The Impact of the Author's Intervention on a Blank Page - Chapter 3
<Shattered Dreams>
[“She doesn’t even know that the armed group’s weapon originated from her research. Although it’s a world where the concept of viruses barely exists, somehow it turned out this way.”]
The Operator finished their explanation regardless of whether Ja-yun was listening blankly or not.
[“It will probably collapse soon. It won’t last more than 5 years at most.”]
That made sense. Even in a world with magical engineering or magic, humanity winning against biological warfare was unlikely. Ja-yun recalled the virus crisis from his previous life. How could they handle something that was impossible even in the 21st century? Especially when they don’t even know viruses exist…
[“Therefore, I request help from the capable divine seat, the ‘Blank Star’ Administrator!”]
‘Capable…. capable divine seat….’
For a moment he almost fell for the flattery, but he barely managed to keep his mind straight.
‘S**t, how could this work? No, it’s completely ruined.’
Totally ruined. This was crazy – not even an administrator’s grandfather could save this, let alone an administrator. Even Shakespeare couldn’t fix this.
[“Don’t worry. I’m not asking you to fix it in this state. Since it would be a waste to leave it as is after creating it, I did my best to try to save it somehow.”]
“So, what do you want me to do?”
Ja-yun responded coldly, as if daring them to explain. But his body moved on its own. Moving closer to the Operator, Ja-yun lowered himself and carefully reached out his hand.
[“I plan to send you to that world’s starting point.”]
The hand reaching for his young brother passed through empty air. It seems it was just focused on visual functions, like a hallucination. That was disappointing.
[“…What are you doing?”]
“…Don’t mind it.”
[“It looked like you were trying to hug me just now.”]
“So what.”
[“…Nothing.”]
In the end, that’s what the Operator was asking for. They would turn back time in this broken world, so please restore it. Make it into a normal world. They also said they would provide desired compensation.
Ja-yun agreed to receive ‘modification points’ that could change the ‘world setting’ of the world he managed as payment.
[“Don’t worry. Although it sounds like that, the measured difficulty level is ‘low’.”]
When Ja-yun remained silent with a dubious expression, the Operator, perhaps feeling nervous, began eagerly appealing to the good points.
“There won’t be any inconvenience in your travel. Due to the time difference between worlds during the trip, one year in that world equals only one day in this world.”
“With your knowledge and abilities, Administrator, you’ll surely be able to resolve everything within a year…!”
The operator kept talking enthusiastically. But again, I definitely hadn’t fallen for such sweet talk.
“Even if things go wrong there and several years are wasted, only a few days will pass here, so you can rest assured.”
My brother used to speak well like that since he was young. Watching that figure brought up nostalgic feelings. Unlike me, my younger brother didn’t particularly like violent movies or games. Still, he would do those things together with me. I remember him playing with me while putting off his middle school prep studies. Brother said he didn’t particularly like studying. He said he was just working hard…
There was a piano in one corner of the first-floor living room, and when his parents weren’t around, we would play there together. He would hold my fingers and press them down, saying he was teaching me piano. I hadn’t touched a piano since then. Looking at those fingers now, they seemed adorably small. Back then, I thought his hands were big since they were bigger than mine…
“Um… Are you listening?”
Ja-yun, who had been distracted by the cuteness of his small brother’s chattering, barely managed to gather his thoughts.
“Yes. I understand, so just make sure the compensation is proper.”
Ja-yun accepted the contract with a brief response. In fact, he was internally quite confident.
In the Earth where Kwon Ja-yun lived, he was known to most people as the hero who saved the world from the global rupture crisis. If you asked who was physically the strongest person in the world, almost everyone would name Ja-yun or mention his nickname without dispute.
But that wasn’t all. Regular mortals who live confined to a single star don’t know, but in the universe, there are many stars called ‘planes’. Among these stars, some worlds maintain complete stability, while many others don’t for various reasons.
One of those unstable ones was this failed world that the operator had pushed onto him.
But that was fine. He wasn’t a rookie doing this for the first time.
Of course, the combination of a magic virus, lab slaves, and a veteran tired of military life was somewhat horrifying, but if he turned back time, it would all be undone.
