– Creak!
“Goodness, how did it come to this…!”
Her entire body was covered in burns, as if she had been zapped with electricity.
‘They said there would be no more torture…!’
Her arms and legs were riddled with old scars, showing how many times bones had been broken and healed.
And with no sign of the wounds healing, fresh blood was slowly spreading across the pristine white marble floor, making her feel dizzy.
This was a grave injury that required hospitalization immediately. Why had she rushed here?
‘No, I can’t die like this…!’
Just imagining Yoo Eun-ha dying right here made her head spin.
‘That emergency call device…’
The switch Eve had given her in case of emergencies.
– Click
“Damn, was it too late…!”
As soon as she pressed the button, Yoo Han-ra appeared with a stockpile of healing potions, as if expecting this exact situation. Before she could explain, Han-ra had already carried Eun-ha away to a warmer location.
“I apologize for the delay, Yoon Se-ah.”
“No, your quick response was…”
“I should have just broken all her bones so she couldn’t make it here…”
“……What?”
Did I just hear something I wasn’t supposed to?
“Ah, um, th-that is…!”
“No, please, take your time explaining.”
As Han-ra looked flustered, her own face reflected in her eyes.
The sigil that appears when activating the [Eye of Suggestion] was clearly visible in Han-ra’s eyes too.
“Please, explain everything slowly and clearly. What exactly happened to Eun-ha while I was here?”
Afterwards, the news Han-ra provided was…
“So that’s how it went…”
“…Tch.”
It was quite shocking.
“So you’re telling me that under the pretense of testing Eun-ha’s ability to protect me, the Guild members and yourself administered a beating? And Eve, Director Meitner, was particularly enthusiastic?”
“E-err, well, yes… Eun-ha herself asked for training help, and Guild members who usually got along with Se-ah heard the full story from the Guildmaster…”
“And so, A-rank heroes beat up a cadet who’s nowhere near their level?”
“….I will address this.”
‘Are they insane?’
No, I distinctly remember them assuring me there would be no further torture.
I nervously grabbed my phone.
‘This kind of variable is really inconvenient.’
[“Oh, Se-ah, is something wrong…?”]
“Director Eve, did you do this to Eun-ha?”
After explaining the situation to Eve over the phone…
[“Se-ah, there’s an explanation for all this…”]
“Director Eve Meitner, I’ll take this as your instruction to keep the teleportation ban on the safe house active.”
[“Please, not that…!!”]
It seemed I would truly be the only one using the safe house for a while.
“Eun-ha, come on, wake up.”
First, I should move Eun-ha to the bed. Whatever happened…
…
…
…
After escaping what seemed like endless torture, Yoo Eun-ha woke up in an unfamiliar place.
“…Where am I?”
This place was freezing cold.
– She’s awake, what should we do?
– I don’t know, should we beat her up again and knock her out?
– Didn’t someone tell us not to touch her? What should we do? Is there anyone who can use a sleeping spell?
– There is, wasn’t that someone using it right now in the safe house?
– Then we can’t call them.
– Seriously, are you suggesting using a patient who should be resting quietly in a hospital bed?
The identity of “someone cute” meant nothing to Yoo Eun-ha.
“I couldn’t…do anything…”
Repulsed by her own actions, a strong urge to strangle herself was taking control of her body…
– CRACK!!
But she managed to suppress it by slapping herself hard.
“No, there’s still…something I need to do.”
As she kept muttering to herself to “think about why I’ve reincarnated three times” while seeing her reflection in the window, she didn’t care what passersby might say.
That scene was still so vivid in her mind.
– How could any sister just stand by while her younger sibling is dying?
Those words came out of the very person she despised most, imitating someone she admired greatly.
“Hyun-ah…”
– Go, Eun-ha. Se-ah…I’ll try to stop it somehow.
Thinking of her older sister who saved her from that monster at the cost of turning to stone and shattering…
“Se-ah…sister…sniff…”
Maybe, this reincarnation wasn’t part of the three times she’d experienced before. No, she hadn’t even considered that possibility.
Because all three deaths were Yoon Se-ah’s doing…
But during those three reincarnations…was everything exactly the same as before? No, it wasn’t.
Blinded by desire for revenge, seeking out the object of her hatred, snapping the thread of reason, and cruelly torturing someone who had done nothing wrong – trying to drown them…
She needed to find Yoon Se-ah immediately, fall to her knees, and apologize. That’s all she could think about.
“…”
It was still vivid in her mind.
The sight of her sister stepping in to take Azathoth’s final blow for her, falling lifelessly with her body torn in half…
– Crack
Unaware that her hospital gown was already stained red, she continued to scratch her neck while lost in thought about that moment.
…
…
…
When Yoon Se-ah’s body was pierced by the window and split in half, Eve Meitner arrived.
“Se-ah!! Medics, use every potion you have, save her at all costs!”
Though the healers and top-tier potions managed to reattach the body that had been split in two…
“Why isn’t she waking up? Her heartbeat and magical energy flow are all normal…”
“Guildmaster, the wounds were too severe…the after-effects are still serious. We need to move her to a warm place and have her rest absolutely still…”
Seeing Yoon Se-ah’s disoriented state, which had never been seen before the reincarnation, Eve used a spell to read memories to find out what happened.
Since the only survivor remaining at the incident site was Yoo Eun-ha herself, Eve Meitner decided to read her sister’s memories through her own skill, including Yoo Eun-ha’s.
As it would be difficult to open all the many doors of memory, she quickly realized the intention to quickly find the memory door related to the incident through synchronization with herself who was at the scene, and cooperated.
While she was aware that all her deeds would be exposed in those memories, she was unable to make a normal judgment at that time.
And she also thought she might be able to examine the memories related to the person named Yoon Se-ah.
As Eve’s bright magic lit up the space and she moved into the realm where memories resided, Yoo Eun-ha couldn’t help but remain silent.
She naturally thought Yoon Se-ah was evil.
The adoptive parents who were no different from real ones, and the psychopath who took her life and Seo Ji-an’s before the reincarnation.
That was Yoo Eun-ha’s evaluation of Yoon Se-ah.
However, when she saw Yoon Se-ah’s memory world full of black doors and violet doors, thinking they only contained happy memories…
“Why are they all either black or violet…?”
Yoo Eun-ha’s entire worldview shattered.
According to what she had heard from Eve before the reincarnation at the academy, black and violet doors contained terrible memories too unpleasant to even recall.
But why were Yoon Se-ah’s memories, from someone who was the daughter of the kind Yoon Sung-ho couple who treated her warmly, not filled with happy memories but only black doors?
When Eve went through a black door, saying that it was fine to return now, Yoo Eun-ha was left alone in this space.
An overwhelming number of black and violet doors piled up, leaving her unsure which memory door to open.
Then, by accident, she grabbed the handle of a violet door and was pulled into it.
The scene Yoo Eun-ha witnessed after being engulfed by the door was…
“Ugh, UUUUUUUGH…!!”
Yoon Se-ah being horribly experimented on by her own family through various experiments that were almost torture.
She had no idea about this past.
“I…didn’t know any of this and said such things…!!”
Monster that ate her parents, the student council president who wore that mask and enjoyed killing people like a psychopathic murderer.
The kind person she considered like a father was actually a disgusting evil experimental maniac. The warm maternal figure who treated her kindly just sat in her room and looked on as the situation unfolded.
The respected older sister, driven by feelings of inferiority and loss of love and attention, drove her sister to the brink of suicide and tormented her.
The demon’s eye filled with power that Yoon Se-ah thought she had put on herself was actually an eye of a demon species forcibly inserted into her by Yoon Sung-ho.
The moment she heard the unexpected news of the death of the devil who was like a father to her, she immediately branded Yoon Se-ah as evil from the start.
“Aaah, AAHAAH…AAH!!”
But even when she didn’t want to, the memories of the violet door kept flashing by rapidly.
Suddenly, seven demons appeared. Her whole body was torn to shreds by Shina, she screamed in agony…her entire body was riddled with so many holes they couldn’t even be counted.
Even though she knew it was painful and dangerous, there was a scene where she gouged out her own eye to save Eve and had an eye from an unknown monster transplanted.
As Yoo Eun-ha was shocked by these shocking memories, it seemed this was not the end, as Yoon Se-ah’s tragic past continued to flash by…
What could be seen at the end of the violet door was…
“Yoo Hyun, please…take care of…Eun-ha. Though our blood…didn’t mix… she’s my only sister…”
The appearance of ‘Sister’ who blocked the attack sent by Seo Ji-an that was as dark and deep as something terrible, fell lifelessly with a soft thud…
Just like the moment she blocked Azathoth’s spear and fell.
“Aaaaahhhhh………UUUUUAAAAAHHHHH!!!!”
And when Yoo Eun-ha was thrown out of the door as if being kicked out…
“……You’d better not think about leaving here peacefully.”
The fiery thunder of Eve Meitner, who had gone berserk with anger, covered Yoo Eun-ha.
