2026-02-11 15:19:48Nine o’clock at night, Kieran stopped his car in front of Harsen Medical Center. He stepped out, briefly straightened his suit, and walked inside. Each of his footsteps sounded steady, yet behind his calm expression lay anticipation, hope, and a faint fear he had long buried.
After all, ten years had passed without him being able to see his mother.
As the automatic doors slid open, the sharp scent of antiseptic immediately hit him.
In the quiet hospital corridor, his phone rang in his pocket. Nuca’s name appeared on the screen. Kieran answered at once.
“Are you already at the hospital?” Nuca’s voice sounded tense, her breathing uneven. She did not even bother to greet him.
Kieran stood in front of the elevator and pressed the button for the upper floor.
“Yes.”
While waiting for the doors to open, he felt a gaze on him. Whether from a surveillance camera or someone hiding behind a corner of the lobby, he could not tell. His shoulders remained straight, his expression unchanged.
The elevator opened with a soft sound, and he stepped inside.
“What is it?” he asked flatly.
“Oh, no, no… you have to get out. Get out right now.” Nuca’s voice turned into a panicked whisper.
The elevator doors began to close.
“It’s a trap!” Nuca hissed. “They’re setting you up. Kieran, listen to me, get out now and save yourself. Run!”
Kieran’s heart pounded harder when he heard that, but his face remained calm.
Only then did he notice the two unfamiliar men standing in the corner of the elevator. They had been silent the whole time, their gazes fixed straight ahead.
Unable to speak carelessly, Kieran exhaled slowly and said in a deliberately casual tone, “It’s fine. We’ll have a drink this weekend. I’ll be waiting for you to treat me. Don’t break your promise.”
“What? What are you saying? Kieran, are you crazy? I said—”
“Alright, it’s settled.” His voice stayed light and slightly indifferent. “I’m hanging up. I’m going to see my mother.”
He ended the call before Nuca could shout again.
The elevator began to rise. The digital numbers lit up one by one, and his chest felt tight.
Of course he believed Nuca. If it was a trap, then it was real. But what choice did he have? He was already inside. He was already being watched.
And after ten years of being forbidden to see his mother, after finally learning where she was being treated… how could he turn back now?
Whatever his father had planned this time, he would face it. As long as he could see his mother. Just once.
On the thirteenth floor, the elevator stopped and the doors slowly opened.
Kieran stepped forward, but before his foot could fully cross the threshold, the two silent men moved at the same time. One hand gripped his right shoulder. Another seized his left arm.
Their hold was strong. His body was yanked backward just as the elevator doors slid shut again.
“Who are you?” Kieran’s voice was low and controlled.
He tried twisting his wrist, searching for a weak point in their grip, but unfortunately, there was none.
Ten years of his life had been shaped by violence, five years of merciless military training, and the next five as a shadow who killed and stole in the family’s name. He had learned one thing: do not panic. Observe. Calculate. Wait for an opening.
So he did not scream. He did not struggle uselessly.
Besides, his instincts told him this was not just two men. There were more hiding in the shadows.
The door leading to the rooftop opened. The night wind immediately struck his face. The smell of the city, smoke, and something that felt unmistakably like a trap filled the air.
“Boss, here he is,” one of the men said.
Without warning, they threw him toward the concrete railing. His back slammed hard against it, and his knees hit the ground.
Kieran looked up.
Under a single dim spotlight, a man sat leisurely in a chair. A woman was seated on his lap, their bodies so close they were nearly fused together. The man’s hand roamed freely around the woman’s waist, as if the world belonged only to the two of them.
Around them stood several other men in ordinary clothes, yet their posture and demeanor were anything but ordinary.
The man in the chair slowly lifted his gaze, and their eyes met.
It was Laxon, his half-brother. A faint smile curved on his lips, the same smile that had disgusted Kieran since childhood.
The couple finally broke their kiss. Laxon still held the woman’s waist, his fingers pressing possessively.
“Darling,” Laxon’s voice was hoarse and lazy, as if this were nothing more than a minor interruption to his romantic evening. “Hold on for a moment. I need to deal with your boyfriend.”
The woman snorted softly. “Boyfriend? You’re my only lover. Don’t casually label other people.”
Laxon chuckled. His hand rose to grip the woman’s chin, forcing her to face him.
“Oh, really?”
He kissed her deliberately and at length, as if aware there was a pair of eyes being forced to watch. Then he whispered loudly enough to be heard, “Why don’t you look behind you? Didn’t he once call himself your boyfriend?”
Slowly, the woman turned. The spotlight touched her face.
Catherine.
Kieran’s chest felt as though it were being crushed from the inside. Their eyes met for only a fraction of a second. There was no guilt in hers, only disgust.
Catherine looked away first, as if staring at him for too long would stain her.
“Tsk.” She flicked her hair. “Weren’t you the one who told me to approach him? To seduce him and pretend I’d fallen in love with him?”
She looked at Laxon with a soft smile Kieran had never once seen when she was with him.
“Besides, during that whole act, I never even let him touch me. Every time he tried to hold my hand, it felt disgusting.”
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Chapter 009
The next morning, Kieran woke to a soft voice calling his name. He slowly opened his eyes. His mother was already standing beside the bed with a food container in her hand.“Wake up. Eat first, then we’ll take care of the administration and go home,” she said softly. Her tone tried to sound light, but the dark circles under her eyes were becoming more obvious.Kieran sat up slowly. He wanted to ask about the cost, how she had paid it, and where the money had come from. But when he saw her exhausted face and the faint, the question stopped in his throat. Even if he asked, he would not be helping anything right now.In the end, he simply accepted the bowl of soup and began eating quietly. This time, he finished it without leaving anything. His mother looked relieved to see that.Not long after that, the administrative process was completed. They walked out of the room toward the elevator. At the end of the corridor, several nurses and an administrative staff member were talking in some
Chapter 008
After sitting for quite some time, Kieran finally stood up. He walked slowly along the garden path, then reentered the hospital building through the side door.His steps were unhurried. A nurse who passed by him only glanced briefly and gave a small nod. A doctor coming out of an examination room even offered a faint smile, perhaps assuming the young patient was simply taking a casual walk to pass the time.No one was suspicious. Meanwhile, Kieran’s eyes moved subtly, noting every detail.In his mind, he spoke quietly to the system, “Create a detailed map of this building.”A few seconds later, transparent lines seemed to spread across his thoughts. [Data is being mapped…][Structures of floors one to three have been recorded.]Kieran did not change his expression. He still looked like a teenager leisurely spending his free time.Tonight, he would act.After feeling it was enough, he returned to his hospital room. The door was open. However, the moment he stepped inside, the room was
Chapter 007
The woman fell silent for a moment.“Just a small scrape. I accidentally fell in the kitchen yesterday.”Kieran stared at her without blinking. That was not a scrape. It was a grip mark. An uneven bruise, like the imprint of pressing fingers.From the original owner’s memories of this body, he remembered that his father often came home drunk, frequently asked his wife for money, and if there was none, he would beat her.The original owner of this body might have been afraid of his father due to childhood trauma, but the current Kieran was not. He even hated the old man, not much different from how he hated his father in his life before transmigrating.“That old man did this?” he asked flatly. He did not say the word father.His mother flinched slightly at his tone, then exhaled softly.“It’s nothing. Don’t think about unnecessary things. Just focus on recovering.”She finally managed to gently pull her hand away, then adjusted her sleeve again and tried to return to the original topic
Chapter 006
Kieran shifted his gaze away from the television screen a few seconds after the word suicide was clearly spoken by the news anchor. Without expression, he reached for the remote that the nurse had placed beside the hospital bed earlier and pressed the power button. The screen immediately went black, and the room returned to silence.All of that was indeed the past. Technically, it was no longer even him. However, feelings were not so easily severed.He did not want to know the details of the investigation broadcast on television because he knew it was all lies and the result of manipulation by his family.A light knock sounded at the door. A nurse entered while pushing a small trolley filled with food. The aroma of warm soup slowly spread through the room.“It’s time for dinner,” she said kindly.Kieran nodded slightly. He did not have much appetite, but this body needed nourishment if he wanted to recover quickly.After the nurse took the empty tray and left, the fatigue he had been
Chapter 005
The room returned to silence after the door closed. Kieran remained lying down, staring blankly at the window with its curtains half open. His aunt sat not far from him, occasionally checking her phone, occasionally looking at him with a gaze that still did not fully believe he was awake.But Kieran’s thoughts were not there. He slowly closed his eyes, trying to “feel” the existence of the spatial space again. He needed a test. Something small at first and inconspicuous.The water bottle on the bedside table? Or the plastic spoon from the meal tray?He could not recklessly experiment with trivial items like that. What if, after testing one object, the spatial space required a long recovery time? Wouldn’t he just be wasting it?Kieran drew a slow breath.Besides the storage function, what mattered more was the ability to double an object’s value. That meant whatever he put inside, if it worked according to the system’s explanation, would become an asset.He did not like uncertainty, s
Chapter 004
Not far from his bed, two women stood facing each other. Their appearance was simple, ordinary clothes that looked worn from long use, hair tied up without much care. They looked like most women one might meet at a market or a bus stop.However, the exhaustion on one of their faces was unmistakable.That woman, the mother of this body’s original owner, had fine lines that were too deep for her age. Her eyes were red and slightly swollen, as if she had cried too often over the past few days.The woman beside her, who was likely her sister, looked calmer, though the dark circles under her eyes showed that she, too, lacked sleep.Kieran watched them in silence for a few seconds. His chest felt tight, not from physical pain, but from feelings he could not ignore.“Mom…”His voice was hoarse, soft, almost like a breath. He could not hold back the sadness in his heart, after all, he had lost his original mother. And now he was calling someone “Mom.” Someone who could indeed be said to be hi
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