I Will Buy Divine Power With Money! - Chapter 136

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A dark room with no lights on.

Joo Hyun-jin, who had been typing on her keyboard while looking at the monitor—the only source of light in the messy room—turned her head at the energy she suddenly felt.

It was faint enough to make her uncertain, but there was no way she wouldn’t recognize this energy.

It was the energy of the Sun God, whom she had once resented so much.

“I guess you’ve finally learned the truth.”

Cha Siwon.

Her only friend throughout both her past and current life, and the only person precious to her.

It seemed that friend, whom she had sent to a distant dimension in her place, had finally learned the secret of that place.

She had threatened the Sun God to definitely let her know when this day came.

“You must be shocked, right?”

A smile appeared for the first time on her beautiful, expressionless face.

Considering Cha Siwon’s personality, she might have collapsed from the shock.

Who told you to die so quickly?

“This is all your karma.”

Joo Hyun-jin looked at the desk.

Five or six picture frames were arranged neatly. They were all photos taken with Cha Siwon.

Starting from their time together at the orphanage, through their school days, and into adulthood. Their entire growth process was captured there.

She picked up the most recent photo.

It was taken when Cha Siwon, who had graduated from the police academy with excellent grades, finally became a detective.

Unlike Cha Siwon who was laughing excitedly, her own face standing next to her looked sour.

“I tried so hard to stop you.”

Joo Hyun-jin still had vivid memories of when she died in her past life.

Knowing how terrible death was, she had earnestly tried to dissuade Cha Siwon, but she wouldn’t listen, and eventually lived and died as a righteous detective.

She still remembered that day vividly.

“Cha Siwon! Cha Siwon! Wake up! I told you not to do things like being a detective!”

The hospital she rushed to immediately after receiving a call from Cha Siwon’s colleague.

Cha Siwon, who had been stabbed multiple times by a criminal, was already fighting for her life before even arriving at the hospital.

Everyone sensed her death.

The despair and fear she felt then.

“Don’t leave me alone. You said you wouldn’t leave me alone! You said you’d stay with me forever! Why aren’t you keeping your promise!”

No matter how much she screamed and cursed, Cha Siwon didn’t smile like usual.

She just opened her eyes with all her remaining strength, as if it were the last time, and looked at her.

And what did she say then?

“…Don’t cry. I told you that you look ugly when you cry.”

“Don’t die, Siwon.”

“Sorry, actually this is a lie. I’m sorry for lying every time when we promised not to lie.”

“Don’t die! Keep your promise!”

“You’re pretty, Joo Hyun-jin.”

With those words, Cha Siwon died.

With an infuriatingly faint smile.

“Damn bastard…”

Cha Siwon’s death was more shocking than when she had been used all her life in her past life and eventually died miserably.

My only friend who helped me when I was about to live another worthless life in this life, just like in my past life.

The pain of losing her forever still tormented Joo Hyun-jin to this day.

“…Still, I was fortunate to have a chance to save her.”

The day she returned home after Cha Siwon’s funeral.

The Sun God came to her as she was sobbing, unable to even clean up Cha Siwon’s room where they had lived together.

[My child, I have been searching for you for a long time. You have been given a chance to live another life, so come with me.]

He was a god she had resented and hated so much in her past life. But at that moment, Joo Hyun-jin was insanely happy to see him.

“I can live another life…?”

[Yes, since you were affected by this dimension, unlike others, you can return while retaining all memories of your past life…]

“Since my soul is here now, if another soul enters my body, they could live in my place, right?”

How happy she was at that moment.

Whether the Sun God was flustered or not, she threatened him to definitely take Cha Siwon’s soul.

The Sun God, who was endlessly weak toward his child unlike Joo Hyun-jin who disliked him, eventually took Cha Siwon’s soul and left.

Ah, how fortunate.

I will never be able to meet Cha Siwon again, and I won’t be able to return to the world I originally lived in either, but what does that matter?

It was enough that Cha Siwon would live again.

Moreover, since she was a soul who lived in this world, she would live on while fully remembering this life.

Just like how I remember my past life.

Since she had read 【Holy Idella】 that I wrote very thoroughly, she would adapt well and live in that world.

Unlike ‘Ortel Kiris’ who was selfish and greedy and eventually ruined everything, Cha Siwon would save everyone.

Just like how she saved me when I was nothing but trash.

“She must be living well.”

I don’t regret my choice.

She might be a bit shocked, but if it’s Cha Siwon, she’ll quickly shake it off and live magnificently.

Just like she always did.

“…Still, it’s a bit annoying that I’m not there beside her.”

Dealing with bastards who bother Cha Siwon is my specialty.

Joo Hyun-jin clicked her tongue harshly.

“Come to think of it, the novel and reality are quite different.”

Count Kiris being in league with ‘Evil’, someone in the Imperial Capital controlling everything, and even ‘Ortel’s’ death.

Everything was slightly different between the novel and reality.

The reason I wrote about my past life as a novel wasn’t because of some sense of mission in the first place.

I just wanted people to curse at the trash that was ‘Ortel Kiris’.

I thought it might lessen my guilt a little.

“…Well, she’ll manage fine on her own.”

There’s no way to tell her the truth now anyway, and if it’s Cha Siwon, she’ll quickly realize that the novel and reality are different.

Joo Hyun-jin shrugged her shoulders and started typing on the keyboard again.

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“…”

After hearing the whole story from the Sun God, I couldn’t lift my head for a long time.

The hand covering my face was soaked with tears before I knew it, but I didn’t have the presence of mind to go get a handkerchief.

Crazy, Joo Hyun-jin. The reason I started my second life was because of you.

Are you really sane? You kicked away the only chance to return to the original world because of me?

How could you do that?

“Why did you let that happen? You should have said no. You should have brought Joo Hyun-jin back!”

I glared at the empty air. A melancholy message from the Sun God came back.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ confides that the child was happier living on Earth than in this world, so he couldn’t force her.】

“…”

That, I can’t deny.

In reality, ‘Ortel’s’ life was very far from happiness.

Yes, perhaps it’s better for me, who is more calm and adaptable than Joo Hyun-jin, to live this life.

“No wonder I felt particularly attached to Ortel.”

It wasn’t simply because I had entered this body.

It was because it was my best friend’s body.

…Damn, come to think of it, I think I’ve been too rough with this body.

The past of coughing up blood, and coughing up more, and continuously coughing it up flashed by like a panorama.

I should live more carefully from now on.

I exercise and eat well, but more than that, I need to take much, much, much better care of myself.

“I have a question. The diary of Ordel that I obtained from the Count’s manor…”

【’Sun Risen from Death’ informs you that it was written directly by Ordel before the regression.】

“Before the regression? But why didn’t it disappear and remain here?”

【He explains that it’s because Ordel is the only soul in this world who was reincarnated from another dimension.】

So to summarize the Sun God’s explanation, only this world had time turned back, while all the other dimensional worlds remained as they were.

And the diary is the only object where Ordel left a fragment of her soul.

Since she died and was reincarnated in another world, it wasn’t affected by the time regression and remained here as it was.

“A fragment of her soul…”

I took out Ordel’s—no, Joo Hyun-jin’s—diary from my inventory.

Somehow it felt even more precious and heartbreaking.

Just like this body.

“Since Joo Hyun-jin saved me, I should live this life very diligently.”

Until now I was just living because I didn’t want to die again, but now my mindset has completely changed.

I should live even more diligently and better than anyone else until the day I live long and peacefully close my eyes.

So as not to be ashamed before Joo Hyun-jin.

“I’m sorry for cursing you for forcing me into a second life.”

I sheepishly apologized to the Sun God.

I thought you were the one who did it.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ smiles graciously, saying it’s fine. He comforts the user, saying you don’t need to worry about such things at all.】

【’Traveler Guiding Souls’ acknowledges that the user certainly bears no guilt. After all, the fault lies with ‘Sun Risen from Death’ who is desperately struggling to survive.】

Right, that’s how it was. My apologetic feelings completely vanish.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ clears his throat and obviously changes the subject, asking what you plan to do going forward.】

What do you mean what to do? Why ask something so obvious?

“Of course I have to awaken Idella. We need the true Holy Maiden’s power to defeat ‘Evil.'”

Since I rescued Idella in advance so she wouldn’t be kidnapped by ‘Evil,’ the same events as before the regression won’t repeat.

What would have happened if I hadn’t rescued her back then?

I break out in cold sweat just thinking about it again.

【’Sun Risen from Death’ says he was asking what ‘you’ plan to do.】

Ah, what I’ll do after awakening Idella?

“I’ll leave the Grand Temple.”

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