Chapter 159: Episode 31 – Tomb of the Scenario (3)
Translator: Rainbow Turtle
There was no need to keep performing the scenarios. Everyone gathered at the fortress were wary.
“What the hell does that mean?”
Some people listened to his words but most of them didn't.
(He must be a swindler.)
(…He should make sense. What? There is no need to keep performing the scenarios?)
(This is a trick for him to gobble up the rewards alone.)
These people were incarnations who survived up to the ninth scenario.
There were many scammers in Seoul, even if Geumho Station's Cheon Inho and Chungmuro's Gong Pildu were removed. The incarnations here were one of those scammers or those who came here after defeating them.
That's why none of them were easily caught by a honeyed tongue.
The man on the parapet opened his mouth like he had read their thoughts.
[You don't believe. It is understandable. Nine scenarios isn't long but it also isn't short. I can guess what you have gone through and the life you must've lived to come here.]
The basics of a scammer was to pretend to understand the other person. There were already people fed up with this.
“Do you think I will be deceived by that?”
“What is your purpose? What do you want to say?”
The people who couldn't stand it started shouting. Then the man laughed. It was such a beautiful laugh that it was hard to think of him as a scammer.
[It is literally what I said. You no longer need to fight. You must've heard the dokkaebi's explanation. This Dark Castle scenario has no time limit or failure conditions. If you're smart, you should already understand what this means.]
I looked to the side and saw that Kim Yongpal's eyes were shining.
[You can continue to live in this scenario area. You can eat, sleep in and do whatever you want. Respect the rights of your life and forget the compulsion to break the scenario… you can finish your life here, just like it was before the 'destruction' began.]
“The rights of our life? Don't talk bullshit!”
“How can we live in a place where demons are roaming?”
“We have a place to go back to!”
People shouted like they were refuting evil.
Then the man asked, [Go back? Where will you return to?]
“Of course, the place where we lived…”
[Do you mean the perished planet?]
“It isn't destroyed! Not yet!”
[Everybody already knows. The moment the scenario begun, your planet is walking the path towards destruction. If you go back, you will only see ruins. Even if you break the scenario… the last thing you will see is destruction.]
“Who are you to say that? What do you know―”
[I know. The planet where I lived has long been destroyed by the scenario.]
The shaken crowd fell silent. This person lost his home a long time ago to the scenario. The man who stayed in Dark Castle for longer than anyone else was speaking to them now.
[That's why I can say with confidence that there is no safer place in the Star Stream than here.]
For the first time, people's spirits weakened. Their eyes were still disbelieving but they were listening to his story.
We stared up at the sky without speaking. It felt like there was something precious there but I had forgotten what it was. As if she had woken up from a brief dream, Jung Heewon opened her mouth. “The master of this place is looking for Dokjssi.”
I nodded.
Chapter end
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