154 – Decision
– It’s truly unfortunate…
“……..”
– Because someone always intervenes at a crucial moment…
As I stare blankly at Dice walking towards me, the voice of the shadow in my ear becomes even more intense.
– But now that I think about it, you are also one of the people who intervened at a critical moment…
“……?”
– Ahhahahaha…
Then the guy suddenly started making strange noises, so I grabbed the guy that was sticking out of my body and started swallowing him up again.
– But forever… You can’t ignore me…
“…Ugh.”
As soon as I completely swallowed up the guy who was spouting such typical villain lines, silence came.
“”…………””
In that silence, Dice and I’s eyes began to quietly look at each other.
“How did you get in here?”
“Are you curious about that?”
I asked her a question first, thinking that it had been a while since I had seen her for some reason, perhaps because a lot had happened in the meantime. She stopped for a moment and answered with her usual knowing smile.
“Yes.”
“…But it’s a secret.”
I quietly looked at Dice’s somewhat sad-looking smile as she said that, then sighed and quietly opened my mouth.
“Don’t you think the time for being buried in secrets is already past?”
“……..”
“It’s different from when we first met. I learned a lot, and I remembered a lot of things again.”
Then she withdrew her smile and stared at me quietly.
“Please answer.”
“Well, if I know…”
“No, answer me.”
I completely ignored her and asked her a question in a whisper to the woman in front of her.
“Are you… Ira?”
“…………”
“It’s Kim, is that right?”
There was no reply.
“Yes, honestly, I think it’s a little strange too. You have a different appearance and personality than Ira.”
“…That shouldn’t be the problem.”
“Yes, you and Ira are already moving around safely in this world at the same time.”
But I couldn’t let the opportunity to find out the truth continue like this.
“But, you admitted it yourself, right?”
“……..”
“It came from the past.”
So when I hit her right on the head, she lowered her head and quietly opened her mouth.
“I don’t think I’ve ever said exactly what I said…”
“So, no?”
“……..”
“You were implicitly admitting that fact.”
There was still no answer from her.
“I think it’s time to talk, Dice.”
“……..”
“Actually, the name Dice was Ira’s hero name, right?”
Because of this, Dice started to sigh quietly as he raised his voice even higher and fired back at her like that.
“…I remember up to that point.”
“Then, as expected…”
“Okay, there’s no use hiding it anymore…”
Her mouth, which had been closed for a long time, finally begins to open.
“…It’s just as you expected.”
“……..”
“My real name is Kim Ira.”
How long did she wait to hear this?
No, actually, if you think about it in terms of time, not that long has passed.
However, since the events happened in the past few months, it feels like it has been several years.
“Then you…Are you the future Kim?”
“…Similar, but slightly different.”
Feeling that strange feeling, she asked her question again, and received an unexpected answer from her.
“It’s from the future, but it’s not the future you know. It’s true that it’s Kim, but it’s not the Kim you know.”
“What do you mean…?”
As usual, when I quietly frown and ask a question at her comment that I don’t quite understand, she smiles vaguely and walks towards me.
“Sky, I am…”
The words that came out of her mouth were quite unexpected even for me who thought that I would not be surprised by anything I heard anymore.
“A being from another dimension.”
“…What?”
“So to speak, it’s like a parallel world… Shall we say it’s the same? hahahaha…”
Dice started to laugh while saying that, but his eyes looked unusually sad.
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“Parallel world…?”
“Yes, actually, if you go into it more precisely, it’s not even that… But then it gets too complicated. You can understand it that way.”
“Is that so…?”
Dice, who was scratching his head with a confused expression and looking at the sky, soon burst into a self-conscious smile.
“I’ve met many skies so far, but you are still somehow different…”
“…….?”
She had become dull as she had changed countless world lines over countless times, but something about her was different this time.
“The sky in this world hasn’t turned black yet…”
“You’re saying something incomprehensible again.”
When she said she came from a parallel world, has the sky ever responded so calmly?
Most people were either in shock or immediately turned against him, so it probably wasn’t there.
“Could you please speak a little easier now?”
“…Puhup.”
No, there has never even been a sky with such a kind heart in the first place.
The skies she had encountered so far were inevitably destined to be stained with darkness.
“Puhuhuh…”
“Hey…?”
An absolute evil that does not become good even if it goes crazy.
That was the identity of Kang Ha-neul, which was unified in all the worlds she had seen and experienced so far.
“Oh, sorry. It was just a bit funny…”
“What’s so funny?”
“Well, what should I say…..”
Dice, who was looking down at the river sky full of doubts, muttered quietly in an inaudible voice.
“You’re the first one who doesn’t try to dominate me…”
“What?”
What on earth changed him like this?
‘…I guess it’s because of her.’
In fact, having crossed numerous similar dimensions, she already knew the answer.
‘Justia…’
In countless world lines, the one that accounts for more than half of Justia’s signatures is none other than Kang Haneul.
Even in a different world line, when the two were in conflict as student council president and vice president, they were at odds, and there was no time when they got along harmoniously.
But this world’s Justia approached River Sky first, and not only that, he held out his hand several times whenever his River Sky fell.
‘It’s clear that she had something of her own…’
Conclusively, it has not changed that Justia is the number one ranked hero, but she has never been so overwhelmingly strong as she is in this world.
Also, there has never been a life as short-lived as this world.
‘And to him too…’
But the story did not end with Justia’s death.
As soon as she died, coincidentally, the child of prophecy, who had always been behind everything, was completely changed.
‘…Well, that woman was strange to begin with.’
What Dice realized while passing through countless dimensions was that ‘Lumia Osse’ was a very special being.
‘I never thought someone would really possess the personality of a fake possessor…’
In the countless world lines that Dice has encountered so far, what Dice found out was that ‘Lumia Obse’ was the main character of the world with the setting of a possessed person.
However, this world line was a little unusual.
Unlike the times when she leisurely answered yes to the question of whether she was possessed, the Lumia of this world raised her voice with a confused look on her face.
In the end, Dice was able to understand through the Q&A she had with her not long ago.
The protagonist, who mistakenly thinks he is a possessor, is actually possessed by someone.
And another variable, someone who happened to appear right after Justia died, was clearly a being from a higher dimension.
‘You know, in fact, the interpretation of Kang Ha-neul’s character is the subject of a lot of debate even among the fandom…’
‘What?’
‘The view that Kang Haneul was absolutely evil from the beginning and the view that she was good from the beginning are in violent conflict…’
Original Rumia didn’t know, and she even talked about all the information that only she knew.
‘The reason there are so many different interpretations of her is because of that famous scene when she was young and changed her fate with her older sister…’
‘……..’
‘There’s still controversy in the community over whether they see that as self-sacrifice or selfishness that doesn’t take into account their sister’s position? As expected, Kang Ha-neul is optimized for teaching…’
As if from the perspective of a reader looking at a creative work.
‘…I’ve decided.’
Dice, who was pondering all the variables in his head, soon quietly closed his eyes and came to one conclusion.
‘The world line on which I place my last hope is right here.’
This is the world he was looking for as he continued to cross dimensions until he reached his mental limit.
“…Dice?”
‘…Anyway, you have a nostalgic look in your eyes.’
She also largely applied the fact that in this world, certain events that even she could not understand were happening in a chain, but there was another decisive reason for her to come to that conclusion.
‘Those wonderful eyes you gave me when you saved me…’
“……?”
It was because it was the first time that the look that Kang Ha-neul gave him at that moment, which always happened no matter how many dimensions he crossed, remained for this long.
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“You know. I have a favor to ask, Sky.”
“Please?”
Dice, who was looking at me with longing eyes, began to quietly reach out to me.
“…Can’t I hug you just once?”
“……..”
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“What, why are you looking so nervous…?”
As I look at her with a slight frown, I hear her voice full of dissatisfaction.
“Because I have a girlfriend…”
“Ah.”
After hearing those words, Dice chuckled and muttered.
“… Now that I think about it, it’s her first time having a relationship with that kid.”
“What?”
“Anyway, everything is new in this world line.”
“Eup.”
Then, before I had time to stop her, she hugged me.
“…Well, what are you doing?”
“Now I’m going to ask you a real favor.”
I tried to push Dice away with a puzzled expression, but then her eyes widened and she stopped moving.
“Swallow me.”
“……..”
“And please get out of here completely.”
It was because the words that came out of her mouth were not something I could just accept and move on from.