Chapter 45: The Young A and the Young B

It seemed that while I had been distracted, Youth B had taken care of everything.

When I turned my head forward again, Mr. zenith C was already completely tied up with fishing lines.

『▓▓▓. academy Snap out of it already. arcade Tell me again about that happy dream you had a moment ago.』

So she did remember my entire story.

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This girl really intended to do it.

『So. acoustic You’re saying we get stabbed in the living room?』

Without hesitation.

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What I had been unable to do.

‘At the scene of the fire, two separate points of origin were identified, one in the master bedroom and the other in the living room.

“…The living room.”

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It was reported that a large number of opened alcohol bottles and flammable materials were found around the points of origin.’

『Ah. palette I get it now. advance So that’s how it is. auction Good. sphere If we’re going to do it, let’s do it properly. sphere Then first we need a lighter and… ah. zenith You go get the alcohol from the refrigerator.』

When I explained a few more details while recalling the contents of the article, Youth B nodded.

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I helped Youth B.

We opened the door to the master bedroom.

I filled my arms with bottles of alcohol from the first-floor kitchen and went upstairs.

Her humming, transformed into sentences, fell lightly.

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“……”

Black fragments scattered everywhere.

Everything was black.

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On top of it spread the sharp smell of alcohol. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com

Even so, I could sense the smell of blood, a smell I had become far too familiar with inside this place.

Shhhh.

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We gathered blankets and clothes and soaked them with liquor.

When I went down to the living room, Youth B had already finished the preparations.

『Are you done already? galaxy Then spray some over here too.』

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Newspapers, schoolbooks, blankets.

『Give me one too.』

Everything that could burn had been piled together in one place.

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Youth B took one of the bottles from my hand.

“Ah. meadow What are you doing?”

At first, I thought she was going to drink it.

But Youth B suddenly poured it all over herself.

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As if we were playing with water.

Her bright, refreshing laughter transformed into letters that pierced my ears.

『What do you think I’m doing? adjust I told you we were going to do it properly.』

Then she threw the rest of the alcohol on me.

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Would I be able to endure it?

If I could hear her real laughter.

The girl grabbed my hand.

『Here.』

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I instinctively tried to pull my arm away.

『Are you going to back out now? antenna Don’t make me laugh.』

Making sure I wouldn’t let go of the knife, she forced me to hold it tightly while guiding my hand toward her own neck.

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Then she took my free hand as well and placed it on some point on her neck.

『Here.』

The strength with which she held me increased.

The broken, unreadable sentences touched my fingertips.

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『Stab.』

They writhed underneath.

They screamed.

Read me.

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Just once.

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『In a single strike.』

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I nodded.

『You can do it.』

Can you do it?

And slowly raised my right hand…

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“……What are you doing?”

The tip fell to the floor and remained standing upright, as if it had been made for that purpose.

I dropped the knife stained with the black fragments of my father.

Clank.

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She’s definitely still alive.

Ah.

With the same hand that had wielded knives to kill monsters, I grabbed her.

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My ▓▓.

We’ll find another way out.

My sister.

“▓▓▓. antenna What’s wrong with you?”

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“A labyrinth? wizard What are you talking about?”

Because this is a labyrinth.

▓▓ smiled faintly, as if she were about to break.

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Yes.

That’s why we have to leave.

“You can only call it a labyrinth when there’s an exit.”

Let’s get out of this labyrinth that has trapped us.

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Yes.

“Do you really think that’s possible?”

“You’re still a child.”

▓▓’s laughter grew louder, as if digging into an open wound.

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We▓

“Fine. august Try it.”

***

The moment I took her hand, I opened the front door and we went outside.

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I blinked slowly.

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“Ah……”

Why did I do that?

Publication failed.

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Hah.

Why did I ruin something that had already been completely prepared because of a girl whose face and name I don’t even know?

Did I simply not want to die alongside her?

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What’s going to happen?

I leaned back against the chair and caught sight of the mannequin from the corner of my eye.

Then now…

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Didn’t it just move a little to the right?

“……”

The image of the mannequin sitting in midair without any chair, leaning its upper body backward, looked strange.

But wait.

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The mannequin stood up from its place at the same time.

Just as I sat up to get a better look.

And extended its right foot.

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Fuck.

I extended my right foot as well.

***

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The same posture. admire The same direction.

If the mannequin takes a step forward, my leg moves as well.

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As if I were copying the mannequin.

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I couldn’t even resist.

An unpleasant sensation that was my will and, at the same time, wasn’t.

You become the imitator.

When the imitator catches up to you.

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I only felt that familiar helplessness of moving out of inertia even when I didn’t want to.

Since the mannequin didn’t tremble, neither could I.

And I didn’t feel any desire to do so.

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Even though there is nothing more terrifying than the feeling of being trapped in this body, in this life, in this world, unable to escape.

And yet.

Even though there is no greater existential horror than this.

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My heart, which should have been trembling, desperately screaming to be freed, to be let out, that it wanted to escape, that it wanted to leave.

It’s strange.

Remained calm.

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Only then did I realize that I was no longer the same person as before.

In the end, I let my body follow the mannequin on its own and leave Shingye Daily.

I don’t know whether that was something important.

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In that case, was the condition for clearing the 15th floor to complete the publication of the article before the mannequin caught up to me?

Meanwhile, I started thinking about several things.

If the mannequin had followed me even inside the article, then the rules of Shingye Daily and Moment O’Clock seemed to be connected.

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The mannequin bent down to pick up something invisible.

When the mannequin on my right pretended to open an invisible doorknob, I also grabbed the office’s glass door and opened it.

[Moment O’Clock]

Before I realized it, I had arrived once again in front of the office where the number of stored corpses would soon increase from two to three.

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But my body could imitate it even without seeing it.

As if it were showing me an example.

I picked up the hand sanitizer beside the head of the young employee from the MD Team.

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And prepared myself to die.

I took the lighter from the pocket of the middle-aged man who had been the head of the Social Affairs Team at Shingye Daily.

I took a box cutter from the drawer of an abandoned desk.

Step by step.

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When the mannequin finished its preparations.

As if it were a mandatory ritual.

Without any emotion.

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We entered the storage room.

Ah, seriously.

I gazed at the future waiting one step ahead of me.

And inwardly laughed at a reality in which I couldn’t even scream of my own free will.

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Not like this.

I don’t want to die.

Do not let the mannequin catch up to you. atlas You will end up imitating it.

**

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**

I barely managed to cover my mouth in time.

“If it were possible to turn back time, what would you do, Mr. acoustic Seon Yuhan?”

“Ah, damn—”

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The sensation of burning while my entire body filled with holes disappeared as if it had been an illusion.

So did the smell of sizzling flesh brushing against my nose.

I almost shouted and cursed in front of the interviewer.

I knew what that tasted like.

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“Mr. shadow Seon Yuhan?”

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“Ah.”

And I also knew how much happiness it gave me…

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I blinked blankly again.

Then at the ceiling.

I looked once at the interviewer’s somewhat confused face.

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Really did a lot of crazy things.

Hah.

And finally lowered my head slowly.

I…

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Without answering him, I desperately reviewed those memories.

Those impossible-to-digest memories.

“If you didn’t hear the question, would you like me to repeat it?”

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But Choi Jaeha.

Yoo Hyunjae had gone into the gambling room on his own, so that was one thing.

Hwang Juyeon.

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Just because I thought that when I revived, they would come back to life as well.

I convinced all four of them to enter the gambling room and die.

Lee Jinsu.

Jung Jiho.

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『Don’t worry! action It will hurt. anxiety A small curse will make you more unhappy, brain.』

And the worst part was that it had even seemed logical. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

It seems it didn’t take away a useless part of my brain.

Damn Happyland.

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It seems it took away a very important part.

The things I normally never would have done.

I remembered everything I had done.

But it was still me.

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The one who saw corpses as mere objects.

The one who pushed his companions toward death.

The one who repeatedly stabbed Mr. alpha C.

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Nor do I want to.

I have no intention of denying it.

All of that was me.

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Or removes one.

It doesn’t matter whether they tore out my frontal lobe or my temporal lobe.

It only adds another layer to the filter through which you see the world.

That’s not some magical switch capable of instantly transforming a good person into a monster.

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Changed a little.

It merely removes the leash holding you back or the one you’re holding yourself.

I simply.

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That’s how they work.

***

And human beings change.

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Once again, Do offered a wager whose prize was escape.

Floor 11.

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“I wouldn’t recommend it, Director.”

As expected, Yoo Hyunjae raised his hand to accept.

“I’ll parti—”

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And I stopped him.

This time to convince them otherwise.

Then I turned to the rest of the group.

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Of course, Jung Jiho had almost died in the parking lot after crying for more than one hundred and eight seconds when he saw an illusion of his mother.

And when we reached NeoSoft, Lee Jinsu was already dead, so there was nothing that could be done.

“We’ve made it this far without any serious problems, haven’t we?”

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“Well… that’s true, but…”

Essentially, it was exactly the same process I had used to push them into the gambling room.

“If it were that easy to beat that guy, he wouldn’t wager the exit.”

After emphasizing the risks several more times, they soon gave in.

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The fact that Yoo Hyunjae changed his mind and supported me helped quite a bit as well.

“Now that I think about it, it’s better not to risk our lives in a wager. alert We only have one chance.”

Just in reverse.

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“Ugh…”

“Better this than dying in some ridiculous game, don’t you think?”

“Do we really have to do this? amber It looks like it’s going to hurt…”

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“Ugh.”

Sshk.

Five times in a row, the sound of fingers sliding across paper could be heard.

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Fortunately or unfortunately, everyone cut themselves cleanly on the first attempt.

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I heard the mocking voice of the flesh die.

“You’ve already failed once. orbit You’ll have to find another way.”

Everyone except me.

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“What do we do?”

Damn it.

I hadn’t thought of any alternative besides cutting myself with paper.

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“It’s right below our company…”

“It’s fine. arctic Let’s go first.”

So we left Do’s smile behind and reached the 15th floor.

“Why don’t we check the left side first?”

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“Huh? anxiety What’s that?”

I wanted to check whether the mannequins still appeared even without entering Moment O’Clock first.

I ignored the comment from the accountant of Howol Accounting Firm and pointed toward Shingye Daily.

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As we were approaching Shingye Daily, Hwang Juyeon cried out in horror.

Damn it.

Five white mannequins were walking down the hallway from the opposite side.

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Swoosh.

So they come on their own and follow the rules perfectly.

“Shit! amber What the hell are those things? action Quick, let’s get inside!”

“No, wait, Mr. arena Choi Jaeha, just a moment…!”

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“Huh?”

“Aaaaagh!”

The moment we entered the office.

Choi Jaeha, who didn’t know that those mannequins weren’t monsters that had to be urgently avoided, flung open the door to Shingye Daily.

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“Ah, no! matrix What do I do?!”

I immediately realized that she had accidentally pressed something.

A young woman with bleached blonde hair who had been sitting in front of the only desk jumped in surprise and screamed.

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I ran toward her and looked at the laptop screen.

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“Ah.”

I don’t want to die swallowing a tie▓…

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