Crossroads filled with people and roads thrashed with the sound of vehicles over a dark sky with 2 moons. It is an odd view for someone who has seen only one moon in the sky.
The signboards were written in an alien yet similar language language. People words are unrecognizable. Stuck in another world, what are we meant to do.
The mobile on my had once again rang with notification. It was once again from the author.
This meant that we were truly in another world. I hoped that this was just a dream that I could wake up from.
I tried picking my arm, and I felt the pain. It was true, and there was nothing I could do about it now.
I still couldn't believe what I was looking at. I checked whether sen-ah was with me or not and I found that she was stuck with me in this world too.
I tried asking a few people where we were, but it was of no use. Their language was different from ours. We understood nothing and they also did not understand anything.
The only option I had was to ask the author himself why he sent us here. But before I could do so, I had another mail sent to me by the author
『 thank you for accepting my request to become characters in my next novel. For your survival, I'm giving you the skill to understand the language of this world and a bit of money too. Hope to meet you on the day of the apocalypse kim jiyool and yoo sen-ah.』
I was filled with rage. I clenched my hands hard enough to crack my mobile, but I stopped to look around the palace for help since we could now understand the language of this place if what the author said is true.
I tried sending another mail asking to send us back or stop this play but they didn't go by. It was a one-way ticket for us.
I checked the signboards once again to see if what the author said was true.
The signs that looked unreadable were now understandable and readable.
With a sight of exhaustion, I tried asking a few people where we were.
Their answer was the same. Cairo, of the Nervana continent. It was a familiar name to me but I couldn't remember it fully since I had a pretty bad memory.
I asked the people for a hotel we could stay by for now.
With the directions given to me, I took the hand of sen-ah to not lose her and walked around to find the place I was told to go to.
The place which was full of people walking around slowly decreased as time went by and I was finally able to find a place where we could stay.
I looked at sen-ah, trying to say that I had found a place where we could stay but before doing so. I was able to realize that I had been holding her hand without saying a word and just dragged her along with me.
Her face was pink with a flustered feeling in her eyes, which I was barely able to see because of her looking away from me.
" I'm sorry I folded your hand without saying so. I was just bringing you along without losing you." These words would not be enought but that were the only words I could say to her because of my feeling of guilt.
She slowly turned her face to me, still with the flsuter on her eyes and replied to me that it was ok for her. " It was an awkward feeling for you to hold my hands and pull me without a word."
I knew that It was awkward but it was something that I had done in an accident.
I tried to change the topic by showing the place we could stay by for the night.
The building looked like a newly built hotel. White marble finsih with a large hub, which could maybe be 10 meters long. The receptionist desk situated in the middle with two receptionists standing by for help.
The floor was with red carpet and the lobby was furnished very neatly with few sofa sets and many plants and lights.
I checked my mobiles bank account to see the amount of money I had, which was given to me by the author.
My eyes were filled with disbelief as I was seeing my bank account.
1...1....1.... 100 billion won. This wasn't a starter amount to be given away. This amount of money would be enough to allow us to live a life without a care of money for our lives.
Still being struck with disbelief of how much money I had I slowly walked to the desk to take a room for two but I realized it would be awkward for the both of us to stay in the same room so I changed it to single separate room for the both of us.
The keys were given to us and a butler assisted us to the room which was situated on the third floor of this building. The room was lavish and luxurious. The hall was decked with the best TV and gaming system I had ever seen. The kitchen was also the same with afully furnished look with the best end machines for cooking. Every room that I saw was beyond anything that I had seen.
The bed in the bedroom was a queen sized one. A soft water bed. I laid on the bed to fall asleep just in a minute and it felt as if I was floating on a cloud because of its softness.
* mom when I grew up can I be as great as dad.* The little boy who was talking to his mother looked to his father with a lot of excitement. That was what I was back then. A kid who aspired to be as great as his father and fulfill his parents' wishes.
* You will be far above him than him my boy. You are a genius with great talent. Isn't he my dear* my mother and father were the founders of one of the greatest companies of Korea. The kim energetics company, one of Koreas most growing companies with my parents being it one and only founders.
But with fame and power comes envy. Envy so powerful that it can kill you or make you kill people. That was what led to the death of my parents. The envy of my family, their crave for power.
I was still able to remember that fateful da as if it was yesterday.
" Get away from here. I don't want you to die like your sister. Don't try to save us. Listen to me and run jiyool and don't look back." Those were the final words of my parents before their death in a car accident which was planned by my uncles.
Just because I survived the accident they made me give up my families companies name up to them and leave this family for good. They didn't even care to see that I was just a nine year old child. That was when I understood what kind of world i lived in.
One that was built over money fame and power. I understood what these things meant in this world. But I never tried to attain them. There was no feeling of revenge for me. My mothers final wish never allowed me to feel such hate nor anger over them.
*Live. Live for me. Live a life you wish in a way that you don't attract attention like we did. Even if you lived like a small worker or a rich business man. don't worry about your future just be happy and have people who truly love you. Not like us.*