201 – Jin Protagonist
“hehehe.”
“…….”
Lumia makes a shy confession of love and smiles shyly. No, it was the river sky that she stared blankly down at Narae for a long time.
“…Oh.”
As he embraces her trembling body, she opens her eyes wide and looks up at the sky over her river.
“Hugging is nice… But there’s something a bit off about hugging with this body.”
“……”
“It’s annoying because it feels like I’m having an affair with Lumia, but it still feels good, so it’s a strange feeling…”
Eventually, she muttered with her hazy eyes.
“You… You stay here.”
“…Huh?”
“From now on, I will move alone. You retreat with the group that will arrive soon. Understood?”
As her river Haneul whispers to her in an urgent voice, her expression darkens.
“…Sky, have you already forgotten?”
“What?”
“I was talking so much that my ears were covered in scabs…”
Eventually, she carefully held his hand and opened her mouth.
“You promised to kill me…”
“…….”
“Now is the time, heaven.”
After hearing her words, Kang Ha-neul freezes in the same position he was in while hugging Narae.
“Everything will end only if you kill me. You agreed, Sky.”
“……..”
“It looks like you don’t understand it… Well, the explanation wasn’t enough, right?”
As his eyes waver, she weakly leans her head against his chest and begins to mutter.
“…I no longer have the energy left to hold Lumia trapped inside.”
“Just for that reason…!”
“Listen to me. If the real Lumia is released like this… The situation will get even worse. She is no better than Isea’s puppet, and she is still affected by the reality fixation…”
Hearing those words, Kang Ha-neul’s eyes begin to waver.
“But…”
“There is another reason. Only when I die can the concept of death be fully awakened.”
“…What?”
“The current concept of death is an incomplete existence. Because I have fallen away, my soul is in an unstable state.”
“…….”
“To solve that, I have to be absorbed back into that child. The good thing is that since he’s right next to me, just killing me will reintegrate my soul.”
After hearing those words, Kang Ha-neul gritted his teeth for a long time and asked a question in a low voice.
“…Then what happens to you?”
“That…..”
At that question, Narae’s expression, which had been smiling faintly, hardened slightly.
“The concept of death will become complete, and old memories will be found again, right? The memories from the amusement park from the previous episode…”
“Don’t talk back.”
Soon, she muttered while trying to avoid Kang Ha-neul’s gaze, but his stern voice immediately reached Narae.
“I asked what happened to ‘yes’.”
At that sharp question, Narae’s eyes began to completely shake.
“The concept of death that you regained your memories of as death, is it the same person as ‘Narae’ or is it someone else?”
“…….”
“Just tell me that clearly.”
As soon as Kang Ha-neul finished speaking, silence began to fall in the building.
“I wouldn’t say it’s completely… The same.”
In that breathtaking silence, Lumia, who had been chewing her lips for a while and watching the river Haneul, soon opened her mouth.
“Perhaps… My soul will disappear completely, completely losing the power of death, or will reincarnate as it has done so far due to the weak remaining power. Perhaps for the last time. And… Only memories will remain in this world. “It will be conveyed to the concept of death.”
“…………”
“But even though I have memories of spending time with you, I won’t have any memories of being reincarnated. Of course, I also have memories from a different world with a different time axis than here…”
“That means… Then… You will die. In the end.”
“Still… That’s the best thing for you. Sky.”
Eventually, she continues her conversation with a trembling voice.
“And… You can’t really say he’s a different person, can you?”
“……..”
“Forgotten memories can be created in the future. Isn’t that right? Since you know neither Justia nor Narae… You can fill in my memories.”
She tried to put it all together, but the look in her river sky eyes was already slowly dying.
“And if you’re lucky enough to be reincarnated for the last time, you’re still alive, right? Of course, you’ll forget your memories again…”
“I said I didn’t like it twice. I said I didn’t like it twice…”
“Kang Haneul…”
“I hate it. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it…”
Her tears are flowing down from the eyes of the river sky, which mutters endlessly.
“…It’s raining from the sky.”
After watching her silently for a moment, she muttered something like that.
“Listen carefully, sky.”
She musters up what little strength she has left, holds on to the shoulders of her river Haneul, and begins to whisper in a low voice.
“No matter how much you hate it, there are things you must do.”
“…….”
“If you don’t make a decision now, how do you think things will work out?”
She looked more earnest than ever.
“The new relationships waiting down there… Your new lover waiting just upstairs… And the worlds where they can exist… All….”
“……”
“They’ll disappear. Even you. That’s what they want.”
Her words, spoken with all her sincerity, are conveyed to the river Haneul.
“So, I’m begging you. Please kill me.”
– Rattling…
“It may sound cruel, but I’m happier now than I’ve ever been…”
The next moment, Kang Ha-neul’s trembling hand slowly begins to move up Narae’s neck.
“That’s right, sky.”
“Uh, uh…”
“That’s it…”
As his trembling hand wraps around her neck, Narae holds Kang Ha-neul’s arm with her hand with a tearful smile.
“Please do it all at once. Although I said it in a cheerful way… I’m also a little scared. hahahaha…”
Her trembling is transmitted to him through Kang Ha-neul’s arms.
– Sigh…
And the next moment.
“…Oh my.”
When Kang Ha-neul suddenly lowered her head and kissed her lips, Narae, who had a dazed expression for a moment, began muttering in a tearful voice.
“If I do this… I’m going to regret it…”
“…….”
“Still… My last wish came true… So I might have been satisfied.”
A few seconds later.
– Wow…
“Ugh.”
As she requested, the expression on Kang Ha-neul’s face was as she began to apply all her strength to Narae’s neck.
“Ugh… Ugh…”
It was so distorted that it was difficult to describe.
“…..Huh.”
Meanwhile, Narae smiled vaguely at him until the last moment when her brain stopped functioning.
Her eyes soon blurred, and her body, which had convulsed for a moment, fell limp to the floor.
“”……””
And then, a long silence began to flow.
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– Burr…
Kang Ha-neul, who had been sitting on top of Narae in a daze for a while, soon stood up, trembling.
“……”
And then, for a moment, he cooled down and looked down at her with eyes that had lost their shine.
– Turp, trudge…
He begins to walk towards the unconscious concept of death in the distance, leading his staggering body.
– Sigh…
But when he walked halfway, he suddenly started to feel a sign of presence behind him.
“……!”
Kang Ha-neul’s eyes, which looked back with an expressionless expression on his face, soon became round.
“What… Hey?”
“……..”
“Why…?”
This was because Narae, who had just strangled herself and closed her eyes, was somehow standing up from her seat just fine.
“…Sky.”
Thanks to this, when Kang Ha-neul’s thoughts stopped for a moment, a low voice flowed from her mouth.
“Um… So, this.”
She was quietly scratching her head with her body in such disarray that she had no idea how she was standing, but then she smiled brightly and began to walk forward.
“I guess I was lucky. Lumia’s soul inside died for me.”
“…….”
“That’s a good thing…”
She opened her arms and headed towards the embrace of her river, Sky.
“…Stop.”
Just before she embraces her river sky, his cold voice echoes through her room.
“Who are you?”
“Umm…”
Then, she scratched her head as if she was slightly disappointed.
“…I’m not fooled either.”
As she mumbles with a cold smile, her hands in the river sky begin to tremble.
“Did I say…? It was a good strategy. If I had done it, I would have died together with that guy.”
“……!”
“But… I don’t know why it’s overlooked like this.”
What was already in front of him was not the ‘Na-rae’ he had known for the past few months.
“I am the protagonist of this world!!!”
It was the ‘real Rumia’ that was sealed with her appearance.
“Whether it’s Lee Se-ah or the guy who’s manipulating that b*tch from behind! Whether it’s a possessed person who doesn’t know where she came from!! In the end, it’s just a tool to make me stand out!!!!!”
As she shouted with a creepy smile, her river Sky began to quietly stare at Lumia with her dead eyes.
“How… Are you still alive?”
“That’s because he’s the main character! There’s no way the main character could die like this, right?”
“…No, I get it roughly.”
And then, Kang Haneul realized that the corpse of the monster lying next to her was merging with her.
“It’s pitiful to see him believe that he is the main character… Even though he was used as a puppet until the very end.”
“What are you talking about? You don’t understand? We should start sooner than that.”
“But I’m not pitiful.”
“The final battle that will complete our narrative… Are you there? Sky?”
He glanced at her with a look of complete disdain in his eyes, and began to pass by, completely ignoring Rumia, who was muttering excitedly.
“Your destination is here, not upstairs!”
“……..”
“It has to end with me!!!”
Then, Lumia stretched out her arm to stop him.
“Because……”
However, her smile-filled expression suddenly cracks.
“…Huh?”
It was only then that she realized that her arm had grotesquely mutated.
“Why, why are you like this…?”
Thanks to this, Lumia looked at her body with a slightly embarrassed expression.
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“…Ah.”
That was the moment when she realized that a large part of her own body had already been eroded by the corpse of the monster lying next to her.
– Kugwagwagwagwagwagwang…!!!
A tremendous roar echoing from behind.
“Hey! Why are you so late!”
“Please. In this situation, acting alone is no different from poison… Huh?”
“…What is it?”
The group arrived after breaking through the wall, unable to wait for Kang Haneul, and their eyes widened when they saw the situation unfolding around them.
“How did this happen…”
“Lumia betrayed us.”
In that situation, Kang Ha-neul slightly turned his head towards them and opened his mouth in a cold voice.
“Just before we went up to the last floor, they attacked me, Ariel, and the concept of death.”
Then the eyes of the party all turn to Lumia, who is turning into a monster.
“And now, in a final struggle, it is transforming into a monster.”
Meanwhile, Kang Ha-neul lifted up the still unconscious Death Concept and walked up the stairs to the upper floor.
“…I’ll leave the rest to you.”
“Sky?”
“Please protect Ariel.”
“Where are you going?”
Rumia, whose body was shaking at the sound of his cold voice, tried to hold on to him once again.
“You have to fight me…”
Her body, more than half of which had already been eroded by monsters, had already lost free will.
“Because I am your main character…”
Nevertheless, she stretched out her hand forward with a pale expression, as if she couldn’t understand it.
“You are my…”
However, she soon lost her words and lowered her hands.
“My…”
Part of it was because her arm was already completely eroded, but the biggest reason was.
[Jin main character]
“It has to be a villain…?”
This was because the phrase floating above Kang Ha-neul’s head had suddenly changed.
“Tsk, I knew it would be like that.”
“I feel bad about attacking academy students…”
“It’s okay. He was a shady guy from the beginning.”
“Ah, senior. If that’s what you said…”
In such a situation, Rumia was frozen in her seat, blankly listening to the gossip coming from behind her.
[Fake protagonist]
“Ah…”
At that moment, she had just read the phrase above her head, reflected on a piece of glass that had fallen in front of her.
– Kugwagwagwagwa…!
The attacks of her companions all began rushing towards her.
“…Is it a nightmare?”
It was when Rumia realized that it was not a nightmare but a terrible reality that her own body, which had been reduced to a mid-boss, began to attack the Jin protagonist’s companions.
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Meanwhile, at that time.
“Noaaa!!!”
‘…Huh?’
The concept of death, which had been carried on River Haneul’s back, suddenly opened its eyes at the sound of Lumia’s scream coming from behind her.
‘What is it?’
“It can’t be like this… It can’t be like this…”
‘Why do I remember…’
Surprisingly, she opened her eyes as Narae rather than the usual concept of death.
“This can’t be happening…!!!”
‘…Your memories are still the same?’
It was a very short delay, given by the time her soul merged with the concept of death.
‘Well, should I just stay still until the fusion is complete?’
“…I will definitely avenge you, Narae.”
‘…I think it’ll be awkward if I talk to you for no reason, huh.’