That was scathing.

Those three words seemed the most suited to describing Jo Gyu-Min's question. Scathing. Straight to the point. No room for excuses.

Kang Jin-Ho felt like a bucket of icy water had been dumped on him when Jo Gyu-Min's scathing question slammed into his hearing.

'What do I want to do, is it...?'

What a difficult question to answer. Not too long ago, Kang Jin-Ho would've replied, “I'd like to live an ordinary life.”

However, that goal had crumbled into nothingness quite some time ago, and Kang Jin-Ho knew it. His current life, it... It was just drifting around aimlessly, just like Jo Gyu-Min had alluded to a second ago.

Someone had to come into his life first for Kang Jin-Ho to react. And then... he'd utterly destroy them. Whoever they were, he'd make them pay dearly for butting into his life. However, if someone asked him for help, he'd help them out.

Whether it was destruction or assistance, they both began with one condition: external stimulus.

Since Kang Jin-Ho was passive and unmoving, someone else had to make him act first.

“Mister Jin-Ho, life is shorter than you think,” said Jo Gyu-Min.

“...Yes, I'm aware.”

There might not be anyone more clued in to the meaning behind those words than Kang Jin-Ho in this world. Time always flew by in the blink of an eye. Time yet to come might seem aplenty, but... But the time that had already...