162 – Self-fulfilling prophecy
“Ha, sky…”
“…………”
As I was looking down at Rumia, who had collapsed after acting unexpectedly, I began to hear a very familiar voice coming from in front of me.
“Sky…”
“…….?”
Because of this, I slightly raised my head, and a person I had never imagined meeting at this moment caught my eye.
“….Sea?”
“Yes, yes. It’s me… Ise…”
“Why are you… Here…?”
Lee Se-ah. My childhood friend. She is my friend next door who has been close to me since her childhood.
I don’t remember exactly when it started, but I was adopted from an orphanage when I was around 7 years old, so maybe it was from then?
‘No, for some reason, I think we’ve met a long time ago…’
Suddenly, such a thought occurred to her and a question mark appeared in her mind, but she thought it was a simple misunderstanding and ended the thought by scratching her head.
‘But why did that guy come?’
Then, the next moment, a feeling began to creep in, her mind turning white.
‘…What should I say?’
“Hey, over there…”
‘What should I do?’
I had no choice but to do that.
This was the first time I met Lee Se-ah again and the first time we saw each other so close.
Of course, I saw it vaguely last time when he was falsely accused and arrested for the murder of Justia.
That’s it.
It is truly the first time in several years that I see her again.
But why has it been so many years since I last saw her?
Se-Ah and I were quite close…
“Ah.”
As she pondered that question and thought for a moment, her hands began to shake.
“That’s right…”
Yes, there was no other reason why she hadn’t seen her for the past few years.
“Oh, it’s been a long time, Sky…”
“…………”
“Uh, can we… Talk for a moment…?”
She suddenly disappeared one day.
She promised to stay by my side forever, but by the time she graduated from second grade, she had completely disappeared from my side.
And by the time she reappeared…
“…Ugh.”
As I was idly reminiscing about the past, I suddenly began to feel nauseous.
“Eup…”
Thanks to that, Lumia covered her mouth and lowered her head, and she was stunned with a bright smiling expression in her eyes.
“Uuuh…”
I urgently pushed her to her side, knelt down on her floor and started making her gag.
“Gwae, are you okay…?”
Then, she looked at me and started walking forward slowly.
“…Ha.”
As I wipe my mouth and listen to the sound of her footsteps, a smile comes out of my mouth.
Of course, it was definitely not a smile made of happiness.
“You… What are you?”
“Uh, huh?”
“Why are you appearing in front of me now…?”
When I, who had been wiping the corner of her mouth with a dreamy expression on her face for a long time, asked that question in a low voice, her worried expression turned pale.
“I, I…”
“…Did you think I would like it if you showed up again?”
Of course, I had no intention of stopping what I wanted to say.
“When I wanted it that much, you ended up leaving my side… Why?”
“I…”
“Why did you do that…?”
With her voice cracking because of her
, I earnestly asked her the question that had always been her question.
“…………”
Even after a long time passed, there was no answer.
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“Why did you abandon me…?”
“……..”
“Why on earth…?”
Isea’s eyes, which were looking at the river sky that was asking her question with dark eyes towards her, began to shake quietly.
‘It’s strange…’
“Why is that so…?’
‘This is strange…’
In the future she had seen countless times, this scene had never happened before.
No, I saw a similar scene.
In fact, today’s incident should have been the starting point for her leaving her river Sky.
“Why… Aren’t you corrupted?”
“…What?”
Because of this, she stood blankly for a while and asked a question in a low voice towards the sky of her river.
“You, you… Should become the world’s nightmare through this incident.”
“…….?”
“You become a public figure to the whole world… Today… Why…?”
But her river sky just stared at her with an expression as if asking what on earth she was talking about.
“I understand, I don’t understand…”
“What on earth are you talking about…?”
“I don’t understand!!”
Ise-ah, whose expression showed even more panic, began to hold her head and raise her voice.
“When I was young… That dream that always came to me long before I even met you… Then what is it…?”
“…………”
“Do you know how sad I was when I realized that the monster in that dream was you…?”
What she said was true.
At a young age, before she even met Kang Ha-neul, Lee Se-ah always had nightmares of the world burning down.
Black tentacles covering the artificial island. In the middle of it all, something with an ugly smile that you can’t tell if it’s a monster or a person.
And then, those unpleasant and terrible black energies that soon turn the entire world upside down.
“What on earth are you saying…?”
“Se, you’re a monster that will destroy the world!!! You…!”
She had spent her childhood engulfed in fear by those unknown images, so she couldn’t understand them even more.
“But why…!”
Why did the future, which did not change no matter what I did, suddenly change overnight?
“Why…”
And now, she is seeing a future unfolding that is completely opposite to what she saw.
“…Huh?”
“hehehehe…”
She, helpless as she was, trailing off her words, found the concept of death sitting on the floor and letting out her harsh breath, and she began to walk backwards.
“Well, that child is the key… The key to the destruction of the world…”
“What on earth were you talking about earlier…?”
“Kang Ha-neul… You absorbed that child, right?”
At the words she said out of her mouth, Kang Haneul, who had an expression of incomprehension, was momentarily shocked.
“Lord, you cleverly used that child’s wish to die… To make him fall in love with you…”
“That’s…”
“And you’re going to eat it right here today…!?”
Of course, the Kang Haneul group and the concept of death who were standing behind her could not understand what she was talking about, so she just tilted her head.
“Well, that’s how it should be, right? That’s how it should proceed…?”
“……..”
“But why…? Why aren’t you corrupted…?”
As River Haneul’s complexion turned pale, she was the only one who could understand Ise-ah, who was spitting out her words as if she were gibbering.
“W-you have to slaughter the academy students before coming here too…? Right…?”
‘That strange dream…’
The story she was telling, which was terrifying to even imagine, was so vividly consistent with the dream she had had.
“How did you do that…”
“Right, right? You know that, right? You have a guess…!?”
Kang Ha-neul, who had been sweating for a long time, muttered in a low voice, and when she heard those words, she began to stagger forward.
“Ji, calm down.”
“Really…? How can I calm down…?”
Her expression was already out of her mind.
“I dedicated over ten years to somehow save you!!”
“What…”
“In order to somehow twist that future!! I gave you everything I could…!”
When she spits out her words in a trembling voice, Kang Ha-neul begins to mutter with a shocked expression.
“Then… The reason you were nice to me until then…”
“…Think about it. Every night I dream of you becoming something terrible and destroying the world. How do you think I would feel?”
“…………”
“Still, I didn’t give up on you! Well, I tried to take responsibility until the end…!!!”
He asks a question to his former childhood friend, who has turned his gaze to me with dark eyes.
“…Then why did you leave?”
“Well, that’s simple…”
Then, she continued speaking in a cold voice.
“As soon as I heard Lumia’s proposal… The future changed for the first time.”
“…What?”
“As Rumia said, the moment I decided to cooperate with her, even if just for a moment, her future image changed…!”
Kang Ha-neul’s complexion begins to become even paler.
“Even though it was only a few seconds… The future was definitely happy…”
“……..”
“Although it went back to normal a few seconds later, I left you to see that future again…!”
Then, Se-ah Lee approaches him with a pained expression and reaches out to him.
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“Me too, I had a hard time… It was so hard…!”
“Then you…”
“Ha.”
Suddenly, cold laughter begins to be heard among them.
“hahahaha, hahahaha…”
Ise-ah stops walking with a frightened look on her face as she hears a laugh so deadly that it sends shivers down her spine.
“Oh, I feel like crying…”
“……..”
“One tear duct is burned out, so I can only cry through the other tear duct…”
The source of that laughter was none other than Lumia, who was lying limp on the floor and momentarily losing consciousness.
“Let us speak clearly… Mr. Se-ah…”
“Don’t come near me…”
When she forced her body to sit up, Ise-ah began to tremble and walk backwards.
“You’re going to kill me… You… I know everything…”
“…Well, you still haven’t realized this?”
In such a situation, her Lumia opens her mouth towards her, who is turning away from herself with her calm expression.
“Your ability… Is not prophecy.”
And then the silence began.
“…What?”
In that silence, Se-ah Lee, who stopped walking backwards, asked a question with a blank expression.
“What do you mean…?”
“Your ability is not the ability to see the future…”
“So, what on earth is that!!”
“Please think about it… Mr. Se-ah…”
Then, Rumia distorted her expression and spat out words as if she were chewing.
“How can we observe the future, which changes in real time with even the smallest variables, so accurately and consistently every time…?”
“Well, then… What are the images I see? Well, they all really happened…!!”
Rumia, who was quietly glaring at Ise Ah, who had begun to make a dumbfounded expression at her words, sighed and continued her words.
“I guess that’s inevitable…”
The truth that eventually came out of Lumia’s mouth shocked everyone present.
“…Your ability is not to predict the future, but to fix the future.”
At that moment, the surrounding atmosphere began to turn cold.
“It’s because you wanted Kang Ha-neul, who was kind at best, to be the monster in your dreams that was tormenting you… That’s how things turned out, Mr. Lee Se-ah.”
“…What?”
“Of course, fixing the future does not mean you are omnipotent. Your ability simply provides a very simple motivation to induce the desired future. If you have the will, you can overcome it…”
In that silence, when Ise-ah asked again in a blank voice, she answered with a bright smile.
“But that doesn’t change the fact that you are one of the culprits of this sh*tty world view…”
After that, everyone fell silent and there was silence for a while.