Chapter 256
Episode 256 The Lost Girl (1)
“Cheer up everyone! Just hold on a little longer!”
A battlefield where harsh voices resound.
Yoo Seong-eun’s voice, filled with magic, resonated in the darkened cavity.
A little while ago, numerous raiders used items to leave the dungeon. Now, even if there was one more person left to fight, there was a chance of winning.
“No matter how much it is, it’s at the level of overdosing A- and S-class magic… I’ve never heard of such a thing. Red Gate… what the hell is this?”
It was Baek Ji-yeon’s question, but Yoo Seong-eun had no choice but to shake her head.
In the first place, she too knows little about the Red Gate for sure.
It was just a gate on a scale unprecedented in history, and the monster inside used high-level magic.
All I knew was that.
“For now, you have to be calm…”
said Lina Meyer, clutching Nidhogg’s fangs in reverse.
Behind them were the cadets of Nine.
They did not directly participate in the battle, but they were helping other raiders to fight in a better environment by applying buffs and distributing potions.
However, the war situation was still at a serious level.
The leaders of each guild.
Even though both the training guild leader and the sea god guild leader gathered in one place, the enemy in front of them was so huge and strong.
it’s dark
The guy was gradually building up his momentum while eating the fear of others.
It was then.
“You look ugly. Yooseong.”
“…you are…!”
The indifferent eyes looking down into the cavity were there and suddenly disappeared.
Awesome!
Blood splattered from the black shadow of the Witchbeast. A man who appeared to stop the hand attacking the alliance’s radar.
Jaeshin Lee. he reached the common
“From here on out, I will fight alongside you.”
Of course, I’m not a member of the Alliance like you.
Jaeshin Lee said that and squeezed his sword tightly.
Cadet Min Jae-hyeon, whom he treated as an enemy a while ago.
This guy is weaker than that.
Even if he couldn’t kill Eoduksini right now, he would be able to do it if it took some time.
“Yoosung. I need your help.”
Yoo Seong-eun’s pupils constrict. She tried to dwell on what she had heard, but immediately stopped.
The monster’s attack continued again, and the cavity was still filled with darkness.
The shadows were growing deeper and deeper.
* * *
Jaehyun kept running toward the depths of the dungeon.
The joint that Lee Jae-shin headed for a while ago. It is probably not the deepest part.
Just because there is a boss monster, mistaking it to be the deepest part of the dungeon is a mistake made by an inexperienced raider.
If it is a dungeon, there is a simcheo that even the boss monster is hidden.
And that place is where he is heading right now, and it was the place where Kim Yoo-jung was immersed in trauma.
Jaehyun was able to grasp this intuitively.
‘Kim Yoo-jung.’
Jaehyun calmed down by repeating the name for a moment.
Short fragments from before returning flashed through his mind for a moment.
She sacrificed herself for herself in the past.
She saved herself from being attacked by a being of unknown gender wearing a mysterious robe.
Thanks to that, Jaehyun lived with guilt for nearly ten years before returning.
Remorse for not being able to save Kim Yoo-jung. and pessimism about one’s weak self.
It was such a terrible memory that it made Jae-hyun crippled for a while.
So I won’t let that happen any more.
Jaehyun knows.
Kim Yoo-jung is long. Even if you’ve been to the same place, you’ve lost your way several times.
But I didn’t want to.
It stems from your own trauma.
Also, Jaehyun was the one who knew her trauma better than anyone else.
Ssss…!
At that moment, numerous shadow soldiers blocked Jaehyun’s path, who had been running for a long time.
Jaehyun held Nidhogg’s fangs in reverse and did not slow down his running speed, crossed them and cut the enemy.
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
The Witchbeast was not Jaehyun’s opponent.
Perhaps the boss monsters aren’t too difficult for him either.
But you can’t protect everyone alone.
Jae-hyun, eagerly hoping that Lee Jae-shin, who headed for the joint, would endure well, cut off dozens of enemies approaching him and headed to the depths.
Now the fight started here.
Yoo Sung-eun and Lee Jae-shin of Circle Nine as well.
own too.
And about Kim Yoo-jung herself.
* * *
There are many different ways students bully, but the most common one is. It’s just that they whisper among themselves, and when you approach them, they turn their words around.
At the same time, he blurts out and expresses his intention not to talk to you.
As if a little story about oneself becomes an important story.
As they do so, they gradually alienate people from the group.
Then, when it reaches its peak, it touches the wound in the heart.
[Looks like your parents aren’t here today.]
The voices that came from behind were those of the children who had ostracized Kim Yoo-jung.
Their words were like thorns to Kim Yoo-jung, who was not in a good mood.
[Did you really have parents?]
[Did your parents abandon you? Seeing how they don’t take care of this much?]
The moment Kim Yoo-jung heard those words, she felt that her heart was completely broken.
The saddest thing was that I couldn’t deny that right away.
Is it really
Did my parents really abandon me?
very occasionally That’s why I spend only one or two months together a year, and I don’t have much conversation with my parents.
am i not worth it?
Is that why you abandoned me?
The song of trauma that is located deep in Kim Yoo-jung.
It was something she could never overcome on her own.
Kim Yoo-jung gave strength to her legs and started running without answering anything.
There was no destination. just ran
Relays and whatever meant nothing now.
The biggest part of his life felt like the bricks had come off and couldn’t hold up.
* * *
It is harder than you think to keep walking without a destination.
It is even more difficult to do so while skipping school on sports days.
It was because vague anxiety and a thick layer of fear gripped people.
Kim Yoo-jung walked for a long time thinking about her family.
He loved his parents. I vaguely believed that they would too.
But when I heard the stories of those who had told me a little while ago. A little bit, but I doubted them.
If you really love me, then shouldn’t you come and see me?
Shouldn’t you throw away any situation and come running?
But my parents don’t come.
Even though she knew it was a childish idea, she couldn’t help but doubt her parents’ love.
It was sad.
By the time she can’t get out of the swamp of vivid emotions like that.
Suddenly, somewhere, her steps stopped.
It was near an old apartment with an old playground.
‘Where is this…?’
This is Kim Yoo-jung, who usually has trouble finding her way.
Where the hell are you? How did you come to walk here?
At that moment, Kim Yoo-jung felt completely alone in the world.
There is no mother or father here.
There was no police station nearby, and it was scary to go there. Didn’t you get out of school and come here?
When I go back, the teacher will scold me again.
Kim Yoo-jung was deeply in despair knowing that there was no one to find her.
That my heart was slowly starting to break down.
she was feeling
* * *
[Yoo-jung suddenly disappeared?]
[Yes. I think it’s like that.]
After Kim Yoo-jung suddenly disappeared, the three students who bullied her went to the teacher and said so.
The teacher first told one of the three people to run in the relay race instead of Kim Yoo-jung, and then went out to find Kim Yoo-jung with the remaining teachers.
When I checked, it was in the women’s bathroom and in the classroom. Kim Yoo-jung was nowhere to be found.
It was strange. He was always sincere and a good student.
He was by no means a student who suddenly disappeared without a word.
I figured it wouldn’t be that easy to find. You’ll have to contact the police too, and things will get complicated in many ways.
Even at the moment when the teacher was worried about it.
The three people who caused Kim Yoo-jung’s disappearance kept their mouths shut and never opened their mouths.
Jaehyun, who was watching this, blocked their way as they entered to avoid the heat.
A secluded place out of sight of teachers and other students.
Jaehyun opened his mouth to those who stopped walking.
[Do you really not know where Kim Yoo-jung went?]
At that, the girl standing in the middle furrowed her brow and expressed her anger.
He was a kid with bad rumors because he usually led bad boys.
[I don’t know. Why do you ask me about her story?]
[I think I saw him with you guys. Don’t you really know?]
[I don’t know.]
Jaehyun sighed with an expressionless face as he looked at those who spoke firmly.
[I get it. I’m sorry for wasting your time. But you guys…]
Jaehyun looked back for a moment.
[No.]
There was something he wanted to ask, but Jaehyun couldn’t get it out of his mouth. Asking this could have sparked Kim Yoo-jung.
Recently, Jae-hyun realized that the three people in front were strangely ostracizing Kim Yoo-jung. However, if she brings up such a story, it may become more difficult for her.
Now I had more work to do than that.
Jaehyun walked past the three of them.
And he, too, did not participate in the relay race.
* * *
There are several traumas that terrify me.
The deepest of them all was the trauma of this gilchi.
I don’t remember why.
just get lost All I know is that the intense fear of itself haunts me and prevents me from thinking about anything.
As with most traumas, there are often no grandiose reasons.
Maybe that’s the case with me too.
Just getting lost and not going back. It just works as a fear to me.
I was now sitting on a rusty swing. Three lines drawn on a slightly worn gray gym suit. Underneath was a pair of burnt white sneakers.
In fact, if you want to go back, you could ask someone else along the way.
I’m sorry, but it wasn’t a big deal if I could go back to school anyway.
But why at that moment? I thought I didn’t want to go back.
That kind of thought suddenly settles on one side of my heart and expands its scope.
Is there a place I can return to?
Questions about it continue to rise and settle themselves.
Time passed, and the sun had completely set before I knew it.
Darkness covers the roadside. The only thing visible through the flickering light of the street lamp is a rusty swing and a jungle gym.
“Perhaps the sports day is over. Someone else must have run the relay…”
Even without me, there is no problem holding the sports day.
There was no place for me, neither in class nor at home. So it was always out of the way.
Every moment I thought I would be alone felt like hell to me.
don’t go back like this
It was when I lowered my head thinking about that.
fall.
Suddenly, the iron rope of the swing I was sitting on swayed, and someone suddenly pointed at me.
[What are you doing here?]
The person who entered my pupil turned his head in the direction from which the voice came…
It was a reenactment.
He didn’t scold or scold me like the others.
I was just talking.
[let’s go. Go home.]
Jaehyun’s clothes were damp as he said that. He smelled a bit of sweat from his body, and his gym clothes were also slightly torn, as if they were caught somewhere.
An unknown feeling about him that passed through my head in an instant.
What is it?
Before I even figured out this, the message that followed puts me in a quagmire once again.
―The user’s trauma is further deepened!