201 – 40. Arthur
It was at a young age that the girl realized her specialness.
The girl was born to have a career, but her circumstances were not blessed. She was a girl and even at her young age she had to work hard jobs to earn money, and she was abused at the same time.
It wasn’t difficult for her because she had a job, but she was sick. Both body and mind. Many.
It was the same villagers who saved that girl.
They kicked out the parents who were abusing the girl and took good care of her. It was a very warm memory for the girl as well.
But the girl soon realized.
The girl and the village people are ultimately different.
*
“……This place?”
“It must be my mother’s lucid dream. From the looks of it, it doesn’t seem to be a completely lucid dream.”
There is only one way to share the same lucid dream within a dream.
You can fall asleep while in contact with that person. That’s why Lucas and Lane held the principal’s hand and fell asleep as if the magic had been lifted.
I closed my eyes and opened them without resisting the drowsiness that washed over me like a tidal wave, and here I was.
A very small pioneer village in a remote mountain.
The principal was there.
“…How did you know?”
“What?”
“The principal…Is your mother.”
“She’s also my brother’s mother? Well, I haven’t known her in a while.”
“So…?”
“I was listening to the conversation between my mother and brother earlier with my supernatural ability.”
…… Ah.
I didn’t worry about it because it was quite a distance…… Was it because of that in the end?
Lucas gritted his teeth out of guilt.
“I’m sorry…Rain.”
“What do you have to be sorry about? My brother has nothing to apologize to me, at least as far as your mother is concerned. There is something I want to ask you though.”
“What is it…?”
“If I couldn’t hear it because of my superpowers, were you planning on keeping it a secret for the rest of my life?”
“……………….”
“…That’s a sufficient answer. You’re lucky, brother. If it had been discovered, I would have truly resented you.”
“Rain…”
“You can’t just look for your mother all your life. Now…It’s time to face her.”
Tadat.
As she said that, she clenched her fist, but went to the side of Lane, who was strangely trembling.
A girl runs.
…… There was no way I couldn’t recognize it.
“…That appearance.”
“I’m sure… It’s mother.”
The principal, who must have been at most ten years old, was smiling brightly among the village residents.
Right after Lucas, who couldn’t imagine the principal smiling so innocently even though he was young, inadvertently took a step back.
He suddenly realized that the principal was not lucid dreaming.
“Why doesn’t she have lucid dreams? With the mental power of the principal, or even her mother, she wouldn’t have fallen into a dream.”
“……I think I know.”
“Rain?”
“But for now, I’ll just watch quietly.”
“…Okay.”
Why doesn’t the principal have lucid dreams? In fact, such questions were just additional elements.
In the end, what Lucas wants is to see the principal’s purpose in her lucid dreams.
It was rather a pleasant situation, so Lucas remained silent without saying anything unnecessary. Like Lane, she only saw the principal’s childhood.
It was as vivid as reality── as if to prove that it was ultimately a dream.
The scenery of the small, cozy pioneer village changed in an instant.
From a warm look to a somewhat fearful look.
*
The girl was a . She was a Rumored to be special among them.
Being special was something that the village chief had no choice but to do, but for the girl, it was joy itself.
In fact, how much does the head of a pioneer village know about job holders? Also, she was just exaggerating rumors she had heard infrequently in the past as if they were the truth.
However, thanks to that, the girl smiled brightly as if she had the whole world, so what if she was the truth?
She knew that she was a , But she was a girl who couldn’t use any magic, so even after she knew that, she did all the work for a girl.
Has a year passed like that?
Right next to the girl’s village.
A gate was created.
*
“…Small.”
“Yes, it’s small.”
Lucas and Lane took a short walk through the changed scenery of the village and soon found the cause.
If it was far from the pioneer village, it would be far away, and if it was close, it would be in the mountains nearby. There was a gate.
However, it is rude to compare it to And it was barely big enough for one person to escape.
For a gate this small, the level of monsters that appear is just about the same.
‘But it would be a disaster for a settlement like that.’
The monsters that come out beyond the gate are strong, but their number is the biggest problem.
There is a reason why humanity, which has fought against the Gate throughout its long history, regards job holders as special.
No matter how new weapons or weapons were developed, they never reached the level of efficiency that a single job holder could achieve.
It was natural that as science and technology developed, the skills and methods of using them also improved.
“This gate…What will happen?”
“Isn’t it obvious, brother? It will end with the village being burned down and my mother in despair.”
“…Rain.”
“It must be the obvious…The obvious past. Obviously.”
Lucas reprimanded her sister rather harshly, but Lane paid no attention.
He just glares at the young principal with intense, bloodshot eyes.
……… Well, the one who is most worried about it right now is Lane.
Lucas wisely chose to remain silent.
*
The residents of the settlement trembled with fear when they first saw the gate and the monsters coming out of it.
Fortunately, because it was a small gate, the monsters were also weak. The girl somehow managed to kill the monster.
A few village youths gained courage and came forward, but the results were disastrous.
That day, the girl realized.
She is the only girl who can protect the people she loves and wants to protect.
Because the girl was a special .
But.
That’s just what the girl believed.
*
It’s burning.
The pioneer village that trusted the girl and the young principal was horribly destroyed and on fire.
“……………….”
“……….”
Black, black, black.
And in the middle of it all.
The principal was crying sadly while hugging the corpses of the village chief and villagers.
The surrounding area is full of numerous monsters.
Torn to shreds, with the principal’s anger and resentment embedded in his body.
The burning settlement was filled with only monsters and human corpses.
──I, I couldn’t protect it……
Well.
In Lucas’s opinion, the principal alone was not the number to stop in the first place.
Even a young principal who faced them one by one would have been able to defeat them all, but while a few monsters caught the principal’s attention, numerous monsters attacked the settlement.
This was the result.
‘…… Lane.’
The ‘obvious past’ that Lane spoke of.
However, Lane just looked at the crying principal with complicated eyes.
Soon, the principal moved even while crying.
He digs up the ground, buries the corpses, and tramples on the corpses of the monsters several times as if venting his anger.
After staying in the ruins for several days, the principal made his move.
With empty eyes.
Toward the small gate that is the culprit of all this.
──I must be special……
The principal was muttering like crazy.
Muttering the words special, special, special over and over again.
I entered the gate with a body covered in fatigue and wounds.
“…Let’s follow.”
Honestly, I don’t like this dream or seeing the principal’s past. Lucas thought so.
What he wants to know is whether the principal is really his mother and what her purpose is. She didn’t want to know every detail like this.
If Lucas had come in here alone, he would have overlooked it…… There’s a lane next to me.
Rain stopped Lucas who was about to enter the gate first.
“Wait a minute.”
“Rain?”
“Do I really need to look further?”
“…What?”
Well, what.
Lucas quickly turned around and saw Lane.
He had a very complex expression.
“Ooh, let’s stop. This is just the past, right? What does it matter what happens in the future?”
“……….”
“Let’s just pass it over. It’s okay to just look at that part to see if the principal is really the mother.”
Lane.
I was scared.
The most visible emotion in the complex facial expression was fear.
‘…… ‘I’m afraid I’ll sympathize with you.’
Who knew that the principal’s past was such a tragedy?
That’s why Lane tried to disparage him in some way, even using the term ‘obvious past’, but she gradually began to sympathize with the principal.
Rain probably can’t admit that to himself.
It’s not that I sympathize with her like my sister, but since Lucas wasn’t that interested, Lane’s words in themselves were approval.
However.
‘If it were Namgoong Min.’
Will there ever be a chance to enter the principal’s lucid dream?
If not now, will we ever get a chance to know the principal’s inner thoughts and the truth?
In this situation…… If it were Namgoong Min.
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How did I tell Lane?
“……………….”
“Oh, brother.”
Her confident appearance from just a moment ago had disappeared, and before she knew it, Lane was pleading like she did back in the days when she was struggling with the strength and the weakness.
Because she saw that, Lucas was able to make a decision.
“Let’s see.”
“Oppa…?”
“I told you earlier. Namgoong Min told me to take a good look at it. Are you really planning on ignoring your brother-in-law’s words?”
“……………….”
“Rain, I understand what you are afraid of. The principal and his mother are the enemies who attacked Namgoong Min. But at the same time, they are also the object you have been desperately looking for. I understand that looking at the principal’s past… You may end up sympathizing with him. “I’m afraid it will happen.”
“…Knowing.”
“I’m saying this knowingly. Has Namgoong Min ever been wrong? He’s the bravest fortune teller in the world. If a guy like that leaves a message telling you to take a good look, it’s definitely a good thing for you and not a bad thing.”
Even as he said that, Lucas suddenly smiled.
I didn’t know that I would have this level of trust and favor towards a friend I’ve known for at most a year.
Likewise, his younger sister also had feelings for him, because she did not know that she would be saved.
Perhaps their brother and sister have a truly strange relationship. As a family, as a brother and sister, they do not exist as two people alone, so they would not have been able to get along this well if Namgoong Min had not existed.
That’s why Lucas had no problem bringing up Namgoong Min.
Just as Namgoong Min was a precious companion to Lane, Namgoong Min was also her best friend to Lucas.
‘You probably did this too, right?’
Rain would have turned away like this and prevented him from running away.
I would have raised him up so that he could properly face the principal.
Because it was something Namgoong Min had already done once.
“So, let’s go. You said earlier that you would face each other properly, right? I have to keep my promise.”
“……Yes.”
“That way, I will be able to appeal to my brother-in-law as a younger brother who keeps his promises.”
“That…What is it?”
Pisik.
Laine, who was tired of Lucas’ little joke, took a few deep breaths and got up from his trembling body.
Her eyes were still shaking as she looked at Lucas again, but she was firm nonetheless.
“I showed some indecency for a moment. Forget it, brother.”
“Okay, I’ll remember.”
“Ugh…….”
I hold onto her heart and look at her small gate.
After she nodded, the moment I took her steps to go in there.
“…Huh?”
Before that, the young principal appears at the gate.
He was much paler than when he went in and appeared to be limping.
Nevertheless, she came back alive.
And.
“The sky…?”
The young principal looked up at the sky.
It was as if there was someone talking there.
──I will follow your words.
──Because I am special.
Mumbling to myself.
The principal’s eyes were full of something.
…… With shining beliefs.