The Live

After talking to the Hundred Thousand, Yoon Jae suddenly felt exhausted. Though it was not a short story, mental fatigue accumulated as the topic of the story was heavy.

Of course, that wasn't the only reason. Perhaps the previous fatigue was not fully resolved. I felt like I was broken.

I just ran into a regular car going down the stairs and coming up the other way. The regular waved his hands with a happy face.

“Are you awake? You said you were seeing Mr. Hundred? ”

The mask seemed to be overlaid on a face as big as a genuine one. Normally, he was an adult but always had the face of a child. No, I was trying to look like that.

‘It will be less difficult. ’

Regular climbing up the stairs quickly began to go down the stairs with Yoon Jae. Yoon Jae asked, looking back on the norm.

“Were you coming up to see me? ”

“You said Jin-seok woke up. ”

“I was playing GO with Mr. Arhan earlier. ”

“I guess I lost. He and I tried it, but we couldn't do it. I've never seen that GO before. ”

“ ……. ”

If I couldn't, I wanted to pass it on to the first person. I remembered the face of Kim Jin-seok who was playing Argan and GO with a solemn face. Immediately, a smile flowed out.

“You don't look so good, now you're smiling. Is something wrong? ”

“Oh, well……. ”

Yun Jae told the story to the Hundred Thousand. The playful normal face became stiff. I couldn't read my emotions.

“Why? Are you impressed? ”

“Really... is this the last time? ”

“Yeah, it's going to be the last, really. ”

Unusual, Yoon Jae emphasized the truth.

The normal face had disappeared, like a child. His time didn't stop, so he suddenly grew up.

I remembered the longing on my regular face.

Maybe he's thinking about his brothers.

Several times, he told himself the stories of his brothers. It was time for him to talk about his family.

- Hae-jun...... is a fun kid. He's good at sports. He's annoyingly handsome. Maybe it's my brother. Oh, and he speaks well. And…….

- Dong-hoon's the youngest. He's the oldest. That little guy is talking about an old man. But once...

- Soldier...

The last words of normalcy, which used to tell the story of the brothers of the Feast of Tabernacles, were always the same.

- Anyway, I miss you...

Regular shut up after saying it, whether he could no longer speak.

There was some power to say I wanted to see it.

After saying it, I really want to see it. I couldn't bear it, so I couldn't say anything.

“When I go back……. ”

Yoon Jae went down the stairs first without looking back at the norm.

“Really, I'll buy you something delicious. I told you, you're in a good company. My wife is very talented. ”

“... That's it, that's it. ”

The normal voice was bright.

Yoon Jae nodded and replied.

Yoon Jae, who was going down the stairs, thought.

I hope we have a beautiful happy ending.

* * *

It was late at night.

I looked at the diary for a long time.

Yoon Jae liked this time. It was a predictable content, a predictable journal, but still good.

‘Well, who gave it to you? ’

The next time I saw her, I thought I'd take her with me like the Queen. The decision was brief, and I suddenly wondered.

‘How long is this going to take? ’

I couldn't imagine Eun Kyung like the Queen. It was a picture that made me laugh just by imagining it. Yoon Jae and Eun-kyung lived like lovers, sometimes like friends.

The most comfortable and beautiful relationship. Yoon Jae felt that way about them. That's why this journal felt more precious.

It was the first gift I ever got from my most precious person.

Sarak-

Looking at the first page reminds me of the first time I came into this world. It reads slowly, and suddenly, two hours passed.

If I tried to read it faster, I could. But I didn't.

I just felt like I had to. I liked to read one sentence slowly. I thought this might be the last time I read this journal.

Soon it became the last chapter of the journal.

According to the journal as a novel, the novel was a terribly dark bed ending.

[I…… failed.]

One word grabbed Yoon Jae's breast.

It was like denying everything you've been through. I tried, I struggled, I was sick, but in the end, I accomplished nothing.

[All alone after death. Can I see her? Mina has survived so far with such hope...... but now she can't.]

The writing was broken.

I wondered if tears would fall on this area. I just had an idea.

When he got emotional, he wrote this. Before I came to this world, Eungyeong's birthday...... On that day, I wrote a diary like this.

Yoon Jae continued to read the diary.

[I found a way. With a fragment...... we might be able to change the past. The moment I learned about it, I made up my mind.]

It was a record of a lot of thoughts.

Perhaps it was Zahar who showed me this way. Zahar said he met the future self, the self before the diary was revealed.

‘Cause of the Holy Grail. ’

The Holy Grail has powers in a different dimension than sculpture. It is possible to go directly to the future or the past, not just to see the future or the past or intervene indirectly at that time.

Zahar had been trying to change the world through himself ever since.

[If my past is changed, will I be changed now? Or is it a completely different world from the past? The head was complicated. Nothing you could find out.

If the past changes, the future me is different…….]

Paused writing. I felt hesitant.

The next letter seemed surprisingly clear.

[Please make me happy too.]

The journal ended there.

“ ……. ”

It was the end of the second look. Yoon Jae had already read the diary.

However, again, I did not have an easy idea how I would feel about writing this diary.

Was he miserable, or did he expect new hope?

It was too different from myself. There is hope for the present self, but there is nothing in it. All that remained was the dependency of the past, not the present self, on the past self.

‘Even you... ’

After all, it's the same "me," same "you."

It was ironic. Yoon Jae stared at it and woke up from where he was lying.

"You"? ’

It was a separate view of the future self and the past self. You think that if the past changes, the present self will not.

The future self abandoned the hope of meeting his wife and daughter. Instead, I wanted my past self to make two people happy instead.

Did you give up? ’

When I first read this, I didn't think much of it.

However, the feeling was different from the first time I saw it. Probably the difference from the perspective of looking at the diary.

At first, I thought this journal was just for informational purposes.

“ ……. ”

Yoon Jae, who was thinking for a moment, got up from where he was lying down.

It's been a long time since I picked up a pen, not a sword. The diary was still a few pages away.

Square, square -

I start writing down. Yoon Jae wrote red, not black, on the back of the diary.

[Don't worry. It will make you happy, even if you don't worry.]

I thought maybe.

Yoon Jae used pieces of time. I can feel the energy of the pieces in the diary. The piece of time was the one that Yoon Jae could best handle.

If...... this journal is also delivered in the future.

Yoon Jae sat down and opened the diary and waited for a while.

How long has it been?

It was a few minutes later.

[……. …….]

“ ……! ”

The answer came back.