A strong hand grabbed my shoulders. I reflexively turned my body and punched out. There was a thud and my fist was caught in a big hand.
「 (Oh, did you come to fight?) 」
The darkness was lifted and a white face was revealed.
「 (I saved you once before. You must've already forgotten.) 」
It was a face I knew. Even… it was someone I killed.
“Why are you here?”
「 (…Are you really asking because you don't know?) 」
It was an ambiguous face where it wasn't clear if the person was male or female. It gave me a feeling of incomprehensibility. This presence shouldn't be here.
“Nirvana Moebius.”
A long time ago, he was eaten by the Fourth Wall.
What happened to the beings who were eaten by the Fourth Wall? I had this question from the first moment the Fourth Wall ate something.
「 (It is as you can see. This is what happened.) 」
Nirvana laughed. We hadn't met for a while but Nirvana was just the same as our first meeting. If there was one difference, the letters making up Ways of Survival was hanging on his body like a shackle.
“You've been alive here the whole time?”
「 (It's hard to say this is living.) 」
Looking closer, Nirvana's voice didn't flow out of his mouth. I couldn't even say it was a voice. Nirvana stared up at the air.
「(I'm living thanks to that damn parasitic wall.) 」
At this moment, the warning of the Fourth Wall echoed.
「 Nir va na talk ing too much. 」
Nirvana laughed. His eyes were bitter but there was a strange uplifting sensation from him. I followed Nirvana's gaze and looked around the library. There were numerous types of letterforms that made up a world. In this place, everything was Ways of Survival.
“Now you know everything you've ever wanted.”
「 (There is no entity that knows everything. Just like you.) 」
Nirvana really seemed like a mysterious sage. I felt strange. For the first time, a character learnt the secrets of this world.
“How do you feel? Now you know that you are a character in a novel.”
Nirvana's expression changed at my provocation.
「 (A novel… is that what you really think?) 」
Nirvana looked at me with pitying eyes and his lips shook several times. However, no sound emerged. I was frustrated. “What is it? Finish it to the end.”
Nirvana smiled quietly.
「 (I like your story.) 」
I was embarrassed by the unexpected words.
「 (To be precise, I like the story you have changed. The sentences that feel your will, the context that contains things you don't say…) 」
“…What are you saying now?”
I stepped back in an awkward manner. I looked at his bastard and remembered his words before his death.
「(It isn't just me. All the beings here love your story.) 」
“Who else is in this place?”
The air started shaking and a few dark shards fell from the ceiling. The vibrations were like something giant was burrowing this way. Nirvana picked up the fragments and frowned.
TL Note: Work went longer than expected today. Second chapter will either come in a few hours or there will be three chapters tomorrow. In addition, made a small change to the last chapter, by swapping around the numbers of the Yoo Jonghyuk records.
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