Disclosure [A Few Months Later / International Verification Team Meeting]

At first, everyone was skeptical.

Had the notes been written later?

Had Taekyung copied techniques discovered by later generations?

Were the experimental results exaggerated?

Hajun avoided none of those questions.

The age of the paper.

Ink analysis.

Original files from old storage media.

Timestamps of hospital imaging.

Fragments of server data that remained from Taekyung’s laboratory.

The evidence was cross-checked from multiple directions.

One conclusion emerged again and again.

The notebooks really had been written more than forty years earlier.

The data showed no sign of fabrication.

And when some experiments were reproduced using modern technology,

the core principles held.

One researcher said,

(Researcher) : “This isn’t just a case of someone writing down an idea early.”

Another turned a page.

(Researcher 2) : “He took developmental acceleration, vascularization, and functional integration all the way through.”

Hajun said nothing.

Finally, his own brain MRI appeared on the screen.

Before surgery.

After surgery.

Now.

The tissue had not disappeared over the decades.

It had grown with Hajun’s brain

and remained functionally integrated.

Hajun said,

(Hajun) : “I’m going to release the data.”

Someone asked,

(Researcher) : “To restore your father’s reputation?”

Hajun shook his head.

(Hajun) : “No.”

Then he added,

(Hajun) : “I’m not trying to say what he did was right.”

The room fell silent.

(Hajun) : “But what he discovered should be recorded accurately.”

[A Few Weeks Later / International Conference]

When the data became public, the scientific world erupted.

The key principles of developmental acceleration had been documented more than forty years earlier.

Several approaches that later became foundations of neural regenerative medicine were there too.

And most striking of all,

there was a living human outcome.

Hajun himself.

The media brought Taekyung’s name back.

‘The Forgotten Research of an Exiled Scientist.’

‘Organoid Technology Forty Years Ahead of Its Time.’

‘Forbidden Experiment—or Discovery Before Its Time?’

The debate was fierce again.

But one thing had changed since forty years ago.

This time,

Taekyung’s science was being verified.

[Evening / His Parents’ New Apartment]

Hajun did not show Taekyung the articles.

Taekyung already knew.

His name was on television.

In newspapers.

Everywhere.

(Taekyung) : “You released it.”

(Hajun) : “Yes.”

(Taekyung) : “Why?”

(Hajun) : “Because what was wrong was wrong, and what was true was true.”

Taekyung looked at him.

Hajun continued,

(Hajun) : “I didn’t ask anyone to forgive what you did.”

He paused.

(Hajun) : “I asked them not to pretend your discoveries never existed.”

Taekyung said nothing.

A long time later,

he nodded.