Prologue: Why Won't My Body Listen?
There's an old saying that if you're shocked enough, your body freezes up. Personally, I never bought into that.
Like, some thug charging at you from way off in the distance, and you're so terrified your feet won't budge? No way—survival instinct has to trump fear every time, right?
So, surely, when you face a situation shocking enough to stop your heart, your feet would carry you out of there. Your mouth would open and scream something.
"...Wh-what if you just barge in like that!"
"……."
"Get out! D-don't look!"
Why wouldn't my body listen to me?
"Close your eyes...! Hurry!"
"……."
I could finally move again only after I'd sorted through the chaos in my head. Now that I'd peeled back that first layer of confusion...
The question for my childhood friend was crystal clear.
"Se-bin, you're... Yu Seol-hwa?"
Were you my Ugyeol partner all along? Didn't you hate my guts?