My body felt heavy and dizziness swept through my head.
In this situation where I could barely hold on to my sanity, a strange suspicion rose up inside me.
Was this world a novel or reality?
Suddenly, the sentences I wrote in my novel popped up in my head. The contents of my novel came to life, and Chae Jinyoon's heroic tales flashed before my eyes. The Tower of Wish, artifact scrambles, and the Tower of Miracle...
However, these things could no longer happen.
For the first time, I was overcome with the realization that I killed a person. I could hear the sound of something breaking inside me.
This world was just a novel...
It was the sound of that subconscious belief shattering.
Tsss.
Black boots descended on the sleet covering the ground. I raised my head in a daze. Boss' dark pupils entered my sight. Her body was fluttering on the snowy field.
"Take care of the corpse."
Boss muttered. I stared at Chae Jinyoon, who was lying tragically with half of his head blown up.
He had partially transformed into a devil. Demonic energy still remained in his body, which would soon combust into a huge explosion.
Boss helped me up. In that instant, I noticed that my body was half-burnt. The thin clothes I was wearing for Jain's Disguise had burned up when I fired my gun.
Although my feet were on the ground, I couldn't stay standing. Staggering, my head fell on Boss' shoulder. Boss stood still and accepted me.
Soon, a Portal appeared nearby. Jain and Khalifa walked out from inside, and when they saw what happened, their expressions turned grave.
At that moment, demonic energy shot up from Chae Jinyoon's corpse.
That was where my memory ended.
**
January 3rd, a particularly cold, dark night.
KWANG!
Chae Shinhyuk threw the door open.
Inside a resting place of corpses, he met a familiar face.
"...Hello, Chae Shinhyuk-ssi."
Forensic scientist, Kim Joongho.
They were united 11 years after the death of Chae Shinhyuk's wife.
"...."
Without sparing any time to offer a greeting, Chae Shinhyuk approached the corpse lying next to Kim Joongho.
When he saw the corpse, he clenched his teeth.
A cold corpse of a man whose face was half blown up. It was his son, Chae Jinyoon.
"Do you have any leads on the suspect?"
Chae Shinhyuk maintained his composure as much as possible.
"Not yet. An isolation barrier must have been around the scene of the crime. There isn't a single trace of the incident remaining."
Investigators nowadays had all sorts of supernatural Gifts: psychometry, cold reading, etc... However, not even the most competent investigators of Korea could find any evidence.
"Was it the Djinns?"
"...We aren't sure."
"But there's demonic energy right here."
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ActionOFFLINE PURPOSES ONLY! I OWN NOTHING! Waking up, Kim Hajin finds himself in a familiar world but an unfamiliar body. A world he created himself and a story he wrote, yet never finished. He had become his novel's extra, a filler character with no i...
