Chapter 464 – Date in a Dream (2)
“… Awesome.”
Dana was stunned as tall and low buildings soared from block to block as if forming a forest.
─ Dong-dong.
Already looking forward to it, Dana rolled her feet. She was in a state of excitement after previewing the scenery of the travel destination in pictures. Probably because I had never properly explained the scenery of her hometown.
‘Crazy Lehu.’
But even though it’s a dream, I’ve been having trouble enough to sweat. It was because there was a part that was difficult to cover this wide city with my own imagination.
“Grunt.”
I let my imagination run wild and reproduced the streets around the university I attended as I remembered them. Suddenly, I snapped my fingers as the realization flashed through my head.
‘If the memories are ambiguous, can’t I just extract them?’
Is it possible? No, you have to go down to make money.
I whispered as I raised the mana of the Old God.
“ᛈ(Perth).”
Hurrrr—!!
The moment I recited the rune, the memories that had been sleeping under my unconscious began to be extracted.
“Hey, this is it.”
I grinned.
The self in the dream is something separate from the body!
In other words, there was something in line with the soul. With the ‘memory extraction’ effect of the ᛈ (Perth) rune, I succeeded in recreating my memories in Shade’s dream.
‘Well, it’s magic that recreates the ruined hometown of Yerna, who I’ve never been to before.’
With this, I was able to reproduce 100% of the college town in my memory without having to concentrate. I sighed, feeling a great sense of incongruity at the first time in my life that I had never seen a deserted university street in broad daylight and Dana looking around at a chaotic intersection.
“Sir, what are you splitting? It might be surprising.”
Dana grunted, as if she knew she was making fun of her. I lightly crossed her arms.
“It’s not surprising. It’s empty because there are no people, but let’s take a look together. It reminded me of my husband.”
“… Just be bored If only the outside is gorgeous, I don’t have the right to call you a country boy?”
Even Dana, who was a bit pouty, eventually couldn’t hold back her curiosity and let go of her expression. As I was quickly plotting the course for this instant date, Dana burst into tears as she entered Daehak-ro.
“Puhh. Look at the street spirit. What is your hometown really like?”
“Are you talking about the sign? That’s the Korean spirit.”
Those signboards hanging on each floor of the building without any zoning!
Heck, fuck this is Korea. In addition to the pop song from the store, if you add people’s voices, it’s only a matter of time before you get tired just walking around. That is until you get used to it.
“Are you saying other countries aren’t like that? It’s fun. There are so many, I don’t know which store does what.”
“Heh. Just follow me.”
This place is famous as a street with many places to shop, but since it was a dream, there would be no point in buying anything.
After all, it’s obvious to say that it’s a place to go around.
“For Koreans, going on a date is a movie theater.”
Fortunately, the effect of the rune magic that brought out and reproduced the unconscious was amazing. In the movie theater we rented, all movies were free, and all food was free.
After much thought, I chose a movie that moved me.
The movies of my personal life were nothing worth watching while on a date. Other fantasy films might have seemed funny to Dana, a resident of the Jjintung Fantasy neighborhood.
“However, even if the world we live in is different, the gambit of a touching true story is the same.”
“Huh… I’m not sure, but isn’t this from another country? I want to hear about your hometown.”
“… Pick again.”
I brought popcorn and Coke and put a suitable movie on the screen. The language barrier worked with my papago translation cheats.
Some scenes will be difficult without background knowledge, but that’s rather the number of conversations after the screening.
If anything, it’s a chartered theater, so it’s okay to explain.
─Finch!
Skip the ads. When Jammin’s firecrackers exploded in the sky and the distributor’s logo floated, Dana, who had been slightly cowering since entering the theater, failed to pretend to be calm.
I couldn’t stop laughing because it was so cute.
“Heh. Relax and just watch. It’s a calm movie, so you can watch it comfortably and then cry at the point where you want to cry.”
“You are laughing. I’ve never cried over someone else’s story, have I?”
Dana snapped and leaned awkwardly against her back.
… Wasak.
Chop-.
“… Huh?! What, what is this?!”
Dana’s eyes wide open from the caramel popcorn and trembles from the carbonated coke.
You may have experienced the carbonation itself with beer, but you must have been surprised by the sweetness of cola that you don’t even know what it is after closing the lid and the carbonation filled with modern techniques. It was a reaction to fill up the jiguppong similar to gukppong.
My sister’s reaction to this would be more fun than the movie. I calmly explained the things I was curious about to Dana, who seemed embarrassed by my laughter.
And just like that, about an hour later, Dana walked out of the theater with her tears streaming down her face.
“… Kheung. Sniff.”
“Hey, are you crying? Are you crying?”
“… What the fuck! If a play was made to make you cry, it’s polite to cry!”
“Theater? Ah, this is not a play, but a “Movie”.”
She covered her mouth with her handkerchief and cried during the family reunion scene, but her side was pinched after teasing her as she was distracted throughout her staff roll. Her self-confidence as she sobbed.
I picked out milk tea that Dana would like at the cinema cafe.
For reference, Milkney was just imagined. I’ve tried a part-time job at a cafe, but even if I don’t have to, it’s something that pops up whenever I think about it.
“Would you like to see another episode? That’s a bit old-fashioned. If you watch a lot of movies, you will get 100% understanding of my hometown without detailed explanations.”
“… It’s a good idea, but first take a look at where you live. But how many of them are there?”
Dana asked while clumsily biting through a straw and drinking tapioca milk tea. Parting my lips, I gave the cake to my older sister, who was mesmerized by the violent sweetness, and said,
“I think there are hundreds of episodes I’ve seen? If you’ve seen it once, it’s 100% replayable, but I don’t remember it perfectly, so it’s worth watching. Seeing it after 4 years is so much fun.”
Dana licked her lips and she sighed.
“… Have you been living in a really crazy place? They said something about the gold spoon, but it was a fucking deception.”
“Isn’t that the rich boy? The gap between the rich and the poor in the world I lived in is so fucking long, so let’s ask questions while watching the movie. So play and eat. Even if I only eat cancer in my dream, I won’t gain weight.”
“It turned. I just wanted to sleep for a whole month.”
“You have to have sex every day for that.”
“If you rotate with 4 people, you can chew. Do you admit it?”
“Uh huh. Cut off my husband’s juice.”
Of course, there was no way that it would be cut off, but the words did.
I took Dana, who had drained her tears and runny nose, and stepped on the standard dating course.
It wasn’t a place where there was a need for entertainment, and I couldn’t say it even if my mouth was torn, but the experience of dating her ex-girlfriend, who was in a different department at the same university, was subtly helpful.
I was a little bit guilty, but wouldn’t it be okay since I broke up with my ex-girlfriend in a pure way? My adah was stolen by Fran.
“Because I trusted your Ada as much as I trusted you! I made you leave for another city without any burden!!”
“No sister lyrics. The lyrics are all wrong.”
“I sang the song with the feelings of the time when my first love, who had let go easily, showed up wearing a wedding ring after a month.”
“Let’s go next, next!!”
After playing the tambourine at the coin karaoke room, we moved. Dana, who immediately remixed the song I picked, was hit with a critical hit, so my plan to sing a love song with great enthusiasm came to nothing. It’s like a bad year.
Dana, who knows nothing about Korea or the culture of the earth, chose a course that would not be boring, so we walked around her Daehak-ro.
Physical play was put aside for a while as Dana, who was frightened in a zombie game in a VR multi-room, punched and smashed her machine. Throwing this superhuman-level violent nun into the real world is such a shame that it’s just a matter of time.
Next time, I’ll have to sneak out of the IMAX theater with a horror movie playing. Hi-Hi.
“PC games are out because they are complicated… Would you like to try something like a casual game that even kids can play without knowing how to use it?”
I spoke to her, but Dana held her head a few paces back, worried that it might not get into her neck.
“Why?”
“Is that a bar?”
What Dana pointed out was a chicken house on the third floor. Of course, it was a franchise that also sold alcohol, but I asked awkwardly.
“That’s right, but how did you know? Does it smell like alcohol?”
“The interior of the building looks just like a high-end bar. There are several places like that in the surrounding one-story buildings.”
“Damn it, now you can tell if it’s a bar or not just by looking at it. It’s like a drunkard. I passed on it because it was obvious that I wouldn’t be able to drink Britannia’s urine beer if my mouth became more advanced after drinking Earth.”
Dana sucked her cream as I stuck out my tongue.
“It’s okay to call Britannia liquor urine. Because it’s true. But I can’t forgive you for treating me like a piss-drinking mad bitch.”
“Actually, our country’s beers are also cheaper than Britannia. It depends on the snacks we eat together, but foreign beer is usually better.”
“It’s ugly, North Lake. Didn’t you lose your hometown referee? Didn’t you come here drinking beer too?”
“Yes~ Mi. Did you wake up?”
Kingchiman K-Beer’s mildness is a cycle?
As for the experience of drinking Germania beer, if it’s a type of alcoholic beverage, anyway, in terms of quality, the other world is comparable to the earth. I opened the nogari and took Dana to her chicken house and sat her down.
The store was more like a cafe than a chicken house.
Looking at the meticulousness of the interior, I can’t remember, but it seems I’ve been here for a drink. Maybe it’s because it’s a famous university street following Hongdae. It was a store that seemed to have lost quite a bit of money.
The dark brown wooden interior and the proudly placed oak barrels were very tasteful.
… Twist.
Dana sat in her chair and twisted her body, as if she was concerned about the mismatch of her clothes. She’s cute
─Shashashashak! I signed the seal of Suumi Yangga.
“Ninbeop, the art of summoning chicken!”
“If you can use that in real life, you’ll build a mansion with gold.”
“Is gold the problem right now? There are golden olives right in front of you.”
I filled the table with all kinds of chicken and happily clinked beer glasses. Dana looked at the ceiling filled with luxurious light fixtures—by the standards of the world, at any rate—and she laughed.
“But if it’s chicken and beer, isn’t it no different from the Daehangno bar we used to eat? Isn’t this the food of your country?”
“Go-! Seasoned chicken is Korean food! A savage medieval land nun with only salt and pepper and a couple of other seasonings discussing the profoundness of K-chicken!”
Even if I’m a kid who doesn’t really miss kimchi, how much I missed chicken! The bite of the chicken leg without hesitation made me regret why I hadn’t thought of this earlier.
Gulp, gulp… !
“… Big!!”
Enjoying the greasiness of the chicken, I took a shot of beer in a pitcher glass. I didn’t get drunk because it was a dream, but the taste of the sharp alcohol came out naturally.
… Klopp.
Dana saw me admiring and looked at her beer.
Bubbles constantly rising from the golden liquid in a transparent glass! As if reminding us of coke’s non-playful carbonic acid, we naturally swallowed our saliva.
‘Because I have to go to a bar that only nobles would go to to enjoy that thick carbonated drink in another world.’
Dana looked at her when I handed her the chicken leg, then brought her beer glass to her mouth.
Dana’s eyes widened as she passed her first bite down her throat.
─Knock-knock!
“… Pooh!”
The large glass was emptied in the blink of an eye. Dana didn’t even eat snacks and hit the glass one shot, so I whipped my fingers and filled the glass with beer again.
“Try the chicken too. If you only drink beer, you won’t get drunk here.”
“You don’t have to eat anymore, do you understand? I can’t compare I’m sorry for getting caught up in the topic of people from another world.”
“Because when there is more space in life, the things to play and eat will also develop.”
As chefs from another world are fiercely concerned about cost-effectiveness as well as the taste of the ingredients, it is difficult to taste this much unless you are a noble chef. If we were to compare the best chefs, they would be equal, but the average level would be Earth’s landslide victory.
As soon as I took a bite of the fried food, Dana smiled bitterly. She seemed to have gotten used to the feeling of surprise by now.
“I want to let Fran eat it too. The other kids will love it too.”
“You can bring it next time. Being addicted to Earth’s culture would be just the right motivation to help with dimension shift research.”
Fran seems to be interested in things like mainstream and technology.
Veronica sees it as a matter of time before she becomes a film expert or novel critic. Even Laliluru might become an entertainer with a house full of sweets and mascot dolls. I think I’ll get jealous if I start sucking on male idols.
“… Dimensional shift.”
Dana muttered as she wiped her chicken grease on her toilet paper. I blinked and she smiled.
“It is not cancer. Is there any other drink than that? Aren’t there more besides beers?”
“There are many, but the types I have drank are not that many. Just a few Korean alcoholic beverages, foreign traditional liquor, and convenience store specials.”
“This bastard has lost half his life. Why do you take the joy out of my life? Let’s drink and live.”
“Drinking and getting sick? Damn, her husband came back from the dead, but he got an assassination shot. Do you have any insurance money in front of me? I got caught, bitch.”
“Oh really? How come you put detergent in your breakfast every day, but it didn’t die. You knew everything.”
“Det?”
“I’m joking, so don’t look like a mutt who has been taken away from a dog bone, and get another drink. Make you curious.”
“If so.”
I took out mint chocolate soju with a kind face and almost broke the earthen pot with the head of the bottle, and we chatted and drank for a long time.
It was difficult for the atmosphere to rise at a drinking party where one would never get drunk, so he came out at the right time. I didn’t feel full, but I decided to walk with the feeling of taking a walk.
The name of the university has been attached, but if you walk a little on this street, which is far from the atmosphere of study, you will come to a lake. I took Dana there. I had never been to this place with my ex-girlfriend.
─Salang.
Petals fell on Dana’s hair as she walked down the road lined with cherry blossoms, just like in spring. I picked it up and smiled.
“Come to think of it, there are no cherry blossoms in my sister’s world. No, can you go to Kitai?”
“You can go and see. According to what you said, there might be a country over there that resembles your hometown, right?”
“Well. Our country’s history is also quite complex. If you really do, the feeling will be quite different, right?”
─Glance. The bright sky quickly became night when I looked up.
The biggest difference between modern times and pre-modern times is, of course, the night view. Even the night castle, where the lights do not go out even at dawn, is a daily scene in modern times.
Dana watched the night view of sparkling lights from the lakeside.
“… I am very surprised and a little embarrassed.”
The lights of that street stretched out and fell on the surface of the lake. Dana’s eyes peered into my face, smiling mischievously.
“This is the world you want to return to.”
