Episode 384:
Perhaps because Lee Jae-heon had been unconscious for a long time, the survivors did not panic even when he was unconscious. Except for Woo Joo-young and Munsan-gun, most people said that something was coming.
“You looked very tired these days.”
“It was time to lie down again.”
“I hope you wake up early this time…”
“I’ll be lucky if no problems arise.”
Woo Woo-young was taken aback by the atmosphere of the survivors.
“I felt it last time too… but does this happen often?”
“Because you are a person who often gets caught up in accidents.”
“No, this time I didn’t get hit by someone like last time. “I was just doing well, but suddenly I couldn’t wake up…”
“It was like this often at the park.”
Ha Seong-yoon explained with a faint smile.
“I also vomited blood at that time.”
“…yes? “Blood?”
“Compared to that, just sleeping quietly is something I would rather welcome.”
And like a lie, Jaeheon Lee had a seizure.
“driving me crazy.”
“I’m vomiting blood too!”
“I’m really going crazy….”
“Ha Seong-yoon!”
“I’m leaving now.”
In fact, it was difficult to define Lee Jae-heon’s condition as a seizure. A medical seizure occurs when the brain fails to maintain normal activity and sends abnormal electrical signals to the body, causing temporary effects. Lee Jae-heon’s behavior was not irregular but consistent. He usually hurts his throat or vomits blood.
Jeong In-ho added to Ha Seong-yoon’s opinion.
“Maybe it’s just sleep talk.”
“…This is really scary sleep talking.”
Ha Seong-yoon did not necessarily deny his words. Of course, in that case, you might be worried about how crazy your dream is, but in any case, anything can happen in the other world, right? In Ha Seong-yoon’s opinion, it seemed much more plausible to define it as sleep talking rather than a seizure.
It was a miserable sight that did not fit the cute word ‘sleep talk’ at all, but if I had to describe Lee Jae-heon’s condition in one word, it would be it. Probably so.
“Please… hold my arm for a moment.”
“Why the fuck is this like this…!”
“Why is my airway blocked? “It shouldn’t be like this.”
Ha Seong-yoon stopped Lee Jae-heon from ‘talking in his sleep’ by even saying soft things that a doctor should not say.
“Ah….”
“….”
When the most difficult sleep talk was over, he unconsciously grabbed the patient’s hand.
It gets cold quickly.
“…under.”
And my pulse was racing like a lie.
What kind of dream does it take for a person to come back from death?
“Mr. Jeong In-ho.”
“…yes.”
“Don’t we have something to talk about?”
“I think there might be.”
“thank god.”
Ha Seong-yoon muttered. “
It was fortunate
that there was someone who knew the patient’s condition…”
* * *
“It’s true that you have to die to wake up.”
Jaeheon Lee, who had eaten dinner, gave a cool answer.
“Didn’t Inho Jeong tell you? “I thought the information had already spread widely.”
“…How can you spread such a nonsensical fact?”
“I would have done it. “If you want to guard a time bomb where you never know when or how you might go crazy and die, you have to do that much.”
“Boss.”
“I don’t think I said anything particularly wrong.”
Jaeheon Lee shamelessly decided to go out.
“Are you interrogating Mr. Jeong In-ho just to get rid of that?”
“You mean interrogation? I was just asking for your cooperation.”
“That’s it. “Isn’t it an interrogation to sit across from a detective in a room like this and talk about various things?”
“That could be true.”
“Anyway… I didn’t think it was that surprising.”
Even as he said that, Lee Jae-heon shook his head.
‘If I tell you this as it is, it will make it so that I can’t even dream properly.’
Even now, they are treated like sugar cookies, so if they found out that ‘Jaeheon Lee’ was filming a survival movie even in his dreams, the reaction of soft-hearted heavy chicks would have been obvious. They say there’s no way to stop him from having a lucid dream because he needs to sleep, but he will go against his will by worrying needlessly every time he falls asleep. Without even being able to solve it.
However, Lee Jae-heon knew that lucid dreaming was an efficient tool, and he did not want to reveal the details to these disgusting writers. As can be seen from the reactions of the detective and doctor who were interrogating Jung In-ho out of curiosity about what kind of dreams he was having, the repercussions when the truth becomes known will not be small.
So, I decided to scale it down a bit.
“I’m just coming after having a one-on-one interview with the monster.”
There was no need to tell me the exact system of lucid dreaming. There was no way the chicks would leave him alone if they found out that he had gone to Unhak High School alone to confirm the identity of the final boss.
“But this time, I can’t die easily…”
“Does this mean that the monster in the dream prevented Jaeheon Lee from dying?”
“It’s often like this. It took me a while to wake up this time because he sometimes doesn’t show random aggression. “This monster is particularly persistent.”
If you think about it, both the green algae monster in the dream and the art teacher at Eonhak High School were busy expressing their own affection for Lee Jae-heon and keeping him alive rather than killing him right away. In the case of the green algae monster, it showed aggression outside of the dream, but it was strangely obsessed with Lee Jae-heon, so there was a possibility that the Eonhakgo monster would react similarly.
After thinking briefly, ‘Lee Jae-heon’ joked.
“It wasn’t as big a deal as you thought, right?”
“It seems like it’s a bigger deal than I thought.”
“Why?”
“It’s even more annoying because I feel like I’m asking because I really don’t know.”
Seeing Ha Seong-yoon clicking his tongue, Jeong In-ho, who adjusted his glasses, opened his mouth.
“I’ve been curious about this for a while. What kind of monster exactly is coming? “What kind of monster is it that shows intelligence enough to capture it rather than kill it?”
“Oh, that’s…”
If you say you came after a fight with the final boss, you’ll get nagged.
“It varies from time to time. It’s not the same every time and I don’t know. I think it depends on my physical condition that day…”
Since I fell asleep for a week after talking about my trauma with Hong Kyung-jun, I thought this excuse would be appropriate. Depending on how difficult ‘Lee Jae-heon’ is, the level of the monster in his dream also changes.
‘I don’t know how I will use lucid dreaming in the future, so it would be better to leave the settings this generous. If any detailed conditions arise, I should be able to change my words as much as I want, so that my future self will be comfortable.’
As the expressions of the chicks who did not know Lee Jae-heon’s true intentions became ambiguous, Lee Jae-heon frowned.
“Don’t make an expression of pity on your face. “Don’t you say it’s really okay?”
“For some reason, it didn’t seem like I was sleeping even though I was sleeping.”
“But once I wake up, I don’t dream for the rest of the day. Just die, wake up, and go back to sleep. “It’s not as cumbersome as you might think.”
“So that means the monster didn’t kill him.”
“…oh.”
“Do you mean you committed suicide? “In a dream?”
This is my mistake.
“…That could happen, man.”
“People usually don’t do that.”
Ha Seong-yoon sighed deeply. He had been unable to control his facial expressions earlier, and now he couldn’t hide his fatigue and irritation at all. It’s not that I can’t do this, it’s that I don’t think I can do it.
Ha Seong-yoon, who was pressing the bridge of his nose without his glasses, continued speaking.
“You know what? It used to be like that. I mentioned this before in the park, but… every time Jaeheon Lee has a dream like that, I feel his body dying and coming back to life. “This is a fact that I personally confirmed.”
“I remember.”
“Wait, what did you say?”
Hong Gyeong-jun looked at Ha Seong-yoon as if he couldn’t believe it, but the doctor treated him like Jeong In-ho and waved both hands to tell him to look away. It was a gesture as if chasing away insects.
“Surely that is Lee Jae-heon’s ability?”
“If it’s an ability…”
“Like Garam’s fire or Dahun’s mental connection with Dayoung’s. “He is the one who has been in the secret world the longest among us, so it wouldn’t be strange if he had at least one such ability.”
“….”
I thought this story would come out at least once.
‘As that gentleman said, it’s even more strange that Lee Jae-heon doesn’t have the ability that even Yoon Ga-ram has.’
According to the setting, ‘Lee Jae-heon’ has been in and out of the underworld since he was an elementary school student. Since the abilities were mainly expressed in survivors with uniquely twisted minds, it would have made sense for Lee Jae-heon, who had been crazy for a long time, to have the same abilities as the current Yoon Gar-ram. Jaeheon Lee also knew that.
But Jaeheon Lee did not have that ability. It was because he too had only recently entered the secret world.
‘It seems like the author took some action… but it’s unclear to treat something like lucid dreaming as the same type of ability they have. In the end, I have to maintain the probability of Lee Jae-heon while also letting him know that I don’t have the ability.’
And he had prepared an excuse for this a long time ago.
“…there was.”
“…That means….”
“That means it’s not there right now.”
Oh, that was there before, but it suddenly disappeared?
“I think there has probably been a change due to the generational change.”
“Generation change.”
“I’m not sure if there are any other reasons other than timing. “The exact thing is that it is not my ability to die and come back to life in a dream.”
“If resurrection is not an ability, how can we define it?”
“Of course, if the big word ‘resurrection’ were not an ability, it would be a bit funny, but it’s true. “The abilities I once had are long gone.”
When Ha Seong-yoon frowned and closed his mouth, Hong Gyeong-jun asked this time.
“Then what were your old abilities? “If you don’t mind, I’d like to ask you a question.”
“That’s it…”
Of course.
“It was a play.”
“….”
“Isn’t it? Should we say that something like this is close to immortality? Anyway, compared to others, the recovery speed was shockingly fast. “Thanks to you, I didn’t die.”
“…If it’s fast, how fast?”
“Are you sure you won’t die even if more than half of your head is broken?”
“Head.”
“Even if a limb was cut off, if you brought it back, it would reattach immediately, and even if the intestines became muddy, you could move around without any major problems. Of course, it was inevitable that the blood would accumulate inside… but unless the heart was pierced or the head was completely cut off, he would not have died.”
If I had to invent an ability that didn’t exist, there was nothing that came to mind other than regeneration.
Even if he used someone else’s abilities completely unfamiliar to him, he had the confidence to make it up as vividly as the original story, but if the ability was regeneration, there would be a possibility as to why ‘Lee Jae-heon’ throws himself into it so recklessly.
Hong Gyeong-jun muttered.
“You said Jaeheon Lee was also one of the returnees.”
“It’s now gone to Jeong In-ho, but yes. you’re right.”
Jaeheon Lee nodded at the setting I created.
“Thanks to this, it was difficult to return. Since I was unlikely to die, I had to memorize the critical points where I could die at once. “It wasn’t much of a hassle because it survived even after it became minced meat.”
“….”
“Of course, now my body is in a state where I can die just from excessive bleeding…”
Lee Jae-heon raised the corners of his mouth in disgust.
This was one of the parts that still feels a bit strange. If a person in a past life died without fulfilling his role, he came back to life in a normal place in a certain place. For Lee Jae-heon, who had the ability to regenerate, it seemed very comfortable, so it was quite refreshing to see his body dying like this.
“Actually, I thought you would ask me earlier. Since I’ve been in the secret world for a long time and I’m not in my right mind, it’s easy for me to develop abilities, so I thought I’d naturally ask about this first…”
“Are you laughing now?”
“….”
Jaeheon Lee was a little embarrassed.
‘What’s wrong?’
Ha Seong-yoon seemed to have lost his composure recently, but even taking that into account, his face was the most distorted of all time. Faced with confusion due to emotions that could not be clearly defined, Lee Jae-heon came up with the most plausible inference.
“Are you angry?”
Ha Seong-yoon grabbed the back of his neck.
“I’m not angry haha. No, really….”
“Calm down, Ha Seong-yoon. “If you do this, you will develop high blood pressure.”
“What if I can control my eating habits and age healthily on my own? My blood pressure is rising because of patients like that. “This colt is like no other in the world….”
“So, calm down.”
Jung In-ho’s expression while trying to calm him down didn’t look very good either.
“You seem to have a different perspective on the world.”
“Am I going to get scolded…? “At my age of 40? To such a plump young guy?”
“If you don’t like that, please understand the atmosphere, Manager.”
“Why are these chicks so miserable every day?”
Don’t you find this funny?
No really?
(Continued in the next part)
