26-2. Christmas carols rang out.
A boy in a wheelchair and wearing a red beanie. I remember this kid
“Suhyun is my older brother! He said he was discharged tomorrow! Congratulation!”
It hasn’t been long since I’ve been in the same hospital room, but like boys my age.
“One more round! This is invalid!”
Isn’t it easy to become friends if you have common interests like games?
“Euissing.. As expected, Suhyeon hyung is really good at games.”
Around the time when portable game consoles became fashionable and it was common for each household to have one.
It is a game featuring a character wearing a red hat who resembles a boy named Youngmin, and we became close.
“No bro! Aren’t you watching too much?! Do not do that!”
In addition, with a bright and hopeful personality, he was a celebrity in the hospital. Even the nurses and doctors.
“Youngmin, did you do well in physical therapy today? Chocolate here!”
“Wow! Thank you!”
Because there are many people who have been kind to me in this way.
“So, Suhyeon hyung. When I get out of the hospital, I’m going to eat hamburgers stuffed!”
“I really hope so. Youngmin.”
The words that came out automatically like tape was wrapped around them made my mouth feel dry and had a fishy iron taste.
“Because I can’t eat here because my health gets worse..! Bread from a hospital is tasteless….”
The words to run away or the sentence that there will be a fire soon got stuck at the end of my throat.
I wanted to spit out the truth. I wanted to protect the boy in front of me.
‘Is there any way to save this kid?’
When the fire broke out, I quickly escaped the building, guided by hospital officials.
“It’s Christmas tonight, so there must be curry. Brother! Excited!”
“Exciting. Broccoli is not good.”
Where was the boy named Youngmin?
A children’s ward with acrid black smoke billowing out.
Feeling uncomfortable without someone, I hurriedly looked around, but I couldn’t find a child in a wheelchair wearing a red beanie.
When I heard screams before firefighters or anyone else arrived, I ran back into the burning building alone.
“Brother. You look a bit more mature today!”
“…”
I couldn’t save this boy. Although he gritted his teeth and endured the severe burns on his face, he found it.
There were limits to what a child’s body could do. I didn’t even know where I was at the end.
If I had a sword now and my adult body, wouldn’t I have changed something?
‘..A cowardly excuse. Lee Soo-hyun.’
I thought I wouldn’t regret it now. Because in the end, I did the best I could.
I tried my best while going through the trauma, but I justified myself by saying that I was blocked by the wall of reality.
These are the words of a cowardly fugitive. In the end, the burn marks became a stigma, pointed at by people, and ate away at my own heart.
“The snow piled up tremendously. I want to make a big snowman when I go outside!”
I have to go through that scene again. Cold sweat broke out all over his body. Blood rushed through his head to devise the best possible solution.
‘Where did the fire come from?’
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Decades later, newspapers and news were searched, but the exact cause of the fire could not be found. The hospital didn’t even have sprinklers.
“Uh, Suhyeon hyung. Cry..? If you cry, Santa Claus won’t come! Oh my god!”
I wiped my eyes. Without a helmet, I could feel the smooth surface of my face. This is possible How about using sign language, braille, or a pen to convey information?
‘Damn it, my body doesn’t move as I please.’
All failed. I tried to blink her eyes and say SOS in Morse code, but
‘This doesn’t work either.’
It was impossible. After all, is it that I can’t do things that I wouldn’t have done in the past?
‘The past that cannot be changed… Then….’
I had to follow the past as much as possible, but I had to find a variable there. Even if it is a trauma, hope will surely exist.
“..Youngmin, are you going to watch the Christmas event today?”
“Yes! Of course!”
A Christmas event the night before at the hospital.
An adult dressed as Santa appears and takes out wrapped toys or sketchbooks from a gift bag.
The last memory right before the fate of the two of us changed into a terrible moment.
“Let’s go see it together.”
I decided that if I couldn’t change the past, I could at least do something here.
***
The place where he jumped in to save Licht, who couldn’t come to his senses due to the attack of the Apostle of Gluttony.
At first, she thought that Licht’s trauma was fighting a great enemy.
That’s because he was a strong man outside of the standard as a result of fighting himself.
But where is this now?
“Is this…?”
Fine Grancia could not hide her bewilderment at the sight around her.
Because her gray hair that fell down to her own waist, her golden irises and pure white wolf ears, were so foreign that they did not fit her place.
Most of the people around him have black hair and brown eyes like Licht,
“Mom! I want to eat tonkatsu!”
“Okay, let’s just take an X-ray and eat it. Yes?”
“hehehe, you must keep your promise!”
All were human. Like the people of the Grancia Empire, people with characteristics of other races could not be seen even after washing their eyes.
“When is the next surgery scheduled? Teacher?”
“Our hospital is closed on Christmas Day…. How about the end of January?”
“It’s okay. Please make a reservation.”
But no one recognized her or cared about her. A building with many children dressed in white and men and women who look like parents.
‘Is it like a treatment center….’
When she looked with her good eyes, she had a sore spot somewhere in people like one.
Fine had the idea that she was probably here when she hurt Licht too.
‘Winter. It’s completely winter outside.’
Similar to her own white gray hair, the snow piled up outside her window, the exact opposite situation from her academy, which had just been hot and early summer.
“..You really were a hero. Licht.”
I guessed that the man wearing the black knight helmet was a hero summoned from another world, but I didn’t know that he was from such a different place.
Isn’t it a world that has nothing to do with you? The tree with the twinkling stars right there was also strange, and the letters seen around it were unrecognizable.
‘The voice enlargement magic doesn’t work either.’
The magic didn’t even come out. I don’t know if it’s because there’s no mana in the air or because it’s a nightmare.
New things, new clothes, new people.
It was full of strange and mysterious things.
Actually, she was a princess who could feel fear. When a person suddenly lands in a place he has never seen before, can’t he feel like a lost child?
“Licht! Where are you!!”
But without even thinking about it, Fine started looking around her for Licht.
Here must have been an incident in which the man had no choice but to have a trauma. He continued to hear his concerns.
Perhaps because she was in his memory, she didn’t have her helmet or her glass armor surrounding her.
“Licht..!”
Fine moved confidently. Her shell, which was no longer her master piece covering her, was unnecessary.
A hero who came from a different world, so far away from himself, fights against the magic hat, giving his life for himself.
In addition to saving precious people from Head’s tricks, like Chartines and Nex,
She was saved by a man wearing a black knight helmet and gradually assimilated into him.
There was a time when a wounded wolf shared his pain and comforted him by giving him a hug.
‘We can overcome trauma together. So please show up.’
I felt nervous. My heart tightened like crazy and I felt uncomfortable. I hated the worry that something might happen here, the fear that a man named Richt would feel.
“Wow..!”
Unable to manage mana, she hurriedly ran and tripped and fell. Her face was slightly brushed.
A glass knight who has had a lot of mana all his life. It was the first time such a restriction was encountered.
‘..Richt also tried this way. Blood.’
Fighting spirit dwelled in Fine’s eyes as she got up immediately after touching the floor. Before she entered the academy, she herself was like an empty glass.
I thought that the cold world was transparent like a reflection on glass, so emotions were unnecessary.
‘If I don’t find Licht quickly, he’ll have a harder time.’
When she was young, when Magic Hat broke into her imperial palace, took her mother, and killed her maids, she regretted that she hadn’t done anything.
She has always lived with a burden of guilt. She judged wrongly that she was meaningless unless she was strong.
‘If Richt hadn’t told me to hold my breath, I would have been hurt too…’
She may have been trapped in a trauma and tasted a terrible sight. He could have held his breath on his own, but he was always a dark knight who cared for others rather than himself.
‘He came to help Nex and Char, and came to protect us.’
Now, with Licht’s help, I can finally breathe. I don’t know how grateful she felt for comforting her that she wasn’t to blame.
After falling once and regaining his composure, the image of the black knight, who had been burned and was afraid of fire, flickered in his eyes.
‘Fire, is the problem fire? .’
What had been told before in the festival booth, that she heard her screams as a child and went back in and got hurt, flashed through her mind.
If there was a fire in this place that burned him and left him traumatized, that would make sense.
A person who was afraid of human touch, like an injured puppy.
‘I need to find… the younger version of Licht.’
To save him, a pure white girl was running around a hospital.