Chapter 185 – The Story of Starting Again Complete
Ashte boasts that she will bring Ed back to life.
His expression now looked very complex.
“This is an unexpected result…”
Lethe only took a moment to examine his complexion and realized that things were not going well.
Even if you are a god, this is a different dimension.
I decided that it would be possible to go against the providence, but in the end I failed.
Not a short time has passed, but the fortunate thing is that time flows slowly here.
Ashte did not give up and tried desperately by repeating the process hundreds of times, but the result was otherwise unchanged.
“It ends up like this.”
Mary Joy and Lethe, who had been silent, could tell from Ashte’s words.
No matter what I do, I can’t bring Ed back to life.
However, Ashte’s expression was resolute, as if she had made up her mind.
“Lethe. How was my world as you saw it?”
“Your… You mean the world?”
At his question, Lethe blinked her eyes for a moment, and she recalled the scenery she had seen.
World… Rather than calling it a place that was close to hell.
Ashte, devastated by the fact that he would never be able to meet his beloved again, left his world unattended.
Sometimes when I contemplate the world, all the good have long since died, and all that remains is the tainted with evil.
It’s been such a long time.
At this point, it is safe to say that the original world, the world of Ashte, has already been destroyed.
Life forms were hard to find, and even that was a terrible world where deformed monsters ate and ate each other.
“It’s embarrassing to call a place full of demons a world. Perhaps… I can say that this fake world is closer to the original.”
Ashte was lost in her own thoughts and spit out what she had to say.
“To neglect the world and lead it to destruction is truly something an evil spirit would do.”
Then he closed his eyes.
Replacing power, or something like that, couldn’t bring him back to life.
However, there is one remaining method that evil spirits would do.
“There were many things I wanted to say. Words that I have been holding down for tens of thousands of years, and I would like to say if a miracle is allowed to happen to me too.”
Fortunately, a miracle came, and there was a chance to face Lethe again.
Unfortunately, the miracle was too short-lived.
‘I’ve never looked at my face properly because I was afraid it would wear out.’
Like a normal human being, I wanted to walk around holding hands with Lethe, buy food, and look up at the night sky to unravel the festering words inside.
Since each of us has played the role of evil spirits once, our longing for human life must be the same.
However, there were no restaurants in his world anymore, and the only things that existed were intellectless demons.
“Now what… ?”
“As expected, you would be more suited to this dull world than mine.”
Ashte finally made a decision.
His own story ends here.
“If you burn all my soul, he can revive it. Of course I can’t remember… The soul itself is exactly the same, it will literally resurrect him. No, it’s a little different way than resurrection.”
Lethe tilted her head, as if she didn’t understand his sudden words, and Mary Joy, who understood the true meaning of her words, opened her mouth.
“If you burn all your souls… You are also safe-“
“Do that. After all, they are the same soul.”
After her additional explanation, Ashte put her hand to her own heart and looked at her Lethe.
Lethe sensed that something was wrong with her and tried to open her mouth, but she couldn’t dissuade him from looking at her with a gentle smile.
‘From the beginning, I was just a device to revive him.’
Then he realized his destiny.
The fact that this world that only existed for Lette became the original, not the original world that had been ruined.
I already guessed to some extent, but I didn’t want to admit it.
That’s why every time he went to his other self, Ed, to try to understand his tone and values.
Unlike himself, he always wanted to protect this world consistently.
A person who is prepared to do anything to protect precious things has a higher value than one who has already lost everything.
Above all, he and himself are the same soul.
‘I’d rather be strong than a broken me.’
All the processes and memories that make up myself will disappear, but it doesn’t matter.
Because what he always wanted was Lethe’s happiness.
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―It’s sweet.
The Princess Elf who became queen was always wise, and her good nature made her elves prosper.
But sometimes she looked at the moon with her pensive face and wept.
Like waiting for someone
『HAPPY ENDING!』
―It’s sweet.
One day, the existence of the evil dragon was erased.
His long-cherished wish came true, and his blood relatives, the Dragonians, shed tears at the regained freedom.
Among them, only one Dragonian left the wanderings to search for a being that uses special powers.
She is still the same even after a hundred years have passed.
Because only finding that existence was the reason he lived.
『HAPPY ENDING!』
―It’s sweet.
You would think that vampires had gone extinct due to the eradication policy in the past, but it wasn’t.
Today, tomorrow too.
There was a vampire who lived in hiding by sucking the blood of animals in small ways.
A strange woman with a dark complexion, who checks her face whenever she encounters a dark-haired human.
She was always depressed, but she smiled only when she was on the shore of a nameless lake.
『HAPPY ENDING!』
―It’s sweet.
The veiled demon, Lilith.
She had her poisonous love for her.
An existence that became a high-ranking demon at once by adding Lilith’s magical power to the swordsmanship he honed without stopping.
Then one day she disappeared.
Rumor has it that she crossed over to the human presence and continues to do bizarre things.
When a job posting posted by a low-level mercenary appears, run quickly and make a disappointed expression.
Only she would know why.
『HAPPY ENDING!』
―It’s sweet.
A forest not far from Tallard.
There was a strange ghost story there.
If you go into the forest with goat cheese, a mysterious woman will attack you.
She didn’t do anything in particular, but there was a deep sadness in her subtle eyes.
『HAPPY ENDING!』
―It’s sweet.
If you walk a little from the donkey-lined village, there is a hut built on a tree.
An evil and terrible witch lives there, so no one has looked for it.
Unfortunately for the witch who lived alone, she could no longer hear from the errand boy.
She realized that she could go outside, but she was still alone in the cabin today, thinking of someone she couldn’t remember and missing.
『HAPPY ENDING!』
―It’s sweet.
The saintess of the Holy Empire disappeared about a hundred years ago.
It was orthodox that she had returned to the goddess, as she had suddenly appeared in the great chapel when she first appeared, but it was not.
He fled the empire by exploding his divine power.
The reason was to find someone.
Even after a century, she could find no trace of the being she was looking for.
『HAPPY ENDING!』
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The old computer rattled and made an unpleasant noise throughout the room.
The man who had been sitting in front of him and staring at the monitor blankly clicked the mouse as if he was possessed by something about her, but after hearing the story of the saintess, nothing more appeared.
“Neritiel, Beatrice, Joanna, Yeren, Sophia Drin, Lia, and Shin Hyeji.”
In a hoarse voice, she slowly recited the names of the main characters of the stories she had seen.
All of them were missing someone.
She has no memory, she doesn’t even know who she’s looking for.
“What… It’s just a game, though.”
The man placed her body on the back of her chair with his arms crossed.
Then she looked at the flickering fluorescent lights that had run out.
“That’s interesting.”
Fluorescent lights weren’t strange.
It wasn’t even because there was a woman named Shin Hye-ji in the neighborhood where she lived before moving.
It’s just a widespread shit game,
-Sue.
“Why are you crying?”
Looking at her wiped hands, she was shaking violently.
Not only that, but her chest hurt as if it had been hacked to pieces.
Before, when I was living like a hanryang, I was always depressed, so negative emotions came to me from time to time, but not now.
In order to change my life, I recklessly searched the Internet and found a factory that provided lodging and lodging.
Without even thinking about it, it had already been several years since I turned off her cell phone, packed only a computer, and headed straight there.
I lived a hectic life, going back and forth between the factory and the dorm without going outside.
Thanks to that, my bank account balance has not been insufficient, but… There was nothing to be said for pleasure.
Then one day,
“The Biography of Pure Love.”
She bought a game without thinking.
A game that was placed in an old antique shop.
“How is this a happy ending?”
I don’t understand it, aside from anything that’s more like a sentimental game than a play.
A happy ending is when everyone is happy.
There are no words that can be attached to such an ambiguous ending.
“Neritiel, Beatrice, Joanna, Yeren, Sophia Drin, Lia, and Shin Hyeji.”
He once again silently listed the names.
Incomprehensible emotions come to me, and with frustration, tears form again.
At that moment, the monitor flickered and something strange appeared.
『Do you want to continue?』
―Price: your everything
A button that appeared out of nowhere.
If you press this button… An intuition came that something extraordinary was about to happen.
However, the trouble was short-lived.
―It’s sweet.
Kim Chang-muk gave strength to his index finger as his soul led him.
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Cabin in the woods.
The witch, the owner of the place, had toxic lips sticking out today.
So will it be,
“Nowadays, barrel runners don’t come to visit.”
It’s already been a month since the candies that I used to take out and eat one by one on a good mood sometimes ran out.
She, who likes sweet things, was a little annoyed by it.
Upon hearing the witch’s words, the target naturally did not respond.
Because she lived alone, her only communication was a letter from an unknown being.
“I’m sure it’ll be safe since the area around the forest has been cleaned up…”
Then, as if she couldn’t stand it today, she clenched her little fists and walked toward the door of her cabin.
-Hello-! I am Ed’s friend-!
Someone’s cry came from outside the door.
In response, Sophia Drin tilts her head for a moment and murmurs.
“Ed?”
I think I heard it somewhere.
She didn’t remember very well.
“How strange.”
It must have been a name she had never heard before, but it was familiar, and she was no stranger to this situation.
Yeah, it’s like a situation I’ve been through a long time ago…
-Kooung.
At that time, I felt the little witch’s heart sink.
As if all the blood in her body had drained out, she became chilly, and her breathing became rough little by little.
“Uh… Uh, now, wait a minute…”
Curse?
No.
Witch… No, she could use more power than her witch, so there was no way she herself would suffer from her curse.
She reached her hand toward her door to see what this heavy feeling was.
-Kiik.
In an instant her tears welled up and her heart swelled, but she did not know why.
Frustrated by the blurry vision, he wipes his eyes with his sleeve and turns his gaze toward the being who came to visit him.
A man looking at himself with a bright smile as if he had the whole world.
Seeing her man, she spontaneously opened her own mouth.
“What, what… Heh, heh, who’s friend… Nine?”
Certainly, someday, the words I said to someone with my mouth.
The man who loved her so intensely that he could even give her life.
Sophia Drin did not know where this feeling that had spread throughout her body came from.
Like that, her body moved reflexively like a beast with only her instincts remaining, and her man did not respond to her sudden action.
She just accepts her as she jumps out of her cabin on her tree, with her arms open.
“Ugh, haaaaa… !”
One side had a happy smile as if it had the whole world, and the other side was a strange sight crying for the world to be torn apart.
The one who was smiling gave me a warm pat on the back.
As soon as she calmed down, a hand stroked her hair.
Sophia Drin went deeper into her man’s behavior as if he was treating her precious existence, and as if she wouldn’t let her go again, she dug into his arms and tied her arms tightly.
This strange embrace lasted for over an hour.
Unlike her consistent man, Sophia Drinn, who had regained her consciousness about ten minutes ago, wanted to hit her head on her rock and die.
She was ashamed of herself as she cried for nearly an hour while burrowing into the arms of a human man she didn’t even know who she was, but more than anything, she felt confused that this hug was so sweet.
Was she herself the woman who so longed for her man?
While such bizarre self-reflection continued, her man spoke first.
“Is the greeting very rough?”
“… Who are you.”
“I am Ed’s friend.”
Sophia Drin knew.
The emotion in that man’s voice was only love.
It was the same for her as well.
“Who is Ed…”
“Well. Well, isn’t that someone who died about a hundred years ago?”
Instead of feeling frustrated by the man’s strange words, I felt my heart tighten.
What kind of situation is this?
I don’t remember anything, and I don’t know who it is.
But if she left the man’s arms now, she couldn’t take her body away from the fear that she would never see her again.
“Do you know me? I don’t even know why I’m doing this…”
– Swish, shush.
The fear fled when her man stroked her hair.
“Witch of the Woods. An idiot who gives away rare and precious things if you bring him cheap candy or groceries.”
At the word fool, Sophia Drin flinched for a moment.
Because she didn’t want to listen to her man who hadn’t even lived a life she had lived.
So she opened her mouth to say something, but
“The lonely witch in the forest, Sophia Drinne. I came back from far away to meet you.”
Those words she spat out calmly, suppressing all her emotions.
She couldn’t say anything.
Instead, she lifted her tear-stained face to face her man.
It wasn’t a look you would see often.
A face that seems to be from another continent.
The lips slowly opened under the face.
“Even if you don’t remember, I remember you.”
Man… No, Kim Chang-mook looked into Sophia Drin’s eyes.
Some of her demon powers she passed on to her when she herself stayed in this world as her demon.
When the owner reappeared on this land, it gave Kim Chang-muk memories of the past.
‘Neritiel, Beatrice, Joanna, Yeren, Sophia Drin, Lia, and Hyeji.’
With his eyes closed, Kim Chang-muk recalled the names of the precious women he loved.
Emotions that were completely different from when he was reciting on Earth came to his heart, and a sense of exaltation came.
‘I am…’
She vowed to find them all.
The disappearance of memories and bonds is trivial.
He vowed to find them again, build bonds, and make happy memories.
As the causal law said, the thorny road that did not end.
‘I will never lose you guys this time.’
The thorny road is now over.
The happy ending was completed thanks to Kim Chang-mook.
But he didn’t know.
The fact that he will add more beings that he will cherish and love.
It is still too early to intuit his own destiny of being eaten at random in the pure love game.
