Chapter 411: Winter Break (4)
When a person awakens, it doesn't happen instantly, like flipping a switch to light up a room. Instead, it creeps in slowly... an ebbing tide of submerged consciousness gradually bleeding into reality, little by little seizing control of the senses.
The first sense to stir was hearing.
'Let me help...'
'... The transfer process is complicated...'
'... We can manage as well...'
Faint murmurs brushed against his ears, stirring the edges of his mind and sharpening the fog of his dulled senses.
And then... reality crashed down all at once.
Baek Yu-Seol instinctively tried to open his eyes wide and sit up, but—
It felt as though the weight of an entire building bore down upon his eyelids. Yet it wasn't just that.
As if he were shackled by chains of iron, not even a single finger would obey him. His body felt hollow, stripped bare of all sensation.
'What's happening to me...?'