episode_0041

The eyes of Sarah, who was wearing a wing outfit, met mine. I was momentarily taken aback when I saw Sarah’s appearance suddenly change to that of a fairy.

What happens if he doesn’t recognize me?

Or that they don’t recognize me like other people in the dream?

Fortunately, that didn’t happen.

Sarah recognized me properly.

“Jinwoo! It was right in front of you? You were looking for it.”

Sarah waved her hand happily at me, who was standing there hesitantly.

I asked Sarah just in case.

“You remember me, right?”

“Of course I remember. It’s just a dream, there’s no way I can forget it.”

“I also wondered what would happen if a person completely changed while experiencing a past life… . By the way, the clothes are really pretty.”

When I pointed to the wing clothes, Sarah smiled and nodded. It seemed like Sarah herself really liked the winged outfit she was wearing. The winged garment, with its mysterious fabric floating around as if covering the body, was like a work of art.

“It’s really pretty, right? I was glad I had a past life experience with you. I’ve only seen clothes like this in children’s books.”

“I guess your previous life was a princess of heaven and a fairy? The wing clothes are pretty.”

It was when Sarah and I were chatting and flirting.

One of the maids spoke to Sarah with a puzzled expression.

“I… Princess Eunryeong. May I ask who you are talking to right now? ?”

The maids that Sera had dragged out looked around with puzzled expressions. In the streets, people were still bowing, and soldiers were still bowing. I was the only one standing fine among the crowd, but the maids did not recognize me.

“Can’t you see there? You’re talking to Jinwoo.”

“Guyungalru? What kind of person is Guanglu?”

“Yes… ?”

The moment Sarah told me my name, the maid’s voice changed into a strange voice. It was like reading garbled text out loud when an error occurred in the game. Still, the people in my dream could not interact with me normally.

“I’m not saying anything, it’s Jinwoo Kim.”

“You mean Gum Gail?”

“Try to pronounce it correctly.”

Sarah was able to interact with the maids. Because this was a dream that recreated Sarah’s past life. My guess has become somewhat more certain. I spoke to Sarah, who was talking to the maid.

“Sera. Even if I tell you, it will be of no use. ”

“Why?”

“I feel like I’m being treated like a bug in this dream. No one else can recognize me except you.”

I told Sarah my guesses. If I assume this past life dream was a game, then I guess it’s like a bug. A character that didn’t exist before appeared in the game, but there was no way that normal gameplay was possible.

“… So it’s a bug.”

“Aha! That sounds plausible. I thought you could do it through talking to people.”

Sarah nodded as if she understood what I meant and spoke to the maid again.

“What is your name?”

“It is called Okchun.”

“Yes, it’s Okchun. Nothing to worry about. I was just talking to myself for fun.”

“Ho, were you talking to yourself…? ?”

“I said I was talking to myself.”

“Okay!”

Sarah appropriately explained that the conversation up until now had been just to herself. The time we spent talking was quite long to say that I was just talking to myself. However, the maid named Ok-chun nodded without saying anything in particular.

Sarah laughed, probably finding it funny to see the maid struggling.

Why?

I had a slight feeling that Sarah might have looked like that in her past life.

“Okchun. Now I will return to Sobyeol Palace.”

“Yes? Didn’t you say there was someone you needed to find at Seongwan?”

“It’s okay because I found that person. It was right in front of me. This is someone you can’t see.”

“What are you talking about… ?”

“Don’t worry about it.”

“Oh, I understand.”

It turned out that the reason Sarah went out of the palace was to look for me. Sarah and I were looking for each other and eventually ran into each other in front of the palace. I met him in a dream after wandering around for a day. I felt welcome.

“Jinwoo, come quickly before the door closes.”

“I’ll go. Please show me around the house.”

“I can take you on a tour, but my house is a bit big.”

Sarah entered the palace. As Sarah entered, the people who were lying down slowly got up. I was able to enter the palace before the door closed.

*

The palace was spacious. I could see the palace where Sarah lived in her previous life. An elegant eight-character shaped tile roof covered the entire building.

altar.

A pond with floating lotus flowers and a gorgeously decorated pavilion.

In addition, there are buildings where the maids work.

All the buildings of the palace were floating on clouds. I was curious about what kind of creatures lived in the pond above the clouds. When I saw it in person, I saw golden carp swimming in the water.

“In your past life, were you raising carp in a pond?”

“I guess so. Carp means an animal that brings good luck. Maybe they were raising it as if they were hanging a carp picture?”

“The scale is a bit big.”

Instead of hanging a picture of a carp, should you build your own pond and raise carp? Like a princess, the scale was large in a small place. Of course, this was just a guess. Sera also didn’t know exactly what was in the palace.

Sarah said while shrugging her shoulders.

“It’s just a guess. I don’t know much about palaces either. Even though this is my past life, my memories haven’t come back.”

“You don’t remember living as a princess?”

“Yes. If I had remembered, I would have explained it in detail. I don’t even know how I was staying here in my past life.”

“Did you say your name in your past life was Eunryeong?”

“Eunryeong is probably right. People were calling me that.”

The granddaughter of the Jade Emperor.

Eunryeong.

That was Sarah’s past life. Sarah couldn’t recall any memories of her past life. It was a little disappointing, but it was okay.

Thanks to this, we were able to see the palace of heaven. What kind of man or woman in the world can fall asleep at home and then go see the palace? It was like being able to go out and have fun without paying a single penny.

“Let’s look around some more. I’m curious here.”

“I’m curious too.”

Sarah and I spent time together looking around the palace.

*

As we looked around the palace and played, night fell before we knew it.

A round full moon appeared in the darkened celestial sky.

“The moon rises here too.”

“But the moon seems to be a little too close.”

Even in the city above the clouds, the moon rose at night. The moon was much larger than when seen from Seoul. Perhaps because it was in the sky, the moon felt very close. Of course, no matter how close we got, the distance from the moon was so far that we couldn’t walk.

Sarah and I went into the palace and looked at the moon. When I opened the window of the main building and looked at the moon, the scenery was so elegant that I wanted to hum a song. Unlike the sky I saw in Seoul, the stars dotted in the sky twinkled vividly.

“Wow, I really want to take a picture and take it with me.”

“Really… It’s a shame it was a dream.”

I did have a cell phone in my jeans pocket. Even if I took a picture, it was clear that it wouldn’t be saved when I woke up from my dream. As we watched the moon, we left the visible scenery as a memory.

There was a quiet silence.

Sarah, who was looking at the moon, spoke to me.

“Jinwoo, do you know that?”

“What is it.”

“I think I can fly in the sky.”

I looked at Sarah. If this were real, I would have been worried that my childhood friend’s head had gone crazy, but it wasn’t in my dream.

Sera was now wearing a wing suit.

“Can you see the wing clothes?”

“Uh… .”

Sera pointed to the wing clothes she was wearing.

‘wing clothes’

These are clothes worn by fairies in legends and fairy tales. As the name of wing clothes suggests, fairies could fly anywhere when they wore wing clothes. That meant that Sarah could fly now.

“… Can you fly too?”

“Try it now. Since I’m wearing clothes, I feel like I have a sense of how to fly.”

Sarah jumped in place a few times as if she was remembering her lost senses. There was no need to wait that long. Sarah’s body floated in front of me. Sarah’s feet suddenly stopped touching the shrine.

“Oh, oh oh… .”

I was so startled that I almost fell.

My childhood friend was flying.

Even though it was a dream, it was an unrealistic sight.

“It’s really flying, right? Is this a wing suit?”

“huh.”

Sarah flew down the hall of the palace with a leisurely smile. Just as birds can fly instinctively, Sarah, wearing a wing suit, was able to fly even though no one taught her.

“How are you flying?”

“That’s… It’s a bit difficult to explain in words. When I just tried to fly, I was able to fly as if I could breathe.”

“That’s ridiculous.”

“It must be the power of the winged suit.”

Sarah’s flight did not end with her flying inside a building. It flew out the window I had left open to look at the moon.

This was the third floor of the palace.

Sarah, who was smiling, held out her hand to me from outside the window. What are you asking for? I wondered, but that wasn’t what I meant. Sarah’s hand twitched in the air. It seemed like he was telling me to hold his hand.

“… Are you sure you want to fly with me?’

“Yes.”

If we hold hands, can we fly together?

I wanted to give it a try.

I immediately grabbed Sarah’s hand and jumped out the window.

“Ugh.”

My body, which was about to fall vertically, floated in my mind.

I don’t know what happened, but now I was flying in the sky too.

“What is it? Why can I fly?”

“Don’t you remember the story of the fairy and the woodcutter? You said that the fairy there grabbed the children and flew into the sky. It seems that if you hold a person wearing a wing suit, that person will be able to fly. This makes it clear.”

You mean the story of the fairy and the woodcutter?

It was a traditional fairy tale I read as a child.

In the fairy tale, the fairy took children with her when she ascended to the sky. A fairy dressed in wings had the power to levitate children in the air. If you think about the descriptions of ‘grabbing the children’ or ‘carrying one child on his back’, it seemed like he had the power to levitate the object he touched. Sarah succeeded in recreating a scene that was illustrated in a fairy tale.

“Wow… .”

I looked at the ground in a cold sweat.

I have experienced falling in my dreams, but this was my first experience of flying.

“Hehe.”

Sarah smiled as she looked at me like that. I could believe it because she looked relaxed even while flying in the sky.

“Jinwoo, let’s go for a walk outside.”

Sarah held my hand and moved it in the air. I was led by Sarah and we took a walk in the air together. We left the palace and flew freely over the city.

A night with a full moon.

The scenery on the ground illuminated by moonlight was clearly visible to my eyes.

In the city built on the clouds, people walked around with lights on even at night.

We took a walk holding hands while looking at the night view.

The scenery was so dreamy that you thought you were dreaming.

I saw Sarah holding hands. I felt the texture of intertwined fingers. The floating fabric fluttered softly as if it were covering a wing coat.

My heart was pounding.

I felt like I would never forget the scenery of this day.