The Resetting Lady

"…what?"

"This, yes, to you... It'll help."

Karen looks at the dizzying height. I didn't mishear myself. It's time to die. You jump out of there and die. Duran is saying so now. When Karen hesitates, Duran says again.

"What's to die, state, state? Are You Scary of Death?"

"…it's not like that."

Karen shook her head.

"It's not like that...The day I die is not today. Duran, it's not today."

Everything happened so quickly this time. Was it because of Karen's behavior or because Duran was measuring time as he said? But Karen could imagine herself falling from down there, down there.

"You won't die. I've fallen from this height.”

Karen remembers the terrible pain. I remember the pain of breaking my whole body. I have fallen from a similar height. It was the same then. As Karen has struggled so far, she will die before that day, and this time, too. Even if your limbs are twisted and your whole body is broken, you cannot die before that day.

"It's not today."

"...this time, it'll be different.”

Bang!

Close. Karen turned her head. He is coming.

"You can't open this door right now!"

Bang!

I can hear Berdick's roar. He's knocking on the door. Karen felt a strong sense of deja vu from his familiar voice. There were many variables this time, but the last was Verdick again. This time. This time.

"But…."

"Carran!"

And I can hear another voice. It's Raymond's voice. Before I knew it, he was close. He beckons to Karen, who is sticking out her upper body by the window. have a red complexion

"Just a little bit there, stay....”

Then turn back and point the gun somewhere. Bang! I can hear someone else die. Outside the door, Verdick is breaking the door, and Raymond is running to her from under the tower.

Karen looks at Raymond.

"But Lord Raymond is here."

Karen murmured. He's here. This time under similar circumstances. He's always late. He's here.

"I promised him to be polite.”

"…what courtesy."

The wind blows Duran's short hair. Karen said to Duran.

"I'll try until the end. I mean, I'm going to live."

Karen points her finger to Raymond.

"Like that."

Duran sees her article moving at Karen's fingertips.

"He, yeah... that guy."

"Look, right? In this situation… Still... I've never been here on time.”

Karen wrapped her arm around her. There was a wind, a Dulan next to it, and Berdyk was breaking the door with an ax outside the door, but there was strangely peace.

"If you're going to die anyway, it doesn't matter if you wait a little longer.”

Karen saw. I saw Raymond's efforts. Let's wait a little longer even if we cut our throat. Karen didn't want to die right now. I didn't want to bubble up that effort. When he dies, everything goes back to the beginning.

Memory does not overlap. Time does not accumulate. That Raymond will no longer exist except at this moment. People are the same, but they don't remember. Doubt, pity, and nevertheless, the moment of choice disappears.

That was what Karen hated Karen.

But Duran doesn't seem to like it. Duran said behind Karen.

"I'll help you. You won the bet.”

Karen did not know for a moment what had happened.

The world has turned upside down.

The sound of the wind brushed strongly.

My head went round and round and round. And it hurt.

Duran pushed Karen on the back.

It was literally a coincidence that Karen did not fall at that moment. Karen's hem got caught in the window frame. Karen felt her legs shaking in the air.

"You, you, right now....”

Karen stretched out her arm and managed to hold onto the window frame. However, he did not hold it properly, but literally had his fingers hanging over him. And as the wind blew hard, the light Karen was swaying at her own pace. Karen gasped for breath.

"Now, what are you doing?”

Duran approached the window frame. The top window was too big. Duran leaned out of the window and held out his hand. Then I grabbed Karen by the wrist. Karen clung to Duran's arm.

"Joo, are you afraid of dying?”

"What are you doing?"

"It's been like that since I was a kid."

Karen got angry. I hate Duran. He's trying to kill her without saying anything right. Is her last in this life, neither Raymond nor Berdick, but Duran?

Duran walked toward Karen's fingertips. Duran looked down at her.

"Hey, I'm not going to be scared anymore.”

"What?"

Bang!

"Of course…now… I don't mean you live. Well, even if I hear you here now, the end is....”

Bang!

"You'll die for Mr. Berdick."

Karen was suffocated. I'm not sure what he's talking about now. All she can choose now is whether to die for Berdick or Dulan. Why are you telling me to choose it? Why do you say it as if it were something great?

"You won the bet.”

"What?"

"Hey, that guy... Lord Raymond is here.”

Duran sees Raymond, not Balch's Karen. He was running towards Karen. Step on the soldiers' heads and leap forward. An arrow is shot at the entrance, but it cannot be hit. Raymond approached the tower. He grabbed onto the wall. I made eye contact with Duran. Duran looked at Raymond and said,

"Actually, I... anyone... Maybe it didn't matter. Now I know."

"Pretending to be there, don't tell me, you son of a gun!"

Karen did evil. And she saw something strange.

"Hey, get out of here."

Duran laughed. It was a tearful smile.

"You, you know."

Karen thinks.

Maybe

Now.

Karen suddenly thought so.

Karen has not been very angry with Duran so far. Although Dulan was annoyed by the fact that he didn't speak at all, she had a different feeling. It wasn't like Raymond's feelings of personality or attitude, but rather a sense of comradeship that he shared secrets. Unlike Raymond, who doesn't trust Karen, he does.

But is there any guarantee that it is not an illusion?

It's just, it's just, maybe Dulan...Just, just.

"It will be different this time.”

Does that mean you're really going to die this time?

Maybe he's even mistaken about living again?

Will he really just die if he dies this time?

It's okay. That's a good thing.

Even now?

If you just die like this... Are you sure you'really? Isn't it scary? Is it okay if the darkness comes and dies? Can you accept returning to nothing, dispersing accidents, eventually getting nothing answered and returning to earth and ashes? Sincerely?

"Now you'll be fine.”

Duran stepped on Karen's fingertips.

***

"Carran!"

Raymond clenched his teeth. You have to move your body stronger. Raymond measured the height of Karen hanging by the window. He bent his legs once, and took a leap. It touched the wall.

The walls of the tower are vertical, but it doesn't matter much to Raymond. Raymond jumped through a gap between the old towers. The wall is as flat as a sheet for him. An arrow grazed his ear.

We can get him! We can get him! Raymond ran. I ran on the wall. The wall was close to vertical, but it didn't matter to him. reach out to Karen

The eyes met.

But what he caught was in the air.

Karen, go down. Go down. Too light.

And there was a terrible sound.

The most terrible thing happened after that.