The ending to the 1865th regression turn was more perfect than any other world-lines.
A month flew by after the conclusion of the 'Final Scenario'. The damages suffered from the scenarios were quickly repaired, and through the help of the regressors, various nations regained their law and order quite quickly.
Schools opened their doors again, and workers started going back to their old jobs. The streets were filled to the brim with slogans welcoming the brand new world.
Yi Ji-Hye standing on this alien-feeling street stared at an athletics field across the fence.
“That's your friend, isn't she?”
Jeong Hui-Won asked, and Yi Ji-Hye nodded her head.
The latter's friend was currently running on the track. Her name was Na Bo-Ri. A friend that she had to kill with her own hands, and that very person was alive and well in this world-line. She was alive, she was breathing, and her legs were moving.
“Ji-Hye-yah. You don't have to go back.”
Yi Ji-Hye's eyes continued to chase after Bo-Ri's back. The friend she missed so much. The friend that appeared in the nightmares she always suffered from.
She thought that rescuing Bo-Ri would bring her nightmares to an end.
Unfortunately, memories couldn't be so easily exorcised like that. No, her nightmare returned with vengeance in a far more vivid form. Within it, she'd live the same scenario many, many times over and murder the dream version of Bo-Ri. Every time that happened, she'd come to realise something – over and over again.
The one she rescued this time wasn't the dead Bo-Ri.
That the one she saved was simply another Bo-Ri from another world-line, that was all.
“Ji-Hye-yah.”
Yi Ji-Hye stared at the athletics field for a long time before making her reply. “We made a promise with Biyu, after all.”
“We did promise that we will definitely cross the world-lines again and return home.”
Jeong Hui-Won quietly studied Yi Ji-Hye's face while the girl said that, then placed her hand on the latter's shoulder.
“I'm sure it will get lonely once we return. Things that exist here don't on the other side, after all.”
Yi Ji-Hye smiled. She used the hand that wiped away at her eyes and pointed to her head. “I won't be lonely. Because they are all in here.”
Her voice trembled as she said that.
Was it fine to say something like that?
If she could really say something like that, then why did they even bother to come to this place, to begin with?
“Let's go. This eonni will treat you to something tasty today.”
“Orabeoni.”
Whenever Yu Mi-Ah used that term, there would be something she wanted to ask him for.
Yu Jung-Hyeok knew that after going through many regressions. She quietly stared her older brother, before opening her mouth.
“Orabeoni, you did your very best. No one can do more or better than what you have already done.”
His eyelids were solemnly lowered. Yu Mi-Ah climbed up on a chair and placed her hand on the crown of his head.
“Let's stop and go back home.”
Chapter end
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