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“Hey, that’s the Big Dipper. Did you see it in the book?”
“Wow! It really is shaped like a ladle..!”
“Dad always thinks that way.”
" yes ? "
“I’m sure that among those countless stars, there must be a star like Earth, and that there must be life forms living on it that are similar to ours but a little different.”
" alien ? "
“Well… from our perspective, they are aliens, and from their perspective, we are aliens?”
" I see "
“If I ever get to meet those creatures, I definitely want to talk to them.”
“I am.. a friend! I want to be a friend.”
“Oh, that’s good too?”
It was a story I always heard when I went to see the constellations with my father, an astronomer, as a child. One of my father's wishes, ever since childhood, was to encounter aliens, or rather, new life forms beyond Earth.
I found it quite interesting when I was younger, but now it's just...
“.. In the end, I left without seeing it.”
It became one of my fondest memories of my father. He passed away in a car accident on a rainy day when I was ten, and after that, my mother and two younger siblings lived together.
“Hey, bring me a picture of Dad.”
" yes. "
We held a memorial service on the anniversary of my father's death. Actually, our family didn't usually hold memorial services, but we decided to do it starting with my father. My mother said she hoped my father would be happy even after he died.
What a wonderful couple. No matter how I think about it, they are a match made in heaven.
My brother and I accepted our mother's advice and have been performing ancestral rites like this for several years. We agreed not to celebrate the holidays, but only on the anniversary of the death.
After the ceremony, I went up to the rooftop.
“ … ”
After the ancestral rites, I always went up to this rooftop and prayed privately. I hoped my father would meet new life there. I thought this was the kind of thing that would make him happy.
This time too, I prayed without fail and prayed with all my heart.
at that time,
thud,
“ ..?? ”
“Ouch.. it hurts”
Suddenly, I heard a loud crash behind me, and I was startled and turned around cautiously.
“ ..?!! ”
“When are you going to make me land properly?”
Behind me, a man was sitting on the floor, wearing strange medieval clothes and speaking Korean.
" excuse me .. "
“ ..? ”
" who are you ..? "
" me ? "
“ … ”
“Prince.”
He's crazy.
“..are you crazy?”
“No..!! I said prince”
“Which country are you a prince from?”
“I am the prince of Dubatdubyeol. I am about 300 million light years away from this Earth.”
Aliens..? No, new life forms like that really exist?
So that day, an alien fell in front of me.