You know what's the strangest part about simply waking up as someone completely different?
It's not even the fact that for all I know, this could be a completely different world, with a completely different societal norms.
But frankly what was more horrifying was how no one could tell me apart from the person I took their body from. Sure, I had overtaken the body of what seemed to be a child, and my mental faculties have taken a damp due to my non-completely formed brain, but still.
"Suhyeon, come on now, don't be a downer." I heard my 'mom' say as we were there with a man that I've never seen before, which granted, he could be my father, I just couldn't tell because I've been here for a few months by now and have yet to meet this man.
"So this is Suhyeon? And you should be Dahyeon, right?" He asked as he kneeled down to look at the two of us.
"I can see already that you," He said as he ruffled my hair. "Will be strong, and that you will be a little heartstopper when you get older." He hugged my sister.
"Well, I'm Gapryong." He introduced himself to the two of us as he brought two tiny boxes for us.
Like children we were, I opened mine to see an old flat cap, kind of what the rich people used to wear in the 20's, brown, rugged, but I could tell how much care there was put into it.
My sister received a simple pendant, although I think there was some kind of compartment in it, she hadn't opened it. Either didn't want to, couldn't, or didn't know how.
It was on the following days that I've spent trying to rack up my memories that I remembered when I saw the old man. And believe it or not, it was in a fictional series that I've read not that long ago before my departure from my previous life.
That man was Gapryong Kim. Regarded by some as 'The Strongest', who would then be murdered by James Lee, and his son, which I guess is my half-brother Kitae.
But the more I began remembering, the less it actually made any sense.
After all, 'Suhyeon Kim' did not have any kind of connection with the man, and I know that because Suhyeon Kim was 'simply' the protagonist of 'Quest Supremacy', where he would get an System and reap the rewards as long as he completed the quests.
The most that people have done about this completely bogus connection was simply talking about how they were similar in wanting to protect those they held dear, and I guess some similar looking panels, but even then. Something like Goo being Gapryong's son held more weight than whatever I'm living right now.
But that's not the point! The issue is that I'm in a world that could only be described as a 'fictional world'. Now, granted, I don't know what else to call my situation besides an Transmigration novel sounding title, but I'm pretty sure that this just screwed me over.
After all, just the fact that I am here instead of Suhyeon changes everything, no?
You can't remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby. Changing something thorough all parts of the immeasurable whole.
For all I knew, from the moment I came here, I had forfeited the system, because future is fickle like that, unless fate is pre-determined, and I was simply a puppet.
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I didn't have much to do as a child, as school was… laughingly easy, as I was a child, and already had a rudimentary knowledge of Korean that was still more advanced than what they were teaching to my class, so instead, I turned aside to make money, and take advantage that I knew the trends the future would follow.
Washing cars, dog walking, babysitting, lemonade stands, tutoring, I needed money for two things.
First, was to unironically, invest in 'Bitcoin' which was, lucky for me, in it's infancy still, which means the pay out would be even bigger.
The second was to train myself. I didn't have any kind of 'true reason' for my actions besides wanting to be more than a simple pencil pusher, so I forced myself to train day in and day out, almost to a superstitious amount of Taekwondo under Hansu Seong, alongside some other martial arts schools, but mainly Taekwondo.
Was it perhaps overkill? Of course, but I never found myself being considered 'talented' in anything physical related, people always said that my talent was more around numbers. But I've always considered myself diligent if nothing else.
Eventually I met Sensei's son, Taehoon, and well, we certainly didn't befriend instantaneously, but I think he liked that there was someone who had the same drive as him. And then there was Dowoon Lee.
I don't even know how many times I had to fight Taehoon during middle school because of his insistence of being this asswipe.
"You know, it's a wonder that anyone actually comes here." I told him in one of those days.
"But they promised!" He shouted as he felt like kicking me, which well, I would give back in twice the kicks needed.
"How the hell do you expect people to come when all you do is beat up people indiscriminately? The fact that you hadn't been expelled from school is already a big enough miracle as it is." I complained, it didn't make any sense. Unlike my money making scheme, which was getting bigger and bigger as the years went by because Bitcoin was getting bigger and bigger.
And I had just managed to get an personal bank account for myself. I had reincarnated when I was around 7, and began working around that same time, whatever money that I had went to Bitcoin, and just like in my old world, it kept growing.
It did help that I went around selling my services for bitcoins when bitcoins were dirt cheap. Everyone thought that I was a weirdo online, but that shit didn't fucking matter.
And then one day, the two of us became three with Dowoon joining us.
"You don't have to be here, if you don't want to, you know?" I asked him as we were sparring, although he was good, crazy good, if not a genius. Now if he was a Taekwondo Genius or a copycat genius, I had no fucking idea.
"I'm happy with doing this." He eventually said.
"Are you happy, or is your father happy? Because those things are completely different." I told him as he kept it to himself as we continued to fight.
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I was at school with Gukja, who's my best friend, when I got a call from Jaehoon, asking me to skip school to come with him.
"Gukja, do you want to boogie woogie our way out of here?" I asked him as he raised an eyebrow.
"People still say boogie woogie?" Obviously it's just me, but I shake my head nonetheless at his question.
"My mom would kill me if I miss any more classes." He says as he scratches the back of his head.
"Well, if you don't mind, can I take a picture of it later? I really gotta go." I told him as I waved him goodbye and ran away before he could call me an ass.
Running my way into the arcade Jaehoon sent me the mail, I noticed that they were already with two girls. And while outward, I simply acted like I was jealous, I was doing my best to mask the fact that I was looking behind my back to make sure that Skid or whatever Munsoong's old gang was called appeared while I was unaware.
I tried to tell Jaehoon, but the fucker was already aware of it. Did he call me just in case? That's smart, but I hate being used without being told, ass.
The worst part that I wasn't able to flirt with anyone before the dickweed that was Sandik's leader and Munsoong appeared with their crew.
And while Jaewoon took it to himself to take care of Munsoong, I was here for the Sandik's leader, who while strong… Yeah, he wasn't all that much in all honesty.
Or maybe it's because I had thrown pocket sand in his eyes.
"Who the fuck does that?" He asked as I kicked him in the balls with steel toed boots, as he screeched like a little bitch and fell to his knees, and of course, like any good samaritan, I kicked him a few more times while he was in fetal position.
"Did you need to do all that?" Dowoon asked as I shrugged.
"Better overkill than underkill." I instructed as there wasn't that much after it, as I dragged Sandik's leader by his hair as I saw Munsoong down as Taehoon was taking care of the others. But the fight stopped as I threw the Sandik dude to the floor.
"Yo, I took care of the porcupine hair, do you need help with these guys?" I asked him as he looked confused.
"Huh? I thought he was like, strong, how did you defeat him so fast?" He asked as he ducked underneath one of the guys' punch and kicked them back in retaliation.
"Oh, I threw sand at his eyes and kicked his balls with the steel toe boots, then I kicked him while he was on the floor." I told him as he and some of the others cringed.
"Dude, where the hell did you even learn that?" Cartoons.
"TV." I told him as I jumped alongside him to fight the others, but one of them tried to sneak on Dowoon, but then he unleashed that super fucking awesome 1080º kick of his.
Fuck, that was so coooool. Unfortunately, I'm not really able to do that one yet, I think I'm getting close though. I think. Maybe.
But then Jaehoon had to be a fucking bitch, and get all pissy about it.
"Don't worry about it Dowoon, Jaehoon is just jealous, let's get the fuck out of here before the police gets here." I told him as I grabbed him by his hand and began running.
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"W-Why are you doing this to us?" They asked as I kept slamming the baseball bat against their bodies.
"Why? You hurt my dongsaeng, put him in a coma, and all the law told you was to simply… give an written apology? Bullshit." I told him as I kept hitting him with the baseball bat, covering my face with a mask and a hoodie, these bastards would die before they could tell my identity.
"Your fingers, I'm taking them all with me." I said as I was going to break every single one of them, thank God the baseball bat made it easier, it would've taken a much longer time if I were to do this with my hands.
I decided to remake the story once I realized I may have gone overboard with too many crossovers, and bullshit powerscaling (Well, I hadn't reached that issue yet, but I was certainly going to fuck it up if I continued.)