The Impact of the Author's Intervention on a Blank Page - Chapter 6
Hard? Not difficulty ‘Low’ but difficulty Hard? Wait a minute….
Only then did he remember what he had been doing and why he had opened his eyes in such a place.
Right, that’s what happened…. He had made a contract with that being. He was supposed to receive a body by being inserted as a new character that originally didn’t exist in this world.
While being supported as he staggered, Ja-yun noticed a mirror in the corner of the room. In the large mirror on the opposite side, he saw himself reflected – a pale-faced man in blood-stained white pajamas who looked exactly like his original self but was alarmingly thin.
Ja-yun recalled the operator’s excited chattering.
[You can’t choose your role, but don’t worry – I’ve adjusted it to automatically assign you a suitable role. The temporary body will be constructed based on your original form.]
This? This was a body that suited him? He was coughing up blood and in terrible shape? Nothing but skin and bones? He’d believe it if someone told him he had ten days to live!
<Sickly Younger Brother>
Usually in situations like this, the best strategy was to assess the situation and stay quiet. Whether it was a trip, possession, or dimensional travel, making a fuss and loudly asking what was going on was absolutely taboo.
Despite knowing this better than anyone, Ja-yun couldn’t help but grind his teeth and shout into the air, overcome by sudden indignation.
He really had no choice.
“This suits me…? This? Hey!”
He had a vision of his dream of being the world’s strongest sword master who coolly protected his brother shattering into pieces.
* * *
Before coming to this world, ‘Dawn is Night’s Prayer,’ Ja-yun had spent a long time pondering the operator’s initial proposal. Not because of any issue with the proposal itself, but for another reason.
“Wait. What about my brother…. What should I do?”
If he told his emotionally fragile brother that he was going alone to another world for a quick quest, his brother might faint. His brother was extremely sensitive about his well being and whereabouts-
Though his brother didn’t show it much these days since Ja-yun was strong and rarely did dangerous things anymore. The reason his brother was so hypersensitive was probably… because he had experienced worlds where Ja-yun had died or nearly died. Such incidents must have become trauma for his brother.
When the operator heard Ja-yun’s muttering, they stuck close to him and asked, with an unpleasantly cute appearance as usual:
[Your brother?]
“Yeah….”
Ja-yun answered sullenly.
[Ah, you mean your Apostle. You said ‘brother’ so I momentarily mistook him for your blood brother. As far as I know, you don’t have one of those.]
Was it just his imagination that those words sounded mocking?
[Ah! What was it called, I know. In this Earth’s terms….]
Ja-yun felt uneasy seeing the operator contemplating something while cutely resting their chin on their hand.
[Gay? Homo? Is that right?]
“…Shut up.”
It wasn’t just suspicion or imagination. The being was deliberately being irritating while wearing his cute brother’s form. What made it even more infuriating was that he still found the young version of his brother cute, even while saying such things in a child’s voice.
As the saying goes, “brother” and he were lovers. Becoming family again meant that they had, well, m-married….
[I was actually going to mention that. I think it would be better if you went there and cooperated with your Apostle. He is serving as a sub-administrator after all, so he should be helpful.]
The “Apostle” the operator mentioned referred to his brother. He and his brother had saved a world together before, and he had become a god-seat holder both as the creator of this world and as a reward for completing the story.
It was an inseparable relationship, you see.
[Since you’re closely connected to the Apostle of god-seat ‘Divinity Falling to Heaven’ and have a record of protecting and completing ‘The Blank Star’ together, I recommend going together.]
At the time, it seemed like an excellent proposal. If he had to go anyway, going with his brother seemed best. And if he went alone, he would surely be lonely too.
But to end up in such a pathetic state.
‘Did I really get scammed? Or did some unforeseen problem arise? Seeing how the difficulty changed, something definitely went wrong.’
Ja-yun analyzed the situation while being supported by servants, breaking out in a cold sweat as he internally cursed. The pain made it even harder to think clearly.
No matter how he looked at it, this seemed fucked. Ja-yun thought of his brother.
His kind, affectionate, deep-hearted, capable but fragile brother. His brother who would struggle to adapt quickly in such a fantastic setting. He had boasted that they should go to another world together, telling his brother to just trust him and he would handle everything.
‘I’m supposed to protect my brother.’
How could he do that in this state? And what? Time limits and penalties based on difficulty? The wonderful future he had planned seemed distant now.
No matter how he thought about it, he needed to catch and punish the operator. He had clearly been scammed.
That bastard….
As that thought crossed his mind, his head spun and his vision flipped – perhaps from high blood pressure.
