Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 159



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The Novelist Who Leapt Through Time Episode 159

I will admit it.

Gu Yuna’s emotions are slightly… … .

Ah, just a little… … .

It’s not normal.

However, that does not mean that Gu Yuna’s intelligence is low.

She was an intelligent novelist. Guy Yuna’s literature is smart literature. The sophistication of the plot is such that it is difficult to follow.

Let’s not forget. Yuna Gu made a name for herself with her mystery novels.

Anyway, the Gu Yuna I knew was a rational and wise person. He only uses his brilliant intelligence in a slightly deviant way. Our Yuna does not bite people. maybe.

So, as much as I trusted Gu Yuna’s intelligence, I was also very shocked by Gu Yuna’s ‘abnormal behavior’.

I can understand his behavior of constantly trying to secure the seat next to me. A child who is pushed out by an outstanding older sister and neglected by their mother may become obsessed with their friend.

Breaking snacks in half and handing them out or taking selfies with a cat filter on are actions that can be understood in the same context.

But taking off the yellow furry animal hoodie?

That’s not something Gu Yuna can do.

Dressing up in the sophisticated clothes that are popular among ordinary young people these days was something that only Gu Yuna, a complete person who had learned all the knowledge in the Saba world of all things, could do.

okay.

Not Gu Yuna, who is next to me right now,

This is ‘Yuna’ that I left behind in my memory.

Only ‘Yuna’ was able to perfectly portray an ordinary person.

Even though the two people were the same being, this was something that could not realistically happen.

“ha… … .”

Only when the excitement subsides does reason return.

The behavior of Mun-chang and the children seemed suspicious today, the grinning laughter of the female students surrounding Gu Yu-na, and the hesitation of Gu Yu-na awkwardly adjusting the hem of her clothes… … .

All the clues pointed to this being a strange ‘prank’ between Moon Chang and the third graders.

However, reason and emotion are separate areas.

I kept seeing ‘Yuna’ in civilian clothes, that is, from ‘Gu Yuna’ who was dressed in stylish civilian clothes, not a yellow furry animal hoodie.

Her appearance in my memory stimulates me.

The excitement of the first realization that they recognized each other as the opposite sex, the soft fingers intertwined in the darkness of the movie theater, the literary exchange that felt like they were splitting half of their souls and putting them into each other, a 10-year relationship, and… … .

-This… It’s not like we’re breaking up.

-… … .

-You are abandoning me.

Abandonment, and abandonment.

Painfully distorted,

The expression of that day.

“ah.”

All the pain buried in the gray photo came to life and came back to life.

EP 10 – Starry Sky

Indigo twilight colored the sky. The clouds captured the last rays of the sunset, and the wind carried the chill of the cold night. Mother Nature’s clock spoke. The day is over.

“oh my… … .”

It was a tiring day.

There was too much going on.

Gyeongju World Culture Expo, Gyeongju World, Gyeongju Bread… … .

And race, race, race… … .

Anyway, I felt like I had explored all the Gyeongju things that exist in the world.

And that would not be an exaggeration. Gyeongju was a famous place for school trips, and because of that, the travel course felt quite standardized.

Rather than a tourist attraction with a deep history, it feels more like an artificial tourist site that only collects things that children who come on school trips every year would like. Next to the historical sites of Silla, a thousand-year-old ancient capital, the city government’s passion for attracting tourists was felt step by step.

Therefore, what was truly inconvenient was not the travel course but the companion.

Gu Yuna has never been this uncomfortable in her life. He’s like my reliable other half!

-That experience center… … . Do you want to go in together?

-How about going alone?

-This is not a question.

-I’ll feed you this. Ah, try it.

-That’s a bit… … .

-mouth. Open up.

-I’m going to stand in line here and take a picture.

-The line is too long… … .

-What I just said was not an invitation, but a declaration.

It can’t be anything other than a truly terrifying and terrifying experience.

But what’s scarier than that is the fact that I can’t tell whether the memories I recall are from today or decades ago.

Are the memories I recall with ‘Yuna’ or with ‘Gu Yuna’? It feels like two beings, barely connected by a vague promise, are slowly being separated. It is the pain of a time traveler.

I was always afraid of Gu Yu-bin, who resembled ‘Yuna’. She is not anymore. ‘Gu Yuna’, who resembles ‘Yuna’, is much scarier.

Just looking at Gu Yuna, dressed in stylish civilian clothes, struck my spirit. I see the sins I have committed.

Who exists before me?

“ha… … .”

Every time I felt this kind of ‘disparity’, I felt like I was taking a step away from reality.

Despite this, I am trying not to realize that I am a time traveler.

The experience of running backwards in time was extremely surreal. I am afraid of the transcendent who is aware of 10 years of royalties. Because I feel like a pitiful fly on Buddha’s palm.

The circumstances of how I was thrown into a gap in time and the anxiety that everything in this world might be an illusion make me afraid.

Since only literature is unchanging, it has taken root in the world using literature as a lighthouse and anchor… … .

Sometimes, it gets shaken like this.

And the one who shook me was clearly ‘Gu Yuna’ disguised as ‘Yuna’. The existence of two timelines overlaps, so just looking at it is mind-blowing.

This is the guilt of a time traveler who cannot trust the world, and… … .

no.

Let’s stop the self-torture here.

The important thing is that the ordeal is almost over.

The school trip lasted 3 days and 2 nights, and today is the evening of the second day.

It means that I will go home tomorrow.

“good. “I’m going home tomorrow.”

I muttered to myself to calm my mind, but the passers-by unintentionally became a victim.

“What… … !”

“to.”

“oh.”

The vitality drained from the bodies of the students who were walking and chattering with a smile, and they shrunk like spinach.

Just like office workers on a Sunday evening… … .

“Uuuu… … .”

“It’s over tomorrow… … .”

“I know… … But you didn’t need to confirm, you cruel bastard… … .”

Looking back, Park Chang-woon rarely gave me literary lessons. It’s not because he’s not a great novelist and educator, but because I’m a stubborn novelist whose feelings have already gone awry.

However, Park Chang-woon taught me quite a lot about attitude toward life, and I imitated his teachings and ran away while repeating the magic spell, ‘What should I do?’

“Phew… … !”

By confiscating their faces and running away, I was able to avoid feeling guilty about shattering the hearts of innocent middle school students. Thank you, Changwoon Park.

But this wasn’t the end of the obstacles I had to overcome… … .

“Guys! “Gather in the auditorium!”

“Yahho-!”

This is because the highlight of the school trip, the talent show, remained.

* * *

No matter what anyone says, the main event of the school trip was the talent show. This is especially true in art schools.

It is not uncommon for a high school talent show performance to be uploaded to YouTube and receive hundreds of thousands of views.

In schools where arts were taught, ‘stage experience’ was not just an area of ​​entertainment, and this led to active encouragement at the school level.

This is why Baekhak Arts Middle School insists on school trips by grade level rather than class trips.

Anyway, the talent show stage that the school, teachers, and students want is of a very high standard.

The piano, voice, orchestra, and brass music departments unite to form an orchestra, and the Dokgodai Practical Music Department forms a rock band.

Korean dance and ballet departments go without saying. What more explanation is needed to bring performing artists to the stage?

The theater and film department even screens movies that have been prepared for several weeks, and sometimes collaborates with the music department to perform musicals.

And our proud department of creative writing… … !

“I will recite a poem.”

After all, it is a poetry reading.

“… … .”

“… … .”

“… … .”

An eerie silence enveloped the main auditorium.

This is because it is difficult to find people who enjoy poetry these days.

Isn’t it a time when only poets bought poetry collections?

“In Japan, there is a formal poem called haiku. It is also the shortest verse literature in the world. Unfortunately, it is much more famous worldwide than traditional Korean literature.”

However, despite the cold silence, the student standing on the podium spoke majestically, no, majestically.

Surprisingly, the presenter on the podium was an indecisive, stuttering class president who had been swept up in the soccer club coup.

I don’t remember his name, but he always had a passive attitude and gave a clear impression of being intimidated, so it was amazing that he could speak so clearly on stage.

The class president went on to calmly explain how Japanese ‘Haiku’ became globally popular, its simplicity admired by writers and philosophers of Western civilization, its influence, and its popularity in modern American society.

It’s 3 minutes so far.

And Moon Chang-gwa was first in line for the talent show.

Yes.

The class president destroyed all the third-year Baekhak Arts Middle School students who were excited about the talent show in just three minutes.

Middle school students who seemed to go crazy at any moment sank with a few words about studying the history of literature.

In the chilly silence, with silence to the point where even yawns have to be noticed,

The class leader gave a long introduction and then got to the point.

“To that end, I will recite a few words of haiku with Korean sentiments. I hope you enjoy listening to it. Hmm… … .”

and,

The exact moment when a haiku was about to come out of the class president’s mouth.

“Kwaaaaaak-!”

A zombie jumps out from the audience and bites the back of the class president’s neck!

As the audience continued to scream, the class president, who burst a stream of red water from his neck, let out a cute scream and fell down.

“Kwaang!”

The zombie that ate the class president with such brutal bites stands on the stage, taking a breath and looking down at the audience.

Click, the light turns off.

An auditorium engulfed in darkness.

The light that comes back on is a dim red color.

And under the lighting reminiscent of fresh blood,

There were dozens of zombies on stage.

And then the hard dubstep begins!

Wow!

The audience, who realized the situation, cheered, and dancers dressed as zombies moved to the occult concept electric beat.

Yes.

The best ace of Baekhakyejungㅡ

This is the stage of practical music.

“Class monitor… … ! great job!”

“Hmph… I worked hard to write a haiku, but I left without even being able to speak. I originally decided to get bitten after reciting a poem… … .”

Looking at the class president who quietly got off the stage and joined Moon Chang and the audience, it seemed like it was a pre-planned performance.

Otherwise, there is no way such a smooth stage transition would have been possible. It was almost a professional level performance.

This is not an exaggeration.

I could tell just by looking at the stage right away.

“But are we done with this?”

“It’s like that with Wenchang…” … . “Bring some popcorn.”

Unlike the Munchang Department, which was the weakest group in the talent show, the children in the Practical Dance Department were going crazy on stage.

Before we knew it, the police officers who rushed to subdue the zombies joined in, and they showed off difficult choreography reminiscent of a fierce battle.

The nicknames of Baekhak Arts Middle School and Baekhak Arts High School automatically come to mind.

‘Idol Military Academy’.

The two schools of the Baekhak Art Foundation were second-rate art schools with little history and all they had was money.

However, under the influence of Baekhak Entertainment and its trainees, the Baekhak Arts Foundation was reborn as a mecca for idol trainees.

There are so many aspiring idols that the school leadership is trying hard to attract students who do pure art rather than popular art.

But to put it the other way around, it means that they are already at the top in the popular art world.

Only the most talented children enter Baekhak Arts Middle School’s Practical Dance Department, and faculty with more know-how than any other school teach geniuses and gifted students.

Therefore, the performance of the Practical Dance Department of Baekhak Arts Middle School had already reached the professional level.

“hmm… … .”

In other words, from an adult’s perspective, it is extremely sensational and promiscuous.

It was the same in my eyes too.

To use Gu Hak-jun’s expression to describe the children’s stage, it is a combination of capitalism and sexualism taken to the extreme. That’s how Koo Hak-jun evaluated the idol industry.

He said it politely because he was a university professor, but to put it bluntly, it means that he is an idiot who makes money by dancing in clothes that reveal his skin.

I actually tended to think that way too.

The sight of a middle school dance team wearing crop tops and hot pants performing before my eyes clearly went against social norms.

In the past, the spirit of a scholar sleeping deep in my DNA would have awakened and I would have frowned without realizing it.

That’s behavior that’s not appropriate for that age group.

But it’s different now.

After dipping one foot into the entertainment industry and spending almost three years at Baekhak Arts Middle School, new facts come into view.

Those guys aren’t dancing in crop tops and hot pants.

Wearing a crop top and hot pants, you will dance a dance that will tear your knee joints apart and take hours to memorize.

The reason, of course, is to make a dream come true.

And that was desirable behavior for that age group.

The sensationalism shown on stage is not due to the students’ promiscuous escapades.

It’s just that I was the role model they wanted to be.

And the reason those role models and idols took on sensationalism was because the public wanted it.

Therefore, it is extremely harsh on the performer for the same audience to criticize elements that arise from the audience’s needs. This happened because they wanted it to happen, but now you’re saying something else, aren’t you?

Of course, the immaturity of children who want to become adults as soon as possible may have contributed to some extent.

But the first reason is, of course, a dream.

As a fellow artist, I could no longer criticize the passion of students running toward their dreams.

But now something else comes into view.

Gu Yuna, sitting next to me, noticed my gaze and asked.

“Why are you looking so closely?”

What I mean is, is it nice to see the dance club kids dancing?

I might pretend to be embarrassed and give Yuna Yuna a moment of laughter.

But I wasn’t in the mood for jokes right now.

“How many of them will achieve their dreams?”

“… … .”

Gu Yuna answered coldly, but more accurately than anyone else.

“It will be fortunate if one person comes out.”