Chapter 7
Ken dipped his finger into the leftover “water therapy” on the floor.
He licked it and instantly spat it out.
“So salty!” he thought, his face twisting into a grimace.
Suddenly, his chest tightened.
“Could it be… that call saying it was saline inside–was true?” came his thought.
Panicking, he grabbed a flashlight and shone it on the floor.
A thin layer of salt crystals had already formed.
He staggered back, legs giving out as he collapsed to the ground.
“How? This was supposed to be water therapy! It couldn’t have turned into saline.
“It had to be Brietta–she must’ve poured saline in after her therapy ended.
“Yes. That had to be it.”
He kept trying to reassure himself, but the knot in his stomach only tightened.
He was desperate to find Brietta right now.
But there was no way his people could work that fast.
All he could do was pace anxiously, waiting, trapped in his own torment.
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And then a strong force suddenly yanked me out.
I opened my eyes with a jolt of joy.
I wasn’t dead?
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But then I saw my own mangled corpse lying in the morgue. I looked down at my transparent body.
Only then did I realize I really was dead. What remained now was just my
soul.
Looking at my bruised and broken body, pain ripped through my heart.
For the past three years of high school, I never slacked off. I studied hard every single day, afraid to miss even a bit of homework.
At school, Nadya constantly sent her lackeys to bully and harass me.
At first, I’d come home crying to Ken, begging him to stand up for me.
But to him, Nadya had become his only sister. Whenever I cried, she cried harder, flipping the whole story and claiming I bullied her.
He believed her, not me.
Every time, he’d scold me. To please Nadya, he’d punish me again and again.
Eventually, I stopped telling him about the bullying. I just endured it all
in silence.
I thought once I finished the SAT and got into university, everything would get better.
So I studied even harder, just to escape from Ken.
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When my scores came out, I was thrilled. I’d done well enough to choose a university far away from him.
But I never expected–because of that one smile, Ken snapped.
And I lost my life because of it…
Even now, as a soul, the pain hasn’t gone away.
It still hurts.
To
this day, I still don’t understand why Ken–who once adored me- completely flipped after Nadya moved in.
But whatever. I’m already dead. None of it matters anymore.
Suddenly, that force yanked me again.
When I opened my eyes, I was home.
The first thing I saw was Ken pacing nervously at the basement door.
The door was wide open. His panic said it all.
He must’ve discovered the saline, right?
But even if he did–it was too late.
His phone rang. His pupils dilated. He frantically scrolled through his phone.
I was curious–what could make him react like that? I floated over and peeked from behind him.
What I saw on the phone made me suck in a breath.
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