episode_0001

There are many ways for people to enjoy games.

There are people who just enjoy developing multiple characters through prolific writing. There are people who go all in on one character. I belong to the latter.

Among them, I was a bit unusual. I enjoyed playing and immersing myself in the character as if it were me. Beyond being angry when a character dies and happy when I get a good item, I want to play the character as if it were me.

If I heard something negative about my avatar from an NPC, I felt like I was being criticized, and if my reputation in the game increased, I was at a level of immersion that made me happy.

To put it in a good way, I would say he is a person who knows how to enjoy games, but to put it in a vulgar way, I would say he is an over-indulgent person.

I was playing games that day too.

[Grandis Saga.]

It was a fantasy online game set on the medieval continent of Grandis and boasted a certain level of popularity.

The race I was playing was Dragon. They are called Dragonians and are a mixed race of dragons.

It has scales all over its body, a long tail, and a long snout with sharp teeth.

A race whose overall appearance resembles that of a walking lizard.

Although all other races are treated differently, they are at a great disadvantage in human-centered medieval fantasy.

However, the reason I chose this race is because of their strong, human appearance that stimulates men’s romance.

What was important was that they were born with the characteristics of a dragon, had a strong basic body, and were free to use magic.

There were some difficulties in playing due to the nature of the race, but I still thought of it as my alter ego and raised it with affection.

That day, after work, I was drinking beer and playing games.

In particular, that day was the day of our guild’s siege, so I played the game with great concentration.

My character is me. Enemies are slaughtered by the sword I swung, and the magic I used causes a huge explosion on the ground.

I was completely immersed in the game and was a berserker who had a hard time distinguishing who was me and who was my character.

It was then.

Just when I thought my vision was blurring, the world went dark and my vision became black.

I was embarrassed and threw up my hands, but my hands only cut through the darkness. A feeling of endless emptiness, with nothing to grasp.

Feeling myself falling into endless darkness,

So I lost my mind.

*

How much time has passed?

I opened my eyes and looked around.

It was difficult to figure out what happened.

“Huh?”

I felt uncomfortable.

This place was definitely similar to my room, but it was subtly different.

First of all, the bed arrangement and even the computer were not the model I was used to using.

And above all.

My body was covered with my favorite armor. I was so startled that I took off my gauntlets and looked at my hands, and saw that they were all covered in dense red scales. The size of the hand was also clunky and much larger than the original size of my hand.

“… What on earth is going on?”

Standing in front of the mirror in a panic, I witnessed an amazing sight and froze.

what? Did someone kidnap me and dress up as my character? Did you put on a doll mask?

For a moment, such a thought passed through my head.

Elm Northmund.

The Yongin character in my game was in the mirror with a goofy face.

A long snout, a body covered in red scales, a tail so long it touches the ground, and even pointed horns.

‘oh… .’

Quang!

A light explosion occurred in my hand.

It seemed like magic had been activated without my knowledge from my tightly clenched fist.

“Can you use magic?”

I spent some time reaching out and activating various simple spells.

Even when I thought about it, it seemed like he was adapting to the current situation surprisingly quickly.

Is it because I enjoyed reading web novels or light novels in the past? Even when the phenomenon of game character possession occurred, the shock was not as great as expected.

Would you rather say that you were enjoying it?

‘Have I simply turned into Elm? The structure of the house has also changed. Could it be a different world?’

I walked to the window and opened the thick curtains.

With a crackling sound, the light from the outside world shines into my room.

It was already night, and the colorful lights of the city were in my eyes.

As I watched, I gradually began to see a scene that was different from the reality I used to live in.

The cars were also somewhat outdated, and the advertisements on the electronic display were from companies I had never seen before.

To be precise, the name was slightly different from real-life companies.

For example, Sam

‘Have I entered a novel?’

In the case of novels, real-life company names are often not used in order to avoid copyright. However, in many cases, one or two characters are changed from the company name to give a sense of reality.

If I entered the novel, why did I enter this world as Elm Northmund?

Elm, a character I immersed myself in and raised with affection.

Was it because I was so immersed in the character at the moment of the siege that I became Elm the moment I was possessed by this world?

Whatever happens, it’s a good thing.

“The important thing is what kind of novel I am possessed by.”

Or it may not be a novel possession. Couldn’t it have been inside the game?

It was very important to understand this. Knowing what kind of work the world I entered into means that I can understand what will happen in the future.

Knowing the future is a great benefit. Doesn’t this mean that I can intercept the momentum that is about to happen and twist the proceedings as I want and to my taste?

I picked up the cell phone that was on the bed.

It is a slider-type 2G phone. If you roughly estimate the era using your cell phone, wouldn’t the current time be around the mid to late 2000s?

When I turned on my phone, the current time was 2009. November 28, 2009.

‘Oh, it’s the day the X phone 3gs was released in Korea.’

It was a day I remember because my older sister bought her first smartphone and bragged about it to the point of irritating me.

After roughly reminiscing, I turned on the computer.

This is because the cell phone I was using was not a smartphone, and it was a bit difficult to find information using that cell phone.

After hearing the nostalgic booting sound, I went to the desktop, started Internet Explorer, and started connecting to the Internet.

‘… It brings back memories of WinXWoo7. Internet Explorer too.’

Does returning to the past stimulate memories like this? I started surfing the Internet with something in my heart.

I searched for various things in the browser with a green background and gathered information. News, entertainment, society, economy, etc.

hmm.

‘… ‘There’s nothing special about it?’

There was no significant profit. There was nothing special about it except that it was slightly different from Korea on Earth before coming to this world.

This world was not a worldview where men and women were reversed, it was not a worldview where gates were opened and hunters hunted monsters, and it was not an academy worldview. There was no magic or special abilities.

‘Have I just been possessed by an ordinary, everyday novel?’

Without a spectacular future, I felt a little discouraged, but I recovered right away.

If this novel were an everyday story, the development of society within the novel would correspond to the real world where I originally lived, so it is true that I, who returned to the past, know the future.

If I buy something like X-Sla stock or Bitum Coin, my future will be peaceful and peaceful. It would be possible to become a billionaire just by lying down.

Of course, even if there is no such thing, money may not be that important in a world where I can use magic alone.

‘Now that I think about it, does this world also have X-sla?’

While searching the Internet to find out about electric vehicle companies, I came across a news headline posted on the main page.

『President Hwang Kyu-sik returns home after successfully completing tour of the United States.』

It was just foreign diplomatic news, nothing special. It was a story about a president who visited Washington DC to negotiate with the United States.

What is important is not the content of the news,

“Hwang Gyu-sik… ? It’s a president’s name I’ve heard before… .”

Where did you hear that? I don’t remember clearly.

I used to enjoy reading web novels. You probably know the names of most characters to some extent… .

Well, given that it is generally difficult for a president to become the main character of a novel, he is usually at best a supporting role or an extra whose name only passes by.

Of course, even if it’s a famous novel, I don’t go around memorizing the names of the extras that appear in one or two scenes, so it wasn’t particularly special that I couldn’t remember the name of President Hwang Gyu-sik.

‘But Hwang Gyu-sik looks familiar in some way. It certainly seems like a name that gets mentioned a lot.’

As I rested my chin on the computer desk and continued to remember, I clicked on the news tab in my browser.

It was to find other memorable names.

『Taesung Group wins a large-scale contract for a new plant in the UAE.』

『Is Umbrella Pharmaceutical’s new anti-aging product a virus?』

『Fine Network is developing a new social network chat program. Interview(有)』

Taesung Group, which caught my eye while searching, was also a somewhat memorable company name.

I immediately searched for Taesung Group on the Internet and collected information.

A company founded in 1964. It started with a woolen business. Currently one of the top 10 companies in Korea.

The family name is Chairman Jang Tae-seong… . First, Jang Yeon-ho. second… .

As I continued to search for information about Taesung Group, I ended up finding a name that seemed familiar.

Great-granddaughter Jang A-hyeon.

“If you are Jang A-hyeon of Taesung Group… ”

As I searched through the overflow of memories, fortunately I was able to pull something out from the remnants of my mind.

ah. I finally realized what kind of novel I was possessed by.

“… Kiss Siege Sense.”

This is because Jang A-hyeon of Taesung Group was the mother of Jang Soo-ri, the heroine of the Academy Award romance fantasy novel “Kiss: A Sense.”

There was an episode in which Han Si-woo, the main character of Kiss: Sense, visited Jang Su-ri and his family home, and Jang A-hyeon, wanting to see Han Si-woo’s skills, attacked him and beat him up, causing an injury that lasted more than 12 weeks.

Jang A-hyeon was an S-class hunter, so she was not a cat that Han Si-woo, who was just an academy student, could endure.

Of course, Han Si-woo’s injury was immediately treated with the power of a recovery agent, but it was a quite comical and impressive episode that remains in my memory.

“Okay. I remember President Hwang Gyu-sik’s name being mentioned in an episode of Kiss: Sense’s Tracing the Past. Definitely.”

There was a story about President Hwang Gyu-sik imposing martial law nationwide when a gate suddenly opened in Korea and a large-scale invasion of monsters occurred.

wait for a sec. That means… .

The year in which the main story of Kiss Siege Sense begins is 2039.

… then.

“No, what the fuck is this… .”

… I was possessed 30 years before the start of this work.