163 – 32. Exchange Meeting
A dome is created.
The floor of the stadium breaks down and rises as a single wall.
Walls that violate the laws of physics gradually gather into a circle.
Finally, everywhere is blocked.
“…No, but if I do this, will you be able to see in front? I can’t see at all.”
“……………….”
“Luke Effenstein…Senior…?”
“If it’s that guy, he’s probably sleeping somewhere.”
Moment.
The voice changes.
A dome made of earth blocks all light. It was pitch-black, so it was hard to tell where Luke Effenstein was.
But.
At least I remember that it wasn’t a ‘like this’ voice.
No, rather than that.
This is──
“It’s dark. It’s really dark.”
“……….”
“What I felt after realizing my destiny and the reason for my existence was… This kind of darkness.”
“You…….”
“This is my first time seeing this in real life. No, it’s dark so you can’t see it, right?”
I hear laughter.
It was also a sound of ridicule at me…… It was like a mockery to oneself.
It was a familiar sound.
“…Nam Goong Min?”
“That’s right. Although you can’t see it.”
At that time, at that gate, I met him in a dream…… Another me.
Me in this world, before I came to this world.
I heard that he was kidnapped by the emperor and escaped.
B.
“How…?”
“Well, what would I have done?”
“…There was an accomplice.”
“……………….”
“You joined hands with the principal.”
“……It’s so amazing. Is it really possible to see the future…Or is it some strange ability?”
It wasn’t a difficult inference.
After all, I too am a .
Of course, you cannot change your appearance like an , And you cannot manipulate the land as you please like an .
Still, if a dome was created like this while wearing the appearance of Luke Effenstein.
Of course, someone else helped.
‘Damn it.’
This is not something that can be done simply by having one And one
Actor help.
If I, another person who escaped from the royal palace of the Korean Empire, could appear so confidently in the Romance Academy, a floating city, and even in the middle of a martial arts club.
Of all the possible characters, the most suspicious one was the principal.
So I stabbed it and it seemed to fit right in.
‘As expected, I’m not good at controlling my emotions.’
Is it because I, in this world, never met that pseudo bastard?
It seems like he’s trying to be like me, but he’s really bad at controlling his mind and emotions.
“But it’s too proud? This is the middle of the martial arts arena. We can’t keep the dome like this forever, and it’ll be hard to escape.”
“Who cares?”
“……?”
“As long as I can kill you, it doesn’t matter!”
Phew!
The fact that I turned my head to the side was truly a stroke of luck.
The That I just activated ‘saw’ something approaching, and because I moved right away, my cheek ended up being torn off.
The burning pain felt from the torn cheek, hot blood, and.
A numbing murderous intent.
“…Card?”
Perhaps it is thanks to the growth of That the inside of the dome, which had not had a single ounce of light, appears bright.
The right pupil was glaring at another me.
With one corner of his mouth raised.
Namgoong Min holding a tarot card in his hand.
‘What card is it?’
…… No, wait a minute.
That card looks somewhat familiar──
Push shot!
“Whoa!?”
Before I could remember the card, another me came running towards me, smiling.
Even in the darkness, he aimed straight at me and swung the card in his hand like a sword.
I quickly raise my hand to block it, but the back of my hand gets cut by the card.
‘This…… !’
Sharpness and strength that are unbelievable for a card.
I finally remembered.
The final equipment for each job can be purchased by clearing Liu Yen’s character event and opening the .
One of them looked exactly like that.
Unlike ordinary tarot cards, this card has a silvery metal tip and a much more ominous picture than the original.
Of course I didn’t buy it, but it’s the same as the one I kept seeing in every episode…… !
‘But why that guy?’
Isn’t that what Rio should have?
I had a moment of doubt, but there was no time to resolve it.
Because another me, holding the tarot, which could be considered a short sword rather than a card, was rushing at me like crazy.
Chaeng! Visor!
I urgently raise my sword and try to block the cards in both hands, but even after failing to block it a few times, the blade suddenly goes out and breaks.
‘It’s a sword that Liu gave me…… !’
It must have been a very good sword, but there is not a single flaw on the card.
Without even realizing the absurdity, Tarot cards tear and cut all over my body.
Thanks to , We are somehow avoiding it, but it is unclear how long this will be possible.
‘The possibility of rescue…….’
They’ll probably be embarrassed by the sudden dome outside, but they won’t intervene.
It is clear that they will consider it part of the match and wait until the dome disappears.
‘If they are kids in special vocational classes.’
I think even beyond the dome, they will be able to notice the anomaly and come running.
I hate to say this to myself, but seeing Rio, Eileen, Eunha, and Lane not come forward even though I was hurt like this…… It seemed like something had been done to the dome.
‘Could it be that the principal made this?’
Build a dome from a distance as if it were the work of an And block external interference?
…… That crazy b*tch could do something like that.
Even if it takes time, intervention is difficult.
Then.
“Huh…!”
“…What!?”
Chaengkang!
I carelessly throw the toothless sword that was used to block cards at the guy’s head.
Because of that, my defenseless shoulder was cut deeply, but it didn’t really matter.
While the guy was taken aback by the sword flying in front of his eyes, he pulled out another sword.
And.
General skill .
The world is overwritten in an instant.
The pitch-black space inside the dome turns into a purple dome.
Suddenly, a table appears between me and him, forcing a distance between me.
“I see! This is…!”
Before he even finished speaking.
Throw the second sword.
Kang!
“What a stupid thing!”
“I bounced it off well.”
“What?”
Lightly deflect the sword flying from the front with a card.
You know, the other me, even in a dream, had better physical abilities than me, so it was a natural reaction.
I aimed for that.
General skill .
It was not possible to use it in the dome created by the principal.
Of course, it can be used in ‘my space’, .
, A skill that makes the space recognized as mine clean and original.
Messy things return to their original positions, broken things are fixed, and dirty things become clean.
This time, I only targeted two items.
One is a sword.
Wow!
“Whoa!?”
The guy who was glaring at me suddenly let out a groan.
After the guy, the toothless sword I first threw returned to the same path it flew, hit the guy in the back of the head, and returned to my scabbard.
The guy stumbled from an unexpected shock.
Whoops!!
“Whoa!?”
I threw it a second time and was hit by the sword that was easily deflected.
The second sword that surprised the guy who had stumbled and entered the ‘returning’ orbit before it returned to its scabbard.
I jumped out of my seat and ran.
“You……?”
I decided it was a surprise attack, so I passed the guy who was swinging the card, even though it was painful.
Smashes decorations, steps on flower pots, and jumps.
He glared at me with blank eyes as I suddenly moved as if running away.
In the meantime, I threw the sheath of the sword towards the guy’s back.
The sword sheath flies to an unexpected place, and I am defenseless floating in the air.
I was embarrassed, but soon realized that this was a golden opportunity, and he swung a card at me.
Hook.
“Big…Huh?”
──A knife gets stuck in the guy’s stomach.
In order for a thrown knife to become clean, it must return to its original sheath.
Just like the first sword, the second sword that surprised him also found its scabbard and flew in a straight line.
It was just that another me who was in the middle passed through.
The sword goes into the sheath and the Skill ends.
However, the fortune telling house was in a seriously disorganized state.
Ornaments and furniture cut by cards, the flower pot I used as a footstool, the sword and sheath that fell on the floor, and blood.
Another me fell to my knees, pierced in the stomach and vomiting blood from my mouth.
“Nam Goong Min, me in this world.”
“Cough…Cough…”
“To be honest, I don’t know you.”
The first time we met was in a dream. In a dream within a dream, he met me, tried to deceive me, and even if it was only a dream, he tried to kill me.
So, I went to the Imperial Palace of the Korean Empire where he was kidnapped and imprisoned.
And I couldn’t find it. He was told he had run away.
The next moment was this.
‘He knows me well.’
I don’t know that guy or the other me.
Why on earth do you want to kill me, why do you hate me?
Martial arts arena, external intervention blocked by a dome.
This was his chance to kill me without interference, but it was also my chance.
Opportunity to find out information secretly.
“You lost. But if you leave, you’ll die from excessive bleeding, right?”
“……Cough.”
“I don’t want to kill someone else… That’s another country, either.”
Amman, though.
It’s not enough to be considerate of the guy who tried to kill me first.
‘You can belittle your enemy, but it shouldn’t happen twice.’
Because that’s what some pseudo-bastard said to me.
“If you tell me, I’ll send it to you.”
“What… Nonsense…”
“You can move through space with the principal’s power, right? But this is my sub-space.”
“……….”
“You know what I mean, right?”
No matter how powerful the Is, he cannot enter this space created by my skills.
Only then did the pale, bleeding man’s complexion turn even whiter.
“Are you okay if I die here? I…I think it’ll be okay. Still, it will be less shocking than burying my parents.”
“……………….”
“But not you. If I survive somehow, wouldn’t I be able to take another chance?”
It’s a lie.
I will let him live, but as soon as my connections reach me, I will use everything I have to track him down and monitor him.
‘It will be connected.’
Another me and the principal who cooperated with him.
Another emperor who kidnapped me.
And…… Even the ‘former god’ who turned Ji Soo into a warrior and whispered the future to the emperor.
If you continue, you will be able to find the former god you met when you held the holy sword.
Then.
‘You will be able to meet Jisoo.’
See the perfect ending and see Jisoo. That’s good too.
If it is possible to see it quickly, there is no reason to hesitate.
So I whisper.
“I’ll save you.”
Tell me.
“……………….”
Tears of blood flow because of That continues beyond the limit.
I didn’t care.
Because I had to determine the truth of what he said and his actions.
At my declaration, he blocked his stomach and thought for a moment.
“Sigh…Bal…I…Am…Begging…For my life…From you…”
“Are you ready to talk?”
“hehehe……Hey, Namgoong Min.”
“Why, Namgoong Min?”
“How much should I tell you…So that you can save me?”
How can you ask such a basic thing?
As expected, this guy is a long way from becoming a real fortune teller.
“Just one thing.”
“…What?”
“The reason you hate me… And want to kill me. Just tell me that.”
“……………….”
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It wasn’t particularly mercy.
Because I really didn’t have any questions other than that.
‘Why does another me hate myself?’
To be honest, I didn’t do anything. I was just dragged into this world by my younger sister.
The kidnapping was also done by the emperor, I didn’t even know it existed in the first place, and in the first place, this guy hit me first while I was in a dream.
But why on earth are you trying to kill me so much?
“…When I was young, my family went bankrupt and I moved to the slums.”
“Continue.”
“Mom, Dad, and I. Even though we lived in the slums, the three of us were happy. We were doing pretty well… I was pretty easy going, even though I was like this, and I made a lot of money. Until my parents committed suicide.”
“……….”
“I didn’t know why he committed suicide. He just went away suddenly…And on the day when I was alone at home, God…Talked to me.”
──Nam Goong Min.
──Uh…… ?
──Hmm, it’s quite different from the original. It was a failure, what a pity……
──Who, who are you…? … ?
──Well? Who exactly is it? Hmm…… Since this is also an opportunity, shall we continue experimenting?
──…………
──Even failures can be useful in their own way.
“…Experiment?”
“I was an experiment!”
“What… Do you mean?”
“An experiment to make you the real Namgoong Min!”
“……………….”
What?
What is that──
“I heard. Your sister is a usurper. She took the place of a god and exists as a goddess… A former warrior.”
“……….”
“After the Creator’s position was usurped, God always wondered: How was it that a mere human could usurp the Creator’s position?”
“What…….”
“So while he was studying the usurper, he turned his attention to the family.”
The only blood relative who raised Namgoong Jisu, the usurper, virtually alone.
To Namgoong Min.
“He thought…Cough! To know the usurper, he must know you, the one who raised him.”
“No way…”
“That’s why I was created.”
To know about Namgoong Min.
Shin, whose position was usurped, gathered his remaining strength and created another Namgoong Min.
Because of lack of power, it was not possible to do all elements equally.
There is no younger sister who is a usurper, and in fact, there is no cult that created the current Namgoong Min.
But the former god thought it was well worth the experiment.
“I didn’t hear about it until later. He was happy when he was young, but then his parents fell apart, and he lived in poverty and committed suicide.”
“……….”
“That was the ‘appointed role.'”
And in the eyes of the former gods.
The ‘Namgoong Min’ created in this way was far inferior to the real ‘Namgoong Min’.
So he judged it to be a failure, but after seeing the ‘failure’ in person, Shin changed his mind a little.
Let’s experiment a little more now that it’s like this.
“God said. The emperor of this country, who faithfully follows my voice, will soon capture you.”
“Then why on earth do you hate me? If you think about it that way, of course…”
“I also resented him at first. So I went around the slums shouting that God was dead and someone else had taken his place, and that the emperor would come to get me.”
“……………….”
“Later, after I was really kidnapped by the emperor… My education began.”
Education to use failed works in your own way.
The emperor, principal, and mediator participated in the education.
The 12-year-old , Who was only a little brave, was gradually changed.
And.
“God whispered to me.”
“…Tsk, I kind of understand it now.”
“If I kill you, if I replace the real one…! I will restore my parents and my daily life…!!”
Failure changed my mind.
He no longer hated God.
Even more so, if you look at the fundamental cause.
The cause was the hero who usurped God’s place in the first place.
And wasn’t Namgoong Min, who raised that hero, the real culprit?
Thus, failure grew hatred in the basement of the imperial castle.
For the ‘real’ that will come to this world someday.
To become real himself.