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Episode.64 Bond of Dreaming Eyes (3)

Those words I heard from my dad.

With that in mind, I decided to meet Siwoo and hang out during the holidays.

When men think about what they can do when they meet each other… they end up meeting at the playground and playing on the swings for a bit, but in the end, all the promises end up in a PC room.

I arrived early at the playground where we were supposed to meet.

The playground is a small playground in an apartment complex near an elementary school.

It’s simple, but it’s enough for basic games like slides and swings.

In fact, when we meet at the playground, we are not particularly interested in anything other than the swing.

Maybe it was because I wasn’t old enough to be happy riding a slide.

Even the frost falling from the sky was imbued with magical energy, making it difficult to stay outdoors for long periods of time.

Every time snow touches my skin, every time I step on accumulated snow.

… With every breath I took in the winter wind, it felt like my lifespan was quickly being shortened.

Still, I waited for Siwoo.

Because we decided to meet and play together.

– ‘But where does Siwoo live?’

I said to myself.

From kindergarten to 6th grade, I didn’t know where he lived.

Even during parent observation classes, I was never able to see my parents’ faces.

I thought I had a general idea of where he lived.

The truth is, in fact, we still don’t know.

Siwoo, where do you live?

What do your parents do?

Personal information about a guy you consider to be your best friend.

On the way to the afterlife, it doesn’t seem like a bad gift for a gift.

I continued to wait for Siwoo, completely unaware of how much time had passed.

But suddenly, a person who appeared to be the apartment security guard approached me in a huff.

– ‘There you kid! What are you doing if you don’t evacuate?!’

The security guard looked very tired.

I asked the security guard.

Why are you doing that?

Then the security guard turned pale and took a step back from where I was standing.

– ‘Hi! ‘I still have to live!’

The security guard who left those words quickly turned around and ran away.

Even though he almost fell if he was in a hurry, it seemed like he was trying to get as far away from me as possible.

As a child, I thought.

Why is that so?

When will Siwoo come?

That security guard… why is he suddenly acting like that?

I got the answer to my question from the following situation.

Suddenly my vision became blurry and I felt a hot sensation behind my back.

The moment I came to my senses, my body had already flown like a piece of paper to the wooden bench provided in the playground on the other side of where I was standing and waiting for Si-woo, and was stuck on the chair bench.

At first, I didn’t know how to properly describe this sensation.

If I were to use my vocabulary to express what I feel from this situation…

It’s painful.

It was difficult for me to maintain my wobbly body at a young age.

Above all, the floor was slippery.

I managed to get up by holding on to the back of the bench.

When I looked behind me… there was a monster I had only seen in the game world.

monster.

At that time, I couldn’t understand why there were monsters in this place that gave off such dangerous energy.

But now I knew why.

Simply because the gate was left unattended for a long time, the monsters inside the gate flowed out of the gate.

He has green skin and a huge blunt weapon in his left hand.

In his right hand was a thorn whip.

For reference, the blunt weapon had several thorns that looked quite sharp, like the whip held in the right hand.

It seemed like such a weapon was called a ‘mace’ in the game.

Judging by its appearance, it is probably an ‘orc’.

Did the security guard run away again when he saw that orc?

… If you’re going to run away, why don’t you come near me in the first place.

– ‘Siwoo… did he evacuate in advance?’

Ah, now that I look at it, it seems like this memory… wasn’t a memory of me and Siwoo meeting and playing at the playground.

I wish I had taken you with me.

I remember that day, human selfishness.

I realized that living selfishly in this world makes life easier.

I wondered if I should live like that from now on.

– ‘Minseong!’

Until someone calls my name.

A quiet cry was heard through my eyelids that kept getting heavier and my consciousness fading away.

I heard a voice that seemed to call my name.

Only the fact that someone came to help me kept me from falling into a deep state of selfishness.

And that someone was the first friend I talked to in kindergarten.

Siwoo came to save me.

In fact, Siwoo just gathered the hunters around him.

where is that

This moment when the snow was falling… I felt like I would never forget it until I die.

This memory… was the memory of the moment Siwoo came to save me.

And then my vision went completely dark.

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Ding-

Ding-

Ding-

My fingers feel strong.

I instinctively knew that this was a hospital.

So, this tinkling sound I’m hearing right now is the sound of the electrocardiogram monitor measuring my heartbeat.

I find this tinkling sound strangely relaxing.

I think it’s because I’ve been hearing this since I was younger than 13 years old.

My parents clung to me as soon as I opened my eyes.

It was obvious that he was being clingy, but I didn’t feel bad because he seemed to genuinely care about me.

And when my parents asked me 4 or 5 times if I was okay.

My mom said to me, ‘I’m glad you have a good friend.’ He said.

I was happy that the scene I saw right before I fainted, where Si-woo gathered the surrounding hunters and came to save me, was not a hallucination.

I was glad that there was someone I could trust even if I wasn’t related by blood.

… That was all.

I got hurt and fell.

And in that cycle, the emotion that always came last was ‘joy.’

It’s subtle, but I just told the truth about what I felt.

My parents said they were at work when they received a phone call and came in a hurry.

– ‘Did Siwoo call 119?’

The debt has increased again.

I told my parents not to worry and that they did not have to force themselves to work or be by my side for nursing.

I persuaded him several times.

If you’re terminally ill anyway, you can’t be a nuisance to your parents until the end.

My parents left the hospital room with a faint smile.

I pulled back the curtains where I was lying.

Looking around, it seemed like the room I was hospitalized in was a double room.

Who is the patient sitting in front of me? The thought began to dominate my mind.

It felt like the curtains in front of me were tightly drawn.

But not long after, the curtain in front of me started to go, ‘Boom!’ It opened with a sound.

Then I saw the face of the patient sitting in front of me.

The patient appeared to be about my age.

But the thought that came to mind when I saw that face was, ‘Are the rooms in this hospital shared by men and women?’

The patient occupying the hospital bed right in front of me was a girl with impressive pure white hair.

The girl had her eyes closed.

… Like a person who cannot see at all.

I just stared blankly at the girl who was hospitalized in the same hospital room.

Then the girl began to open her mouth.

– ‘… That would be nice. I envy you.’

It was a word whose meaning I could not understand.

… I understand it now, but what did I think at the time?

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“That would be good. I’m jealous.”

“… Me?”

I suddenly started talking to someone whose name I didn’t even know.

‘That girl, is she interested in me?’

“… That’s a good thing, right? To be in a position to be loved. Well, giving love gets tiring.”

A girl who looks about my age keeps talking like an old person.

‘What are you talking about?’

Even though the girl in the hospital bed in front of me had her eyes closed, I could feel her eyes looking at me, which gave me goosebumps without knowing it.

The color of the patient’s uniform was white, but the pure white hair that was even brighter than the white color stood out.

“Tell me so I can understand.”

” That’s strange… Was there a lack of distance?… The director clearly said that if you use polite language, you will be remembered as a good person in all situations… ”

A white-haired girl talking to herself so loudly that I couldn’t hear.

I asked nervously, feeling so strange and as if my patience would suddenly run out.

“Why are you talking to me?!”

The white-haired girl seemed surprised when she heard what I said.

‘Eek, did I make too much noise?’

I tried to apologize right away.

But I wasn’t used to talking to girls, so I stopped talking.

“Hey… Well, you know what? My dad said that when snow falls, it whispers to the living creatures in this world that it is time to sleep.”

“Ho? I see.”

It felt like the white-haired girl was giving a vague answer.

“So, what did you say earlier…?”

Since I was trying to diffuse this situation from the beginning, I asked to get back to the point.

I thought it was the perfect turn of phrase.

I’m sure they will respond kindly again.

However, contrary to my expectations, the white-haired girl sitting in the hospital bed across from me covered her mouth with her hand.

As if the girl’s small hands weren’t covering everything, only one corner of the white-haired girl’s mouth was visible.

“Pfft, ah, that before… didn’t you understand? Well… I’ll explain it to your level. I’m jealous that you seem to be getting undeserved love from your parents. Because I don’t have parents to do that. If I say it like this, you will understand and it will work out, right?”

At this level, I suspect that he has a dual personality.

“… Isn’t the difference in speaking style too much compared to before?… You seem to be visually impaired, so if you speak so rudely, you won’t be popular with men, right?”

The unidentified white-haired girl trembled.

“Ha, you’ve already given up on getting married, right? Someone likes white hair like this… I know better than anyone else that my way of speaking is cheesy. So, I was just being polite at first… but there’s no need to go that far… it’s too much.”

– Okay!

The girl with impressive white hair seemed to be tired of talking to me and closed the curtain again.

‘This isn’t it.’

What I tried to do well ended up going astray.

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I can’t even remember that girl’s face now.

The unidentified girl with impressive pure white hair somehow closed the curtain again.

Why did they do that? I don’t even remember the situation very well now.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter.

I thought it was just one of those passing happenings.

Ah, there was something I wanted to say to Siwoo.

…

What was it?

It would be nice if I could leave it in my will.

I suddenly forgot because I was thinking about the white-haired girl.

It’s annoying.