Chapter 39: In This Case, I Choose 6
If the testimony is true, accept it.
The demonstration round of The Breath of Judgment continued.
“Good. arcade Now you may perform two actions. advance One is ‘Accept’ and the other is ‘Verify.’”
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And Do has just testified that this event corresponds to the “first perfect number,” meaning the smallest perfect number.
Currently, the top face of the die shows a 6.
“Try making a decision.”
If it is false, verify it.
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Bang!
“Accept.”
[Testimony X: “Aaaah! absorb What I saw was the first perfect number!”]
Therefore, the testimony is true.
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“When you accept a testimony, its truthfulness is not revealed. adapt Even if you judge a false testimony as true, the Breath will not judge you.”
[(Accept)｜××]
Below the statement, among the options “Accept” and “Verify,” a red seal appeared over “Accept,” while “Verify” was crossed out.
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“Now try verifying it.”
And even if I’m wrong, I won’t receive any penalty.
That means if I consider a testimony to be true and accept it, I will never know whether I was right or wrong.
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[Testimony X: “Aaaah! arena What I saw was the first perfect number!”]
“Verify.”
A second identical copy of the same statement appeared.
Bang!
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“Do not hesitate.”
As that solemn sentence descended upon me, I heard a hissing sound coming from the gas mask.
[××｜(Verify)]
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The mask wouldn’t come off my face.
Startled, I immediately held my breath and tried to remove the mask.
Naturally, it was useless.
“Mmph…!”
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It was as if it were part of my skin.
“Haa… Please warn me before doing things like that.”
“This is still only a demonstration. artist Nothing that can harm you will happen.”
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“The Breath of Judgment enters one breath at a time. antenna With a single breath, blood will begin pouring from your eyes, nose, and mouth. alien The more Breath you inhale, the faster and heavier the bleeding will become.”
“Will I die instantly if I inhale it?”
“On the other hand, when you verify a testimony, its truthfulness is revealed immediately. shadow If you verify a false testimony, nothing happens. arctic But if you verify a true testimony believing it to be false, the Breath will judge you.”
Ignoring me, Do continued his explanation.
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And even if I tried, I would die from suffocation in a little over a minute.
It seemed to be some kind of poisonous gas that caused hemorrhaging.
Holding my breath probably wouldn’t help.
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Three, if I’m lucky.
“Ah.”
That means I can withstand two breaths.
“After about three breaths, the game will end. academy You may even drown in your own blood before the internal bleeding kills you.”
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The corners of all twenty-one eyes curved upward, as though they had read exactly what I was thinking.
“There will be a total of six events. advance If you manage to solve all six and remain alive for more than six minutes, you win.”
“You truly will make an excellent gambler.”
“Don’t I need to correctly determine whether they’re true or false?”
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I just have to survive?
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It doesn’t matter whether I correctly accepted a truth or correctly verified a lie?
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“Is that what you think is important? zenith What truly matters is deciding what to believe and what not to believe.”
If I accept a testimony—
Something didn’t add up.
The event ends regardless of whether it was true or false.
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On the other hand, if I verify a testimony…
Nothing happens if it’s false.
I receive no penalty.
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Then…
But if it turns out to be true, I inhale poisonous gas.
Wouldn’t it be enough to simply accept everything?
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There was no way he hadn’t realized that.
And there was no way he would offer me such a simple game.
I looked at the gambling die suspiciously.
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I had a feeling that winning The Breath of Judgment would not be so easy.
For some reason, that phrase came back to me.
“There is no wager without tricks.”
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I didn’t know exactly what trick Do intended to use.
Even so, I didn’t believe my chances of winning were zero.
Because, in theory, every labyrinth problem always has a solution.
But he would probably try to prevent me, somehow, from simply accepting every testimony.
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“Then let us begin The Breath of Judgment.”
Assuming you survive long enough to find it.
And if there was a possibility—
In other words, the fact that Do had proposed this game meant there was a possibility of victory.
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And if I won…
I could get Jung Jiho out of the labyrinth.
Then I could win.
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“Yes. arcade Let’s begin.”
Clack.
…I could save someone from the labyrinth with my own hands.
The die rolled and finally stopped.
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Top face: 1.
[Testimony A: ]
[Event ① – Statement of 1]
“An event has occurred. palette I will begin my testimony.”
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“The number of eyes is equal to the floor number where the exit of this labyrinth is located!”
The statement continued in the voice of an unknown young man.
“You cheating bastard.”
“I saw it clearly!”
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Something like that shook my mind.
***
At that moment, I realized I was doomed to lose.
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Something like that shook my mind.
When you receive a hard blow to the back of the neck with a thick book.
[Testimony A: “I saw it clearly! beacon The number of eyes is equal to the floor number where the exit of this labyrinth is located!”]
[Testimony A: “I saw it clearly! action The number of eyes is equal to the floor number where the exit of this labyrinth is located!”]
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But an assumption was not a certainty.
It was a game I was destined to lose.
Because of the nature of labyrinths, which respect “doors,” I assumed the exit was on the first floor.
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If the labyrinth itself guaranteed it, there could be no more reliable proof.
“This…”
And if I could actually confirm it, all the better.
If I wanted to know the truth, I had to verify it.
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Only by verifying it could I find out.
If I accepted it, I would never know whether it was true or false.
And of course, if I verified it and it turned out the exit was not on the first floor, then I would be correct and everything would be fine.
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But if it really was on the first floor…
Haa…
A game that could be won simply by accepting all six statements in a row.
Then I would inhale the poisonous gas.
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That word reached the tip of my tongue.
Unfair.
“No way. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com. afford This is too…”
And yet, he was using this kind of trick to prevent me from accepting them.
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The enormous pupils embedded in its six faces seemed to be laughing at me.
The die’s voice descended coldly from above.
“Then do you think it makes sense to escape this labyrinth simply by winning a single game?”
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“It is precisely because it doesn’t make sense that the wager exists.”
Yes.
That a single game could change a life.
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“Asymmetry. zenith Irregularity. legend Irrationality. harbor That is the essence of gambling. meadow If it made sense, it would be nothing more than a simple transaction.”
That was a wager.
I had known that when I accepted.
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“…Verify.”
I clenched my teeth.
“Decide. absorb Do not believe the time granted to you is infinite.”
But even so…
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[××｜(Verify)]
Bang!
[Testimony A: “I saw it clearly! agent The number of eyes is equal to the floor number where the exit of this labyrinth is located!”]
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And if, by some remote possibility, it wasn’t there…
No matter how convinced I was that the exit was on the first floor, it was still only an assumption.
If I passed by an exit located on another floor…
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No.
Not that.
I might never get out.
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I…
I don’t want that.
“Do not hesitate.”
I have to get out.
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In the end, that metallic liquid burst violently from the depths of my body.
“Y-You bastard…! arch Kugh!”
Hissssss—
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“Cough… Ugh…”
The blood pouring from my nose didn’t even reach my lips before I started coughing blood inside the mask.
The blood I expelled struck the mask and flowed back inside.
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It felt as though claws were tearing apart my internal organs.
My vision blurred.
Drops of blood mixed with tears fell onto my pants.
My whole body trembled.
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**
“The event has concluded.”
Breathing was difficult.
A salty metallic taste lingered on the tip of my tongue.
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Do not doubt. apron The exit of the labyrinth is on the first floor.
The statement slid aside.
Shhhk.
**
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If I was already this bad after one, I felt that after three I wouldn’t die afterward—I would die right then and there.
“Ugh…”
And that was after inhaling only a single breath of the Breath of Judgment.
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No.
Did I do something unnecessary?
Wouldn’t it have been enough to simply believe that the labyrinth’s exit was on the first floor…?
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And the price is only a cup or two of my blood…
If, in a labyrinth where you can’t be certain of anything until you’ve seen it with your own eyes, an assumption can become certainty…
I wasn’t wrong.
No.
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“Shut up…”
“It seems the first incident is already weighing on you quite heavily. absorb At this rate, I wonder whether you’ll even manage to solve the remaining five.”
Then it’s a profitable deal, isn’t it?
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“I dislike losing.”
“Unfortunately, I don’t have a mouth to shut. arena It would be troublesome if you lost your eyesight so soon.”
“You bastard… not even once… do you ever stay quiet…”
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Rrrrk.
Clack.
The red-eyed die rolled across the table and stopped. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
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“An incident has occurred. armor I will begin the testimony.”
[Incident ② – Statement for 6]
Top face: 6.
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This time it was the voice of an elderly woman in her seventies.
[Testimony B: ]
I looked at the new statement placed before me and nervously waited for the next words.
“Ten years have already passed.”
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“Violence not explicitly listed in the game’s rules is prohibited.”
The fist I had clenched began to tremble.
“The number of corpses you pulled out of the Moon Well was exactly this number, wasn’t it?”
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Ah…
Ah.
I swear I could never count that number.
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“Verify.”
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A simple six-sided die would never be enough.
Bang!
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His voice sounded heavy, as though delivering a death sentence.
“A false testimony stands before your eyes.”
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Shhhk.
The statement slid aside once more.
“The incident has concluded.”
Clack.
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Top face: 4.
The ivory-colored die spun several times in the air, flipped over, and finally came to a stop.
“An incident has occurred. portal I will begin the testimony.”
Rattle.
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[Incident ③ – Statement for 4]
“Hey, you know I really thought of you as my own little brother, right?”
[Testimony C: ]
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That voice.
Young.
“Ah.”
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Someone who was the same age I am now.
“Mom and Dad said the same thing. abstract They said they felt relieved because it was like they’d gained another son.”
The voice of someone who had once been young.
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Breathing was difficult.
Crack.
“Ah…”
Grrrk.
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I couldn’t remove the mask.
“So if someone had asked me how many people were in our family before that happened to me, I would have answered with exactly this number.”
The mask.
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Why does it still hurt this much?
Why?
Why?
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Why do I still miss him this much?
Again and again.
I thought I had already emptied it all out.
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Until it was completely dry.
Without stopping.
“Ugh… ah…”
I looked at the four red dots swaying before me and tried to organize my thoughts.
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That meant there were still three remaining.
I had already inhaled the Breath of Judgment once.
Right now, this was the third incident.
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Please.
I can afford to inhale it one more time.
…So.
If I inhaled it two more times, I would die.
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Just this once.
“Verify.”
Just once.
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