Seol Jihu/Relationships

## Family

Including from others, Seol borrowed money from his family. He later payed them back on his first return to Earth after the Neutral Zone. Though, this payment was not accepted at first. After the Arden Fortress War, Seol Wooseok said that he will use that money to pay off the debt and put the rest into the familys savings.

### Father

Like with all of his family, Seol wishes to mend his relationship with his father. However, his father is the most outspoken and hateful of Seol after he fell in his gambling addiction and repeatedly abused the trust of their family, possibly being the one who was made the one made use of after his ex-girlfriend. He gets furious immediately if Seol tries to speak with him, unwilling to reason and refuses to call Seol by anything familiar, vehemently referring to him as 'bastard'.

### Mother

Although clearly also hurt by Seol's awful behavior, Seol's mother seems to still think of him as her son, attempting to calm and getting into an argument her husband when he lashed out at Seol. She is the most willing of accepting back Seol.

### Seol Wooseok

Seol's older brother. Thought of Jihu as a brother he could be proud of. For this reason, after being convinced of Seol Jihu's recovery from his addictions, he was willing to set up a meeting between his family and Seol Jihu. Though, Seol Jihu declined and said that he will serve and beg for forgiveness on his own.

### Seol Jinhee

Seol's younger sister. Before his gambling addiction, Seol and his sister had a very close bond however this only made the damage worse once he started taking advantage of his family. She is on par with their father in their fierce hatred of Seol and his betrayal and she becomes deeply satisfied whenever he suffers.

She was the last of the family to be completely convinced of Seol's return. Though, this was understandable considering all the betrayals Seol had put her through such as stealing her car and laptop and leaving her in the middle of the road.

## Earth

### Yoo Seonhwa

Seol's ex-girlfriend, childhood friend and neighbor since birth. His and her parents were close friends before they were born. She loved him since elementary school and over time became increasingly frustrated that he never noticed it. She burst into tears when Seol Jihu confessed his feelings when they entered college, saying that she's finally gotten her wish, and thus entered into an intimate relationship with him. She was devastated when her parents died in an accident and on the verge of breaking down when she had to care for her little sister alone who couldn't cope with her loss. It's at that moment Seol convinced his family to take both sisters in. It's also only thanks to his actions that they could feel at home without being neglected or disliked by Seol's own siblings. When she wanted to go overseas to study, Seol stepped forward and delayed his return to university to support her with his tuition.

While being the person who put her trust in him for the longest time, despite the warnings from his own family, Seonwha was very hurt when he betrayed her over and over again because of his gaming addiction and has many times thought of just killing herself or both if she had to continue to live like that. Wanting to escape reality and relieve some stress, she went back to Paradise, even though she wanted to quit. She also hoped to find a way there to turn Seol back to normal.

Seonhwa had still treated him incomparably kinder compared to his family, hoping that one day he would change and chose to repeatedly accept his pleas for forgiveness and give him money to pay off his debts. Having her hopes in Seol crushed many times before, she finally broke up with him when he falsely accused her of sleeping with other men for money the last time he asked her for it. As she only cared about Seol, she actually always cleanly refused all possible advances from other men, having others calling her even a nun because of it. She continued to put up her cold front even after she broke up with him, becoming furious when Seol's sister tried to hook her up with another man.

##### 1st timeline (Black Seol Jihu)

Having never been able to go back to Earth, Seol first met her again in Paradise, disguised as Baek Haeju, when she participated in a rescue mission during an expedition to the Parasite's territory. She only participated because she saw his name on the list of rescuees and wanted to save him. Haeju became very enraged and emotional when she saw him again, surprising even her comrades who saw her as a cold and rational woman who doesn't care about others. She ignored him when he tried to follow them from a distance, hoping to speak to her again (Seol came to know about her real identity). He finally went back when Seo Yuhui, who realized that Haeju cared about but didn't want to talk to him, told him that he would make her worry about him if he stays with them as they are going on a very dangerous expedition.

So, to not worry his ex-girlfriend, Seol trained like a madman with the help of Sinyoung to become stronger, using suicidal methods. He later became one of the strongest people in Paradise, but also infamous for the ruthless way he fought on the battlefield, not caring what means he had to use to accomplish his goals. At one time, the Parasite army launched a surprise attack aimed specifically at Haeju. While Seol was able to kill Sung Shihyun during the fierce attack, he unfortunately wasn't able to protect his ex-girlfriend and had to witness her death. He was however able to rescue Yuhui and proceeded to fulfill Haeju's dying wish: to protect Yuhui as she only came back to Paradise because of Haeju.

While still training intensely and fighting against the Parasites, it's shown that Seol intensely grieved over her death. Thanks to Yuhui who gave him hope of reviving Haeju, he was able to cope his feelings of loss. They then travelled together to get enough contribution points for her revival. Unfortunately, Seol died fighting before being able to achieve it. Before he perished, Gula wanted to grant him a wish. However, instead of wishing to live, he asked to reverse time, so he could start again. But the contributions he had coupled with the Royal Oath from Teresa, only made it possible to send back his emotions.

##### 2nd timeline (current story)

When Seol came back to Earth, Seonwha was thankful to him when she saw Seol truly changing himself for the better and the first one to trust him again, although she (initially) had no plans on getting back together with him. When she realized that he also went to Paradise, Seonwha wanted to protect him somehow. Being unable to do so herself as that could link her disguise to her real identity and thus put Seol and his family in danger, she asked her close friend Seo Yuhui to help him and create an opportunity for her to approach him without others finding out about her relationship with him. And under the disguise of Baek Haeju, she also helped him and saved his life in numerous occasions.

Fearing that Seol could have just pretended to have changed, like so many times before, Seonwha only wanted to reveal her real identity to him after she became sure of his change. She said she probably wouldn't be able to last if she'd get hurt yet again. Her fears finally dissolved when she witnessed him adamantly refusing to gamble again when he temporarily lost his memories from Paradise due to the penalty of death.

In the epilogue, Seonwha finally got back together with him thanks to a cunning plan of hers as Seol tried his best to fight against his fate of having multiple wives because he wanted stay loyal only to Yuhui. Having made a bet with Yuhui to become his only legal wife on earth if she could prevent only 2 women of still 4 coming from entering Seol's harem, she tried to do everything she could, but ultimately failed, just like Yuhui before.

In the final chapter, Seonhwa is seen having gotten a child with Seol.

### Yoo Seunghae

Yoo Seonhwa's younger sister. She and her elder sister were taken under the wing of the Seol family when they were young and treated as such. She was one of the six that tried to help Seol Jihu when he became addicted to gambling.

## Lost Paradise

### Teresa Hussey

The princess of the Haramak royal family. In the previous timeline she died next to Seol after the final war that ended with humanity's defeat. On her deathbed she used her Royal Oath to help Seol achieving his wish to send back his emotions. In the current timeline, she fell in love with him after witnessing him saving the Arden Fortress, thus giving her a long lost hope of being able to fight back against the Parasites, and unusual kind attitude towards Paradise and its residents. Seol had saved her life multiple times and she also helped him whenever he needed it, even when she had to brace herself to die. She even offered her Royal Oath to revive him after Seol died.

True to her uninhibited attitude, she is unafraid of making explicit advances on him, especially after he rescued her from the Parasite base in the Delphinion Duchy, treating him with a very affectionate attitude. On occasion she even pays him a visit to cook food for him while wearing an apron. She also refers to him as 'Darling' and 'Hubby'. When Seol was in a coma, Teresa even secretly kissed him every time she visited him in the Temple of Luxuria, not knowing that Seol was able to sense his surroundings at some point and thus also know her kissing him. Despite her flirtatious and uninhibited nature, though, Teresa has never had nor wanted an intimate relationship with a man beside Seol. She broke down when she realized that Seol perished while fighting the Parasite army alone.

It's shown in the epilogue that she's become very frustrated of having her feelings unanswered as all her advances failed due to his loyalty to his then only girlfriend Seo Yuhui, and because he never replied to the love confession she did before that war, even though he said that he'd properly answer her after it. It was noted by Eun Yuri that she was starting to become crazy because of it. At one point she even pretended to have become pregnant with Seol's child. When she got to know that Seol has a weakness to alcohol (as that was the reason why he ended up sleeping with Phi Sora), she uses it as part of her intricate plan to sleep with him, too.

After a clash with Yuhui who was furious that she forced herself on Seol by drugging him, she had to leave him. But when Yuhui realized that she won't be able to fight against Seol's fate of having at least 8 wives, she finally accepted Teresa. In the epilogue, she's seen having gotten a child with him .

Teresa is also aware, to her own speculation, of Seol's Nine Eyes to an extent.

### Hyun Sangmin

A man who Seol allies and befriends in the Tutorial.

### Shin Sang-Ah

A woman whom he saved and helped during the Tutorial while she was being toyed with, became a Healer later.

### Flonecia Lusignan La Rothschear

An evil spirit he encountered during his first exploration in Lost Paradise. She met a tragic death and became trapped in her tomb until he later freed her from the powerful shackles a sage of the fallen Empire had put on her by using a powerful artifact he got at the Banquet. After the seal being undone, instead of moving on to the afterlife, she posessed a nearby ornament which she used as a vessel to help her remain in Paradise and accompany Seol Jihu.

### Eun Yuri

Seol recruited her to Valhalla by reviving her. He himself guided her as a helper in the tutorial. It's at that time that she falls in love with him. Seol nurtures her with an abundance of resources that, coupled with her insane innate talent, made her become one of the strongest members of Valhalla in a short amount of time.

In the epilogue, she becomes part of Seol's harem and is seen in the last chapter of having a child with him. It's also implied that she's a big pervert in bed.

### Ayase Kazuki

An Archer whom he first met during the rescue mission in Delphinion Duchy. He is portrayed as extremely cool headed person and as a very good team leader. He considers Seol Jihu a competent earthling and teams up with him on multiple occasions.

### Odelette Delphine

A bubbly, upbeat girl who Seol first meets in the Neutral Zone. She demonstrated an interest in inviting Seol to join her team to clear missions whilst in the Neutral Zone after having noticed his skill.

### Hao Win

A high ranking member of The Triads, who Seol first meets in the Neutral Zone. Hao Win has helped Seol in many occasions in Paradise such as in the Banquet, when he died and after the final battle in helping Nur flourish.

### Nameless Priest

This was one of the members of a team in the Neutral Zone. Seol Jihu worked with him/her along with many others to complete many Hard or Very Hard missions. Unfortunately, the team did not seem to care much for this priest.

## Sinyoung

### Kim Hannah

The Inviter of Seol in both his former and current lives as well as the middleman and personal sponsor of Seol in his alternative contract with the Temple of Gula which also sourced her Gold Mark. Although a little apphrensive as first due to his past experience, Seol has slowly come to acknowledge, respect and trust Kim Hannah.
Seeing him a little as her own property, Kim Hannah has a very fierce front towards whoever tries to take him out of her grasp.
She is crucially responsible for Seol's understanding of the Golden Commandment.

### Yun Seora

An Invitee of Sinyoung who Seol first meets in the Tutorial but only acquaints himself with when in the Neutral Zone. After saving her from despair and ruin, Yun Seora came to develop a personal interest and a dependence of sorts in Seol. Since then, she began to suffer from deep insomnia and temper tantrums if unable to sleep in his presence.
She was the first person that Seol told his full name to after several years, feeling that he would not be embarrassed if he did so.

## Carpe Diem

### Edward Dylan

The former captain of Carpe Diem. He initially rejects Seol's advances to join their team at first, sensing the potential that Seol has and unwilling to stain the blank canvas that he is. However, by coincidence in the mission to the Forest of Denial, they form a connection and formally inducted into Carpe Diem.
When Seol finds Dylan in the Parasite breeding ground, he is briefly unable to come to terms with the state of his body and demonstrates deep grief and anguish when Ayase Kazuki is forced to save Dylan through execution to ensure that he is not trapped between a state of life and death.
Seol deeply respects Dylan and his leadership and finds it hard to fill his shoes after becoming the new captain of Carpe Diem.

### Richard Hugo

Seol met Hugo in his early steps into the Lost Paradise, on the carriage ride to Haramark.

### Chung Chohong

Chohong was initially incredibly hostile and abrasive towards Seol when he introduced his nearly unbelievable feats in the Neutral Zone as she thought he was lying his way to join them. However after being proven wrong, she demonstrates a deep but stubbornly hidden remorse for her actions and takes it upon herself to take care of the inexperienced Seol. She is also deeply uncomfortable and incapable of handling Seol's use of polite language when they formally met due to her reputation as one of the Six Crazies and pleaded him to speak more casually. Since then, they have developed a sibling-like relationship who are very comfortable around and often bicker with each other. Around him, Chohong is seen acting more coy and innocently when Seol repeatedly pranks her, much to her ire, while having little idea exactly how fierce she actually gets around other people.

It's subtly implied in multiple occasions that Chohong fell in love with Seol at some point in time, but was too shy to express her feelings. In the epilogue, she becomes part of his harem and is seen having gotten a child with him.

### Jang Maldong

Paradise's King Maker and the master of Seol Jihu and many other renowned names of Paradise.

### Yi Seol-Ah

The elder sister of Yi Sungjin. Her bright personality and dedication to her athleticism was an unmistakable influence in helping Seol take the first step to rehabilitate and get himself to where he is now. Ever since she met Seol and witnessing his skill, she has left the shell of only looking after her younger brother to make use of the many opportunities Seol has given her to follow her personal desire to chase after him. She refers to him Orabeo-nim, a honorific term for a older brother of a female other than family.

### Yi Sungjin

The younger brother of Yi Seol-Ah. Like his sister, he respects and looks up to Seol.

### Phi Sora

She was saved by Seol when she was about to die in a failed expedition where she lost all her comrades and friends. Feeling grateful towards him and seeing him in a new light, she became a temporary member of Carpe Diem after she disbanded White Rose. Being initially reluctant of accepting her, Seol started to see her in a new light after she didn't abandon him even if it meant that she'd die. After Seol formed Valhalla, she joined the new organization as a founding member. When Seol reluctantly went back to Earth where he had nothing to look forward to, he met Phi Sora working part-time in a restaurant. It's thanks to her that he overcame his strong reluctance to visit Earth. She's the 1st person that he got comfortable with there.

In the epilogue, a fortune teller (a disguised Luxuria) revealed that she was the best possible partner for Seol to which both heavily objected, even when they got to see a glimpse of their future together where they are seen to be a very loving couple. But later on, they unintentionally ended up sleeping together after both of them drank too much alcohol. They regretted it the next morning. It was also revealed that Phi Sora lost her 1st time to him and even got pregnant that day. Knowing what would happen thanks to being transported to the future for a day, Seol brought her to live with him in his new apartment and ever since then cared for her a lot, making her happy but occasionally also embarrassing her with his overacted actions.

She's shown to have slight tsundere traits. This also made her initially play down their accident and ask him to pretend like nothing happened when he was at a loss of what to do, only to to be later upset that he really left (however, she realized that she couldn't blame him as she was the one who casually shooed him out of her apartment). Phi Sora was genuinely thankful to Seol when he later came back and and relieved her of her stress of coping with her accident, hangover and her crazy neighbour who nagged at her moaning too loud the night before.

When Seol was temporarily sent to the future, the Phi Sora of that time also revealed to him that she already loved him back when they had their accident and wasn't averse from having his child only because of it. She didn't realize her feelings back then, but caught herself looking at him, wishing that he'd look back at her. In the final chapter, she is seen having gotten a child with Seol. It's known that this child would become a ramen king surpassing even his father. It was also revealed that she would have at least 2 children with him.

## Sicilia

### Claire Agnes

Agnes is Seol's first trainer, having been endorsed for by Cinzia after admiring Seol's determination to train and better himself in the Neutral Zone. With her stern personality and reputation as one of the Six Crazies, even Cinzia is surprised when Seol easily eases through her cold exterior.

As a result of his constant teasing over a particular set of lilac-colored, bear patterned underwear he managed to coincidentally see at one point, Agnes has a bit of an antagonistic relationship with Seol, beating him up to vent her frustration whenever he mentions the aforementioned article. Recently, this has extended to the Alias section of her Status Window somehow being extremely reactive to Seol's fanciful and teasing thoughts about her, earning her several unexpected aliases much to her ire.

Agnes and Seol Jihu were given the same missions in order to become Executors so Sicilia and Valhalla worked together. Thanks to Seol Jihu, she was able to become the Executor of Superbia.

## Temple of Luxuria

### Maria Yeriel

Seol's first meeting with Maria was in the Tutorial, where she was dressed in a maid outfit and acting as an assistant maid to Han, the Guide for Area 1, Korea and in the Neutral Zone. Whenever Maria worked with Seol after the Neutral Zone, she ended up regretting it because she always comes close to losing her life. Regardless, she sees Seol Jihu as a stock, an investment for future profits. She joins Carpe Diem later.

### Seo Yuhui

##### 1st timeline

She first met Seol during an expedition when Baek Haeju saved him. When he followed the expedition team in hopes of speaking to Haeju, Yuhui, who realized that her friend cared about but didn't want to talk to him, told him that he would make her worry about him if he stays with them as they are going on a very dangerous expedition. It's thanks to these words that he started to train like like a madman with the help of Sinyoung to become stronger in hopes of stopping Haeju from worrying about him, later becoming one of the strongest people in Paradise.

At one time, the Parasite army launched a surprise attack aimed specifically at Haeju. While Seol was able to kill Sung Shihyun during the fierce attack, he wasn't able to protect his ex-girlfriend. He was however able to rescue Yuhui, and thus prevent her from being raped by the enemies, and proceeded to fulfill Haeju's dying wish: to protect Yuhui as she only came back to Paradise because of Haeju.

Having escorted her safely to the Temple of Luxuria, he immediately left as he'd fulfilled his promise. When she recovered from the earlier surprise attack, she went out to search for Seol, guided by the indescribable emotions she felt whenever she thought about him due to her link to Luxuria. She also hoped to find out why her feelings of lust that had plagued her deeply and at one time even made her retire from Paradise after she became Luxuria's apostle, receded whenever she was with him.

When she finally met him again, besides his insane training routine, she came to know the intense grief he felt of being unable to protect Haeju and apologize to her. Thanks to Yuhui who gave him hope of reviving her, he was able to cope his feelings of loss. She then travelled together with him to get enough contribution points for her revival. During that time they shared a relationship of mutual trust. She devoted herself to caring for him as she couldn't leave him alone due to his occasional fragile moments where she feared that he'd shatter at any moment. On the other hand his strength made her calm her body and mind.

Though initially being drawn to him because of Luxuria's influence, she fell in love with him during the time she travelled with him which she considered to be the few moments of happiness she had in Paradise, even though the situation became worse day after day. Seol on the other hand kept his interactions with Yuhui at the bare minimum and also paid careful attention to keep himself from coming into contact with her, but that could also be because he was considerate of her identity as Luxuria's apostle. She felt that he saw her as nothing more than a helper which made her feel a little envious of Haeju who Seol always thought about. When she tried to get closer to him, she realized that he had a stronger iron wall than even the one she had put up against other men, leaving her a bit frustrated.

When he was about to leave her to go on a mission in that he would most likely die in, he revealed that he does care about Yuhui and sees her as the only person he could trust. He asked her to escape from Paradise as the situation is pretty much hopeless and hoped she, if possible, could take care of Haeju on Earth by giving her the divinity of Abhorrent Charity. Despite Yuhui's refusal to leave him alone, he vanished from her sight, leaving her in tears.

She later came to know that the mission was a failure and spent her time searching for him in hopes of seeing him alive. Then, after the final war at the last stronghold against the Parasites which ended in humanity's defeat, Yuhui finally broke down upon finding his disfigured corpse on the battlefield, next to Teresa's and before Gula who just fulfilled Seol's wish. She also begged Gula to sent back her emotions when she wasn't able to wish for his revival.

##### 2nd timeline (current story)

Yuhui received her emotions from her future self as a fleeting dream at a time she was still retired from Paradise and began to write everything she remembered about it down. To avoid the butterfly effect as much as possible, she only came back after Seonhwa asked her to protect Seol and create an opportunity for her to approach him without others finding out about her relationship with him.

From then on she supported him with everything she had, like healing his critical wounds thanks to her own Future Vision, even at the cost of her own health and abilities, using a Divine Wish to enter the Banquet to protect him and feeding him extremely rare and valuable food to boost his strength. She showered him with a lot of affection and care, to the bemused shock and jealousy of many as she adamantly denied all advances on her and even tried to avoid making contact with others like the plague, especially men, thus giving her the reputation as an Ice Queen and nickname as the Steel Wall.

Initially, she believed that her interest in Seol came mainly from her memories of her future self. However, after the Banquet she realized that her feelings were authentic. She fell in love with him in both Ironically, while Seol is the only person that doesn't automatically trigger her feelings of lust he's also the only one with whom she wants to it, saying that she couldn't be happier if her body reacted like that to the man she loves.

Seol on the other hand also cares greatly for her and tries to help her whenever he can. When Yuhui asked him to help with her advancement to level 8, Seol easily with extremely valuable items that she needed to advance. And when she was attacked suffering from her heavy repercussions of healing in his deathbed, he became devastated and swore to utterly destroy the people behind attempted assassination.

He also notes that she gives him a strange sense of familiarity and often finds himself in her embrace when asleep or semI-conscious, though he remains unaware of this habit himself. In return, Yuhui also gladly reciprocates his embrace. It's later implied that he behaves like that because of Luxuria's influence who he'd met when he was still a little child.

Ever since they became a couple after Yuhui confessed her feelings, they've been very affectionate with each other. She's also shown to have a lewd side. In the epilogue, she finally seduced and lost her virginity to him. It's shown that she'd been waiting for and working toward that day a long time. They consumed their love continuously for weeks to come. While Seol's stamina should've been very big due to his abilities, he couldn't hold a candle to Yuhui. Their friends became increasingly concerned when they saw him slowly losing his vitality while Yuhui remaining refreshed. He finally put himself in reign again when his culinary instincts were being challenged.

Yuhui is shown to be a very protective girlfriend. While being known as incredibly kind and gentle, she also has a very cold and scary side to her when she sees other women make a move on him. E.g. when she got to know of Seol's accident with Phi Sora, making her even pregnant, Yuhui became incredibly furious to the point of even wanting to kill her. Although, given her benevolent and merciful nature, she knew that she wouldn't actually do it. On a side note, unknown to Seol, Yuhui was already pregnant herself at that time which didn't surprise her as they never used protection. She'd planned to reveal it to him soon.

When she found out that Seol is destined to have a big harem, both of them tried everything they could to avoid it from happening. But they ultimately couldn't overcome the power of his fate, even when Yuhui used a divine wish to temporarily transform her boyfriend into a woman. They also got to know that in an alternative timeline, Seol used his divine wishes to go back a day many times to try to stay loyal to Yuhui. He fled to faraway places to avoid contact with his potential women, but still somehow ended up sleeping with them. He even went as far as sterilizing himself a few times, only to have somehow knocked up a woman yet again. But when he wanted to castrate himself in an act of desperation, Yuhui from that timeline begged him to stop and they finally gave up.

In the current timeline, Yuhui also resigns herself to Seol having a harem. However, Yuhui made it clear that she only accepts them under the condition that she becomes his main wife as well as his only lawfully wedded wife on Earth, since Korea doesn't permit polygamy.