「 Dokkaebi. The first time he appeared, someone said so. 」[1]
I didn't know why but that sentence suddenly popped up in my head. The stopped subway train, the dark room… These details gave me a sense of deja vu. The subway had stopped before, but it was rare. Even so, why? I remembered the familiar words from a novel… but it was ridiculous. Wasn't it impossible?
At this moment, the door of car 3807 opened wide, and the electricity returned. Yoo Sangah muttered by my side, “…Dokkaebi?”
My head was ringing. I trembled uneasily as the novel I knew and the reality before me overlapped.
「With two small horns and wearing a small straw mat, the strange and fluffy creature was floating in the air. 」
「 It was too strange to call it a fairy, too evil to call it an angel, and too tranquil to call it a demon. 」
「Thus, it was called a 'dokkkaebi. 」
And I already knew the first thing the dokkaebi would say.
「&아#@!&아#@! …」
[&아#@!&아#@!….]
Fiction and reality overlapped precisely.
“What is this?”
“Augmented reality?”
Amidst the chattering people, I was thrown into another world alone. This was unmistakably a dokkaebi—the very dokkaebi that opened the door to tragedy for thousands of lives in Ways of Survival. It was Yoo Sangah's voice that broke me out of my thoughts. “It sounds vaguely like Spanish. Should I talk to it?”
I was a bit taken aback and asked, “…Do you know what that is? Will you ask it for money?”
“No but…”
It was at this time that I heard the correct pronunciation of Korean. [Ah. Ah. Does this sound good? Ah, I had a hard time because the Korean patch didn't work. Everyone, can you hear my words?]
As a familiar language was being spoken, I could see people's expressions relax. The first one to step up was a big man in a suit. “Hey, what are you doing right now?”
[…Huh?]
“Are you filming? I have to go because I have to quickly get to an audition.” He seemed to be an obscure actor since his face was unfamiliar. If I were a casting director, I would've picked him out for his brimming ambition. Unfortunately, the presence before him right now wasn't a director.
[Ah, auditions. That's right. This is also an audition. Haha, there was a shortage of data. I just entered when it was monetized at 7 p.m.]
[Then, good luck everyone. Please show me an interesting story.]
Chapter end
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