NOVEL NEXT chapter 1
1 – Prologue: A dazzling light surrounds me
My younger brother became possessed by the game he had been digging into for 5 years……
Oh sh*t……
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Cheer-!
“……Huh! …Is it morning already…?”
I was awakened by the chirping of the birds. The morning sunlight through the window tickled my eyes.
Charleuk-
I opened the window to ventilate the stale air that had accumulated overnight, opened the door of the small refrigerator in the room, and took out fresh milk to drink.
“…Kyaa! A glass of milk in the morning is the best way to wake up.”
After light stretching, I left the room and went to the bathroom to wash my face.
And after washing your face. To water the flowers growing in the yard, fill the watering can full and leave the bathroom.
“Hmm~ ♪ It seems like I got a good night’s sleep after a long time. It’s very refreshing!”
My name is Seonwoo Lee, 24 years old. His job is an investor.
My hobbies are sports and reading novels, and as a feature, I have a little ‘special ability’ that helps me make money.
My family includes my parents who passed away when I was in high school, and a younger brother two years younger than me.
Currently, he lives with his younger brother in a two-story house in a quiet rural village.
…… Tadak
“Huh? This sound…”
As I came out of the bathroom and passed in front of my brother’s room, I heard a sound.
Clap! Click!
I hear the repeated tapping of the mouse and keyboard through the door of my brother’s room.
When I heard that, I furrowed my brow slightly.
‘…… Did that guy spend the night again?’
I sneaked open the unlocked door and looked inside, and the scene in the room was as I expected.
Click! Click! Click!
A young man pounding on his laptop non-stop.
The identity of the young man with dark circles under his eyes and thread veins in his pupils was my younger sister, Lee Seon-jwa.
With a low voice, I spoke to the Zen seat.
“──Hey. You promised me that you wouldn’t play games all night after you collapsed all night last time for five days, I didn’t.”
“Ugh, Mi-Sorry…! I really thought I would see the ending this time…”
Avoiding the sharp glares, Seonjwa blurted out his words with a dry voice.
The Seonjwa looked at me and started pouring out words as if to make excuses.
“This time, it was really a waste…! I almost went to clear…! …So, the characters I create from now on, using the experience I’ve accumulated over the past five years, will definitely be able to go all the way to clear this time… !!!”
“……Yes, do your best…”
‘I have no right to tell you anything about that game….’
As much as I was the cause of Seonjwa’s falling for that game, I had no choice but to give a weak cheer to Seonjwa, who was talking excitedly with her eyes shining.
“…But you didn’t forget that you decided to exercise with me today, right? I’ll be watering in the yard, so you should hurry up and get ready.”
“Yes, okay! I’ll just finish writing the character and go!”
Tadaktaktak-
After answering vigorously, Seonjwa focused his consciousness on the laptop again and began to do what he was doing.
I quietly closed the door to avoid disturbing the Zen seat.
“Whoa…”
Looking at the closed door, I let out a small sigh.
I couldn’t speak harshly to Seonjwa because it wasn’t my fault that Seonjwa fell into the game.
I sighed again and moved to water the flowers.
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“……How did this happen…”
As I went out to the yard and watered the flowers, I was lost in thought.
Until I was in high school, my house was an ordinary family, no different from an ordinary middle-class family where both parents work.
But, when I was in my second year——
──My parents passed away in a crash with a truck that was driving drunk.
After my parents passed away. I became the head of this family.
I had some inheritance from my parents, but it was not enough when I thought about the future. Even so, to rely on their relatives, they were only parasites who were only aiming for a small inheritance.
In the end, I dropped out of high school and entered society to make a living. If I had a special ability, it was because I had the confidence to succeed.
However, even though I had a unique ability, I lacked social experience, so I had no choice but to go through many trials and errors… Because of this, I couldn’t pay much attention to Seonjwa, who had just entered high school.
I was anxious about that, and I felt very sorry for Seonjwa….
On the contrary, Seonjwa encouraged me.
“It’s okay, hyung. I’ll study hard too, so don’t worry about me and work hard!”
When Seonjwa said that, I also made up my mind and started to work with all my heart and ability.
Thanks to that, I was able to make a lot of money within two years and solve many problems.
However, when the house calmed down to a certain extent——Seonjwa was helplessly locked in his room.
I was greatly taken aback and searched for the reason for Seonjwa’s lockdown in many ways, and soon came to know a shocking fact.
As it turns out, Seon-Jwa was taken by a delinquent group at the high school she attended and was continuously bullied.
Those guys didn’t show any noticeable violence to Seon-Jwa, who was the first in the school, but they mentally harassed Seon-Jwa in various shady ways.
In order not to disturb me during the busy period, Seonjwa, who had been silently bullied, eventually became helpless and locked herself in her room.
Knowing that, I was so angry that I used everything I had accumulated so far to destroy all rogue groups, including their families, but….
I couldn’t get rid of my brother’s lethargy that had already settled deep in his heart.
After that. I went here and there to cure my brother’s lethargy, but… There was no significant difference.
While time was passing like that. A famous psychiatrist advised me to find something that would make my brother feel fulfilled, and I decided to follow it.
As I was looking for things for my younger brother, one thing that caught my eye was a ‘game’.
[Est Saga]
NPC’s AI is very good and realistic, and countless branches are divided according to the user’s actions….
The ending of the game is a fixed ruin ending, and it was a game that received all kinds of curses and praises on the Internet.
I bought [Est Saga] Because it was said that there is a happy ending as a production company’s official credit, and that [Est Saga], Which stimulates users’ desire for challenges, would be helpful to Seonjwa, but…….
On the one hand, I was very reluctant to play this game.
Because….
‘…… This, obviously, looks like a dangerous game from a novel, so I don’t like it…. Still, according to my abilities, I don’t feel bad…. Rather, I think I have a good feeling….’
No matter how much I think about it, it seems like it will be useful to the Zen seat….
After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to play the game first.
In preparation for an unexpected situation, after writing a will. Started the game
‘…… After all, was it too much of a worry?’
I played the game once….Contrary to my worries, nothing happened.
‘…… I did it because I have a special ability, but it was nothing… ? … No, well, the game was fun so it wasn’t a waste of time….’
Suddenly, a strange feeling of disappointment arose.
‘I bought it for Seonjwa in the first place… ‘ I changed my mind and presented the game to Seonjwa.
Seonjwa was reluctant at first, but… After playing once, I fell in love with Est Saga and the lethargy started to disappear quickly.
‘…… Instead, it became a game pain.’
Still, if I achieve my goal (happy ending), I promised to end my life of pain and work hard, so wouldn’t it be okay…… ?
The time I was watering the flowers in the yard and lost in thought. What brought me to reality was—
“Possession, Trouble!”
Clang-!
Geeing-!
A loud voice, like the scream of a younger brother, and the sound of breaking glass.
And then she broke the window of her brother’s room and fell, emitting a strong light–
───A laptop?
“──Oh my god… sh*t!!!”
I grasped the situation in an instant and threw myself to avoid the light, but I couldn’t go faster than the light──
──In the end, my consciousness went out there.
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“…This time we will definitely succeed!!!”
Seonjwa put his heart and soul into setting up the character.
Only for the purpose of a happy ending!
I spent 30,000 hours playing the game because of my obsessive compulsive feeling that if I didn’t achieve my goal, I would fail no matter what I did.
All of that is to see a happy ending, keep the promise with my brother, and return to society.
“This time, surely…!!!”
A message arrived in front of the Zen seat who was exerting his strength like that.
Diring!
“…What is this? It came from the operator?”
When Seonjwa tried to check the message without thinking.
Suddenly, the words of his older brother, whose hobby is reading novels, flashed through Seonjwa’s mind!
‘… It’s a seat If it’s not even an online game, but the operator talks to you, or if the monitor suddenly becomes a problem, throw it out immediately. Otherwise, being possessed or being summoned can lead to hardships!’
──Geeing!!!
As if reading Zenzwa’s thoughts, the laptop suddenly started to glow.
In an instant, Seonjwa, who had goosebumps, did not hesitate even for a moment, shouting out loud without even realizing it, and threw the laptop out the window, which began to emit a tremendous amount of light.
“Possession, Trouble!”
—Clang!
The laptop broke the window and disappeared.
Seonjwa, who was staring at it with tense eyes, soon inspected his body here and there to make sure there was nothing wrong.
“…Whew! It’s good…. There’s no problem…. If it wasn’t for the real hyung’s advice, it would have been a big deal…?”
I’m sure he said he was going out to the yard to water the flowers… ?!
Hurry up!
“Tongue uh uh —-!!!!!!”
What he saw as he hurriedly looked outside was—
──The owner was lost, and there was only a watering can scattered on the ground.