According to my seniors, it was a world of dreams that I sometimes have, but looking at the current situation, it didn’t seem like a simple dream.
The world created by Abyss does not necessarily show the ‘past’, but it is true that it is deeply related to the past.
At that time, when I was lost in thoughts of the past for a long time, Hayoung Yoon approached me.
“Seo Yoon-ah. I’m done cooking, but are you really not going to eat? You didn’t eat dinner tonight.”
Yoon Ha-young squatted across from her, holding a bowl in one hand.
Choi Seo-yoon smiled at her.
“Yeah, I don’t have much of an appetite.”
“Eat anyway. You don’t know when something will happen, but you have to be strong.”
Then a familiar voice came from above.
When he raised his head, Seonwoo Kim was looking down at him, holding a bowl in both hands.
He held out a bowl in his hand to her. It was
a bowl of rice topped with meat and sauce
.
Choi Seo-yoon, who received the bowl in a daze, looked blankly at Kim Seon-woo.
Kim Seon-woo met that gaze and smiled.
“What are you looking at?”
Kim Seon-woo sat down next to her, followed by the voices of others.
“Hey. Eat together.”
“The fire here is warm and nice.”
It was Shin Yeongjun and Yoo Ara. Afterwards, Lily also came and sat in a circle around the campfire
.
So everyone grabbed their bowls and started eating.
Yoon Ha-young, who swallowed the meat and rice in one bite, put on a happy expression.
“Uh~ delicious.”
“I know. The meat is really tender. Lee Seo-joon can’t eat this delicious food.”
Choi Seo-yoon stared at it, then swallowed the food as well.
A sweet flavor that spreads in your mouth at the same time.
As others have said, the meat was incredibly tender.
Since it was an outdoor mission, I didn’t expect this much food, so the spoon moved without my knowledge.
“The meat was cooked by Seonwoo Kim.”
At Yooara’s words, Choi Seo-yoon turned around at Kim Seon-woo, who was sitting next to him.
“really?”
“uh.”
Kim Seon-woo answered in a dry voice and put the food in his mouth.
“I will eat well, senior.”
Then Kim Seon-woo glanced at her and smiled.
“okay. Eat well.”
Yuara, who had been swallowing food like that, said at once.
“So when are you going to tell me?”
At Yuara’s words, everyone’s eyes turned to Kim Seon-woo.
Kim Seon-wu’s hand stopped holding the spoon, and Yoo-ara spoke again.
“That’s why I was shaken by Berthe’s proposal.”
For a moment, Kim Seon-woo’s expression hardened. Then, as if to reassure her, she gave a small smile.
“don’t worry. Because I have nothing to do with Jin Chun-wu.”
He again evaded an answer.
It’s always like this. The answer to questions related to the ‘past’ is always this way.
Then, Shin Yeongjun frowned.
“You’re not asking that. Anyone who sees it will know that we suspect you.”
“Maybe you feel that way. sorry.”
“huh’?”
Unexpectedly, it was Shin Young-jun who was rather embarrassed when he apologized obediently.
Shin Yeongjun, embarrassed for nothing, scratched his head
.
In fact, he also knew that Kim Seon-woo had a ‘disclosure drug’.
“…No, there is nothing to be sorry about. I feel embarrassed for nothing.”
Seonwoo Kim smiled.
“Now the end is not far away. When everything is over, I’ll tell you everything then.”
“…do I really need to tell you?”
At Shin Young-jun’s words, Kim Seon-woo nodded.
“Seonwoo. Then tell me about your childhood.”
This time, Hayoung Yoon said.
Everyone’s eyes turned to Kim Seon-woo again, and he smiled.
“A story from when I was young… Well, it was normal. Ordinary home Ordinary environment.
Kim Seon-woo spoke slowly as if reminiscing about the past.
Then he laughed again.
“Why are you laughing?”
“No, I remembered that I had told someone something similar to this before.”
“Who are you?”
When Choi Seo-yoon asked, Kim Seon-woo was lost in thought.
“hmm. It’s… no. you do not have to know.”
Seonwoo Kim shook his head.
However, Seoyoon Choi instinctively seemed to know who it was.
Bona Mana Han Se-yeon is clear.
I felt uncomfortable for a while, but I thought I wouldn’t be able to ask it now or in the future, so I asked another question.
“Senior, do you want to go back to your hometown?”
In an instant, Kim Seon-woo’s expression hardened again.
As expected, ‘hometown’ had a special meaning to him.
He said after thinking for a long time.
“curious.”
Yu..2”
“I just wonder what happened. Whether you’re doing well or something bad has happened…
He said with a bitter smile.
And she realized the meaning of that answer
.
His hometown is not in this world.
It is neither the world before the return nor the possibility that it is a third world unknown to one cannot be ruled out.
As soon as I thought that, a whirlwind of emotions swirled deep in my heart.
Her sharp touch instinctively told me.
If he goes back to his hometown, it will be an eternal separation from him.
…We barely got back together, but we have to break up again
?
For a moment, a presumptuous, selfish thought passed through my head.
“Seniors.”
At her call, Kim Seon-woo looked at her.
…what not to say. But she decided to be selfish just this once.
“…Can we not go back to our hometown?”
And Kim Seon-woo’s eyes trembled greatly.
The end of the story is slowly approaching.
…because I don’t know what will happen next.
Because it’s still early. Now the moment has come to seriously think about the concerns that have always been put off.
What do I want to do?
—Do you want to go back to your hometown?
In the past, all I wanted was to get out of this disgusting world and return to my hometown as soon as possible.
Friends who grew up with their parents since childhood.
And I always missed the psychological stability of living in the land where I was born.
However, since I fell into this world, more than 10 years have passed.
The new affection and memories accumulated over those long years
have grown beyond my ability to handle.
—…Can we not go home?
To me now, this world has become a precious world, not an unfamiliar world.
If so, what should I do in the future…
“Mr. Seonwoo.”
I woke up at the sound of a voice.
When I raise my head, Han Se-yeon’s face
fills my field of vision.
“What do you think?”
I forced a smile and shook my head.
“no. it’s nothing. I thought about something else for a while.”
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Han Se-yeon stared at my face with pensive eyes and then sat down on the chair across from me.
This is 801’s office.
I came here today because I have something to tell her.
“Ah, that’s why I came here—.”
“I know, actually.”
At that time, Han Se-yeon cut my words and said.
When I looked at her for something, she was looking at me with a gaze that seemed to pierce through everything in me.
“I mean, what is Seonwoo worried about right now?”
She took a short breath and said.
“Did you think of your hometown?”
“uh? how about that?”
I was really surprised.
Did Han Se-yeon have mind-reading traits?
“You can see it when you see it… is a joke, and I actually heard the story through Elin.”
“ah.”
The moment Berthe proposed to me, El Rin was there too.
“I should have told you first.”
Han Se-yeon shook her head as if she was okay and smiled.
It seemed like he was trying to forcefully show a bright smile, but he felt a bit of bittersweet emotion inside.
“I respect Seonwoo’s choice. Don’t be swayed by others, make your own decisions. The most important thing is yourself, right?”
The most important thing is yourself La….
Good words that become bones and flesh.
I have to think about what is the most important value to me first.
I smiled a little.
“Still, I’m not sticking with Jin Chun-woo. It will never happen.”
At my words, Han Se-yeon laughed.
It wasn’t a real laugh, it was a formal laugh.
A smile made to hide emotions.
Soon she looked out the window and said.
“When this job is over, Seonwoo will have a long vacation.”
It’s not wrong to say that I couldn’t rest at all and lived fiercely for the past time.
“Did you decide how to rest?”
Shaking her head, she said.
“How is your trip?”
“…A trip?”
“yes. or around the world You have romance, right?”
I chuckled.
“Around the world… that’s fine.”
I really want to try it if I get a chance.