194 – Final Battle (5)
“Ugh, ugh…!”
After the perspective changed again, Ise-ah and I were busy running through the hallways of the laboratory.
“Um, what is that…!”
“…………”
Frightening-looking monsters were following behind us.
Looking closely, it looked like a hideous demonic beast.
‘…What is it?’
But the important thing was that it was no longer Hart’s point of view.
Because the image of Se-Ah and I being chased by monsters was not shown on a monitor, but was shown in real time from my young perspective.
“Grrr…”
“Save me…!”
“…Sky, it’s here.”
As I was momentarily confused by such an unexpected situation, Lee Se-ah, who was in front of me, changed my route in a low voice.
For some reason, the voice seemed so calm, but perhaps because the situation was so urgent, I, as a child, did not realize it.
Well, if you think about it, it was strange that Ise-ah knew the structure of this laboratory.
“Haa… Haa…”
“……..”
Anyway, following Lee Se-ah’s guidance, I entered the quiet part of the laboratory, bowed down, and began to catch my breath.
“Grrr…”
From Noble mtl dot com
“Oh, no…”
After spotting a group of demonic beasts approaching from afar, my legs soon gave out and I collapsed.
“…Sky.”
And the next moment, Lee Se-ah’s calm yet somewhat cool voice began to sound in my ears.
“Do you have a lab card here?”
“Uh, huh?”
“That’s the access card I brought earlier… Let’s use it and let’s go to the other side.”
“Yeah, but…!”
After hearing her point out the locked door blocking us and the card terminal next to it, I tremble and open my mouth.
“Well, that… You brought it without your parents’ knowledge, right? Yes, you said it would only be for a short time… So I decided to only use it at the entrance…”
“But if we don’t use it now, will we be in danger?”
“…….!”
“You could be torn apart by those monsters…”
But immediately, Ise-ah’s dark voice was heard.
“That’s so… Extreme…”
“Gr…?”
For some reason, the demonic beasts running from behind were no longer running but were faltering, but they were hidden behind Ise-ah and could not be seen.
“hehehehe…”
In fact, the fact that their cries were getting closer and closer made me start to tremble in fear even more.
“Use that card quickly, Sky.”
“Ugh, wow…”
“You can do it, Sky.”
Meanwhile, when Lee Se-ah raised her head and whispered in an even colder voice, I was overcome by a sudden panic.
– Swish…!
“…..?”
Suddenly, with a determined expression on his face, he got up from his seat, sent Se-Ah behind her, and stood in front of her.
“Bah, take it!”
Then, I took the card out of my arms with trembling hands.
“Take that… And run away!”
“…….?”
“Hey, I’ll stop this place!!”
She spread her arms wide and shouted in a trembling voice.
“…Oh, sky.”
Then Se-ah Lee, who narrowed her eyes and looked at me, soon smiled and muttered.
“Awesome…”
Soon, he gently accepted the card I held out and started walking in the opposite direction with a creepy smile on his face.
“…Kill gently.”
“That’s right.”
He whispered to the demon beasts in front in a voice so low that I, who was sick of fear, couldn’t hear him.
“”…………””
And then a short silence began.
“Well, purr…”
“Go away!”
I, who was sweating profusely in that silence, swung my arms around and shouted at the demonic beasts who were lowering their posture and baring their teeth.
– Flinch…
Then the guys flinched for a moment, and their eyes went blank for a moment.
Looking at that, it seems like my abilities have been latent since I was young.
“Je, Jebaal… Please…”
“…….”
“Please… Please go back…”
But the younger me, who didn’t know anything about it, said that in a voice that was on the verge of crying and ended up collapsing on the floor.
“That, that.”
“Gr?”
In such a situation, it was the exact moment when the two demons looked at each other with slightly fierce expressions.
– Grant administrator privileges. Stop the equipment.
“…Oh?”
Suddenly, such an announcement rang throughout the laboratory.
– Jiying…
– Clang, clank…
“W-what…”
Soon, I looked around with a frightened expression as the sounds of machinery and metal clashing began to echo from all directions.
“Grrr…”
“……..!”
As the cries of the demonic beasts began to echo from all directions, I froze for a moment, even forgetting to breathe.
“Gr?”
“Ah.”
The next moment, young me heard the cries of a demonic beast right behind me.
– Shake it off…
I immediately lost consciousness and fell to the floor.
– Turp, trudge…
“…………”
Just before I lost consciousness, the last thing I heard was the sound of someone’s footsteps behind me, walking at a different pace than Se-ah Lee.
.
.
.
.
.
How much time has passed?
“Ugh…”
“Hello?”
“…Huh?”
When I opened my eyes again, what I saw in front of me was a beautiful girl with long white hair.
‘…As expected.’
Of course, I didn’t know then, but I know now.
That girl with red, beautiful, yet somewhat creepy eyes.
It was definitely Lumia, one of the people who ruined my life.
“It’s been a while?”
I’m internally grinding my teeth because of this, and something stupid comes out of her mouth.
What do you mean, it’s been a while?
At this point, several more years must have passed since I met that woman.
There is no way I know her, much less at the point where she hasn’t even met her sister yet.
“Who are you?”
Sure enough, I blinked and asked the question, so I thought it would be concluded that it was Lumia’s one-sided misunderstanding.
“Don’t you remember me?”
“……Yes?”
“We grew up in the same orphanage.”
After listening to Rumia’s next words, the young me, for some reason, began to say that with her tearful eyes.
“Lu, Rumi?”
“…You remembered it too?”
At that point, I could only freeze inwardly, in shock.
“Rumi!!!!!”
“Huh… Sky is still crying a lot.”
Because.
“…Even when you left me for adoption, you cried that much.”
“Yeah, but… That’s…”
“How are your new parents? They’re both scientists and heroes, so they’re living well, right?”
It was because the identity of the benefactor who had the greatest influence on my life before Justia was only now beginning to emerge.
“…If you don’t, I’ll kill you like last time.”
“Well, don’t say that…”
“Fuha. It’s a joke, a joke…”
Because of this, I froze at a loss for words, but the point of view of my younger self began to move on.
“Well, but… Those monsters from earlier…”
“Demon beasts? I killed them all.”
“…What?”
“It was trying to eat Haneul, so I tore it all to pieces.”
After saying that, Lumia whispers while showing the corpses of the demonic beasts lying around.
“I’m the main character of the world, so I’m strong?”
“Lu, Rumi….”
Then, as if the tension had finally eased, my little self began to cry as she was held in the arms of little Rumia.
“…By the way, you came to save me as expected.”
“Sniff, slurp… Huh?”
“Didn’t you crash all of the lab’s systems?”
“My, I…?”
Lumia suddenly asks me a question with a dark smile.
“Hey, there’s no way I, a weak person, could do something like that…?”
But as a child, I shook my head and denied it.
“…What are you talking about, Sky?”
Then Rumia, who was patting my back, started muttering with a straight face on her face.
“You are essential to me, the main character…”
“Uh, huh?”
“…We are bound by fate, I have said so since long ago.”
For some reason, her eyes were focused on the sky a little away from my head.
Perhaps she was using her ability to see fate to see the words ‘Final Boss’ floating above my head.
“Did you forget…?”
“…Well, that.”
Anyway, in such a situation, Lumia smiled again and asked a question as if she had never had a straight face.
“So…”
“Shh…”
But the moment I was about to tell her what to say, she covered my mouth and started looking beyond.
“…Let’s hide for now.”
“Uh, where…?”
Then, Rumia suddenly lowered her voice and started whispering.
“…It would be nice inside.”
“Now, this is a joke…?”
The place she pointed to was none other than the corpse of a dead demon beast.
“How can I get to a place like that…”
– Wow…
“Ugh, ugh… Ugh.”
I, who opposed that opinion with her pale face, was soon dragged inside by Lumia, holding her arm.
“”…….””
Soon, silence began to fall in the hallway.
.
.
.
From Noble mtl dot com
.
.
How much time has passed?
“…Hmm.”
The familiar voice of the concept of humility began to be heard next to us hidden in the corpse.
“Ah, Albert… I’m so sorry…”
“There is no shame in it.”
I was listening to that voice blankly, and then I was truly shocked when I heard the voice echoing through the hallway.
‘Mom…? Dad….?’
The ones pleading in a terrified voice to the concept of humility were none other than my parents.
“Not only did we lose all the test subjects, including the concept of death, but all of our research materials were lost as well.”
“Kuuuch…!”
“But why should I keep you alive?”
“Well, the research on the Knight of Conquest is almost over!! I found a test subject that is better than the test subject I’m currently researching at another orphanage!!”
“Well, I mean… Just give me a little more time…!”
As their conversation continued, my mind turned completely white.
“Woah, wow…”
The young me, who was just as shocked as me and was mentally pushed to the limit due to being inside a corpse, eventually began to gag in a low voice.
“”…………””
At that moment, a cold silence began to flow in the quiet hallway.