118 – Choice
“There…”
“……”
“…Ariel.”
The river sky looked down at Ariel, who was cradled in her own arms, with her embarrassed eyes.
“Why are you doing this?”
He suddenly comes to her senses and grabs Ariel by the shoulder and tries to pull her away.
“Uh…”
However, Ariel was immovable. It was partly because of Kang Ha-neul’s muscles, which weakened while continuing his hospital life, but it was more because Ariel herself was holding on with her strength.
“…….?”
Thanks to that, Kang Ha-neul started looking at Ariel with completely confused eyes.
“You killed my sister.”
“…That, yes, yes.
“Why did you kill him?”
“What?”
“There must be no reason for killing them.”
Then he muttered in a low voice to Ariel, who raised his head and began to stare at him with teary eyes.
“…From the beginning I was planning to kill your sister. I approached her for that purpose. Uh…”
“………”
“Why, why?”
But when she puts her own head up to her nose and stares intently into her eyes, he blurts out her words and begins to break out in a cold sweat.
“I see.”
Ariel stared into those eyes, then nodded her head with a cold smile.
“So, it won’t hurt if I kill you here right now?”
“………”
The moment she said that.
[Do you want to defeat the final boss?]
[When accepted, the boss battle begins.]
In front of her eyes, a message emerges a little more clearly.
[Y/N]
Ariel, who was staring at the message consisting of yes and no, that would probably decide the fate of the world, soon lowered her head and began biting her lips quietly.
“…Excuse me.”
Then, she looked down at the sky of the river she was holding tightly to her and began to ask her questions in a cold voice.
“What is your purpose?”
“…What?”
“If I don’t kill you here, what are you going to be doing?”
Then she put on a puzzled expression for a moment, then she started to answer in a low voice.
“…I’m going to kill all the 7 main lines.”
“…….”
“Then we’ll flip the Hero Association half way.”
His eyes, which had been shaken in a panic, began to become clearer as he continued to speak.
“If you arrange everything like that…”
– Goooooh…
At that point, a shadow began to bloom from Kang Ha-neul’s body.
“If you organize it…”
Although he didn’t notice at all, it was clearly visible in Ariel’s eyes.
– Chizuzuzuzu…
The shadows rising from his body take the form of a terrifying monster, smiling with twinkling eyes.
“………”
The moment Ariel witnessed it, she was sure.
She lived a more pitiful life than anyone else in front of her, sacrificed his own life time and time again to save her, and became the only thing left in Ariel’s life, a man she couldn’t help but love.
– Far away…
That this is the ‘final boss’ that will destroy the world.
‘…I can’t deny that much.’
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No matter how differently she tried to think of it, she couldn’t deny it because she had seen it with her own two eyes in the previous episode.
[Y/N]
A message from the system that grew even bigger before I knew it reminded me of it and forced Ariel, the main character, to make a choice.
[If not selected, it will be selected forcibly]
“… Ha ha.”
While every moment of my life was miserable, would I kill this man who brought me out of misery and choose world peace?
Or will you miss the golden opportunity to kill the final boss?
“…….”
Seeing the compassionate eyes of the river sky, like a puppy wet in the rain, she seemed to have given up on such a choice, and then quietly lowered her head.
– Farr Leur…
Just like that, silence began to flow in the room for a while.
– Swoop…
In the stillness, as Ariel quietly began to stretch her hand forward, the river sky quietly stared into her eyes and then quietly closed her eyes.
– What?
Kyureukyi, who had been hanging on his body for a long time and regained some strength, received a call from Kang Ha-neul and prepared to jump forward.
“”………””
Just like that, the desperate moment when the saddest battle in the world was about to begin.
– Cudang Tang Tang!!!
At that very moment, a loud noise began to echo from beside them.
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“”…….?””
At the sight of Kang Ha-neul and Ariel, who simultaneously turned their heads towards the loud sound, someone came running from the room and ran towards them.
＞ Stop!!
“Fa, Pandora!”
Kang Ha-neul, who realized that it was Pandora crying a lot, raises her voice with a terrified expression.
“I told you to stay in your room because I have something to tell you…!”
＞ Please don’t kill Kang Ha Neul!
But she ignored his words and hurriedly clung to Kang Ha-neul as she typed on her smart phone.
＞ Actually, Kang Ha Neul cherishes himself the most!
“…….”
Ariel’s eyes instantly get even colder.
＞That, so… Killing yourself instead.
“Pandora!
Pandora cowered as if she would burst into tears at the unusual atmosphere, but her fingers did not stop as she tapped the typewriter.
＞ Wouldn’t that be a better revenge?
The synthesized sound of the drone resonated in the living room, but made cold sweat run down Kang Ha-neul’s forehead.
“…….”
As soon as Ariel heard the synthesized sound and began to stare at Pandora, a chilly silence lingered around her for a while.
“…Why?”
＞ ?
“Why can you do that?”
In such a situation, Ariel suddenly tilted her head and asked.
‘It’s not like I have multiple lives.’
If you have the ability to regress, sacrificing for others is somewhat understandable.
However, a villain who is not a noble hero sacrifices himself for his comrades?
Ariel wanted to know the reason very much.
＞ Because we’re friends…
So, while holding Pandora’s shoulder with her hand and looking down at her, she began to tremble. Such a message popped up on her smart phone.
“………”
It was at that moment when Ariel’s hands lost strength for a moment after hearing that simple and clear answer.
– Swoop…
＞ Whoops?
Suddenly, Pandora’s body was lifted upwards, and it began to fly rapidly towards Lumia’s room.
＞ Please wait!
Realizing that her own waist was entangled in her tentacles, Pandora stretched out her hand in front of her and struggled, but then threw her back into Rumia’s room. Even her doorknob breaks her tree, the river sky.
“After destroying the 7 main lines and the Hero Association, I will destroy this world.”
“…….”
“I don’t care if I kill anyone around me. The only way to stop that is if you become stronger than me…”
“… Ha.”
Then he hurriedly continued her words, but at the same time Ariel burst into laughter.
“Then, to stop you, I must side with the Seven Lords.”
“…What?”
“I don’t have the confidence to defeat you, who even killed my sister.”
Eventually, at the laughter mixed with her voice, Kang Ha-neul stopped her words and started to make a puzzled expression.
“I got a scout offer a while ago. The organizers said they secretly wanted to see me.”
“………”
“…I really wanted to meet them personally because they are people I usually respect, and it turned out very well.”
After she said that, she stood up from her seat and turned around. When she turned around, her pupils in the sky of the river began to shake wildly.
“Then, see you later.”
“Now, wait…”
“I’ll quit the academy and train with the 7 main linemen to get my revenge somehow…”
“Wait!!”
Then, as Ariel said that, she tried to move her steps quietly, and the river sky called her out with a loud cry.
“You can’t go!!!”
“What? What’s wrong?”
It was at that point that a faint smile began to form on Ariel’s lips.
“…The 7th Juseon didn’t even kill my sister, what are you doing?”
The result of the choice that would change everything she had just made appeared before her eyes.
[You selected ‘Do not defeat the final boss’.]
“Tell me, Kang Ha-neul.”
It was time for her to hear her truth once more, with the mouth of her final boss, whom she would never be able to kill no matter what she did.
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“Look at that…”
Meanwhile, at that time.
“I was right… I saw the right future…”
Seah Lee, Kang Ha-neul’s childhood friend, who was biting her nails while looking exhausted in a room in her own house.
“…I made the right decision for humanity.”
She comforted herself by recalling over and over again the terrible future that she witnessed with her abilities yesterday, where the river and sky spewed blue smoke and engulfed everyone on the artificial island. Start to do
“The future, once observed, is absolute…”
Like that, she started peeking into her future again in order to drive a wedge into her own self-consolation.
“The details may change, but the ending doesn’t. So…”
But then, her muttering suddenly cuts off.
“……. Huh?”
Though the details have changed over the past few years, they have never changed.
Even if Rumia intervened, the worst could be avoided, and the end of that terrible disaster that had to happen at least once.
“What…?”
For some reason, for the first time in her life, she was completely turned upside down.