205 – ???. If Bad Ending – Strong, weak, weak.
“……Ah.”
The lucid dream has ended.
Rain, who realized this, hurriedly stood up.
“Oh…Pa!”
“Yes.”
As soon as I woke up from a lucid dream, I felt drowsy like a ghost, but while I was somehow able to hold on with
Lucas cast a spell on Lane.
A special insomnia magic created by the principal. Lane sighed, feeling drowsy that disappeared only after receiving him, and looked around.
The scene── was no different from when I fell asleep.
A space shimmering with rainbow colors. A black, ugly mass still writhing.
And I haven’t woken up yet…… Mother.
“……………….”
“…Rain.”
“Why? Is there something you want to say now?”
“I will respect your choice, Raine. So choose as you wish.”
“……………….”
“Artur is qualified to decide on his mother’s treatment…Only you.”
After Lucas finished speaking, he walked to a somewhat distant place.
Do you think we should leave the two of us alone and think it through?
Rain smiled briefly at the consideration he would never have received if he had been in the past, and then looked down at the principal.
“……………….”
In a lucid dream, I saw the past.
But that was all.
‘It’s obvious. It’s cliché. It’s disgusting. ‘It’s just an emotional sell.’
That thought has not changed.
No matter how unfortunate the principal’s past was, it is none of Lane’s business.
For her, only the warmth she received from her principal was real.
As long as it turns out to be false…… The warmth I received from her was bound to turn into a feeling of betrayal.
‘If the intention is good, is everything justified? That can’t be possible.’
“You…Are the worst human being, just like your father.”
It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t shaken after looking at the past.
Seeing the principal in his innocent days. Seeing the principal who had no doubt that she could protect the world with her own specialness. Seeing the principal trying to fulfill his special duties.
Is there anyone who wouldn’t follow that confident look?
……… Although she really didn’t want to think about it.
The principal in the past was like Namgoong Min.
Overflowing with specialness that makes others fall in love with it.
Sometimes…… A person who makes you think that he is the main character of this world.
‘But you have changed.’
Before the death of a colleague. In front of the fleeing job holder. In the face of the truth that the world cannot be protected.
She became narrow-minded, her vision narrowed, and she drew her line by focusing solely on her inherent specialness.
And finally.
It has become corrupted.
“Maybe…You might be Namgoong Min’s future.”
Her dream of protecting her world, and the foolish promise of solving all the worries of those around her.
If it seemed somewhat similar──was it just Rain’s illusion?
But at this point, it was all meaningless.
The only thing that reminds me of Namgoong Min is the past principal.
The current principal regards her own daughter as an experiment, and is nothing more than an ugly human being who has transgressed her taboo.
…… A conclusion was made.
“……………….”
Your eyes shake, and you grit your teeth for a moment. Although it may have been acting and hypocrisy, the warm memories I had with my mother suddenly came to mind.
However, soon after, the memories are stained and ruined in a different color. The smiling face of her mother in her memories changed into that of a disgusting hypocrite.
That hastened Lane’s conclusion.
“…Goodbye.”
Raine, with her
, Cut off the headmaster’s head in one fell swoop even as she shed tears ──
Tick.
“……Huh?”
Is it because, unlike Lane, who controls her
Superpower with just one finger, her emotions become so intense that she moves her body roughly?
A tarot card that she had carefully kept in her arms fell between Lane and her principal.
The blade of superpower is…… He was about to cut off the headmaster’s head.
Major Arcana No. 6, .
The most precious gift she received from Namgoong Min caught her eyes.
“……………….”
At this particular time. Of course, at this moment.
Is it just a coincidence that the Card ran out?
Rain’s eyes wavered. Her eyes were searching for hidden meaning in the tarot cards.
‘The Card is…… It meant marriage, empathy, harmony, affection, and choice.’
Thanks to that, she was able to meet Namgoong Min and continue that relationship until now.
“Direction…Direction.”
Just like she received from him on the day she followed Namgoong Min.
The Card was facing forward.
“……………….”
I feel dizzy.
Until a little while ago, she had no doubt that she had made the right choice.
It was almost laughable that my thoughts were shaken by a single tarot card that happened to fall.
Over and over again.
I came close to chopping off the principal’s head with my supernatural powers several times.
“I am…”
I can’t…… I will do it.
“It’s too, too heavy….”
I keep thinking of memories.
Now I know. The mother in my memories was just an act. That it was all lies and deception.
But just an hour ago, that was the unchanging truth for Lane.
In fact, who knows whether that might even be a lie?
“Ah…Ah…”
Rain realized this on his own.
I am, after all, this kind of person.
A person who cannot make a choice for himself unless Hector, Lucas, Liu, and Namgoong Min decide for him.
A person who grew up with the strong and the weak, so he only relies on the choices of the strong.
Even now that she is free from Hector, she is.
She never deviated from the weak and weak.
“Ha, hahahaha. hahahahaha…….”
Tears did not flow.
It was a very painful self-reflection…… Rather, because it cannot be denied.
Even shedding tears was a luxury.
‘I…’ … ‘You can’t choose.’
Memories with the principal, her past, the current principal, the things the principal did, and Lane, who was an experiment.
All those thoughts are tangled and mixed.
Rain couldn’t organize his thoughts.
“I’d rather…Someone else decide…”
Or just give me time.
At least some time to sort out these jumbled thoughts.
Anyone──
“…Rain.”
“……Namgoong Min?”
“Have you made your choice?”
“……………….”
“Not yet. I’ll wait as long as I can.”
“…Now, wait a minute.”
“Rain?”
“Namgoong Min, please. Please choose, please choose.”
“…Yes?”
“I can’t do this. I can’t handle it…So please…”
Instead of me.
Carry this heavy burden.
Let me, the weak, follow the logic of the strong.
Please.
“……Rain, are you saying you’re going to leave everything to me?”
“Yes, yes! Of course, of course.”
“Really…?”
What Namgoong Min asks.
It is natural.
This was entirely up to Lane to decide.
To firmly conclude the relationship between the principal and Lane.
Because that was what Lane had to do.
But she ran away.
In the warm and cozy arms of Namgoong Min as always.
Ugly, unsightly.
He ran away.
“……….”
Only after making eye contact with Lane did Namgoong Min sigh.
What is the meaning contained in that sigh? As Lane, I couldn’t know everything.
She knew.
If it’s Namgoong Min…… I know that even this unreasonable request will be accepted.
“I am──”
That’s why Lane smiled brightly.
Because it was so convenient to follow Kang Ja’s words.
Thinking of everything on your own and taking responsibility for your choices.
It’s so difficult.
Because it was heavy.
*
“So you… Put me in this prison?”
“Don’t think about running away, mother. Arthur comes from a family of executioners, and knows better than anyone else how to imprison criminals.”
“I guess so.”
Arthur’s home, deep underground.
Arthur, who rules Europe beyond the borders of his country, has his own laws and prisons, albeit secretly.
In fact, the Arthur family itself was almost recognized as a nation, but the past Arthur family heads were wise.
If you are a family, there are many things you can run away from, but if you become a nation, it is a different story.
Of course, if it were officially recognized, the scope of what could be done would expand, but the Arthur family heads did not want anything more than that.
At first, he had a lowly status as an executioner.
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Because I only wanted the Arthur family to be free and not be subordinated to anything.
It was funny that daughters born into such families were used as marriage allies without any freedom.
In the end, there is only one point.
No matter how much the principal is, he cannot escape from Arthur’s dungeon.
“Magic-cancelling handcuffs…Space isolation…Ha, even a sanctuary blessed by the church? You were very determined.”
“You won’t even be able to use the You boasted about so much.”
“Heh, heh… My teeth are grinding. You have this kind of power, this specialness, and you just stay still? If you guys had protected the world with that power…”
“Don’t be ridiculous. We’ve already destroyed her mother’s disgusting creation. Now her mother will just rot here for the rest of her life.”
“…I said I passed this choice over to that bastard.”
Rain was glaring at the principal who was tightly bound with numerous chains and handcuffs.
She trembled at her words.
“It’s obvious. You’ve seen my lucid dreams, right? You’ve seen my past. You know everything about how I feel about you.”
“……So?”
“If it were me, I would have torn you to death. It’s ironic that I did something that deserved to be torn to death, but if I were you, you would have killed me right away.”
“……………….”
“But if you didn’t kill him and eventually begged that brat to make a choice… In fact, the answer was already a predetermined choice.”
Rain didn’t have the courage to kill the principal, so she didn’t leave it to Namgoong Min.
In fact, it was the opposite.
After all her worries, she eventually wanted to save her, but she couldn’t bring herself to say it out loud.
That’s why she just left it to Namgoong Min.
And that…… There was no way Namgoong Min didn’t know.
Nam Goong Min was considerate of Lane until the end.
“… That’s not something a mother who saved her life thanks to that choice would say.”
“Okay, that’s not what I’m going to say. So tell me clearly.”
“What…?”
“I will definitely escape from here. And I will kill that bastard.”
With endless resentment and burning for revenge.
The principal turned his messy hair and eyes burning with madness towards Lane.
“I don’t care that I ended up like this. But I will have to pay the full price for killing the guardian who could have protected my masterpiece and the world!!”
“…You’re crazy.”
Is there nothing more to say, or is it because there are many opportunities to come in the future, so I don’t have any regrets?
When Lane turns his back on the evil principal and walks towards the exit of the dungeon.
“It’s a special job that relies on others until the end…”
“……………….”
“As expected, it was a failure.”
Squeak.
Thump.
*
“Re, Rain! This is a big deal!”
“What’s going on?”
“That prisoner who was locked in solitary confinement…!!”
“……What?”
“Suddenly it disappeared! Something that looked like a crack appeared in the air, and it disappeared along with the prisoner!”
Ah.
“…Namgoong Min.”
*
It was burning.
Lane suddenly thought that she had seen this sight somewhere before.
A few months ago, when she went back to the dream to settle down with the principal.
She was similar to the village she lived in as a child in the principal’s lucid dream that she saw with Lucas.
Everything burned down, leaving only ruins.
“I, I, Nam Goong Min.”
As soon as she heard the news, she arrived at the Romance Academy by .
This was possible because superpowers have grown even more recently. There was no one else because she was the first to arrive.
One step.
Raine approached something of her, shaking her arms and legs.
That something looked miserable.
Her limbs were numb, her neck and torso were separated, and all of her joints were twisted.
She couldn’t have done that to a corpse. So does that mean that all of that is the pain I experienced when I was alive?
“Nam Goong Min…?”
Bam!!! Kwabang!!!!
Romance Academy, focusing on Namgoong Min’s base.
A radius of hundreds of meters was burning and collapsing.
And in the center…… A woman with scattered hair is standing.
“Look, you failure.”
“Ah, ah.”
“You said you would definitely escape…And kill me, right?”
“aaah!!!!”
Thud.
Using , He pulls off the principal’s arm.
Even though his arm was torn off alive, the smile never left the principal’s face.
Tuk.
He hurriedly retrieves Namgoong Min’s head, which was being held by his torn off arm, using his supernatural powers.
‘No, no, no, no, no, no!!!!’
How can you deny something that has been repeated over and over again?
This head in Lane’s arms.
Namgoong Min’s was correct.
“Ah, ah, ah…!!”
“I heard a voice. That voice I’ve heard since I was young… That voice that tempted me to destruction. Even though I knew it would lead to this end, I accepted it.”
“State, state, state…!!!”
“That’s why they should have cut off my vocal cords so I wouldn’t be able to respond to that voice.”
“I’ll kill you!!!!”
“You should have crushed my arms and legs like this. Even if I escaped thanks to your voice…I couldn’t move.”
Quad.
It was not something that could be called a battle.
Rain’s
Superpowers grew day by day, and although the principal was the strongest battle wizard, he had been rotting in prison for several months.
At once, the principal’s limbs turned in strange directions. He was pushed down from above and pinned to the floor so that he could not even lift a finger.
But still.
The principal’s smile does not disappear.
“But… That brat. Even though he was just a fortune teller, he fought against me and hurt me… I almost died. In the end, I was the one who won.”
“Shut up!!!!”
“Why should I do that? There is one thing I realized only when I got to this point.”
Rain approached the principal.
Holding a blade made of supernatural powers.
To conclude.
“That kid was more special than you, who were special from the moment you were born.”
──Hector, if the fortune teller you met was like that………
Suddenly.
My neck rolled.
And Rain sat down as if he had collapsed.
“Ha, hahahaha, hahahahaha…….”
I remember what happened in a dream a few months ago.
If she had made her choice then.
Even if she had to live with the burden of her heart for the rest of her life, she decided to handle it on her own.
‘I should have killed him.’
In the end, Lane killed her principal with her own hands.
It was the same choice, but too much happened in between.
Why on earth did I run away?
Because of that, because of that, Namgoong Min.
“……Ah.”
Suddenly.
Lane realized that a tarot card had fallen from her arms.
A card from That I always carried with me carefully.
That card…… It had been cut in half along with the headmaster’s head.
In the reverse direction.
“……………….”
I can hear people rushing in. I felt Liu, the princess, the prince, her brother, the hero, and the saint approaching.
Among all the karma.
Rain carefully lifted only Namgoong Min’s head.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry…….”
And.
“I love you.”
Be quiet.
We kissed.