Why don't the Knights stop it today?
Despite these rational thoughts, Kaysis was holding his swollen cheek from pain and looking stupidly at his mother, who was staring at him as if she was going to kill him.
"Oh, no!
Stop!
Don't hit my brother!"
This is not true.
There's something wrong.
But his mother's strong hand grabbed his shoulders and shook him.
As if she were telling him not to think, as if she was reminding him that this was his reality, his nightmare.
With this painful realization, Casey gradually lost his ability to think.
He was just shaking.
“You made a mistake, mom.”
“Don't call me that!”
But you are the one who gave birth to me.
Isn't it too much for you to look at me with such disgust?
What makes wizards so great that they view the Awakened, who are human like them, as if they were insects?
He restrained his desire to scream angrily.
He was afraid that if he showed a worse reaction, he would hurt Louis more.
But the scene suddenly changed in a strange way.
Moments ago, he was in the garden getting slapped, and now he was in the ballroom.
Although he realized that this sudden change was strange, he could not think clearly.
He heard his mother's sarcastic laugh again.
"Didn't you hurt the servants because you couldn't control your power?
That's why I hate you.
Magic is the great truth and true power.
Isn't it?"
No, mom, I don't think so.
But she, who did not care to hear her son’s words, said with her sparkling blue eyes:
“You are the impurity in this world.
Imagine if the Awakened and the Guides disappeared, how pure the world would be?”
So, in that world, your first child would not exist.
Would that really be a wonderful world?
He stood like a stone statue, forced to listen to his mother's harsh and painful words in his face.
He had to endure, without realizing that what was happening was the process of opening and displaying his old wounds.
The location changed to different parts of the Imperial Palace.
As if he had been repeatedly slapped by an unknown person, his stable mind suffered from constant blows.
click.
As if an invisible cracking sound could be heard.
As if a solid wall was being demolished to release the pent-up power inside it.
As if he was asking for liberation and comfort.
'No.'
Casey gritted his teeth, trying to hold on without knowing what this was.
Terrible pain spread through his body.
Not because of his mother's words, nor because of the contempt of the witches who follow her.
The pain was tearing at the ends of his hands and feet.
“It hurts.
It hurts.”
If only someone would save me.
If someone would stop this please.
His mind, which he did not know was weak, cried like a little child.
His body shrank, he covered his ears and screamed to stop.
But the world was cruel.
He didn't know how to stop.
“My son.”
His mother's voice spoke.
Something unknown, taking the form of a nightmare from his memories, whispered gently:
“You are a monster.”
This was a fact he knew well.
“That's right, it's a mental attack portal.”
Except for small, insignificant monsters, there is no boss here.
So, the important monster carrying the core, the boss, is a mental attack monster that quietly hides, luring its prey while shaking its mind and eventually swallowing it.
After I finished thinking, I got out of the rocky area and ran quickly.
A wide plain and huge flowers, this gate was familiar from my studies.
Among those flowers, I had to find the largest one.
Red flower spotted with black dots.
That's the main body, and there's definitely…
'He will be the Emperor!'
It was the strongest esper, and the esper attracted more mental attack monsters to it than guides.
As I ran until I ran out of breath, I finally discovered something.
“Flower King!”
The red flower was extending its roots like vines, holding onto something tightly.
"What is this?"
It looked like a huge blue ice statue.
“Kaysis?”
I approached and was running when I realized that there was someone trapped inside an ice crystal.
Exactly, the ice crystal that emanated a coldness that froze me upon approaching, belonged to Kaysis.
A form that protects itf, as if it were hurting itf with its strength.
'Your mental willpower is truly disgustingly amazing.'
If it were another esper, he would have become prey to this flower by now.
I felt relieved and suppressed the laughter that was about to escape me, and cautiously approached his side.
When I looked carefully, I noticed that the roots could not touch the ice for long, so they retreated, then eagerly tried again, and retreated again.
The problem is that my situation is no different from the situation of this royal flower.
“Oh my God, what should I do?”
The blue veins spread across his pale face indicated that his condition was serious.
In order to guide him, I have to touch him, but there is no way to reach the person inside this crystal.
'How do I break it?'
His tightly closed eyelids did not move.
I gritted my teeth.
But I had to do something.
“If left like this, it will explode.”
I didn't think that I looked like Duchess Ariel, and that if Casey opened his eyes and saw me that would be a problem.
I looked around, and fortunately, I saw a stone the size of which I could hold and wave with both hands.
At least, let me hold this.
I will try to do something.
She ran and grabbed the stone, then waved it forcefully at the ice crystal.
Klang!
Of course, there was no hope.
Once again, Klang!
My fingertips hurt so much.
Even I was thinking how foolish and anxious I was now acting, but I continued hitting the stone like a madman.
Clang, clang, clang!
In the end, blood dripped from my injured fingertips, but I didn't care and continued hitting.
But no miracle happened.
“Wake up!
Wake up!”
I threw the stone and knocked on the ice with my bloody hand.
“Wake up, you idiot!”
How dangerous was my decision to come here.
Any awake person would repel his companion with his ability in this way!
“Didn't you say that I am your guide?
In our world, the esper opens its eyes like ghosts when it sees its guide!”
Even if this was a different world, wouldn't the time-honored beliefs remain the same, damn it!
“Kaysis!”
But, maybe because I'm not the heroine of the original work?
The reality was harsh.
Instead of Cayces miraculously opening his eyes upon hearing my voice, I attracted the attention of the Flower King who was trying to swallow the ice.
Swish, Swish.
The roots that had abandoned the snow moved towards me.
"Wait, wait.
Why are you coming to me?
I'm a guide, I'm not delicious.
You said I'm not delicious!"
Cluck, cluck!
But she definitely sensed the fear emanating from me.
I felt my mind collapsing.
The roots approached and writhed, releasing smoke.
Foul and annoying air entered my nose.
Oh, my knees gave out.
no.
If I pass out here, you'll swallow me.
I couldn't become food for the Flower King without doing something after you came to the rescue.
But my eyelids became heavy.
Suddenly, black darkness covered my eyes.
Without the warning sound of the status window, I fell beyond consciousness.
In a distant vision, a light shone, and I was back to being a guide in South Korea again.
At that moment.
“...What was I just doing?”
I opened my eyes to a world where I forgot my name.
I raised my head at the annoying voices calling out to me.
"Hey!
You filthy bastard!"
Spitting guides surrounded me.
Among them, one of them said to me with a dirty look:
“You.
Your sloppy guidance is really spoiling the mood, but there is no choice.
Come quickly.”
What, you bastard?
I wanted to scream, but this was not the world of a novel I loved reading, but rather my living reality.
I gritted my teeth, but I had to direct him.
This was my miserable reality.
My hand was forcefully held.
And my strength was taken away.
"Ugh!
Really, every time I'm disgusted to death!
Damn!"
This feeling of my strength being forcibly taken away made me want to curse.
As I looked at that awake person's dirty look, I thought.
no.
This is not true.
I…
I know what it feels like to be awake to desire me while accepting my power.
This is not a fake feeling, but a real feeling.