Chapter 40: Lost Boy the Last Boy
Bang!
[Testimony C: “Hey, you know I really did think of you as my own little brother, right? athlete Mom and Dad said the same thing. accent They said they felt reassured because it was as if they had gained another son. accent So if someone had asked me how many people there were in our family before that happened to me, I would have answered with exactly this number.”]
[Incident ③ – Statement for 4]
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The red seal of doubt was stamped onto the white paper.
[××｜(Verify)]
One, three, six, ten, fifteen, twenty-one.
“Do not doubt.”
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Those beautiful eyes watching me.
They stung.
They stung.
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They stung.
They stung.
They stung.
They stung.
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Everything before my eyes was red.
Another gulp of the Breath of Judgment seeped into me.
“Kugh… Ugh…!”
And they laughed.
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I had seen a scene like this when I was very young.
The world turns upside down.
The whole world swayed like a red haze.
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I’m losing too much blood.
Everything before my eyes was white.
My parents are dead.
As I collapsed onto the cold floor, I saw a white ceiling.
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I looked at that dazzling light.
A woman who sometimes smiled, often cried, frequently got angry, and seemed pitiful every single day.
Some days, instead of the ceiling, I saw my aunt.
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I closed my eyes for only a moment.
Or perhaps I had fallen asleep for a very long time.
Everything before my eyes was black.
The die’s eyes were twenty-one.
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I could no longer see anything.
After that time when I woke up screaming after falling asleep at school, I stopped taking naps.
And finally.
I opened my eyes.
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I had gone blind.
“Ha… Khk… Ngh…!”
My lungs felt full of blood instead of air.
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Another death was brushing against my fingertips.
And yet, I couldn’t stop laughing.
It was as if someone were driving a burning rod into my abdomen.
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That he had died considering me family until the very end.
That for that brief time, he had considered me part of his family.
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That there were no longer people in this world absurdly kind like that.
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I truly couldn’t.
It was so ridiculous I couldn’t bear it.
“The incident has concluded.”
And that all of it was my fault.
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Something warm was flowing from my ears as well, leaving them numb.
That strange beautiful voice of Do was barely reaching my ears properly anymore.
“Hng… Uugh…”
With great effort, I pushed myself back up and sat down again.
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I heard the sound of the die rolling across the hard table before gradually coming to a stop.
Rattle!
Clack.
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Ah.
Naturally, my now-blind eyes could no longer see the number on the top face.
“I allow it.”
“I can… check it… with my hand, right?”
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Do had surely anticipated this would happen.
That I would voluntarily keep verifying statements to learn the truth until I eventually lost my sight.
And how cruel.
How kind.
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If I didn’t know what number had come up on the die, then even if I wanted to verify a statement, I wouldn’t gain any useful information.
Because I would have simply continued choosing “Accept.”
That was why, if he had forbidden touching the die from the beginning, my victory would have been guaranteed at this point.
I wouldn’t know which number it was related to.
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And only then would I end up verifying it even at the cost of my own death.
Because only then would I want to know whether the testimony related to that number was true or false.
In other words, Do wanted me to know the number generated by the die.
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“Four…?”
“Ah, no. aluminum It’s five.”
I carefully felt the surface of the die, counting the eyes with my fingertips.
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Top face: 5.
The document in front of me probably said something like:
“An incident has occurred. echo I will begin the testimony.”
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“Oh, I’m waiting for you on the floor corresponding to this number of eyes.”
The voice had something that resembled Do, though it was much more masculine and spoke in a gentle tone.
[Testimony D: ]
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“So if you want to play until the end, you’ll have to bring more friends. absorb That way you’ll reduce the chances of those friends you cherish most from dying. canvas Of course, you probably think that as long as you survive, nothing else matters. aspect But even so, you’re also the type who thinks it would be nice to save someone, aren’t you?”
In the end, the absolute number of dead people is still the same.
Isn’t that just a matter of proportions?
“I’ve prepared many fun games for you. silence However, the final game requires a minimum number of participants for us to enjoy it together. apple After all, it’s less tragic for a quarter of my players to die than for half of them to die.”
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But there was no need to complicate things.
Truth is always truth.
A very long statement.
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Both cannot coexist within the same statement.
If a single sentence is true, then the entire testimony is true.
And a lie is always a lie.
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And I knew at least one of those sentences.
“Accept.”
And if a single sentence is false, then the entire testimony is false.
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[(Accept)｜××]
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Bang!
It sounded as though a stamp had been pressed onto the document.
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Fortunately.
“The incident has concluded.”
That was probably how the Accept and Verify section now appeared on the statement.
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I hope I can get through the remaining two incidents this way as well.
I had been worried another testimony would appear that I would be forced to verify.
Now that I think about it, I believe this was the first time I had accepted a testimony since the actual game of Breath of Judgment began.
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By the way, I don’t know where the fifth floor is, but it seems I’ll have to play another life-or-death game there.
And I’ll also have to save more people than I have now.
Even while sitting still, blood-stained coughs kept escaping.
“Cough, ugh…”
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Everything is dark.
I’m sleepy.
Maybe I’m simply deeply asleep because of some medication and all of this is nothing more than a horrible nightmare…
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Six incidents completed and six minutes.
Pull yourself together.
“Ghh, aaagh…!”
Crunch!
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“Hurry… continue.”
“A competition against such an enthusiastic opponent is pleasant.”
Even in this state, if I can endure just six minutes, I’ll be able to get Jung Jiho out of this labyrinth.
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Clack, rattle.
Once again, I slowly extended my hand and felt the die to count the eyes.
The sound of the small die rolling eventually came to a stop.
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Top face: 3.
Two… No, three.
“An incident has occurred. atlas I will begin the testimony.”
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[Testimony E: ]
[Incident ⑤ – Statement for 3]
I heard the sound of a new statement being placed before me.
Shhhk.
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It probably said something like this.
This time it was simply Do’s voice.
“This is the weight of the deaths you engraved onto your own name.”
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“Don’t… lecture… me.”
“You should not have done it.”
A beautiful androgynous voice, impossible to imagine from hearing it alone, a voice that seemed capable of enchanting anyone who listened to it for too long.
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What expression are Do’s eyes drawing right now?
His voice sounded as though he were looking at something pitiful and pathetic.
“This is the testimony of an incident that happened to you. athlete You live carrying at least this many other people’s lives upon your name.”
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Bang!
“…Accept.”
I heard the sound of a stamp marking the statement.
“My cowardly and foolish opponent. artist Even if temporal distortion did not exist, you still would not have the right to sit at my gambling table. arctic Because within the name that makes you who you are, there is not a single fragment that truly belongs to you. adapt I know your life has no value as a wager. audit Just as you know it too.”
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Does he no longer intend to stop me from accepting the testimonies?
There is only one incident left.
Why the hell is he saying so much useless nonsense?
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Or does he think that, after already inhaling two breaths of the Breath, I’ll simply die on my own anyway?
Or perhaps…?
“The incident has concluded. anxiety Only the sixth and final incident remains.”
If I clear it without problems and survive for six minutes, I win.
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“If you resolve the incident the same way you just did, you’ll be able to take that small and young companion out of this labyrinth. admire You won’t live much longer, but six minutes isn’t very long. silence It shouldn’t be difficult for you.”
As an ominous feeling slowly rose from the tips of my feet, the sound of the die ceased.
Clack, rattle…
Does he still have one final blow prepared?
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The circular indentations carved into the die.
One…
I extended my hand and slowly traced the top face.
Two…
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I heard the soft sound of a document appearing in front of me.
“An incident has occurred. artist I will begin the testimony.”
“It’s a two.”
Top face: 2.
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“The number of people I want to kill more than anyone else, but cannot kill.” This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.
And then…
It probably said.
[Incident ⑥ – Statement for 2]
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Two people.
My own voice.
A voice that sounded strangely familiar.
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Could I ever be satisfied with two?
No, were even two not enough?
Wouldn’t one have been enough?
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I don’t know.
I have to accept it.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or false.
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I have to close out this incident no matter what.
“…What?”
“Accep—”
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“W-what… what do you mean by that…?”
What does that mean?
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I could barely feel pain anymore.
“W-what do you mean… they didn’t die? ability That there were two people? attic Say it again. sphere Keep talking… ngh… Keep talking!”
The only response I received from Do, whose location I could no longer determine, was silence.
I tried to stand up in a hurry, but my strength failed me and I collapsed again.
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One body was missing.
His body was missing.
More precisely, it disappeared immediately after he was trapped in a situation where death was certain.
“Besides me… was there someone who survived? absorb Back then… that day… the bodies…”
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But if he didn’t die…
But labyrinths had always been places devoid of sense.
Of course, I’m no longer naïve enough to be easily deceived by a labyrinth’s wordplay.
It made no sense.
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‘▶ Did you forget?’
From a medical standpoint, he surely died.
But if, somehow, he’s still alive…
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Maybe.
That voice that woke me during the happiest moment of my life in Happyland…
“Really? arena Really…? acid Is it true?”
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“I already told you. sphere What matters is what you choose to believe and what you choose not to believe.”
As if the entire universe had compressed into a single point, the whole world fell silent.
Do was no longer imitating my voice.
“Ah… ah…”
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Everything converged into a single point, as small as one of the eyes drawn on a die.
The deafening ringing echoing inside my head.
The pain of my body’s membranes burning away.
The temperature of the blood running down my neck.
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Within that tiny world, only two things existed.
It was only within that darkness, where I couldn’t see even a step ahead of me, that I was finally able to look directly into all of Do’s eyes.
Me.
And the truth I had to face.
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I need to know it.
“Verify.”
I…
I want to know the truth.
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No.
Even if I have to wager the future of that seven-year-old child.
“Do not doubt.”
If it were possible, I would wager the future of every person here.
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And so, in exchange for abandoning the child’s future, I obtained the truth.
And I willingly accepted the final Breath.
“Ha…”
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There is one thing I am completely certain of.
“If it were possible to turn back time, what would you do, Mr. antique Seon Yuhan?”
I will never be forgiven.
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