Reverse Rin(2)

One day, there was a time when I wasn’t even a Hunter yet.

Those days when I was helpless and weak, and could only run away from the demon beast.

On the day I was caught, there was a time when all I could do was sit down in front of the Witchbeast and cry and beg for mercy.

-no! As much as my brother, please…!

The little brother caught in the monster’s hand screams for help.

In front of him, I clung to the pierced skin of my stomach and slammed my head on the ground.

ask for help please don’t do that

It was just begging like vomiting blood.

And they chewed up my flesh and blood alive in front of me sobbing.

yikes- yikes-

The young boy is so helpless in front of the horror of his younger brother being reduced to a piece of meat.

Tears welled up in his eyes filled with despair, and he just went mad and screamed for the world to leave.

He was just a boy who could only do that.

“Who is that…?”

Skadi muttered in shock before the brutal devastation.

The trembling purple eyes looked at me with anxiety.

“I am.”

I answered indifferently.

“That’s my little brother.”

He pointed to the bloodstains that had been splattered on his hand.

To be precise, it was the ‘brother’. Because I’m not a person anymore

I watched the series of processes indifferently.

It’s not that I didn’t, I just didn’t think about it.

Is it because it was so long ago, or is it just dull?

I didn’t know that either.

“·······.”

But didn’t Skadi do that?

Grinding her teeth, she threw forward the gathered lightning.

Quarreung!

The thunderbolt that spread out burned the two monsters that ate his younger brother.

The one who turned to ash in an instant disappeared like dust without leaving a scream.

She patted my arm with a distorted face.

“Are you okay?”

“It’s nothing.”

20 years have passed now. It wasn’t even surprising now.

I turned my head and saw ‘me’ lying face down.

The guy looked at me with rabbit eyes, surprised by the sudden lightning strike, and passed out.

Skadi ran and treated young Kang Yu-jin, and covered him with a magic blanket.

“Didn’t you say it was a bubble world? It wouldn’t change anything.”

“…even so.”

The eyes of her caressing me as a child were full of pity.

“I find it strange that you are not angry.”

“It’s just too old for that.”

It’s been so long, now I’ve forgotten about it.

Memories and emotions have weathered over time, and now I can’t even trace their faint traces.

I no longer remember what feelings I had at that time, when I lost my family right in front of my eyes.

All that remains is endless hatred towards the Witchbeast.

Like the embers of burnt ashes, only such hatred remained and blazed in his heart.

“Then let’s go.”

“···okay.”

Skadi got up from her seat and suddenly saw bloodstains scattered on the floor.

Looking at the trail with sad eyes, she suddenly started a fire and burned it away.

It wasn’t until the smell of blood mixed with the smoky burnt smell that it disappeared, and she followed me.

“Go!”

I walked across the ruined evacuation camp and followed the strings of the contract.

Finding a crack not far away, we moved on to the next one.

“By the way, you were pretty cute when you were little, right?”

“Is that so.”

“Yeah~ Did you make a lot of girls cry when you were in school?”

Unfortunately, he didn’t have a girlfriend.

At that time, I was a saengnim who only knew about entrance exams and reading books, so I didn’t even think about dating.

“It’s a pity. It was so cute when it was soft to look at.”

Then he pokes my cheek.

Even if he frowned and glared at him, he just smiled and backed away, so he let out a sigh.

But her laughter didn’t last long.

The next space to arrive after crossing the rift was Skadi’s past.

“Is it a coincidence…?”

“I do not know.”

It was Rendire in the days when it was still intact.

In a snowy field under a clear sky, a group of snow leopards sees off a girl.

The girl cries because she doesn’t want to go.

Although she is still at an age where she misses the arms and love of her parents, they are just steadfast and strict in rejecting her child for the sake of the cause.

-You are the hope of our tribe.

-Don’t forget that you must achieve great results.

Like that, the girl had to go to the Mage Tower as if she were being sold.

Even when they saw young Skadi crying for the world to leave, her family never looked back.

“Oh, rot…”

When I looked to the side, Skadi’s expression was distorted like some kind of evil spirit.

It seemed to be a memory related to her trauma.

She let go of her anger, trembling her hands as if they were about to strike lightning.

“Ah… I’m this old and have to watch that again…!”

“I guess it’s a bad memory.”

“It would be nice then? How much trouble did I have to go through because of those nobles!”

After a few minutes of fussing, she only kicked the bottom of her eyes.

After a good 30 minutes, she finally calmed down.

“Huh…what can I do? In the end, thanks to that, I succeeded.”

She insisted on walking as if she didn’t want to stay here for another minute or second.

We held on to the strings of the contract and walked cautiously to the next crack.

And when we reached the next space, we both sighed at the same time.

“… I guess it’s on purpose, doesn’t it?”

“I guess so.”

This time, the time period related to my memory came out, and I was convinced with that.

These fragmented space-times seemed to be a structure in which only the dark days of the parties crossing the rift were selected and moved.

“Certainly Ouroboros is right. The snake is the only one capable of such a thing.”

I nodded and walked through the ruins of the city.

This was the world when I was a single hunter.

The days when there were no decent weapons, so I picked up the weapons of dead hunters or soldiers and used them.

It was a time full of courage, hunting monsters with no ability and always risking death.

-Do you want to fight or do you want to commit suicide?

– I don’t care.

One of the doctors who looked down at me from inside the collapsing barracks said that.

A body that had been crushed by sharp claws, with its bones and organs exposed.

The insides were shaken to mush, and the limbs looked like they had been ground in a grinder.

It wouldn’t be strange if he died soon, but at that time there was a potion, so there was no way he would die.

───!!

It just hurts like dying.

Since recovery through potions is accompanied by considerable pain, in a state with such a fatal wound, it feels more painful than dying.

As I was twisting and biting into the cloth, the doctor pressed me down with his body and poured the potion on me.

There was no truly barbaric treatment.

Skadi watched the scene with an angry face.

“How did you receive treatment…?”

“At that time, healers were very precious.”

It’s a long way for someone like me who has no money and no background to be healed.

I had no choice but to endure the death-like pain and survive with potions.

“Let’s go. There’s nothing good to see.”

I asked to move, but Skadi was nailed to the spot and wouldn’t move.

Then, he quickly lifted the barracks and stormed into the treatment site.

– Huh, which show?

“A passing by… hmmm. He’s a healer.”

-healer?

“Would you like to move around, please?”

Pushing the doctor away, she saw me young.

He was drenched in a cold sweat and looked at Skadi with blurry eyes.

“···It will be fine.”

Then, he gently brushed his hair and breathed magic into it.

Looking at the magic formula, it was [Recovery], a high-ranking recovery magic of the 5th circle.

It must have been difficult and cumbersome magic since she wasn’t even a major, but she healed all the wounds without showing it.

Watching the wound heal in an instant, ‘I’ fainted like that.

Skadi left the boy in the care of the doctor and returned.

“… that’s all right. Let’s go now.”

“You don’t have to do that. It’s fake anyway.”

“I just want to do it.”

Skadi replied with a helpless smile.

She gazed at the barracks gloomily, then dropped her gaze with a deep sigh.

After that, we walked for a long time without speaking.

*

cross over time

The two spent a lot of time on a trip that would have taken well over half a day.

And the history that went through in the process alternately showed the time between Kang Yu-jin and Skadi.

The biography of him who lost everything and was thrown into the battlefield, and the woman who had to be alone after being abandoned.

“I’m sure. You’re showing this on purpose.”

“·······.”

He said it calmly, but Skadi didn’t.

This is because, unlike Yujin Kang, she was not dull enough to face the memories of the past with courage.

Both had to be strong to survive, and in the end, they survived alone.

Their lives seem to be different yet the same, so we were able to measure the depth of sadness each other had and sympathize with them.

Kang Yoo-jin was resolute in front of such feelings.

I just accepted it indifferently and calmly.

But Skadi didn’t.

Each of these memories was a dagger that pierced her heart, and she suffered as she bit her lip until it bled.

“This is fake. Don’t be upset.”

Still unchanging, he soothed the agitated and troubled Skadi.

Even though he must have seen difficult memories.

Skadi’s chest was clogged up when he saw him in good shape.

It means that your heart is already broken as much as it is broken, and you can’t feel anything.

This person has already lost the right to grieve.

“If it’s okay, it shouldn’t be. If it’s okay like this… it’s not okay.”

“But it’s really okay.”

“you···.”

Skadi was speechless.

Kang Yoo-jin’s record at Centralpolis.

Skadi could be proud that the arrangement of the type did not capture even half of the history he had experienced.

This was because it was not a memory that could only be expressed in words.

“We’re almost there.”

“···Yeah.”

while time is passing by.

In his biography, his eyes gradually lose their vitality.

The aged body grew upright, but the eyes overflowing with firearms lost their luster and died.

Skadi, who watched the whole process, suddenly felt that the man named Kang Yoo-jin was very pitiful.

“This is…”

The last place to arrive through the crack was a forest covered with snow.

Somehow, the scenery resembles the winter forest of Helios.

A pair of men and women were confronting each other in a place where only the cold chill and dead silence lingered.

With the point of the sword and the muzzle pointed at each other.

They fought to kill ‘precious people’.

“That’s…”

“Maria Lawrence. My old colleague.”

Yujin Kang’s voice was still dry.

But Skadi, who heard the name ‘Maria’, couldn’t do that.

According to his records, that was the name of the lover Yujin Kang killed with her own hands.

“ah···.”

The two cannot see this way.

The barrier created by Skadi hinders the perception of people in the bubble world.

The two of them just became spectators off the stage, watching them through the wall of three.

And.

“ah···!”

Kang Yu-jin from the past, who stole Maria’s sword, Equinox, pierced Maria’s heart.

“·······.”

Beside Kang Yoo-jin, who is now calm, Skadi froze with both hands covering her mouth.

“Huh…”

A woman with a knife through her heart finally breaks down.

Tears welled up in her wide-open eyes, and she was stroking her lover’s cheek with her outstretched arm.

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Just like that, the arm drops, and the light disappears from Maria’s eyes.

The last time they couldn’t even say goodbye was short and silent.

“Turn off…”

And, ‘he’ also collapsed on the spot.

He sat down on the spot with his battered body, covered his face and sobbed.

After crossing many battlefields, he had to kill the last person who understood him with his own hands.

Skadi looked to the side.

Kang Yoo-jin of the present day was just staring at him indifferently.

Eyes that feel nothing. A face that only faces one of the many, many memories of the past.

That was the image of a person whose emotions had broken after an ordeal.

“How can you endure something like this?”

If it were me, it would have been a sadness that I could never have endured, but you are looking at your wounds so indifferently.

It was so sad, she cried.

I don’t know why he did this, but Skadi felt a strong resentment towards the Witchbeast welling up.

This is something you shouldn’t do, and it’s a memory you shouldn’t show.

What is the difference between digging through a person’s festering and rotten wounds with a knife?

And that, the witch who is the culprit behind all of this.

“Those who won’t be enough even if you chew them to death…!”

As I burst into anger, Yujin Kang, who was by my side, turned away.

Skadi panicked and hurriedly followed him.

“Hey… are you okay?”

“Fine.”

Even the question he didn’t know how many times he answered without hesitation.

“really?”

“It’s just a memory.”

Skadi looked at him with sad eyes.

I felt sorry for him who was always alone in front of a cruel fate.

If you and I had someone who would always be by our side, wouldn’t we have lived a better life?

Buried in such a psychology, she walked along Yujin Kang with her head bowed.

“It’s over now.”

It was the edge of a fragmented world.

A space in which all the time that has been passed scatters in all directions like broken glass.

There, the two gazed at the end of all nightmares.

“This?”

Kang Yoo-jin rarely expressed doubt.

That’s right, because the last sight he saw was something he couldn’t even remember.

– Contracts and exams. Earth must be sacrificed for that.

– The time of ascension has arrived.

It was a story shared by the members of Pentagram.

Without these memories, Yujin Kang fell into doubt.

contract and test. and ascension.

It’s a word that I’ve heard all of them, but I don’t remember hearing it with their mouth.

Before thinking about what it had to do with Earth, Skadi’s memories also unfolded.

-If it is not the fate of the stars, you cannot take the test of ascension. didn’t know that either

-S, Skadi, if it were not for that child, Rendire would be of no value!

-···Insect-like bastards.

Balthazar despises and Skadi is sold out by their family.

They seem to have regarded Skadi’s talent as the talent of the Constellation.

However, they did not seem to know that she was not destined for a star and could not become a constellation.

That is how Rendire perished.

Perhaps, by the calamities they have drawn.

“Trial. Contract. Ascension. We are all involved in this.”

“I see. If it’s a test of ascension… it must be a test to become a Constellation.”

“Do you know the exam process?”

Skadi shook her head.

The process of the Ascension Trial is kept in high secrecy.

No matter how great a wizard Skadi was, he didn’t even know what it was about.

“…let’s go first. First, get out of here first.”

“Yes it is.”

The end is near.

The two hurriedly stepped towards the end of the rift.

Why did Ouroboros try to show this?

It seemed to imply that the tragedy we suffered was related to the Constellations.

“…Do something useless.”

Skadi bit her lip.

It doesn’t matter if this is real.

Because my enemy will forever be headed towards the Witchbeast.

She looked at Yujin Kang with a hard expression on her face.

He was still staring indifferently ahead.

“eww···”

Even though it’s different from the self who makes the sound of pain, it’s a very different look.

Rather than looking great, Skadi felt pitiful for him, whose sadness was worn away.

Maybe that’s why.

She reached out and took Kang Yoo-jin’s hand, which was empty.

“What is it?”

“…just stay like this for a while.”

She lowered the brim of her hat as if to cover her face.

“I will not die.”

“···Yes?”

Skadi spoke resolutely to him who questioned him.

“I won’t betray anyone, and I won’t disappear after being killed by a Witchbeast.”

“I know.”

“So… uh…”

Power goes into the holding hand.

The words seemed to get stuck on the tip of my tongue and I couldn’t get them out.

“Just remember. No matter what happens, I’ll always be there.”

“Yes.”

“And···.”

The horsetail is stretched and steamed.

The hand that held it had more strength.

“You are always there too.”

“·······.”

“Because we seem to be alike.”

Then, he smiled hard and looked up at Yujin Kang.

“Then, wouldn’t it be a little easier to have a comrade who would at least understand each other?”

“···Is that so.”

He didn’t answer at length.

I didn’t know what his intentions were, but Skadi replied by not letting go of his hand.

The two walked the end of history like that.

*

Meanwhile, Abanrat’s classroom.

People gathered in the large auditorium were discussing with a murmur.

The reason is because of the phenomena that are happening right outside.

The space-time glass, which is presumed to have been caused by Ouroboros, was perfect for awakening people’s awareness.

“Did Ouroboros initiate a re-invasion?”

“But how? It’s impossible to send this much magic to the other side of the dimension, even if you are a corps commander.”

“Let’s talk constructively… This facility seems safe.”

The building built by Kang Yoo-jin is equipped with protective magic with the help of the magic tower.

The strength was so strong that even the distortion of space and time couldn’t intervene, so at least while I was here, I was guaranteed safety.

“Did you expect this?”

“Oh, how could that be? It must be a coincidence.”

Even Kang Yoo-jin would be impossible to predict the current sudden situation.

Because it was more credible to reveal that he was in fact a regressor than to predict it.

“What about our professor…”

“It’s okay. The professor is very strong, so you’ll be fine!”

Cynthia was visibly agitated, and Encia focused on soothing her from the sidelines.

It’s not that I’m not worried, but at least Ansia had a vague belief that he would somehow solve it and come back.

“You two.”

And, there was one person who came to visit them.

“Help me.”

“Yes···?”

The gray-haired Adeline declared it without hesitation.

“What do you want me to help you with?”

“I’ll open the summoning gate.”

She spoke with her eyes flashing.

I just received a call from Laniakea.

Kang Yoo-jin reached the coordinates that can be summoned now, and the summoning became possible.

So the coordinates were handed over, and the two were called to proceed with the summoning ceremony.

The activation of the summoning gate requires strong wishes and desires, but Adeline, who is not good at emotions, was still unstable.

“Help me.”

A voice full of desperation.

Hearing Adeline’s request, the two looked at each other for a while and nodded happily.

“yes!!”