⸢Once more, one hour before the apocalypse.⸥
“….Dammit, where the hell am I?”
Han Su-Yeong held her spinning head and hurriedly scanned her surroundings. The last thing she saw was the figure of Yu Jung-Hyeok disappearing within the shower of light. She quickly took a look at her own body.
It was a success.
Her much thinner arms, and muscles that lost their suppleness.
She couldn't sense any of the Fables she had compiled, the skills she trained in, nor even her Stigma.
However, that wasn't a problem. They had already thought up of what to do with such issues, when the scenario got underway again. No, the real issue was…
“Crap, I don't have much time left.”
Her smartphone's battery was almost out of juice, and she couldn't confirm the wellbeings of her companions at the moment. It was a fortune among misfortunes that she somehow managed to download the locations of her companions from the chat room just now.
“….These guys, they did pretty well without me.”
Just a casual browse-through was enough for her to get a bead on where they were currently with their operation. That wasn't too surprising, though, considering that she was the one in charge of the operation in the first place.
But then, Han Su-Yeong's eyes scanning the map of the deployed locations began trembling.
“This idiot….”
She raised her head and looked around her.
Although it could be tight, there seemed to be enough time left still.
⸢30 minutes before the apocalypse.⸥
Yi Ji-Hye's eyes dazedly staring at the clock was suddenly blocked by a head full of black hair.
“Hey, crybaby. You planning to stay behind for the night classes today?”
“N-no. Uh… ng.”
It had already been 28 days since the regression, but she still hadn't gotten used to that nickname.
'Crybaby'.
When was the last time she heard someone call her that?
Once upon a time, she had other nicknames like that. And she had truly returned to such a time.
“Really? I was just asking, but why so suddenly?”
The other girl's eyes arched as if she was smiling.
For every single day during the past four years, Yi Ji-Hye had never forgotten those eyes. They belonged to a pale-skinned girl somewhat smaller than her. The blouse of her school uniform was missing a button. Her worn-out name tag, where her name could still be found.
⸢When she opens her eyes, the bloodshot irises would be staring right back her.⸥
Yi Ji-Hye's trembling right hand was clutching onto the pant leg of her gym uniform.
⸢”Ji-Hye-yah, it'll be alright.”⸥
Yi Ji-Hye desperately grabbed her trembling hand.
⸢”You must live.”⸥
“Yi Ji-Hye?”
Her friend's hand approached from the air. Yi Ji-Hye avoided that hand almost as if she was having a seizure.
“…..Ah, sorry. Were you saying something?” She hurriedly asked.
“Are you feeling okay?”
“Yeah, I'm fine.”
“You want to bounce together around seven?”
“We must not!!”
Yi Ji-Hye shot up from her seat and shouted out even before she realised it. Her classmates sitting near her all looked in her direction immediately. She sat back down and spoke again. “We'll be high school seniors in a little while, right? So we gotta study hard for that.”
“…..Crybaby, you sure you're not sick somewhere?”
⸢20 minutes before the apocalypse.⸥
The bell denoting the start of the first night class period went off. Yi Ji-Hye pulled something out from her inner pocket, a small box covered in a crinkled wrapper.
“Bo-Ri-yah. Here.”
“What is it?”
Her friend saw the box and extended her hand. However, before handing over the item, Yi Ji-Hye told her friend in no uncertain terms first.
“You mustn't open it right now. Okay? Only open it when it's ten minutes before seven. Understand?”
“You didn't, like, put insects in this thing, right? You know I've got a weak heart, don't you?”
Chapter end
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