Chapter 58: {Anticlimactic...OR IS IT?}

"Hi Yoo-ji! I didn't do the homework you assigned." I say to her.

"You never do it!" she replies.

"Wait homework?" Sangah says.

"She's my PE teacher." I tell her.

"Weird."

"Alright idiots! Last class. You won't be learning anything today. Today, I'm gonna do the last thing a Dae Zhae Kuaun instructor is supposed to do... knee you. Sorry, no reverse spider clinch. Y'all ain't ready to do that. But here's the official sendoff. There's no level two, so any techniques I didn't teach you, you will have to look up on the internet and figure them out yourselves. I wasn't gonna send a bunch of unathletic freaks to the hospital." Yoo-ji said.

She knees us in the stomach.

Apparently it's a send off tradition, I dunno.

"Okay now chill here so I can get paid." she says.

{That doesn't surprise me.}

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Pretty anticlimactic if you ask me.

"Oh yeah do your homework Hyun!" Yoo-ji yells.

"Nope!" I reply.

{Listen to the pretty lady.}

Absolutely not.

{Of course only a Dumb Pathetic Helpless Moron would refuse homework.}

You haven't used your namesake in a while.

{Dang bro.}

At home, Jugyeong greets me.

"Hi Jugyeong." I say.

"That's it?"

"What?"

"I've been reading your webnovel."

{OH HELL NAH WE'RE SCREWED BOY}

"How do you like it?"

"It's an autobiography isn't it."

"Why would you say that..."

"Quit playing with me."

{Time to take one for the team. It's okay brother.}

"Yeah it's an autobiography in disguise, word for word."

"At least loving me is genuine then."

"So you're not mad?"

"Why would I be mad? My fiance is a nutjob, nothing new."

"What do you mean...."

"I'm not gonna marry you unless you go to a psychiatrist for your hallucinations."

"They're not hallucinations though."

{Brother, she's right. I don't actually exist. The title of your book is correct.}

"NO WAY REALLY DPHM? YOU'VE LIED TO ME THIS WHOLE TIME?" I say to it.

"And you're talking to your imaginary friend again." Jugyeong says looking more livid than I've ever seen her with me.

{I never said I existed. I never told you that I actually existed. I'm a fabrication of your mind to get you to better yourself. All your rewards were more like a progress meter. A placebo effect. I'm basically a glorified progress Spello board. A progress tracker.}

"I can't believe it. All this time. It's just been my mind trying to better itself?"

Jugyeong is looking at me like I'm nuts.

<Switch to Jugyeong>

Hyun looks crazier than I expected.

I knew there was something wrong with him. But man his mind dogged him.

I need to take him to a psychiatrist FAST!

He's crying too, I don't get it, he should have figured it out... ohhhh. I guess the type of depression he has hallucinations as a symptom.

<Back to Hyun>

I actually can't believe it.

{Overall Mission: Find out the truth of the DPHM System. Completed.}

So will I hallucinate that worse system that you told me about?

{No. But once you take a pill, I'm dead.}

"Jugyeong." I say.

"What?" she replies worried and pissed off at the same time.

"I'll go to the psychiatrist, but can it watch our wedding before I kill it?"

"You're that attached to a hallucination?"

"How would you feel if a friend was about to die? It's for my sanity. We can go the day after, I'll take the meds, I won't argue."

"How can I trust you?"

{I want to go.}

"It told me it wants to go. I respect that."

"Fine. But the day after I'm dragging you to the psychiatrist."

"I'll do it. I'll do it. I vow it. I vow to take my meds, I just want to give it a proper send off."

"I already said yes."

"Thank you love."

"You already know what I want on our wedding day. Double the duration as punishment."

"It wouldn't be a punishment."

"Triple then."

"Nothing's a punishment if it's you."

She blushes DYING STAR RED. I've never seen her this red. She licks her chops.

My blood vessels are in overdrive.

{Wow all those sad emotions and it ends with you needing to go to jail.}