"Bana darıldın sanıyordum."
"Yok," dedi George. "Yok, Lennie. Darılmadım. Hiçbir zaman darılmadım sana, şimdi de dargın değilim. Buna emin olmanı istiyorum."
Sesler yaklaşıyordu. George tabancayı kaldırdı ve sesleri dinledi.
Lennie yalvardı:
"Hemen yapalım bu işi. Küçük çiftliğimizi hemen alalım."
"Tabii, tabii. Hemen. Bu işi yapacağım. İkimiz yapacağız."
The clock tower was on the verge of completion. The boisterous laughter of the party members could be heard. Gong Pildu was dissecting something like a machine gun while Han Myungoh was testing a new prosthetic leg.
Without knowing why, Jung Heewon felt overwhelmed. In any case, the party was all gathered now. They would soon return to Earth and go through the hellish scenarios again. Even so, Jung Heewon was afraid.
Jung Heewon watched the sunset from the clock tower and recalled the words she heard in the Theatre Dungeon.
–I wish to see the novel's epilogue.
At the time, the Kim Dokja who said these words seemed very lonely.
She didn't know what he meant at the time but now she felt like she knew a bit. Now one thing was clear.
When the 'epilogue' came, Kim Dokja wouldn't be alone.
[The constellation 'Demon King of Salvation' is looking at you.]
It was a star that never appeared in the last two rounds. Then why? Yoo Joonghyuk felt like the star had been there for a long time.
Yoo Joonghyuk declared, "Get lost, Kim Dokja."
Then one of the stars in the sky really went out.
"…Kim Dokja?"
There was no answer from Kim Dokja.
Or was Wang-mu truly a match for Hikari? He must have seen and understood her effort to place herself ostentatiously beneath him. It was possible, then, that he was – humbly – allowing her to win pride of place as the more humble of the two. As soon as she realized that he might have done this, then she knew that he certainly had done it, and the victory was his.
I’m not as clever as I thought.