139 – Chapter 139 The end of the festival. Residual heat.
After embarrassingly shedding tears at the dance, he made an excuse and came out as a sponsor.
If I had cried rather loudly, the kids would have teased me saying that it was because they were scared of the nightmare, but they said that it was real and I couldn’t even drip it because tears came out without realizing it.
They are really sorry and thankful people.
“Whoa.”
A familiar staircase appeared beyond the backing.
If you go up these stairs, you will come to a high rooftop that is optimal for viewing the night view. In the past, when playing Cheonyuhak and Exploration, children were not allowed to climb up.
Well, of course I’m not going up to see the night view this time.
It’s just a simple feeling.
I don’t know why, but I thought it might be there.
It doesn’t matter if I’m wrong, but I hope I’m right. Because of that simple feeling, I kept climbing the stairs.
It’s early summer now.
The night air was quite warm, so the higher we went, the better the wind was blowing.
When I entered through the open door, there was a girl sitting there.
I wonder if he was watching the parade.
“Oh, how are you?”
“…Hello?”
Chae Yoo-jin.
It still gave off a neat impression with the hair tied up a little lower.
The girl I ran into whenever a strangely big job was over.
A girl who somehow resembled my friend.
A girl who desperately kept her distance while trying to get entangled with me.
And it’s also your new body that you created in my memory.
“Why are you here when the birthday party is in full swing? Ah, you are burdened to dance!”
Looks like you don’t want to end this relationship yet. Maybe they don’t know that I’ve got my memory back.
Or maybe it’s really just my imagination.
So I’ll have to check it out.
“It’s Seoha.”
The movement stops. Shake your head. This is an area of obvious denial.
“Did you forget my name? Really too much it’s me Chae Yoo-jin…”
“It’s Seoha. You know That’s why you came. Let’s stop.”
The expression disappears from the hateful face that was laughing all the time, and resentment and poison begin to build up in its place.
It’s you too. And I don’t know why, but you’re back too.
Somehow it seemed so.
“…Don’t use that mouth to call me by my name.”
“What are you talking about? Can’t we call each other by name? No one will listen to it anyway, so if you twist it, you would call it the sky.”
The power of the heart grips my heart tightly.
He’s been pouting ever since he realized I cheated on him, but now that his original owner has appeared in front of him, he must be embarrassed.
It looks like a puppy, wandering around wondering who is its owner.
“Let’s talk.”
“…Don’t keep pretending to be heaven in front of me like that. I am not fooled.”
“…What do you mean? Are you crazy?”
Then who is it if not me? Did you hide a second from the sky that I don’t know about?
“I saw clearly that day, Haneul’s soul could not withstand the shock of returning and was shattered. So you are not the sky.”
…How would you describe this? Everyone was scattering, but who said they matched it well and caught it? Can i say that?
“I will get it back. I will take back the sky no matter what. I won’t be fooled by a fake like you. He promised I will destroy this world once again, and if I offer you, the sky will give you back.”
“…But you’re not a gullible kid. When I’m here, why are you giving me away and trying to get me back? Are you saying something strange?”
I don’t know who brought that guy back, but I thought I knew he was a pretty bad-tempered guy.
“Yes, it is true that my soul is fragmented. Who put it next? You know too, so you didn’t try to block my memory by making noise or something?”
“No, I just blocked you because I didn’t want to see you pretending to be Sky. Because if I had a memory, I’d be the way I am now.”
“You’re lying. But are you trying so desperately to protect it?”
“Do you know that it is Theseus’ ship?”
Suddenly?
“Yes, I know.”
The ship of the Greek hero Theseus broke down over time, and as parts were constantly changed and repaired, there were more repaired parts than the original ship.
“Really? Then it will be easy to understand. Even if you scrape together the fragmented souls because there is not enough money for the return, there are parts that are lost, and if you restore the form by forcibly fitting other pieces together, can you say that they are the same person?”
What are you talking about again?
“I’m sorry, but that means you are really being tricked. I’m not mixed with other people.”
“Yes, you would think so. Kang So-hyun.”
“…This is the end.”
“You don’t know, but I can see the shape of your soul very well. Should I regard you as the sky, who is already closer to Kang So-hyun than the sky?”
“That’s just a regression side effect, you heard about it.”
“I will go back. Will get it back in its entirety. How much did I get, but it only happened because of me. I can’t tolerate Haneul becoming halfway like you for the sake of my idiot-like writing.”
Really. I’m speechless. I’m dying of joy
“Well, yes. Then let’s give up a hundred steps and say you’re right. Let’s say I’m not the sky, but the imitation sky is about 20% of Kang So-hyun’s fragrance added.”
Ah, since before, there was no answer to fighting over useless things.
“So what are you going to do?”
“You kept telling me. I will destroy this world once again. And I will bring you back in full form.”
“Hey, you said you would take me back now?”
“Ugh…!? That’s what it says!”
Look at the blush. I know the map, but it’s embarrassing so I do that and that.
“Don’t do that, come this way.”
“…What?”
“At first it was a world we created, but now it’s not just that. Everyone here is a living person. There’s no way we have the right to break it just because we made it.”
There is no way parents have the right to hurt their children.
So even if we were the Creator and his friends, there was no way we had the qualifications to destroy this world.
“Let’s do it again. I’m confident this time You just have to stop the end of the world. And then…”
“No.”
“Ah, don’t be proud…”
“No…!”
A sound almost like a scream was heard.
“Hey, I will think of you as the sky and say it just for now. Listen carefully. You know I don’t like that…? But what if it doesn’t work now? They say this is the only way to get you back, what should I do?”
“…What are you talking about? Save the world again.”
“That is your idea, and you have already paid the price and made your wish come true. Even damaged in the process. You are now more like a resident of this world than the original world.”
“…So?”
“You can’t go back even if you save the world again. As Kang So-hyun, I have to continue to live in the world in this novel.”
…Oh. I see
Actually, this is what I expected when I found my memories. I wondered how something like a miracle wouldn’t happen. Looks like a bunch too
“Giving you back might be a lie? What then? This is the only possibility left in front of me. Maybe there is another way? What would you do if you were further damaged while looking for it?”
“But this isn’t it.”
“For me, it’s better than my ruined novel. No, to be honest, I don’t care if this is really a real world. I mean you are the most important thing to me. I mean, it couldn’t have happened without you. I mean, there’s only you now It happened because of me. I won’t hesitate this time. It won’t be too late.”
I thought I could convince you somehow, but you’re so determined.
“…How could it not be?”
“Absolutely not.”
Maybe it’s because he knows what’s inside me, just as I know what’s inside him.
“You have been like that since the old days. Why don’t you give up on something irrelevant? When it comes to what I like, I can’t even say that I like it right away, so I do all sorts of nonsense. A lilac-like bastard.”
“You talk so damn hard.”
“You don’t want to go back now, do you?”
“…Well, if there is no way, there is no way.”
“Why not? It’s something you did once. Do you want to destroy it again? Rather yes, you come this way. Let’s do it again.”
“That’s not the way. If that was the case, you wouldn’t have come back?”
“Is this fake world more important than me?”
“It’s not about what’s more important. And now it’s not fake. At the point where there are parts that we didn’t set up, this is just a world where real people live. We have no right to do whatever we want.”
“Is this my part-time job?”
“Then who works?”
The negotiations went awry.
“…I made the zodiac anyway. The power of the Creator also spread throughout the world as I returned. How are you going to destroy the world?”
“Because I still have powers left? And don’t act like you know all about the setting of this novel from a while ago. There are settings that I haven’t shown you.”
“…Huh? Really? Isn’t that a bit sad?”
“Oh, sorry. But there are too many embarrassing things written there… No, what is fake?”
“You said earlier you would think it was the real sky.”
“…It’s over. Upset. Don’t imitate it.”
Ah, I think I’ll laugh if I’m not careful. What to do He seems to think he’s talking bloodily, but it’s not much different from what we usually talk about.
“Which country told me not to imitate me?”
“Anyway, there are plenty of settings that even you don’t know about. Be prepared I will do anything to get you back.”
“Yeah, I can do anything to keep you from getting further broken.”
We looked at each other for a moment. It was me who broke the silence first.
“Aren’t you going to come to the academy now?”
“…Of course not. I was found out, how do I get out?”
“I’ll pretend I don’t know, so come out whenever you want. Because I want to see you. If you don’t want to treat me as the sky, I’ll treat you as Chae Yoo-jin.”
“…That’s funny. While novels are more important than me. Mr. Kang So-hyun.”
“Don’t be funny to me. Because you are precious, there is nothing more precious than you, so I am telling you not to do anything you will regret.”
When I said it was precious, the guy’s face, which had been red from being hit by the wind, became even more red.
Yes, of course.
“We are friends.”
“I hate you. Go away. Really nothing has changed since we first met…! Fool…! Idiot…!”
Hmm, I think you’ll catch something if you catch it now?
With that thought in mind, the moment I took a step closer to him.
[Sorry. Until there.]
A red-haired woman dressed as a butler stood between us.
There was no way I’d forgotten how I was wearing the mask.
“Oh, it’s been a while, have you?”
[Yes, I think she mistook me for her at first. Hmm, now I get it. Indeed, it can’t even be compared to that day.]
“I do, but I don’t think it will work for you.”
No, while searching for memories, I came up with a method, but it was a last resort that was far behind assimilation with Son Goku, so I didn’t want to use it when I didn’t know the guy’s hand.
[Yes, I’m not here to fight today, so I’ll just take her.]
“Wow, are you really not coming with me? Don’t be bluffing while you’re going to cry after clinging to me anyway~ Mr. Chae Yoo-jin.”
“…You, smirk until you really do this. Regrets are yours to do. ‘Kang So-hyun’.”
[…Can I catch it for you? Please, if you wish.]
“All right. I only have a few requests left. I have no intention of wasting it.”
[That’s a pity.]
“Hey, I’m asking you, but can you say so openly in front of me that there is a limit?”
“…Ugh, I don’t know!”
The moment our writer was held in the arms of her red butler, the girl wearing her mask nodded her head slightly to her.
And the moment she blinked, there was silence on her rooftop as if no one was there.
“Did you go already? Meanly.”
It must have felt like you were watching me all the time, but I felt like I hadn’t seen you in a really long time.
Well, anyway, a lot of my questions have been answered.
I’ve been wondering why it was such a fucking thing until now, but the purpose was not to protect it, but to destroy it.
On a subject he didn’t believe in, he pushed me away by saying that he was a fake.
“…Really. In case someone isn’t a friend, look at him being as foolish as I am.”
Hey, don’t go away so ruthlessly and give me a drip.
“What we used to do often, the next time we meet, we are enemies. You have something like this. Uh?”
I’m really fucking sorry.
*
When we went back to the venue, they were showing off their talents as if the dance time was over.
“Ah, finally you are here.”
“Hey, why is Sohyeon crying? It’s not like you have to give me an answer to comfort me.”
“Ah~ I was scared because I had a nightmare.”
Hani gave a disgruntled look on her face when she looked around, but she didn’t dig any further.
“But wasn’t something like a talent show not in the original plan?”
“Well, my father said let’s play a big game about ruined things anyway.”
“Did you get any prizes?”
“It must have been decided spontaneously, right?”
“Well, considering my father’s personality, he probably won’t wipe his mouth very much.”
While Lilac and Cheon Yu-hak answered, they scanned the stage.
Everyone was dancing or singing, but the level wasn’t that high.
“Shall I go out?”
“… Huh?”
“Really…?”
Lee Yu-na and Kang Hani, no, not just the two of them, but everyone looked at me with extremely surprised faces.
“What, why are these things? Do I feel that way sometimes too?”
As soon as I applied for participation, Cheon Mu-jin greeted me by name and guided me onto the stage.
Well, it’s not a very good song.
My friend, so Seo-ha always told me to sing a song with a bad voice because it was a song that no one but you would listen to.
Still, on a day like this, a calming song would be fine.
You couldn’t call everyone else, did you?
Let’s just sing calmly enough to let go of this unpleasant feeling.
After singing a song, the noisy venue became quieter and quieter.
Can’t you call me like that?
After finishing the song, I slowly lowered my head and went down, and a slow applause broke out.
Are you all kind? I applaud you this far. Is it a tribute to someone who has the courage to sing when they can’t sing?
But when I returned from singing, everyone was looking at me with stupid faces as if they were possessed by a ghost.
…Really why? Are you saying you can’t sing?
Anyway, Cheon Yu-hak’s birthday celebration, which was long and short, came to an end.
Now it was time to go back to normal.
“Why do you sing so well!?”
“When I went to karaoke with me before, you only sang screaming things!”
“Wow, Sohyeon! One song only! Sing me one more song!”
…Isn’t it?