164 – Realization of the prophetic future
“Hey…?”
“……..”
“Sky?”
Ise-ah, who was staring blankly at the river sky that turned its back on her, opens her mouth in a trembling voice.
“Uh, where are you going…?”
“…….”
“Joe, please listen to me a little longer. I still have something I want to explain…”
However, Kang Ha-neul is already on the verge of joining their group.
“…Wait!”
Ise-ah, who was looking at that scene in cold sweat, soon opened her mouth and shouted in a hurry.
“If you go now, there’s no turning back!”
“……?”
“Well, there must be some misunderstanding. Isn’t that right, Sky?”
She finally stopped her steps at those words, and Kang Haneul turned her head towards her again with dark eyes.
“Misunderstanding…?”
“I, I… I sacrificed my life for you!”
He muttered in a low voice, but Ise-ah could not hear that eerie voice and continued talking.
“I never left your side for a moment, and there was never a moment when I didn’t like you!”
“…………”
“Don’t you remember? Before you entered the academy, you always followed me around in middle school…?”
Then Kang Haneul closed her mouth and quietly began to listen to Lee Se-ah’s words.
“I was always there for you. I was the one who was next to you as you were falling apart day by day…?”
“…….”
“My, the reason I went to Lumia was ultimately because of you. I did it to somehow prevent you from becoming like that…!”
She raised her voice with her cracked voice, but her river Sky just looked at her with her expressionless face.
“You, you… Do you really believe what that guy says?”
Then she shook her hands for a moment and then asked a question in her low voice.
“I-I’m not talking about me, but that guy…?”
“……”
“Well, if you think about it, there’s no evidence, right? Anyone can say that. It’s not like we can prove it right away…”
Her eyes begin to grow colder.
“Yes, that’s right! It must have been a lie that she made up to separate you and us!!”
“Oh my, I guess you knew I was a girl…”
“That’s right! You lied about your gender in the first place!!!”
The moment Rumia slightly interjects with her words, Ise-ah begins to scream, her eyes flashing.
“No, you didn’t just lie about your gender. If you think about it, you were full of lies!”
“For example?”
“I know… You were the one who broke up Kang Ha-neul with Kang Maru, and it was you who said Kang Ha-neul killed Himari’s parents!?”
Her body begins to tremble.
“But…”
“Well, please don’t say that I followed you even though you knew that? It was only recently that I found out… I just thought you were the real savior and gave my strength!!”
“…….”
“Kang Maru, Himari. Those women left because they hated Kang Ha Neul. But I am different. I have never changed my feelings about liking Haneul!!!”
And then the silence began.
“…Ha.”
In that silence, Lumia’s expression, who was being supported by Kang Ha-neul, was completely distorted.
“Yeah, right. I think I understand now…”
“…..?”
“This is all… A plan by you to kidnap Haneul, right?”
Ise-ah looks at her with her lifelike eyes and begins to move towards her.
“You’ve liked Kang Ha-neul since you were a child, right? I checked and found out that you went to the same orphanage as Haneul… Did you like him from there?”
“…What?”
“I knew that. You’ve been planning it thoroughly since then, right? You dirty b*tch…”
Her frightened appearance from earlier disappeared completely, and she began to approach her with her horrified expression on her face.
“I will kill you. I will kill you…”
“……..”
“Who are you, polluting my sky… Sky was mine from the beginning… He was always my sky…!”
Due to the tremendous force, cold sweat was rolling down not only from Kang Ha-neul’s group but also from Lumia’s forehead.
“I could have just done a little more, but why did an idiot like you get in the way…?”
Ise-ah started walking forward with great strides, but suddenly stopped and trailed off.
“…Sigh.”
Eventually, her complexion became slightly pale, and she urgently covered her mouth.
“”……..””
And then the silence began.
“Hey… I’m asking just in case.”
In that silence, Rumia, who had not been overwhelmed by her momentum, asked a question to Isea with a curious look.
“You… You didn’t exactly understand the abilities you possessed, did you?”
Then, a cold atmosphere descended around the area.
“…What are you talking about?”
In that suffocating atmosphere, Se-Ah Lee asks with an oddly calm expression.
“My ability is foresight. That ridiculous ability to fix the future is just your claim, right?”
“Hey, Mr. Dice.”
But Rumia ignores her words and asks Dice, who was standing next to her, a question.
“You’ve done that countless times, so I think you know.”
“…I don’t know.”
“Yes?”
Then Dice, who was standing still, whispers in a low voice.
“Because the point of my return was always after Ise-ah was killed by Kang Ha-neul.”
“……..”
“Actually, this is the first time in the world line that that woman has been alive up to this point…?”
“…I see.”
At that time, Rumia turned her gaze away as if she felt regretful at those words.
“But now that I think about it, there’s something strange.”
Dice suddenly opens his mouth in a low voice.
“Now that I think about it, right after I rescued Kang Ha-neul in this world… Have you seen the future using an ability presumed to be the ‘concept of foresight’?”
“The concept of foresight… You mean?”
“I can store the copied abilities in the form of a card. And the owner’s information is also engraved on the card, so I can remember it all.”
Her voice starts to tremble slightly.
“The way to do that is to touch the card to a living opponent. That way, even though it is only one-time use, you can still use the ability.”
“…So?”
“Anyway, at the time, I thought it was Se-Ah’s ability and used it…”
That was the time when Kang Ha-neul’s group’s heads were slightly tilted due to that inexplicable anxiety.
“…When I think about it, I’ve never met Ise-ah when she was alive.”
A cold remark coming out of Dice’s mouth.
“I’m so stupid that I can’t even remember the owner of the ability, but I’m sure of this one thing.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes, because my return point is the day after Kang Ha-neul murdered Isea and was arrested… For some reason, this time he was arrested on charges of murdering Justia…”
“Now that I think about it… In the manga, in the game, and even in the novel… Kangmaru and Himari were different depending on the version, but there was never a time when Ise-ah was alive.”
After agreeing with those words, Lumia’s gaze returns to Isea, who was standing quietly in front of her.
“Anyway, the important thing is, as I said before, I can only replicate the abilities of living people…”
“…….”
“…Then I must have never copied Isea’s abilities.”
Dice’s absent-minded voice echoes around in such a situation.
“But how did I have Isea’s abilities…?”
“What are you two talking about now…?”
At that point when the atmosphere became even more creepy, Ise-ah, who had maintained a blank expression, quietly tilted her head and asked a question.
“I don’t really understand…”
“”…………””
“Sky, aren’t you too?”
And then, Lee Se-ah looks at Kang Ha-neul, who was standing there blankly, and smiles.
“You don’t really know what that means, do you?”
“You…”
“I can’t do this, Sky. Come here.”
She begins to move her steps forward again.
“What are you?”
Dice asks Ise-ah a question in a voice that turns pale.
“You are killed by Kang Ha-neul in every world line. Because of that, Kang Ha-neul is arrested.”
“……..”
“But how can I, who returns from that point in time, retain your abilities? It’s impossible unless you were actually alive and transformed into a different being…?”
The longer she speaks, the more Lee Se-ah’s eyes begin to become insensitive.
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“And this isn’t the only strange thing.”
“Sky, cover your ears.”
“When I used your ability, at first I thought it was simply an ability to predict the future.”
“Kang Ha-neul. Don’t listen.”
“But I clearly remember it clearly.”
As Ise-ah started to walk faster, she urgently started talking to Dice.
“It was just through my imagination that the perspective changed from the scene of the incident where Kang Ha-neul was dying to the scene where Kang Maru realized the truth.”
“Don’t listen!!!”
“Because I didn’t know much at the time, I thought the perspective of the future had changed. But that wasn’t the case.”
Now it was Se-Ah who was yelling, but Kang Ha-Neul’s gaze, which had a blank expression on her face, was turned to Dice.
“Now that I think about it again, it’s something I’ve always dreamed of happening to Kang Maru.”
“……..”
“It is almost certain that after that, the ability was rapidly depleted and the time limit eventually expired. That future was artificially created by my wishes.”
Dice faced him and continued speaking with a pale complexion.
“…But if that’s how Isea uses her abilities.”
“…………”
“Shouldn’t she have realized a long time ago that she can create the future she wants just by imagining it?”
The two eyes turn to Ise-ah, who has come right in front of them.
“She can’t help it if what she unconsciously imagined is forcibly fixed in the future. Isn’t it a bit difficult to hold her responsible for that…?”
“……..”
“But, as I experienced, if her ability is to create the future she wants through ‘her own clear will’ in a lucid dream-like simulation…”
That time when the eyes of those two quietly trembled.
“Was it you who interfered with my abilities?”
A dry voice came out from the mouth of Isea, who was standing in front of them.
“Somehow.”
“…………”
“I haven’t been able to control my abilities well lately, so I did something.”
Ise-ah, whose mood was now completely different from before, began muttering with an expressionless face in front of Kang Ha-neul and the others.
“I thought there was another person with abilities like me among you…”
And then, a deep silence began to flow.
“It was just because of the regression ability.”
“”……””
“…I thought I was going to lose Haneul like this. I’m glad.”
In that silence, she was just muttering as if Isea was relieved to see her face had completely changed.