Choi Yoo-Joo looked at Chi-Woo with mixed feelings from the air. Then she finally regained her senses and, after trying to send Chi-Woo back, she dropped her hand.

“…”

“…Stay.”

“…”

“I request you to stay. Could you please stay? I beg you!” Her attitude took a complete turn. She sounded so desperate that Chi-Woo couldn’t even scold her for trying to send him back without figuring things out properly. Thus, he ended up nodding confusedly, and the Yoo-Joo in the air looked relieved.

After that, the same thing that happened before repeated. She sent back many Chi-Woos and Yoo-Joos while leaving one or two of them every now and then. Eventually, the weeding-out process ended. There weren’t many people remaining compared to the large crowd from the beginning, and now there were significant gaps in the space that had been filled with people from corner to corner.

“…Yes, this is more like it,” Yoo-Joo bitterly murmured after the screening process. She let out the breath she had been holding and rose into the air. “First of all, congratulations.” She looked around at the remaining Chi-Woos and Yoo-Joos. “You all are…how should I say this? Yes, you and I are the remaining Chois who have a slight chance of reaching the future we desire at this current time.”

All the Chi-Woos and Yoo-Joos blinked hard and glanced at one...