episode_0528

I was out of breath.

Because I never told a lie.

“Sihyeon doesn’t trust us.”

“···What do you mean?”

Shir smiles transparently.

“There is something Sihyeon told me a while ago. If you endure it three times, you can avoid murder, Maal-nim, you can even face it three times…”

But the golden eye is burning.

The rest of the people’s eyes were also looking at me coldly.

“This is what Sihyeon said from her own mouth.”

It was a long time ago. When Shir was sixteen.

I tried to celebrate Shir’s birthday, but an incident occurred and I couldn’t stay with him.

The next year too. In the end, Shir burst into tears.

“The point is that three is a very important number for Sihyeon. Human proverb, play… He said it with his own mouth. Even dying three times is cheaper.”

I thought I had forgotten.

At that time, I made all kinds of excuses to Shir to get one chance.

But, that was the ‘limit’.

“Sihyeon, you died alone, leaving us behind. Even though they could have run away, they felt guilty for slaughtering people, so they left us behind to meet their end.”

However, on his day off, he was sharpening his knife for stabbing.

“Next, he died for his aunt, leaving behind us who had been waiting for him for 16 years. Moreover, he was not Dantalian’s agent at that time.”

Isabel’s gloomy gaze turned to me.

She couldn’t say anything to Shir’s words.

Because he was involved in all three of my deaths.

“But this time, out of fear that we might be in danger, you died fighting the ‘God of War’ alone?”

I couldn’t say anything.

Because everything was correct.

“But─”

“I know. The magic tower lord fell without even being able to defend himself. Fear of losing us. And Jackie Chan died there. What is a ‘science exhibition’? ···It was really scary.”

Shir glances at me.

I felt like my heart was being crushed.

“···Then you know? I couldn’t help it! How do you explain that?!”

“I know. But that’s not what I’m talking about.”

“······Then?”

Shir glanced at the wives.

Soon, his eyes slowly turned towards me.

“There is a traitor among us?”

“······!”

“Has it finally occurred to you?”

Shir smiled coldly at me.

“They say people have a knack for forgetting memories they want to forget.”

“···So maybe you forgot?”

“But they say he will rise as soon as the situation is right. Like you.”

···I was complacent!

I was thinking about keeping it a secret until I die, but I thought all I had to do was keep my mouth shut.

“The moment I saw your memory after you died, we all verified each other’s memories. Of course there were no traitors.”

‘There are no traitors?’

A moment of relief. I was out of breath.

Because I felt a sense of death that I had never felt before coming from all directions.

“···We put our hope on hold for the last time. If you are telling the truth, I will understand and move on.”

Shir stands up.

In his hand was a dark red blood sword.

“If you tell a lie, I will take you and leave somewhere no one knows.”

‘You’re leaving for a place no one knows?’

My heart suddenly beats violently.

The intuition I had developed over the years was warning me to run.

“Shir! Don’t be crazy!”

“They say binding doesn’t work on you. I heard you learned the trick of dislocating an arm bone while you were a convenience soldier?”

Shir places the blood sword on my shoulder.

Pretending to line up the perforation lines.

“So, I’ll put your arms and legs back on when I go.”

“This is crazy─?!”

It was before I even rebelled.

Before I knew it, Lexi, Edeline, Anne, and Seth were pressing down on my limbs.

“Shir──?! what are you doing! don’t do it?! hey?! This crazy bitch?!”

“We didn’t want to do this either. So you gave me a chance until the end, right?”

“Lee, I’m sorry…!”

Anne puts her hand into my heart.

Ouch!

“Kuhuhuhhh…?!”

Low blood pressure causes strength to drain from the entire body.

“···You are the bad one for lying until the end.”

At that moment, the pressure on my arm was relieved.

I immediately pushed away Shir, who was trying to cut off my arm.

“······Huh?”

But I wasn’t pushed away.

Rather than that, I can’t see my hands.

Soon, Shir slowly lifted something.

─My arm.

What I felt was phantom pain.

“Shir…! If we do this, do you think we can live together properly…?!”

“While you were dead, we talked a lot.”

Lexi smiled sadly with a helpless expression.

“···We have all been walking on thin ice since we met you.”

Shir cut off my other arm.

“You’ve been happy so far, right? You did what you wanted, you breathed lies and broke our hearts.”

Anne couldn’t even look me in the eye and she shed tears.

“I never want to see Lee die again…!”

Seth frowns but joins in.

“···You deserve it.”

Edeline had a stern expression.

“······I will never make that mistake again.”

···It was clear that no one would help me.

The place no one knows about is exactly what it says in the dictionary.

Those were the people.

‘···It ends like this?’

Only Isabel is looking at the floor with her gaze lowered.

“Isabel?! Jules?! Please do something!”

“Your aunt ran away and left you while you were dying.”

“I couldn’t help it! Science warfare is not an ordinary battle!”

“Everyone has reasons and circumstances at any time. So I said three times.”

Isabel… never raised her head.

“Sihyeon, do you know that? ···My aunt is also the third.”

“···What are you talking about?”

“I allowed you to go out into the world, killed Harold at will, and ran away alone, leaving you behind.”

Suddenly!

Shir cut off both my legs.

The immense sense of loss made me feel delirious.

“I’m sorry…! I’m sorry…!”

Anne hugged me and cried.

I feel nauseous. I felt like I was going to throw up.

My head spins in a sense of crisis.

I’m so happy that I cry, and I’m so sad that I laugh.

“Hehehe…!”

I ended up laughing.

The situation eventually happened. If so, I have no choice but to accept it.

‘···Going from full satisfaction with the body to dissatisfaction with the body.’

···They say they will go and attach it to you, but what would it be like if you live without it?

“···What’s fun?”

“It was funny to think about how I would live if I lived like this.”

In this world, there are no electric wheelchairs or prosthetic limbs yet.

Everyone looks down at me. It was ironic.

“Isn’t that right? Imagine a person crawling on their stomach like a caterpillar.”

“······.”

“Where I lived, there was also a person without limbs. I just thought it was pitiful, but I ended up like that.”

The man lived happily even though he had no limbs.

I thought he was quite an amazing person.

“···Are you acting crazy?”

“Who is crazy?”

It’s not that I’m crazy, it’s that I’ve accepted my situation.

In the end, it means that I was committing a crime again without knowing it.

‘···You have to pay for your sins.’

That’s the way of the world. If so, let’s enjoy it.

Isn’t it said that those who enjoy anything are first-class?

“You look happy, right?”

Shir looked at Edeline with a stern expression.

Soon everyone looks at Edeline.

Edeline looked down at me with sad eyes.

“It is a variant expression of negative emotions in order not to go crazy.”

“···People in the world call that crazy. It would be better to knock him out.”

Seth puts his hand towards my forehead.

There is something like a flashing electric current flowing through my finger prints.

“···Yes. I’ll see you when everyone wakes up.”

‘Are you going to be okay?’

If you’re passed out, I won’t be able to help you pack your moving bags.

These people are all women.

I have to do the hard work.

I glanced at the women looking at me.

For some reason, everyone had a puzzled expression on their faces.

“I’m sorry for making you worry. Still, you know I love you, right?”

“······!”

The women tremble.

For some reason, there were tears in my eyes.

‘Is this something that will move you?’

Most people are unable to speak bitterly towards their loved ones.

But I have six women who care about me and love me enough to cut off my limbs.

‘So I’m sure I’ll be happy in the future.’

Shir also smiled at me with tears in his eyes.

“···We love you too. Sihyeon.”

Seth gritted his teeth and held his hand still.

I closed my eyes comfortably, waiting for sleep to come.

Pajik─!

Sick or sleepy. There was no such feeling.

“···When do you do it?”

But there was no answer to my question.

I opened my eyes carefully.

“······.”

I saw women standing still as if time had stopped.

Not moving, not even blinking.

I looked around blankly.

But I couldn’t move because I had no hands, feet, or sound.

Meanwhile, something steals my attention.

Soon I looked at the only fuselage.

“Sihyeon.”

Isabel.

She looked at me with red, swollen eyes.

At that sight, all the emotions in my body turned cold.

“···Yes.”

“I’m sorry for not being able to protect you.”

“Don’t we both know that there was nothing we could do?”

It was an expression that did not suit that person.

Isabelle tried to disguise her expression as usual.

“···Both Sihyeon and I have made mistakes three times.”

“Up to four times instead of the original three times.”

Isabel smiled awkwardly and wrinkled her eyebrows.

Endure it three times. Buddha’s face three times.

But after I said it, I realized that it meant I would skip my next birthday too.

Put it in front of a crying child!

‘I was bored.’

So, before Shir could even express his doubts, he gave up all sorts of examples related to number 3.

“···Why did it suddenly increase?”

“Because it was just a random insult to this idiot.”

I especially emphasized 3 for Shir.

‘···Still, it’s been almost 20 years.’

I never thought I would have remembered those words.

It happened when Shir was seventeen.

“If it’s the fourth time…do I still have a chance?”

“My wife and I are in the same situation. What are you talking about?”

For a moment, the peridot colored eyes smiled and lowered their eyes.

She gathers her emotions and looks up at me again.

“Dantalian has something to offer.”

“···I think I know what you mean.”

It is a call to return the soul of the ‘head’.

Because he cares about his friends.

Hell suddenly emerged from the severed arm.

[···What is our will?]

‘Do you have any grudges against them like the Grand Duke Widow?’

[no.]

‘Then there’s no need to accept it.’

To begin with, the two heads that died in front of me were innocent.

If they’re targeting me, I’ll kill them, but if they’re not, I’m not targeting them either.

Moreover, James is the founding king of Romaria, a descendant of the Laobian Empire.

In other words, he is the one who led the descendants of hell.

‘Of course, at that stage, the subhumans in the central and northern regions lost their livelihood.’

Moreover, the veterans also knew about the root snake.

He was a great man who even recognized the root snake.

[Okay, take it.]

There is no way such people could have incurred the grudge of hell.

Isabelle came over and placed her hand on the brand on my severed arm.

Soon something from hell began to seep into Isabelle’s body.

“So, how can you help me?”

“They say they will help you look back on your mistakes.”

‘···I survived!’

There are no helpful servants except Dantalian!

I calmed my excited heart.

‘Let’s say it straight this time.’

“Please tell me that I really appreciate it.”

Isabelle began to attach my missing limbs.

That appearance felt somewhat unfamiliar.

“Isn’t the angle a bit twisted?”

“No, so stay still.”

The women who lost focus return to their original seats.

Isabel also returns to her original position and shows a hand signal with her secretly hidden hand.

3. 2. 1.

As soon as Isabel’s hand signal ended, the focus in the women’s eyes became clearer.

But I just stare. There were no words. As if they were interrogating me.

“Please answer. ···Do you trust us?”

“······.”

“···Do you not trust us?”

Deceiving the other person is a ‘method’.

I even have to assimilate my emotions. That’s why I stayed silent.

Because I didn’t want to lie or hurt you.

“······Is that so.”

I gasped at the sight of Edeline’s disappointment.

“No! That’s not it…!”

I was speechless.

This is because an instinctive fear was evident in the narrowed eyes.

I wouldn’t have known it before, but now I know what those eyes are.

“···No?”

Even in countries where love cells have died out, we know that this is a kind of ‘women’s’ language.

No matter what choice I make, it will ultimately be a disappointing choice.

‘···But it’s still better than kidnapping and confinement.’

I controlled my turbulent heart.

“···Someone provided false information to the head.”

“You provided false information? What do you mean by that?”

I decided to obediently reveal all the information.

“Hermann himself chose death, but he was under the illusion that I killed him.”

“Furthermore, Hermann was caught up in the bombing at the scene of the incident.”

“In other words, they were trying to eliminate me and Hermann together.”

“···Under the circumstances, someone blew on his head.”

The wives all look surprised.

‘···Women are really scary.’

I wasn’t scared when my heart was ripped out.

Thanks to this, for the first time, I felt scared of these people.

“Plus, I knew my location. Since it was a close person I knew, I only gave him a warning and left, but it wasn’t like the others.”

“Where are their bodies?”

“···The dragon ate it. A bomb exploded in the forest, incurring the dragon’s wrath.”

I hesitantly rolled my eyes.

“···An ancient dragon that lived for over a thousand years and even a root snake.”

“If you make a mistake and incur their wrath, it will be the end.”

“Even if you run away to the sea outside Pangea, the sea dragon will chase you!”

I secretly looked into the women’s eyes.

I felt anxious.

“···I really couldn’t help it.”

“Is that true?”

Edeline looks at Shir.

Soon everyone’s eyes turned to Shir.

Shir was staring at me without even blinking like before.

It takes a few seconds for you to look at me like that.

Shir opened his mouth.

“No.”

I was taken aback by the sudden words.

“···What are you talking about?”

“What are you hiding?”

My heart is beating like crazy.

─Fucked.

Every time I look at that cutthroat murderer’s eyes, the only thing that comes to mind is ‘3’!

“Answer me. Before checking the memory directly.”

3··· 3···! 3! 3───! 3━━━!

I sighed to clear my chest.

“···Do you remember? 20 years ago, on your seventeenth birthday.”

The hesitant words opened.

“···I told you that. I will definitely go next time. The third time is intentional.”

“But I thought it had happened three times like this.”

Shir’s expression frowned.

He also seemed moved.

“I’m really sorry.”

“Don’t be a dick and tell me what you’re hiding.”

“······.”

“Right now.”

Shir opens his eyes and glares at me.

Naturally, all the women’s eyes were fixed on me.

‘I’m dead.’

I opened my mouth, trying to sort out my miserable feelings.

“Actually… the fourth time was intentional.”

Shir opens his eyes wide.

Just for a moment.

The lips and eyes tremble, and laughter soon flows out.

“···I felt you were so sorry, so I just moved on.”

‘You just passed it on?’

What Shir means is that he knew that 3 was not an important number after all.

It felt unfair to hold my breath and be nervous.

‘Is Shirr a psychopath by any chance?’

You cut off my limbs while forcing me to do 3?!

I began speaking nervously.

“······Did you already know?”

Shir smiled gently and shook his head like a bodhisattva.

Soon she speaks.

“···They say people have a knack for forgetting memories they want to forget.”

Called.