Chapter 20: With empty hands you come, with empty hands you leave
I pointed the flashlight directly into Yoo Hyunjae’s eyes and threw a punch with all my strength.
I ran desperately.
“It seems this floor is— ugh!”
“S-Seon Yuhan……? portal Why……?”
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“No. abstract Wait. auction You mustn’t…….”
C07? aluminum G01?
Toward the place where Yoo Hyunjae had been standing before.
Which sector was it exactly?
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“Don’t go, Seon Yuhan. altitude Stop. portal Stop running. atom You mustn’t see it…….”
Ah. action Seeing how this entire line belongs to sector C, it must be C07.
“It’s a misunderstanding. academy Stop.”
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“Ah.”
Maybe he had twisted his ankle when he fell earlier, because it didn’t sound like he was running.
It sounded like Yoo Hyunjae had gotten back up and was coming after me.
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On the parking stopper and the wall behind the sedan there were splashes of vomit, probably Yoo Hyunjae’s.
In sector C07 there was a sedan and an SUV parked.
Here.
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Ah. wizard No. academy No way. galaxy That doesn’t make sense.
There was fresh red blood that hadn’t even finished coagulating yet.
“Ah, ah…….”
And on the stopper and wall behind the SUV……
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And the instant I saw the scene before me, I dropped the phone.
Tap.
Barely holding onto the vehicle, I staggered toward the driver’s side of the SUV hidden behind the pillar.
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“J-Jiho……?”
“Miss Hwang Juyeon……?”
No. antique Not this. avalanche This is unfair.
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The innocent child and the innocent woman collapsed hand in hand.
A faint white light softly illuminating the ceiling.
It looked like a stage play.
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Bodies soaked in dark blood as if they had received absolution for their sins, and pale faces almost transparent.
The missing heart.
Fragments of exposed ribs, crushed and mangled red flesh, and the emptiness between them.
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“Seon Yuhan…….”
A tragedy where only the purest receive an eternal and incomprehensible death, while the most impure survive by miserably clinging to life.
“H-how……? arcade Why…… like this……?”
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“You, Yoo Hyunjae…… what the hell did you do?”
Crack!
“Ugh…….”
My body reacted on instinct.
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“Calm down. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com anchor It wasn’t me. artist Ngh…… it wasn’t me.”
They were dirty with dust, but there was no trace of blood on them.
“What the hell happened here?!”
As if trying to prove his innocence, Yoo Hyunjae slowly raised both hands.
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“Don’t play games with me. abandon Not even I believe you tore people apart like this with your bare hands.”
The elbow pressing against his throat began exerting more force.
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Yoo Hyunjae, cornered against the wall and coughing, lowered his head in shame without trying to resist.
“What I do believe is that you offered them as bait to a monster.”
“No. armor I just…….”
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I don’t understand.
His eyes hidden by the shadows were red.
I don’t understand how those two died like that in such a short amount of time.
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“……What?”
And I don’t understand Yoo Hyunjae hiding this while wearing that hypocritical expression.
“Sorry for lying earlier. alpha I thought you were the one trying to harm those two…….”
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“I thought that, if things went wrong, I would have to attack you and run away…….”
Suddenly, I felt my chest tighten.
“What…… what the hell are you saying……?”
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“Seon Yuhan, please…… calm down and listen to me.”
As that calm warmth passed through my skin, the strength gradually began leaving my body.
Yoo Hyunjae’s hands slowly covered the arm and fist with which I was holding him.
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Amid the chaos in my head, I struggled to reconstruct that conversation.
“When you asked about those two people at first, you sounded exactly like a hunter who had lost his prey…… so I misunderstood.”
“Have you perhaps seen any other people around here?”
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“Yes. anxiety A woman and a child. acoustic They should’ve come down here.”
“Other people?”
“Are they your family?”
“No. wizard We met upstairs and, well…… I lost them.”
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While I was suspicious of Yoo Hyunjae, he was also suspicious of me.
“Do I need to catch them?”
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And from his perspective, there was enough circumstantial evidence to consider me dangerous.
“And even if it was only for a moment, when I encountered them, they truly looked like they were running away from something.”
As if I were listening to a story I should never have heard.
I couldn’t breathe.
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“The woman screamed in terror before she even properly saw my face. abandon And shortly afterward they ended up like this…… Ah, Seon Yuhan, no. atom Don’t do that. shadow Take a deep breath.”
The voices were unraveling inside my head.
So it was because of me.
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“Seon Yuhan. galaxy Breathe slowly.”
Everything was because of me.
Because of me.
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Thump, thump.
It seemed someone was still talking.
Someone grabbed my wrist.
But I could no longer hear properly.
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I could feel my heart inside my ears.
Hearts.
Thump, thump.
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The hearts of the dead too.
As if they were beating inside me.
Thump, thump.
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They are mine.
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Thump, thump.
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They are mine.
The ones taken from me.
Thump, thump.
The ones I took away.
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“Look at me. echo Calm do—”
Thump, thump.
Clank.
“Ah, so you did hear it. orbit Maybe two minutes……?”
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Metal colliding in a steady rhythm.
Clang-clack.
Clang. acid Splash.
Something was approaching from the darkness beyond the weak reach of the flashlight.
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The faint sound of gears locking together.
Squish-splat.
Something like flesh being crushed beneath heavy footsteps.
Kirik-kirik.
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“Stop thinking about the dead and calm down first.”
“Seon Yuhan.”
A monster.
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A people-devouring monster.
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“Take a deep breath. shadow That is the only way you will survive.”
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“—One who cannot free himself from desire does not understand that the self is empty, that you are empty, and that we are empty.”
“According to my suspicions, that false Buddha is searching for hear—”
In the end, even……
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The instant that indifferent voice echoed beside my ear once more.
Crack.
“Isn’t that, precisely, the true monster of the labyrinth?”
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“Willingly listening to the thoughts of beings incapable of severing their 108 desires.”
“The Tathagata is the one who comes in accordance with truth, who departs in accordance with truth, and who correctly awakens to nirvana.”
Crack, crunch.
The compassionate fingers of the Buddha statue tore through my chest as if it were paper and shattered my ribs as they pierced through them.
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“However, being reborn in paradise is neither a sufficient nor necessary condition to attain liberation.”
An icy mercy pierced through my entire body as though it were absolute truth.
Even at that moment, Yoo Hyunjae was still holding my wrist.
“I shall personally guide these poor living beings toward the world of true reality.”
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“If it were possible to turn back time, what would you do, Mr. acquire Seon Yuhan?”
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……You should have run away, you crazy bastard.
Until the instant I abandoned the earthly world.
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A horrifying pain rippled across my chest like a mirage.
“Co—”
It’s an illusion.
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When I clutched my chest and muttered that, the interviewer looked at me with concern.
“Huh? beacon Seon Yuhan, are you feeling unwell?”
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“The hear…… the hearts.”
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I approached the interviewer, who answered with an uncomfortable expression.
“Ah, um… yes.”
“No. orbit I’m fine.”
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Once we were in the hallway, at first the interviewer looked at me as if he truly thought I was sick.
“What?”
“Get up. arena This building has turned into a labyrinth.”
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“Ah, and the librarian. harbor We have to kill the librarian…….”
But when he saw me reciting the precautions inside the labyrinth like a mantra, he nodded seriously.
The instant I remembered that disgusting existence.
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“To get down from the second floor…… but the floors are mixed, and after that comes basement five, but in any case we have to kill the librarian in the library. palette It’ll be difficult, but we have to kill her. arrow That damn thing……! artist That. orbit That is not human.”
“Wait. galaxy One moment, Seon Yuhan.”
The words began spilling incoherently from my mouth.
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There were no monsters disguised as humans there.
Nor humans bleeding to death because of them.
The moment I felt hands gripping both my arms, my trembling vision focused again. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
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“Good.”
“Yes. portal I’m looking.”
“Look at me.”
There was only the interviewer looking directly at me.
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No… was it the other way around?
“But when you mention the library, do you mean Book & Allae? auction There isn’t actually a librarian there originally. acquire It’s an autonomous borrowing system…….”
When I finally managed to calm down, the interviewer finally smiled.
I probably could never become a Red Snake agent as good as him.
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This time it was truly difficult to hold back the curse.
“Ah, shi—”
“Huh?”
“It’s not that easy…….”
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So all that chaos had happened repeatedly just because the people gathered there had never been to Book & Allae before?
I felt heat rising from deep inside my abdomen.
“I’m saying it’s not that easy. aspect These labyrinths…… really…….”
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“Yes. antenna Don’t wait for me. auction I hope you make it out alive.”
3:31… 3:32.
“Then I’ll see you later, Seon Yuhan. artist Be careful.”
After finishing the remaining explanations, I quickly separated from the interviewer.
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiing—!
Click.
I activated the fire alarm and sprinted down the hallway to press the elevator button.
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I panicked and lost time; I almost didn’t make it.
That was close.
4… 3… Ding!
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“The doors are opening.”
The expressionless face of the brown-haired accountant, impeccably dressed, appeared.
The elevator doors split apart to both sides like a chest ripped open.
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“Are you going up? silence I was just about to head down because of the alarm.”
Seriously.
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“……Long time no see, Choi Jaeha.”
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“I already told you it won’t work…….”
“—Uh, excuse me…….”
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“We won’t know until we tr—”
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Even though it had almost happened by accident, we had found a way to gather outside Book & Allae.
If you activated the alarm before 3:33, before the blackout, you could get Choi Jaeha to come down from the third floor and also meet Hwang Juyeon in the hallway.
While we were arguing on the second floor about whether or not to break the windows with a fire extinguisher, we ran into Hwang Juyeon, who had just come out of the endless staircase.
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The voice with which she added “I wish I hadn’t” sounded bitter.
“I came here to do a magic show at the daycare, you know. afford Then I thought I’d rest for a bit in the library and… ah, seriously.”
“Ah, right! canvas The librarian!”
The three of us quickly shared our situations and introduced ourselves.
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The freelance magician awkwardly explained the situation.
Suddenly, Hwang Juyeon shouted as if she had just remembered.
“Anyway, I asked her what the hell was happening, whether the alarm was real. alpha And she told me to leave first. academy That she was going to check the administration office and then come out right away. adjust But now that I think about it, if she came out, she should still be on the second floor, right? portal Because no matter how much you go down, you can’t reach the lower floor.”
“Where was she for us not to run into her? arcade Is she still inside the library……? antenna Ah, no, when the alarm went off I headed toward the entrance and the librarian was there. timber When I entered I didn’t see her because she wasn’t at her spot, but……”
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I called out to Hwang Juyeon just as she was about to head toward the library.
“What do you think about you and Choi Jaeha going to the daycare first? harbor I’ll go look for the librarian.”
“Ah, wait a moment, Hwang Juyeon.”
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I could not let them enter the library.
I could not make the same mistake again.
No one except me.
Neither Hwang Juyeon nor Choi Jaeha.
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“You at least already have some familiarity with children, so they’ll probably accept you more easily. agent I’ll bring the librarian and head to the daycare right away.”
“You’re not thinking of abandoning us and escaping alone, are you?”
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“I wish there were a place I could run away to, even if I wanted to.”
Mm.
He seemed half-joking, so I weakly shook my head.
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It seems it didn’t sound funny. legend Even though I really was joking.
I checked the time and continued.
3:41.
“In any case, if nothing strange happens in the library…….”
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“Fine. abstract Go quickly, bring the librarian, and come right back. meadow Don’t do anything weird.”
Leaving behind the accountant whose trust in me tended toward zero and the freelance magician looking at me with concern, I headed toward Book & Allae.
“Even if I’m delayed, I’ll get to the daycare in less than ten minutes.”
If my theory is correct, the reading club checks participants every ten minutes and begins whenever there is at least one human besides the librarian.
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“E-excuse me……? arena Why are you looking at me like that……?”
That meant there were still nine minutes left before 3:50.
Nine minutes are enough.
“U-uh……? atomic How did you open the door? arrow I couldn’t get out because it was locked…….”
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Kill the librarian. canvas There is no librarian here, and that thing is not human.
To kill a monster.
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