Chapter 5 – Dream (5)

The girl who resembled a warrior asked me if I was okay.

“···Are you okay?”

It’s not okay.

A person who looked exactly like the warrior I saw in my dream appeared.

She bent down and put down her bag of rice.

At that moment, the image I saw in my dream overlapped, and I unconsciously flinched.

“What are you doing?”

“Hi!”

I was so nervous that I didn’t even notice Jiyeon Lee approaching.

Lee Ji-yeon, seeing me so startled, made a strange expression.

The delivery man greeted Jiyeon Lee happily.

“Oh, hello! “Rice delivery has arrived.”

Jiyeon Lee said as she glanced at her.

“Ah… Yes, you can leave it there.”

The delivery man looked around at Jiyeon Lee, and she cautiously opened her mouth with a worried expression.

“Um… By any chance, Jiyeon Lee?”

“···Yes, that’s right.”

The delivery man, perhaps a fan of Lee Ji-yeon, spoke to her in a fuss.

“And! That’s right! I’m a fan! “You’re gorgeous!”

“Ah, you’re a fan… Thank you.”

The delivery man glanced at me and spoke in a cautious tone.

“Do you, by any chance, live here?”

“···No, this is my manager’s house.”

“Oh, you’re the manager!”

Ji-yeon Lee seemed to be annoyed by the delivery man who was telling her various stories, such as saying that he listened to Ji-yeon Lee’s song or that he enjoyed watching her drama.

She looked at Ji-yeon Lee and smiled brightly.

“If you are a fan, I am here…”

“Sure! That mouth is incredibly heavy.”

“Thank you. So, since you’re a fan… Would you like an autograph?”

“And! Thank you!”

The delivery man ran to the car to get her pen and paper.

Jiyeon Lee saw her walking away, and she glanced at me.

She quickly took her paper and handed it to Jiyeon Lee with a happy face.

“···Your name?”

“This is Hyeon Ha-yeon!”

Jiyeon Lee signed her autograph and returned her paper and pen.

Hyeon Ha-yeon smiled brightly and said as if she was really happy.

“Wow, thank you so much!”

“No. Thank you for your hard work on the delivery.”

“Yes! Have a great time!”

Hyeon Hayeon smiled brightly and held the signed paper tightly in her arms.

I stood there staring blankly at my back as it was moving away.

After a while, Jiyeon Lee saw that the car was leaving and spoke to me while frowning.

“What is it?”

“Uh… Huh?”

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“···No”

I thought Jiyeon Lee might have some kind of misunderstanding, so she gave a vague look and turned around, but Jiyeon Lee grabbed my wrist.

Looking at Jiyeon Lee’s face, she remembered a dream she had forgotten for a while and frowned without realizing it.

For a moment, I thought, “Oops,” But Lee Ji-yeon’s expression had already turned cold.

It’s an angry face.

She stood with her for a while, engaged in a silent war of nerves, and eventually, I opened my mouth first.

“···Today’s dream was a bit wild.”

She was looking at me as if telling me to continue.

“It’s just… When I saw that person’s face, I remembered that dream.”

As if my excuses didn’t work, I put more strength on her hand.

My wrist was hurting because my grip was stronger than I expected.

“···It hurts”

“···”

She tightened her hands once more and then relaxed her strength.

She took her hand away and glared at me and said.

“Put it in the rice warehouse”

“···Okay”

Jiyeon Lee went into the house, leaving me behind.

When she saw that she was gone, she let out a deep sigh.

“Hu…”

I don’t know what’s going on this morning.

When I looked at her wrist where she was captured, I saw that her handprint was still there.

“···What force is so strong?”

Rubbing her wrist, she lifted a bag of rice to move it.

The rice bag was much heavier than I thought.

“Inhale!”

It was my mistake to think that Hyeon Hayeon was carrying rice in both hands and that it was a light sack.

“···40 kilos?”

Hyeon Ha-yeon, whom I saw earlier, was lightly carrying a bag of rice.

···Aren’t you a real hero?

I thought that Hyeon Ha-yeon might be a warrior wielding a large sword.

*

I said hello to her family and headed straight to Seoul.

Only after handing over Lee Ji-yeon to Chief Choi did she return to her room.

When I lay down on her bed and checked her phone, it was still 2 PM.

She had been out of sorts since morning, but when she lay down on the bed, she relaxed and felt tired.

As she stretched and stretched her whole body, she became even more tired.

While she was thinking about what time to set the alarm, her eyes were already closed and her consciousness began to sink.

*

The sky was full of light, but it wasn’t dazzling.

When I looked around, I saw only light and nothing else.

[···Come here.]

A beautiful woman’s voice was heard.

When I looked behind her, there was a woman standing there.

She approached without the slightest doubt.

Her eyes were obscured by the light.

I was familiar with the flowy clothes, the halo that gave off a sacred feeling, and the beautiful voice.

When she thought about it, she realized that she was the woman who was talking to the man she had seen in her dream.

[Nice to meet you.]

“Uh… Nice to meet you.”

I was so embarrassed by her greeting that I answered in a dumb voice.

[I expected it to be a little confusing…]

“···”

It’s not just a little confusing, it’s very confusing.

I had a series of strange dreams, and a person from the dream appeared before my eyes.

[I am the Goddess of Luck… I would like you to call me Goddess.]

She called herself her goddess and continued her words.

[I have something to tell you.]

[You… Were cursed by an evil spirit long ago.]

“···What?”

I asked her an unexpected question, but she ignored my response.

In the blink of an eye she came closer and placed her hand on my head.

“Hey, what are you doing…”

The light that blinded my eyes felt warm and cozy.

I lost consciousness.

*

When I came to my senses and opened my eyes, it was a different space.

The goddess’s words echoed in my head.

[The evil spirit sacrificed himself and placed the ‘Curse of Yunhwan’ on you.]

[This is your past…]

Someone was standing in front of the half-collapsed black tower.

It was a man who resembled me that I had seen in a dream before.

He looked at the tower and shouted something, but he could not be heard.

[Yunhwan’s curse is a curse that causes the subject to be reborn with no memory even if they die.]

The scenery changed in an instant.

In a small room, I saw a child.

The innocent smile resembles me when I was young.

Time passed quickly.

When I grew up, I fell in love with a woman.

Her happy appearance showed that she truly loved that woman.

[The curse has also spread to the woman you truly loved.]

The scene has changed.

On her battlefield, I pushed her to protect her.

He died by having his head cut off.

The scene changed again.

I looked older.

The woman next to me was someone else.

After a while, someone came.

She was the woman I protected.

[The curse has also spread to the woman you truly loved.]

[Those who are cursed do not lose their memories for the rest of their lives.]

[I lived without memory, but before I knew it, I regained the memories of my past life and went to see you.]

Two women were fighting fiercely.

I was tied up and had no choice but to watch.

[The women who loved you passionately have been fighting for you for a hundred years… A thousand years.]

In the life that followed, other women continued to appear.

In the meantime, I became crippled without arms or legs, became blind without eyes, and had my tongue cut out.

It was also seen that it was alive with only its head remaining.

There were women who expressed their love through terrible torture, and conversely, there were women who enjoyed being tortured.

There were women who took me in when I was young and loved me, and there were women who loved me when I was old.

···What kind of life have I lived?

[After a long time, the women who had been fighting again and again gathered their strength to lift the curse.]

Numerous women were gathered together and performing a ritual.

At that very moment, two women appeared and killed the women who were performing the ritual and began fighting among themselves.

[···The women who did not agree to this ruined the ceremony, and in the end, only part of the curse was lifted.]

[The curse was lifted from the women who performed the ritual, but the curse was not lifted from the two women who ruined the ritual.]

[A long time has passed again… And only once, you have come close to the curse.]

[Haeju’s condition is to fill the empty hearts of the cursed women…]

The scene has changed.

A dream I had once appeared again.

It was a dream in which I sat down in front of the goddess and cried.

[Your efforts were a little lacking, but it worked.]

[A crack appeared in the curse, and through that gap, your souls were transferred to this world.]

The scene changed again.

A child was born in a modern city.

[If you fail this time, the curse will repeat itself forever.]

[We must gather the cursed women together and fill their empty hearts.]

[···Make yourself the most loved celebrity in the world.]