◈ Episode 529 Middle Dream (2)
Don’t be possessed by anything.
Julia had warned that.
Rudger asked because it was a bit out of the blue.
Why should it be?
But Julia hadn’t answered that.
The moment he saw that embarrassed expression, Rudger couldn’t help but notice.
It’s not that I didn’t want to tell you on purpose, it was that I couldn’t. The moment he spoke, it was clear that something had changed.
okay. That means you have to experience it yourself to know.
“Go in.”
Rudger jumped down.
Hurray! Sheridan immediately jumped down.
Eight! Sedina closed her eyes tight as if she had made up her mind and jumped off.
Only Hans, who was left alone, was confused.
To be honest, I never want to go in. Wasn’t she caught up in this without any particular resolution?
Dreamland is a structure that becomes more and more dangerous as you go down.
As soon as I entered the upper middle layer, I was in trouble because of wild nature, but with this poor imagination, I could not come up with an answer to what else I would experience if I went down to the middle layer.
but.
Everyone else was leaving, but he was the only one left.
okay. If I’m not there, someone will be by my brother’s side to help me.
“Ah, let’s go together!”
Hans gritted his teeth and jumped to the surface.
In an instant, a calm sleep approached.
‘What if I fall and sink like this? I’m not good at swimming.’
Such fear for a while.
Squeak.
The body that touched the surface of the water was submerged beneath it so softly.
It’s not like water, it’s like it’s soaked in jelly.
‘uh?’
Hans, who had made up his own mind, opened his eyes at the strange touch without realizing it.
It is too pleasant to say that it is in the water. I could breathe, and I didn’t have to struggle with my limbs.
‘what is this.’
Hans looked around.
The surface of the water seen from the outside was like looking at the open sea.
It was natural to think that there would be an endless abyss that no one knew existed beneath.
However, once you enter, the scenery you see is completely different.
Under the water, it was as white as white drawing paper.
Is this what it feels like to experience a whiteout in Antarctica where blizzards rage all year round?
A white world where no creatures, structures, or natural objects exist.
I lifted my head and looked up, and the water surface was full of islands and the blue sky.
From the outside it looked like an endless abyss, but inside it was white.
the moment you realize that.
The world turned upside down.
“Wow!”
From head to toe, I felt dizzy, as if someone had turned half a turn.
The pure white world below spreads upward.
The blue world spread above, below.
The landscape changed like an hourglass turned upside down.
Took.
Hans’ legs touched the green ground.
The part that touched the soles of my feet vibrated finely like water.
Hans checked his feet several times.
Down there, now the floor, the appearance of the sky island that had descended so far was visible upside down.
“oh my god… … It’s like entering a mirror.”
thump.
I tapped the water surface with the tip of my shoe.
Hans sighed at the elasticity he felt from his toes.
“Does this sound like it will be difficult to go back?”
“It’s not hard, but normal people can never go back.”
Hans was startled by Ludger’s sudden reply.
“Ah! It’s a surprise! Give me a signal and come in! And wait. that you can never go back Could it be that we are trapped here?”
“I am not locked up. You can go down even further.”
However, Rudger stared at the snow-white scene with a wary gaze.
“We’ll have to wait and see what will happen here.”
“That’s it… … .”
Hans took a step toward Ludger.
and.
—The world has changed.
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Ludger’s figure was erased like a watercolor melting into water, and all sorts of colors were painted over the pure white landscape.
Hans stopped walking.
A field of golden wheat stretched out before his eyes.
Hans opened his mouth. He couldn’t help but stare at the wheat field involuntarily.
Beyond the wheat fields the sun had set and the setting sun was unfolding.
Putting an end to the picturesque landscape was a small mansion next to a wheat field.
A rocking chair was placed in the yard at the entrance of the mansion, and a hammock hung between two trees planted in the yard.
“ah.”
Words didn’t come out properly.
how can i not know
It was a landscape that I had pictured hundreds of thousands of times in my head.
If the.
After everything with Rudger is over.
When all the cases are over, and rest and peace finally come.
Hans dreamed of living a quiet life by buying a large land with the money he earned and building his own mansion.
Sit in a rocking chair and drink a cold beer in the setting sun.
Satisfied that the peaceful day is over today, I go to bed after seeing the beautiful starry sky spreading across the sky.
That was Hans’ blueprint for the future.
The scenery was unfolding right in front of my eyes as I had imagined.
Rather, even the smallest details that did not exist in the imagination were conceived perfectly.
see rocking chair
On a small wooden table beside it was a transparent beer glass with bubbles rising.
gulp.
Hans involuntarily took a step towards the scene.
Right now, at this moment, he forgot where he was and what he was doing.
Just the fact that the future he longed for was there, stimulated Hans’ spirit to the point of being sweet.
It is only natural that we are drawn to the utopia unfolding right in front of us rather than the vague and opaque future we do not know what will happen.
That time when I was about to step towards the mansion.
“Khehe!”
Hans gasped at the rough hand pulling on his nape.
“Who, who?”
“Hans. What are you doing?”
“older brother? Uh, so now… … .”
The moment he saw Ludger’s sculpted face, Hans realized a belated sense of reality.
“that’s right. Come to think of it, I’m in Dreamland… … But now the scenery unfolding in front of me… … .”
Hans pointed at the wheat fields and the mansion with trembling fingers.
Rudger looked in that direction and narrowed his eyes.
“What are you talking about?”
“older brother! can’t you see? Hey, the scenery itself has changed!”
Hans’ voice trembled with excitement.
Rudger was even more suspicious of Hans’ reaction.
The reaction was too serious to simply lie.
However, Ludger could not see any scenery.
The world just spreads out like a drawing paper.
“you… … .”
The moment I was about to say something to Hans.
Rudger shut his mouth again.
It was because the figure of Hans he saw disappeared, and a scene unfolded before he knew it.
wow oh
A blizzard raged on the cold mountain ridges covered with white snow.
There, a faint orange color leaked from the inside of the simple hut.
It was a sight to remember.
Rudgar stood still, staring at the cabin.
Soon the cabin door opened, and a man wrapped in a leather blanket walked outside.
-It’s raining hard.
-Are you going?
It was Rudger who saw the man off.
To be precise, Machiavelli was active in the civil war in the Kingdom of Utah.
Rudger, who had a long gun strapped to his back, asked the man.
– The movement of the enemies is not visible due to the snowstorm. If you dare to step out here, you will be surrounded.
– It’s obvious if you don’t look. They’ll go plundering nearby villages. We’ll have to make up for the lack of supplies in this weather. Even at the moment we are having a conversation like this, they will be approaching the village step by step.
-Tomorrow, we’re going to conduct a large-scale surprise attack on their outpost. Now that they’re away is the best time. Are you going to kick that important opportunity?
-Even if I’m missing one, isn’t this operation going to fail?
-You’re too modest for what the best sharpshooter in the Northern Mountains would say.
At Ludger’s words, the man in his mid-40s let out a wry smile.
The steam that flowed from the corners of his mouth was quickly eaten up by the blizzard and torn to pieces.
As if he hinted at what his future would be like, his fate.
-What are you going to do with the sniper alone? You will die if you go.
– If you don’t go, the villagers will die.
– Already issued an evacuation advisory. I warned you several times that it would be dangerous. In fact, most of them fled, and those who remained were prepared for death.
– No one in the world can prepare for their own death. Didn’t they go because they didn’t want to leave? that didn’t
– I can’t help.
At Ludger’s words, the man shrugged his shoulders as if he were saying something obvious.
-Because you are a key force that must not be left out in the battle that will begin early tomorrow morning. Anyway, what else would Machiavelli be used for in such an important battle?
– I can attach a few people.
– No need. You just hold on to my ankles for no reason. don’t worry too much It’s because I’m thinking of wasting time with moderate sniping.
-… … .
-haha! It’s completely different from how you treat the princess. Were you this kind of a man?
-… … Having said that, any more than that would be a waste of each other’s time.
– Anything.
The man tried to leave through a blizzard.
Rudger looked behind him and called his name in a low voice.
-hey. Leonis.
Leonis’ footsteps stopped.
He turned to Ludger, asking what was going on.
Ludger had a hunch from Leonis’ back that he would never see him again.
He said that he would only take the time, but in fact he did not know that he was going to die to protect the citizens of his country.
Shouldn’t have sent it here.
The life of that one person can handle the lives of 1,000 ordinary soldiers in a civil war.
So I had to forcibly block him from going and save him here even if the relationship with him became distant.
But at that moment, what came out of Ludger’s mouth was the exact opposite.
– See you tomorrow.
The only thing I can say to the person who is leaving is just a word to cheer me up a little bit.
Leonis opened her eyes wide at those words, and then nodded with a big smile.
-iced coffee. okay. see you tomorrow
So Leonis headed down the ridge where the blizzard raged.
and.
he never came back
Later, after the civil war ended with the victory of the princess faction, the name Leonis, a hunter and sniper, was inducted into the Hall of Heroes that honored the Kingdom of Utah.
The honor given to the dead was too fleeting.
I should have not sent it.
Lastly, before leaving the Utah kingdom, Ludger thought as he looked at his tombstone as Gerard.
“Was it like that?”
Rudger, watching the scene, seemed to understand why Julia Plumheart had warned him so much.
“The saying that you shouldn’t be possessed by anything is because of this.”
This pure white place realizes that person’s earnest wish.
A regretful past that I want to return to.
The present needs stability and abundance.
The ideal future you dream of the most.
Who doesn’t regret the past, is satisfied with the present, and doesn’t look forward to the future?
The inner weakness that all human beings have no choice but to have.
This world relentlessly burrows into the weak minds of humans and seduces them endlessly.
Like what Rudger sees now.
at that time.
If Rudger had stopped him by citing military law, Leonis would have survived.
Instead, those who didn’t leave the village might die, but considering how many times I’ve warned them, they were prepared.
In the midst of the fierce civil war against the prince’s faction, Leonis’ rear sniper was the best support that kept Ludgar strong.
That’s why, among those who could be called comrades, the relationship with him was especially special.
To be honest, I regret it.
More than a person without a one-sided expression who did not hear the warning.
It would be natural for a human being to want to save a comrade who had crossed the ridge of death several times together.
if it is here
You can undo those regrets.
If you put your body in this world, you could erase the past that you wanted to erase so much and start the life you wanted.
this is poison
A deadly poison that penetrates deep into the bones.
That’s why, above all, it was sweet and sweet.
“It is very insulting.”
Rudger let out a cold smile.
“It is true that I regret the events of that day. But even if I stopped him, wouldn’t I regret it?”
Leonis was determined to die and left nobly to save the people.
If you trample on his determination and save him, will he be happy?
In the end, the relationship between the two will crack, which will only lead to another regret in the end.
Maybe it will be a bigger regret.
“I definitely regret it. But it was only my will that made that choice that day.”
The moment he saw Leonis’ expression, Ludger knew he couldn’t be stopped.
so it was sent
Leonis, who was leaving, also did not say a word of regret.
Just proudly, he jumped into his death to save people.
Correcting the regrets of the day here.
It was an act of breaking even the last promise she had made with the now-dead man.
“And if you want to set your regrets right, you can’t do it in a place like this.”
Even if they say that they change the regrettable past in the dream world, isn’t it fake after all?
It was no different from the mental seung-ri who wanted his mind to be at ease.
oh oh
Rudgar raised his magic with his rage.
Blue magic spread around him like a constellation, forming a spell.
The muffled mana resonated with each other and erupted high like a volcano.
The torrent of magical power spreading in all directions wiped out the snowy mountains in a blizzard.
Amidst the glass-shattering landscape, Ludger’s blue eyes flashed.
“Nothin’ can stop me.”
