The Only Ending for the Evil Count Pig Is Destruction

413 – Scene 413# Creator

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Give up this world.

For a moment, I couldn’t immediately understand what that meant.

Park Jun-hyuk shrugged his shoulders at me.

“In other words, go back to the way things were. Your sister is Jeong So-ra again. You are asked to return from Tristan to Jeong Ji-hwan…”

“Stop talking nonsense.”

I immediately grabbed Park Jun-hyuk by the collar.

“Now you want us to go back to the way things were? Have you forgotten who caused my brother and sister to become like this? Park Jun-hyuk, how long do you plan on testing my patience?”

“… Haha. Take it easy. If you ask me to apologize, I will. “If you tell me to kneel, I will at least kneel.”

“Is that the attitude of someone who apologizes?”

I felt hot ‘anger’ boiling in my chest. I felt like I wanted to burn him down at any moment. It was a feeling that could be endured through ‘patience’, but I did not control it. Because I wanted to convey exactly what I was feeling to the man in front of me.

However, Park Jun-hyuk did not blink an eye. Instead, he waved his hand slyly.

“Haha… I apologize if my attitude offended you. “I don’t really understand the emotions that take humans for granted.”

“You don’t understand?”

“That’s right. I’m not good at understanding human emotions. Oh, of course I don’t understand, but I know it as knowledge. Perhaps what you are feeling towards me right now is anger.”

He was broken. He may have been fine until he lost his two daughters. He may have been a perfectly normal human being who equally felt sadness and loss. However, Park Jun-hyuk, who was now caught by my collar and laughing insincerely, was clearly abnormal.

“So, won’t you let this go? Haha…”

“Don’t laugh.”

“Ahaha. This is not a happy smile. I guess it’s because it’s easier to smile when dealing with people. Haha.”

“I warned you.”

“Why? Isn’t there a saying like that? You can’t spit on a smiling face…”

The next moment, Park Jun-hyuk’s head turned with a dull sound. Because I couldn’t bear it any longer, or rather, I stopped thinking about holding it in, I punched Park Jun-hyuk right in the middle of his face. However…

“Ahaha…”

Park Jun-hyuk smiled, wiping the nosebleed from his nose.

“I guess not all the proverbs are true.”

“Have you ever heard the proverb that a whip is medicine for a crazy person?”

“Haha. There is some truth to that. But if you’re referring to me as the crazy guy you’re talking about, then you’re wrong. “I’m not crazy.”

“No. You are crazy Junhyuk Park. “If you don’t feel anything about what you’ve done, you must be crazy.”

“Emotion? Haha. Hey, Jeong Ji-hwan. You too are living a very tiring life. All of those things are like cancer that eats away at human life. Didn’t you see Michaela and Lucaela? “It’s because of useless emotions that such failures came out.”

“… It is natural for humans to feel emotions.”

“Okay. Don’t take it for granted. But if humans had not felt emotions, they would have become much greater beings than they are now.”

“You really… It’s unpleasant.”

Why? The more I talked to a person named Park Jun-hyuk, the more I could not hide my discomfort. It wasn’t just the dark side that made my brother and sister like this. However, it didn’t feel like dealing with a crazy person. Should I really say that I can’t believe that the person in front of me is human? It never occurred to him that he was a human being like me.

“Haha… Are you offended by me? Uncanny Valley? I used to feel that way about poorly made fakes. So I wanted to create something that was more real than the real thing.”

“Don’t be mistaken. You are not god Park Junhyuk.”

“God? No. That’s not it. I didn’t just want to become a god. What I wanted to be was a creator. Even God can create… Okay. It would be right to call him the creator of the haha!”

There was madness in Park Jun-hyuk’s eyes. It was the madness of a rare genius who invented something that could create a huge universe, a world, with a mere human body.

“Crazy guy… Was that why the Milky Way was created?”

“That’s right. This is my masterpiece that can create a real world. Don’t you know that you have lived in this world for a year? “This is not just a virtual world, but a real world!”

“Then you know how ridiculous it is to tell me to give up this world.”

It was already confirmed through the gate that this world was a real world created in another dimension. Therefore, to me, the people in this world were not NPCs in the game. They were real, breathing people. They were my irreplaceable people. It goes without saying what this world they live in means to me.

“Do you think you would give up this world in exchange for liberating me and my younger brother?”

“You will have no choice but to give up.”

“I don’t give up.”

“Even if your sister dies?”

“Try it.”

The hand holding my collar gained strength.

“If anything happens to my sister, that day is the end for you. “I will tear you to pieces, even if it means risking everything.”

“Wow. Take it easy. I think you’re misunderstanding something, but I have no intention of killing your sister. Rather, I have been trying to save it.”

“You’ve been trying to save my sister? It must have been used for your own purposes.”

“It is correct to say that saving your sister’s life overlaps with my purpose.”

“Sophistry…”

“There is evidence.”

“What evidence?”

“I cured your sister.”

“… “What?”

What did I just hear?

“As you know, your sister’s brain was completely destroyed in the accident. To the point where it’s a miracle that I’m alive. That’s why it was unstable to create this world. “I decided to treat her before I use her Milky Way.”

Park Jun-hyuk lightly snapped his fingers. Then the World Tree began to slowly rotate. Only then was I able to see the back of the World Tree, which had been hidden from view.

“This…”

One-third of the world’s trees were made up of wires and machines. Some of the damaged wood had been replaced with steel and electricity. I could immediately tell that this was Sora’s brain condition.

“The human brain is very delicate. It’s a place that could be ruined if you mess with it too hastily, but I was able to do it. Because he was a genius. Oh, of course, it wasn’t easy for even me, a genius, to repair the damaged part of her brain, but as you can see, I did it.”

“Bullshit.”

I said clearly.

“If what you say is true, shouldn’t Sora have woken up now to be normal?”

“Okay. As you said, she is in a state where she can wake up right now. But she’s not trying to wake up. Because of you.”

“What?”

It is also shocking that her younger brother was cured to the point where he woke up from brain death. But my younger brother does not want to wake up, and the reason why is because of me?

“Because you remain in this world, she is trying to protect the ‘dominion’ of this world from me. “If she wakes up from her sleep, the ‘dominion’ of this world will pass to me.”

Park Jun-hyuk looked up at the World Tree.

“I have been fighting with Miss Sora for leadership of this world. I am the owner of Milky Way. She is the designer of this world. To make an easy analogy, you could say that I am the boss and she is the designer I hired. So, I am the real master of this world. But she refused to hand over this world to me.”

Leaves were falling slowly in the air.

“I hate to admit it, but your sister is more capable of creating worlds than she is. So I plan to take control of this lovely world from her.”

“You love this world? It’s funny and I’m embarrassed.”

“It’s true. “I love this world very much.”

“Park Junhyuk. “If you really loved this world, you wouldn’t have let players in.”

In a regression that was repeated hundreds of times, Park Jun-hyuk watched as the players destroyed this world. No, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he encouraged it. When players started hunting down the people of this world, they didn’t even stop the service. Rather, it could be said that by giving them experience points, they contributed to their rampage. When he said that he loved this world, I was shocked.

But Park Jun-hyuk’s answer was spectacular.

“Ahaha. Look. Jeong Ji-hwan. I brought players in because I love this world. I, too, love this world like you. It’s just that the way I love you is different.”

“What?”

“Look at the World Tree.”

What Park Jun-hyuk pointed to were the branches of the World Tree. When I looked closely, I saw that the branches were withering. The area that was in contact with the mechanical part was slowly withering away. That wasn’t everything. The fruit on the branches was blinking faintly. The scene reflected in the fruit was the people of this world fighting fiercely with the players.

They were dying. It was unable to withstand the onslaught of players and was gradually collapsing. Each time they died, the leaves of the World Tree withered and fell. Eventually, the number of leaves falling from the World Tree increased to countless numbers.

A cold wind blew from somewhere. Then the World Tree trembled and dropped its fallen leaves and withered branches to the ground.

Sora’s world was slowly dying.

“All unnecessary branches should be cut off. Only then can this world be reborn whole again.”

“You b*stard…”

“Now that the pruning has already begun, there is no way for you to save this world.”

“This… Was it what you wanted?”

“Okay. If I take control, this world will be rewritten. If I had to say it, I guess you could call it a remake. “It’s no different from me rewriting a novel your sister wrote.”

Only then did I realize the meaning of love that Park Jun-hyuk was talking about. What he loved was the world Sora created, not the inhabitants of this world. All he wants is the ‘world’ created by Sora. He was planning to use the players to wipe out all the people of this world for the sake of the ‘world.’

“This is the end of your story.”

Park Jun-hyuk lightly shook off my hand holding his collar.

“Now face the facts. You are not Tristan, you are Jeong Ji-hwan. He is Jeong So-ra’s only older brother. You may not be able to get used to it right away, but you can do it. Isn’t it said that humans are animals of adaptation? It would be easier to just think that you had a bad dream until today.”

“It’s a dream… As you said, there were definitely nightmare-like moments during my time here.”

For a moment, I felt excited as I entered the world of my favorite novel. At first, I was anxious to survive. He struggled to escape the fate that would befall the villain Tristan. I tried to avoid hatred, hate, and murderous intent toward myself.

“Haha. Yes? You must have had a lot of trouble living as Tristan. Now that kind of trouble…”

“But looking back, it didn’t seem like a nightmare.”

“Huh?”

One day, as I spent war-like days trying to escape destruction, I suddenly realized. That there are many people around me.

Bella is arrogant and picky like a cat. Helga has a humorous and quirky side. Blanche is blunt but thoughtful. Wendy, a maid full of mistakes. Many other people… They worried about me and comforted me. He believed in me and stayed by my side.

“After Sora, my only family member, got into an accident, I was always alone. I lived a lonely life, taking it for granted. “For the first time, I found people who were precious to me.”

I looked straight at Park Jun-hyuk.

“Park Junhyuk. “You telling me to give up on this world is no different from telling me to give up on them.”

“That means… Can I take this as your saying that you would choose to be Tristan rather than Jeong Ji-hwan?”

“No. I am Jeong Ji-hwan. At the same time, he is also Tristan.”

“You can’t give up in any world?”

“Okay. “I guess it’s because I’m Jeong Ji-hwan.”

Park Jun-hyuk shook his head at those words.

“Oh dear… You are too greedy. Are you going to kill two birds with one stone? It’s truly reckless.”

“I guess that’s because I’m Tristan.”

“…”

“I won’t give up on anything. Even if you send me back to my old self, I won’t give up and I won’t give up my greed. And the same goes for my sister.”

My younger sister, Jeong So-ra, is that kind of person. He is a writer who is passionate about his work. Even if it’s a crappy work she doesn’t like, she’s a writer she loves to read over and over again. The reason I was so absorbed in the novel written by her younger brother was because the younger brother’s attachment was reflected in the novel. And, as Sora’s older brother, I also have a lot of attachment to this world as an avid reader.

“Park Junhyuk. As you said, the reason my younger brother still hasn’t woken up may be because I’m in this world. But my thoughts are a little different. “The reason her sister can’t wake up is because she knows what kind of person I am.”

“What kind of person… ?”

“That I am the person who will never give up on this world.”

“… Huh.”

Park Jun-hyuk closed his mouth. A heavy silence followed between us. In the end, he failed to appease me. That’s probably why I can’t say anything anymore.

Eventually, Park Jun-hyuk took a deep sigh and opened his mouth.

“… “You are the most foolish person I have ever met.”

“Is it? Coincidentally, I also had the same thought. “I have never met a person as foolish as you.”

“Haha… That’s right. He was a fool to think he could convince you. Thanks to you, I know for sure.”

The wires slowly moved from where Park Jun-hyuk was standing and he stood up.

“Now, the only thing left is either you die or I die.”

“Have you finally realized that?”

“Haha…”

There was no sense of murderous intent or fear from him as he let out an insincere laugh. He was just empty. A feeling of facing endless nothingness. Thanks to this, he felt the discomfort he had felt earlier become even greater. I couldn’t tolerate his presence. The one who is trying to ruin my precious world. And that would be the same for Park Jun-hyuk.

“I will wake you up from this dream.”

With a huge enemy in front of me, I spoke with an arrogant smile like I always did.

“If you want to try something, give it a try.”