Chapter 138
to survive.
(3) -I thought I might call you someday.
you're living well “I’m sorry to come and call you now.
a little faster...
.”
-You're in the middle of a busy life doing your own work.
your age A saliva flowed over the phone.
Cool.
The manager cleared his throat.
-Sometimes people I don't know come and ask if you're from our orphanage.
At first I thought you had done something big wrong.
The misunderstanding was cleared up because your motive showed the video.
Oh yeah.
Did you say the king of the dead? Naming sense.
“It’s not a nickname I came up with myself.
at the top...
.”
-okay.
After hearing your voice after a long time, I feel relieved.
"......." - Confucius? - What's going on? I grabbed the phone.
He suppressed the emotions that rose from his chest down his throat.
“I have something to ask you.
Manager.”
- Tell me.
No, wait.
How serious are you? tell me from there “It’s very serious.
Probably the most I've ever told the director...
.”
-Then I'll wait two minutes, no, three minutes.
I'm lying on the sofa right now.
Get up, bring your coffee, and listen upright.
Wait 3 minutes without interruption.
"Yeah." Thinking about it.
How long his life must have been.
I imagined the evils he must go through in order for a good man to be born.
If we gather all the good men living in this world, we will be able to display all the malice.
"Hey, how's the nursery these days? Are you okay?" -If you look at the conversation, it seems like you are talking quite seriously.
It's okay.
There are more teachers than when you were there.
Now I am the director and I don't do much.
The donations have also increased....
”
-Yes.
I'm sitting in the director's office now.
Please tell me slowly.
I took a deep breath.
"Director.
Did you ever graduate from your school days… Shinseo Middle and High School?" -.......
The silence subsided.
There was a sense of tension.
I overheard the sound of sleep.
The manager was sipping coffee over the phone.
The manager was swallowing black water.
Yes.
I'm out of the new library.
Even now, it's pretty prestigious.
"Maybe." I'd rather not.
"When you were in your second year of high school, you were the class president?" I hope that the trauma is an illusion made up by trauma.
All the scenes of the past that I thought I had glimpsed were all false, so I hope that the principal was just a good person and that he had a not very unhappy school days.
There was silence for a while.
-That's right.
A voice flowed out.
-I used to be the class president.
It's already been over a decade.
"......." -.......
Both the director and I kept their mouths shut.
The gloomy air.
The director also seemed to feel ominous, so he closed his lips.
-Tell me, "When you're the second-year class president.
Maybe.
On the roof of the school." -.......
“Is there such a person?”
The sound of breathing stopped.
-Yes, the headmaster said.
-It did.
The nightmare has been proven to be a reality.
-We've never had a proper conversation, but yes, there was.
Even the school hallway I walked in, the rooftop iron gate overlooking ██.
The chains of the city, the barren playground like a wasteland, and the shack floating in the middle of a plastic garbage bin like a white island were all true without a single lie.
Let’s live in a different world together.”
Only the ending was a lie.
“Yes, class president, in this world, let’s survive together.”
The things that should be the most false were the truth.
The things that should be the most true were only dreams.
It was the story of and the director.
“Director….”
I barely said, "Your name, remember?" No one in this world knows his name He came from the wilderness The Imperials gave him the name Rephanta in their reverence He was the slayer of the constellations The people of the tower called him Slayer He was an abandoned person from the world.
No one wanted to remember him.
So, now, only one person testified his name.
-Kim Yul (金律).
Someone was called by one person.
-The child's name was This is Kim Yul.
Confucius.
"......." I closed my eyes.
I remembered the conversation I had with the paladin in the school hallway.
『The back seat of the classroom.
The student sitting by the window, remember?』 『Aldamada "Isn't it my classmate? Maybe the name," the noise clears.
"It was Kim Yul." There was a person with a name like that.
"I'm not sorry for you, Kim Yul." When the wind blows in the classroom window, the white curtain He was a child small enough to be covered up by the school.
Before class, he quietly pulled out an old notebook and looked at it.
He was pulling the chain of an iron door knowing that it would not open.
"I'm sorry, Kim Yul.
I'm sorry." Decades ago.
“I’m sorry.”
There was such a child in this world - Confucius? And there is someone who has lived for several decades.
No one would know.
He was smart enough to go to school on a scholarship.
He was passionate enough to hold first place in his class at a prestigious place.
He studied at his own pace for four or five hours a day.
What kind of dream did that person have when he entered high school.
What kind of future was he dreaming of? -I don't know how you got to know the child.
Really.
But he saw.
He saw a human.
"I saw beasts, I saw death.
No one cares about you.
No one, no one.
No one..." At that moment, one person's time stopped.
Freedom of choice is gone.
For the director, the rest of his life became just the rest of his life to prove something.
[At that time, there was a child named Kim Yul alive].
“Master, I am here.”
-what do you mean? “I’m Kim Yul.
I'm the manager's classmate.
That kid.”
-I have no idea what you're talking about...
"I used to live in a garbage dump at the bottom of the mountain.
Kim Yul.”
-.......
“The back row of the classroom.
window seat.
You sat there.”
-......
I said.
“There is dirt on the collar of the school uniform shirt.
Why, the guy who was dating the student who was the student body president at that time was a bad bastard.
My older brother used to be a singer.
By forcibly handing over a cell phone that Kim Yul didn’t even have, the whole class was harassed with text messages.”
-.......
“Did you know there was a kennel behind the school? Raising rabbits and raising chickens.
It was originally supposed to be in charge of the breeding department, but since a foreign woman jumped into the fire with her newborn baby, no one took care of it.
So Kim Yul took care of me.”
-how.
The principal's voice trembled.
- Confucius, how did you do that...
“Master, I tried to stop you.
I've been trying to stop it since I was in 1st grade.
However, upon investigation, the principal's parents were on the school board, so he quit, didn't he? Was there also a moderator of the church you attended? Three-wheeled church.
I told my homeroom teacher, but he couldn’t push me because of the scholarship.”
-how… … .
"here it is.
Manager.”
I held my phone and bowed my head.
“I am here.”
-......
There was a long silence.
- Only four days.
said the manager.
-no.
Can you wait a week? A student whose time had stopped several decades ago said in a voice a little older and a little more weary.
- I'll go there.
4.
The week went by in a flash.
During that week, the director cleaned up the household.
Anyone can enter the tower.
However, you cannot bring anything you have from the outside world.
What he had achieved, what he had, and what he had been protecting over the decades, the director threw away.
“I was thinking of retiring from the beginning.”
After a long time, Director Byeon was older than before.
“I got a teacher who would be my successor right away.
I have a few jobs in the area, but… .
When it comes to the tower, what can't the government officials do? Now you know what to do.”
"welcome.
Manager.”
“I am no longer the manager.
Call me whatever you want.”
The manager smiled bitterly.
Of course, the director, who had just entered the tower, did not have a nickname.
People without this name have not been able to enter the library yet.
However, after talking with [the head of the library in the corner of the room], I succeeded in bringing the principal in particular.
“Coming here, I can see how successful you are.
Wherever I go, I only talk about you, Confucius.
Dozens of people flock to the entrance of the city to guide me because I am in the tower.
.”
"Well.
I made a little progress in the tower, but I did.
Since then, it has been ranked second in the rankings, Director.”
“Studying was the lowest among my classmates… .”
The headmaster looked at me with new eyes.
“Princess Pyeonggang is healing the fool Ondal.”
Her eyes were exactly the same as those she had seen in her trauma.
While I was engulfed in emotions I didn't know, the director was warmly welcomed by my colleagues.
“Ah.
You are the one who raised the Four Kings! My name is Heresy Inquisitor.
I wish you all the best in the future!”
“It’s called Black Dragon Juice.
He is always indebted to the Four Kings.
The Four Kings are also the deputy guild leaders of our guild.
If there is any inconvenience while living in the tower, please let me know.”
“He is a paladin in charge of security in Babylon on the first floor.
Teacher.
I heard that you ran an orphanage outside.
It's difficult to tell on a first date, but even the tower always needs a professional manpower.
I will formally visit the teacher later.”
“Yes, everyone.
Thank you for your hospitality.”
The director responded to the hunters as if familiar.
When the welcome procession passed once, and it was just me and the two of us, the director said, “One of your classmates became the youngest member of the National Assembly, so I’m used to this.
Even then, dozens of people a week came and said congratulations and other things.”
"Yes?! Who?!”
“Bizarre Kim.
remember? He is now a proportional representative.
You probably didn't know it because you changed your name." I was shocked.
It was news I hadn't heard before returning to 4000 days.
Because I stopped paying attention to my hometown.
"Oh my gosh… .
It's ridiculous.
He was just an idiot...
.
What did you change your name to?”
“Hanbi Kim.”
“Isn’t that just when you fall asleep at the end? Aren't you stupid?" “I’m saying that now that you are an adult too, Confucius.
you were stupid too He was a huge fool.”
“Eh.
Aren't I a bit smarter though?" “I couldn’t understand why people were not good at math until you were brought up.
king lord.
I think it’s fortunate that the top ranks are not determined based on test scores.”
The mastermind giggled from behind.
- Today, you'll hear a lot of Confucius' black history.
good, good! tell me more! The manager and I had a chat.
In order to prevent our conversation from being relayed outside, I told the librarian in advance.
The librarian granted my request.
It wasn't just that.
The bookmark maids served tea and refreshments.
“I’ve seen it on video, but it’s a really strange world.
Here...
.”
The director looked at the bookmark maid with suspicious eyes.
"therefore." The director's gaze glanced over the vast library once, and finally stayed on my face.
“Where is the child?”
I told the manager everything.
about my abilities.
about trauma.
About a person named [Lepanta Ai Kim] and a person named [Salcheonseong].
"......." The director listened to my story with an expressionless expression the whole time.
But expressionless did not mean no emotion.
For over an hour, the director sat still, unable to take a sip of the tea.
“These are unbelievable things.
whatever.”
“Yes.”
“But it is impossible for you to know… Kim Yul.”
The director's expression was difficult to read as it was when he was young, but after going through the trauma, I can see it now.
The director was afraid.
"Kim Yul was not included in the graduation album.
I couldn't put it.
But I, somewhere in the album The fact that there is no trace of Kim Yul in Edo… Think about it.
Confucius.
Could you provide an empty seat for me?”
"......." "Why are the album photos so bright again.
They...
they...
they didn't understand for a long time how they could laugh.
Yeah.
They're probably still alive today." The director looked down at the surface of the teacup with indifferent eyes.
The manager quietly drank the tea that had already cooled down a long time ago.
Then he looked straight at me, "It's okay." “……”
“The child.
No, I want to call the traces of that child.”
I nodded.
“Hundred return reincarnation.”
The shadows spread.
dreaming.
The shadow was alive and moving.
The black water, like the lunar water, fluttered, and then the water took the form of a person.
The waves turned to silvery hair, and the puddle formed a neat attire.
"......Well." Lephanta Ai Kim.
Salcheonseong looked around.
“This is an unexpected situation.”
The silver-haired man muttered bluntly.
“Is this kidnapping? Did you kidnap the doll and forcefully awaken it? Force… can’t be used.
The man lost his black hair.
He lost his name.
He lost his memory.
[Kim Yul] was just his forgotten starting point, so the man in front of him might be a completely different person from [Kim Yul].
He was Lephanta Aigim.
It was his nature, so no one deserved to call him [Yul Kim].
Except for the one witness who was at the man's starting point, Sal Cheon-seong turned to the director, and slowly, kneeling on the floor of the library, "I am one of the people who killed Mr.
Kim Yul." "......." "I've been wanting to say this for a long time.
Really..." The director bowed his forehead, "I'm sorry." Salcheonseong's face hardened.139.