The Day My World Collapsed
The Day My World Collapsed
His name was Lee Doyeon.
He was twenty-eight.
It wasn't a major conglomerate, but he worked at a decent enough company, and even though it was mortgaged, he had a house in his own name.
His looks weren't bad, either.
He had a reasonably sturdy build and was often told he had a likable face.
So, all in all, he wasn't exactly falling behind in life.
"Huh?"
However, he had one hobby he could never tell anyone about, even if he died.
Collecting erotic manga.
And it wasn't just a casual, dabbling level of collecting.
Because Doyeon's external hard drives contained thousands of erotic manga he'd collected over the past few years.
MILF, NTR, hypnosis, brainwashing, mind break, monster girl, fantasy.
Genres and authors were a given.
Not only the art style, but he had tagged and categorized everything down to the relationships between characters, settings, situations, and specific fetishes.
For Doyeon, spending hours searching for a single work was impossible. He just had to search for a few desired tags, and works matching his tastes would pop up one after another.
It was truly a crystallization built with the blood, sweat, and tears of his crotch.
'No, what the hell.'
That day was nothing special either.
After enjoying a newly acquired erotic manga, he organized the author's name and tags and put it into the appropriate folder.
Having confirmed the file was moved correctly, Doyeon closed the file explorer window.
And a moment later.
It was when he opened the explorer again to organize another work.
The external hard drive was gone.
At first, he thought it was a temporary error.
But it wasn't.
"Fuck?"
Even after unplugging the cable and plugging it back in.
Even after rebooting the computer.
Even after checking the device manager and running recovery programs.
Nothing appeared.
The external hard drive was clearly plugged into the computer.
The connection light was blinking normally, and he could even feel the faint vibration of the disk spinning inside when he touched it.
Yet, it wasn't being recognized.
"......."
Did it break?
Doyeon's face slowly stiffened.
"..., this is fucked."
Still, it was too early to despair.
Because he had backed up the data by splitting it across other external hard drives.
He had collected thousands of them so far.
Naturally, he wasn't stupid enough to put them all in one place. He might have lost the few he had recently organized, but he could endure that much.
Doyeon took out another backup external hard drive and connected it to the computer.
"......?"
It was the same.
This time, too, it wasn't being recognized.
From then on, he wasn't in his right mind.
He took out the second backup hard drive.
Same thing.
He connected the third one.
Sure enough.
An empty file window.
Doyeon just trembled, hands and feet, at the sudden bolt from the blue.
He even refreshed the empty explorer window several times.
Of course, nothing appeared, and nothing changed.
That was truly the end.
"No, you're lying, right?"
That day.
The thousands of erotic manga Doyeon had collected over his entire life vanished without a trace.
And.
The world changed as well.