NOVEL NEXT chapter 1
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Possession
When I opened my eyes, I knew immediately that I had been reincarnated from the comfort I felt.
The studio I lived in was small, so I slept on a mattress, because there was no such thing as a bed I was lying on.
I know it’s not a dream, but I still can’t feel it.
Have you really come to the world of fiction?
I was terribly unlucky.
After washing the car, it rained unexpectedly without fail, dropped my phone and the screen went out, and my nose broke even if I fell backwards. That was me.
Even though he sold his country in his previous life, he had no bad luck until the moment he died, but luck came to him for the first time after he died.
The Yeomra I met in the underworld is 7777777… He said that he was the second soul to come to be judged and that he would grant him one wish.
Of course, he said that absurd wishes such as wanting to become a god were not allowed, so after thinking about it, he said that he wanted to live in the world of the novel.
My job is a web novel writer.
While writing, I often thought that I wanted to become the main character of a web novel.
Unfortunately, I was embarrassed for a while because my novel was impossible, but I solved it soon.
It doesn’t matter if it’s not my novel.
Before I was a writer, I was also a reader.
Of course, I couldn’t remember all the contents, so I said I wanted to go to the world of the most recent book, 《I became a crazy student at Hunter School》.
Saying that my wish was interesting, King Yeomra said he would grant me two more light requests.
I asked him to write one of them and send it to a point in time two years before the story in the original novel I was to possess.
The original story starts with the main character’s admission to high school, but it is in the second and third years of middle school that the main character does crazy things in earnest.
So, in the beginning, you go through a lot of trouble to erase the past images, so if you go to the point before that, the future effort will be greatly reduced.
But it’s not good to start at such a young age, so I asked for it two years ago, which is strange.
If my wish came true, the main character would be a 2nd year middle school student at Hunter School.
At Hunter School, all 2 people use one room in the dormitory system, but no matter how you look at it, this is not a dormitory.
Is it because it’s vacation?
If so, the main character should go to his parents’ house… .
This is also strange.
It’s a little bigger than the one I used to live in, but there’s no way the main character, whose family is a conglomerate, would live in a one-room like this.
I was puzzled, but I was surprised twice when I saw my reflection in the full-length mirror next to the entrance.
So handsome once.
Once because I was too presbyopic.
Being handsome is understandable.
Because the only thing I wished for was an appearance upgrade.
Usually, the protagonists of novels are all pretty boys, but at the beginning of the novel, there was a description that the protagonist’s appearance was not good.
Of course, the appearance is upgraded a lot as a side effect of the skills gained over time, but the beginning was a bit ugly.
Even in his previous life, he had no particular complaints about his face, but his face now has the appearance of hitting a good-looking actor five times on both sides.
But never look 15 years old.
Kids these days are growing well, but I don’t think anyone will see them as teenagers.
Confused, I found my cell phone lying on the bedside table.
[06:30 Feb 25, 2023]
The original story begins in 2025 when the main character enters high school, so the timing is roughly correct.
It was locked by fingerprint recognition, but when I put my finger on it, it was unlocked.
The first thing to do is look in the phone book, but there is no family.
No matter how stupid you are, you probably don’t have your parents’ phone number, what is it?
I, who used to write in the corner of my room, was not like this.
In addition, there are only two contact information registered on the mobile phone, Guild and Junior Seora.
Hunter school strictly forbids ‘tempering’, so the guild is decided during the graduation season of the third year of high school.
The moment I thought about what the hell had happened, my phone rang and a text message came.
[(Web transmission)
hello. Shinhyuk Kang. I am the 1st Hunter School Teacher Recruiter.
You have finally passed the 1st Hunter School Swordsmanship Instructor recruitment you applied for this time.
I have attached information about future schedules to the link, so please check it out.]
Are you Shinhyuk Kang?
The name of the main character I remember is Lee Ji-sung.
It’s a little spacious, but it’s a studio, so it’s my cell phone… Wait, could it be that I am not the main character, but Kang Shin-hyeok?
Suddenly, countless memories began to come to mind with the pain of breaking my head.
The pain quickly disappears and the memories that come to mind subside, but anger rises instead.
why… You became Kang Shin-hyeok instead of the main character, right?
The title of the novel was also clearly stated, and the timing was also stated… Maybe it’s because you didn’t ask to be the main character?
It’s ridiculous.
If you wish to live in the world of a novel, of course you want to live as a main character.
Because I want to live as a person I don’t even remember who I am, no one would make such a wish.
Yes, looking back on my memory, when I had mentioned all my additional wishes, King Yeomra asked with a meaningful expression if it would really be okay to have these two things.
You mean that with this in mind?
I feel cheated.
No, it’s true that I was scammed.
Of course, I thought he would be the main character, but I didn’t even know his name… .
In fact, thanks to a memory that came to my mind a little while ago, I remembered what kind of person Kang Shin-hyeok was.
The class teacher next to the main character teaches swordsmanship.
In the original novel, the supporting role is quite small… No, they don’t even appear in the second half, so you can call them extras among extras.
As soon as I realized that I was Kang Shin-hyeok, I think the memories of Kang Shin-hyeok’s experiences came to mind.
Sigh… No matter how you think about it, this isn’t really the case.
If I knew it would end like this, I would just ask for heaven to send me… .
The desire to go back and argue was like a chimney, but the only way to go to the underworld is to die.
If I committed suicide to argue, I might end up going to hell without asking or questioning… .
I feel dejected beyond anger at the thought that there is nothing I can do right now.
I threw my phone away and lay down on the bed.
People who have eaten meat in the first place are said to eat it, was it too much luck for me, who had no luck in my life?
totally beaten
The moment I thought about what to do next with a feeling of helplessness, my phone rang.
When I picked up the phone I had thrown away and checked it, it was an unregistered number.
I was going to ignore it because it seems like spam, but I got it just in case.
“hello.”
―This is the Chase Guild Finance Team. Are you Shinhyuk Kang?
The Chase Guild is a teenage guild that appeared in the original novel… . In an instant, it came to mind that Kang Shin-hyeok belonged to the Chase Guild.
-excuse me?
“Ah yes. you’re right.”
―I contacted you because you did not set up a retirement account. Can I pay the wages to the account where they were paid?
“Yes? Ah yes.”
The memory of quitting the guild last month seems to be a system that recalls memories stored in your head only when you are put in a certain situation or encounter something.
―You will be deposited immediately after the call, but if you have entered the wrong amount or have any questions, please contact us again here.
It looks like he quit the guild he went to to become a teacher, but he answered that he knew it and hung up because it didn’t matter.
And not long after, the phone rang again.
I pressed the call button without thinking, but it was a text message, not a call.
[Hwashin bank deposit 38,871,463 won. Name of Depositor: Chase Guild Retirement Benefit. Balance: KRW 309,532,485]
The severance pay, which is close to 40 million won, is also a severance pay, but the balance in the bank account is… Over three billion?
For some, it may be only 300 million won, but to me, who died of a vase at the age of 29 after living as a third-rate writer who barely deserved it, it is a lot of money that I have never had.
I woke up and got up from my seat.
yes. Even if you lie there lamenting your life like this, nothing will be solved.
There is a saying that you can’t turn back time, and if you can’t avoid it, enjoy it.
When I think positively, the conditions are not bad.
He was taller than before, his face was incomparably handsome, and at the age of twenty-five, he was four years younger.
Even if money is not a conglomerate like the main character, there is a bank account balance of 300 million that I always worried about, and there is a decent job called Hunter School.
There are monsters, portals, and hunters, but it is also a merit that the background is not fantasy, but modern Korea.
As an orphan, she has no family to support, and her Hunter rank is B, which is pretty good.
Of course, towards the latter half, ‘power inflation’ occurs, so it doesn’t matter that B-rank hunters are treated as mediocre extras.
Because the original hasn’t even started yet.
There are no downsides either.
If I had to pick one, a hopeless level of interpersonal relationship, that is, a serious ‘assay’?
It’s an insignificant issue.
After all, I was ugly in my past life anyway.
Since writing is mostly a solo work, interaction with people is bound to decrease.
Of course, Kang Shin-hyeok is a different kind of self-motivated ally.
Even with such a great appearance and decent abilities, being ashamed means that you have hit a wall against someone else yourself.
Considering that he was a character who did not stand out much even in the novel, the original Kang Shin-hyeok seems to have been quite an introverted character.
In fact, it’s rather good for me now.
My memory isn’t perfect right now, but if I had a close friend or lover, there’s a high possibility that I would have created a difficult situation.
In my previous life, I gave up many things.
For example, love and marriage… .
I said that it was annoying to the people around me and that I was comfortable being alone, but that was not the truth.
There are many reasons, including family history, but the biggest reason is that I was a third-rate writer who could barely make ends meet.
Like a saying floating around the internet, I thought that liking someone like this could hurt that person.
There are people who say that meeting someone with conditions such as money or appearance is not real love, but I thought they were completely ignorant of reality.
Even if you are not the main character you wanted, you can live differently now.
Never give up on anything in this life.
Happier than the main character.
As a ‘inside’, not as an asshole, you will enjoy all the things you couldn’t enjoy before.
* * *
After recovering from the shock yesterday, I immediately bought a notebook and spent the whole day transcribing the contents of the novel that I remembered.
I didn’t remember everything perfectly, but since I wrote it down with my own hand, I remembered quite a bit more than I thought.
“It is a destination. Get off everyone.”
I got off the bus at the driver’s words, and the winter wind pierced my whole body.
It’s not long until March, but it’s still February and it’s quite chilly since the region is a region.
That’s why there are very few people.
When I put my clothes on and turn my head, I see the mountain right away.
I don’t have much time because I have to go into the Hunter School dormitory by this Saturday, but I came here to Mt.
If the original work had followed a typical academy cliché of picking up the elixir in the backyard of the school and eating it, if the elixir disappeared, the main character who knew the future would be suspicious and the future could be distorted, so I wouldn’t have rushed to touch it.
Fortunately, however, the first chance the protagonist gets is not an elixir, but an inner core method.
This novel that I will live in is a ‘Book Possession’, and there are two main characters because the main character possesses in existing novels.
Kim Do-hyun, the original protagonist of the novel, and Lee Ji-seong, possessed by the madman in the novel.
Originally, Kim Do-hyun, the real protagonist, came to Seorak Mountain for a retreat during the second semester of the first year, and accidentally found the portal while falling out.
In the portal, the will of a certain Moorim master and the ballotry were left.
Although this time I intend to hit the player first.
Of course, there may be something like correction for the main character, and it may not be possible to surpass the main character who eats wild ginseng like rice using his financial power, but it doesn’t matter.
Because I have two years left until the original work begins.
Since the retreat is in the fall, is it exactly 2 years and 6 months?
In the first place, my goal is not to save the world and become a hero on behalf of the main character, so there is no need to become as strong as the main character.
I took a deep breath and stepped towards the entrance of the mountain.