back to past life(on going)

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I can say that I became an easy-to-handle baby because I slept well during the day and only cried at night if there was a reason. However, my current existence is thanks to my parents' sacrifice for me over a long period of time in my past life. As every child does, I have broken my parents.

At that time, I almost died from swallowing a piece of apple at the age of one and worried about my parents because I couldn't speak well until I was four. I was also hospitalized for more than two months after hitting a motorcycle at the age of seven. Of course, I don't remember any of these memories, but my mother has told me.

The things I remember from my childhood were more about my 'first experience' than being sick or hurt. The memories are fragmented like old pictures; for example, the first time I watched fireworks with my cousin, went to my best friend's house and visited my grandfather in the hospital.

I can't remember my parents' dedication to raising me, which made me realize how selfish a child is.

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"Mama. Mamma. Mama." For the first time, I said the word to my mother, instead of meaninglessly muttering. I talked while making eye contact with him. My mom won't know, but this is to make up for all her worries about how I can't talk until I'm four. But in the end, the biggest reason was for this search.

[Like Man 1: 'Mother' succeeds.]

[You have completed the quest 'Like a Human 1'.]

[You have earned 5 points.]

[Total points: 37]

My mother didn't seem to care whether I called her on purpose or not, and she just enjoyed the moment. He held me for a while, then lowered me to the floor.

The new search was related to linguistic development, which is interesting because it belittles a regressor like me. My pronunciation was awkward just because all my teeth had not grown and my tongue was stiff. No problem with my language skills!

My next search mission was to say sixteen words, which was a piece of cake. The quest that I had to risk my life had become just a milestone in my growth development. The daily quests I had in the original timeline were not like this because the risks were huge. Moreover, I earned five points to complete this quest. Back then, I only received two points for killing an F-class monster. Moving my lips a few times with this body will give me more valuable points than dealing with two monsters. I honestly can't hide my joy.

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This will be the last quest of the cumulative quest 'Like a Human'.

[Like Man 5 (Quest)

Mission: Select specific individuals and communicate with them using more than ten sentences.]

My father was on a business trip, and I could not use my mother as a victim for my search. I first thought about the owner's wife. She was a cruel woman, full of jealousy. She gave birth to a son, her third child, around the same time I was born. Therefore, he couldn't help but compare his son and me whenever the opportunity arose.

When I was silent, she made my mother fear that I would become a cleft lip. When I said the words to refute him, he would denounce it by saying that I had a ghost that died from not being able to speak. She was a very cruel woman that no one could resist, and she was obviously happy to see my mother feeling uneasy.

There was another reason for choosing him, and that was because he strongly believed in shamanism. The amulets were everywhere - at the front door, in the kitchen, and on the way to the owner's floor. I saw so many of them while being carried on my mother's back.

I stood in front of the door leading to the front yard. Everything was huge from the baby's point of view, so ordinary doors not only looked big but also gave me a strong feeling of pressure.

My little heart started beating faster, and it felt like it was entering a basement. My spine felt cold, thinking that my mother might be watching me. I looked around to find something to step on and found a hard pillow piled up in the corner of the room. It was past midnight, and it was a perfect day because the owner was nothing like my father.

Jindol, the dog tied up in the yard, looked at me and wagged his tail as I appeared. The dog looked different from when I looked at it from my mother's back. The eyes of the huge beast glittered in the moonlight, and I might have thought too much, but Jindol's straps seemed more sagging than usual. Once the rope breaks or Jindol pulls his neck from him, the dog will be like a boss monster in the wild mountains of Hwasung to me.

Wait for. A thought crossed my mind. My original plan was to complete the quest with the owner's wife by pretending to be the ghost of the children and building up her evil thoughts. But why am I only thinking of talking to a grown man?

It'll be Chuseok soon, and I'll meet my cousin. My cousin is four years old and speaks pretty well. Chuseok didn't go too far to go ahead with a plan that risked waking my mother up.

“Why is my baby not smiling today? Are you ashamed, son?”

I want to nod and use Odin's Wrath on my aunt who made fun of my.

There are a lot of babies in Chuseok, and because my younger cousins are not yet born, all crying babies are older ones.

Ji-ae, one of my cousins, walks towards me. She was born three years earlier and was beautiful. He hates the little mole under his left eye, but that's one of his appeals. His mole, his clear eyes, and his pointed nose reminded me of how he looked like an adult. My aunt moved so Ji-ae could get close to me because they were curious how cute we were at our first meeting.

Besides being beautiful, Ji-ae has a bright future ahead of her. In the past, he graduated from a prestigious university and became a prosecutor after passing the bar exam. She seems to remain a family pride forever but disappears on Advent Day. He must have been attacked by a monster.

I would like to advise my aunt to encourage Ji-ae to find a career in sports even if she shows great talent in learning. Physical ability does not guarantee its survival, but it will be an important factor. At least his experience as a prosecutor didn't help at all. People should at least train their bodies before Advent Day or have to experience an intense war situation.

“She is your younger cousin, so Ji-ae has to look after her like an older sister.” My aunt, Ji-ae's mother, put our hands together, and she hugged me tightly as if she was attacking me. She rubbed my hair with her unusual rough hand holding a baby.

“Seon-hu's chat. Seon-hu.” She had a funny voice, and I also whispered softly in her ear.

"Hello cousin." Ji-ae's hand stopped moving in surprise. My mother and other relatives were watching another baby at the time, so I immediately told her not to call an adult and that I could only talk to her. I was able to complete the quest by exchanging funny sentences with Ji-ae.

[You have finally completed the cumulative quest of 'Like a Human'.]

[You have received a 'silver box' as your settlement gift.]

Huh huh?

[Congratulations. You are the first to complete all the quests available in the tutorial.]

[You have reached the condition to skip the tutorial.]

[No quests available from now on.]

Is this just a tutorial?

[Do you want to skip the 'Infancy and Childhood' tutorial?]

I faced a torturous decision to make, but I had to stay on my parents' side for the next few years. If I stayed for the next tutorial, my behavior would be severely restricted. However, I was still hesitant because ditching meant I couldn't spend time with my young parents. I shouldn't have made the mistake of surprising or scaring my parents, like how the First Crime grew ...

I missed the tutorial because the actual tutorial was waiting for me, namely Chapter of Beginning.