CH 71

Sarah struggled to open her heavy eyes at the familiar feeling.

'......Again.'

In front of her, she could see Park Hyeyeon lying in the hospital room.

'What happened?'

Sarah wondered why she saw Park Hyeyeon in her soul state again. She jumped in to prevent the magic stone, which was believed to had been left behind by Oliven, broken and Ambrosia's power spread everywhere. The magnitude of the power she felt was enormous. She had to memorize the spells. But there was no time, so Sarah received Ambrosia's power with her whole body. Finally, she lost her mind as she used her mana to burn the power which was rushing ravenously into her body like fire.

'I’m sure I had collapsed and vomited blood. What happened?'

In order to return, Sarah tried to awaken the magic within her body once again but she couldn't do anything.

'In the end, I have no choice but to wait again this time.'

The last time she was in this state, she couldn't get back on her own. She sighed and looked at Park Hyeyeon's face.

'You have improved a lot.'

Unlike the last time when she was breathing hard with the respirator on, she took off the respirator and slept relatively peacefully this time. She tried so hard to kill this body. Sarah narrowed her eyebrows as she recovered from her hardship. Inhale, exhale, the sound of breathing was even and beautiful. Sarah raised her transparent hand with a bitter heart and wiped Park Hyeyeon's body. She tried to keep petting her, even though she couldn’t touch her like last time.

'You've gained some weight, too.'

The more she looked at it, the more different it looked from last time. Obviously, only one day should have passed here while she lived Sarah Millen's life. Even if they lived their lives for a long time, only one day had passed in their respective worlds. However, by the time that only one day had passed, Park Hyeyeon's physical condition had improved a lot.

'......Park Hyeyeon's time was passing even when I wasn't there.'

Sarah faced a situation she had never experienced in her life. Obviously, Park Hyeyeon, who was dying, was recovering in the flowing time. The law she had thought would never change was changing. Sarah frowned at the sensation of her head throbbing. At that time, the doctors she had seen last time came into Park Hyeyeon's room again.

"Patient Hyeyeon Park, she's improved a lot."

"That's right. She can take the respiratory system off completely."

The faces of the doctors were much brighter than last time.

"She talked with you last time, too."

"I know, I know. I've told you several times, so I know very well."

"But why can't she get up like this again now?"

"Hmm...... If you look at the data alone, she’s just asleep right now. But how can a person stay in the sleeping state for so long?"

Sarah distorted her face at the doctor's words.

'I had a conversation?'

It didn't happen in her memory. How hard had she been wanting to wake up in Park Hyeyeon's body? Nevertheless, she only failed repeatedly every time. There was no way she could wake up in Park Hyeyeon's body and talk to a doctor. Sarah stiffened as she was surprised. Something she didn't know was happening here now.

"When you talked to Park Hyeyeon last time, did you ask how she was feeling?"

"Ha……, no. Whenever I ask about her physical condition, she just shuts her mouth and smiles."

Regardless of whether Sarah was surprised or not, the doctors who couldn’t see her continued the conversation while monitoring Park Hyeyeon's condition.

"Then, what did you talk about? Did I just joke around or say a few words?"

"No, Patient Park Hyeyeon asked for this and that, so I listened to her."

The doctor said that and looked around the hospital room and ran to the mini table next to the bed.

"What? What's wrong?"

"Patient Park Hyeyeon asked me to take good care of this notebook so that it doesn't turn off."

"Notebook?"

"Yes, she has a long dream and when she wakes up, she has a habit of writing it down? She asked me to put it next to her so she can write it down right away when she wakes up."

He reconnected the notebook charger, which he didn't know when it was removed, and turned it on. Then, the screen that was previously floating was turned on again.

"It's still a blank page. I guess she didn’t regain consciousness while we were away."

He stroked his chest as if reassured.

"Let's go. There's nothing more we can do about it."

"Ah yes!"

"You don’t know when she will get worse again, so watch her carefully. When she came back to consciousness last time, I thought she was okay, so I went through the hospital discharge procedure but she had a cardiac arrest immediately."

"I don't know why you're doing this. So the next prosecutor is…..."

The doctors talked and left the room again. Sarah, who was left alone or with Park Hyeyeon, looked at the notebook the doctor had left on as if possessed.

'Did I ask him to turn it on?'

She had no habit of writing down the contents of her dreams when she woke up. There must be a reason why she said that to the medical staff. But one problem was that Sarah didn’t have that memory. She looked at the screen of the notebook that was turned on.

'......!'

Contrary to what the doctor just said it was a blank page, there was writing on it. Sarah hurriedly read the text that filled the screen.

'It's not Hangul*, it should be the Empire’s letters.'

(*Hangul: Korean alphabets)

The letters written on the notebook screen shone with a mysterious color as if light were flowing. Sarah recognized at once that it was magic.

'I was writing with magic. Why?'

Sarah looked at Park Hyeyeon, who was still sleeping next to her. When she was in Park Hyeyeon's body, she couldn't use the mana that was sleeping inside her. Because Korea was a world without magic or mana. However, the words written on the notebook were clearly magical. It was the mana of Sarah Millen, which was sealed in the other world.

'The magic of the world over there is sealed, but why…...'

The question, once raised, continued to stretch one after another. Come to think of it, the last time she didn't wake up for 5 days or so, although it was a strange thing, she didn't have any doubts after that. It was strange to think about it now that it passed so naturally and casually.

'My memory is not intact.'

Sarah realized this and hurriedly read the text written on the notebook. As time passed, there were a few blank areas that showed that her magic had worn out, but it was not too difficult to read.

[Claude rejected me. I've had a hard time because of that child for years, but such a child rejected me. I was heartbroken. Disappointment and despair came at the same time, but nonetheless, the 'future' has changed. I decided to call this hope. So I blew Claude's door away. Ah! I was so relieved. This was the place where the magician 'Sarah Millen' was accepted.

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Unlike the 'novel' I wrote, many people suffered, but I decided not to regret it. Because the 'future' is changing.

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I didn't hide my appearance, I didn't hide my power. It's only getting better here. Claude-nim is cute, and Duke-nim is cool. They both looked alike. The days when they looked at me and smiled were increasing. I love that so much……]

The more she read the text on the notebook, the dizzier her head. It was like a diary. A diary in which she entered Ambrosia and changed the contents of 'Flower of Darkness'. It went without saying that she had no memory of writing such a thing, and one more question was that in the article, she felt like she was changing the 'novel' and the 'future'. The novel 'Flower of Darkness' was a story in which many people suffered. Dieline, Claude. Ethan, Elexa. And the Crombell Empire and the entire continent. And Ethan Ambrosia was the only one suffering from the 'future' that Park Hyeyeon saw. The man alone despaired in pain that no one understood. She changed that fact and wrote it down in that diary.

'Why on earth…...'

She was trying to organize her confused thought, and then the letters on the notebook began to burn away.

'......!'

When Sarah was surprised and turned her head toward the bed, Park Hyeyeon’s eyes were open. Those empty eyes turned towards her.

'Park Hyeyeon!'

As Sarah reached out to her, her eyes met with Park Hyeyeon's hazy black eyes. And at that moment, Sarah's eyes turned white with the feeling of being sucked into the empty space.

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T/N: To clarify, the notebook here is a type of small laptop, not a paper-typed notebook.