"I made it up."
My life in the other world wasn’t a work of art, ink and paper, pages that were flipped, and a public display for others to see either.
My life was just as it was. ’My’ life and it belonged to alone because I was the only one living in it.
An endless circle with patting my head, patting my shoulder, patting my back, and telling myself I did well after a full day.
Sitting in my bed, in the library, on a bench in the park, reading novels to my heart’s content... Living like I was the only one who existed in my world when I had my free ti.
When I went to work, I was diligent. When I ca back, I was diligent.
I was the boy who had cried over the death of my grandfather, and I was also the guy who smiled and giggled in my bed because of a novel with characters that didn’t even exist.
Anyway, I would rather say that I made that story up than call all of that a novel.
"You made it up?" Seo-Jun asked and I nodded, my smile growing.
Only a fool would believe that after seeing how I trembled and cried because of this story but it’s alright.
"Rather, I think my brain made it up," I said to him.
"What does that an?"
"Do you rember the ti I was in a coma for two weeks?"
"Before I arrived?" He asked and I nodded. "I heard about it but what does that have to do with this?"
"Well," I slowly lowered my head, my expression sad yet calm. "During that ti, I had a dream. I think calling it a dream is the right way to put it but it felt so real. It felt like I was living a completely different life. In that dream, I..." I raised my head and kept my sad smile up. "...was the little boy."
It wouldn’t make sense. In fact, it doesn’t make sense. Even to . To say sothing like that...
"It must sound like nonsense, right? But that’s how it is. I lived a different life in that dream. It felt like I was a different person. Grew up with my grandfather, found his dead body after school and so many other things. But now that I think of it, maybe I was just getting a replay of a life I lived in my past life." I smiled at him.
Seo-Jun suddenly lowered his head and sighed.
He hugged , pressing tightly as he said,
"Jo-Pil, it’s very hard to believe."
My gaze fell asleep I heard that. Yeah, I knew he wouldn’t believe it. He’d have to be insane to believe that.
"But I can’t say I doubt you."
I paused. Huh?
"If I think of it like this, it makes sense where you got that novel that didn’t exist in this world from." He said and I blinked. What??? "I an," he pulled away, looking at my face with excitent. "How cool is that? Dreaming of a past life? Maybe it wasn’t that cool when you were depressed about your grandfather but that aside, it feels so original. I think I’m getting an idea for a new product I can release. Maybe a VR ga that has a past life concept."
I was beyond confused, and my expression said so.
Seo-Jun looked at and then laughed.
"What’s with that expression? You didn’t think I would believe you?" He asked and I realized, this man was indeed insane. "Besides, I watched how you cried, as if you lived the story. It was your story, after all." He smiled warmly at . "Plus, I already got a piece of that past life knowledge so I have every right to believe it."
Ah, my heart wouldn’t stop thumping. Why was he saying things like this?
I never knew that the fact that I knew novels that weren’t from this world would help solidify a lie. I an, it’s not entirely a lie since I went back to my life in the other world when I was in a coma, but still...
To believe so readily...
Would any of my other masters have believed it this easily? They had no proof, like a novel I brought from my other world, but still... I’d like to believe everyone has their different reactions.
"Anyway, there’s just one thing I’d like to ask," he said and I blinked. I hope he wasn’t going to ask about the novels there.
"W-what is it?"
Then, his eyes glinted as he asked,
"You didn’t date anyone in your past life, did you?"
I blinked, confused, and then flushed.
This man was impossible.
What did it have to do with him if I dated sothing from my past life or not?
It was a life he wasn’t even in, so why did it matter?
"It... It’s none of your concern." I said, but he pressed on.
"Co on, just tell ." He said, pressing his body forward and onto mine, so I just had to tell him.
After all, I was...
"I didn’t," I answered, my heart thumping and my face flushing. "I was a virgin till the end."
Hearing this made him happy as his face lit up.
"Wow, Jo-Pil, you were such a loner there too." He teased but I could tell he was happy about it. It’s not like it had anything to do with him but whatever... He would’ve been jealous if I said yes. Maybe I should’ve done so and seen his reaction after. "Wait, does that an you never got married?"
Hm?
"No, I didn’t."
This conversation was going in another direction.
"Then, did that an you were lonely most of your life?" He asked and I noticed his expression had shifted. Instead of being happy about it, he was rather broken by the thought.
I never thought I would see him wearing such an expression just from the fact that he knows I never dated. But I think he’s interpreting this wrongly.
"Well, I was lonely most of the ti, but if I had been given a bit more ti, then I might’ve found love and gotten married." His eyes widened.
"Does that an...?"
"Yes, in my past life, I died prematurely when working and that’s how I woke up."
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