Arena Chapter 2: Kim Hyunho (2)
TL note: Please excuse all the swearing . That was part of the text .
When I came to my senses I was in a blank empty world .
What nonsense was I talking about?
Its just as I say . A empty blank world .
Even grass, trees, and color did not exist . Both the ground and sky was completely white . A seemingly never ending horizon was filled with nothing but empty void space .
It was a frightening scenery .
I felt pressure from being in this space . It felt like this room will also make my mind void and empty .
“What is this **** place?”
How can it be possible for nothing to exist here? Its almost as if all the color was watered out!
Flustered, I started looking around .
I never knew how frightening it is to have nothing to look at .
‘Its a dream . ‘
That’s what I concluded .
This was a situation that couldn’t be explained if its not a dream .
‘Its been a while since I had a lucid dream . But why does my dream also have to be **** up . ‘
It wasn’t a good dream so I decided to wake up fast as possible .
There are methods for waking up from dreams .
I put my hands on the white ground and did a hand stand .
“Fuck!”
Koong!
“aaahhhh!”
I headbutted with the barren ground . I grabbed my forehead and rolled around from the pain . It hurt so much that my head felt like it will break into two pieces .
“Why is this ground so hard . “
The white ground was hard as marble . At the very least it was harder than my head . I was sure of that .
It was then . . .
“Nice to meet you candidate Kim Hyunho .
“What?!”
An abrupt and energetic voice of a young child started to spread out in the white space .
I was startled .
When looking around I couldn’t find the owner of the voice .
‘Could it be a ghost?’
I felt a chill because of thinking of the possibly be having nightmare due to a ghost . I abruptly shouted because of the frightening feeling that was creeping upon me .
“Whose there? Come out!”
“I’m right here . “
The voice could be hear from the top . I lifted my head and looked at the sky .
My mind became blank .
“An angel?”
There was no other way of putting it .
It was a baby angel that seemed to have come out of a Michael Angelo’s painting .
It bothered me that his thing was hanging around as he wasn’t wearing any clothing .
“Are you a real angel?”
“Yes . “
The baby angel came down fluttering wings like a bird .
I couldn’t believe it . An angel comes out in a dream?
Just in case I asked
“Tell me the winning lottery number . “
“I don’t want to . “
The naked angel cut me off right away .
Even though he was young and a angel he was quite conceited .
I stopped myself from hitting him in the **** for punishment .
“Okay, Okay, I understand so let me wake up from this dream . “
“This isn’t a dream . “
“What . “
“You just confirmed it after kissing with the ground . “
I flinched at those words .
“You . . . saw?”
“Yes . “
The baby angel covered his mouth and laughed .
“You felt that it was wasn’t a dream from your two split heads . “
I felt flustered . This is so embarrassing . He saw such a shameful act!
“Candidate Kim Hyunho when you abused your own head if you were dreaming you should have felt a pain that undoubtedly would have woke you up .
I really wanted to hit this smirking worm .
The baby angel spoke .
“If not do you want to take the test again?”
“How . “
“You said earlier about a lottery right?”
“You’re going tell me?”
“No . “
He once again tests my patience .
“Instead I will let you experience the next best thing . “
“What is it? Pension lottery?”
“Really, you say things that reveal your financial circumstances so eloquently . “
Boiling, boiling anger .
” . . . . . Then what is it?”
“Would you like to be hit by lightning? . “
Blank . . . . . . .
I felt a sense of absurdity .
What did this worm just tell me? When he didn’t even give me the lottery number, but on top of that he asks me if I want to hit by lightning?
“Its not enough to die from it, but it will hurt a bit . Okay then here I go ~ !”
“Wait?! I’m not . . . . . !”
Static noise!
“Aaahhhh!”
From the white sky a lightning fell down . I felt that my entire body was being fried and due to shock and yelled for help . Is this the feeling of the chicken being fried by mom!
“Okay, how do you feel?”
How do I feel?!
“I thought you said it wasn’t strong enough to die from?!”
I yelled in anger from the pain I never felt in my life before . This was 100 times more painful than the anesthesia injection I got for the circumcision surgery!
If you get hit my a real lighting you will die before you feel the pain . It’s because its not enough to kill you that’s why it hurts .
Spouting some bullshit, the baby angel fluttered his wings and came closer to me .
Leaning his hateful ugly face closer he spoke .
“If this was a dream could it hurt this much?”
” . . . . . . . . . !”
A sentence that pierces deeply in my heart .
From the uneasy feeling, my heart shook . If this is not a dream then where exactly is this place?
“Candidate Kim Hyunho . “
Wait . . . . .
From before that **** was calling me a candidate right? What does it mean to be a candidate?
“Candidate Kim Hyunho was chosen to be a candidate thanks to the commandments . “
“Commandments?”
Humans call it many things but basically it is the rules of the universe .
What nonsense is he spouting?
Seeing as I was not understanding, feeling frustrated he spoke again .
It’s basically **** . Its called commandments to help with understanding .
“In one word it basically means god, absolute being, right?”
“Yes . “
“Anyway, that commandment? That person, no that existence what does he want with me? Candidate . Is he going to give me some test or something?”
“Yes . “
“What kind of test?”
“The test is an extremely hard fight . Its a mission that you could die doing . “
“It’s so dangerous that you could die?”
“Yes . “
“No, I’m not doing it . “
I said firmly .
Are these people crazy? God? Angle? Is that everything?
Do they think I’m going to do arduous and hard work when I was perfectly living fine?
The baby angel spoke with a troubled expression .
“You must do it . . . . . . . “
“Why are you making me do this? Do it himself . Since he is this absolute being it should be easy . “
“I can’t tell you reason for the test . Anyway candidate Kim Hyunho you must do it . “
“Anyway, I don’t want to . “
What’s he going to do when the person who needs to do it doesn’t want too? With this kind of thinking he showed his shallow guts .
“Do you really not want to do it?”
“Yes, you worm **** . “
“Really?”
“Really . “
“You don’t want to do more than being hit by the lightning again?”
From the word lightning I flinched . Are you threatening me? A feeling of not wanting to back down surged within me .
“Yes, you **** . Even if my precious thing become small as yours I don’t want to do it!”
“Whoa, that means you don’t want to do it even if you die . “
“Finally you understand my true feelings . “
I looked at the baby angel as if I was proud of him for understanding . The baby angel faced turned into a face filled with worry .
“We are not forcing you, just giving you the opportunity . . . . The choice is up to you candidate Kim Hyunho .
“Yes, Thank you for giving me chance to die after fighting hard . No thank you . “
“Okay, I guess there no other way but to send you to the after life . . . . . “
“After life?”
I was shocked .
“You, what is going on! Are you threatening me? I thought you weren’t pressuring me!”
“Of course we are not threatening or pressuring you . Since you said you did not want to take the test we are going to send you to the after life as planned .
“Don’t send me to the after life! Send me back to the living world!
The baby angel looked at me with an expression of absurdity .
“Candidate Kim Hyunho . . . . . . I was questioning whether it was true or not, but you still don’t know?”
“What?”
“You died . We only bring people who died to this place . “
” . . . . . huh?”
“Do you think we will just bring someone who is perfectly normal person and threaten them? Just as you see me I am an angel not a devil .
A feeling of absurdity rushed through me .
The feeling of suspicion of this being a dog **** dream rushed over me again .
“Candidate Kim Hyunho’s cause of death is heart diseases . It happened during sleep so you died just like that .
He speaks so nicely like an angel .
“Do you expect me to believe that?”
“You were already deep asleep and did not realize it . “
“Except for being hit by lightning, there was no incident in my life that I could have died from . How can I just die like that in my sleep without even experiencing any symptoms? Does that make sense?
And at my age how can I have a heart disease?”
“Before going to sleep you should have felt stuffy pressure in you heart . . . . . “
” . . . . . . . . . . ?!”
I was startled .
I remembered .
For sure, I felt a stuffy in my chest before going to bed .
“It’s genetic . Candidate Kim Hyunho’s father also passed away due to heart disease right?