the person involved reacted indifferently, making the atmosphere a little more comfortable.

Younghee Baek raised her hand and asked a question.

“What is Redfinger’s purpose? Domination of the Dimensional Hub? Or simple destruction?”

“Neither.”

Lily answered, fiddling with the blood crystal in her hand.

“The resurrection or rebirth of the being they call ‘Him.’ To do that, we are creating something like this by absorbing the blood and souls of countless lives.”

“…….”

“…….”

Everyone was lost in thought with a stern expression on their faces as the story was more serious than expected.

Daein felt the same way, but there was one more thing that bothered him besides what Lily said.

‘Not now… I’ll have to ask separately later.’

I felt like now might not be the right time to ask.

At that time, Lily spoke to Daein.

“So, what do you mean? mister.”

“uh. why?”

“I don’t think it will be easy for me to investigate them alone. “Can you gather some trustworthy people?”

“How difficult is that?”

The great man nodded, stood up and said.

“Let’s go to the restaurant first.”

***

“Sister!”

Lily, wearing a school uniform, ran into the arms of adult Lily and hugged her tightly.

Adult Lily, holding little Lily in her arms, said with a grin.

“What? “You’ve grown a little?”

“Why have you been here for so long!”

“I was very busy. “As you know, the manager is quite busy, right?”

Little Lily looked up at adult Lily and tilted her head.

“really? “You almost always order other people to eat it raw, right?”

“Well…”

“Hey kids. As soon as we met, did you decide to look at my scars first?”

The great man shook his head at the sight of the two children chatting excitedly as soon as they met.

“I’m so excited. “I’m excited.”

Late at night.

The lights turned on in Lim’s Restaurant, which had been turned off, and began to become crowded with customers who came one by one.

Wang Guho, who was taking alcohol out of the refrigerator and setting it on the table, glanced at the adult and adult Lily standing side by side and muttered.

“Standing like that, the two of you look like a couple….”

Thrill!

Wang Guhao closed his mouth as he felt the terrifying threat of death next to him. After all, Baek Young-hee was next to him.

“Vice President! “I’m here!”

Baek Chang-su, who heard the news from Baek Young-hee, came into the restaurant with both hands full of chicken and greasy snacks.

The great man who saw this clicked his tongue.

“Why did you bring snacks? “I can make it.”

“I bought it because I thought you might make it.”

“…….”

After a while, Abraxas and Cheonmugeuk also appeared, arms folded affectionately.

“I heard Lily came from another town?”

“Cluck. “It’s been a while!”

“…omg.”

Adult Lily, who saw the two of them clinging to each other, dropped the chicken leg she was holding on the floor.

“Are you two really dating? Nonsense!”

Little Lily tilted her head at that sight.

Likewise, I was a little surprised, but not as much as the sister next to me.

“In your world, don’t you two date?”

“Of course we’re not dating! Why are those two dating? “It would be better if we fought to kill each other!”

They say there is only a slight difference between a lover and an enemy, and that seems to be exactly the case.

Little Lily suddenly became curious and asked.

“Then who are you dating there?”

At that moment, everyone’s eyes turned to adult Lily’s mouth.

Another parallel universe where they live.

Even though the turning point diverged and my subsequent fate changed, I couldn’t help but wonder how other people there lived.

Lily, a grinning adult, pointed to each person with her chopsticks.

The first target was Namgoong Hyun.

“Hyeonnie is dating Chungwoon oppa.”

“What? no! “We are definitely not in that kind of relationship!”

“Hum hum!”

Namgoong-hyeon, whose face was red, desperately denied it, and Cheongwoon, who had been seen at the restaurant for the first time in a while, looked at her sadly and cleared his throat.

“Alina is dating Prime Minister Joo Sang-wook.”

“…who is that?”

“There is such a person. As a politician of the Earth….”

Alina was taken aback when the name of a man she didn’t even know came up, and said,

“Younghee sister…”

Adult Lily’s gaze mischievously looked at Baek Younghee and Wang Guho alternately.

“…hey. Nonsense.”

“Kokolok! “Cough!”

There was an uproar over the story of a parallel universe different from this one.

In a noisy atmosphere, we clinked glasses and laughed and laughed together for hours.

‘These are people you can trust.’

However, Lily’s expression, which created this atmosphere, looked somewhat lonely.

She muttered to herself.

“…It’s nice to see everyone happy.”

There was only one difference between the world she lived in and this place.

There is a great person alive here.

For that one reason, the future of many people changed.

Of course, he loves the world and the people there, but…

‘What would it have been like if he was still alive for us?’

Even now, I still have that thought from time to time.

“Big kid. “Why are you looking so angry?”

At that time, a great man sat across from me. He looked at the beer can in his hand with a confused expression for a moment, then gently held it out to Lily.

“…If you don’t like it, can I give you some milk?”

“Alcohol, of course.”

Lily snatched up the beer can, opened it in one go, and took one shot.

“hey. “You…”

Lily laughed after seeing the great man’s bewildered expression.

“Ahahaha! “Is it that funny that I drink?”

“…done. “Let’s not talk.”

The great man shook his head, sighed, and asked.

“But isn’t there a time limit for your stay here?”

“Oh, that?”

Lily showed off her watch to Daein.

The [Star of Transcendence], which had a subtle red color, looked thinner and more luxurious than Daein’s.

“Of course we’ve improved it over time. “If you don’t overdo it, you can stay here for about a month more.”

“one month?”

“So…”

Grinning.

The smile of a grown-up child could not have been so unsettling.

“mister.”

Lily smiled brightly, her ruby-red eyes sparkling.

“Don’t we need part-time workers here?”

The next day, a new part-time worker came to work at Lim’s Restaurant.

[(Side story) Don’t you need a part-time job? ]End

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