Chapter 1: Why don’t they use the convenient setting of amnesia?

They often say there’s no paradise in the place you flee to.

But that’s nonsense from those who haven’t experienced true hell.

Isn’t it unwise to forcibly endure a painful hell?

However, this time, that saying ironically proved true.

Yes.

There was no paradise in the place I fled to.

It was an unfamiliar ceiling.

That was the first thought that came to Yu-shin’s mind as soon as he opened his eyes.

Perhaps it was natural.

Because in his previous life, Yu-shin had never once been hospitalized.

In other words, Yu-shin couldn’t help but find the hospital ceiling unfamiliar.

Even the three characters of the name ‘Baek Yu-shin’ stuck in his head.

Baek Yu-shin.

That is not my real name.

However, he could clearly tell that this name referred to himself here.

Unfortunately, those three characters were all Yu-shin knew of this place.

‘Only three characters for a name? What an insincere tutorial.’

All he could do was sigh at the incredibly unfriendly tutorial.

The white ceiling, the sour smell of disinfectant, the blue blanket, and the hospital mattress.

To anyone looking, it seemed like a modern hospital.
Yu-shin secretly held some hope.

Could it be that he had returned?

Perhaps God (anonymous user) had, in his vast generosity, sent him back?

However, if this were the world he originally lived in.

At least, a strange name like ‘Baek Yu-shin’ wouldn’t be lingering in his head, would it?

In other words.
The meaning of the current situation was clear.

‘This is not the world I lived in.’

It was a situation where an ordinary person would not be strange to fall into panic immediately.

Yu-shin calmly assessed the situation.
Even if rotten, a gizzard shad is still a gizzard shad.
He was the hero who had defeated the Demon Lord who sought to conquer the world and the shadowy mastermind who had been secretly plotting behind him.

As he had experienced countless situations worse than this during his adventures in the exile story.

Thanks to that, he could maintain his composure, but that absolutely did not mean Yu-shin welcomed his current situation.

Why would he have gone through such hell to crush the mastermind in the first place?

‘I went through hell just to go back.’

Return.

To return to his original world.

Yes, he had run forward solely focused on that single fact.

But with things getting twisted like this.
Yu-shin couldn’t help but feel a sense of reality shock.

But even so, he couldn’t just sit there and despair.

No matter how the situation had changed.
He hadn’t lost his original objective.

No matter what, I will return.

That was always his only thought.

‘But where am I, anyway? Why am I in a hospital?’

Judging by the bandages wrapped tightly around his head, it seemed he had hurt his head.

However, Yu-shin had absolutely no way of finding out what happened to the original owner of this body.

Thanks to that, it was enough to drive him crazy, but fortunately, the questions didn’t last long.

Before Yu-shin could go completely crazy, someone opened the door and entered the hospital room.

It was a girl with black hair reaching her waist, wearing a black school uniform blouse and skirt.

However, the moment the girl’s reddish eyes, which had been locked as if dead, caught sight of Yu-shin.

“Brother…?”

Didn’t she suddenly put a bomb in her mouth?
Yu-shin shouted in surprise.

“I’ve never had a younger sister like you!”

Men and women do not sit together at seven!
How could men and women, who are distinct, suddenly wish to become blood relatives?!

Naturally, from Yu-shin’s perspective, a stranger had come and called him ‘Brother’.

So he had no choice but to say that in his confusion.

However, it came as a great shock to the girl.

Tears soon began to well up in the girl’s reddish eyes, which had been staring blankly at Yu-shin.

‘How could you say something like that to me?’

Such words surged to her throat, but the girl swallowed them back with all her might.

She was in no position to dare to say such words.

Although they were not blood siblings, her only family member was on the verge of death.

And she, knowing nothing, had simply been playing with friends.

Perhaps hearing such words from her brother, who had barely woken up again, was her own doing.

However.

Nevertheless, if there was something she shamelessly desired.
The girl voiced that earnest wish.

“Brother, could I perhaps hug you just once?”

In her childhood, to comfort her fearful self.
Her brother had always hugged her.

She avoided it as she grew older, citing embarrassment.

She only realized after nearly losing him once.

‘There was ultimately nothing as reassuring as Brother’s presence. Brother was my great shade.’

Did he feel the girl’s earnest wish?
Yu-shin pondered for a moment, then gave his answer.

“No.”

Yu-shin firmly refused.
If told to do something, he wouldn’t; if told not to do something, he would.

That was the instinct of a provocateur.

At Yu-shin’s firm refusal, the girl finally couldn’t hold back and burst into tears.

The girl’s cries were loud enough to attract the attention of the relatively quiet hospital patients.

Thanks to that, Yu-shin suddenly found himself babysitting.

Oh dear, my fate.

In the midst of that, Yu-shin’s stubbornness, never hugging the girl all the way, was also quite remarkable.

Still, Yu-shin’s soothing wasn’t completely ineffective.

The girl finally stopped crying.

Yu-shin, confirming that the girl had calmed down, nodded.

Now he could finally ask.

“So, what’s your name?”

From Yu-shin’s perspective, it was a natural question.
After all, he didn’t even know the other person’s name…

How could he ask for information about this place from someone whose name he didn’t even know?

However, the girl took his words in a different meaning.
Tears welled up in the girl’s eyes again.

“I’m sorry, Brother. I was wrong.”

‘Why is she suddenly making a confession?’

“So please, just don’t pretend you don’t know me…!!”

Oh, seriously!

At the girl’s frustrating behavior, Yu-shin felt his blood pressure rise.
But there was nothing he could do.

Because the girl felt that her brother was ignoring her due to that incident.

Like a child abandoned by their parents.
All the girl could do was cry.

Realizing that conversation was impossible like this, Yu-shin pondered a solution to the situation.

Soon, after a short while.
He finally found a way to smoothly get past this situation.

“I’ll tell you the truth. I have no memory at all.”

“You have no memory at all?”

“Yes.”

Amnesia.

Yes, I’m going with that.

Yu-shin finally realized why amnesia appeared so frequently in fictional works.

Having used it himself, there was nothing more convenient.
If he didn’t use it, wouldn’t that make him a fool?

However, despite the easily concocted setting.
Its repercussions were by no means small…

Starting with the girl, a commotion broke out immediately.

The girl immediately pressed the call bell and summoned nurses.

Thanks to that, Yu-shin was suddenly led by nurses to receive a forced examination from a doctor.

“It seems his amnesia is definite.”

“Is there no way?! To bring back Brother’s memories…!!”

“Unfortunately, there is no way with current medical science.
Moreover, the patient might even be refusing to regain his memories.”

“How could that be…!!”

‘They’re playing it well.’

The doctor also conducted several examinations and finally made the diagnosis of amnesia.

It was natural.

Because the current Yu-shin was a different person with no memories of this place at all.

However, to the girl and the doctor who already knew the circumstances, it became a very serious matter.

‘He went through such a thing, so perhaps the patient’s brain couldn’t bear it.’

The doctor who examined Yu-shin couldn’t hide his regret.

‘He must have been a promising talent…’

‘How did he come to experience such an unfortunate event? Perhaps, he might even be happier now.’

‘It’s my fault. Because I didn’t take care of Brother… That’s why Brother became like this…!’

The girl was being consumed by her own guilt.

At that time when everyone had turned away from her brother.

Even she, his only family, wasn’t by his side.
How hard must it have been for him?

‘If I had been by Brother’s side then. If so, I could have stopped that tragedy.’

‘No, it’s not too late even now.’

Her reddish eyes, steeped in sadness, shone intensely.
Yes, it’s not too late.

From now on, she just needed to protect her brother herself.

From those cursed bstards.

It was a vow made by a girl who had lost something precious and barely managed to regain it.

‘Only I, his sole family, can protect Brother.’

The vow not to lose him again.
It combined with her guilt and twisted into obsession.

The girl’s burning hatred was directed towards those bstards who had made her brother like this.

‘So what on earth is your name, anyway?’

Meanwhile, Yu-shin, the one who created this situation, still didn’t know the girl’s name.

It was only after an hour had passed that Yu-shin finally managed to hear the girl’s name.