episode_0360

Harnie was suddenly hugged from behind and tried to shake off the hug in embarrassment.

“What, what are you doing? Let me go.”

“…”

“Let go. I told you I had to go. I don’t have time for this…”

The more he spoke, the more tightly Karsine hugged her body, as if he was not going to let her go.

Harnie suddenly started to struggle as if he was scared.

“I told you I was busy. You should go to your world too. You should go back quickly!”

“…”

“That’s what you wanted so badly. The return to the original world you’ve been waiting for is right around the corner. There’s no time for this…!”

Although he tried to persuade her while struggling, a frightening situation suddenly unfolded before Harnie’s eyes.

‘What, what? I must have seen something wrong…?’

A door to another world created with the power of a jewel.

Its angular parts are slightly blurred.

I thought I saw something wrong, but…

‘No. I didn’t see anything wrong…’

The blind spot continued to shrink.

The blurriness grew darker, and soon it was replaced by the scenery of this world.

It’s disappearing.

A door containing heterogeneous worlds.

It was as if that door was closing.

“Carcein, that door. It’s disappearing. It’s disappearing!”

“…”

Silence? What kind of reaction is this?

Harni was thrown into confusion.

Then suddenly he realized what choice he was about to make and shouted urgently.

“I said go now! I don’t have time to do this!”

He hugs my body from behind and won’t let go.

Even though I heard the door disappear, it didn’t move.

Rather than showing any signs of urgency, he just quietly keeps his mouth shut.

Isn’t he a smart guy?

There’s no time for this.

There’s no way I didn’t hear that sound.

There’s no way I didn’t know I could be trapped here.

There is absolutely, absolutely no way that I could be unaware of these facts.

Still.

The man neither moves nor responds.

No, that won’t work.

“This isn’t the place you lived in, nor the world you lived in. You were dragged here without knowing what was going on, and it was a world full of suffering, so you wanted to go back.”

I have to go back. To your world.

“Somehow getting out of this world. That was your goal. Your goal was to go back to where you used to live! Why are you doing this!”

I need to get out of this excruciating pain.

“Didn’t you hear me?! Come to your senses and go now. If you stay here like this, you might be stuck here forever!”

I mean, I want to forget you forever, not be locked up forever.

“You’ve come this far and gone through all sorts of hardships. You should just shake it all off and live happily in your world! Now you’re going to give up on the goal right in front of you?!”

The Silk Road is spread out before your eyes, so why don’t you go there?

Before I knew it, the door had lost its square shape.

The door, which had begun to lose its shape little by little, had become so large that one could barely fit through it by throwing one’s body through it.

This was really the last one.

“Please… Please go. Okay? Please… Don’t make the last choice wrong…”

Finally, I make a desperate appeal.

I hope this guy comes to his senses and goes back to his world.

however.

Karsine whispered while holding her in his arms indifferently.

“This is my choice.”

With the worst answer.

The door to the other world is completely closed.

***

‘oh my god.’

Eventually it disappeared.

This man’s path is the one that he must take after going through difficult times and finally finding happiness.

The path to happiness no longer exists.

His time, which required him to put everything down and spend the rest of his life, stopped at this spot.

I was forced to live forever, isolated in this world.

‘It’s all over…’

Harnie with a blank expression.

Soon she was immersed in another sorrow.

‘How much I, how much I endured…’

I deliberately kept my distance because I thought the breakup would be harder if I looked at your face.

I waited for him to leave, ignoring him and not responding to any calls.

I tried to accept that I had to let him go, even if it meant suffering.

But everything went wrong.

From the moment Karsine was put in danger, he couldn’t help but intervene.

‘I held back while trying to help somehow…’

I thought I just had to help him until he left.

He must be such a cold person. There’s no way he’d be lingering in this place. He’s not the type of person to be lingering in the first place.

He, who had faced the cold winter of reason in the dry field of emotions, was planning to leave this world without fail unless he created some other regret.

Then, I guess I just have to kill my own emotions.

As long as I don’t get caught up in this, that’s fine.

I thought I just had to hold it in so it wouldn’t hold him back.

The truth has not been revealed.

Although there have been many unexpected situations in the meantime, I have deliberately kept them a secret.

Not even a single mistake could be allowed. The moment you hold back the man who is about to leave, everything falls apart.

…should have been done.

‘I was prepared to let you go, and I was prepared to deal with the feelings after you left… but I tried and tried again not to let anything hold me back…’

Yeah. I held on and held on.

I endured it so much.

I was hoping that somehow Karsine would return.

I acted and acted again, suppressing my desire to hold on.

I tried to endure it and wish this person happiness.

This moment.

All that effort was in vain.

The eyes that had been turning away as if they were going to be caught are now turned towards Karcein.

Eyes that tremble endlessly.

Harnie’s eyes, which had been filled with complex emotions, were filled with resentment at this moment.

As if he knew what he was about to hear, Karsane released her from his embrace, releasing the strength in his arms.

-Bam.

“Why did you do that?”

Harnier asks, striking Karsain’s chest with both fists.

“You’re a smart person. You already decided long ago that it was right to go back.”

Why don’t you go back?

Any smart person would know better than to set foot in there.

“You know that if you stay here, you’ll be chased and have to continue living in hell. But if you turn away and ignore this world, you know that it won’t matter to you at all.”

I was bullied by my family and treated ostracized by the world, and I almost died several times.

After going through that experience, I can’t stay here.

“What can I say? After all, I’m just another person passing by. I’ve met countless people, and we’re destined to disappear like a midnight dream, having met in a world far away!”

Yes, that’s right.

There is no reason to stay.

Except that I mentioned just one concern.

With his head down, Harnier repeatedly struck Karsain in the chest.

“What the hell am I? Why do I have no intention of going back!”

I’m just one of those ordinary people.

I’m just one of those people who has nothing special about them.

A person you meet for business purposes.

People who have entered into a contract to achieve each other’s goals.

A person who is in a fake engagement, not a real engagement.

Once this contract ends, we are just strangers who have no relationship whatsoever.

A person who will return to the raw fish market.

That was Harnie.

“But. Why, you won’t go back because of a stranger?”

“…”

“If there is a place to return to. If there is a world of origin, and if you return there, you can live as you wish. Why wouldn’t you just close your eyes once and take a few steps forward without looking back!”

does not exist.

No matter how much I thought about it, it wasn’t there.

There is no reason for this person, who must erase the nightmares from this place and return to his own world to create new memories, to not leave.

-Thud, thud.

“Tell me. Say something!”

Harnier continued to pound Karsain’s chest and lamented.

“…”

These two thin arms were not strong.

It was so weak that it was no different from a cotton bat.

It’s not a wish.

It was something closer to self-reproach rather than resentment toward others.

That’s why Karsain had to grab Harnie’s wrist to stop this self-reproach.

“…My only remaining attachment to this place is to you.”

Her purple eyes widened at those words.

“That’s…what…”

Karsine chuckled.

“You were always there for me. No matter what happened, no matter what rumors I heard, no matter what troubles I was in.”

no.

“I thought everyone had turned their backs on me. Even my family turned their backs on me, so I wondered who would be my ally. I was so obsessed with living alone in this world that I couldn’t look around. However, I realized that there was always someone who was by my side.”

Stop it. Stop it.

“I couldn’t do it alone. I might have been ruined before I even got here. Every time, my blood ran cold, and I was soaked in the freezing air, thinking only about work. Then, I might have stepped into a worse direction and become a monster. But, someone gave me warmth.”

That shouldn’t come out.

I’m saying this because it shouldn’t be said.

“The power of this warmth was a big reason why I didn’t turn into a monster. And… the person who gave me that warmth was in danger.”

no…

“That’s all. Because of you, I didn’t go back. And.”

-Ugh.

“This time, it’s my turn to save you.”

The water stream that had been locked began to flow down Harnie’s cheek.

The tears poured down like a faucet that had been blocked suddenly bursting open.

“Lethal… I’m telling you… It’s lethal… If you say something like that… What am I supposed to do…”

Harnie cried and cried.

“How long have I, how long have I hidden these feelings… How much have I endured and endured…!”

I cried for hours in Karsene’s arms.

***

“…”

Harnie cried herself to sleep.

When I saw you sleeping, I was convinced.

No matter how I looked at it, it was clearly the author’s appearance.

I just realized this now. It’s pathetic.

My side was always filled with the warmth of one person.

In my memories, there is always a faint scent of one person’s presence.

My past was not filled alone.

I was able to fill it because there was always someone who believed in me and helped me.

The time here was the same.

It wasn’t just me who had time left.

She was always by my side, and I could always smell her scent. That time was always passing by with Harnie’s time.

Yeah. This game… was always sending me messages.

In the form of a memorial.

With memories of the past and the present time.

The hidden memory we saw earlier is, of course, not my memory.

I don’t know if that has ever happened, and I have never experienced it.

But at some point, Memorial began leaving messages while showing someone else’s perspective, not mine.

A very direct message: this time, save the author.

‘I can’t repeat the same mistake.’

but.

▶EX Episode. True Enemy in progress.◀

▶Eliminate the true enemy to save Harnie.◀

I had nothing.

I don’t even know what to do.

There is no power given to me that exists.

I don’t even know exactly what situation I’m in.

It was literally a situation where the future was blocked.

…and yet, the odds are good.

Because we are not behind in terms of information.

These two strangely similar worlds provide me with the most information.