[Episode 136]
“Remember, the world is not what you think it is! You will know this when you go.”
“…yes.”
“And the memories you lost will slowly come back through your dreams.”
“yes.”
“Finally, you are also responsible for not properly severing this relationship. I will definitely cut it off.”
In the dark space where Dad, Lucillion Arma, me, and little Chami-so gathered, Arma wore glasses and tapped the blackboard with a pointer while explaining.
“As I said, thanks to being half imprinted with Erno Etam, you only have half your feet between this world and the other world. So, when you die after filling the lifespan of the other world, we will snatch you.”
Before anyone knew it, Arma became a fisherman and was pulling the fishing rod as hard as she could.
When he became a god, he seemed to be able to do all sorts of things. Feeling like watching a fairy tale, I nodded my head.
“If you die with attachment to that world, we can’t bring you out.”
“yes.”
“The Star Keeper will stop you at all costs to retrieve your soul.”
“Yes…”
“Now, here we go. question!”
I quickly raised my hand.
“Okay, tell me. sweetie student.”
Why should I be his baby?
I was dissatisfied, but I didn’t have the slightest bitch to argue with God anyway, so I quietly opened my mouth.
“What if I kill someone or if I commit suicide?”
“Even if you kill yourself, you will live. People have to live up to their destiny.”
“Then I…”
“But you belong to the side where the underworld records were rewritten. I should have died then.”
That’s when you mustered up the courage.
My heart sank at Arma’s words.
“Why again…”
“The Star Keeper must have interfered. I would have paid quite a price to get my hands on the registers of the underworld…”
Arma rubbed her chin.
Still, I nodded slightly at the voice that added that it would be difficult to get lucky twice as the underworld is not easy going.
“And killing people… will deepen your sinful karma. no.”
Arma shook her head.
Arma added that if the sin karma deepens, the underworld may be able to intervene.
“The rules of the underworld are more important than any rules. It doesn’t matter if you kill without using your hands. It’s okay to be a vegetable without killing it.”
Will it be a contract killing?
I folded my arms for a moment and fell into trouble. Dad blew a beetle on my forehead so it wouldn’t hurt.
“Don’t think strangely. You don’t even think about it. I will do the killing.”
No, I’m afraid that if my dad says he’ll do it, he’ll really do it.
I shook my head. Thanks to Dad, the bad thoughts evaporated in an instant.
Dad kept his mouth shut with a very sorry expression.
“You don’t know when or how you will die?”
“I know you die at 30, but I don’t know anything else. It’s not like I can look through the records of the underworld.”
Doesn’t that mean that you can die more terribly than you think?
‘Although the pain of dying is short-lived…’
How does it feel to live to die?
“Then it seems there are no more questions, so shall we begin?”
Arma made a passage.
“You just have to go in here. We’ll take care of the rest outside.”
I nodded at Arma’s words and stood in front of the aisle. Dad hugged me tightly.
“Don’t wait. No matter how much time passes. It’s okay to be late, so don’t get hurt, don’t get sick, and come back safely.”
“Okay, I’ll be there.”
So now I don’t want to lose anyone.
“Memories are…”
Young Cha Mi-so came to my side.
“It’s just a memory of the past. keep that in mind We were young and so lonely. That’s all.”
“…Uh, I get it.”
I didn’t know what you were talking about. Maybe it’s something from the past that I don’t remember.
At my words, little Cha Mi-so smiled faintly.
“This is the first time I’ve ever created a world this perfect. This world is…”
Cha Mi-so reached out to me.
“It was our last wish, young and powerless. So don’t be possessed.”
everything you want is here
Little Cha Mi-so grabbed my hand once and stepped back.
Lucillion came to my side and smiled.
“excuse.”
He bent down slightly and kissed my cheek. A pale halo seeped into my forehead.
“…What…”
“I put the divine protection.”
Quaang-!
Dad, whose eyes had suddenly opened, was striding behind Lucillion. Lucillion lightly pushed me into the aisle.
Lucillion pursed her lips.
The aisle slowly began to close as I entered. Dad opened his eyes wide and reached out to me.
“dad! i love you!!”
I uttered the words I hadn’t been able to utter for a long time with all my might.
“…!”
The moment the bewildered father’s lips parted quickly, the aisle door was firmly shut.
‘I didn’t hear what Dad said…’
But it’s okay.
I can guess what he was saying.
“I can like it.”
I clenched my fists tightly.
It was pitch black all around. Only the cluster of lights in the front was the signpost in this dark space.
‘By the way…’
Lucillion’s last words were meaningful.
“What do you mean see you soon?”
Did I say see you again in 7 years?
Lucillion always says strange things. I also have a fairly high mental age, but there was a more mature look than me.
‘Should I say ‘old man…’
It feels like looking down on everything in the world.
I strode along the road. Since it was dark all around, I felt like I would be more intimidated if I walked slowly for no reason, so I walked loudly on purpose.
“How long do we have to go?”
My leg hurt.
I don’t know if the place that looks like the exit is getting closer. It was time to tap my legs and move on again.
‘uh? Are you a little closer?’
The halo of light moved a little closer.
After walking for a while, I was able to reach the door soon.
As I stood in front of the door, a group of lights came and enveloped me in an instant. My eyes were dazzled and my eyes closed tightly.
“Uh…?!”
It felt like my body was being sucked into something.
The light emitted as intensely as the sun, and the moment when the vision was stuffy passed, and soon after, a subtle darkness settled down.
“Uh…”
The intense light persisted in my mind, so even after the light actually disappeared, I was able to barely open my eyes after a long time.
“…”
A short breath flowed out as soon as he faced the familiar ceiling.
‘It’s not a hospital.’
But it wasn’t even the room I used to live in. It was my room in the house where I lived with all my family.
‘I’m Eirin. I came here to live my life while living with a smile on my face. My father is Erno Etam, and I am the head of the Etam family.’
I let out a sigh of relief only after rummaging through my memory and thinking of all the names of the people I remembered.
Fortunately, there was no loss of memory.
Why doesn’t that happen often in novels? When you go to another world, the memory of the previous world gradually fades.
such strange phenomena.
‘Did I read too many novels?’
He scratched the back of his head and got up from his seat. An old bed, an old desk, nothing much different from the old days.
‘No, just in case, let’s write it down.’
Taking a blank notebook from the only bookshelf, I slowly wrote down my memories.
It was a cheap secret diary. The diary with the key on it was something I had saved up pocket money before and bought it.
‘I think he said to write down happy or happy things…’
Now that I open it, there are several pages missing. At least it was written, it was like my mom handed out a donut to me today as well.
‘I know that they gave it to me because it was a waste of food left over.’
It was the happiest thing ever.
I wrote down everything I remembered in the imperial language once, so I wrote it on the back page as if translating it into Korean.
Then he locked it tightly with a key and pushed it into the deepest part of the drawer.
‘I have to go back to my room for now.’
After that, I took out all of my installment savings, left the company, and received severance pay….
“What month is today….
His voice was very low. Feeling embarrassed, I touched his neck several times.
I’m not very used to high vision.
‘Don’t you have a cell phone?’
There was nothing in the room to tell the time or date. There is a calendar, but it is already a very old calendar.
Looking through the clothes hanging in the room, fortunately there was a wallet. I still have my money, my card, and my ID.
‘I don’t want to miss my own room?’
Since I didn’t pay the monthly rent, I think I missed it.
As I left the room scratching the back of my head, the TV sound was leaking out. As if feeling my presence, the eyes of the four people sitting in the living room reached me.
“…smile?”
The first to react was the mother.
“Smile…! You finally woke up.”
My mother, who always showed me a hardened and cold expression, ran to me with a distorted expression as if she was about to burst into tears and hugged me.
My father strode too, and stood in front of me, looking like he was facing someone he missed.
[The world you returned to will be different from what you remember, and everything you wish for will be right in front of you.]
[Remember, it’s not the world you think! You’ll know this when you go.]
Suddenly, Arma’s words came to mind, and I understood the meaning at once.
The cruel world was once again using my scars to do something to me.
“I didn’t doubt that you would wake up. My child isn’t that weak…”
“…”
“I’m sorry for all this time. I’m so… small and narrow-minded… it wouldn’t have been your fault… I’m sorry.”
“….”
“Say something…”
I kept my mouth shut even as I looked down at my mother clinging to me.
Hearing her call, he opened his mouth after a long time.
“Your daughter has been dead for a long time.”
In that car accident that day, I died. All that was here was a shell.
