# Chapter 106
Jaehee didn’t wake up for a long time. During that extended period, Jaehee dreamed. Countless scenes flashed by, and these dream sequences moved backward in time. From the present to the past.
He saw Dohyun saving him from Minhun, followed by glimpses of Minhun forcibly making him take drugs.
He also saw Geonwoo offering his own body to monsters instead of using his abilities, worried that Jaehee might get hurt from his wavelength.
The dream showed all the scenes that had happened so far.
Thus, the dream went back further, reaching scenes not from this life, but from before the regression.
The moment right before death, when a world completely red unfolded before his eyes. The moment when he was no different from a guiding machine, forcibly kept alive while tied to a bed. In the dream, he was dying while hearing an endless ringing in his ears. A cold warning voice telling him not to repeat continued until his last breath.
But one thing was different. There was a scene that was different from what Jaehee remembered. A very small sound that he hadn’t perceived back then reached his ears.
-…i…
But he couldn’t hear it clearly. It felt like a sound that was almost recognizable lingering around his ear.
And the memories went back even further. The scene of Geonwoo dying in his place played out very slowly. Despite many people standing around, he could only see Geonwoo. Watching Geonwoo dying while bleeding, Jaehee’s emotions shattered.
Just as that reached its limit, the scene before his eyes changed again. This time, a completely different world unfolded. It was the world before his possession. He could see himself there.
Through blurry vision, he caught someone strangling him. He couldn’t see the face clearly. But he knew who it was. The person who took his life before the possession. Someone who was always jealous of him and considered him a thorn in their side.
And in that painful situation where he was about to breathe his last, a clear voice was heard.
-Die, Lee Hajin.
Lee Hajin, that was Jaehee’s name before the possession.
And simultaneously, the final scene from before the regression appeared again.
-Die, Lee Jaehee.
The very small voice that hadn’t been heard before was now clear.
But.
-Die, Lee Hajin.
The owner of the hate-filled voice wishing for the death of Lee Jaehee, the villain sub-bottom of this story, wasn’t just calling for Lee Jaehee. They were also saying his name from before the possession.
The dream showed this repeatedly.
***
Jaehee woke up several days later.
“Are you conscious?”
As soon as he woke up, he heard an urgent voice. Jaehee frowned. He opened his eyes but couldn’t see well. He couldn’t focus properly. His body felt incredibly heavy.
But he could sense a familiar pheromone nearby. He instantly knew who it was. Geonwoo. Geonwoo was by his side again.
…why?
Jaehee hurriedly tried to sit up to assess the situation.
“…ugh…!”
A short groan escaped simultaneously. Pain rushed in because he had exerted force to raise his upper body. Jaehee’s face contorted with pain.
“You shouldn’t move like that yet.”
Geonwoo put his arm around Jaehee’s back to support him.
“You need to be careful since your body is very weak right now.”
Geonwoo’s voice was full of concern.
“…”
In contrast, Jaehee looked at Geonwoo with a confused expression. There was no time to revisit those strange scenes he had seen in his dream.
The last thing he remembered was losing consciousness after seeing Minhun force medicine on him, and he had no memory after that. That’s why he couldn’t understand why he was here with Geonwoo.
But there was something that confused Jaehee even more.
It was his body’s reaction.
When he touched Geonwoo, guiding energy naturally flowed into Geonwoo. It mixed naturally with Geonwoo’s wavelength. That wasn’t all. His omega pheromones intertwined with Geonwoo’s pheromones as if they were a match.
As if they had formed a “Bond”…!
In that moment, the scene from the S-class gate that he had seen in his dream unfolded before his eyes. He recalled that time when, due to the “Bond,” he could only watch Geonwoo’s death without being able to hope for any helping hand.
His body reacted first. Dominated by the instinctive thought that he shouldn’t repeat that time, he raised his hand and roughly pushed Geonwoo away.
But Geonwoo didn’t budge. It was the same no matter how many times he pushed. Then Jaehee’s hands began to tremble more and more. He was beginning to recognize the “Bond” he had formed with Geonwoo.
Jaehee’s face turned deathly pale.
Seeing Jaehee like this, Geonwoo’s face twisted painfully. He understood what Jaehee was afraid of.
“…hyung.”
With that small call, Geonwoo pulled Jaehee toward himself. Trapping the small body that was trying to escape in his arms, he spoke heavy words.
“Pushing me away… is it because of the memories from before the regression?”
For a moment, Jaehee didn’t comprehend what he had just heard. He just stopped pushing with a surprised face and raised his head.
Their eyes met.
“Is it because you don’t want to repeat that time?”
Geonwoo continued. At those words, Jaehee’s eyes widened.
“…How do you… Don’t tell me, you remember…!”
“Yes. I remember. Everything from before the regression, I remember it all.”
“…You remember… everything…”
At those words, Jaehee’s pupils shook greatly. Even his voice trembled.
“Yes, so I know why you’re pushing me away too.”
“…Geonwoo.”
Jaehee opened his mouth as if about to speak.
“Hyung.”
But Geonwoo was faster.
“I know everything. So stop trying to handle it alone. Let’s change that future together now.”
Geonwoo asked him to do so. But at Geonwoo’s words, Jaehee couldn’t continue. He distorted his eyes and lowered his head weakly.
‘Together… change the future…’
That was something one could say only when not knowing their predetermined future. It was something one could say thinking that they just needed to avoid that ‘one’ accident.
Jaehee closed his eyes. He tried not to be swept away by emotions.
“…I will… change the future.”
The trembling in his voice finally stopped.
“I have no intention of repeating what happened in the gate.”
And there was something he had to tell Geonwoo.
“That’s why I’m trying to distance myself from you. Because I don’t want to repeat that future.”
That was the only path Lee Jaehee could take for Choi Geonwoo. Sadly, that was reality.
“What do you mean? Since we know the future, we can change it together. So why are you trying to distance yourself?”
Geonwoo spoke as if there was no way he could do that. Looking at him, Jaehee spoke softly.
“You said you now remember everything that happened before the regression, right?”
Jaehee raised his lowered head and asked.
“Think about that time. It wasn’t just the S-class gate. Strange incidents kept happening one after another.”
As if Choi Geonwoo and Lee Jaehee shouldn’t be together, accidents occurred endlessly.
“It was especially so when we were together.”
“…”
“It’s the same with the gate. If at that time… if we hadn’t been together, if we hadn’t formed a Bond… the future would certainly have been different.”
That was the unchanging premise.
That if he hadn’t been involved with Geonwoo, Geonwoo’s future would have been filled with only happiness.
That because of being by his side, Geonwoo experienced things he didn’t need to experience.
That misfortune follows Lee Jaehee.
And that misfortune… could hurt Geonwoo.
All facts that only Jaehee, who knew the original work, was aware of.
That’s why Jaehee couldn’t tell Geonwoo to change the future together. After all, those words from Lee Jaehee were no different from asking Geonwoo to bear misfortune together.
“This time I don’t want that. I don’t want to be unhappy, Geonwoo.”
That’s why he did it.
“So, it’s right for us to distance ourselves. We should.”
He lied about his feelings. He said he was pushing Geonwoo away for Lee Jaehee’s happiness.
“Because that’s the best way not to repeat the future.”
But Geonwoo fell silent at those words.
“…You don’t want to be unhappy?”
Then he suddenly asked.
“You want to distance yourself from me because you don’t want to be unhappy?”
Geonwoo spoke with a pained expression, as if suppressing some emotion. Jaehee nodded in response, indicating yes.
Nothing would change even if Geonwoo had recovered his memories. So Jaehee didn’t want to reveal his misfortune to Geonwoo and put him in danger. In this life, he just wanted Geonwoo to be happy.
But instead, Geonwoo’s face twisted miserably at his words. His face looked like he might cry at any moment. He also seemed angry.
“…What should I do.”
Geonwoo spoke as if grinding his teeth.
“I can’t do as you say.”
Having said that much, Geonwoo pulled Jaehee sharply toward himself. Their faces got closer.
“You’re only telling lies…. How can I listen to those words?”
“…What do you mean? What are you saying is a lie?”
“The claim that you’ll be happy by distancing yourself from me isn’t true. It’s not that accidents happen because we’re together.”
Jaehee flinched at those words. He couldn’t understand what Geonwoo knew to be saying this.
“You’re lying right now, thinking I won’t know. Trying to bear it alone.”
But hyung.
Geonwoo called out to Jaehee.
“There’s something you don’t know.”
And then he spoke softly. A fact that Jaehee didn’t know.
“The regression, this wasn’t the first time.”
