117 – Despair (5)
“…Ah?”
The first thing that came into Ariel’s eyes when she rewinded time and opened her eyes was none other than the familiar scenery of the hideout.
“This is…
Up until that point, it was only natural. This is because it is a landscape that I have seen tirelessly over the past few hundred times.
“………”
But if there is a little difference from the last few regressions, it is that the hideout was in good condition, not in ruins after it collapsed.
“…Is it a dream?”
Ariel, who had been making a blank expression for a while, carefully pinched her own cheek, which was her natural step in a way.
“Ouch.”
Without much expectation, she just acted like a pleasant fantasy that she sometimes saw during seminars. But for some reason, pain begins to come through her cheeks along with a tingling sensation.
‘…Sick?’
That suggested that what Ariel was seeing right now was not an illusion.
– Pounding, pounding…
When she realized that, her heart suddenly started beating fast.
‘If the hideout hadn’t been destroyed… I couldn’t believe it……’
At that moment, a system message appeared in front of her eyes.
[Save error occurred! (Error code: 2170)]
“…….!”
[Save point lost!]
The moment I saw that message, Ariel’s legs went numb and went numb.
“hahahaha, ha…”
If what she sees in front of her eyes is not an illusion but the truth.
She’s back.
Her own benefactor who saved herself and died instead of her many times. And she’s the one she ended up with in the last few episodes that she thought she’d never see again.
And the man who killed the good-natured Ariel Everleigh and made her vengeful.
“Kang Haneul…”
In the timeline where Kang Ha-neul is still alive.
Because he knows everything that will happen in the future, his death, which could not be prevented no matter how many times he goes back, can be prevented this time.
That fact was lifting Ariel’s spirits.
– Farre…
She moves her steps so quickly that her feet get twisted and she almost falls to the floor, then she stretches her trembling hands forward.
“Calm down, calm down…”
“…Excuse me.”
“What!?”
But at that very moment, a clear voice came from beside her.
“So, how are you going to attack?”
Rumia’s face, tilting her head quietly, enters Ariel’s eyes, who momentarily tensed the muscles of her whole body and turned her gaze to kill.
“This hideout, the security is quite strong.”
“….. Whoa.”
“No matter how much you are the nemesis of trauma and the hero of the seminar situation, Ariel, there will be difficulties in penetrating…”
“…But, when I think about it, it’s strange.”
“Yes?”
Thanks to that, Ariel breathed a sigh of relief after reaping his life, but soon poked his head at Rumia with sharp eyes and murmured.
“Obviously at first, I don’t think he said that line.”
“…….”
“Come to think of it, I skipped it because I was busy, but the line you spoke changed little by little with each episode.”
Muttering that with a creepy expression, Ariel peered into Rumia’s eyes.
“…What are you?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
However, Rumia did not change her face color and responded with a smile on her face.
“The first line? Repeatedly? Even skipping the words I don’t know… I’m not an NPC, am I a line?”
“………”
“Hey, do you have time to say that now?”
Ariel, who came to her senses at the sound of her laughter mixed with her voice, quietly gnashed her teeth and moved her steps forward to the hideout.
“…None.”
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No matter how familiar the strategy was, she had to do her best this time to reach the front of her river sky.
If this miracle of ‘error’ that happened to you was a one-time chance that happened by chance.
She couldn’t let her foolishly go away because she was chasing Rumia, who could barely catch it any time.
‘It’s embarrassing, but there’s something else important right now.’
Even so, it was true that her Rumia was insanely suspicious, but to be honest, it was too much to define her as her enemy.
Because every time she tried to kill her river sky, Rumia gave her life and she got herself in the way.
Before she realized the truth, she wouldn’t know, but at the point she realized the whole truth, she was Ariel who could never consider that action to be hostile.
“…Talk to you later.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but it is.”
Of course, there were still questions about how Rumia figured out the truth about her that she didn’t even know about.
But now, more important things were ahead of me than solving that question.
‘…Do you want to come again?’
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Not only saving Kang Ha-neul from the primary threat, Heart, but also showing the guys who were terribly trampling his corpse in front of him.
“Please come…”
With that goal set, Ariel, leaving Rumia behind, muttered quietly to herself as she clenched her fists tighter than ever.
‘…..I’m going to dig out your eyes the same way.’
The next moment, a loud noise rang out and the barrier of the hideout began to shatter.
– Tuck, Tuck…
After entering the barrier, Ariel walked briskly for a long time without saying a word. A warm smile soon appeared on Ariel’s lips.
‘…..Can I call you Professor now?’
Pandora and her precious benefactor, who left behind the concept of death and confronted Heart.
It was because the reality he was living in was the moment unfolding before his eyes.
“Kang Haneul…”
Calling his name in such a choking voice, Ariel tried to smash her last obstacle that kept her distance from him.
“….. Huh?”
But, of course, at that moment, in front of her raised fist, something happened that seemed to destroy all her hopes so far.
[Encountered the final boss!]
“…..Ah.”
A short and simple message sent by the system that detected that it was the final boss the moment he met ‘Kang Ha-neul’ himself, who was not traumatized or Professor Oh Ji-seok, who had no chance of dying to Ariel right away.
[Are you going to knock it down?]
[Y/N]
– Coo-gu-goo-goo…!!!
Encountering that message from her, Ariel broke down the wall between her and her final boss with her punch.
“”………””
Soon, a deep silence began to flow.
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“… Ha ha.”
Turn back time to the present. So, unlike the few times before, it was the most recent point in time when Kang Ha-neul escaped safely to Lumia’s house without being attacked by Ariel.
“…Ariel?”
Tears flow from Ariel’s eyes as she gazes at the river sky, which she saved and successfully evacuated to Lumia’s house safely.
[Will you defeat the final boss?]
[Y/N]
Kang Ha-neul, who forgot the sincere conversation he had just had with him, lied again like an idiot that he killed Justia.
‘Why are you the final boss…’
It was because he realized once again that he was destined to defeat him.
‘Why…’
“…Hey, um.”
Thanks to that, the embarrassing voice of the river sky was heard in front of her as she lowered her head and began to shed tears.
“Are you alright…?”
Seeing how weak she is, she instantly forgets what she was trying to do. Kang Ha-neul gets up from her seat and stretches out her hand.
“…….”
As if, a few years ago.
Just like the kind river sky at that time when she ran to see Justia, who was in the middle of her mission, and reached out to herself when she fell and her knee was slashed.
“Ugh…”
The moment that figure overlapped with the present river sky, Ariel, who had closed her eyes tightly, stretched out her hand in front of her.
“”………””
And then the static began.
“Ugh, ugh…”
“……???”
For some reason, instead of attacking himself, the river sky, looking down at Ariel, who was crying sadly while holding her in her arms, began to make a blank expression.
“…What, all of a sudden.”
However, unlike that expression, it was Kang Ha-neul who, without realizing it, began to gently pat her on the back.
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– Tuck, Tuck…
Meanwhile, at that time.
“Woe, patient!?”
“………”
“W-what are you doing!?”
The nurse who came inside to check the condition of Kang Maru, who was lying in the hospital room, opened his eyes wide and opened his mouth.
“Lord, how did you untie the line…”
“…If you can’t solve this on your own, you’re not a hero.”
It was because Kang Maru stood up from her seat with a bloodstained bandage wrapped around her neck, and was packing her belongings with her blank eyes.
“Gee, calm down. Patient. Get some rest…”
“………”
Her nurse tried to dry her off with her pale, tired face, but her nurse stopped her words in silence.
“…Really?”
It was because Kang Maru, who quietly turned his gaze away, gave off a darker atmosphere than any other patient he had encountered in the hospital for decades.
“Yes, I will.”
“Well then, take a seat first.”
“By the way.”
Memories of the immediately preceding episode.
The moment when her younger brother, who shouldered the fate of a monster to save herself, was horribly dismantled to make weapons and accessories.
Recalling everything at that moment, Kang Maru, whose mind was already broken, did not have the strength to distinguish between past and present episodes.
“…Just kill all the guys who killed my brother.”
A few minutes later, breaking news that an anonymous high-risk patient had escaped the ward and started making his way to the airport began to heat up the Internet.