“Yejiiiin~”
“Please walk on your own feet, you bastard! Before I just dump you on the street…”
“I believed in my friend as much as I believed in you~”
“…Sing that one more time, I dare you? I’ll sew that mouth of yours shut.”
Despite the stern warning, Lee Kyungsu swayed his legs like an octopus, humming a song with slurred pronunciation that could barely be understood.
“Seriously, this guy?!”
“I understand how you feel, but let’s give him a break just this once. He got dumped after all.”
“I didn’t get duuuumped~!!!”
Jin Hojun, who got hit in the face by Lee Kyungsu’s flailing hand, briefly considered just throwing him on the ground and leaving. However, the realization that if he abandoned Kyungsu, Jaeyoon would have to bear that weight alone helped him maintain his thin thread of sanity.
“I called a taxi. It’ll be here soon.”
Thanks to winning at rock-paper-scissors, Kim Dongwoo had secured the easier role and was enjoying a post-meal coffee from the vending machine, unconcerned with the struggles of the others.
“That fucking asshole…”
Harsh profanity escaped from Jin Hojun’s mouth.
“Hey, Lee Jaeyoon. Let’s just dump this bastard on the street and go.”
“If we leave him in this weather, his mouth will get paralyzed.”
“Is that my problem?”
Just as Jin Hojun reached the limit of his patience and was about to abandon Lee Kyungsu, fortunately, the taxi arrived. Tsk, lucky bastard. Muttering to himself, Jin Hojun practically threw Kyungsu into the taxi and massaged his stiff shoulders.
“Well, I’ll head off first.”
Kim Dongwoo, who lived close to Lee Kyungsu, got in the taxi with him and said goodbye to Jaeyoon. Jaeyoon waved his hand in response and watched as the taxi drove away before checking his wristwatch. 1:30 AM. No matter how close they were as friends, it was too late to just show up unannounced. What should I do…? While furrowing his brow and seriously contemplating, he snapped his head up at the sound of someone calling him.
“You, you seem different somehow?”
“Huh?”
At Jin Hojun’s words, Jaeyoon blinked in confusion. Different? How? As he looked back with a puzzled expression, Jin Hojun briefly rubbed the back of his neck before shrugging as if it wasn’t a big deal.
“You used to not care much about this kind of stuff, you know?”
“This kind of stuff?”
“You know… like, girlfriends and that sort of thing.”
“Ah…”
Understanding what Jin Hojun meant, Jaeyoon awkwardly smiled and scratched his cheek. As Jin Hojun said, if it had been the previous him, he wouldn’t have understood Lee Kyungsu’s feelings about breaking up with his girlfriend. He’d never been truly sincere about anyone before. He probably would have just thought, ‘Can’t he just meet someone else?’ and left it at that… But now he was different. After meeting Jung Jinhoo, he had come to understand what it meant to truly like someone. Jaeyoon bit his lip as Jung Jinhoo’s image came to mind.
“Hey, did something happen to you?”
Seeing Jaeyoon’s expression darken, Jin Hojun frowned and asked. In response, Jaeyoon smiled bitterly.
“Yeah, a lot of things…”
“Huh??”
To Jaeyoon, it didn’t feel like all of those events had been a dream. Although it was certainly annoying and difficult at first, the things that happened after he’d been possessed had now become precious memories to him. He couldn’t believe that it had all been just an illusion. Above all, his meeting with Jung Jinhoo couldn’t have been just a fleeting dream. It couldn’t be.
“Sorry, I just remembered something urgent I need to do. I have to go!”
“Huh? Oh, okay.”
Jin Hojun quietly watched Jaeyoon’s back as he hurriedly ran off somewhere, then narrowed his eyes. For reasons he couldn’t explain, he had the feeling that Jaeyoon might just disappear like this.
“Did I drink too much?”
He ruffled his hair as he watched Jaeyoon getting farther away.
***
“Haa, haa…”
After running to Byun Junghwan’s house without thinking, Jaeyoon hesitated for a moment before pressing the doorbell. Ding-dong, a clear and cheerful sound rang out.
“…”
Ding-dong~
After ringing the doorbell again, Jaeyoon furrowed his brow at the lack of any sign of movement from inside. He had been trying to contact Junghwan repeatedly on his way here, but Junghwan hadn’t answered at all. After briefly frowning and deliberating, he pushed up on the door lock.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep…
Since they had known each other since childhood, they were well aware of each other’s house passwords. After hearing the door lock open, Jaeyoon opened the door and frowned at the dark interior of the house.
‘Is he not home…?’
Wondering about the complete absence of any signs of life, Jaeyoon turned on the lights and immediately frowned at the A4 papers scattered messily on the floor.
“How long has it been since I cleaned up for him!”
Haah, a sigh escaped from Jaeyoon’s lips. As he bent his knees to organize the A4 papers on the floor, his body froze when he saw the name Lee Jaeyoon written on one of them.
‘Could this be…?’
Looking at the paper carefully, he saw familiar names everywhere. Han Doyoon, Kim Yeonwoo, Lee Minho…
‘The BL game’s setting materials!’
This was exactly what Jaeyoon needed most right now. Narrowing his eyes, he hurriedly skimmed through the scattered materials. Flipping past documents he already knew about, his hand suddenly stopped as he was quickly reading through the papers.
“This is…!”
His grip on the paper tightened involuntarily. His round, wide eyes moved left and right, reading the document.
[Relationship between Kim Yeonwoo and Lee Jaeyoon]
During middle school, Lee Jaeyoon was popular. He was handsome, had good grades, and was quite sociable. It was only natural that students liked him. Like everyone else at school, Kim Yeonwoo also knew of him. He thought Jaeyoon shined brightly.
Kim Yeonwoo, though he didn’t realize it himself, admired Lee Jaeyoon. Thinking that someday he wanted to be like Lee Jaeyoon, Kim Yeonwoo would hover around him and naturally came to know the people around Lee Jaeyoon as well.
A kind and gentle brother, reliable and trustworthy friends, and a perfectly cool senior. All things that Yeonwoo didn’t have but Jaeyoon did.
The more he secretly watched Lee Jaeyoon, the more envious he became of what Jaeyoon had. He coveted it. He wanted to have everything that Jaeyoon had. While he was trying so hard to be a good child, he resented Lee Jaeyoon for having everything he wanted without any effort at all.
Then Kim Yeonwoo discovered that Lee Jaeyoon had a crush on Han Doyoon. Thinking that if Han Doyoon liked him instead, then wouldn’t that make him better than Lee Jaeyoon, Kim Yeonwoo deliberately approached Han Doyoon.
He tried everything to get Han Doyoon’s attention, and he succeeded. The moment he saw Lee Jaeyoon’s expression as he watched Yeonwoo with Han Doyoon, Kim Yeonwoo felt an inexplicable pleasure. In this way, Kim Yeonwoo approached not only Han Doyoon but also the people around Lee Jaeyoon and obtained everything he wanted.
…I’m planning to make Kim Yeonwoo the main character, but does this make the protagonist too unlikable?
Hmm…
Should I cut this part?
(Write only the main content and delete the rest.
“…It’s not just ‘delete the rest,’ you jerk!”
Jaeyoon found himself getting angry before he knew it. He scowled deeply at the document that confirmed what he had suspected.
“After insisting that wasn’t the case and pretending not to know…”
Blowing upward to clear his bangs from his face, he then let out a long sigh. You really lost everything, Lee Jaeyoon… Having everything taken by Kim Yeonwoo, being betrayed in love by Han Doyoon, and then having nothing left – the fact that his final choice was to disappear in front of everyone made Jaeyoon’s chest feel tight.
‘If only one person, just one person had been by his side…’
As he flipped through the documents, Jaeyoon’s eyes widened in surprise. “Huh?” A confused voice escaped his lips.
[Jung Jinhoo and Lee Jaeyoon]
The reason Jung Jinhoo became a villain = Lee Jaeyoon.
Reason: Because Lee Jaeyoon, due to Kim Yeonwoo and the target charactersâ– ã………
‘What is this? What is written here??’
Jaeyoon scowled deeply at the paper where messy pen marks had been scribbled. Why is the reason Jinhoo sunbae became a villain related to Lee Jaeyoon?! Ah, seriously, Byun Junghwan!!!
Jaeyoon messed up his hair in frustration. He couldn’t understand why such important parts were crossed out with pen. Lee Jaeyoon, because of Kim Yeonwoo and the target characters, what?! More than that, did those two know each other?? There weren’t any scenes showing they had met in the game! This guy, how much of the game story did he skip?? Is there more important content besides this?!
After going through all the scattered documents, Jaeyoon eventually collapsed on the sofa in exhaustion. Please, organize your documents in a readable way…!! Even knowing that complaining about someone who wasn’t there was pointless, he couldn’t help but grumble.
Jaeyoon brushed back his sweat-soaked bangs. Come to think of it, if I’m here right now, what happened to Lee Jaeyoon’s body? His last memory was of falling down the stairs, which made him even more concerned. Could something have gone wrong? Did something happen?? Jaeyoon suddenly sat up.
‘Did Lee Jaeyoon return to his original body? Or after falling down the stairs…’
Jaeyoon shook his head vigorously from side to side. Either way, it was worrisome for him. Whether Lee Jaeyoon had returned or something had happened to Lee Jaeyoon’s body, Jung Jinhoo would be shocked regardless. This is what I was worried about…!! Jaeyoon bit his lip hard. He missed Jung Jinhoo. He was terribly worried about how he was doing right now.
“Please, sunbae…”
Beep-.
Hearing the sound of something turning on, Jaeyoon looked up and his eyes widened at the sight before him. On the phone that had turned on by itself, the start screen of a BL simulation game was displayed.
“What is this…?”
Jaeyoon had never downloaded this game before. He stared blankly at the screen in front of him. As he blinked slowly, a message appeared on the screen with a ding sound.
[start]
After hesitating for a moment, as Jaeyoon carefully tried to press the button, a text message appeared over the game screen.
[Want to have drinks next week?]
It was a message from Jin Hojun. Next week… Jaeyoon’s eyes narrowed. If that button would take him back to the world in the game, would he be able to return here again? Could this be his last chance?
Jaeyoon clasped his hands together. The images of his family and friends flashed through his mind.
“I…”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
