episode_0183

Before I could even figure out what was going on.

Yugyeom closed his eyes and opened them.

Something moist was put into Yugyeom’s mouth.

He instinctively sucked on his lips.

Something sweet and pulpy filled my mouth.

Before he knew it, he was so absorbed in it that he kept mumbling.

As he moved his small hand and flapped it in the air, a woman who looked exactly like him caught it with a smile.

Yugyeom smiled brightly at the warmth transmitted through his fingertips.

Let’s close and open our eyes again.

Yugyeom was taking his first steps.

Despite his weakness, he gritted his teeth and flexed his legs.

One step. Two steps. Even though he fell, he kept walking.

His mother cried and clapped, and his father cheered and held up his camera.

Yugyeom smiled brightly even then.

By the age of seven, he was squatting in the yard.

My vision was so blurry that I wondered what was going on.

Something kept dripping down.

Yugyeom realized that he was crying.

When I realized that, my emotions surged and my nose got stuffy.

Eww-

Yugyeom cried endlessly.

At his feet was a small, raised mound of dirt and a sign with the name [Poppy] written on it.

Yugyeom turned fifteen.

My mother was called to school. She bowed her head to the teacher and said, ‘I’m sorry.’

Yugyeom wiped the blood flowing from his swollen cheek and nose.

Across from him sat a man with swollen eyes and a pair of shaggy teeth.

‘Fucking Boy’ Yugyeom muttered like that.

My mom was startled and hit my arm, but it didn’t hurt.

Dad also raised a club at Yugyeom.

It hurt a little bit at that time.

In response to the question of why I fought with my friend.

He replied, ‘We’re not friends.’

Then why did you fight?

He replied, ‘Because I was bullying my friend.’

Mom applied the medicine with a sigh,

Dad asked, ‘So did you win or lose?’

Yugyeom proudly said, “Of course I won.”

Dad smiled brightly.

I closed my eyes again and opened them.

Yugyeom was dozing off.

I was so sleepy that I just collapsed.

After dozing off for a while, the bell rang.

The friend in the last seat stood up and took the test paper.

’72 points’

It was a very ambiguous score.

Yugyeom went to a PC room with his friends.

He took the college entrance exam that year and got into a university that was neither good nor bad.

When I went to college, I got a girlfriend and drank alcohol for the first time.

It felt really good to be ticklish.

I liked the unsteady steps and the slightly faster heartbeat.

In particular, I liked how pretty my girlfriend looked.

Yugyeom stayed up late at night doing homework.

At that moment, an idea suddenly occurred to me.

What was my dream?

Yugyeom was reminded of the childish novels he had read during his childhood.

And really childishly, Yugyeom’s dream is

He was a ‘shining person’.

Yugyeom thought of himself as a cripple.

After finishing his homework, Yugyeom returned home.

The way home that day was unusually quiet.

There weren’t many people.

No. There were a lot of people.

It was just all black and white.

And Yugyeom was also in black and white.

The light blinked.

The child ran into the road.

This is it, shit.

Yugyeom was embarrassed by the all too familiar cliché.

And ironically, Yugyeom threw himself into that cliché.

The light blinks again.

Yugyeom closed his eyes tightly.

“Ha, fuck”

Hild opened her eyes.

…

…

Hild opened her eyes and looked around.

It was just like before.

You just said that was a dream?

That can’t be true.

It would be right to say that it was a flash of light that Hild experienced.

A fleeting moment that seems like eternity.

“Are you in your right mind?”

Hild raised her head towards the goddess.

But strangely, I couldn’t see her face.

I broke out in a cold sweat and my hands and feet were shaking violently.

My heart felt like it was going to burst.

“Hey, Hild, are you okay?!”

Selene ran towards him in surprise.

Pak-

“… Ah… ”

Hild unconsciously pushed her hand away.

“Don’t come”

“Hee, Hild… ”

It was unfamiliar. Everything felt strange and scary, like I was seeing it for the first time.

A person who falls into the unknown cannot help but be filled with fear.

The goddess narrowed her eyes at it.

The wall came down.

The abyss-like wall that surrounded him collapsed.

It was because of the goddess’ arrangement that I was able to so easily accept and embrace the unknown that I was experiencing for the first time.

But now that’s gone.

What remained was solely Hild’s responsibility.

“Hild, why are you like this… I’m Selene… Hild”

Selene reached out to him, sobbing.

But Hild turned away from that hand.

He refused to wipe away the cold sweat that was pouring down his face.

Even when I tried to hug her trembling body, she refused.

“Not a hild”

“… Yes?”

“My name was Yugyeom… ”

Hild recited my name as if chewing on it.

Otherwise, I felt like I would forget it forever.

‘Republic of Korea. Twenty-three years old. Male…’

Hild wrote herself down with her finger.

“Goddess! Hild is strange… Hild is… ”

“He is normal. Selene”

“… Huh? You’re saying it’s normal? Lie… Lie! There’s no way that Hild-nim wouldn’t recognize me!”

The goddess shook her head coldly.

Selene couldn’t hold back her tears and screamed,

There was nothing the goddess could do.

He who found out the truth,

What choice will he make when he remembers himself?

The goddess stood still and waited for it.

His women were sobbing in a corner.

Normally, I would run over and comfort them, but

Yugyeom didn’t have the luxury of that.

Holding back the nausea that bursts out from the confusing memories,

All he could do was hold on to himself.

“Why did you choose me? There were other people there”

“… That’s what I was talking about”

“That’s what you mean when you say you chose it because it looks like a retard?”

“… I didn’t say it like that”

“That’s it”

A tense atmosphere developed between the two.

As if it would snap at any moment if touched.

“Hild”

“I’m Yugyeom. My name is… ”

“… Yes, Yugyeom”

“Why?”

“Do you regret coming to this world?”

Yugyeom didn’t say anything.

It would have been more correct to say that I had nothing to say.

For him, the memories of Yugyeom and Hild existed simultaneously.

He became a stranger who could belong anywhere, but at the same time belonged nowhere.

“When I was seven, my dog died. Its name was Poppy. It was a Shih Tzu and followed me around very well. At that time, my dream was to become a veterinarian. When I was in middle school, I smashed the class president’s face, and my dad praised me for it. At that time, I wanted to become a police officer. When I was in my third year of high school, it was so hard that I lived in a PC room, and at that time, I wanted to become a pro gamer… ”

“I see”

“There were so many things I wanted to do. There were so many things I wanted to be. But I couldn’t become any of them. When I came to my senses, I was just going to college like everyone else. Yes, I wanted to be someone who shines like a star. But I was just black and white. Like everyone else… ”

Yugyeom met the goddess’ eyes.

“Why did you choose me?”

“… Because you are the one who wanted to shine”

“… If that’s the case, then you made a wrong choice”

Yugyeom said that and laughed without saying a word.

Is it Yugyeom or Hild?

The goddess could not know.

Actually, there was no need to know.

The goddess spoke calmly.

“I’ve always made wrong choices. The kids I’ve chosen have all been troublemakers who didn’t do what I wanted. But if there’s one choice I’ve made that’s not wrong, it’s choosing you, Yugyeom”

Because her choice was not wrong.

Whether the man in front of you is Yugyeom or Hild.

Because the goddess believed she had made the right choice.

She held her head higher than ever.

“I chose you. Because I was foolish and dangerous, because I was weak and delicate, and because I was waiting for the moment when I would shine the brightest”

thud-

With vibrations that shake the axis.

With a crash that made the sky fall.

The giant scales behind me tilted.

The thing placed on the scales is a star.

A huge, brightly shining star.

The brightest star that can erase all darkness in an instant has tipped the scales.

The corners of the goddess’s mouth rose slightly.

A halo of light was rising beyond the horizon.

The air was warm and smelled sweet.

The soft texture, like wearing a cotton blanket, makes me feel good.

Deeeng- Deeeeng-

The sound of the large temple bell rang.

The engraving on his left hand disappeared with the light.

“Yugyeom, Hild. I don’t know what to call you. But now I can tell you”

“… ”

The goddess comes down gently.

Her hand caressed his cheek.

“Will you be my warrior?”

There were no more walls.

There was no need for walls anymore.

Yugyeom was at the center of the shining world.

I wasn’t shaking anymore and my breathing wasn’t heavy anymore.

My heart didn’t even beat fast.

It wasn’t unfamiliar.

It wasn’t scary.

Only then could he see the women crying as they watched him from a corner.

It was a little awkward, but they were still lovely and cute women.

Yugyeom slowly got up from his seat.

For a long time, the little goddess looked up at him.

He reached out and stroked the goddess’s head.

“If you don’t regret it, I’ll gladly show you how to be the brightest star”

And then the light poured down.

An imprint is a chain, a mark, a restraint given to a warrior.

Things that are no longer of use to him, who only contains light.

Four pairs of golden wings spread out behind Yugyeom’s back.

There was thunder splitting the sky, flames shooting up to the sky, waves crashing over the horizon, and endless rocky mountains.

Finally, there was a sword that split the stars.

The goddess laughed.

“What is your name?”

Yugyeom answered.

“Hilde. Born in South Korea and came to Sir. I’m twenty-six years old… ”

“Job is warrior”

[May your future be filled with light]

The goddess wrapped her small arms around Hild and hugged her.

Hild closed her eyes and opened them.

A faint shape appeared at the end of the dazzling light.

It was the room where I spent time with Stacia.

“Hee, Hild… ”

Selene and the other children were also in the room.

Hild fumbled with her hands.

He gestured towards her, who was a step away.

“Hildney!”

Puen-

Selene burst into tears and hugged him as if she was flying.

Hild smiled slightly at the citrus scent tickling her nose.

“Should I wash up first…?”

“… ㅇ”

Hild-nim, who has strangely changed, has become even cooler!

A late night where we spent time stuck together.

“Start”

“… Razer”

A suspicious guest visited the Asrian palace.