Chapter 292 – Episode 292 – [Knight of Pure Love: Origin] A Street Without Only Me

* Episode 292 – [Knight of Pure Love: Origin] A street without only me

『Seongyeon-ah, Seongyeon-ah! Are you okay!?』

『Put this in your mouth! Bow your head!』

『Follow me, don’t look back, just look ahead!』

In the video, I am rescuing Seongyeon.

He jumps into the fire at a young age and acts like a hero without even caring about getting hurt.

Even though it was something I did, seeing it from a third party’s perspective made me feel embarrassed rather than proud.

『You prostitute!』

『Don’t look at me! Come on, just look ahead!』

『I’ll open the door, so don’t touch the hook!』

The sight of opening the bright red doorknob wrapped in cloth was thrilling to me.

It seems he was overloaded with adrenaline and didn’t know it, but from my perspective, his palms were beautifully melted.

It’s not just the palm of your hand.

There is no sound anywhere – head, back, legs.

In that state, she led her child outside and eventually rescued Seongyeon.

『… Thank you so much for saving me.』

『I will never forget what happened today. I will remember it for the rest of my life. So please be safe…』

And a familiar line greeted me.

It was something he said to me at the hospital, but this time he said it here.

Something is different.

The scene I was seeing now was the world I knew, but it was not completely the same.

“What is this…”

“Well, I asked if your girlfriend was alive. As you can see, it’s proof that she’s alive and well.”

Are you alive?

I became a child?

“Why… Is he with me…?”

There is no time to ask politely.

My head is already a mess.

From the moment I recognized the scrawny Seongyeon on the screen as the kid I knew, I couldn’t stop sweating.

Freya probably found it funny to see me like that, but kept a torn smile the whole time and forgave me for my rudeness.

“That’s because your girlfriend received my skill and went back to the distant past. You know that, right? It’s the [Regression genre] That’s popular on earth. That’s it.”

… I know.

Whether as a web novel, a webtoon, or even a cartoon… Because it was exposed a lot to the mass media…

There’s no way I, who likes comics, wouldn’t know…

“Seongyeon… Like the main character there… Became a returnee…?”

“Yes. I understand quickly. It’s a great feeling that I don’t have to explain it twice.”

A cold hand caressed my cheek.

My heart touched the back of her neck.

Freya’s small chin rested on the top of her head

She is giving me a big hug…

It wasn’t a hug to express affection; it was a grabbing of her head to prevent me from taking my eyes off the screen.

“That child can’t die anymore. No matter how or how he dies, he will go back. You can decide the time frame you want to go back to, but that doesn’t change anything much. No matter how hard you try, there are always misfortunes that you can’t escape as a human being. “

-A misfortune that humans cannot escape.

That word stuck in my head.

Then Freya happily listed the karma she had committed.

“When he signed with me, he forgot what happened here. Look. Even now, he is spending his new life 〈2nd 〉 without realizing that he has regressed. He won’t even know that he is a regressor until he dies.”〈 Br〉

『You prostitute… You bastard…』

On the screen, Seongyeon continues to cry.

I am praying that I, who is undergoing surgery, will be discharged safely.

“How will that child die this time? In the tower again? Or in a car accident? Murder? … Or just boring old age?”

I kept putting things into my brain that I didn’t want to imagine.

I am the type of person who has a useless imagination and ends up fantasizing about it realistically.

It was truly disgusting.

“Once you die and open your eyes, hell begins from there. You will continue to live without knowing why you became a returner.”

Hehe.

Hehe.

Hehe.

An unpleasant laugh was repeated.

『…』

A constellation lined up between my feet and the red carpet fell for me.

I knew it at that time.

All the constellations here are probably ‘people similar to me’.

“What is that…?”

“That one?”

“Why are there two of me…?”

“Ah~!”

Freya’s cheek touched mine.

I should be happy that such a beautiful woman is touching my cheek, but I was just as happy as my colleagues.

Her mouth was extremely light, as if she liked my reaction.

“That’s you. It’s not a fake, it’s the ‘real you’. While I was saving you earlier, I split your soul in half and attached it to your girlfriend.”

“If I do that… What happens…?”

“This is a bit difficult to explain… So, for example, let’s say he regressed and started anew. In other words, he moved to a parallel world. So Hong Chang-gi is a separate entity from you, right?”

A separate entity… Is it?

I couldn’t explain it logically, but I understood it mentally.

It was especially easy to understand when I saw that [Another me] Existed in the video.

“Look at that. The face, behavior, habits, and even the DNA… Even if it’s exactly the same, it’s fundamentally not you, and it’s not the man she loved, right?”

“… Yes.”

“That’s why I split your soul in half and gave it to you. When he returns, the soul I gave him will find a vessel called ‘Hong Chang-gi’ and reside in his body. Then, no matter which episode it goes to or which Hong Chang-gi it is, it will all be ‘Hong Chang-gi with your soul.’ It’s transformed into ‘.'”

It was difficult to understand, but I somehow accepted it.

No matter what episode you go to or how you meet me, Hong Chang-gi over there is also real.

In the end, that was the point.

‘Is that me?’

Even though I am only half a soul, I am the real me.

“Still, since we were lovers, I guess they would have given me a service~! What do you think? You’re still alive no matter what episode goes by… Isn’t it so romantic?”

Swish.

He was grinning while rubbing his cheek against mine.

Although this woman spoke of her good deeds, what was inside her was different.

“Your half soul will eat Hong Chang-gi and be reborn, and when it returns, it will follow and eat Hong Chang-gi again and be reborn, and repeat this infinitely… And you are proof that you ate yourself and took away your body. You’ll get burned again.”

Karma keeps spinning forever.

My soul, which I shared with Seongyeon, kills me again and again.

No matter which episode I go to or which world I go to, I do it so that I can be myself.

“… Why are you doing this?”

I finally asked.

I wondered if it would have been okay to let her die if this was going to happen, but she answered with infinite brightness.

“Because it’s fun.”

“…”

And the worst answer I had in mind came back.

“You humans are like that too, right? To escape boredom, to get dopamine, you stimulate your brain with fun content, right? It’s the same thing. We gods are always thirsty for fun.”

‘God’ is the word that best suits the image, but that’s why I despaired.

Because with just that one word, the option of ‘persuading’ her disappeared.

“You know? I’m Frey. I’m a goddess closely related to love. That’s how I was born, so I love seeing kids like you. It’s the same with the fresh hearts that think we went through this because of each other. How will that love be torn apart? Watching from the sidelines is also one of my hobbies.”

『『『『───.』』』

The constellations are trembling.

Everyone was trying not to show it, but it was still an instinctive tremor that couldn’t be prevented.

“That kid. He kept blaming himself for asking me to save you. He cried and said that if his castle walls weren’t so crooked, he wouldn’t have led you to the upper floors. On the other hand, what about you? What did you think about and regret right before you died?”〈 Br〉

“…”

“You know what happens if you don’t say something, right?”

The nape of my neck is cool.

I know what will happen if I go against my will… I answered…

“… I thought it was because of me.”

“Why?”

“I treated her as an easy woman to use… I used her like a tool on a regular basis… Furthermore, I thought she would attack me on her own if I left it to her this time too… Furthermore, I didn’t stop her because I thought so…”

I treated that guy like a bitch who could be used, and I couldn’t control my joy, and it lasted for four months.

Even though he probably knew Seongyeon better than anyone else… I let this happen…

I’m the one who built that guy’s castle wall like that.

In the end, it happened because of my greed!

“Do you think this wouldn’t have happened if you had taken the reins or not played with his mind?”

“…”

“If you think like that, you should be punished.”

I grabbed my cheek again and pressed it towards the screen.

I looked at Seongyeon living in a new world with a devastated face.

『You prostitute.』

『I like it.』

Seongyeon is confessing.

This is me sitting in the hospital room after just finishing surgery.

Seongyeon would never have confessed at this point, but this was also different from what I knew.

『It’s just a burden to hear that from a man.』

Moreover, my answer was also strange.

… Man?

Anyone can see that Seongyeon said it with sincerity, but she responded in that way.

“In this episode, you don’t know that she’s a woman. Well, you can’t act the same every time, so there will be times when there’s a difference like this, right?”

-It is not the same story every episode.

-There are parts that change in detail or in big ways.

“Constellation Hong Chang-gi. There is only one thing for you to do here.”

After finishing that explanation, he told me again.

“Make me happy-!”

This was the reason why Seongyeon and I, as mentioned earlier, were brought into this work.

Just because they’re bored, because they want dopamine, to torment us…

“Your girl is trembling at a man with the same face as you! Watch her fall in love! And show me your reaction! Seeing the girl you treated as a tool suffer all her life trying to save you! My heart breaks. Let me vividly enjoy this tearing-!”

I asked even while out of breath.

So I tilted my head and tried to glare at her.

“Ah…”

But.

At this time, I realized.

“──Looking at your face, I can enjoy it for at least a hundred years♪”

“This is how the devil laughs.”

From this moment on, I can no longer call this ‘goddess’.