106 – 106. Confession at Dawn (1)
When I open my eyes, I see an unfamiliar ceiling.
In the darkened room with the lights turned off, the soft light leaking in from outside the window was shining blue.
“…… ?”
I think while holding on to my hazy consciousness. A faint smell of medicine stung the nose.
At first, I thought it was a hospital, but I belatedly realized where it was. Greenhouse Infirmary. Yes, that’s definitely where it is.
‘I’ve come to visit Suho oppa in the past.’
But why am I here?
I got up with my doubts. Then, a chuckle from the side was heard.
“Are you awake?”
“Huh?”
When I turned my head the other way, Suho oppa was sitting next to the bed. With his back to the light blue window, Suho oppa was looking at me.
“Su-ho, Oh, Dad?”
“Yes. I am the sky.”
“Why is my brother here, or more than that, why am I in the infirmary… …. Uhh…….”
My consciousness was hazy and my mind was confused. I had no memory of coming here. Where was that, the memories of the days before that were cut and pasted together as if they had been cut with scissors.
I collected myself and slowly looked back at my memory.
I was attacked in the bathroom a few days ago by an enemy who looked just like me.
And when I came to my senses, it was like a dark warehouse. However, I spent most of my time unconscious, and my memory of the place was vague.
And the next thing I remember is the scenery in the forest.
Yes, I forcibly fought with Suho-oppa using an unknown ability. Regardless of my will, I tried to stop the body moving at will, but it was useless. However, it seems that my brother somehow knocked me down and subdued me. Her memory for that part was ambiguous, perhaps because she had been manipulated, but that was certain.
And.
After that.
“Ah.”
A scene popped into my mind at that moment.
‘Heaven must have been a possessor too.’
Just before I lost consciousness, I remembered what Suho oppa said.
‘I’m just like you.’
Obviously that’s what I heard. I couldn’t have heard it wrong. I still vividly remember the shock of hearing those words.
I looked at Suho oppa with surprised eyes. My brother smiled softly and asked in a kind tone if he had read something in my eyes.
“How far do you remember?”
“Brother.”
I didn’t answer that question. Instead, I asked Suho oppa the opposite question.
“Is your brother also a possessor?”
I swallowed dryly at the question he finally asked.
Suspicions have existed since before.
Ahn Soo-ho. A security guard of the academy guard who did not appear at all in the original work.
It would be a lie if I said I didn’t feel strange watching Suho oppa, starting with the dropout case and putting his head into all sorts of incidents happening around the academy.
However, she just felt it was strange, and she didn’t suspect that her brother was also a possessor like me.
Why didn’t I doubt it? Looking back, it was because of one prejudice I had.
The prejudice that there is only one person in a novel.
When something like a novel happened to me, being possessed by a novel I had finished reading. I hastily judged that the logic of this world in which I was possessed would be the same as in other novels. That’s why I couldn’t bear to think of the possibility that there might be someone else besides me.
But.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“Ho, I’m asking again just in case. That’s why my brother is a possessor, so…… “
“What you think is probably right. The title of the novel is Age of Superhumans. The writer is a heavenly demon of pleasure. The main character is Ryu Tae-hyun. Right?”
As if laughing at my complacency, the second possessed chair already existed in this world. It’s also so close.
“Ah. Ah… ….”
The moment I heard that, I couldn’t continue thinking normally.
The slightly parted lips tremble. A lot of emotions run through my head.
Doubtful at first.
The next surprise.
Continuing joy. And relief.
At the end, a warm tear streamed down my cheek without my knowledge.
“Heaven?”
“Uh, uh, yes? What?”
It creaks like a broken doll and wipes away tears. But once the tears began to flow, they did not stop at will.
One drop, two drops, the tears that kept flowing down became difficult to wipe away with my hands before I knew it. Dark stains grew one by one on the chest of the hospital gown he was wearing.
“Sigh! Heh, hehehe!”
In the end, I gave up wiping my tears. As I continued to shed tears with my hands hanging down, Suho oppa didn’t know what to do with a puzzled face.
You can’t imagine why I suddenly started crying.
That’s right, I myself don’t know why.
“Heaven? What’s the matter? Are you okay? Are you sick?”
“No! Whoops! No. That’s not it…….”
How can I explain something I don’t know? I just shook my head dorridori. I thought, shaking my head. Why do I let go of my throat and cry like this after knowing that Suho oppa is the possessor?
I thoroughly savored the rising emotions. I was crying. But it wasn’t sad. Yes, these were tears of joy. Tears of relief came from the recoil as the strings of tension that had been gripping my chest loosened.
That’s right. I’m relieved
Alone in this strange world, almost four months.
I was relieved by the existence of the first ‘real person’ I met while living alone in this world.
-Kok.
At that time, Suho oppa gently hugged me. Without asking anything, he just gently stroked my back and hugged me as if to comfort me.
As if he understood all of my feelings.
“Huh! Oops! Heuuu!”
In that warm hug, I finally had no choice but to burst out crying. Sobbing to leave the infirmary, I buried my face deeply into Suho oppa’s chest.
I know it’s disrespectful to cry like this.
I always wanted to be pretty in front of my brother.
For now. At least for this moment.
I just wanted to cry and cry endlessly without going against these emotions.
***
It was early in the morning when the incident ended and he came to the infirmary when Kang Ha-neul came to his senses. Originally, the medicine energy should have remained until late afternoon, but thanks to the forced activation of the avatar ability in the middle, the medicine energy was neutralized to some extent and I was able to wake up early.
Ahn Suho did not expect such a fact. I just couldn’t leave because I was worried even after handing over Kang Ha-neul to the infirmary.
As a result, when her river sky woke up, Ahn Soo-ho was able to be right next to her, and when she started to cry out of her throat, he was able to hold her with both hands.
Ahn Soo-ho silently stroked her back. Until the cries of Kang Ha-neul subsided.
Soon, at the end of the twilight sky at dawn, Kang Ha-neul finally lifted his head from Ahn Su-ho’s arms.
The corners of her eyes were red and swollen, and her hair was messy. Ahn Soo-ho brushed her hair through her river sky with her fingers without saying a word to her.
-Kok.
I wonder if that touch was pleasant? Kang Ha-neul leaned against Ahn Su-ho again, blushing slightly.
Then Ahn Soo-ho, whose playfulness was triggered, deliberately twisted or pulled his hair with his fingers. It was Kang Ha-neul who was puzzled once or twice, but as the prank continued, she eventually raised her head with a fresh laugh.
“What are you doing brother?”
“Just. Because you’re cute?”
“Chi.”
Kang Ha-neul, who responded with her cute snort at the word cute, smiled broadly.
“Have you calmed down?”
“Yes. I think so.”
“Would you like something to drink? Water? Or a drink?”
“Give me some water.”
When Ahn Su-ho handed over a mineral water bottle from the refrigerator, her river Haneul suddenly drank. It seems that she was dehydrated because she cried so much.
“Heaven.”
In front of such a river, Suho Ahn said kindly.
“Because you still need time to organize your thoughts. I’ll tell you first. How have I lived since I came to this world?”
I already have everything I need to say. Because that was what Kang Ha-neul was thinking the whole time while he was asleep.
That’s how Ahn Suho started his story. Starting with what happened in the original world on the day he was possessed, he calmly unraveled his actions so far, as if explaining the plot of his novel.
“…… It was really hard.”
After hearing the story, Kang Ha-neul said exactly that. It wasn’t empty talk at all. Because she knew better than anyone else how painful and difficult it is for someone who is suddenly thrown into a strange world.
“Then it’s my turn now, right?”
The clear water of the river, the sky, opened her mouth.
A story about one’s own life that has never been told to anyone before.
This is not the character Kang Ha-neul in the novel, but the story of Kang Ha-neul, a college student who was possessed by an academy novel who was hit by a truck one winter day and got off immediately.
At first, just like Suho Ahn, he told the story in a calm tone. However, her story, which gradually began to rise in emotions, soon began to contain the sadness and loneliness that Kang Ha-neul had felt so far.
It wasn’t a very long story. But it was a pitiful and pitiful story.
Unlike Ahn Su-ho, who read numerous web novels as well as the original work, Kang Ha-neul was a light reader. In such a situation where she was possessed in her novel, there was no way she could decide to actively tell her story like An Su-ho.
In the first place, she couldn’t even remember all of the contents of the original story. The only thing she can do for her is to leave the stage of her original work, which is fraught with many dangers.
That was the reason Kang Ha-neul chose to drop out of her academy in the first place. And after a series of incidents, she gave up dropping out, and in the end, she had no choice but to be swept away by the viciously twisted flow of events.
“… ….”
Ahn Suho listened to the story with mixed feelings. In every single word Kang Ha-neul uttered, I felt painfully how she endured her life in this world.
And when the story is finally over.
“Was it very difficult?”
With those words that came out naturally, the tears that had barely stopped flowed down Kang Ha-neul’s cheeks again.
Kang Haneul smiled and nodded her head. It was hard. That I was lonely
“I’m sorry. I only showed my less mature side…… “
Watching the river and sky wiping away her tears with her fingertips, Ahn Su-ho felt an indescribable sense of guilt. It was because of Kang Ha-neul’s story a while ago.
Kang Haneul.
Coincidentally, the girl with the same name as the character Kang Ha-neul in the novel was the same college girl who was hit by a truck while standing next to An Su-ho on the day she was possessed.
When she heard that, Ahn Su-ho instinctively felt it.
She thought maybe it was her own fault that she was brought into this world.
Kang Ha-neul was also a reader of ‘The Age of Supermen’. She also had the coincidence that she had the same name as a character in the novel.
But that was all.
Kang Ha-neul did not write long comments to the writer like Ahn Su-ho, nor did she engage in keyboard battles that amounted to dozens of sentences on the bulletin board. She just read the novel like any other normal reader and quit halfway through. At least she bought the writer’s resentment and she didn’t do anything to get possessed.
Even the method of possession is a reincarnation truck corresponding to other comments posted on the bulletin board that day.
The possibility that it was all a coincidence was also not zero, but An Su-ho could only think that Kang Ha-neul’s possession was his fault.
‘Wait a minute, if that’s the case, steel frames and robbers…… ?’
Ahn Suho recalled his memory. He must have seen someone hit a rebar at a construction site on the opposite street before she was possessed.
The same goes for robbery. The man who passed by her, brandishing his sword in all directions, might have stabbed someone before meeting him.
‘So, does that mean there will be at least two more possessors?’
I can’t believe that…… In a situation where another possessor was already in front of him, Ahn Soo-ho could never ignore that possibility.
At that time.
“Anyway, I am really surprised. I never thought that my brother was a real person and not a character… ….”
Kang Ha-neul said that as if he was feeling at ease somewhere. At those words, Suho Ahn suddenly came to his senses and escaped from his thoughts.
“Isn’t your brother like that too? Of course you thought I was a fictional character, right?”
“Huh? Uh, yes.”
“I guess so. That’s right. Usually there is only one person in the ice water. You don’t usually think that there will be other people besides you. Isn’t it?”
At those words, Suho Ahn moved his lips in bewilderment. Maybe there are two more people besides us. Should I say that? He pondered.
But at that moment.
“I am. I was very confused because I thought you were a character.”
Kang Ha-neul said with determined eyes as if he had decided on something.
“Confused?”
“Since this world is the world in a novel, it is all fake after all. But as you can see, it’s a very real world, so I kept getting confused myself. Could this world be real? Aren’t these people I’m facing are all real people? Do.”
It was a worry Ahn Soo-ho had in the early days. Coincidentally, the two had similar concerns at the same time. Maybe it’s natural because both of them are equally possessed.
“So, when I was dealing with my brother, I worried a lot about how to treat him. But now that I know that my brother is a real person, he doesn’t have to worry or hesitate anymore.”
However, Kang Ha-neul came to a completely different conclusion from Ahn Su-ho. Unlike Ahn Su-ho, who began to accept this world as another reality, Kang Ha-neul still dismissed this world as just a world in a novel, and people as just characters in a novel.
“Suho oppa.”
The moment Ahn Soo-ho felt uncomfortable with the subtle temperature difference that came from that difference, Kang Ha-neul continued to speak.
“I like you.”
After saying that, Kang Ha-neul’s cheeks turned red. However, without avoiding his gaze even in the face of embarrassment, Kang Ha-neul continued to speak desperately.
“So he, oh, I like you! It’s not a story about close brothers and sisters! Ha, ha, it’s a story about buying and loving your brother as a man of one person…….”
Earlier, when Kang Ha-neul got drunk in Ahn Su-ho’s room and tried to confess to him.
She thought Ahn Su-ho was a character in a novel and did not reveal her feelings. Because I thought it was wrong to have feelings for someone who wasn’t real.
But as long as he knew that An Su-ho was a ‘real person’ like himself, he didn’t have to hesitate any longer, as she said. So Kang Sky confessed her own heart as it is.
I like it.
I love you.
– Pounding.
The moment he heard those words, Ahn Soo-ho felt an indescribable sense of happiness. He said Kang Ha-neul liked him. She had a vague feeling, but it was the moment when her feelings were finally confirmed.
“Will you accept my heart…… ?”
However, at the ensuing question, Ahn Soo-ho thought for a moment.
Is it true that I love Kang Ha-neul?
I definitely had a crush on him. But is that feeling really love? Maybe it’s cuteness or a desire to protect his younger brother. For a moment, such a carefree thought crossed his mind.
‘No. I’ve already decided on the answer.’
However, An Su-ho immediately shook his head. As I said, the answer has already been decided. The conclusion had already been drawn.
To him, Kang Ha-neul was a precious existence.
Until now, he had saved Kang Ha-neul’s life several times. At first it was because of the quest. Later, however, he felt that personal feelings took precedence. The fierce anger he felt toward Stephanie and Carly yesterday was clearly an extension of that feeling. And that feeling must be her love for her. Ahn Su-ho had no doubts about that. Just looking at how her heart reacted to her confession a moment ago, it is clear that she is in love with Kang Ha-neul.
For him, Kang Ha-neul was the opportunity and reason for accepting this false world as another real world. How could she not be lovable?
“…… I’m really glad you said that.”
“Eh? That means…….”
“Heaven. Thanks for confessing first. I like the sky too. I, too, love you as a member of the opposite s*x.”
A calm answer without any rhetoric.
“…… !”
However, at that dry answer, Kang Ha-neul was silently happy, dyeing even his ear lobe red. As if she had everything in this world, she made an expression that seemed to melt away from her surge of ecstasy, and soon smiled happily.
However, An Su-ho could not just hang out with her, who was delighted with her.
Because he still had something to say.
About Ji Ye-won.
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Like Kang Ha-neul, about another woman who has a large place in his heart. She had to tell her, but her mouth didn’t come out.
But she had to talk.
Even if by saying that she makes herself a scumbag human.
“Heaven.”
“Yes?”
“Thank you so much for confessing to me. But. Before I accept your confession, I have something to say.”
Since I had already decided that, I had to say it.
“Yes…… ? What, what do you mean?”
“It’s a story about Ji Ye-won.”
I wonder if the beginning alone made me feel uneasy.
A dark shadow was cast over Kang Ha-neul’s face, which seemed so happy.