episode_0056

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It’s hazy. There is a huge screen in front of you.

Light from a projector in the distance illuminates the screen, and the screen passes quickly.

– okay. Since you don’t have the dimension you want, I’ll pick it for you.

Something whitish with white wings speaks.

The screen changes.

– I think it needs correction. I’m sleeping for a while.

I feel a tingling sensation in my neck, and someone whispers in the distance.

The screen changes.

– Then I guess I’ll have to come one more time. With Mr. Inho.

Someone sitting next to you, smiling, but whose face you can’t see clearly.

I swam in the dark.

I struggled and struggled with my arms and legs, but there was nothing I could grab.

Is this what it feels like to be an astronaut abandoned in space?

Suddenly, anxiety comes.

– Yes, it’s yours.

Where are we?

What on earth am I doing?

How do I get out of here?

The flailing limbs become increasingly heavy and no longer move at will.

A state in which consciousness is awake, but the body cannot move.

An indescribable feeling comes over me, a mixture of frustration and fear.

help me. take me out

Did I just say something or was I just thinking?

It seems like he opened his mouth and spoke, but no sound reached his ears.

Put all your strength into your fingers.

Move, please…

Move!

I feel dizzy. I want to get out of here quickly.

please get me out of here

– sir.

take me out

– Confucius.

please!

“Prince Kang. Wake up.”

“Ah… a dream?”

Had the scissors been pressed? My back was covered in cold sweat.

I’m lying down and someone is looking at me.

Who is it.

Slowly, information about her face comes in, and memories return like water from an open dam.

“Good Soyeon was giving me a knee pillow~”

A monster with the face of Namgung So-yeon looks at me.

***

After coming to his senses, Inho looked at the ceiling with a blank face, as if he still couldn’t distinguish between dreams and reality.

Namgung So-yeon, who felt that his gaze was strangely misaligned, brought her face closer to him.

“Don’t you like it? My knee pillow.”

In response to Namgung So-yeon’s question, In-ho was only then able to confirm his condition.

Namgung So-yeon’s figure kneeling on the stone floor had the elegance of a young lady from a prestigious family, but In-ho had other thoughts.

‘Crazy bitch….’

He wasn’t foolish enough to say the thought out loud.

The maniacal face of Namgung So-yeon, who was strangling him with bloodshot eyes, immediately comes to mind.

He didn’t intend to provoke her.

I planned to find a way out without hurting her feelings as much as possible.

Cheonma’s obsession was something that could be controlled to some extent.

He may have understood Cheonma’s feelings well, but at the bottom of Cheonma’s obsession was his love and concern for Inho.

Therefore, we were able to talk to each other and discuss points of compromise.

But In-ho realized right away that Namgung So-yeon would not be able to do that.

Regardless of why she is obsessed with him, the basis of her obsession is a delusion.

She created a relationship with In-ho that didn’t exist, and

I recognize that I heard a name that has never been called before.

Namgung So-yeon, who applied her delusion to reality, became an incomprehensible being no matter how much she spoke.

Conversely, the more you try to damage her delusions, the more she will be ‘corrected’ to act according to her delusions.

“Jo, that’s good. Knee pillow.”

I smiled awkwardly, matching her mood.

Namgung So-yeon touched In-ho’s nose with the simple smile she had shown during her trip to Sacheon.

“I will do this more often from now on. Now, wake up. Because there is a long way to go.”

When Namgung So-yeon held In-ho’s hand and pulled him, he jumped up like a fish caught on a fishing hook.

The sudden injury made him feel dizzy.

“Where are you going?”

Inho asked her as he walked down the hallway, holding her hand.

“I have to go to Anhui. You decided to go to the Murim League.”

Namgung So-yeon responded as if asking why she was asking such an obvious question.

‘Oh, it was like that.’

He recalled that they had decided to go to the Murim League together around Sacheon.

In-ho, who was dragged out of the royal palace by Namgung So-yeon, opened his eyes wide when he saw the collapsed Heukcheon Bridge.

“Why is this place like this….”

“They were terrible guys. I never thought I would annihilate the Blue Dragons. The church members rush in, and the leader uses poison. This is a very vicious group?!”

The burning palace, the collapsed Cheonmagung Palace and other buildings.

Gardens where lotus flowers grabbed my sleeve and dragged me.

Everything is defiled.

“Ah….”

The entrance to Heukcheongyo Bridge. Lots of people are lying around.

Those who usually wear the clothes of Heukcheongyo. Rotten and discolored skin, blood dripping from the eyes, nose and mouth.

“What on earth happened….”

“It’s poison. Everyone became like this because of the poison used by the enemy leader. You use a poisonous attack knowing that your own church members will also get caught up in it. He is such a cruel person.”

“Don’t get close to Prince Kang. There may still be poison left.”

Namgung So-yeon stopped In-ho from getting close to the corpse.

Even with his hand being held, Inho tried tirelessly to head in that direction, but he couldn’t escape like a dog on a leash.

“Hmm… I shouldn’t have shown Confucius something unpleasant like this… I was short-thinking. Wait a minute~”

When Namgung So-yeon lets go of his hand and swings her arm, the corpses begin to fly.

For some reason, corpses flew in and piled up like a mountain in one place.

As the corpses gathered one by one, In-ho’s eyes shook mercilessly.

And when In-young, who was also very familiar to In-ho, flew towards him, he collapsed on the floor.

“That’s the enemy leader.”

Not only was the head and body separated, but a piece of meat with a large hole in the chest flew out limp and was placed at the top of the mountain of corpses.

Inho saw clearly.

He drew the face of Zhuge Hui, who couldn’t close his eyes because he was so frustrated, and the half-melted face of the plum blossom, and the members of Heukcheongyo Church who came and went and greeted him.

“Uh…Uh…no….”

“If you want to clean it properly, fire would be better, right?”

When Nangong Soyeon snapped his fingers, flames erupted at the bottom of the mountain of corpses.

The flames slowly spread upward, eating away at the flesh and clothes of the church members and Blue Dragon members.

Eventually, Inho couldn’t hold back and burst into tears as he saw that it had turned into one huge firewood.

“No eee… General Manager… Plum…”

Crying quietly, Inho hit the stone floor.

Bang bang bang

Blood flowed from his fist every time he hit the stone floor with all his might.

“I’m sorry… I… I’m sorry… Because of me!”

Crying and coughing as if vomiting out internal organs. Namgung So-yeon held his hand, which was covered in tears and snot.

“How much suffering must it have caused you to cry like this…”

Namgung So-yeon was at eye level with him and hugged him.

Like a mother comforting her child, she patted his back.

“It’s okay now. Because I cleaned up all the bad stuff. Rest assured.”

Namgung So-yeon, who was facing him, smiled and placed her hands on both sides of In-ho’s face.

– Kuuk

Namgung So-yeon, holding In-ho’s head tightly, lifted the corner of his mouth with both thumbs.

“It’s a happy day. Smile.”

A forced smile.

His tears continued to fall, but his mouth continued to smile.

He cried and laughed until the mountain of corpses turned to ashes.

“Now, a happy smile~”

Namgung So-yeon must have really liked that look and burst into laughter.