Chapter 271 – Chapter 271- Secret of the Soul (18)

Just the memories of the past that I saw in my dreams.

I couldn’t be sure if it wasn’t Chuck Dayoon who made the world unstable.

Because important intermediate memories were largely cut off.

But.

‘Because I heard from Hana noona, I knew it wasn’t her fault. Stop acting now.’

Right now, in the state where I have Lee Ha-na’s ability to regenerate, as soon as I insinuately talk to Dayoon Chuck.

“… This.”

It was only after seeing Cheok Da-yoon moan bitterly and vainly.

I was now convinced that Chuck Dayoon was taking all the blame on himself.

He was Chuck Da-yun, who had fooled me skillfully and calmly until now.

Even so, he seemed unable to think of deceiving me until he came to meet my soul.

“How far have you heard?”

Unlike before, Chuck Da-yoon asked me in an emotional tone.

The voice filled with futility and melancholy showed how much Chuck Dayoon had suppressed his emotions until now.

Actually, I haven’t heard anything, but if I didn’t match the atmosphere here.

It was obvious that the situation would be irreversibly ruined, so I spat out the words in the most serious atmosphere.

“We only met for a short time, so I didn’t hear much about it. But, at the last moment, Hana-noona told me that it wasn’t Dayun-noona’s fault.”

“……”

Chuck Dayoon grabbed the mask half covering his face.

“..Haha.”

Chuck Da-yoon let out a thin laugh and ran a hand through his hair.

“Is it.”

Chuck Da-yoon’s scarlet eyes shimmered.

Chuck Dayoon, who showed various emotions, at some point became calm again.

Silence fell.

I spoke to Chuck Dayoon, who didn’t say anything.

“Obviously, in order to atone for his sins. He said it was a duty he had to shoulder.”

I looked at Chuck Dayoon.

Chuck Da-yoon did not avoid my eyes, but looked at me.

“It was all lies. You just took the blame on yourself, embraced it by yourself, and disappeared.”

“Right.”

Chuck Dayoon did not hide it.

Seeing Chuck Da-yoon calmly speaking about his purpose, he naturally became angry.

“Then…Why?”

I spat out words in a low voice as if arguing with Dayoon Chuck, and asked Dayoon Chuck, who feigned indifference.

“Why did you have to?”

“Because I had to.”

Chuck Da-yoon gave the answer without hesitation.

“You know that.”

“……”

When I didn’t say anything, Chuck Dayun naturally continued.

“That I inherited Darae’s madness.”

Startle.

With my slight reaction, Chuck Dayoon nodded his head knowingly.

“That’s why. The reason you didn’t hostile to me from the start was because you knew that fact from the start.”

That was right.

I also heard from Merlin that Chuck Da-yoon took Darae’s mania.

Also, there was a time when Chuck Dayun killed Darae’s father in front of Darae’s eyes and gave advice to ‘never hold a sword again’.

I didn’t view Chuck Dayoon hostile from the beginning, and I thought he had some reason.

It’s just a matter of old age, and Chuck Da-yoon, who is never insensitive, knew my attitude right away.

“The madness of being a sword horse… Instead of allowing you to reach the tip of the sword, it gnaws away at you that much.”

Chuck Da-yoon raised his trembling fingers as if to guess.

“How far do you think I’ve come now? And how far do you think I’ve lost myself?”

Chuck Dayun’s wrist, wrapped in bandages, continued to point toward the handle of his sword.

With each passing day, Chuck Dayoon’s obsession with the sword grew stronger and stronger.

“That is, somehow.”

Let me spit out that there must be a way I can work it out.

As if Chuck Dayoon expected it, he immediately denied it.

“Hey, do you know why Hana couldn’t get rid of my madness?”

“…!”

Play.

Even if only part of it is possessed, Lee Ha-na has the ability to restore everything to its original state.

If he knew of Chuck Da-yoon’s madness, there was no way he would just leave it alone.

That said, even regeneration could not cure his madness.

“Madness is like a mental illness. You can also see it as my personality. Can you change someone’s personality with your magic?”

I couldn’t answer.

It may be possible to reconcile and reverse souls.

To touch the spirit inside of it and completely change it.

It was an area I had never thought of.

Still… I thought I could do something, but that wasn’t the problem.

“And if you reverse all of this, how can you be sure that the same ‘existence’ can remain in its place?”

That was the problem

I wasn’t sure if the person whose personality had changed could be called the same Chuck Da-yoon.

Chuck Dayoon smiled bitterly as he saw me in silence.

“That’s it. We’ve come too far already.”

Outside the cave, Chuck Da-yoon slowly got up while watching the sun slowly set.

Did he instinctively realize that his bandaged wrist would soon be able to hold the sword?

He was stroking the handle of his sword.

“If from that day, from that day on, if I had only worn a mask and hadn’t committed any more killings… It might have been fine, but I’ve come too far already.”

Chuck Dayoon used his teeth to sever the bandages that bound his hands.

Click.

Suddenly, Chuck Dayoon’s hand was gripping the handle of the sword.

“The mania has engulfed me everywhere, to the extent that it even affected the original owner, Darae. So…”

Dayoon Cheok gazed at the orange sky setting outside the cave, then slightly turned his head.

Chuck Da-yoon’s face, which is only half visible, is covered with masks.

He couldn’t read his emotions.

“I have to go mad and disappear. Only then will Darae be safe.”

“For a moment…”

I followed Chuck Da-yoon, who was about to go outside.

Even so, I couldn’t make Chuck Dayoon shoulder everything.

At first glance, he intended to follow Chuck Dayoon, who was going to the place where the shadow fiends were sealed.

But as soon as I took a step, Chuck Dayoon’s fingertips moved.

Peeing-.

“Uh…?”

Click.

Chuck Dayoon’s sword was slightly pulled out.

No, I was entering after being pulled out.

I felt the sight approaching the floor, and only then did I realize that Chuck Dayoon had struck me with the back of a sword.

“Hold on a little bit, now there’s almost a week left. Just a little bit… Then…”

Chuck Da-yoon’s voice in his ears gradually diminished.

Took.

And I lost consciousness.

* *

Dream.

As always, I was in a dream that mirrored the past.

What was reflected in my vision was this one.

Lee Ha-na was in the middle of pouring magic on the shaman, who was so badly injured that his ribs were exposed.

“It’s one.”

Beside Lee Ha-na, her father tightly closed his eyes.

“I could.”

Even though all of her thin, white fingers were stained with blood.

Lee Ha-na didn’t care and touched the severely cut wound.

“Hana, no matter how much you’ve learned witchcraft, not even for a week.”

Father stopped talking.

It was because the shadow extending from Lee Ha-na’s hand made up the upper body that disappeared before anyone knew it.

Squeak-.

When the shadows that made up the body were released, all the open wounds were gone.

Lee Ha-na’s leg was weakly broken.

Before Lee Ha-na fell to the floor, her father immediately supported her.

“Your legs are relaxed from tension, so take a break.”

My father sat me in her chair.

And only then was the father able to see Lee Ha-na’s expression.

Even though her hands and clothes were drenched in blood, Lee Ha-na was smiling broadly.

“Master.”

“……”

It wasn’t that her legs were loosened by her tension.

Relief.

Overcome by her sense of relief and happiness that she had saved this man, she sat down.

With a broad smile, I spoke to her father proudly of her.

“I… I did it.”

Seeing her so blindly, her father was speechless.

And times change

Before I knew it, I was looking at me and her father after I had matured.

“It’s one.”

“Yes, Master.”

Lee Ha-na was crying.

“Why are you crying again, I told you. Don’t think of dying, think of transcending.”

“… Yes.”

Afterwards, I quietly nodded her head.

No matter what I said, she judged that I would not stop her crying.

Father scratched her head, calling me suddenly and seriously.

“It’s one.”

“Yes, Master.”

“If I disappear, what did you say you must protect?”

“To protect the family of shadows, and to take good care of Master’s son?”

“That’s because the wisdom of taking care of one’s own will do well, so leave it alone. You know what I always said.”

“……”

Below I looked at her father.

As if to tell her father to hurry up, she stared at me.

“Haven’t I said too much?”

Lee Ha-na sighed.

“But, I want to listen to it one more time before I go.”

Dad smoked a cigarette and grinned.

Then I put on a pouty face and told her father.

“Never.”

Moving her pretty lips, I spat out what I had to protect.

“Never, never bring the dead back to life, right?”

Father nodded her head.

And she patted her head with me below.

“I remember it well, so you can go now.”

“Ugh.”

Tears welled up in Lee Hana’s eyes.

Her father smiled mischievously, then waved her hand at me.

“If you cry more, you’ll only lose. Because from now on, I’m going on a date with Sia.”

“You look good.”

Below I pouted her mouth.

Father laughed.

“Of course, she’s my wife.”

My father disappeared into the land of celebration.

The next day, Lee Ha-na saw her father and her mother disappear in reconciliation with the light, and she wept.

Next to her is Kim Ji-hye, who holds back her tears and hugs my shoulders.

There was Chuck Da-yoon, who was calmly watching the scene.