By Zephyria 
My name is Potato.
An Ga-hyeon, my master, named me Potato without much thought, saying I looked like one.
When I met An Ga-hyeon, my master whom I had been searching for so long, in a different body, my first emotion was utter bewilderment.
“I’ll kill you without pain.”
Is this bastard a psycho?
How can you kill someone without pain while holding a knife?
Before that, I am a kind of spirit? A spiritual body with an ego born from an ability, so there’s no way I could die like that.
Facing a master who seemed so impulsive and foolish, unlike what I had imagined, all my excitement fizzled out.
Shouldn’t an SSS-Class Guide with me, a rare ability in the special case of ‘Resurrection,’ be a bit cooler?
‘If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn’t have bothered finding a master.’
The foolish An Ga-hyeon probably didn’t even realize I was criticizing him.
He probably didn’t. Because I didn’t say it out loud.
Even though I often picked fights.
Because he’s my master.
Because he’s my one and only master, even if he’s foolish, clumsy, and not as cool as I imagined.
Isn’t it natural to cherish him?
So, I stubbornly stuck by my master’s side.
Even though I didn’t know how to return to my master’s body, being a separated ability.
Because I didn’t want to be alone anymore.
Because I was lonely….
We were able to stay together under the pretense of joining forces to avenge the enemy who killed my master.
I was grateful that An Ga-hyeon found me strange but understood and accepted the situation.
Because I was a guy who had nowhere to go for the rest of my life except by my master’s side.
Only An Ga-hyeon, my master, was the only one in this world who could communicate with me.
I was grateful that An Ga-hyeon didn’t cast me aside.
And I made a small wish.
‘Someday, I hope all the nasty guys who torment An Ga-hyeon and his partner, Hyeon Jae-ha, will disappear.’
So that my master, An Ga-hyeon, will only have days filled with laughter.
My beloved master, for better or worse.
His happiness was more important than mine.
Of course, I want to be part of that happy scene too.
But if that’s not possible, I hope my master’s happiness will be achieved even at the cost of sacrificing my existence.
As an ability who has lost his master once, I prayed earnestly, again and again, to a god whose existence I didn’t even know.
‘If you really exist in this world.’
Save my master, who was unfairly murdered, and his partner Esper, who is suffering while hiding like a shadow.
Show me a beautiful ending where good ultimately triumphs and evil is finally destroyed.
My wish was half fulfilled.
Because my master and his partner’s party succeeded in cornering the villain Ban No-ah.
However, the situation flowed in a direction that was not good, contrary to my wishes.
A tragedy occurred where my precious master, An Ga-hyeon, was caught in Ban No-ah’s scheme and mistakenly approached him, thinking he was his partner Hyeon Jae-ha, and suffered a fatal wound.
[ Aaaagh! Aaaaaaaagh! ]
A tearing scream escaped from my mouth.
I never thought I would witness the scene of my master dying again.
Feeling the pain of my whole body being torn apart, I tried desperately to restore An Ga-hyeon’s damaged heart.
But it was useless.
[ Ah… no…. ]
As Ban No-ah said, the core I resided in was An Ga-hyeon’s heart.
Since that core was shattered, the Resurrection ability could not be properly activated and only emitted a faint light before turning off.
Tears streamed from my eyes.
‘How… how can I save An Ga-hyeon?’
While I was absorbed in pouring out the Resurrection ability, focusing only on that.
That damn master of mine asked me to.
To run away from here.
‘Where do you want me to go, leaving you behind?’
Do you even know how lonely and desolate it was to wander around for 20 years without a master?
Do you want me to go back to those days? To that winter where I was barely alive and couldn’t communicate with anyone, feeling like I was dying of loneliness?
‘…I don’t want to.’
I didn’t want to run away.
‘I want to be by your side until the end this time.’
Let’s die together, master.
I’m tired too.
If you are destined not to continue the happy life I wished for….
‘I’ll die here with you too.’
I didn’t want to be lonely anymore.
Last time, my master was able to survive even as a soul, so we could meet again.
But there was no guarantee that such a miracle would happen this time.
Since the core was destroyed, An Ga-hyeon will surely face death this time.
‘I don’t want to, I don’t want to!’
Don’t die.
Don’t leave my side.
Even if I want to die together, I don’t know how I was born, so I don’t even know how to die.
So please, stay alive.
Please.
If you love me, your ability, if you want to live even a little.
You can’t just go like this.
You can’t just collapse, leaving behind the person you love….
I don’t know if my desperate cry reached God.
But Hyeon Jae-ha arrived a little late.
He easily subdued Ban No-ah and was driven to the brink of going berserk when he checked the condition of my master, who had died again.
I could understand his sadness.
‘Ga-hyeon died again.’
‘Because of this dirty bastard.’
‘If Ga-hyeon is dead, my life has no meaning.’
‘I’d rather go berserk here and face death with Ga-hyeon.’
I couldn’t let that happen.
My master asked me to stop his partner from dying.
I had to fulfill the last request An Ga-hyeon made.
‘Please, let there be some role I can play right now.’
As I desperately wished, my body turned into a golden butterfly at some point.
‘Huh?’
Then, I was able to rediscover the chain between me and my master, which I thought had been severed.
It was a very faint and old chain that seemed about to break soon, but instinctively, I realized that I had a way to fix it.
‘If I fill An Ga-hyeon’s heart again and become one with him.’
Although my ego will disappear as it is….
I will be able to save the life of my master, An Ga-hyeon.
If that happens, everything will flow towards a happy ending.
An Ga-hyeon, who is not dead, will defeat Ban No-ah and finally enjoy happy and peaceful times with his beloved partner Hyeon Jae-ha.
That alone made me very happy.
I was happy.
I soon realized.
‘The reason my ego was separated was to prepare for this moment….’
The 20 years I spent wandering alone, unable to communicate with anyone, were never in vain.
With a happy heart, I conveyed everything I had just realized to Hyeon Jae-ha.
Hyeon Jae-ha agreed to save An Ga-hyeon at the cost of erasing my existence.
‘Yes. This is enough.’
It wasn’t that I wasn’t afraid of death.
But if I could save my precious master, An Ga-hyeon, by disappearing, there would be no greater miracle than that.
Without hesitation, I landed on An Ga-hyeon’s gaping heart.
‘Goodbye…. I’ll miss you.’
My beloved master.
Even though there were many days of bickering, I was very happy to meet you.
Don’t be too sad, as the two who were originally one are returning to their original state in accordance with reason.
I… will always be by your side.
My body slowly crumbled according to my will.
Turning into golden dust, I permeated the place where An Ga-hyeon’s heart should be.
‘Goodbye, my master.’
Take care. Don’t be sick, don’t be too sad. You have to be happy.
Soon, all the components that made up my ego were reconstructed into my master’s blood and flesh.
Around that time, my consciousness was cut off.
I just thought I was dead.
*
Who am I?
Where am I?
What was I doing?
Amidst the continuous confusion, I heard a voice.
“…Potato.”
Who are you?
Potato? Who is Potato?
Am I Potato?
I don’t even know who I am.
While I was bewildered, I heard another voice.
It was a faint voice filled with moisture.
“I will definitely use this life you saved well. I will live happily for a long, long time and go to meet you later. Because I need to have a good reason when I go to meet you.”
Strange.
I don’t even know who you are.
How are you going to meet me, who is already dead?
Ah, was I dead?
That’s right…. I was dead.
I had forgotten.
I’m dead.
But you’re saying you’re going to come and meet me?!
No. It’s dark and there’s nothing here.
It’s a space where I even forget who I am.
It’s a lonely, cold, and desolate space with nothing.
So you can’t come.
You promised… you wouldn’t, right?
Is it because your partner is stupid and didn’t tell you?
Partner? Who was my partner?
I remember a handsome, elf-like kid.
My master…. That’s right, a kid named An Ga-hyeon was my master.
I was a powerful and rare ability called Resurrection.
His partner was a guy named Hyeon Jae-ha, who was good at his ability but had no manners. But it’s enough if he treats my master well.
“Let’s definitely meet again later.”
Ah, I’m telling you! You can’t meet me?!