episode_0172

I just stood there, with one eye covered.

There was no point in running anymore. Was that what I was thinking?

Or maybe I was just paralyzed by fear.

“Ugh.”

I flinched, but nothing happened.

My mind had long since gone completely blank, but even so, I was able to make a few decisions, albeit belatedly.

The black figure that killed me twice.

The bastard wasn’t in front of me.

What was in front of my eyes was a shape reflected in the glass door.

Right behind me. He’s there.

I can hear the sound of something scraping the floor.

Thud. Ssuk. Ssuk. Thud.

It was as if a giant, disgusting snail was crawling towards me.

The black figure slowly approaches us, leaving a sticky shadow on the ground.

“Ahhh.”

I bit my lip hard.

You have to come to your senses. You have to move.

I have to survive.

It seemed like there wasn’t much time left.

But you can live.

I can live.

He’s slow, and there’s still time.

In a state of complete panic, thoughts quickly disperse.

Even simple thoughts had to be repeated over and over again.

Open the door in front of you.

Go out.

And, you must never look at him directly.

Suddenly.

“Ah.”

Clank clank.

My heart hardened into a cold state.

The glass front door was locked and wouldn’t open.

You can only survive if you go right outside.

If you just leave the apartment, you’ll be safe.

The door doesn’t open.

“Ah. Ah… … .”

He made incomprehensible noises like a madman.

It wasn’t something I did consciously, it just happened naturally.

I could tell by the reflection in the glass.

The black shape keeps approaching.

Have to live.

yet.

There must be another way.

Look around you.

please.

I have to live.

I suppressed my fear with all my might.

You must not look at the black shape behind you.

Let’s look back carefully.

Maybe we can find a way to survive.

I turned my head slightly.

Because my left eye was cut off, I had to look around with only my right eye.

Left eye. Can it be fixed?

It didn’t seem to cut that deeply, as far as the pain went.

It’s only a slight scratch on the surface.

Now the bleeding has stopped, but instead the tears continue to flow along with an unbearable stinging sensation.

“Some.”

He muttered, shaking his head.

This is a self-deprecation.

“Concentrate.”

This is not the time to worry about just one eye.

You have to concentrate.

That’s the only way to survive.

In the one eye that was not damaged, something useful caught my eye.

After lifting a heavy object with all his might, he slammed it down toward the glass door.

Boom!

What I’m holding in my hand is an emergency fire extinguisher placed next to the first floor.

If the door won’t open, you can use this to break the door and get out.

One more time.

Boom!

The fire extinguisher bounced right off, and I almost fell backwards.

I’ve already slammed the door with all my might twice, but not even a small crack appears in the glass.

Something is wrong.

“Open.”

Boom!

“Open it!!!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“Ugh. Gasp… … .”

I poured out all my strength and fell to the floor.

The door is the same as before.

It is so smooth and flawless that the back is still clearly visible.

While I was struggling to break the glass door, the black figure was moving towards me diligently.

Now he’s right behind you.

“… … .”

Is this really the end?

I swore to myself that I would survive, but there was nothing I could do.

The path to the stairs was already long past, blocked by a black figure.

There is no place to escape.

Because this is a narrow hallway.

Can’t do anything.

I was just sitting on the floor, holding onto the door that wouldn’t open.

“Oh my gosh-”

The black figure approaches, making a strange noise. It looks as if it will drill a hole in my head at any moment… … .

“Ugh.”

I almost turned around impulsively.

When people are overly scared, they become strangely short-sighted and impulsive.

Now a sloshing sound can be heard right behind me.

Right behind.

There’s a guy there.

My body trembles regardless of my will.

“It’s cold… … .”

With both arms wrapped around your body.

Waited for my end.

If I die this time, will I come back to life?

Even if it was the case during the last two deaths, there is no guarantee that he will be able to come back to life this time.

What if it really ends like this?

“I’m scared… … .”

I’m scared.

More than the pain of my head being smashed and my breath being cut off, it was the fact that it was all over.

The tears had been flowing for a long time.

The injured eye continued to shed tears to wash away the wound, while the good right eye was filled with tears of fear.

What on earth did I do?

Why are you trapped here?

I can’t even remember properly.

What came to mind faintly was someone’s white hand.

Someone lying down.

Blood is gushing from his chest, and white hands are covering it.

“Sister Se-rim.”

I muttered without realizing it.

Memories are coming back a little.

I killed Sister Se-rim with my own hands.

For me to survive.

Well then. Is this the price?

In the glass door, only my image and a black figure are reflected.

The black figure stretches out its arm and places it on my shoulder.

I shivered at the cold, clammy sensation.

“Look.”

As soon as our bodies touch, thoughts flow in.

“Look this way.”

A rough voice hissing and shouting.

“Look behind you.”

I am not dead yet.

“… … .”

Finally, my hardened thoughts are starting to roll a little.

He destroys the being that looks at him.

In the first round, one of my eyes.

In the second round it was a smartphone.

And now, the 3rd time.

If you don’t look at him, you might be able to get away safely.

But what does it mean to get out?

If you think about it again, there is only one way.

You have to get past him and go back.

And then we have to head towards the stairs.

It’s impossible to get out of this apartment, so you have to go upstairs.

To the second floor of the apartment.

I closed my eyes.

There’s a guy right behind you.

It took a lot of courage to even look back.

Ugh-

A rattling lower jaw that makes a tick, tick, tick sound in fear.

I clenched my teeth hard to stop the noise.

‘let’s go.’

I walked forward slowly, leaning against the wall.

When you reach the emergency exit with the stairs, you will find the iron door handle in your hand.

“… … Open your eyes.”

“Open your eyes!!!”

Boom!

The wall next to me is breaking down.

I closed my eyes tightly.

Pass through the hallway.

The emergency exit is getting closer.

As I got closer to the emergency exit, the unstable memories began to return little by little.

I killed everyone to save the world.

However, saving the world was impossible.

So, I must survive at all costs.

That was also the reason I killed Sister Se-rim.

There has been no sound for a long time.

A black figure.

The guy gave up following me. That’s what I thought.

Crunch.

The doorknob is in my hand.

However, it doesn’t open as if something is blocking it.

Crunch.

Crunch.

No matter how hard I try, the door won’t open.

To be precise, it opens slightly and then closes again right away.

As if someone was holding it in the opposite direction.

I tried to pull the door with all my might, but my body fell backwards and I fell down.

“Huh, huh?”

and.

While falling.

I opened my eyes without realizing it.

“You saw it.”

He was at the door.

It was stuck to the ceiling.

The black figure’s body was strangely long.

He looks down at me with his head and neck glued to the ceiling.

On the floor, two legs support the body.

Meanwhile, a long arm stretched out from some point and wrapped itself around the emergency exit door handle several times, holding it in place.

I sat down quietly.

There is no need to close your eyes and turn away any longer.

I already know what to do.

“I was wrong.”

The memory came back.

“I made a mistake.”

I didn’t believe everyone could survive.

So, I accepted the professor’s offer.

Kill everyone and save the world from the Seven.

If we do that, one day the story will be written again and we will all come back.

I just have to hold out on my own until then.

I just realized why I failed.

No new stories are written on a life that has given up everything.

So I was left alone. Forever.

“I’m sorry.”

He knelt down and bowed his head.

The black figure pauses for a moment.

Stop.

Stop.

Black tears are falling from above.

“But I can’t help it.”

I opened the emergency exit door, went in, and slammed the door shut from the inside.

The stairs lead to the second floor.

slowly,

Out of breath,

I climbed the stairs.

Light comes in.

More and more intensely.

As if everything would burn.

“Dabin!”

Sister Se-rim’s voice.

The voice of Dazhu.

And everyone else’s voice.

Call my name.

“This way.”

And there was another me, standing in front of the second floor door.

“Come out this way.”

Me in the world line that succeeded in saving the world.

Here’s another Im Da-bin.

I caress the eye on the injured side and ask in a complicated voice.

“Can you forgive me?”

“Yeah.”

Another me nods.

“Even if it were me, if I had thought just a little wrong, I would have done the same.”

“… … .”

I am saved.

Me from another world line.

By myself.

“Instead, your memories will change a lot.”

“… … I know. As we cross the world line, many things will change accordingly. ”

“Yeah. Are you okay?”

“What makes you think she was a woman from the beginning?”

“Yeah.”

“That would be better.”

I smiled faintly and shook my head.

“Isn’t it a bit weird that a man has a woman’s body while still having a man’s memory?”

“… … Not that.”

“Is there anything else?”

“You’ll forget everything you did in the apartment. You’ll lose the memories of spending time with other people. To Se-rim, Da-ju, Ye-bin, everyone, you’ll likely just become someone you know. ”

“… … .”

Tears are welling up again.

My heart aches.

Because ‘I’, who survived together in the apartment, was forgotten by everyone.

But I also know very well that I don’t deserve it.

It is shameless to want to be remembered after killing everyone due to one wrong decision.

“… … Thank goodness.”

“I knew you’d think so.”

We held hands and went up to the second floor together.

As I climbed the stairs and opened the emergency exit door, light enveloped me.

“Are you awake?”

“… … Yeah.”

There is a familiar face before my eyes.

I got out of bed and decided to adjust to the new setup.

Soon these memories will be erased, and I will live without knowing anything.

The person I once was.

The one who saved me.

And now, the person who will become my older sister.

He smiled faintly and called my name.

“Sister Dabin.”

And then, I fell asleep again.

***

“Sigh… … .”

And this world line’s Im Da-bin.

So, I leaned against the wall and sighed.

Things are going well, but my head is complicated.

He succeeded in saving me from another world line.

However, it was impossible for the same person to exist in the same worldline at the same time.

So, in the process of crossing the world line, several things changed significantly… … .

This seems to have been something that was somewhat ‘probable’.

“Dabin!”

“Sister. You’ve worked hard.”

“Yeah. I’m glad things worked out well.”

Sister Se-rim smiles cheerfully and makes the bed.

On the bed, bandages and belts that had bound another ‘Im Da-bin’ were scattered in a mess.

“But why is Dabin’s expression so complicated?”

“I just feel weird.”

“Why? It would be nice if you had a new little sister.”

“There’s someone who calls me unnie. For the first time.”

“Come to think of it, does Daju still call you oppa? Yebin just calls her Dabin.”

“Yeah, right, well. It’s just, awkward.”

“Ah. You still haven’t gotten rid of your old manly feelings?”

“No, it’s not that. I just feel weird.”

In the bed, ‘Im Da-bin’ from another world line is sleeping peacefully.

When you wake up, your body and face will change little by little.

And you will get new settings for living in this world.

The setting is that she is my younger sister.

He sighed deeply again and adjusted his position against the wall.

I’m completely exhausted from this.

Se-rim unnie seems really excited though.

“That’s right. Dabin.”

“Yes, Sister.”

“Later, when your little sister wakes up, do you want the three of us to go out and play together? Anywhere is fine.”

“I’m so tired right now.”

“Dabin is now two? This needs to be celebrated!”

“Umm… … .”

I think it would be better to just rest.

Meanwhile, my ‘younger sister’, who had been sleeping in bed, woke up.

“… … Sister Dabin?”

“Yeah. You’re awake.”

“Serim unnie too?”

The new ‘little brother’ turns his head around diligently, looking to both sides.

“What were you guys talking about?”

It doesn’t seem like he’s gotten any younger.

Instead, the face changed a little.

Unlike me who has a gentle impression, his eyes are a bit sharp.

If I am the puppy, this is the cat.

“It’s nothing.”

While talking roughly, I glanced at Se-rim unnie.

“Right, what was your name?”

As expected, Se-rim unnie.

Just looking into each other’s eyes, our hearts connect.

“Huh? Se-rim, haven’t you seen me a few times?”

“I suddenly can’t remember. Sorry.”

“It’s Sebin. Im Sebin.”

“That’s right. It was Sevin, right?”

Lim Se-bin is tilting her head with a blank expression, and I am lying down, leaning against the wall, all my strength drained.

Only Se-rim unnie smiles happily in the world.

“Yes, Sebin. Shall we all go out and play together today?”

“Huh? Where to?”

“Amusement park.”

“I really like it.”

No matter what, the original must have been me.

Is it possible for a personality to change this much?

“Dabin, don’t just lie down, let’s go quickly!”

“That’s right! You’re just lying around all day. Let’s go together, sis!”

“Ah… … .”

I just want to rest at home.

Unable to withstand the two people’s pressure, I finally got up.

“Let’s go!”

“Okay. I’ll buy you all the delicious things.”

Me and Sevin.

Se-rim, smiling happily between the two people.

Yeah, this might not be so bad.

… … It was actually really good.

At first it was annoying, but once I got to the amusement park, it was actually fun.

There are so many things to see that my heart is pounding.

“Next, that one! Let’s go ride that one!”

I still have a lot of energy left.

“Dabin, let’s rest. I’m tired… … .”

“It’s hot, sis… … .”

The two men are completely exhausted and collapse on the bench.

“Dabin didn’t want to go that much. Now she’s the most excited… … .”

“What? Sister told me to go. Get up quickly. Hurry up! I said we have to go to the next ride?”

Fortunately, this time no one was left alone.

[Side story: Left Alone] (Complete).