Episode 504
The man who was standing blankly thought about it later.
‘…what was my na?’
First of all, I’m sure it’s not ‘Lee Jae-heon’, but that doesn’t an I can’t rember his original na.
Wait a minute, ‘originally’? The man unconsciously acknowledged that he was ‘Manager Lee Jae-heon.’ So, am I Lee Jae-heon? Following the steady stream of thoughts, I lowered my gaze and looked at my hands.
“….”
The bones are thick and
have almost no calluses.
There are only a few small scars.
“Uh…”
Yes, there is a scar.
A body completely different from the one I rember. Skeleton traces.
I can’t believe that I have a defect in myself, who has such tenacious regenerative power that even the superiors admit it. It was ridiculous. It shouldn’t have happened, but why are these marks left on my hands?
The man realized that I was holding a kitchen knife in my other hand.
“what is the problem?”
He muttered softly and plunged the knife into his arm.
Deep sleep!
“Why suddenly….”
“Manager.”
“I don’t know what’s going on.”
No matter how I tried, the arm showed no signs of regeneration. You may have been poisoned by so type of poison that prevents regeneration. What on earth is wrong with my body?
“Director Jaeheon Lee.”
“ah.”
Only then do you realize it.
“…I was Lee Jae-heon.”
This is the body of ‘Lee Jae-heon’.
Jaeheon Lee. A third-rate villain in a novel written by his wife.
In the original story, a high school brother and sister are used as bait at a hospital, but they end up dying horrible deaths. There is no way such a person would have the ability to regenerate.
“….”
…No, wait a minute. How do you know this? Has he ever written a novel? No, I was a police officer. We had the sa body back then. No, I am not…
“….”
“….”
I took a deep breath and forced my pounding heart to calm down.
When I pulled out the knife stuck in my arm, blood flowed along with it. The pain was felt, but not clearly. It ant that more than just his physical condition, there was sothing wrong with his mind.
I looked back at the person who had called several tis as if to stop .
“…Do you need treatnt?”
“…who were you?”
“My na is Eunwoo Jeong. “I am working as Chairman Lee’s secretary.”
“Oh, thank you.”
Who was ‘Chairman Lee’?
My mind was a ss.
My na was Lee Jae-heon, I was also a police officer under another na, and I was also a villain who was hated by the main character.
Lee Jae-heon, who realized that his mind and mory were not intact, was able to get one word out after stretching out the wrinkles in his brain.
“…Sister’s….”
“Yes, Chairman Lee Jae-hee is Manager Lee Jae-heon’s older sister.”
“Huh.”
While I felt resentful for not being able to recall even a single basic mory, the person nad Eun-Woo Jeong, who gave consistent answers to such pointless questions, did not seem sane either.
He must have looked like a crazy person holding a knife and talking gibberish like this, but he kept it in tune.
‘Is he really crazy?’
Even in the midst of confusion, a part of felt convenience. It was uncomfortable these days because chicks rarely work efficiently, but now I feel relieved.
…what?
‘No, our chicks were always good at their jobs, right?’
Why do I feel this way?
“…I am Lee Jae-heon….”
I do it because I am ‘Lee Jae-heon’, you half-poon.
I used all my strength to block the thoughts that were trying to go elsewhere.
Please don’t forget, he was Lee Jae-heon. Probably right. I can’t rember, but anyway, he is not called a poisonous snake now.
In the sa sense, it doesn’t even seem to have the ability to regenerate. So what use is it to ? No, please don’t think like this. I an, sort out the situation first.
“I’m Jaeheon Lee…”
“….”
“I think he’s dead.”
He’s fucking dead.
That was really funny.
‘Was it a day or two before I died?’
All I could think of as I struggled to endure the confusion that felt like firecrackers exploding inside my skull was this. But the man was sure. Apparently he just died and went back in ti. I’m not sure, but I think it was roughly that way.
But can you die and go back in ti and co back to life? Is this possible?
‘Rather than that in the first place….’
Why am I alive?
“….”
At that mont, the people who looked down at coldly ca to mind.
The children who saw dying after being stabbed here and there and poisoned. He went ho feeling much more comfortable leaving behind and died. That’s how he died.
After that, my thoughts couldn’t continue. It was ridiculous to be alive and breathing like I am now. As the impatience and confusion spread, my mind turned completely white, as if it was broken.
“…Why did I die?”
“….”
“Why… did you survive? Shouldn’t he have died? I’m sure he’s dead. Eunwoo Jeong, have you ever seen our children? Those kids definitely killed . It wasn’t possible to co back to life. Wasn’t it over? Was there sothing else I should have done in life? Probably not. I’m useless now, so why…”
“Manager.”
“Isn’t it all supposed to be over? What more should I do? “I shouldn’t be alive like this. Do you have any idea why this happened?”
“Director Jaeheon Lee.”
“….”
The man closed his mouth at the call of ‘Lee Jae-heon.’
“….”
“I’m sorry, but I didn’t even understand half of what you said. I would appreciate it if you could speak more slowly. And as far as I know, the manager has never died. My na is Jaeheon Lee, and I am the head of the planning departnt at the Oseong headquarters. “He is a mber of the Idang Group and the third youngest among his siblings.”
“…That…”
The man blinked a few tis, caught his breath, and continued.
“That’s good. Please keep calling by my na.”
“I will.”
“…I need to rest for a while.”
“That’s a good idea.”
“I need to rest.”
He mumbled the sa words again and slowly looked around.
A large cylindrical water tank, bright blue scenery and humid air. I don’t know what on earth I was doing, but my whole body was soaked in black water. As I was out of breath, my throat beca itchy and I scratched it with my fingernails.
‘…Why is my ankle like this again?’
The rattling thing looked like soone had probably hit him with a hard iron club or sothing. Now that I think about it, there were injuries all over my body, and I wondered if I had been kidnapped or assaulted a few days ago.
The feeling of continuing pain due to non-regeneration was a bit unfamiliar.
“….”
Exhaling slowly with his eyes closed, the man organized his thoughts. Even if you don’t know why you are in this place, understanding the situation is a prerequisite for efficient work.
And soon I was able to understand my condition and situation.
‘…I think I was reincarnated after I died. Did you do it twice? Seeing as the mories belong to two people, it seems like that.’
Although the mories were sparse, I could tell that they contained mories of a total of three people.
In order, the mory of my past life as a governnt dog, the mory of being reincarnated as a police officer in my previous life, and the mory of an old manager who had a bad relationship with the main character of this world were classified as mories. But I wasn’t sure about all this.
I don’t know if it was because my mind was confused or because I was hit by sothing, but the gap in my mory was too big.
“…I am Lee Jae-heon….”
I listed certain facts, starting with my ‘na’.
‘Regardless of my past life or anything else, I barely rember anything about being a poisonous snake. I know that I am a third-rate villain from a novel. I definitely have mories of that ti. ‘It’s up to that point, but…’
The man who was muttering to himself sighed loudly.
“I can’t organize it.”
I tried, but in the end I couldn’t regain my identity. It’s because my brain has lted.
I tried to act calm, but even that failed. As my foundation was shaken, my heart, which I had tried so hard to keep calm, was pounding with anxiety and I could not be sure of anything except that my na was ‘Lee Jae-heon.’
In the end, what the man chose was to ask the person next to him.
“Why are we here?”
“I don’t know about that either. “I understand that the manager was unable to explain the phenonon.”
“Then where is this place?”
“This is Dreamcatcher Aquarium.”
“It doesn’t look like an ordinary aquarium. Is this a research institute that trains monsters?”
“To be exact, I understand that it is an aquarium in the underworld.”
“What is the other side of the world?”
“You said it was a world built through people’s thoughts.”
“I?”
“Yes, Manager Lee Jae-heon.”
“….”
Anyway, it was a dungeon.
‘…Lee Jae-heon was well aware of its existence.’
At that point, what ca to mind was a novel my wife had written. This body belonged to the villain in the novel, and the underworld was a type of dungeon that appeared in the novel. I roughly understood it.
However, ‘Lee Jae-heon’ should have died long ago when he had the hospital episode, so why is he still alive in the aquarium?
“….”
Oh, that wasn’t . Now this body belongs to the reincarnated ‘Lee Jae-heon’. I had to rember that.
“What was I doing?”
“I was getting the ball from that room.”
“ball?”
“Yes, a plastic ball like this.”
As Jeong Eun-woo said that, a total of three plastic balls, orange, yellow and green, were placed at his feet.
I still couldn’t figure out the intention.
“…What can I do with that?”
“By solving a kind of puzzle including these, Manager Lee Jae-heon wanted to check a total of six rooms here and gain information about this aquarium.”
“aha.”
“…don’t you rember anything?”
“That’s not true.”
The man continued speaking with an expressionless expression.
“I think I forgot a lot.”
In fact, even this could not be considered entirely correct.
Rather than saying that it was completely forgotten, it would be more accurate to say that it was damaged to the point where it was unrecognizable.
He could rember that he knew sothing, but he couldn’t organize his thoughts and get them out. It’s as if the paints were mixed together and couldn’t be separated…
“…Did you say you brought the ball from that room?”
When the man pointed to the door where the pool was, Eunwoo Jeong nodded. The man looked inside the door.
“What exactly should I bring?”
“It looks like you were trying to match all the colors of the rainbow. So, wouldn’t it be okay to bring red, blue, navy blue and purple balls from now on?”
“Way?”
“Once he got caught between the balls, he ca out with each ball with a high probability. Director Lee Jae-heon gave the order to ‘do nothing and maintain full strength,’ so I was waiting outside.”
“Why did I do that?”
Jung Eun-woo answered the man’s question obediently this ti.
“I think he wanted to protect the students he cared about when they arrived here.”
“…I wonder why you asked Eunwoo Jeong to protect you instead of , but no, I understand. If my condition worsens and I turn into an enemy that is difficult to deal with, Eunwoo Jeong would have to protect the students from . I know. Now I understand. “Am I right?”
“I think that was probably the case.”
“Yeah, I heard you’re right….”
Lee Jae-heon muttered like that and was confident in his heart.
‘Ah, I guess Lee Jae-heon was right too.’
‘Lee Jae-heon”s request to Jeong Eun-woo was clearly his own way.
In other words, even though his mories were mixed up and his identity was confused, ‘Lee Jae-heon’ was indeed him. Even though I don’t know what exactly happened that made him beco ‘Lee Jae-heon’, the old man’s manager.
And that was enough.
“…If what I did was right, that’s fine.”
There must be a reason for everything.
There must be a reason why he directly consud , rather than a normal subordinate, and wanted to protect ‘students’ whose faces I can’t even rember right now. Everything he did had aning and value.
So it will be like that this ti too.
“Here… they tried to open these rooms. I.”
“Yes, more specifically, you wanted information to help you attack this aquarium.”
“Then let’s do that.”
“Can I help you? Your ankle isn’t fully healed yet and you have a new injury on your arm, so it might be hard to move, so if you don’t mind…” “No.
”
‘Lee Jae-heon’ flatly refused.
He pushed away Jeong Eun-woo, who approached him with his signature thin smile on his face.
“I will do it.”
“…Yes, Manager.”
“Please keep calling my na.”
Because I have to rember that I am ‘Lee Jae-heon’.
(Continued in the next part)
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