113 – Lee Hyeon-woo
The young man, who lived a turbulent life for 27 years and spent 6 years as a wreck after losing his leg, ended up being possessed in a game.
Isn’t it really funny? What a sudden development like this.
A young man who met his end after living like trash in the real world became possessed by an extra who was destined to die as a mid-boss in the world of the game he played so many times.
“…Hyeonwoo? “Why on earth are you doing this?!”
It was only after seeing the face of the heroine of the route chosen most in the game, who rushed to support the boy, who was struggling on the bed in a cold sweat, with worried eyes, that the boy realized that fact.
“Where does it hurt? “Maybe it’s a cold or something-“
After putting Jihyun back on the bed, she started nursing him by placing a wet towel on his head. The boy looked at her blankly, but he did not specifically answer her question.
Why was I possessed here? I definitely remember passing out while playing the game. Was fainting the starting point for possession?
Or perhaps the reality that Kang Hyun-woo has lived in until now was nothing more than a dream that Lee Hyun-woo dreamed? Isn’t that the most appropriate answer to the question of what Lee Hyun-woo’s past is that is flashing through his mind right now?
I had a lot of questions, and I kept trying to come to a conclusion in my head, but the answer didn’t come easily.
Memories that were not his in the first place kept coming back, and life in the previous world was eating away at him.
If only one of the two was present, ordinary people would go crazy, but right now, both of them were holding onto his sanity and shaking him.
A situation where I felt like I was going to lose my mind at any moment, my vision becoming increasingly dark. The agony of the possessed person that was caused simply by severe memory confusion and had no effect on the body.
Hyunwoo, who had grown from a young man to a boy, quietly closed his eyes to calm his tired body and mind.
“…Don’t be sick. Please. “Don’t leave me behind…”
From the touch and tone of the girl who was crying and replacing the wet towel on his head, she smiled faintly at the fact that she could feel the warmth she had longed for.
On the first day after being possessed, the boy fell asleep without any time to reflect on the situation.
-Is this where it starts? Somehow, I still have all my memories of the past. You were just recalling the memories that remained in your body?
“It might have been better if I didn’t have any memories.”
-…What does that mean?
“Then you might not have had such false hopes.”
The next morning, the boy, who had fully recovered his memories, approached the girl and bowed his head to express his gratitude.
It would have been natural for her to express her gratitude to the girl who had nursed her by her side all night, but the girl was already sound asleep, so when she woke up, she would have to say hello again.
The boy carried the sleeping girl onto her bed and headed out of her building, where she was fine but limping on her unfamiliar feet.
A new building that is not shabby at all. Wearing a white researcher’s uniform, passers-by look at him strangely, but when he is told that he is taking a short break, he immediately nods his head and repeats the process of passing by.
When the boy finally came out and looked up at the night sky, he was able to see with his own eyes what kind of place this was.
A place where those who have been confirmed to be capable are gathered. Since most of these children were identified in childhood, it was a prison and orphanage created to study and protect children before entering the academy.
As the heroine’s likeability increases, we can see it in Jihyun’s past part – a place that only existed in the game.
When you take a breath, fresh air fills your lungs.
When you take off your slippers, stretch out your feet and touch the ground, you can feel the texture of the hard concrete floor.
If you pinch your cheek, your face will frown along with a little pain.
Arms, legs, stomach – even if you slowly touch, pinch, and hit all the places. The pain is yours alone.
He then realized that he had been possessed and that this world actually existed. Of course, if it were a dream, you would never have felt this realistic feeling.
And then I realized. He realized that he was here alone, and that he could no longer experience the pain he felt in his body and mind.
So the boy laughed. He was worried about everything he had been through, and he was worried about what would happen after he passed out – but now that he had escaped from reality and arrived in a new reality.
…No, the boy probably thought differently.
He realized that the painful past he was in was not reality, but just a dream.
He said that even if this place he was in right now was just a game, it would become reality from now on.
He said that he was not possessed, but was a person who existed here from the beginning.
A neat denial of reality. But the boy had no choice but to do this.
The truth was too cruel for the boy who lost everything he had built up, his family that gave him away, and even himself.
Perhaps the young boy believed that because he was truly earnest.
Under a sky so clear that he never had the opportunity to see it when he was a child, a boy, or a young man.
It was a new building that looked like something out of a science fiction movie that I had never seen before, but somehow I was very familiar with it. I leaned my back against it and stroked the warmth that I could feel on my forehead, which should have been cold because I had obviously placed a wet towel on it.
The boy decided not to care about who he was or why he was possessed, and decided to give up the name Kang Hyeon-woo, which he had inherited from his older brother, and live as Lee Hyeon-woo.
“It was a vain hope. In the end, the essence of people does not change.”
-……
The boy moved.
First of all, if this is the story of the game – no, according to what was in the precognitive dream – there would have been people here who would become his friends.
“Other kids? Why do I have to meet them…?”
What did they say about that? Did you say that you plan to become friends since you will be in the same class from now on?
Holding the hand of Ji-hyeon, who was shy, I walked ahead to meet friends my age who would exist somewhere here, and unlike the story in the game, I was able to quickly become friends with others.
Seong Han-gyeol is a very handsome man, and a person who can be described as full of potential.
Hyuna is a girl who is often associated with him, has a passionate personality, and currently has no last name.
Beside her, Kwon So-ah, a talented girl, is looking at her with cold eyes as if criticizing her.
Even other friends who I remembered as just extras, but are now real, living, breathing people.
We dragged the children who were trying to adapt to the current situation from their rooms and talked outside. That’s how I spent my second day in reality.
Kim Yena, the daughter of a large company called Last Hope, and Jeong In-jun, her childhood friend and lover, were not there – but that didn’t really matter.
Anyway, they would have escaped the danger of being ‘protected’ here through the power of money, but in the end, they would meet in the same class.
Of course, the villain Serpent. Han Seong-ah wasn’t here either, but that was actually good.
If you build a friendship by moving together from beginning to end, you’ll be lucky if you don’t swear when she tells you that she’ll betray you later.
Even if he has already acknowledged this world as reality, the turbulent life he has experienced does not disappear. The boy also made wrong choices when he was a young man due to the shackles of the name Jeong.
The boy thought that he would get rid of the serpent soon, and he approached Hangyeol, who spoke to him, with a smiling face –
The boy never saw the boys and girls laughing and talking right in front of him, and he vowed to get himself out of the path of destruction.
-If you just look at that, it’s perfection itself. How did this happen?
“I told you.”
And as time passed and he began training, he realized that this world was not real.
“It would have been better if I had no memories.”
One night, a week after I was possessed by this world, and two months after that, I devoted myself to training.
The boy was hitting his leg inside his practice range.
I had no choice but to admit it.
A story about gaining great power, taking over the role of the main character or villain, becoming stronger, and eventually becoming the main character or his helper, leading to a happy ending.
Stories about being possessed in a novel or changing the story by being possessed in a game were all just fiction.
I cannot use my feet freely. As the memories of the six years he lived without his legs gnawed at him.
You cannot use your superpowers at will. The one who occupies a part of him has not been able to use his abilities for most of his life.
The body and superpowers most necessary to become a hero. It seems like these two things are holding on to his ankles.
The boy cried out inside the practice range, repeatedly pounding his immobile leg with his fist.
They say this is not reality. Rather, the damned past you went through is reality.
Even if you get a new opportunity, even if you live off the past – in the end, you will get your karma back.
The body of a boy who was just an extra with no talent, and the memories of the past.
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In the terrible reality created by the combination of the two, the boy did not stop hitting his leg until Jihyun, who came to see him when he did not return to the room, came to him in shock.
Yes. It was probably from then on. The point at which the boy realized that this world was not real.
“It’s okay. Huh? “Hyeonwoo.”
To the boy who is crying in self-loathing, blaming his damn past and his incompetence in reality –
“Don’t be too impatient. Huh? You’ll get stronger soon. “Don’t worry too much…”
The words of the girl who comforted herself with warm words and touches were so warm. Because she missed so much the warmth she had already lost once.
“I will protect you. Until you can stand next to me. No, even if you can’t stand next to me, I will definitely protect you. “Just like you have been doing all this time.”
She surrendered herself to that warmth and that promise, and found herself crying like a child, hugged by the body of a girl who was smaller than herself.
“So let’s smile instead of crying like that. She doesn’t need to be impatient. Huh?”
This was the moment when I started relying on her. I will make sure she gets her happy ending. This must have been the moment that made her make that promise.
“Because I will always be by your side.”
Even though the reason why she is sharing her warmth with herself like this is because of someone else’s experience rather than a memory of her own. Even though she is not herself, she is the warmth she is giving to this body –
“So, stop crying now.”
Even if this world is not real, even if you are just an extra.
I decided that day that I would give my all to my childhood friend.
“…Why were you so obsessed with strength?”
“Because I thought I couldn’t twist this damn story if I didn’t have the power.”
What is needed to change the future is ultimately power.
After all, what was needed to twist the fate of oneself and one’s friends was none other than force.
The hidden villain, Serpent. And because of her, he becomes her middle boss.
And the friends who face death due to the villains who will attack in the future.
Because I thought that the only person who could twist the story was myself who knew the story.
“Why? Even if things just went as they were, couldn’t we have had a happy ending in the end?”
“Then many people die in the process. “My friends, and myself.”
I gave up on everything and tried to share knowledge about the future with my friends, but when I realized that even that was impossible, the only thing left was the option to become stronger.
I was even more concerned that I didn’t want to lose my warmth yet.
“…In the end, it’s f*cking selfish.”
“I know too. “That’s why it ended up like this.”
My life was also very precious because I was a small person.
Anyway.
After a year of continuous training with the help of friends.
We entered the academy.