The Nature of Possession – Chapter 12

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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After taking sick leave, I succeeded in getting home after a few hours of digging around.

How did I find the house?

I found it by looking at the delivery address on an internet shopping site.

I tried combining the numbers on the door lock that were particularly shiny, and since the answer was my birthday, I was able to enter easily.

There was one thing I realized as I traveled through dimensions several times: it seemed that my body was recovering as the possession took place.

Well, according to the rules of dimensional travel, the original owners of the bodies were already dead or unconscious.

The fact that I woke up from a coma and that a body that had died from overwork at the company was revived, this all happened because I possessed the body.

It seemed that I was living alone, and looking at the phone records, it didn’t seem like I contacted my parents often.

I lay on the bed in my single room, which didn’t have much furniture, and dangled my legs while thinking.

“Ah, but am I not fucked?”

Regardless of the obsession of the opposite sex, it wasn’t like I was inheriting memories every time I possessed a body, and I didn’t know anything about work.

How was I supposed to adapt?

Even this time, after possessing the body, I looked at the work I had done so far, but I couldn’t understand it at all, and I felt lost.

“Should I keep traveling dimensions to move into a rich family…”

It’s almost at the point where I need to restart life like in a game.

While I was blankly looking at the ceiling and worrying about what to do in the future, time passed on its own.

It felt like I had only lied down for a short while, but it was already dinnertime.

*Grumble*

My stomach rumbled loudly.

“Come to think of it, I haven’t eaten anything today.”

I was so out of it that I didn’t even realize I was hungry.

I changed into comfortable clothes and then went to the convenience store.

At the convenience store, I habitually picked up a triangular kimbap, then paused.

‘This is a food that the deceased used to enjoy.’

Perhaps it was because it was the food I had eaten before I died in the last dimension, but it made me feel very uncomfortable.

“Okay, since I’m here, let’s eat some gukbap.”

I decided to find a soondae gukbap restaurant with a decent rating nearby.

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Soondae gukbap is a food that I like.

It’s also good value for the money, but when you mix rice in the hot, spicy broth and eat it, it gives your body energy.

Usually, the effect is doubled when you eat it in winter, but it doesn’t mean that the taste is worse if you eat it in early summer like now.

I mixed a generous amount of rice in a special soondae gukbap and stirred it, pressing it down with my spoon.

A plate of assorted soondae was also placed in front of the gukbap.

It was a lot of food even for an adult male, but today, I felt like I wanted to eat until my stomach was full.

It was because my soul had been starving after traveling through dimensions three times.

“Ugh.”

When I put the spoonful of rice I had scooped up into my mouth, it was too hot, and I couldn’t spit it out or swallow it, so I cooled it down in my mouth.

And then a glass of water.

My palate was numb from being burned, but I liked that sensation.

Soondae gukbap is a delicious food throughout all dimensions.

“Now… it’s time for the assorted soondae.”

I picked up a piece of pyeonyuk with my chopsticks and dipped it in ssamjang.

Oom nyom nyom.

It felt like my gloomy mood was clearing up.

This was healing, this was bliss.

If someone saw me, they would think it was pitiful to see a man with a good build eating gukbap while chuckling, but I didn’t particularly want to put on an act.

What kind of act would you even put on at a gukbap place anyway.

I could just eat as I felt like it and then leave.

While I was enjoying the gukbap with several spoonfuls, someone entered the store, ringing the bell.

“I didn’t think I’d find you in a place like this. And I didn’t know you liked gukbap either.”

Someone sat down in front of me, and I instinctively sensed that I was screwed.

“Cough… Team leader Lee Mina.”

There she was in front of me, wearing the same clothes that I saw her in at the company today, with her short black bob that suited her so well.

She was looking at me with a blank expression.

I coughed, surprised by her sudden appearance and she naturally handed me some water.

“Thank you.”

After coughing a few more times, my cough subsided and I caught my breath.

“You’re welcome.”

“But what brings you here? Did you come to eat gukbap too, Team Leader?”

At the word ‘team leader’, her eyebrows went up slightly and then down.

“No, I just saw In-ho-ssi while I was on my way home. I just came in.”

“I see. So your house is near here?”

“I think I mentioned it before.”

“I guess I forgot.”

“Is that so? But In-ho-ssi.”

“Yes?”

Leaning forward, she asked,

“Why are you calling me team leader?”

“Ah… I guess so.”

What was it?

Did I call her something different in private?

What was I calling her that made her act like this?

I quickly thought back to the company I had been in.

If I was calling her differently in a private setting, we must have been quite close.

It couldn’t be that we were dating and the age… it didn’t seem like we were the same age.

Well, I could just try it and say it was a joke.

“Then… Mina noona?”

When I said that, tilting my head, her face, which was usually expressionless, turned red in an instant.

With a *poof* sound effect, she turned her gaze away with a bright red face.

“Ah, no. Our company doesn’t use titles, we use -nim or -ssi. That’s what I was going to say.”

Looking at her, who was speaking in a soft voice, I doubted that this was the same person who was emitting such cold air in the conference room earlier.

“It was a joke.”

“It was a joke?”

When I started eating my gukbap again, she returned to her expressionless face as if nothing had happened.

“In-ho-ssi, if it’s because you’re embarrassed, then it’s okay but it’s possible for you to call me ‘noona’ outside of the company.”

Looking at her starting her story while pretending to be logical, I put a piece of pyeonyuk in my mouth.

‘Ah, shit, I pressed the wrong switch again.’

It seems that I don’t have any luck with choosing my words.

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