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Kim Rok Soo was born in a family whom hunted tribulators.
Kim Rok Soo is also the next patriarch of the Hunter family.
His mother, a normal, ordinary woman and his father, the grandson of the current Patriarch is aware that their son's soul is the strongest and hold the most powerful vitality their household have ever seen and experienced.
His existence is peculiar as he's soul is touched by a God. That's impossible to happen to their family though, as most Gods hated their mere existence.
There's only one possible reason as to why this is the case.
Kim Rok Soo is destined to be a God killer.
He's someone who is born to deflect the Gods and so the Outer Gods, the sole existences who shall know what this child is, tried to destroy his soul but failed.
The Hunters can feel it.
This child's soul is strong, powerful, willful and quite deceitful.
A soul that is powerful yet weak.
Intrigued.
Interested.
Mesmerized by the thought of having such a powerful member to their family.
How Enticing.
And so they hold on.
They raised the boy.
They taught him how to listen and follow, after all, there's no use to a puppet whose string is weak and easy to get tangled, isn't it?
At the age of three, they taught him how to speak.
They let him stroll the whole territory to learn how to negotiate, to learn how to be independent, to learn how to live, sheltered in their household, forbidden to go outside.
At age of four, they made him used to the sight of pain, blood, despair and fear.
They killed in front of him, planned murder in front of him, tortured people in front of him, things that shouldn't be shown to children was shown to him. The things that would normally traumatize a child was shown to him in a daily basis that it became normal.
At age of 5, they taught him how to handle weapons.
They thought dagger arts, they thought him how to use a sword and different kinds of blades. They thought him how to use a bow, a spear, an axe and different kind of weapons. They thought him the basics so that they can figure out on which weapon he excels in.
A prodigy, they find out. A child full of potential. A child who can master all if they persevere on his education.
A child that deserves to be the future Patriarch of their family.
At age 6, they taught him their history.
Hunters, they're hunters who hunted tribulators in order to ascend, to become powerful.
They told him their mortal enemies.
The Choi family is a family whom produces tribulators. The Red family, the white family and so on.
At age 7, his training worsen.
His training became to hard that Kim Rok Soo often vomited blood. His young body often buckled and puked the contents of his intestines. To tiring that his young bones gave out and collapse all on its own.
He was then punished and reprimanded for his weakness.
Kim Rok Soo was then kidnapped by his own parents in hopes of getting away from their family. As parents, they don't want to see their only son to be subjected to such situation.
They are chased and they were cornered.
They crash in a tree and their vehicle overturned.
Kim Rok Soo survived and his parents did too.
Kim Rok Soo watched as his Grandpa killed his Father in front of him. Slashed his neck and he bath his Grandson with the blood of his youngest son.
In a fit of anger, his Grandpa forced Kim Rok Soo's hand open and shoved the dagger that killed his Father to his hand.
There's blood on his head, his Father's.
He's also injured what with the crash.
He's confused.
He can't think.
He let his Grandfather guide his hand, that is firmly holding the dagger, to the neck of his Mother.
Kim Rok Soo took his first life at the age of 8.
He's nine when he gained his consciousness.
It was so sudden.
Like Pinocchio who became a living doll after a single night, he woked up with the memories of his own life.
He realized that his life is fucked up when he saw a happy family in a park. He realized that everything is wrong when he sat down with an enemy.
He conversed with a Choi and he learned a lot of things.
He learned that children like him was not supposed to be taught how to kill.
A child shouldn't have to kill their parents.
That's what he realized.
It appears as though it's not normal, killing he means.
He then started thinking things through.
Kim Rok Soo then felt hatred for the very first time.
He's been used, groomed, manipulated.
They stole his life, his childhood.
Kim Rok Soo have killed multiple people by now.
He's not afraid of adding some more.
The Strongest and Youngest Hunter.
That's his title.
He'll show them.
He then burned their house down, used his powers to weaken all their souls, and in turn, weakening them. He used the power they taught him how to use to create chaos.
He used his power as a hunter, he used Karma to make it near impossible for it to travel through dimensions.
He used his power.
He overused his power and so it impacted his own self.
With the use of Karma, his memories was affected.
He have overused his abilities that it gave a toll on his body.
It not only affected his memories, it also affected his own body.
He, for the time being, cannot use his Karma anymore.
Kim Rok Soo then lose the memory he despise and so he became the orphaned child, whose parents died at a car accident. His uncle was then given custody to his life.
He continue living without the burden of knowing that he is not normal.
He continue living and met Choi Sung Soo, a man who's supposed to be his enemy according to his family, and he was then forced into a role that he didn't outwardly rejected.
He continue living and was then became a companion to Choi Han and he swears that he will protect him from the Hunters even if he was born as one.
Kim Rok Soo transmigrated and became Cale Henituse, a Thames, a family member of the Red family, his supposedly mortal enemy.
He lives without the knowledge that he's a Hunter, not whatever Cale Henituse is.