Episode 86 < The mind of the reader. (2) >
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It’s creepy. The favorability rating is 95.
And what happens to a person when their favorability level reaches 95 unfolds before my eyes.
“Light! “Before I saw you, I was just a blind thief!”
The Librarian shouted as he grabbed the soles of my feet.
“I was deaf until I heard your words and lines!”
The Librarian’s eyes lit up as he attempted to trim my little toenails with a toenail clipper.
“You are my light! “You are my music!”
The look in his eyes was scary.
“Since your name is Confucius, I will gladly convert to Confucianism! I will become a scholar just for you! Ah, Yubungjawonbangraeni is an unstoppable loser! From today onwards, this director is a Confucian scholar who worships Confucius!”
“hey. A little, hey!”
What kind of scholar in the world would target a person’s little toenails?
I wanted to ask a question, but I realized it when I saw the library director’s eyes. Her eyes are unusual. The eyes are so cute that no matter what I say, they will ignore it. First of all, his breathing was rough.
“If you keep doing this, you won’t enter the Apocalypse from now on!”
“…….”
Stop. The Librarian stopped, holding the soles of my feet. What gives me goosebumps is that even when the movement stopped, the hand gestures of my feet still continued. Are you crazy?
The library director pondered like a scholar in deep sorrow.
“… … indeed. “It’s a valid threat.”
Still, it was a moment of relief that my words had worked.
“But that is impossible when analyzing Confucius’ character.”
what?
Character analysis?
“Because Confucius knows. There will be characters in other apocalypses who wither away unjustly like the Heavenly Demon. “Then, given Confucius’ personality, he cannot bear to help those people.”
The Librarian smiled.
“Don’t look down on Gongdeokhu. This director knows Confucius more closely than you! I can describe in two pages what kind of hand Confucius used, left or right, and what kind of expression he made when he ate Byeokgokdan on the first day of the Annals of the Heavenly Demon… .”
Am I crazy after all? You’re crazy. This is crazy.
“Now, Confucius. Obediently hand it over to this director! Even after all this, the fact that I did not use sleeping incense to put Confucius to sleep shows that I am truly incredibly conscientious.”
“I too am shocked by your conscience.”
“Confucius, you may not understand. Because I have never been a blessing to someone. Oh, oh my gosh! How miserable is life if you have never experienced happiness in your life? How cold can such a human heart be? Still, the director must understand our light… … ”
“Get out before I say [I hate you].”
Pop.
This time, the Librarian really stopped.
“Take five steps away from me. “Otherwise, I’m really telling you.”
“…….”
The library director quietly retreated.
“Please write ‘Hao’ as usual. It’s gross. to be honest. And please give me back my hair and nails.”
“No! “My wife, these words are absolutely unfair!”
The same old tone of voice returned.
The library director was in tears as he hugged the silk pouches tightly.
“You’d rather cut off my head and take it away! no. Wait, wait. Confucius. That was some kind of hyperbole. Please don’t look like you’re wondering if you should really cut off my head… . I am truly hurt… … ”
The Librarian muttered like a dejected hamster.
In the end, we succeeded in calming down the library director.
After burning the silk bag containing the unpleasant things (a terrible scream was heard), the librarian and I managed to start talking.
“It was amazing.”
First, the library director reviewed the newly completed [Chronicles of the Heavenly Demon].
“Your heart for Heavenly Demon was truly admirable! I was able to see the [ending] just by becoming a disciple of the Heavenly Demon. But you didn’t stop there! The final war between demons… . The best dance… . Uh-huh, I feel like I’ve tasted sweet chocolate ice cream shaved ice.”
“Now then, the powerhouses of [Chronicles of the Heavenly Demon] have been transferred to the 22nd floor?”
“I see.”
The Librarian grinned.
“Other hunters can also freely enter the 22nd floor. It is also possible to learn skills by looking at the martial arts books stored in Cheonmu Gwan (天武館). It’s all your merits. Confucius.”
“…….”
I put my chin on my chin.
“There is something I was curious about while I was in the Apocalypse. I want to ask the director… .”
“Ask me anything! “I’ll answer almost anything!”
“Please stop sneakily trying to take off my shoes. Why is [The Annals of the Heavenly Demon] an apocalypse?”
The Librarian tilted his head. My question seemed unfamiliar.
“why? Hmm. Is there a need for a separate reason for [The Annals of the Heavenly Demon] to be an apocalypse?”
“I think so.”
I put my shoes back on.
“Director, do you like happy endings? Or do you prefer a bad ending?”
“You can’t decide which side is superior.”
The library director responded immediately.
“The ending is the port where the characters’ lives reach the end. Life can be happy or difficult! “I want readers to be as happy as possible, but I also want to embrace their sadness and failure.”
“It means that even a bad ending is a proper ending.”
“hmm. “It’s obvious.”
“That makes me have more doubts.”
I grabbed the librarian’s wrist as he tried to come back behind me and took away the scissors. The library director tried to take the scissors while hopping around, but he couldn’t reach them.
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“Even if I didn’t intervene, [The Annals of the Heavenly Demon] would have ended properly. “It’s a bad ending, though.”
“Master, you did your best until the end together with the Murim Lord. I tried. Even if the Murim Lord died first and Master lost his mind… that is also the end that Master reached.”
I looked into the Librarian’s eyes.
“Why is [The Annals of the Heavenly Demon] included in the Book of Revelation? Director. “If the Murim Lord dies and the Master loses his mind and voluntarily commits suicide, doesn’t that count as an ending?”
In fact, this question itself was something I had heard since I saw the fairy tale ‘Me and Our Sacrifices’. Regardless of whether I could admit it or not, it literally seemed like a world that had reached its natural conclusion.
The constellation was silent.
In the library, only the breathing sounds of fainted hunters flowed quietly. Seek, Siik… . While the hunters’ hearts rose and fell, the Librarian remained expressionless.
“For some reason, I wanted to see a happy ending. “Why not?”
“If you don’t like the ending, the director can change it himself.”
“…….”
“The director is strong. To a hunter like me, he is omniscient and omnipotent. But instead of fixing the Apocalypse themselves, they dispatched us.”
In other words, this constellation is ‘reader’.
This is a reader who absolutely hates getting involved in the story and just accepts the story. He never wants to be in the position of ‘writer’. Even though he can climb, he refuses.
Readers who never intervene on their own.
He said, [The head of the library in the corner of the room].
“Shall I do a character analysis too? There’s no way someone this thorough would have classified it as an apocalypse simply because it ended in something strange. The Annals of the Heavenly Demon and other apocalypses. “There is actually a different reason why the Apocalypse is classified as an apocalypse.”
“… … Well, I’m not letting you go that easily.”
The library director smiled bitterly.
“Follow me.”
The Librarian took my hand. He picked up the book with his free hand.
The title of the book was Annals of the Heavenly Demon.
“—I will tell you the truth about the Apocalypse.”
The constellation opened the book.
And light flooded my vision.
3.
When we opened our eyes, we were in a snowy world.
However, there was no need to walk through the snowy fields. The library director still held my hand tightly and flapped his long sleeves like wild goose wings as he flew through the winter sky.
“What if?”
I crossed the snowy field.
“If the zombie virus is an epidemic that originated in [The Annals of the Heavenly Demon]. If only that were true. As you said, I would never have used this place as an apocalypse.”
I crossed the snowy mountain.
“That means… .”
“The zombie virus is not a disease that naturally occurred here. It’s a disease that came from the outside world. “It’s as if the New World has been invaded by an outside force.”
ha. The Librarian let out a white breath.
“Hey, I can see it.”
It was a high mountain peak.
The spiritual peak of this world.
At the top of the mountain, reaching the ceiling of the sky, there was something huge.
[Glitter senses an ominous energy.]
The holy sword on my waist trembled.
The library director noticed this and said.
“Ohh. I can feel your sword too. It’s not strange. The sword you carry was originally a perfect constellation. “People quickly recognize people who are in a similar situation to themselves.”
“If you are in a similar situation… .”
“Confucius. Have you ever seen a constellation fall to heaven?”
Tacheon. The Demon King of Autumn Rain. crotch.
“Yes, there is.”
“Then have you ever seen the body left behind by the Constellation after it died?”
“…….”
“As expected, there isn’t one.”
The Librarian smiled forlornly.
“It’s a pretty rare sight, so take this opportunity to pay attention.”
It was a dragon.
It was the corpse of a dragon.
There was a dragon dead at the top of the mountain.
The leather, which was once as smooth as silk, was burned black. The horns on the dragon’s head rustled like coal. Yeouiju was broken into two pieces and buried in the snow.
and.
[Glitter detects the presence of the sisters.]
There was a knife stuck in the middle of the chest.
[The sparkling thing is the second sister sword of the Guardian Sword, the Sword of Compassion!]
Black turbid energy flowed from the sword.
If we were to judge its characteristics, it could be said to be an Auror. But he was not an ordinary Auror. It was something similar to, or even cloudier than, the one that was wrapped around the Demon King of Autumn Rain. The fluttering flag wrapped around the dragon and covered the top of the snowy mountain. When white snow falls on the mountain peak, it immediately becomes infected and turns black.
-sick… … .
Pure black eyes.
-I feel resentful….
A groan escaped from the eyes of the black dragon (黑II) whose light had disappeared.
-sick. It hurts… … .
-It’s painful.
-I feel bitter. smart. Bitter. sick… … .
I was at a loss for words for a moment.
“… Didn’t you say he was dead? “That thing is still alive.”
“He’s already dead. What you see and hear from there is nothing more than the corpse’s resentment. “If your level of existence reaches that of a constellation, you cannot die gracefully.”
The two of us landed on the snow peak.
The black dragon was moaning endlessly nearby.
The Librarian looked at the end of a certain constellation with sad eyes.
“The epidemic that you and your group called the zombie virus. “The reality of it is a curse.”
“curse… … ”
“hmm. This is a curse left behind by the constellation of the Gangho Murim, the [Yellow Dragon who resides in the Great Lake], when he dies. A grudge that cannot die even if you die. A corpse that has already died but still has a physical body that must endure pain. “When infected with such a curse, Gangho people become Gangshi.”
I looked up at the dragon’s corpse.
-sick… … .
host of infectious diseases. The epicenter of the curse.
The disease that destroyed this world started from that corpse.
In the end, the reason Master took his life was because of the dragon’s curse.
“… “If the Constellation didn’t stab him in the chest, someone else killed him.”
“I think it would be based on common sense.”
“Who is the culprit?”
“You have already guessed the real culprit.”
I gritted my teeth.
“Lefanta Aegim.”
“exactly.”
The Librarian nodded.
“This name is Constellation Killer. “He is a person who crosses the boundaries of the world and kills constellations.”
Twinkle said that a constellation means a being that represents that world.
“And a world that has lost its constellations is like a castle that has lost its defenses. “The chances of facing such drastic destruction are increasing.”
Apocalypse.
A world where the representative has died and all of its inhabitants have disappeared.
“Why is he killing innocent constellations? “If he had founded the Ai Kim Empire, he would just quietly act as emperor in his own country. Why are you ruining the world?”
“I don’t think I can answer that.”
The Librarian looked at my face closely.
“I am just a reader. You have said that this throne is omnipotent and omnipotent, but this is not true. To put it bluntly, this director is omniscient and incompetent. “You can know the truth of the world, but you cannot intervene in it.”
The librarian, who spoke self-mockingly, suddenly pointed to my waist.
“But you are different.”
The main sword at my waist.
“You who can intervene, are also intervening. “Whether you want it or not, you are fixing what someone else broke, one by one.”
“You could call it a coincidence once. Twice is fate. After three times, it becomes inevitable. “You saved the empire that the Constellation Killer abandoned, you took back the constellations that the Constellation Killer split, and now you have arrived in a world destroyed by the Constellation Killer.”
The library director said.
“The method of killing [Hwangryong, who stays in Daeho], is vicious and cruel. An ordinary person cannot even touch that sword. But you can. Confucius. “For you, coincidence and fate overlap to form an inevitability.”
I looked at the black dragon’s corpse again.
While muttering in my mind.
‘Sparkle.’
The holy sword trembled slightly.
[Yes, warrior, Glitter answers.]
‘What should I do to get your sisters back?’
[Glitter says. All you have to do is pull yourself out and touch the sister sword.]
‘good.’
I drew my sword.
The winter air was divided.
I struck down the sword stuck in the black dragon’s chest with my sword.
[The Guardian Goddess absorbs her fragments.]
For an instant, my sword was surrounded by light.
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