"Kang Yoo-hyun."
I looked at Kang Yoohyun with a trembling face. I didn't expect him to show up in the room like this, and I don't think he even used a pair item. I was a bit surprised to see him because I wasn't expecting him.
"Oh, hmm, it's been a while."
"."
I coughed unnecessarily. I awkwardly looked away, unable to look her in the eye for so reason.
In fact, I still don't know what his reaction will be. Would he be angry like he was in Symdante's lair? Would he be disappointed in ? When I heard Park Yoon-sung's words, it seed like he still didn't trust .
I took a few steps backward without realizing it. Apparently, it's a pretty common problem for to try to run away when I'm at a disadvantage. I realized that and stood still. But Kang Yoo-hyun didn't catch and just stared at .
" Say sothing."
"."
"Kang Yoo-hyun."
I wish he would get angry. I don't know what to do when he just stares at like that.
Yoohyun Kang stares at for a while, and then he reaches for my fidgeting hand.
"Co here."
"."
I stare at his hand. He's speaking softly, but I'm not sure what he ans. But it was also annoying to keep avoiding him. I glanced at Kang Yoohyun's face and grabbed his hand.
"Uh!"
And just like that, a puff of black smoke emanated from Kang Yoo-hyun and enveloped my body. It reminded of the smoke that had overtaken the hostel, but unlike that, I didn't feel any intention of harming my body, so I relaxed.
Kang Yoo-hyun pulled into his arms as the smoke enveloped us. As soon as I was in his arms, my eyes burned. I reflexively squeezed my eyes shut.
"Eh?"
When I opened my eyes again, my surroundings had changed. I blinked at my surroundings, still in Yoohyun Kang's arms. The surroundings were dark at first, but gradually began to take shape.
"What is this place?"
"This is my subspace."
"What?"
I gasped and looked around quickly. I had read about Kang Yoo-hyun's subspace in novels, but I had never seen it.
That's right, he never brought anyone into his subspace. It was a place he didn't even allow his psychic heroine to enter, because it was a place where his vulnerable self was nakedly revealed.
"Hmph, that's Pippi hmph."
I muttered and then shut my mouth in dismay as I looked at the rabbit character floating around in the subspace. The character was known only to Kang Yoo-hyun.
A black rabbit that Kang Yoo-hyun had drawn for Soo-hyun when she was a child. But Kang Soo-hyun was too young to rember the character, and Kang Yoo-hyun was trapped inside the gate for hundreds of years, buried in his mories.
But as his ntal state began to crumble, changes began to appear in the subspace he created, and Pippi, the black rabbit buried deep in his mories, began to appear out of nowhere, bearing the marks of his weakness.
Kang Yoo-hyun realized this and shunned Pippi. Under the pressure of protecting the world, Pippi, who symbolized his weakness, was useless to him. He even tried to get rid of her because she was an eyesore.
But he couldn't. In the end, Kang Yoo-hyun tried to accept her while receiving counseling from Director Oh Seo-hyun.
"Pee~ Pee~."
"."
Originally, Kang Yoo-hyun had hated Pippi so much that he had tied her up sowhere so that she couldn't appear like this. Definitely, the current Kang Yoo-hyun seed to be more relaxed than in the novel.
"You know Fifi after all."
"!"
I was surprised to hear Kang Yoo-hyun mumble, the nuance of his voice suggesting that he knew. I turned my head away awkwardly.
Kang Yoo-hyun only knew that I was a possessed person. He didn't know that this was the world before the regression, or even that I knew the previous world from the novel written by the god Loki, but he was convinced that I knew Pippi.
No, he was sure of this because I knew it too. That's how he always found out information.
"Yes, I knew."
"You."
Kang Yoohyun's lips twitched. He was about to ask sothing, but he shut his mouth again.
But not for long. Kang Yoo-hyun spoke again with determination.
"There's no one here but us. No one can overhear us, so."
"."
"So, I want you to tell everything about you."
"!"
"It's not fair that you're the only one who knows ."
Yoohyun Kang had a point. I realized that I couldn't hide from him anymore.
" Okay."
Determined, I began to tell him the story of the real , not the one who was pretending to be Han Yijin.
"So, that's when I got separated from my family."
The story went on for quite a while. But Kang Yoo-hyun never interrupted , just listened to what I had to say in silence. He even nodded his head occasionally, even if he was a bit nervous.
When I finished telling him the story of my life in the original world, the novel written by Loki, and my possession of the novel, I had nothing more to say, because after that, he knew it all. So when I closed my mouth and looked away, he turned to and asked.
"So?"
"Huh?"
"What's your real na?"
"!"
I was surprised that Kang Yoohyun would ask that. I looked at him with wide eyes and answered. I felt unnecessarily embarrassed.
" Park Hosu."
"?"
Yoohyun Kang, who had originally heard my na, scratched his head and asked in a questioning tone.
"Isn't that the pseudonym you told in the Svartalpaheim dungeon?"
"Ah you rembered that?"
I lifted my hand and scratched my cheek. I hadn't rembered, I'd just said the na off the top of my head, but I'd still subconsciously recalled my original na. I coughed, "Hmm.
"I didn't really get my mory back then. What I got back was."
"Then who is Jin Myungseob?"
"What?"
Did I tell Kang Yoo-hyun about Jin Myung-seop?
Oh, I told him about the friend who recomnded the novel, but I didn't tell him his na. How did you know his na?
When I shook my head, Kang Yoo-hyun stared at with a fierce look. I replied, confused.
"It's just, an old friend? A bad friend? Not that close of a friend."
"Didn't you want to go back because of him?"
"What? No!"
I exclaid, exasperated. For a mont, I looked genuinely embarrassed, and Kang Yoo-hyun's montum slowed down a bit.
"Are you sure you're not?"
"You keep telling it's not."
"Then you never liked anyone in that world?"
"Well isn't it? At least here."
I muttered to myself as I rembered the past, and then my eyes locked with Kang Yoohyun.
"."
""
There was an awkward silence, and I realized what I was about to say.
"No, it's."
I tried to get sothing out of my mouth, but it was too late. Kang Yoohyun's eyes deepened as he looked at .
"Park Hosoo."
"What."
"Ho-soo."
"!"
A low voice called out my old na, and I felt strange. I had felt this way when Kang Yoo-hyun recognized in soone else's body. I rubbed my hand across my face, which must have been a reminder, and said bluntly on purpose.
"That's my old na, so you don't have to call by that na."
"I wanted to call you by it, though."
"."
I felt like protesting, but I couldn't bring myself to part my lips. If I opened my mouth now, I'd probably say sothing weird too.
"I like it."
"!"
"I like you, Han Yijin."
My heart went thump, thump, thump. I had vaguely guessed it from his deanor, but it felt different to hear him say it. I finally made eye contact with Kang Yoo-hyun.
I realized that it was ti for to admit my feelings. Pressing my heart against my throbbing chest, I opened my mouth.
"Do ."
"What?"
"I like you, too."
In the end, I turned my head away, unable to look directly at Kang Yoo-hyun, so I didn't get to see her expression. But I'm sure she was feeling the sa thing I'm feeling right now.
And I'm sure it showed in his expression.
"Uh, wait."
Kang Yoo-hyun's hand wrapped around my waist. We had been pressed against each other since we entered the subspace, but he hugged even tighter. I panicked and tried to push him away.
"I can't wait any longer."
"You suck."
Kang Yoo-hyun's voice boiled over and we started kissing. I held Kang Yoohyun's shoulders tightly as we kissed.
I understood the feeling of being overjoyed that we finally confird our feelings for each other, but it was still a bit rash. I barely broke our lips, surprised by Kang Yoo-hyun's hands digging into my clothes. I panicked and exclaid.
"Hey, wait, wait, wait!"
"Why?"
"Well, I an um."
I was so flustered that my brain was not working well, and I was only thinking about stopping Kang Yoo-hyun, so I looked around the dark subspace and finally spoke.
"No, not in a place like this."
"."
"Isn't the atmosphere a bit strange? It's your first ti and mine too."
But the more we talked, the weirder it got. I was also a little out of my mind to the point that I couldn't even say the logical words. "We're not ready for each other right now, so let's do it next ti." Kang Yoohyun, who was staring at intently, raised his eyebrows.
"You an we shouldn't do it here, right?"
"What?"
"Okay."
"!"
As soon as Kang Yoo-hyun said that, my eyes turned black again. A black aura surrounded and Kang Yoo-hyun.
I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them, but the scenery had already changed.
"What is this place?"
"The safe house I built. Even Park Yoon-sung doesn't know this place."
"Oh."
With that, I stopped looking around with a dumbfounded face. The bedroom was as neat as a regular hotel. If it's a safe house, it's probably not a place you visit often, but did they leave cleaning items? I was thinking to myself.
"Is everything okay now?"
"!"
Kang Yoo-hyun said, pushing onto the bed. I sat up on the fluffy bed and looked up at him.
T/N: Let's save the next part for next year alright
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