Heavenly Demon.

Or The King of the Underworld.

A being with two opposing names that do not go well together. 

He was my father.

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“It was you, right?” It was around three months after Son Jae-won decided on doing ‘the job’ that his father, whom Jae-won highly respected, asked Jae-won a strange question.

Like any other day, Son Jae-won behaved as if he had returned home right after school. He sat in front of the TV with his parents, ate some fruit, and chatted with his parents about this and that.

At the same time, news was airing on TV. All the headlines were related to the ‘hero’ who had recently been shaking up the whole country. A child rapist who was acquitted because of a lack of evidence, a factory manager who was released on bail after discharging wastewater to turn an entire village into a cancer site, and a politician who was accused of murder but let off due to his high office position… Although these issues caused a great disturbance in society at the time they occurred, the accused were let off relatively scot-free. However, those accused who were murdered after not paying their fair share to society now numbered over twenty. This meant that one person was dying every three or four days.

Son Jae-won acted as if these strange occurrences had nothing to do with him without much difficulty because he had already developed...