The dream continued, but it didn’t show everything. It skipped ahead, starting again with the moment when my family met their demise at the hands of Cha Yoo-hyeok, who possessed monstrous strength. Of course, Cha Yoo-hyeok couldn’t protect his comrades from countless enemies either. Cha Yoo-hy uk, who lost a precious person, searched for Kim Jaeyoung relentlessly, but Kim Jaeyoung only manipulated people behind the scenes and never came to the front for a single moment.
When he finally found Kim Jaeyoung, he was walking towards the gate from which the monsters emerged. Cha Yoo-hyeok rushed to kill him, fending off the pouring monsters, but Kim Jaeyoung controlled them with a gesture, thwarting his attempt.
‘You bastard! Come out and face me!’
Despite Cha Yoo-hyeok’s blood-curdling scream, Kim Jaeyoung didn’t stop walking. There was no emotion discernible from his back as he entered the pitch-black gate of the unknown.
As I watched them through the eyes of an observer, I noticed something glinting from Kim Jaeyoung’s neck as he disappeared. It was a blue sapphire necklace, a keepsake from my deceased mother that I had treasured and worn until my death. It was the only item I left behind, even in death.
‘Gasp!’
After waking up from the dream, I immediately felt my neck. It wasn’t there. The necklace was gone. Where could I have lost it? I searched the entire house since dawn and interrogated the servants, but I couldn’t find it. Did I lose it at school yesterday? For the first time in my life, I rushed out of the house at this hour to go to school.
Upon arriving at school, I saw Kim Jaeyoung sitting alone in the dimly lit classroom. Why does it have to be him again? When I faced the person I had seen in my dream just moments ago, I couldn’t distinguish whether it was a dream or reality for a while. Kim Jaeyoung, who was focused on a workbook while wearing earphones, abruptly turned around at the rough sound of the door opening. With a dazed mind, I approached him step by step and extended my trembling hand towards him.
‘Give it to me.’
‘Huh?’
‘My necklace. Give it to me.’
Kim Jaeyoung, alternating between looking at my trembling hand and my sweat-drenched face, pulled something out of his bag. It was the necklace inside a ziplock bag. He handed me the necklace with a smile.
‘How did you know? I found it on the playground yesterday. I was trying to find the owner, and it turned out to be yours.’
‘……’
‘Are you sick? You don’t look well.’
Kim Jaeyoung reached out his hand as if trying to measure my forehead for a fever, causing me to startle and stumble backward, almost losing my balance as I got caught on the chair. He grabbed my wrist to prevent me from falling, pulling me forward.
In the recoil, I fell over onto Kim Jaeyoung’s body, and he steadied me back onto the chair. It became an awkward posture where we seemed to be embracing each other.
‘Oh, damn…’
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As I regained my composure, I quickly got up, cursing under my breath as I swiftly picked up the necklace that had fallen to the floor. However, Kim Jaeyoung seemed to be sitting there, his school uniform collar turned inside out, not moving and staring blankly. Why is he like that? Although I felt puzzled, I felt like I should say something since I had found the necklace for him. It was awkward to express gratitude, so I reached out to straighten his collar instead. But as my hand touched his neck, Kim Jaeyoung abruptly jerked away, vigorously pushing my hand aside.
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[System]
‘ You obtained the ‘Prescient Dream ‘ skill as a special bonus for the ‘First Awakening.’
…What’s this?
*
The transparent window that appeared before my eyes couldn’t be seen by anyone else. Prescient dream… What is a prescient dream? When I searched on my phone, I found out that a dream predicting the future is called a prescient dream. A dream predicting the future… Does that mean the damn dreams that tormented me for a whole month could actually come true? It’s ridiculous… I thought I was going crazy and seeing things.
Kim Jaeyoung liking me too? Nah. It must be a misunderstanding. He could just be a shy guy! Why did Kim Jaeyoung torment Cha Yoo-hyuk so much in my dream… Why was he wearing my necklace… If all of that was because he liked me, then it would make sense, but… There’s no way such unrealistic things could happen in reality, right? What are monsters and superpowers? Haha.
…Yes, that actually happened.
‘Maknae, what… are you doing right now?’
‘Huh?’
‘Why are you twisting the chopsticks like that… Are you in a circus…?’
‘What?’
That evening, my family looked at me with wide eyes. What’s going on? As I lowered my head subtly, I saw the chopsticks on my hand moving brilliantly as if performing in a circus.
W-what is this? I was so startled that I threw the chopsticks. And then, the chopstick that brushed past my older brother’s face ended up deeply embedded in the wall. Blood trickled down from my older brother’s cheek.
‘Should we enroll our youngest in gymnastics…?’
Half of the chopstick was stuck in the wall, and despite the efforts of both family and servants, it refused to budge. Dad brought an empty picture frame to preserve it as a memento. And so, the chopstick remained sticking out from the dining room wall.
Everyone else brushed off the incident as a mere fluke, but I couldn’t laugh it off. A strange sense of deja vu crept over me, sending shivers down my spine. What were the odds that chopsticks thrown by an ordinary person would get stuck in a cement wall? I recalled the ability I awakened in my dream, the ability to wield anything tangible as a weapon. I hurriedly set down the remaining chopstick on the table.
During the motorcycle accident, I should have suffered serious injuries or even died, but I only sustained minor scratches. And when things got heated on the street at night, a sturdy middle-aged man collapsed with just a couple of punches. An ordinary person couldn’t possess such strength.
After that, I conducted various experiments. I followed my dad, who went hunting for pheasants on weekends, and tried shooting a gun. I also used the excuse of wanting to learn practical martial arts to spar with the security team, wielding wooden swords. Regardless of the type of weapon in my hand, I moved them effortlessly as if they were an extension of myself, and even though I had never learned to shoot a gun before, I hit the mark every time. My family joked that it was time for me to start training for the Olympics. Despite gaining this extraordinary power, I couldn’t simply marvel at it. If awakening was indeed real… then it meant that the real world was on the brink of destruction.
The dream abruptly ended after Kim Jaeyoung entered the gate. It felt stifling. It seemed like I might understand this situation a bit better if I were to dream again or if the system I saw last time appeared before me again. Should I shout out “status window” like in a webtoon?
‘…St- status window? Ugh!’
As I casually mentioned the word “status window” out of frustration, a semi-transparent window appeared before my eyes.
[System]
Name: Seon Eun-soo
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Occupation: High school student
Disposition: Evil
Title: [First Awakened*]
Skills: [Special Dexterity Lv. 1*] [Prescient Dream*]
‘What… what is this?’
The status window smoothly disappeared exactly 15 seconds after I didn’t touch it with my finger. When I touched the star next to “The First Awakened One,” a detailed explanation appeared: “A title given to the first awakened individual in humanity. Luck +30.” As for the skill listed in the skill slot, “Special Dexterity”…
Special Dexterity Lv. 1
– Can handle all objects held in hand freely.
– Related skills will be unlocked as the level increases.
– Lv. 2 Achievement Reward: [Fixing and Repairing Lv. 1]
– Completion rate 3%… (In progress)
What the heck. My abilities weren’t just about handling weapons well? I was dumbfounded by the explanation in the status window. It stated that by leveling up the Dexterity skill to level 2, I could obtain the Repair skill. Dexterity, Repair… Clearly not skill names suitable for attacking someone, but in my dreams, I had never used my abilities in any other way than attacking or threatening someone. If I hadn’t seen the status window, I wouldn’t have known this fact.
‘I guess I’m screwed.’
It seems like the Dark of days or something similar is really coming.
Afterward, I tried to explain the contents of the dream to my family, but it was as if some sort of restriction had been placed on me; my mouth wouldn’t move. I wasn’t even allowed to change words to describe it. Refusing to go to school only lasted for a day or two; after receiving a few smacks on the buttocks from Grandpa’s disciplinary hand, I reluctantly made my way to school.
What if Kim Jaeyoung talks to me? How should I react? Should I ask why he likes me? I imagined all sorts of scenarios, but he just sat at the front and focused on his studies without looking back. Well, it was my dream after all. Kim Jaeyoung looked the same as usual. I hung out with the usual troublemaking gang, playing around without a care in the world, or at least trying to.
‘Hey… what would you guys do if you were to die soon?’
My lack of thought throughout my life has become a problem, and now I find myself thinking so much.
‘What the heck?’
‘Hey, check this out. The girl I was introduced to this time has an amazing body.’
‘Well, she seems a bit short, though?’
‘Other things make up for it. Idiot.’
‘I’m in.’
‘Me too.’
The conversations of high school boys are endlessly low-class. It was annoying enough when they spoke dirty about girls before, but now my profound thoughts are being trampled on too, leaving me feeling upset. These guys who will die before me… Carrying around these horny bastards after the Dark Day won’t do any good.
I wonder why he had the necklace? Maybe he’s also brought back? 🧐
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Will the MC remain “evil” or will he try to be good? Apocalypse novels that start off similar to this usually involve the MC hoarding stuff for several chapters and gathering trustworthy people, so this novel is a breath of fresh air. So far.
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