Chapter 5

Chapter 5

As soon as I woke up, I encountered the face of a strange woman strangling my throat.

“Are you that beautiful? How dare you meet with our Jaehyun oppa?”

Perhaps the woman who infiltrated my house was a huge fan of actor Ha Jaehyun.

Recently, after I shot an advertisement with Ha Jaehyun, I was unfortunately caught up in a scandal and suffered a lot.

There were many cases where I received letters full of death threats from his hardcore fans or got hit by raw eggs.

Still, it was bearable because it was familiar to me, who had been through all sorts of hardships.

I never imagined that there would be a fan crazy enough to hide in my home with the intention of killing me by using a knife, but…

“Don’t try to run away! Die!”

At that time, I was struggling to get out of bed and run away.

I could clearly feel the coolness of the heavy kitchen knife that had pierced my abdomen.

“Oh, I can’t believe it.”

It was hot as if the pain of that time had transferred, so I grabbed my stomach and crouched down for a moment.

‘Yeah, I was mistaken. It was such a terrible memory that I wanted to forget it.’

My last memory was that I didn’t end up falling asleep. Instead, I was stabbed by Jaehyun Ha’s crazy fan.

‘No way, that means my body had only 10 minutes left to live…’

I grabbed ahold of my confused mind and carefully asked Wisht.

“…I’m dead? It can’t be, right?”

Wisht was silent again at my question. This time it was positive.

“Then did Rubette make a wish to swap with my dying body?”

“…….”

I asked, hoping that my expectations would be wrong.

“What? Did she make that wish without knowing? She made that wish because she was greedy for my life, but unfortunately, I just died, right? Is that it?”

“…….”

“…Can you please say yes?”

“I’m sorry that I can’t give you the answer you want.”

“Oh, god.”

Did you know that I was going to die? Why did you make the wish to swap bodies even though you knew?

There was no room for any other interpretations. Rubette didn’t make such a wish because she coveted my life, but because she wanted to save me.

For me, who lived in a completely different world, unaware of her existence.

‘Why?’

Looking at me confused, Wisht said.

“At the end, Rubette had lost all her will to live. One of the three wishes was left, but even that felt meaningless to use. Eventually, she went to throw herself into the pond where I gave you a glimpse of your life…”

With those words, I remembered the last comment that Rubette left on my SNS.

SNS- social media

I decided to die today, Juliet.

It seemed sincere.

“She wanted to watch your life one last time before she died. Coincidentally, the last scene was you who was stabbed to death.”

“…….”

“You may think it’s cruel, but there’s something I want to show you. “The image of Rubette making her last wish.”

Wisht, who muttered with an indifferent expression, lightly tapped my forehead. At that moment, a scene flashed in my mind.

Looking into the pond where I was dying, Rubette was crying.

“No! No! Juliet! Please!”

She immediately called out Wisht and shouted, trembling.

“Wisht, Wisht. I want to use my last wish. Please save Juliet. Please.”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t save the dead. The gears of fate have already turned, and Juliet Karenina is destined to die soon.”

“Well, then, can you turn back time over there? I have to let Juliet know somehow, to-to stay away from her…”

“Didn’t I tell you already? It is beyond my ability to intervene with the casualties of the other world.”

“Then? Do you mean Juliet has to die like that?”

“If that’s Juliet Karenina’s fate.”

In response to Wisht’s answer, Rubette was more distressed than I was.

“I can’t… Juliet had a pretty, glamorous life, but I know better than anyone that it didn’t come without effort.”

The voice of her weeping and muttering echoed clearly in my mind, and suddenly I choked up.

“You lived a tough life! Unlike the stupid me! Juliet was such a wonderful person!”

Rubette cried like a madman.

“I was the kind of person who slept only 4 hours a day and felt sorry during those 4 hours! Not everything Juliet achieved was just given!”

“…….”

“Hard, very, very hard…! Heuk! Like that, she who had lived a great life, in vain like this…”

“…….”

“This can’t happen. This really can’t happen.”

​​Rubette, who was watching me bleeding and dying with empty eyes, said to Wisht with a changed look.

“It’s okay as long as you don’t intervene in the casualties of the other world, right?”

“What are you thinking?”

“Right now, Juliet has completely stopped breathing.”

“…….”

“Swap my soul with Juliet’s. If you can’t save Juliet, I’ll go into her body and die instead.”

“What?”

“I was going to die anyway.”

“Are you crazy? I’m not going to grant your wish—”

“You are under my authority, and this is my order. Swap our souls right now. Juliet would never want to die like this.”

“Ha…”

“A lot more than me who is useless if I have lived.. because she’s a person who has regrets in life.”

Wisht could not disobey Rubette’s orders.

So I woke up in Rubette’s body, and Rubette opened her eyes in my dying body.

And she entered my body for just 10 minutes, writhing in pain before dying.

’I can’t believe it. What the hell…’

The figure of Rubette that I first glimpsed disappeared after fading like an afterimage in my head.

I stayed silent for a very long time, pressing down the feeling of nausea.

It was a difficult reality to accept all at once.

Futile death.

And a new life that was given to me by a woman named ‘Rubetria Diollus,’ whom I didn’t even know existed.

“I, I don’t know…”

“…….”

“Because she was bullied… I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay. As you said, you didn’t know.”

“Yes.”

“…….”

“Can you give me some time to cry?”

Without waiting for Wisht’s reply, I lay still on the bed. Tears started flowing right away.

* * *

At dawn.

I thought that all the moisture in my body was gone and there were no more tears to shed.

“Did you finish crying?”

Wisht, who had been by my side all the time crying, asked. I just looked at him with puffy eyes and nodded.

“What are you going to do?”

“What should I do?”

“Let me tell you, Rubette’s life was so difficult and miserable that she decided to commit suicide after returning home. Perhaps all the ordeals surrounding her will be difficult for you.”

“…What do you want to say? Don’t go around in circles, tell me.”

“Maybe you can use me cleverly.”

Wisht added, looking down at me with its arms crossed.

“I am still a power bound by the body of ‘Rubetria Diollus’, but the soul inside her body is different now, so you can make three new wishes to me.”

I was surprised by its unexpected words. Wisht, who smiled like it was an expected reaction, suggested it.

“How about it? Would you like to use one now?”

“…Okay. I’ll use one right now.”

“Good. I’ll make you slim.”

As if it had naturally expected me to make that wish, Wisht flicked its finger.

I got up in a hurry and grabbed its hand.

“Are you crazy? Why would I make that wish when I only have three wishes?”

“Is that not it?”

“Of course not. You can lose weight by controlling your diet and exercising. And how strange would it be if you suddenly became thin?”

“…Diet control? Exercise?”

Wisht’s eyes were questionable. It seems that it remembered the failed history of Rubette trying to lose weight in the past.

“I was an actor. I’ve been in shape for nearly 20 years ever since my debut. I exercised every day and controlled my diet, and every time I started a new project, I controlled my weight, so the easiest thing for me is dieting. Take it back. I don’t wish for that.”

“Then what do you wish for?”

To Wisht, who asked with confused eyes, I immediately stated my requirements.

“First of all…”