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Shouldn’t you go to prison at least once before you die? (24)

It was helpful for me to be sitting on a small boat and gazing leisurely across the vast sea. It feels like a sanctuary where I can organize my messy mind and take a break from the anxiety of reality.

Of course, my body is still inside the dark iron bars, and my wounds probably haven’t healed…….

Anyway, since this was a dream, my body didn’t hurt, and I didn’t have any anxiety. All I had to do was look at the beautiful scenery.

With someone I love.

‘We met again, Kayle.’

When I first had the dream, I was terrified because I knew it was Kayle, not Merson. But right now, I want to hug his neck and shower him with kisses.

He ran through my hair like a rustling wind.

‘I’ve always been here.’

‘Yes, you were always next to me, unchanging.’

On the sea that resembles the sky, the boat carrying the lover sailed without a destination. It guides us very well without being in a hurry.

I stuck out my face and looked out over the water, as I had before.

The face that I am used to now, gray-blue eyes and pink hair sway along the waves. And beside me, came the reflection of Merson’s figure.

‘It’s Erina.’

‘Yes, it’s me.’

‘I’m next to you.’

‘We look good together.’

The sea smiled. Playful, weak waves rocked the boat once. As my body collapsed, my hand touched Merson’s chest and I buried my head, bursting into laughter.

‘And one more.’

‘Huh?’

‘Look, Erina.’

Merson grabbed me by the shoulders and turned me toward the water. Looking down, Merson’s face was painted with a smile I had never seen before. A very kind and warm smile that even I, who is in love with him, have never seen before.

Possessed, I lowered my head to follow his gaze.

‘Little Erina.’

The boat was moving, but the water surface was calm as if no wind had blown. Like looking into a mirror.

What was reflected on the water was the figure of a child. A baby who still needs a little more time to walk on its own feet.

‘I don’t think so. It’s just like you.’

The baby’s hair and eyes were the same color as mine, but the features, smiling as it wrung its little hands, were Merson’s.

When the baby laughs, I laugh as well, and my heart melts. When I stretched out my hand and touched it, the baby’s shape rippled with the touch of the cold water and soon disappeared across the sea.

‘What’s wrong?’

I couldn’t take my eyes off the sea, and I heard a warm tone of worry right next to my face.

‘Little Erina hasn’t disappeared. Inside here. Still there.’

Merson’s hand caressed my stomach carefully, lest it break. It’s a little, no, very unfamiliar.

‘… Is it a conception dream?’

Merson, who just smiles in the sunlight without answering, is provoking.

‘Shouldn’t there be things like the dragon throwing a magical orb into the skirt, a peach the size of a house rolling in, or a tiger, or gold and silver treasures? Why is it so plain?’

It wasn’t that I didn’t like it, but it felt like I was being shown the main story without a trailer, and it didn’t fit my feelings after living in Korea for 23 years.

Merson, again, did not answer my question. But he wasn’t ignoring it.

Wondering that there is anything else to see on the open sea, he looks around him and then snaps his fingers.

Tak.

‘Uwaah?!’

With a rumble, the ship rocked as if it would capsize. The water splashed up, but strangely, it did not touch my body.

The blue sea, resembling the sky, turned black at some point. No, it’s not that the seawater has changed, but there’s something huge and black underneath the ship.

‘Dra, dragon?!’

The black dragon broke through the surface of the water and ascended into the sky. I was only as small as a dragon’s claw, and I had to bend my neck as hard as I could to look up at the gigantic body.

The red-eyed dragon looked down at me and then started charging.

‘Waah!’

Instinctively, I crossed my arms to cover my head, but the surroundings were slightly darkened, but I did not feel any particular blow. When I opened my eyes, I saw a dragon snooping over my head with a huge peach in its mouth.

‘… you want to give me this? N, no. The boat will capsize. Wait, no.’

Without a chance to stop it, the dragon spit out the peach and went under the sea again without looking back. The peach, which seemed to be five times the size of the boat I was riding on, was held lightly on my arms. Did I possess such super strength?

‘Merson, what is this …….’

He snaps his hand again with a ‘tap’.

The peach I was holding started to tremble like a vibrating phone. I can’t bear to let it go, so I’m panicking while holding it up. Then came a cracking sound from above my head. And…….

Roar!

‘Oh my God.’

The peach split open and a tiger jumped out. A tiger in this world… It’s like eating kimchi with cheese on top.

The tiger jumped out and hurriedly ate the peach, like it was hungry, and ran around me. To be precise, over the sea. Then, after licking my body with its tongue, it disappeared under the sea like the dragon did.

Tak.

‘There’s more?!’

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