[Book Sip] Different Personality Every Day of the Week 'Human 7buje'... Still Love 'The Day You Are'

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The story depicts a future where the "Human 7-Day System" is implemented to solve problems like environmental destruction and food shortages. The Human 7-Day System means that one body is shared by seven people. Each person uses the body on their assigned day of the week and spends the remaining six days living in a virtual reality space called "Paradise." The "bodymates" who share the body are usually assigned based on similar personalities, but the two protagonists are mortal enemies. They often hand over the body while drunk or wake up on rain-soaked streets. Eventually, they face death... Within a setting where only those who can afford to pay the "environmental burden fee" can have a whole body, the story ultimately conveys the belief that love will save us.

Since then, every Wednesday when I woke up offline, the resonance was always somewhere unexpected. At a bar table sharing seats with unfamiliar men. On a rain-soaked street (waking up lying down). In front of the departure gate at Osaka International Airport in Japan (with three hours left before boarding). At the entrance of a house in Gyeongju with no vacant rooms. At the Jirisan Jangteomok Shelter. In a rural abandoned house where no taxis could be called on a day of heavy rain. Club restrooms, bars, benches covered in filth... Half of those times, I was heavily intoxicated, and two or three times, I woke up to find it was already Wednesday afternoon. It was because Kang Jina swapped souls just before falling asleep drunk. - p.32~33

The rules by which this world, still called "reality" by old-timers like President Choi, operates were simple. Effort easily falters, and desperate wishes are lightly trampled. Nothing lasts forever, and beauty is but a fleeting moment. Even love has an inevitable end. - p.61

An artificial intelligence with the face of a person who no longer exists in the world continued to utter strange words.

"Hyun Wollim has used Emergency Bring Oil to extract only the soul from the shared body and has been back in the Paradise system for 50 hours. News of Hyun Wollim's death has been notified to the six other bodymates, and new bodies will soon be assigned to them."

"I... died?"

Wollim's heart pounded fiercely as he looked at the puddle filled with rainwater. - p.79

"I told you yesterday. It's a disadvantageous deal for you." Kang Irun said calmly and dryly.

"So, what exactly do you want me to do?" Wollim mumbled with his mouth full of popcorn. Then Kang Irun's low voice shook Wollim's anxious heart.

"Help me disappear from this world." - p.177

"No? Mujae seems to be living well in Yeoul City? There's no reason to feel sorry for him."

"Then, why on earth?"

Wollim looked down at his own toes once, then raised his head with a trembling breath and looked at Irun.

"Because you, Kang Irun, are there. I want to be with you every day on the day of the week you are assigned." - p.421~422

Wollim could faintly hear Irun's soft chuckle.

Irun hugged Wollim tightly, and the unending trembling spoke to each other.

Even if we lose our bodies and memories, you and I will surely recognize each other and inevitably love each other. - p.430

The Day You Are Here | Written by Park Soyoung | Changbi | 436 pages | 16,000 KRW

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