It was dark. I couldn’t see anything. Of course, it’s because I have lost my sight. That’s why I always kept my eyes closed.
Maybe I was in shock; my body felt like it was breaking, shattering. Pain. Oh, right, I’m dead.
But all of a sudden I heard something.
“It looks like he’s breathing.”
“It also looks like he’s regaining his consciousness.”
“Hey! Open your eyes!”
“Open my eyes? Are they talking to me? How would I open my eyes?” With those thoughts enveloping me, I opened my eyes.
“Woah!”
Through my eyes, I saw the world. I can see! My eyes can see! How is this possible? How am I seeing everything so clearly?
Slowly, I sat up and looked around at the people that were surrounding me.
I could tell just by glancing at the look they gave to me that they were not looking at me with emotions of worry or favorableness, rather, it was with pity, derision, and contempt.
“Are you okay?”
A man taking a step towards me asked. I looked at him and for some reason he looked very familiar, but at the same time I could not place where I knew him from.
It was almost as if he was buried somewhere deep inside my memories.
There was something strange on top of his head.
“Chang Soo Choi?”
The man’s face wrinkled up with utter disgust.
“What did you call me? Chang Soo Choi? Am I your friend? HA! You’ve lost your mind once and now you’ve become crazy.”
In my mind, I did nothing wrong. All I did was read the name that was floating clearly on top of his head.
That’s when I looked around my surroundings again and noticed something.
The six men and women that were surrounding me, all had their names floating above their heads. I looked at them calmly and tried to interpret the situation around me.
First, I could see their names on top of their heads.
Second, I used to be blind, but now I can see clearly.
Third, I was dead.
Fourth, I have no idea as to where I am. Heaven? or Hell?
“Let’s go guys. Just leave him there and let’s go. If we hang around people like that we’ll all die. The dungeon isn’t a child’s joke. Leave him be and let’s go.”
That’s when I realized where I was.
I was in a dungeon.
I died in a dungeon and now I’m alive again in a dungeon. Of course, it looked a whole lot different from the dungeon that I died in.
Chang Soo Choi seemed to be wondering about something and then he looked at me and asked, “Can you keep up with us?”
I didn’t reply to him. Why should I? I don’t know him, so how would I trust him and follow him? And by the looks of it, the people that were with him felt the same way about me. Beats me, I couldn’t care less because the feeling was mutual.
I looked at him without answering. He looked back and shook his head at me.
“It looks like you’re not too deep in here so if you be careful and turn around I think you can make it back. Think you can do it?”
Looks like they’re going to leave me here. But make it back where? I didn’t answer his second question because I couldn’t decide as to what choice I would make.
But without consideration of my opinion, it seemed like Chang Soo and the others had already made their decision. They were slowly backing away.
When they all left, I took a moment to analyze the situation.
And then, something even more baffling happened.
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