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Chapter 320

The moment I heard the final answer, the questions related to the status window I had so far flashed through my head like a flashback.

'... "Park MoonDae" is the status window.'

And before I could jump to conclusions...

The original Park MoonDae, "KeunDal," started talking about his experiences as a state window.

"At first, I was completely unconscious. But...when hyung called the state window, it suddenly awakened my consciousness."

I am closing this because I am playing ㅅㄱ

TL/N: I made a big mistake in translating this message in the 1st truth check, this is the actual meaning. "ㅅㄱ" is slang that, when written at the end of a message or conversation, means "good job" or "ok, bye", the latter being most likely as he closed his account.

Those were the last words I posted when I closed the WeTube account "gun1234" that I used to upload my fancams.

"Since hyung likes games, I thought it would be useful..."

"..."

"Perhaps the last scare I had as a human being, was when I found out that the owner of the WeTube account was you, hyung."

I could barely open my mouth.

"So, that thing about leveling up and getting features...?"

"Yeah. Since I'd only ever played mobile games...I guess that was the only thing that seemed plausible to me. I'm sorry about that."

It was nothing to be sorry about.

The privilege I got, the status window that only I had...it didn't stand out because of the balance, as CheongRyu thought.

But because this guy did it.

"After that, I was assimilated back into the system...and just played the role of showing what the system was trying to do in a good way."

I cut him off.

"No, it's because of you."

"...! Th-that's... no..."

The guy sitting across from me didn't know what to say and then put his head down.

"Well, actually, strange things happen here."

Strange things?

"Hyung, as I said, when I prepared for the civil service exam with your body, I went synchronizing with myself, with the ego that lived through the status window."

"..."

"About that...I think I, the status window, was influenced by myself that was preparing for the civil service exam."

"...!"

"So...even when I was a status window, I vaguely knew what would happen to you in the future, hyung. I have seen all your activities since Icorpo."

"..."

I see.

I remembered that the status window not only gave me what I wanted in the skill draws, but also that it gave me the necessary characteristics at those times as if it had predicted the future.

No, I wasn't predicting the future. It was because It had actually lived in the future. I pressed my forehead.

'There is no beginning and no end.'

If I hadn't set up a mission with the goal of having a "conversation with Park MoonDae" after eliminating all the state anomalies, this guy who was preparing to become a civil servant wouldn't have existed.

But he needed this guy who was preparing to give his civil service exams so that he could delete the status anomalies with his predictive moves in the status window.

"Cause and effect are mixed up, aren't they? Haha...I'm a little confused myself."

"Yes."

Even if I were to go back to the past, time will not reset and coexist as it does now, so there is no before and after order.

I've been interfering with TeSTAR's activities while also helping him synchronize.

"Hmm."

Meanwhile, KeunDal spoke cautiously again.

"Hmm, so...My ego, which was a status window, was properly awakened when I realized that hyung's car accident was just around the corner."

"...!"

In an instant, I remembered the unusual option I received as a reward after removing the "status abnormality of having over 200,000 viewers".

[Options]

→ Check the "truth" ☜ Click!

→ Acquire "currency" ☜ Click!

※ You are not allowed to choose both options.

"...The coin."

KeunDal smiled faintly.

"That's right, it wasn't a system selection, but something I did."

Oh my goodness.

"Wasn't there an error after that?"

Immediately after that, when the next status abnormality appeared, all sorts of lines appeared and the status abnormality was continuously updated.

1st place or death!

Daesang or death!

Performance or death!

I thought it was as if someone hacked it, and it was an accurate hunch.

"Yes...Fortunately, you chose the coin, hyung, but there was a mistake."

I opened my mouth without realizing it.

"It was because I hadn't checked the truth, right?"

A mistake occurred because the status abnormality was not removed.

TL/N: He may have overcome it, but the abnormality is not totally eliminated unless he checks the truth first.

"...! That's right. That's why the status anomaly, which was supposed to be the last one, arose once again..."

"..."

"Ugh, I think it happened because I intervened. I tried to change it to something as easy as possible or cancel it...but I couldn't"

He bowed his head with an embarrassed expression.

Although, in fact, the burden of that state abnormality was entirely on him.

"That's why the target of death also changed to you."

→ If it fails to gather more than 400,000 viewers in a fixed period of time, Park MoonDae will die.

KeunDal nodded.

"...Yes. Actually, your status abnormalities ended just before that, hyung. So, that penalty became something that the creator of the abnormality would have to endure."

I murmured calmly.

"There's something I don't understand."

"Wh-what?"

"The number of my status abnormalities."

I flexed my fingers.

"After all, I can't remember, but I was supposed to have lived a few more years before I came back."

The guy who said he organized my belongings? My future job at the company, and what I saw at the last truth check.

"Why did I get fewer status abnormalities based on my memories instead of the standard?"

"That's because...before you went back to the past, there was preliminary work to grant my wish, hyung."

Your wish was...

"I wanted GunWoo hyung to live a long and happy life..."

It's an absurdly good wish, but there's something more absurd than that.

"To live, shouldn't he have those memories?"

"Yes."

The guy in front of me looked a little pale, but he was determined.

"During those years, hyung's heart hurt so much that the system decided it wouldn't accept your body."

"..."

"Seeing how many years you came back based on the number of years we removed from your memory, hyung, there were fewer status abnormalities."

TL/N: "Heartaches" is a euphemism for a person's feelings of being in a mess, i.e. depression. If GunWoo had gone back in time from the moment he met Park MoonDae, it was likely that he would have fallen into depression again because his body with his identity as "Ryu GunWoo" was destined to be ruined psychologically.

I was speechless.

I somehow gritted my teeth silently and then slowly replied.

"I don't even remember meeting you."

I don't remember contacting you from time to time since I bought the rice soup from you.

"I thought about that too. I thought that if you entered the body of someone you know...you would react strangely, hyung."

I'm going crazy.

'He set up his wish so that it could be completely fulfilled.'

Erasing other people's memories is not a pleasant judgment at all, it's the kind of decision some AI would have made.

Come to think of it, there is a peculiarity that comes to mind that seems to relate to himself.

"The truth check as well?"

A reward for eliminating status abnormalities that were only given to me.

"Right."

The boy on the other side closed his eyes tightly.

"Hyung, when the system analyzed you, it determined that you could overcome your trauma if you saw it...yourself."

He's crazy.

"That's why I did it using the existing status window."

"The system used the status window?"

"Yes, it did. From that point on, I wasn't the only one using the system, the system started using me too...We came to influence each other."

"..."

Suddenly, I took a closer look at the guy on the other side.

KeunDal, sitting in the world of my imagination, looked like a mix of "Ryu GunWoo" and "Park MoonDae," but seeing him again, I felt...something incongruous.

Tik.

At that moment, a crackling noise echoed around the outline of his body.

'Damn.'

"Actually, I'm still a little confused. I think I'm still slightly mixed up with the system."

It was a strange situation. I frowned.

"The system must have moved to someone else."

To Gold 2, Kwon HeeSeung.

"You stayed in the status window. But are you still mixed up?"

"Hmm...When you finished the status abnormalities, my ego became clearer and clearer. Then, when the system moved, I was able to remain alone."

Opened and closed one hand.

"But...I could use some abilities just like before."

Automatically, I remembered what I drew in the last skill draw.

[Attribute: "Mission Constitution (S)" has been acquired!]

It could exchange rewards and penalties like status anomalies.

"You must have been the one who gave me the "mission constitution"."

"...Yes."

If so, in the end, this guy saved himself.

'Hmmm.'

He must have been amused for a while.

"I think...we're still connected. But we can't interfere with each other."

"Okay."

This...I might be able to use it somewhere. I nodded and relaxed.

TL/N: KeunDal means that even if they can't talk for hours again like before and help each other in their respective goals, it will still be a mission system for GunWoo, that's why GunWoo thinks it will be useful to him at some point.

"Hyuu..."

The boy in front of me sighed lightly as if he had dealt with a big problem.

'I guess he said everything he wanted to say.'

I smiled. Then it was my turn to speak.

"Thank you for telling me. Everything I was curious about has been answered."

"Yes!"

Here's the main point. I cleared my expression and spoke again.

"And...thank you for saving me."

"Eh...?"

"Thanks to you, I'm living well."

I recalled the years I spent in Park MoonDae's body.

Many things hit me, but in retrospect...the end was always good.

The whole experience came to my mind vividly. So...I didn't know I would ever say this out loud.

"It's fun to be an idol."

If I had to do it again, I would do it again.

Obviously...

"I didn't know I wanted to be an idol, but I guess I did."

"..."

Suddenly, the boy in front of me started crying.

"...??"

Why is he doing that?

"I-I'm sorry. I'm really moved...I hope you'll say that at the concert, hyung..."

"..."

It was ridiculous, but I laughed. I didn't feel bad.

I spoke to him as a joke.

"I was also surprised by your civil service exam."

Did you ever want to have that kind of job?

"...!"

At that moment, he made a disappointed expression.

What?

"Hmm, hyung, about that..."

"What's wrong?"

"Actually...I, as a state window, made a difficult decision because I thought of you, hyung."

"..."

I would prefer a ninth-grade exam, bastard.

In the end, I can't say anything because I got stuck and couldn't pass, but I don't know why he got into that hell.

The guy who mumbled a few words as an excuse, saying, "I didn't know the civil service exam well," quickly went back to the main topic.

"You really helped me a lot there, hyung. Honestly, starting with the mission, you saved my life several times?"

"So let's say we helped each other."

"Yes..."

The conversation slowly eased the tension and I began to have time to think.

And as if expressing such feelings, the sunset ended and one or two stars began to be seen outside the window.

At that moment, the boy jumped up.

"Huk! Is the time running out?"

"Time?"

Why do you ask that? Isn't this supposed to be in my imagination?

"Yes! Hyung...just before I left your body after passing the exam, I used a trick..."

On second thought, there's something more important.

This kid's future whereabouts.

"So what will happen to you in the future?"

"I...will become your status window again!"

You're talking nonsense.

"Have you ever thought about using your body again?"

"Uh...Well, to be honest, maybe it's because I've been a status window for so long, that the idea of going back to my body...doesn't appeal to me."

"...Is that so?"

It's a good situation for me, but as soon as I thought about it...somehow my mouth felt bitter.

And he added another explanation.

"And if I were to return to my body, TeSTAR would disintegrate. No, seriously...how did you come up with that, hyung?"

"..."

Why would you worry about that?

I don't know if it was because he spent so much time being a status window or because TeSTAR was his comfort in the midst of his exam-focused life, but I don't think so.

"You can do it. Since it's also my body, I think the stats will be the same."

In the reverie, I used the body of "Ryu GunWoo" and had the same stats, even though that wasn't the reality.

But the guy on the other side smiled.

"Ya, hyung. There was something I wanted to tell you about it..."

"...?"

"Do you remember the characteristic you had at the beginning? Even before the feature draws came up."

Something that was there before the skill draw...

"Infinite potential?"

"Yes!"

That's right. A ridiculous ability that allowed all the stats to grow to their limits...

"That's originally yours, hyung."

"...!"

What?

"So the characteristics you chose, the stats you raised...They were all abilities that you already had, hyung."

"..."

"Among all the things you achieved, hyung, there was nothing you couldn't get."

KeunDal nodded coolly.

"That's what I wanted you to know..."

"..."

I looked at him blankly, as if he had hit me in the head.

'It is mine?'

Slowly, a strange sensation came over me...

That feeling was...satisfaction.

The voice continued.

"So please show me great performances."

I nodded reflexively. My head couldn't think because of the feeling of security that filled me.

The guy on the other side muttered.

"I really want to continue supporting hyung as an idol..."

"...!"

At that moment, I came back to my senses.

Now is not the time to get sentimental, but to manage his direction.

Starting from where he will live.

'If you don't care about your own body...'

"So you don't care about the body you got to take the evaluations?"

I don't think you want to throw it away after you've made it to the 7th level.

"AAAAAAAAH!"

Fortunately, this time he gave a positive response again. Since he's spent more than 4 full years using it, he must have wanted to do this.

"Huuk, but will it be okay, it's your body, hyung!"

"I'm using your body too."

It's not like I'm going to use that extra body as an ingredient to cook soup, so what do you think? I looked at him with an air of disapproval.

He nodded with a flushed face.

"Then...I'll put it to good use for a while."

For a while?

I was going to ask him about his awkward choice of words.

"Hyung, time's up! I think it will flow soon. Hurry up and go to bed!"

"Ah."

I turned to lie down on the sofa amid his commotion. At that instant...

The image reflected in the dark window, which had clearly turned into night, showed my figure.

"...!"

What I saw there...was not the appearance of "Ryu GunWoo", but if you ask me if it was that of TeSTAR's "Park MoonDae," I don't know either.

It was both.

I don't know how that's possible, but I thought that anyone could recognize that that's me, no matter what they knew about me.

Unlike KeunDal's appearance, where the features blended together as if not yet defined, it was a solid appearance that was completely settled.

As if I was already sure of who I was.

'Oh, wow.'

After seeing that result, I guess I think both of them are me at the end of the day.

I lay back feeling unable to say anything and burst out laughing.

I felt great.

"Ya, hyung, if there's a chance..."

I replied to the cautious voice, confirming.

"See you later."

"Yes!"

And I closed my eyes to sleep again.

This time, I plunged into a dark field where all five senses disappeared completely.

A dream where consciousness and thoughts vanished.

Daeng-

At that moment I thought I heard a bell...

"PARK MOONDAE...!"

When I came to my senses, I realized I was standing on a podium.

I noticed the smell of stage equipment and air conditioning.

"...Ha."

It was the day TeSTAR won the Daesang.

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