114 – Despair (2)

“…Sky?”

“…….”

The first to speak in the silence that lasted for a long time was Kang Maru.

“Why, why?”

Even at the moment she opened her mouth, Kang Ha-neul, who had been bleeding from her mouth, slowly lifted her head in response to Kang Maru’s question in front of her.

– Cool…

At that very moment, blood gushed out of his mouth again.

“Dada, are you hurt…?”

“…Do not come close.”

Kang Maru, who had been watching her in contemplation, moved her steps in front of her and tried to reach out her hand, but immediately her river sky stopped her with a cold voice.

“Sky…”

But, unable to hear the voice of her, her timidity, she put her hand on the arm of her river and sky.

– Chii Ik…

“…Kyaaah!?”

At that moment, along with the blue smoke, a burning pain felt through Kang Maru’s fingers.

– Burr…

She hurriedly removed her hand, trembling all over her body at the pain that seemed to tear her raw flesh.

“…Even at this point, my sister won’t listen to me.”

“Ah…”

“Well, I didn’t expect it in the first place.”

She gazed blankly at the tips of her charred hands, even though they only touched her, she hears her brother’s cold voice and comes to her senses. .

– Swoop…

And the next moment, Kang Maru slowly knelt down in front of him.

“…What are you doing?”

“Mi, I’m sorry.”

In that state, she hesitated in a cold sweat, but when her younger brother continued to question her in a cold voice, she blurted out her words.

“I’m sorry, sky…”

And then the static began.

“My, I… Wrong…”

Maru Kang, who was about to continue talking in the stillness while shedding cold sweat, soon begins to blur her words.

“Wrong… Did…”

There was no emotion or expectation in her brother’s eyes as she looked at her.

She was just looking up at the person in front of her, who was once her older sister, with that aloof gaze.

“…….”

When faced with such a situation, Kang Maru, for some reason, couldn’t even deliver a proper apology, let alone convey the words he wanted to convey, and ended up keeping his mouth shut.

“…Things have gotten to this point, and my sister still thinks an apology is enough.”

“I, I…”

“How did you get here?”

Her river and sky, which had been staring at her for a long time, murmured in her low-pitched voice that, as expected, contained no emotion.

“That, that’s…”

“No, now that I think about it, noona couldn’t have come. I don’t even know where this place is, let alone the truth yet…”

But soon, Kang Ha-neul lowered her head with a self-deprecating smile.

“So, is it a fantasy you see before you die…?”

“…That, what do you mean by that?”

Hearing those words, Kang Maru opened her mouth with her trembling voice.

“This, I’ll have to treat it first… Wait a minute. I’ll call the medic…”

“…You’re going to take me, the villain, to the hospital?”

“Ah…”

However, Kang Ha-neul’s voice came back immediately.

“I-I’ll try to persuade you somehow. If it doesn’t work, I’ll at least camouflage it, so bear with me…”

“…That’s amazing.”

When Kang Maru, who had been trembling while holding her head, started crying and muttering, Kang Ha-neul, who had been watching her, murmured in a blank voice.

“It must have been a moment I’ve longed for, but why can’t I feel any thought or inspiration?”

“Sky…”

“Maybe it’s because it’s too late.”

Hearing that, Kang Maru looked stunned.

“…Sister. Did you really come here, not just an illusion?”

In that state, when the question of the river sky came in, she nodded her pale face.

“If that’s really the case, I have a request…”

“Fu, please…?”

To her, her river, the sky, squeezes out her last strength and grants her a favor.

“Kill me.”

And then the cold silence began again.

“…In just a few minutes, I’m going to run amok and blow up the whole area?”

Her

Looking up at her hardened woman with her mouth open, her river and sky continue her words with a calm voice.

“You don’t want my sister to come all the way here and be killed by me, do you? I also don’t want my colleagues and Justia’s younger brother to die because of me, who just ran away while denying reality.”

“………”

“I tried to kill myself by biting my tongue, but I can’t. I don’t think I can die from it…”

The more this happens, the more bluish Kang Maru’s face becomes.

“Then kill me.”

“…….”

“You always wanted to kill me. That’s the last wish I want from you, Kang Maru.”

To her like that, the cold remarks of her river and sky are pierced.

“…Sky.”

It was only then that Kang Maru came to his senses and started talking with a blank expression.

“I was wrong.”

“…….”

“…I’ve been misunderstanding you all along.”

Tears start to drip from her eyes.

“I-I now… Know the truth.”

“Cool…”

“Yes, the fact that you weren’t the one who killed Justia, the fact that you were falsely accused, and the identities of the monsters…”

Kang Ha-neul doesn’t say anything and just stares at it.

“You weren’t the one who made your parents like that…”

“…What?”

Then his eyes begin to shake slightly for the first time.

“Ha, there are many things I want to say. Sky…”

“………”

“There are so many things I want to apologize for and things I need to tell you…”

With a hint of hope in her appearance, she hurriedly took out her smartphone from her arms.

“…f*ck.”

But the next moment, Kang Maru’s hand, which was trying to call for reinforcements, stiffened at the low curse he heard from the front.

“So what do you mean?”

The swaying river sky’s eyes had changed to a colder one than ever before.

“It’s already too late at the latest. What are you trying to do now?”

“Oh no… It’s not too late…”

“Calm down, sister.”

At that moment, blue smoke began to spread from Kang Ha-neul’s body.

“…….!”

“Now… Less than 5 minutes… Less than…”

Kang Maru, who witnessed the faint human figure that began to be seen in the smoke, soon began to make an expression of astonishment.

“That, that’s…!”

One of the biggest reasons she hated her own brother so much. However, in fact, she is an existence that originated from her own body, not from anyone else.

– Greuk, Greureu…

“Ah, ah…!”

It was because her shadow, which haunted her until the moment she died in her last episode, laughed at the crest of her river in her smoke.

“What, do you see…?”

Thanks to that, Kang Ha-neul quietly tilted her head as Maru Kang sat down on her seat.

“…Rather well done, I don’t even have to explain.”

He starts muttering again with a self-deprecating smile.

“This is the monster I was carrying, sister.”

“………”

“Since I was little, yes… From daycare, you’ve been bullying me by my side.”

Seeing that expression that seemed to disgust herself, Kang Maru’s head began to turn pure white.

“…Strangely, from long ago, whenever I saw my older sister, she licked her lips.”

“Ah…”

“Fortunately, it didn’t appear after I gave it over to Himari, so I forgot about it…”

In her ears, Kang Ha-neul’s grave voice is heard.

“If you think about it, I was a monster from the beginning.”

“Oh, no…”

Looking at him like that, Kang Maru opened his trembling lips.

“No…”

“Nuna, I’m only going to say it once, so listen carefully.”

However, Kang Ha-neul’s voice, unilaterally ignoring it, pierces her ears once again.

“Whoever is born with this hideous monster is destined to become a knight of the apocalypse who will destroy the world.”

“………”

“So, don’t feel guilty and kill me.”

And then the static began.

“As I absorbed the concept of death into my body, strange things began to happen… The shadowy one began to take shape…”

“………”

“I don’t know how far my sister found out, but since I was such a terrible monster from the start, these are useless facts…”

In the silence, only the voice of Kang Ha-neul, who has lost all his energy, resonates.

“Think of killing the monster that tried to eat your family, not your brother.”

“Oh.”

“Kill me before it’s too late…”

“Ahh!”

However, the moment he was about to end his words helplessly.

“aaa!!!”

Grabbing her head, Maru Kang started screaming in a cracking voice.

“What…”

“I, it’s me! That’s me…!”

With tears in her eyes, she starts screaming as she embraces her little brother who is on the verge of losing her life force.

– Chii Ik……

“The monster that had that shadow was me…!!!”

Her body started to burn as the wind touched the pickled body of her death, but Kang Maru had no time to think about such a thing.

“Sister…?”

“The Knight of the Apocalypse, the Apocalypse…”

It was because it was only then that I realized that the worst imaginable situation, the worst ending was unfolding before my eyes.

“Originally it wasn’t you, it was me!!!”

Screams of despair and regret began to resonate from the ruins.

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“…Now, wait.”

Meanwhile, at that time.

“What are you talking about…?”

After clearing the piles of ruins blocking the collapsed corridor, Himari opens her mouth with a dazed look on her face.

“Go, Kang Ha-neul. Well, really you…”

– Kiki…

At that moment, the sound of a door opening came from behind her.

“…..Ah?”

Himari’s eyes, which inadvertently turned her gaze to that sound, soon became round.

“What is it?”

Where did she get it from? It was because Ariel, who was holding a bunch of medical supplies in her arms, was quietly tilting her head to her side.

“Who are you?”

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