episode_0021

The second night was uneventful.

I took out my phone and checked the time. Last night it took 12 hours, so I thought it would take about 12 hours and 30 minutes today.

‘Because they said the nights will gradually get longer.’

I moved a little more cautiously today than yesterday.

Yesterday, I had only been hiding under one fence for about an hour at most, but now I had already been hiding under the same fence for three hours.

The sound of the mannequin’s footsteps can be heard more often than yesterday.

Other than that there wasn’t much difference.

Occasionally, I heard the sound of the fence door being opened, as if I was looking inside the fence, but after I opened the door and just put my head in and looked around, I immediately heard the sound of the person slowly moving somewhere else.

That’s why today was very comfortable.

Perhaps because I slept more and soundly today than yesterday, I felt very refreshed.

But Suyeon looked very tired.

“Over there, Su..”

Then she got up and tried to get out of the wall.

“Hyesung Guild Leader..?”

Only then do I sit down again.

“Would you like to sleep a little? You look very tired.”

“How can I trust you?”

“..Even though I was like this, I woke up my younger sister a lot when she was about to be late for school.”

“You’re talking nonsense.”

“…”

‘Is that Jeong Soo-yeon? ‘Isn’t this a mannequin wearing Jeong Soo-yeon’s mask?’

I had reasonable doubt.

“Ugh.. Where has my cute and lovely little sister gone, and all that remains is the stiff and boring Hyeseong guild leader? Ugh..”

Hearing me mutter a little, I felt him flinch as if something was poking him, but other than that, it was the same as before.

“Look, don’t even talk back anymore.”

“Just say one more thing. I will continue like this.”

This time, I sit away from her, muttering to myself so that neither she nor I can hear.

‘I raised someone who wasn’t my younger brother. I’m a father. I’m really sorry for not listening to you when I was in the second year of middle school.’

It was Cheonhwi who apologized in his heart to his father who died alone.

*

“Just say one more thing. I will continue like this.”

It was difficult because my brother kept talking to me in a subtle way that made me feel less wary.

Rather than being difficult for my brother itself, it was even more difficult because I had to suppress the feeling of wanting to be hugged by him and be hugged right now.

Then my brother gets up and sits far away from me.

‘ah..’

I was in big trouble.

‘I was smelling like my brother…’

I wanted to get close and stick my nose in it, but I couldn’t. Normally, whenever I was tired, I would quietly drink a can of coffee and throw the can of coffee far away to lure the mannequin to another place, but the faint smell of my brother awakened my brain without me knowing. I didn’t feel tired.

To be honest, what Suyeon did wasn’t just smelling.

In fact, I remember kissing my brother’s lips while he was sleeping just a few hours ago because I was so craving them without realizing it.

I wanted to insert the bottom of my tongue, but when I saw my brother trying to get up because of the contact, I tapped him to wake him up, as if I had been trying to wake him up from the beginning.

Fortunately, the lights went out just in time, so the perfect crime was achieved.

‘Tomorrow, we’ll kiss each other 20 seconds before nightfall. really.’

Twelfth rule.

Never sleep.

This city of mannequins is home to residents of a city that never sleeps.

We don’t know why the mannequin can’t sleep.

It’s questionable whether mannequins even need sleep in the first place.

However, living creatures here must never sleep.

That was the reason why no life existed here.

‘Once you fall asleep, you can never wake up.’

Either an object falls and you wake up from the impact of being hit, or you wake up with a mannequin finding you sleeping and killing you.

In fact, Jeong Soo-yeon would not clear the second floor.

This is because after trying to clear it in the past, as soon as I came out, I spent three days sleeping in the hospital, receiving only intravenous injections.

In fact, since Pensher’s Prayer was not something he particularly needed, he had originally tended to handle the second floor with the military after the tower was opened.

Unlike the tower, on Earth, skills and magic could be used normally, so everyone was able to safely deal with the mannequins, which could not move if they just stared at them, without incident.

Even though mannequins poured out every night of the week, the second floor was the safest floor to open compared to any other floor.

‘Ah.. I’m tired.’

I suddenly felt tired.

Since her body is sensitive to caffeine, she can’t sleep even after drinking just one cup of coffee, so even though she brought a lot of coffee cans, Jeong Soo-yeon got up without drinking coffee.

‘I’ll go over to the next fence and quietly sit near my brother.’

“Follow me because I think I’ll get caught soon if I stay here.”

“Yes.”

Although I couldn’t quietly move to the next wall and sit close to it, I was able to sit where my brother’s scent reached me.

‘Miss… I’ll have to change my panties when I get home tomorrow…’

Suyeon buried her head in her knees due to the sudden embarrassment.

*

Less than a minute after moving to the next wall and sitting down again to rest, Suyeon put her head down on her knees.

‘It looks like it’s difficult…’

Of course, it will be difficult for me as well.

I can’t use magic power, and I can’t use skills.

I don’t know why, but I couldn’t let him die even though I was in the same room as a man I hated, so taking him around would have been irritating and even more mentally difficult.

I wanted to use some kind of chivalry to bring her some delicious food from Earth, but I couldn’t return to Earth because I was afraid that she would be in danger if I took my eyes off her for just a moment.

The second night ended like that without any incident.

’13 hours 48 minutes…’

It seems that tonight is 14 hours longer than yesterday.

‘Tomorrow, in 16 hours, in two days…’

When I calculated it like that…

‘The last day is 24 hours…?’

No matter how much I thought about it, it was too evil.

If you count a day as 24 hours, there are 2 hours of daylight the day before, so after surviving the night for 22 hours, you rest for 2 hours, making it 24 hours.

‘It is absolutely not a condition that a person can clear.’

At this level, it was impossible to break it unless you had the mental strength to break the same tower at least three times.

‘Did Suyeon get some sleep?’

I don’t know.

‘If Suyeon sleeps comfortably, even if I doze off a little next to her, I can set the alarm and wake up.’

If this were to happen, there would be no reason for following me here.

Now, strangely, I felt like I was only holding on to Suyeon’s ankles.

‘It’s okay, if you have any trouble, just help me and that’s it.’

If there is a mannequin attacking from a blind spot that Suyeon doesn’t know about, you can help her if necessary.

‘If it had been like before, I would have stepped up to the plate in times of danger and even sacrificed my life if necessary.’

Not now.

‘I think it’s really good of me to protect you by sacrificing my life in the first place.’

Convince yourself.

‘No matter how much I liked Suyeon, it wasn’t to the point where I would sacrifice my life. Cheonhwi, ugh? Let’s think conscientiously.’

Of course, Cheonhwi, who was not a regressor, did not know.

No matter how far away he was from Jeong Soo-yeon in the past that no longer exists, he was infatuated with her.

‘Seeing that Suyeon also draws a line.. ah.. really..?’

A sharp alarm bell rings.

‘This was it…’

I found out the secret Suyeon had.

‘I seem to have a boyfriend..’

That’s right, Sooyeon has a boyfriend.

‘Is it because you have to get permission from me to get permission to marry? ‘Are you afraid I won’t give you permission?’

Could it be that he is acting as Sooyeon’s father and yelling at her, saying, “I raised her all, so why should I give it to a complete stranger like you?”

‘Is it sharp? I can never give you cancer…’

I will raise you as my little brother for the rest of my life. How dare you?

‘Could it be… You didn’t come here to see a future that I would never allow? So you’re just cutting your losses?’

Although Cheonhwi came close to the correct answer without even realizing it.

‘Is that possible? I knew the future from the beginning, so why would you bother to stay away from me? All you had to do was tell me the truth. Ugh.. who is my real boyfriend..’

In the end, Cheonhwi fell back into his own delusion.

In his delusion, Cheon-hwi was already thinking of Soo-yeon, who married an unknown man, had a child, and lived happily ever after.

I’ve never been in a relationship, but I was annoyed because I felt like I was NTRed.

“Let’s go to the house next door, not here.”

“Why?”

“There aren’t many women in this house.. I want to change clothes, so I have to go to the house next door.”

“I understand. But can I use informal language?”

“No.”

“You are bitter.”

“I am the Comet Guild Master, and you are nothing.”

When I thought about it, it was true.

If the president of Saseong saw me while walking down the street and spoke to me warmly, Cheonhwi was confident that he would treat me as a close brother for the rest of his life.

‘If you have good recognition skills, you are my older brother and older sister.’

We have no choice but to quietly walk out of the fence.

Flash! And the light was bright.

Now we are in the middle of the street.

There are only about 3 meters left to the house opposite.

When I walked down the street without thinking and tried to walk to the other side.

Chicken skin grows all over the body.

An unpleasant pressure surrounds me.

Cheee!

Something containing an ominous noise, accompanied by a breaking noise, flies down the street at high speed from a distance.

Die.

If you touch that object, you will die.

I jumped forward with all my might.

I couldn’t land properly and fell down on the floor.

Cheeek!

A huge gray creature with a strangely smiling expression passed by along the street where we had been standing just a moment ago.

All that remained was a road that was gradually corroding, as if it were rotting away.

Fortunately, the creature didn’t seem to enter the fence.

‘This is why I told you not to go outside during the day…’

“Phew.. are you okay..?”

I felt something strange and raised my head.

The house across from me.

So, the house where we hid within the walls until morning came.

In front of the front gate of the house, Jeong Soo-yeon was looking at me with a very frowning face.

Yes, we are each other.

It had been torn into another house across the street.

It wasn’t really a problem.

“Chivalric Jeong Soo-yeon.”

‘?’

Nothing happens.

“..? Chivalrous Jeong Soo-yeon..”

She, who should be visible right in front of me, was still standing beyond the house across from me.

‘ah..’

When I think about it, this place is

It was a place where it was impossible to use any skills or magic.