NOVEL WEB Chapter 91 - How to Enjoy Vacation (7)
And…
I picked up the third fragment. The next video started playing right away.
“Miss Baran.”
“Yeah!”
“What if Miss Baran’s older sister became someone else?”
Shin Baran immediately answered Na Yuri’s question.
“I’ll kill her.”
“…That’s right. Miss Baran was that kind of person.”
Na Yuri sighed and changed the question.
“I’ll ask you another question. What if your enemy was a multiple personality? And the enemy personality never appeared again.”
“Um… Is it before or after revenge?”
“Before.”
Shin Baran groaned as if he was deeply troubled by that answer.
“Isn’t it different depending on where you place the essence of a person?”
“The essence of a person…”
“Do you see the things that a person does as an extension of that person’s personality… or as an extension of the body…? Mm, as expected, I don’t know. I wouldn’t know unless I was the one who saw it.”
“I see…”
Na Yuri quietly looked out the window. She could see the dark sea rippling.
“I’ll go straight to the rooftop lounge. Please tell the others.”
“Yeah!”
Na Yuri parted ways with Shin Baran and headed to the elevator. The transparent elevator carried her up and up again.
Na Yuhan was waiting for her at the rooftop lounge.
“You’re here?”
He asked her casually, stirring a glass of drink. She approached him with a face which no one knew what she was thinking about.
“Yes.”
“What do you want to say?”
He looked calm, yet it seemed that he wasn’t calm, as his hands that were stirring the drink stopped.
She saw him not making eye contact with her.
“Who are you?”
“…Well. I don’t know what to call myself either.”
He hesitated and opened his mouth with difficulty.
“But if there’s something I can say for sure…”
His gaze fell on the red drink in the cocktail glass. His face was reflected.
“…I’m not your brother.”
At his words, she shut her eyes tightly, then opened them again and asked.
“When did it start?”
“A month before I entered the Academy.”
“So back then…”
She seemed to have guessed something. Then she laughed self-deprecatingly.
“Then before, I was taking my anger out on someone who had nothing to do with me.”
“That’s…”
“How pathetic.”
A waiter placed the drink she ordered on the table. The blue drink contrasted with the red drink. She drank it roughly.
Clang! The glass hit the table roughly.
“Don’t worry. That won’t happen again.”
There was a certain distance in her eyes as she looked at him again.
He looked up at her at her words and said without confidence.
“I stole your brother’s body. Do you have anything to say about that?”
“Yes.”
She laughed at that.
“I hate my brother more than you think.”
Brightly.
“We’re family, so I pretended to be fine because other people were involved.”
A smile that felt like madness was on her face.
“Taking away that piece of trash’s life. Living off that piece of trash’s life. That’s my revenge, and that’s the atonement you have to make.”
The unimaginable hatred in her voice filled the space.
“That’s enough for me.”
“…Alright .”
Na Yuhan’s face looked complicated. Na Yuhan said as she left her spot.
“Please take care of me from now on, Na Yuhan.”
After hearing that, Na Yuhan sat for a long time, looking down at the glass with a complicated expression.
And I also had a complicated expression.
“I’m here!”
Because Na Yuri, who had regained her bright smile, clung to me tightly.
Mmhm. So that’s the Na Yuri who had been slightly crazy just a moment ago.
“You know, Miss Nahyun, I got an apology from Na Yuhan!”
“Really?”
I smiled brightly.
“Thank goodness…! Congratulations!”
While trembling inside.
At my congratulatory words, Na Yuri hugged me tightly and said.
“Yes! He’ll atone for my sins for the rest of my life!”
That… no.
I desperately raised the corners of my lips that were about to go down.
“Yuhan really changed, right?”
At my words, Na Yuri paused for a moment and nodded with a smile.
“Yes. I was finally able to admit it.”
“That’s a relief”
“I couldn’t admit it until now, so I made a fuss about other people and stuff. I apologize. Was everyone in trouble?”
“No! That’s impossible! Right?”
Shin Baran agreed with my words.
“That’s right! It’s true that Yuhan suddenly changed completely…!”
Na Yuri smiled as if she was glad at our words. And then I thought. I’m scared to death. I realized that she was sharpening her sword inside, you know. I decided that I would never treat Na Yuri as my enemy.
“Hmm? What’s up~ Our Yuri, are you feeling better?”
“That’s a relief.”
Just then, our seniors who had brought a lot of things to play with like HalliGalli and Trump opened the door wide.
After that, we all played together and fell asleep one by one as the night grew late.
Except me.
***
I woke up when everyone else had fallen asleep. Maybe because I was upset, I couldn’t sleep at all.
When I looked out the window, the stars were shining beautifully. It was a sight I had never seen in my past life.
…Should I go for a walk? I impulsively took a step.
Ding—
The elevator arrived at my floor.
I passed the hotel lobby, which felt dark even with the light, and headed toward the entrance. Since the hotel was right in front of the beach, I could hear the sound of waves.
I stood in front of the entrance and looked around, and realized that someone was sitting on the beach far away. It was Scammer.
Why at this hour?
I walked towards him leisurely.
“Hello, Yuhan.”
When I spoke, his gaze, which had been looking at the sky, turned to me. Soon, he smiled weakly and greeted me slowly.
“Hi.”
I naturally sat down next to him.
“You couldn’t sleep?”
“Mmhm.”
He answered my question briefly and fell silent. We looked up at the sky together for a while in silence.
Whoosh—
The sound of waves gently rang in my ears.
His voice suddenly came through the silence where the sound of waves crashed.
“Do you like fantasy novels?”
I thought about it for a moment and then answered truthfully.
“I do.”
I haven’t had much time to read novels since my current life began, but in my previous life, I was completely absorbed in them. I loved the feeling of adventuring into various worlds.
He fell silent for a moment at my words and then asked me again.
“Do you know about possession?”
“I know. It appears a lot in novels, doesn’t it?”
Why out of the blue?
I looked at him curiously.
He was still looking up at the sky. Then he met my gaze.
“…What if, what if you posessed a character from a novel?”
I held my breath.
Is it because of the magic of the night? He was definitely trying to tell me something.
“This is really just a story from a novel, but…”
He turned his gaze to the distant sea.
“There was a man. A pitiful man who was obsessed with games.”
Whoosh—
I could hear the sound of waves crashing.
“But one day, when he opened his eyes, I found myself possessing a character from the world of a game he liked.”
The wind was blowing. It was a warm summer wind.
“That man thought the whole world was for him. So he used all the game knowledge he had accumulated over time to manipulate people. Isn’t that stupid?”
He mocked himself. His dark hair blew in the wind.
“Then one day, he realized that the world wasn’t a game. And he thought.”
He hesitated for a moment and continued.
“
‘Then what about the person whose body I took? What happened to him?’
Yet he tried to pretend not to know. The ‘GM’ who arranged everything for him showed up.”
He seemed to be talking to himself.
“Everything was prepared for him, so he should just look ahead and run. But even if he tried to do that, there were too many things to worry about. Of course. He already knew it was reality.”
He crouched down with both knees together.
“And a while ago, He got caught possessing the body. He was relieved on the one hand. He thought it had come. But…”
I carefully brushed his back. He looked up at me, and his face distorted as if he was about to cry.
“He heard it was fine. He heard she wanted him to stay as that person. She didn’t care. Do you know what’s pathetic?”
He buried his face in his arms.
“I, who was relieved to hear that.”
He spoke to me in a small voice while crouching down. In a desperate, small, faint voice.
“You know, I… am such a pitiful human being.”
I gently stroked his crouching back, then opened my mouth.
“You know, Yuhan. Do you know about reincarnation?”
Anyway, this idiot.
Let’s dig a hole.