EP.152
I felt like I was sinking in water.
No matter how much I stretched out my hand, I couldn’t find any strength and I couldn’t even see where I was.
‘Where am I?’
I looked back on my memories. I don’t really remember either.
Knock-
I heard the sound of water drops falling.
‘Why am I here.....’
I spread my hands out in confusion.
But in this dark space, you can’t even see your own hands.
smart-
Drops of water fell once again.
At the same time, I felt a little dizzy and grabbed my head. When I came to my senses, I noticed a different change than before.
A thread-like light entered the space. Although the light was very small, there was no problem in identifying objects.
In other words, I was finally able to see my hands.
Not the small, white hands of Louis Christopher –
the dark, rough hands of an adult man.
“uh?”
It was only for a moment that I felt strange.
It was an instant for the memories to return.
“why.”
The first feeling I felt was embarrassment.
He must have possessed himself as Louis Christopher, but why has he returned to his original form?
Was it just a momentary dream?
Like an old classic fairy tale, is it a meaningless ending that says, ‘Actually, it was all a dream’?
I unconsciously put my hand to my neck.
I felt a large and clear uvula that was not present in the boy in his childhood.
“ah.”
The voice is also not the usual soft voice, but the thick voice of an adult male.
To be precise – it was the voice of his ‘real self’ before being possessed.
“...Are you back?”
It was confusing. It was a more intense feeling than when I was first possessed. I feel empty and disappointed, but the most important thing is—
“...Amelia.”
At that moment, I felt like I had woken up from a deep dream.
Paaat-
The colorless world has changed into a bright world with many colors.
It was a meadow with a cool breeze blowing. The green grass danced in the wind. There was a large old tree in the center.
A blond boy was standing under that old tree. He was a person I knew well.
Louis Christopher Windsor.
Perhaps ‘real’, not fake like yourself.
I walked towards it with a blank face.
“hi.”
“...hi.”
The boy’s eyes were already half closed. A sleepy expression, as if he would fall asleep at any moment. No, if you look closely, it was closer to an expression of annoyance.
He waited quietly until the boy spoke. But no matter how much time passed, he did not open his mouth.
In the end, it was the man who couldn’t bear it.
“Are you the one who possessed me?”
“Maybe so.”
The boy stretched out and yawned.
“Because it was annoying. “I thought it would be good for someone else to make the move instead of me.”
“...I see.”
I couldn’t help but have a bitter expression.
‘Now you’re trying to get it back.’
“No, that’s different.”
“uh?”
The boy spoke as if he was reading his mind.
Before I could even ask about the question, the boy answered.
“I’m not Louis Christopher.”
“...what?”
“I just borrowed a body to talk to you.”
“I just borrowed it...?”
“okay. “You have two bodies, right?”
At the same time, the boy pointed once in this direction and once at himself.
“then.”
The man swallowed dry saliva.
“Are you God?”
A being that has been possessed.
The man raised his head.
“So you were chosen?”
“huh. Because you are like an empty shell with no desires. “A person who has nothing he wants to do or achieve.”
I was about to ask what that meant, and if I really made that choice, wasn’t this a natural result?
The boy yawned so loudly that he felt embarrassed to talk to him.
“The time for us to meet is slowly coming to an end. “Let’s get straight to the point.”
“Main subject?”
“A building without a foundation will collapse at the slightest wind. Now that I know I built it wrong, I have to tear it down and build it again from the beginning.”
It took me a moment to understand what he was saying.
“Stacking it up again?”
“huh. All over again. This world ends with this. Thanks for letting me know. In return – I’ll send you back to the world you came from. “You are a very lucky person.”
My eyes widened at the unexpected words.
“You lived in a pretty good world, right? Of course, it is not a happy world at all for those who cannot enjoy it. I will take that into consideration and help you live a good life. What do you like? The look that everyone is fascinated by? A child of a chaebol family? Or – a genius brain that understands anything when it sees it?”
“Wait a minute.”
The boy looked puzzled.
“Wait- So you’re saying you’re destroying this world?”
“It’s gotten to the point where I can’t do anything anymore, so I have to end it.”
The boy turned his back as if he had finished speaking.
He quickly grabbed the boy’s shoulder.
“That’s not allowed.”
“why?”
“Isn’t it a waste?”
“Such a waste. That’s why I used you. I thought that the flapping of a little butterfly’s wings might have a positive effect. But the ending was the same. “We have to make this again.”
“It’s not over yet.”
I was gradually out of breath.
‘Why am I like this?’
Actually, it was a proposal with nothing to regret.
Isn’t it everyone’s dream to be born as you want?
Although it was only a condition, I wasn’t really desperate for this world and the body of a genius named Ruid.
Because I know that it is more enjoyable to enjoy the modern civilization of the 21st century than to enjoy a world with magic.
‘...But then everything disappears. Amelia, Irene, Victoria, Hercy, and Damon. entire.’
My heart ached just thinking about it.
Of course I didn’t want that.
“...I’ll try my best.”
“Are you going to try something?”
“I will return the world you created to normal. “Then it’s okay.”
“how?”
The boy asked purely out of curiosity.
The man answered without wavering.
As if it were a predetermined future.
“Somehow.”
The boy stared at the man for a moment and then slowly nodded.
“If that’s what you want. good. Because I don’t want to erase the world I created. but...”
The boy tilted his head.
For some reason, the man felt the sight of the boy gave him goosebumps.
“But can you do it? “It’s already too late to turn back.”
“you can do it.”
I answered quickly, fearing that my words might make a difference.
If it doesn’t disappear, there must be some way.
The boy nodded and waved his hand as if he understood.
The background blurred and the boy’s voice also blurred.
“I will respect your choice. But it’s probably impossible. “No matter how hard you struggle.”
As soon as the boy finished speaking, my vision went black.
A strange feeling of being sucked into somewhere and then coming out. I felt like I was wandering alone in some part of the universe.
I closed my eyes, feeling vague fear.
How much time has passed?
‘You’re back.’
Even though I couldn’t see it yet, I was able to have that confidence.
The tactile sensation of air and mana at your fingertips.
A slightly stale smell of wind.
This is definitely the ‘world in the novel’ that I was in.
Ruid felt a sense of relief and opened his closed eyes.
And what I saw was—
“uh?”
It was a world where there was nothing left.
“You did it? Don’t you remember?”
The boy’s mocking voice sounded like an echo to Luid.