episode_0163

The Foundation’s movements are transmitted through the device installed by Rico.

Sometimes by video. Sometimes by text.

“Mr. Rico. How are you now?”

“They’ve stopped recovering from the destruction and are concentrating their manpower elsewhere. I think they’re preparing something else.”

“If it’s something else. That’s all there is to it.”

“Yes. Now, I have to hold on as long as I can.”

Rico shows his cell phone.

The movement of the foundation is transmitted through the screen.

[Three hours until nuclear apocalypse]

Underneath the text, numerous scenes are cross-edited.

A huge number of missiles are filling up the warehouse.

A nuclear warhead is loaded onto an airplane and launched into the sky.

Generals in military uniforms, presidents of each country, and officials look at each other with stern faces.

Three hours until the end of the world.

The one ‘realistic’ apocalypse that humanity can create is approaching.

Jeong Hae-won mutters blankly.

“The world is really ending now.”

Heo Yun-do is also out of his mind.

“This kind of thing. How do you stop this kind of thing.”

All we can do now is watch.

Under the Foundation’s influence, world leaders declared war, and all nuclear weapons on Earth were awakened from their long slumber.

Soon no one will be able to survive.

Even knowing this, the whole world prepares for war.

“Let me go and tell you first. It’s to Shim Ji-hee.”

Of course, even if that were true, the planned destruction could not be prevented.

but.

“We need to evacuate at least one more person safely.”

I will save at least one more person.

That’s the only thing we can change.

“… … I’ll go and tell them.”

In the heavy silence, Se-rim steps forward.

“Other people, please continue to check the situation.”

“No. Let’s all go together.”

“It’s going to be crowded. Are you okay, Dabin?”

“From now on, we can’t be apart for even a moment.”

It’s not because I’m anxious.

To overcome this apocalypse, we must not distance ourselves from each other.

As written in the script.

Only when all the characters are on stage can the story move toward the ending I proposed.

It was a while later that Sim Ji-hee appeared in a suit.

“Nuclear war… … . I expected it, but I didn’t know it would happen this quickly. I didn’t even calculate that it would all come at once… … .”

She looks noticeably tired, closes her eyes and takes a moment to collect her thoughts.

“Three hours is too short to save everyone. It would have been difficult even if it had been three months.”

Shim Ji-hee lets out a deep sigh.

It’s simple. It’s easier to destroy something than to protect it.

The Foundation can commit massacres anywhere in the world, simultaneously.

However, the evacuation methods available to the association are limited.

‘Find a phone booth and move there.’

Just this one.

Although people with special abilities are actively moving to help with the evacuation, their manpower is limited.

Shim Ji-hee finishes her thoughts.

“Then. We have to save as many people as possible.”

Saying so, Shim Ji-hee takes off her outer garment.

The white shirt worn under the black suit is revealed.

“I’ll move it myself. And the teleporter… … Mr. Millie, are you still there?”

“Yes.”

“Ms. Millie, you should go too.”

It wasn’t hard to figure out what to do.

Shim Ji-hee’s ability is ‘ability amplification’.

I plan to amplify Millie’s ‘teleportation’ ability to transport a huge number of people here at once.

“The rest of you, please wait here. If something happens to the association or I can’t come back. Then.”

Shim Ji-hee approaches and punches Choi Won, who is standing next to her, in the elbow.

“Choi Won. You lead the people. And to Dabin too. I’ll ask you.”

Leaving those words behind, Shim Ji-hee left with Millie.

… …

[One minute until nuclear apocalypse]

There is no one in front of the grandfather clock in the office anymore.

[30 seconds until nuclear apocalypse]

Choi Won mutters while looking at the screen.

“Please.”

Choi Se-rim and Heo Yun-do. They are earnestly clasping their hands together.

Everyone waited for Shim Ji-hee’s return with tense faces.

And me too.

I wonder if Shim Ji-hee will be able to return safely.

Or maybe you’ll die in a nuclear apocalypse.

The future has become unknowable.

[10 seconds until nuclear apocalypse]

“Please… … .”

Choi Won prays with his eyes tightly shut.

Seok Hyun-min stares blankly into space.

The screen of the phone shows images of nuclear weapons falling all over the world.

A nuclear weapon is launched from a fighter jet and is descending toward the ground.

To the city.

To the country town.

Into the woods.

The screen quickly switches to show everything that will be destroyed in the future.

[5 seconds until nuclear apocalypse]

Choi Won doesn’t say anything anymore.

I look around.

The people who took refuge here are busy with immediate matters without knowing anything.

Care for the injured and perform CPR on emergency patients.

Those with healing abilities were busy running around treating people.

[4 seconds until nuclear apocalypse]

The second hand of the grandfather clock announcing the end of the world is ticking quickly.

Past 11, now heading to 12.

Now, in just three seconds, the clock will be pointing to exactly 12 o’clock.

That is, it announces the end.

[3 seconds]

People are screaming.

[2 seconds]

The flames soar.

The wind is blowing hard.

The returning fighter plane crashes, hits the ground, catches fire, and then explodes.

The screen changes so quickly that your eyes can’t keep up.

[One second until nuclear apocalypse]

A flash of light filled the entire screen.

[Until the nuclear apocalypse now.=]

[Now -cho]

The grandfather clock shatters into pieces.

“Ah… … .”

One of us lets out a sigh.

That was the moment. The light came on.

Behind him, Shim Ji-hee calmly walks out.

“We. Are we still alive?”

With what appears to be at least a few thousand people.

“I guess he’s alive. Still. There were people outside who were leading the evacuation. I brought them all at once. And from now on,

Hey!”

Choi Won approaches Shim Ji-hee in one stride and hugs her.

Se-rim, who had been hesitating for a moment, also took a step forward and hugged them both tightly.

Shim Ji-hee returns alive.

Numerous people have safely come under the protection of the Association.

And Se-rim’s family gathered together in one place.

It was the last miracle in the end.

[end]

Beep be …

White noise fills the phone screen.

I continued to watch the screen for a while, then quietly shook my head.

Rico puts the phone down.

The world is destroyed.

The ashes left behind became the occupancy of complete oblivion.

seven.

He just destroyed the ‘reality’ defined by humans.

But the story doesn’t end there.

I speak to everyone.

“Now this is the last safe place. The Foundation knows that too. ”

“Yeah.”

Heo Yun answers with blank eyes.

“I don’t know if I can do it.”

Seok Hyun-min keeps biting his lips.

“Dabin.”

“Dabin.”

Before I knew it, Yebin and Serim were holding my hands tightly.

Without saying anything, just calling my name.

“Reality has been destroyed, but there are still many devices that the Foundation can operate. Anomalous entities still survive, and facilities that do not exist in reality can be utilized.”

Robin calmly assesses the situation and conveys it.

“And on top of that, there’s the massacre just now.”

Robin repeats the words out loud.

“Massacre.”

That was something I hadn’t thought of.

“But. Reality just disappeared. So is this. Possible?”

“Yes, it is possible.”

Robin cuts it straight.

“Just before reality completely disappears. Even for that fleeting moment. Once an ‘idol’ is created, it descends there.”

Beep be …

Rico’s phone screen turns back on.

The white noise starts again.

The black screen becomes noisy.

The fifth apostle’s true form appears.

“Those who were sacrificed in ‘reality’ will continue to see that fleeting moment.”

The screen keeps switching to another location.

I can see the sky.

It’s stained black here and there, as if there are bruises.

Ashes fly into the air.

The melted remains of the building can be seen here and there. The iron frame of the building, exposed to the outside, is red hot.

Traces of people disappearing, leaving only shadows behind, in the heat of a nuclear explosion are visible.

Asphalt boiling on the street. A human corpse is seen kneeling, half-melted.

And. the people who are still alive scream from hell.

A flash of light struck them.

Shadows of people scattering in the flames.

Only one shadow remains undisturbed.

The shadow in the flash is the appearance of the fifth apostle.

The apocalypse itself was the idol that served the fifth apostle.

Reality was not destroyed at the same time as it was destroyed, but remained transformed as an idol of the fifth apostle.

The screen continues to show the tragedy.

People struggle to survive, but are soon engulfed in flames. They are reduced to ashes and scattered.

A few bones and melted flesh sink into the boiling asphalt and disappear.

“Ahhh… … .”

Tears are welling up in my eyes.

I was scared.

The phone suddenly blacked out. The black screen illuminated my face.

“Ugh… … .”

A beautiful black-haired girl is shedding sad tears.

The old me. The me when I was a man. The me when I didn’t know anything, I used to say that jokingly.

They say a woman is prettiest when she cries.

This is something I only said when I was drawing cartoons, but the reason it suddenly came to mind now is… … .

My appearance was that unrealistic.

In an instant, I became like this. Innocent. Young and delicate. I became the body of a woman.

That’s why I was scared.

I was crying alone, beautifully, with all the sins and terrible ugliness of the world covered over.

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