Gravity Railway.
A railway installed on the slopes of a mountain to transport ores in the highlands.
Contrary to the original plan, this railway, which looked like a kind of giant slide, became very popular as a tourist facility.
It was the result of word-of-mouth spread of the fast sense of speed when descending.
And in 1884, American businessman Lamarcus Thompson, who smelled the money, introduced the ‘Switchback Gravity Railway’, an amusement ride modeled after a gravity railroad, at the amusement park ‘Coney Island’.
It was the moment when mankind opened their eyes to a newspaper called a roller coaster.
“Uh⋯⋯.”
Why did I suddenly bring up this story?
“Um ⋯⋯?”
It was because the amusement park looked down on the rails felt dizzyingly small.
“Uh oh ⋯⋯.”
It was because the sound of the lift slowly increasing in altitude with a ticking sound shook my head.
“ah.”
It was because the speed of this crazy iron nugget, which began to descend into endless darkness without warning, was too fast than expected.
“Ahhh!”
Because I’m not sane, all sorts of nonsense comes out of my mind. His shoulders shrugged and sweat was dripping from his hands.
“Dojin-ah, it’s okay—”
“Ahhh!”
Even before I could even listen to my sister, the 360-degree vertical loop made my whole body feel like I was experiencing it for the first time.
The cold wind blows in through the hole in my body, so I can’t get my mind right.
Even more spectacular was that this roller coaster was built indoors. Of course, I knew that it was built under a thorough safety check and design, but the human brain prioritized visual information that was happening right in front of me.
At the end of the course, there was me, who was seriously predicting whether I would hit my head when the train barely passed through a pier where people were passing by.
“Ugh, uh uh ⋯⋯.”
I came out of the exit with staggering steps and sat down on the bench. The ringing in my ears was like dying. The sense of gravity pulling the soles of the feet was an unfamiliar sensation.
“Do, Jin-ah. Do Jin-ah⋯⋯.”
A gigantic palm covered his twinkling eyes. The older sister, with worried eyes, continued to speak while waving her palms.
“Can you see how many of these?”
“Three ⋯⋯.”
No, was it two? I do not know. That looks like it. At any rate, my sister heard my answer and started stroking my face while crying.
“Is it very difficult? Do you think you’ll vomit? Hey, should I call an ambulance every day? Ah, if I had known this would have been the case, I would have just taken the elephant train.”
“Sister⋯⋯.”
“uh? call me?”
“No, other than that⋯⋯.”
I leaned back on the bench and then hung down. After taking a few deep breaths, I felt as if my scattered mind had returned to one place.
“Here⋯⋯. So, there are roller coasters outside as well as inside.”
“Yes. But why?”
As my mind cleared, the exhilarating pleasure I had experienced on the rail a while ago came over again on the nape of my neck.
My God, I’ve never felt such a creepy feeling in my life. I’m only riding this right now. I feel like I’ve lost half of my life.
“How scary are you compared to the one you rode a while ago?”
My sister’s eyes widened.
However, my sister soon began to think seriously and seriously with her chin on her chin, as if answering my questions was more important than her own curiosity.
“Ugh ⋯⋯. First of all, the height is lower than the Fruit Evolution I rode a while ago. The speed is also the same. Instead, I have to say that the speed felt a little faster because there are many sections where I accelerated rapidly⋯⋯. Do you feel like you’ve just splashed water on it and it’s crazy?”
Right now, this alone is ecstatic enough, but it splashes water in a plunge?
Just thinking about it, my whole body started to tingle.
“But why are you asking that? Are you sure you don’t want to ride it? Dojin is still too early for you. Other than that, to ride the elephant train with my sister—”
Unable to bear the pounding of my heart, I reflexively kicked off my chair and got up.
If you keep riding from now on, how much more can you ride? No, it would be better to ride the whole steam evenly. Because there may be some jackpots among them.
With that thought in mind, I felt a heavy sensation in my left hand as I stepped forward like a five-year-old child who came to the amusement park for the first time.
“ah.”
The one in her left hand was Dasomi’s sister’s hand. It looked quite sturdy as it was tightly fitted up to the pod.
⋯⋯ Come to think of it, when I was riding the roller coaster a while ago, I was so embarrassed that I started with the safety bar and grabbed anything I could catch. Then the last thing I grabbed was my sister’s hand.
Unlike the ones that were shaken precariously and let go of them, my sister’s hands were stuck together and did not fall off.
It was as if I was grabbing the subway handle, and I kept holding on to it without realizing it.
Surprised, I quickly released my sister’s hand. The back of my sister’s hand was slightly reddish because of how tightly she held it.
“I’m sorry, I was sick.”
“Ah⋯⋯.”
The older sister, who had clasped her hands with a shallow moan, immediately shuddered and trembled, shaking her hands frantically.
“Oh, no. no no no? It didn’t hurt at all. That’s it, so let’s go fast. He said he would ride, Atlas. It’s very crowded right now, so if you’re late, you’ll have to wait for a while.”
The older sister began to take the last step after saying those words.
So I also set out quickly, but at a speed as if I was using the chukji method, I could only follow the back from ten steps away.
* * *
“Whoa.”
As I drank the water, a reflexive moan like an uncle came out. I know it’s embarrassing, but I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I felt a rush of adrenaline rushing through my brain.
For a while like that, using the back of the chair as a support, it spread like green onion kimchi, and then a sound of a bird flew in from the other side.
“Puch.”
Dasomi noona, who was sitting in front of me, was fiddling with her smartphone and letting out a wry laugh.
“What is so much fun?”
“Ugh, our Dojinie came out so cute. After, heh heh⋯⋯.”
Dasomi noona, who was frantically pounding her smartphone while exhaling thick breaths one after another, soon hardened as hard as a stone.
“Not because I thought the facility was really pretty. In ten years, the rivers and mountains change, and a lot has changed. Is not it?”
Without saying anything, I looked into my sister’s face. My older sister, who was slowly avoiding my eyes, finally turned her eyes away, making her face look like a blush.
“Mi, sorry. Without saying a word, I secretly filmed it⋯⋯.”
But the words that came out of his mouth were completely unexpected and absurd. I thought it was because I was embarrassed to show a ruthless appearance.
“⋯⋯Still, did you only take 30 pictures?”
Dasom noona said as if crawling while wiggling her fingers. It’s a little bit creepy, but it’s not surprising that you’ve been patient with it.
I couldn’t help but laugh at that chubby look.
“Let’s see what we filmed, please.”
“oh.”
The screen of my smartphone showed me wearing an animal ear headband and looking in the mirror. Damn, I just filmed something I used for a while out of curiosity.
I flipped through the scrolls, pushing my sister who was trying to take my smartphone away while beckoning me.
I became contemplated because of the balloon that burst right next to me. I fell while skating and stroked my ass. After getting off the gyro swing, I am looking at the sky with a terrible goal. I eat churros with my eyes wide open like a squirrel with an abominable expression on my face⋯⋯ I have to erase this.
“no!”
The older sister, who took the smartphone with a nimble gesture, turned on the lights and started looking through the gallery to see if there were any deleted photos.
I felt goosebumps on the back of my hand when I thought that the same photo was taken 30 times before, but it happened. If it’s a funny picture, I’ve got several.
The picture of the older sister smiling like a penny while looking at this side without even realizing that there was ice cream on her nose was truly exquisite.
Of course, unlike anyone else, the photo was not taken. They were taken with a laugh out loud.
“Why, why are you looking at me like that⋯⋯?”
Seeing the corners of her quivering lips, the eyes of her older sister vibrated as if an earthquake had occurred.
It was just a laugh that came out of laughter, but seeing him overreact like that, it seems that somehow he gets stabbed again.
Whatever it is, that’s a good response.
It’s been a long time since my sister showed me feelings other than guilt.
“No, just what. I watched it because I was worried that he was walking around the neighborhood without knowing what was on his face.”
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My sister’s face swelled up like a balloon about to burst. This, as a person who has become an older sister, face is not the point.
“You just looked good.”
When I pressed the shutter of the DSLR camera, Dasomi noona covered her face with her hands. Each time the shutter is pressed, the red color saturation also adds to its vividness.
“Ha, don’t do it⋯⋯.”
What happens to a 30-year-old the day after tomorrow is even cuter than a high school student.
“Since he took thirty pictures, I have to take that many.”
“⋯⋯.”
Her sister’s mouth was shut. It was time to return the humiliation that had been treated as a baby all day.
“Don’t cover your face. There are still twenty-two more left.”
“Well, I was wrong⋯⋯.”
As I continued to tease my older sister with that momentum, a thought suddenly popped into my head.
If I hadn’t met Midsummer at the jjimjilbang that day.
If you choose to run away without facing each other.
If I hadn’t been aware of my own desires.
What type of relationship were you and your sister going on right now? No, I was more curious about what kind of expression he was making.
But in any case, I made a choice, and it came to the point where I could no longer go back.
Now, we have to move on and set aside our unnecessary worries.
Even if the end is a cliff, that fact does not change.
