Chapter 201 – Cruelty

Eight days, you pushed Seo Ye-rin?
Didn’t she commit herself?

‘…I can’t remember the scene at that time. Why?’

The Rae Band was embarrassed that Seo Ye-rin couldn’t remember her when she committed suicide.
Scholar and Kitz do not try to recall the memories of that time like Raband. Each of them watched Dre’s actions with different thoughts and feelings.

Dre just stared at her practice without saying anything.
The occasional blink of an eye is all movement.
It was training that broke the silence.

“I know everything. Dre. Nobody knows you better than I do.”
“You know best? You know me?”
“Yes. The reason you helped me. You were trying to keep the promise you made with your father to live kindly, right? Even though you felt that I was strange, you helped me for that one promise.”
“That’s right.”

Su-ryun’s smile deepened at Dre’s affirmation.

“It started like that, but you were quite happy. I only brought in Seo Ye-rin, Seong Si-hyun, and Han Si-young because they were untainted and cheeky guys, but to my stomach’s contention, you got along well with them and were happy.”
“That too. That’s right.”

[Dre was happy.]
[So, when I lost them, I was upset.]
[However…]
[Did he do all this because he was really angry?]

“By the way. Even though you were happy, you kept feeling frustrated in a corner of your heart. Why? Your instinct is to crush, trample, and dominate others to be satisfied.”

The answer came after a while.

“It’s not like that.”
“No. Back then in the dojo, you expected Jinpae or Kang Guhan to bring their gang, right?”
“…When are you talking?”
“Shit. It’s the day Seo Ye-rin was broken and took refuge in your dojang, and Seong Si-hyeon died.”
“…”
“Still, I called Rachel Han, whether I had a last conscience or for some other reason. The fact that you turned away from them for a while doesn’t change.”
“You’re writing a novel.”
“Novel?”

Curry.
A cute laugh that doesn’t suit the situation echoes in the tension.

“It’s just that you don’t realize what a scumbag you are. Did you really commit all these atrocities out of anger over your friends’ mistreatment? How many people have died by now? Guess how many hundreds must have been left in pain and despair.” Are you going?”
“…”
“With mere anger, I can’t do it like you. I can’t enjoy it like that. Shall I tell you the answer to your heart that you don’t even know?

The corners of her mouth curved like a crescent moon.

“You wanted her to deviate, right? That’s why you couldn’t help but be angry, you just made an excuse for her rampage. In order to go on a rampage, you pushed her away, then you rationalized that we pushed her Seo Ye-rin. That he did it.”
“…It’s not.”
“No long. To play the main character of a tragedy, you pushed Ye-rin off her rooftop and didn’t even pretend to be good. Or did I just do it ignorantly? It’s a situation you don’t know.”
“…”
“My story. There’s a reason why the story that you follow your instincts without knowing your feelings is a fact. Do you know what that is?”

Dre looked at Suryun as if demanding an answer.
She grinned.

“You’re listening to my story without killing me right away.”

Dre opens his mouth a little.

“If you were the way you were, you should have shut my mouth and started torturing me. The reason I didn’t do that is because I want to know about your own way of thinking that even you can’t explain yourself.”

Soo-ryun, who had been gasping for breath while leaning against the monument, was now calm.

“Yes?”

Dre didn’t answer.
The muzzle was raised and pointed downward.

“No one knows you better than I do.”

As if she was really happy, Su-ryun smiled.
She doesn’t stop there and continues the story as if she really wanted to talk.

“Mr. Dre. You are such a strange bastard. Apart from being cruel or anything, you are out of touch with human emotions.”
“…”
“You are what’s important to you. Other than that, it really doesn’t matter at all, right? That important thing is your promise to your father. There’s only one thing. That memory dominates all of your thoughts, suppressing your own nature, and even though you’re frustrated, you just keep going. I am living with patience.”
“Whether that’s true or not is aside. Is that wrong?”

Su-ryun laughed once more at Dre’s carefree voice.

“It’s wrong. A person is a being who continually builds and renews memories, and lives by sustaining them. There is no one who gets caught up in one or two memories like you and throws all other desires away.”

Su-ryun said that it was wrong as a person and it was pitiful.

“That’s why I tried to save you. If you had come under me, you would have awakened your true nature and had fun. You would have lived like a human being.”
“I see.”
“Yes. That’s right. Oh, by any chance, can’t you accept that you’re abnormal? I guarantee you… Even if there really is a god who created everything in the world, even the gods would think you’re abnormal.”

The one who nodded affirmatively at Su-ryun’s words was the scholar who was watching.
Dre is an incomprehensible being.
How the hell did he manage to spend 10,000 years of tedious years that were no different from repetition?
For what reason?
No, for whatever reason, I don’t understand.
That’s not human.
It is incomprehensible, and only the shape resembles a human, which only gives off discomfort.

“I assure you again. You will never forget me. Never. You will never forget me who made you even more angry.”

Therefore. Su-ryun said confidently, as if assuring.

“You and I are inseparable. Without me, you’ll go back to being a boring, upright human being.”

A confident voice.
But. The reaction this time was different.
Dre, who had listened blankly until now, smirked this time.

“After all, are you begging for your life?”
“…”
“It’s wordy, but to sum it up, let’s be together with you, isn’t this?”
“Yes. That’s right. But does this sound like begging for your life?”

Whoop whoop. Soo-ryun, who let out a laugh, had a confident attitude.

“I’m giving you a chance. Your only chance to be human.”
“What’s the chance? You killed your father, your family, and all of your immediate subordinates. What kind of power do you have…”
“There is mind reading.”

Soo-ryun put his hand on his chest and shouted confidently.

“Do you think Shin Jin-seung succeeded on his own? You are welcome. I am the true ruler.
“You’re full of confidence.”
“Because it’s true. I can be a ruler anywhere, and that’s just a fact. No bragging, no bragging.”
“Saying so, tell me to trust you? Can you trust me? I killed both your father and brother…”
“Doesn’t care.”

Su-ryun’s eyes burned with a certain desire.
Rabband seemed to feel a thread of emotion in those eyes.

“Even if I don’t have a family, I just need you.”

But Dre rather. In response, the expression on her face disappeared.
His expressionless expression lasted for a moment, and then he smiled.

“I’m sorry. I don’t trust you.”

At Dre’s words, Su-ryun said as if she was frustrated.

“You proved your worth. You single-handedly destroyed me and all my forces. So I just sincerely thought that we could stop enslaving and start on equal terms…”
“Ah. It’s okay. It’s okay.”

Dre waving his hand.

“In the end, I just wasted my time.”
“…”
“Take it all away.”

Throwing his gun to the floor, Dre smirked.

“Even if you’re all right, even if I lead a substandard life, I don’t want to be with you.”
“…Why?”
“Read it with the masterful mind-reader. Or did the triggering condition of the masterful mind-reader not be met?”
“…”
“I’ll let you know as a gift to go to the nether road. Actually, there’s nothing special.”

Dre said, with a sneer and contempt all over his face.

“What kind of man would want to be with a woman with a disfigured face like you?”

After a long silence, Soo-ryun opened her mouth.

“…Th-That’s it. The face can be fixed. I can.”

Su-ryun stuttered for some reason.
He was blinking and perplexed, as if he had heard something very unexpected.

“What is it? Could it be that he was hurt? He has a surprisingly cute side.”

Su-ryun couldn’t hide her agitation and started talking gibberish.

“I, I… I am of the same kind as you. No one understood me, and neither did you…”
“Don’t be ridiculous, bitch.”

[With the contempt I learned from Han Si-young.]
[Takes the smile of a fantasy character seen with Seong Si-hyeon.]
[Imitate Seo Ye-rin’s cold attitude.]

“Don’t open your mouth. It’s disgusting.”

[He couldn’t keep his composure, so instead of embarrassment, he wrapped himself in anger.]

That.
It was the sound that Su-ryun’s words had caused some ripples in his heart.

“The only good thing about you was a pretty face, but now you have an ugly face as well as a heart. Isn’t it?”
“…How. To me-.”

Soo-ryun tried to say something, but he shut his mouth and took a step back.
But behind the cliff.

“Do not come.”
“I don’t like it. But Soo-ryun. How do you want to die? Should I strangle you? Or should I punch you in the face until you die?”
“How could you… How could you…! You couldn’t treat me like this…!”
“Why can’t you treat me like this? You did it first. It seems that the people of the world are misunderstanding that they are living for you.”

Su-ryun continued to backtrack.

“Seo Ye-rin is dead and Han Si-yeong is as good as dead! Now I’m the only one left. But…”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

He slowly reaches out and Dre smirks.

“It’s the climax.”
“…”
“Don’t open your mouth any more. Just die.”
“Do not come!”

Soo-ryun took a backward step, and the edge of the cliff she was stepping on shattered.

“Ugh, kyaaaaa!”

Dre caught the falling water lily.

[Because this kind of ending was unacceptable to him. He saved her.]
[He wanted to end her training with his own hands.]
[I wanted to kill her by dropping her at her own will.]

“Bye Bye.”
“Uh, ah…!”

That moment

Aaaaa!!

An achromatic vortex, or a stream of power that looked like a gentle wave, appeared behind her and swallowed her girl in an instant.
Pak. Dre withdrew and prepared for her future. Nothing happened.

However, the training has disappeared.

“…What kind of special ability?”

[Training was a special ability that uses mind reading, and ‘manipulator’ was also a special ability.]
[So he thought of the possibility that another special ability took her out.]
[He was happy. Because I thought this fight wasn’t over yet.]
[And after three months pass, he realizes.]
[The fact that training is not in this world.]
[This is the moment when the only means to evolve his anger is lost.]
[Then what did he do after that?]
[Have you forgotten your hatred?]

Kwak Kwah Kwah Kwah.

The background of the memory world turns dark.
Did it represent Dre’s feelings?
But… Do you have any more memories to show here?
What else could there be after this?

The memory world showed the story afterward.

First of all, sometime alley.

The people I saw before in the place where my first memories began. A male student who is bullied and extorted. Attacker. The victim was still there.

What was different from before was that Dre beat them endlessly.
The victim was frightened and ran away from the overwhelming violence to the extent that his bones were exposed.
And he crippled the bullies who were left there, crying and begging for help after beating and beating.

Hospital.

It is not a new hospital, but a ward that looks ordinary at first glance.
Seong Si-hyeon is lying on a white bed with her eyes closed.
Next to him was a woman who was naked and trembling.
A girl who looked bad at first glance, with her hair dyed yellow blonde.

“Ha, ha… Don’t…”
“Shihyeon, I brought your ex-girlfriend. Her name is… Dasol? Was it Harin?”

Seong Si-hyeon couldn’t open his eyes.
Just colored. Just exhale

“What shall I do with this year?”
“Well, I was wrong. I betrayed Shihyeon because the bad guys ordered me to, I did it because I liked it…”
“Sihyeon.”

Dre, who continued to call her lying classmate by name as if the woman’s opinion didn’t matter, moved her hand at one point.

Ppaeok ppaak phuuk kujik ppaak.

Wow. Save…

In that way, the ex-girlfriend who betrayed Sihyeon in front of Seong Sihyeon died.

The scenery changes.

“Hello, Jaeheon Yoo.”

It’s a name I’ve heard of.
Small body, dark skin, unadorned appearance and narrow eyes.
Rabband tried to remember where he had heard the name, and the scholar answered.

“He’s Han Si-young’s boyfriend.”

La Banda. He moaned.
Only the name came out, but it was the first time he came out in real life, but Raeband saw him and involuntarily frowned.
He’s a clumsy guy who I don’t understand how he ended up dating the bright and stylish Han Si-young.

The place is in the basement.
There, Yoo Jae-hun was shivering while tied to a chair, and his side was full of bloody surgical instruments.

“Why, why are you like this? They say you’re Han Si-young’s friend…”

Damn!
Yoo Jae-heon groaned and cried as a couple of his teeth splattered on the floor in one hit.

“Hey. To be honest, what did Siyoung lack?”
“Huh. Heh. It’s not that…”

Right after Yoo Jae-Hun was told he was beaten until he was honest with Dre, he was beaten without mercy.
He concocted excuses, such as that he was threatened and that Han Si-young had been ignoring him, but Dre was perfectly aware of her feelings and psychology, so the lie didn’t work.

The guy who continued to suffer finally spoke his true feelings as if in a fit of fuss.

“It looks like a rag!
“Dasol…Ah, no. Including Harin?”

Dre mentioned Seong Si-hyeon’s girlfriend, whom he killed, but Yoo Jae-heon was silent.

“…”
“Ah, training must be included.”

Yoo Jae-heon being ridiculed for how he could embrace such cheap things.
And again the brutal beating began.
At some point, Yoo Jae-heon said in an evil voice.

“Fuck! What’s wrong with a guy teasing a dick, you fucking bastard! And that bitch Soo-ryun only took pictures and gave it to you…”

“Oh, okay, okay.”

Pliers.
As soon as the tool enters his mouth, Yoo Jae-heon trembles with his eyes wide open as if he hadn’t thought he would do this.

“I know enough.”

As if when he mustered up the courage, Yoo Jae-heon immediately cried and prayed for help.
And Dre killed Jae-Hun Yoo after harassing him.

Even after that.

Everything related to Shin Jin-seung or Kang Goo-jin, really destroyed everything. Break it Breaking again…
Then, all of a sudden, the slaughter stopped.
Probably… Killed everyone involved.

I see peaceful landscapes.
Dre wandered aimlessly, as if her destination had been lost.
Seemed powerless.
At that appearance, Raband and the scholar were not sorry, but as if. I felt anxiety and fear like the night before the storm.

The scenery changes.

Ocean. It is a small port.
Dre stood with his hands in his pockets, staring blankly at the sea.
Beside him stood a woman of great style.
Red haired woman. She was rachel
She took out her cigarette and put it in her mouth.

“Do you want to?”

Dre silently shook his head.

Whoa. Cigarette smoke rises to the sky.
The silence didn’t last long. Enough to burn an entire cigarette. Rachel opened her mouth.

“I have no idea what you are doing.”
“…”
” ‘ ‘I just thought he was an adopted kid to do something meaningful before he died. I know it’s true that you didn’t learn anything from him. Now he’s a complete killing machine… No, what can I say about you?” Should I do it?”

Dre didn’t answer.
Just look at the sea with empty eyes.

“It was good that you didn’t kill the ‘manipulator’. In the first place, I wasn’t cooperating with Shin Jin-seung’s because I liked myself, and maybe I was quite intimidated by you. Besides, I also used my strength from behind… And…”

Rachel cracked her wry smile and she began to say something close to herself.

“Prosecutors. Politicians… Those high-ranking people. All the things people know as dogs and pigs are panicking and wandering around without even knowing what happened.”

Giggle Rachel, giggling, continues her words in a voice tinged with laughter.

“Then the conclusion that came out only covered the incident. Those who were Shin Jin-seung’s subordinates, those who were more stiff than anyone else, were scared by a high school boy…”

That’s why Dre still hasn’t been caught by the police, Rachel said.
And right after that, she snorted her snort and let out a self-deprecating voice.

“No, actually, I’m afraid of you too.”

Then Dre turned her head to look at her.

“You’re an unknown guy. I don’t think they’ll be able to catch you even if the police come in, even if the military comes in. I have a good sense? It feels like everything is about to fall apart.”

Even until the world perishes.
After her words, another silence fell.
Then at some point A scolding voice came out of Rachel’s mouth.

“You killed even the lightest of sins.”

Dredo replied quietly, as if she couldn’t let her go this time.

“…They were collaborators.”
“Originally, they were good. They didn’t even know themselves.
“It’s just a pretense, and it’s just that his true nature has been revealed.”
“Even so, there were a lot of kites who didn’t die. People are weak, so they can’t help but be influenced by their surroundings somehow. But you trampled on all the buds that might grow in the future.”
“Because I deserved it.”
“…Do you think you’re right? Do you think it’s only natural that we never give you a chance?”

Rachel’s tone turned passionate.

“You don’t know the word forgiveness?”
“I know the words.”

Under. Rachel snorted in amazement and pointed at Dre.

“You know what? Your dad wasn’t like this either. He knew forgiveness. Doesn’t he teach forgiveness?”

Dre’s expression. It was distorted for the first time.
That’s all, Rabandand and the scholar, who are out of memory, seemed to have their hearts grabbed.
Looking at Dre, a high school student who has a gap that is painful to talk about by force alone.

“You are evil if you insist. It is not justice.”
“So what?”

Dre’s face turned black. What? Hallucination?
Calibration of the World of Memory?
For whatever reason. It was hard to see that he was already human.
Dre said in a smirking voice, his red eyes squinting in the darkness.

“Let’s meet up, bitch, bitch?”
“…”

Silence again.
Dre was dead.

“It’s good to attack with the cubs hiding nearby and waiting for the sniper signal.”

Rachel didn’t answer.
She just raised her hand and gave her signal.

And nothing happened.

“…What’s the point of fighting with a co-worker’s son? They’re here in case you go crazy and run over.”

Rachel turned her back.

“Don’t worry. I’m just going to help you get on with your day-to-day life. I’ve got the energy to do it. Things are going so well. I’ve got great allies.”
“…”
“So live normally. And give up on finding training. Seeing that you don’t get caught in my information network, you either completely disappeared or… Didn’t you actually kill and forget about it?”

For Rachel, her legitimate suspicions made Dre only frown at her.

“…Disappeared. In front of my eyes.”

She could have asked if that was true or not, but Rachel didn’t.
She just said she quietly.

“…Even if the water lilies are still alive somewhere. Forget it. You’ve already paid me back many times over.”
“…”
“Try to forgive me once.”

Rachel said to the silent Dre, moving her steps.

“You should try.”

Dre looked up at the sky in silence.
Rachel stopped her steps for a moment.

“Come to think of it, why did you come to the port? Who are you waiting for?”
“…I came to see the sunset.”

Dre answered after a while, and Rachel laughed.

“Your father loved the sunset.”

And she left

Time passed.
Dre, watching the reddened sky and the setting sun, said nonchalantly.

“Shall we play a game?”

Kwa kwa kwa kwa

The world changes

Dre got one of her rooms.
She also gets capsules for virtual reality games, and she buys all kinds of games, comics, etc. And locks herself in her room.

The three people watching thought at the same time.
I don’t know why the conclusion that it was a game came out right after the slaughter without a sense of reality.
The narration adds an explanation as if to clear up the question.

[It was to play the game Seong Si-hyeon recommended.]
[At first, there was nothing to do, so it was just a pastime, but later, I found myself enjoying the game and fell in love with it.]
[Game was the greatest pleasure and the world to him.]
[I met all kinds of people from all over the world and learned about the joy.]
[The adventure was enjoyable.]
[Dwarves were fun, elves were beautiful, and dragons were noble.]
[He thought he wanted to meet the creatures in his fantasy.]
[Dre continues playing the game.]

Okay.
He continued playing.
The scholar put on a tired expression.
Memories that won’t end no matter how fast forward you go. Memory. Memory.
Kitz was able to change the time in increments of years.
He manipulated time quickly.
The memory world flows rapidly at a tremendous speed.

[Virtual reality allows you to enjoy a longer time than the flow of real time if you use a ‘shortcut’ that overloads the brain.]
[However, if you use this method, it is not only difficult to learn, but it is a method that ordinary people complain of pain after some time and cannot use it for a while after that.]
[Dre didn’t complain of pain no matter how expedient he tried, probably because he was born with a physical body in the first place.]
[The time spent in the game is much longer than in reality.]
[Eight days may have learned human emotions in games that are not real.]

A year has passed.
Still in game. Cleared a certain game.

“Clear… Um. Not yet.”

End game title on screen
Cleared but not yet? What do you mean?

Ten years.

Still in game. But at that point, it seemed like there was no more game to play because I had cleared all the games.

“…Now there’s nothing to do with Alfie. Still can’t do it.”

Next hundred years.

He has mastered all kinds of games, not just Alfie.

“It’s fun. The story is the best. The dragon is good.”

Dre, who was moved and wept tears to the point of waking the onlookers, murmured quietly.

“…But I won’t forget.”

His tone of voice has changed strangely.
I became completely otaku.
However, something was still strange.

Next thousand years.

By this time, Raband had an expression of horror beyond surprise.
Two thousand years. Three thousand years. Four thousand years…
Every time it ebbs and flows, Dre plays the game… Plays…

“…Is that a human?”

In the end, Raeband said a question that everyone would have, and no one answered.

The moment when time is about to pass.

Chijik.

There is noise now. What?

“Record God.”
[This is a record that cannot be shown.]
“Has there been a problem with Eidre?”
[No. He has no problems with him. However… I was only ‘tested’ in the form of a game.]

Katz understood the words and opened his eyes wide.
Perhaps the gods intervened at this time.
Dre probably didn’t know that.

‘No, maybe I just didn’t care.’

Kitz narrowed his eyes.

The eight-year-old had previously talked about how he had been abandoned even by his god.
In fact, he doesn’t even have the common sense that ordinary users have.
But for that matter, he is quite an exception.

The gods evaluated him by making him completely recognize it as a game without his knowledge.
Interference in other dimensions consumes causality to some extent.
Did God accept causality because of a man who had nothing to do with him and wasn’t even his user yet?
Can you leave someone who has suffered such a loss…?

As if Katz’s surprise had nothing to do with it, Dre’s memories flowed quickly like a wave.
The time in the air also accelerates exponentially.

Five thousand years. Six thousand years…
Seven thousand.
Eight thousand.
Gucheon.

And ten thousand years.

Every time he finishes a game, Dre, who said he won’t forget something, puts down the pad that controls the shooting game.
Wearing a loose-fitting hoodie, he smiled brightly and nodded his head.

“It’s a god game.”

Ten minutes to be silent like that.
Dre let out a breath.

“But, I will never forget.”

[Eighteen.]
[Experiences other than bizarrely precious, mind-boggling memories are dismissed as nothing.]
[For him, not being able to kill training and Shin Jin-pae was a mind-boggling memory in a bad way.]
[He tried to forgive as Rachel said.]
[And he couldn’t forgive him even after 10,000 years.]
[What he means by ‘what to do’. Plural.]

“I can’t forgive you. Let’s kill it too.”

And put down the eight days game.
From the next day, the journey in search of training and newcomers would begin.

[On this next day he is called to Elyunar.]

Yeedre close up.
Those black eyes that were smiling brightly soon burned red.
That’s anger.
A scare that will set everything on fire, a world that cannot be hidden and cannot be tolerated.

Hwareuk!

Cowardice actually set the world on fire.
The world of eight days’ memories burns away…

Pah ah

It’s over here.

The thing Dre promised to show to Kitz was a memory before coming to Elyunar. The story after this is unknown.
As for what kind of person Yeodere is now, he now has to infer.
Laband concluded.

“It’s not him, chief.”

The voice was trembling.
You have 10,000 years of memories, but you can’t forget one memory, and your hatred is amplified?
The ominous burning and rolling of the background is proof that the hatred has intensified.

Yeidre is crazy.
It is the embodiment of anger and madness.
Scholars also agreed.

“He’s out of control.”

The body isn’t the problem.
Mental strength cannot be discussed at the level of a human being, and it is at a level that even higher life forms are considered to be ridiculed.
And in the world of Elyunar, mental power… Leads to great power.
He will become an unmanageable gigantic being.
As much as you don’t know what to do with your emotions right now. He is the worst

“He’s evil. Colossal. No, colossal. Maybe he’ll grow up to be the worst.”

Rae Band was especially concerned about whether he really pushed Seo Ye-rin off the roof.
I couldn’t confirm it because my memory was fuzzy… But if that’s true. He is a being who can trample on other lifeforms for his own pleasure.

A sword of light to a guy who has a mental power that easily surpasses that of a human and hides a killing instinct? Don’t say funny

It needs to be dealt with right now.
Before that being colludes with a dangerous being and becomes unmanageable.

And Katz said.

“Record God.”

By the time the resounding voice had stopped, Katz continued her words.

“There’s a part you didn’t show on purpose.”

The two members of the hero’s party looked at Kitz with puzzled faces.

[…There is.]

The record god agreed.
And Kitz understood that he hadn’t shown the memory for himself.
From the beginning, the record god warned of the danger of being intervened if one looked at these memories.

“That memory, the existence you warned of might intervene… No, is the intervention certain?”
[Yes.]
“Nevertheless I want to see.”
[It won’t happen.]
“Why?”
[Because I will die.]
“…”

The Recording God knows all of Kite’s abilities.
The power of his being closer to the resident gods of Elyunar through the previous rounds.
Even so, does that mean that the existence to intervene is that dangerous?

“I’ll take it.”

At those words, a being appeared in front of them.
Middle schooler? Elementary student?
The strange boy who is young but doesn’t feel childlike must be a girl in her childhood.
It was as if the memories of that time were formed as Kaitsu longed for it.

[Do not look.]

Kitsu ignored the record god’s words and walked towards the little girl.
And the little girl laughed.

“Go away.”

Next moment.
Dark red flames covered the world.