0% – Park Seungyub
As I activated The First Human, my consciousness left my body and arrived in an infinitely white space. It was a truly strange place. Incomprehensible characters flew around everywhere, and a form like a black fla appeared in front of .
Where on earth is this?
I tried to speak, but no words ca out. I had no mouth to speak or scream.
“...”
Strangely, I seed to know what I should do.
Did Hyung and Noona have similar experiences when they realized how to use their Inheritance the mont they got it?
I needed to create a “command” in this mysterious place. I needed to create a revelation that the “other ” who would wake up from now on would follow like a golden rule.
“Where?”
...In the mansion?
“Until when?”
Until the movie ends?
“What?”
This is easy.
Survival!
“How?”
For a mont, I was at a loss for words.
How to survive? I used this ability because I don’t know that either?
As I was pondering, the “gap” started to shake. There was no ti to think leisurely.
Ah, figure it out! Well!
My consciousness beca hazy. I felt another awaken in my body.
***– Park Seungyub (The First Human)
Suddenly, I ca to my senses in a strange place.
Where is this? Who am I?
Survive in the mansion until the movie ends on your own.
A revelation ca down. As a heavy voice echoed in my head, my confused mind cleared and I knew this sentence was a command I must follow.
...It was difficult to understand the content of the revelation.
It wasn’t that I didn’t know the aning of each word. Strangely, the anings of the words naturally ca to mind.
The mansion was this enormously big house where I was now.
A movie was when many people watched a black wall where strange fantasies appeared in a large place.
But what did it an until the movie ended? There was no black wall where fantasies around ?
I didn’t understand the aning of survive on your own either.
I’m alive and safe, aren’t I? Is sothing threatening ?
At that mont, the pink elephant in front of opened its mouth, “Kevin, what are you doing not drinking the tea?”
“...Kevin? Is that my na? Who are you?”
“? I’m Dollyphant!”
“Dollyphant? I have a question.”
“A question?”
“Where is a movie playing right now?”
Dollyphant showed a reaction as if asking what on earth I was talking about.
“A movie? There’s no such thing in this house?”
“But, I have to live until the movie ends.”
“What on earth are you saying? Until the movie ends?”
“Hmm... Let’s put aside the movie. Does ‘survive’ an sothing is threatening ? Are there dangerous beings around?”
The pink elephant, Dollyphant, tilted its head.
“Dangerous beings? This place is safe! If you’re talking about Thomas, don’t worry. I’ve already smashed it.”
“Aha! So there was originally a threat in this place, but you’ve already smashed it?”
“Maybe? So Kevin, don’t worry and drink the tea.”
“Is this water the tea?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll drink it.”
Feeling at ease, I drank the water in the huge cup. After about two sips, it tasted a bit bitter. When I raised my head, Dollyphant was staring at with wide eyes.
“Don’t tell Kevin, you’re not trying to leave the tea I brewed with care?”
“I’m not? I’m planning to drink it later?”
“Drink it later? Now is tea ti!”
“What’s tea ti?”
Dollyphant seed flustered for a mont, then brought a small book from the side.
“Tea ti is the ti to drink tea!”
“I see. But I drank tea, didn’t I?”
“You didn’t drink it all!”
“Do I have to drink it all? Does it say in tea ti you have to drink all the tea without leaving a single drop?”
Dollyphant got flustered again and started flipping through the book with its trunk. Curious, I went closer and started reading together.
“D-do you have to drink it all? There... There’s no such thing written...”
“Look at this! It says if you’re a fine English gentleman, you should always be able to enjoy a cup of tea without losing composure and dignity, right?”
“...Yes.”
“It says to drink leisurely. There’s no need to drink it all at once. I’ll drink slowly.”
“Is that so? But Kevin, this picture is a bit strange!”
“What is?”
“Why is the English gentleman’s nose so short? My nose is much longer?”
“Because you’re an elephant and the gentleman is a human?”
“Can’t elephants be English gentlen?”
I pondered for a mont at those words.
Can’t elephants be English gentlen? Why didn’t the being who gave the revelation ntion such an important issue?
As I carefully examined the booklet, flipping through it, I found a sentence written in slightly different handwriting.
Elephants participating in tea ti can use their trunks instead of hands.
“Dollyphant! Look at this. Elephants can use their trunks instead of hands, so your trunk is your hand.”
“Then why are my hands attached to my nose?”
“Maybe the position of hands isn’t important. There’s nothing saying hands must be attached to the body.”
“That’s a relief!”
“But I’ve discovered a serious problem.”
As soon as I ntioned a serious problem, Dollyphant’s expression darkened. I flipped through the booklet and pointed to a scene where a woman wearing clothes like a flower was drinking tea.
“Look. She’s tilting the teacup with her hand to drink, right?”
“Yes.”
“But Dollyphant is sucking up the tea with your trunk and putting it in your mouth.”
“Oh? Could it be!”
“Dollyphant has been seriously violating tea ti etiquette all this ti. Now, tilt the teacup with your trunk to drink.”
Dollyphant started tilting the teacup with its trunk with a serious expression. Was it because it couldn’t move its trunk as delicately as a hand? The teacup lost balance and tea started spilling on the floor.
“Waaah! W-what is this? Why is it so difficult?”
“It’s because you lack practice. Watch .”
I straightened my back and concentrated strength in both arms. Focusing my entire mind, I slightly tilted the teacup as big as my torso, and barely managed to drink the tea without spilling it.
“See! This is how you do it! Dollyphant, try it with your hand—no, trunk too.”
“C-can’t you just write it in the book like you did earlier?”
“Write it in the book?”
“Elephants can suck up tea with their trunks.”
“No! You can’t break rules as you please. I recalled rules I must follow as soon as I ca to my senses, so you have to follow them too.”
When I told it to follow tea ti etiquette, Dollyphant nodded with a sad expression. Afterwards, I grabbed Dollyphant’s trunk and made it practice tilting the teacup.
***– Theater
Songee, with her mouth half-open, muttered with a dumbfounded expression, “...What on earth is this?”
Kain had been giggling uncontrollably for a while.
“What do you an what? It’s a person teaching an elephant how to drink tea!”
“N-no! I an! Why did it suddenly change to this dynamic?”
Kain said, barely holding back laughter, “It seems to have ended up like this sohow, but isn’t the situation itself unexpectedly standard hotel strategy? Dollyphant is a monster that sets bizarre rules and attacks if you break those rules. Seungyub pointed out to that monster ‘You’re also breaking the rules,’ and made it fall into contradiction.”
As Songee tilted her head at Kain’s words, Sanghyun opened his mouth, “Seungyub’s new power, The First Human, is quite interesting. He lost his mory? Maybe because of that, he seems much smarter than usual. Ah, of course, I don’t an Seungyub was lacking normally.”
Kain agreed, “It seems he’s acting like that because his thinking beca freer as common sense disappeared. However...”
“He seems to have worded the command a little oddly.”
“He understands the word ‘movie’, but he doesn’t understand that he’s ‘inside’ a movie. Moreover, because he didn’t include who is threatening him in the content, he doesn’t understand why he’s in danger even with a murderous doll right in front of him.”
“As a result, things turned out well. Because he doesn’t know, he’s acting like that without even knowing Dollyphant is scary, right?”
“Honestly, it’s a bit different from what I expected. I expected scenes of him running away like a crazy person but surviving with crazy luck.”
“That’s one possibility, and this is another possibility, too. By the way, I see one big advantage of this ability.”
“The duration is incredibly long. It’s incredibly long compared to Heaven’s Luck.”
The people in the theater felt the tension gradually easing. The ti until tea ti ended was rapidly approaching.
“Hiya! I didn’t expect Seungyub to get through like this?”
There was Jinchul’s admiration.
“Oh! Just now, Seungyub pointed out to Dollyphant why it’s not standing on two feet!”
“That kid is doing it again as told. It’s really trying to stand on two feet?”
Along with Songee’s exclamation, there was now an elephant that started ballet practice to imitate humans.
When everyone sensed the end of the third story approaching, for so reason, Dollyphant’s voice, sounding very satisfied, flowed from the screen.
“It was a very informative ti! Thanks to Kevin, I had an enjoyable tea ti. Now I can beco a fine English elephant too! Kevin enjoyed it too, right?”
A smile seeped into Kain’s face. Now that elephant was starting to look cute.
“That guy, looking at it again, isn’t it cute? It seems kind of nice too?”
“That’s right. The way it thoroughly follows rules itself—“
“No.”
“Hmm?”
“Did I hear wrong?”
“It wasn’t fun. Especially the black tea was the worst.”
“S-Seungyub?”
“Uwaaah!”
“Why do you drink such bitter water? I never want to have tea ti again.”
“Kyah! That kid, he’s crazy!”
Everyone except one boy fell into shock and fear. Even the elephant on the screen had a shocked expression with its mouth wide open.
“T-that! Park Seungyub, this crazy bastard! He’s too fearless!”
“Especially teaching you, Dollyphant, was the most tiring. From the start, this booklet, don’t you feel it as you look at it? An elephant having tea ti? Tea ti, my ass!”
Kain just decided to laugh, “Hahaha! Well, the current Seungyub hasn’t experienced anything scary even once, so it would be stranger if his behavior was cautious.”
Jinchul despaired endlessly, “This idiot! He blew it!”
“Puuuuuu!”
A cry full of sadness burst out from the elephant on the screen.
***– Park Seungyub (The First Human)
“Puuuuuu!”
Dollyphant suddenly stood up and made a noise so loud that my body trembled. Tears flowed from the pink elephant’s eyes, wetting the floor. At that mont, I thought for the first ti.
“Did I make a mistake?”
Instead of answering, as Dollyphant raised its huge body and lifted its front legs.
Before my head could think, my body rolled on the floor first.
– Bang!
The mansion floor crumbled with one hit. At this point, I had a sudden thought!
Could it be that the being threatening was Dollyphant? T-then it would have been good if you had told when you gave the revelation!
“Uooooh!”
A huge roar! I frantically rolled to the side and ran towards the door. Instead of chasing right away, Dollyphant remained in the room and started wailing.
“Dolly dolly! I’m angry! I’m angry! Kevin! I’ll boil you in a teapot! I’ll flatten you and turn you into paper!”
“How can a person beco paper?”
“Shut up!”
Why is it getting angry when I just asked a question? This elephant has a strange personality!
As Dollyphant shouted and twisted its body, the mansion started shaking. In that process, maybe because the mansion got damaged, with a tick, the mansion suddenly darkened.
As darkness descended where I couldn’t even see my hand in front of , Dollyphant started getting angrier.
“Keeevin! Where are you hiding?”
– Bang! Crash!
I heard the sound of the elephant rampaging.
Even the sturdy and solid mansion couldn’t withstand that monster’s body slam. Vibrations strong enough to shake the entire house occurred incessantly, and various decorations from the ceiling started falling.
Although I couldn’t see well because it was dark, fortunately, nothing fell towards . While reaching out my hand and feeling around the walls and stairs, I touched a soft ball of cotton.
“Wha—gasp”
I imdiately closed my mouth, afraid Dollyphant might hear. But, a strange sound ca from the cotton ball.
“Yooou touuuched myyyy baaack. Keeeviiiin woooon—“
What is it saying? I touched its back so Kevin won? Does cotton originally talk?
Seeing the cotton making sounds made anxious, so I threw it far away.
– Boom!
The mansion started shaking again. Was it because unbearable impacts were applied in succession? This ti, truly ominous sounds started to be heard.
Eventually, with a crashing sound, a huge wall collapsed and light from outside the mansion started coming in. Maybe because light suddenly ca in from the darkness, the elephant that broke down the wall stretched out its trunk to cover its eyes.
Around that ti, I fell into contemplation. The revelation told to “Survive in the mansion until the movie ends on your own.”
Does this an don’t go outside the mansion? Or does it an I can do as I please once I go outside the mansion because I’ve succeeded in surviving?
Let’s think comfortably!
Let’s remove “until the movie ends” because I don’t know what it ans. Then only “Survive in the mansion on your own” remains. What if I go outside the mansion? It ans I’ve succeeded in surviving on my own while in the mansion.
Smiling happily, I ca out of the mansion. I successfully completed the revelation!
“Hahaha! Success!”
...Consciousness slowly returned.
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