Chapter 135 – Last Request

‘Is he… Dead?’

Kim Joo-won looked at Lee Seo-ha, who began to cool down little by little, with disbelief.
I couldn’t believe it.
As much as she had her dimensional abilities, even at her current level, her defense would have been overwhelming.

There, she is now the one she will never let go.
She thought of giving her life for her, but her heart seems to thump at her face, which grows colder little by little.

“Seoha, are you kidding me?”

He asked cautiously in a trembling voice.
Not only her heart, but even her head refuses to accept that she is dead.

“Are you standing?”

Even so, her fingertips tremble when she sees her not answering my call.
Before she died, she remembered her last words.
The words to kill Lee Seo-ha.

‘Again, just like that time…’

Grin at it
She swore never to do the same thing again.
Why can’t I get rid of the habit of not thinking about her future and end up creating this result?

Behind my back, I feel a white, blue light slowly attacking me.
However, if I step back to save my life here, there won’t be even a trace left.

Body overload.
The skill that gave me an overwhelming advantage in 1v1 combat power with Seoha Lee.
With the long-term battle with Lee Seo-ha in mind, the electricity that was deliberately adjusted in intensity is flowed throughout the body to the extent that the body burns to the limit, raising the body’s performance to the limit.
In order to prevent Seoha from being engulfed in this explosion, she slashes the front with all her might with a powerful electric shock.

“Lee Seo-ha…”

While the light faded, Kim Joo-won saw Lee Seo-ha standing in the center of the explosion.
Her last request.
Because she had to save her new child, she was there to kill her to keep her word to kill Lee Seo-ha.

“I will kill you.”

Grinding his teeth small, he took a posture to wield the Thunder Sword.
But even that for a while.
I feel my whole body burning, and I recall for a moment the duration of this state based on my experience.

Just 2 minutes.
Too short a time to do anything.

But.

“…?”

A second that can be divided into 30 divisions, which is not enough for the current self, but is overflowing enough to be relaxed.
Take a step, and thrust your body forward.

As if time has stopped.
While everything is moving slowly, only I do high-speed maneuvers.

“This…”

Whether or not the body is stressed.
It wasn’t enough that the blood vessels were growing, whether or not there were bruises all over the body due to bursting of some blood vessels.
Whether or not the muscles couldn’t stand the overload and screamed in pain.

Squeak-.
Following the trajectory of the thunderbolt, intense lightning exploded as if leaving a scar on the space itself.

However, it would not be Lee Seo-ha who would suffer like this.
She too, in order to respond to my movements beyond the limits of cognition, has honed to a considerable degree the activation of prediction in conjunction with the dimensional eye.
Judging by her memories of that day, the day of her merciless defeat, she must have passed this round with almost no loss of her abilities.

“Kuk!”

She defends it with a dimensional barrier, but Lee Seo-ha bursts into moaning at the sword attack that destroys the entire barrier.
The last half of the round.
Her hands get busy with the attack when everything is at its climax.

Maybe, the time limit given to me is 1 minute.
If I start responding, the moment I get caught up in something, there won’t be any backlash for me either.
It won’t be more than 1 minute.

‘In the end, there is no other way than that.’

I close my eyes for a moment as I see Lee Seo-ha trying to escape from the shock caused by the ensuing attack.
Still, a skill that cannot be used due to lack of training in this episode.
However, even to save Seo-ha and Sae-ah.

– I give my all

“Already, that skill…?”

The bewildered voice of the bitch who should be killed is heard in his ears.
You wouldn’t have expected it because you would know how long you’ve been training here and now.
In addition, using this technology at the current level is the same as burning the body all the more.

However, to me who needed immediate power, such a risk was already nothing.
Because that moment was overlapping in front of my eyes.
When he, who had only been in the 3rd playthrough, thought he knew everything, saying that he was a regressor, and was in danger of dying while running rampant.
The moment when Lee Seo-ha, who was once a man, threw herself to save me.

“Lee Seo-ha, let’s end it here.”

Lee Seo-ha’s embarrassed expression caught my eye at the activation of totalization, in which the body itself became lightning.
But it’s over now.
In fact, what I’ve been holding my breath for her all this while is her only, her affection for her, her regret, and her guilt.
And it was only a soul contract.

“Like sinners, you die, and I die too.”

Then he stepped forward.
It was simply moving, but the air was torn apart by the overwhelming speed, and the resulting shock wave rang all over the world.
That embarrassing moment.
Only now was my chance to beat Lee Seo-ha.

But.

“Joo Won, it seems that you have lost your senses.”

Was the moment that I believed to be my last chance, not the last chance, but the last chance to make a fuss?
How she had copied her technique from Seoha, right before she killed her, she vomited her blood for a moment at the blue blades stuck all over her body.

“Cuck!”
“Did you really think I would be embarrassed?”

Could it be that he copied Seoha’s technique in that brief moment?
Dimensional energy shaping is a technique that Seo Ha created on her own to overcome this woman in front of her.
It was a skill I hadn’t seen in previous episodes…

“It took a long time to copy it. How the hell did you do this?”

Her body collapses as she begins to fall to her knees.
Looking at Lee Seo-ha, who is taller than me, I feel that my time is running out.

“I need to clean things up a bit.”

The lightning that covered his body went out.
However, is it that I don’t care about my condition?
As soon as she gains her overwhelming advantage, she creates blades beside her with an annoyed tone.

‘What did I do that for?’

The regret he had always had started to eat into Kim Joo-won’s head.
She hated herself for being weak and unable to fulfill the request of the woman she loved, but she felt despair over her body, which did not move at all even when she tried to move.
Even her thoughts fade in her slowly closing eyes.

‘Joo Won.’

Now, sooner or later, the return will be activated.
The trigger condition for my regression is the death of the user.

‘Kim Ju-won.’

Along with a creaking sound in my ears, I hear an auditory hallucination as if Seoha is talking.
She wanted to atone.
Even if you curse at me for giving me sickness and giving me medicine, I wanted to heal the wounds I gave you.

‘Kill Seoha.’

I wanted to grant you that last request.
It was the moment when I was about to lose consciousness with that thought.

‘No, kill me.’

I look at the collapsed woman for a moment, who may still be breathing, gathering her last remaining strength from her voice that suddenly came from her.
Little lightning.
But enough energy to put out the dying flame.

‘Good job.’

However, for Seo-ha, who thought she was dead, it might have been the catalyst for her resurrection.
Some kind of light dwells in Seoha Lee’s body that was struck by my lightning, and her collapsed body disappears before her eyes.
Then, as she feels someone’s warm hand on her chest, her eyes slowly close.

“Great job.”

Hearing the warm, longing-to-hear voice cut his consciousness.

*

Is this what it feels like to face a character in a novel?
I feel different from the main character Kim Joo-won, who was not good at her first meeting.
However, the feeling of meeting the characters is also short-lived.

“But, why am I here…”
“Would you believe it if I said it was on the other side of the unconscious?”

Soon I am aware of the reality that she is dead, and look at her with her stupid eyes.

“As expected, I’m dead…”
“It’s almost like that, but to be precise, it’s not dead yet.”
“Then?”
“However, consciousness is cut off, almost on the verge of death.”

Life and death.
You’re still on the borderline.
On the verge of stepping into the unknown of death, perhaps from which there is no turning back.

“I see. So I’m not dead yet?”
“Now, when this awakening is over, you will die. Unless you use a special move.”
“A special number?”
“You are a writer.”

Lee Seo-ha’s blue eyes are directed at me, and her two eyes stare at me.
The eyes stab me as if they wanted me to do something.

“The one who created me, made Kim Joo-won, and created the world I live in.”
“…”
“And you worked harder than anything else to escape from reality.”

I scratched my back at her words.
I felt as if I had been caught embarrassingly.

Escape from reality…
How do you know that

“Because we became one body, we saw things we didn’t want to see and learned things we didn’t want to know.”
“…”
“I’m sorry for spying on you.”
“It’s okay. It’s not like you wanted to spy on me, but…”

She took her hand to her chest where it had been stabbed by another Seoha Lee.
In the place where there should have been a hole, there was evidence that this place was not real.

“So what are you going to do now?”

I touched the clean school uniform with no scars and no blood.
At the same time, she let out a small sigh at the voice that seemed to contain bones somewhere.

“What are you talking about.”
“If it’s a writer, there won’t be a development in mind next.”

At her words, he gazed at Lee Seo-ha.
How far do you know?

“However, if that unfolds, you, not me, will die completely.”
“Does not matter.”
“Why? Don’t you want to stay with Kim Joo-won, whom you liked so much?”

Seoha Lee looked at me and smiled bitterly.
But, why is it that she doesn’t seem bitter?
Was she, was she already accepting that her own story was over?

“That’s right, as much as I loved you, I’m sure you’ll be happy if you’re with me.”

Her cold hand rests on mine.
Then, her heavy words hit my head.

“But now, you’re the one who needs Joo Won by his side.”
“…”
“Writer. Do you know why Joo-won liked you? It’s because Joo-won still likes me.”

I was speechless.
Is it me who needs to be by your side?
Even if he didn’t know it would turn out like this, it was I who drove him to hell.

“But, as long as I am here, Joo Won’s story won’t end.”
“…”
“Writer-nim, as you know from watching this world, no matter how much the work ends, the lives of the characters do not end. This is especially true of Joo-won. He just finished the work with the conclusion that he saved the world, but his return is not over and he is still like that. I am suffering.”

A single tear flows from Lee Seo-ha’s eyes.
The tremor in her voice deepens, and I can hear that she is crying.

“But I…”
“No, only you can finish this story.”

However, her straight eyes make it clear to me that the road I have to go is over there.

“This world is a space created by the author.”

Then, once again, he carefully handed me words to awaken the tall man.
I close my eyes for a moment at those words that seem to tell me what I can do.
Even though the world is rolling by filling in the missing parts of itself, in essence, it is a world I made.
As the work progressed as I wrote it, maybe…

“Hey, Lee Seo-ha.”
“Yes, please.”
“I’m sorry to ask you this last time, but maybe…”

Carefully, I convey my thoughts to her.
Maybe, something unpleasant.
But, was Seoha Lee secretly hoping?

At her request, she smiled brightly and nodded her head.
The moment she nodded her head, the world turned into light.

Then what caught my eye was the dusty sky that signaled that the fight was still going on.