31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 106)
The sight of snow covered in chains was truly pitiful..
His appearance with his head down and immersed in silence..
“Hey girl! Is this okay??”
“Nothing has happened yet and I don't know much..”
“The owner stays like this, like he's dead.?”
“It's a lyric guidance device. It's as good as actually being dead..”
Karuna is leaning against the wall with her eyes closed and thinking deeply, and Karen is anxious about the unchanged state of Snowfall and Jammad..
Snowfall's summoned beasts waiting in reality were also not at ease. Rather, it was more painful because I didn't know the situation..
Slurp…
“uh? this… Look at this!”
Snowfall’s body turned black..
“Is it a success??”
Mirei looked at the snowfall with concentration..
but.
“ah….”
Slurp…
The black energy that invaded Snowfall's golden eyes soon turned them black..
Snowfall's face looks bizarre and scary.
even.
thud!
thud!
Even the chains shook due to the snowfall, which bounced around like a shrimp as if its heart was beating..
“This is serious.….”
“why? what's the matter?”
“I guess it's easier to fight off memories than you think. This is not a normal reaction. This… I'm being consumed by the shadows.”
“That's it! Then what should I do??”
“What should I do? I'll just have to wait and hope that I defeat it well..”
“Such irresponsible….”
“Your master chose it. You don't trust your master?”
“…….”
Sigh.
Karuna falls off the wall and approaches Mirei..
“Mirei, I have something to ask you..”
“good.”
he asked Mirei.
“There is no way for us to intervene in our master's nightmare... Didn't you say there was?”
“that… hmm….”
- If you want to force other shadows to intervene, you can do so, but since you don't know what side effects will occur, you have to pretend it doesn't exist for now..
Part of Mirei's conversation with Kang Seol.
she touched her forehead.
“It's only possible in theory..”
“I will go.”
“karuna!”
Karen shouted at Karuna..
“No, you won't find your way. Deep consciousness is like a maze and you will get lost. Regardless of your owner, your safety is also at risk..”
“It doesn't matter.”
“Karuna, take me too.!”
“Karen. this is dangerous.”
“So take me too! You idiot! You're going to leave me alone again?”
“…….”
Mirei was listening quietly and seemed to think of something, so she snapped her fingers..
Just-!
“okay! That'll do it.”
“what does that mean?”
“I'm sure I'll get lost alone. Just finding out where your owner is could take a month or a year in local time. but… It would be different for the two of us.”
“I heard?”
“What's the difference??”
“Basically, nightmares regard intruders as foreign objects. You and that fairy will not be welcomed by nightmares. In the process, ripples will occur within your deep consciousness, which will cause resonance, allowing you to not only find each other's location, but also the location of your master.….”
“stop! You won't understand a word! Let me in first! The owner is going to die like this.”
I couldn't fault Karen's words for being hasty..
Mirei also noticed that, although they didn't say it, they were aware that this situation was urgent enough that time was running out..
Besides, the preceding content was irrelevant whether they knew it or not..
“Take a seat, I'll send you to your master.”
“It was great! Come on, Karuna. Come on.”
“what can we do?”
Chijijijijijik…
“First of all, it will hurt terribly. The medicine is already gone.”
“It doesn't matter.”
“me too!”
“If you endure it, find your owner in the black space. And run to the exit.”
“All right.”
“Hurry!”
Immediately entrusted to the lyrics guidance device, they screamed..
The mechanism has started working.
“Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut!”
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
pick-!
Bleep.…
Karen and Karuna both lowered their heads at the same time..
“…Then I'm the only one left?”
Mirei took out a cigarette from her pocket and lit it..
“Phew… It's the owner and the summons. Isn't that right, Sodin??”
Of course, there was no answer.
“okay. To be honest, I'm jealous. These are dreams I wanted to achieve. So, I mean….”
Suddenly it started to get noisy outside..
“…It's definitely here! I smell a witch!”
Mirei's eyes widened..
“I plan to watch until the end..”
she came out of hiding.
* * *
Karen, Karuna, and Mirei's concerns were correct..
The current situation for Kang Seol and Jamard was not that easy..
Snowfall meets Jamard, who broke the wall.
But there was no way the gods would just sit by and watch it..
Damn it…
They waved their hands behind them, and the cracked area was instantly filled..
Snowfall asked them while standing blankly..
“just now… Something just wasn't here?”
This is how the gods reacted to the words of Kang Seol:.
“well… I didn't see it?”
“Maybe I saw something in vain?”
“Well, it's a mental shock caused by a mistake... Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk….”
“Come on, sit back down. Keep playing with us, Snowman. You like playing with us.?”
Snowfall's eyes began to blur again.
‘Yeah, I want to play with them forever. that's what i want.’
The game board began to come into view again..
The highest of all desires is the desire to dominate. Dominating something other than myself gave me the greatest pleasure..
Was Kang Seol moving the horses not specifically for the sake of each horse's life, but for his own desire to dominate?.
Now snowfall doesn't even know that much..
He became a fool, a child, and looked at the game board..
but.
“…No, you didn't see it wrong. For sure… I saw it.”
“You don't trust us?”
“We are your friends, right? You should believe what we say.”
“friend….”
Are we friends?.
Kang Seol, now a child, shook her head..
and said.
“I want to get out of here.”
“haha! You chose that path? Hey, they say the snowman is on his way out.!”
“Is it really possible??”
Sigh.
A dice is handed out in front of Snowfall..
The ticking sound seemed to be urging me to take it quickly..
“Roll the dice, snowman.”
“It'll be decided by the roll of the dice.”
“Can you get out of here or will you stay here forever?.”
Snowfall looked at the dice in silence..
17A cube that has been together for years. Some are smooth and some are angular..
Whenever my fingers touched the groove where my eyes were carved, a part of my heart always tingled..
To him, dice were God, fate, and life. He has always lived as the dice decide. Because that's the rule.
Tuk.
Road by road.
The dice went round and round..
The dice that will decide everything for him.
fighting…
Tuk.
Finally, the dice stopped.
The die's eye was 1.
The dice sentenced him to death.
“Puhahahaha! I got 1, snowman.”
“What should I do with this? Snowfall can't escape from here anymore.”
“stay with us forever….”
Ah, I see. That's probably because the dice rolled out that way..
I hate everyone in the world.
The gods' laughter, the dice that came up with a 1, and this game board.
I hate everyone.
I felt hostility towards everything..
I'm sure I'll be eaten by a nightmare like this.
I thought so.
But then, the ground shook violently..
thud-!
“uh?”
“what?”
“What are you doing? snowman?”
Kangseol looked at the dice that came up with a 1..
The dice's eye changed to 2, perhaps due to vibration..
The gods, who did not notice this, seemed to misunderstand. that he committed fraud.
“I didn't do that.”
thud!
thud!
The vibration suddenly became more severe..
Dorr.
As the vibration spread, the dice continued to move..
4came out, and then 1 came out again..
“Stop, Snowman!”
“I didn't do it!”
“joy! I have only you! Why are you disobeying the dice?!”
Kugoong!
Dorr.
The dice rolled helplessly, revealing a different side to them..
6.
6's eyes came out.
The best number the dice can reveal.
The gods were silent about the current situation..
Snowfall glanced at the place where the vibration started. it was my own shadow.
“Hey, snowman. I'm simple, so I only know how to do things like this. Like this, the only thing to do is to beat..”
The extended fangs reminded me of someone..
“Jamard? It's jamad?”
“you. How dare you look into my nightmares, you have a big liver..”
“…Go back, the die rolls a 1.”
“No, I never agreed with that..”
thud!
Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Jamard continued to pound the dark space.
“What are these dice like?!”
“But that's the rule.”
“rule? Where in the world are there any rules? Are you stupid??”
“what?”
“What are you?.”
“me? I am….”
For a moment, Snowfall almost answered Snowman. Why did this question come to mind only now? Suddenly, the snowman mask weighing down around my eyes felt stuffy..
‘I am….’
Snowfall answered Jamad..
“It's snowing. snowfall.”
“I see. Snowfall, what is reality to you? Is the place where you roll the dice with these horrible guys real??”
“no, no.”
“So what are you hesitating about? You think too much. Sometimes you have to live as simply as this body..”
The masked gods held Kangseol's arms and said.
“Hey Snowman! Wake! what are you doing!”
“The die was 1. Are you going to follow the rules? huh? You've always been compliant.!”
At this moment, Kangseol realized.
I should have told them this a long time ago..
From the moment he became an adult who created his own destiny.
Sigh.
bulloooo…
Snowfall took off the snowman mask.
Feelings of lightness and freedom, the emotions on the edge, swept through him..
He opened his mouth cautiously..
“Not funny.”
“…what?”
“Oh, no, right? You'll be with us?”
Kang Seol answered with an expressionless face..
“Now this shit is no fun.”
Now I'm an adult.
Adults living in reality.
“You guys do this kind of trivial stuff among yourself..”
Pak!
He threw the dice.
I heard Jamard's laughter..
Kugugoogung Palace.
This dark space is starting to collapse.
Kang Seol realized why he sensed hostility in everything in the world..
Because we didn't face each other.
He himself refused to wear a mask..
And now, he turned back and looked at his own shadow. When he shows his back, the shadow only shows his back. But when he looked, what he saw was also a shadow..
There, Jamard was smiling..
snowfall told him.
“Let's go out.”
the gods rebelled.
“where!”
“Bad kids should be punished for breaking the rules.!”
Chijijijijik!
“Wow!!”
Snowfall’s throat burned black again..
A long-forgotten memory, the ring of lightning that grabbed my neck before I was banished by the gods..
It was repeated again and took the breath away from Snowfall..
“Oh my gosh….”
“The world is complete with the existence of rules. Don't you know that a world without rules is chaos itself?!”
At that time, the shadow of the snowfall shattered.
Kwazizizik!
Jamaard popped out of it and was now able to stand upright in the same position as the snowfall..
“That's right, that's what caused the black mark near my neck. Now I know everything about you. snowfall.”
“ha… ha….”
“That feeling... Very interesting, let me ask. What are you trying to achieve in the future??”
“Hehe… Kehehe….”
“I guess I'll just have to get rid of this pesky ring first..”
The lightning god laughed at his words..
“haha! You can't break it with your strength!”
“Is that a rule too??”
“Yeah, that's the rule..”
“Well then, let me reject that rule..”
“…what?”
Jamard grabbed the ring of lightning strangling Snowfall. And tore it apart with his sinewy arms.
Ppajik…
Falling in love!
“Even... no….”
“Rules are promises made by cowards. I will reject everything you do. snowfall! Speak! what is your wish!”
Kang Seol gasped, then took a deep breath and stared straight at Jamad..
“plural. I only want revenge.”
“Hahaha! Isn’t it too simple? A person abandoned by the gods could have such a simple dream..”
“For revenge, I will become a god. I will punish them at the same level as them..”
He became an adult and stood up..
“i will be god.”
Jamard grinned and held out his fist..
“If so, you qualify. This body deserves to join you on the journey to become the king of all things. Let me take you on this body's glorious journey.”
Snowfall also smiled and placed her small human fist against Jamad's large fist..
Tuk.
“That's funny. I'm using you on my path to ascension..”
“joy! Whatever it is, our intentions are aligned..”
Jamard's eyes burned red..
He was looking at the gods who had done all this..
“Well then, let's get out of here..”
Now these are the ones who defy the rules the gods made.
Jamard muttered softly..
“My choice, true brother.”
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