2026-02-16 15:49:45In despair, Kieran closed his eyes. He no longer tried to fight the exhaustion creeping through his body. There was no light, only dense darkness.
He tried to accept the worst possibility, that perhaps this was the end.
Then a voice was heard. It appeared just like that in his head, flat and emotionless, like a notification from a device he had never owned.
[Kieran Viremont, do you want to keep living?]
Kieran did not answer immediately. For a moment, his mind was blank. He was too tired to ask who was speaking or how the voice could be there. Yet the question stirred something in his chest.
Want to live?
He thought of the faces that laughed when he fell. The pain that still faintly lingered in his bones, and most strongly, the feeling of unwillingness to accept it.
He was not finished. Not only because of resentment, but because he did not want to disappear just like that.
“I do,” he murmured softly, though he was not sure his lips truly moved. “I still want to live.”
His answer sounded small, but firm.
[Very well.]
There was no dramatic tone nor threat.
[System activated. Start.]
[1%][12%][47%]The numbers flashed across his consciousness like a loading bar on a phone screen.
[100%]
[Congratulations, Host. The system has been activated and you have successfully transmigrated into the body of a student named Kieran.]
[Memory transfer has begun. Please wait until the process is complete.]The words made him want to ask questions, but before he could process anything, his head felt heavy. Not a sharp pain, but as if too much information was being forced in at once. The voice disappeared just like that, leaving a faint hum that continued to vibrate in his ears.
He tried to open his eyes, but failed. His eyelids felt as if they were glued shut. He tried to move his fingers, but there was only a heavy sensation, as though his body were underwater.
Even his own breathing sounded faint.
In that condition, the only thing he could still rely on was his hearing.
There were sounds outside. At first, only the steady rhythm of a machine—beep… beep… beep… slow and regular. Then hurried footsteps, followed by the rustling of fabric, and then a woman’s voice.
“No. I won’t give up.” The voice was soft, hoarse from exhaustion, yet there was firmness in it. “Kieran is my only child. I will do whatever it takes to save him.”
Kieran wanted to open his eyes right then. The voice sounded unfamiliar, yet the emotion within it felt deeply familiar to him. It seemed to be the mother of the body’s original owner.
There was a pause before another voice responded. Another woman, softer.
“The first surgery already used up all your savings,” she said carefully. “The doctor said further treatment is needed. The cost isn’t small. Where will you get that much money?”
Kieran heard the sound of a chair being shifted and a held breath.
“I’ll find a way. I can borrow it.”
“Borrow from whom?” The voice rose slightly, then was restrained again. “From that loan shark? You know what their interest rates are like. If you can’t pay on time—”
Silence hung for a few seconds. Only the machine continued its faithful beeping.
“I know the risk. I won’t involve you. I’m just asking… if something happens to me, please take care of Kieran.”
Kieran felt something tighten in his chest, even though his body could not move. He could feel that not only his emotions were surging, but also those of the body’s original owner.
“Stop talking like that. You think that’s a solution? If he wakes up later and finds out you destroyed your life for his hospital bills, do you think he’ll feel better?”
There was no direct answer. Only unsteady breathing followed by soft sobs.
“He won’t know,” his mother whispered after a while. “As long as he lives.”
Kieran wanted to scream. He wanted to say no. Don’t. He did not need such a sacrifice. He did not want to live at a price paid by someone else, but his body still did not respond.
However, he did not allow himself to sink again. He forced himself, slowly, little by little. That was when memories poured rapidly into his consciousness. Fragments of a life that was not his slipped in without permission.
The first name that appeared clearly: Kieran Nelson.
The owner of this body was also named Kieran, a final-year high school student. Living in a small house on the outskirts of the city. His father was an alcoholic. His mother worked as a daily laborer.
At school, Kieran Nelson was nobody. His uniform often looked dull and yellowed, and he had worn the same old shoes for years.
He rarely spoke and often sat in the corner of the classroom with his head lowered. That was enough for some people to make him a target. His bag was often hidden, his books once thrown into the toilet, and degrading nicknames were tossed around as if it were normal.
He did not fight back. Not because he was not angry, but because he knew fighting back would only make things worse.
Then a few months ago, he thought his life had changed. A beautiful and kind girl approached him. The small bits of attention she gave felt enormous to someone rarely noticed like Kieran, making him fall in love quickly.
They started dating not long after. For the first time, he felt chosen.
But the happiness did not last long. A few days after they started dating, he found out that the girl had never liked him. He was only part of a game between her and her friends. A challenge to make “the poor kid” fall in love, then abandon him.
More than that, the girl cheated on him with one of the students who bullied him the most. They laughed together, no longer trying to hide anything.
That memory left the deepest mark because of the shame and inferiority it carried.
That night, Kieran sat for a long time in his dark room. He told his mother nothing. He only felt tired, tired of being a joke, tired of being a burden, tired of hoping.
The decision he made was not out of courage, but out of despair.
His last memory was jumping from the third floor, and then everything went dark.
The flow of memories finally slowed, but it still left a heavy trace in Kieran’s chest—Kieran who was now inside this body.
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Chapter 009
The next morning, Kieran woke to a soft voice calling his name. He slowly opened his eyes. His mother was already standing beside the bed with a food container in her hand.“Wake up. Eat first, then we’ll take care of the administration and go home,” she said softly. Her tone tried to sound light, but the dark circles under her eyes were becoming more obvious.Kieran sat up slowly. He wanted to ask about the cost, how she had paid it, and where the money had come from. But when he saw her exhausted face and the faint, the question stopped in his throat. Even if he asked, he would not be helping anything right now.In the end, he simply accepted the bowl of soup and began eating quietly. This time, he finished it without leaving anything. His mother looked relieved to see that.Not long after that, the administrative process was completed. They walked out of the room toward the elevator. At the end of the corridor, several nurses and an administrative staff member were talking in some
Chapter 008
After sitting for quite some time, Kieran finally stood up. He walked slowly along the garden path, then reentered the hospital building through the side door.His steps were unhurried. A nurse who passed by him only glanced briefly and gave a small nod. A doctor coming out of an examination room even offered a faint smile, perhaps assuming the young patient was simply taking a casual walk to pass the time.No one was suspicious. Meanwhile, Kieran’s eyes moved subtly, noting every detail.In his mind, he spoke quietly to the system, “Create a detailed map of this building.”A few seconds later, transparent lines seemed to spread across his thoughts. [Data is being mapped…][Structures of floors one to three have been recorded.]Kieran did not change his expression. He still looked like a teenager leisurely spending his free time.Tonight, he would act.After feeling it was enough, he returned to his hospital room. The door was open. However, the moment he stepped inside, the room was
Chapter 007
The woman fell silent for a moment.“Just a small scrape. I accidentally fell in the kitchen yesterday.”Kieran stared at her without blinking. That was not a scrape. It was a grip mark. An uneven bruise, like the imprint of pressing fingers.From the original owner’s memories of this body, he remembered that his father often came home drunk, frequently asked his wife for money, and if there was none, he would beat her.The original owner of this body might have been afraid of his father due to childhood trauma, but the current Kieran was not. He even hated the old man, not much different from how he hated his father in his life before transmigrating.“That old man did this?” he asked flatly. He did not say the word father.His mother flinched slightly at his tone, then exhaled softly.“It’s nothing. Don’t think about unnecessary things. Just focus on recovering.”She finally managed to gently pull her hand away, then adjusted her sleeve again and tried to return to the original topic
Chapter 006
Kieran shifted his gaze away from the television screen a few seconds after the word suicide was clearly spoken by the news anchor. Without expression, he reached for the remote that the nurse had placed beside the hospital bed earlier and pressed the power button. The screen immediately went black, and the room returned to silence.All of that was indeed the past. Technically, it was no longer even him. However, feelings were not so easily severed.He did not want to know the details of the investigation broadcast on television because he knew it was all lies and the result of manipulation by his family.A light knock sounded at the door. A nurse entered while pushing a small trolley filled with food. The aroma of warm soup slowly spread through the room.“It’s time for dinner,” she said kindly.Kieran nodded slightly. He did not have much appetite, but this body needed nourishment if he wanted to recover quickly.After the nurse took the empty tray and left, the fatigue he had been
Chapter 005
The room returned to silence after the door closed. Kieran remained lying down, staring blankly at the window with its curtains half open. His aunt sat not far from him, occasionally checking her phone, occasionally looking at him with a gaze that still did not fully believe he was awake.But Kieran’s thoughts were not there. He slowly closed his eyes, trying to “feel” the existence of the spatial space again. He needed a test. Something small at first and inconspicuous.The water bottle on the bedside table? Or the plastic spoon from the meal tray?He could not recklessly experiment with trivial items like that. What if, after testing one object, the spatial space required a long recovery time? Wouldn’t he just be wasting it?Kieran drew a slow breath.Besides the storage function, what mattered more was the ability to double an object’s value. That meant whatever he put inside, if it worked according to the system’s explanation, would become an asset.He did not like uncertainty, s
Chapter 004
Not far from his bed, two women stood facing each other. Their appearance was simple, ordinary clothes that looked worn from long use, hair tied up without much care. They looked like most women one might meet at a market or a bus stop.However, the exhaustion on one of their faces was unmistakable.That woman, the mother of this body’s original owner, had fine lines that were too deep for her age. Her eyes were red and slightly swollen, as if she had cried too often over the past few days.The woman beside her, who was likely her sister, looked calmer, though the dark circles under her eyes showed that she, too, lacked sleep.Kieran watched them in silence for a few seconds. His chest felt tight, not from physical pain, but from feelings he could not ignore.“Mom…”His voice was hoarse, soft, almost like a breath. He could not hold back the sadness in his heart, after all, he had lost his original mother. And now he was calling someone “Mom.” Someone who could indeed be said to be hi
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