Han Dae Sung Returned From Hell - Chapter 2

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Even when I dreamed, I only dreamed of hell.

A dream of hell where dark red flames rise everywhere like an active volcano and demonic beasts run wild.

Even in his dreams, Han Dae-seong had to fight like crazy.

No matter how much of a dream it is, I can’t lose to them.

It’s different from a nightmare.

After a nightmare, you usually end up in a cold sweat and feeling dirty.

But it’s not a nightmare because you don’t feel that way when you wake up.

Rather, it was closer to a meaningless dream.

Because I only dream of the places that have always been and the things that I have always experienced.

It is neither a good dream nor a bad dream.

If I were to judge a bad dream, the dream of losing to a demonic beast once in 10,000 times was both a bad dream and a nightmare at the same time.

After I woke up, I felt dirty and angry.

And in terms of good dreams –

“….”

This is the dream I’m having right now.

The last time I had a good dream was about 50 years ago.

The background of Lucky Dream was Earth.

No matter how shitty the situation was, if the background was Earth, it was a good dream.

It didn’t mean anything, but it still felt good to wake up from the dream.

I saw the Earth I so desperately wanted to return to, even if only in a dream.

So it was a good dream.

I am having that lucky dream for the first time in 30 years.

“….”

What I feel on my back is the feel of a pure white sheet.

And when I opened my eyes, I saw a ceiling finished with gypsum board.

In hell, when you open your eyes, the first color you see is red or black.

The red was the sky and the black was the cave ceiling.

In other words, the conclusion is that the background of this dream is the Earth.

On the contrary, since the background was Earth, I was once again convinced that this was just a dream.

It may have been a good dream by Daesung’s own standards, but for some reason, I didn’t feel good at all.

‘I wish I had never dreamed.’

A dream is a dream after all.

Even if you dream it over a hundred times, your dream will never become reality.

So it was more unpleasant than a nightmare.

At least I would have been really happy if it wasn’t a lucid dream.

When I wake up and realize it was just a dream, I’m going to hit my head on the floor.

“Huh-”

A sigh followed that was long enough to touch the 3m high ceiling.

Since I was dreaming of Earth at best, I had to enjoy it at least a little bit.

Daesung thought like that and tried to get up, but he couldn’t move.

“…?”

Is it because this is a dream that my body doesn’t move?

Of all the dreams I’ve ever had, the sense of reality was the most vivid, but I couldn’t move my body.

Who are you kidding?

Suddenly.

At this time, the door opposite the bed opened and someone came in.

“…!”

Daesung tried to take action reflexively, but his body was immovable.

The person who came in was a nurse wearing a white nurse cap.

The nurse didn’t even pay attention to Daesung, who was lying on the bed, and started changing the IV pack hanging on the pole.

Even though it was a dream, seeing other ‘humans’ made me feel a lot better.

I changed my mind.

I tried to enjoy it for as long as possible, but it would be better to just wake up quickly.

The longer you dream like this, the more helpless you feel after waking up.

What should I do to wake up from a dream?

A simple and ignorant way came to mind: hitting yourself hard.

But my hands and feet wouldn’t move, so I had to ask for help from a third party.

Daesung said to the nurse who was busy changing the fluid pack while twitching her buttocks right in front of him.

“hey.”

“Are you mom?!”

Knock knock!

The nurse was startled and dropped the fluid pack she was changing.

“Uh huh?”

The nurse looked around with her hands cupped as if she thought she was hallucinating.

“Where are you looking?”

“Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa no no Wow?!”

“Here.”

“Hi…!”

After making a fuss again, the nurse slowly turned her head to the rear where the sound came from.

And then we met.

Daesung’s indifferent eyes were bright blue.

The nurse’s body stiffened.

Daesung spoke in a calm voice to the nurse who had turned to stone.

“I have a favor to ask.”

“Uh uh…”

“Hit me hard.”

“Uh huh?!”

“I need to hit the back of my head.”

“….”

“That’s how I get out of this shit dream-”

“Director?! Director!!”

Before Daesung could finish speaking, the nurse opened the door in a huff and ran out.

During that action, the nurse’s foot touched the pole.

A silver iron stick swayed precariously right next to Daesung.

Soon the pole tilted and collided directly with the top of Daesung’s head.

I felt a slight pain.

Yes. ache.

“….”

It meant it wasn’t a dream.

‘Now that I think about it-’

When did you fall asleep?

I couldn’t even remember lying down on the floor to sleep.

As if his consciousness had suddenly subsided…

“….”

Only then did Daesung remember.

The only ‘message’ he saw for the last time.

[Do you want to return to Earth?]

***

One by one, things are starting to come to mind.

A dream… no, really, what he was doing before returning to Earth.

It was sitting right on the hill.

A hill made up of the corpse of a guy who calls himself a demon god.

This guy was the largest monster I had ever seen while living in the dark continent of Hell.

His entire body was covered in dark red magma, and he wielded a flaming sword with a blade longer than that of most magic towers.

However, he was no match for Daesung, who survived after 80 years of struggling against the ground.

The fight that turned the world upside down was repeated for two days.

As a result, Daesung won.

Although he won easily, he was so strong that I wondered if another stronger person would appear.

He sat leisurely on the fallen body and wrote down his journal.

‘I defeated the demon today. When I wrote ‘I fought and found myself a big asshole-‘,

a message suddenly appeared.

Would you like to return to Earth? …Called.

-….

At first, I was blank, as if my soul had been drained out of me.

To put it bluntly, I didn’t bruise myself thinking about it.

However, when a message appeared asking if I wanted to go back to Earth, my mind went blank.

It’s been a long time since I forgot it, but according to what I wrote in my journal 80 years ago.

He fell into hell on his way to school before graduating from middle school.

And without any context.

The floor sank in, huh? While I was doing this, I opened my eyes and it was like hell.

And I spent 80 years in hell.

Nowadays, we have no idea what the planet Earth looks like.

But just like when I fell here without any context, a message appeared asking if I wanted to return to Earth.

Of course, you can’t help but be dazed.

Exactly 10 seconds later.

He shook his head frantically.

As if that wasn’t enough, he shouted, “Yes, yes, yes.”

There was no reason to worry.

Of course.

There is no wealth or fame here…

but it is not like there is a relationship that it is difficult to part with.

It was just a blood battle that I had to risk my life every day.

There was nothing but a heartless, cruel, and barbaric fight.

If they offer to take you out of this crazy place, why would you refuse?

***

The doctor asked, looking back and forth between the chart and Daesung’s face.

“Do you remember your name?”

“My Name?”

A short silence continued in the hospital room.

Actually, I don’t remember much.

Since I have never been called by my name by anyone in 80 years…

no, there wasn’t even a ‘person’ to call me by my name in the first place.

And things like names were of no use in hell.

It is a world of the might of the jungle where the strong survive.

Do lions in the wild identify themselves with a specific ‘name’?

no.

The lion simply remembers itself as a member of the lion race.

It was the same with him.

But that doesn’t mean there’s no way to find out your name.

A journal that I always kept in my arms.

Because I wrote down the name on the front page of the diary.

Daesung tried to take out the journal he had put in his pocket, but he couldn’t.

That’s because not just my arms, but my whole body didn’t move.

‘Why is my body like this?’

I realized right away that this was not a dream but reality.

Then there is no reason for your body not to move.

Earlier, I thought it was just a dream, so I didn’t think it was a big deal even though my body wasn’t moving.

But in reality, things are different.

This situation of ‘my body stiffened’ gave me a feeling of weight that was incomparable to before.

‘Why is my body like this?’

For the first time, emotion flashed through Daesung’s indifferent eyes.

Even though I unconsciously felt my breathing getting heavier, I calmly focused on my muscles.

But even that was unreasonable.

This was because the ‘feeling’ itself was faint, as if there was a large rock at the bottom of my throat.

“It looks like he suffered temporary memory loss since he woke up after several years. The patient’s name is Handae-”

“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…!”

“Mr. Han Dae-seong?”

“Ugh, ugh…!”

Daesung clenched his molars so hard that they almost crushed them.

However, his hands and feet did not move as he wanted, and not a single tendon sprouted.

When the patient in front of him suddenly gasped and his expression became grim, the doctor stretched out his hand in embarrassment.

“Han Dae-seong ㅆ-”

Just before the doctor’s palm touches Dae-seong’s shoulder.

Sigh-!

“Aaaah!”

Just like that, Daesung turned his head to the side and bit the doctor’s hand.

The doctor screamed as Daesung’s teeth dug into his skin and met his strong jaw.

Daesung even shook his head, biting the doctor’s hand hard, as if he was thinking of tearing the doctor’s bones to pieces.

“Mr. Han Dae-seong! One thing – keaaaaak!”

Fresh blood began to burst from the doctor’s wrist.

“Whoa, Director!”

The nurse behind him, who was freaking out, hurriedly pulled the doctor away.

It was difficult to overcome the resistance of the two people with just the strength of his teeth, so it was Daesung who retreated first.

Although the skin was not torn dangerously, blood flowed freely from the bite wound.

The doctor couldn’t even shout out what he was doing and had to bend down and grab the bitten hand.

“Why is my body like this?”

“Ahhhhhh…! Yes yes?”

“Why aren’t you moving!”

Daesung opened his wide eyes and blinked fiercely.

“Did they put paralyzing poison into a sleeping bird? Or witchcraft? curse? “What are these bastards trying to do?”

“Woah, patient. What do you mean-”

“Don’t come near me!”

The moment the doctor was about to take his steps, Daesung cried out in tears.

“Don’t touch my body. Don’t touch even a single hair. “I can kill them all!”

Was it 25 years ago?

There was a time when I was so thirsty that I couldn’t stand it, so I tried to quench my thirst with a juice squeezed from the leaves of the fever plum blossom.

And that was clearly a mistake.

In less than 10 minutes, the paralyzing poison spread throughout the body.

I had to stay frozen on the scorching sand for nearly 10 days without being able to cool off.

Hunger and thirst can be endured.

However, on the day when sandworms wandering underground break through the sand to reveal themselves, they cannot resist and head to the netherworld.

For ten days, he spent every second and minute on edge, trembling with fear.

The memories of that time have come back to me now.

“I don’t know what a fucking trick this is, but I won’t die like this!”

Daesung screamed and struggled like that.

No, I couldn’t actually do that because my body was stiff.

The sight of the blood in his neck rising and his head tossing around to show any reaction was clearly a sign of a seizure.

“You bastards!”

Jump up!

The door opened and five male nurses came into the room.

However, Daesung’s eyes rolled back and he was in a hurry to scream.

“We fought for eighty years! “Eighty years!”

Of the five people who came in, two of the strongest grabbed Daesung’s face.

“profit! Dog shit…! No matter what bastard tried to kill me, I survived! But these things are killing me!”

The thoughtful doctor put a syringe filled with anesthetic to Daesung’s neck.

“You damn things!”

When I pushed the pusher with my thumb, the liquid inside the cylinder seeped into the back of my neck.

“What the heck…!”

Pod –

As if the computer’s power went out.

His consciousness sank.