Chapter 31: The Passage of Time, Part 8

Several months have passed since I met Yun Seohui, and now we are in August 2014. Since then, she comes at least once a week to play with Seunghae and me.

There have been times when I could not be there due to some matters, but she still had fun with Seunghae, and during this time began to interact with the rest of the family.

At first, everyone was somewhat worried about Yun Seohui, fearing that she might be a future problem for my relationship with Seonhwa and Seunghae. But Seunghae and I explained Yun Seohui's mental situation and that we are helping her. They were skeptical at first, but slowly as they interacted with her during this time, they realized that she is not as well as she seems and they began to open up to her and help her as much as possible, and now she has lunch and dinner with us when she comes to play.

Seunghae and I also explained the situation to Seonhwa, and she was quite shocked and strongly resisted us maintaining any relationship with Yun Seohui. She could not explain why, and it all seemed like she was jealous, and Seunghae interpreted it that way and was upset with Seonhwa for a while until Seonhwa had no choice but to surrender and accept that we are interacting with Yun Seohui.

I know why she opposes it so much, and it is not because of jealousy, but because she knows Yun Seohui from Paradise and therefore only knows Yun Seohui in her business facade. Anyone who doesn't know her real situation could only think that she is a dangerous woman, a cold-blooded business woman who will do anything to achieve her goals.

Which is not very wrong, she was raised that way after all. The problem is the essence of the situation, her mentality is that of a child, if no one helps and guides her, she will get lost in the evil of the world to which she has always been exposed as happened in the novel. That is why I'm teaching her the kind side of life and helping her develop her childish mentality into a mature one. Until her mentality matures, she cannot be judged as an adult.

Right now, I am lying in my bed. It's night so everyone is sleeping. Since I only need 2 hours of sleep to function perfectly the rest of the day, I usually just stay in bed reflecting the rest of the time or watching Seunghae in my arms sleeping peacefully.

Ever since I returned, she has been staying with me to sleep. Although we have not yet crossed the last line just like with Seonhwa, we enjoy the rest of the activities that can be done without crossing that line.

But I promised Seonhwa before she left, that she would be the first and I would wait for her return. So I have not crossed the line with Seunghae. She was upset at first, but she knows that I respect and keep my promises. So in the end, she agreed, but in return, she forced me to fulfill all her fantasies as long as they did not cross the last line and I can only marvel at what I discovered as a result... I was always of the mind that only men were perverts, but now I know that women, when they set their minds to it can far surpass imagination.

I got bored of reflecting and started to watch Seunghae. She is sleeping so calmly and peacefully using my right arm as a pillow, she looks so cute and peaceful that if it were not for what we did a few hours before she slept, I would think she is an innocent little angel and not a perverted little devil.

I was relaxed watching her sleep, but I could not stay that way. My senses immediately activated and suddenly I felt it and went on guard. A disturbance in space, it's subtle, if it were before training with master Maldong, I would not be able to feel it, but after continously breaking my limits and finally developing the ability of [Sensory Perception], I am someone different.

I activated the [Nine Eyes], but they showed me nothing, as if what is happening cannot be evaluated. Perhaps it is something that requires the three colors that I have not yet unlocked. If that is the case, at least I can be at ease, because none of those colors represent an immediate threat. But that does not mean I let my guard down.

I don't know what it is, but the feeling of the disturbance in space is becoming stronger at each passing moment. I activated [Physical Reinforcement] to the maximum and activated [Mana Cloaking] as well to cover Seunghae and myself with it. Seunghae is still asleep and has not noticed anything; infact, there is no way a normal human would notice these changes.

Just when I was seriously considering whether or not to retreat and take Seunghae to another place before checking what was happening, the sensation stopped and instead, there was a flash of light in the room. It was bright, lasted a few seconds, and woke Seunghae, who was alarmed by what happened. For my part, I took her and put her behind me to shield her with my body in case something bad happens. The light took a few seconds to disappear and was replaced by the figure of a woman. I did not stop much to look at her appearance and focused more on her situation; she was clearly hysterical, shaking her arms and legs forcefully as if trying to free herself from something or someone.

Her clothes were black as if she were wearing mourning clothes, and they were very luxurious and expensive looking, but they were clearly torn in several parts as if someone had intentionally broken them to try to remove them quickly. Clearly, they were trying to undress her by force and became impatient to remove the clothes and opted to tear them, but only a few parts were torn, and luckily it seems that whoever tried to force her did not succeed before she was warped here.

The other thing I noticed was that she was screaming in a language that I do not understand or have heard. With my memory, I am familiar with almost all the current languages of this era; I have studied them over the years, and while I have not master all of them perfectly, I did perfectly master the most common ones and am familiar with the rest enough to say clearly that she is speaking a language that is not from Earth probably because she does not belong to Earth to begin with.

There are two reasons why I thought like this. The first reason is that I was waiting for this person from the beginning, hoping not to fail in saving her, and given how she appeared, it is proof that she is the person I was waiting for. The second reason that confirms it is that I have had my [Nine Eyes] active from the beginning, and I saw it, her description.

She is Roe Scheherazade, the queen of the Scheherazade kingdom of Lost Paradise, and according to the novel, she is the person with the most tragic background of all.

Luckily my plan worked, and the message I asked master Maldong to carry to the deities of Paradise worked. She was rescued and brought to me before her tragedy began, but it seems the plan did not work with her husband, which shows that changing a destined death is much more difficult than changing a tragic life, as happened with uncle and auntie. Saving their lives was not easy, and even achieving it, uncle has been in a coma until now, and auntie for 4 years plus her disability from the waist down.

But returning to Roe, she is the only person in this world that I decided to save regardless of what Causality or Fate tried to do. As long as I am in this world, I will not allow anyone to suffer what she suffered. And if my plan had not worked, I would have looked for another way to reverse everything, but luckily it seems to have worked.

My entire assessment of the situation took no more than a couple of seconds. I got up quickly and took one of the clean blankets that are in the closet since the ones we have on the bed are a mess. I approached Roe, covered her with it, and tried to calm her down. The problem is that neither of us speaks the same language, so I can't say anything to calm her down and can only hope that she comes out of her state of shock.

Seunghae is clearly frightened, from the intense light that woke her up to seeing a woman suddenly appear on the floor of our room, screaming wildly and speaking words in a language she doesn't understand, all of which scared her quite a bit.

"Oppa! Is she an alien? You saw her come out of the light, right?! Is she coming to kidnap us for probing and brainwashing? Should I call the police?" Seunghae asked, quite scared and nervous.

"Wait, don't do anything yet, she seems more like a victim than an attacker, let's wait for her to calm down. Imagine she's a friendly alien who was the victim of something horrible and used some technology to escape and ended up here. If we call the police, it will be like in the movies, and they will take her to a horrible place to do experiments on her instead of helping her," I said something random to try to calm Seunghae down and convince her not to call the police, as it would cause me unnecessary problems.

Fortunately, I made sure to soundproof our room when I saw that it was extremely necessary due to our nighttime activities, or else everyone in the house would have already woken up due to Roe's commotion.

Seunghae and I waited a bit, and it took a few more minutes for Roe to come out of her shock, calm down a bit, and start to notice the change in environment and situation. The first thing she did was check her condition, she saw that her clothes were torn but not completely, and that her body was not defiled, which resulted in her expression of relief. Then she saw me and got a little frightened since, given the circumstances that Seunghae and I went through before sleeping, I fell asleep in only my underwear.

And Roe, seeing me, a man in underwear when a man almost raped her before coming here, must have been unsettling. But she calmed down when she saw Seunghae, who is a woman and is also in the room, and realized that she is relatively safe.

""#%$#"$!$" She said, but I did not understand a word of what she was saying.

I sighed and spoke, but at the same time, I gestured to make it clear that we don't speak the same language, which she evidently noticed.

The situation became tense from there; she doesn't know what to do or if she is safe, and I can't explain anything because there aren't many ways to communicate. The only quick solution I could think of to calm things down a bit was to put on more clothes, so I looked for clothes in my closet to put on, which seemed to relieve Roe a bit.

The one who relieved the situation even more was Seunghae, who took out some drinks from the mini-fridge we have in the room and offered them to her. She was clearly paranoid and did not want to try anything that she did not know was safe.

"Surely she doesn't trust that the drinks are safe, given the situation in which she appeared, she must fear that the drinks have some poison and that it's a trap. The best thing is for you to try the drinks in front of her so she can see they are safe. I won't do it because she might be disgusted that a man tests them for her," I told Seunghae.

"I understand, so I will try them," said Seunghae, and proceeded to taste the drinks to show that they were safe and then gestured to Roe to drink.

Roe decided to trust her a little and took a can of Coca-Cola and drank slowly. She reacted a bit funny when she took it, but I guess she had never tried a carbonated drink before. It seemed to be to her liking, and she continued drinking. While drinking, Queen Roe began to assess the environment and clearly realized that this place is nothing like what she knows. The room is full of things that don't exist in Lost Paradise, and on the contrary, things that are common in Lost Paradise are missing, and seeing that we speak a different language, it seems that she realized her current situation.

For my part, I can only think that the best method to clarify this is to learn her language. If she spoke continuously, it would be easy for me to learn it, maybe a few weeks, but getting her to talk without leaving or doing something crazy will be difficult.

So I started with the basics, I stood in front of her, and she got nervous, but I just pointed to myself and said my name. Even if we don't understand each other's languages, there are common ways to communicate something as long as both sides are intelligent. Then I pointed to Seunghae and said her name, then I pointed to Roe, and she clearly understood the idea and told me hers. Obviously, I didn't understand, and I am not familiar with the language, but we repeated the process until she could pronounce our names, and we could pronounce hers.

"We need to get her a change of clothes; her clothes are damaged and expose her. See if any of your clothes fit her, if they are too small, take some of mine and help her change. I will leave to give you privacy," I said and left the room, leaving them alone. I'm not afraid that she will harm Seunghae; from the beginning, I had the [Nine Eyes] active, and there was never any sign of danger from her.

After more than 20 minutes, Seunghae finally called me to enter. Roe was no longer wearing her torn black clothes that she arrived in; now she is wearing one of my sweatshirts and training pants. As I suspected, Seunghae's clothes would not fit her; Roe is taller, measuring 171cm, and Seunghae is 162cm.

"We could only find those clothes for her; mine were too small, and Oppa's were too big. It was difficult to find something more or less suitable, but for now, that will suffice. But what do we do now, Oppa?" said Seunghae.

"We will help her. Tomorrow we will get her clothes that fit her size. For my part, I will need a few days or weeks to learn her language so that I can have a conversation and learn about her situation," I told her seriously.

Then I left the room with Seunghae and gestured to Roe to follow us. I took her to an empty room and gestured for her to look around, then I took her to another, and so I took her to 3 or 4 rooms where I made the same gestures. After a while, she understood that I was telling her to choose a room to stay in; she chose one near where Seunghae and I were.

I gestured that we were going to sleep and that we would talk when the sun came up since it was still dark. I don't know how much she understood, but at least she surely understood the part about the room and sleeping.

For our part, we returned to our room and talked a bit. I told Seunghae that tomorrow I would make a mini dictionary with pictures to start deciphering the language, with that I could learn and master it in a few weeks at most.

I waited for Seunghae to fall asleep and got out of bed, turned on my laptop, and began to search for images of all kinds and archived them. I was creating an illustrated dictionary. Morning came, and Seunghae woke up, we went to shower and got dressed.

Then we went to Roe's room and knocked on the door. Roe didn't take long to open it, and we made some gestures for her to follow us.

We took her to the dining room where the whole family was, and they were clearly surprised by the person accompanying us, especially because she was wearing my training clothes. I almost felt stabbed by the accusatory looks everyone was giving me. And Seunghae, understanding what was happening, began to act like a victim of betrayal and only stopped to explain everything when she saw my dad coming aggressively to hit me, and then she started laughing.

Roe, not understanding the conversation, was quite disconcerted by everything, but she could see the family atmosphere, and that filled her with tranquility.

Seunghae and I explained everything that happened, obviously, I won't talk about my secret knowledge and just stuck to the facts that occurred yesterday.

Then we sat down and ate. Roe, seeing everyone eating harmoniously as a family, was not on guard against the food this time and ate from the plate served to her without caution. But after a while, while we were all happy and chatting about anything, she began to cry.

It seems that the cheerful and familiar atmosphere affected her a lot.

The girls went to hug and comfort her, and after a while, she calmed down, and after that, the girls joined together and took her to try on some of their clothes to cheer her up, but since they are also smaller, it didn't work, and in the end, they had to take her measurements and order clothes.

We decided not to take her out of the house because without being able to communicate clearly, it would have caused more problems. When they asked me what I had planned, I explained the dictionary I would create to help learn her language and facilitate everything. If someone else had told them that, they would think he's crazy, but it's not the first time they've seen me learn a language in a short time.

Then I went to my study, printed all the images I searched for at night, and took them to Roe. I would point to an image and say what it is in my language, and then I would gesture to her to do the same in hers. When she understood the mechanics, we advanced quickly, and by the end of the day, I had learned more than 1000 words in her language. She was clearly surprised since she didn't remember even 20 of ours.

The next day I prepared a new list of different images and more words, only this time I was understanding more and more when she spoke, and I urged her to do that, to keep talking.

By the end of the week, I could understand and speak clumsily with her, things like saying, "I want to drink water", at least I could say them in her language simply as, "I want water."

At the same time, she became familiar with everyone in the house. Although apart from me, no one understood her much, nor she them, that did not change that human interaction is not limited to language, and there are many things that can be understood with gestures. Occasionally, she looked very nostalgic with the family atmosphere and sometimes cried a little, but one way or another, the girls comforted her.

She was also very surprised to see our technologies. She was super curious when she saw the television and cell phones, and super entertained playing with the different settings of a fan; she was like a child in a toy store.

From the first day Roe arrived here, I made sure to avoid her meeting Yun Seohui at all costs because I know they know each other from Lost Paradise and not on friendly terms. It is not that they are personal enemies, but the group Yun Seohui belongs to, Sinyoung, and especially Yun Seohui's father, Yun Seojin, is an enemy of Roe.

If they meet, all the trust I have established so far would collapse. I need to first master the language and communication to establish everything little by little. Luckily Yun Seohui only comes once a week, and the day she came, I managed to attend to her and prevent her from meeting Roe, and everything went well.

By the middle of the second week, I had mastered Roe's language perfectly and was able to have fluid conversations with her. If there was a word I didn't know in her language, she would teach me, and since I learn quickly, I was ready to finally have the important conversation with her. So I took her to my study to talk privately and seriously.

"At last, after all this time and effort, it's good that we can finally speak clearly," I said.

"Yes, I'm glad there is someone so capable here, and I'm embarrassed that I have not been able to learn many words of your language in the time that you completely learned mine," she said, somewhat ashamed.

"Well, everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, it's natural. But getting back to serious matters, first of all, let me introduce myself once again, my name is Seol Jihu," I said.

"Pleased to meet you, I am the queen of the Scheherazade kingdom, Roe Scheherazade. You can call me Her Majesty Roe, Mr. Seol Jihu," she said, making an elegant gesture of lifting the hem of her long dress slightly.

"Pleased to meet you, Your Majesty Roe, you can just call me Jihu, Mr. Seol Jihu is too formal for my taste."

"Then so be it, Jihu."

"Leaving the introductions aside, I think it is evident that this place is not the Lost Paradise, but the Earth, " I said seriously.

She immediately became alert, stood up, and her posture was cautious, obviously because of my words that clearly indicate that I know where she is from and that I just declared that she is in the place where the people who ruined her life come from.

"I understand why you are on guard and I will not ask you not to be, if that will make you feel comfortable then so be it, but know that you are safe. The reason the gods of Paradise sent you here to me is so that you could be safe. There is no safer place than this one here in both worlds" I said, trying to reassure her.

She realized she was exaggerating; after all, if I wanted to harm her, I would have done it much earlier, especially since I just made it clear that I knew where she was from the beginning.

"Sorry for my distrust, it wasn't fair of me to act like that considering how much you have helped me and how well you have treated me," she said as she sat down again.

"You don't have to apologize Your Majesty, I understand that before coming here you went through very bad experiences at the hands of other earthlings," I said calmly.

"Can you tell me how you know about me? and you said that the gods sent me here specifically and not at random, can you tell me the reason?" she said, finally seeking answers to her entire current situation.

I proceeded to explain to her that I am one of the most capable people on Earth and that I promised the gods of Lost Paradise that I would save their world. But that I was not yet ready to do so, that I needed time to prepare and that in a little over 2 years I would be ready to go to their world and save them from the Parasites.

I also explained that I knew about her and her situation a long time ago, that I have an ability that allows me to see the future to a certain extent, and that I saw her husband die and saw her being the victim of horrible things and in the end, she in search of revenge would use the Royal Oath of the gods against humanity itself, and to prevent that I made a petition to the gods.

Instead of letting her husband die and her fall into such tragedy to finally use her Oath against humanity, it would be better to simply use that Oath to save her husband's life and spare her the tragedy.

And that the reason for bringing her here to Earth is because the gods cannot intervene directly in mortal affairs, they could save her once with the Royal Oath but they could not save her more times, and to avoid Fate and Causality, it was a better option to send her here where they don't need to worry about her safety, after all, her safety is guaranteed here with my family.

But I asked her if her husband used his Oath in any other way before dying, because that would be the only reason why he would not be sent here instead of dying, and she told me that he used his Oath to free his kingdom from a disease that was endangering everyone's lives.

This happened a few months before he died of poisoning, after which the entire kingdom went mad looking for the culprit, and Sinyoung, the organization of earthlings she trusted, began to turn the entire kingdom upside down in search of the culprit. But it was only before coming here, when she was almost raped by one of the high-ranking officers of Sinyoung, that she realized from his own mouth that they were the ones who caused the disease that struck the kingdom and that they were the ones who poisoned her husband.

After all the explanations, I told her that she is free to share all the information she wants with my family, but for the moment not to inform them about my connection with Lost Paradise. It is something I keep secret from them and I have not yet decided whether I should continue to keep it secret or reveal it.

I also explained to her about Sinyoung Pharmaceuticals and told her that I would take revenge and erase the organization, but that I would forgive innocent people or other victims like Yun Seohui. Fortunately, the queen, having not suffered the tragedy she did in the novel, happily accepted my promise of revenge and agreed to leave out those who were not guilty.

And then I spent the following week programming a voice translator. Now that I know both languages, it was easy for me to do it, a voice recognition program, it will only translate what the recognized voice says and access to a small database with both languages, which in this case were Paradisiacal and Korean.

The difficult part was requesting the device to contain the program. Well, It's not that it's so difficult, the hardware can easily be based on current mobile technology, but I don't want something big and clumsy, so I asked for more miniaturized and personalized hardware in the form of a choker, so that it is more comfortable and elegant to wear. I ordered it in two versions, one feminine and one masculine.

And so I gave such personalized translators to everyone in the house so that they can speak and interact with Roe. Although it is not perfect for carrying on an instant conversation, it still allows for almost real-time communication.

For example; I say my speech, the translator receives and recognizes only my voice, then repeats my speech in the other language that is programmed, it's as if each person will say the same thing twice, only the first time in their language and the second in the other by the translator.

It is not perfect by any means, but it's the best that I can do. Even with the technology of my world, there was nothing more sophisticated and that was why the language was unified into one.