episode_0415

I gently pushed Lily away from me and started running down the hallway.

I thought the unknown man standing right next to me would grab me, but he didn’t move at all.

I was just watching what was going on.

As if he believed that I could never escape from here.

“Jeff!”

I could hear Lily’s longing voice behind me, but I didn’t stop.

Did you run like that for a long time?

I could see Lily, Kelly, and an unknown man standing in front of me.

“Oh my…”

Sure, sure, I just kept running forward…

How did this happen?

I ended up going back to my original place.

“Jeff! The Black Palace is like a maze, so if you wander around carelessly, you’ll be in big trouble!”

I looked around blankly with a bewildered expression.

Blackness that stretches endlessly.

A long, dark world stretched out, with no end in sight.

Even when Lily came closer and grabbed my arm and led me, I couldn’t even react.

“You seem surprised.”

Only then did I shake my head at the words of the unknown man and look at Kelly.

“Kelly. Is this the place called Black Palace?”

“Yeah.”

“Why did you bring me here?”

“Just to check what’s on your mind.”

“Ugh…!”

At Kelly’s chilling words, I grabbed my head and hid behind Lily.

Lily stood in front of me, as if protecting me, with her arms wide open.

“There’s no need to do that! Opening Jeff’s head is too much. I just need to check the memory with my ability!”

At Lily’s words, I also secretly moved away from her.

Seeing her say such horrible things so casually, it seemed like Lily was also a sex offender.

This place was clearly a den of sex offenders.

“Jeff doesn’t seem to think so?”

“Ouch!”

As I slowly fell off Lily’s back, I had no choice but to stop moving at Kelly’s words.

Because an unknown man approached me without me noticing, twitching his muscles and blocking my path.

“Jeff, please show me your memories!”

Lily came close behind me and shook my body as she spoke.

But I couldn’t answer.

Because the man who was blocking me right in front of me was pressuring me with an invisible energy.

Cold sweat begins to run down my forehead.

My mouth is dry and my fingertips are shaking.

nervous.

No, it’s scary.

Even though he did nothing, this man just scared me with his momentum.

I bit my lip.

The stinging pain pushes the feeling away.

The arms and legs begin to move slowly.

“Your name is Jeff? Yes, Jeff. Choose whether to drill a hole in your head or show Lily your memories.”

It didn’t seem like things would get any better no matter which option I chose.

The reason they arrested me is because something strange happened over the course of seven years.

If I check my memory, I will be released.

Because it wasn’t the direct cause.

But Shine was in danger.

It means that my only sister is in danger.

I could never, ever show it.

but…

If you keep holding on, you’ll be caught by this man, have your arms and legs torn off, and be treated in a horrible way.

It will definitely be like that.

The man’s gaze was scanning my arms and legs, so it was clear.

I swallowed hard and looked back at Lily.

“Lee, Lily!”

“Huh?”

“I’ll show you my memories.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, but there’s a condition.”

“What are the conditions?”

“It takes time to break down my mental barrier.”

“What time is it?”

Lily turned to Kelly at my words.

Kelly just watched quietly, then nodded and opened her mouth.

“There are individual differences in ability, so if I have to wait, I guess I’ll have to wait. I don’t want to drill a hole in the head of someone younger than me.”

I breathed a sigh of relief at Kelly’s words.

“Yeah, Jeff. How much time do you need?”

“That’s…”

I searched desperately, trailing off.

Should I say a week?

No, this was too long.

It was not nice to test their patience.

So how much time should I say it takes?

I thought.

I thought and thought again.

“Sa, three days…?”

“Three days?”

Kelly wiggled her eyebrows as if she didn’t like what I was saying.

I swallowed hard.

“Ppa, two days at the earliest…?”

“Um… Okay.”

Kelly’s permission was granted.

I sat down on the floor, feeling as if my energy had been sucked out of me.

Lily, who was standing next to me, ran over and sat next to me.

“Jeff, you made a good choice. If you put a hole in your head, things will go wrong.”

“The condition is becoming strange…?”

“They covered their heads again, but everyone seemed to have a blank look on their face.”

“Lee, how does Lily know that?”

“I always come here whenever something like this happens.”

It couldn’t have been a more terrifying story.

How many people’s heads have they opened so far?

“Lily, show Jeff to his room.”

Kelly left those words behind and disappeared.

It literally disappeared.

Like a ghost.

As if it had never been there in the first place.

I sighed and got up from my seat.

“Hey Lily. Are you so happy about reading my memories?”

“Of course! If I could read Jeff Yang’s memories, wouldn’t that mean we could become closer? I could also find out what Jeff Yang likes. And… secrets… secret stories…”

As Lily continued speaking, the field of vision suddenly began to get higher.

I stared blankly at the floor with my mouth open.

I shook my legs at the sight of my gaze rising higher than my usual height.

It’s not that I grew taller.

Someone grabbed me and lifted me up.

“Lily, I need to borrow Jeff.”

“Oh! Mr. Khan! Jeff is my friend!”

“I won’t let you get hurt.”

The man Lily called Khan started walking away, carrying me without even listening to Lily.

Lily followed behind and called out desperately, but Khan did not stop.

I couldn’t do anything.

Because I could feel the difference in skill between me and this man named Khan, I couldn’t even rebel.

He was not friendly to me.

He also hinted that he would be willing to rip off one of his arms if it bothered him.

The feelings he had for me were simple curiosity.

And interesting.

It was just a small interest and curiosity, like a candle that would go out if you blow it out with your mouth.

Khan walked down the long hallway and stopped in front of a very large door.

I swallowed hard and looked up at it.

big.

It was huge.

And it’s black.

I was so overwhelmed by the sight of the huge black door that I just gaped at it, when Khan reached out and opened the door.

Grrr-

The sound of the huge weight moving was terrifying.

Lily squeezed through the door just in case it closed.

The moment I entered the door, Khan threw me away.

I was flying around in the air, spinning around, when I regained my balance and landed safely on the ground.

“Jeff! I guess Mr. Khan wants to play with you, Jeff!”

His expression hardened at the sound of Lily’s voice coming from far away.

It was the first time that the words “want to play” sounded so scary.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and looked up at the stall in front of me.

“Jeff.”

“Yes, yes?”

“Go for it. With all your might.”

I shook my head at his words.

It was an obvious result even without looking.

In that situation, I didn’t have the confidence to foolishly attack Khan.

But Khan must have hated seeing me like that, so he shook his head and stuck his fingers into the floor.

Sigh – literally sank in.

As if it were piercing through a solid stone floor,

Khan started moving his fingers like that.

Gggg!

Khan drew a circle around himself with his finger.

“It’s done.”

Khan, who had completed the circle, shook his hands and looked at me and said.

“If you can get me out of this circle, I will let you out of this dark palace.”

“That, is that true?”

“Yeah.”

His proposal was radical.

To say that you want to get yourself out of the circle means that you are not going to get out of that circle.

Well then, wouldn’t I have a chance too?

I glared at him with shining eyes.

“Ho- I feel better now.”

There was no starting signal or anything.

I immediately raised my abilities.

Before coming here, I was fully charged through Rain’s ability.

Phagejik-

Blue lightning covering the entire body.

Still, it is not enough.

My heart starts to beat wildly, drawing out the missing electricity even more.

“Origin-”

I vow to do my best.

The electricity that had been bursting out roughly begins to take hold in my body, accelerating my mind and body.

Towards a higher dimension.

It advances to a level that ordinary people cannot keep up with.

The moment I crossed that line, I moved.

Paang-

The air follows late.

The body had already outpaced the sound.

Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate.

Accelerate endlessly.

Over and over again, ignoring the limits of the body.

Kwaaang!

I heard a thunderclap from inside my body.

Reached.

In that near perfect condition.

The world, accelerated to the limit, was as if time had stopped.

I looked at the space at the end of my gaze.

Reproducing the technology that Big Jeff left behind.

It moves.

As time that had stopped flows, my body slowly begins to move.

The surrounding lights dim, and soon everything disappears.

As if I had entered another dimension, I was instantly blasted into light.

The moment you hit the ground, the light returns.

My body, which had landed in the original world, collapsed on the floor, unable to hold on any longer.

Kwaaang!

The sound of lightning, heard late, fills the surroundings.

I moved my body with difficulty and looked at the room.

He raised both arms to defend his upper body.

But it didn’t go out of the circle.

It means failure.

Even he looked fine, without a single wound.

“Quite…!”

He turned around, smiling with admiration.

His arms were a little burnt, but they looked fine.

Clearly, it was a full-power attack…

“Anything else? Jeff?”

He was acting like a little child, as if he wanted to do more.

But I am in a state where I can’t move.

My vision is blurry.

It gets even blurrier.

At that moment, I could see a shape that seemed to be swaying around Khan’s body.

Is it a person or a ghost?

There was something unidentifiable in his body.

Dismissal- Dismissal-

I closed my eyes, watching the blue lightning faintly scatter over my body.