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🌊01. The day I die

Paaang-

A deafening, ear-splitting honk rang out. Looking at Sia, I saw the steering wheel and immediately concluded that it was I who honked.

Outside the window, a huge truck was lurching, crossing the center line, and approaching my car.

???

It's dangerous, Haeyoung!!!

When I heard someone else's voice, I realized that I was not alone and that the voice was my boyfriend.

김해영

uh?

The moment I turned my head to check his face, I felt a loud crash and excruciating pain.

김해영

'A traffic...accident...is the reason I died.'

I slowly closed my eyes and desperately tried to escape from the dream.

My name is Kim Hae-young. I was an ordinary 29-year-old office worker living in 21st-century South Korea.

Why did you live?

Just like I saw in my dream, I died.

You might wonder how I remember my past life. Like other romance novels, you might think it's a case of possession, or a story of regression. But you'd be wrong.

I'm a lucid dreamer. The only thing that makes me special is that I remember my past lives through dreams.

And this is the Republic of Korea... or more precisely, the new era that began after the end of the Cenozoic Era. We call this the Jinzoic Era.

That is, to the people here... no, to the mermaids, people are similar to animals that lived in ancient times.

Of course, humans evolved and became mermaids, but from my perspective of living in South Korea, the way mermaids here look at people is probably the same as how people look at dinosaurs.

As oxygen became abundant, the ozone layer began to form in the late Precambrian period, and around the middle of the Paleozoic period, organisms living in the ocean began to rise to the surface and live there.

However, at the end of the Cenozoic, atmospheric pollution such as carbon dioxide reduced the concentration of oxygen and destroyed the ozone layer.

Not only that, but global warming has caused all the glaciers to melt, causing the largest mass extinction since the emergence of life on Earth.

Because the ozone layer was destroyed and no more water could reach the ground, sea levels rose, so some humans entered the sea.

Adapting to the rapidly changing environment, humans also developed mutations similar to those of today's mermaids, and were subject to natural selection, opening the current era of evolution.

???

Are you sweating?

???

Wake up

???

Right? Wouldn't it be better to wake him up?

I finally snapped out of my dream when I started hearing someone's voice from afar.

김해영

Ugh.....

박우진

Did you sleep well?

박지훈

Are you awake?

김해영

uh?

김해영

ah.....

I guess I promised to study with the kids since the exam was coming up soon, and I must have dozed off during the study session.

김해영

Ah.... I'm sorry.....

김해영

How long did I sleep?

박지훈

About an hour?

박지훈

I guess you were very tired

김해영

Ah... I guess so

박지훈

Take it easy

박우진

Hey! You told me to be tough on myself!

박지훈

Are you Haeyoung?

박우진

No... anthropology is too difficult!

Woojin lay down on the desk and grumbled.

박우진

I don't know why I have to learn such a subject.

박우진

Why should we learn from those less advanced and less intelligent people?

박지훈

What the hell

박우진

What the heck!

박우진

You destroyed the environment so ignorantly

The kids bickering in front of me right now are Woojin and Jihoon. They're twins, and I've been friends with them since we were very young.

김해영

Anthropology is easier than you think

박지훈

Yeah, I guess I just need to study a little bit?

박우진

Both are unlucky....

박우진

I will absolutely not choose anthropology next year.

박지훈

Can I move up to the next grade?

박우진

Ugh.....

Here at the academy, the grade level is not changed based on the number of class days, but rather on a system where students can advance by taking a test and achieving a certain score.

김해영

You came up just barely this time

박우진

under......

박우진

I really hate it.....

박지훈

Open the book, Park Woo-jin

Woojin opened the book and glared at Jihoon.

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Hello! I'm the author!!

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While studying science

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Huh? If the ozone layer disappears, will we go back to the water like we did during the Precambrian period? Then won't we become mermaids?

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This is a work that I started with the thought of!

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It's not enough, but please enjoy it😁

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The male protagonist of this work is a punk 😉