Chapter 1: Return

A peaceful night.

A woman on the terrace of a beautiful mansion sighed, looking at the moon illuminating the night sky.

“Hah, I want to go back to Earth….”

Countless hours have passed since I crossed over to this world.

‘I even defeated the Demon Lord, so can’t I just go?’

I did everything possible to return to Earth, even defeating the Demon Lord, but after 5 years, there was no sign of returning to Earth.

Only sighs came out.

“Why did I have to be struck by lightning back then….”

I died in my previous life after being struck by lightning.

Then, what was the probability of being struck by lightning?

1/28,000.

I managed to do that.

Thus, I was transferred to this world in the body of a young girl.

At first, I was surprised.

Not only was I transferred to another world, but I was also reincarnated in the body of a girl.

However, as time passed, I gradually got used to it, and after calming down, I looked around.

The girl was a normal gypsy.

A normal orphaned gypsy who made a living by fortune-telling.

What could a young girl without parents do in an unfamiliar world?

Unable to do otherwise, I continued living as a gypsy and making a living through fortune-telling, just like the girl.

But now I’m at my limit. I’m too bored.

‘Games, fried chicken, Kimchi jjigae….’

I missed all of that.

The only thing that satisfied me in this world was cigarettes.

But now even that is at its limit.

I lacked stimulation.

I wanted to eat Korean food.

I missed my family.

I was homesick.

But this was just meaningless complaining; by now, there was nothing I could do.

“Shall I take a walk for a bit….”

I grabbed the terrace railing, jumped straight into the forest.

I can’t fall asleep feeling this depressed.

I should at least change my mood.

After wandering around in the forest for a few minutes, I noticed something strange.

‘Why are there so few animals?’

Animals were not visible at all.

Not even common ants were visible.

Chirp chirp.

“…….”

Looking up at the sky, I saw birds migrating somewhere.

Feeling that something was strange, I followed the birds deeper into the forest.

Upon entering the deep forest, I found animals gathered together, surrounding something.

It seemed that all the animals living in this forest had gathered.

But there was something even more noticeable than that.

‘Is this a door…?’

‘Why is there a door in a place like this?’

A beautiful pure white door.

Furthermore, with the animals gathered like this, it was utterly suspicious.

I felt the myriad gazes of the animals.

It was as if they were urging me to open the door quickly?

‘Could it be that I can return to Earth where I used to live with this?’

If so, questions were bound to arise.

‘Why has it appeared only now?’

A door that didn’t appear even after defeating the Demon Lord, why now….

‘Right, that’s not important now…’

I grabbed the doorknob.

The important thing is that this door is the last hope to go to Earth.

I’m conflicted.

What if this door doesn’t lead to Earth, but to another world….

‘Does it matter…?’

Anyway, I have no precious ties in this world, so I have no lingering regrets.

Just an empty shell of a world, I can cut it off anytime I want to.

‘But….’

What if it’s a dangerous world?

Furthermore, what if I could die?

I am afraid of dying.

I don’t want to die without seeing my family.

Something needs to be done.

I raised my head and admired the freely floating clouds.

‘Today’s ‘Lucky Color’ is white….’

After picking a daisy blooming by the roadside, I turned the doorknob and opened the door.

“……?”

When I opened the door, what unfolded before my eyes was a small alleyway.

Fliers stuck on the wall, food waste, and even a cat eating that food waste.

A common alleyway found everywhere.

“Is this really Earth, huh?”

The doorknob I was holding was disappearing.

Looking back, the door leading to the other world itself had vanished, and only a fitness flier stuck to the wall remained.

‘Well, it should be fine?’

I arrived safely on Earth as intended, and since I won’t be returning to that world again, it’s a good thing.

“Ugh, the smell!”

The moment I smelled the food waste mixed in the air, I felt like throwing up, so I quickly covered my nose.

Looking around, I saw countless people walking the streets, even though it was night.

‘Hmm, is this Seoul?’

Looking at the buildings, they didn’t seem significantly different from before.

‘At least it must be 202X?’

I was in that world for so long I don’t know how much time has passed.

‘First, I need to find my home.’

I can’t sleep outside, so I need to find my home first.

If I arrived in the era I left, the location of my family home should be the same.

‘Because those two have personalities that dislike moving.’

I don’t remember where the location was, but it’s not a problem at all.

I picked up a stone from the roadside, cupped my hands together, and shook them wildly.

How much I shake doesn’t matter.

When I felt it was roughly about this much, I spread my hands and checked the position and number of stones.

Three stones were skewed towards the southeast.

“Southeast, huh….”

Then there’s only one action to take.

Heading towards the southeast, that’s the only thing.

I checked the direction the moon was setting.

From here, southeast is to the right.

‘Let’s go, wait a moment…?’

The moment I was about to go out onto the street, my attire bothered me.

‘First of all, going out in this kind of outfit would be too noticeable, right?’

The clothes I was wearing were common pajamas, but walking around the streets in pajamas at night like this was too noticeable.

I finally came back to Earth, so I couldn’t do anything that would attract attention.

Looking around for clothes I could wear, I saw a green clothes donation bin.

‘It’s a relief there’s a clothes donation bin.’

As expected, it was a good idea to keep track of the lucky color.

I put my arm into the clothes donation bin, pulled out any clothes, and changed.

‘No one’s watching, right?’

Fortunately, the alley itself was narrow, and since it was night, I wasn’t caught.

As soon as I quickly changed clothes, left the alley, and stepped onto the street, I suddenly felt something strange.

‘There are a lot of ‘Major Misfortunes’ today?’

I felt the aura of major misfortune from everyone on this street.

It’s not usually like this….

Then there’s only one possibility.

A natural disaster.

If it’s a natural disaster capable of killing everyone on this street….

“I’m f*cked?”

For a natural disaster to happen specifically in the area I arrived in, there was no greater misfortune than this.

Furthermore, the aura of major misfortune grew stronger the further southeast I went.

‘…Should I go anyway?’

But I must not doubt.

Surely, if I just head southeast, good fortune will find me.

I kept walking southeast.

I didn’t look back.

“Kyaaaak!!! It’s a monster!”

“…….”

It doesn’t matter.

Everyone except me turned back and chose the opposite direction from where I was going.

As I kept going straight, a man grabbed my shoulder.

“It’s dangerous to go there! Monster─”

“Get out of the way.”

“……!”

At that remark, a chill ran down the man’s spine, and he instinctively let go of my shoulder.

‘What in the world is this…?’

The moment she spoke, an inexplicable fear briefly overwhelmed him.

“……!”

The man heard the roar of the monstrous creature and immediately ran away, and I brushed off the shoulder he had grabbed with an unpleasant expression.

“Tsk, seriously, why grab me?”

As I kept going straight, an unidentified monstrous bird landed in front of me.

‘I’ve never seen anything like this even in the other world….’

To have a monstrous bird like this in the middle of the city, is this really the Earth I know?

“Kyaaaak!!!”

“Ugh, the wind…!”

The monstrous bird flapped its wings, and I closed one eye against the sudden strong wind.

Is there nothing I can do….

The moment I was about to take out a talisman from my pocket─

Bang!

An unidentified woman fell from the sky, and a long spear pierced the monstrous bird’s head.

The woman glared at me with fierce eyes.

“Are you crazy! Knowing that a monster was coming─.”

“…Puhahaha!!!”

“……?”

I couldn’t help but laugh.

As expected, my fortune-telling is never wrong.

I never dreamed I would meet my younger sister here.

***

After the situation was resolved, I had a short conversation with my younger sister.

“So you’re my older brother?”

“Yeah.”

“You f*cking crazy bi*ch, who are you?”

My sister cursed at me with an absurd expression.

I understand.

Because a strange woman is claiming to be her older brother.

I’m a little angry, but in times like this, I should show great magnanimity as an older brother.

“Bring up anything from the past, I’ll answer anything.”

“…….”

It was faster to just show things with action like this.

My younger sister asked with suspicious eyes.

“Which elementary school did I go to?”

“Hwayeon Elementary School.”

“My family’s names?”

“Mother’s name Kim Sooim, father Lee Cheolsoo, yourself Lee Haim, older brother Lee Seongwoo, 38th generation descendant.”

“Hmm….”

After that, the questions continued, but Haim still looked at me as if she couldn’t believe it.

This won’t do.

I wasn’t going to bring this up, but….

“At 14, you confessed to a church older brother and were rejected.”

“……!”

“At 15, you snuck out to an idol concert at dawn without Mom and Dad knowing and got kicked out.”

“H-How did you know that…!”

“Your chest size is 70A─”

Gasp!

My sister covered my mouth with a red face.

Is that really so embarrassing?

“It grew to B now!”

‘Oh! You grew in the meantime?’

That’s a relief.

If it had stayed A even in your 20s, I was going to tell you to give up on marriage.

Haim lowered the hand that was covering my mouth and opened her mouth hesitantly.

“A-Are you really my older brother?”

“Then, is there a fake one?”

I looked at my younger sister with a pathetic expression.

Why ask such an obvious question….

“But your appearance is too different?”

“Is that so?”

Honestly, is anything different besides gender?

Well, I don’t even remember my old face now, though.

“So you don’t like it?”

“…….”

Haim stared intently at my chest.

What is it?

Is something on my chest?

“Why is your chest bigger than mine?!”

The reunion with my younger sister whom I hadn’t seen in a long time was the worst.