episode_0199

”You’re here again.”

As I sat quietly staring at the sky, I heard a voice calling me from behind.

I could tell who it was without even having to look away.

Voice, magical quality, gentle energy… Because it was all familiar.

A figure approached me hurriedly and sat down next to me.

“… … ”

There was silence for a while. Occasionally, the roar of a monster from far away would only hit my eardrums. As I was emptying my thoughts with that noise, a glance came at me from the side.

I glanced sideways at him.

Brown ponytail hair gathered together and roughly tied back. A beautiful woman with green eyes like blades of grass that are overtly filled with tension and worry.

This is Lee Ji-yeon, Taesan’s successor.

“Hmm… that… ”

An indifferent voice continued. He seems to be dragging his feet while looking at what others are saying.

“Why. Do you have something to say?”

“No, just… I wonder if my head has cooled down a bit.”

As I waited patiently and calmly for the fear to have calmed down, Lee Ji-yeon looked at me and asked.

I shrugged my shoulders.

“Yes, it cooled down well. The effect of Taishan is good.”

The damning Gyeophwa has calmed down, and now Taesan has raised his head.

It feels like the emotions that were burning just a moment ago have subsided, and a feeling of peace has suddenly surged up.

If a catastrophe occurred… I guess I just cooled off.

‘There are no real bipolar patients.’

A thought that suddenly occurred to me made me smile bitterly.

Gyeophwa, Changhae, and Taesan. I feel like my emotions are being manipulated every time the three unique abilities come up alternately or at the same time.

Suddenly, he gets angry and runs away like a mad dog, suddenly cools down and falls down on the grass, and suddenly nothing happens and he becomes a normal person… There really wasn’t a single crazy person.

“… It’s Taesan… ”

Jiyeon Lee’s expression sank as she joked and smiled bitterly.

She seemed to hesitate for a moment, but then opened her mouth as if she had made up her mind.

“I was emotional earlier. It wasn’t necessary, but I reacted nervously for no reason… It was my fault, I’m sorry.”

The hesitant look from earlier was replaced by a firm voice that I don’t know where it went.

Although the tension and worry were still there, he was facing the gaze that was looking at him without avoiding it.

I looked into his eyes for a moment, then turned my head straight ahead as if to avoid eye contact.

“… What does the senior have to apologize for? In the end, it was my fault. I couldn’t control one side effect, so I got promoted again.”

“No. it is not so. I, who knew the situation, should have reacted calmly. It was my fault for not doing so… ”

“So… Tsk, that’s it. Let’s just assume each other did something wrong.”

For a while, we argued with each other about what I did wrong, or rather, what I did was even more wrong, and then suddenly it all felt pointless.

What are we doing so stupidly?

“Put… ”

As I was shaking my head, feeling stupid, I heard a small laugh next to me.

“What’s funny?”

“Just.”

When I asked again, raising the corners of my eyes, Jiyeon Lee chuckled and shook her head.

I stared at her, but instead of digging in, I changed the subject.

“… That’s it then. What’s the situation outside? Is it still the same?”

“Yes… It’s still the same.”

How is the situation outside? When she asked that question, Jiyeon Lee’s laughter suddenly stopped.

The situation outside could be roughly inferred from the way he shook his head with a face that had aged easily by ten years.

“Ugh.”

It’s still a mess. At that, I naturally sighed.

A situation that I had been concerned about ever since I attended poetry cradle finally came to fruition.

In the end, he wasted his ability in a place so crowded with people and so crowded with government agencies.

As a result, the unique abilities of my three generations of family were revealed to the world… Something went wrong.

Unrelated forces were also in an uproar, and the three major families in particular were truly completely turned upside down.

My body trembled at the memory of being caught in the center of that mess and being swept around. It was a painful memory that I didn’t want to recall.

In the end, I couldn’t stand him anymore, so I half-fleeed and sat down on the front line of the Demon Guard.

No matter what, there’s no way they can get to the demonic front line.

‘Whoa…’ ‘

No regrets… I couldn’t say that with confidence.

But one thing is certain… Even if I could go back to that time, I would have done the same thing.

If I hadn’t used it then, all the people I could have saved would have died.

I was able to save them because I dared to use my abilities.

Of course, some people may laugh at it as meaningless.

… No, I may be thinking of myself as meaningless.

“… … ”

No matter how hard I struggle, the possibility of stopping the tower’s invasion is extremely small, and even if I do overcome it, it is highly likely to be meaningless.

‘Tsk… ‘

I knew that, but I just couldn’t stay still.

If it were absolutely impossible, I would have accepted it.

If it is a delusion that cannot be realized no matter how hard you pound your head into it, you will give up and resign.

But it was right in front of me.

There was someone in a place that caught my eye, within reach if I stretched out my hand just a little, that I could save with just a little more effort.

There were too many people like that to turn a blind eye to the excuse that it was meaningless anyway.

So I just asked myself.

If they are not fake, if this world continues without disappearing in vain.

I turned my eyes away from that situation, didn’t extend my hand, and lived like I was dead.

One day, when someone asked me if I deserved to be treated unfairly… I didn’t have the confidence to say yes confidently and without hesitation.

So we were fighting like this.

So that you can be confident in yourself, not just for the sake of others.

Later, when I was treated unfairly and unfairly, I wanted to reply without hesitation that I had not lived a life to deserve such treatment.

It may be an ideal that is too high for the vessel.

The subject is full of greed despite not having the ability to do so.

In order to achieve his distant goal, he coveted power beyond his means and became a psychotic person whose emotions fluctuated.

However, there are very few successful ones, and there are many people who have not been saved.

“Junior, digging a tunnel again.”

“?”

“Why are you like that? Did you get scared again?”

A hand pressed my cheek. As I turned my head, Jiyeon Lee’s worried face came into view as her fingers dug in further.

“It’s nothing.”

“It’s nothing. It’s written all over my face that I’m feeling depressed right now.”

“No.”

“I don’t know what you’re worried about… ”

As I stood up to avoid the hand that kept poking my cheek, Jiyeon Lee followed me and stood up.

“If you need help, just tell me. I got a lot of help from my juniors, right? I will do my best to help you at any time. Don’t worry, my juniors know that I’m a decent person.”

Lee Ji-yeon’s expression looked quite confident as she said that. He didn’t seem like the person who was watching me and being cautious earlier.

“… … ”

People are really confused.

Sometimes he’s so trustworthy, and sometimes he looks like a squid… It is said that people have many different aspects, but Lee Ji-yeon seemed to have a strong tendency to do so.

So I liked it even more. Should I say that I feel a sense of kinship with them, especially when they look like a small octopus?

One of the reasons we became friends easily at first was because Jiyeon Lee showed a strangely wrinkly attitude when she realized that I had manifested Taesan and was friendly to me. Strangely, my heart opened easily.

So I hope this person doesn’t die too. If the future continues, I hope you will be happy.

I made a strange expression and slapped the hand that was grazing my buttocks.

“I am stronger than my senior. And don’t touch the butt.”

“What? When did I touch your ass? I just dusted it off!”

Lee Ji-yeon, whose hand was thrown away, made a bewildered expression and screamed.

“Ugh… Can you make time for me later? I have something I want to say.”

Lee Ji-yeon, who had been tinkering for a while, fell out of the pool.

Then he sighed deeply, looked at everyone’s eyes again, and asked that question.

I tilted my head.

“Do you really need time? Tell me now.”

“No. I’ll talk about it separately later. This means you need to prepare your mind.”

“What does preparation in mind mean… all right. I’ll make time to stop by just one more time.”

I responded in bewilderment, but for some reason, Jiyeon Lee euphemistically insisted that she would say it later.

In the end, I promised to stop by Magyeong Simbu and make time on my way back.

“But it might take some time. I’m going to clean it up and come back.”

“Yes, I’ll wait.”

Only after hearing the answer that she would make time in the end did Ji-yeon Lee smile slightly, as if she felt reassured.

* * *

[HP has reached 0. ]

[The player dies. ]

[ Bad End 4 – Died in ‘The Deepest Part of the Demon World’. ]

[Settlement the data. ]

[Round: 3rd]

[Selected setting: Bowl]

[System Title: Three Classes]

[Cause of death: Self-destruction due to repulsion between unique abilities]

* * *

“… Seed? Mr. Hayul~”

The mind that had been locked deep inside suddenly emerged.

My ears, which had been filled with water, cleared and I heard a voice calling me.

[Eh?]

[to?]

[Jolyu… ]

[Three types]

[dog dream]

[sadness]

Consciousness came to me.

My senses came alive. Soon, a cool energy came from the soft material wrapped around my body.

As did the voice I felt above my head, it felt like Baek Arin was calling me.

[Ehh]

[yes… What’s going on?]

Because I had just woken up, I answered in a half-asleep state.

He pulled out his head, which was buried in a lump of flesh, and observed it.

Soon Baek Arin’s face with a strange expression came into my head.

Blue eyes look at my face… I looked at the confession necklace and my lips alternately, then took the tissue next to me and rubbed it on my lips.

– Ubbeul… ?

I tilted my head to see what he was doing. Why is this happening all of a sudden? As I expressed my doubts, the tissue immediately became moist.

‘?’

A question mark appeared above my head. The tissue paper that I had been dabbing my lips with rubbed around the corners of my mouth. Likewise, water came out.

“Wow, everything is wet.”

Baek Arin, who wiped the corner of my mouth in a casual manner, glanced down at my face.

My face is half-asleep and blank.

Baek A-rin let out a chuckle as she pulled out a new tissue and wiped her wet chest.

This was the part where I was burying my face just a moment ago.

‘uh… ‘

Several elements clicked together in my dazed mind.

My mouth was wide open as I regained consciousness. The corners of my mouth and Baek Arin’s chest are dripping with moisture…

The understanding is complete. My face became colorful, mainly red.

“You were drooling all over your body, I guess you were sleeping very soundly?”

As if to deal the final blow to him, Baek Arin patted my butt with a playful expression…

My face fell automatically.

* * *

On the way to the classroom.

Lee Ji-yeon, who was rummaging through her bag, suddenly narrowed her eyes.

There was a tickling sensation in my nose. I tried to hold back, but it didn’t work out the way I wanted.

“E, Echung!”

In the end, I sneezed.

A sneeze so loud that it made my body shake, instantly drowned out the sounds of people talking around me.

The friends who were chatting next to her opened their eyes wide.

“What is it? What is delay? Why are you sneezing all of a sudden? Did you catch a cold?”

“If the Taesan manifester catches a cold, aren’t we already dead?”

“Haha! Look at that sneeze! That dog is cute.”

“Oh, no…”

Friends, who are already bored, jump at the slightest topic of teasing.

Lee Ji-yeon, who has a good batting ability, was in tears as she was beaten by all-out attacks from those around her.