Chapter 178 – 27. White Night (16)
[Diary – 27,436th]
I opened the front page of the thick book.
Even at a glance, the letters filled up the paper.
At times, it was scrawled as if it had been engulfed in madness, but other pages were clearly written in very neat letters.
Yes, it was an old record from Pira County.
The only rope that made it possible to endure the long time that may have been repeated, and the only way out to be freed for a while from the mental pain that is gradually eroded and crumbling.
Actually, it wasn’t that long ago that I felt that Pirahyun was unusual.
Exactly when was it?
When he borrowed Seo Ju-ha’s ability and approached me? When the new semester started and he suddenly disappeared?
…To be honest, I seem to have noticed her oddity a little since the sea dragon incident.
From openly using the bizarre ability of absorption and emission without hesitation, to accurate prophecies, and even space travel.
I didn’t think much of it at the time, but looking back now, I don’t think she even had any intention of hiding it in the first place.
[At first I was just confused.]
[It was a daily routine to run amok like crazy and collapse from exhaustion.]
[No one else understood me. They were just robots who were stuck in a fixed life and stupidly did their job.]
Early records were full of madness and indignation.
If I read more, I think I will be stained with that eerie feeling, so I hurriedly turned the page.
[Dozens of regressions. Only then did I know That this world is just a fragment of an infinitely repeating story.]
[The moment I understood the principle of this terrible world, an unknown ability was born. Fragments of information that I have never experienced come into my head by itself. I decided to call this strange ability ‘absorption’.]
Subsequent records revealed a more docile attitude.
No, rather than being gentle, did he become cynical?
If you realize that the world you have lived in is simply a world in a novel that is close to kindling a fire, anyone has no choice but to do so.
I flipped through the pages again.
Compuntur, who had been watching me from the side, disappeared before I knew it.
In the midst of flickering lights and thick silence, I just repeated reading a person’s record.
[I learned that emission is also possible if absorption is used in reverse. How can I use this ability?]
[If you use this power, you may be able to resist the reset of the world. It is to build a very small area of my own, completely free from the flow of time.]
[Succeded. Succeded. Finally, finally succeeded…]
[I will make this place my resting place. It is my own area where no one else can interfere.]
It seems that this is the resting place written in the diary.
Looking at the books that look old even at a glance, it seems that the sanctuary has been completed quite a long time ago.
And, reset the world.
As soon as I saw this word, I immediately thought of a possibility.
Maybe it’s why Pirahyun is so obsessed with me…
[Gained access to information outside the world.]
The sentence I found after reading more for a long time, I was able to be sure of my guess.
Why she wanted me, what attracted me.
And maybe the person who brought me into this world wasn’t actually a writer…
[I got only one chance. Outside of this novel, it is an opportunity to pull existence from a dimension called reality for them.]
[Intentionally twisted the world and ruined the ending. I will find the one who is most astonished and angry at this trashy ending.]
[…Found.]
“Yes, it was you…”
Now it feels like all the information fits.
The fact that she spit out meaningful lines in the novel, the ‘original work’ that Pirahyun intentionally ruined, and the fact that she naturally became the same class as Pirahyun after being possessed.
Not only the sea dragon incident, but even the prophecies that an ordinary person would not know at all during the NIS raid.
It was all she did.
The prophecies were also close to what they had experienced based on thousands or tens of thousands of lives.
…However, for some reason, there was almost no agitation in the heart.
Was it because she had been half aware of it before, or was it because she had come too far to be surprised by this?
A large book with only the last chapter left.
At that time, the book suddenly turned into a halo of light, scattered in the air, and disappeared in an instant.
When I checked my surroundings to see what was going on, I saw the shadow of a person through the dark space.
“Hi, long time no see.”
Pirahyun, the culprit behind everything, walks towards me.
With an opaque smile that shows no emotion.
Reunited after a while, she was still beautiful, still enchanting, and stared at me with dark red eyes as always.
“It was very difficult, right? I’m sorry. But think of it as something that couldn’t be helped, because it was all to bring you back.”
“…Did you possess me?”
“Hehe, isn’t that too direct? Well, I won’t deny it.”
The moment Pira’s delicate fingers tried to get entangled in her arm, she hurriedly withdrew her body and refused to touch her.
But there was not even a hint of agitation in her eyes.
She just silently approached me one more time.
Realizing that it was a meaningless resistance, I finally gave up my arm.
Every time her fingers traced my arm, a strange tactile sensation ran through her body.
Just as she was about to be distracted by the atmosphere that quickly became sticky, she opened her mouth again.
“Finally, we’ve come this far. This point will be the final chapter of the novel, and our story has just begun… You’d better accept it quickly from now on.”
“How many times did you repeat it?”
“About 30,000 times if I count only what I remember…?”
A mindless monster is in front of you.
Wearing human skin, with a seductive smile.
“I’m willing to give up at least once for you. You can bring Ha-yul, Seol-ah, and even Ju-ha at least once. Of course, the moment the world returns, you and I will be strangers at all.”
“I mean going back…”
“It’s literally. This world only preserves a few years of time. No matter how hard you try, you can never get along with the beings bound by the world.”
Saying that, she smiled.
In the end, you look like you’re saying you’ll follow my words.
“…Let me ask you one thing.”
“It’s okay.”
“Is it you who approached Siana?”
Was the suspicious person who approached to release the curse on Siana also Pirahyun?
At my question, she lightly nodded her head.
It was like that too.
“It was a necessary step to bring you deeper into this world. I had to create motivation for you to follow through to the ending, and in order to do that, the heroines of the ‘original’ had to be modified to some extent.”
“Heroine…?”
“Yeah, I’m the one who made Yoo Seol-ah defeat you, and made Seo Ju-ha a cloaker eater. I did it all for you, so can’t you look at me with such eyes?”
Her outburst of shocking words dazzled her mind for a moment.
Turning normal people into half demons and controlling their brains at will is for my sake?
“How could you—”
“Jihoo, sophistry doesn’t work. I know everything? What did you do with hypnosis?”
“Still, I was trying for our comfort— huh.”
Suddenly, her lips pounced on me.
It was a kiss so intense that for a moment she forgot to even breathe.
The moment I inadvertently let go of her mind at the strong scent of her body, her Pira string grinned and fell from me.
“That doesn’t matter anymore. It’s a moment that will all disappear anyway. The important thing is that you and I are here together.”
Pirahyun made me have a lingering attachment to this world.
Using the original heroines, not anyone else.
Indeed, her plan worked perfectly, and until she came here, she had hardly thought of going back to her original world.
However, it was a little different now.
In the end, she wants only me and her two to remain in the world.
Even if the world is reset, if there is a companion named Lee Ji-hoo, that is, a variable that does not exist in the existing novel, that variable will not be reset.
That’s what she wanted, and she’s been plotting such a huge conspiracy all along.
Just for me alone
“If the.”
But.
I couldn’t seem to forgive her.
“What if I want to go back?”
“…Huh?”
“What if I want to go back to reality? The first quest you gave me. I’m sure there was talk about returning to the original world, right?”
[The ending is the same as the original, but there are enough service scenes. As long as these two things are satisfied, we will return you to the original world whenever you wish. You can remain in this world and enjoy it with the heroines until you are satisfied.]
Clearly, such a sentence existed.
To my question, which I said confidently, she answered with a smile.
“Jihoo, I really couldn’t have put that condition as it is?”
She is coming
It feels like I’m going to be sucked in even if I breathe.
Maybe this is part of my ability, the thick scent emanating from her proximity makes my actions completely uncontrollable.
“Anyway, the future is fixed. Now that all conditions have been met, your will is no longer important.”
He reached out and grabbed her chest.
Soft yet firm at the same time.
As if possessed, he buried her face deeply between her breasts.
“Yes, yes. Nice…”
Pirahyun calmly stroked my hair.
I wonder if I have dispelled my doubts about my behavior, which seems to have completely let go of reason.
But.
After making up my mind in a hazy mood, I quietly took out my cell phone from my arms.
“… Huh? Why is the phone all of a sudden?”
Then, he immediately crushed the capsule.
Woo-wook Shu—
Aaaaang!
The magic stone contained in it, now an essence, received a huge shock and immediately began to emit tremendous energy.
With a huge storm of energy between us, we faced each other.
Pirahyun, who became embarrassed as if she hadn’t cared about this at all, she hurriedly tried to run to me.
“Now, wait a minute…! If you do this, you too…!”
“Doesn’t care.”
Sagna once told me.
Essence is so powerful because it is an unchanging energy that is gradually formed along with human growth.
But that’s why the magical power of the essence can never be undone.
The ability to cast with the lifespan of an Awakener as collateral sometimes exerts miraculous power.
One chance to shake the laws of the world and make the impossible happen.
I am going to use that opportunity right now.
Hypnotism, not a trivial technique that simply distorts the perception of the target, but a more powerful and extensive power.
The power you firmly believe in sometimes affects reality as well.
That is, what you wish for.
It is a kind of power that can be called a miracle.
Reality manipulation.
The target is the entire world.
The contents of the operation are—
“Change this world so that it reaches a perfect end!”
If I can’t stop Pirahyun.
It’s enough if she does what she wants.
I can’t forgive Pirahyun.
That means I can’t forgive myself either.
The sin of playing with the emotions of the heroines with hypnosis can never be washed away.
That’s why I gave up my will to remain in this world.
The option to return to the original world was also abandoned.
All you want is sacrifice.
Atonement in my own way of wanting to free everyone who suffers from repeating my short years of life.
It will be accomplished by changing reality.
Pirahyun no longer has to live a painfully repetitive life, and I can repent for the wrongs I’ve done to other heroines in my own way.
Of course, the cost of that wish would never be small.
The magical storm gradually grows.
The storm, which had been raging with such force as to tear my body apart, soon began to swallow everything in the room.
