Chapter 6

Shin Su-yeong woke up late from her sleep. In the wee hours of the morning, dawn had just started to break.

“When did I fall asleep?”

She rubbed her blurry eyes and looked around her.

Got to do the laundry and clean the floor…. House chores are piling up like a mountain. But —

“Oh?”

The room was clean.

The untidy pile of clothes had been neatly folded and the floor had been cleaned without a single strand of hair left behind. The piling trash can in the living room had been emptied as well.

“You’re awake?”

Shin Su-yeong turned around.

Su-hyeun was carrying a change of clothes and a bag. Shin Su-yeong, in turn, spoke to Su-hyeun while she looked inside the recently cleaned room.

“You did all this?”

“The cleaning?”

“Yeah.”

“Since you were sleeping, I didn’t want to wake you up. I didn’t know where to put the laundry, so I just left it aside. Please do it later. The toilet was dirty, so I cleaned it as well.”

Shin Su-yeong stared blankly with a loss for words. Although he did occasionally clean the floor and do simple household chores, she never thought that her son would clean up the house so neatly while she was asleep.

“There’s nothing much left for me to do.”

It seemed that she could sleep more before heading to work.

“But son, where are you heading at this hour? Do you have plans?”

“I’m heading to the library.”

“The library?”

“Yes. I might stay at my friend’s house for the night, too. My phone will be turned off, but don’t worry.”

“To study?”

“Yes. I have to attend university.”

It was a lame excuse, but there were no other excuses that he could come up with.

Su-hyeun scratched his head and turned away.

“Well, I’ll be back.” Su-hyeun put on his shoes and headed out.

Shin Su-yeong looked out into the dark, early morning sky where the sun had yet to rise and muttered.

“Oh my, what is going on?”

It might have been too much to go back to sleep immediately.

* * *

Trudge, trudge.

5AM in the morning. It was dark out on the streets. It was quiet outside except for the sounds of a few people who started work early in the morning.

“I should start studying for a bit.”

Since he used studying as an excuse, he couldn’t help but do it.

“Although I won’t need it much.”

Anyway, he did more than enough studying in his past life.

He had been admitted into a reasonably respectable university and still remembered a fair bit from those times. It had been a short-term investment while he was recovering from his fatigue.

“Before that…”

Slide—

Su-hyeun headed into a deserted alley. The narrow alley wasn’t hard to find, as this was an area where few people lived. He came up with the excuse of going to the library to explain his long absences, but actually, he had something else to do.

“Ha. What am I even doing?”

He wasn’t a criminal, but found himself pathetic to be hiding away in a place like this.

“I had to hide it immediately, so I had no choice.”

It had only been a few years since the appearance of magical awakeners and dungeons. As precious as each magical awakener was, great attention was also given to every new magical awakener.

Therefore, moving on with the Tower on Trials in the middle of the streets would only garner more attention.

“I would never be able to go back again.”

Su-hyeun reached out and shook his head clear when he thought about where he belonged in his past life.

Rip—

Su-hyeun’s grasp tore a space in the air. The entrance to the Tower of Trials appeared before him. The gigantic tower could be seen once he stepped in.