Hourglass [short story]
hourglass


dream

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Yerin... Yerin... What should I do if you go this fast?

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I can't live without you...

???
Please open your eyes...


배여주
This dream again... Who are you...


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The hourglass is running out and I can't find you...


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I wish I could at least know your name...


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I guess I should go out today too...

The heroine happened to see the face of a man passing by her.


배여주
Huh...? I've seen that face somewhere...

And the female protagonist complained of dizziness and collapsed.

The heroine woke up.


배여주
Hmm...? Where am I...?


이지훈
You're awake.


배여주
A voice that seems familiar...


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Have we met before?


이지훈
Yes? No.


배여주
I guess I was mistaken.


배여주
Thank you! I'll go then.


이지훈
yes.


배여주
This hourglass... It's been running for 10 years...


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I think it'll all fall off tomorrow...


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If I run out tomorrow, I'll have to go to the beach where I died.

Ji-hoon's point of view


이지훈
That woman from earlier... I'm sure it's my first time seeing her, but why does it make me sad just thinking about it?


이지훈
The woman of my destiny is only Yerin...


이지훈
Could it be that the woman is Yerin?!


이지훈
This hourglass will run out tomorrow


이지훈
Yeorin... Can we meet tomorrow...?


이지훈
I miss you so much...


배여주
Hasn't it arrived yet...?


배여주
Am I too late...?


배여주
If I don't meet you today, I'll die...


배여주
Please come to me before midnight today, even if it's late...

A few hours later

11:59 PM

배여주
1 minute left...


배여주
I wanted to see you, but I'm dying alone again...


배여주
In my past life, now, and in the next life...


배여주
I guess I'm destined to die alone...

12:00 AM
The female protagonist died alone with a bitter smile.

At that time, Ji-Hoon was running towards me from far away.


이지훈
Yerin...Yerin...No..!


이지훈
I should have noticed sooner...


이지훈
I'm sorry... Yeorin...


이지훈
If we are always destined to be like this,


이지훈
In the next life, we will reverse our fate.


이지훈
Even if it is an impossible fate, I hope it will come true somehow.


이지훈
I'll find Yerin quickly and run to her.


이지훈
I won't feel sorry towards you in the distant future


이지훈
I'll always wait, that's more comfortable...


이지훈
Even though I lost my way and it took a long time


이지훈
Just come back to me again and again...


이지훈
Even in the distant future...


뿌뿌우지
Hello! This is Ppupu, the author of the second short story!


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My previous work was To You, where Woozi is the male protagonist!


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Let me explain again the parts of this work that I didn't explain before!


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This story is based on the Little Mermaid! The female protagonist was a mermaid princess named Bae Yeo-rin in her past life!


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And by chance, she met a prince named Ji-Hoon, and at that time, too, the female protagonist died alone on that beach.


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And at the end, I don't know if you noticed, but there are pinwheel chorus lyrics!


뿌뿌우지
And the female protagonist gave Ji-hoon an hourglass the day before she died in her previous life!


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We promised to meet at the beach on the day when the sand in this hourglass runs out.


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Then I'll see you in the next short story!