Episode 138 < Surviving. (3) >
-I thought they might contact me someday. You’re living well.
“I’m sorry for contacting you now. A little faster… .”
-You’re busy doing your own work. Your age range.
A faint cough came from the other end of the phone. Cough. The director cleared his throat.
-Sometimes strangers come and ask if you are from our orphanage. At first, I thought you had done something big wrong. Your classmate showed me the video, so the misunderstanding was resolved. really. Did you say Death King? Speaking of naming sense.
“It’s not a nickname I created myself. At the tower… .”
-okay. It’s been a while since I heard your voice, so I feel relieved.
“…….”
-Are you Confucius?
-What’s going on?
I held the phone tightly.
I suppressed the emotions rising from my chest down my throat.
“I have something to ask you. “Director.”
-Tell me. No, wait a minute. How serious are you? Let me know from that.
“I’m very serious. Probably the most important thing I said to the director… .”
-Then I want to wait just 2 minutes, no, 3 minutes. I’m lying on the sofa right now. Get up, get some coffee, and listen with a proper posture. Just wait for 3 minutes without stopping.
“yes.”
If you think about it.
What a tough life it must have been.
I imagined the evil intentions that a good person must go through in order to be born. If we gather all the good people living in this world, we will be able to display all the evil intentions.
“Well, how is daycare these days? “Are you okay?”
-Looking at the conversation, it looks like it’s a very serious conversation. are you okay. The number of teachers has increased compared to when you were there. Now I’m just a director and I don’t do much. Donations also increased… . Oh, the rice has become a little more delicious too.
“thank god.”
-huh. I’m sitting in the director’s office now. Please speak slowly.
I took a deep breath.
“Director. Maybe during your school days… “Did you graduate from Shinseo Middle and High School?”
-…….
Silence subsided.
There was tension. I overheard the sound of the water lapping. The director was sipping coffee on the other side of the phone. The director was swallowing black water.
-huh. I left Shinseo High School. Even now, it is quite prestigious.
“if.”
I’d rather not.
“When you were a second year in high school, were you class president?”
I hope it is an illusion created by trauma. All the scenes from the past that I thought I had seen were all lies, so I hope that the director is just an ordinary good person and that he had a not very unhappy school year.
I hoped.
Silence continued for a while.
-that’s right.
The director’s voice flowed.
-I was class president. It’s already been decades.
“…….”
-…….
Both the director and I kept our mouths shut. My heart throbbed at what I was about to say. uneasy air. The director also seemed to sense an ominous mood, so he closed his lips.
“Director.”
-Say it.
“When I was the second-year class president. if. “On the school rooftop.”
-…….
“Was there such a person?”
The sound of breathing stopped.
-okay.
The director said.
-There was.
The nightmare proved to be real.
-We’ve never had a proper conversation. huh. There was.
The school hallway I walked through, the chain of the iron gate on the rooftop that ■■ overlooked, the playground as desolate as a wasteland, and the shack floating in the middle of the plastic waste dump like a white island, all were the truth without a single lie.
only.
『Please don’t die. please. please.”
“together. Let’s live together in a different world.』
Only the ending was a lie.
“huh. Class monitor. In this world, let’s survive together.』
The things that should have been most false were the truth.
Something that should have been true was just a dream.
That was the story between ■■ and the director.
“Director… .”
I barely spoke.
“Do you remember that person’s name?”
No one in this world knows his name. He was a man from the wilderness. The imperial people gave him the name Lefanta in honor of him. He was the one who killed the constellations. The people in the tower called him the Constellation Killer.
He was an abandoned person in the outside world. No one wanted to remember him. Therefore, now only one person has testified to his name.
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-Kim Yul (金律).
Someone was called by one person.
-The child’s name is Kim Yul. Confucius.
“…….”
I closed my eyes.
I recalled the conversation I had with the Holy Knight in the school hallway.
『At the back of the classroom. Do you remember the student sitting by the window?』
『I know. Aren’t we classmates? Probably the name,』
The noise clears.
『It was Kim Yul.』
There was a person with that name.
『I’m not sorry to you, Kim Yul.』
He was so small that he was covered by the white curtain whenever the wind blew through the classroom window.
Before class started, the child quietly took out an old notebook and looked at it.
I was a child who pulled on the chain of the iron door even though I knew it wouldn’t open.
『I’m sorry, Kim Yul. Sorry.”
Decades ago.
A time when I wasn’t born yet.
“sorry.”
There was a child like that in this world.
-Are you Confucius?
And there are people who have lived for decades.
-Are you crying right now? no. No. hmm. Anyway, where did you hear about Kim Yul? I’m sure no one knows.
He was smart enough to get a scholarship to go to school. He was so passionate that he was ranked first in his class at a prestigious school. She studied while sleeping four or five hours a day. Therefore, she was a person who would draw the future as she dreamed.
What dream did he have when he entered high school?
What kind of future were you dreaming of?
-I don’t know how you got to know that kid. really.
But he saw it.
I saw a human.
I saw animals.
I saw death.
『No one cares about you. No one, no one. no one… .』
At that moment, time stopped for one person.
The freedom of choice that everyone deserves has disappeared.
For the director, the rest of his life was just about proving something.
[There was a child named Kim Yul alive there at that time].
“Director, I’m here.”
-What are you talking about?
“Kim Yul. I’m the director’s classmate. “That kid.”
-I have no idea what you are talking about…
“You lived in a garbage dump at the bottom of a mountain. Kim Yul.”
-…….
“The back row of the classroom. Window seat. “You sat there.”
-…….
I said.
“There’s dirt on the collar of my school uniform dress shirt. Why, the guy who was dating the student who was the student council president at the time was a bad guy. My older brother was a singer. “You forced Kim Yul to hand over a cell phone that he didn’t even have, and the whole class harassed him with text messages.”
-…….
“Did you know that there was a kennel behind the school? Raising rabbits and chickens. That was supposed to be the responsibility of the breeding department, but a foreign woman jumped into the blood with her newborn baby, so no one took care of it. So Kim Yul took care of it.”
-how.
The director’s voice wavered.
-Confucius, how did you do that…
“Director, I tried to stop it. They’ve been trying to stop me since first grade. But after investigating, you found out that the parents of the main culprit were on the school board, so you quit? There was also a senior pastor of the church you attended, right? Seryun Church. “I told my homeroom teacher, but he couldn’t push me because of the scholarship.”
-how… … .
“here it is. “Director.”
I lowered my head while holding the phone.
“It’s here.”
-…….
There was a long silence.
-Just four days.
The director said.
-no. Can you wait a week?
A student whose time had stopped decades ago spoke in a slightly older and more tired voice.
-I’ll go there.
4.
A week passed quickly.
During that week, the director organized the family property. Anyone can enter the tower. However, you cannot take items from the outside world. The director threw away what he had achieved, what he had, and what he had protected over the decades.
“I was planning on retiring from the beginning.”
It’s been a while since I last saw the director, and he looks older than before.
“I found a teacher to be my successor a long time ago. Although I have a few local tasks… . Even civil servants can’t do anything when they come to the tower, right? Now you can take care of it yourself.”
“welcome. “Director.”
“I’m not the director anymore. “Call whatever you want.”
The director smiled bitterly.
Of course, the director who had just entered the hospital had no tinnitus. People without tinnitus have not yet been able to enter the Great Library. However, after talking with [the library director in the corner of the room], I succeeded in specifically bringing in the director.
“When I came here, I realized how successful you were. No matter where I go, Confucius, there is only talk about you. As I entered the tower, dozens of people flocked to the city entrance to guide me… .”
“hmm. I achieved some success at the top. Even after all this, you are ranked 2nd, Director.”
“I was the worst among my classmates in terms of studying… .”
The director looked at me with new eyes.
『Princess Pyeonggang heals the idiot Ondal.』
Those eyes were exactly like the ones I saw in the trauma.
While I was overcome with emotions I did not know, the director was warmly welcomed by my colleagues.
“Aha. You must be the one who raised the Death King! My name is the Heretic Questioner. Please take care of me in the future!”
“It’s called the Black Dragon Lord. I have always been indebted to Death King. Death King is also the deputy guild leader of our guild. If you have any inconveniences while living in the tower, please let us know at any time.”
“I am a paladin in charge of security in Babylon on the first floor. teacher. I heard she ran a daycare outside. It’s difficult to tell when we meet for the first time, but the tower always needs professional staff. “I will formally visit you later.”
“Yes, everyone. Thank you for your hospitality.”
The director responded to the hunters as if he was used to it.
When the welcoming procession passed and it was just the two of us left, the director spoke.
“One of your classmates became the youngest member of the National Assembly, so you’re used to this. Even back then, dozens of people came by every week to congratulate us and say hello.”
“yes?! Who?!”
“Kim Hanbija. Do you remember? He is now a proportional representative member. “Maybe I changed my name so you wouldn’t know.”
I was shocked.
It was news I had never heard of even before the 4000-day regression.
Because I completely lost interest in my hometown.
“oh my god… . This doesn’t make sense. He was just an idiot… . “What did you change your name to?”
“Kim Hanbi.”
“You just got complacent at the end, right? “Aren’t you stupid after all?”
“Now that you are an adult, Confucius. You were a fool too. “He was a huge fool.”
“Eh. “Wasn’t I a bit smart though?”
“I never understood why people were bad at math until I raised you. Death King. “You should be very fortunate that at Top, rankings are not determined by test scores.”
Bae Hu-ryeong chuckled behind him.
-Today, you will hear a lot of Confucius’ dark history. Good, good! Say more!
The director and I exchanged pleasantries.
To prevent our conversation from being broadcast outside, I told the library director in advance. The library director granted my request. That wasn’t all. Bookmark maids served tea and refreshments.
“I saw it on video, but it’s a really strange world. This place… .”
The director looked at the bookmark maid with suspicious eyes.
“so.”
The director’s gaze glanced around the vast library, and finally rested on my face.
“Where is that child?”
I told everything to the director. About my abilities. About trauma. About a person named [Lefanta Aegim] and a person named [Constellation Killer].
“…….”
The director listened to my story with an expressionless expression the entire time. But expressionless did not mean emotionless. For over an hour, the director sat quietly, unable to take a sip of tea.
“These are unbelievable stories. “Anything.”
“yes.”
“But you, Kim Yul… “Knowing itself is impossible.”
As had been the case since I was young, the director’s expression was difficult to read.
But now, after going through the trauma, I understand.
The director was afraid.
“Kim Yul wasn’t even included in the graduation album. I couldn’t load it. But I think there is no trace of Kim Yul anywhere in the album… . Think about it. Confucius. “Couldn’t they have provided at least an empty seat?”
“…….”
“Why are the album photos taken so brightly? Those guys… That guy… . For a long time, I didn’t understand how to smile. okay. “I’m sure you’re still living well.”
The director looked down at the water in the teacup with indifferent eyes.
The director quietly drank the tea, which had already cooled down a long time ago.
And looked straight at me.
“are you okay.”
“…….”
“That child. No, I want to tell you the traces of that child.”
I nodded.
“100 ghosts reincarnated.”
The shadow spread.
Wiggle.
The shadow was alive and moving. Black water, like a clearing, rippled, and then the current took the shape of a person. The waves turned into silver hair, and the puddles formed neat clothes.
“……hmm.”
Lefanta Aegim.
The Constellation Killer looked around.
“This is an unexpected situation.”
The silver-haired man muttered bluntly.
“Is it kidnapping? Did they kidnap the doll and forcibly awaken it? Force… cannot be used. I guess the doll’s system was tampered with or very powerful mental magic was applied.”
The man lost his black hair. He lost his name. He lost his memory. [Kim Yul] was merely his forgotten starting point, so the man in front of him might have been completely different from [Kim Yul]. He was Lefanta Aegim. He was a living person.
Therefore, no one had the right to call him [Kim Yul].
“… … Mr. Yul Kim.”
Except for one witness who was at the man’s starting point.
The Constellation Killer looked back at the director.
The director slowly bent his knees on the library floor.
“I am one of the people who killed Mr. Kim Yul.”
“…….”
“I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time. really… .”
The director lowered his forehead.
“sorry.”
The Constellation Killer’s face hardened.
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