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"Do you remember anything about me other than my name and my face?"

"My Item."

"I said to get rid of the possessive."

"So it was you after all."

[...]

"What was our relationship?"

"We both acknowledged each other's usefulness and agreed to use each other appropriately with mutual consent."And other than that, "A tour guide and a disgruntled customer. Ah, you're the guide."

"...What?"

"Also, I'm raising Sesung's hunter's child. You came to save me once when I was taken away by a dragon and somehow we ended up dancing together. You even risked one arm and an eye for me. We also participated in an auction house. That time, you were the customer and I was the product. In addition, you made me eggs sunny side up."

"Is this nonsense?"

"All of it was 100 percent pure truth. We also caught two SS-rank monsters together as a bonus, you know?"

Sung Hyunjae's eyes opened wide and he laughed silently. Maybe it was because of his mood, but he looked younger than usual.

"Did I say that I fell in love?"

"You even gave me roses."

"When?"

"When I destroyed the Hunter Association Building. You weren't there, I invited you to come and see, but you rejected me."

"That was my mistake." This time, he laughed out loud. I was glad to see him happy, but what do I do now?

Friendly reminder that Mary is older than both Cale AND Alver. Do you think Alver used to call her Noona (when he went to the underground city) when he was younger?

Was just thinking about how unlike Kim Roksoo who has people in both worlds who know of the life he has led, Og Cale has no one. Lee Soo Hyuk got to reincarnate with his memories, Jour didn't. The time of Nameless 1 regressed, so nobody who survived the war with him exists any longer.

Choi Jung Soo, and Choi Han who received his memories, know what kind of life he had, albeit not all of it.

OG Cale inherited Kim Roksoo's memories. 20yo!Kim Roksoo inherited 38yo!Kim Roksoo's memories when the latter possessed the former's body. So there do exist people who know the full brunt of his trauma.

But nobody, not even OG Roksoo, knows about what Og Cale went through.

When people think of Kim Roksoo, they think of the orphaned boy who was abused and then rescued, the young man who was saved during the apocalypse by Lee Soo Hyuk, the one who followed after Lee Soo Hyuk and became team leader of Team 1, the Team 1 leader who had a 0% mortality rate, yet the man who was incredibly lonely to the point everyone thought he might die any second.

When people think of Cale Henituse, all they think of is the trash young master of a rich aristocratic family who lost his mother and has a poor relationship with his family. An alcoholic who picks fights left and right and on the verge of being pushed out of the line of succession.

Nobody knows the Cale Henituse who lost his family and fought in the war to avenge them. Nobody knows the Cale Henituse who spent 20 lonely years as the only survivor of Henituse name. Heck nobody knows the real Cale Henituse who made up a fake persona to protect his step brother. Nobody knows the Cale Henituse who kept a distance yet still loved his family.

How the heck was not a single person unable to see through the act of a child for nearly a decade? Was he such a good actor that nobody could tell the boy wasn't actually drunk? Nobody picked up on how he primarily targeted gangsters and never laid a hand on women and children? The entire world failed Cale Henituse.

On Mary: a note

note on describing mary's voice from the perspective of an in-universe character (who wouldn't know what a 'google translate' voice is)

“[a] child with a stiff voice ... [like] her vocal cords can no longer fluctuate.”

the implications? many, and all with great potential for fics.

did I say I literally love the misunderstandings of the novel with all my life??

A new understanding of cale’s character

cale henituse is a depressed bastard (we kind of been knew) am currently rereading the novel, so this time I noticed a tea symbolism, where the after the first time ron gave cale lemon tea and he drank it life's kind been giving cale lemons ever since. so of course it got me thinking more about the relationship between cale and ron and find that it would be interesting to study.

what kim rok soo observed of the relationship between og!cale and him was that ron didn’t have any particular like for cale, so could he as cale also operate under that or..?

Of course ron cares for og!cale and the current cale, and cale cares for ron because that just who he is, but rereading while having @azroazizah 's 'cale is a depressed bastard' post I kind of been taking a deep dive on angst and questioning all of cale's throwaway comments, like on the earlier chapters when he was so convinced that

"They will definitely forget about [him]" (212)

yes it makes for great misunderstandings (which I live for), but at the same time I can't but think that he really does believe those kind of statements, and that his actions betray a certain self abandonment that aligns well with her theory

so we kind of know that ron cares for cale and cale cares for ron, but did cale think that he cares for him beyond just a servant-young master relationship, at least at the beginning, even though he read about og!ron's moment's abandonment of og!cale, knowing that he is not even the same person ron cared for like a decade.. erm

I think the lemonade can be another misunderstanding plot too, thinking on cale's maybe real fear of the /power/ of the people around him (not /of/ them specifically, just the fact that they're wayy stronger than he is in general) and not great perception of his personal value to the people around him

it's not far off to say that he really rather not drink that lemonade, but as with most things he does, he feels as though he has to

A new understanding of cale’s character

cale henituse is a depressed bastard (we kind of been knew) am currently rereading the novel, so this time I noticed a tea symbolism, where the after the first time ron gave cale lemon tea and he drank it life's kind been giving cale lemons ever since. so of course it got me thinking more about the relationship between cale and ron and find that it would be interesting to study.

what kim rok soo observed of the relationship between og!cale and him was that ron didn’t have any particular like for cale, so could he as cale also operate under that or..?

umpopular oppion: no, cale does not like clopeh

and will not do so in the future

hear me out

currently reading chapter 206

"Why would he care about the people who tried to kill him? What about the people in his territory that were hurt because of them?"

All this /probably/ has some relation to actual situations he had in earth 1, very likely so

It might be as a result of his trauma the reactions to who is friend and who is foe are extremely intense. He will never friend those who hurt or attempted at hurting his close circle or underlings, it is most likely that the only end they will see is death, though how long till it comes depends on how long he will use them, his foes will never be friends. Ever. 

A new understanding of cale’s character

cale henituse is a depressed bastard (we kind of been knew) am currently rereading the novel, so this time I noticed a tea symbolism, where the after the first time ron gave cale lemon tea and he drank it life's kind been giving cale lemons ever since. so of course it got me thinking more about the relationship between cale and ron and find that it would be interesting to study.

what kim rok soo observed of the relationship between og!cale and him was that ron didn’t have any particular like for cale, so could he as cale also operate under that or..?