― The area is confirmed to be empty from the beginning.
Listening to Shin Woo-seok’s phone call, I exhaled quietly.
– for awhile… Yes, here it is. When I checked, the area had gates in the past 19 years, 11 years, 7 years ago, and 3 years and 4 months ago. And it is said that it has been designated as a place with unstable wavelengths, so it will be a place where no buildings can be built for the next 10 years.
With the sound of rummaging through the papers, he said to me in an unshakable voice.
Sbangali quietly told him it was the truth.
I nodded.
“… All right.”
― Master, is something wrong? Or what else you need… .
“no. nothing.”
I took a quick breath and answered.
“You always work hard. Mr. Shin Woo-seok I’ll get back to you later.”
– Yes, I understand. Please feel free to contact me, Master.
After hanging up with Shin Woo-seok, I immediately covered my mouth with my hand.
Nausea was creeping up from the depths of my stomach.
In fact, there was no need to check through Sbangali.
There is no reason for him to lie to me.
If so, it means that there has been nothing here for at least 20 years.
“Whew… .”
then.
Then when I first came to this world, when I opened my eyes and realized that this world was not the place I lived in.
What was the place I was then?
[…] Hey, why are you doing this?]
“… … .”
Sbengali asked me as if worried, but had no time to answer.
I just started wandering here and there without a second thought.
In the meantime, I was able to find places in my memories that were slowly being forgotten.
It felt like I was reminded of the past for nothing, so I laughed out loud without realizing it.
To be honest, it had been less than half a year.
But it seems like a few years have already passed.
When I woke up, I was sitting somewhere in a secluded park.
I looked at my watch and it looked like I had been wandering aimlessly for almost two hours.
“Did I get weird?”
He responded to the slurred words.
[What?]
“Svengali, you must have said that you are the foremost expert on human memory and mind. So please tell me.”
Sitting in the middle of an empty park, I muttered blankly.
“Am I crazy now? No, I’m sane, right? right?”
[…] Well, I knew you weren’t crazy.]
“please.”
I muttered quietly.
He didn’t even have the energy to make a loud noise.
“Tell me right. Am I crazy right now? I’m not crazy, am I?”
Sbengali was silent at those words.
And after a while, he asked me carefully.
[If it’s really okay… Can you trust me and open your heart a little?]
“What?”
[If you allow me, take a look at your memory and mind. then… I think I can tell you a little bit about your condition.]
I nodded.
He felt a strange feeling now, but when he told me to accept it instead of rejecting it, he just did it.
[I feel something invading my mind!]
The status bar popped up as if threatening, but I just accepted him as Sbangali said.
After a while, Svengali muttered as it came out of my mind with the words that it was over.
[I was able to draw a conclusion.]
“What?”
[Simple.]
he said quietly.
[You and I. Either the two of us are crazy together, or something strange is going on.]
“… Is this also Ariman?”
[I want to say yes, but… .]
Sbengali faltered in his words.
After a while he muttered as if he really didn’t know.
[I don’t know. I really don’t know either. In the first place, this is… .]
It was in the meantime.
The cell phone rang with a buzzing sound.
I looked at my cell phone without thinking, and I couldn’t help but be startled and startled.
A photo of a building.
It was the picture of the villa I was looking for, which I had just moved into.
[You’re playing with this a lot.]
It was as Sbangali said.
But I couldn’t help but go.
The place I returned to was not empty.
Seeing that the small villa I had moved to in the original world was still intact, both Svengali and I were at a loss for words.
[Will you come in?]
“Go.”
With those words, I opened the front door of the villa and went inside.
A cold sound reverberated with each step on the stone steps.
Every time I passed the door of another tightly closed house, Svengali let me know that no one was inside.
Eventually, I stopped in front of a tightly closed door.
I took a deep breath for a moment and then opened the door.
The inside was empty to the point of embarrassment that he was nervous to pull out the branches of the World Tree and Henir’s shadow at any time, just in case.
It was like that when I left.
The tension was released in an instant, and I could barely stand the fact that I almost sat down on the spot.
It’s still too early to relax.
I immediately started scouring the house.
But nothing could be found.
inside an empty house.
All I could find was an old game console.
[That’s… .]
“… … .”
Yep, that’s right, Svengali also said that he had a peek into my childhood.
If so, he will know what that game machine is.
But I couldn’t help but be surprised in a different way.
I must have brought that with me to the academy.
But why the hell am I here?
“ah.”
Then, the game console started to turn on on its own accord.
It was when I frowned as I saw the power turned on with the blue loading screen.
[Hey #!!
[The seventh time!]
[Remember the @%_pump @%_pink!]
An incomprehensible notification window appeared in front of my eyes.
The only possible interpretation was the word ‘seventh’.
no way… .
I carefully picked up the game console.
“Are you Ariman?”
Text appeared on the screen of the game console in response to my question.
― This is a question that cannot be answered.
“… Show me your face.”
― This is not recommended.
When I almost hit the game console, texts appeared one after another as if to calm down.
― Ask another question.
another question.
Yes, there is no guarantee that an opportunity like this will come again.
I had to get as much information as possible.
“… How can I go back to the world I used to live in now?”
― This is a question that cannot be answered.
“What the fuck are you doing?”
― This is a question that cannot be answered.
“Why the hell did I come to this world, how can I get back? No, how else could a world like this exist?”
― This is a question that cannot be answered.
― This is a question that cannot be answered.
― This is a question that cannot be answered.
“Hey, sir… ! Then what the hell can you answer?”
Unable to contain the anger that rose in the moment, he threw the game console against the wall with all his might.
Hook, hook, and breathe heavily, Sbangali whispered to me to calm down.
After a while, I picked up the game console that had been thrown against the wall, and another text appeared.
― Ask another question.
I mumbled without much expectation.
“Through… Will I be able to meet my brother?”
Again, this is a question that cannot be answered, something like that will come to mind.
That was when I was thinking.
― Please specify the question.
what.
Mumbling like that, I unknowingly grabbed the game console with both hands.
“… Is Jina alive?”
― The subject ‘Eugena’ you asked is alive.
“Can I see you again?”
― It is difficult to give a definitive answer as the questioner’s reunion with ‘Yoo Ji-na’ will depend on the questioner’s ‘Yoo-hyeok’ behavior.
“no way… .”
I asked, gulping and swallowing.
“Gina, is that child in this world too?”
The guy didn’t live up to my expectations.
― This is a question that cannot be answered.
“This bastard is really… !”
[Calm down, take it easy!]
Sbangali stopped me in an urgent voice.
In the meantime, the screen of the game machine changed randomly and started sending out another text.
― Closes [Q&A]. Implemented by notice.
– Checking… .
― It has been confirmed that it is dry and has the energy of Sbangali.
― Insufficient qualifications.
― Please gather the six energy.
― Please check that the previously reserved compensation has been paid.
― Currently, rewards that are judged to be the most useful have been paid.
― I wish you survival.
“I was bored.”
It was the time when I was muttering like that as I watched the guy proceeding his own story.
– warning
― The existence of ‘Sbangali’ is judged to be a major hindrance.
― We demand the complete annihilation of ‘Sbangali’.
― If ‘Sbangali’ is completely annihilated, a huge reward will be paid, and the rewards are as follows.
― Power enhancement ticket x 1
― Sap of the first material x 3
― Relic-grade weapon option x 1
― S-class summon ticket x 1
― Privilege escalation by 1 level
[what… ?]
Sbangali muttered in a trembling voice.
Surprisingly, this was the same.
I asked quietly.
“… What does being elevated mean?”
– This is the literal meaning of the word.
― To explain the typical benefits in an easy-to-understand manner, the range of questions that can be provided will be wider and more detailed.
― To give more examples, it is possible to present a more specific answer to the question ‘Where is Yujina’ that was just asked.
“… … .”
I was silent.
And Sbangali seemed to have accepted the meaning of silence.
[Hey, hey… Come on, really… .]
“I have decided.”
It was a story that was not even worth thinking about in the first place.
I said to the game machine.
To be precise, the middle finger of one hand was spread out.
“Catch some shit.”
I look at the game machine, no.
I continued talking to the person I was talking to through the game console.
“Who are you, tell me this and that? After making a human asshole, don’t you think this situation is really fun?”
I didn’t miss the previous text telling me to gather the six energy.
That would mean killing all the other six Seven Evils except for Ariman and then accepting the energy.
It was what I was hoping for.
Because that’s what I was thinking from the beginning.
“hey. you wait a little longer I will come to you soon. Besides, I was just guessing that you were churning my head in your own way. Did you think I would move according to such a bastard’s will?”
― ‘Sbangali’ is a reminder of the fact that he had a history of trying to stir his mind and make him his own puppet.
“If it twists, you too will follow me and then get eaten. Then I will listen to you.”
After that, the game machine flickered for a moment and the lights flickered.
A little later, somehow the text was arranged in a slightly bolder font than before.
– understand.
― Hope to see you again in the future.
― I sincerely wish for your survival.
After that, the game machine flickered.
After looking down at it for a moment, I casually threw it on the floor.
It was because instinctively I could realize that carrying it and taking it with me would be meaningless.
[you… .]
“If you’re going to say something disgusting for nothing, don’t do it.”
I got up from my seat, ignoring Sbangali’s voice calling me with a trembling voice.
After a while he asked me.
[Yeah, that’s right… Then can I ask you one thing?]
“What?”
[What are you going to do now?]
The boy muttered quietly.
[I don’t know if he’s Arriman or not. Because he was always making noises of catching clouds and uttering only things like balance blah blah equality blah blah. The only thing I can be sure of is that it had something to do with Ahriman just before.]
“Will you come up with an answer just because you think about it? He’s the guy who played with you and me so thoroughly.”
Sbangali shut her mouth as she spoke with a self-helpful laugh.
It felt like something was boiling in my stomach.
I muttered as if not to worry about that guy.
“Anyway, I had the answer. After the six energy gathers, come to meet me. … After all, that was the plan from the beginning. After killing all the remaining seven evil bells, we should meet him.”
[Huh… .]
“To do that, you have to do what you need to do first.”
I quietly picked up my phone.
Han Soo-young, Choi Hyun-woo, Jin Ye-seul, Lee Ye-eun, Ivan, Lee Yu-na… .
As I was looking at my cell phone that received calls and texts from several people, a bitter laugh came out without me knowing.
“Minerva.”
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Okay.
I can’t handle it alone anymore.
How many times have these guys passed by pretending not to know even though they knew it all?
“The future is something I cannot do alone.”
[I guess.]
“… So now I have to get help from everyone.”
I muttered like that.
* * *
― Isaac McDowell and his companions returned to Urea.
“I won’t come back now.”
As I mumbled, Shin Woo-seok asked me.
– Will you kill me?
“No, you don’t have to worry about anything. The fact that he ran away to urea in the first place shows just how cornered he is.”
In a way, the commotion at the gate opened up a way for him to escape.
It was a bit of a waste to think about it that way, but at the time when all his limbs were cut off anyway, the danger of Isaac McDowell almost disappeared.
There are also rats that bite the cat when cornered.
If you make an escape hole in this way, you won’t do anything unexpected because you’re running away in a hurry.
– then… .
“It is never too late to deal with the trivial matters first and then deal with them. We will continue to monitor, but if there is something unusual, please report it immediately.”
– I understand, Master.
“Always a lot of hard work.”
It was time to end the call with those words.
― Master, by the way, when are you planning to return to your hometown? .
“Tell me that you are staying at a friend’s house for a while. I’m just going to quit.”
– Master, wait a minute… !
After saying that, I immediately hung up the phone.
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Okay, so the Isaac McDowell issue goes beyond this… .
As I checked the memo, I glanced at the paper crane in my hand.
“It’s been a long time, Jin-jeong. Are you all right?”
– Thank you for your concern.
The paper crane flapped its wings slightly.
Not because of her mood, but her voice was definitely more lively than before.
– Did you say Cass Lyle? He was a great expert. Thanks to this, I can feel my body improving with each passing day.
“That’s fortunate.”
— … Even so, the growth of the body and the use of abilities would be much later. First of all, we give priority to body adjustment and extension of lifespan.
She explained her condition in detail in that way.
And at the end he quietly whispered to me.
― Once again, I would like to express my sincere thanks. Yoo Ji-hyuk Mr.
“What did I do… On the contrary, I received a lot of help from Jeong-Jeong Jin.”
– no… … Thanks to this, I can see that Yesul’s condition has improved dramatically. My life, which would have died there again, was also saved thanks to Yoo Ji-hyuk.
She murmured in a trembling voice for a moment.
– of course… Yeseul, who has been indifferent to me, is quite obsessed with me in return… .
“haha… .”
― Considering that it is the price I should pay, it is actually not that difficult. Even if there is this and that… It seems that Ye-seul is recovering psychologically quite well by interfering with me in various ways, so it is rather reassuring.
At her words, she was momentarily at a loss for words.
Jeong-jeong Jin always spoke in a calm voice with little emotion and no high or low tone, but she could feel her affection for Jin Ye-seul from the words she said now.
― Sometimes I want you to be left alone, but it must be a luxurious concern compared to the past.
She even let out a small laugh.
It was when I was quietly listening to her talk.
— … If you need my help, feel free to tell me. I have received a grace that is not enough even to repay it for the rest of my life, so I am ready to give my life even if you want.
“It’s a burden, so I’ll just take my heart.”
― You saved my life and Yesul’s life, so I don’t think you need to feel too burdened.
Jeongyeon Jin added in a slightly choked voice.
– It’s not just words, it’s the truth. The words of wizards are also related to their words, so they don’t take lies lightly.
“Yeah, I knew it well, so I said that I only received my heart.”
I added quietly.
“If that’s the case, then recover quickly. That way, you won’t be able to spend a long time with Yesul.”
— … … .
Jinyoung didn’t say anything.
In the meantime, I could feel the vibration in my hand other than the hand on which the paper crane was placed.
It was a call from someone I was waiting for.
I spoke to Jinjeong with an apology.
“I’m sorry, Jin-Jeong. It’s been a long time since I’ve contacted you, but I have to cut it off. I have an important call.”
– Oh, is that so?
“Please forgive me as I will keep in touch with Yesul in the afternoon.”
– It’s okay if you don’t have to… The favor will be appreciated.
In the meantime, Jin-jeong asked me carefully.
– By the way, it’s an important call… Is this your phone?
“no.”
I shook my head.
“You are a friend’s teacher.”
The call came from Hyunhwa Nam’s number, which he had told Sbangali to remember.