Chapter 93 - TRYING HARD NOT TO FALL ASLEEP

"You still come even though it's already night like this Melanie. I thought you would be coming tomorrow. Its dangerous to bring a car at night like this you know." Byung-Hun said while helping the woman lift the boxes containing their research papers.

"Geez... I never know that you can be a nagger Byung-Hun." Melanie complains now.  "The night is still young. It's just 9 p.m.  Besides, I can sleep in the guest room tonight. No need for me to drive back."

Ji-Na smiled there listening to her husband and Melanie fighting like siblings there.

"Are you already eating? We've just finished and there's still a surplus of side dishes if you want." Ji-Na invites Melanie for that.

"Oh my! That would be lovely. I'm starving to death right now." Melanie continued to agree.  Never once say no to free food.

With that, Ji-Na went back into the kitchen to heat the side dish that was saved earlier.

"I'm here professor." Jieun now come out from the kitchen. She had just finished washing the dishes just like what she promises earlier.

"I put all the documents in the reading room." Byung-Hun announced there. "If you want to read it you can do it in there Jieun."

"Alright dad.  Thank you." Jieun said with smiling. She was indeed looking forward to starting reading all the reports and research.

"Ah, before that, come here first. I want to show you something." Melanie forgot for a moment about her hungry stomach there and opened the new reports she had printed out a moment ago before coming there.

On top of the documents that Melanie just show, the military logo was clearly displayed, making Byung-Hun feel uncomfortable for a while, but he didn't say anything because Jieun was there between them.

"What is this professor?" Jieun asking because there is quite a lot of information in there.

"Try to see if these are the ones you met besides Eun-Woo in Dream Land."

Jieun start opening one by one document at a time there. Her eyes now widened, clearly shocked at the sight of the pictures that were there.

"These... They..." Jieun stuttered now. She then sat down on the available sofa while taking a deep breath there.

"What's wrong?" Byung-Hun asks when he sees Jieun's reaction like that.

Somehow, when seeing pictures of them in this world being in bed, in a sleeping state like Eun-Woo, Jieun started remembering their faces in Dream Land that always cheerful. Her heart starts to feel sad. Her eyes also started to feel sore, but she tried to hold on so she didn't cry there.

"They are... all of them, including Eun-Woo is the six princes of the Dream Land. How? Are they the only ones you can identify in this world who are in the same situation as Eun-Woo?" Jieun asking Melanie.  Wanted to know.

"I believe so. Or this is the only case reported. You can take that to read, I got my own copy." Melanie replied while her hand rubbed the back of Jieun. Know the girl was shocked and sympathetic to them all at the time.

"Does this mean they all have something to do with the rainbow meteor?  They come contact with that?"  Byung-Hun started questioning. 

Melanie nodded.

"All of them, including Eun-Woo is being injected by the stone liquid. Different color which we have never encountered before. Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Violet. While Eun-Woo, Aera and Jieun in contact with the blue one." Melanie explaining. 

"But how can it be possible? We've only had information about the red and blue all this time. Where did the other one come from?" Byung-Hun frowned not understanding the situation he was facing.

"Apparently, there's a lot of illegal research going on at the time. There are scientists who do investigations in secret and there are only reports about it after being caught or after they report it themselves to their superiors." Melanie sighs there. Seem like there are many who think like Martin. Her former co-worker.

Jieun at the time suddenly remembered about the red stone that are in Dream Land. All of the princes are not in contact with it. Does that red stone not come in contact with anyone in this real world?

But she did not express her doubts there.

"Can I bring this information into the room to read?" Jieun request for permission.

"Of course you can." Melanie said.

"In that case, I entered the room first dad... Professor." Jieun excuse herself now. She wanted to read it in a calm state.

After Jieun left, Byung-Hun looked at Melanie seriously.

"What?" Melanie pretended not to understand the meaning behind the look the man directed at her.

"Don't play dumb with me Mel. Are you doing something illegal behind my back?" Byung-Hun starts to ask. In his firm voice there.

"Of course not, " Melanie quickly said, but her eyes didn't look at the man.

"You are not saying the truth, Mel. I can see that the document before has a military logo in there meaning that it is confidential information. How can you get that? Its a dangerous move and you know it."

"Don't worry whatever that I did, I did it for Jieun and Eun-Woo. I promise I won't drag you all in trouble." Melanie said in frustration now.

"That's not what I mean. I just don't want you to be in danger while we are doing this." Byung-Hun says as he's worried.

"Melanie, your food is ready." Ji-Na finally came out and witnessed the tense atmosphere at that moment.

"What about the two of you now?" She asked.

"Thank God you are here. Take your husband away now. I don't want to get indigestion while eating because of his nagging." Melanie joked as she entered the dining room.  Leaving Byung-Hun who is still unhappy there with his wife.

Meanwhile, Jieun that are already in the room continue to climb into bed while holding the document you want to read. His eyes glanced at Eun-Woo next to him. The feeling of melancholy began to visit the heart. Slowly she gently rubbed the man's head there.

Don't want to constantly to feel like that, Jieun in fast opening the document for re-reading. 

The first document is about Ray. He is  sleeping state after he participated in new drug production in a lab located in the US after being pushed by his parent who are the shareholder of the new drug. He is in that state about 12 years now. And no cure is found yet.

Then Jieun also read the document about Leo. The second prince in the Dream Land. He is the son of the biggest pharmaceutical scientist in Spain. His parents tested the new drug to their son to gain the public's trust with their latest product, but unfortunately their son did not wake up from a coma for 13 years now.

Jieun gasps, there. It seems that both of the princes have lived in the Dream Land world longer than Eun-Woo.  And live there when her mother still alive.

About Ethan. He was a physics stream student and after taking a course in an unregistered laboratory in Britain, he suddenly went into a coma. There is an ongoing lawsuit filed by his parents to the lab. They say that the lab used their son to experiment without permission. He is in that state for 10 years now.

"Same timeline as Eun-Woo." Jieun murmur by herself.

"Wait..." Jieun now think to herself.

Every time she slept at night she would definitely go into Dream Land and the time she was there she felt as if she stayed for a few weeks or a month. But the princes timeline is just the same here and there. Is everyone's timeline different? Her new doubt makes her feel like wanting to go ask Professor Melanie about that, if she knows about her mother record, but she is too lazy to come out. So she decides that she will ask her later.

Jieun then opened a document about Syaoran. He was the son of a nobleman in China who was chosen to follow the latest military -owned research there. This research got approval from the higher up and not illegal at all but there was a mistake happen at the time which made Syaoran coma for 9 years now.

Lastly, she reads about Haru. He is from Japan. The story is almost the same as Leo's. Which is where his own parents held a test against him to lead the medical world there. He is already in coma also for 9 years.

Jieun let go little sigh there. People greed is so scary. And now, these people are the one who suffers from that.

At the time, Jieun eyes there, then start to get sleepy. She was actually trying hard not to sleep as she wanted to read more, also she felt she was not ready to face Eun-Woo there.

Jieun is massaging her eyes for a while there, washing her face many times and even stretching so that she does not fall asleep. Just as she was thinking about making coffee, she finally fell asleep before that.. Making all her effort before went to waste.