I stood frozen, my eyes fixed on the departures board praying for train to arrive sooner.
I held up a pocket watch in the palm of my hand. It looked expensive. sighing, remembering how I acquired this very watch... Some old man I to fix watches for gave it to me. "You'll be remembered," he said.
K•W:"I hope someone will."
As the platform announcement announced the arrival of the train from Busan to Seoul,I wore the watch around my neck wearing it as a pendant; it was the only piece of jewelry on me.
I was wearing three-piece black suit with a long coat, vest, and matching trousers, I smiled at how sophisticated I looked, as if I wasn't poorer than the homeless man next to me. I got onto the tra.
"The Seoul to Busan travel time is 2 hours and 15 minutes, covering 417 km on the Gyeongbu line. This is the fastest option I have right now." I wish I had a phone.
???:"Excuse me, sir."
A voice called out I turned to see the woman standing next to me.
K•W:"Hm?"
I turned to see this sleep-deprived office lady. She appeared tired and worn out,I wouldn't look like that even if I stayed awake for days.
???:"Could you please tell me what time it is?"
She asked, smiling tiredly.
K•W"The time?..."
"I don't have a phone nor a watch I'm not sure if the pocket watch works". I've never actually opened it before; it could be broken, but he opened it anyway. I just decided to lie.
K•W: "my phone is off"
Seeing her expression turn a bit disappointed honestly I couldn't careless could I?
"Hmm... I haven't felt the train move at all"
When all of a sudden the lights in the cabin went out, I hate the dark. "What's going on?" looking around in the dark, others turned on their phones' flashlights how lucky of them.
A middle-aged man said,
"It's probably a power outage or electrical failure."
Was he som kind of mechanic? Well he should get the lights on quickly.
|So we're stuck in here?!
|Oh come on! We've got places to be.
|I'm not surprised I've been waiting for this hing to finally shut down for once
Tha last comment didn't sit well with me. I've been using this train since I was five years old it's never had a probem-- Ding!
[Welcome players. Please ready yourselves for the tutorial is about to begin]
Tutorial? This sounded like some game introduction but wait why does everyone's screens look blue? Mine is grey...
It hadbasic information about me "I must be dreaming" I thought reading the system screen.
Player info
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Name: Kim Woo-jin
Race: Human/Divine entity
Class: Retrogressor
Health: 100%
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Reading this only made my confusion grow. I had so many questions but was interrupted by a loud bang against the train's door it was loud and forceful.
K·W: "what is that!"
I turned to peer through the window to see who or what was trying to break through only to see a creature with long arms and sharp fingers. The skin is green, a flat nose, and a wide, toothy grin. Its eyes glow with an otherworldly light, and its eyebrows are thick and unruly. Wearing a tattered animal hide, it was hunched in posture . "A goblin?"
"Kek kek kek! Hssss!"
I was frozen in fear I turned to face everyone else just to catch a glimpse of everyone running out of the train... Ah my ears were clogged I couldn't hear anything everyone ran out leaving me behind.
If my luck couldn't get any worse the train's doors slowly closed I desperately yelled "noo!!" But the doors closed anyway.
While distracted the goblin got in after breaking down the second door entering inside as it roared at me in anger. I was paralyzed as it lunged towards me With great Force It hit my knee hard enough to dislocate—no, break my joint.
"Uggghhh!!"
I cried out in pain. The goblin laughed at me, mocked me IT WAS LAUGHING AT ME. I was furious how could something that hurt me be laughing?! still in pain i took out a pen from my pocket. The day I finally had something on me and it was a pen. But I wasn't in a situation to be picky I'm never picky when it came to hurting people.
I moved close to the goblin towering over it, it was as short as a child. with a swift Thrust! I stabbed the pen into the goblin's eye. It shrieked in pain stumbling backwards, causing a moment of distraction. I horridly made my escape; my struggled to keep goingm limping as my leg bled out the barely visible wet stains on blood on my black trousers.
"huh...huh...just...a... littl…further..."
I said to myself. Through the windows of the train cabin, you could probably see me limping for my lifet, towards the next cabin. I was clearly distressed and in pain "how pathetic", limping while leaving a trail of blood as I walked straight past all the seats that should be filled with people but were empty.
I made it to the next cabin, closing the door holding onto a nearby seat for support. The train suddenly started moving again the lights turning back on I was a sweaty mess panting like I had just just ran a marathon. And as it passed the subway tunnel, tunnel after a few minutes I saw it was already dark outside; the stars looked so beautiful.
"Haa..."
The moment was peaceful I saw all the fortunate "trash" people who made it out of the train my eyes narrowed but they as well noticed the train it's bright lights and the only person inside the now lit train cabin.
From the bridge they saw an injured Kim Woo-jin on his own. There was a banging sound it was obviously the goblin from earlier it was trying to break through the door. As the goblin finally managed to open the cabin door and leaped towards me, I just stared at the goblin in the eye, i acceptedmy loss the goblin hit my head with all its might and i blacked out Instant death i fell down my blood purred out of my head as I laid there. The people who managed to catch that scene gasped.
•back.to the train•
The train continued on its route; the sound of train tracks could be heard. In the second cabin was Kim Woo-jin's lifeless body, blood splattered near his head as he lay there it was quite a beautiful scene, the wind blowing into the train from the open windows. The train kept going. The pocket watch around his neck made a ding! Sound. And it glowed with an ominous blue light in the dark cabin, and a voice spoke out—an system voice.
[Death of the divine entity Kim Woo-jin has been detected; regression in progress...]
[Complete✓]
Kim Woo-jin's body slowly started to disappear, and in a flash he was in a dark blue space just lying there until he regained consciousness looking up.
"Huh?..."
I got up confused, feeling the pain in my leg completely gone, i thought, "Didn't I just die?" ... Is this life after death?" I looked around before a blue screen popped up in front of me, casting a bright blue light in the dark space.
[Welcome, Divine Entity Kim Woo-jin.]
My eyes widened. i tried to touch it, and it felt like a thin glass. He was distracted for a bit before coming back to his senses.
"Where am I?" Is this heaven or hell?"
[You are in the Retro space.]
"The what?.."
[Retro space ^_^]
"... Am I supposed to know what that means?"
[...]
Sigh.
Everything that transpired today was utter nonsense. What was this thing talking about? He just wanted to lay down and go back to that peace he felt. What's the point of being alive when you're unknown? Before he could give up on life, the system counted.
[You've been registered as a player. Player information will be loaded shortly...]
A rectangular screen popped up with his "player"
information on it. He looked at it curiously.
_______________________________________ -ievements: | Basic info: |Equipment and--
Name: Kim Woo-jin
Age: 20
Level: 1
Health/HP: 9/10
Mana/MP: 3/100000
STATUS AND ATTRIBUTES:
Strength: 4Intelligence: 700Agility: 3Defense: 2
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-sic Info: | Equipment And Inventory: | hidd-
Equipped Items:1: Ridu Watch (Soulbound)
Achievements: (1) In your last breath you saved a life."
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-rsonal info | Skills: | Titles and Achiev-
Regression: Player will always return to a previous state after death (passive).
Reminiscent: The player will have perfect recall or memory, knowing and recalling the past in great detail (passive).
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Debuffs: Echoflux: People will always have ever-fading memories of you (passive).
Kim Woo-jin read all this, his hand on his chin, his expression thoughtful before turning into a clueless expression.
"A game?….?"
He ran his hand through his hair, thinking he'd finally lost it. The system notified him. But something did catch his eye Echoflux.
"So that's what it is huh?..."
"At least I confirmed I'm not just not crazy."
[Regression will begin soon.]
"What? ... Wait, wh---!"