chapter 15
015. As if possessed by a ghost
I fell somewhere unknown. Jicheon is all purple. Endymion moved recklessly in a far-off situation.
‘Looks like there must be a reason why you dropped me.’
Won’t it come to pick you up again if you think time has passed? Assuming that, Endymion’s expression was calm. There was no sense of tension at all.
So, ten minutes… twenty minutes… Around the time when it was meaningless to even count the minutes.
Endymion stood tall and thought.
‘Did I just throw it somewhere?’
There really is nothing. All you see is a landscape similar to what you saw on the way. The wide plains coexisted with the distant feeling that there might be an end.
‘Is it meaningful to move this way?’
The moment I thought about what it would be like to stop. Endymion looked straight ahead at the sudden presence.
“…….”
Since when? In the distance, there was the shape of a lofty tower.
‘There was nothing up until now….’
It was an extraordinary phenomenon. Endymion was bewildered, but decided to approach him first. A long time passed like that….
At last, he arrived in front of the tower and slowly raised his head.
‘High.’
It was difficult to see the top of the tower as it was obscured by the clouds that hung high in the sky. In addition, there was a huge door in the front when I looked down a little, but for some reason it felt like it was unused.
‘Is it an abandoned place?’
No, before that, why is there a tower like this here? Endymion stretched out his hand softly while feeling doubt.
Catch up——
The huge door opened easier than expected. Although it must have been quite heavy by the sound it heard, it was a smooth door that never got in the way of being pushed.
Thumb—!!!
The door stopped, as if it had been opened before long. Endymion peered through the door.
‘I can’t see anything.’
I really didn’t see anything. Even though it wasn’t very dark outside, if it was rather bright, not a single light entered the inside of the tower.
‘I have no choice but to go in and see….’
Selene would be horrified to find out. Even if she seemed to be full of curiosity, she didn’t go into such a suspicious place without any calculation.
Besides, if the target was Endymion, she would have been even more torn. She never knew if she would tie him down.
However, she is not around now. There was no one to stop Endymion. So… Endymion stepped on her foot without hesitation.
Walk in. Into the pitch-black darkness where you can’t see an inch ahead.
Dubuck – Ddubuck – Ddubuck – Ddubuck –
The sound of footsteps echoes like an echo in a wide cave. Endymion didn’t even know if I was going the right way.
Then, after she hadn’t walked far, she noticed something like a faint light.
‘What is that?’
Light in the darkness was an oasis in the desert. Of course, Endymion was not thirsty, but if there was an oasis, she wanted to visit it at least once.
As they got closer and closer, the brightness of the light became more intense, and at some point Endymion frowned at the light that made it difficult to see.
After a while, feeling that the light had disappeared, he slowly opened his eyes.
“Ah…”
All that came out of his mouth was a low exclamation.
How did this happen?
‘The sky is blue.’
The sky through the window was a bluer color than anything else. In the clear sky without a single cloud, Endymion wondered what was going on.
Sareuk-
The sleeves are flowing down. He then realized what he was wearing.
‘This… ‘
Familiar black clothes. Although the feeling of touching the skin was awkward, it was not unfamiliar. Maybe it’s because he’s never worn something like this before.
That’s right. Endymion looked at the ground in amazement and looked around him. Then, the unbelievable scenery in the hall.
‘My room?’
The room that Endymion stayed in before he was Endymion and before he crossed over to the other world.
It is no exaggeration to say that the memories of his birth and upbringing have always been with this place.
‘But why am I here now… ‘
Endymion seemed to be confused by a phenomenon that could not be explained at all. Then, all of a sudden, a knock on the door startled him.
“Bocchan. The head of the household is calling.”
“…….”
Is it home? There was only one person that came to mind when I heard that name of Endymion. He opened the door with an impatient step.
“Ah…”
“Bocchan…?”
Even this was a face engraved in a vague memory. A middle-aged man who did odd jobs here. He was a bit surprised when he opened the door without warning, but Endymion didn’t care.
“The housekeeper… Called.”
“Yes… it is.”
Endymion shut his mouth. His tightly pursed lips seemed to show signs of conflict. The middle-aged man who came to talk to him looked at him strangely, but Endymion was already immersed in his own world.
‘This is how it happened.’
It was a series of impossible situations in common sense. From falling to the other world out of nowhere, to a tower that rose like a mirage in a place where there was nothing… Until the last time I came back to the past as if I was repeating my memories.
‘Am I dreaming?’
I don’t know. It was impossible to hastily determine what kind of phenomenon this was right now.
However, Endymion had no intention of leaving this place right away.
‘Why?’
I don’t know myself, so I ask myself. Even though the answer is not far away.
“Um… Boy?”
When a middle-aged man with a strange expression called out today, Endymion finally got out of his thoughts.
“…Okay. Let’s go.”
Having come to his senses, he belatedly let go of his feet.
* * *
“…What?”
I don’t know what this sound like when I’m sleeping. When Selene asked again with a bewildered look, Hecate also explained her situation with a teary face.
“No, I originally intended to move it to the safest otherworld? But maybe the coordinates were wrong, or the movement was wrong!”
“…Where did you send it?”
Normally, she would have thrown out her double lust in a lump, but Selene spoke as calmly as possible. She did it because she already knew she couldn’t pick up spilled water.
Even so, Hecate flinched for a moment at the cool gaze that seemed to kill him.
“Uh… I don’t know. Probably an abandoned world.”
“Abandoned world?”
As a result of diligently reading her old book that Vesta had entrusted to her for the past few days, she was equipped with basic knowledge about her dimension.
“Abandoned world… A world that has already been destroyed once?”
“Yes.”
Should I say fortunate out of misfortune? Selene internally let out a sigh of relief.
Anyway, in an abandoned world, there really isn’t anything there, so nothing that could harm Endymion would happen.
However, it seemed as if Hecate was waiting for some ominous news.
“Um… But, I don’t think this is an ordinary abandoned world.”
“What is it?”
It was the sound of putting firewood into a barely extinguished fire. Selene’s eyes narrowed again. Hecate, who had done something wrong, swallowed her saliva and explained.
“Sometimes there are times when an anomaly occurs?”
“Anomalies?”
“It’s hard to explain because all sorts of phenomena happen… But there’s a wave that I feel every time it happens. With that wave, I intuit that there’s some kind of problem.”
“The point.”
“…The waves in the world where Endymion is presumed to have gone are unusual.”
Selene clenched her fists tightly. The chill in her eyes terribly increased her size. As if barely holding back her anger, she asked in a clenched voice.
“Is Endymion dangerous?”
“Yes…”
“Is that your mistake too?”
“Uh, yes…”
Hecate couldn’t bear to lift her head. She only looked at the ground like a sinner. In response, Selene struggled to suppress her urge to slap her on the back of the head.
“…Guide me first.”
“Huh…?”
“Guide me, do I have to say it twice to understand?”
Perhaps testing the limits of patience, when Hecate reacted stupidly, Selene lowered her voice and spoke again as if it were her final warning.
“Tell me where Endion is.”
“Oh, okay!”
Hecate hurriedly opened the rift. It really felt like there was no turning back after this.
‘Endymion… ‘
She hasn’t finished sorting out her feelings yet.
Nevertheless, Selene wished him well.
* * *
How long has it been since I felt this unique feeling of walking on a wooden floor? Since she crossed over to the other world, she always had to move around in her shoes, so it was an unfamiliar feeling.
Endymion follows the middle-aged man through the hallway. There was no special conversation between them.
He needed to control his confusion as it was, and the middle-aged man was originally reticent.
Soon, when we reached our destination, the middle-aged man sneaked out of the door.
“Thank you.”
Endymion told her exactly what she had once said in her memory. The middle-aged man slightly lowered his head and went back the way he came.
“…….”
After staring at the back of such a middle-aged man, Endymion set his eyes on the front of the road.
An antique door was in front of him. Whoever was on the other side, he was definitely an extrovert who was considered to be of no ordinary status.
Endymion already knew who he would face if he opened this door. So he couldn’t help but hesitate.
“…….”
However, he could not hesitate like this forever. After much thought, Endymion finally pulled the doorknob.
Kikki-
Then the door opened softly. There was no knock, but it didn’t matter. The voice I heard when I opened the door didn’t seem to care too much about it.
“Are you here?”
A soft voice greeted him. Soon, Endymion’s gaze turned towards the sound.
“…The head of the household.”
The one with the highest rank under this roof. Even if he was a blood relative, Endymion always praised him.
However, the family head didn’t want that.
“It’s sad, but what’s the head of the household?”
A word that pretends to be sad. The finely curved eyes were free of wrinkles, and the lively black hair indicated that he was young.
No matter how much you hit him, he still looks like a young man. Endymion looked at Gazoo, who was smiling softly.
“This is unacceptable. Again.”
“…….”
My mouth doesn’t come off easily. Still, Endymion struggled to open his mouth. I put the name that I couldn’t call now into his mouth again.
“Brother…”