Who is this?
Who is this?
I think they said all I had to do was take the medicine, get a good night's sleep, and wake up.
When I came to, I found myself lying in a hospital room.
'Huh?'
Come to think of it, didn't I wake up in a similar place?
The only difference is that a moment ago I was lying in a hospital room inside a lab, and now I'm in a hospital room at a hospital, but either way, it's still a hospital room.
For some reason, it even feels like a hospital bed.
"Umm..."
I seem to have regained consciousness, but...
'Huh.'
Didn't I just hear a strange voice?
I just made an "umm..." sound without thinking, but a voice I couldn't even imagine back when I was a man reached my ears.
No, no way...
I sat up and felt myself all over.
Hmm.
First of all...
'It's squishy.'
My body couldn't possibly be this squishy.
This is strange...
I didn't exactly work out hard, but I worked so many different part-time jobs that my body naturally had some muscle.
But now, it's so soft and squishy that I can't even imagine my old body; it feels like touching it might become addictive...
'Above all...'
This long hair reaching down to my waist, and the fact that it's turned completely white—no matter how I look at it, this isn't normal.
'Isn't this a situation where I need to check the mirror immediately?!'
I hurriedly got up and ran toward the bathroom where there should be a mirror...
Ttuk!
"Gack?!"
I tried to, but I felt something snag on my body and stopped in my tracks.
I looked to the side and saw something stuck in my arm.
'Ah.'
Right, I was on an IV drip, wasn't I?
Trying to move so roughly in this state...
'I almost had a disaster...'
I could have turned into a blood fountain right here.
I don't really know for sure, but I did know that if you try to pull it out on your own, a ton of blood will spray out.
...... Probably?
I stopped running and decided to head toward the bathroom while holding the IV stand—the thing with wheels—but then I stopped at a mirror I suddenly noticed.
'Oh, there was a mirror inside...'
More importantly, I'm so short...
Why am I this small?
First, I have to go and check what kind of state I'm in...?
The moment I stood in front of the mirror and saw myself, I froze right there.
"Wh... who is this..."
First off, she was incredibly cute.
I wondered if I had ever seen a child this cute in my entire life.
It's awkward for me, the person who ended up in this body, to say it myself, but I really have never seen a child this cute.
"Wow..."
Without realizing it, I moved my hand and started fiddling with my cheeks.
The characteristic chubby cheeks of a young child were so palpable and addictive that I couldn't stop touching them.
"Hup...!"
I finally came to my senses after touching them for a while, and I pulled my hand away in a startle.
"Ugh... that was dangerous..."
I really shouldn't look in the mirror if I can help it...
'But what do I do?'
It's fascinating to be in this body, but I'm not exactly thrilled about it.
I've spent years living diligently in this country, so what am I supposed to do if my body suddenly changes completely like this?
It's not like I have some huge connections to change my identity at will, and looking at the outside, I don't seem to look like a Korean person...
No... there's a bit of an Asian vibe... but it also feels like my appearance isn't something that can be categorized by race.
No, this isn't what's important right now.
'A, a foreigner without legal status...?!'
About the time I came for a clinical trial, took the medicine, slept, and woke up as an illegal foreign worker...!
'No!!'
I have to ask them to turn me back to my original body immediately.
I need to call a nurse or doctor in this hospital right now...
Zzzzt.
'Huh?'
Something in my head...
[System connection confirmed.]
[Welcome, Administrator-nim.]
"Eh."
What is this.
'Who are you?'
[I am Administrator-nim's Secretary.]
Huh?
You suddenly call me Administrator-nim, so I have no idea what you're talking about.
[It means exactly what it says. Administrator-nim is the Administrator of the system.]
System...?
"Are you talking about a Status Window?"
Status Window.
Uh, so... it's basically a kind of system that Hunters use; you can think of it as something invisible to ordinary people and only usable by Hunters.
They say it's a very good system that only Hunters can use to check their status.
Of course, from an ordinary person's perspective, even if you can objectively grasp your abilities, it doesn't make any sense.
'Ugh...'
Naturally, from my perspective, having never touched anything like a system in my entire life, I couldn't help but wonder what this was all about.
[As you said. Administrator-nim has become the Administrator of the Tower System.]
The Tower...?
[That is correct.]
Is there such a thing as a Tower?
I mobilized all the little knowledge I had in my memory and racked my brain, but perhaps because it wasn't very high-performance to begin with, nothing really came to mind.
'I have no idea...'
That was when it happened.
Suddenly, whether it was on a screen or inside my head, all sorts of information started pouring in.
'Uh... uh-uh?'
[Humanity is already preparing for the Tower. It is a fact that has not been revealed to the citizens for safety reasons.]
Uh-uh, what is this.
What is this strange feeling like it's being forcibly shoved into my head?!
[It was to increase Administrator-nim's comprehension... but if it was not to your liking, I apologize.]
'Uh-uh, no...'
If anything, it felt good...
To have information flowing into my head while doing nothing and having it automatically understood—doesn't it feel like I've become a genius?
'I like this...'
Was I actually a genius all along?
"Hmm..."
'What is 1649737276 x 649457762273?'
1.07143e+21.
What.
'It comes out... automatically...?!'
The answer came out perfectly and neatly, as if I had run a calculator.
[...... Administrator-nim is not a calculator.]
'Th, that's amazing...! What on earth have I become?'
Come to think of it, having a secretary like this in my head means...
'An AI secretary like people talk about these days? Doesn't it mean an agent or something has entered me?!'
Finally...
Finally, has my era arrived?
'Secretary... has my era arrived?'
[......]
What the.
Why is the reaction like that?
[Biological reaction detected. Someone is entering the hospital room, so I recommend returning to the bed first.]
Oh, someone is coming?
With a surprised expression, I hurriedly returned to the bed.
I didn't know who it was, but I thought it would be better to pretend to be asleep than to show them this appearance.
I climbed back onto the bed, lay down, and quietly closed my eyes.
No sooner had I returned to the bed and lain down than people started coming in one by one.
"...... Will she be okay?"
"I just hope she doesn't get startled as soon as she wakes up."
'A woman's voice...?'
Oh, come to think of it, I feel like I heard a woman's voice before I passed out...
I don't remember if it was this voice, but it seems like it might have been similar...?
While I was pondering the voice, the door clicked open, and I felt them coming inside.
'Ah, who is it...'
[Immediately connecting to the CCTV to share the view.]
What?
Immediately after that, I received the view shared through the CCTV in my eyes.
'There's a CCTV in the hospital room?'
[Result of verification: It appears to have been installed due to the special nature of the situation.]
Uh...
"Look at her sleeping without a care in the world... so cute..."
"Using a child like this as a test subject... we really should have killed those bastards..."
"Eonni, really. Even if the kid hasn't woken up yet, in front of the kid...!"
Hmm.
Judging by their conversation, it seems these two people saved me.
'I was saved, right...?'
They didn't kidnap me, did they...?
They don't look like the type of people who would do that, but now that I know to some extent how important a person I've become, I'm feeling kind of scared, I guess...
......
'I am an important person, right...?'
Honestly, I don't know.
I think it'll be fine, but I couldn't help but feel guarded.
"When will she wake up..."
"The doctor said she would wake up soon, right? They said she might even be awake already."
As expected, doctors are amazing.
To think they could pinpoint the exact timing of when I'd wake up.
"We have to ask her what happened there, right? Ah... it must be a very painful memory, so it feels wrong to have to ask about it..."
"But what can we do... no matter how much we search, no data comes up."
"Exactly...! There was no time to process the data, so does that make any sense?"
I don't know what they are talking about, but it seemed like they were discussing something extremely important.
'I, I can't find the timing to wake up...'
It seems I'm really screwed...
Save me...