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A number of fables envelop a person in the bright room. Words, sentences, paragraphs and works surround it to begin retelling a fantastic tale from a forgotten world.
A pair of black eyes began to open and blink in confusion. His figure was as small as Shin Yoosung's age before she became a disaster.
He tried to sit up and rearrange the intermittent chain of memories. No, he remembers the most important things about who he is and why he exists.
He started to smile sincerely from the bottom of his heart.
—Thank you, you guys saved me once again.
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Yoo Sangah ran as hard as she could towards the special ward of the hospital, a place where someone who was very precious not only to herself but to all her colleagues was located.
Han Sooyoung and Yoo Jonghyuk are already in front of her and will confirm whether their hopes come true or are they just prejudices?
Shin Yoosung and Lee Gilyoung have stiff expressions and eyes full of hope.
It could be him, right. That is their hope.
Han Sooyoung arrived at the door then slowly open it with desperate hopes.
What if it's false hope?
What if something worse happened?
What if as hard as you tried to hope it was possible, it didn't happen?
When the door opened, a bright room with the window wide opened and the fluttering curtains exposed.
All the papers she had written were scattered everywhere. Han Sooyoung grinned like an idiot then walked in while witnessing the conclusion.
[This story is for just that one reader.]
She was in a trance as she approached the bed where the boy was leaning back.
The boy grinned cheerfully at her with a weak body.
Han Sooyoung could not control her tears, which flowed profusely as she trembled violently.
—Why? Why does it feel sad? Why do you still have that expression ?!
Han Sooyoung stopped five steps from the bed.
She felt the person who was fighting the hardest for the child draw closer and then stop behind him.
The thumping sound of accelerated footsteps was getting louder, all the members from the Kim Dokja Company came.
Previously, the special hospital ward that was a place for the soulless body had become noisy.
The boy on the bed looked at them curiously. To the boy's eyes, they looked like complete strangers.
Yoo Jonghyuk, whose hair had changed at some point, stepped forward and stood beside the boy.
The boy smiled then said in a hoarse voice.
"You look old."
Those words cleared up Han Sooyoung's mind, which was still chaotic, she couldn't take it anymore. She approached the boy then hit his head lightly.
"Idiot!"
Her tears stopped flowing.
"Ahjussi!"
Shin Yoosung ran quickly to hug him.
It looked like a boy being hugged by a high school girl.
Lee Gilyoung was still standing in the middle of the door blocking the others from entering.
"Get away !!!"
Jung Heewon kicked his ass then stormed in followed by Lee Hyunsung, Yoo Sangah, Lee Seolwa, Lee Jihye, and Yoo Miah.
Their eyes reddened when they learned that the hopes they had held onto for so many years had come true. Really?
Jung Heewon still questions that hope and the existence that she saw, always and always breaks every hope, so she has to make sure that hope is no longer false.
"Dokja-ssi ...."
They anticipate the response.
The boy looked at all of them before answering.
"Yes, it's me."
With a familiar expression, that was the answer that erased all their sense of emptiness.
Slowly, the others approached and looked closely at the child.
Jung Heewon started his question and answer session.
"How much do you remember, Dokja-ssi?"
The boy looked out the window for a moment.
"I am Kim Dokja .... Employee of Mino Soft Company, after the world of destruction, only I know the epilogue."
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