Chapter 80 – Episode 80- Deep in the Mountain Ongdalsaem Who Lives Who Lives (4)

Game over.

It’s a phrase I’ve seen endlessly, and because I’m so used to it, I laugh helplessly.

A clear word that tells you that you couldn’t clear it.

Every time that letter came out, I always pressed ‘restart’ without thinking and continued the challenge.

A hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times.

After countless trials, I eventually defeated the bosses I thought were impossible, one by one, and eventually I cleared the game with a single sword.

So now I am full of confidence.

Controls learned through life changes, fraudulent weapons and jobs that were not available before.

That’s why I didn’t think ‘after that’.

After this world I couldn’t clear.

“You you…”

Countless thoughts run through my head.

There were obviously a lot of words he wanted to ask, but for some reason the words that came out of his mouth were cut off languidly and cut through the air.

The world where the Demon King Castle appeared and the Black Flame Dragon Fafnir appeared.

Choi Seol-yeon, who has been living alone in that world for two years.

Since I knew better than anyone else how dog-like demons and events were taking place after entering the final chapter, countless scenes of Choi Seol-yeon suffering in that world flashed past in my head.

“Huh…”

Choi Seol-yeon sees my expression and smiles bitterly.

Her happiness that she is glad that she sympathizes with her, and bitterness that reminds her of her own situation.

Seolyeon Choi smiled like that and looked at my face.

Yes, I was staring at only ‘me’ clearly.

From the moment she came out of Ongdalsaem until now, Seolyeon Choi had been looking at ‘me’ in an unnatural way.

Even though she must have been surprised by my appearance when we first met, Choi Seol-yeon greeted me with a bright smile.

He intentionally ignored the blue flower next to him.

It was the same when I came down to this soup restaurant.

I tried not to make eye contact with people on the street.

She didn’t say a word to her aunt who came to take the order.

Choi Seol-yeon was acting as if she was only conscious of angels coming out of this world.

As if you don’t want to see the ‘other part’ of this world.

When she hears Choi Seol-yeon’s story, her mind analyzes Choi Seol-yeon’s actions so far.

From one of her trivial actions to all of them, the information about Choi Seol-yeon that all of her obvious actions tell me is really…

It was pitiful.

“You… You… You couldn’t clear it? It doesn’t make sense, how can you not clear it?”

I stuttered her words, denying the information Seolyeon Choi had told me.

Clearly, in my head, everything Choi Seol-yeon had done was in sync, but I spat out the words.

“How could you, who was promoted as a shooter in the community, not be able to clear it?

I looked at Seolyeon Choi.

“Why the hell did you not clear it?”

When Seolyeon Choi catches my gaze, her eyes twinkle.

The chestnut brown eyes full of sadness, starving for affection, capture my image with a blink.

“That’s right! Originally, I would have cleared it… But, well, various bad conditions overlapped…”

Choi Seol-yeon muttered as if she couldn’t help it.

“That… First of all, the admin was an idiot trying to blow up my world… And I did weird things just because I was hacking…”

She continued to blurt out her words, but she spoke again of her conclusion.

“So what’s wrong?”

The bitter words emanated from her remorse and her loathing of herself.

“Hey…”

I quietly called Seolyeon Choi.

“Yes?”

Choi Seol-yeon, who pretends to be okay, raises her trembling eyes and looks at me.

There were so many questions running through my head right now, asking for answers, but they didn’t matter right now.

“You worked hard.”

He smiles on the outside, but inside, a twisted sadness wriggles.

He longs for people and is obsessed with stories, while at the same time hating and blaming himself for speaking.

Noticing Choi Seol-yeon’s condition only now, I comforted her by saying, “I’ve had a hard time.”

Her two years of loneliness and the guilt of not being able to save the world.

I couldn’t sympathize with her wounds that had already been dug deep, so I had no choice but to say that I had suffered.

“Ugh…”

Choi Seol-yeon’s eyes burn red.

A drop of tear fell down his cheek as he fluttered his long gray eyelashes.

“Ugh… Ugh…”

She covers her eyes with her wrists, but tears that have already burst once run down her cheeks drop by drop.

Choi Seol-yeon’s heart was already broken to the point that a simple word of consolation could become a catalyst.

“Huhhhhh”

I watched in silence as her nose turned red and she sobbed.

And while Seolyeon Choi was conscious of my gaze, she weakly cried.

“Whoa… This is so…”

An angel murmurs bitterly beside me.

As if she wanted to ask Choi Seol-yeon a lot from earlier, she was an angel who was looking for an opportunity to ask her questions.

So, Choi Seol-yeon shed tears at her soup restaurant for a while.

Her torn wounds may not have healed, but Choi Seol-yeon’s expression looked much more comfortable as she shed tears.

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“Aww.”

Choi Seol-yeon smiles happily and bites off her ice cream.

Choi Seol-yeon greedily puts the layered vanilla cream into her mouth.

“Hey, you… Does that all go in?”

A cafe located downtown.

We took Choi Seol-yeon, who had become more comfortable, and looked for a place to hear more information from her Choi Seol-yeon.

In the summer weather with bright sunlight and a sticky wind, we soon took refuge in a cafe. As soon as we came to the cafe, Seol-yeon Choi looked at the menu and saw Seol-yeon’s eyes flashing. Paid for everything

And for the first time in my life, I realized that the cafe had all kinds of menu items.

Tteokbokki, bread, coffee, ice cream, and hot dogs.

A table above the cafe was filled with a table full of all those menu items, and Choi Seol-yeon had already eaten half of them.

“Whoa…”

Choi Seol-yeon slows down her eating with an expression full of satiety to see how full she is.

“Of course everything goes in. I haven’t touched this kind of food for two years… And I have to go back soon.”

“What? Going back?”

“Sure. It’ll be a big deal if I stay here, right? Operator.”

Choi Seol-yeon’s chestnut eyes stare at her angel.

Looking at Choi Seol-yeon’s eyes, which seem to be expecting something, she sighs her angel, and she says.

“Yes, that’s right. Unfortunately.”

“Oh, what can I do?”

The anticipation disappears from Choi Seol-yeon’s eyes, and Choi Seol-yeon again picks up the food in front of her and eats it.

“Wait a minute, are you going back?”

To put Choi Seol-yeon back in that hellish place.

How much more broken she will be if I put that guy who is staring at me in hunger while pushing food into it again…

What?

In an instant, a person I had forgotten came to mind.

Maya.

He has curly brown hair and is as shy as a squirrel.

So shocking things happened one after another that I forgot the first and most important event.

‘Hee hee… It’s cute…’

Maya, reaching for a duck floating on the pond, disappeared with a shriek of ‘Huh…?’.

The fact that Choi Seol-yeon, who came here from a world that had already been destroyed, exchanged with Maya…

Could it be that Maya is in that world?

“… Hey. Your world has passed the wave.”

First of all, I asked Choi Seol-yeon from the most urgent question.

“Yes. The exact time I come here is the day after the wave ends.”

First of all, the fact that one definite risk factor was ruled out relieved my mind to some extent.

Wave.

In the final chapter, the demon king appears and the demon king Fafnir becomes twice as strong on the 9th.

Every hour, the world stained with demonic spits out terrible screams, pouring out its by-product demons onto the earth.

And those demons are full of monsters that Maya, a first-year student at the Great Devil Subjugation Academy, cannot deal with.

Obviously… If Maya gets caught up in that wave, Maya will inevitably ‘die.’

No, but since you’ve already fallen into that world, your life is already…

“Maybe he’s still alive?”

As if reading my mind, Seolyeon Choi suddenly answers the question in my head.

“What?”

“The person who changed me because he was alive. Aren’t you worried about him?”

“Uh. That’s right, but…”

She immediately tried to ask why, but she was speechless at the thought of this situation.

Whether or not Maya survives and the fact that Choi Seol-yeon has to go back.

This structure was somehow driving in the direction of sacrificing ‘Choi Seol-yeon’.

“I’m probably still alive. When I was called here, the place I was was is the shelter I was living in. Inside the shelter, there are various defense designs that I hacked into the system, and a defense system that automatically blocks it in any case. I’ve also built it… It’ll be safe until I go back.”

Choi Seol-yeon calmly dipped the bread with a fork.

I pretend to be okay, but I, who have the latent ability of ‘sense of feeling’, gained a lot from Choi Seol-yeon’s simple actions.

The slightly trembling eyes and the trembling chin.

Choi Seol-yeon was anxious now.

“Choi Seol-yeon.”

An angel calls Choi Seol-yeon.

As Choi Seol-yeon looks at the angel, the angel asks Choi Seol-yeon with one eye about her firm determination.

“How did it come over? It came over through system hacking… Isn’t it?”

While the angel was talking in the middle, it was regrettable that he was silent for once, but then continued to speak.

“Uh, no. You know I don’t even have the ability to do that in the first place. The scope of hacking I can do is limited to our world. I was also brought here unexpectedly.”

“Then what the hell…”

An angel grabs her blonde hair in anguish.

“I don’t know anything about this case. There’s nothing I could do as I was only aware of some aspects of the system. That’s why…”

Choi Seol-yeon takes off the last plate and shakes it off.

“I have to go now. That’s all I can do. Can I return it to that world?”

“Keuk… Yes. If you run the event again and then go in, it’s fine.”

“Then, let’s go. It was my greed that took the time until now, thank you operator.”

“… No. He used to work for us, but at this level…”

Jump up.

Choi Seol-yeon gets up from her seat.

“Let’s go. Due to the Ongdalsaem event, if you stay longer, your friend in the pond will be in danger.”

“You…”

I silently looked at Seolyeon Choi.

Choi Seol-yeon’s feelings that can be seen even when she doesn’t have feelings.

With no room to hide her feelings, Seolyeon Choi was trembling.

“Let’s go.”

However, Seolyeon Choi said the same thing again.

Again, though she is a horse that drives herself to her limbs.

And I couldn’t reply to Choi Seol-yeon’s words.