chapter 1
Chapter 1 What is this?
Papa pat!
As the space shuddered, something fell to the floor.
The space that had been worn out quickly healed and disappeared in an instant.
It happened in a very short moment of only 2 to 3 seconds, so if I hadn’t been watching it, I wouldn’t have known it had happened.
A man who was sitting on a simple chair outside the convenience store, drinking a can of beer without a snack, jumped up from his chair.
I approached the entrance about 3 meters from the entrance of the blocked residential alley and saw it fell to the floor.
“watch?”
The whole thing looks like a silver wristwatch, but something is a little different.
I picked it up out of curiosity and took a look.
Normally, a watch should have something to indicate the time, but there was none.
It was supposed to look like the dial of an electronic watch, but it looked like it was completely turned off because there was no battery.
Also, there was a crack in the glass glass.
The bottom cover, the back of the wristwatch, was plain, with nothing engraved on it.
From the outside, it’s obviously a stainless steel wristwatch, but the more I look at it, the more I notice something different.
Anyway, one side of the stainless steel watch strap was off and it was dirty with dirt.
It looked like a wristwatch that was broken and thrown away.
However, he happened to be staring blankly at the entrance to the alley while sitting on a stool and drinking a can of beer.
I had clearly seen something fall to the floor as the space dissipated.
It was never an illusion.
It wasn’t that I was drinking beer and getting very drunk.
So, out of curiosity, I picked up what looked like a wristwatch that had fallen on the floor.
Looking around, seeing no one there, he quickly put it in his jumper pocket.
“Hmm, there must be something.”
Returning to the couch, he picked up a can of beer from the table and drank the rest.
After throwing the canned beer in the recycling bin, he trudged to his residence, the Sky Studio.
I don’t know if it was because it was just after 10pm or because it was a residential area, but there were no people on the street.
It was only 5 minutes away, so I arrived quickly.
I opened the door to Room 301 on the 3rd floor of Sky Studio and went inside.
It was equipped with full options, and it was 8 pyeong, so it was not bad to live alone.
“Um, I’m tired. Shall we just sleep? No, but it would be better to wash and sleep.”
I took off the clothes I was wearing and even took off my underwear.
He was 175 cm tall and weighed 65 kg.
The face is so normal that you can see it on the street.
He didn’t look like a man, and he wasn’t handsome, but he looked very ordinary.
He took out the watch he had put in his jumper pocket as if he had a sudden thought and went into the bathroom.
First, I washed my hair and brushed my teeth.
Then, lathered with soap on a bath towel, rubbed all over the body and rinsed thoroughly with water.
Finally, I picked up one of the watch straps that had fallen off and had dirt on it.
It was so dirty that I thought about washing it off with water.
My hands were slightly moist.
Paperweight!
Suddenly, a strong electricity was generated from the wristwatch.
“Keuh, what is this?”
It was no different than a thunderbolt.
It happened so quickly that I bumped my back lightly on the bathroom wall and crumpled to the bathroom floor as if I was sitting down.
The wristwatch stuck to his stunned hand like a magnet.
Tsutsutsutsu!
A wristwatch stuck to his fainting hand and began to attract and absorb bio-energy.
Not knowing that, he was in a state of fainting.
As time passed, the appearance of wristwatches began to change little by little.
One side of the wristwatch strap fell off, but it was reconnected as if it were being restored.
The dirt and grime were pushed away and fell like hailstones on the bathroom floor.
Even the cracks in the glass glass were restored to their original state and became fine.
After a while, the entire wristwatch was shiny and like new.
However, the wristwatch is a bit different from its original state.
It resembles the design of a Rolex stainless steel watch.
There was no clock face at all, and the whole thing was black, but now it has changed and turned into an electronic clock number dial and is working.
If anyone had seen this, it had changed so much that they would not have believed it.
Here, there were four operation buttons, two on each side, including the crown.
The wristwatch attached to his fainting hand fell off and floated into the air.
It moved naturally and filled my left wrist.
“Ugh, it’s the head.”
The fainted man finally woke up.
As he came to his senses, he realized that he had fainted for a moment.
“Uh, what about this?”
He was surprised to see the watch on his left wrist.
It was a wristwatch that someone had broken and had to throw away, but the one on her left wrist now looked brand new.
I had taken a shower, but my body and hair, which should have been wet, were all dry now.
Judging by that, it seemed that he had been unconscious for several hours.
It was his own studio living alone, so there was no reason for someone to break in, and it didn’t seem like that.
Shaking her head to the side, she came to her senses, then picked up the towel she had hung up and wiped it clean.
After that, I left the bathroom, opened the closet, took out my underwear, put it on, and changed into comfortable clothes.
Used towels, worn underwear and clothes were collected and put in the washing machine.
I drew a glass of cool water from the hot and cold water purifier, drank it, looked around the studio, opened the door again, and looked outside.
I closed the door again and inspected the floor, but there was no sign that someone had broken in.
Only then did I feel relieved and went inside and sat down on the edge of the bed.
I took off the watch on my left wrist and examined it carefully.
“Mmm, something must have happened while I was passed out.”
I accidentally saw a dirty wristwatch that fell on the floor as the space was getting dirty, and put it in my jumper pocket.
Then, after returning to the studio and taking a shower in the bathroom, I tried to wash the dirt-soaked wristwatch, but I was electrocuted and passed out like a person who was electrocuted.
When he woke up again, it was a bathroom and there was no sign that someone had broken into his studio.
It was only an 8-pyeong studio, so even if a thief came in, there was nothing to steal.
When he picked up his smartphone and looked at it, the time matched as if it had been set.
It was Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 5:23 in the morning.
“Um, from what I remember, it was definitely a little after 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13th. Even if I took a shower, it wasn’t midnight.”
If so, it meant that he had passed out for more than 5 hours.
Back!
Out of curiosity, I pressed the button on my wristwatch and the numbers started blinking.
It was like setting the time anew.
The original time decreased in size, then moved to the upper part, and in the middle part, quite large numbers flickered so that it could be adjusted.
Normally, time should indicate hours, minutes, and seconds, but this was a little different.
Even the chronology, that is, the year, was listed, and adjustments could be made.
“Couldn’t it be something that can set and move the time like a time machine?”
Even though I thought it didn’t make sense to myself, I felt strange.
I really had a feeling it would happen.
While setting it to 11 am on Saturday, May 9, 2015, I suddenly thought about what if time travels to the past in my head and runs into me.
I thought it was an imagination that went too far ahead, but I felt like it would keep going like that.
“Um, it makes me feel strangely uncomfortable.”
I took my smartphone and wallet and put them in the pocket of my training pants.
It seemed like it would be difficult to time travel barefoot.
Although it was a little cumbersome and annoying, I assumed that time travel would happen, put on socks, opened the shoe box, took out sneakers, and put them on.
Then I adjusted the remaining time timer.
On Saturday, May 9, 2015, 11:00 a.m. was changed to 2:00 p.m.
Now, just press the save button and it will change to the adjusted timer.
“Why are you shaking so much?”
Back!
I pressed the save button on my watch.
Susut! Papapat!
He disappeared as if he were scattered.
It reappeared in the original place, but in a different time zone.
“This, this?”
I was so embarrassed that I was very embarrassed.
He was suspended in the air about 30 cm, enclosed in a transparent membrane.
When I checked the electronic clock and the wristwatch installed on the wall, it was the same time.
I haven’t checked the date yet, but I can feel that I’ve moved in time.
Before the time shift, it was about 5:25 am on Thursday, May 14, 2015, and now it is 14:01 pm on Saturday, May 9, 2015.
The window curtains were folded, but it was bright enough for the sun to come in.
It was clear to anyone that it was broad daylight.
“Umm, but what is this transparent membrane?”
After thinking for a while, a plausible hypothesis came to mind.
If time shifted, he could move to an unfamiliar place.
Then there may be some danger.
For example, it could be inside a building or overlap an object.
Then the synthesis could be lethal.
In order to prevent it, it seems that a transparent membrane was created to guarantee safety from danger.
It would be nice to ask someone what I’m curious about, but I was at a loss as to who to ask.
I tried pressing the transparent membrane with my finger as if I was prickling it, but it didn’t burst or disappear.
I tilted my head and pressed the button on the watch I was wearing on my left wrist, and the transparent membrane moved.
“Hmm, I guess you were moving with these buttons.”
After moving toward the living room, I pressed the operation button.
Pussss!
Surprisingly, the transparent membrane dissipated and the trapped man landed on the floor.
Only then could I smell the air in the studio.
When I first opened the shoebox, I found the sneakers I was wearing.
Taking it out and looking at it, it was the same as the sneakers he was wearing now.
“Mmm, they’re the exact same sneakers. If so, do I exist?”
I haven’t been able to confirm it yet, but it seems that he exists too.
When I put the sneakers back in the shoebox, I couldn’t find the brown casual shoes that I thought I had worn.
When I thought about it, I remembered that I had worn it while going out last week.
When I looked at the watch I was wearing on my left wrist, the originally set time and the shifted time were displayed at the top.
And in the middle, like a timer, 23:49 was displayed.
Seeing the time decrease, it seemed that 24 hours was the effective time.
“Hmm, judging from the timer running like this, does that mean we have to go back in time? What if I don’t go back?”
He knew very little about the watch he was still wearing on his left wrist.
Out of curiosity, I pressed the button to adjust the time, and then time shifted.
“I can’t stand like this all the time. Let’s go out and buy a lucky lottery ticket. And it would be better to hide and watch to see if I really exist.”
Click!
I opened the door and came out.
I looked at the Sky Studio building for a while, then turned around and walked.
After walking for about 10 minutes, I went into a convenience store and bought two lucky lottery tickets for two games each.
He remembered the winning numbers because he bought a lucky lottery ticket last week.
The lucky lottery ticket is 5,000 won per game, and the first prize is slightly different, but last week the first prize was 50 billion won.