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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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As the dust settled, a chaotic atmosphere flowed from the audience.
The camera, having regained focus, captured the scene…
Yoon Ha-rin was screaming.
Yoo Si-hwa was kneeling in front of Choi In-wook, holding onto him.
Park Min-seok was trembling with his hands.
And…
Choi In-wook was unconscious and bleeding.
“Medical team! Please come to the arena immediately!”
“Ha Ye-na! Kim Min-seo! To the arena right now!”
At the host’s call, another student beside me and I rushed towards the stage.
Upon arriving at the scene, I could tell at a glance that the situation was more serious than I thought.
I separated Yoo Si-hwa and Yoon Ha-rin, who were holding onto him, and slowly examined Choi In-wook’s condition.
I quickly took off his uniform and opened his wound.
And what caught my eye was…
How could this be…
Egeon.
A mineral that was most fatal to hunters.
This mineral, which destroyed and reversed the flow of mana, was something even the strongest hunters had to be careful of.
This mineral, which had the opposite properties of mana stones, was known to be very rare.
It was an item that could only be obtained with an extremely low probability in hidden dungeons.
High-level hidden dungeons at that.
It was absolutely not something a mere student should possess.
If left untreated in this state, Choi In-wook…
While his life wouldn’t be in danger, he wouldn’t be able to fulfill his role as a hunter.
At worst, he could become disabled.
“No…”
My true feelings naturally flowed from my mouth.
Unable to just watch the man I loved lose color in his face, I quickly concentrated mana on my fingertips.
I couldn’t bear the urge to vomit at the sight of the flowing blood.
I felt my hands trembling uncontrollably, just like that time.
Nevertheless, I quickly deployed recovery magic with the maximum output I could muster.
…You can do it, Ha Ye-na. Stay calm. Just stay calm.
However, as expected, the Egeon shards in his body began to eat away at my mana as well.
The force of its absorption was this strong even though it was only this size…!
The bleeding from his wound, which should have healed under normal circumstances, didn’t stop.
When the other emergency team student tried to touch In-wook’s wound, I hurriedly slapped her hand away.
“Ah!”
She seemed startled by my action, but I had no choice.
“Don’t touch it. You’ll be in danger too.”
In fact, I was only touching his body, keeping quite a distance from the wound area.
If handled incorrectly, she could also become disabled by that thing.
“Call an ambulance right now. We can’t handle this here.”
For now, the urgent priority was to remove the bullet as quickly as possible.
I gave her instructions in a cold voice, but my insides felt like they were burning.
Closing my eyes and concentrating, doing my best to keep his wound from opening further was the best first aid I could provide.
If I had known something like this would happen, I should have practiced a bit more…
I resented my complacent self for only training to a level similar to my previous life, thinking nothing would happen.
Tears welled up in the corners of my eyes.
But it was too late for regrets.
I didn’t know how long it would take until he could be transported to a larger facility, but for now, I couldn’t leave this spot.
And I ended up overhearing the entire conversation between Yoon Ha-rin and Yoo Si-hwa.
Yoo Si-hwa, unable to approach Choi In-wook after I arrived, turned her back and headed towards Park Min-seok.
At the spot where Park Min-seok was standing, an object resembling a tranquilizer gun was lying on the ground.
Yoo Si-hwa picked up the spear again, her face filled with murderous intent.
“…Where did you get that thing?”
With a terrified expression, he answered in a faltering voice.
“I don’t know… Someone I don’t know…”
“Answer properly!”
Yoo Si-hwa’s shout echoed throughout the arena.
“I’ll ask you one more time. Who gave this to you?”
“I don’t know…! I really don’t know…! I just did as I was told…”
He answered in a half-crying voice.
“…I see. So you don’t want to answer.”
Sharp blue strands of mana extended from Yoo Si-hwa’s fingertips.
“This is your last chance. If you don’t answer properly, you’ll never be able to walk on two legs again.”
Her expression showed that she was serious.
“I don’t know. I really don’t know. I was only told to shoot this if we were about to win the finals.”
“…You wouldn’t have just shot that for no reason. What did you receive in return for betraying and trying to hurt me?”
“…GW Corporation.”
At his words, my gaze, which had been focused on treatment, naturally turned to Yoon Ha-rin.
“I was promised a lifetime job at GW Corporation!”
Yoo Si-hwa grabbed Park Min-seok by the collar and slammed him to the ground.
“You tried to ruin someone’s life for that kind of thing?”
“Did you even know what you were shooting when you shot it?!”
“How could I know what it was?! How could I know?!”
He coughed in pain, but there was no mercy in Yoo Si-hwa’s hand.
She tried to hit him one more time, but seeing him already half-unconscious, she withdrew her mana.
“…Yoon Ha-rin.”
Unlike Yoo Si-hwa, Yoon Ha-rin couldn’t leave Choi In-wook’s side and was just watching the situation with her hands covering her mouth.
She didn’t answer Yoo Si-hwa’s call.
“…Was it you?”
“…No.”
She shook her head.
“…You say it wasn’t you? The daughter of GW Corporation’s CEO, it wasn’t your doing?”
“I said it wasn’t!”
Yoon Ha-rin yelled at Yoo Si-hwa.
One step. Two steps.
Yoo Si-hwa got closer and closer to Yoon Ha-rin.
And standing in front of Yoon Ha-rin, Yoo Si-hwa slapped her cheek so hard that her face turned.
“Ah.”
Yoon Ha-rin couldn’t resist and just touched her slapped cheek.
“…No matter how much you hated me, you shouldn’t have done something like this.”
“…Your underhanded actions. I tolerated them all, but this crossed the line.”
“Look! Look at what happened to Choi In-wook because of you!”
Yoon Ha-rin glanced at the collapsed Choi In-wook once, then looked at Yoo Si-hwa with resentful eyes.
“…Who are you to interfere?”
Yoon Ha-rin spoke in a low voice.
“You. You say you remember everything. And yet… You dare to lay your hands on Choi In-wook?”
“…Come to your senses. Yoo Si-hwa.”
“I was his first woman.”
“And he was my first man.”
“It wasn’t a relationship that someone like you could interfere with and ruin!”
The cry of Yoon Ha-rin, who seemed to be in agony, reached my ears.
…Listening to their conversation, I almost cut off the mana I was channeling into Choi In-wook’s body.
So both Yoon Ha-rin and Yoo Si-hwa.
They both had memories of their previous lives.
Then, the man in front of me now, Choi In-wook, too…
Only then did I start to understand the various attitudes he had shown me.
The pieces of memories began to find their place like a puzzle.
So that’s how it was.
That’s how it had been.
But now, I couldn’t think of anything else.
Two things immediately came to mind.
The thought that I had to somehow save the man in front of my eyes.
And hatred for the two people bickering in front of me.
It was terrible.
Did Choi In-wook have to suffer like this again because of those two?
Just what did he do wrong?
You two both abandoned Choi In-wook.
He’s the man you discarded with your own hands.
Yet even in the next life, you have to torment him?
How selfish can you be?
You two, who ruined my married life, do you feel at ease only after destroying Choi In-wook again?
I stroked the face of Choi In-wook, who had his eyes closed and was bleeding.
I told you, Choi In-wook.
A painting with a flawed sketch can’t produce a proper result.
Then, in this life, I will.
I will be your sketch.
I can’t bear to see you shattered like this twice.
In-wook.
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In the pitch-black darkness.
I couldn’t see anything, but this feeling was definitely familiar.
This place was…
[Open your eyes! Choi In-wook!]
The deep voice that had come to me in my dream on the first night after returning.
Was it the primordial spirit?
[Yeah. I opened them.]
[Is there any progress on marriage?]
Just like last time, they got straight to the point.
Is there any progress on marriage?
Well.
Suddenly, the last scene before I lost consciousness came to mind.
I was pretty sure I was hit by an Egeon bullet in my body.
Would I be okay?
The last thing I remembered was Si-hwa running towards me and Ha-rin screaming.
It was a complete mess.
[I don’t know?]
[Oh my. I specially bequeathed memories to all the women who had ties with you for your sake.]
Si-hwa was certain, and I had vaguely anticipated Ha-rin, but Ye-na too…?
This meant Ye-na also had memories.
Oh my gosh.
What I had feared was reality.
I couldn’t help but sigh at the situation.
But now, rather than that, I had to ask the primordial spirit the things I was curious about first.
Because there was no telling when I could contact them again.
[Why do I have to get married within 4 years?]
Why would a being like the primordial spirit be interested in my marriage?
And why, of all periods, was it this ambiguous period of 4 years?
[The time left until the extinction of humanity is 23 years.]
What…?
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Once again, like that time, their words didn’t reach me.
But there was one thing. A new fact I learned.
That the extinction of humanity was a predestined future.
In just 23 years.
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