26-4. Christmas carols rang out.
***
Hospitals become quiet at night as the chill settles down.
‘Finally, the time has come. Lee Soo-hyun.’
I sneaked out of the hospital room and ran. In the end, someone had to sacrifice.
A white hallway, a pure white ceiling. Through the twilight-covered ramp,
“This is the last Christmas of my life.”
We have arrived at the place to decorate the end. The place where I met Santa a little while ago with a boy named Youngmin. Great Auditorium.
I looked up at the big tree on the stage. A tree adorned with all kinds of colored light bulbs and topped with a huge sparkling star.
I can’t get out of this place. I already know it with my head. I gripped the cold steel in my hand and re-engaged the lock.
I don’t know why a boy named Youngmin was here in the past.
“Because you don’t know. Keep the door locked….”
Perhaps I wanted to see Santa one more time, or maybe I waited in this place to really see Rudolph, like a lie I made up.
I got goose bumps when I saw that the door was open. It would have been fine if it had been properly locked.
Fate seems light, but someday it comes to people in such a cruel form.
And most of them are victims.
‘It’s just people who aren’t ready to accept it.’
But if it would take the life of that tiny little child,
Wouldn’t it be better to take the life of a coward who was willing to give up at least once?
Youngmin couldn’t even eat the hamburger he wanted to eat, and he couldn’t even play with the newly gifted combined robot.
“…”
If I can sacrifice my life to keep my child’s smile and happiness, that’s a pretty cheap price.
The guilt of not being able to save someone was great. If I hadn’t known the saintess, I would have felt like living in muddy water all the time.
“It’s a bit chilly. Maybe it’s because the weather is winter.”
That’s also the reason I gave Mardol Grancia comfort that couldn’t be reached.
Even if I apologized to her now, it was her cowardly excuse, and it was a mistake for not recognizing her wounds.
What could she do in her childhood against the demon lord Magic Hat? It’s weird that it happens in the first place.
Whether it’s the lineage of the Wolf King or the descendant of the Ten Greats, everyone has their weaknesses.
The heartless reality of not being able to do anything. I must have felt guilty and lamented at my powerlessness.
In fact, it may be cheap sympathy. Even more so, it may be that I sympathize with her by forcing myself to fit in while not knowing her circumstances.
‘That’s ugly. Lee Soo-hyun.’
Still, it didn’t matter. Because deep wounds, like my burn marks, if they are not taken out and treated in time, they will only fester and fester.
People can depend on people. Because I learned it through the nameless saint.
I wanted to fill the empty heart like Mardol’s glass. You can curse at him for being an obvious and common hypocrite.
‘..I didn’t know it would end like this.’
I slumped down next to the Christmas tree. The fresh outside air tangled her hair.
Her small hand caught my eye. When I was first possessed in the game, my body was similarly small. Thinking about it now, a lot happened.
“Met Drunkard Dennis.”
I only saw As a game. 1 Main character.
A drunk man with blue hair and white eyes.
I knew he had a bad incident with the demon king.
Yeah, it’s because I formed a party with Dennis and fought Head at the end of the original story.
The Demon Lord of Battery comes prepared in advance by referring to the player’s save file.
For that reason, as a countermeasure, I informed Dennis of the three-dimensional magic circle in advance. I thought the academy would be attacked like today.
In games, it was common for an enemy to suddenly attack,
Because it’s a world where you don’t know what will happen. I had to do my best.
‘Master Baek Mokryeon…. It would be nice if this job ended well without me.’
An oriental dragon with brown hair and antlers.
A person who goes around in the form of a human woman by polymorphing,
My second teacher with a somewhat unconventional setting that a demon from another world was summoned as a hero.
She was a lover with Denis, but through her ignorance she was forgotten, leaving no trace of her in her world.
‘No, to be precise… It was ambiguous to find.’
Her demon lord’s authority was imperfect, and there were traces of the existence of the Heavenly Demon as the Ten Demons all over her, but only Dennis remembered her anxiously.
‘I still remember Dennis’ will in the bad ending.’
A male protagonist who couldn’t remember his lover’s name even when he was beaten to death by a head and barely yearned for the season of spring.
‘Looks like they’re still growing bokbokcho.’
From the beginning, the golden flower in the club room itself is a foreshadowing. A flower called Bokbokcho (福壽草).
It is very poisonous, so if you touch it unknowingly, you can be poisoned.
Just looking at the name, it seems to be revenge (復讐) to take revenge on a person.
‘..Actually, that’s not the case.’
In the character for blessing, the character for life is written. A plant that blooms in spring, just like magnolia, the name of the heavenly horse.
I remember reading in her setting book that Dennis had been given a gift from her in the past, so he carefully raised her poisonous weed by using her magic to reach her barrier.
‘The language of flowers is…. What was it?’
Yellow flowers blooming from snow.
It was a plant similar to the fate of Dennis, who had to overcome the hardships of winter to come to spring.
The couple is promised a happy ending if they manage to catch Head Ake. Even in her follow-up, Dennis only stayed by her side like a sunflower without any other routes to her.
“The heater doesn’t work either.”
Because I was wearing a thin hospital gown, the cold and still air of the hospital stung my lungs. I gathered the Santa suit next to me and covered it.
“Come to think of it, I also tried to increase the relationship between Kainel and Ariel.”
The main characters of the sequel .
These guys are childhood friends, but characters who can’t be honest with their feelings.
If you look at it somewhere, you can say that it has all the characteristics of the love comedy genre comics in 2000.
A hot-tempered tsundere girl, a popular guy with blond hair who doesn’t even notice.
‘Still, both of them have good personalities.’
Kinel and Ariel were also involved with the demon king. The reasons why he was chosen and despised as the Hero of Light, and why the forest of the World Tree was burned.
“..The Brave Bridge.”
If you look closely, it was because of the warriors who became demon kings.
If you have a holy sword, cut off the bud before it turns into a demonic sword. NPCs with radical thoughts were also common.
“The real axis of evil. If you think about it this way.”
I believe that being a hero is a title given to those who act appropriately. Being chosen by the goddess, and being heard by the holy sword.
‘It is not proof that qualifications are sufficient.’
A traditionally, a hero is a hero who runs to save people when everyone else is running away.
It’s a bit cheesy to say, but he’s been thinking about it like that all along. A smile formed on the corners of his lips.
I couldn’t protect it last time because I didn’t know, but I did it this time. He reached out his hand and touched his smooth face, recalling his old memories.
The scar on my face is a wound caused by being swept away by the flames caused by the backdraft phenomenon.
The hospital heard the scream and ran back into it. As soon as I grabbed a doorknob and turned it while looking for Youngmin who couldn’t get out, Pong. Then the fire came pouring out and only his face was seriously injured.
Things have changed now, and the whole body will be burned, but wouldn’t this be enough to wash away the sins? And sighed quietly.
***
A time close to the end of Christmas.
“Evacuate here!!”
“Quick!! Take the stairs!”
“Patient, you need to get out!”
Contradicting the words of a quiet and holy night, the hospital was noisy.
It was because acrid black smoke was rising, and the shimmering fire was gradually engulfing the white building.
“Licht..! Where the hell are you!”
Fine Grancia ran with her long white hair flying. She made her way through the chaotic crowd, doing the exact opposite of the man walking out of the hospital.
“Cough, Cough! What’s the matter..!”
“Where did the fire start…?!”
More and more deep inside the hospital, the Platinum Wolf was entering.
“I can’t see Suhyeon hyung! Suhyeon hyung..!”
“Youngmin-ah, let’s go out. It’s dangerous to stay here!”
“Probably in the auditorium! I said I would show you Rudolph!!”
Then, I met a young-looking boy sitting on a wheeled chair.
“Santa noona!! Even if you are my sister, please save our Suhyeon hyung!!”
The boy in the red hat was evacuating by someone else’s hand, but he was shouting at Fine.
“..Can you see me?”
Her good eyes didn’t miss it and felt a sense of incongruity. Being able to see yourself in this nightmare means that you are an important person.
“Yes! Sister Santa, right..? Your hair is also white..!”
She has no master piece to protect herself, no helmet or glass armor, and her sense of smell is already paralyzed by the smoke.
Fine had to make her choice. As she is, she believes this boy’s words and ponders for a moment whether it is right for her to go to a place called the Great Auditorium.
‘Lee Soo-hyun..? Richt…?’
I was soon convinced. She knew that if she knew Licht, she would be in a place like that to save the children, she knew from her experience.
“Collock, the auditorium is over there! Sister..! So, please bring our Suhyeon hyung out!”
“Okay.”
There was also a boy in a red hat who smiled and asked himself a favor even though he looked sick.
Even as she evacuated, she nodded her head in gratitude to Young-min, who pointed her finger at a distant place.
“..I will protect Licht. Kid.”
He was the only fool who didn’t get out of this situation and did something alone.
She ran in that direction. Ran She felt pain in both her legs because she wasn’t mana-managing.
‘You have to hold on. At least this much…!’
Sometimes, thick ashes got into her mouth and tasted bitter, and her lungs burned with pain from the scorching heat. The esophagus has already been burned.
“Licht!!”
But she didn’t mind. No matter how sick or injured she was, she had a greater desire to save Licht, who was suffering in a nightmare.
Fine faced a large iron gate. Anyone can see that it is the end of the place the boy pointed to earlier.
“Kollock, Kellogg.”
A dry cough came out. I grabbed the doorknob and pushed on it, but it didn’t move with a metallic clang.
“Licht!! Are you there?!”
I knocked hard on the door, but there was no response from inside. Actually, this is different from what Fine had heard in the first place.
‘No response. Is not it?’
She said that she apparently heard the screams and went back in and got burned, but I wonder if this is not the place.
“No, Fine Grancia.”
She was briefly frightened by the flames coming from behind her, but she calmed her trembling heart by slapping her cheeks with both of her own hands.
A man wearing a black knight helmet.
I was stronger than anyone else, but sometimes I was weaker than anyone else.
He is a grateful person who awakened emotions in himself, who was like a cold glass, and eased the guilt.
A lone wolf who hates hurting others, piles up lies and fights alone.
A naive and cute person who had no experience with women again, and his neck was reddened just by looking at his body shape.
“This man…. Stay here.”
Her instinct was howling like a wolf, saying that the man who gave her all the emotions she was feeling now was beyond that door.
***
The fire alarm had been off for a long time, and smoke was starting to seep in little by little through the crack in the door.
“My saintess, I can’t see until the end.”
I thought there would be no regrets in this life until the end, but unfortunately, there are things I regret.
Never met her with her white hair, her wolf ears, and her tail.
‘I couldn’t tell others about my characteristics because I was afraid of being detected by Head.’
When he was fighting Servi, he was terrified when he heard that Head could find him.
If the problem of the demon king of battery is solved, half of it is a problem to eat and go. Since she is also the final boss of Episode 1, her unknown variables should not harm her.
No matter how much I searched the game community, I couldn’t find anything about the saintess’ past or name.
I read the writings of other players who entered the imperial family and looked for records, but there was no mention of the Platinum Wolf anywhere.
‘If there is a next life… I wonder if we can meet.’
I broke out in a cold sweat at the approaching fire. Still haven’t healed the trauma.
Looking at the clock on the wall, it was already past midnight. Was there no such thing as a miracle at Christmas?
The moment she gave up everything and closed her eyes.
“Licht!!”
The iron gate blocking the entrance to the auditorium burst. She flew away with a whoosh.
It’s not even a backdraft phenomenon. What just happened?
“I was here too..!”
I heard someone’s voice calling for me anxiously. At the end of that origin, the girl I had only imagined until a moment ago,
“..Saint?”
It appeared slightly different from what I remember, wearing a pure white academy outfit.
‘His height and voice… are the same as what I know. How?’
His gray hair that fell to his waist, white wolf ears and tail that moved small, and golden irises.
This time, like Servi, it wasn’t an attack from the cult of warriors, nor was it a fake imitation. At a glance, I recognized that she was her nameless saint.