last choice(1)

The son-in-law is silent.

Under the sky burning with starlight, I looked at a man who had finally collapsed.

With an empty hole in his chest, the emperor collapsed as if leaning on the rubble, only letting out a light breath.

“…is this how it ends?”

He raises his head with difficulty and looks this way.

Red eyes that were powerlessly open stared at the muzzle aimed at him.

“It would be foolish to ask why now.”

“·······.”

“Yeah… that’s how it goes.”

he laughed.

The helpless laughter seemed to carry as much weight as the remorse he had uttered, and it fell heavily to the floor.

I don’t know if it’s an expression of futility or an expression of lightheartedness for no reason.

He just smiled and looked at me and said.

“It’s your victory, Yujin Kang.”

“·······.”

“In the end… it seems that the witch’s words don’t change.”

kill the witch

Having such a belief, the emperor would have been no different from me.

The demons facing me were always defeated, and the emperor was no different.

He and I will never let go of the demons we face.

Chase, analyze, and finally drive to defeat.

And, it was a fate he could not avoid after all, who chose the Witchbeast after despair.

“Isn’t that ironic?”

He said.

“As you know, I absorbed the power of the singularity and used that power to peek at other world lines.”

When he raised his hand and shone the light, the light diffusely reflected in the air formed a video.

As if representing a dying life, the video was blurry and cut off frequently, but the content was understandable.

It was reflecting ‘me’ in countless worlds.

“In any world, the last wall that blocks the demons is the existence of ‘Kang Yu-jin’. This is like an unchanging providence that does not change no matter what happens.”

The ‘I’ in the video is always unchanging.

Even if the history and time he lived in were different, he always stood in front of the witch with the same appearance.

“Judge the Witchbeast, and eventually erase it from the world. If one world fails, even in the next world. ‘You’ have definitely annihilated the Witchbeast. Just like the world’s deterrence that exists for the end of the Witchbeast.”

“·······.”

“And… that was me too.”

The existence of ‘Kang Yu-jin’ judges the witch.

And it was the same with ‘Kang Yu-jin’ who became the Witchbeast.

“Do you know why the Singularity would do such an outrageous thing by talking about ‘balance’?”

“Well.”

“It’s all because of you.”

He raised his hand and pointed at me.

“The singularity is that he wanted to manipulate the world according to his will with the device of the emperor and the adversary. He said it was a balance… but in the end, he wanted to manipulate it according to his own taste.”

The rise and fall of the world using magical beasts.

That was the ‘balance’ to deal with the world the Singularity spoke of.

“But because of you, his plan failed every time. No matter what he did, the result didn’t change.”

At that, I looked deeply into the videos he had created.

Age, life, memories… they were all different people, but in the end, their faces in front of the Witchbeast had the same eyes.

“You were the core. The biggest variable in the world, which even the singularity could not have imagined.”

Kw-kw-, he laughed.

Every time he laughed, cracks spread through his body and crumbled down, but he laughed because he was so relieved.

“So it seems that the Singularity was aiming for mutual destruction by making the same guys fight each other.

He stroked his punctured chest one last time.

“Because I lost like this…”

“·······.”

His eyes were lifted and he looked up at the sky.

It was the abyss of a dimension that was so deep and dark, but the sky burning with the flames of the torch was now shining brilliantly.

“I don’t even know if I was hoping for this.”

A car that gets lost and has broken brakes is destined to fall off a cliff.

Even if he avenges himself and kills all life, nothing will remain by his side.

It must have been destined to leave to destroy the other world as it is, or to be eliminated by the Singularity’s cunning before that.

He just met the end point of ‘I’ before that.

“therefore.”

I asked.

It was the last question to ask him.

“Did you find the answer you were looking for?”

“Did you know?

He smiled dejectedly and nodded his head.

“Yes. I found the answer.”

Neither revenge nor destruction.

In fact, it may have had nothing to do with him.

All he wanted was an answer after all.

-What made me like this?

The hunter, who had deviated from his destiny, returned a long way to find the answer.

“Kang Yoo-jin.”

And the emperor who finally found the answer spoke to me in a low voice.

“Don’t say thank you.”

“·······.”

“A villain deserves to die as a villain.”

He never denied what he had done. Didn’t even apologize.

Even if he was denied like this, he didn’t think that the path he had walked was wrong.

It’s just that my convictions were more right and stronger than his.

His body slowly crumbles away.

There was no one to protect his end, so it seemed all the more lonely.

“Your answer was by my side from the beginning. You just pretended not to know.”

“…Yes. That’s right.”

There was a person who cherished him more than anyone else, stayed by his side and gave his all.

He didn’t recognize it, but the answer he was looking for was already beside him from the beginning.

“I wish I would have known a little sooner…”

“It’s still not too late.”

“If it’s telling you to confess, get rid of it.”

I laughed at the misunderstood voice that didn’t even come true.

I lowered the revolver wrapped in the source and shook off the energy.

Among the scattered energy, a pale group of light swirled in the air and landed next to him.

“I meant to talk to you directly.”

The faint brilliance took the form of Kaya and stayed by his side.

“… Kaya?”

“Long time no see.”

Kaya’s eyes contained the emperor.

With a soft gaze that couldn’t find the slightest resentment toward him.

All she could do was hold the hand of the silent dying emperor.

It was like an expression of unchanging love for him.

“I abandoned you…”

“It’s okay because I didn’t throw it away.”

Kaya’s body holding his hand is also disintegrating.

Originally, as a source, a dead person only extended her life a little, so she cannot exist long unless she is a circle through me.

Nevertheless, Kaya chose that position.

For the dying emperor, to spend his own time.

Obviously, the reason she helped me was also because she wanted this brief encounter.

Blazing-

Estelle, who returned to her original form with the separated source, stood by her side.

Now that she has become a full-fledged Constellation, she looked at me with the burning torch in her hand.

“Are you done now?”

“no.”

Unfortunately, there is still work to be done.

“Now, we have to break this damn chain.”

“Chain…?”

At that time, light suddenly rose from the emperor’s body.

A colorful light that tried to push away the attached Kaya and swallow the emperor.

That is, the singularity that had been swallowed up by him had awakened again.

“professor···!?”

“I was waiting for you to come out.”

Even if it was swallowed by the emperor, there was no way that an existence like that would disappear.

He must have been preparing to jump out at the right time.

And when I defeat the Emperor, they must seize the opportunity and try to devour him.

-A foolish choice always brings a foolish end.

“You bastard…!”

—Now it’s your turn to be swallowed up by me.

A storm of light sweeps everywhere.

Kaya was also pushed far away, and Estelle was barely holding on.

Before that appearance, I had a hunch.

my last role.

That the last thing I’ve been thinking about is now right in front of me.

“Estel.”

So, I turned around and took her hand.

Looking into her blue eyes, I carved her image into my eyes.

We met at the first lecture, went through many incidents, and crossed that time to the present reality together.

I put my disciple, whom I was grateful for, with all of that.

“Thank you.”

“professor···!”

I pushed her and sent her flying outside the abyss, where Helios was.

Watching her disappear into the light, I was able to laugh for the last time.

“Goodbye. My disciple.”

“Professor—!!!”

Her new model becomes light and is sent to distant Helios, and now the only ones who are fine here are me and the Singularity.

I went against the light and approached the Singularity that was about to devour the Emperor.

That’s how I caught the emperor who was dragged by him.

“Kang Yujin…?”

“Get out of the way.”

He dragged him out and threw him into the far-off abyss.

Kaya would accept it, so he didn’t look back.

Because the person I need to focus on is right in front of me.

─···Kang Yoo-jin.

The light gets stronger.

The storm, which was difficult to withstand even without it, began to push me away.

As I stood in front of the rushing light, flames soared from all parts of my body that endured.

—Your existence has always hindered me.

“·······.”

-I won’t let you do the same thing this time.

He was trying to get away from me.

It must be the intention to throw me far away like this and run away to another world line.

I’ve already suffered fatal damage from using the Ring of Reincarnation, so if I run away to another world, I’m sure I won’t be able to catch up.

That’s right.

Surprisingly, it was a plan that hit the point even though it came from his stupid way of thinking.

But unfortunately.

I had no intention of letting him go like this.

“Kuh…”

walk against the light

I put strength into my creaking body and step forward like that, step by step.

The disintegrating body screamed, and every part of the body burned against the torrent of light, but it did not stop.

Originally, this would have been an unbearable force, but now the circle of reincarnation is in my hands.

Now, I could stand up to him.

—If you use the circle of reincarnation beyond that, you will die.

“Know.”

──Are you going to choose dog death!

“It’s not dog death.”

Going against the light, I saw him clearly with my own two eyes.

“Breaking the damn chain.”

My body and soul were on fire, but I gritted my teeth and endured it.

Even if you stumble and fall, you move forward without stopping.

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Just like my life has always been.

I’m moving forward

—For the balance of the world, I am needed. To keep the world from collapsing, I need my strength!

the guy shouts

The singularity was feared.

Because me is the only ‘variable’ that he can’t predict.

The light pretending to be a god was afraid of my existence.

─What do you want? I can grant you anything you wish for.

The guy shouts like a madman.

-Do you want her revived? Do you want a peaceful life? That too can be done!

“·······.”

Mary’s Resurrection…

Of course, there were times when I wished for that.

However, Maria wouldn’t want that.

What she entrusted to me is not such a future.

The hope that Maria had was the right future that I would choose, not her child.

It is not the delusion of the past, but the grasp of the future to be pursued.

For me, that was the only option from the start.

“We will not drift in the cycle of reincarnation. We will not be caught in delusion.”

no more getting lost

Because there was a true star who showed the way, not you, the star of hypocrisy.

“Because I have people to guide.”

So, I am not fooled by you.

“I… don’t stop here…!”

Reach forward.

The ring of reincarnation glows fiercely, and is wrapped brilliantly in the outstretched hand.

By weaving and weaving that power, we realize the final superpower.

Mind control, 6th stage—「transcendence」.

in all world lines.

All those people who collapsed, struggled, sometimes despaired, and sometimes stood up.

unite their wishes. contain it

Connect them together and illuminate the future.

It transcends the fate of ‘singularity’ that no one has been able to overcome.

“We decide our future.”

Fiery stretches against the storm, finally grasping the shape of the Singularity.

“Singularity.”

My eyes saw him.

“”I saw you””

give strength to your hands

With a thunderous light, the singularity was shattered.