Chapter 703 – 696 Reality Part 2
Chin, tuck.
Hwanin, who opened his eyes at the feeling of his feet touching the floor, looked around first with fierce eyes.
It is home. Having lived for 26 years, I am not used to it, but it has become a part of my life, my parents and my own house.
‘As expected, movement and return are done at the previous last point.’
Fluffy.
Kwyik!
Cuckoo~!
Kywu… !
끡!
Que, who had changed to the size of a cat and was hugged by the women, screamed that they were crushed to death by the fallen women.
Hearing the sound, Hwanin loses consciousness and sets the fallen girlfriends down in the living room one by one. Only then does the released Kue live, beeping and grooming themselves by brushing their bodies or trimming clumps of feathers.
Looking at his girlfriends who fainted, Hwanin thought about what had happened earlier.
He maintained his sanity until his body was being dragged somewhere covered in dazzling golden light. I did, but the moment something passed through the screen, my consciousness disappeared, and when I came to my senses, it was the earth.
‘The extinction of consciousness was too unnatural.’
There can be no loss of consciousness without any warning. When I first came over to Earth, I didn’t care because I was not in a hurry, but now that I’ve experienced it again, it’s unnatural.
What is the reason?
Suddenly thinking of Hwan-yeon, Hwan-in looked at her inside pocket and saw that she was drooping as well.
She spread her handkerchief like a futon and placed a cheer on it, calling for Norn, who was the only one who was sober and poked at her girlfriends’ cheeks and breasts.
“Norn. How long have you been sane?”
“I do not know what I mean.”
“From the time I was wrapped in light in the forest until I arrived here. Were you still awake?”
“Huh. It was amazing Hwa-ak- As it became brighter and then darker, a lot of white lines approached and passed by, and then it passed through something like water, so it was here.”
“… Was it real water? Or was it something like water?”
“Something like water?”
“…”
Hwanin stroked her chin for a moment.
All of her female friends fainted. Even if you wake up, you probably won’t remember the process.
She herself was conscious halfway through, but her consciousness was cut short after passing through the curtain.
Norn was conscious from beginning to end, and so was Qued.
When he rummaged through his luggage and took out a bottle containing a jewel rat, the jewel rat, sleeping peacefully upside down in it, woke up.
A jewel rat that pricks its snout like a hedgehog, then stretches back to sleep as if it read that it doesn’t look like food.
Hwanin, who brushed his chin again, was not sure if the hypothesis he had established was correct.
The hypothesis that the body of a higher intelligence is disassembled and reassembled when it comes to Earth. It is a hypothesis that people lose their minds due to the impact of being disassembled and reassembled.
The reason why Norn is fine is because he was a Que and then became a Shinsou and opened his eyes to intelligence, and the reason why Que are fine is because they are beasts?
If you think lightly, there is no reason to become serious, but from a philosophical point of view, there are many problems.
If it is disassembled and reassembled by others, can it be considered philosophically the same self?
Looking at it from a different point of view beyond philosophy, isn’t there a different will in such a phenomenon of decomposition?
“…”
What Norn said also bothered me.
What she said is a scene that is usually shown when moving through a wormhole in space or jumping in hyperspace, but she can see it when moving in dimensions.
‘It’s not a different dimension, it’s the same world, but the distance is hundreds of billions of light years apart. Then, the black jade spirit master… Is it a wormhole phenomenon that I saw when I popped the dark spirit wine?’
If so, does that mean that the Dark Spirit Sake has other attributes attached to it, not disease, corruption, or death? Or is the attribute given to his pattern, core power, such a type of space movement, and the phenomenon that occurred when he spread the Dark Spirit Orb with that power?
There are many things to think about, but Hwanin started organizing what he had to do right away.
‘The text… The light didn’t decrease much.’
When I open Cheon Lung’s coat and vest to check his chest, the pattern drawn like a tree emits a subtle golden light.
In terms of capacity, it feels like 60% of the total was consumed.
Even though the total amount increased several times compared to the time of the spawning pond labyrinth, if this amount was consumed, it would mean that the amount of consumption is applied differently depending on the number of people.
Hwanin, who took off his Cheonneung and stored it in Aspen, changed into casual clothes and tinkered with the relics of Grimoam.
I said relics don’t matter…
Then, pull back the window curtains and look outside.
Around lunch time. Nionebreath is the time to rush towards summer, but Korea is still in the middle of winter.
It’s lunchtime, but the sky is hazy and the day isn’t very sunny. The yellowed grass has hardly grown, but there are quite a lot of fallen leaves.
‘I’ll have to clean the garden later.’
Hwanin took out his smartphone, inserted a SIM card, turned the device off and on, and then turned off airplane mode.
‘March 2023.’
It was February 9th when we broke through the labyrinth of spawning ponds, and now it is the end of March, so a day here is roughly one month of Nionebreth.
Jing— Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing Jing—
Spam, advertisements, and disaster notification texts pour in as if synchronization is over.
In between, there are confirmations of the safety of a few friends, as well as survival confirmation texts from juniors from former workplaces.
[Breaking news] Senior Hwanin. Director Kang and his daughter were arrested.]
[Photo of the two being dragged with their outerwear over their heads while being handcuffed.Png]
“…”
After checking one of the characters, Hwanin opened the browser and entered a search term.
[Prosecutor’s “Saman Water Gate” Kang Tae-hyeong, arrested and indicted for stock price manipulation, embezzlement, breach of trust, and violation of the Political Fund Act.]
[According to the prosecution, Mr. Kang manipulated stock prices several times from 2010 to early January of this year due to the issue of mergers with subcontractors, followed by charges of embezzlement and breach of trust…]
Hwanin quickly scrolled up and read the entire contents, and found out that Director Kang, his daughter whose name he couldn’t remember, and some of the people who followed him in the company were either imprisoned or under investigation with arrest warrants applied for.
‘I got hit by cutting my tail.’
No matter how much I searched, there was not a single name of the company’s main executives mentioned. There are only a few people who are the president of the company or who are only executives in name without power or power.
Could it be that they made a deal with Saman Products?
‘With all the media exposure like this, Manager Kang won’t be able to recover any more.’
It doesn’t matter if they do, but for some reason it’s uneasy that the executives are safe.
I’ve been careful in my own way to hide and expose my identity, so it must be difficult for humans who are upset with the accusation and exposure to find this side. But if you ever find…
Thinking about it, Hwanin smiled.
What if you find this one? Concerned about private retaliation, who should be concerned about whom?
What you should be concerned about is not the retaliation of Saman Corporation and the company that suffered losses due to the Saman Corporation gate…
‘It’s the organization behind those humans who have traces of phasic power, those humans who might be.’
Hwanin, who brought a laptop for security purposes, connected the power cord and checked the storage space of the CCTV.
Considering the storage of video by year, a program with high compression efficiency was attached to a large-capacity external hard drive, but the capacity was barely consumed. The number of files is 33 in all.
After connecting the cable to the large TV in the living room and preparing to play the video, Hwanin looked at his girlfriends lying side by side on the living room carpet, took off her shoes and brought a blanket to cover them.
“…”
Five girlfriends lying side by side and one celestial body.
Each and every one of them, each in a state of disrepair, is lying side by side, and it feels like my eyes are purified just by that.
Hwanin, who has been watching for a while, takes two cans of beer from the kitchen refrigerator and sits down in front of his laptop. And from the day he went back to Ni One Breath, he played the cctv video.
After playing 16 video files at once and dividing them on the screen, they are played at 12x speed, the limit speed that does not cause frame drops.
Four screens in one window, 16 such windows covered the screen, making it dizzy just to look at it, but it didn’t matter to Hwanin, who had improved his overall body specs.
Moreover, Hwanin’s house is located inside the residential area and there is almost no traffic. Only the occasional neighbors or children come and go.
「Hwanin. What are you looking at?」
Norn approaches and sits between Hwanin’s legs and looks at the TV.
After thinking for a moment, Hwanin roughly explained the operating principle of the CCTV, but Norn tilted her head slightly, furrowing his eyebrows as if he had difficulty understanding.
Perhaps because Norn is doing this, five Que often come and attach themselves to him.
Dream?
Kyukkoo.
끡!
「Hwanin. Is it fun to watch the same screen over and over again?”
“I do it because it is my job.”
Chick — After opening a can of beer and drinking it, Norn said, “I want to drink too.” He reached out and put the can in her mouth.
She takes two gulps, her pretty green eyebrows furrowing even more than before.
“… Is this delicious?”
“Quack-quick. Compared to Nionebreath’s beer, it tastes terrible.”
With her eyes fixed on the TV, Hwan-in used her extra resources to buy circuits.
The first dimensional wanderer ‘officially’ recorded in Nionebreath’s history was said to be about 3,000 years ago.
In terms of Earth time, it was about 100 years ago.
‘That’s not to say that no one has returned to Earth from Nionebreth.’
In other words, it would be safe to say that there is a group created by returnees on Earth.
This is if we assume that all recorded history is true.
If 3,000 years ago… Nionebreath seen in Yeongdo If most of the 17,000 years of human history were accompanied by dimensional wanderers, it would have been about 560 years.
‘560 years.’
Several famous conspiracy theory secret societies flash through his mind.
Famous organizations such as the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and the Rosicrucian Society that even Hwanin have heard of.
‘If this speculation is true, I don’t think I’ll be able to live comfortably on Earth.’
Power is important.
Power is important.
You have to build up your strength as much as possible in Nionebreth and come back so you can prepare for any possible friction with the group.
However, Earth has very little phase power, so even if there are returners, if you haven’t used magical power like Underground Rhythm or mastered spiritism, you won’t be able to exert as much power as you did in Nionebreath.
‘Firearms are more terrifying than skills used with abilities.’
Humans made of cloth anyway, in a topological world full of phase power, you can strengthen your body so much that even bullets cannot penetrate it, so it would be useless, but the earth has thin phase power.
Hwanin, who took a quick look inside his body thinking about it, frowned for a moment and paused all the running videos.
Then, I examined the inside of his body closely again.
‘… All the shrapnel phosphorus is about half dissolved.’
Most of the remaining fragments are blurry as if they had persistently tried to harmonize. Enough to melt it all within today if you are determined and circulate.
Why is this suddenly…
‘Is it because of the dimension shift? … If you look at it then.’
Didn’t the core nuclear force continue to recover on Earth?
Through his girlfriends, he can fill his spirits by hugging women, and since his skills are made up of his spirits and core power, it means that he can handle as much power on Earth as he did in Nionebreath.
“…”
You can use all your abilities on Earth, so if you’re careful with long-range sniping, you won’t lose your life under any circumstances.
Hwanyeon handles spirits very well, so if you live outside the city center in nature, you don’t have to worry about an ambush.
As a test, I summoned Immorel from the soul storage on her left arm.
“Did you call, Seongjae-nim?”
You are summoned intact. What is the mechanism of the soul and after death?
“How is the spiritual body? Don’t you feel a sense of incongruity or unnaturalness?”
“… It doesn’t look any different than usual.”
“Let’s possess the celestial body.”
=Yes.=
As instructed, Immorel enters the celestial body and raises her body. At that time, she must have felt something strange, and her expression was colored with doubt, and she began to examine her body.
= Mr. Seongje. The celestial body seems to have changed.=
“… How has it changed?”
=The unpleasant pain and dullness felt while possessed have disappeared. Phase power recovery speed has also been greatly reduced.=
The reduction in phase power recovery speed is something that is known. But why does pain, which is a symptom of the collapse of the celestial body…
‘… Is it related to the fusion of fragmented people?’
In his case, his body was disassembled and reassembled, and the fragments were partially purified, and the negative physical condition of the celestial body returned to normal.
“Don’t release the possession, keep it. If there is any change in the process, speak up immediately.”
=Yes, Lord Seongje.=
After sitting Immorel in a chair, Hwanin played the video again and continued the work of assimilating the fragments until he confirmed that there was no problem with the 16 video files that lasted for 24 hours.
“We’re going to eat out for dinner, so everyone change your clothes and come.”
Two hours later, the women who came to their senses let out a sigh of relief when they learned that they had safely returned to Earth with Hwanin.
Due to the number of people, and because it did not break her core, everyone was worried about what to do if she fell or fell.
Of course, she kissed her so that she would return to Yeongdo to wait if she fell, but the fact that she could fall with him was enough to make them nervous.
After changing clothes first, Yurpa said to Hwanin, who was organizing her laptop in the living room.
= But she was asleep for two hours, you should have woken her up. =
“I didn’t fall down on the street like last time, so I thought I wouldn’t wake him up. Everyone was sleeping soundly.”
=But…=
“There is nothing to do this time, and the purpose is to pass the time, so just think of it as taking a break for three days and rest.”
At Hwanin’s soft reading, Yurpa briefly touched her ear lobe and then smiled.
Now that he says this, isn’t it a little bit of a question to keep asking if there’s something we need to do?
It would be better to just find something to do on my own and move on. I have something to try.
Yu Lepa, who gave her eyes to the little Que who were running around the living room and playing, saw everyone changing clothes and came out, took out a special earring-shaped horse tool from his pocket and said,
=Miss Anne, Lady Ayoung and Lady Ryeogang, and Norn, come and get this.=
=Huh?=
=What is this?=
「?」
= Miniature body transformation magic tool. Miss Anne and Ayoung make her ears round like a human’s, and Miss Ryegang hides her horns and her tail. Norn hides her wings. =
Consume phase power draws and uses the wearer’s phase power, and since it has been improved over and over again, it will allow you to maintain it for 24 hours even in this place where phase power recovery is greatly reduced.
=Oh, my ears are really round. But the touch is the same as the original ear?=
= It’s because I overlaid the welcome. I excluded the physical change because I didn’t know how it would affect the ladies. =
= If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better to change the hair color of Ayeong and her bell? She heard that there is no purple hair on Earth. =
While the women were wearing magic tools, Hwanin came out of the room, changed into a black neck tee, plain brown pants, and a tan coat, and handed out celebrity masks to his girlfriends.
“There are dyed and colored contact lenses. In the eyes of Koreans, you will only see foreign beauties, so as long as you don’t see ears, horns, and tails, there won’t be any big problems. Wearing a mask will lessen the discomfort.”
I found out, but the epidemic that started in China is still pampered.
There is talk of lifting the mandatory wearing, but there is nothing strange about wearing a mask on the street.
When the Wuhan virus started three years ago, you might have heard people say that people were outraged at wearing a mask, but now the mask has become an inseparable symbol of everyday life.
Anne, wearing a black mask, spreads her arms in casual attire in a slightly sporty white jumper.
=Doryeong, how are you?=
“It suits you well.”
Being like that, they look like earthlings. In the eyes of strangers, he might look like a foreign volleyball player or basketball player.
Isilite, who waited by her side as Hwanin changed her clothes, brought two bags from her and handed them to Immorel.
= Aunt. Kue, I take out what’s in this bag for dinner for the kids, and I’ve made a lunch box here, so I take out and eat dinner here.
=Yes, Isilite.=
= By the way, brother. Will Belle and I be okay? This is my first time here…=
Hearing that she is from another dimension, Hwan-in patted her head saying it was okay to Ah-young, who expressed her concern.
Isilite, Anne, and Yurpa worked hard to learn Hangeul and Korean after spawning ponds, and now they can talk as much as foreigners who have lived in Korea for a long time.
Baek Ryeo-gang and A-young also started learning by following what their older sisters were learning. The conversation is a bit awkward, but the conversation is at a level that is not too difficult. Their looks are Western beauties, so no one will find them strange.
If you think about it, it’s probably something like ‘I dyed my hair a very strange color.’
“Imorel, I’ll be back, so take care of the Que and the house.”
=Yes, Lord Seongje.=
As soon as she left the house to catch the taxi she had called in advance, Anne grabbed her Norn by the shoulder and brought her to her side.
= Norn, you should be careful what you say when you go out. Because what you say makes my ears tingle.=
“I heard from Hwanin. You don’t have to talk too much.”
= Right. So stick by my side and pull on my clothes if you have something to say. If you whisper in my ear, I’ll tell you instead.=
“Huh.”
“…”
Hwanin saw that even though it was near a residential area, everyone passing by gave her female friends a glance, so she thought it was a good idea to put on a mask.
It was a miracle that there were no problems last time.
She was on the verge of disabling the mandatory wear, but she wasn’t wearing a mask. It must have been enough to cause a fight… Maybe it wasn’t a problem because the girlfriends were so beautiful that they distracted me.
Hwanin, who had dinner at a high-class Korean restaurant he reserved while his girlfriends were fainting, moved to a nearby department store.
The road there was not inconvenient.
Even though they wore masks and were roughly dressed appropriately, their cute looks attracted people’s attention at random, but because the number of people was also the same and Hwanin’s presence felt like a girl group manager, people were blocked from approaching them at the source.
= Oh, this dress is pretty. Dew, this will suit you well. =
= I’m wearing a skirt… I prefer pants.=
=Don’t do that, try it on. Doryeong! Doryeong also wants to see Dew wearing a skirt?!=
“… Okay.”
At Anne’s cry, the eyes of the women and the men who accompanied her entered the high-end women’s clothing store, and focused on Hwanin.
“Hey, don’t you think men would be handsome as well?”
“Even though he wore a real mask, his handsomeness seemed to linger.”
“Ah, that’s a bit Eva. Don’t you know the mask effect? There seems to be a wave underneath.”
“… That’s why you don’t have a girlfriend.”
“Fuck. Why are you suddenly jealous? Even though you’re a motherfucker too.”
“No, what’s more than that? I don’t think it’s normal.”
Hwan-in, who deliberately ignored the sound of whispering about them and watched the girlfriends happily looking at clothes, spread the feeling of excitement again.
The reason why Hwan-in took her girlfriends out to the downtown area is to give them clothes and things they like at the department store as presents, but…
‘Is there anyone who can feel phase power?’
It was to check how many people might have phase power through Gigam.
Today is the weekend, Saturday evening.
There were a lot of people coming and going, so I looked through thousands of people from the Korean restaurant to the department store here, but I couldn’t find a single trace of power.
It is an indiscriminate and indiscriminate method, but if you find a person with traces of phase power in this way, you can guess how many people related to Nionebreath are spread on Earth.
There are about 10 million citizens of Seoul.
In terms of numbers alone, there are not a few cities around the world with a larger population than Seoul. However, if you rank the population density per area, Seoul is dense enough to be in the top five in the world.
If you find a person with phase power in such an ignorant way, it is an obvious situation without looking at other countries.
“Wow, did you just see that?! Really crazy… !”
“Wow, wow, how could a person look like that?”
All of a sudden, there was a fuss, so I turned my attention to my girlfriends, wondering what was going on.
Isilite is putting her mask back on, with her coat halfway showing her.
Apparently, while Isilite was changing her coat, she accidentally spilled her mask, and it seems that her guests, both men and women, who saw it, exclaimed with excitement and consternation.
People in the store. Up until now, he had only watched them from afar, but now it seemed like they were sneaking up to talk to each other. Hwanin paid for the clothes his girlfriends had picked out with his card and moved on to the next course, a liquor store.
It was an off-line liquor store that I checked on the Internet and managed well. It was an ideal place from how to store alcoholic beverages to quality control, so Hwanin, along with Anne, bought dozens of types of wine and oriental liquor.
Jim is stored in an aspen in a place where there are no people’s eyes and no cctv.
Then, luxury cosmetics stores, luxury underwear stores, luxury food marts, and even large bookstores nearby.
It was a shopping course that all of the girlfriends were satisfied with, and the spending alone exceeded 10 million won, but it was not the spending that made Hwanin difficult, but the underwear store.
=Doryeong, how about this?=
“… I think it’s good. The contrast with the color of your hair stands out.”
=Heehee.=
= Owner… Hwanin-nim, do you like the color of this underwear?=
“… Okay. But isn’t there too much exposure?”
=Week… I’m only going to show it to Hwanin.=
= Oppa oppa! How about this?! I think it will be fine if it gets tangled with Bell!=
“… That, yes.”
= My brother is fine! Buy this!=
When all the girlfriends brought their underwear to him for inspection, the store clerk as well as the female customers and a handful of men looked at Hwanin as if they were looking at him with an axe.
After shopping, Hwanin left the department store with his girlfriends and smiled bitterly.
‘If it had been in the past, I wouldn’t have cared at all about other people’s gazes.’
Hwanin, who was looking at his girlfriends with big smiles and chattering with soft eyes, noticed Norn staring at a skewer of meat, the size of a forearm, at a food stall.
“Wow.”
I bought two and gave them to Norn, and Norn was happy holding a meat skewer in both hands.
Isilite and Anne take care of the sauce when they see it dripping down. Yurupa, Baek Ryeo-gang, and Ah-young whisper while pointing at the dazzling neon signs and countless cars passing by.
Hwanin looked at his girlfriends from behind and raised his eyes to the night sky with a white moon.
‘I searched for close to 7,000 people, but I couldn’t find a single trace of phase power.’
The daily floating population of this street exceeds 300,000. I mean, I couldn’t find one here…
Was she overreacting too much? The detective who came here last time was just a coincidence.
‘No way.’
There is no such thing as a coincidence in this world. What you think is a coincidence is just the result of many complicated human relationships.
‘Did you say it was the Ondal Detective Office of the KCI Korean Detective League?’
Hwanin’s eyes calmed down.
