After roll call, the front door of the dormitory is locked. Therefore, when entering or exiting the dormitory during this time, you must go through the duty officer’s office.
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Ida stood still without opening the door to the officer’s office in Building A. As she stared at the rainwater running down her feet in silence, she spoke to herself.
“I will make it so that no one can easily see John.”
Johann also waited for Ida to finish speaking while still holding an umbrella.
“I will make it. So that my brother never thinks like that again.”
Ida then bit her lip and continued speaking.
“I didn’t know anything. That my brother was like that… When I think of how my brother has been thinking about it all this time, tears still come to my eyes… .”
In fact, Ida stole her eyes. John thought of the appropriate words and spoke lightly.
“It’s raining. In and out of the umbrella.”
“… big.”
Ida, who had laughed after crying, had a rather funny expression. Then, wiping the rain from her eyes, she spoke earnestly.
“I don’t know about Romeo and Juliet.”
“yes.”
“The end of Johann Esperts and Ida Hermes will not be such a sad story.”
She glared at the doorknob of the officer’s office and said.
“Because I will make it.”
John was satisfied. As such, Ida is a person who provides sufficient cooperation to the main character if he sets the direction well. All that was left was to avoid the bad ending elements that were planted in Ida’s love route in the original work.
After recalling the flow of the original story, Yohan nodded and said.
“… Thank you.”
“Thank you, I will listen after it actually happens. So brother… cheer up.”
Ida suppressed the gloomy thoughts of rising again and put on a deliberately bright expression. Then, he briefly waved his hand at Yohan and disappeared through the door of the officer’s office.
“… .”
Yohann gritted his teeth and looked at the door of the officer’s office where she had disappeared.
The original world that feels like decades have passed.
At the turning point of game development, which continued in the rooftop room, the woman who was developing the game with him used to say that.
‘I’ll listen to you after I finish it. so… Oppa, cheer up too.’
Those simple words overlapped with what Ida had said. John muttered as if resisting Ida’s words.
“I will go back.”
‘So oppa, cheer up too.’
“You are just a character I created.”
‘So oppa, cheer up too.’
he knew
That this kind of confusion comes around this time of year to Johann Esperts in the original work. Confusion that empathizes with the characters in this world, not the original world they came from.
And depending on the choice the main character makes at this time, the branching of the ending occurs. More precisely, it is determined whether the main character can advance to the true ending route. To thoroughly advance to the true ending route is the same as saying that we should not be shaken in the face of this chaos and silently pursue the original world.
“I will definitely go back.”
took the first step vigorously. Although Miri and himself have spent a long time together, the bond he formed in this world cannot be her only. It would be difficult to endure once those memories clung to him.
“certainly.”
The steps continued. Like a man trying to run away from his emotions, John took another step, and another step.
In the rain that seems to melt the world.
Leaning on an umbrella.
“I will definitely go back. To the original world.”
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There was still no sign of thunder in the sky I looked at with my umbrella tilted back. John grew faster and faster.
‘Let’s just think about what needs to be done.’
The danger factors that have arisen in Sabaki have not yet been completely sealed.
The reason why Sabaki was brought in as a member of the play was to bring an accident that he might cause into the visible sphere, but more than that, there was something I believed in.
That’s because I believe in Ida.
Just as there is a system correction for Hoan’s act of ‘protecting Adrine’, there is a system correction applied to Ida. That no character in this world uses ‘violence’ against her.
And Johann believed that the very element was the key to controlling Sabaki’s madness.
how long did it take
After a brief report to the officer on duty, Yohan stopped by first, not in his room. The opponent who heard a knock late at night had opened the door in a disheveled outfit and said.
“what… I’m not a patrol team… .”
“My name is Johann Esperts.”
The opponent widened his eyes. It wasn’t the first character I met.
He was a newspaper member whom I had met at the Frantimo Jewelry Collection, an auction house where I had previously participated with Adrine.
“Uh, anyway, I was going to do an interview with you… He wasn’t in the room every time.”
Yohan seemed to know why the other person was looking for him. There was such a content at the end of the newspaper article about the interview with Ida that I had seen before.
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Next time I will interview Johann Esperts.
“Nothing else, I have something to accuse.”
“accusation?”
“Anonymously if possible.”
The opponent, who had been staring blankly at Yohan, frantically searched for the notebook.
“What, what is it? Who are you accusing?”
John paused for a moment to decide what to say. Sabaki has gone mad, and Jackal has a broken arm.
And the wizard, who can act as a kind of joker in case of an exceptional situation, is a character who was unfortunately an extra in his original work.
It had been a long time since Johann had made up his mind not to allow time for the attack of [Jailer Kirov].
“The accused is Kirov. I’m the guard of the academy’s brothel.”
“… What?”
The fast-moving newspaperman’s pen stopped. Anyway, the academy here is an institution that trains soldiers, and if you are the head of the guard, it’s your superior. The newspaper staff swallowed once and said.
“… can you afford it? What did he do?”
“I saw the woman dragging the body into the cistern.”
“where?”
“At the entrance to the waterway leading out of the academy.”
In any case, the newspaper staff did not have the skill to see through lies like Adrine did.
“I have proof. If you go to the water gate, there will be traces of the woman cutting the bars.”
“no… Wow… This… .”
I couldn’t wait until Kirov became an enemy I couldn’t handle. John had intended to draw out the opponent before that.
***
Sabaki did not sleep. He stood motionless all night, as if he were one of the still objects placed in his dormitory room. Looking down at the pouring rain through the window of the lighted room.
The non-stop sound of rain is clear evidence that time is passing. But at the edge of his field of vision, lumps of thought began to creep up again.
It looks like ink spreading in water.
A black energy that cannot be erased even if you wash your eyes so that they fall out. Of course, Sabaki knew what it was.
It’s a ghost.
A ghost that ate the malice of that bitch and fattened itself up.
Watching the ghost’s birth, Sabaki recalled what his teacher, Hanul Narin, had said. What he said to himself before coming down the hill.
‘Sabaki. To look into the ghost is to look inside of you before looking at things outside of you.’
His tone, which was neither slow nor fast, contained a composure that only the strong could exude. Hanul-Narin used to speak in a savory tone while stroking her bald head.
‘Someday, the moment when that ghost grows will come for you too.’
When Hanul-Narin talks about her experience, she quietly closes her eyes. He was like that at the time. He said, slowly looking back on his life filled with challenges.
‘It’s meaningless to ask whether it’s really your karma or not. However, I will cheer for my disciple descending from the mountain to overcome the ghost and return to Gureungnarae.’
That was the last homework given by the teacher. The last thing I handed over to the person who inherited the demon sword at a young age in Gureungnarae… .
The demon inherited from him was taking over Sabaki’s field of vision. And Sabaki didn’t distort what he was feeling.
“I am afraid of you.”
Ghosts tend to gain momentum in the face of human fear. And what is certain is that the teacher he admires also fought against what he was seeing.
“But come.”
And I know the outcome of that fight as well. The moment he fought and won, Hanulnarin became the ruler of Gureungnarae.
“The desired sea.”
Fighting with ghosts was something he wasn’t used to. Because that fight would be different from a fight between swordsmen.
That is to say.
battle of the mind.
I had been promising for a long time. I will subdue this demon first. Then I will go to the old jailer and cut off his head. And I was sure. At that time, that water-sealed bitch would not be able to stop herself even if she had gathered all the water in the world.
This revenge has a predestined backstory. After taking a blonde-haired girl as his spouse, he is revisiting the old teacher who saved him.
And I will share a drink with him. Use the cloud-covered scenery of Gureungnarae as a folding screen, and enjoy the stories that have happened so far as snacks.
Sabaki’s brief imagination was interrupted by an angry voice from the hallway.
“Students of Building C, all gather in the hallway on the 1st floor!”
“Students of Building C, gather on the 1st floor!”
what a fuss
Sabaki looked at the clock tower through the stains shimmering in front of her eyes. It was half past seven. I didn’t even have to change my clothes because I wasn’t going to sleep anyway. He just walked out of the door. Then, the faces I had never seen before were screaming from the stairs.
“Don’t you move quickly! 1st graders fall out.”
“There, long hair. Are you going on a picnic? don’t run… uh… ?”
Sabaki only glared at him, blurring the end of the screaming sophomore. Then slowly descended the stairs. When he arrived on the first floor, some children were out in pajamas. And right in front of the officer’s office at the end of the hallway, a sophomore was scissoring into the air.
“Look at the kids twisting their feet… Hey, what a girl over there. You come in first.”
The sophomore’s finger was pointing at Sabaki. Sabaki, who couldn’t immediately match himself with the word ‘girly bastard’, glanced behind him and said,
“You mean me?”
“Then who else is there besides you? Aren’t you coming soon?”
There was nothing I couldn’t get out of. Sabaki walked forward with a calm gait. Even as he walked, the sophomore holding the scissors screamed so much that the hallway reverberated.
“At the request of the officer, our sophomores will personally push your heads. Those of you who want your hair to be a little longer, let it stick out on its own!”
Sabaki walked forward meekly and overheard the conversation of the sophomores standing in the middle of the hallway.
“Baby, you’re fresh… .”
“It was good when I lived in the dormitory… It was already a year ago.”
“That bastard, while shaving his hair, I decided to make solder on the heads of first-year students. giggle.”
Those were silly words. He hadn’t said anything directly to Sabaki yet, but even if he had said it himself, it wouldn’t have made any difference.
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To Sabaki, even if the principal had ordered it, not an officer, it would have been unthinkable.
Sabaki said as if spitting out ice.
“You will have to cut my throat first.”
It was sincere.