The 31st Piece Turns the Tables

Episode 384

Chamaaaa…

Chamaaaa…

Crrrrrrrrrrr!

Something floating in the sea with strong currents, occasionally drinking water.

Shinyu fell off the cliff and naturally surrendered himself to the sea.

‘Everything has gone awry.’

Even the crashing waves of the black sea. It was a situation that was enough to make one feel fear, but to Shinyu, who already recognized everything as an illusion, it just seemed like a frozen landscape.

He came into the dream and had his own body, something he had never had since death.

Before realizing that this place was a dream, Shinyu was a genius swordsman with incredible talent.

And when I realized everything and looked back, what was left behind was…

‘Pathetic.’

He appeared to be weaker than before.

I was conceited.

He thought that if he could get his body back, he would become a swordsman who could achieve anything.

I definitely expected that to happen, but the future that unfolded was quite different.

He became a member of an organization called Faces and committed murder like a machine.

The drugs he constantly took for brainwashing and physical strength made his body unable to survive without them.

‘Bro… what should I do in times like this?’

Suddenly, I missed my third brother, Xingang, who left me in the labyrinth.

A man who boldly pushes ahead and sticks to his ideas no matter what.

I wanted to be like that man.

Like his own brother.

But not everyone could be Xinjiang.

He was dragged into the hell that the Yaksha experienced and faced failure.

‘Yu-rim…’

The hell that Yu-rim experienced did not make him a prosecutor, but rather turned him into a murderer. It dried up my heart and soon cracked the emotional soil, making it impossible for anything to grow.

My passion for the sword was lost and I felt sick of everything.

And… I came to hate people.

‘That’s right… that’s how the yaksha was born.’

I couldn’t bear this hell any longer.

I wanted to end everything.

As a result it failed.

– Failure… you failed…

“… shut up.”

Someone with a face that looked exactly like his muttered to him as he came ashore.

It was a fantasy that appeared after taking the medicine.

“Ugh….”

Now, it was difficult to stay sane without medicine. It seemed as if Shin Yura’s very existence would collapse.

Swoosh…

Swoosh…

I walked while soaked in water.

Then the rain fell as if the sky had a hole, and it felt as if it was washing away the salt.

“Hmm…”

When I applied a lot of force to the cut section, the bleeding stopped completely. The power to finely tune muscles.

The medicine of the faces also had an effect on strengthening the body. It is a power worthy of a machine for murder.

“… They’re all dead.”

Now that the faces are gone, we are now aimless machines. If this continues, dust will accumulate and it will no longer move.

‘no! I’m not done!’

After so many years that it was meaningless to say that it had been a long time, when I found traces of snowfall, a shiver ran through my body.

He thought that he could end all the pain that Shinyu felt.

But no.

It’s all because of Yurim.

Everything went wrong because of her.

– That’s right, it’s her. The Yaksha ruined everything.

“Shut up!”

The sound of fantasy chattering was still there.

It was confusing.

‘Those eyes…’

Her eyes hidden behind the Yaksha mask.

– If you fall… you can’t….

The calloused hands that desperately caught her as she fell off the cliff,

and her tears.

The water droplets falling from her mask were definitely not rain.

It was warm.

Those water droplets contained warmth.

The image of Yu-rim, who trained under Yu-hyeon when he was young, remained.

– Shinyu is good. I also want to become strong like Shinyu.

– why? Are you still strong enough?

– No, I will become stronger. There is something I must get back.

Unlike herself, who was drunk on power and had no purpose or will, she moved toward a clear goal.

– Snowfall is my most precious friend.

– … okay? Where are you now?

She smiled sadly.

– Far away, very far away now. But I will definitely find it!

Yurim gave a vague answer when asked what she planned to do after finding it.

When I brought up that memory, endless laughter flowed from my mouth.

It’s a laugh that is refreshing yet filled with longing

.

– You have to kill her.

The illusion urged him not to forget.

“Aaaah! “Please be quiet!”

Huuuuung-!

Huuuuuuung-!

With one of his arms cut off and his balance distorted, he danced a sword dance in the rain.

Because I no longer want to hear that twisted voice telling me to kill Yu-rim.

Crumbling!

He danced the sword dance with only one arm.

A one-armed person with a different meaning from Xinjiang.

He became more perfect, but he became uglier.

Phew…

The knife got stuck in the wet sand.

“Haa… haa….”

I collapsed from exhaustion and didn’t want to get up.

If I die like this, wouldn’t that be a bad ending?

– I will cut you down.

An eerie voice.

The swordsmanship that Yuhyeon showed him.

Those words and that action never left my head.

All of Yuhyeon’s powers, which were dismissed as illusions, were real.

In a world of fakes, he truly left something to him.

As if it was stuck in my heart and putting heavy anguish in my head.

Inspiration was planted.

“Ah ah ah ah ah!”

I grabbed my sword again.

Whoa!

Huuuuuung-!

In the sparkling world of swords, he realized something. A fleeting flash of inspiration.

As he was devastated, the last remaining talent given to him by heaven took hold of it.

Ssssssss…

Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssb…

His sword gradually improved.

“I will… do what I must… do.”

* * *

Yoohyeon was buried.

And then I got up straight away and started walking casually.

“where should we go.”

“Well… anywhere is fine. “You choose.”

“… me again?”

“huh.”

Yurim, who took off her mask, walked around the continent with Kang Seol’s arms crossed.

They were good anywhere.

There was no place for them in a world where everything was a lie.

It was each other.

Kugugugugugung…

Even as we crossed the continent, the ground cried.

People created by illusions said that Heaven was angry and tried to hold ancestral rites or solve the problem on their own.

Kang Seol and Yu Rim ignored everything and left.

Finally, they made their own home at the foot of a mountain in the north.

They continued to have lucid dreams.

I clearly knew where this place was and why it was in my dream.

Still, I plan to live in a dream for the time being.

puck-!

“ouch!”

A snowball flew at Yurim’s head and hit it, shattering it.

Winter has come.

A year has already passed since that incident.

“are you okay?”

“It’s okay… yay!”

Wow!

“evil! “Did you put ice in it?”

“When throwing something, keep in mind the characteristics of the object and don’t put too much force on your shoulder…” “

… You put ice in it, right?”

“Hehehe… then shall we stop having a snowball fight?”

“Yaaaaaa!”

“Aaaah! It’s a monster! Someone save me! A monster has appeared! “Neighborhood people!”

“We’re the only ones living in the neighborhood!”

For some reason, Yurim and Kangseol laughed more than before. Every moment was new.

She and Kang Seol haven’t cut their hair since losing Yuhyeon.

“Shouldn’t you stick a carrot on your nose?”

“to? “Wasn’t it a button?”

“I thought it was a carrot.”

“Button! “I learned it was a button.”

“… Should I put them both together?”

“OK.”

The snowman they made together had a button and a carrot attached to its nose.

“Ugh… It’s cold. Let’s go in quickly.”

“I knew that would happen, so I lit a fire in advance.”

“also! Seol is the best!”

“Hehehe… again.”

“It’s the best! snowfall!”

“This is strangely rewarding.”

Sigh…

According to the rumors, people are disappearing more frequently.

Since Kangseol and Yurim live in the mountains, people from Geonnut village who sometimes come to get firewood would tell them to be careful.

What you had to watch out for wasn’t snowfall and driftwood.

Because they won’t go away.

Because it is one of the few truths in a world of lies.

“Uhm….”

Yu-rim fell asleep on Kang-seol’s lap, covered with a blanket.

I often fell asleep like this.

‘Because I can’t sleep well…’

We dream within dreams.

She mainly had nightmares.

“Ugh… Ugh….”

I don’t know what happened in the dream, but she cried often. I tried waking him up a few times, but he said he thought it would be better if I didn’t wake him up so he could at least sleep.

He said that he would have the same nightmare if he went back to sleep anyway.

Sigh…

I placed a pillow for her to lean on instead of her lap.

Happy memories were accumulated, but destruction came closer by the minute.

Snowfall prepared to face destruction.

We got one step closer to the essence of darkness, and we explored the human body to the point that even Aggras was embarrassed.

Because it was clear that there were still more possibilities left in the blood of the beginning.

There must be a way to deal with Shinyu.

Yu-rim stood up without a word, looked at Kang-seol’s back as she was engrossed in training, and then disappeared.

Yurim also practiced to prevent his body from becoming dull.

They had to find the light before destruction came.

Cracking…

crackling…

As time passed, anxiety piled up along with the memories.

“Happy birthday, Seol-ah.”

“… ah.”

Twenty-four.

Although Kang Seol couldn’t remember exactly when he entered the dream, he never forgot that he and Yu Rim had been together since they were 8 years old.

But now they have reached the age of twenty-four.

“thank you. Has it already happened like that?”

“Hehe… what are you thinking about these days?”

“It’s just… something like this…”

“… you know, I want you to hear it.”

“what?”

Yurim laughed bitterly.

When she smiled, the world covered in snow seemed to melt.

“How have you been living and what has happened to you?”

“Isn’t that who I am here?”

“doesn’t care. I’m ready to like you out there too.”

“… really.”

“… let me hear it. talk.”

Kangseol chattered while stroking the head of Yurim, who was lying on her lap.

Because she wanted to, she told me everything she experienced and the emotions she felt at that time.

“… I see. “So much has happened.”

When I finished the story, Yurim was asleep.

He even made a soft snoring sound, as if he hadn’t had a nightmare for the first time in a long time.

An ordinary winter day passed.

As the winter of that year passed, the collapse of the world accelerated.

It was natural.

‘The memory of the Yasha world… is already over.’

Yurim has already become a yaksha after the faces and veil disappear. Of course, her memory should have ended already.

At this point, it is a world that has been forced together.

There are people whose strength has run out.

People who are stiff and unresponsive, as if frozen.

The same was true for animals and plants.

“…isn’t it tough?”

“huh? “Ai… you’re so shy.”

“… Does this hurt?”

“Slight… Off?”

“I can’t eat this. “I’ll find something else.”

“It’s snowing…”

“It’s okay. “I’ll be back soon.”

Twenty-five.

“Happy birthday Seol-ah!”

“huh! thank you!”

I was especially affectionate and especially grateful.

In a world where everything was collapsing, we were the only ones who were okay. No, actually it wasn’t like that.

We too were falling apart.

“Kill me… kill me Seol….”

“….”

“If only I suffer for a moment, everyone will be at ease. I am a Yacha! “You already know!”

“Yurim.”

“Please don’t call me Yurim! I am Yacha….”

Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…?

Kang Seol hugged her without realizing it.

“Ugh… Ugh… It’s painful, Seol.”

“are you okay. “I am next to you.”

After stopping crying, Yu-rim leaned next to Kang-seol and asked a question.

“You know… can I ask you something?”

“… what?”

“In the end, it’s your choice.”

“… Wouldn’t it be better to listen to it later?”

“Prepare your heart.”

“Then…”

Kang Seol folded his hand into Yu Rim’s hand.

“Yurim, I have always chosen to come this far. “All the way.”

“….”

“I was confident that I made the right choice every time. “Because I tried.”

And shook his head.

“But I’m sure about this one. No matter what choice I make, I will regret it for the rest of my life. So…”

He grinned again.

“It’s my choice not to choose.”

“… Stupid Xinyu will be so angry.”

“I’m not afraid of it.”

“lie.”

“Are you a little nervous?”

Yurim muttered.

“You will lose… Shinyu is stronger than anyone else.”

“I’ve always been fighting something. It was always a dangerous opponent. And yet… I’m not as confident as Shin-yu. But this time I’m not fighting to win.”

The eyes towards Yurim did not waver.

Just like Yoohyeon in life.

“We’re fighting to protect it.”

Yurim hugged him and cried silently.

Snowfall and Yurim burned like candles.

Like a candle that burns the last of the wick and eventually sees the end of the wax.

I struggled to prepare for the coming destruction in order to make more memories.

The moment of choice that approaches death.

“happy birthday!”

Twenty-six.

“…is it already your birthday again?”

Twenty-seven.

Just like that, winter has come again.

Winter came, winter came again, and then another winter came.

“That’s it… That’s it!”

Around that time, Snowfall made a big discovery.

He realized that something could be achieved by fusing the original blood and the source of darkness.

It seemed that the fight with Shinyu might not be so one-sided.

Hehehe…

Just like that, winter has come again.

Snowfall welcomed a visitor on her 28th birthday.

Hehehe…

There was a blizzard.

“… So, is it winter?”

Snowfall wiping the snow-covered yard.

From a distance, someone’s figure appeared blurry.

Kangseol carefully put away the rain, changed his clothes, and came out.

Phew…

Phew…

A man with a frozen beard.

A one-armed coat with no decoration.

A broken man moving in a static world.

“… Come on.”

“It’s been a while since I had a snowfall. “You were waiting for me.”

“huh.”

“….”

The two stood in silence.

“It looks cold. Would you like some tea?”

Shinyu shakes his head.

“… No, let’s start right away.”

it snowed.

And then I saw Shinyu’s eyes.

“Did you… stop taking the medicine?”

Sigh…

clear eyes.

It was a familiar divine feeling that Kang Seol knew.

“Thanks to Master and Yurim.”

“Then…”

– Kill her…

Shinyu lied.

He still had visions.

It’s just that now I’ve learned not to listen to it.

“Still, nothing has changed. “Kill Yurim.”

“….”

“Now it’s time to choose. Snowfall, what is your choice?”

“….”

Kang Seol said, closing his eyes.

“Protecting Confucian forests.”

That was decided from the beginning.

Fate doesn’t give you a choice.

And then the girl caught up in that fate comes on stage.

Sabak…

Sabak…

“… Yurim?”

“Yurim!”

Yurim walked over.

To the side of snowfall and snowfall.

“Yurim… what are you doing….”

“Is that the path you chose? Yurim?”

“… huh.”

Yurim’s face was covered with a mask.

A strangely smiling mask.

Yasha’s mask, called the cursed mask.

No matter how far the bizarre mask was thrown, it eventually returned to Yurim’s side.

But I haven’t used it even once since that day.

“Yurim! “Take off your mask!”

Yu-rim shakes her head at Kang-seol’s words.

“I wrote this of my own will.”

“… what?”

Yurim looked at Shinyu and said.

“Shin Yu, I put on my mask again.”

“… Because you are a yaksha?”

“… To protect something precious.”

The sword left by Yuhyeon.

She placed her hand on the scabbard.

It seemed to empower her.

“It’s a mask that has always brought me pain, but this is my choice.”

Yurim said, putting her hand on the sheath of the sword.

“If you’re going to take something from me… give it everything.”

“….”

“Otherwise, everything will be taken from you.”

“Did you choose Yasha?”

A path chosen by oneself.

She smiles while wearing a mask.

“Even when I wear a mask, I’m still Yurim.”

The mask’s smile no longer seemed bizarre.

Sereung-