"Hey, Yeoju, that's the Big Dipper. You saw it in a book, right?"
"Yes! It really is shaped like a tadpole!"
"That's what my dad always thought."
"picture?"
"Among these countless planets, there must be one like Earth, where life forms similar to ours, but slightly different, exist."
"Aliens?"
"Well... from our perspective they are aliens and from their perspective we are aliens, right?"
"I see."
"If I ever meet this life form, I'd love to talk to it."
"I'm...friends! I want to be friends!"
"Oh, that sounds good too."
As a child, I would always go stargazing with my father, who was an astronomer, and he would often tell me that one of his wishes, which he had had since he was a child, was to meet aliens, or rather, a new life form outside of Earth.
I used to listen to it with great interest as a child, but now it's just a memory.
"...In the end, he passed away without seeing it."
The memories of my father remain in my heart to this day. He died in a traffic accident on a rainy day when I was 10 years old, and after that I lived with my mother and two younger sisters.
"Yeoju, bring me a picture of your dad."
"Yeah."
On the anniversary of my father's death, we held a memorial service. Actually, our family had never held memorial services before. But we decided to start doing so from my father's time. My mother had said that she wanted my father to be happy even after his death.
I think they are a truly wonderful couple. No matter how you look at it, they are a match made in heaven.
My sisters and I accepted my mother's advice and have been holding these memorial services for many years. We agreed that we would not hold a national holiday, but would only hold it on the anniversary of her death.
After the memorial service was over, I went up to the roof.
「…」
After the memorial service, I would always go up to this roof and say a separate prayer. I hoped that my father would be able to meet a new life form there. I thought this would be the way for him to be happy.
And as always, I prayed, praying with all my heart.
At that time,
Bang.
「…??」
"it hurts…."
Suddenly, I heard a loud noise behind me and turned around in surprise to see a man in strange medieval clothing sitting on the ground and speaking in Korean.
「…？」
"Who are you?"
"I?"
「…」
"prince."
This guy is crazy.
"...Mad man?"
"No...!! I said prince."
"Which country's prince are you from?"
"I am Prince Dubatdubur. I live about 300 million light years away from Earth."
Aliens...? Wait, so do new life forms really exist?
That day, an alien fell in front of me.