Anna Croft's expression hardened instantly and she sneakily pulled out her shortsword behind her back. “….'Conquering King'.”
Completely disregarding her, Yu Joong-Hyeok spoke while taking large strides to approach us. “You two seem to be getting along nicely. Do you feel a sense of camaraderie from the fact that you both know about the future?”
“….But, you also know the information about the future, don't you?”
“What I've experienced isn't the future.”
Kugugugugu-!!
“It's simply the 'things that had happened'. It's the past.”
Things that had happened, he said.
Yu Joong-Hyeok had to live through the story that I read while welcoming thousands of deaths in the process. As if to respond to all those years he had spent, the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] held in his hand began to cry out viciously.
Anna Croft snuck a glance in my direction.
I replied to her. “You should go. This guy came to see me, not you.”
“I pray that I'll get to hear your end goal through your own words next time we meet.”
Leaving behind those words, she vanished through the portal without a trace. For sure, she had no reason to stay behind. She had paid her debt more than enough by assisting me this far, after all.
Yu Joong-Hyeok didn't try to stop her from leaving. If it was any other times, he'd doggedly pursue her and cut her head off, but not today.
“Yu Joong-Hyeok,” I called out to him.
But, he didn't look at me. No, he simply stared at the empty, open mouth of the portal.
So, I called out to him one more time. “Please, at least listen to what I have to say. You used to call me your comrade, once upon a time, didn't you?”
He shifted his gaze towards me and slowly unsheathed his sword.
“That was in the past.”
The icy-cold rage permeating within his voice wasn't something that I could readily unpack.
[Unique skill, the 'Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint' has been activated!]
And so, I took yet another step into the curse of omniscience.
[Your degree of understanding on the applicable individual is lacking!]
Unfortunately, Yu Joong-Hyeok's inner thoughts didn't permit my spying attempt, as if to assert that the person in front of my eyes was no longer the same guy that I knew all this time.
“I can already guess what you want to talk to me about. It's probably about that book of yours.”
“Through that book, you peeked into my life, and used me as your entertainment. Is there anything else I should know?”
I couldn't mouth any excuses. Because those were all truths. What I did was no different from what other Constellations had been doing.
“I….”
I knew that. I definitely did. But….
But, was the sense of betrayal everything he felt?
[Your degree of understanding on the applicable individual is increasing gradually bit by bit.]
Yu Joong-Hyeok was waiting for me, as if he was the judge searching for that yet-undiscovered opportunity to frame me even further.
Too bad, I had no idea what to say here.
His emotions flooded into my head and filled it up to full in no time through the 'Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint'. All the texts that I knew were steadily being overwritten by the words completely foreign to me.
The words that I should be saying, words that I wanted to say, they were all being buried under the blackened waves of emotions crashing in.
And then, his sword moved.
Even at that moment, it still didn't feel real to me. Indeed, it felt far too surreal that he'd forget about all those times we survived together and try to kill me right here.
['Fruit of Good and Evil' is influencing your emotions!]
Chapter end
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