Chapter 189.
Before figuring out what was happening, blue light bored into the eyes.
“Relic ……!”
When I noticed what Iben was trying to do, I panicked and raised my hand to cover my eyes.
“What is this ……!”
“I didn’t expect to do this to you either. You’re so boring you can’t even spare the strength.”
“Take it away! I don’t know anything!”
“Obviously ……”
Desperately, I closed my eyes and shouted, but Iben wouldn’t even listen to me. What to do? What to do? Just like that, am I brainwashed too? Heart beating wildly. As I looked around in fear, the blue light hit my eyes even more intensely. I took a haphazard step back to get rid of it.
However, Iben strongly pressed my shoulders so that I couldn’t escape. Without being able to see in front of me, struggling like a bug hanging on a spider’s web.
“Look carefully, Penelope. Holding on like that is what will happen when I eventually find the shard.” “Uh……!”
Pressing hard against my shoulder, Iben whispered in a small voice in my ear like he was telling me a secret.
“The mirror is complete, and you’ll have to watch helplessly as your favorite person is at my mercy.”
Her words ended at the same time that an azure blue was taken over something flashed before my eyes. It was one of the last times I had passed through that cave. Countless welcomes and such disturbed the mind. It was hard to stay sane.
“I don’t know about the shards! So stop …….”
“The people who hate you are now going to grab you in the name of love, hold you prisoner wherever they can, and eventually tear you to pieces and kill you.”
“No, let go of this!”
“Poor Penelope …… Until then, tell me where the pieces are ……” Huff, puff. The swipe of something confounded the vision. But was it fortune, or misfortune, that was all. It held up better than one would think, except for the tossing of the brain.
To repel Iben, struggling fingertips touched soft skin.
“I told you to let go.”
“Ah.” A low moan made my eyes widen in reflex.
“Ha, ha……”
We grabbed each other’s shoulders and wrists and entwined them. As a result of the strong grip on Iben’s wrist and lifting it upwards, the shard of the mirror clinging to my face fell a little. The blue color leaked out of it, still stinging my eyes intensely, wondering what was going on. Opening my eyes, as if caught, a shimmering welcome disappeared. Roughly breathing, I intuited that I hadn’t been brainwashed and lifted the corners of my mouth.
“What to do? Your brainwashing seems to have gotten to me.”
“Ah. That’s impossible?”
But in the midst of my scoffing, Iben didn’t panic either. Just tilted his head slightly and asked rhetorically.
“Then what are you most afraid of? I thought you were most afraid of me.”
“No, not that.”
“Don’t lie. Then why are you desperately trying to hide the carving shard from me? Just give it and you let it go.”
Saying to me that I didn’t know about the shard didn’t seem to be trusting at all, and I stopped for a moment at Iben’s words.
‘…… Why are you desperately trying to hide it?’
It’s not actually grandiose, it’s just a system point. Because it’s a quasar ……. But …… just give it and leave me alone, do I have to try so hard to hide it? I know what the end is.
Seeing the end doesn’t make me sure I can escape the madness, and I don’t want to die the way the game’s story goes.
Just give it to me and leave? The way to get out someday if you look for it is …… Suddenly even that kind of thought is crazy.
“Hmm? Answer me, Penelope.”
Iben pleaded with me with that angelic face. The spirit sobered up at once. I took a sharp bite and immediately spat it out through clenched teeth.
“…… I didn’t. You said you had that kind.”
“And what is your greatest fear of death, Penelope?”
“…… What?”
“Watching.”
In an instant the conversation turned. Frozen for a moment, thinking about Iben’s question and biting her lip, her blue eyes glanced at something. The wrist I’d grabbed, the shard of mirror I held in my hand.
“Here’s the death you’re so afraid of.”
The blue seeping out of it faded. But was Iben’s brain chattering because it was unlucky? It calmed, and strangely, frantic anxiety began to well up.
“I’m sorry, unlike you, I’m not too scared. Dead is dead.”
I glanced at the debris with wary eyes, bluffing. My words made Iben close his eyes and smile refreshingly.
“No way. What did I just hear?”
“…… What?”
“The sound of you mumbling something about not wanting to die.”
“What ……” Focus wavered. Even I don’t know how the hell I know the thoughts that passed quickly without realizing it. No. Did you say it out loud?
It wasn’t. I sure as hell didn’t do that ……
Notice my wavering vision. Iben slowly lowered his head and squeezed his face in front of his nose.
Shards of sprayed blue and perfectly similar large eyes and eyes met.
“Your desperate premise is wrong, Penelope.”
“Wait a minute.” Something was wrong.
Without hiding her eyes, she whispered.” Let’s start again from the beginning.”
“Now, wait, that’s, not ……!”
“Di-Ani 29-” With the sound of the spell, the body bent and was jerked somewhere.
There was a loud thump-snap into the water, and an azure blue before his eyes.
***
“Ho, ho!” Roughly, I inhaled, and when I opened my eyes again, I was standing in the middle of a familiar space. I looked around in a cold sweat.
“This is ……” It was my bedroom. The damn first doggie, and one that had been earned by suffering in silence, a single room in a semi-subterranean area. The place where I lay my tired body every day, and strangely, it felt as if I had been back for far too long.
I looked around the room with unfamiliar eyes.
At that time. Thump-thump. A sound that vibrated in all directions. At that moment, an unknown strange odor began to burrow into my nostrils.
“Uh. What’s that smell?”
Like the smell of fish, the smell of rotting food. That horrible odor grew stronger and stronger, making one gasp for air.
I covered my nose and frowned as I found the source of the odor. But soon found where a large number of flies had gathered. On top of my mattress.
Dark flies crawling on the cooing quilt. But not only that. In that crevice black, but a yellow thing was wriggling …….
“Ah, what is this ……!”
I was dry heaving from a shocking swarm of bugs out. At that moment, movement was heard outside the door.
“Geez! What the hell is going on here!”
“So. The young kid who just entered college died young.”
“It was a vibrant girl. I read recently that school life is busy, for goodness sake …….” The last voice was familiar. It was like the super auntie on the doorstep. The relationship of making breakfast with milk and saying hello together every day …….” What does …… that mean?”
I looked aimlessly with shaky eyes at the flies and maggots on the roaring mattress. Since I wasn’t an idiot, there was no way I didn’t know what it meant.
“Am I…dead?” I couldn’t believe it even when it came out of my mouth. I raised my hand to touch my body.
“So vivid …… dead?”
As soon as that thought went crazy, I shook my head roughly.” No.”
I’m not going to die. How did I survive there. What would I do in order to come back again…!
I jerked my head up and ran for the door. This isn’t real. You need to tell someone quickly that I’m not dead, that’s wrong. Gulp. I force the door open in order to get out.
“Ah!” But instead of the outside world, the overflowing blue light resurfaced the sight.
When I opened my eyes again, I was standing in a completely different place. A huge number of chrysanthemums. Placed in the center, I ……
Wingdings photo.
“Ah, this is, what ……” I couldn’t bear to continue, my lips sweetening. Was it probably written by taking the proof photo taken when I enrolled in the university, or was it looking at the front side in Young-jung’s photo, my face was particularly expressionless.
[Next news.The youngest daughter of the president of the XX Group …… was found dead in her room 10 days ago].
The noise he suddenly heard made him turn his head violently. It was the sound coming from the TV in the empty funeral parlor.
[…… left home after being admitted to a prestigious university …… An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was shock from malnutrition and overwork, and police suspected domestic abuse and campus rejection ……. ]
The news was talking about me.” Damn, bad luck!”
At that moment, someone shouted insults and turned off the TV. I jerked my head around again and…Ergo?
When I looked back, there were three men in black mourning clothes sitting where the mourners were greeted. That was our family.
“I’ve seen it all lately, beating the hell out of it. Beggarly years.”
The second doggie threw the remote on the floor and mussed his hair in annoyance. The biological father glared at that kind of guy and said something.
“Keep your voice down. There’s no reward for what you’ve done.”
“What do you think? And no one came to offer condolences.”
“Sit down. Because there are reporters laying outside.”
The first pup glared at the second for his dad, warning him pointedly.
“Ha, to be the one to act noble to the end?”
The second pup gave his brother a characteristically ferocious expression and glared at him angrily.
“Exactly, she was killed because of you, brother. Dad got me a nice office building, that money, and who was the one who brushed his mouth in the middle of the interception?”
“Shut up.”
“Why. Am I wrong?”
“Then it would be you who did the biggest thing when she died.”
“What? What did I do?”
“I never saw her eat a tablespoon of rice when I was in school, why blame me ……”
“Both can’t keep their mouths shut!” At that moment, the biological father yelled.
“What time is it now! I didn’t know the company’s stock price was falling!”
“That’s why dad didn’t bring that beggar from the beginning, so that bad luck wouldn’t happen.”
The second pup spat out the sound of a ballpoint pen as if complaining, glaring at my effigy. There were no words, but the first one didn’t look any different.
I gasped roughly at the look of it all. Chest started to boil.
“Did I… Did I ask you to bring me here?” Sitting on my cheeks, tears poured down my face.
“How can people die and still look so much like dogs! Are you people?!” I felt so aggrieved that I was about to go crazy, shouting and screaming I just sat down on my butt like that and whimpered. I never begged them to save my beggarly life. Instead in the end it was them who wanted to ruin my life.
“Why only suffer me, only endure me, only hurt me every time, why″!” Anger, frustration, despair, and emptiness led me to hell in turn. I was too tired.
Paying and not enduring any more of myself. …I wanted to die.
I slowly got rid of the power from my body. Then held my breath as hard as I did every time I killed my feelings.
“Now please stop making me comfortable.” It was instant. Suddenly it opened up in front of me.
< System >Suddenly! Do you wish to use magic to defend against the attack?
[Accept/Reject]