# Chapter 121
“That’s why I fell to a position similar to yours, because I didn’t know that in advance.”
Moreover, in this cycle, that misfortune had reached its peak. It seemed the cause was that he couldn’t hold back and personally ended Lee Jaehee’s life in the previous cycle.
Jiwoon slightly furrowed his brow as if he regretted that point.
“To my position…”
In contrast, Jaehee’s pupils were trembling slightly as he looked at Jiwoon. He appeared surprised, and also seemed to be hastily organizing his thoughts.
But Jiwoon was just relaxed. After all, this would all be over soon.
“So I’m borrowing Kang Dohyun’s hands.”
Jiwoon said with a cute eye-smile.
“It seems like Choi Geonwoo can’t regress anymore, but it’s still better to end things cleanly.”
Jaehee bit his lip as if suppressing his emotions and glared at Jiwoon. Meanwhile, he struggled to move his paralyzed body somehow. But he couldn’t properly move even a single finger.
“…But why are you trying to kill me?”
So Jaehee asked Jiwoon while trying to slowly move his fingertips.
“You said you fell to my position after killing me. That the misfortune transferred to you.”
“So?”
“Then you should leave me alone, why are you trying so hard to kill me?”
“Ah, that. Are you curious about that? Why else?”
Jiwoon raised his upper body and lowered his gaze, and there was Jaehee’s hand. Jaehee’s hand, whose fingertips were trembling ever so slightly.
Jiwoon moved his foot and gently stepped on Jaehee’s hand. With a crushing sound, Jiwoon felt Jaehee’s body tremble finely in pain under the tip of his shoe, and he smiled brightly as if he liked this situation.
“…!”
But that’s when it happened. Suddenly, a high wavelength surged from behind, and a stone fragment, sharpened like a blade, quickly passed by Jiwoon’s side. It was Dohyun’s specialty, telekinesis.
Jiwoon slowly turned his head. He turned his body toward the back and looked at the person who had targeted him. He saw Kang Dohyun, who could barely move properly due to Jiwoon’s Guiding energy and had just barely managed to use his telekinetic power to attack Jiwoon.
But that was it. The stone fragment, which had been sharpened as if to kill someone, didn’t even graze a single strand of Jiwoon’s hair. The Guiding energy inside Kang Dohyun’s body wouldn’t allow that.
Jiwoon lowered his gaze and looked at Dohyun as if he found him ridiculous. Dohyun was scratching the ground with his fingernails while chewing his lips, seemingly in agony trying to resist the Guiding energy controlling his body. Blood had formed at the corners of his lips. It was a trace of his effort to regain his senses somehow.
After giving him a light glance, Jiwoon turned his gaze again to look at Jaehee. Because the current Kang Dohyun wouldn’t be able to do anything like he just did.
“You asked why I’m trying to kill you, right?”
Jiwoon said as if he would kindly explain.
“I’m doing it to correct the original story that you’ve twisted.”
Jiwoon spoke in what seemed to be a pleased tone.
“Lee Jaehee.”
After calling Jaehee affectionately, Jiwoon tilted his head slightly to the side.
“How much did you hear from Choi Geonwoo? All cycles? Or do you remember other cycles besides the previous one too?”
With his arms crossed, Jiwoon raised his right hand to rest his chin, asking Jaehee with a face that seemed genuinely curious.
“Do you remember when you were young? When you met Choi Geonwoo. Or did Choi Geonwoo tell you what it was like when you were young?”
But despite his questions, Jiwoon had no intention of waiting for Jaehee’s answers.
“…Ugh…!”
Jiwoon applied more pressure with his foot that was stepping on Jaehee’s hand and said:
“Whether you remembered or heard it from Choi Geonwoo, what does it matter? What’s important is that you know. You know too, don’t you, Lee Jaehee? That before the original story began, things changed as fate desired.”
Jiwoon, seemingly satisfied with Jaehee’s pained expression, removed his foot from Jaehee’s hand and stepped back a bit.
“What does that mean? It means the same applies after the original story ends.”
Jiwoon roughly rubbed the tip of the shoe that had stepped on Jaehee’s hand against the ground, as if wiping off something dirty.
“And that means if it’s after the original story ends, even Lee Jaehee could escape from being a villain if he plays his cards right. Right?”
That was also a thought that had occurred to Jaehee. But the problem was moving past that ending.
“But you know, right? What scene needs to play out to end the original story?”
“……”
Jaehee knew that all too well. His face contorted involuntarily.
“You died at the end of the original story.”
Jiwoon smiled while engraving each of Jaehee’s expressions in his eyes. He said as if confirming a kill:
“And Choi Geonwoo and Yoo Jiwoon lived happily ever after. That’s how it ended. You remember too, right?”
That was the original story that only Yoo Jiwoon and Lee Jaehee remembered. To reach the ending, a final climactic event, present in any novel, was needed. And the final event in this story was the death of the final villain, Lee Jaehee.
“That’s why I’m trying to kill you. Matching the original story, while I’m at it.”
After saying that, Jiwoon suddenly extended his hand backward. There was Kang Dohyun, scratching the ground with his fingernails, trying somehow to regain his senses. One corner of Jiwoon’s mouth turned up.
“…!”
In that moment, Dohyun’s eyes widened. Jiwoon had released his Guiding energy at maximum capacity.
“AAAARGH-!”
And the amount of Guiding energy was incomparable to just before. A vast amount of Guiding energy poured directly into Dohyun’s body. Jiwoon’s Guiding energy overflowed densely around them to the point where it was hard to breathe.
Simultaneously, a loud, pain-soaked groan burst from Dohyun’s mouth. His whole body convulsed severely, and his body collapsed helplessly to the floor. The Guiding energy trying to control his body at will and the wavelength trying to reject it collided severely.
But gradually, as if being consumed by the Guiding energy, the wavelength in Dohyun’s body subsided weakly.
Seeing Dohyun like this, Jaehee’s face turned white. Emotions full of worry were reflected directly on his face.
“Stop it!”
Jaehee urgently shouted toward Jiwoon.
“I said stop it! If you’re going to kill, kill me directly with your own hands! Don’t use other people!”
He yelled angrily. Nevertheless, Jiwoon’s Guiding pouring into Dohyun didn’t stop.
“…!”
Jaehee tried desperately to move his hand. But he still couldn’t properly move even a fingertip. He couldn’t unfasten the Guiding control device on his wrist either. He could only watch this situation. Jaehee’s face twisted miserably.
Jiwoon, turning his gaze to Jaehee, spoke lightly while appreciating Jaehee’s face. He unnecessarily shrugged his shoulders in an exaggerated manner.
“What to do? As much as I’d like to kill you directly with my own hands, using Kang Dohyun is a bit safer, you see.”
Oh, and. As if he had forgotten something, Jiwoon looked at Jaehee and continued:
“When the Gate opens, ability users will enter here, and I need to make it look like Kang Dohyun committed all this to them. So I have no choice but to use Kang Dohyun.”
So please understand. Jiwoon said with a smile in his eyes, as if playing an amusing prank. Jaehee gritted his teeth and glared at Jiwoon.
But Jiwoon quickly ignored such a gaze and turned to look at Dohyun behind him again. He released a bit more Guiding energy and approached him. At the same time, the smile that had been drawn on Jiwoon’s lips disappeared instantly, and a cold gaze reached Dohyun. And Jiwoon muttered quietly to himself while looking at Dohyun. In a very small voice that no one could hear.
“I can’t leave Kang Dohyun alone, who protected Lee Jaehee instead of Yoo Jiwoon.”
Behind Lee Jaehee? That’s too unpleasant for me.
So, well, just like in every cycle, I have to kill him. Again.
“Ugh, urgh…!”
Dohyun thrashed about on the floor as Jiwoon’s Guiding energy gradually invaded his body. Due to the forceful Guiding energy dominating his body and mind, Dohyun was out of his mind. The shapes in front of his eyes distorted dizzily, and the heterochromatic color gradually disappeared from his eyes.
Dohyun clenched his fist and mumbled softly.
‘…Choi… Geonwoo.’
Dohyun prayed desperately. He hoped he would come.
‘…He’ll come, if it’s Choi Geonwoo, surely…!’
Before entering the Gate, Dohyun had deliberately left traces. He had even partially destroyed the barrier forming at the Gate entrance so that the entrance would close even slightly more slowly. He thought if he could create even a little time, Geonwoo would definitely come.
