SSS-Class Hunter is Going to Rest - Chapter 117



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Chapter 117, Final Chapter (7)
2024.06.26.

A long crack appeared in the blue space before her eyes.

As soon as the crack that she had forcibly torn apart with force became the size of her body, Suji pushed her body into it.

The familiar dizziness quickly subsided. She

regained her balance and looked around. It was a completely different space than she had imagined.

She had been in a completely bright place and entered the darkness, so she couldn’t see anything for a moment, but her eyes soon adjusted.

“… … Where is this place?”

Thump, thump, thump.

Something, the huge sound of a creature’s heart beating could be heard from somewhere.

Suji, who still couldn’t shake off the excitement of the battle, quickly looked around, thinking that she would encounter the Messiah at any moment. She

swung her scythe, clearly imagining where the Messiah’s body was. Strangely, the surroundings were eerily quiet.

It looked neat, as if she had entered some kind of building. Crystal balls were lined up along the wall, like books arranged in order on a bookshelf.

It was such a fierce battle.

When we arrived at a completely separate space where no sound could be heard, everything seemed like a dream.

[Welcome to Akasha.]

A new message appeared in the system window.

“Akasha… … ?”

[In Akasha, you can view the beginning and the end. Time. Memories. Things that should not be forgotten. Things that should flow.]

Suzy let out a small laugh without realizing it at the sound of chasing after clouds.

She could tell at a glance that it was a space created by the ‘great beings.’

They seemed to really enjoy covering up and hiding the essence with such nonsense.

“I don’t even know what you’re talking about, and I don’t need that.”

The moment Suzy said firmly, the status window appeared again.

[Viewing the user’s needs based on longing.

Searching… … 29%

Searching… … 51%

Searching… … 99%

Found a matching target.]

What do those guys know about longing that they’re talking like that.

Suji put the scythe back on her shoulder.

No matter how much she thought about it, something was definitely wrong the moment she swung the . She had intended to find the Messiah’s uncovered body and attack it, but it seemed like she had come to a completely different place.

Suji clicked her tongue and lifted the scythe once more, but she felt someone’s presence behind her.

“Jisoo.”

She slowly turned around, doubting her ears.

She had named her Suji, but she had sometimes jokingly called her Jisoo… …her mother’s voice.

That voice she had heard through mouth.

She had thought she was tired of playing with people’s memories using her mother’s memories, but this time, her mother was really standing there.

Was it an illusion? Since

there can’t be a dead person, was it a dream?

She had often had dreams. Whenever something difficult happened, she would be held in her mother’s arms and forget everything.

Was this a dream too?

Suji was speechless and just staring blankly, when her mother took a step forward and approached her first. And he hugged Soo-ji tightly with both arms.

It was warm.

Soo-ji released her arms with suspicious eyes and pushed her mother away slightly. Then she drew her mother’s eyes, nose, and mouth with her fingertips.

It was the image in her memories.

In other words, she looked exactly like her mother in the moment she remembered.

If her mother was really alive, this couldn’t have happened.

Soo-ji looked back at the crystal balls on the wall and then at her mother again.

“… … What’s going on?”

Her mother smiled brighter than ever before in her life.

“Akasha.”

“Akasha… … .”

Soo-ji’s body froze as she remembered hearing that word.

It was the moment Zero died.

“That power is from another world… … … … If you open the Akasha Box, where all things in the universe begin, you can meet it. It’s like a special privilege given to members of ‘Messiah.’”

“Is this an illusion created by 〈Messiah〉?”

A wary voice came out without her knowing.

Mom laughed and waved her hand, wondering what was so funny.

“No. Do I look like an illusion? No, in a way, it is an illusion. It is true that the Messiah manages this place.”

I couldn’t understand it even more because she admitted it so easily.

Not knowing what kind of expression to make, Soo-ji stared at her mother as if she was glaring at her mother, who smiled gently.

It was the same as when she was active under the hunter name Peneus.

Her violet eyes, her pale skin, her playful smile that sunken into her cheeks.

As Suji blankly stared, her mother smiled affectionately and grabbed Suji’s hand.

“You were fighting the Messiah, right? I was watching from here. Our daughter, you’re amazing.”

Should she push her away?

While she hesitated, a warm and longed-for warmth gathered in her hand.

“… … I don’t know what’s what, anymore.”

Her mother was the first to pull Suji into her arms, and Suji muttered as she hugged her mother back.

She missed her so much.

She knew that now was not the time to be like this, but she couldn’t escape.

“They say she wanders the nine heavens. In Korean.”

A ghost who wanders the nine heavens with a grudge.

While Suji struggled to follow the context, her mother continued to lightly stroke Suji’s hair and say.

“If you think about it, this is the nine heavens. It’s where memories are stored. So that humans don’t forget their hearts.”

“… … What are you talking about?”

“I wanted to make it clear, Suzy. The reason I didn’t write “Deviation” was because if I did, you wouldn’t be born. I thought you might misunderstand.”

Boom.

It was like being hit on the head.

It was so shocking that she even forgot what she had been trying to say that this wasn’t the time.

She broke free from her mother’s embrace.

Her mother, who looked exactly like her, was right in front of her, as if she were looking in a mirror. Even the purple hair was the same. Even her face was similar, as if it had been stamped out.

“… … Mom?”

“It was before you turned ten. That’s when I met “Deviation.”

Suzy covered her face with her hand.

If we go back ten years, the child would be gone. That’s why she never thought she wouldn’t write “Deviation.”

She couldn’t hold back her tears.

The moment I found out that her mother hadn’t written “Deviation,” what did I think? I

blamed her for not surviving.

She arbitrarily concluded that her mother didn’t write “Deviation” for her memories.

But.

But… … It wasn’t.

Her mother saved Suzy.

He had thrown everything away to save Soo-ji.

The chance to live again, the chance to build a new career as a hunter.

Soo-ji had a feeling.

Whether it was really her mother’s memories, or her mother herself, or whatever. What she was saying right now was real.

Otherwise, it was.

Because she couldn’t even guess.

She tried to cover her eyes, but tears fell between her fingers.

“I… … I’m sorry, Mom. Oh… … .”

“Oh my, this kid. What? It was my decision. I’m sorry. I couldn’t be by your side. You must have been lonely, right?”

“… … .”

With that one careful question of whether she had been lonely, the resentment she had built up towards her mother melted away in an instant.

Mom, you probably didn’t want that either.

You must have wanted to be by my side, by everyone’s side.

A soft body temperature wrapped around Soo-ji’s shoulders.

“Su-ji, we don’t have much time. I don’t want to see you regret it.”

“… … Mom.”

“I was glad we could meet again. I was lucky enough to be allowed to be stored here. And now that I’ve said everything I wanted to say to you, I have no regrets.”

“Mom?”

At those words that seemed like parting words, Suji quickly blinked away her tears.

Mom smiled faintly and shook her head.

“Now go. You came to catch the Messiah.”

The moment she tried to move her body, she had a strange premonition.

This place

“… … If I kill the Messiah, what about Mom?”

Mom’s head moved up and down this time. Her heart pounded.

“That’s right, I’ll disappear completely too.”

The tears that had barely stopped poured out again.

“… … Mom, I… … .”

“It’s okay. I was already dead. It’s okay, Jisoo. It’s okay. I love you.”

Suji felt like she could finally understand everything. This

place was the ‘Messiah’ itself. The

reason she came here when she swung her scythe was because this was the Messiah’s true body.

And the Messiah knew.

That’s how he couldn’t kill her.

It was cruel.

How could he have designed it like this?

To make it call out to the person I missed the most, so that I couldn’t finish it with my own hands… …

‘This is terrible.’

I knew it.

How much these betting thugs love to play with human emotions.

And yet, I shuddered all over again.

I remembered those who followed “Messiah.”

I thought they were stupid.

Do you believe in something like eternal life? How could that be possible?

But Priya, and Zero too.

What on earth are you basing your beliefs on so blindly? Why aren’t you afraid of death?

I understood them all belatedly.

If they had been here even once, and met someone they cherished most ,

what they were hoping for might not have been their own eternal life.

Mom watched Suzy blankly shedding tears, then raised her hand and gently shook the terminal on Suzy’s wrist to operate it.

The screen flashed upward and a live news broadcast began.