41 – Interpretation of dreams rather than dreams – 1
“Oh, isn’t it?”
“Tell me honestly. Because I know everything.”
Seola narrowed her eyes. Her attitude was closer to certainty than mere doubt. What? It’s as if I knew exactly what my dream was about. I gritted my teeth and denied it.
“Because it’s not?”
“First of all, in that dream, you and I were dating.”
As she dialed her number, she started pointing out the lies I had told her. Crazy, how did you know? While I was speechless and silent in embarrassment, she explained the difference between my dream and the explanation one by one.
“Second, there was no Hestia at the school festival in your dreams. You and I went together.”
“No, that….”
I’m at a loss for words. Her point was very precise and sharp. It’s like someone who has seen my dream in person. I decided to give up cheating any more at the point she gave her second reason. I don’t know how she did it, but it was clear that she knew exactly what I was dreaming about.
“You and I kissed on that hill one last time.”
“I’m sorry. I was embarrassed, so I lied. How did you know anyway?”
Eventually I declared her surrender to her. In her honest feelings, I’m not sure if it’s something to be seriously questioned about, but I apologized. Whatever it is, it’s true that I was caught lying.
However, after hearing what Seol-ah said after her, I could understand why she was so serious.
“I had the same dream.”
“Yes?”
“I had the same dream. Dating you and me, going out on dates at the library, going to the school festival together, lying down and watching the stars, kissing on the sunset hill, and going back to Earth are all the same as the dream I had.”
I instinctively felt that this conversation was dangerous. Because her expression was getting more and more serious.
“That, is that a great coincidence?”
“You really think so?”
Seola pushed her face. Her eyes were already half gone. There was no life in her eyes. I backed away involuntarily at that creepy expression. As if she was chasing me, she stepped forward. Her face comes closer and closer to me.
“Actually, you know that too. At least that this dream is not just a dog dream.”
“It’s a bit strange, but I can’t be sure….”
Finally, her face came close to me. I closed my eyes tightly.
“Kuhup…. Ahahahaha! What are you so afraid of?”
When I opened her closed eyes, Seol-Ah, who had been approaching me like she was going to eat me, immediately relaxed her expression and she was laughing loudly. Phew. I cleared my chest. To be honest, if she tried to pounce on me, I was thinking of slicing her in the jaw with precision and throwing her in front of the door of the girls’ dormitory and then running away.
“Is it fun?”
“Yeah, it’s fun. I’ve said it before, but you have a taste for teasing me because everything you think is shown on your face.”
This must have been Cordelia’s mood. I’m sorry, Cordelia. I won’t make fun of you anymore… It’s a bit overkill and I’ll try to moderate it.
“Still, everything I said was from the heart. You really don’t believe that the two of us had the same dog dream at the same time by coincidence, right? Then maybe we should seriously reconsider our relationship. Dolphins are envoys.”
“Because we don’t have any relationship?”
I mumbled at Seol-ah’s criticism. I know. As she said, the possibility that this is just a dog dream converges to zero. It is a fact that I just threw it at random to get out of the situation, and it is a fact that I can understand even if I think about it a little calmly. The two possessors who got rid of the main character originally had dreams with the same content at the same time, but if it is just a coincidence, you will have to vomit all the novels you have read.
First of all, I asked a little more detailed question to understand the exact situation.
“When exactly did you have this dream?”
“Friday night. So, when Saturday passes.”
“Me too. We both had the same dream on the exact same day. What does this mean? Besides, it’s already been three days, and the content of the dream is all vivid.”
That’s the problem. I know something made us dream, but I don’t know what the dream is about.
“This is my opinion, but the content of the dream is probably a revised version of the original.”
Seola muttered softly. A revised version of the original? I asked her for her explanation. She readily began to explain.
“Come to think of it, you wouldn’t have known anything even after seeing this dream. So I thought it was just a dog dream.”
“You mean you learned something from this dream?”
“Of course not. It’s all from the original story.”
“The original? They said that since Wilhelm took a leave of absence from school, all of the original content was useless.”
“So, the revised version. I think the content of the dream is the original world without Wilhelm. These are all events that happened in the original story. You erased Wilhelm from there.”
“To put it simply, this is like an IF Gaiden.”
“Right. That’s it.”
It means that the content of the dream would have come out if an abduction was made after the conclusion of the dream, wondering what it would have been like without Wilhelm. She said that my explanation was perfect and patted her palm. But even with that thought, there remains one unsolved mystery.
“Then what does the earth mean at the end?”
“This is my idea.”
Seol-ah looked at me and carefully brought her words out.
“Maybe it means you can go back to Earth if you see the ending? You know the kiss on the hill at sunset right before the scene on Earth. That was the final scene of the original novel.”
“… Why are you looking at me like that?”
She couldn’t make eye contact with me while she was talking, and she only slowly turned her eyes toward me, then avoided, then turned, then avoided again and again. Besides, her hands couldn’t stay still, and she was touching her hair and fidgeting all the time. Anyone who sees it will know I’m eating it.
“Do I eat you?”
“No, I just said something the other day when I talked about the original story and said that if you look at the ending, you will go to Earth.”
Seola’s voice crawled in. It’s a voice that I can’t believe she’s the one who played pranks on me until now. I sighed and explained to her. It was all because of a reason, but it’s unfair if you insult me like this.
“It is different now than then. At that time, Seol-ah might not have been like that without any basis, but she insisted and said that she would proceed with the original story. Did I look like someone who would be angry at such a story?”
She raised her head in anger at my words.
“Really?”
“Yes. So don’t look at me and continue explaining.”
Seol-ah explained her hypothesis again as if it had never happened.
“As I said before, there is a scene where she appears right before she goes to Earth. Kissing on a sunset hill. That’s the original ending scene. After that scene, we met again on Earth, so after seeing the correct ending, I wonder if it will go back to the way it was.”
“Something that sent us to this world must have had this dream to direct our actions to the original version? Is that bait a return to Earth?”
“Exactly.”
Certainly, there was credibility in her words. As a slang word, the adari fits tightly. I was honestly half convinced that there was something transcendent that sent us into this world. The timing we dreamed of was also the exact moment when Wilhelm declared a leave of absence and retired from the original work.
“That sounds plausible.”
“Right, right? So, are you going to follow what you saw in your dream?”
“That is not true.”
This woman made kimchi soup by herself again. I firmly refused in her expectant voice. Seol-ah’s head fell again.
“What, then what do you want to do?”
“First, let’s find out if the content of the dream is clear.”
“How?”
“Seol-ah and I have never met on Earth. Right?”
“Yes.”
“Seol-ah, tell me what I saw in her dreams.”
She fiddled with her chin for a moment, groping her own memories. She closed her eyes and began to describe, one by one, how she looked on Earth.
“My height was average. A mid 170? You weren’t wearing glasses and your skin was a bit dark? There were a few scars from mosquito bites on my arms, no jewelry, and I hadn’t dyed or permed. I kept it short and concise. The eyes were slightly open, and the eyebrows were very thick.”
Wow, do you remember all that? I opened my mouth wide in admiration. Her description was precise as well as detailed. Even if you ask me to explain my face, it doesn’t come out like that.
I really wore lenses when I went out in the mid 170’s. I had just been discharged from the military, so my skin was still tanned, and my hair wasn’t long enough to dye or perm, so I just kept it short. The unit was in the mountains, so there were quite a few mosquito marks on the arms. It is also true that there are inner pairs in the eyes. Sometimes, on a tired morning, my double eyelids would stick out. The eyebrows are also thick. When I was little, my parents used to call me jjanggu.
“How is it?”
I clapped without saying anything. At my applause, the bridge of her nose soared without knowing how high it was in the sky.
“It’s fine if you compliment me a little more.”
“How did you remember all that? Honestly, even if you ask me to explain my face, I can’t explain it that way.”
“Why can’t I remember the face of the person I like.”
“Isn’t this the face Seol-ah likes?”
I asked, pointing to my face. To be honest, my original face wasn’t one that could be called very handsome. A level where you can say you’re handsome with empty words? It wasn’t a level where you could benefit from a face, but it wasn’t a level where you could lose money, it was just that kind of face.
Seol-ah narrowed her brows and straightened at my question.
“Are you kidding me? What I like is you, not your face. If I was going to eat only my face, I would have lived with Wilhelm, who said he liked me. Why did he choose the hard way?”
No, at first I tried to seduce them both with that thought… , I did not make the mistake of only thinking about it in my head and bringing it out of my mouth.
“Did you just have a strange idea?”
“No.”
“Anyway, at first it might not have been without the influence of that handsome face, but now I like you regardless of your face. And your face wasn’t that bad in the first place?”
I got a bit embarrassed and hurriedly turned around.
“Thank you. Then it’s my turn now, right?”
“Yes. What was the me in your dreams like?”
“I’ll tell you in advance, but I can’t explain in detail like Seol-ah.”
Seol-ah said it was okay and smiled. I closed her eyes tight as she did and slowly recalled the image of her I had seen in her dreams.
“First of all, uh…. It has straight black hair.”
“Yeah, that’s right. And?”
“Your eyes are big and sad? Am I right? Yes. Anyway, that’s what it looks like. Should I call it a dog statue?”
“I heard that a lot. Next?”
Are you finished? I couldn’t describe her in any more detail.
“Are you finished?”
“Wow, isn’t that too much?”
“You said you couldn’t explain it at first.”
“No matter what.”
I resented my poor observation and vocabulary. I took a close look at her face in my memory as much as I could, but in the end, all I could say was that she was medium height, fair-skinned, and pretty.
“Isn’t the explanation too insincere?”
Even though she said that, her expression was contemplating whether she should be saddened by my insincere explanation or liked by the compliment that she was white and pretty.
“I’m sorry.”
“Anyway, I guess I’m right. So, it seems certain that there was some sort of intervention because I accurately recalled a person I had never seen with each other in my dream. What are you going to do now?”
Sure. Really what?
“It’s not bad to just live here….”
“Do you want to go back to Earth?”
Seola interrupted my conversation and asked. The question of whether or not you want to go back.
“To be honest, yes. I don’t know why, but I don’t feel like going back.”
Her expression twisted incomprehension at my words.
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