M E M O R I Z E

The long silence sank heavily. We haven't spoken in a while. I needed time to calm down, and my brother needed time to recover.

It was so static for a long time. Sometimes I just hear the sound of running water.

“Mercenary Road. Sit down, please. ”

Han So-young took her back off the stone wall carefully said. More like a plea than an order. I sat on the chair as if it had collapsed, only chewing the tender lotus weed.

After a while, when the filter was not chewed down, my brother raised his head slowly.

“… Oh, did you get the message? ”

“Text?”

“No, not texting. ”

“ ……? ”

He said, "You haven't seen it yet.” He muttered, asking me to check user information. The refusal hasn't subsided yet, but he raises his spear gently. It wasn't that hard.

Suddenly, when the familiar spear came into the air, a strange part was trampled on my eyes. Something at the bottom seemed to be sparkling.

I want something. I want to stare at it.

I have a message. (Y/N)

A new window suddenly appeared.

“Message?”

“I see. Read it. ”

I was hesitant to see it for the first time, but I reached out and touched Y.

- User Kim Soo-hyun.

I almost jumped for a second. I expected a message window to pop up because suddenly I heard a vivid voice in my head. Just like she said.

Soo-hyun will be very confused when she reads this message.

You know, I'm probably the one who caused the chaos.

It's really scary to think how much you'll resent me when Soo-hyun finds out.

Hating you is what scares me the most.

And that's why I've come up with a long excuse.

But first of all, it's true that I did something I wasn't proud of.

Any excuse will not justify my guilt.

... If you don't mind, could you please listen to me?

Seraph. It was Seraph no matter how many times I held it. I listened as soon as I was sure it was Seraph.

- First of all, don't worry too much about the situation.

I am your helper, and terms and conditions dictate that what is done to the user is inherently blocked.

And I have to say, at least I didn't do this out of malice.

Yeah, I bet you are. Even though Seraph lied in good faith, he never led me down the wrong path. Not to mention my brother.

I know, but this was a different matter.

- After the war with the Devil, I had a hunch that a time of choice had come.

So did I, but I think Su-hyun was probably a complicated heart.

While waiting for each day in the summoning room, I learned what Su-hyun meant after hearing the story I had shared with the user called Reason.

It opens a pathway between the two worlds.

And after a few years of cleanup back on Earth, we return to Hall Plain.

It certainly wasn't a bad choice.

or rather rational.

But once I realized that I was going back to Earth, I couldn't help thinking….

I mean, why?

- Su-hyun, as you know, the users of the Hole Plane are derived from humans on Earth.

In other words, they are the same and distinct from each other.

So when the two come together, it's right that the essentially derived being enters the body.

From this point of view, the return to Earth takes the form of a Holl Plane user being overwritten by a human being on Earth.

So the human bowl is filled with new water called "user."

Seraph's voice followed gradually as if he were calming down a temperamental child.

- It's easy to say, but it's actually not that simple.

Particularly in a "human" situation, inevitably, there is a discrepancy.

It's very hard to live a normal life for decades and embrace the experiences and memories of a world that you don't even know for a moment.

First of all, I'm not wrong. Didn't Jo Seung Woo actually say it? Fewer than forty of our earliest patients responded.

- The question here was whether ‘human’ Kim Soo-hyun from Earth would be a suitable vessel to handle 'user’ Kim Soo-hyun from Hall Plain.

In fact, I was skeptical, but I started experimenting because it was pointless to just speculate.

Experiment?

- Kim Soo-hyun, a human when he was summoned 15 years ago.

Current user Kim Soo-hyun.

Based on these two pieces of data, we ran a kind of return simulation.

And the result is….

Unfortunately, it was as expected.

As soon as I heard the results, my eyes felt energized.

- Not once or twice, but tens of millions.

If at least once you get the results you want.

Maybe I would have chosen to do that.

However, the results of numerous simulations were all the same, with no exceptions.

Though there may be a difference in time, it is ultimately extreme choice that Kim Soo-hyun, a human, cannot endure the experience and memory of his time as a user...

… Soo-hyun.

The process by which human nature is formed is similar to inertia.

It's like a habit or a habit that if you repeat it for a long time, you get used to it without even knowing it.

I mean, the results of the experiment were telling a fact.

Inertial user Kim Soo-hyun's nature has gone so far that humanity in times not yet asked...

I groaned unknowingly in the results of the simulation. I have to say, I feel dizzy.

I didn't want to believe it in my heart, but I was actually aware of what Seraph was worried about. That's why, when I saw the suspicion that the reason was going to go wrong, I broke Skurf and tried to fix it. I'm already late, but I don't think it's too late for a reason.

- I thought about it for a few days.

I watched Suhyun through the night sometimes and watched the trends when it was hard.

I've also rationalized that reality is going to be different because it's just a simulation anyway.

However, no matter how good I thought, I couldn't send you without any action….

I agree with Seraph's concerns. I felt like I knew what I was planning. But the more I listened, the more the question amplified.

I came back this time, and I got a zero code. First and foremost, a party.

But why did Seraph suffer so much by himself? No, why didn't he say something?

- I had to admit in the end.

Human Kim Soo-hyun can't handle user Kim Soo-hyun....

But then, an idea came to my mind like lightning.

As soon as I acknowledged the proposition I didn't want to acknowledge, ironically a new path opened up….

A new path?

“Soo-hyun.”

Then, sadly, I heard his voice. I turned my eyes to the side as if my voice wasn't going straight. My brother was staring at me.

“Regret?”

“… What? ”

“Do you regret this situation? ”

“Is that what you call it? ”

I said, what are you talking about? I can't speak because I'm overwhelmed. Do you regret it?

“Yes."

Of course I regret it. I regret it so much.

I decided to return to Earth for sure, but I didn't want to come back like this. When Gehenna left with Suna without saying anything, I suffered severe sequelae. How much he blamed and blamed Gehenna at the time. But not willingly, but this time I did the same.

I can understand you opening a passageway at your own expense. But at least I wanted to have a proper breakup time. I would have been able to sort out some emotions, even though there would have been no remorse.

“I feel like going back to Hall Plain right now. ”

“Yes, I see. ”

As he growled, he slowly got up from his seat. He tapped his head as he looked at me.

“Oh, Soo-hyun. As you can see, I had a terrible breakdown when I came back. It was utterly indescribable. ”

I stared at my brother dazed.

He asks if you regret it, and now you're talking about it.

What do you want to talk about?

“... And by the way, ”

It was then.

“Don't you find that strange seeing me like that? ”

The moment your words continue.

“Think about it. All the users who came back were freaked out and in pain. But you... How was it?”

Suddenly, I felt like I was hit on the head with a hammer.

“Well…. ”

That's right.

Why?

Why have I been missing this?

In retrospect, I should have known when I saw myself on the train.

Why were you wearing armor, not a uniform? And why it didn't hurt.

Since I came back to Earth, I should have felt weird...?

When I barely got my head together and looked at my brother, he wasn't looking at me anymore. Rather, I was looking up at the sky with a slightly tense face. He mutters in silence, as if talking to himself.

“Here she comes.”

It was a nonsense.

My brother smiled.

“You can count on it. You understand why I was in that state earlier. ”

- If it's impossible to pin Kim Soo-hyun to human, that new path.

Seraph's voice overlapped with my brother's.

Suddenly, the only blue light that illuminated the sky beyond the translucent window raised its gaze because of the clutter.

The blue swarm of light was descending towards me precisely.

After a while.

- On the contrary, it was the way to overlap Kim Soo-hyun, the user.

It's followed by Seraph's voice.

Flash!

It was almost simultaneous for the blue light to be plunged into the crown.

“Humans do not accept users.... User accepts Humans...? ”

I panicked because it happened so fast.

- Su-hyun was completely innocent as a user, but in other words, it was okay to say that she almost lost her humanity.

So Seraph sent me and took me back to Hall Plain the day he was on Earth? That's why I'm wearing armor, not a uniform?

- So I changed the proposition, and Su-hyun's memory and experience in human times...

Seraph's bold voice echoes through his ears.

And the freak you warned me about.

- I hoped that user Kim Soo-hyun would become a new flame to revive the humanity that was lost.

I came a little slower than I thought.

“Hehe!”

The pain of stabbing without any notice struck the temples. The pain didn't go away right away, but rather pressed his head as he grew in time. It's like you're trying to force yourself into something.

- I made this last wish, but there was actually a blind spot in this plan.

About the time I was holding on to the pain, my vision suddenly split in two and merged again. My legs nearly loosened for a moment, but I was able to balance them closely.

- Even if humanity were safely in the water, it would be important to keep in mind that even if it was eaten and diluted by the overflowing user nature.

Shit, the intensity of the severe headache will get stronger if we don't shake the focus. Now the world seems to revolve around the knight's blade. Is this... is this a hiccup?

- So, as a fallback, I wanted to feel regret and remorse every time Su-hyun thought of the Hall Plane, and size if I could be that feeling.

But even during that time, Seraph's voice was ringing clearly in his head.

- For five years, Su-hyun has been holding on as a motivator to miss those who want to see,

Five years later, when the turnpike opens.

Rather than a place where Hall Plain can ease his desire to kill and combat,

I wanted her to think of it as a home that could be undone.

At that moment, I suddenly felt the center of gravity turn off. He fell to his knees because he did not overcome the combined attack of pain and dizziness. I felt a hasty approach from my left and right, but I fell facedown.

- Because that's what Su-hyun really wanted...

And I closed my eyes.

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Sorry I'm late.

I'll post it right away.