episode_0106

“I have to go! Press the button!”

Seok Hyun-min shouts with a pale face.

Seok Hyun-min runs towards the wall with the button, his eyes sparkling.

You can’t just leave the button pressed like this.

She grabbed Seok Hyun-min’s arm, but it wasn’t enough for a woman to stop him on her own.

“Haewon! Catch me, hyung!”

“No, you can’t. You have to get out of here.”

“… … What?”

For a moment, I stared blankly at Jeong Hae-won, but then I couldn’t overcome Seok Hyeon-min’s strength and fell to the floor.

“Please. Don’t press the button.”

I held onto Seok Hyun-min’s ankle and hung on.

“Please!”

I struggled while holding onto Seok Hyun-min by myself, but there was no one to help me.

Choi Se-rim and Jeong Hae-won too.

Everyone just looks at the floor with gloomy faces.

“Get out of the way. We’re all doing this to survive. We have no choice but to survive. We have to run away from here.”

“Aaak!”

A dull pain hits my shoulder.

Then my body floats up, and another shock is delivered to my back.

Boom!

The elevator walls hum and my eyes flash.

A dull, aching pain.

The pain spread from my chest to my entire body, making it difficult to breathe properly.

“Ugh.”

I’m in so much pain that I can’t move my body properly.

“I have to bring my sister and Daju.”

Tears well up in my eyes as I talk.

Meanwhile, everyone else is frozen in place and doesn’t move.

The only one moving was Seok Hyun-min, who was moving to press the button.

“To survive. I have no choice.”

“Get out of the way!!”

Seok Hyun-min pushes Jeong Hae-won, who is standing blankly in the middle.

Now it’s only a few steps to the button.

What happened to those two that it’s already too late to save them?

So, the people here should run away and survive?

But that is also impossible.

Even if we run away, we won’t survive.

If we leave Heo Yoon and Yoon Da-joo here and move on, the whole story will go wrong.

If it breaks, it could be so bad that the universe we live in could be deleted.

Just like deleting a computer file by putting it in the Recycle Bin.

I have to stay here somehow and bring these two people.

If something happens, you have to save them.

I barely managed to get up and approached Seok Hyeon-min once again.

Phew-!

Seok Hyun-min, who seemed like he would never stop, falls down.

Behind Seok Hyun-min, who is lying on the floor, Robin is seen.

“I was slow in responding because I had to take stock of the situation.”

Robin says, stroking his red, swollen fist, as if he had knocked him unconscious by hitting him with his hand.

“I also felt something was off. But it took some time because it could be transmitted through physical contact.”

“Ah… … .”

“Dabin, be careful too. If you rush in without thinking, you’ll end up in trouble.”

“Yes.”

Robin examines me closely.

“I guess the anomaly resistance is pretty good? Everyone in the group seems to be out of their minds, but Dabin seems to be the only one who is sane. Or is it like a benefit given to the librarians of the Infinite Library?”

“There are some parts that I am protected as a librarian, but I have always had strong tolerance.”

“Good.”

Robin gives a sidelong glance.

Dan is crouching down and examining the condition of Seok Hyun-min, who has collapsed.

“Dan. How is it? I adjusted my strength, but I’m a little anxious because it’s been a while.”

“I’m holding my breath.”

“That’s good too.”

Robin took a deep breath, exhaled, and leaned against the wall.

Not a single button behind her remains pressed.

“Now let’s talk about what the problem is.”

I was just about to open my mouth.

“Button.”

Suddenly a familiar voice interrupted.

I could tell whose voice it was without even having to turn around.

Choi Se-rim, who had been quiet, suddenly raises her head and speaks in this direction.

To be exact, towards Robin, who was standing in front of the button.

“Press the button.”

It wasn’t just words.

Choi Se-rim’s ability to manipulate and move people’s thoughts was also activated.

“No.”

I rushed straight towards Robin to grab him, but he didn’t move at all.

“I won’t get hit twice.”

Mental manipulation didn’t seem to have any effect at all.

“Uh, how?”

Through the librarian’s insight, I was able to see the process clearly.

Choi Se-rim’s ability reached Robin and bounced off.

“If you train, most people can do it. The problem is that it’s such a rare ability that it’s hard to find someone to train with.”

“Should I knock that person out too?”

Dan asked, but there was no need to.

Choi Se-rim collapsed, leaning against the elevator wall.

White nape. Shiny hair hangs down the wall.

“Hmm. I guess I’ll try scouting the foundation later.”

Robin mutters.

I hurriedly stood between her and Se-rim.

“No way.”

“I was just joking.”

Now there are only three sane people in the elevator.

Robin and Dan. And me.

The researcher was just coming to his senses and couldn’t control his body properly yet.

Seok Hyun-min knocked him unconscious by hitting him on the back of the neck.

Choi Se-rim and Jeong Hae-won are lying down and not moving.

Yebin is just staring blankly into the mirror as if the power has been turned off.

“Now let’s think again about what the problem was.”

“It was probably the pills that were the problem. The blood capsules that the researcher and I took. ”

“Capsules… …. Those people didn’t take the capsules, so could that be the direct cause?”

“There is this characteristic of the blood capsule. If a person who took the blood capsule comes into contact with the facility, he or she may experience side effects.”

I told Robin what I knew.

I was worried because my story was so weak, but Robin quickly understood what I was saying.

“Then, the two people who went outside are experiencing side effects. And because of that, the people inside the elevator are also not coming to their senses. That’s what I’m talking about, right?”

“Yes.”

At least that’s the story.

Because the booklet that Yebin brought serves as evidence.

A sort of manual that was placed around the device that produces blood capsules.

[If you have taken the Blood Capsule, do not approach any production facility. When approaching,]

However, the information about side effects is completely erased.

I tried searching using my librarian’s ability, but I can’t find any specific information. I only vaguely know about the side effects.

“What is the identity and criteria of that influence?”

Robin won’t help me unless I give her a reasonable reason.

I still feel that way strongly.

From here on out, I have no choice but to think for myself and answer.

“My thoughts are that it probably spreads based on ‘fate’. The closer you are to someone, the more it affects you. We’ve been together with two people, but you’re not like that. That’s why you can be okay.”

“Then the symptom when affected would probably be fear.”

“Yes. You want to get as far away from that target as possible.”

Robin was lost in thought, then suddenly brought up the subject.

“Let’s reach an agreement here.”

Blonde hair. Gray eyes beneath it stare at me.

“I’m chasing a dangerous person called ‘The Professor’. He’s set up residence in this apartment and is trying to awaken something terrible. My goal is to stop his plan.”

“… … .”

“In a way, it could be related to the destruction of the world that Mr. Dabin mentioned. So,”

“Yes, I think I can help.”

“Then I will help you save those two people.”

Robin looks outside.

“I guess I have no choice but to go outside.”

Behind him, Dan is watching.

“Dan.”

“Ah. Does that mean I have to go out too?”

“No. You stay with Dabin. Just in case other people press the elevator button, stop them from doing so.”

Robin walked out the door alone.

I ran out in a hurry to catch her.

“Just a minute. Me too,”

“Dabin can’t go. She took the blood capsule, so she has to be careful.”

I stopped walking.

All I could do now was pray for Robin’s safe return.

“… … Come back safely.”

“Yes, of course.”

Leaving those confident words behind, Robin walked out the elevator door alone.

“I don’t know what the hell is going on.”

Dan muttered as he remained in the elevator.

“Do you know anything, Miss?”

Miss.

I guess he was talking about me, but it’s so awkward.

If it was your first time seeing it, you might naturally call it that, but anyway.

“… … .”

I can’t think of anything to say.

I don’t even know where to start.

When, how, and where on earth did I get involved with this apartment?

The driver, oblivious to anything, continues to ask questions about the situation.

“If you have, I wish you could tell me. Robin, that guy is a mystic, so I don’t know anything.”

“So you just drove here?”

“Yes. I drove him to the research center on top of the volcano because he was a geology professor. But the volcano erupted. The professor told me to drive down quickly because volcanoes spew fire. Now we’ve come this far.”

Dan’s already resentful face became even more resentful.

“I just happened to come across this! I don’t know anything about this situation!”

It’s a coincidence.

You might think so, but that too is part of the story.

“What a coincidence… … .”

“Yes. It’s a coincidence.”

“Probably not.”

At least in this situation, there is no such thing as coincidence.

Imagine drawing lots and burning all the paper except one note.

Even if you draw, can you call it a coincidence?

Dan, who doesn’t understand at all, laughs in vain.

“You talk as if everything is fate. What, are you destined to save the world from a predestined apocalypse?”

“Yes.”

“Huh?”

“It might sound funny, but it’s true.”

I answered in a serious voice.

“I’ll show you later.”

However, I don’t know if there will be a chance.

Because if Robin fails here, we all die.

It’s not just people dying.

This is the time and space in which we can operate, and the death of everything.

[Gather a set of characters, use a set method, and prevent a set end.]

The moment you deviate from the single path set for you, the world is erased as if it never existed in the first place.

The only ending that will allow us to survive.

For that, Heo Yoon and Yoon Da Joo are absolutely necessary.

***

Heo Yoon looked at what was once Yoon Da Joo.

Is what you feel now sadness or fear?

It was fine until I got through the blinking room.

The two rooms facing each other shattered everything that came between them, except for two people.

Cover your body with thick clothes.

And then he quickly runs through the area.

Thanks to the wit that Heo Yun showed at that moment, the two were able to get through with only minor injuries.

The problem came next.

wound.

Something began to grow from Yun Da-ju’s wounds.

Something black.

Daju shed red tears and blood spurted from her mouth like a fountain.

Veins began to protrude from under the skin, and soon began to ripple through the skin.

like…….

It felt like my body was turning inside out.

“Sister.”

“I’m so sick.”

“Help me.”

While hiding in a room, Heo Yun heard a trembling voice calling him.

It’s not the voice of Dazhu.

Dark hospital hallway. Flickering lights.

What he sees through the crack in the door now is not the Yoon Da-ju he knew.