How to Survive as a Player Chapter 174

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“at last… “Agatha also agreed to the sacrifice.”

“… I plan to pay for the karma that comes with it, no matter what happens. I can’t tell you now, but I swear I never made an innocent sacrifice. “I want you to know that there was a reason for that.”

Can we say that there was a reason for the sacrifice? Still, Sehyun couldn’t reply any further. It wasn’t because he respected Agatha.

It was because I couldn’t decide what was right anymore.

“… “Can I trust Agatha?”

“Believe me. “We are all doing the right thing.”

The will conveyed by those trusting eyes was so clear that I had no choice but to believe it. No, maybe she just wanted to believe.

“Why are you telling me this now?”

“The end… It’s starting to show little by little. So, I just wanted to tell you before that.”

“What about Mr. Fenn? “Do you know all of this?”

“All I told Fan was about the monster. “For now, you are the only one who knows the truth about the Archduke’s dream.”

“To what extent does the situation so far correspond to the dream that Agasa saw?”

Agatha’s deep eyes wandered for a moment, lost in where to go. But when the eyes that circled her closed, Agatha told her a truth she found hard to believe.

“all of it… “It matches.”

Sehyeon’s gaze slowly fell down. Same. That was such a strange thing to say. The fact that everything I worked hard to do in life and death was a predetermined path made me feel like I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

As we let out a long breath, the wind blew into the gap between us. It was a cold wind. When the wind stopped, the conversation was over.

What came back was an greeting that lifted the heaviness.

“It looks like you’re practicing flying, but you must have had a hard time.”

“Yeah, well… “Maybe I’ll be able to fly someday.”

Sehyeon responded as if it was none of his business. A kind smile appeared on Agatha’s lips. The atmosphere became lighter in an instant.

“They say that we White Demons originally had the blood of Pegasus flowing through us. “I had wings as white as yours.”

“If it’s in the past tense, I think it’s extinct now.”

“It’s extinction… . well. That may or may not be the case. It is said that Pegasus is only possessed by those who have experienced resurrection. “I hope there comes a day when that happens to me too.”

“Don’t be scared, just go in and have a cup of tea. The chair… Should I give it to the sofa?”

“Haha, it’s okay. We all sleep standing up. “You can drink it while standing.”

“Stand… Sleeping? “You don’t sleep on your stomach or on your side?”

“I tried lying down once, but I couldn’t get up. I woke up with the help of all my vassals. Ah, but these days I seem to have gotten the hang of it and can even kneel down. “My vassals hate me because I look like a cow.”

“… “Let’s go have some tea.”

After a short silence, Sehyun turned away, avoiding eye contact. A rattling sound followed. Of course, no words were exchanged between the two until they arrived in the reception room.

***

I even remember lying on the bed, massaging my aching wings, and when Sehyun opened her eyes, I saw a faintly glowing magic stone floating in front of me. Perhaps it was dawn, but the sky beyond the window was still pitch black.

Sehyeon, who was tossing and turning over her stiff body, suddenly realized a hand was touching her wings and her shoulders shook. When I turned my head in surprise, there was a dark shadow.

and-

“I think I warned you.”

A familiar voice rang low. The person in the dim light was Ruhak.

Ruhak was languidly sweeping Sehyun’s wings and neatening them, relying on the light of the magic stone for his vision. The hand that grabbed the protruding collar and put it in neatly gave me a familiar feeling. No, it was more accurate to say that she was skilled.

When the hand went up to grab the wing and pressed it, Sehyun let out a groan.

“Ugh… !”

“And yet they abused me like this, la…” .”

The fingertips that went up by gently pressing the wings extended all the way to the shoulders that had become sore from flight practice. As I pressed down on my shoulder, a short scream echoed through the bed. The same was true on the other side. The firm fingertips pressed hard against my back, which was trembling convulsively, several times.

When the fingertips moved back to the wing, Ruhak’s hand became languid as if it had never been like that before. I calmly swept his wings and picked his feathers neatly again.

Only then did Sehyun take a deep breath, looking exhausted.

“… “When did you come?”

“Not long ago.”

Even so, one wing had already been tidied up. Se-hyeon, who was left with his wings hanging down, noticed a hand gently rubbing the back of his head and lay down with his cheek on Ruhak’s leg. Meanwhile, the sound of flapping wings continued.

It was a night filled with many thoughts, perhaps because Agatha’s words I heard during the day did not go away. If Sehyun had been able to see the Archduke’s dream, he would have been able to understand Ruhak better than he does now. I sighed several times in vain.

Nevertheless, the desire to take a peek into Ruhak’s life has not been easily extinguished until now.

“You when you were young… how was it?”

“well. “It seems like he was quite naive.”

“… Do not lie. No, it’s different from heroes in the first place.”

“Do you believe what they say more?”

Sehyun was about to say something but closed her mouth again. He once asked the heroes about Ruhak and heard something unexpected. This was said by Basil, who was the most carefree and honest of the heroes, and all the heroes took action to agree with it even if they did not say it.

‘There was no such devil, Lord. very… It was evil.’

It was a time when Euncheong also agreed, so it remained vivid in my memory. He gave a comprehensive speech saying that he is now like an angel compared to then, so I was able to guess to a certain extent.

“… “Don’t bother the kids.”

In the end, Sehyun had to give an answer. Still, most of the vassals never relaxed their discipline, perhaps because they were afraid of Ruhak. Those who came to the empire for the first time were also like that.

The vassals who first crossed over from the dimensional gate were quite unreasonable and could not be controlled at times, but when they came face to face with Ruhak, they all worked so hard.

Therefore, Ruhak’s existence was like a pillar of the empire. The meaning itself was different from Sehyeon. In any case, the vassals did not give up their trust in Ruhak.

Sarah-

As the conversation disappeared, the sound of wings being touched again passed my ears. Occasionally I would touch a nerve, but I didn’t feel any pain. Rather, a pleasant chill passed by.

My eyes were barely closing.

“… Ruhak.”

“okay.”

“When everything is over… “Tell me everything you can.”

Instead of answering, a thick arm came inside Sehyun’s waist and pulled her up. The place where he was dragged up was into Ruhak’s arms. The languid wings poured down Ruhak’s arms.

“What am I so curious about?”

Eyes of different colors were right in front of me. Even the sound of breathing was close.

That was all Sehyun was curious about. This is the place where everyone has lived, what kind of childhood they had, whether they had any special memories that could be called memories, etc. I wanted to know everything about the vassals.

What I want to know the most is:

“I wonder why you are here.”

What I was most curious about was why I had to commit a crime to be trapped in eons of time, and why I had to live a life where I could not die even if everyone died.

“The place where you lived… “What kind of place was it?”

Every time Sehyeon checked reliability, he remembered the vassals who missed their hometown. Even if he asked them about their hometown, the answer they got back was always the same.

The words ‘not now.’

As if no other answer was allowed, everyone replaced their many words with one word. So I wanted to know more, and that made me feel even more sad.

Because they always look like they’re going to cry when I ask them about their hometown.

A kiss landed on my lips. Soon her head tilted and hot breath entered her mouth. Sehyun stretched out his hand and went up to find Ruhak’s cheek. As I touched his face, the kiss on his lips deepened.

I didn’t know where, but my nerves were hurting. The moment the thick tongue slid past the tip and reached the inside of my throat, a short moan lingered in my mouth. Before I knew it, the hand that had been scanning the wings was gently pressing the nape of Sehyeon’s neck.

Every time he let out a thick breath, Ruhak pressed down on the back of Sehyeon’s neck and parted his lips as if crushing her. When he was struggling to breathe and shook his shoulders, the back of his neck was bitten.

My shoulders, which were shrunken in pain, trembled slightly several times. When the trembling extended to his wings, Ruhak buried his lips on Sehyun’s shoulder and let out a long breath.

It was a breath that had a long lingering effect. Ruhak, who had been concentrating on his thoughts for a while, finally whispered lowly.

“We will see each other soon… “No need to worry.”

soon. For some reason, after hearing those words, I collapsed and fell asleep. Through my vision, where the faint light was fading, I saw Ruhak as a blur. Sehyun, who was blinking, soon fell into a deep sleep.

The only sound that could be heard in the room was deep breathing. Her hand swept over Sehyeon’s eyes and began caressing his wings again.

When Sehyun opened her eyes, she was alone in the room. There was dazzling sunlight at the window, and there was a warm air in the room.

The wings were well-ordered and hanging down without any stiffness. Se-hyeon, who was reflecting on the events of the night before, recalled a vague memory and clicked his tongue and got out of bed. When I gently brushed the back of his neck, a dizzying pain came up, as expected.

When I put my hand inside my clothes and felt the bite wound on my fingertip. It was a scar left by Ruhak. In particular, Ruhak did not treat only the wound on the nape of his neck. The fact that his wings, which had been stiff until he went to sleep, were fine and without any pain meant that they had been treated, but the back of his neck was in complete disarray.

Sehyeon sighed and headed to the window overlooking the clock tower. The hands on the clock tower were just pointing to 9 o’clock in the morning.

“Everyone wants to come… .”

Sehyeon, who was looking at the alliance portal floating in the sky, recalled the early time and immediately shook his head.

Today, Sehyeon had something to do that required him to leave the empire. He was on a scheduled outing with several people. On one side of the empire, an airship that had completed overnight maintenance and was ready for departure was anchored in the air route. Se-hyeon watched this endlessly, and when the setting sun stung his eyes, he turned to the bathroom.

And after completing all preparations, I left the room.