Chapter 222 – Is This the Earth? (One)
“…Sir.”
As I felt like my body was floating, I heard a sound I had heard before somewhere.
But I was so dazed that I didn’t really want to open my eyes and wake up. Because this moment of sleeping felt so sweet.
“Ji…Nim!”
But I keep hearing that sound. Who is it? Why are you disturbing this sweet sleep?
Nevertheless, that unknown sound seems to continue to be heard.
“Jinunim!”
And then my eyes opened as I realized that that voice was calling me. When I came to, I was lying down with my head on a soft object. What caught my eye were two large mountains covering the ceiling. No, is it correct to say mountain? Two round objects are blocking the ceiling from my view.
“Jinuni, are you awake?”
Ellie’s voice came from above the object blocking my vision.
“You finally came to your senses. Is there anything wrong with you?”
“Uh… Where am I, Ellie?”
As far as I remember, Gaia said she would send me back to the original world and I even remember starting to not be able to see anything because of the glow around me. It’s like when a person goes to sleep, they lie down to sleep, but don’t they remember when they fell asleep? It feels similar to that.
Judging by Ellie’s voice above my head, what I see right now is Ellie’s big chest. When I came to my senses, I moved my body and got up.
I feel dizzy as if I slept for a long time. I lifted her up and turned her around to see Ellie on her knees looking at me. I think I fell asleep with my head on Ellie’s lap as a pillow.
“Ugh… I’m out of my mind. How long have I been lying down? Where am I?”
“He wasn’t lying down for that long. Probably about 3 to 4 minutes at most. And this is said to be the house where Jin-unnim lived.”
The house I lived in? Now that I think about it, the pattern on the ceiling looks particularly familiar. If you look closely, you will see a ceiling made of wallpaper that I know well. It’s not just the ceiling. The walls around me were made of the same wallpaper as the ceiling, and now I could see that the place I was lying on was on a bed I knew well.
“Is this my room?”
Not only the bed but also the arrangement of the items in the room were almost identical to the room I lived in. The room you lived in refers to the room you lived in at your parents’ house, not the room you lived in. Why am I here?
“When Jinu and I moved to this world, we arrived at this house right here. I guess Gaia fixed it in this location for us.”
Gaia’s evaluation so far has increased very slightly. Now that I think about it, I don’t think they said anything about the location, but it seems like they chose it well.
Then the closed door opened and a person came in. Standing there was someone I had missed for a very long time.
“Jinwoo… You’re awake!”
My mother ran towards me and hugged me warmly. I don’t know how long it’s been since she last saw her parents. My mother started to cry as she looked at me.
“Really, I was so surprised when I heard that you were missing… Wow! Where are you, you bastard, making your parents worry?!”
“I’m sorry, Mom…”
I heard from Gaia that about a year has passed since I was in this world. That means it must have been quite some time since they thought I was gone, and I think they probably even reported me missing.
The company I worked for would have contacted me because I suddenly stopped coming to work, and of course my parents would have heard about it. The entire process would have taken less than a week at most, and my parents, who couldn’t find me, probably even reported me missing.
Now I see that my mother’s body is much thinner than before. It looks like he was worried about me missing and went around looking for me, so he couldn’t eat a single meal. Seeing her mother’s haggard appearance fills her with regret. I thought I was living a hectic life in this world while my parents were worried about me and ended up like this.
When I first flew into this world and had no one to lean on, I thought about home a lot. I also wanted to see my parents, but it was difficult to even live from day to day, so I buried the memories of the original world I lived in on the other side. This was because I had no confidence in maintaining my sanity if I had good memories for no reason. I used to live with the mindset of just focusing on surviving each day, but when I met Ellie, my life in this world changed, but my parents who were living in the original world must still have been very worried about me.
Rather, I feel fortunate that I did not make an extreme choice. You may have been so worried that your house might have been destroyed, but I’m glad it didn’t collapse to that point.
For a while, my mother cried sadly while holding me, and I also shed a few tears while holding her mother.
After waiting for her mother to calm down for a while, my mother and I went out into the living room and sat in the middle looking at each other.
“First of all, Ellie? I heard a little bit of explanation from her, but can you tell me directly what happened?”
I quickly explained to my mother what had happened so far. Normally, I could explain it all day today, but the problem is that we don’t have much time.
I went to this world and wandered around for about five years, then met Ellie, who was also here, and after that, I ran around here and there to save this world from crisis. I told the story as briefly as possible.
“Originally, when I hear something like this, I would think it’s nonsense, but it’s too bad to just dismiss it as nonsense.”
Even though I’m saying this, if someone I don’t know hears it, it’s something that would make them ask where I’ve been to a mental hospital. If I were to catch anyone living in modern society and explain that what I experienced was true, how many people would believe them? Now that Ellie is here and we are also her parents, we can trust her, but I will also say, “Am I crazy?”
“It may be hard to believe, but what I say is true, Mother.”
“Even so, this girl suddenly appeared with a flash of light, and if you hadn’t appeared too a little while later, I would have disappeared and thought you had gone crazy. And seeing how this pretty girl is trying to serve you with more sincerity than I am, I wonder if that’s the case.”
Well… The possibility that I, who lived in the original world, would get a woman of Ellie’s level was not close to zero, it was just zero. Plus, me and Ellie were suddenly inside her house! She seemed to have shown up, so it seems like her mother believed her too.
“I… Is it okay if I wear it like this?”
She asked as Ellie came out of the living room and was in her mother’s room while her mother was talking. She has been wearing her armor up until now, but her mother told her to change into regular clothes because it was uncomfortable to look at, so she forced herself to change into it. Although she wore a comfortable white cotton tee and comfortable short shorts, Ellie’s beauty shines through. Rather, would it look different if you just looked at the fantasy world and then saw something completely different? Even though it is an ordinary outfit, it looks very sexy.
“Wow… You too, how could you have a woman like that? You can be a celebrity, kid.”
She is now Ellie. If she goes out as a celebrity, her face alone is enough to get her into the top class. Even if she is not a celebrity, she will debut on an internet broadcast, so I wonder if she will be able to save up her money even if she is not separated. .
“Well, Ellie is definitely pretty.”
“…Thank you for the compliment…”
Ellie was a little embarrassed because she wasn’t very familiar with her current outfit, so she walked towards us and sat down next to me.
I want to talk and play peacefully with her mother, whom I haven’t seen in a while, but I don’t have much time.
“Mother…”
“So… You have to go back to that world…? Should I not go?”
My mother asks me with a sad expression. She says her son, whom she hasn’t seen for about a year, suddenly appears and says he has to go again, so it seems she wants to catch him. It’s not that she doesn’t understand her mother’s feelings. I think I would think the same way if I were a parent with children. Nonetheless, I have to go back. I cannot abandon everyone who is waiting for me and remain in this world again.
“I’m sorry, Mom… I have to go back. I’m really, really sorry. I can’t help but come back and tell you this.”
I spoke to my mother and walked up to her again and hugged her gently.
“I would also like to ask you a favor. Jinu is an indispensable person to us.”
Ellie also stood up and bowed to her mother to ask.
“Jinwoo, if you’re going to say things like this, you’re saying that you absolutely have to go, right? To be honest, I feel like I want to stop you from going… But you really can’t do that, right?”
I really feel sorry for my mother.
I nodded at her without saying anything.
And actually, I have to go even if I don’t want to go. In the first place, I went to that world against my will. If you think about it in reverse, it means that even here now, I could end up going back even though I didn’t want to. In that case, it would be better for me to prepare and go back.
Now I have to do my job.
