Ah, Fuck! A Dream!!
Ah, fuck! A dream!!
I was on my way home after finishing my shift when a long, deep sigh slipped out of me.
Three months had already passed since I'd been possessed into this world. That's right. Possessed. The world I'd been dropped into was the setting of a web novel called I Became a Hero with 10,000x EXP. The catch was that I wasn't the protagonist. I was Extra A — the kind of nobody you trip over on any street corner. The kind whose name never even gets mentioned.
"...Fuck. They could've at least made me a supporting character."
Not that complaining about it was going to change a damn thing. Anyway, my name is Lee Dogwang. Thirty years old. And in this world, a convenience store part-timer.
"I'll ring that up for you."
"Milk and bread, please."
"Alright. That'll be 3,900 won."
Daily life was the same wherever you went. Even after landing in another world, you just lived one day at a time. That was life.
"Good work today..."
Once my shift was over, I came home. A studio apartment. It wasn't originally mine, but I'd possessed the guy who lived here, so I might as well call it home. I threw myself onto the bed and the fatigue came crashing in. I was especially exhausted today.
"Ugh..."
The clock read two in the morning. Another day of living hard. Attaboy, me. I picked up my phone and checked the news.
Yeah. That was the protagonist. Not me.
A sudden emptiness washed over me. Why had I been possessed into this world in the first place? To live an ordinary life and then just die?
"...Fuck."
I spat out a short curse and lay down on the bed. The moment I closed my eyes, I sank into a deep sleep.
...Huh? Where was I?
A hazy white void stretched around me. I was standing in the middle of it.
"Hello there, young man."
I turned toward the sudden voice. An old man with white hair sticking out in every direction stood before me. Ah... Einstein? The Albert Einstein? The famous physicist?! One look at that trademark tongue-out expression and there was no mistaking it.
Einstein stepped closer. And then...
"Aaaagh! What the hell are you doing?!"
He suddenly shoved his face straight at my forehead. Was he... licking me? Einstein actually licked my forehead!
"Salty."
FLASH—!
A violent burst of light flared, and I bolted upright in bed.
"Ah, fuck! A dream!!"
I had no idea then that that ridiculous dream would turn my entire life upside down.