episode_0014
by fnovelpiaI felt like the hairs all over my body were standing on end.
The peaceful, soothing performance of nature suddenly turned into a gloomy and fearful sound.
The alley that no one would visit became pitch black, as if to show why modern people avoid it, making it impossible to clearly distinguish who was standing there.
People perceive their surroundings through vision and identify risks.
Darkness limits vision and thus reduces the amount of information, making it impossible to accurately understand information about the surroundings, preventing potential dangers from being properly sensed, making us instinctively fear and avoid them.
Darkness is something unpredictable to us.
I was afraid because I didn’t know.
Because it is invisible, it feels dangerous.
For humans, darkness was an unknown world.
Therefore, in horror movies and novels created by humans, the darkness, an unknown world, is sometimes portrayed as a place where monsters or killers hide.
This is because I subconsciously recognized that darkness is something to be afraid of.
The alley was so dark that it was difficult to distinguish between front and back, and it felt like something was about to jump out at any moment, stimulating people’s imagination.
Just as a child is afraid of a dark room with the lights off or under the bed, imagining that there is a ghost or something scary that is difficult to express.
The rain running down the roof wet my shoulders unpleasantly.
The rain is getting thicker.
The sound was so loud that the only sound around was the sound of rain.
Shoot ahhh
Even in the loud noise, the voice of someone hidden in the darkness of the alley could be clearly heard.
Is this thanks to my body’s abilities?
There was no hostility in the other person’s voice.
You didn’t come to hurt me.
They say an insane person can change at any time, but there was no sign of that happening right now.
This person was just looking for something from me.
“Hye-rin, my baby.”
Who is Hyerin?
At least that doesn’t mean me.
I wouldn’t even be that person’s baby.
So why are we looking for someone named Hye-rin so desperately?
When I called you baby, did you think I was a child?
no.
From what I remember, I know that there are even grown adults who call their children baby.
I couldn’t tell at the moment.
What does she want from me?
observed her.
I tried my best to ignore something strange suddenly floating in front of my eyes.
The face was beautiful, although it had fine wrinkles.
It may be that she was born with natural skin, but it was difficult to see that her skin, which was affected by age and the environment, was the result of this woman, who was not in her right mind, taking care of herself.
It looked like someone had carefully cared for this poor old woman.
The white hair was curly.
“Let’s go back home. Do you know how much I searched for?”
I could sense the woman’s anxiety in her tone.
It was drawn nicely on the eyes.
This woman may have lost her child.
And they must have found the child.
“If it hurts… you should have said it hurts… I was so surprised that it suddenly happened like that…”
But the results were not good.
It is said that people with dementia forget everything else but remember the most shocking events in their lives.
If so, this was this woman’s sorrow.
It was a sad experience.
The meaning is said to be a very cruel and sad feeling.
It was a word that suddenly and clearly came to mind.
Why?
I stopped thinking for a moment and focused on this matter again.
It probably wasn’t a very important memory.
Focused on the woman.
Looking at his own child being projected in this image, he must have been around 10 years old.
She must have been a girl like me.
Looking at the hand stroking its wings, the child must have been just like me.
I finally figured out why people here don’t think I’m strange.
I don’t know how many people have this trait like me, but it does exist.
People I met gave me strange looks, but it wasn’t because of my wings.
To be precise, they thought my existence was strange.
“Sorry.”
The empty muttering became a conversation when I answered.
It was not an improvised response made up of lies to avoid a crisis.
Now I truly felt sorry for this woman.
Even if I forget my memories of that day due to dementia, I thought that for now, at this moment, I hope the story will proceed as the woman hoped.
Even if I forget today’s memories, if I felt happy for a moment, that’s it.
Even if the memories are volatile, the emotions I felt that day will remain somewhere in my heart.
The woman’s face, cold from the rain, seemed to be convinced that her answer was not an illusion or a delusion.
“Why are you sorry… I’m sorry.”
The woman spoke again as if spitting out something.
“I’m sorry mom…”
Did they say that the eyes are the window to the soul?
There was deep maternal love in those soft, smiling eyes.
At this moment, the woman felt like a mother who loved her child, not an insane patient.
I lowered my head and tapped the back of the woman holding me with a clumsy gesture.
I don’t remember how to comfort someone, and I haven’t tried it, but wouldn’t this be enough?
Tung
Thump thump thump
Incongruent with this atmosphere, the sound of a heavy object falling to the floor was suddenly heard again and again.
“Stay away from the child.”
Giiing
Something grabbed me.
The force was so strong that it was pulled at an incredible speed.
It was a large robot.
No, it was a person.
The thick suit, which looked as if the armor of a tank had been removed and glued together, made the person look like a robot.
However, this did not mean that the suit looked sluggish or that it would impede movement; rather, it was a suit with a sleek and sophisticated design.
Rainwater flows down a black chute.
It just flowed down, leaving no trace of rainwater touching the chute.
The huge, ink-colored thing on his back looked like a gun.
It has a handle, a trigger, and a muzzle, so it can at least be a gun.
The owner of the suit was a woman with blond hair and a long, plain face that could be either Korean or foreign. If you look at her face, you would immediately judge her as beautiful.
So, naturally, I thought it was a biobot and checked its head, but there were no distinctive markings.
To be precise, there was one, but it was small and looked like a horn at first glance.
The woman’s expression was severely distorted.
“Hye-rin! Give it back… !”
The gentle expression on the woman’s face from before was instantly crumpled and no longer visible, and she rushed forward with a scary expression, like a vicious murderer.
It was a spirit that could not be expressed from his gaunt appearance.
The woman, who was running at incredible speed, was lightly kicked and fell to the floor.
It was so fast that you couldn’t even see it with the naked eye when you raised your foot, and right before it touched the woman’s body, you lost your strength and slowed down, so you could tell that the movement that ended in an instant was a kick.
Perhaps because she had lost her strength, the woman did not appear to be seriously injured by the kick and quickly got up and ran again.
Despite her youthful appearance, the woman holding me held my body stably with one hand and then kicked her again.
People were coming towards us, making noise.
It was very noisy, so it was natural.
In the crowd that came, there were not only biobots but also real humans mixed in sparsely.
They looked a little scared by this commotion, and they were so scared that anyone could tell if it was a human or a bio-bot holding the child.
Still, I didn’t leave this place.
Is it because of the woman rolling around or because of me being hugged?
In the end, the situation ended when the helpless woman grabbed the leg of the woman holding me and mumbled for her to turn it back.
People were whispering, and the woman holding me must have decided that it was safe now, so she put me down and pushed me back with her arms.
“Dangerous. Step back.”
Unlike other biobots, his tone was stiff and devoid of emotion.
But deep inside, there was a feeling of concern for me.
He shook his head and said it was okay.
The woman who kept blocking me eventually moved to follow my movements, covering my body with her own in the manner of a stubborn child.
He said while touching the head of a woman who was lying face down and crying.
“Mom, I’ll wait at home.”
Of course it was a lie.
[Crows are auspicious]
This is an ability that cannot exist in the world you have to live in.
So, although it comes with a number of penalties and deteriorates, it is certainly a magical ability in modern times.
If you or a family member receives gratitude from animals, good luck awaits you.
That gratitude is the energy that recharges your abilities.
Birds give you luck little by little.
Crows come and cross you periodically.
It is deteriorated and cannot give a lot of luck to one person, and the same goes for using it on yourself.
But today you say you are lucky, and that is enough luck to start your day in a good mood.
Thoughts at the time: A chain letter that really brings good luck is crazy. This must be really fun. Day 1 of the World Paradise Project. Ah haha.
As I was tapping my head, I was surprised to see a white, round sphere of light appear.
The sphere of light disappeared as if seeping into the woman’s head, and she did not react in any way, perhaps because it was not visible to other people.
Then, strangely enough, as if by true magic, the sobbing woman immediately fell asleep.
People thought the older woman was tired.
Once the situation was resolved, the biobots took the woman away.
The face of the woman held by the biobot was sleeping with a comfortable and happy face, just like the picture.
As if I was meeting someone I wanted to see so much in a dream.
I had a feeling that I would probably never see that woman again.
But gratitude?
I’ve never received anything like that from anyone… How did you get so lucky?
ah! robot!
I remembered the bead where the robot gave pine nuts to the crow today.
It seems like there was a feeling of gratitude in it!
“You didn’t have to be so drastic.”
“It’s a combat-type bio bot. Then honestly, I could have easily subdued him without having to use that much effort, but it’s too much.”
“Because it was a machine, it was beaten like a criminal according to the input.”
“They say I don’t feel any emotion when I see them talking on a regular basis.”
“But that kid… is he the operator?”
“How…”
“Still..?”
“Uuuuk…”
what?
The atmosphere was strange.
I don’t know why, but when only one bio-bot was left and the bio-bots left with the woman, people started gossiping about the women who saved me.
Combat-type biobot?
There was an atmosphere of criticism that it was an excessive response.
The woman didn’t seem to care, so she got up from her seat and went into the alley.
Still, I felt bad about the person who saved me being criticized.
It’s too much.
Still, he did his job, and although it may seem a little excessive, it is true that he controlled it so that the woman would not get hurt.
I had a feeling that nothing special would have happened even if I hadn’t come, but I didn’t know that.
I followed the woman in.
I want to express my gratitude.
I ran to the woman who had already walked away and held her hand.
Then he smiled and said to the woman who was looking down at her hands with an expressionless face.
I’m so embarrassed to say the last word that I’m going crazy, but…
“Thank you for saving me, sister!”
The eyebrows on the white, beautiful skin like jade twitch slightly.
We held hands and looked at each other for a long time.
The woman expressed confusion in an attitude that was either unfamiliar with this type of thing or did not expect this kind of thing at all.
And her choice was to imitate my actions earlier, as she patted my head with a clumsy hand gesture and answered briefly.
“Okay.”
As soon as he finished saying those words, the only biobot left was holding my hand and leading me, telling me that I had to go home.
The woman said to us who turned around and left.
“Thank you.”
It was a word of thanks.
Was there anything you should be thankful for?
I felt strange and turned around to see the woman with her head slightly lowered and looking at the floor.
It was something I didn’t understand.
White luck was staying in the hand of the woman I held.
[A huge whirlpool of history]
Humanity stands at a crossroads of choice.
Something that humanity has missed in its simple thinking is likely to greatly change humanity in the future.
In any form.
And you are at the center of it all.
This is a result of your choices before coming here and your actions now.
What did I do?
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