The Reversed World (1)
If I had to pick the top three most badass moments of my life,
the number one spot had just been claimed moments ago.
“The truth of life lies beyond that point.”
There really exists a happiness even greater than the cup ramen you devour after a night shift.
I’m so glad I survived….
I made the right choice with those frozen dumplings!!
If I hadn’t, I would have died as nothing more than a dumbass who did one good deed without ever knowing this kind of happiness.
“I wonder if Penny has a boyfriend…”
Even though I’m technically thirty-nine now, having aged another fourteen years.
My heart is still twenty-five.
Well, my body is also twenty-five thanks to the cryogenics.
Anyway.
As a healthy male, it’s only natural to catch feelings for a woman who is drop-dead gorgeous and aggressively proactive.
Honestly, right?
No matter the excuse about it being for the examination, he was a man she had just met.
To do that with a man she had just met?
Is that even possible without any feelings?
“This is a blatant 100% green light!”
Penny definitely has feelings for me too.
When the world’s most perfect, pure, strongest, beautiful girl seems to like me, is there any man who wouldn’t fall for her?
None. Absolutely none. It’s impossible for there to be any.
Therefore, following the laws of nature, I also ended up developing feelings for Penny.
“When I’m discharged, should I ask her out…? No, skip the date. I’ll confess the moment I get discharged…”
I was lying in bed, seriously mapping out my future with Penny, when—
──Knock. Knock. Knock.
“Yeah, absolutely! Come in!”
[…Yes. Thank you for your permission!]
Was it because I had realized Penny had feelings for me?
For some reason, her voice through the door sounded happy at my approval.
Ah, that might be a bit of an overactive ego.
“I’m relieved. All test results came back completely normal.”
“Really? It’s amazing after sleeping for fourteen years…”
For now, the examination results said I was extremely healthy.
In truth, I had roughly expected as much.
From the moment I woke up, I had been able to move and act completely normally.
I didn’t feel any particular pain anywhere, either.
“Especially among the results, your sperm condition scored the absolute highest! At this rate you could make as many babies as you want. Hehe. Isn’t it incredible?”
“…Yes?”
Right then.
Penny delivered that embarrassing line with an incredibly bright, innocent smile.
What the…?
Being healthy is good, but why specifically mention making a ton of babies…?
Don’t tell me….
Is this some new form of flirting?
‘Fourteen years have passed, so it’s not impossible.’
In generations before mine, people used to confess with lines like “Hey! Have my kid!”
It’s not completely out of the question.
Penny is…
throwing a flirt my way right now…!
“Yes…! I also want to make lots of babies!”
“You do? Really?”
“Of course! My dream was to birth an entire soccer team and win the World Cup!”
“I don’t know what the World Cup is, but…! That’s amazing, Siso-nim! That’s truly wonderful!”
She doesn’t know the World Cup?
Could it be….
She’s been so diligent with work that she has zero interest in sports like soccer.
‘Pure, cute, pretty, and diligent…!’
This is a super-wife-and-mother who could slap the perfect homemaker label across the face ten times and still have room to spare.
My affection for Penny grew even larger.
“Um… Siso-nim.”
“Yes?”
At that moment, Penny opened her mouth somewhat hesitantly.
She seemed tense, carefully watching my reaction.
“Do you… happen to have time tonight?”
“……!”
This is….
No way. On the very first day we met?
Wait, but she said night?
When a man and woman talk about night, it obviously means that, right??
Especially right after she helped with the sperm test? And immediately after dropping that baby-making flirt?
‘This is 58,000%!!’
It’s an invitation to make the soccer team captain tonight.
There’s no other way to interpret it.
Or maybe she wants to talk about that plan.
With our bodies, of course.
“Of course I have time!”
“Really? That’s a relief…”
At my prompt reply, Penny smiled as if a weight had been lifted.
That smile was so adorable my heart fluttered.
It was truly a smile I wanted to protect.
“Then please rest well for now. I’ll come back tonight. If you need anything, call me anytime.”
“Yes. I’ll be waiting too.”
After Penny finished delivering her message and left the hospital room,
“Heh… hehehe…”
I finally let out the laughter I had been suppressing.
“Kwaaaaaah!! Being a vegetable is the best!!”
Back when my neck was broken and my body wouldn’t move, I had regretted it, thinking ‘Ah… I should’ve just let that kid fall…’
But looking back now, it was the greatest decision of my life.
Not only did I get to time-travel fourteen years into the future,
I even formed a connection with an insanely cute beautiful girl here.
I was in a situation where I didn’t envy the first-prize lottery winner one bit.
“Hehe… Penny. Ehehe…”
While imagining the pillow as Penny and rehearsing the gentle skinship that would soon happen,
“Wait… but Penny isn’t a Korean name, is it?”
Suddenly, a very simple question I had overlooked popped into my head.
Pink hair, pink eyes.
A beautiful face that felt more exotic than a typical East Asian.
Yet not fully Western either—an enigmatic atmosphere.
Her Korean was completely fluent, though.
“Mixed heritage?”
Well, whether mixed or foreign, it didn’t matter.
What mattered was that Penny was coming back to the room tonight with something important to say.
I prepared for the moment—fixing my hair, spraying on deodorant, the works.
“Penny, actually… I also have feelings for you…!”
By the time I finished practicing my lines in front of the mirror,
the clock showed that the promised night had already arrived.
“Huk…! Already?!”
The room I was in was a single-occupancy unit.
It was luxurious enough to rival a VVIP hospital room, but it had one clear flaw.
There were no windows.
Thanks to that, I only realized night had fallen by checking the clock.
─Thump. Thump. Thump.
“……”
Soon, an insanely cute girl would come to tell me something important.
My heart was throwing a complete fit at the thought.
But I knew.
This wasn’t just nerves.
Of course not. On the first day we met, she personally used her hands and mouth for my sperm sample.
That isn’t something you do out of mere professional duty.
It’s something you only do for the opposite sex when you’re at least willing to sleep with them once.
Yeah. Let’s not get too worked up.
The outcome is already set.
“Come on, bring it!”
And right then—
──Knock. Knock. Knock.
“……!”
A knock sounded from the door.
She had arrived.
My angel.
“C-come in.”
At my permission the door slowly opened.
And then.
“Hey? You weren’t sleeping?”
“……Huh?”
A nurse with a face I had never seen before poked her head in and entered the room.
It wasn’t Penny.
“Um…”
“Ah, I’m Lansi.”
“…Yes. But where’s Penny?”
“Penny? She already went off duty.”
“……”
Huh?
What about the important thing she had to say?
The promise from earlier…?
What is this? The situation wasn’t adding up.
She made plans to see me at night but then just went home on her own…?
‘Does she have a clumsy-girl attribute too…?’
If not, there was no explanation, so I tried to accept it that way.
Yeah. Adding a clumsy attribute to the perfect, pure, district-strongest beautiful girl homemaker was still within the realm of cute.
I could accept it.
“Anyway, I’m here to run some tests. That okay?”
“Tests…?”
At that moment, the nurse named Lansi who had come in Penny’s place approached my bedside and spoke.
She was going to perform an examination.
At this hour…?
“Is there still something left to test?”
“Yeah. It’s better to run periodic checks frequently. It’ll be quick.”
“I see…”
It was incredibly disappointing that Penny hadn’t come.
But it was fine.
The substitute, Lansi, was also an absolute beauty on the same level as Penny.
Of course, that didn’t mean I instantly switched my heart from Penny to Lansi.
I’m a man with pretty strong principles, you know?
Besides, although both were beautiful, their vibes were completely different.
If Penny was the innocent and cute type, Lansi was the seductive, sensual type.
Her hair was a calm, pitch-black blue-black, and those golden eyes created a strangely alluring atmosphere.
‘Is she mixed too…? Her name doesn’t sound like a normal Korean name either.’
Strictly speaking, my taste leaned more toward Penny’s side.
That said? If Lansi were to develop feelings for me and things progressed?
I’d probably think about it.
“Alright then, shall we take your pants off?”
“……Excuse me?”
But at that moment.
Lansi, who had said she was here for an examination, suddenly made that demand.
“Um… why the pants?”
“Why? So I can examine you, obviously.”
Then.
Pop. Pop….
“It’s my first time too…, but I’ll do my best.”
Lansi slowly began unbuttoning the top of her nurse uniform.
Wait…?
No, I definitely thought earlier about whether Lansi had feelings or not.
I did think about it.
……For real?
“W-wait a second…!”
“Am I not your type? I think I’m pretty. My breasts are big too. You don’t like me?”
“It’s not that I don’t like it…! This kind of thing should only happen after we’re in a relationship where it’s okay to do it…!”
“Is the patient-nurse relationship not enough?”
“On second thought, it seems more than sufficient!”
Lansi leaned in like a cat, showing off her cleavage, and pulled down my pants.
“Don’t worry. It’s just a simple physical exam, right?”
“……”
What the hell is going on…?
In truth, I hadn’t been completely certain about Penny either.
That she had feelings for me, that she would come at night and do the deed.
But now.
Lansi, whom I had just met, was acting out exactly what I had imagined.
‘Could it be…’
Maybe.
……Had the standards of beauty changed quite a bit in fourteen years?
Was my face the equivalent of a 2047 Leonardo…?
“Is this okay?”
“Y-yeah…”
And like that,
I renewed the number one spot on my life’s Most Badass Moments list in less than half a day.
ㅇ ㅇ ㅇ
“Haa… haa…”
“Haa… haa…”
Oh my god.
This can’t be real.
‘My life has been such a damn waste!!’
There was something that felt this good in the world?
I had lived twenty-five years—no, thirty-nine years if you count the frozen time—without knowing it, and only experienced it now?
The internet definitely had posts saying “It’s not that great lol.”
‘It’s on a completely different dimension from doing it alone!!’
It was an unbelievable experience.
I had never even imagined this level of pleasure existed in my life.
Even now, just remembering that moment made my head spin.
“It was incredible… I felt so good…”
“…Really?”
“Yeah. You’re seriously amazing… I had no idea it would be this good.”
And the naked succubus nurse, Lansi, lying beside me.
She snuggled into my chest with a satisfied smile on her flushed face.
‘Is this actually happening…’
Honestly, the fantasy of dating Penny had been half a joke.
Of course it was.
I’m not an idiot. I didn’t actually believe that just because she used her hand and mouth we would suddenly start dating.
It was a joke. A joke.
I was just excited from doing those things with an insanely pretty girl.
My brain had been marinated in adrenaline.
But… what I thought was WWE turned out to be UFC…?
I really did that with an ultra-beautiful nurse…?
“……”
“Hehe. I liked it so much I want to do it again. …Is that okay?”
Lansi traced my chest with a seductive voice.
Her soft, full breasts pressed against my arm.
The situation was flowing so dreamily it didn’t feel real.
What on earth was going on?
Did I perfectly match the 2047 standard of handsome?
Or was the country giving a surprise reward event to the national hero who became a vegetable after saving a child fourteen years ago?
Only those kinds of unrealistic speculations came to mind.
“Um, Lansi.”
“Yeah? What is it?”
When I called her amid my confusion, Lansi answered in a cutesy voice.
So damn adorable.
“I… have something I’m curious about. Lansi, do you… have feelings for me?”
“……”
I needed to confirm this properly.
When we did it earlier, I had confirmed it was her first time too.
Of course it was my first time as well.
A man and woman sharing their first experience together—could it really just end as casual fun?
Sorry, but I’m Kim Siso. I’m not cool enough to be that much of a playboy.
“So… since things have gone this far, I think I should take responsibility like a man…”
“Hmm…”
“Which is why… we should…”
──Would you like to date me?
That was what I was about to say.
The soft glow of the bedside lamp in the dark room had even set the perfect confession mood.
But.
───Creak… creeeeak….
“……Huh?”
“……”
The sound of the hospital room door opening stopped my confession in its tracks.
“S-S-So… …nim.”
“……”
The door opened slowly with a heavy noise.
What came into view was the pitch-black corridor where the lights had been turned off.
And from within that darkness, accompanied by a familiar voice, a single figure emerged.
“S-So… nim.”
It was—
──Penny.
The angel had returned.
Left eye and right leg missing.
Both arms gone.
Her neck half-severed, dangling limply.
But it was unmistakably her.
“R… Run… away.”