Chapter 191
Permafrost (12)
Nikolai punched the windowpane the size of himself.
The shattered glass window shattered and fell to the ground, and a stream of flame soared beyond it.
The shadow cast by the rising flame split Nikolai’s face in half in the darkness.
… … Feeling ominous about the rising flames, Anya ran towards the window, in the direction of Nikolai.
“What the hell did Collie do?!”
“… … Check it out for yourself.”
Nikolai did not stop Anya from running toward him.
It was because she knew that her eyes were focused not on Nikolai, but on the window behind her.
Shards of glass that were broken and scattered on the floor were stepped on by Anya’s shoes and tingled.
Nikolai silently stepped aside for her.
The city that came to Anya’s eyes… … .
It was burning.
“This… … why… … ?”
A building soaring to the sky was broken and folded in half.
full of screams The types were also varied.
The cries of a human being turned into a monster, the cries of a human being killed by a family member who became a monster, the watery cry of a child, the heartbreak of a father, and the gesture of a mother trying to protect her child.
Each one was a very sad cry, and there was nothing that was not a scream among those that spread throughout the city.
“No, I still can’t forget the first time I saw you.”
Nikolai opened his mouth to Anya, who was staring blankly out the window.
He didn’t even look at his mouth as he quietly spoke, but Nikolai didn’t care.
“The moment I realized I was in the same school as you, in the same class, the moment I found out you lived right next door.”
As Nikolai continued to speak, Anya’s head, which had placed her hand on the window frame, turned toward him.
“I liked—. no, i loved it no.”
Her eyes flickered as she stared at Nikolai. and soon.
“… … Did you do this because I refused?”
Her tightly closed mouth opened. Nikolai responds to him.
“okay.”
Called. The expression on his face as he answered was grim.
“Do you think I will accept your confession for this?! Do you think I will fall in love with you?!!!”
“… … .”
Anya’s shout echoed through the empty floor.
“I don’t know how he did it, but if he did it with such a stupid idea, even if he looked for the street number, he found it wrong for a long time—!”
Anya’s hand on the window frame moves quickly.
Its speed is rapid.
At a speed that would be difficult for ordinary people to measure with the naked eye, he pulled up the hem of the right one-piece skirt and took out a pistol from the holster worn on his thigh.
– Clap.
The gun is pointed at Nikolai’s forehead.
“If you did something, Collie, you probably have a way to undo or stop it.”
“… … .”
“Don’t let me pull this trigger. please.”
“… … .”
A black iron hole was pointed at his forehead, but Nikolai’s face is calm.
As if there was no threat, he stared at Anya’s face with an expressionless expression.
“… … hehehe.”
The corners of his mouth are twitching. His eyebrows twitched and his brow furrowed.
And then.
“hahahaha——!!”
started to laugh
He bends over while holding his stomach and smiles.
A roar of laughter mingled with laughter resounded somewhere.
Every time Nikolai laughed and stumbled, the shards of glass shattered under his shoes and made unpleasant noises.
His laughter had to stop immediately.
-bang!!!
It was because Anya, who had narrowed her eyes and stared at him, pulled the trigger into the air.
The noise of gunfire ate away his laughter.
“Are you kidding me? What the hell is funny?!”
The muzzle of the gun, which was billowing with acrid smoke, was pointed at Nikolai again.
“Not funny. Can you not laugh?”
“… … .”
Nikolai looked closely at the gun that fired at him, then opened his mouth as he pulled the hem of his shirt crumpled from laughter.
“No, it’s true that I did this because you refused. But not to get your heart.”
“then… … ?”
Nikolai’s face hardened instantly.
The laughter is gone.
He raised his left arm and pointed at Anya with his index finger.
Nikolai’s fingertips were pointing exactly in the direction of her heart.
“No, I prepared it to break you.”
Aiming at Anya’s heart, Nikolai spat out as if to declare.
Anya’s face hardened.
Hard as a plaster cast, she seemed to find it difficult to even breathe.
“Five years ago. I hate you, Anastasia Ivanov, for killing my parents.”
As he answered, Nikolai’s eyes glowed red from the protruding thread veins.
* * *
“What the hell is that… … ? what do you mean collie? i want your parents… … ? Your parents passed away 3 years ago from a chronic disease. I also went to the funeral.”
“under… … . Not naive. Do you still believe in that?”
To Anya’s words, Nikolai replied in a voice filled with annoyance and tousled his hair.
As he tousled his hair, the screams and noises through the broken windows overlapped.
“The direct cause of death of my parents was tumors in the lungs and heart. But who planted the tumor?”
“… … .”
“You don’t remember. But you vaguely know. That was you in Seoul five years ago.”
“I, I… … .”
Nikolai remembers. The moment her magic power eroded her parents.
“I don’t remember because I was used by the devil. On the outside, he was wrapped up as a pitiful child who was used by the devil. It must have been the best result for you.”
At the Han River Incident, she was swayed by Arkham, deprived of her consciousness and ownership of her body.
“But while I was managing your house, I found out from the diary you wrote as a child that you went to the devil yourself and made a contract.”
“… … that.”
“There are no excuses here.”
“… … .”
“You killed it.”
Nikolai chewed and spat out.
“Anastasia Ivanov, I love you and hate you at the same time.”
Anya’s muzzle swung at Nikolai.
Nikolai’s fingertips, aiming at Anya’s heart, were firm.
“Now look!”
His fingertips turn out the window.
The city outside the window was walking toward destruction.
“I was the one who caused this incident, but the one who made me like this. No—”
The city is burning. Pointing to the scene of the screams and despair, Nikolai said.
With that said, he took a step towards Anya.
Rather, Anya is pushed. Anya felt that she was pitiful for being pushed away now.
“Don’t come any closer!”
She backed away from Nikolai, who was approaching her.
Her gun was pointed at his forehead, but he didn’t show the slightest hesitation in his actions.
Arriving right in front of her, he grabbed her gun and brought it to the center of his forehead.
And then.
“—It’s you.”
He spat out the words that were hidden deep inside his lungs.
His words were like a rotten heart.
Anya couldn’t bear to pull the trigger.
“I love you so much I want to have you! But as much as I love you!”
The person responsible for the Seoul Incident. The starting point of all these events and stories.
Because that was her story. Because it was her original sin.
“I hate you! I want to break it! I want to break it so that it never happens again!!!”
“collie… … please.”
“Please, stop what?”
Nikolai glared at her eyes as she quietly nodded. There was a light moisture around her eyes.
“Did you hear me when I begged you? No, did you even pretend to hear?”
“… … that.”
Nikolai snorted at Anya’s request.
“Ha, the devil took the initiative? So you couldn’t help it!? Fuck the dog! Don’t deny it!!!”
His face was distorted in a way he had never seen before.
“Whoever did it, it ended up in your hands!”
okay.
he was angry
“If you want to stop me, do it with your own hands! Acknowledge the past you created and at least pierce a hole in my forehead to block it!!!!!!”
Anya shook her head.
It couldn’t be.
Acknowledging that sin means shouldering the lives of everyone who died that day.
Reap all the sins, reap all the screams.
Because it was about acknowledging one’s past.
Who would want to remain with the changed self?
Nikolai sighed at Anya, who bit her lower lip and shook her head.
“You were always like that. I was overly conscious of other people’s eyes. did you have to do that? What the hell is that there? Was it not enough for the people around you to look after you?”
I can’t turn back now.
I had so many things in my hands that I didn’t have the courage to let them go.
I feel like I’ll be alone if I admit it.
It seems that everyone will turn their backs on him, just like he did when he was a child.
I was afraid of it.
– Where the hell did it get twisted?
“If I am a madman obsessed with love and hate, then you are a monster devoured by the eyes of others.”
─The moment you made a contract with the devil?
With a ‘pop’, Nikolai raised Anya’s shaking pistol and brought it into his own hand.
“Even if you make a contract with the devil and become stronger, look at it. You couldn’t shoot me after all. You couldn’t stop an ordinary person.”
─When you saw your parents’ disappointed eyes?
“I want to show only my good side, but I couldn’t in the past. A wooden doll full of contradictions. That is you.”
─The night you saw a cluster of stars in the sky?
‘Clap.’ With the sound of the metal locking, the pistol’s slide moved backwards and forwards in Nikolai’s hand.
─That moment when you awakened your ability?
Anya breaks down.
Kneeling in front of Nikolai, she could only stare blankly at the gun pointed at her master.
“bye. And wait in hell first. A mass of contradictions who can’t even acknowledge their past because they are afraid of the eyes of the people around them.”
─Ah. I don’t know. I just wanted to be loved. I just wanted to shine
Anya’s vision saw the inside of the black muzzle.
The little hole was black like an abyss.
‘The gate I opened was also that color.’
She closed her eyes at the end of that short review.
Waiting for your last page.
and.
-Kwajik!!!
-bang!!!
A small stone pellet flew from somewhere and hit the pistol in Nikolai’s hand as he pulled the trigger.
His hand flicked back.
The pistol could not withstand the impact and flew to the window frame he had smashed with his fist.
The pistol turned to the right and shot the ground next to Anya, and the ricocheted bullet shattered the window next to her.
Nikolai’s face darkened.
“What kind of guy is this!!!”
A roar from his lungs filled the empty building.
However.
quiet.
It was quiet.
If the stone flew, you should have felt the presence of the person who threw it.
I couldn’t find anything like that anywhere.
The atmosphere changed instantly.
Until now, the person holding the initiative in this space had been Nikolai himself.
In just one moment, he felt that the initiative had been taken away.
“… … Who are you?!”
and.
footsteps.
The sound of low footsteps echoed.
The footsteps were as heavy as they were low.
As much as its weight, the value of the existence of those approaching in the dark was highlighted.
The moonlight and flames coming in from outside the window split the space in half.
where there is light.
where there is only darkness.
Soon, black shoes came out of the darkness into the bright world, but nothing came out after that.
The owner of the footsteps is just sitting in the dark.
“What have you done to my child?”
It flashed blue eyes.