episode_0329

Deep?

I opened my eyes to an eerie sound. I lowered my gaze and stared at my chest.

A sharp-colored sword was stuck in the middle of his chest.

“…What is it?”

Shiron opened his eyes and muttered. And the bitterness, pain, nausea, and heat that come later. The wound is hot. Unfortunately, it seems that the [Save] ability was not used. Am I bleeding? The area below my chest feels warm, so I think there’s blood flowing under my clothes…

[Hero!!]

“Ahhhh!”

While I was feeling dizzy, screams rang out in all directions. Through slightly blurred vision, Siron saw a panicked Lucia and a hurriedly running Seira.

“You crazy bitch! Why are you stabbing me like that?”

“Mo, I don’t know! I just wanted to stab him… The face that confidently says he can avoid it is so fucking disgusting!”

“What kind of bullshit is that! I should have endured it even if it meant being really crappy!”

“I tried to hold back…! No, I feel really unfair too!”

“There is nothing to be unfair about!”

“I don’t know! Do you know how hard I tried to avoid this prophecy? uh?! Even when he sleeps, he sleeps with the knife far away for fear of stabbing Siron in his sleep!”

Seira and Lucia were so embarrassed that they stopped even speaking politely in front of Siron. He was probably so embarrassed that he couldn’t hide the fact that he was a reincarnated person.

At that moment,

“Don’t worry! What are you doing!”

Latera suddenly appeared out of thin air and shouted, supporting Siron. His tall, muscular body is heavy. The face that supports the weak Shiron looks very burdened.

“Please help me quickly! If things continue like this, the hero will really die!”

“That’s right! Hurry up and take out your sword first…”

“If you take out the sword, the bleeding will get worse! First, let’s start with divine power!”

After Seira and Lucia supported Siron, Latera quickly held the divinity in her palm. Although it was a weaker divinity than Siron, it was capable of suturing wounds in an instant.

“Hero! Come to your senses!”

A cute palm gently pressed the hole in my chest. Shiron moved his purring lips in dizziness.

“Fuck… what the fuck…”

“What the warrior did was shit!”

“…Oh, I don’t know. I was trying to test my foresight…”

Siron muttered and looked back at Lucia with blind eyes.

“Shibalryeon. What if I really stab you…”

“Yes! I’m being crazy! So, you can’t die!”

“…I’m not dying, fuck.”

Siron said, feeling a strange tickling sensation in his chest.

It seemed like he didn’t really intend to kill him, but he stabbed the heart, but the depth was shallow, and fortunately, Latera’s first aid was quick.

“I’m just a little dizzy. It’s because I shed too much blood. Instantly… Phew.”

“Really?”

“…That’s right. You’ll be fine if you rest for a while. So, wow. I’m sleepy.”

“You can’t sleep! In times like this, everyone who sleeps is dead!”

Lucia buried her face in Siron’s chest and shouted. I didn’t realize it because my vision was blurry, but my chest became increasingly wet, as if I had shed a lot of tears during that time.

But no matter what, the drowsiness only grew stronger. I wonder if I have ever felt so sleepy in my life.

But I couldn’t fall asleep like this. Siron chuckled as he saw the flame of prophecy that had not been extinguished despite this uproar.

‘I am canceling the term “dog fraud.” I’m feeling sleepy, but I’m still eating mana. ‘There is no such thing as a special complex.’

Still, if you use up all your mana, it will go out. Since he didn’t die from running out of mana, Siron decided to close his eyes and sleep.

“…Because I’m not dying. Wake me up when the flame goes out.”

“Black. Ah, okay.”

“Don’t tell the Dawn Castle.”

“Sigh… Okay!”

I thought I would be able to fall asleep amidst all this chaos, but the growing darkness quickly swallowed up all my senses.

This too will pass as a small incident. Shiron thought about that and decided to focus on resting.

*

Is it because of unexpected damage? Shiron had a dream for the first time in a long time.

“It’s been a while” means that he doesn’t usually dream. No, only a small portion of people had dreams.

When I went to Braham, a sacred place in the desert,

When I was bossed by Siriel,

And now.

[Chiron Prien]’s body was so undreamt of that it could be counted on one finger.

I was very curious about the reason, so I looked into it, but since it wasn’t like I didn’t dream at all, I thought it was just a peculiar constitution.

‘…It could be the effect of possession.’

Maybe it’s because it’s a dream I haven’t had in a long time. The dream itself is also strangely different from what Siron knew. The last two times, I didn’t know that it was a dream while I was dreaming, but now I know that this is a dream world.

I wasn’t nervous or wary.

Although there were demons called succubi and dream demons, in this world dream demons were low-level demons that could not threaten Siron.

The setting is that because you lack strength, you have to take advantage of the enemy’s weak spot, and that happens while you are dreaming.

However, what would happen in the future was worth paying close attention to.

‘This…’

In a field of vision that was rippling like a lake, an old video passed by as if in fast forward.

‘Three apostles?’

A towering tower.

Although it was his first time seeing this place, Siron knew what kind of place this was.

In the middle of the demonic landscape, in the abandoned city of Ilyushin, there was a tower. A tower high enough not only to observe the entire Demonic Scenery, but also to see the human world beyond the mountain range.

[Tower of Despair]

At the top, an old man covered in a robe was observing the world from his throne.

‘Why is that bastard over there?’

An incomprehensible question popped out. The reason he tried to gain the power of prophecy was to become a stepping stone to become stronger, but more than that, he prayed to find an apostle somewhere in the Demonic Book.

No matter how much you raised your prestige, there was a possibility that you would not be able to encounter an apostle. There were 15 years left until the devil’s contract, but there was a possibility that he would not encounter the apostle, and he even received a frightening revelation in Lucerne.

So, I gained the power of prophecy to visit it myself. If this dream was a correct prophecy, I should have been happy.

However,

Siron’s face just became distorted.

‘That’s a pain in the ass.’

This is because I know the characteristics of the Tower of Despair.

In Reincarnation Sword God, there were some names that should never be fought.

Yuma before getting angry.

Hugo Prien.

Lastly, the Tower of Despair.

Yuma should not be killed as he provides considerable help to the player from the beginning of the game, and Hugo Prien was the strongest in the Empire before his death, so there was no chance for the player to win unless he used a trick.

However, Tower of Despair is a little different. Characteristics of the Tower of Despair. Those who climb the Tower of Despair can escape from the tower only by dying, and the tower constantly needs a master.

It was predicted that if Siron defeated the three apostles, he would be trapped in the tower forever.

At that moment,

‘huh?’

Our eyes met.

I couldn’t see his face clearly because he was wearing a hood, but I could definitely feel his eyes shining through his wrinkled face.

Lo and behold, the air at the top of the tower stirred for a moment, and a huge window appeared at some point, aiming precisely at Siron’s location.

‘It’s a dream, you bastard.’

Siron grinned and tried to disappear from the sight of the three apostles. Since it was a lucid dream, it was easy to follow his intentions.

My vision shimmered again and the scenery changed.

It seemed like I would wake up from a dream, but unfortunately, the dream seemed to continue further.

‘…’

This time, it was a place I knew.

But… what on earth is this unfamiliarity? Shiron felt a chill down his spine.

A ruin called Tagore Hill.

Seeing the cloudy aura swirling around that made me feel nauseous, it seemed like the demon had just been subdued.

On top of a pile of dirt that had decayed into existence, a small woman was hugging a woman with a strong appearance.

-Kylie. You shouldn’t sleep in a place like this.

-…

-I’m busy. Wake up quickly.

Kylie didn’t wake up in response to the woman’s answer. His heart was beating, perhaps after a fight with a demon, but he looked like a corpse.

But, in a place where even Kylie can’t stand, who is this woman that she can just complain…

ah.

The moment I looked closely, my face became blank. There was no mirror here, but I could at least realize that I was looking a little dazed.

The face of the woman embracing Kylie. It’s not the first time I’ve seen this.

Although it may have changed a bit over time, there was no way I could not recognize the impression I got from my longest-standing relationship.

-…He’s dead.

Yura,

I sighed as I comforted the fallen Kylie. And then he starts tapping the air as if manipulating something.

What a psychopath. Someone died in front of me and I didn’t shed a single tear. I thought you would be here too. My prediction was correct. You went on a trip with Kylie. Those traces were more crude than when the game was made, as if they had been carved by hand. As expected, my prediction was correct. Yura is like me…

I felt angry for a moment, but I was overwhelmed with emotions as the fact that I had only guessed all along became true, even if only in a dream.

My mouth was watering like an idiot, and even though it was in a dream, my eyes were watering.

Was it that moment?

Siron’s tears fell.

thud.

My heart, which had stopped, started beating again. Kylie’s dark complexion gradually returned.

Like a miracle.

‘…What did you do?’

My vision flickered again.

*

The child who spoke first was Hyunjun.

Unlike me, who stabs me in all directions, he smiles brightly and talks to me in a mean way.

Unlike me, who had no friends, this guy quickly made friends even though he moved from a different neighborhood.

“Why are you playing with me? You have many friends besides me.”

So there was a time when I muttered something like an idiot. Looking back now, I feel embarrassed and want to bite my tongue and turn away… It’s a bad memory.

But I didn’t feel this way at the time. Because Hyunjun was a good kid who accepted everything no matter how bad I was.

“Um… Mom said to be close with you.”

“How are you going to live without your mom? I can’t do anything?”

He says harsh words again. I need to fix it quickly, but I was such a child at the time… I ended up complaining to a child of the same age that even my parents could barely accept.

“If I don’t have a mom… I’ll be so fucking sad.”

“…”

“So, how can I live without my mom? Just imagining it makes me cry…”

“Asshole.”

I didn’t know it at the time, but now I know that Hyunjun was deliberately pretending not to know. You must have heard adults talking somewhere about the fact that I don’t have a mother even if they don’t say it.

But Hyunjun never showed that. It’s a strange consideration not to notice when you look at it now, but at the time, I was such a brat…

I only saw Hyunjun’s consideration as a foolish and natural behavior. He was always complaining and acting like a fool, even right before we broke up.

Gradually, as time went by, his sharp personality became rounder, but his habit of speaking straight to Hyunjun remained.

“You idiot. Are you upset again?”

I got grumpy and tried to touch it.

“Hey! After we finished, we decided to watch a movie together. Why are you going home like that?”

“I’m sleepy.”

“Hey!!”

Sometimes I try not to notice the dull expression on my face.

“Because you keep doing it that way…!”

I couldn’t understand the atmosphere and continued to pour out harsh words until the end.

I was the asshole I always talked about.

*

“Huh? You woke up!”

My eyes opened.

Siron looked at the rickety ceiling of the carriage and met purple eyes.

“Are you awake?”

“…Where are you going?”

“The mana capacity was so large that the fire didn’t go out, and he didn’t even wake up, so I decided to leave first.”

“Do you talk in your sleep?”

“Yes?”

“…It’s nothing.”

Ilyushin, the city of magic.

I saw a tall tower that seemed to reach the sky.