A futuristic panel first appeared out of nowhere, right in front of my eyes.
[Would you like to continue installing MindCine Pro?]
Click [y]\[n]
“Argh!”
No hold on, this is too abrupt! Get out of the way! I’m driving.
Instinctively, I pressed [n] to see again.
Ignoring the warm electrical touch, I snapped my attention to my situation.
As if I were on 12 cans of energy drinks, my foot started to press down on the brake instinctively. Thankfully, because of my reflexes and recognition that I wasn’t in any danger, my foot didn’t reach the base.
However…
“Choi Sung-hoon, how are you driving? There’s nothing in front of us, so why did you have to sm on the brakes so hard?”
“Ah… Sorry sir. I thought saw an animal on the road for a second.”
“What could possibly be mistaken in an open parking lot?” my driving instructor immediately urged me to end today's lesson, and dejected. I went back to the main building and met up with my cssmates who are also majoring in computer science.
Since they were going to the PC cafe, I decided to join them to challenge our nemesis from another university. And in the middle of the battle…
[Would you like to continue installing MindCine Pro?]
[y]\[n]
“What the hell! Don’t show up now!”
“Bastard! What are you even saying? Focus on beating these losers or I’ll fucking kill you!"
Harsh curses came from his cssmates as they started dying from an going sughter. I could even tell if I was alive at the moment, and again in a moment of urgency, I declined to install.
But it was too te.
“Choi Sung-hoon you bitch, how do you py? Is a support supposed to stand there when their party member are being eaten alive?”
“Just calm down, man—“
“No! It’s as though he wanted us to lose! I won’t be happy until…”
Against the anger from my cssmate, I could do nothing but apologise, and most likely I won’t be invited next time they py.
Again feeling dejected, I sought to drown my sorrows in more misery.
So alcohol.
On my way home, I decided to get some from a convenience store just around the corner from my pce.
I don’t drink much, honestly, but today has just been so hard on me that I don’t know anything else I could do besides heading home to Netflix and chill by myself while a bit drunk.
—Ping!
I got a message from my phone, and it was my mom asking to bring back home some popcorn. We will all be watching a series my sister starred in.
—Ping!
Then I got a message from my dad to get tissues because my sister told him that she did in this series, and even if it appears as an extra mom, it would be sad if it died.
—Ping!
And was my sister, who said that it isn't coming home, it's watching with her best friend and leaving me to comfort mom.
Great! Why is it even an actor if it can even act?
Look at this. It’s just an NPC. Yet, if it's pretty and can die well, it keeps getting cast in shows.
Maybe my mom isn't crying because you died, but because of how parallel your career is.
Who told you that you can act? Come and comfort your mother from your failure in life.
[Detecting the host's creative mind, MindCine Pro is installing anyway.]
[Install complete]
No. What?
You illegal malware! You installed yourself into my body.
How do I know that you aren't harmful software that could harm me? I want to check first!
It wasn't that I didn't know what exactly this kind of situation was.
Clearly, as the Veteran Keyboard Warrior of the 1000-Chapter Scrolls, a practitioner of DAO of Trash Taste and Proud of It, and being the Heavenly Hermit of the “Just One More Chapter” Sect, he knows what a system is.
But this is reality, and anyone who has studied computer science knows that there's always been a high chance of a virus being hidden, too good to be true software.
Who knows where this system came from. It might be spyware, his sister's admirers developed to gain access to my eyes to get pictures.
Even if she's just beginning her career, she still has fans.
And now, since it's installed in him, he has been compromised.
—Me: Dont come home. You're in mortal danger.
—Did you tell dad? I'll kill fucking kill you when I get home.
—Me: Dont joke like that. This could appear on the news tomorrow, ending your career.
—Are you insane? How could you threaten me?-
I didn't even finish that message.
Oh, Choi Hae Won, how could you know that the enemy and I have become one? I'm sacrificing myself for your future and not even asking for recognition.
Filled with a sense of sort of martyrdom, I went to the convenience store before I headed home and resolved to do it blind.
“Oh my. It looks like the world beat up my baby. Are you okay?”
“Mom, I have tasted loneliness for the first time. I've taken the light for granted, and now it's all I wish for as I gaze at the darkness.”
It seems that when you're ready to sacrifice yourself, the air around you is different.
When I arrived home, I tried to rush to my room. But mom must have sensed my suffering from my new self-isotion.
Most likely from in front of the TV, waiting for my sister to show up, Choi Hee spoke to her husband.
“Honey, what's wrong with him? Why won't he just open his eyes?”
“Do you think he got dumped?”
“Who would even date him?”
“You're right.”
I knew it. I'm truly alone in this battle.
I can't even count on you, these two parents of mine, to encourage me through this ordeal. I'm on my own here.
—Sm!
So I stuck to my room, trying to uninstall the software in my head, yet it has been proving to be difficult as it doesn't have a menu option, and “uninstall” didn't work.
I wanted to ask online like a true netizen, but nothing like this has been introduced to the public. The st thing I wanted was a company acquiring me for company theft, so I stayed shut.
But seriously, if someone developed this, they should quit the industry.
Sure, it's advanced technology and all, but if it's just a bnk screen hovering in front of all the time, what is the point of even installing it in the first pce?
“My baby!”
Cries from my mother rang from the other side of the door, probably from my sister's death scene.
From the sound of it, she's full-on weeping. This isn't the first time this has happened.
When my sister appears on TV, my mom automatically becomes sympathetic towards the character. Even when my sister was prostitute No.4, part of a drug gang, she was yelling at my sister as if she made those choices in life
So death for her makes her sentimental.
And because my mother loves to contempte all the possibilities of how we die when we are not home, my sister being outside might not sit well with her.
“Honey, don't worry. She's not really dead.”
“I know, but— No, seeing her like this will give me nightmares. Where is Hae Won? You don't think she got attacked in the middle of the night? Or worse? No, try calling her.”
You know, I would have liked to have seen the death scene.
I don't even know what character she is pying, but I'm pretty sure if I saw her die gruesomely, I would finally get a good moment out of a bad day like today.
It's her fault for leaving me in a house with an anxious mother and unidentified software in my head.
Suddenly, a new change happened to the interface floating in front of me, as a sudden voice rang in my head.
[You want to see the released scene #23 of episode 7 - Autumn Bde. Loading…]
[Complete.]
An image with my sister on the floor, along with a trademark py button, appeared.
What this? A video pyer?
