Chapter 503: What He Wants (1)
‘I’m not sure whether it will work or not. It would have been easy to enter the unconscious of an ordinary human. However, the human whose mind Lee Kiyoung wants to enter isn’t ordinary. He has the same character as I do, and even if we do enter successfully, there is a high possibility that you’ll get kicked out. It might even be dangerous. An hour in the present life is usually a day in dreams.’
‘Is one hour in this world a day in a dream?’
‘It’s up to the adjustment… but for now, I can tell you that the maximum time you can get is about three days. There are no specific precautions, but I can’t confidently tell you that because I’m not really sure. Of course, considering that human’s condition, it looks like it’s possible, but it’s not easy to break through him since his mind is of a higher level than normal humans…’
‘I think it would be better to try it. He seems to be a little more confused than I thought.’
‘It’ll be hard…’
‘Let’s try it anyway.’
I naturally remembered the image of Ronove muttering alone, and my worries only begun to grow.
I thought Kim Hyunsung would be more broken than Ronove judged, but I didn’t think she would be able to enter his mind that easily. Rather than rejecting trespa.s.sers, his unconsciousness opened like an automatic door, seemingly trying to rush anyone in by shouting ‘welcome.’
That said, the process proved to be smooth. Even Pervert Ronove thought it was unbelievable.
‘I don’t know if it should be considered good.’
It was definitely great to have entered without any problems, but it was also true that it seemed to explain that Kim Hyunsung’s spirit was shaken.
As I looked around the surrounding scenario, which explained his unconsciousness, my worry only grew even more. What filled the ruined s.p.a.ce was nothing but pitch-black darkness. It was even darker than that of Belial.
The moment I saw the guy sitting amid all of it, I started to feel strangely sorrowful.
The way he looked at me with tears, which was not like the usual Kim Hyunsung, was a rare sight to behold.
Even in such a worst situation, I felt annoyed with him for not forgetting to be handsome. Still, the happiness I felt outweighed the annoyance.
He was also looking up to me as if he couldn’t believe it. A feeling that was difficult to describe was evident in his face.
‘Has he, at least, come to his senses?’
It might be because it was the unconscious, but he seemed to come to his senses faster than I thought.
Like the heroines who had repeatedly lost in a row, I thought I could also lose. However, when someone who could be said to be the cause of the problem appeared, he began to wake up in a bit.
I thought it would make things even easier. One hour over in the real world was equal to one to three days in the realm of dreams.
That was because it was considered enough time to take care of the lovely regressor’s mentality.
When I talked to Hyunsung, who was still busy rubbing at his eyes, I noticed that he couldn’t say anything. In fact, he looked hesitant to talk.
“I don’t know what to say.”
“Ah…”
“It’s been a long time.”
“Ah… uh… sniff…”
‘Does this b.a.s.t.a.r.d have aphasia? Why are you doing this? Seriously…’
“Ha, haha…”
“Ah… Ugh… Ugh…”
It felt like he was trying to say something. However, he kept choking, looking unable to spit out the words inside him. I could hear him sobbing and swallowing hard, which made me feel embarra.s.sed.
“…”
He looked sad, but at the same time, also happy.
I was hoping that he would be able to create an emotional scene by hugging me tightly like Park Deokgu, but he seemed to be suppressing himself for some reason.
He looked embarra.s.sed to show tears, and although he would’ve normally turned away, his eyes remained fixed on me in case I disappeared.
“Are you okay?”
“…”
‘I guess I just have to leave him until he calms down.’
He was currently not in the right state to communicate with emotions.
‘I am grateful… I didn’t know you think about me that much, b.a.s.t.a.r.d. You should have expressed it. I didn’t know it would be this much, really.’
“Do you feel a bit better now?”
“…”
It was hard to say that he was still completely calm, but he was in better condition than before.
As I took a step forward and stretched out my hand, I saw tears forming in his eyes again.
I was a bit embarra.s.sed, but he soon caught his breath and grabbed my stretched hand, and I lifted him.
“Sorry… I’m sorry.”
‘Sh*t, don’t cry again.’
“I-I’m… sorry.”
‘You’re not a crybaby.’
“You don’t have to say sorry at all. It’s not your fault.”
“B- But, but…”
“First, stand up. You can’t keep staying here forever.”
His expression soon turned into one of ambiguity.
‘You have to get out of this state you’re in, as quickly as possible.’
I actually meant that. However, it seemed that he didn’t hear it. It was only for a second, but I had to think about what the right choice was at that instance.
‘How should I do this?’
I couldn’t determine if it was better to urge him to ask what the h.e.l.l was he doing, to soothe him, or if it was better to shout at him to save me.
I naturally became careful in that situation, as I judged that his mentality was still a mess.
If he was really scared of fighting and avoiding it, pressuring him would be counterproductive.
If he was afraid that I had gone dark, yelling for help could also backfire.
That would be the case, even if he was a.s.suming a situation where he was killing me due to his own mistake.
Although he had come to his mind for a moment, it remained in a precarious state as if it would break anytime soon. Instead of sending a powerful blow to try to fix him instantly, I worried about his tears instead.
‘There is a lot of time left, anyway.’
For the time being, watching the situation for a few more hours didn’t seem like a bad decision.
Kim Hyunsung was looking around whilst wearing a faint smile. I wasn’t sure if he was aware of my complicated thoughts or not.
The Blue Guild Master looked more like he was wondering where he was and what he was seeing.
“How did… I see. That’s how it happened.”
‘What did happen?’
He questioned for a moment, but it seemed I could see what he was talking about as we walked together.
‘This b.a.s.t.a.r.d… He can’t tell.’
He was unable to tell whether what he was looking at was real or not.
“It’s all over. It’s all…”
He thought the whole situation had ended, causing him to lose his mind.
I wondered how he could think that way, but I found the answer when I looked around again.
The pitch-black darkness, a completely ruined city, it’s not clear, but where Kim Hyunsung and I were at the moment was…
“Lindel…”
“Yes, I think it’s Lindel. In the end… again… m-more importantly, what happened to you? Why… Is your mind back? The demons, no… they ended up…”
“…”
“Yes. It’s all over, and to ask this…”
“…”
‘f.u.c.k, what should I say?’
First, the answer was being shut down.
I wanted to respond, but after seeing Lindel, which had been completely ruined, my mind became complicated too.
It was the scenery of the first round, the continent after destruction.
The memory of the first round created by Kim Hyunsung’s unconscious was evidently displayed in his unconscious.
I had seen it through Yuno Kasugano, but it was the first time I had seen it again in such a long time.
I didn’t know how he survived there, what happened after that, and what caused it.
Still, I had to feel sorry for him.
Even unconsciously, seeing that scenario indicated that he was still hanging on to the first round. He managed to hold on, even in a completely collapsed situation.
‘This b.a.s.t.a.r.d is making me want to become f.u.c.king serious.’
What made me feel even bitter was that he looked a little comfortable. He didn’t look happy, but he had on an expression that looked as if he had laid down a heavy load. He was looking very comfortable.
“I don’t know if there’s anything there, but let’s go in.”
“…”
‘Blue Guild Hall.’
It was a scenario I was unfamiliar with. In this world, everything had collapsed, making it impossible for me to check it properly. Kim Hyunsung hadn’t even seemed to notice yet.
The guy who entered the kitchen with a little excitement went back to me to bring something.
“This one’s unbroken. I was lucky.”
“That’s…”
“I don’t know if you’ll like it. Given this situation, it seems that there isn’t much left… Maybe there’s more in the Red Mercenary or the Black Swan. It’s a bit late today, so it would be better to sleep here and move slowly from tomorrow.”
“Somewhere to sleep…”
“You don’t have to worry, Kiyoung.”
‘Hyunsung, it’s been a long time.’
As soon as I said that, He immediately went somewhere and brought back a bed.
As if he was just as strong in the unconscious realm, he hit the mattress with his hands.
He looked pretty adorable when he coughed, due to the big dust cloud that spattered out as he did so. He didn’t even seem to notice the fact that there was dirt on his face.
Before long, the place that used to be a ruin turned into a plausible s.p.a.ce instantly.
Since there was no magic, I couldn’t use cleaning magic, but I wandered around with agile movements. Every time he moved, the place became a little bit comfier. Due to that, I felt that it would really be okay to spend a few days there.
Placed on the sitting table was canned food that could be eaten over time and cheap wine that hadn’t been broken.
After he sat next to me with a little childish face, and when I saw the wine pouring out, I laughed, not because it was fun.
It was because I felt that his behavior was unnatural.
“What kind of pleasant thoughts are you having?”
“No, nothing, but… the situation felt a little fun. I think I’m too at ease in this situation…”
“There’re probably no survivors. If you wander from place to place, you won’t find anything.”
“I see.”
‘There’s no way he couldn’t notice.’
Yes, it was him, after all. There was no way that Kim Hyunsung didn’t notice.
There was no way he couldn’t notice the Blue Guild’s traces that were created as memories of the first round.
There were pictures of unknown people lying on the floor. The interior had been subtly changed.
whose owners couldn’t be named.
Those were the traces of the first round that I wasn’t aware of, but he did. No matter how ruined it was, it made no sense that Kim Hyunsung could miss that.
‘He knows.’
The b.a.s.t.a.r.d already realized that the environment surrounding him wasn’t real.
‘You… you have no intention of leaving here.’
“That’s why he’s in denial.”
I could see him looking at me, smiling as if he didn’t know anything.