Became a CyberPunk Tycoon - Chapter 119



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Episode 119. Essence (21)

Pain tears through my body. The pain won’t go away.

“Why, why, why on earth, like that!!!”

Doris’s fist hit my chest. My already tattered body shook with the impact. It hurts. It’s so painful I can’t stand it.

Nevertheless, I could laugh.

“Are you crazy? Are you crazy? If I have even the slightest bad thought, or even a single mistake, I’ll die!”

“Because I trust you won’t do something like that.”

“Who trusts whom! I don’t trust myself either, so why should you trust me!”

Objectively speaking, this body’s performance was pretty good.

I was able to come to my senses even though I was covered in blood. That was enough.

“You should have said it from the beginning! You could have said from the beginning that you were Lee Seon-woo, that the Lee Seon-woo I saw was actually Han San-woo!”

“Then you wouldn’t have stabbed me.”

It was a pointless assumption. When she first entered my room, her eyes were filled with hatred and disgust.

In that situation, if I had confessed, ‘Actually, I was Lee Seon-woo!’, I would have been met with anger like, ‘You were trying to deceive me from the beginning?’

After she had somewhat quenched her thirst for revenge and come to her senses, Doris was able to see me objectively.

“Ugh…… Aaaah!”

She threw the plasma dagger far away.

“You don’t have to put up with it.”

“Is that what you’re talking about now?”

Doris’s eyes were filled with resentment, but the strength in her grip on my collar was slowly draining away.

“It hurt. I saw my mother die right before my eyes. I promised myself that I would never forget it again. I thought I had to kill everyone involved in this.”

“Why did I think I had to kill the guy up there… I remember a little bit. I didn’t think you’d understand. I didn’t think you’d remember.”

Her prediction was not wrong. Han San-woo did not remember the death.

Even though I, who had taken over his body, tried to recall my memories as best as I could, they were all memories from so long ago. There was no way anything could come to mind.

However, if Han San-woo had experienced some kind of shocking emotion, the memory would have been imprinted in his brain in a more vivid form.

“I thought I would live my life like nothing happened. My mother died, and I thought no one would care…….”

It’s a common occurrence in this city. Orphans lose their parents for a myriad of reasons and are left to fend for themselves.

But being one of those ‘unfortunate people’ is something that is never bearable for the person involved.

“I wanted to make you feel it. I wanted to show you. Somehow…….”

She was crying. I could feel her sincerity.

She didn’t point her sword at me. Instead, her words continued incessantly.

“Until the gang started chasing my mom, I never thought something like that would happen. I just heard my mom say that she had something valuable and that we could run away…….”

Death in Stella City is light. It is treated as a number, and no one feels sorry for it.

“But then he died. In an instant… My previous life was also unhappy, but I still had a family. I had a mother, and I had hope that it would be okay to continue living like this.”

Tears flowed ceaselessly from her eyes. I, who was lying underneath, could only watch the sight of them touching my body.

“She screamed terribly… It was the first time I’d ever heard my mother scream like that. She was the type of person who never showed how much pain she was in.”

Doris looked off into the distance, as if reminiscing about the past.

“When I was very little, I dropped a hot pan on my mother’s toe while playing, and she just grabbed me and asked, ‘Are you hurt?’ Even though her toe was red and swollen.”

She has memories. She has memories of as long as she has lived.

“She was that kind of mother, and at the last moment, she screamed. It was understandable. Her body was completely torn apart… At that moment, I promised myself. I would get revenge. I would make her understand how much my mother had suffered, and what they had done.”

There was a pain she had been hiding. As if the wall in her heart had been torn down, Doris poured out her story without stopping.

“So I killed them. It wasn’t that hard… I just had to get a weapon, take advantage of people’s distraction, and shoot them, and that was it.”

“That’s fortunate.”

“And then… I became a little happier. The mercenary work went much better than I thought, and I met some good friends.”

But her story was not one that could end with ‘they lived happily ever after.’

“I didn’t like that. Being happy is definitely a good thing, but my mom would have wanted me to be happy too, and I couldn’t stand seeing myself laughing so nonchalantly, without even being able to bury her properly…….”

It may not have been that she was not sincere in her happiness. It may not have been that she had expected this from the beginning when she compromised with Hansan.

But that happiness could not possibly be felt as a pure and refreshing happiness without any doubt in one’s heart.

“It…… hurt so much.”

She hugged me tightly as I lay there. The pain continued, but I could bear it.

I raised my arms and hugged her as she fell on top of me.

“It hurts…….”

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“Um, sorry. Did I just talk about myself too much? But still, I think I feel a little better…….”

Our eyes met. In that short distance of only a few centimeters, countless emotions crossed my mind.

“You feel pain too. You understand how much I’ve been hurting.”

Doris now smiled, a little relieved.

“Maybe I wanted this from the beginning. Maybe I was expecting to be understood…….”

It wasn’t strange. The situation of not knowing what you truly want wasn’t something special.

The only way Doris could convey her feelings to the ‘Man in the Sky’ was with that hateful dagger. Or so she thought.

But now that I, who might be in pain with her, have appeared before her eyes, she has a reason not to take that approach.

“I understand. I may not know everything, but… it hurts.”

My body aches. My torn flesh screams.

My heart aches. Her shaking eyes, trembling voice, and shocking content showed how much pain Doris had been living in.

I can empathize. I can understand. I can think.

I can suffer with her. If that’s what it takes to protect her, I can do it as many times as I want.

“What were you planning to do? If only I could kill you…….”

“I believed you wouldn’t kill me.”

“If I survive here…….”

“Hansan’s medical team will be dispatched.”

“It won’t be completely resolved. Right now… it’s okay, but you never know when something like this might happen again.”

“Well, it’s a waste of money to have windows breaking every time.”

I smiled and pointed to the door with my finger.

“From now on, come in via the elevator. I’ll issue you a permit.”

“And then what? How can I hurt you like this every time…….”

“Hansan’s medical team needs to be dispatched. Well, it’s still a problem that there are always stab wounds on my body. What should I do…….”

After thinking about it for a while, I came up with a solution that I thought was pretty good.

“If the core issue is that I ‘feel pain,’ couldn’t we replace it with something like an electric shock without causing trauma?”

“That’s not the problem!”

Doris laughed faintly and tapped me on the shoulder, feeling sorry for herself and sorry for laughing at such a serious situation.

“Oh, if you hit me there and my body shakes, it hurts a little.”

“I, I’m sorry…….”

“It’s okay. It’s okay to be sick.”

I had no intention of giving up anything.

Let’s enjoy it.

I have entered the body of a ‘villain tycoon’ whose life is in danger, but I have also entered the world of a game.

Meeting people I’d only watched, hearing their stories I’d never heard before, getting to know them, loving them, and laughing together.

Making people who should die not die, exchanging emotions, and making them happy.

This was definitely a huge blessing for me as I was a huge fan of the game.

“I wanted to save you. I didn’t know you had that kind of past, but I had seen you before.”

“I see.”

I hate being sick. I’m not used to pain. But I endured it.

I love her. Not just her, but everyone I’ve met in this city.

“Are you tired? Go lie down for a bit.”

“……You used those words to seduce women?”

“Of course. When I smell the fragrant scent of blood, it clings to my body like a vampire.”

“I’m sorry…….”

She, too, didn’t seem to be in a state to move right now.

Time passed. We spent time wrapped up in each other’s bodies, on the blood I shed,

“Shouldn’t you still get treatment? The bleeding is still… oh, it’s stopped?”

“It’s hard. If I call someone else, I’ll have to explain who I am first, so I’ll have to pull myself together.”

I could tell by looking into Doris’ eyes that I had succeeded this time too.

As if trying to erase the pain, an overwhelming sense of drowsiness came over me.

“He’s not going to die, is he? Get up. Get up…….”

I fell asleep in her arms.

The stars twinkled in the night sky.

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