Chapter 1 – First Experience – 1
When the sun rose in the middle of the sky, I got out of bed and saw two meatballs that looked like corpses lying on the floor. The broken liquor bottles and the snacks I bought to eat are still dry. Yesterday, after drinking, I bought a beer at the convenience store and went to Coin Karaoke because I wanted to go to karaoke, and I poured beer all morning in my room, so my insides were already bubbling. I was holding on to the toilet seat cover, the one remaining in my memory that had been cut off, and pouring out everything. Thanks to that, I don’t think I’ll die completely, but I think I’ll die halfway.
“Hey, wake up and let’s unwind”
They are the ones who sneakily raise their heads and check the time on their cellphones, then lie down again. After waking up, I start grunting to see if I can feel my body.
“Ha.. Fuck, if I drink again, it will be dog.”
“Stop fooling around and go out”
I wake them up by kicking them with my feet. Obviously, guy A, who asked me to drink moderately yesterday when he said he was going down home, is not even coming to his senses. I’m not in a very good condition either, but I think it will be solved by inserting something and getting some sleep. It feels like my tongue is coming back as I sip the remaining water in my dry mouth. I’ll have to buy this when it comes later.
All three of them got up, but after lying down and playing on their phones for over 30 minutes, they came out with a sigh. As a hangover, of course, when I was hot, I ate the hot rice soup, which is the best taste to eat under a cool air conditioner. I need a break, but it doesn’t take much. That’s how they each went back, and when I returned to my room, I could only sigh at the messy room.
“Ah… I fucking don’t know. I have to clean it up later.”
I throw my body as heavy as a wet towel onto the bed. Whatever goes inside seems to be fine. Oh, I wish someone would clean this up for me. Or would it be okay to just use the clone technique and decide to clean up with rock-paper-scissors? I fell asleep thinking about such useless thoughts.
When I open my eyes, the new year is passing by. The sun setting in this summer means that it is already past evening. I check the clock, it’s almost 7 o’clock. You literally hit the ball today. And now the night and day will change When I opened the refrigerator to drink water, the water bottle was empty. Oops, I said I was going to eat and buy it, but I forgot. After all, I have to go buy something to snack on for dinner anyway. Put on slippers and head to the convenience store in front of the mattress.
There is a male part-time job student who just looks at his phone with a smile when the bell on the door of the convenience store rings. Even though he looks a bit tall, he always has a chubby face wearing glasses. I’ve been living here for 6 months, but I haven’t seen him say hello while working part-time for 6 months. I don’t want to be like this, but am I becoming a kkondae? I sneak past…
“…Huh? What?”
Next to the face where only the phone is laid down, something in the shape of a small square is floating. It has a light blue color, so I stopped and looked at it for a few seconds because I wanted something, and the part-timer looked at me to see if he felt his gaze.
“..Why?”
The square moves the same way Alba turned her head when she took her eyes off her phone and looked at me. What? Is it a worm? Or what do you have on your head?
“That… What’s on the side of your head?”
“Yes? Me? Where?”
Alba confirms by waving her hand next to his head. However, whenever the hand touches the square, it just passes through it, and every time he turns his head left and right, it continues to follow. What?
“The right side of that face.. No, it’s on the right side of my standard, and on the side of my left ear.”
“What do you have? Wait a minute.”
Then, he switched to selfie mode on his cell phone and checked his left side. At that point, you’ll notice something strange.
“… What do you have?”
“Yes?”
What are you talking about. I keep running right next to it.
“Uh… Can I take it off?”
“Yes? Ah yes. Please take it off.”
Then, gently place your finger on the square. When my hand touches the square, I don’t feel anything, but suddenly the square grows to the side.
“Uh.. Uh!! What!?”
The square grew bigger and changed into a rectangle that ran from the head to the waist. I almost fell backwards in surprise at the moment, but thanks to the quick withdrawal of my back foot, I ended up leaning back.
“Ah… Mister, what’s wrong..!?”
Perhaps surprised by my shouting, there was a part-time job frozen in a state of hesitation with his hand raised. Wow.. I was also surprised, but he said that there was something attached next to him, and he must have been scared because I even yelled at him.
“No.. It suddenly got bigger..”
“Is it a bug? What is it? Big?”
“No, it’s not a bug, but the square has gotten a little bigger.
Alba carefully looked at her reflection in the glass next to it. However, strangely, it followed him until just now, and after it grew, it just quietly floated there. Alba rolled her eyes at the glass for about 3 seconds, looking for something strange, then her eyes softened and she quietly turned to me and said
“..Nothing?”
“To? No.. Can’t you see it’s so big? Are you just floating here now?”
I roughly estimate the size and open my arms to show them, so he takes a look at my arms and exhales as if he is dumbfounded.
“..Have you been drinking?”
“Yes?”
“Have you been drinking?”
“No, I drank yesterday.”
She sighed deeply and then looked at me and said Alba as if it was annoying.
“That… You seem to be looking at something empty, but I think you’d better just go and rest.”
“Ah… No, I don’t believe in that at all. It floats so big here…”
Roughly, the shape was divided into an upper and lower part in a large rectangle. And now I look again and there is something written on the top.
“That.. What is written here.. Your name ? Say..”
“Yes!?”
Part-time job suddenly answers in a loud voice mixed with annoyance. Why are you acting like that all of a sudden…
“Mister, do you know me?”
“Yes? No.. I don’t know that, but I’ve seen his face a few times while walking back and forth here..”
“But how do you know my name!?”
“This is your name..? But why is this written here?”
“What is written? What are you?”
Hey, it’s halfway through now. No, it’s not that I don’t have things I don’t have, why are you telling me what I can’t see?
“No.. It’s here.. Can I take a picture with a camera?”
“What do you mean filming!?”
I didn’t like the bastard who kept glaring at her, so I took out her phone. Damn, I’ll show you how stupid your eyes really are.
“If I take it out and take a picture and show it to you… Huh!?”
On the screen through the camera, it’s just to me, what the hell is this? I couldn’t see anything but Alba looking at me. There was no way that a large rectangle half as big as my body could not be captured by the lens. No, then I feel something strange. How the hell is this floating?
“Ah, what are you doing!? Hey! Hey! Do you chew What grade are you in?”
I left the guy in front of the checkout counter chattering at me, and now looking back, I saw some simple personal information written on the top. All that is written is the name and age. I see now that I am 29 years old. It’s more than you think. Did you come out of our school because you mentioned your class number? However, there was a square at the bottom like a frame, but it was empty unlike the top.
“No.. That.. Sorry.. I think I saw it wrong.”
“Ha.. Really..”
I even flinched for a moment because I heard a little fucking sound, but I think finding out what this is is more important than dealing with him.
“That… I’ll buy something and leave soon. Sorry.”
“Okay.. Huh… Buy it and leave soon.”
“Yes. Sorry.”
I quickly moved over to the lunch box. I passed over, but I couldn’t see the lunch box. He said that the name floating next to him was his name. I’ve never seen that person outside of this place and I don’t want to know. Do I know the personal information of such a person? Through something only I can see?
Even if you think about it common sense, I don’t understand. Could it be that only that person can’t see it? No you don’t see that? Are there any lenses in my eyes? Even if I rub my eyes, I don’t feel a foreign body at all. Even so, why only the name and age? Well, it’s not even a Death Note… It’s really strange to think it’s some kind of disease…
Also, there is personal information above, but nothing below. If you are satisfied with something, will the following be disclosed? Is the personal information below? Is that possible for other people besides him? I guess I’ll have to go somewhere else to check it out.
As I stand still thinking about it, the part-time worker from earlier keeps sticking his head out of the cash register, glances at me, and sighs as if to listen. Oh, do it in moderation. It keeps making a fuss. I need to buy something and leave soon. And now I see that there is no Jeyuk lunchbox. The lunch box has nothing to eat. It’s vacation, so things don’t come in well these days?
After the third sigh, I feel annoyed now. Oh, how can I really do that? I almost stopped breathing when I glanced in that direction. The square next to me came and floated next to me. And something was added to the empty window below.
“The degree to which you care about me”
And right below the text was a bar that could be moved like a slide, with 0 and 10 written on both sides. It was over 5 now.
I had goosebumps all over my body. From her heel, something like a living electrical signal ran down the back of her leg, down her hip, up her back, and hit her head. The moment when my eyes widened and I forgot to breathe for a while. This is what I felt right away. The ability that I thought I wanted so much. Although the form is different, the ability that I once saw even in a dream.
I just stared blankly for about 5 seconds. Really? Really? Is this really possible now? Not in your imagination, but in reality? I? To me? Uh.. Since when did this become possible? Uh… How does this happen?
I woke up to a louder sigh. Oh, there was that bastard. This… Can I try this? What do we do? While doing so, I put my finger on the slide-like guy below the level I was concerned about. Apply a little force as if pressing and move a little from side to side, so it moves along. I almost burst out with exclamations of wonder. I have to move this.. I care about it, so I have to set it to 0 so I don’t care? And moved to 0. When I set it to 0 and lifted my finger, nothing outwardly changed.
Has something changed with that bastard? She cautiously took her foot off and approached her, where she was sitting there just staring at her phone as if she had just entered. Even though I came to the front, there was no change.
“I…Hey…”
Even when I spoke to him, there was no sign of a response at all.
“Um… Hey…?”
I raised my voice a little more. If the person right in front of you talks about this much, there should be at least a reaction. I am most excited about these reactions. I couldn’t hide my excitement at this situation, which made me aware that my imagination, which could only exist in a dream, had become a reality. My heart pounded and I let out a heavy breath. Even winning the lottery would be less impressive than this. Last.. I needed a final check. This time, he tapped Alba on the shoulder and spoke again.
“Hey… Can’t you hear me?”
Then he shrugged her shoulders in annoyance and removed his hand. What? He looked around, then fixed his gaze on his phone again. I raised my head and closed my eyes. I was enjoying the rush of excitement. It’s real.
