Revenge with the Power of the Final Boss-Chapter 119
"Seo-jin, let’s go back for now."
Baek Hyung-won’s words carried an implicit intent to leave the scene. Observing his hostility toward Baek Seo-jun, Seo-jin could already guess what his father planned to do.
"He’ll probably accuse my brother of being a fraud and play the grieving parent to manipulate public sympathy."
When he’d been under the effects of the procedure, such schemes were beyond his imagination. But now, freed from its influence, everything was painfully clear.
He felt a hollow sense of regret for not realizing it sooner.
"No. I won’t be going back now."
Seo-jin rejected his father’s offer.
"Seo-jin?"
"Father… No, Dad… and Mom… isn’t there something you need to do first?"
Seo-jin hoped, even now, that they would come to understand. If they refused to acknowledge their wrongs, despite not having undergone any procedure like he had, then…
"Then they’re truly monstrous people."
"What do you mean by ‘something we need to do first?’"
Baek Hyung-won frowned in confusion, and Kim Yoo-jung echoed his sentiment.
"What are you talking about, Seo-jin? What is it we need to do?"
They didn’t understand him at all. They felt no guilt, no responsibility toward Seo-jun.
To Seo-jin, this realization was unbearably tragic.
The more he grasped the depth of his parents’ depravity, the more he regretted his own choices. At 15, he had chosen to undergo the procedure, driven by a fear of facing reality.
But now, at 20, he had resolved never to turn away from the truth, no matter how painful it was.
"You need to apologize to my brother."
Seo-jin sincerely hoped they would understand, even just this once. He knew they felt no affection for Seo-jun.
But as parents, even if they didn’t love him, there was a line of basic human decency that should never have been crossed.
"What they did to my brother went far beyond that line."
Seo-jin didn’t expect them to love Seo-jun unconditionally, simply because he was their son or his brother. Love couldn’t be forced—it had to come naturally.
However, the atrocities Baek Hyung-won and Kim Yoo-jung committed against Seo-jun were inexcusable. Not just them—Seo-jin himself had been one of Seo-jun’s tormentors.
"Apologize?!"
"Seo-jin, this isn’t the place for such talk," Kim Yoo-jung said gently, attempting to placate him and steer the conversation elsewhere.
But Seo-jin saw in their reactions the truth he had tried to ignore.
"They’ll never change. They feel no guilt at all."
His parents lacked even a shred of remorse.
In retrospect, it made sense. People who felt guilt wouldn’t have sold their child to a villain like So Kang-seok to curry sympathy. Nor would they have manipulated public opinion to smear Seomun Ye-jin when she became inconvenient.
When Seo-jin was 11, his parents had noticed his infatuation with Seomun Ye-jin and tried to destroy her spirit so she would become his plaything.
Seo-jin had willfully ignored this for four years, up until he was 15. Now, he could no longer turn away.
"Ugh."
Seo-jin’s stomach churned as he realized he had spent years blaming everything on Kim Ho-jun—unaware that he was actually Seo-jun. He had hated and vilified him without reason, simply for being distant from their parents.
"Apologize? That’s absurd."
Baek Seo-jun’s icy gaze turned to Seo-jin, his red eyes gleaming with cold anger. The intensity of his stare made Seo-jin instinctively take a step back, even as he resolved not to run away.
"B-brother…"
Seo-jin called out cautiously. He didn’t believe an apology would work, but if his parents refused, the least he could do was apologize himself.
"An apology? Don’t you think that’s funny? Seo-jin, weren’t you planning to kill me and steal my wife?"
Seo-jin flinched. He almost reflexively denied it, but the words caught in his throat.
"I… I didn’t…"
But Seo-jin felt a pang of guilt. The truth was undeniable—he had spent nine years harboring feelings for Seomun Ye-jin, to the point where she had become the ultimate goal of his life.
He had fantasized about marrying her, never letting her leave his mind.
But now, her cold, contemptuous gaze told him everything. His feelings would never reach her.
As his brother’s wife, Seomun Ye-jin was his sister-in-law. The fact that he had schemed to take her from his brother filled him with self-loathing. Bowing his head, Seo-jin finally spoke.
"I’m sorry, Brother… It’s all my fault."
Seo-jin knew there was no one else to blame. He had willingly chosen the procedure, willingly chosen to ignore the truth.
Even moments ago, he had been consumed by thoughts of killing Kim Ho-jun and taking Seomun Ye-jin, all while believing his actions were justified.
"Isn’t it fascinating?" Seo-jun said coldly. "This same guy who just wanted to kill me and take my wife is now apologizing."
"Ha… Yeah, it’s disgusting… I’m disgusting," Seo-jin muttered bitterly.
Baek Hyung-won and Kim Yoo-jung quickly pulled him into their arms.
"Seo-jin! Don’t listen to him! He’s just a villain who needs to be destroyed!"
"Oh, my precious son! You’re not disgusting! The only one to blame is that wretch, Baek Seo-jun! No, he’s probably a fake! Don’t talk to him anymore. He deserves to die!"
Seo-jin broke free from their embrace, no longer willing to be complicit in their delusions.
"No. The villains are us. We’re the disgusting ones!"
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He shouted with all his might.
"I’m going to reveal everything. No more hiding in my little world, no more justifying my filth. It ends here!"
Baek Hyung-won and Kim Yoo-jung were visibly shaken.
"W-what are you saying, Seo-jin?"
"Seo-jin… How could you say that about us?" Kim Yoo-jung cried, tears streaming down her face.
Her tears pained Seo-jin, but he didn’t waver.
"Then why don’t you just tell the truth? Admit what you did to my brother. Admit that you sold him to So Kang-seok!"
Their silence spoke volumes.
If anyone else had accused them, they would have lashed out in anger, but coming from their beloved Seo-jin, they were paralyzed.
"They still feel no guilt."
Seo-jin’s despair deepened. His parents were shaken not because of their sins but because their favored son had turned on them.
"How could people be so vile? And how could I have been the same?"
He wanted to collapse into tears, to scream and cry, but he knew he didn’t deserve that relief.
"I regret everything. If only I hadn’t chosen to run away with that procedure…"
"Seo-jin."
When Seo-jun called his name, Seo-jin immediately lifted his head.
"Brother?"
"There’s something I need you to do. Can you do it?"
Seo-jin nodded resolutely.
"I’ll do anything, Brother. Even if you ask me to die."
Seo-jun pulled out his phone and played a video.
"I plan to upload this video for the entire world to see. It’ll be quite the memory for you too."
The video showed Baek Hyung-won and Kim Yoo-jung selling ten-year-old Seo-jun to So Kang-seok.
["What kind of bastard puts his brother in harm’s way like this?"]
["Ha, suddenly your story changes? Weren’t you just sending him to die?"]
["This wretch! Lying to your parents like this!"]
["What kind of monster did I give birth to? A brother should make sacrifices for his sibling!"]
["Sacrifices? You mean sending him to die?"]
["You ungrateful brat! We fed you, clothed you, and gave you shelter. How dare you not be grateful?"]
Seo-jun paused the video and turned to Seo-jin.
"You’re going to upload this yourself. Make the entire world see it with your own hands. How about that?"