“Hyukseo hyung.”
“I’m sorry. Negotiations seem to have broken down.”
I tried calling to catch him, but my cry didn’t reach him.
It is frustrating.
Because Hyukseo-hyung seems to have come to a conclusion long ago.
He couldn’t make a normal judgment because of his nervousness that his brother would die.
“Leave them roaming as they please. After all, Jeonma itself is a spirit body, so holding it as a hostage has no merit. Well, I don’t think you can do that because of your personality.”
Hyukseo hyung looked at his younger sister with sad eyes and started to get up.
Seeing this, Eun-hyun slowly put down the teacup.
“Just because the negotiation is broken, I won’t be willing to let you go.”
And when the tail started to rustle behind her like that, Hyukseo-hyung’s shadow followed.
“I can’t go because you don’t let me go.”
“Yeah, it’s just a matter of buying time. However.”
At that moment, a man outside the cafe window started walking towards me.
A black robe and waving white hair.
The moment he faced him with a wrinkled, middle-aged face, Hyukseo-hyung’s face was distorted.
“Cute, geez, you can’t even keep your manners.”
“It was Kang Ha-chan who negotiated with you, but I wasn’t. Of course we have to prepare.”
The person outside was none other than Geumgangho Gyedusik, who is called the hero of our country.
“Do you know that I have hated you for a long time?”
“Yes, I know.”
At the end of those words, Eunhyun’s nine tails unfolded, and everything around him was covered with a pitch black shadow.
As soon as I saw it, red lightning flashed around me.
“ … … My story is not over.”
Seeing my angry face, Hyukseo stopped.
The massive amount of aura that flowed out of my body was something that even Hyukseo-hyung couldn’t ignore.
At the same time, when I glared at Eun-hyun, she also averted her eyes with a slightly piercing expression.
From the beginning, she decided that the conversation between me and Hyukseo hyung would not take place.
“If it’s not over, what’s going to change?”
My eyes met with Hyukseo.
It was Hyukseo hyung who moved first in the crossed gaze.
Massive sparks bounced off.
But this is not a cafe.
There were other ordinary people too, so I couldn’t reach out with all my might.
As I looked at Hyukseo-hyung’s shadow, which I barely missed, I grinded my teeth.
“I’ll go.”
“… … Eun-hyun, this behavior also makes me angry.”
“I will be careful.”
Eun-hyun ran after him.
As I walked out of the cafe, behind the shadows flying over the building at great speed, Gye Du-shik was chasing after them, stepping on the wall of the building.
Behind him, Eun-hyeon was shooting huge silver bullets at the shadows, but the shadows swallowed those bullets and did not slow down in the slightest.
“… … Is your brother gone?”
At that moment, a voice came from behind.
As if awake, she leaned against the wall and looked up at the sky.
She looked like she had already given up trying to catch her brother on the old evening.
I already said that I had an argument with Hyukseo hyung, so I’m done.
“Sister Eva.”
“Sorry. Bream, you got our business involved. And Giraseong was doing that to the sea bream. It’s all my fault.”
“… … Eva noona was also working at Gira Castle.”
“Wait a minute. He came out almost right away because he was dirty, but the fact that he’s still doing that is really… … .”
Eva’s sister’s face darkened.
Then, after a long sigh, she raised her head and smiled softly.
“… … Sorry. Even if I can’t stop Kira-seong, I will stop you.”
Hearing that, the moment Eva sister was about to turn, I reached out and grabbed her wrist.
It was clear what she was trying to do.
“… … .”
I looked at her without a word.
she is a spirit
Even if she was originally a returnee, as long as she was a spirit, she would not be able to fully control her original power.
How can she stop Hyukseo-hyung like that?
The answer is simple.
If the cause is removed, Hyukseo hyung has no reason to move.
Her smile a while ago was a smile that put everything down.
She acted as if she had already given up her life from the beginning.
I was thinking that it would be enough to put down my life, which is not long anyway, and stop Hyukseo-hyung.
These damn twins were so caught up in their thoughts that they didn’t look around at all.
“… … bream.”
The twins were not twins, so even though they acted alike, they were very similar.
“Oppa and Kira-seong… … .”
“Just because my older sister and Hyukseo stopped, doesn’t mean that Kira-sung stops. Those children will eventually aim for Shiho in one way or another.”
Giraseong is aiming for Shiho.
They have a common purpose with Hyukseo hyung, but just because Hyukseo hyung is missing does not mean that the purpose of Giraseong is gone.
“But, I have no other way.”
Eva’s sister’s eyes fluttered.
Eva noona couldn’t have found a way until now.
I kept looking, searching and searching, but in the end I couldn’t find the answer, so I would have to put it down.
“Baeksan.”
So I called only one of the strongest people I know.
My eyes turned to Baeksan.
My friend, who always gave me answers, was looking at me silently.
“Only one.”
And Baeksan’s mouth opened.
“It is uncertain at this point, but there may be a way. Because there was a guy who was recorded in the Returnees Association.”
My mind has become extremely cold.
“tell me.”
“This is the guy I was looking for when you died. But in the end I couldn’t find it. are you okay It could be bullshit.”
“I do not care.”
It would have been nice if I could put these damn twins on either side of them and nagging them to their heart’s content.
“then.”
“Would you like Ha-chan to stop getting mad?”
At that moment, before Baeksan could speak, another voice came from behind.
The voice was so familiar to me that when I turned my gaze, there was Seolhyang walking this way.
She looked at me for a moment, then smiled, then came up to me and gently wrapped her hand around my hand.
“Sorry, I didn’t want it to happen like this.”
“… … Seolhyang knew the identities of you, Eva noona and Hyukseo hyung.”
“Yeah, a while ago.”
Seolhyang seems to have found out through investigation that Eva’s older sister was Hyukseo’s twin brother.
In fact, it is rather natural to find out if you dig into the back of your enemy, Hyukseo hyung.
And knowing that, I don’t know if she didn’t show up for this meeting.
Then she let go of my hand and stood in front of Eva sister.
Eva noona was also aware of Seolhyang.
“… … Iron-Blood Empress, long time no see.”
“Are you still calling me by my first name? Asura said to me, “Do you still call me by my first name?”
“We told each other not to call each other by our first names for nothing. It means don’t be attached to me, who is the deadline anyway.”
The two talked as if they knew each other.
He said that Hyukseo hyung was a member of the Returnees Association, so it must have been the same for her.
“Were you looking behind me?”
And when Eva noona asked, as if she had already noticed, Seolhyang nodded her head.
It was only natural that Hyukseo hyung would most likely appear next to Eva noona.
“I’m sorry my brother caused a nuisance.”
“Yeah, it’s a nuisance in many ways.”
Seolhyang, who answered with a quick ball, immediately looked back at me.
“So, let’s solve that nuisance.”
My eyes slowly started to widen at the word “us”.
Seolhyang must have known and watched this situation all along.
And what does it mean for her to appear here now?
A smile appeared on her face when she saw me.
And that smile was so wonderful that I almost felt possessed.
“Seolhyang.”
“Yeah, I found a way to fix it.”
My childhood friend’s declaration was the most believable in the world.
Baeksan and my eyes met.
He nodded.
The reaction was that the method he came up with was probably the same as Seolhyang’s method.
My childhood friend may be the most genius in the world.
“Did you find a solution?”
When Eva’s sister questioned, surprised, Seolhyang nodded her head.
“Ryeongju, I have found a way to save you.”
“how… … .”
“A way is not a way to find out.”
And Seolhyang looked back at me.
“But before that, Ha-chan, I need your help to save her.”
I nodded my head immediately.
“tell me.”
When she came here, I was aware to some extent that it had something to do with me.
When the Master Piece that Baeksan was talking about pointed to me, the flow of this event seemed to be the same.
Hearing my answer, Seolhyang immediately came up with something that I did not expect at all.
“Death, you have to convince him.”
That’s something I really didn’t expect at all.
4
dead heart.
Why did the name come from Seolhyang?
When both me and Eva noona looked at Seolhyang with doubts.
There was only one person who appeared late, scratching his cheek with a puzzled expression.
It was none other than Naek.
“Um, did you decide to do that?”
“Me?”
As Naek opened his mouth as if he knew something, everyone’s eyes turned towards him.
In that gaze, Naek stepped forward and looked towards Seolhyang.
“Chairman of the Association, it is bittersweet for me to use the stories I heard right away like this.”
“I have to write everything I can write.”
“Wait, am I the only one who doesn’t know what you’re talking about?”
Confused, I looked at Seolhyang and Naek in turn and asked, and the two looked at each other.
Those eyes seemed to have the meaning of who was going to explain it, and it was Naek who came out in the end.
“Uh, Domi, am I a returnee?”
“Uh, yes, yes.”
“I returned very recently.”
recent.
As soon as I heard those words, something came to my mind.
The period during which Naek was not connected to the game for quite a long time.
During that time, Naek was involved in a dimensional shift.
“I wonder if it’s the game you mentioned… … .”
“right. I’m a returnee from the game. Exactly from the world of modern fantasy virtual simulations.”
virtual simulation.
To be precise, I heard that a dimension with far more advanced scientific power than us has reached the singularity of science and is a virtual space that has been created innumerable and abandoned.
The most peculiar thing is that only the mind gets involved in the dimensional shift, and the body remains intact in this dimension.
That is why, in effect, the body goes into a state of housework, and I have heard that there are cases where the body often dies first because of these things.
“It was the Returnees Association that maintained my body while I was in that dimension.”
It seems that this is why Naek and Seolhyang are familiar.
In the first place, since Seol-hyang is the president of the World Returnees Association, most returnees will encounter Seol-hyang at least once, though.
“The problem is that I was a guy who lived alone without contacting anyone. This body has been left alone for a while.”
“It wasn’t a long-distance level.”
At that moment, Seolhyang clicked her tongue and added.
“Because when we found Naek, Eunha Lee, I had already stopped breathing once.”
My eyes turned round at Seolhyang’s mention of Naek’s real name, Eunha Lee.
Because that was the sound that Naek had died once.
But now Naek is alive and well.
Seolhyang’s story now seemed like a contradiction.
“… … Are you saying that the death of Naek is related to the resurrection of Naek?”
And I spit out what I had drawn from the conversation.
Perhaps I was right, Naek nodded instead.
“There was a time when my vision suddenly went completely black while I was roaming the other dimension. I was put like that in a black space, and suddenly a message came.”
“That was the death god.”
“right. The written message was asking me to wait for a while because I was going to heal myself. Right after that message, I saw my eyes again.”
I was lost in thought.
Juksim, who has been playing games with me all along.
According to Baeksan, my guild members deliberately gathered around me.
Rather, all of Jukshim’s unusual actions were understandable.
But did you bring the dead back to life?
It was impossible even for a saint who was a master of recovery magic.
Even Baeksan had her eyes wide open as if in absurdity.
“… … The guy I was looking for was so close?”
From Baeksan’s voice, there was a reaction that seemed to contain despair.
yes it is
If Baeksan had known the identity of Jukshim, he would have tried to save me first.
However, failing to do so was the same as saying that Baeksan could not find death in the end.
I don’t know what happened to Death’s mind at that point, but it must have been that she didn’t show up all the time.
To say that such a woman is now by my side, I had no choice but to collapse as Baeksan’s position.
‘Maybe in the first place, I and my death in the world line.’
Maybe we didn’t know each other like we do now.