episode_0063

I opened my eyes.

No, is it really true that I opened my eyes?

I felt like I had opened my eyes, but there was nothing I could see.

Completely pitch black.

It was as if the light of this world had completely disappeared.

“Where?”

“…I never thought things would turn out like this.”

There was someone who answered Sujin’s reflexively mumbling words.

“Who?”

“I am you. To be precise, it is the original owner of that body.”

I quickly turned my head in the direction I heard the sound.

However, there was no way he could see anything like a person in a situation where he couldn’t even see his own hand in front of his nose.

Judging by the thin and delicate voice, it seemed like the person who spoke to Sujin was a young girl.

“Ah. I’m sorry. I guess you haven’t adapted to this space yet. Wait a minute.”

Just right.

With the sound of lightly cracking fingers, the vision that had been stained with darkness suddenly becomes brighter.

No, it’s not just that it’s brighter…

“My house?”

“First of all, I thought it would be better to be in a familiar place. It’s easier for you to talk to Sujin that way, right?”

Saying that, the owner of the voice settled down in a familiar position on the living room sofa.

The sight of her stretching leisurely made me think she looked a little like Sujin.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“You…!”

Sujin was astonished.

It wasn’t because I was suddenly pulled into an unknown space and the scenery changed in an instant.

No, that was surprising in its own way, but there was another reason why Sujin was truly surprised.

“Body…!”

“Ah, this? Did I feel a little bad for you?”

There was a little girl.

He was a pretty child with black hair that grew down to his waist and an attractive mischievous smile.

But the girl’s body was by no means normal.

Her two delicate hands were covered in dark red bandages and could not be seen, and one of her two transparent, pretty, black pearl-like eyes was covered with a white eyepatch.

That’s not all.

Ugly burns and cuts visible through old t-shirts. The girl’s condition was so bad that it was quicker to find a healthy part of her body than to find a healthy part of it.

“What on earth happened?”

“I thought my memories came back, but didn’t they?”

The girl tilted her head, resting her chin on her bandaged hand.

Even though her body appeared to be seriously injured, the girl remained calm.

“Remember?”

“I told you before. I am you, and the original owner was me.”

“…. lower class?”

“Hmm, it’s very subtle to hear something like that from me.”

The girl giggled and showed a mischievous smile.

Sujin couldn’t help but laugh along.

Because the teeth that were momentarily visible were covered in red blood.

The girl noticed Sujin’s gaze and wiped away a stream of blood that flowed out of her mouth with her hand.

However, since her hand was already wrapped in a bandage stained with dark red blood, it had the opposite effect.

The blood stains around the lips look like a child who made a mistake while secretly applying makeup with his mother’s lipstick.

“…Are you the girl in the room at that time?”

“Correct answer. To be precise, you before you lost your memory. This is Cha Ha-ryeong before she became Cha Soo-jin.”

“I don’t understand…what on earth does that mean.”

“Well, just accept it simply. It’s a complicated new personality, and talking about erasing memories is not only difficult to understand, but it’s just annoying.”

The legs of the girl sitting on the sofa were moving.

Of course, the legs were no exception; part of the white toes were cut off bluntly, as if they had been cut off with a knife.

Because the girl looked like she was watching a scene from a horror movie, it didn’t feel realistic.

He had lost consciousness while lying on a bench in the cold rain.

It wouldn’t be strange to say that my mind was pushed to its limit and I was having a nightmare.

“That’s right. That man!”

Sujin remembered something she had forgotten.

Before she passed out, she met a strange man.

A man who pushed Sujin by mentioning the name Cha Ha-ryeong.

No matter where I looked, it didn’t look favorable to her.

“That’s why Sujin called you.”

Ha-ryeong opened his mouth as if he had been waiting for Su-jin to speak.

Before she knew it, she had risen from the sofa and was standing right in front of Sujin.

“To be honest, I don’t even know who that guy is. I’ve never seen it, but I’m sure you’ll be in danger if you stay like this.”

“…Did you see it too?”

“That’s right, Sujin, I was always seeing the world through your eyes. I remember everything you think and do. It might be unpleasant for you, but…”

The girl’s only remaining eye gazed at Sujin.

Those eyes were filled with only concern for Sujin.

“While you are unconscious, I also cannot see the outside world. So, I don’t know what kind of situation you’re in right now, so the only advice I can give you is to run away from that guy right away. Those eyes. It was clearly the look in the eyes of someone who knew me from the past.”

“You in the past?”

“Hmm… Well, if you look at me now, you can see that I didn’t live that normally. If your unstable memories come back completely, you’ll probably be so shocked that you’ll faint?”

The girl giggled.

If the laugh a moment ago was a playful laugh, the laugh now was so sinister that it made you feel creepy just looking at it.

“Why? curious? What did I do in the past to end up in such a miserable state?”

“…”

“Don’t try to find out. Because this is a warning.”

A cold word.

It was a voice that was too foreign for a girl younger than 10 years old to hear.

“Forget your past. Live a happy life now. Because that is truly the best path for a person named Cha Soo-jin. Don’t try to regain unstable memories like before. Because you will definitely regret it. Actually, I may already be regretting it.”

“…Are you really satisfied with that?”

Sujin asked without realizing it.

That was because the girl in front of me had very sad eyes.

What on earth happened to make you look so lonely and lonely?

“…”

“If it were me, I wouldn’t want to be in a lonely place with nothing like this.”

Sujin looked around.

The familiar scenery of the house was suddenly erased, and what came again was an extremely thick darkness.

Nothing existed there.

There was no way anyone would like a place like this.

“Cha Soo-jin.”

“…Haryeong?”

Sujin quietly followed the girl’s name and followed along, albeit clumsily.

It was still not a name that came to mind.

“I am you. you are not me Do you know what that means?”

“…”

“The fact that I exist means that you don’t exist. I can only exist if the personality of Soojin Cha completely disappears. Can you still say it’s okay?”

Various memories flashed through Sujin’s mind.

The first time I came to a share house. My first birthday. First date with my brother.

There were many sad and difficult times. But there were more joyful and happy things than that.

That was because there was a person named Han Yu-seong who cared for her more than anyone else.

“Do you know too?”

“…!”

“I knew it.”

Seeing Ha-ryeong’s surprised face, Su-jin muttered forlornly.

“You were the one my brother wanted. Not me.”

Sujin realized it at some point.

That the eyes of her brother, whom she loved so much, were not really looking at her.

“That’s…”

“If it is true that you are me before you lost your memory, then my brother would have wanted to save you.”

Her older brother is a kinder person than anyone else.

If there was someone around who was sick, they wanted to help no matter what.

Sujin is the first person to move into the share house.

Therefore, everyone knew how her younger sisters came to this house.

Jina is in the hospital, Ran is on the street in the cold winter, Hayun and Younha are in a park at night when no one is there, and Yuna is in a closed facility.

In Haryeong’s case, was it the small room in the basement that he saw briefly then?

“…I’ll help you.”

Sujin carefully wrapped the girl’s bandaged hand.

“Are you sane? You disappear?”

“Well, then it can’t be helped.”

Sujin shrugged her shoulders.

Even I myself understood that I was saying strange things.

What happened to accepting a story that could potentially destroy one’s personality?

“It must have been moved. To my brother.”

After Chaeyeon, Sujin has been seeing a person named Han Yu-seong for a long time.

That’s why I liked it more than anyone else. I can’t even imagine life without my brother in the future.

“There’s nothing I can do about it because the person I like wants someone else, not me, right? Even if I insist that I don’t like it here, I don’t think anyone will look at me.”

“Worst case. Your and my memories could be synchronized. So what do you think will happen then? You will know everything, including my memories of when I was like this. The pain when your fingernails are pulled out with pliers, the pain when your body is burned with a lighter. You’re going to go through all of that?”

Ha-ryeong shouted as if he were having a fit.

In Sujin’s eyes, it felt like a child throwing a tantrum and telling her not to care about me.

I felt like I had finally discovered a young girl named Cha Ha-ryeong among the masks that covered her.

“You might not like that.”

“Right? So…!”

“Still, it’s better than being hated by my brother.”

Sujin’s words cut off Ha-ryeong’s words, which suddenly turned bright red.

Are memories of being a little physically painful coming back? scary.

However, I was much more scared that the person I liked would not care about me for the rest of my life.

If you forget her and live as Sujin like Ha-ryeong said now.

Just like in the sea, Sujin will be by his side forever.

That was worse than dying.

“…”

“And it’s not even certain yet, right? That I disappear.”

Sujin opened her mouth with a smile on Ha-ryeong’s face, who was speechless.

“It may be difficult now, but there might be a way for both you and me to be happy, right? Don’t you think it’s already too early to give up?”

“Yes. You have been stubborn since long ago. The same goes for not listening to people out of fear that they might be siblings.”

Ha-ryeong sighed.

There were countless emotions that could not be expressed in words, such as resignation or joy.

Just right.

Haryeong clapped his two fingers together.

Then, the terrible appearance of Ha-ryeong, who seemed to have been taken to the intensive care unit just a moment ago, disappeared and a person who looked exactly like Su-jin appeared in his place.

“Why are you looking so surprised? Did you really think I was that hurt?”

“…No?”

“I was just trying to scare you. The original version is fine. Think about it. How could a person who suffered such hardships and injuries be in such good shape?”

Haryeong lightly turned his body around.

As she said, her body, like Sujin’s, was clean without a single lingering wound.

“Hmm. Is this my body? Is it better than I thought?”

“…What are you doing?”

“No, I always look at it in the mirror, but it’s amazing to see it actually in front of my eyes. Sujin, do you want to touch it too?”

She grinned when she asked Ha-ryeong, who suddenly started touching her forearm.

Ha-ryeong, who naturally started joking around, looked somewhat relaxed.

“The breasts are big, the face is as beautiful as this, and oh, the legs are also really good.”

“…Stop it because it’s embarrassing.”

“ By the way, my brother is also a eunuch, so I can’t believe he doesn’t touch me even though there’s such an amazing woman next to him.”

“Was this your personality originally?”

In the end, Su-jin asked in bewilderment as she saw Ha-ryeong reaching into a specific area that a man could not reach.

“Well, I don’t know. Because at some point I forgot what kind of person I was. I guess I could say that I acquired my current mischievous personality by chance. Surprisingly, I’m good at acting.”

Ha-ryeong, who had already returned to her original girl’s body, quietly recited.

“Then…”

“Ding. It’s almost time over.”

Seeing her like that, Sujin was about to open her mouth to say something, but this time, Ha-ryeong’s playful voice interrupted her.

“Look at this.”

After that, Haryeong pointed in a certain direction.

There was a silver door there that I had not seen before.

“I think I’m slowly waking up. If you go out there, you can return to reality.”

“Haryeong, who are you?”

“Only one person can pass through there. The one person left must keep his or her seat. That’s the rule. You don’t have to look at me with such sad eyes. Since you are already aware of my existence, you can come here at any time.”

“…”

“I don’t know what’s going on outside. be careful. If you ever find yourself in a dangerous situation from which you cannot escape, try this.”

“How?”

“Oppa, please save me! do. Then somewhere, voila! He might show up and save me like a hero.”

“Phew. What is that?”

It exploded without me even realizing it.

This was because the sight of Ha-ryeong shouting as she transformed into Su-jin again felt quite realistic.

“Well, you have to get your money’s worth, so give it a try. You’re our older brother, right? It will definitely help you.”

“Okay, okay. I will definitely try it.”

“Hmm. Yes bye! See you later.”

“…Okay.”

With Haryeong’s cheerful greeting, Sujin’s body disappeared behind the door.