Chapter 8 (1/2)

Chapter 8 – There Is A Reaction

-Pat!

“Araghh, f***! This s.h.i.+t again!”

“Meow.”

Rika who was eating her cat feed meowed in surprise as she heard the profanity.

In front of the computer, Jaegun buried his face onto his two hands. The screen was now of a blue color, filled with error messages.

“It’s hasn’t been long since I fixed it and now it’s acting up again.”

He was complaining, but it was a computer that he had been using for a long time. He owned it since his college days, so it has been in use for about 7 years already.

“d.a.m.n it. At least I sent my project in before it busted.”

He had sent the third martial arts novel of the series to the publisher. He was about to write the fourth one before it crashed. It wasn’t the worst situation to be in, but he was in the dark on trying to write from now on.

“Is it time for me to buy a new PC?”

He thought it wasn’t a bad idea to buy a new computer now.

He still had about 1,500,000 Won left from his contract payment. He gave 300,000 Won to his dad and even after buying Rika’s cat food, and the living necessities left him this much.

‘No. Not yet. I can’t relax.’

Jaegun shook the thought out. He knew that money always seemed aplenty, but it always had a tendency to flow off.

The rent and the utility bills would take him under 1,000,000 Won. Without even thinking about the next month, was he going to buy an expensive computer? This was the mindset of someone who wanted to live for one day and die.

‘I should just go to a PC bang. I could cut my rent for a month and use it there.’

His head was filled with ideas for his novels. He had to write new these things down or else he thought that his mind might burst. Jaegun suddenly kicked his chair and shot up.

At that moment.

“Right! I have that!”

He glanced towards the corner of the room. The old and tattered laptop was in sight; however, there shouldn’t be a big problem if he just used it to write.

‘It even has ‘Word’. It works fine, so why not use that?”’

He put his broken computer below his desk and replaced it with Seo Gunwoo’s laptop. As he connected the power cord to the laptop and turned it on, it made a BEEP sound and the booting started..

‘You are, indeed, older than my 7 year old computer.’

-Winnnnnggg!

A phone call from the editor-in-chief came.

Jaegun double-clicked on Word from the desktop as he picked up the phone.

“Yes?”

“Yes, h.e.l.lo. How did you write 3 books in a day? Did you already write these?”

“Haha, no. That’s not it. The story just came to me.”

It wasn’t a lie. After he obtained the new memories, his writing has changed.

It wasn’t his choice, but everything changed. It gave him motivation and new thoughts. He could tell from his writing.

“Wow. Then this seriously wasn’t written before and was written in a week?”

She was really surprised.

Jaegun’s normal speed was about 1 book per one month.

“I skimmed it and book 3 was good too. There isn’t much to change there as well. Good work, Mr. Ha.”

“No. The compliments should go to you for checking my work.”

“Hahaha, no. But there’s a surprising piece of news.”

“Surprising?”

“You should hold onto your phone.”

With those words, Jaegun tightened his grip on the phone.

“What is it? Is it something bad?”

“It should be good. After all, there’s no writer that doesn’t like their books being copied”

“….?”

Jaegun couldn’t believe his ears.

My writing? Being lengthened in copy?