192 – HGL 192

192

A world where no one knows J except for Lee Sa-young. A world where selfish and primal desires are realized. Suddenly, a faint whisper came to mind.

A fragmented scene that came to mind the moment he first met Lee Sa-young, who created this world. Blood-red vision dyed in darkness, and a whisper heard from the darkness.

‘Go back… Quiet… …need.’

If I go back….

It was definitely Lee Sa-young’s voice. Although he doesn’t remember it well. Eui-jae raised his head. Lee Sa-young was looking at the distant air with his legs crossed. For some reason, his profile looked particularly lonely.

Eui-jae flicked the table with his finger for no reason, making a sound. Sa-young turned his head. Eui-jae asked.

“What about you?”

“Huh?”

“Do you want me to live like that too?”

Purple gaze reached him. Laughter lingered in the gaze that scanned Eui-jae’s entire body as if searching. Sa-young rested his chin on his hands and raised the corners of his mouth to smile.

“Hmm… What do you think?”

“Hey, don’t joke around. Be honest.”

“Well….”

Sa-young rubbed the rim of the cup with his black finger.

“No matter how much I yell at you to live quietly…. You’re a human being who’s inherently doomed to not live quietly. I’ve experienced it desperately since we met again, haven’t I?”

“What, you punk?”

“Why? You told me to be honest.”

Eui-jae released the fist he had clenched. Sa-young narrowed his long eyes and smiled. However, the words that followed were harsh, not matching the smile.

“I used to want to put shackles on your wrists and ankles.”

Eui-jae glared. Shackles? Sa-young sighed exaggeratedly. His long eyelashes fluttered pitifully.

“If I take my eyes off you for a moment, you bounce around like a rubber ball…. What can I do? I have to put those on you to make you a little calmer.”

Fluttering eyelashes, lowered eyes. Just looking at his wistful face, it was as if Cha Eui-jae was the perpetrator. He was the one who made the harsh statement that he would tie someone up with shackles! Sa-young tapped his pale cheek with his black finger.

“Anyway, after going through this and that…. I decided it was impossible to completely tie Hyung down. And….”

A black hand crawled across the table like a snake. When his finger touched Eui-jae’s wrist, his fingertips curled up on their own. Eui-jae held his breath for a moment. Sa-young smiled like an angel.

“Thanks to lying down for three months, I’m sure of it.”

“…….”

“Now you’ll let me catch you, right?”

His finger dug into the gap between the table and his palm, opening it up. Cold fingers wrapped around his wrist like a snake.

“You can do whatever you want. Because you’re hesitant now.”

The black hand pulled his wrist. His upper body leaned forward and was pulled along. His heart started beating fast. The moment Sa-young kissed the back of his hand, where the blood vessels stood out.

Pajijik! Pure white sparks erupted violently from Sa-young’s entire body. Eui-jae, startled, jumped up from his seat.

“Hey!”

“Ah, shit….”

Sa-young bit his lip and swallowed a groan. While he was enduring the pain, curling up his body, a pure white System Window popped up as if to show off.

[Warning: Act according to your role.]

[Lee Sa-young’s role is a beloved younger brother.]

Sa-young, who struggled to read the sentence written on the System Window, twisted his lips.

“Ah…. Is kissing the back of Hyung’s hand grounds for stripping me of my younger brother status?”

That’s…. I guess so?

After all, a normal younger brother doesn’t kiss his Hyung’s hand, does he?

Eui-jae took a step back with a sullen face. The sparks surrounding Sa-young’s body gradually subsided. Immediately after the last spark disappeared, he sighed deeply and collapsed on the table. A grumble flowed from his pale lips.

“Filthy conservative….”

It was a good thing for Eui-jae. He almost lost his composure unintentionally. Eui-jae asked, stroking the wrist he had been grabbed.

“Are you okay?”

“Well…. I can handle it.”

Sa-young slowly raised his body. His delicate face was distorted with annoyance. Eui-jae sat back in his chair and crossed his legs.

“Anyway, I’ve figured out what kind of place this is. I can’t intervene, but you can, so let’s keep looking for information.”

“Do you think we can find it?”

Sa-young pointed to the surface of the cup filled with cola. Before he knew it, beads of water had formed.

“He’s obsessively…. Recreating even the smallest things to be similar to reality. He even deprived Hyung of his existence in this Shield. It won’t be easy, will it?”

“No. Nothing in the world is perfect.”

What if a human wandered alone in a Destroyed world for a long time? And what if the only living thing left in that world was him alone? Wouldn’t he go crazy, or become a very transcendent being?

He recalls the pale face that didn’t reveal any emotion. The face that didn’t look sad at all even when he was crying. If Cha Eui-jae had to wander as long as ‘Lee Sa-young’. If he had to live with a mission that he couldn’t die from and had to endure.

The first thing he would have abandoned was….

Senses, emotions. Everything that affects human loneliness. And gradually, he would have become insensitive to all stimuli. Eui-jae crossed his arms and muttered.

“There must be something he didn’t pay attention to.”

Sa-young spread his hands and shrugged as if to say, ‘Yeah, right.’

“So…, where are you going this time?”

I happen to have something in mind. Eui-jae spread out two fingers. Lee Sa-young, seen between his fingers, raised one eyebrow. As if to say, tell me where.

“First, I’m going to find Hong Ye-seong.”

Sa-young turned his head away as if it wasn’t even worth listening to. Eui-jae didn’t give in and folded his other finger.

“Second, I’m going to find Yoon Ga-eul.”

“Why are all the choices like this?”

“Because they’re both people related to the Doomsday of the last world. Did I tell you to go to the Hanover Soup Restaurant?”

“Don’t you remember? You suddenly shouted that we had to go to the Hanover Soup Restaurant in the Destroyed world.”

“Ah, that’s because there was an important clue in the Hanover Soup Restaurant! Isn’t that how we got here thanks to the watch. Huh?”

Eui-jae got angry.

“Yeah, right.”

Lee Sa-young, who sighed deeply, put his cell phone on the table and pressed the call button. The name that appeared on the screen was….

‘Madman’

I can tell who it is right away. Eui-jae held back a laugh. The ringtone without a color ringtone continued for a long time. It was the moment he thought he wouldn’t answer.

Beep.

-Hello?

“Wow! Long time no see! You’re calling me just when I’ve come down to the mortal world, the timing is great.”

Hong Ye-seong puffed out his chest like a boasting chicken. Cluck, sitting on top of his shaggy brown hair, also puffed out its chest.

They were now in the hotel suite where Hong Ye-seong was staying. He had come down to the mortal world for a while because of a request from the Awakened Management Bureau, or something like that.

Leaving behind the guest who was moving busily and taking out drinks from the refrigerator, Eui-jae was glaring at Cluck with suspicious eyes. Because the nightmare from a while ago came back to him vividly.

Cluck pecked at Hong Ye-seong’s head with its beak and tilted its head. Just looking at how it moved, it was definitely a chicken, but….

‘It was acting like a chicken last time, but it suddenly changed.’

Whether he did or not, Hong Ye-seong cleared his throat and sparkled his eyes. His golden eyes were a little more crazy than he remembered. Shaggy hair and crazy eyes. A madman-like glint flashed. Was it because it was reconstructed based on ‘Lee Sa-young’s’ memories? Eui-jae whispered in Sa-young’s ear.

“Doesn’t he seem a little too crazy?”

Sa-young nodded slightly. Hong Ye-seong jumped up and down in place.

“So? What’s going on? Did something fun happen? I’ve been so bored lately!”

“Hong Ye-seong.”

“Yeah, just say it!”

Sa-young pointed to the place next to him, where Eui-jae was standing.

“Do you see it?”

“Huh? Is there something there?”

Hong Ye-seong tilted his head and looked at the place where Eui-jae was standing. Cluck also tilted its head. Eui-jae reached out and tried to grab Hong Ye-seong’s head and Cluck, but as expected, he just passed through Cluck’s body in vain. Sa-young instructed again.

“Turn on Emotional Eye.”

“Huh?”

He blinked his eyes with an innocent face and closed his eyes for a long time before opening them. Golden patterns began to spin around. Sa-young pointed at Eui-jae.

“Do you see it?”

“Um…….”

Eyes shining with brilliant gold narrowed. Hong Ye-seong, who had been staring at the place where Eui-jae was standing for a long time, muttered.

“Hey, maybe….”

It was a very low and serious voice. A voice that Eui-jae had never heard from Hong Ye-seong. Eui-jae swallowed hard.

Could it be that the Emotional Eye of the best genius and The Artisan chosen by the System can see through even invisible people? A small hope bloomed.

Hong Ye-seong smiled brightly.

“Are you possessed by a ghost? Should I introduce you to a skilled shaman? There’s someone who writes amulets and puts up protective strings when I go into the mountains, and they’re really good.”

“Sa-young.”

“Yes, Hyung.”

“Knock him out.”

Peo-eok! A black hand blade struck the back of Hong Ye-seong’s neck.

“Kkwaek!”

Hong Ye-seong drooled and collapsed with a dying scream. Lee Sa-young, who laid him neatly on the floor, put Cluck on both hands. Cluck, nestled comfortably on his big hand, tilted its head.

“Kko-ok?”

Sa-young muttered fiercely.

“He’s watching through this birdbrain. That other guy.”

“Yeah. And he said that guy helped the guy who created this world.”

“He’s done all sorts of things…. Annoying.”

“That’s what I’m saying. Hey, come out.”

“Kkok? Kko-ook?”

Cluck sparkled its round, black eyes like black beans. You shouldn’t be fooled by its innocent eyes.

“Come out, you punk! I have a lot to ask.”

Eui-jae took off his wristwatch and held it to Cluck’s head. And at that moment,

“Kkwaeek!”

White light burst out from Cluck.