Yu Jung-Hyeok was prepared to swing his [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] if the 'Secretive Plotter' tried to do something foolish, but rather unexpectedly, the latter easily answered back. He didn't even use his true voice, either.
“You're right. I am trapped in here.”
His real, pure voice was heard for the first time.
That prompted Yu Mi-Ah to reply with a bright smile. “Ask my oppa to free you. He's super strong, you see?”
She spoke in an innocent voice, but he replied with a slow shake of his head. “….I can't leave this thing.”
“What? Why not?”
The 'Secretive Plotter' didn't reply.
“Wait, did my oppa do something to you? He threatened you with scary words, didn't he??”
“….No, that's not it.”
“It's not? What then?”
The Plotter didn't reply again. Without saying anything, he stared at Yu Mi-Ah. He stared for a long time at the one person that no longer existed for him.
And for the first time ever, a faint smile formed on his lips.
“It's because I chose to be in here.”
Yu Jung-Hyeok saw that smile and couldn't say anything. Yu Mi-Ah was busy asking what he meant, and meanwhile, the Plotter quietly stared back at her.
The latter slowly raised his hand, and his palm overlapped with hers through the thin transparent layer. Their hand sizes were fairly similar. These two palms may have overlapped after transcending time and space, but they could never truly meet.
“Uh? Uhm…”
It was then, Yu Mi-Ah blinked slowly and began faltering a little.
“Why am I so sleepy….?”
Her body slowly fell to the ground. Yu Jung-Hyeok quickly dashed to her side and embraced her.
“You bastard, what have you done….?!”
[[….I only helped her dream of nice things.]]
Yu Jung-Hyeok studied his little sister. For sure, her Incarnation Body showed no signs of any strange symptoms. No, she simply was in a deep slumber, softly murmuring indecipherable sleep-talk like “beach volleyball” and “squid party”, etc.
He glared at the 'Secretive Plotter' with a complicated expression. No matter how weakened he was, by using Yu Mi-Ah he would have been able to escape from this situation pretty easily. However, he didn't do that.
He simply stared longingly at the sleeping face of the girl, instead.
“….What happened to Mi-Ah in your world?”
[[She survived.]]
He answered immediately.
[[And also died.]]
That too was immediate.
“What does that even…..”
Just as Yu Jung-Hyeok opened his lips, he understood what those answers meant. So, he shut his mouth right away.
Seemingly-crying sparks ever so faintly danced around. Under the pretext of the [Disconnected Film Theory], the memories of these two beings trembled and their Fables shifted.
⸢In one world-line, Yu Mi-Ah survived for a long time. Even after he died.⸥
The world of a man who lived 1864 lifetimes – just what kind of a world would that be?
⸢However, in another world-line, she died.⸥
A Regressor might have lived far more 'presents' than anyone out there, but in reality, he was nothing more than a ghost of the past. He was an existence that had to move onto the next turn because he failed to alter the past.
“The end has begun.”
Chapter end
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