Godsent Top Star [EN]: Chapter 276

276. It’s a Misunderstanding (2)

“I guess we’re not really friends, but let’s just say we are. Does Mom have any health issues?”

Yeon-woo lost consciousness as a result of transferring a large amount of lifespan and spiritual power.

It was uncertain how Kang Yeosa, the recipient, would be.

However, Kang Yeosa simply shrugged, seemingly unaffected.

“I feel perfectly fine. It would be stranger if something were wrong. I mean, I lived by borrowing someone’s life.”

“……Kang Yeosa would never say something so kind. Should we get an MRI? Maybe check the brain…… Ouch!”

Thwack!

Seo-un’s hand struck Yeon-woo’s back.

“You have no filter.”

“Ah! That really hurts!”

The moment he lost consciousness.

More impressive than the eerie feeling of falling was Kang Yeosa’s spicy hand [Kang Yeosa’s strong hit].

He was already determined to bring something up, and that last hit reminded him.

Of course.

“Then why would I hit you if not to hurt you? What nonsense……”

Kang Yeosa’s indifferent attitude didn’t work at all.

But he didn’t really expect it to.

“……So. Are you really okay?”

“Where would I be not okay? I’m perfectly fine. And……”

Kang Yeosa hesitated, uncharacteristically.

She seemed unsure whether to say this or not.

But soon, in her cool manner, Kang Yeosa blurted out one fact.

“They said I’ll be fine.”

“……?”

“They said there’s nothing to worry about for at least ten years.”

Hearing that, he didn’t need to ask who told her.

“I fell asleep for a moment. Falling asleep in such a chaotic situation. Not like me. But if it’s a calling, there’s nothing I can do…… Anyway, I had a dream.”

While some dark-skinned young men suddenly barged in and were taking her son away with great care.

Kang Yeosa was also taken somewhere with great care along with her son.

“No. What are you trusting about those people……”

When he asked that,

“Don’t you think this mother of yours is better at reading people than you are?”

Came the perfectly natural answer.

That was true.

If Yeon-woo had been rapidly gaining experience lately, Kang Yeosa had already steadily built up experience from the basics, like a max-level character.

Anyway, while moving with her son’s friends.

Kang Yeosa unknowingly fell asleep.

And she heard that story there.

“They came out themselves. The person I hardly ever saw after I stepped down and retired personally came to my dream and said this.”

-You are not ready to cross over yet. I will let you stay in the mortal world a little longer.

The god Kang Yeosa serves is a kind-looking grandmother.

Kang Yeosa’s former spirit daughters,

‘Mother serves the strongest being in all of Joseon,’

I remember them saying that.

To Yeon-woo, she was just a warm grandmother who occasionally played with him in place of the busy Kang Yeosa.

“That grandmother came out and said that?”

“Grandmother? Watch your mouth.”

“Anyway, that means the grandmother promised, right?”

“Don’t call her that…… Sigh. What can I say to you? Everyone else couldn’t even make eye contact with that being, but you were carried around on their back……”

Kang Yeosa and everyone who frequented the shrine were shocked, but oh well.

Yeon-woo didn’t care.

In fact, the god Yeon-woo met was too warm to be called a great being.

“So I asked. Is it thanks to my son? Then……”

“Then?”

“They just smiled and drank after a long time.”

That was the god who used to look at him sternly, scolding him whenever he did something forbidden for Yeon-woo’s sake.

But Yeon-woo had done something big, and even though he had bent the will of heaven, he was still alive and well instead of dying.

Kang Yeosa looked at Yeon-woo with new eyes.

“You didn’t study or train, but it seems you’ve been working hard at something.”

“Ah. Shouldn’t there be some touching moment here where I say thank you or something?”

“Is that even possible for us?”

“Ah. That’s true.”

Even though they saved each other from death.

That didn’t mean that their cool, even chilly, mother-son relationship would suddenly become sweet and affectionate overnight.

Kang Yeosa knew it, and Yeon-woo knew it too.

Well, it’s not like there’s a lack of family affection or anything.

If that were the case, she wouldn’t have transferred her lifespan.

“Since that being said so, you can rest assured. At least for ten years……”

“Twenty years.”

“Twenty years?”

“I told you last time. I won’t be seeing the afterlife for 19 years and 342 days.”

“That’s right. Now that I think about it, there was something I was curious about. What’s this system you’re talking about?”

At first, Kang Yeosa thought she had orchestrated all this strange stuff.

But in the last conversation, she didn’t understand the system, so it seemed Kang Yeosa didn’t know either.

“How should I put it? Well, you know. Status windows pop up, system alerts pop up…… Like a game, I absorb abilities like skills……?”

“……??”

The more Yeon-woo spoke, the more Kang Yeosa blinked.

She lived in the 21st century, but she pursued a very analog life.

She often went into the mountains to cleanse herself of the world’s impurities, so that says it all.

“Anyway, it’s not a bad thing.”

“……You didn’t cross the Samdo River [River in the afterlife], so that’s good. Well. I don’t know how, but it seems it’s not a bad thing.”

Kang Yeosa said that and suddenly asked in a heavy voice.

“Yeon-woo.”

“……Why are you calling me so scary all of a sudden?”

“Are you really okay? You have a foolish side, so you haven’t spoken well since you were young. You chose to keep your mouth shut even when it was hard. I thought you would tell this mother of yours at least once if it was hard. I’m worried because you only know how to foolishly endure, just like someone.”

Kang Yeosa’s gaze was distant.

A gaze wandering somewhere in the past, not the present.

“I wasn’t an affectionate mother. I should have said at least one warm word.”

It was a voice filled with regret.

People tend to think a lot when they are about to die.

Kang Yeosa doesn’t know how much she thought.

So she carefully took out a piece she had kept in her heart.

“No. Why are you suddenly like this, Madam? If Mom had done that, I would have thought I was possessed. I’m more used to the cool Yeon-hwa.”

“……You little!”

The atmosphere, which was about to become heavy, was instantly dissipated by Yeon-woo’s joviality.

There’s no need for words filled with regret and lingering feelings.

That’s what family was like.

“And who would I take after if I were foolish? I’d take after Kang Yeosa.”

Kang Yeosa burst out laughing at the words that this was all a maternal inheritance.

“Anyway, I’m glad you woke up well. Your body seems fine too. You’re talking nonsense, so your mind seems fine too.”

Kang Yeosa said that and muttered like a sigh.

“I already knew it, but I’m glad you’re accepting your fate so faithfully. I was worried when you ran away because you didn’t want to be a celebrity.”

“……How did you know that again?”

“Do you think I have no ears or eyes?”

What’s the point of having a TV?

She never turns it on.

Even if she turns it on, she only turns it on in the waiting room, and Kang Yeosa has no interest in it at all.

It was a very thorough indifference, unlike the person who told him to become a celebrity.

“The Dongja kid [Child spirit] talked about you a lot. He said you were filming dramas and movies. He was very detailed. My ears were ringing.”

[Heeing…… When did I ever……]

Slowly.

The Dongja spirit, who had been hiding, crawled out from under the bed, whimpering.

[I just conveyed the facts. It’s true that our Yeon-woo is doing well. Yeon-hwa is too harsh on Yeon-woo.]

“Who said anything? It’s good if it’s going well.”

[And Yeon-woo and Yeon-hwa are definitely a maternal inheritance. They’re both so foolish, worrying about each other but not even contacting each other properly. I really don’t know who’s calling who foolish.]

“Your tongue is long, Dongja.”

A bright smile bloomed on Kang Yeosa’s stern face.

The face that resembled Yeon-woo, no, the face that Yeon-woo resembled, looked very beautiful when it held a smile, but…….

[Heeik! Yeon-hwa! That’s not what I meant……!]

“Then why did you open your mouth to someone you can’t beat……”

The Dongja spirit was weaker than Kang Yeosa than anyone else.

There were no beings among the dead in the mother’s shrine who were not weak against Kang Yeosa, but.

The Dongja spirit was at a very serious level among them.

[How can you do this to me? If it weren’t for me, you two wouldn’t even be able to have this conversation. What am I supposed to do when people who look exactly the same look at me with the same eyes! Dongja is scared! I’m scared!]

Heoheongheong!

The Dongja spirit burst into tears, wondering what was so sad.

Yeon-woo thought as he watched Kang Yeosa indifferently ignore it.

That he was realizing that he resembled his mother in this aspect.

“Is it fun?”

“Well…… it’s not bad.”

“Look at you being so dishonest.”

“It’s rewarding. It’s fun. I’m thankful. I’m grateful. It’s not like I didn’t have any aversion……”

It was the absence of lifespan that pushed him to not even feel that aversion.

It’s not at all welcome to have survived a near-death experience, but life has become this fulfilling entirely since entering the entertainment industry.

Yeon-woo cleanly admitted it.

‘If not, I would still be suffering from the victim mentality of the past.’

Looking back now, it’s a very lonely life.

Not accepting goodwill as goodwill.

Suspecting and distrusting.

Perhaps he would have continued to live a bleak life.

That’s probably…… a life worse than death, isn’t it?

“Okay. Then that’s good. No matter what, it has to be what you like. And it seems like you have a lot of people around you, so this mother is relieved.”

“Ah. That’s right. I’m always grateful that there are many people who like me……”

“I’m talking about your friends.”

“……Yes?”

Did he happen to make a friend he didn’t know about?

As Yeon-woo blinked, not knowing what was going on, Kang Yeosa kindly told him who it was.

“I’m talking about that dark-skinned servant and that sparkling kid.”

It must have been Woo Do-gyeom and Kwon Seong-hyeon.

‘Dark-skinned servant…… sparkling kid…….’

[Yeon-hwa. Kwon Seong-hyeon. Kwon Seong-hyeon. Can’t you still remember our actor’s name?]

“Why would I memorize that? It’s enough to know who they are.”

It’s an attitude that doesn’t matter even if they are national actors.

Well.

She’s a person who bosses around even those in high places, so what else would she do?

“They care about you a lot. Seeing them rush in as soon as they found out you collapsed shows that they’re not just being kind. It’s not easy to find someone who cares about you that much.”

“I think there’s some misunderstanding……”

If she’s talking about Kwon Seong-hyeon, he admits it to some extent.

Anyway, he was an excellent lifespan vending machine…… no, an excellent helper.

But Woo Do-gyeom is.

‘That guy is just a really bad guy.’

It feels like he sometimes likes to torment people?

He’s so worried about how Woo Do-gyeom’s twins will grow up.

‘Well, still. He’s not a jerk who abuses and abandons his children because they’re possessed by ghosts…… so he’s not a very bad guy…….’

Although he has the crazy morality of kidnapping others for his children.

When you think about it, he might not be such a villainous guy.

“It’s a precious relationship. It’s a precious relationship, so don’t forget to take good care of it.”

“Yes, well……”

“They’re benefactors. They’re definitely benefactors who will be of great help to you, so don’t neglect the benefactors you’ve formed a precious relationship with.”

“…….”

Still, he doesn’t think it’s that much.

He recalled the memories of his life getting strangely twisted, whether big or small, while meeting them.

It seems.

There’s a very big misunderstanding.