My heart was pounding again. It had only been a day. No, it wasnât even a day, just a few hours since I had become Ki Yoon Jae.
The damn god still hadnât answered my call. If he didnât want to let me go back, I would have to live as Ki Yoon Jae.
Will I be able to live until Iâm 26 years old as Ki Yoon Jae?
Wait, canât I just say that Iâm not Ki Yoon Jae?
Why donât I just say that I suddenly transmigrated and that Iâm not Ki Yoon Jae? Couldnât people help me find a way to return? They need Ki Yoon Jae, not a useless person like meâŚ
Should I test it�
I happened to be alone with Ha Hyun Seo. He is the youngest among the gifted, and in the original novel, Ha Hyun Seo did not participate in killing Ki Yoon Jae.
Ha Hyun Seoâs jet-black eyes looked upon me with anxiety. I donât know anyone else, but can I tell him? Maybe he will understand my situation.
As my hope began to raise its head, I decided to gather my courage.
âHyun SeoâŚâ
âYes, Hyung?â
âIâm actuallyâŚâ
It was before I even said, âIâm not Ki Yoon Jae.â
[WARNING]
[God givesăPremonitionăandăForesightăto the player.]
[This cannot be rejected.]
As the system message appeared in front of me, the download window turned on. Unlike the tutorial, there werenât any option. There was a loading bar signified the forced download, and its percentage went up overtime.
âThis isâŚâ
[ [Foresight] is activated when [Premonition] triggered.]
[Letâs predict what will happen if Ha Hyun Seo were to discover that you are not Ki Yoon Jae.]
[Triggered!]
[ [Premonition] transitions to [Foresight] .
[Foresight] is played back in real time.]
ââŚHyung?â
When I stopped talking, Ha Hyun Seo called to me with a puzzled face. I was puzzled, too. What? Nothing happened after the [Foresight] message.
Ignoring Ha Hyun Seoâs calls, I looked around for a while, but it was still only me and Ha Hyun Seo in the room.
What the hell is thisâŚ
âHyung, are you okay? Do you want me to go out so you can rest?â
âAh, no⌠I have something to tell you, Hyun SeoâŚâ
âYes. Please speak.â
Ha Hyun Seo leaned against the bed and smiled at me. I was a little relieved by his gesture, it was as if he would listen to anything I had to say.
I opened my mouth after organizing my words for a while. There was no turning back now.
âIâm not Ki Yoon Jae.â
ââŚEh?â
âIâm actually⌠I donât know. When I woke up, I found myself in this body.â
I kept talking to Ha Hyun Seo, who was shocked by my words. From the fact that I was possessed, to the story of God, to how I donât know how to returnâŚ
ââŚSo, please, help me get back.â
Ha Hyun Seo listened to me and didnât move. After a while, he looked at me with a blank look on his face.
The worries and concerns that filled his eyes were gone. I got some goosebumps, but his reaction made me wary.
âSo⌠youâre not Ki Yoon Jae Hyung?â
âYes, thatâs right.â
âYouâre not Ki Yoon Jae Hyung?â
ââŚHyun Seo?â
I should have sensed something wrong with that face. I was too caught up in my misfortunes. and didnât notice.
Ha Hyun Seo stared at me with an emotionless expression. Then, his right arm quickly swelled up and was wrapped in fur. It only took an instant for the hand of the beast with its blade-like nails on the tip of that arm to pierce my neck.
âKugh!â
I was choked with terrible pain. The sharp nails were enough to slash my neck like a rag.
âHa Hyun Seo, what are you doing?â
Ki Hyun Joo was shouting through the open door, although I could not see it properly due to my gradually blurring vision. Ha Hyun Seo looked at me expressionless and suddenly collapsed, bleeding from his neck just like me. As I fell, Ki Hyun Joo stood, stunned, at the door.
Ah⌠the contract.
This was the contract condition that Ki Yoon Jae used as a leash for gifted people.
If Ki Yoon Jae dies, the contractors die the same way.
So, Ha Hyun-seo who attacked me died the same way. And Ki Hyun Joo, who didnât sign the contract because of blood ties, survivedâŚ
Then the restâŚ
They must have died. Alas, Iâm sorry.
My mistake in judgment led them to die. Thinking about it made me feel sorry.
But since I was dying too, they wouldnât be the only ones suffering.
âŚNow, what will happen to the original story?
How does the original work go when all the villain and his subordinates die? It was funny to think about this in the midst of dying, but I couldnât stop myself.
My vision blurred and I closed my eyes. It was over.
[ [Foresight] playback is over.]
âHyung?â
âGaspâŚ!â
I coughed involuntarily and sharply inhaled. Ha Hyun Seo, who had died in front of me, was alive and blinking his eyes.
The door that Ki Hyun Joo had opened and entered was also still closed, and it was still only Ha Hyun Seo and me in the room.
âHyung, do you have anything to say?â
âUhâŚ? Uhh⌠Itâs nothingâŚâ
âOk.â
âAs I said before, thank you for saving me. But I still feel that it is not enough.â
âAh~⌠itâs nothing.â
Thatâs all I could say in a hurry. Ha Hyun Seo smiled shyly and blushed at my words.
God damn itâŚ
""
If I reveal that Iâm not Ki Yoon-jae, Iâll die? I thought Ha Hyun Seo did not contribute to Ki Yoon Jaeâs death because he was nice.
I combined the information I knew about Ha Hyun Seo. This was what came to mind in the character encyclopedia:
[Character Encyclopedia]
[Ha Hyun Seo: The youngest among the gifted. He really likes Ki Yoon Jae, the one who took him out of the orphanage.]
He just didnât have any complaints about Ki Yoon Jae.
He didnât hate him enough to kill, but I was wrong to mistake him for being nice. He was following Ki Yoon Jae, so as soon as he thought that âIâ had taken his place, he killed me.
After my premonition, the tutorial that had remained in the corner of my gaze disappeared.
Even though I was able to finish the tutorial during the attack, it only disappeared after I made the mistake of revealing that I wasnât Ki Yoon Jae.
What did it mean? Will God no longer intervene in the future? My head hurts.
Darn itâŚ
I needed time to organize my thoughts. So, I sent out Ha Hyun Seo by saying I wanted to rest. Ha Hyun Seo was disappointed, but it was not a lie that he cherished âKi Yoon Jaeâ, so he quietly left.
Man, I want to snuggle back into bed and tuck myself in.
But I canât do that.
There was no time to escape from reality. I had to take action from now on to survive.
I need to sort out the information I have.
I got up, walked over to the desk, took out a blank notebook, and held a pen in my hand.
The lights didnât go out in my room for days.
* * *
It had been a few days since I had locked myself in my room to organize my thoughts.
I was fortunate to have had an important appointment only on the first day I was possessed, so neither Ki Hyun Joo nor anyone else ever called on me.
It was also helpful that I didnât have to go to school because it was a vacation period.
Because I canât just leave it.
What I wrote in this notebook was like a prophecy.
There were a lot of things that would happen in the future and information about the people involved.
Itâs not good to be in Korea at times like this.
In fantasy novels, the protagonist who moved across dimensions sometimes writes in Korean as a code, but I couldnât do so because Korean is still used here.
If you knew hangul, then you could read and understand what Iâd written. So, it had become something that shouldnât be discovered by others.
The gifted people I haveâŚ
There were a lot of gifted people in the guild, but only five of those were consistently around me.
Ki Hyun Joo, Ha Eun Seo, Ha Hyun Seo, Jung Yi JoonâŚand Kwon Jae Hyuk.
Ki Hyun Joo was my sixth cousin. So, she was the granddaughter of one of my grandfatherâs younger siblings. Due to blood ties, she was the only one who wasnât under contract.
Ha Eun Seo (Ha Hyun Seoâs sibling), Jeong Yi Joon, and Kwon Jae Hyuk are all from the same orphanage. Ki Yoon Jae was able to preemptively find them because it was an orphanage sponsored by the Sungwoon Group.
âIt was easier without parents.â
The contract was like a slave contract.
What kind of parent would sell their child as a slave for a lot of money?
Of course, itâs hard to say that there absolutely wonât be one⌠but at least a normal parent would never have signed the contract.
But these four had no parents, and there was nothing to do except to take them from the orphanage.
They didnât know what to do, but they would have judged that it would not be bad if they were guaranteed a job from the Sungwoon Group.
In fact, the judgment was right. They were able to go to the same school as me or a better school by being with me.
However, these four had different feelings toward Ki Yoon Jae and acted differently in the process of terminating the contract and killing him.