Chapter 153 – Chapter 152 – Beyond (16)

Darkness comes

As if possessed, I followed the light reflected on the blade of Levatein’s blade and looked into the darkness.

I didn’t come here without a plan.

My characteristic is ‘Question.’

The ability to continuously look beyond, to the end and covet.

So, in order to raise my limits, I had no choice but to face them in person.

‘——–‘

I look at the darkness that comes over me once again.

I expected it, but as expected, that darkness was too far away.

Deep, deep abyss.

There was only one way to bring that guy down in a position I couldn’t covet.

‘Should I do it?’

I asked myself

It’s a question I’ve been repeating myself hundreds of times before coming here, but I repeated it one more time.

I thought that if I was lucky, I would be able to cut down Fafnir in my current state.

But no.

‘Now I can’t cut that guy down.’

So, there is only one answer left.

I had to do it from now on.

Darkness comes and grips Levatein, which trembles precariously like the light of a candle.

Open your eyes. Burn my body

Burn life force, burn light.

The light of Levatein, which seems to be extinguished at any moment, gobbles up my life force and burns.

“Ha…”

Like a candle burning, a thin stream of smoke leaks out.

A thin sigh escapes from the corner of my mouth.

I look beyond the darkness, not the approaching darkness.

After a moment of blood dripping from my eyes and the pain that felt as if the muscles in my whole body were going to break, I…

For a moment it became a light.

Kwaaang-!

Light and darkness interlock.

The darkness and the small light interlocked, but the light never went out.

“Aaaaagh!”

I screamed and burned the light.

Change my everything pour in throw up

Now I had to get over myself.

Ugh…! Awesome!

The darkness in front of my eyes breaks.

Cracks gradually spread from the cracks in the darkness that Choi Seol-yeon broke, revealing the red flesh inside.

But not only the darkness was broken.

In exchange for burning the light, my body became empty.

But once more, I had a chance.

‘Play.’

My body, which has nothing left, is full of vitality.

The light flickers again in the candle that was dripping with blood and only had a wick left.

Again I burned the light.

Damn-! Blasphemy!

All darkness breaks out.

All that remained in front of my eyes was a lump of red flesh.

The darkness was pushed away, and the light blazed.

The red flesh hesitated and backed away as if afraid of the remaining embers.

“Cool…! Fuck…”

Blood came up and spat it out of his mouth.

It was not just blood, it felt like something more was regurgitating.

The red liquid leaking out of his mouth was uncontrollable.

‘As expected, it’s unpleasant.’

Fafnir, who has only red flesh left, speaks to me.

Fafnir stepped back and looked at me with orange eyes shining in the red flesh.

‘You and I are bound by something.’

Fafnir spoke to me in a confident voice, but I couldn’t afford to listen.

“Aim Joon!”

Choi Seol-yeon catches me trying to fall down next to me.

To the extent that it was a miracle that Levatein was still in my grasp, there was no strength left in my body.

“Woo…!”

The blood flowed again, but I managed to swallow the blood thanks to the potion Choi Seol-yeon put in my body.

It was already broken as it was about to break, and the potion didn’t help me recover, it just held my spirit.

That was enough.

‘I realized earlier that I was part of something. Just that I am part of the world.’

Muttered Fafnir.

The guy already saw my condition, and he thought he was half dead, so he didn’t ignite any more hostility.

‘But now it’s different. If the world continues and I gain a greater rank… I will no longer be a mere imitation.’

“Cool…! Don’t be damned.”

With Choi Seol-yeon’s help, I forced myself to stand up.

My body staggered and creaked countless times, but in the end I aimed my sword at the red flesh in front of me.

“You can’t get out of here.”

Blood dripping from my mouth, I declared.

Fafnir kept silent, wondering what he felt from seeing me like that, and then spat out a word.

‘You are broken.’

I know.

So far, I’ve looked beyond and pulled it to the limit, but this time I pulled it too far.

I know better than anyone how much my body is broken right now.

“Kuk-kuk… Isn’t that right? You and I are bound.”

I staggered and spat out Fafnir’s words that I had spoken to earlier.

Fafnir wriggled his red flesh.

“You’ll find out soon.”

I laughed.

I was clumsy and couldn’t control my body properly, but I was confident of victory.

Sparkle.

Below the sight to my right, the status window flashed.

One of the words that popped up under it.

‘[Origin] Has been awakened.’

I laughed one more time.

With that blow that pushed me to the limit, I surpassed myself.

After all, I have awakened the characteristics of Siegfried that I aimed for.

‘What.’

Fafnir asks me if he senses something strange.

‘Just now, that energy… What the hell are you?’

If there had been no tone before, Fafnir’s words now were filled with emotion.

Seeing that, I was even more convinced.

Siegfried cuts off the ever-growing mass of red flesh.

After taking a short break every 9 days, with the cursed man who keeps cutting red flesh.

A promise to confine oneself to the bondage made by Siegfried’s ‘origin’.

The answer came out.

“Ku-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-!”

I laughed like a madman.

Fafnir must have felt uneasy about my appearance, and rushed at me with his red flesh.

“Choi Seol-yeon.”

I looked at Seolyeon Choi next to me.

After she confirmed that Choi Seol-yeon’s dark blue eyes were looking at me, she said to her.

“Until I return, take care of my girls.”

“Ah…!”

Without hearing what she was about to say, I moved forward.

“I’ll be back.”

Without saying a single word.

That buck

I took a step forward, and before I knew it, a piece of red flesh was approaching me.

I looked at the figure of the damdam and ‘prayed’.

What do you want.

Someone asked me

I answered that question.

The line that the previous hero had chanted to save the world flowed from Jeong Jo-jun’s mouth.

Since the contract that had already been made reached the imitation, the origin of Jeong Jo-jun was established.

Dig-.

Choi Seol-yeon, who saw Jeong Aim disappearing from sight, muttered in a daze.

“Jojuna…?”

Not only Jung Joon, but also Fafnir was gone.

As the magic that Fafnir was encroaching on gradually disappears, the world gradually regains its original form.

The sun shrouded in darkness illuminates the land, and the earth that was eaten by demons sparkles with ocher light.

A white beam of light falls on the ground.

It was a scene that Choi Seol-yeon, always trapped in the dark and longing for the light, wanted so much.

Choi Seol-yeon blankly stared at the front where Jung Joon had disappeared.

Sparkling sunlight and pure white dust.

There was no Jung Joon anywhere.

* *

“Huh~”

It makes a coquettish snort and straightens its drooping body.

As the loosely stretched muscles tightened, the drowsiness remaining in my head suddenly cleared.

Early in the morning, a woman with bright red pigtails woke up in the sunlight.

“Ah.”

Looking at the figure of a man on the wall, the woman murmurs.

The woman said a bitter morning greeting to the man who was smiling stupidly wearing a leather scarf.

“Did you sleep well?”

There was no answer. But she continued talking to herself casually, as if she was used to it.

“Yes, yes. I slept well too.”

The woman raised her body from her bed and washed her face as if trying to awaken her remaining sleepiness.

Washing her face, the woman stared at her own reflection in the mirror.

“…”

Three years ago, she realized that her self as a girl in a catsuit had turned into her woman.

But even though she herself has changed, she still has her heart stuck three years ago.

Realizing that fact again, Aris laughed bitterly.

After briefly washing her face, Aris skillfully put on her apron and started her cooking.

The finished rice makes two servings.

Aris placed her bowl of rice across from her and ate her rice.

While she herself ate her rice, she murmured Aris, though the rice did not diminish at all.

“Tasty?”

To wash her dishes, when she picks up a rice bowl and throws the leftover rice into the food waste bag.

Aris must have admitted the truth then, and she burst into tears.

“Huh… You bastard… When are you coming…”

Aris sat down on the floor and cried sadly.

It was a repeating morning for three years, but she always waited for a man crying sadly.

* *

Three years ago, the moment when the dimension with the other world collapses and the two worlds connect.

The world has changed.

Let’s talk about big changes.

The city where the Daemon Subjugation Academy was was eaten by the border of another dimension and disappeared, creating a portal to go to another dimension.

People crossed over to the world beyond and began pioneering.

At first, people were reluctant to migrate to the world on the other side, which was like a wasteland.

Soon after realizing that demons did not appear in the other world, countless people crossed over to the other world.

However, there were people who couldn’t go over to the other side of the world.

Hunter.

In order to defeat the demons remaining in the existing world, those who remained were engrossed in their work today.

“Sisters, I’m here.”

And Aris, who had just left the school to subdue the great devil and got a job as a hunter, opened the door to her office today.

A wooden guild office full of green.

Looking at Bianca and Rebecca sitting there, Aris greeted them.

“I’m here?!”

Cheonghwa makes coffee from the water purifier and says hello.

“Yes.”

Morning at the guild office, not at the class of the Great Devil Subjugation Academy.

Wearing a suit, not a school uniform.

For some reason, Aris thought that it was a day when the change was greatly felt.