Lee Soo Hyuk

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## Lee Soo Hyuk

### Name

Lee Soo Hyuk이수혁
Sui Khan (after reborn)
수이칸

### Occupations

Ability User (Grade 1)
Team Leader (former)

### Affiliations

Lee Soo Hyuk's Team
Vanguard Team
 Disaster Prevention and Protection of Civilization Company

### Abilities

Embrace
Slash
Swordsmanship

## Biographical Information

### Place of Death

South Korea, Seoul
Near Lee Soo Hyuk's Team Headquarters

## Physical Description

### Species

Human(as Lee Soo Hyuk)
Hawk(as Sui Khan)

### Eye color

Dark(as Lee Soo Hyuk)
Red(as Sui Khan)

### Hair color

Black(as Lee Soo Hyuk)
White(as Sui Khan)

## Appearances

### First Appearance

Chapter 306(first mentioned)
Chapter 340(flashback)
Chapter 581(Sealed God's test)
Season 2 Chapter 5(as Sui Khan)

> *"The company that Kim Rok Soo had worked for would have been worth nothing without team leader Lee Soo Hyuk.*
> That was how influential team leader Lee Soo Hyuk was as one of the legends and heroes of the Korean ability users’ world."
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> *— Chapter 465: Did you have to take everything? (1)*

Kim Rok Soo's former team leader in Korea. He fought with a sword and was an ability user who was one of the first to have his supernatural power "awakened" after the monster apocalypse occurred on Earth. During the start of the initial arrival of monsters, *"there were less than ten ability users with multiple abilities when the team leader had awakened with two abilities."*

## **Personality**

Lee Soo Hyuk is a man who cares greatly for his subordinates and those close to him. Thanks to his incredible determination to protect those around him, along with his natural leadership abilities, he inspires a lot of loyalty in his followers . He has quite a strong sense of justice, as even when he had went around a saved many individuals, he still left his people in a shelter to go help another region that needed help. This other region is revealed to be Seomyeon, Busan.

While Lee Soo Hyuk becomes fairly resilient with time, in the beginning years of the monster attack Lee Soo Hyuk found it tiring and difficult to both save people and defeat monsters despite being incredibly determined: *‘There was a time when I was really tired. Wouldn’t you have been tired? Now…I've organized all of my thoughts. Back then… You see, back then… I was still young and I was no great person or anything. I was a bit tired. It was difficult.’*

It was to the point where he wasn't getting enough sleep, and he didn't even have time to clean the monster blood off of him after battles.

Despite having the world been thrown upside down with the arrival of monsters, along with the fact that he admits to only ever drinking americanos in the past, Lee Soo Hyuk doesn't hesitate to go out and buy some instant coffee packets, admitting that it was something about *"not being able to forget the sweetness of the past or whatnot,"* proving him to be quite nostalgic about the peaceful days.

Lee Soo Hyuk sometimes appeared sorrowful when talking about plans for the future—demonstrating a slight pessimism or doubt about his own survival.

His motto, which he often repeats to his teammates, is: *"Being alive is the best"*. Influenced by his preachings, Kim Rok Soo occasionally picks up that motto for himself in the future, as well.

## **Appearance**

According to Kim Rok Soo, he has a significantly feeble body for a swordsman, although he later on contradicts this in Chapter 465: Did You Have To Take Everything? (1) : "*He was thinking that team leader Lee Soo Hyuk would have been quite successful as an action movie actor. He had a muscular body and his face was perfect for the main character of a thriller or an action movie with a mysterious past. Of course, Kim Rok Soo didn’t say such praise out loud."*

Based on what Kim Rok Soo internally says of him, it is fair to say that Lee Soo Hyuk is a handsome man.

## **Abilities**

> *He was famous for having two different abilities. Kim Rok Soo had many abilities as well, but there were many people with multiple abilities by the time his abilities had awakened. However, there were less than ten ability users with multiple abilities when the team leader had awakened with two abilities.*
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> *Furthermore, the two abilities were incompatible with each other, making everyone in the world curious about how someone could have two unrelated abilities.*
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> *Most people had similar skills and there were almost no instances of completely different abilities being in the same person. "*
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> — Chapter 423 — How Respectful (1)

So far, only two of Lee Soo Hyuk's abilities have been named:

* ***Embrace:***Allows him to store anything (tangible or not) in a set location or item. Kim Rok Soo later inherits his ability through the God of Death.

* ***Slash:*** it was said to be the complete opposite of Lee Soo Hyuk's embrace ability. Like its name suggests, it allows him to cut through anything (per way of blade) and seems to be the type of ability whose strength grows over time, as seen during the Sealed God's test, in which Kim Rok Soo expresses a desire to help Lee Soo Hyuk develop his ability to the levels in which it was when he was team leader. Choi Han admits that while his own aura isn't able to pierce the scales of the Electric Eel, this ability of Lee Soo Hyuk's would easily be able to do it.

Lee Soo Hyuk uses the sword when fighting, much like his teammate, Choi Jung Soo. Although their sword art style is most likely different, since Choi Jung Soo has knowledge of the sword arts that his family has studied for generations. So far, it is unknown whether or not Lee Soo Hyuk had any swordsmanship experience prior to the apocalypse. However. it was mentioned that pre-apocalypse, Lee Soo Hyuk didn't work out as much as Park Jin Tae, who was on the national shooting team at the time and thus had athletic talent and fast reflexes. But once the apocalypse began, Lee Soo Hyuk's abilities allowed for him to become more powerful than someone like Park Jin Tae.

Lee Soo Hyuk was the strongest ability user in the shelter he left those he saved in, with the second strongest being Park Jin Tae.

## **Backstory**

During one of the company's get-togethers, an employee had asked what Lee Soo Hyuk had been doing before the world flipped over, *"curious to know what this person with so many achievements had been doing"*. In response to that Lee Soo Hyuk admits to having been average, as well as a jobless slacker, later then revealing that his dream was to become an actor in a famous action (or thriller) movie despite not even being able to make it as an extra.

For his retirement, he planned on owning a farm in the countryside, right next to Choi Jung Soo who aspired to grow an orchard.

### ***Apocalypse***

He was the one who rescued Kim Rok Soo in early January after the man was trapped for three days in the ruins of the restaurant Kim Rok Soo had been working in, caused by the initial attack of monsters. Their first conversation took place through a hole in the debris that was the size of a palm, where Lee Soo Hyuk was able to pass a chocolate bar through after Kim Rok Soo admits to being hungry, before eventually moving the debris to pull him out.

* Chapter 340: Huh? (1) :

*[ “You can hear me, right? Can you move?”*

*Although he would become a team leader in the future, Lee Soo Hyuk was just one of the first awakened ability users at this point. Using an informal tone from the beginning was very much like his former team leader.*

*Cale said the same thing he had said to this former team leader when it actually happened. “…I am hungry.”*

*Lee Soo Hyuk smiled and responded back. "Looks like you are fine, little punk.” ]*

Lee Soo Hyuk and Kim Rok Soo grew close as they travelled around together, before Lee Soo Hyuk eventually left him and the others he saved in a central shelter to move on to help other regions in need.

Some time in the past, while they were all working within the company, the *Ability User's Guild* and the *Hunters* had all fled section C-1 of Korea, prior to Grade 1 monsters suddenly appearing. Thus, the company Lee Soo Hyuk's team worked for was left to hold out until someone from the government showed up to deal with the situation. They all focused on defense to stop the monsters.

#### ***Death***

Upon his death, Lee Soo Hyuk was given a chance by the God of Death to pass on one of his abilities to a person of his choice. He leaves his Embrace ability with Kim Rok Soo (at the time Cale), althought, not without conditions:

* Chapter 423: How Respectful (1) :

*[ "Once this is all over, create a farm in the Forest of Darkness. Create an orchard and a field to plant crops as well. Plant tomatoes, watermelons, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc. Plant all sorts of different crops. Oh, plant similar things if your neighbourhood doesn’t have those crops. And take care of them yourself.”*

*Cale started to frown.*

*“Farming is not an easy job. You know that, right? You must look after the crops every day. So, don't go wandering off to random places and instead just farm with that little kid named Raon. You can do it with Choi Jung Soo’s paternal cousin once removed and your other friends as well.” ]*

## **Relationships**

### **Kim Rok Soo**

> *‘We need to take you with us. If we don’t, forget being a slacker, you’re the type that would go around causing trouble.’*
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> “Team leader, I’m rich. I’m going to be a rich slacker.”
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> *— Kim Rok Soo, while recalling a past conversation between Lee Soo Hyuk and him, in Chapter 423: How Respectful (1)*

Lee Soo Hyuk was the one who saved Kim Rok Soo who was trapped for three days inside the ruins of the restaurant Kim Rok Soo worked in. At some point, Kim Rok Soo joins Lee Soo Hyuk's team as the youngest member at the same time as Choi Jung Soo, and stays in the team as they get older and younger members join. Despite being annoyed by how Kim Rok Soo gave him constant headaches with his antics, and how he *"always had something to add on when he could just understand and keep it to himself"*⁠, they became close as team leader and subordinate, and as friends.

It is revealed some time later on that, pre-company, Lee Soo Hyuk fruitlessly tried getting Kim Rok Soo to call him hyung, but to not avail, claiming *"Kim Rok Soo wouldn’t call me hyung no matter how many times I told him to do that."* Though despite this, Kim Rok Soo thought of him as *"the person who had saved his life and was his mentor and family."*

Lee Soo Hyuk personally named Kim Rok Soo to succeed him as team leader.

Later on, after his death, they both bond over their hatred/annoyance towards the God of Death. Lee Soo Hyuk choose Kim Rok Soo as the person he wishes to pass his Embrace ability onto.

### **Choi Jung Soo**

As members of the same team, Lee Soo Hyuk and Choi Jung Soo were close. Choi Jung Soo admitted that Lee Soo Hyuk planned on owning a farm once he retired, and that he would own an orchard right next to him. Lee Soo Hyuk was one of the two team members that Choi Jung Soo managed to convince to visit his hometown, the other being Kim Rok Soo.

On occasion, Choi Jung Soo calls him Hyung—a nudge towards how Choi Jung Soo thinks of his entire team as his new family.

At some point, Lee Soo Hyuk, Kim Rok Soo and Choi Jung Soo all go pay respects to Choi Jung Soo's village *(see Choi Jung Soo: **Relationships**, for more detail)*.

### **Park Jin Tae**

Park Jin Tae is a much different leader than how Lee Soo Hyuk is, as seen from how he changes the whole system Lee Soo Hyuk built once he leaves the shelter and names himself the new leader of the shelter, much to the dismay of Kim Rok Soo and many of the other inhabitants who felt loyal to Lee Soo Hyuk.

While under Lee Soo Hyuk's authority at the shelter, Park Jin Tae did his duties quietly because he has the ability to tell how strong a person is, and was evidently able to discern the higher levels of strength that Lee Soo Hyuk had in comparison to himself.

The reason Lee Soo Hyuk left the shelter to Park Jin Tae was because he is the second strongest ability user at the shelter as well as a pretty strong dealer and a decent tanker.

## **Trivia**

* His motto is: *"Being alive is the best!"* as remarked by Choi Jung Soo to Kim Rok Soo when the two were both in their twenties and first years on the job. He says this phrase once more in Chapter 423: *“Kim Rok Soo, stay alive. Being alive is the best.”*
* Lee Soo Hyuk used to only drink americanos. After the monsters started appearing, he began buying instant coffee packets instead.
* Upon being asked by a subordinate who was curious about his life before the apocalypse, Lee Soo Hyuk reveals that he used to be a jobless slacker, and that he once dreamt of being an action hero movie star.
* He planned on owning a farm once he retired and even made plans with Choi Jung Soo to drag Kim Rok Soo with them. Unfortunately, Lee Soo Hyuk never got to retire, nor did he get that farm, as he died on the job before being able to accomplish any of those dreams they said in hopeful passing.
* Through the God of Death, Lee Soo Hyuk confirms to Kim Rok Soo (now Cale Henituse) that *"the original owner of your body is living well too. He said he is happy”,* and that *“Jung Soo and I are happy as well.”*

## References

1. ↑ Season 2 Chapter 6
2. ↑ Chapter 423
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Chapter 423
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chapter 582
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 581
6. ↑ Chapter 579
7. ↑ Chapter 417
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Chapter 306
9. ↑ Chapter 650
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 588
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Chapter 465
12. ↑ Chapter 340
13. ↑ Chapter 415
14. ↑ Chapter 583
15. ↑ Chapter 591
16. ↑ Chapter 557