‘Huuuk.’

The moment he opened his eyes, his breath paused in his throat.

He wanted to exhale instinctively, but his mouth refused to open. The air wiggling around in his throat searched for another exit and left through his nostrils before exploding.

Ssp— ssssp—

When he repeated breathing in and out through his nose, his chest finally relaxed. Only then did the spinning world enter his sight.

He wanted to shake his head from dizziness, but he gave up immediately feeling a head-splitting headache.

With a headache of this magnitude, he felt like he would likely be shaking his brain if he shook his head.

In the end, Seol Jihu closed his eyes that he worked so hard to open, as the world spinning in a circle was inducing even more dizziness and nausea.

Only when the pain in his head disappeared and the churning in his stomach subsided, did he have the courage to open his eyes again.

With the world no longer spinning, he saw an unfamiliar ceiling. His eyes started to focus, but it was hard to say that his vision was normal.

Should he call it hazy?

The ceiling was undulating gently, like he was looking up at the world from under the water.

‘What… happened…?’

He wanted to look around the room, but his head refused to budge an inch. When he began to roll his eyes without any other choice, he caught sight of a familiar person.

It was Seo Yuhui.

‘Noona…?’

Seol Jihu slowly closed his eyes, then opened them back up.

‘Did I… survive…?’

His memory after activating Future Vision was hazy, but he thought he would die based on what he felt at the time.

He still didn’t know exactly what happened.

But feeling relieved that Seo Yuhui was in his sight, he called her. No, he tried to call her.

‘….’

His voice didn’t come out.

‘What… why is my body…’

Feeling impatient, Seol Jihu tried to signal her with his eyes, but Seo Yuhui wasn’t looking at...