Return of the Frozen Player 542
RE：WIND(5)
The Grand Duke, who had been gazing at the constellations, became interested.
‘Was it a vain expectation?’
It is true that Seo Jun-ho expected a little to walk the constellation of ‘Return’.
However, he eventually broke the
couldn’t escape
‘It could be a mistake to reveal your power too early. That gave Kineos a sense of crisis.’
He, who had refrained from moving to keep Helic in check, will lead his army directly to the Ice Castle.
It will once again result in player carnage.
‘In other words, there was no value in the effort and return of the dim.’
The Grand Duke, who lost interest, took his eyes off the star and slowly closed his eyes.
* * *
The Heavenly Demon is dead. There was no excitement whatsoever.
Because I didn’t feel the refreshing exhilaration of achieving revenge, nor the bitter sense of futility that revenge leaves behind.
‘… … Is this the 238th time I killed him?’
All I can feel is that dry feeling and deep tiredness.
Seo Jun-ho closed his eyes.
‘I’ve finally come this far.’
I arrived at this place choosing only the same options as myself in the first round.
Everything was to stop the massacre of players on the 7th floor and move forward.
“It really is over.”
The frost that came closer muttered in a voice full of emotion.
“Really, you ended the age of demons.”
“It was an era that shouldn’t have existed.”
Surrey smiled.
He put an ice chair in front of him.
He sat up and crossed his legs.
“Now then, tell me.”
“..what?”
“Didn’t you make a pact with the original girl? What the hell happened to you?”
“Oh right.”
Remembering the promise, Seo Jun-ho nodded.
Even if no one else knows, I thought I had to reveal the truth to her.
‘That would be right. Yes, that’s right.’
Seo Jun-ho talks about the regression he went through and is still going through.
I had to
As she heard the story, Seo-ri’s expression changed moment by moment.
“Wait, stop talking for a second.”
Frost raised a hand to restrain him and asked in a trembling voice.
“… … What number did you say it is now?”
“No. 318.”
She couldn’t speak easily.
“It was an illusion that everyone was happy. Realizing that, I came back for the first time.”
“… … You mean with a mask on?”
“that’s right.”
Seo Jun-ho calmly admitted it.
Because he was wearing the mask of ‘Seo Jun-ho’.
“I’m copying everything I used to do, how I spoke, and how I thought.”
I couldn’t help it. The moment you stop imitating.
Because he will become an existence that has no relationship with ‘Seo Jun-ho’ anymore.
“… … Since when. Since when have you been like that?”
since when was it
Seo Jun-ho searched for his memory.
“Perhaps it was from the twelfth return?”
Then I felt something crumble inside me.
I realized it only after a long time had passed.
That it was the heart, or something called humanity.
“… … contractor. Wouldn’t it be a little better if I ate that poison again?”
“By poison, are you referring to mad poison?”
He shook his head quietly.
“You ate on the 4th floor this time too. Unfortunately, it had no significant effect.”
Gwangsa poison is a poison that amplifies the emotions and senses of the target by disabling the brain’s safety device.
But it didn’t work for me. The reason is also roughly guessed.
Knock knock. Seo Jun-ho tapped his left chest with his finger.
“There is nothing left here. You can’t amplify something that doesn’t exist.”
The emotions of the person who remained in me have already dried up.
Seo Jun-ho humbly acknowledged and accepted that fact.
“I think I made a deal. That’s a pretty good deal too.”
He easily gained opportunities that others did not have, and thanks to that, he was able to take on the challenge again.
If the only thing paid in return is humanity, isn’t it enough business?
The Frost Queen squeezed out a weak voice.
“You… … What are you doing all this for?”
I couldn’t exactly answer that question.
It was for the sake of the promise he shared.
It was also for the sake of the oath he had made.
“… “sorry.”
In the end, Seo Jun-ho smiled bitterly.
If it was Seo Jun-ho in the past, he would have laughed like this.
“Contractor, there is no need to act in front of the original daughter.”
pat, pat.
Small, cold hands like rabbits caressed her hair several times.
“You are great, you have suffered greatly. Her original daughter knows.”
She patted Seo Jun-ho, who was staring at her, for a long time.
* * *
After reading the memories of the dead demons, the two headed straight to the ice castle.
“I should have killed Pambert, too. Maybe that guy is the one who brainwashed Kim Woo-jung.”
“Forget this. By now, you should have already fled to the demon realm.”
As we entered the snowfield, a fierce snowstorm covered our vision.
However, the frost took a step without hesitation.
“The original girl knows the way.”
Because he built the ice castle himself,
It was thanks to the understanding of the surrounding geography to some extent.
“If you just pass through the gorge in front of you, you will see the castle.”
“O” Heh.
jerk, jerk.
Seo Jun-ho, who was following her, suddenly stopped in place.
‘……what?’
For the first time in a long time, I felt a strange feeling.
Seo Jun-ho pondered for a while about what that feeling was.
-That is the feeling of ominousness. partner.
My intuition gave me advice.
Seo Jun-ho asked back.
“is it. Then why do I feel unlucky?”
“… … I have a bad feeling. Let’s speed up.”
Odododo, the frost ran out of the snowy field.
‘For a contractor who lost his humanity to feel such a huge ominous feeling.’
probably not Hopefully not.
The steps of the frost that came out of the gorge stopped abruptly.
“… … ah.”
A thick bloody smell vibrates the tip of the nose.
Frost looked at her contractor with trembling eyes.
Seo Jun-ho looked at the castle with an ice-cold face.
he walked slowly
A gait at a moderate pace, neither slow nor fast.
After passing through the gate, he drove a car around.
Yes I looked back.
“… … A lot of dead.”
“Contractor, not yet! The fight isn’t over yet!”
Seori, who had caught the sound of weapons clashing in the castle, shouted.
Seo Jun-ho muttered in a calm voice.
“I guess so. Seeing that no memories have been added, it means that Jun-shik is still alive.”
But what meaning does it have?
He read the memories of the corpses lying around.
“… “indeed.”
The variable was the transcendental agent, Kineos Mullibach.
‘Could it be that he realized that I had attained the rank of immortality, and felt a sense of crisis, so he acted on his own?’
Seo Jun-ho stroked his chin and pondered.
“This is a bit difficult.”
If you openly reveal your power, the transcendental agent directly invades the ice castle.
On the contrary, if you don’t reveal it at all, Kim
Wu-jung becomes a demon and the heavenly demon invades the ice castle.
“Then, should I rescue Kim Woo-jung and even kill the Heavenly Horse without revealing my strength?”
It was definitely a difficult difficulty.
However, if you repeat it over and over again, you will see the answer someday.
“Inventory.”
Seo Jun-ho took out the last page of his diary from his inventory.
And the moment I gave the order to stab my heart with the Freedom Blade.
Aaaaaaaaagh!
The wall on the side collapsed as it was, and a huge dragon’s eyes appeared.
The bright yellow eyes of a reptile that were split vertically.
A message window popped up in front of me.
[You have encountered the boss monster of Frontier 23 area, Kineos Mullibach.]
[If you defeat him, a safe zone will be created in the Frontier 23 area.]
‘Ah, this guy is a transcendental agent… …
Aaaaaang!
The world shook like crazy.
Seo Jun-ho, who flew to the opposite wall in an instant and collided with it, blinked slowly.
‘surprise attack… … is it.’
He spoke, but no sound came out of his mouth.
Rather, hiss, hiss. Only the sound of the wind was heard.
Seo Jun-ho slowly lowered his head.
Beneath his chest, nothing could be seen.
Thanks to cell regeneration (A), he escaped instant death, but it was not at the level of recovery.
‘Did it get cut in half in one blow?’
Enemy, but great workmanship.
If both were players of the same level of skill, it was a huge advantage to attack first and surprise.
‘diary. First of all, the diary.’
Seo Jun-ho’s gaze is a puddle of blood in front of his eyes
headed for
The diary paper, which had been lost in an unexpected surprise attack, was floating on top of it.
‘haha.’
Seo Jun-ho slowly stretched out his hand.
The distance is too far. do not reach
‘no… …
The condition for triggering the diary is ‘to die while possessing the diary’.
Seo Jun-ho, gathering all his mental strength, scratched the ground with his fingernails.
Clap, crag, crag!
A little bit of his body, but he was dragged forward.
‘Just a little bit more.’
he will die soon
His heartbeat had long since stopped, his eyelids kept closing, and confusion arose between memories.
‘hurry……
The moment his outstretched arm touched the paper with all his might.
slap, slap.
Someone walked into the pool of blood and picked up the paper.
‘Whoa.’
Seo Jun-ho was slightly relieved.
It was none other than the Frost Queen who picked up the paper.
‘Sury, come on!’
he reached out
But the frost glanced at his hand and turned away.
She stared down at the paper she was holding and opened her mouth.
“contractor. She’s the original woman and has been through a lot of her troubles.”
Seo Jun-ho stretched out his trembling hand.
Come on, give me the paper, I’m dying soon.
“The conclusion I came to after thinking about it is that I must not let you go through any further regression.”
‘What is that?’
“… … The contractor her original daughter knew was a very warm-hearted person.”
Its heart was so warm that it made me want to live in that light for the rest of my life.
But now Seo Jun-ho did not have that kind of warmth.
It must be because he lost his mind during the days and days of countless repetitions of recurrence.
“You will not be able to regain that feeling even if you go back thousands more times through the diary.”
Rather, it will only get worse. In the past, he may not even know who he is.
slap, slap.
The Frost Queen came to him, walking through pools of blood.
Lowering her body, she gently stroked the dying Seo Jun-ho’s face.
“Contractor, you are already carrying too many burdens. To some extent, the heart of the original woman watching from her side is nervous.”
It was only then that Seo Jun-ho realized what the Frost Queen was trying to do.
She is trying to rewind everything.
To the state right before he undergoes this cursed return. To the point where she has no memories.
“Don’t worry too much.”
The Frost Queen grinned.
“Isn’t the original woman the one who freezes the world in name and color? I don’t know, but she’ll adapt to the frozen time better than you.”
don’t Please stop.
Seo Jun-ho shouted with his eyes.
Because I knew best how painful the road was.
It was obvious how many tears the tender-hearted Seo-ri would shed on that road.
“contractor.”
A huge dragon rose from behind the Frost Queen.
A formidable force gathered around the dragon’s mouth.
“… … So goodbye.”
—
Breath from Kineos Mullibach hit the two of them.
* * *
The grand duke’s eyes, which had been slowly closing, flashed open.
He lowered the hand resting on his chin and gazed at the brightest constellation above all else.
“… … Frost Queen.”
The little flapping of her wings that even the Archduke had never seen before.
blazed a whole new path.
* * *
It was a space of nothingness.
A world of emptiness where nothing exists, where everything is dark.
The Frost Queen sat there, squatting.
“… … Is regression really like this?”
I wasn’t sure how long I’d been in this place.
After the 100 days passed, I was scared and deliberately didn’t count the days.
“Did she make a mistake?”
The time he set was definitely not this time, did he mistake the date by any chance?
When I thought so, I was terrified.
How long do you have to endure in this stuffy darkness?
But she endured without crying. She was proud of herself.
‘The contractor would have had a much harder time than this.’
If he’s already crying, isn’t there any point in yelling loudly at him?
The Frost Queen prayed, closing her eyes tightly.
‘Contractor, if the original daughter meets you again.’
At that time, I won’t make you go through such a tough thing like regression again.
you will definitely make it
Todok.
At that time, an unknown sound came through the ears of the Frost Queen.
It sounded like something I had heard somewhere.
Todo Dog, To Do Dog!
That sound continues to ring in my ears
Well, she shook her head.
“Contractor’s Egg Roll!”
This is the familiar sound he hears every time he prepares breakfast in the kitchen. It was the sound of eggs breaking.
Frost raised her head.
Whoaaaaagh!
The world that had imprisoned her collapsed, and the young contractor’s face came into view.
nice to meet you I’m happy enough to bring tears to my eyes.
The Frost Queen greeted her with a big smile on her face.
“Oh? This is a very nice face.”
