00595 Smile and say goodbye. ————————————————– ———————-=
Woojik, woozijik!
The sound of a pit being torn apart is heard. Users waiting quietly under the gaping hole all look up at the sky with anxious faces.
Soon, three or four handfuls of dirt fall down, and at the same time, tangled, crude ropes are falling down and fluttering in the air. Only then did the complexions of those who looked at the rope clearly brighten.
“Istantel Low Road. “It is time for you to go.”
After a while, the man who was holding on to the rope with all his strength spoke with a slightly impatient look. However, it seems like she has no intention of moving yet, and Han So-young does not make a single movement.
“You’ve waited too long.”
“Make sure you go up first.”
“Istantel Low Road.”
“I’m a little more… .”
The man repeatedly suggested in a earnest voice, but Han So-young calmly shook her head. She must have known that persuasion wouldn’t work, so her man finally sighed and pulled hard on the rope a couple of times. Soon, the man’s body begins to quickly rise into the air due to the force of several people pulling the rope from the outside.
As a result, the number of users left under the pit was about 10, excluding Han So-young. Immediately after the collapse began, Han So-young responded quickly and brought most of the users to safety, but she herself was not yet able to escape the pit.
No, would it be more accurate to say that it wasn’t done? From the time the rope first came down, she had been given the opportunity several times, but the one who refused was none other than Han So-young herself.
Han So-young tilted her head back for a moment and looked up at the sky, then lowered her gaze and stared at the passage she had run through.
Just a dark passage.
No one is seen, and no sign is felt. That fact made Han So-young’s heart even more complicated. It was at this moment that Han So-young quietly chewed her teeth, feeling nervous for the first time in a long time, wondering when on earth she was going to come.
Crack, clap, clap!
“… … !”
Suddenly, Lee Chae passed by the emotionless pupil that was staring endlessly at the passage. Suyoung Han automatically raised his magic power. He enhances her eyesight and hearing and gazes more closely at her passage.
Crackle, crack, crack, crack, crack!
I can hear it.
The sound of low footsteps echoing down the aisle can be heard.
The sound of footsteps could not be heard by one person. At least 2 people. And it is getting closer at a very fast pace.
A feeling of excitement began to fill Han So-young’s eyes as she listened to the sound of footsteps approaching at every moment. The moment she noticed the various shadows slowly appearing, the nervousness weighing on her heart disappeared and she was filled with relief that she had waited well.
“after.”
Han So-young let out a light sigh and slowly looked around. The pit was still in the process of collapsing, but there was no sign of it collapsing yet. In addition, as if the rescue of the users who had previously grabbed the ropes was over, new ropes suddenly fell down.
good night. It’s really not a bad situation. If you can grab this rope right when they arrive, you will have enough time to climb up.
Thinking like that, Soyoung Han turned her gaze towards the aisle with a very slight smile on her face.
However, the moment I saw the users who had finally appeared, that smile quickly disappeared.
“ah… ?”
does not exist.
No, I can’t see it.
There are a total of 3 users running into the passage. To be exact, one man, one woman, and one woman carrying the man on his back. The three are Qigong lancer Ahn Hyeon, Priest of Radiance Ansol, and resident Helena, and they are people Han So-young is familiar with.
What is important here is that Kim Soo-hyun, the mercenary road that Han So-young is waiting for desperately, is not visible.
How on earth did this happen?
As Han So-young saw the three users running towards her, the worry deepened.
*
Rattling, rattling! Rattling, rattling!
Ahn Hyun, standing in the mine train, turned his head to the rear and froze.
“… brother?”
Shin Jae-ryong is nowhere to be seen. Go Oh-hwan is nowhere to be seen.
The two men who were pushing the train with all their might are not visible.
What this meant was clear. While Ahn Hyeon was concentrating on stabilizing the mine train, it suddenly fell off.
“ah… .”
I was lost in deep thoughts. However, no sound was heard, let alone a call for help. Just quietly, she let go of her hand on the train without making a sound.
It’s not Ahn Hyun who doesn’t know why Shin Jae-ryong did that.
“ah… !”
Actually, I had a little bit of intuition from the moment I heard that they were going to push the train. However, Ahn Hyeon tried to ignore that intuition.
Because I promised.
Because I promised that I would never die, and that if I pushed the train a certain distance, I would ride it no matter what.
“Aaaahhh!”
However, Shin Jae-ryong broke his promise. He didn’t keep his promise to live together.
It wasn’t a sacrifice. Since my physical strength had reached its limit, I thought of it as a burden, and I just did as much as I could. In the process, he was forced to lie.
but.
Even though Ahn Hyeon seemed to know everything, he could not accept it as it was.
“liar!”
In the end, I collapsed and collapsed. Suddenly, she felt as if her entire body was losing strength. Her tears welled up and her vision became blurry.
“lie… ! Talkative… !”
A voice full of tears echoes through the passageway passing quickly. Naturally, there was no reply.
“Huh… . Hehehehe… .”
In the end, Ahn Hyeon barely managed to get up using his spear as a cane, even with tears streaming down his face. And he wiped away his tears with the back of his trembling hand and tried to check the direction ahead.
However, it is difficult to do so. Even though it’s hard, it’s really hard.
Now I have recognized the reality that there is no Shin Jae-ryong.
I don’t want to cry… . I really, really don’t want to cry.
Now that things are like this, I want to focus on myself and Helena’s escape.
Not only is that the correct answer, but I also know that this is what Shin Jae-ryong truly wants.
However, that doesn’t work out as planned.
As much as I wanted to get Shin Jae-ryong back right now, it was realistically impossible. I don’t even know where it disappeared from in the first place, but the train, which was already accelerating, had been running on the rails for a long time. The train, which had been eager to accelerate just a moment ago, now felt infinitely cruel.
“Hehehehehehehe…” .”
Even if I wipe away the tears, wipe them again and again, they still won’t stop.
Rattling, rattling! Rattling, rattling!
Meanwhile, the mine train was running furiously on the rails, and before I knew it, the distance to the crack had almost been narrowed.
It was then.
Blah blah blah!
Finally, just as the mine train was almost catching up to the collapse crack, a large crack suddenly opened up. As if they can’t easily be caught up like this, they stretch straight ahead and get ahead by quite a bit.
And, through the cracks, the fragmented earthen rocks take on a shaky form as if they are about to descend downward. No, actually some were falling. At this rate, it was as obvious as hell that I would fall into the zone of impact from that falling rock.
Clearly a dangerous situation. Not only does it hit the train directly, but it also passes by or gets stuck in the railroad tracks, blocking its path. All of this is directly life-threatening. No matter how much the train was strengthened, or how many windows it could hit, it was difficult to handle all the dirt and rocks that would fall like rain.
In this situation, there is nothing Anhyun can expect. Not only can I barely stop a speeding train, I don’t even know how to operate it in the first place. I just hope that it breaks through safely like this, or that the dirt and rocks fall late before the train breaks through the area of influence.
Woojik, woozijik!
However, with some distance left to the area of impact from the fall, the ceiling clearly betrayed Anhyeon’s expectations.
A situation that is beyond the worst, and could possibly end like this.
But we can’t just let things go on like this. If you really go to extremes, you’ll even abandon the mine train.
That was when Ahn Hyeon, who had made such a determination, gritted his teeth.
Flash!
Suddenly, a point of light flashed in Anhyun’s vision.
In the radiance of that light, a strange light flashed across Ahn Hyeon’s face for a moment.
The light shining from across the street quickly shortened the distance. At that moment, the earthen rocks that fell from the ceiling began to descend with heavy heating, as if wondering where they were coming from.
However, the light penetrated into the middle of the earthen rocks that poured down like a rain shower.
At the scene that followed, Ahn Hyeon could not help but open his mouth in a daze.
Flash!
Ahn Hyeon closed and opened his eyes without realizing it. And you can see a halo of light whose distance has become much shorter than before.
Flash! Flash! Flash! Flash!
Each time it flashes, the light passes through the earth and rocks like flowing water with a spectacular movement, as if Anhyun’s worries were ridiculous. The earthen rocks could not be touched by even a hair’s breadth of light. Rather, whenever light passes by, the earthen rock splits in half and falls helplessly from side to side.
It was like a lie. It’s not enough to avoid all the dirt and rocks that come pouring down like that, but they cut them all apart and throw them away? That is something that Ahn Hyeon can never be confident about even if he is in a normal state.
But at that moment, Anhyeon felt a sense of regret.
‘If you are a clan lord, you must have left room to rescue us.’
What Shin Jae-ryong said with confidence. He is the driving force that kept going even though he wanted to give up several times.
Ahn Hyeon automatically raised his gaze as if wondering.
And, I could see it.
Flash!
Light flashed again. A large earthen rock is broken in half. And through the crack, a pure white sword light leaked out and filled Ahn Hyeon’s vision. The light happened to cut off an additional earthen rock that fell on the top of Anhyeon’s head, and then spun around and somersaulted.
As far as Ahn Hyun remembers, there is only one user who can make such movements in the air.
“… “Sigh!”
The moment he finally confirmed the identity of the light, Ahn Hyeon’s pupils grew to the size of a flower lantern.
It was like that.
Finally, the light, no, Kim Soo-hyun appeared. Indeed, as Shin Jae-ryong said, he did not abandon them but came to save them.
“brother!”
Anhyeon shouted again.
Despite this urgent situation, Ahn Hyeon could see his face looking calm at first glance, but instead, he felt at ease. Just the fact that Kim Soo-hyun came is enough to make all the emotions that have been bothering her disappear at once, like melting snow, and to be replaced by an unexpected joy. In the pit where only despair remained, I felt like everything had suddenly changed.
Soon, Kim Soo-hyun’s gaze, passing through the air, glanced down. Ahn Hyun also tilted his head back and tried to look at Kim Soo-hyun.
So, one from below and the other from the air.
A fleeting moment when we look at each other.
Kim Soo-hyun looked at the train for a moment, then opened his mouth and pointed to the passage leading straight ahead.
“Shin Jae-ryong… !”
Before he could finish his words, Anhyeon instinctively pointed to the opposite passage.
At the same time, they are pointing in opposite directions.
Rattling, rattling!
The train passed over the dirt-covered rails without difficulty.
Flash!
Light flashed and Kim Soo-hyun’s appearance disappeared.
Kim Soo-hyun and Ahn Hyun passed each other as if passing by.
*
It was a few tens of minutes ago.
Rattling! Rattling rattling! Rattling! Rattling rattling!
There was a mine train that was screaming as if it was about to go off the rails at any moment, and two men were holding onto the back and pushing it.
Shin Jae-ryong and Go Oh-hwan.
The two giant men are pushing the train with all their might. The noise from the train became more severe, but Shin Jae-ryong did not stop. No, he couldn’t stop.
Because it felt like the moment I relaxed even a little bit, it would just collapse.
In fact, Shin Jae-ryong also vaguely felt it.
He knew he was done from the moment he fell to the ground earlier.
Even the flames of the half-light that burned brightly for the last time are now slowly fading away.
In other words, he lied to Ahn Hyeon.
However, if he had not said so, Ahn Hyeon would never have boarded the mine train.
Shin Jae-ryong, who thought so, gave even more strength to push the train. And he looked at Ahn Hyeon’s back, who seemed to be doing something in front of him, and showed an expression of regret.
The train was gradually gaining speed. Before I knew it, the wind like a knife was passing by my face.
“Hey, Mr. Priest!”
The moment the speed increased to the point where it was difficult to keep up, Go Oh-hwan’s shout suddenly rang in Shin Jae-ryong’s ears.
“yes!”
Shin Jae-ryong responded while still staring straight ahead.
“I have one question before I die! “Tell me the truth!”
“Say it!”
Did he sense that it was the last time? The two men pushing the train talk in almost struggling voices.
However, the two men had the same smiling faces.
“A while ago, there! I was so grateful when you said that you were a friend and that you would not abandon me! “I was truly moved!”
“It was nothing! “By the way, is that what you’re curious about?”
“No, not that! … Actually, us!”
“… … ?”
For a moment, Go Oh-hwan’s voice cut off.
But the silence didn’t last long.
“If only we had met a little earlier and under different circumstances! “Don’t you think they got along quite well together?”
An unexpected question that finally came to my mind.
However, Shin Jae-ryong still did not lose his smile. As if he didn’t even have to think about it, he opened his mouth right away.
“I guess so!”
“really?!”
“yes! A personality similar to that of a warrior lord! “I don’t particularly hate it!”
“… “Hehehehe!”
Go Oh-hwan’s smile, not knowing whether he is laughing or crying, returns.
and.
“… “Okay, thank you.”
Suddenly, a slightly lowered voice flowed into Shin Jae-ryong’s ears. Shin Jae-ryong, who was about to open his mouth, suddenly closed his mouth again.
Suddenly, a feeling of emptiness came from the left. At the same time, the pressure of pushing the train temporarily became stronger. It was accelerating and getting better right away, but I didn’t have to turn my head to know what was happening.
It wasn’t as big a deal as I had expected from the beginning.
just… . Go Oh-hwan’s stamina ran out first.
“… That would have been really fun.”
Shin Jae-ryong muttered quietly and then calmly raised his head.
Now even my vision had become blurry. No matter how hard I try, I can’t focus. My whole body felt very heavy, and darkness kept descending into my mind.
And above all, my body and legs can no longer keep up with the train.
The end is not near, but the end has arrived.
Shin Jae-ryong himself felt that the time had come.
In such a situation, Shin Jae-ryong squeezed out his last strength. In a brief glimpse, I saw Ahn Hyeon doing something with his hand on the jewel.
That was truly the last, final power.
Immediately, my vision became blurry and I suddenly felt as if my whole body was being cut off.
Before that, Shin Jae-ryong smiled sadly.
He smiled sadly and quietly opened his mouth.
“sorry… . “Hyuna.”
Almost at the same time, I let go of the train I had been holding on to so tenaciously.
Suddenly, it felt like everything around me was slowing down for a moment.
Slurp!
Rattling, rattling! Rattling, rattling!
The train passed the rails in no time, making a more stable sound.
Shin Jae-ryong, who tried to look at the train until the end, ended up dropping his head.
Soon the mine train disappeared into the distance, and even the sound disappeared completely.
Darkness fell on the passage.
The ground was shaking mercilessly due to the continuous collapse, but Shin Jae-ryong did not feel anything. The fact that he was just lying down, the feel of the soft dirt against his cheek, gave him endless comfort and relief.
“… … .”
Some time passed, and Shin Jae-ryong suddenly felt as if his whole body was sinking. And in that mood, he began to think back and reminisce about the times he had passed through one by one.
A while ago, Ahn Hyeon asked a question.
‘Then when were your shining days?’
I couldn’t speak properly at that time.
It’s not that I couldn’t say it because I didn’t know, but because I was embarrassed.
because… .
‘then… . ‘Did you join the rescue team to save me?’
‘Because you saved my life. If you didn’t know at all, I thought it would be unreasonable to pretend not to know that your benefactor was in trouble.’
The relationship we formed from then on… .
‘So have you made up your mind?’
‘yes. ‘It was only yesterday that I was finally able to make up my mind.’
‘During my time in the Mercantile Clan, I felt that there were a lot of really good people, and I didn’t want to miss this opportunity.’
‘If you accept our membership, we will do our best to help you as much as possible.’
From there, my days as a Mercenary Clan member began… .
‘Welcome to join the Mercantile Clan.’
It was none other than the beginning of Shin Jae-ryong’s shining days.
Rumble!
When the panoramic flashback was finally over, an enormous noise that seemed to tear the surroundings apart struck my ears. At the same time, quite a bit of dirt was falling down on my face.
You can tell without having to look.
A premonition of complete collapse.
The tension builds, and I can’t breathe.
We can now see a future that will soon continue and be welcomed.
The future of being crushed to death by the dirt alone in this dark pit.
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t scared or sad.
But, at least… .
‘Regret… . does not exist… .’
“ha ha ha… .”
So Shin Jae-ryong laughed.
At least Shin Jae-ryong was able to smile because he didn’t regret it now.
Rumbling!
Soon, with that laughter as the starting point, countless earthen rocks fall.
Even the half-blurred, half-dark vision of my narrowed eyes was filled with something large all at once.
Shin Jae-ryong’s eyes close, and the collapsed lumps of earth descend vertically.
And, it was that moment.
Flash!
A ray of light crossed the passage.
The reflected sword light that struck like a beam of light was of course the descending earthen rocks.
Hwaaaaaaa!
“User Shin Jae-ryong!”
Even all the darkness in the passage was completely transformed to pure white.
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Ugh. ㅇ<-< sorry. I was planning on finishing it somehow today... . yes. I adjusted the dose. OTL Please hit me hard for this insensitive person! ㅜ.ㅠ No matter what happens tomorrow, I will definitely finish the pit.(?) And I think there are some misunderstandings, so I would like to answer them. 1. Do you have a history of being scammed by Mr. Shin? Sol) No. I've never been like that. 2. Have you ever been dumped more than 10 times by someone with the last name Shin? Sol) Love? hmm. God xx. Kang xx. Kim xx. Oh xx. Kim xx. ah. Now that I think about it, I heard a breakup notice from Shin xx when I was in my third year of middle school. 3. Did you get dumped by Mr. Shin while dating? Sol) Hmm. Strictly speaking, it doesn't exist, but that's not the reason! 4. Select and kill Mr. Shin? Sol) No. please. OTL 5. The author’s killing of Go Oh-hwan is foreshadowing. This means that I have no Go-O-X, that is, I am Royumi. Sol) ㅡㅡ. P.S. Today's structure is twisted from reverse to reverse. If you consider * as the starting point, you can see that progress of 3, 2, and 1 occurred, and after time passed from 1, progress of 4 occurred. 🙂 fantasy,
