How would you normally react if you heard that someone who died eight years ago was actually alive? People were still divided on whether J was alive or dead.

Title: [Anonymous] If J is alive
in the rifts of the West Sea
Shouldn't we send a rescue team?
Even if he's alive, he can't move even if he's alive.
Maybe his leg was cut off or something...

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-Are there really no other survivors?
I compared the ranking with the name on OO's memorial, but only J's name was newly created. I guess J is the only one who survived.

-Didn't you know what it was like in the rift and send a rescue team? Don't you know how many hunters died in there?
But do you leave people in the rift?
You went in to save those guys. It's the abyss of humanityᄏᄏ
Don't you remember when the West Sea Rift expanded a lot? If you open it, you can ruin the land.
Is it the same as now? It's not the time when people risked their lives with only one power differenceᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ
└Does it make sense to use all that power to get J?

-Yes~ You can't open a rift that was closed in the first place.

Of course, people didn't believe it at first. The majority of hunters also said that it was just a temporary glitch and that it would be fixed soon. However, Channel 1, which had confirmed J's existence firsthand, waited with bated breath for an official announcement from the Awakening Management Bureau.

-Oh, my

-Why are you lying?

-Even if there is a mistake, how can there be a mistake like this?

-Sometimes the system breaks down too

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-Why don't you fix this bug?

-No way?

It didn't take long for a question mark to be added after what people said was "no way". After a few days, the ranking did not change and people panicked.

Soon after the media started spreading unfounded rumors and it became a fait accompli, the Awakening Management Bureau rushed to clear up the confusion. Since the press conference was held at 3 p.m., Ui-jae was able to watch the press conference alone with a break sign.

When the time came, the woman who appeared on the screen was neatly dressed with a neat haircut, a suit, and a cane. Except for the fact that her face was not good, it was similar to the one Ui-jae remembered. It was Ham Seok-jung, the director of the Awakening Management Bureau, who had refrained from outside activities for health reasons.

With a brief greeting, she said firmly.

"This ranking is not a system error."

She paused for a moment and continued.

"It's not even a duplicate hunter name. It's not like someone else took J's name. It's hard to believe, but an internal investigation shows that J is still alive."

The murmur and flash grew louder. The reporters all raised their hands.

"How can you be so sure?"

"Are there other survivors besides J?"

"Eight years ago, the Awakening Management Bureau would have confirmed the deaths of the hunters who entered the West Sea Rift, but why did the story suddenly change?"

"If J is alive, where is he now?"

Despite the baptism of questions, Ham Seok-jung raised her palm for a while without changing her expression and answered in a calm voice.

"We will set up an investigation team to get a clearer picture of the situation. I'd appreciate it if you could wait a little."

Ham Seok-jung and the hunters of the Awakening Management Bureau bent down.

Ui-jae saw Ham Seok-jung's face and realized that eight years had passed. In J's memory, she was young and passionate, without a cane or a limp. When did she hurt her leg?

And she's...

How can you be so sure?

Today's press conference by the Awakening Management Bureau was a reversal of what they had announced in the past. Since everyone's attention was focused, the fact that J entered Channel 1 could not have made such an announcement.

Ham Seok-jung is such a person. A cautious and calculating person who only moves when there is irrefutable evidence and a clear justification. Ui-jae turned off the TV while looking at Ham Seok-jung who was still bowing her head.

After the press conference of the Awakening Management Bureau, the story of J continued wherever he went in Korea. The special broadcast of the final 110-minute discussion was nothing like it.

The daily news bulletins were all about the West Sea rift and J, but they were also sharply divided over whether to rescue him or not.

They are all fighting over nothing.

Even when someone asked him what he thought about J's resurrection and rescue, Ui-jae responded with a common meta-it seems to be passive now, like "Haha, I don't know".

But all of his desperate attempts to escape the topic ended in failure, because...

"The whole world is shocked by J's amazing ability, Japan is angry, and the American people are dying to see him!"

J has even made a video clip that has skyrocketed in popularity on YouTube.

The topic of conversation among the regular hunters of Haejang-guk House changed every time, but the hot potato of the past few days was, of course, "J".

The hunters ignored tables and ate haejang-guk, discussing everything from J's survival to the state of the rift. Since all the participants in the discussion were current hunters, various opinions were expressed.

"Isn't it a system error? That seems most likely."

"The Bureau said so at a press conference. J is alive."

"How can they be sure? Have you ever personally spoken to the system?"

"I don't know. But I think it's certain when I see Ham Seok-jung's press conference in person."

"There are some shady things going on there too."

"What about you... You're saying that while sitting right in front of Jung-bin's sign."

"Crazy, when did that sign appear?"

The most common and least reliable theory was the system error theory.

The rankings are updated once a year, but it is common for dead hunters to be removed from the list immediately upon death.

If you lost contact in the rift, you could check someone's name on the list to see if they were alive or dead, so the accuracy was guaranteed. So people would suspect the system and then quickly dismiss it.

At that time, a new hunter, who was slicing peppers with great skill, offered an opinion.

"Or maybe he died and recently resurrected?"

"Is there an item that can resurrect a dead person?"

"The world is like that, so there might be at least one."

"Maybe a healer brought him back to life......."

"Even Nam Woo-jin can't bring back the dead."

"Or J had the only resurrection item in the world, and the waiting time for resurrection was eight years."

"That's a bit plausible."

"What's so plausible?"

The theory of resurrection after death, where the crane is removed every time the doctor hears it.

Logically, it was all nonsense to be dismissed, but J's return was itself confusing. Of course, not only in Haejang-guk House, but also on the anonymous bulletin board of Hunter net, several hypotheses appeared...

-I'd rather believe that the necromancer saved himᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ.
Famous Necromancer anyone? Find them quickly.
└Necromancers are forbidden to resurrect humans, so no way ᅲᅲ

The Necromancer's J illegal resurrection story,

-In fact, he returned after eight years of fighting in another dimension. Returned Warrior J
I think you've read too many novels...
Don't you know that the court = the essay has been written since the day of the rift?

There were many empty stories like the theory of the returnees, but of course no one guessed right. The premise was wrong to begin with. Because J never died.
 

And those who discussed the "how" realized that there was no answer unless J himself opened his mouth, and moved on to the next step.

J is alive. Then where?

The last place J was seen was a rift in the West Sea. Obviously, he couldn't get out of there, and people thought that J closed the rift and died in it. But what they have believed for eight years may not be true.

Dawn, when everyone is asleep.

Ui-jae suddenly opened his eyes. In the silence, where he could not even hear his own breathing, he held his breath without moving. The side room where Ui-jae lay was silent without any sound, but he could tell instinctively.

There is an intruder outside this room.

It is impossible for a guest to come at this late hour. No matter how much you want to eat Haejang-guk, you won't open the locked door and enter the shop.

The only thing that can be used as a weapon is in the kitchen, and all he has is a strong body. Ui-jae, who raised his upper body as slowly and quietly as possible, held his hand a few times and unfolded it. Fortunately, he was good at fighting with his bare hands.

"I don't know what kind of bastard...

A part of him wanted to rip the limbs off, but he couldn't be bothered with the mess. A moderate break would be enough to extract information and report it.

With that, he opened the door to the next room and stepped barefoot onto the floor. He stepped through a wall of boxes and into a familiar hall. In the middle of a dimly lit shop, the dull glow of a street lamp shining through the glass, the gas mask sat.