The Best of Tomorrow [ 내일의 으뜸]

Chapter 19

Seon-jae, who was looking at Im Sol's message, placed his cell phone on the desk. She sank back into the chair and tilted her head to look at the ceiling. He swung his chair around, adjusted his posture, sat down, and looked at the book on the desk.

 500 people who had the misfortune to die. He tapped the hardcover with his fingers, then opened the folded page. I skimmed the entire book, but only page 168 was underlined with a highlighter.

"Death from shock."

I rummaged through the bag I put down on the floor, took out a letter, and opened it. It was a letter that started with the sentence, 'This letter came from the future, and you must unconditionally believe and act on the contents of the letter.' 

Imsol told her what to watch out for as if she was suffering from insomnia, but no matter how much she thought about it, she had never suffered from insomnia, and since she had never experienced it, she went somewhere and couldn't sleep. There was no enemy. But I couldn't figure out why Imsol suddenly came to me and gave me these warnings.

Seonjae's fingers rested on one hand and traced the sentences of the letter with the other, stopping at one sentence. 'If you have a cat-like friend over 180cm tall, stay away from him.' His fingers moved over the cat.

"No matter how much I think about it, I think it's about Baek In-hyuk."

My cell phone rang. Seonjae put down the letter and picked up his phone to check the new message.

[Is the book fun haha]

It was Baek In-hyuk. He lay sprawled out on the bed and typed a message with his hands held high.

[I don't know because I didn't read it.]

[I don't know. They told me to give it to them if I didn't need it, so they didn't even give it to me.]

[Go to sleep quickly.]

[I will sleep. But isn't he really weird? It's still funny that he was lying face down hahahaha]

Seonjae, who was thinking, "What's so funny about that," burst out laughing helplessly. Her mouth opened slightly and she smiled, but then I wondered why she was smiling and adjusted her expression.

[It's not absurd, it's absurd. I sleep.]

[Go to sleep early. Jump on Seonjae's back and dream.]

Seon-jae, who was thinking, "I'm Ryu Seon-jae and I'm jumping on my back," plugged his cell phone into the charger and lay down on the bed again. He quietly looked at the ceiling.

"Imsol."

I spit out two letters and thought. One day, Seon-jae suddenly showed up with a crying face and pretended to know him, and Kim Chun-baek said he was sorry and said he would never show up again with a tear-covered face. And from then on, Im Sol behaved as if he was a complete stranger.

On the day when Ryu Geun-deok Gamjatang asked about the letter he had put in the drawer, Seon-jae, who looked at Im Sol in bewilderment as he suddenly ran out, thought he should end the story and went out after her. When I caught sight of Im Sol walking away, he had a very sad face, and when her eyes met, he suddenly burst into tears. Although Seon-jae was always vulnerable to other people's crying, Im Sol's crying face somehow made her feel like she had done something very wrong.

Seon-jae, who had been standing like a stone for a while even after Im-sol disappeared, ran in the direction where Im-sol disappeared. I was worried about the crying face. After running for a while, I found Imsol sitting on a bench. I turned and tried to walk towards Imsol, but I couldn't get closer when I saw him burying his face in his knees and crying. Instead, she took her cell phone out of her pocket and typed a message to send to Lim Sol.