Chapter 4 – Dream (4)

It felt somewhat hazy, like I was dreaming.

I was following a vaguely visible dirt road in a dark forest full of tall trees.

I wasn’t alone, there was someone a little ahead of me.

It was a person wearing armor like you would see in a fantasy comic.

I wanted to look around and get information, but I couldn’t move my body as I wanted.

I just rolled my eyes and looked at the endless grass and trees.

After a while, the person walking ahead of me turned around and said something irritating to me.

“Hey, how long does it take to get to the destination?”

I thought it was a man because he was wearing jet-black armor, but he was a woman with impressive jet-black hair.

My body moved as it wanted, and I took out a strange bead from my chest, looked at it, and said,

“Hmm… It says there isn’t much left.”

“I’ve been walking for hours now… If I keep doing this, I might have to sleep out in this damp forest…”

The woman in her armor didn’t stop walking even though she slumped and groaned.

As I walked a little further, I suddenly heard a rustling sound.

Soon, a woman with long brown hair came out of the grass next to her.

Although it was difficult to see her face in detail because it was dark around her, she naturally blended into the group, perhaps because she was her companion.

The brown-haired woman approached the black-haired woman who was walking ahead and spoke.

“Hero, there really isn’t much left, so just be patient a little longer.”

A warrior, a woman with black hair, was called a warrior.

Both the woman called the warrior and the woman with brown hair were wearing armor and weapons, and had very sophisticated designs.

As she walked for a while, the warrior who was walking ahead of her turned around and spoke to me with a frown on his face.

“···Leader, I’m starting to get irritated now… “There isn’t much left, right?”

At that time, faint sunlight leaked through the thick trees and briefly illuminated the warrior’s face.

The moment I saw her face, she had such a beautiful appearance that I couldn’t help but exclaim with admiration.

Her long, deep black hair was tied together, and the corners of her eyes were slightly raised, giving her a sharp look that seemed to resemble that of her cat.

While staring blankly at the warrior’s face, she suddenly lost consciousness and her field of vision began to narrow.

As if she was losing her mind, her vision darkened, and she finally lost her mind.

After a while, I came to my senses and opened my eyes, and I was having a different dream than before.

The first thing I saw was a high, clear sky, and I could hear murmurs around me.

I still couldn’t move my body as I wanted, so I just rolled my eyes here and there and looked around.

It was like a market, full of merchants selling their wares and customers looking at their products.

Someone was leading me with my arm around me, and when I took a quick look, it was the warrior I had seen in my previous dream.

As we walked along the market street without any conversation, a merchant smiled brightly and spoke to us.

“Hey young man! Tools are super cheap now! “It’s a chance to score points with your lover!”

The warrior seemed to be offended by those words, so he walked quickly and spoke to me.

“···Ignore it, don’t even look at the old perverts”

I followed the warrior’s words and silently walked as she led.

The warrior hugged my arm tightly, so her ample breasts were pressed against my arm, but it seemed like nothing was wrong.

It was around this time that I began to wonder what purpose I was wandering around the market so aimlessly.

I was passing a small stand selling pretty accessories on the street.

The sight of a young couple and a merchant haggling over accessories attracted attention.

The young woman showed her ring on her hand to her man and said,

“Look at this! “It fits my finger perfectly”

“Um… Uncle, please give me this!”

The man smiled with satisfaction and generously paid the merchant.

“Oh, there is no such thing as a match made in heaven, I love it! “I’ll give you a little discount!”

At that time, the warrior walking side by side spoke quietly as if he was looking at the same place as me.

“Ring…”

I guess I heard her in her dream and suggested that I buy one of her rings.

“If you wear something like a ring, it’s just a nuisance…”

Even as the hero said what she said, his eyes were already glued to the ring.

In her dream, I approached her and her stall, saying just to look at her.

The warrior pretended not to be interested, rolling his eyes around the accessories and carefully picking up a ring.

For some reason, I became a little excited by the innocent look of her eyes shining and looking at the ring.

In the dream, I quietly took out money, paid for the ring without the hero knowing, and said I would buy it for the hero as a gift.

The warrior blushed and spoke as if he was embarrassed that his feelings had been revealed.

“No, no, what kind of ring is it! This body is a dragon…, A warrior! If you have a ring like this, you can’t fight…”

Contrary to what she said was not necessary, her gaze did not leave the ring she was holding.

In the dream, I quietly took the ring and whispered to her as I put it on the ring finger of her left hand.

“… Thank you for always protecting me.”

It was an unfamiliar word to me as I was looking at it from a third party’s perspective, but the warrior seemed to be quite moved and spoke while holding back tears.

“Thank you, I will protect you for the rest of my life!”

In the end, the warrior, shedding tears, ran into my arms as if hiding his face.

When I saw him gently stroking the warrior in his arms, I somehow thought that the hero was gorgeous.

At that moment, my vision darkened once again, and I lost consciousness.

After a while, I slowly opened my eyes and saw a sky colored in twilight.

It was another dream.

I rolled my eyes and looked around, and under the setting sun that colored the sky, I saw a village so small that I could see where it ended.

At that time, people came out of the village and ran toward me, shouting.

“Run away!! It’s a monster!!!”

“Mom! Ugh…”

“Wake up! If you fall, you die!”

What was happening was that people were running away.

As I was watching that scene in my dream, I looked around.

The warrior I saw at first and the woman with long brown hair were standing there.

In my dream, I approached the village, passing people running away with two women.

As they were slowly heading toward the village, a brown-haired woman spoke disapprovingly to the warrior.

“···Hero, it’s okay if you don’t have to protect a small village like this, right?”

… For a warrior’s comrade, these were unfair words.

The warrior smiled brightly at the brown-haired woman and spoke excitedly.

“I am a warrior. If I step forward myself, I can protect everything?”

The brown woman stared at the hero and then took a seat a little distance away from us.

In fact, in my dream, I didn’t say anything even when I saw those women.

The moment I slowly made my way towards the village, I suddenly heard a thud-thud-a sound shaking the ground.

After a while, the trees that had grown high beyond the village started to fall over.

A large creature appeared through the fallen trees.

‘Kooooo!’

Big monsters making loud cries were coming to the village.

Even at a glance, the number was more than ten.

It felt amazing to see large monsters appearing, as if I was watching a monster movie.

The warrior ahead saw the monsters and suddenly stopped and turned towards me.

The warrior stopped, unwrapped something from his neck, and then he came over to me and put something in his hand.

It was a ring I had bought before.

The warrior standing with his back to the setting sun looked at me and said with a grin.

“I will protect you, are you waiting?”

Without listening to my answer, the hero turned around and started running towards the monsters.

At that moment, her hand flashed, and a large sword appeared.

The warrior who got close to the monsters jumped up and swung a large sword, cutting down the monsters in an instant.

I was just looking at that scene.

After a while, I once again lost consciousness and lost consciousness.

I quickly came to my senses, but this time the surroundings were pitch black.

“···Seed! ···Seed! Wake up!”

It turned out that it wasn’t because the surroundings were dark, but because I hit my head, I couldn’t see clearly.

Someone called out to me, shaking me violently, and the voice seemed familiar, like it was a warrior.

“Come to your senses!!”

When I groaned in my dream and opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was the hero.

Red liquid was splattered here and there on the warrior’s pure white face.

… It definitely looked like blood.

She was soaked up to her head, and there were bright red water droplets at the end of her hair.

When the warrior saw that I had come to my senses, he touched her here and there and continued talking to her as if checking for consciousness.

“Gwae, are you okay? Does it hurt a lot? “I’m sorry. I was wrong…”

The way the hero looked down at me, his focus wavering uneasily and stuttering, seemed very unsettling.

When I answered that it was okay, she jumped up and pulled out the large sword that was stuck on my bedside.

The warrior looked down at me and her tears began to flow.

Mixed with the red liquid on her face, it looked like she was shedding bloody tears.

The warrior spoke with an anxious yet somewhat solemn determination.

“I, I… Will protect you…, Joe, please wait a moment…”

She disappeared in an instant, leaving me alone.

In my dream, I lifted her head with difficulty to find the hero.

It was as if bright red paint had been poured onto the sky, and nothing was visible in the red sky.

At that time, a sudden explosion of alcohol was heard, followed by the desperate screams of countless people and a dull sound like a watermelon being crushed.

The moment I looked at the source of the sound, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

It was full of unrecognizable corpses, and a man cried sadly, looking for his mother.

The man’s limbs were not visible as if they had been cut off.

Next to him, there was a man sobbing as he hugged a woman whose chest had been cut off, leaving only part of her upper body. The man’s lower body had been cut off, with his internal organs sticking out.

I felt like I was going to get nauseous at the horrible scene, but my body was just quietly looking at the scene as if nothing had happened.

… The in the dream was not the real me.

No matter how tightly I closed my eyes, I felt like I was going crazy from the random scenes that were being drawn in my mind.

Soon, the continued heavy drinking stopped and only the sound of someone who had survived crying was heard.

In my dream, I looked around again.

The man who was crawling on the floor and screaming stopped moving and became quiet.

The man who cried and hugged the corpse fell asleep next to his body.

In my dream, I kneeled reverently and watched everything I could see, as if I wanted to capture the entire scene.

… It seems crazy.

Suddenly, even the sound of someone crying quieted down, and the hero who had disappeared appeared.

She looked worse than before.

Something black, whether it was flesh or something, was sticking out all over the body.

The warrior still looked anxious and fidgeted as he approached me.

She looked down at me, blocking my view with her own body, as if not wanting to show me the horrible sight of her behind her.

At that time, her wet hair fluttered and a drop of blood fell on my face.

The warrior’s expression hardened, and he spoke quietly as he looked at the blood splattering on my face.

“···Dirty thing.”

She picked up a clean handkerchief and carefully wiped the blood that had spattered on my face.

In fact, her own face was covered in her own blood…

The moment I met her eyes as she looked at me with her calm face, as if there were more blood on her face, a shiver ran down my spine.

… It wasn’t a person’s eyes.

The warrior smiled slightly as if he liked my clean face.

The moment I saw the smiling warrior, my vision darkened, and I lost consciousness.

*

“Huh!”

When I woke up from my dream, I jumped up.

Instinctively, I looked around, and luckily it was my room.

The moment I confirmed that I was in a room, the dreams I had just had come back to me and I felt nauseous.

I covered my mouth and quickly ran to the bathroom.

I held on to the restroom and vomited out my stomach like crazy.

After I vomited for a while, my stomach calmed down, and I downed the water and sat down on the floor.

To calm my mind, I washed my face with cold water, rinsed my mouth thoroughly, and returned to the room.

I sat on the bed with a dazed mind and looked at the clock. It was still dawned.

I lay down to sleep again, but I couldn’t sleep because of my dream.

I rolled around for a while holding my phone to distract myself.

While I was watching the video blankly.

‘Knock-knock-‘

Someone knocked on the door and said.

“Chin-ah, my mother wants me to eat.”

It was Jiyeon Lee’s voice.

After a while, the voice was heard again.

“···Going in?”

Before I knew it, morning had come, and Jiyeon Lee came to wake me up

After coming to her senses, I quickly got up and opened the door before she came in.

“···I’ll go.”

Jiyeon Lee, who was standing in front of the door, looked at me and said with a grin.

“It’s been a while since I wanted to see the room, but it’s a shame…”

The moment her eyes met the smiling Lee Ji-yeon, her expression became slightly distorted, and she spoke as if she were puzzled.

“···What’s wrong?”

Jiyeon Lee looked at me strangely, so I gave her an appropriate answer and led her to the living room.

She quietly headed to the kitchen, sat down around the table, and started eating.

“So when is Jiyeon coming again?”

“I’ll be right back. “Father.”

“Huh, yes, you should often come…”

I let out a short sigh as I saw the family looking happy.

She tried to eat rice to fill her empty stomach, but the terrible nightmare she had today came to mind, and she couldn’t eat it.

My mom seemed to feel sorry for me as I was crunching my rice, so she quietly spoke to me.

“Why aren’t you eating, son?”

“… No, I’m eating, … “Please eat now.”

I felt Jiyeon Lee’s eyes staring at me, but she tried to ignore her and continued to eat.

‘Thump-thump-thump-‘

At that time, I heard someone knocking on the front door.

As if her mother had missed her, she put down the spoon and stood up.

“Oh! “I guess rice has arrived.”

I asked my mother who stood up.

“… “Rice?”

“Ugh, I ran out and ordered it.”

‘Rice delivery!’

Once again, a young woman’s voice was heard along with the sound of tapping.

At the delivery man’s urging, my mother spoke to us.

“You guys eat, I’ll get it for you.”

I can’t make you lift heavy things…

She quickly got up and made her mother sit down.

“… “It’s heavy, so I’ll take it.”

“After all, I only have a son. I paid the bill, so I just get it.”

She quickly jumped out and opened the front door.

When I opened the door, I heard a young woman’s voice coming from beyond the door.

“Oh, there you are! Hello!”

“Yes, hello…”

The moment the door fully opened, and she saw the face of the delivery person, her mind went blank.

She was looking at me as if I was mesmerized.

She gently put down the rice bag she was holding in both hands and spoke carefully to me.

“···Are you okay?”

The voice asking me if I was okay somehow felt familiar.

A neatly organized style with deep black hair tied back.

A sharp impression resembling a cat with slightly raised eye corners…

A familiar face somewhere…, She was a woman who resembled a warrior.