Time Stop Swordsman With Romantic Concept - Chapter 31



31. Last Hope

31. Last Hope

“… ….”

Mill couldn’t help but stare at the man for a while, sitting down.

“This is the last time.”

He thought he might have noticed a loop somewhere, but he seemed to know more than he thought.

‘I’m sure. This guy has the appearance of a meteor, but at least it’s not the meteor I used to know.’

How far do you know?

Why did this change happen all of a sudden?

Mill felt that it was worth talking about, and stood up.

In a situation like this, it was important not to show embarrassment.

She brushed off her clothes and fired at her with a look that played off her usual insensitivity.

“What are you?”

“Okay. How can I explain? Who wants to save you from this horrible repetition?”

“Don’t play around.”

“I’m not kidding. My purpose is perfectly aligned with what you want, to save you.”

“What do you think I want?”

“To sever the cycle of the end that is infinitely repeating in this world and to return to normal. Right?”

“… ….”

I couldn’t answer no.

Because it was definitely the ending she had longed for.

But she didn’t think she would trust the man’s words.

She has been through so much despair.

Fate has suffered too many betrayals.

[ I will remember. ]

[ No effort. ]

[ Even if it ends like this now, there is a next time, right? Yes, let’s meet again ]

[If you earnestly wish for it, it will surely come true! ]

[ Ah. I’m going to die of annoyance, but okay. See you again. ]

It’s not once or twice that I’ve informed everyone about the loop.

They always spoke hopefully.

I remember.

I’m trying.

Next time I won’t be alone.

But in the end, she was always alone.

More than anything else, it was the most lonely and painful.

“I am also in a position where I am caught up, but anyway. My purpose is to prevent destruction and break the loop. That means that you will no longer have this nightmare and you will be able to live as a normal girl. Are you bored too? Do you want to escape somehow? I will help you. So you help me too Even if it’s just this episode.”

There was nothing wrong with that.

Being able to know everything like this and work together to overcome adversity.

How long have you been longing for a colleague whom you can sometimes depend on and sometimes depend on?

The man said he came to rescue him.

Even if you don’t say anything, you’re aware of the loop, and you’re here to break this terrible loop and get everything back to normal.

If you listen to it quietly, it was so sweet that you were moved to tears and your throat sore.

However, it was rather difficult to grab hold of it because it was such a sweet hand of salvation.

Wheat.

A commoner girl with a common name without a last name.

Her spirit, with no heroic qualities and no iron will, was worn out and was now completely pushed to its limits.

Failed, disappointed, betrayed.

Every time she crashed into a wall and fell, somewhere in her heart was broken.

Sometimes with it patched up somehow.

Sometimes it is left unattended.

Wheat tried again and broke without end.

Hope.

Faith.

Words like that moistened a broken heart as if comforting it and seemed to be the driving force for moving forward…….

In the end, she froze as it permeated through the cracks in her heart, only to break her down even faster and more thoroughly.

Even so, somehow, somehow, she held her heart and tried to hit her body against a wall that she couldn’t overcome, but in the end it was like this.

At some point, she instinctively knew what state she was in.

If you are shocked anymore.

If it breaks any further.

Now I can’t patch anymore.

Originally, the existence of herself was full in her heart.

However, the more you try to keep the original form by patching up your broken heart, the more the things inside get lost and run out as time goes by.

And now.

Now, nothing is left inside.

Somehow, the skins are only kept crookedly attached.

If even this outer shell breaks off…….

I am finished.

They are no longer human beings, but dolls.

Without being able to come up with any willpower, unable to even pee and excrete, just sit there blankly and die.

It continues without end.

In this meaningless world, it repeats itself.

Forever.

Alone.

Ending her life at the beginning of each episode was the only way she could protect her heart.

For now, as little as this small resistance, it’s my choice.

It is truly ironic that only the most extreme self-destructive actions can protect oneself.

Given that situation, it was only natural that she couldn’t believe it easily.

I swallowed those sweet words.

I grabbed that reliable-looking hand and threw it away.

If I become alone again, blocked by the wall of fate…….

Because I know that I will be completely incapacitated and eaten by this world.

‘Why… ….’

Why Now?

Why did it appear only now?

Why do you mean to hold out your hand as if it were the last rope in front of you when everything was shattered and empty?

Suspicion bites its tail.

Could this be a trap?

If all of this is a prank from a mischievous god.

If you know that you have been pushed to your limit and intend to appear as your last hope and end it completely.

I am afraid.

I am afraid to know anything more than this.

Perhaps it would be more comfortable to close your eyes, cover your ears, and attack the man.

At least he would kill me more comfortably than having to take my own life.

‘I…… I am… ….’

Her fear of her now is the same as she said that she feels her hope.

The thing I fear most is having my hopes trampled on.

If you weren’t looking at hope, you wouldn’t have been so afraid.

‘Even after doing this, I couldn’t throw it away.’

I feel so mean and pitiful about the hope that tickles in my heart that I haven’t gotten tired of yet.

Mill is more suspicious of this man wearing the mask of Meteor than anyone else in the world.

But I wanted to believe in this man more than anyone else in the world.

The only salvation.

The last rope.

Nevertheless, an existence that can most certainly lead to destruction.

I don’t want to follow, but I also didn’t want to let it go like this.

“Once again…… For me, this is the last time. There is no next We need you to end the cycle of destruction. Even this episode is good, so please cooperate.”

Asking for help this episode is not something that can be chosen lightly.

Mill answered, trying to keep his emotions as low as possible.

“It’s the last time for me too.”

Small fists that haven’t grown yet are tightly clenched.

“If I fail again, I’m sure it will be over for me. All I am left with is an endless repetition of meaningless despair.”

This is the last time I’m determined.

Her body trembled slightly.

“It would be better for me to explain in an understandable way. Who are you and how do you know everything? I will disappear from this world without hesitation if your words contain even the slightest hint of lies or if you seem to be hiding something.”

“Whoa… ….”

The man sighed and muttered.

“Okay, where should I start?”

/

Yoosung told Mill the whole truth about her.

This is the world in the game, and everything, even the fact that you are the possessor.

As she warned, she didn’t have to reveal anything she didn’t have to hide.

At least for this moment, it would be more correct to call him Seo Hyeon-seok, not Yoo-seong.

This was the idea from the beginning.

Because I knew everything about Mill’s state of mind through the story of the game.

She had to be not only her colleague to fight with her in the future, but also a helper who would cooperate with her in unspeakable matters to others.

Doesn’t Batman have a close helper who knows all the secrets?

To keep the concept perfectly, you need someone to help you with things that don’t fit the concept.

In Yooseong’s opinion, the most appropriate role for that role was wheat, a regressor who would be more eager to clear the game than anyone else in the world.

To the extent that there is no substitute.

She needs to know some truth about this world.

Also, there was no problem telling her everything.

She is a kind of metafictional character.

If Mill is chosen as the main character, she is aware of and clearly aware of the player and the world outside the game.

All playable characters are said to be the main character, but this was the reason why the community chose wheat as an artificial pearl.

She believes that if the beings chosen by fate other than herself – the playable characters – know the truth, it will interfere with her future journey, so she does not reveal the fact to anyone.

Probably this time as well.

She was the one who didn’t want to tell the empty truth more than anyone else.

That’s why she deliberately didn’t come up with a concept.

Yooseong decided to show herself to Mill as she is, and she actually put it into her actions.

She looked pretty shocked anyway, no matter how worn out she was.

“All this…… Was it just entertainment for some?”

“Well, I don’t know. Maybe it was something he made as entertainment to try to change the situation. From the moment I was called this, it was no ordinary entertainment.”

“… ….”

“How is it? Do you hear what I said as a lie?”

“No.”

Mill answered that, and her shoulders shrank.

Has there been a change of heart?

“Only one…… I will ask.”

“As much as you like.”

“Even in that entertainment, I. Were you able to get your normal life back?”

Yoosung smiled before answering the question.

It was a smile that seemed to give faith to the viewer.

“Yes. I was saved over and over again. I’ve made happy endings a hundred times over. There must be a way to end the loop. I know the way that everyone can be saved, not just you. And I will do everything in my power not to stray from it. Only then can I be saved.”

“… ….”

Complex emotions lingered in her lifeless eyes.

Then he passed meteor and said.

“I don’t fully believe it yet. We will cooperate for now, but keep in mind that we can stop at any time.”

So Mill opened the warehouse door and went out.

Yoosung felt that she was somehow cute and laughed to himself.

‘Pretending to be cool. Do you think I don’t know what’s inside you?’

[ Relationship Reward ]

! Wheat

Mill has placed its last hope on you.

Lv. 5 Can receive 1 gift

‘I’ve already decided to hang on with all my might, but what?’

If there is one word to describe the character of wheat, it would be ‘Kuljjin’.

No matter what happens, I pretend to be indifferent and not serious.

In fact, he was more earnest than anyone else.

In fact, he was hurt and suffering more than anyone else.

He often speaks and acts as if he has mastered himself and doesn’t care, as if he doesn’t care what happens.

It’s a defense mechanism to not get hurt anymore.

Normally, I don’t have a very good personality, but…….

It doesn’t look bad given how well she endured.

‘By the way, it’s a gift of the highest grade. I thought it would be level 3 or 4 at most. He must be really desperate.’

This was really quite unexpected even for a meteor.

The level 5 gift is the highest quality gacha ticket that can only be obtained when a special event occurs at the end of the game with maximum affinity.

The impact isn’t that big in the final half, as it has everything you need…….

Acquiring this in the very beginning, in a state where no incidents had occurred yet, was something that could only be described as crazy.

‘Just because you received a level 5 gift doesn’t mean that you’ve reached maximum likeability or something like that.’

Yooseong had an intuition.

A system in which gifts in the game are influenced by favorability.

Favorability from the opposite s*x means love, but that’s not the case here.

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Just looking at how I was able to get a level 2 gift from Shohei with just one sparring.

Possible because it is real, not in a game.

It is possible because everyone is not just a character in the game, but a single intelligent being acting with one will.

A relationship entwined with a string of intricate emotions that transcends crush, love, and all of that.

She could tell that something like that had been created between him and her.

When I think about it, I suddenly become curious.

Where is the spirit of the meteor that should have originally been in this body?

‘There’s no way I know that. I don’t even have to think deeply.’

Now it’s time to check out this jackpot box first and foremost.

At level 5 gifts, there is basically no loss.

Legendary runes, legend-grade equipment, legend-grade artifacts, and skills classified as hidden appear ‘based on the character that is released’.

Although the degree of usefulness is different, only rare and high-performance items come out.

Depending on what pops up here, the difficulty of the upcoming journey could have changed.

‘No matter how lucky you are, if you eat sh*t from the beginning, you’ll be able to solve it in an instant.’

Should I pray for this?

First of all, we decided to go back to the dormitory.