ORV: The Anomaly Among Stars. (Lee Jihye X OP Male Reader)

10: "Negotiations w/ Bihyung"

Their bodies suddenly became heavy as the three felt water entering their lungs.

Y/N had a death grip on Kiara to make sure she wouldn't be separated from him. He was protecting this child after taking a second to think about everything. He can't trust this world, he can only trust a certain bunch of people.

              He can't give this child up.

Then they were sucked in somewhere, They wasn't torn apart because they all fell with perfect timing. However,

They couldn't lose consciousness here.

Y/N had to stay awake. They needed to wait for a while.

He somehow managed to curl up and hold his breath.

He started using Cursed Energy Reinforcement to increase the survival rate of him and Kiara unconsciously.

10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds...he was barely breathing when they hit a tangible wall in the darkness.

Kiara: "U-Uwek."

She could barely breathe after coughing up the river water several times. Dokja's level 10 stamina saved him from being killed by hitting the water surface, but the large and small bruises all over his body were very painful.

Y/N's body was in pain but he endured it, He received all damage that Kiara would receive.

Dokja controlled his breathing in order to not fall into a panic and turned on his smartphone.

He was worried it might've broken in the fall but the power was fortunately okay. It was good that he spent big and bought a smartphone with a waterproof function.

Pahat.

The flashlight turned on and the surrounding scenery entered my eyes. There were huge walls with concrete by-products floating by. The stomach of an ichthyosaur was more disgusting than they thought.

Dokja: "Dammit."

Yoo Jonghyuk's expression as he let go of his hand without hesitation and got off the bridge was vivid. He expected it but it was more shocking than he thought.

Y/N wasn't surprised and expected it, he didn't plan to follow the story but just for now, he will, for no unwanted variables to happen.

...If they wanted to be his companion, they had to survive.

Companion. The weight of this word was too great for Yoo Jonghyuk. Since his failure in the first round of regression, Yoo Jonghyuk had never made a real 'companion.'

It was rare for humans to easily follow the growth of a regressor. As a result, he solved everything alone, was revered as a savior, and was naturally lonely.

To Yoo Jonghyuk, 'humans' were only subordinates or enemies.

Thus, this was a test. If they wanted to be in a equal position with him, It was required to solve this much alone.

...Well, this was when looking at it from Yoo Jonghyuk's viewpoint.

Dokja: "A companion like you...crazy psychopath."

Dokja barely doggy paddled to a floating styrofoam panel and Y/N swam over and Dokja helped raise Kiara's body onto it after he got on. Y/N pulled himself on it and laid there breathing heavily. Thanks to the warmth of the stomach, They wasn't cold. However, the problem was from now on.

Dokja closed his eyes and played the message log that he heard.

[You have failed to clear the scenario.]