I Became a Framed Villain chapter 173

173 – Sky Ridge (2)

“…Sky?”

Kang Maru, who had been standing in front of her with bewildered eyes for a while, looking at the sky, soon opens her mouth in a low voice.

“Really… Is that you?”

“…..”

“…No, it can’t be like that?”

But she soon burst out laughing and shook her head as if she thought it was funny.

“There’s no way you’d come back on a disgusting day like this where you’d be delusional even at the last moment…”

As Kang Maru muttered like that, her tearful face was filled with guilt.

“Let me ask you just one question.”

“……?”

“That simulation… What do you think was the difference between delusion and actual reality?”

Her river sky asks her questions in a low voice.

“Uh… Ah? Umm… Well, that’s right…”

Kang Maru, who was shaking her head with a fierce expression at those words, soon began to respond while looking at her Kang Hae-neul’s gaze.

“…I don’t think there was much difference.”

“Think carefully…”

“Uh, huh. Come to think of it, if I had to choose… Yes, there wasn’t one.”

“What?”

“Cow, whisper. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a whisper before.”

At her words, her river sky tilted her head, staring at her with her sharp eyes.

“In the old days, when I was looking at you, I kept feeling like someone was whispering in my ear… After that, her heart would beat fast… And then… Uh, so…”

“……”

“Well, I don’t really remember…? Uh, I don’t know why… I think I felt a bit hazy…”

Looking at his gaze, Kang Maru continues her story.

“…Ah.”

Then, she paused for a moment with an expression on her face that she suddenly realized something.

“There was one biggest difference…”

“…..”

“Why, why didn’t I notice…?”

“…What?”

She mumbled to herself for a moment with a confused expression, but then she slightly raised her gaze and opened her mouth in a trembling voice.

“Lu, the feelings I felt for Lumia… For some reason, I didn’t feel them at all.”

– Burr…

“Everything else was the same… I wonder why…”

“…Explain in detail.”

She gritted her teeth for a moment at those words, clenched her hands tightly and trembled, and then Kang Haneul, in her cracking voice, demanded an explanation from her.

“B-but… What’s the use of it all?”

“……..”

“That’s a delusion created by my rationalization, and the person in front of you is also a delusion created by me anyway…”

However, Kang Maru, who lowered her head, shook her head and muttered with a dark expression.

“If I tell you my wishes now… It will only make me hate myself more.”

“…….”

“So, let’s stop now… Prepare your mind…”

“…Please, please.”

However, as she mumbled with desperation in her eyes and was about to quietly close her eyes, she blinked and raised her head when she heard a crying sound coming from in front of her.

“Please… Tell me in detail… Sister…”

She was making such a request in a tearful voice, holding back the tears that threatened to burst out from the river sky that was standing in front of her.

“…I didn’t feel any special feelings for Rumia.”

She stared at him blankly for a while, and then Kang Maru began to answer his request in a low voice.

“When I first met him, I thought he was just a cute kid… I even thought it was annoying because he kept approaching me…”

“……..”

“Why? In reality, just seeing him made me feel at peace…”

Cold sweat begins to trickle down from her forehead.

“I even thought that I could sacrifice everything and be faithful for the rest of my life…”

“…….”

“…No, if you think about it, it’s probably natural.”

But she soon smiled bitterly and shook her head.

“Because I hated you back then.”

“…….”

“But Sky, the monster wasn’t actually you, it was me.”

She begins her confession in a trembling voice to the river sky that stands before her, struggling to maintain her composure.

“It was actually me, not you, who was adopted from the orphanage.”

“…What?”

“The monster who ate my benefactors, my adoptive parents, despite not being related by blood… Was none other than me…”

At those words, Kang Ha-neul asked back with a pale complexion, but Kang Maru just continued the story in silence.

“Now, let’s end it.”

“Wait a minute, what do you mean…”

“…Even if I can’t take back the fate that was taken from you, I want to die while at least being of help to you.”

As she said that, she paused for a moment as if her neck was hanging.

“You know, this is just a guess… Are you like my subconscious?”

“……”

“Because I have had an extremely strong desire for survival since long ago… It probably shows up in my subconscious and is preventing me from making a decision even in situations like this. Isn’t that right?”

Then, she stretched out her hand forward and carefully grasped the hand of her river sky.

“So, I’m asking you a favor… Now plunge me back into the darkness…”

“…….”

“Only then can I be of help to Haneul in reality…”

And then, Kang Maru begins to ask for a favor in a trembling voice.

“Please give up on me like this…”

“Then, sister…”

“I’m not the problem. If I don’t have this opportunity, I’ll never be able to deal with Ise-ah.”

When Kang Ha-neul looks at her with hesitation, she urgently begins to persuade her.

“Huh, the red-haired girl? She’s faced him countless times, but most of the time, she’s no match for him…”

“……..”

“I-I… Of course I don’t remember much because I got caught up… But I think this might be the first and last time…”

“…So?”

“So, I need to use this opportunity to… Make it clear.”

Then, Kang Ha-neul’s expression becomes increasingly stiff.

“According to my command, Ise-ah’s breathing, thinking, and heartbeat have all stopped…”

“……..”

“It seems like he’s trying to make me cancel the command myself by creating this strange space right before I stop thinking… But that won’t work.”

But Kang Maru, who had not yet noticed it, continued speaking with her pale complexion.

“So… It feels a bit weird to ask my subconscious to do this…”

“……..”

“…Kill me like this, Sky.”

“…….!”

“I don’t know why, but… I think you could kill me right now. I think you have the qualifications to do so.”

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Her river sky eyes, which were looking down at her, began to shake violently at her words.

“Let me not be enveloped in this fake darkness, but in the real darkness that will last forever…”

“That… That’s true, but…”

“If I don’t give in to temptation, no matter how proud Ise-ah is, she will turn into a cold corpse in a few minutes… Come on…!”

“…But!”

Then, in the end, Kang Ha-neul holds her hands tightly and raises her voice.

“If you were so determined… What is that expression you’re making right now?”

“…Huh?”

“Actually, you weren’t prepared at all, right?”

He passionately asks a question, pointing to Kang Maru’s face, which is pale and filled with fear, with his hand.

“In the end, you don’t want to die, you want to live, right?”

“That’s…”

Kang Maru trembles for a moment to that sharp question and then closes his eyes to answer.

“…Yes, that’s right.”

Her breathing, which had been quite rough due to being so frightened, gradually began to become softer from then on.

“Selfishly, even at this moment, I am filled with the desire to live. I want to cancel orders and everything, and run away from this place…”

“Then…”

“…But I can’t do that anymore.”

Just like that, she continues her story with completely confident eyes that belie her words.

“I’ve been like that all along, and thanks to that, I’ve regretted it countless times.”

“……..”

“And, I don’t know if I’m qualified to say this, but… If there’s one thing I learned from that…”

At her next words, Kang Ha-neul’s eyes become blank for a moment.

“The reason people regret is so that they can learn from it and grow.”

“……..”

“And I don’t know if I’ve grown or not, but at least I can be sure of this.”

His older sister’s clear words echoed in his ears.

“…Now is the time to make a different choice.”

Kang Maru, who has completely shaken off her fear, sheds tears and asks Kang Hae-neul, who was staring at her blankly, her final favor.

“So, I’ll ask you one last favor.”

“…….”

“If it’s too late, I’ll be dragged into this false darkness. Then I’ll no longer have the means to stop Isea…”

Kang Ha-neul’s heartbeat began to beat faster than ever.

“…Finish me with your hands.”

“……..”

“This is my last request…”

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‘Kill your sister?’

To be honest, if it were a few months ago. No, it was a problem that I would not have worried about at all even a few days ago.

A choice to eliminate the culprit who has been harassing me and live the rest of my life in peace and a normal life, and a choice to save my older sister who has been abusing me for over 10 years.

If it were me in the past, I would have chosen the former unless I was attacked by some kind of power.

‘But…”

Of course, the story is different now.

I have already learned the truth about Se-Ah Lee’s abilities, and I have witnessed my older sister who always sacrificed herself for me, whether she lived or died in countless repeated simulations.

You can no longer make decisions without thinking like in the past.

‘But if this happens…’

And then, it started to bother me more than ever.

‘…What should I choose?’

If I am the one who swallowed Isea for a while, I can save my sister here.

But if that happens, Ise-ah, who was caught by her surprise attack, will be released, and then, as her older sister said, no one will be able to stop her.

And if things go that way, the relationships until now.

So, we can clearly see what kind of ending Dice, Pandora, Mystic Shine, Ariel, and innocent innocent ‘Death’ will all end up with.

– Purrr…

Then, is the choice I can make ultimately decided?

“Sky… Quickly…”

“…….”

“The darkness has already swallowed me half…”

In the end, do I have to sacrifice my sister who has just reached me?

– Sigh…

Thinking of that, I raised my hands with dark eyes and began to quietly walk forward.

“Ah…”

When my older sister saw that I was moving, she looked relieved and quietly closed her eyes, shedding tears.

“”…………””

In the silence that started like that, I reached out my trembling hand to my sister.

“…Did you say the reason you regret it is for growth?”

“…..?”

Soon, I mumbled and followed my older sister and closed my eyes.

“That’s a really good thing to say.”

Soon, he stretched his hand forward.

“…..Sky?”

For some reason, I felt like the words Ariel had spoken in a tired voice in passing before coming here rang in my ears.

“Why are you holding my hand…?”

“I’m going to make a different choice this time.”

“What?”

“…As someone said.”