chapter 597 - Unutterable Words (3) + [34]
Comments were piling up in real time.
The only thing I could see were the readers’ comments.
I didn’t know how the actual text was being written.
「“Everyone must have wondered about it at least once. In that world, what kind of lives would those who were not chosen by Kim Dokja be living?”」
Within those mere five thousand characters, was our story being told properly?
How many people died in this ‘Emergency Defense Battle’ that Kim Dokja was never able to see until the end?
How much did they suffer?
What stories took place?
Would the readers, reading this chapter now, ever know that?
「“I believe you all actually know. What the life of an ‘extra’ is like in this world.”」
Perhaps they would not.
Because their deaths were not the kind of stories people wanted.
[The Constellation, ‘Prisoner of the Golden Headband,’ yawns, saying this is getting boring.]
[The Constellation, ‘Abyssal Black Flame Dragon,’ desires a novel solution to the scenario.]
The death of a mere extra could never catch the gaze of any star.
[An unnamed Constellation watches your choice.]
The moment I rose while holding Jung Heewon, a mole cricket burst through the dust and charged.
“What are you doing? Lost your mind?”
With a slash, the mole cricket was cut neatly in half.
Lee Jihye stood in front of me.
“My master said I should at least let you live.”
Chewing on gum, she spat it out and spoke as if even looking at me was troublesome.
A giant centipede had noticed us and was crawling closer.
“I can’t take down things like that either. At best I can only buy some time, so pull yourself together and get upstairs fast.”
Lee Jihye was strong. She wouldn’t die in a predicament like this.
The writer of this story knew it. The readers knew it.
And most likely, Lee Jihye herself knew it too.
「Then what about Cheon Inho?」
I slowly walked forward to stand beside Lee Jihye.
She glared at me while cutting down the approaching mole crickets.
“Take care of Heewon-ssi.”
Startled, Lee Jihye looked at me as she took Jung Heewon into her arms.
Ignoring her gaze, I began walking forward.
Piercing a thorn into the head of an oncoming mole cricket, I kept walking.
“What the hell! Ajusshi! Do you really want to die?”
Die?
“I won’t die.”
If this were truly a crisis that threatened my life, time would have already stopped, and the world would have turned into shades of gray.
And before me would be the beginning lines of a manuscript titled with every kind of grim scene: Death of a Villain, Crisis of a Villain, The Villain’s Demise.
Therefore this silence was, to me, a clear opening line.
「Cheon Inho does not die here.」
“Dammit, wait! You really are going to get yourself killed like that!”
Dead mole crickets and human corpses were strewn together across the platform.
Like taking a photograph, I blinked slowly.
[You narrate your own actions.]
[5 Plausibility Points are consumed.]
The reason I activated the skill right now wasn’t to survive.
[Exclusive skill, ‘□□’ has been activated.]
It was simply because I had found words I wanted to write.