episode_0089

10.

Even as I was spitting out what was inside on the hotel floor, I picked up my cell phone and made a video call to Su-ah.

Turrr-

One minute where the call connection sound feels unusually long.

Customer doesn’t answer the phone…

“Please..

11:01 am.

I pressed the call button again on the cell phone that had lost the call.

Turrr-

“Suya, take it..you have to take it..”

One minute of waiting feels like an hour.

However, Su-ah still did not answer the phone, perhaps because she was still asleep.

Customer doesn’t answer the phone…

11:02

As soon as the phone connection was disconnected, I immediately pressed the call button again.

Turrr-

“Suaya…Why, no way.”

One of Sua’s usual habits that came to mind in that situation was setting her cell phone to vibrate mode.

“…”

I was a little dazed.

How did I find this hope? There is not much chance left…

at that time.

A thought passes through my head.

I quickly hung up and entered a familiar number.

11:03.

Turrr-

After a long phone call that lasted about 20 to 30 seconds.

– “Hello?..”

Suah answered the phone with a very tired voice.

“Wake up quickly and take the video call now, Suya.”

I quickly hung up the phone and made a video call right away, and Su-ah answered the phone in less than 10 seconds.

-“Your sister?”

“Shine on me right away, quickly.”

As he spoke in a very urgent voice, Sua obediently looked at Nyamu.

11:04.

– “Uuu..Uuuuu..”

“Nyamu, you have to do it. You got it right now, right?”

With that, the phone hung up automatically.

Nyamu, who realized the truth as soon as he saw her face, asked her to move immediately and took Su-ah to her brother.

11:05 p.m.

Jeong Soo-yeon quickly pressed the 9th floor entry button on the system and continued running toward the steep cliff where Cheon-hwi’s body had been lying.

It was thanks to the home phone that Su-ah, who set her cell phone to vibrate, received the call.

As I ran toward the place where Cheonhwi would be, various random thoughts began to run through my head.

At 11:05, it was about 10 seconds before my brother died.

If her brother hadn’t died, Su-ah could have been saved, and even if she failed this time, there were still two more chances left.

Even if I failed this time, in the next 11th regression, all I had to do was wake Su-ah up with a home phone call.

11:10.

For an ordinary person, it would have taken 2 to 3 hours, but I arrived in just 5 minutes.

And at the place we arrived…

Although he was vomiting blood and half of the life in his eyes was gone, there was Cheonhwi oppa who was alive and not dead.

“…”

at las.

I finally succeeded in saving my brother.

Just as I was trying to hold back the tears that were blocking my vision and was about to kill the Martial People, whether it was a volcanic wave or not,

In front of me, I could see three unnamed martial artists with blood dripping from their mouths, noses, ears, etc., with tree branches reaching out from the holes.

And behind it, on the flat land where thousands of martial people must exist…

The corpses of people crushed to death can be seen between the cracked earth as if there had been a huge earthquake.

“…World Tree.”

Humans could never prevent natural disasters.

And it seems that it was the same for the martial arts people.

“Good job, Nyamu.”

Three unnamed martial arts masters who are still alive and moaning in pain.

“Uuuu..”

“Assholes.”

Cut off the entire trunk of the tree as if pruning.

“Whoo..”

I finally feel relieved.

Cheonhwi oppa can be seen recovering noticeably quickly.

“…Sister..”

“I know, I already knew it because I saw it as my item, so focus on treatment.”

“..I’m sorry..”

Tears forming around Suah’s eyes.

“…”

In the previous episode, he clearly blamed Su-ah.

If Su-ah had properly recognized her brother, this wouldn’t have happened.

However, if you really look at it that way, the problem was that he actually tried to imprison Cheonhwi oppa.

“..How are you?”

“You fell asleep..”

“What about your body?”

“I feel fine. My body… is fine… but I’m not sure about my mind…”

“…”

That part…

“That’s something I can’t do.”

“..Yes?”

“….I hope not.”

If it had been a physical problem, there would have been a way to go back one more time and expedite the treatment period…

“I’ll come back after clearing the 9th floor.”

“..Yes.”

First of all, I planned to clear the 9th floor and quickly take Chunhwi oppa to the hospital.

“..Oppa?”

When I turned my head to the faint pull of someone pulling my clothes, I could see that my brother with faint eyes was holding on to my clothes weakly.

“……”

For some reason, tears well up.

I don’t know what to say.

Should I have comforted him by telling him that he had worked hard to survive alone all this time?

Should I have apologized for coming to the rescue too late?

“…”

Trembling lips.

“If you’re having a hard time, don’t bother saying it.”

Red eyes.

“Soo-ah will treat you.”

Lips that want to say something.

“And..”

A hand falling without strength.

“Thank you for sticking with me.”

“…”

“…I love you.”

Only then will I convey my sincerity.

Because I feel itchy during the day, it’s embarrassing to talk in a serious tone.

Have you ever expressed your sincerity for one reason or another?

“I love you.”

“…”

“I love you, Chunhwi oppa.”

*

Eat..

Suyeon’s confession made me laugh without even realizing it.

Since when did it start?

When you remember that you can’t send messages to Earth from the 9th floor?

When I realized that this episode was one where Soo-yeon couldn’t come to save me?

When you realized that even though you messaged not only Suyeon, but also Seolhee and Suah, you couldn’t get a reply from anyone?

When you realize that you can’t run away from the martial arts people who enjoy torturing people while ignoring their words for no good reason?

I don’t know.

At what moment was it?

Was it that or was it every moment.

When was the moment you tried to give up on life?

If Suyeon had returned, she should have come to save me as soon as I came here.

Because I knew the future would be like this.

but..

As I realized that no matter how long I waited, she would not come, the fear that the only thing left for me this time was death began to consume me.

I tried to pretend to be okay and cheerful, envious of my ability to survive the next episode, and left a KakaoTalk message to leave a trace that I bravely survived the present moment even though I was on the verge of death.

Wouldn’t you know, Sooyeon reads all the chat history and tells me in the next episode how brave I was?

“…”

I was jealous.

I will survive the next round.

It was hard.

My moment now, when only death remains.

I wonder if Nyamu would be crying by now because he doesn’t have a father.

Because I woke up Su-ah like that, I wonder if Su-a will realize that I’m gone and ask Su-yeon for help.

I knew it.

This is a ridiculous hope.

Still, I hoped.

It felt like I would collapse at any moment if I didn’t have this kind of hope.

I didn’t want to die.

Is there anyone in the world who wants to die?

I had a wife and children.

If I die now, can I say for sure that the person I am in the next episode will be the same person as I am now?

That last moment.

Sending a final message to Suyeon.

Just when I was ready to close my eyes as paralysis overtook my entire body.

A familiar silhouette and warm magic appeared before my eyes.

If I could cry, I would have hugged Nyamu who was crying and cried with her.

If I could only speak, I would have promised my daughter, who created this moment, my whole life.

The front was blurry so I couldn’t see clearly.

I could tell that a natural disaster that was difficult to explain had occurred.

‘That’s right, my daughter is good.’

Wipe it all away.

It took Nyamu two or three minutes at most to bury them all.

And after a while, Suyeon arrived here, and looking at Suyeon’s face, it was easy to guess that she had already returned.

That’s how I heard from her that I loved her, and without realizing it, I felt her sincerity and smiled.

Thanks to Su-a’s heels, I finally opened my mouth with a little difficulty and decided to ask questions on behalf of the other ‘me’s who had died countless times until now.

“Have you seen KakaoTalk?”

“I saw it..”

“Is this your first time?”

“..10th.”

A lot of people have died.

“Thank you.”

“..I didn’t do anything..”

“For growing up so beautifully. Thank you for growing up more dependably than anyone else.”

“Ah…”

“I don’t know whose younger sister she is, but she’s really pretty. Right, Suya?”

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

Let’s raise our hands to Nyamu, even if it’s a little too much effort, as the strength gradually returns.

Suyeon noticed my intention and pushed Nyamu into my arm.

So why haven’t you said a word until now?

When I put my hand on my head, from then on,

“Woo…Uuuu..”

My daughter starts to cry little by little.

But I didn’t cry as much as I used to.

Nyamu, who had grown up without his father knowing, kept his mouth shut and tried to hold back the tears that flowed in order to avoid crying.

Every time my daughter cried, my daughter knew that her father was very worried about her, so she tried not to cry because she didn’t want her father to have a harder time than he already was.

“Nyamu..”

“…”

“You can cry.”

And I loved that wonderful daughter so much.

Crying.

Sua started crying louder than Nyamu.

I repeated to myself that I was sorry, held my hand, and cried.

After that, Nyamu cried one after another.

Nyamu, who was trapped between her armpits, buried her head in her right chest and began to cry hard, like a child crying.

Finally, Suyeon started to cry quietly, saying to herself that she had finally succeeded.

Their sorrowful cries, ironically, were filling my sense of compensation for all the grit I had endured so far to avoid going crazy here.

And I was sure.

The fact that I was receiving so much love.

I was proud.