90 – Earth (1)
I was thrown with an injured body and unable to resist Robert hyung, I looked around at the familiar air.
A bit different from the fresh air in a fantasy world.
I was greeted by the familiar air mixed with various stale smells.
Rurrureung!
Turning my head at the familiar sound of cars, I saw cars, traffic lights, and sidewalk blocks.
“This is Earth…? Did I come to Earth…”
I was startled by the youthful voice and looked down at my body, and it was my body that looked like a middle school student.
Kim Soo-hwan’s body, who lived on Earth, not in a fantasy world.
Looking at her young body, it was as if she had returned to the past.
The light from the telephone pole next to it was dimly illuminating the moss that had grown through the cracks in the sidewalk.
As I stared at it, there was a scene that suddenly came to my mind.
This is an alley near the house where I lived when I was young.
A desolate area full of industrial complexes and vacant lots.
When I passed here, I always had the smell of dirt at the tip of my nose.
At that time, the only joy was riding a bicycle at sunset and feeling the speed.
By the time the sunset was completely over and we were going home, we could see drunk people going home everywhere.
In the past, I walked avoiding stepping on the moss on the floor.
Every time I saw Moss, it was because the treatment of Moss seemed the same as mine.
The appearance of the moss that silently survived the attack of air pollution and the ruthless footsteps of people looked just like me, so I didn’t want to step on it.
I was immersed in such feelings, but I was suddenly seized with a question.
“What’s going on with Robert?”
There were many things I was curious about about my older brother who was left in the fantasy world.
Did you become possessed while reading a novel?
You must have known that I was a possessor after seeing me using a smartphone, but why didn’t I tell you?
Why was he dragged around by Irrel even though he was the same possessor?
How did you know that the world is perishing?
How can you look so experienced when you’re a possessor like me?
And why didn’t he come back to Earth with him?
I had a lot of questions about my brother, but I couldn’t get an answer because he wasn’t here.
‘Couldn’t you have come to Earth because you’re moving to honor me?’
I thought that might be the case.
When there was a rift nearby that swallowed Ir-El, if my brother passed through the rift, he would have returned to Earth.
But in order to bring me back, they came to where I am and took care of me.
Because the crack was closing even though I ran fast, so I threw myself for fear of running out of time.
“If I were nearby, we would have come to Earth together..”
My heart throbbed with guilt.
‘It was nice to be off the earth.’
‘I was happier in the fantasy world.’
‘It would have been fine if hyung went back to Earth alone.’
Every time I thought of this, I changed my mind.
My older brother already moved to send me to Earth, but he couldn’t come.
But thanks to hyung, I came to Earth and I shouldn’t have been like this.
I got up and headed home, recollecting my memories.
When I arrived at Daldongne through the alleys, the surroundings were noisy.
TV sound.
The sound of a dog barking.
Sounds of men and women fighting and shouting at each other.
The sound of soju bottles breaking and screaming.
I could hear a mixture of various sounds coming from the houses in the hilly neighborhood, which were not well soundproofed and were very close together.
With those sounds in the background, I arrived in front of the house.
In front of a shabby house that is about to collapse.
I stood in a daze in front of a familiar door, soaked in memories.
Noise in Daldongne.
Muddy air.
A shabby house door.
Everything was familiar.
Drenched in memories, he said hello by pulling the tail of the door.
“I’m back.”
Only my voice resounded hollowly in the small house.
I cautiously entered the house and looked around.
As expected, no one was at home.
“Ah… I wish I had come back a little earlier.”
It seemed like I was back in time after my parents got into a car accident.
Currently, the insurance money and the man who caused the accident pay for the hospital, but in a few years this will be cut off.
This is because the insurance money he received ran out and the man who was paying for the hospital had another accident and just committed suicide.
My parents, who suffered such serious injuries, were kicked out of the hospital and passed away in agony.
I saw a small picture frame lying on the table in the living room.
In the photo, my father, mother, and myself as a child were laughing.
“Mom… Dad…”
I suddenly came back to Earth and thought of a goal.
Saving enough money to pay for my parents’ hospital bills.
Many thoughts crossed my mind about what to do to make a lot of money at once.
Usually, I was not interested in economic activities such as stocks, but what came to my mind was entering or creating a large crew.
This shabby area where the power of the law did not reach was a world where power was power.
Police remain silent even after committing various crimes.
A world where gangsters collect various protection fees.
This was the place where he spent his childhood.
In order to pay off my parents’ huge hospital bills and piled up debts, I had to start earning money right away from next year.
First of all, I needed to grow my body because I needed strength to make money here.
Kim Soo-hwan fell face down.
“Suck..”
I only lowered my body once to do a push-up.
Flutter.
His thin arms, like wooden chopsticks, trembled and screamed.
Even when I got off the second time, my arms couldn’t hold on and my body hit the floor.
“hahahaha.”
“Ha ha ha ha.”
As he felt pain clearly in his weak body, he finally began to realize that he had come to Earth.
Strangely, tears flowed.
It reminded me of my miserable life on Earth.
And the life he worked hard in the fantasy world after meeting his role model hyung.
He stood up again.
Then, I got into a prone position and started exercising.
Every muscle in my body screamed that if I moved too hard like this, the muscles would break.
Kim Soo-hwan ignored it and exercised even though his whole body screamed.
In the fantasy world, training wasn’t so painful.
It was because the now-disappeared smartphone did some mental correction, and the pain over a certain intensity was blocked during training.
Kim Soo-hwan gnashed his teeth and exercised while feeling muscle pain that he had never felt before in the fantasy world.
‘I can do it.’
‘I am a man who has risen to the level of a sword master in the fantasy world.’
‘And he is the porter of the warrior party who saves the world.’
“I can do it.”
While muttering with eyes full of dreams and passion, Kim Soo-hwan continued to exercise, overtaxing his body.
Throughout the winter break in the third year of middle school.
And time passed before I knew it, and it was the day I entered high school.
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[Robert Kim. It’s finally in my hands.]
‘I hate it.’
[Now, let’s start the hot night. You can look forward to it.]
The Demon King approached while dangling a huge object.
‘Don’t come.’
[Kim. Now.]
[I’ll put it in.]
“Ugh…!”
I woke up from my dream breathing heavily.
When he reflexively raised his upper body, his whole body was drenched in sweat.
After gasping for breath and blinking a few times, a familiar house entered.
Blue moldy wallpaper, a shabby desk.
My mind calmed down when I smelled the musty house mixed with the smell of mold.
Clit. Slit.
The clock on the wall ticked silently.
I checked the time by relying on the faint light coming through the window.
Six o’clock in the morning.
From noble mtl dot com.
Muttered as he fell over his face with one hand.
“Is today the high school entrance ceremony?”
It was cold in the shabby house in the weather with the twilight of dawn.
When the sweaty wind hit my body, I woke up.
I went to the small bathroom and brushed his bangs.
Standing in the mirror was a muscular man who couldn’t believe he had changed in three months.
My whole body was throbbing with muscle pain due to excessive exercise.
Perhaps, starting with school today, I will continue to get into a fight.
Looking at my body reflected in the mirror, I made up my mind once again.
Since there was no hot water, I washed my body with cold water as usual and put on my school uniform.
After eating a simple ramen for breakfast, I packed my school bag and left the house to go to school.
On the way to school after leaving the house, I stretched out and breathed in the cold morning air.
When I turned my head, I heard a squeak.
I wasn’t feeling well, probably because I couldn’t sleep because of a terrible nightmare.
Could it be because of the terrible memories of the high school I spent in my previous life?
The sound of footsteps was heavy.
In a fantasy world, no matter what happened, my spirit didn’t break.
After returning to Earth, I felt uncomfortable with my emotions fluctuating over trivial things.
I walked toward the high school listening to the peaceful chirping of sparrows perched on power lines, perhaps unaware of my heavy heart.
Damn, Kim dude is MVP