Chapter 96 – Prologue -2-
I transferred the undercooked Shin Ramyun to a bowl and sat down in front of the computer.
Then, after taking a bite of the noodles, I stared at the CD, which is uncommon these days.
“Some madman wants me to sleeve… ?”
The world goes crazy these days.
That’s right, because someone put a CD of a game that was meant to be chewed on in my bag.
[Sunae Biography]
A world of pure love where all humans share love with the object of their destiny!
You are the champion of that world!
Save the world and win the one and only love!
A game CD with a crumpled female character drawn underneath the bullshit engraved on it.
“Hey, fuck.”
Who the hell is doing this?
“It is me!”
Because of his life, the only hobbies he could call were games.
There is no hobby as cheap as gaming.
Then I realized that I have a preference for fantasy, and I had already mastered famous games such as Skyrim and The Witcher a long time ago.
All that’s left now is a shit game, a game game, or a hidden classic masterpiece.
I don’t know if the game called Pure Love is a shit game or a shit game, but since it’s free anyway, just spit it out after eating it.
I, who enjoys playing the game while breaking my head, stretches out my index finger to savor the original taste without even searching.
Jiying.
When I pressed the CD-ROM button on my old computer, it came out like a tongue.
“It’s been a while since the CD.”
Insert the game, and quickly start eating the ramen, which has now been properly blown.
It’s 9 o’clock now, so I can do it for about five hours.
If my parents saw me, they would have beaten me for wasting time, but I don’t have parents.
“Slurp.”
The good thing about being an orphan was that I was exempt from military service.
Right after I became an adult, I tried to commit suicide at the moment when the 5 million won self-reliance fund ran out, but I decided to hold on a little longer.
If you die now… Uh, that’s a nuisance to the convenience store owner.
“… Let’s die when we’re thirty.”
When that day comes, I will end this beggarly life.
Less so
I had a sudden thought.
Being obsessed with the game is not an excuse.
Maybe I am obsessed with life more than anyone else?
“A fucking life.”
However, after swallowing the CD earlier, there was only a rattling sound, and the game did not run.
Wanting something, I opened the side of the computer and saw that the cooler was shaking like an idiot.
“You bastard, really.”
He poked the cooler with his fingers and then blew air through his mouth.
When that didn’t work, I hit the top of the computer with my palm.
-Giying.
Then the machine beeps and the game starts.
I think it’s a high-end game.
Other than that, isn’t the female on the CD too crumpled?
That moment.
“Uh.”
What?
Surprised, I rubbed my eyes.
Even so, it didn’t change, and when I looked at the floor at the burnt smell, my lower body caught my eye on the white floor.
“…… ?”
I raised my head again with my mouth slightly open.
A woman holding her hands together politely and staring at me.
“Ugh.”
Its appearance can only be thought of as a live-action version of the female character drawn on the CD.
“Isn’t that a crumpled character!?”
It was obviously similar, but seriously different.
Did you iron it?
It’s not wrinkled in the slightest, and on the contrary, it’s terribly pretty.
With a subtle expression on her face, after a while she moved her small lips and spat out a word.
“Start.”
I had no way of knowing what she meant.
Because it was the first language I had ever heard before.
* * *
It’s been thrown here, a week has passed.
Lethe, who was a small farmer by borrowing surplus land from the village chief, ordered me to reap and study languages and farm.
So that,
Caang!
When the sun was up, like now, it was my daily routine to dig up fucking potatoes with this fucking hoe.
“It sucks.”
I could find some fun in learning a language, but harvesting potatoes is really bad.
“Ugh! Where do you keep learning to curse?”
Perhaps hearing my murmur, Lethe glared at me with her eyes wide open.
The hoe I was holding trembled.
“It’s pretty.”
Words that came out of my mouth spontaneously.
Although soiled and unadorned, Lethe was beautiful.
So she originally said, ‘Today is also beautiful.’ I wanted to say something like that, but I don’t speak the language of this place so well yet.
“Write! Again, again! You keep doing that….”
But Lethe seemed to hear something strange, and she didn’t understand what I was saying.
Looking at it all this time, it was clear that Lethe was her country girl who hadn’t realized that she was pretty.
And, to my great regret, I could only understand half of what she said.
Oh, maybe it’s because my pronunciation is not so good that you didn’t understand me?
‘I should learn to speak quickly.’
To be honest, on the first day, I wondered what kind of a fucking situation this was, but since the bright and pretty Lethe took care of me, the thought of her going back to Earth had already disappeared.
―A world of pure love where all humans share love with the object of their destiny!
It was clearly written on the game CD.
If that’s the case, I, who fell straight into the world of pure love a week ago, are bound by fate with Lethe.
If it had been an evil, fat middle-aged woman who had picked me up, I would have defied my fate, but such a beautiful Western woman would be welcome.
After she met Lethe, she had a reason not to commit suicide even when she turned 30.
It was only now that she seemed to have found the reason for her life.
“Huh uh huh.”
As she straightened her bent waist, the sun slowly fell.
I glanced at Lethe with the most pitiful expression on her face, and she let out a small sigh before coming towards me.
“Then shall we stop here for today?
So far.
I didn’t know what the word meant, but if it came out of Lethe’s mouth, it meant let’s go home.
“Good.”
“Ah, who the hell taught me to talk like this… ?”
Lethe asked me something, but she didn’t know what to say, so she smiled appropriately and held up the basket of potatoes.
Now you just have to bring these potatoes to the village chief tomorrow morning.
Then the village chief makes a deal with a peddler he occasionally stops by, and she gave Lethe a certain amount of food and daily necessities.
Thanks to this, I naturally realized that this land belonged to the village chief.
“Come on, let’s go in.”
Oh, and I’m currently living with Lethe.
It’s not huge, but they gave me a room.
It was a situation that seemed like something out of a manga to start living together before dating, but I, Kim Chang-mook, was a genuine man, so I swallowed dirty desires every night.
Another week passed like that.
It was a repetitive daily life, but I am doing it satisfactorily.
Now I’m used to farming, and I’m getting used to the language quite a bit.
Still, speaking and hearing were not good enough.
“Honestly, your name is a bit strange. What is chamu?”
“Chamu, no. Changmuk.”
“So… Ah, I’ll give you a name!”
Name?
Well, anyway, when it comes to my name, it must have been roughly named at a random gacha in a nursery school, so I didn’t have much affection for it.
So as she nodded, Lethe put her index finger to her lips, and she began to ponder.
It took a while for her mouth to open.
“Ed. Yes. That would be good.”
“Ed.”
It was definitely a name that was easy to pronounce and seemed common.
Lethe murmured her given name a few times in satisfaction, and she smiled brightly and patted her hand.
Then she extinguished her candle and went into her own room and shut her door.
Clap.
No, why is the latch on?
Say don’t go in
I’m not sure of her exact time, but Lethe always went to her room around 9pm, locked her door, and fell asleep.
Now I have to go back to my room soon.
Tomorrow is the day the peddler stops by, so I have to get up early to dig up more potatoes before then.
However, her belly was craving, so she grabbed a piece of cloth and went out of the house.
‘Fuck. Will I be able to return alive today?’
It’s all good here, but there was one thing that sucked.
That is, if you fall into the shit, you fall behind.
It didn’t smell, but it was a conventional toilet, so if you tripped, you could fall into a deep dung pit like an abyss.
Not Gura, but Lethe, who even asked me to be careful, so I was so fucking scared every time I went to poop.
“Whoa….”
Although her legs trembled from her nervousness, she was fortunately on her way home from her errands without any problems.
“Lethe?”
Lethe, her eyes half open, stood in front of me.
I wanted to ask what was going on, but she couldn’t open her mouth.
While contemplating what to do with the combination of words, he just walked up to Lethe and put on a worried expression.
“It’s okay?”
I just came up with a word to use in the current situation and spat it out.
However, Lethe ignored me and just quietly stared at her somewhere.
‘Did I miss something?’
No, it didn’t seem like that.
That’s because I practiced pronunciation many times.
‘… Why is the atmosphere different from usual?’
Lethe wasn’t as bright and friendly as usual, but the atmosphere was somewhat organized.
Then she closed her half-open eyes.
And then
“This is your last chance. No more, no more… So definitely….”
He spat out incomprehensible words.
Who are you talking to?
Sorry, I didn’t get it at all.
When she wondered where her child was in pain, Lethe’s eyelids trembled and her eyes opened.
“Yes? Ed? … What are you doing here?”
“Yes?”
Lethe asked me in bewilderment.
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