31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 127)
“One day, this never-ending torment was so painful that I hit my head. It definitely did.”
What kind of crazy words are these?.
Toki was confused..
He had been acting fine until now, but after having a nightmare, he started spouting out random words..
“I thought it would definitely end like that, but the next day started without incident. That day too, he hit his head and died. Even so, the next day started.”
“continue… Are you dead??”
“Did he think he was dead? I'm not sure if he actually died. But one day… I had that dream. Someone who turned their back on me scolded me.”
Toki started copying someone..
- It's foolish, it's foolish.!
“I got angry at those words and screamed. why! Why was I the only one who ended up in a place like this? Why, why do I have to live a more painful life than others! I am… I am… I can't bear it anymore.”
Toki quietly muttered..
“God, this is so painful. So the author answered like this.”
- Someday you will know why. The reason it has to be you. Why you must endure this long ordeal.”
Snowfall gritted her teeth..
It didn't matter who appeared in his dream..
Maybe it was just an illusion that Toki created out of pain, or it could really be some kind of holy being..
‘…it's me. Leaving him here alone... It's me. I am….’
But his God was clear.
The god of Toki was snowfall.
‘The god of Toki, his harsh fate he condemned..’
So, that feeling of guilt is what Kang Seol has to bear..
An indescribable feeling arose in Kang Seol..
Toki said to such a snowfall.
“I believed those words and persevered. Not yet.”
“Toki, then you… Are you the ghost of the labyrinth??”
“do you know them?”
“We ran into each other.”
“They are fugitives from the labyrinth. When you are immersed in a labyrinth, you can feel that this labyrinth is alive. The Labyrinth destroys the minds of ascetics and harvests them when their minds completely collapse. The fugitives hide from the eyes of the labyrinth to avoid such an end..”
“Then why are you….”
“I don't know, it's been a long time since I died or lost my mind. Even if I want to see the end... Somehow I can't do that..”
That was the end of the story.
It was a time to reveal what was inside, but instead, all I could feel was that they were all exhausted from the asceticism and were being eroded into the labyrinth..
It seemed like their journey would continue like that. Precarious, precarious, like standing on a shaking bridge.
However, change comes suddenly. An incident occurred that changed everything that had been going on tirelessly..
* * *
A few days later, they were walking through the desert again..
Sniff… Sniff…
“hmm? Tongtong, why are you like that??”
sniff!
Tongtong jumped up and suddenly screamed. Toki soon discovered the reason why Tongtong was surprised and shouted..
“Damn it….”
Quaaaaaaa…
“It's a sand storm! Tongtong! run!”
Sniff! sniff!
While searching the door, a sand storm suddenly hit the desert. The moment they faced the storm, they both despaired..
‘I can't avoid it!’
Quaaaaaaaaa-!
The sandstorm approached at a speed beyond human control and swept away everything nearby..
Snowfall and Toki were also caught up in the storm..
* * *
A dull feeling in the mouth.
The thirst that I have suppressed.
Snowfall looked around..
“…….”
nothing. there was nothing.
nothing but sand.
What happened to Toki?.
Negative emotions settled inside of Kang Seol. The evil that had been suppressed slowly raised its head..
‘no way… You're dead, Toki.?’
At that moment, Snowfall's mental pollution began to rise explosively..
“Huh... Huh?….”
I couldn't breathe properly.
[Mental taint level has reached 75.]
No, I don't want to be alone.
“who… there's no one?”
[Mental taint level has reached 78.]
Don't leave me alone in this desert.
“Talkie! Talkie! No way!”
[Mental taint level has reached 82.]
The snow ran like crazy through the desert..
No, I was probably suffering from hallucinations now, so I couldn't tell if I was really running..
“me… Are you alone? now….”
[Mental taint level has reached 85.]
[Labyrinth has detected mental taint.]
I can't do anything alone.
Have I failed??
“I can't... clearly… I can't do it….”
[Mental taint level has reached 90.]
Yeah, just… let's end everything.
Kang Seol tried to accept that he had failed. He would never have made that decision, he.
The labyrinth was on the verge of breaking his spirit..
At that time, Kang Seol felt as if her body was floating. His body popped out of the sand..
Suddenly.
“Oh my gosh….”
“Wake!”
“Wow... Keck….”
“breath! Take a breath! You bastard!”
“Huh... Hehehehe… who….”
“ha… ha… You decided not to lose to the labyrinth. look at me! I'll find out?”
Kang Seol gave a cloudy look with cloudy eyes..
There, there was Toki smiling..
“You've been looking for it for a while.”
With that smile, my polluted mind found its place, even if just for a moment..
“talkie….”
“My mind is already in tatters. If you stay still, the labyrinth will eventually swallow you up. I need to get out of here quickly..”
“but there is no door….”
Snowfall really liked Toki..
He is always the one who brings hope.
“I found it, the door.”
He was a true saint of Kang Seol-man.
* * *
“…I found the door?”
“Okay, so you can go out.!”
While Kang Seol shook her head to come to her senses, Toki continued speaking..
“It's not a lie. Now, get ready. I need to get out of here.”
Toki's actions really seemed to put his affairs in order here..
“Tongtong is dead. I guess I fell wrong when I fell. Sad guy.”
“I see... Tongtong….”
Kang Seol was saddened by the news that the person she was so attached to had left..
Here, any living being that could communicate with one another felt precious, whether it was a monster or a human..
“But I buried him well, so he won't be upset. Anyway, we're leaving tonight, so get ready..”
Quick resolution.
I wonder if Toki's words were true, I didn't go anywhere today and just sat there and chatted with Kang Seol..
“Is that true?”
“Is that so? Is it any wonder that my painful first love was the son of a nobleman??”
- yes.
- Very lol
they talked for a long time.
Kang Seol's spirit was still suffering, and the boundary between reality and delusion was blurred..
It's like a dream.
The situation itself where Kang Seol was talking to Toki, no, everything he said sounded like a dream..
It will be a strange sight.
This is a labyrinth of penance.
People who have endured the worst of all, the torture of patience, for several months are having happy conversations..
That's why they savored that happiness.
Kang Seol listened intently to Toki’s story as if she really valued this happiness. I really cherish it so as not to miss a single word..
And when night fell, Toki stopped talking..
“haha… Looking back, I realize that my life wasn't all that bad. ruler! Now… I have to leave.”
“talkie.”
After talking with him, Kang Seol gained a certain confidence..
The door that Toki found. About the source of the inquiry.
“stop….”
“huh?”
“Don't do that, Toki..”
“…What does that mean??”
He is about to do something a fugitive from the labyrinth should never do..
“…I couldn't find the door?”
“…young people.”
“You couldn't find it! say!”
Toki grinned..
“Yeah, actually I couldn't find it..”
“Then don't look for it.”
“No, you have to find it..”
“why….”
Toki's eyes burned..
“At this rate, both of us will be eaten by the labyrinth..”
“you are….”
Although it may be difficult to escape the snowfall that has dangerous levels of mental contamination, Toki was able to endure here as much as he had endured before..
Even if Snowfall collapsed, at least he could avoid being eaten by the labyrinth..
“snowman.”
“…….”
“About how to find the door... Did you notice??”
Snowfall nodded..
Normally, I could have encountered it while wandering the desert, but when I didn't have much time like now, there was only one thing..
“Toki… How to… another way….”
“When I look at you, I think of myself when I was young. Me as a young person, full of flaws but full of confidence. Maybe that's why God brought us together.”
“If someone has to die….”
“no! You can say that because your spirit is already broken. You need to leave the labyrinth and think about this again. And it's a simple problem. It's a question of whether one dies or whether both die. I thought I could at least do arithmetic.….”
“…two?”
Toki said heavily..
“Now I... I don't have the confidence to hold on any longer when I'm left alone. I found out how much fun it is to be together..”
“…….”
“If anyone could escape the labyrinth... It has to be you, not me..”
He put on a determined expression and started doing what he had been determined to do all along..
“Labyrinth! I, Toki, am here! so….”
Toki has held on to find out the reason for his hard life..
And now, Toki has lifted the final barrier protecting his mind..
A tremendous energy swept through the desert..
“come and take me!”
[Someone's mind is completely contaminated.]
Toki shouted at Kang Seol, who ran to stop him. Snowfall had no choice but to stop at those words..
“You only get one chance! Don't make a stupid mistake! Get out of the labyrinth and greet the morning. As you know, I am already dead. Something like this... This is what people like me have to do. And never give up! know? A guy with no guts….”
Kang Seol bit his lips and answered..
“…Being last place.”
eat.
“I didn't forget. Well then, don't be last.”
Kiyiyi profit…
the sound of a door opening.
It was loud enough for both Snowfall and Toki to hear..
Buzz buzz buzz…
A large, bizarre-looking door burst open. And out of it, unpleasant colored hands came out and flew towards Toki..
Suddenly-
Toki closed his eyes and muttered until he was surrounded by those hands..
“The reason I have lived until now, the reason I am here... I finally realized it. You prepared me where I should be, haha! You really... There are no gaps. Whoop….”
When strange hands wrapped around him, he turned his eyes to Kang Seol and said his last words..
“My whole reason is… It was you.”
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
“Wow!!”
Wood clatter…
Toki was caught by Labyrinth and sucked into the door..
“talkie!”
The snowfall ran like crazy. Will I be able to catch him by any chance?.
However, Labyrinth's hand was very fast and slipped through the door in an instant..
If so, there was only one way left to save him..
Seueuugh…
After the labyrinth's hand escaped, Snowfall jumped towards the door that closed on its own..
Meeeee profit…
thud-!
the door is closed.
* * *
“ha… ha….”
“brother… brother… I did it to help.….”
“Cough… Ugh….”
The final gateway to the labyrinth.
There was no one sitting on the bench. But not everyone was standing up..
Park Chang-sik looked at Seong Jae-ho, who was crawling on the floor as his stomach was pierced by his sword..
While Snowfall fought a bitter battle in the desert, they also met a painful end..
“why… Why did you do that to Tae-gyu?….”
Kim Tae-gyu, who escaped the painful penance, was also not well. With his chest shattered, he was gasping for air, and soon he could no longer breathe..
“Hehehe… That guy… tried to stab me….”
Seong Jae-ho, who had overcome the asceticism of doubt, soon lost his breath..
I found it odd that he hesitated when asked about his mental contamination level, but I never expected him to hit his colleague in the chest..
“Ugh….”
How do you feel about taking the life of your close brother?.
If there was a devil, I would ask him this:.
“Wow!”
[Mental taint level has reached 77.]
Park Chang-sik was in pain, covering his head with both hands. If the level of mental pollution rises further here, he will probably meet the same fate as those who are already dead..
But then, a loud noise was heard from the door behind him..
“Wow!!”
Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure-!
Something came out of the door.
‘Did I fail??’
Whirling-!
As the soul was sucked into the lantern of the statue, Park Chang-sik sighed..
“now… What should I do now... What should I do when I'm left alone?….”
Park Chang-sik, who believed that the soul that had just been dragged in was Kang Seol, fell into a state of panic..
But there was something he didn't see clearly..
“Cough….”
“…uh?”
“Wow... Ugh….”
Snowfall escaped out the door and was nauseous, unable to recover from the shock..
“So, are you successful?!”
A message came to Kang Seol’s mind..
[overcome patience.]
[Patience disappears in the labyrinth of asceticism.]
[mental pollution : 91/100]
Park Chang-sik approached him and supported him..
“Is it all over? now… Can I get out of this hell??”
Kang Seol sat on a long chair, raised her head from her bowed position and spoke..
“no… Not yet.”
“…yes?”
“There will still be a final gate left.….”
He gasped and looked ahead..
‘A battle awaits at the end of the labyrinth.’
Battle with strange-looking wooden dolls.
When I was a blood saint, I broke through that gate without difficulty..
Rather, it could be said to be the easiest gateway..
That moment.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!
The statues shook violently..
A red light appeared in their eyes, and something came out like a skein of thread..
[The final penance begins.]
“…What about that? doll?”
An unidentified energy created something that looked like a doll..
The created doll resembles a wooden doll with unnatural joints..
The doll that appeared in the square space between the statue and the snow stood still, as soulless things usually do..
Up to this point, everything is as Kangseol knows. In that case, it was as if the labyrinth had already been conquered..
However, from the beginning, his wishes were rarely fulfilled..
[Pain sharing begins.]
[Defeat the pain of the one written in the labyrinth.]
Slurp…
Something more escaped the statues' eyes..
And then it gently approached and landed on the doll..
rattly.
Finally, the doll started to move. The doll stood up with a clatter..
Although Kang Seol knew quite a lot of the secrets of the Labyrinth of Asceticism, there were some things that even he did not know properly..
What kind of future awaits you if your soul is harvested, and what is the purpose of the labyrinth? And why does the asceticism of pain feel different from other asceticisms?.
Kangseol once asked Toki about this..
- Do you know anything about the penance of pain??
Toki hesitated to answer and replied:.
- When you reach the end of the labyrinth, you will naturally find out. Even if you find out the answer now, it won't do you any good. rather… It will break.
Snowfall now completely understands Toki’s words..
“Why... why….”
[Log of Pain: Defeat Finn Modria.]
[Record of Pain: Finn Modria only exerts 20% of his original strength..]
The labyrinth records the power of the ascetic through the pain of asceticism. To welcome the next ascetics who will come to the labyrinth.
Geek…
The spirit doll tilted its head crookedly..
Red light burst from his body..
Wow!-!
Churrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…
[Record of Pain: Finn Modria uses a vigorous flow.]
[Record of Pain: Finn Modria's debuff effect is greatly reduced..]
[Record of Pain: Finn Modria only exerts 25% of his original strength..]
The spirit doll looked at the snowfall.
pin modria.
One of the 10 horses that attempted to ascend to heaven.
“…Why is it you??”
In the past, the footprints left by the Blood Saint greeted him at the end of the labyrinth..
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