EP.77 The Age of Loss
The tightly closed iron door opened heavily. Aji and Shay’s heads turned toward it.
Finally, after three days of confinement, he and Tyrkanjaka came out.
“bruise! bruise!”
“hey! Where the hell are you doing…!”
It was when the two strode toward the door.
Even faster than that, Tyrkanjaka squeezed through the narrow door gap and ran out in a panic. Tirkanjaka, who was looking around, saw Shay and hurried his steps.
“Shay! Shay! big deal! he!”
It was Tirkanjaka who always behaved leisurely while sitting gracefully on top of the coffin. She, the progenitor of vampires and possessing a grace worthy of her name as the Queen of Shadows, was now running with a disfigured face.
Seeing Tyrkanjaka’s unfamiliar appearance, Shay asked with a puzzled face.
“uh? What’s up, Tyrkanjaka? The coffin you always rode and that man…?”
The question was quickly and simultaneously resolved. It was because the iron door was completely opened and a large coffin and a man sitting on top of it appeared.
The instructor sits in a daze, as if he has been stunned, occupying the seat that used to be Tirkanjaka’s exclusive seat.
I was happy to see that shameless face, but I was angry again. Shay shouted at him.
“It turned out just fine! What kind of ritual did you perform? What did you write on that note mean? Come down quickly…”
“That’s not the problem, Shay!”
Tyrkanjaka grabbed Shay. It was a sudden movement that I would not have thought was her usual.
What the hell. Why is Tirkanjaka so flustered while the man just sits on the coffin in a daze?
By the time this question pops up in Shay’s head.
“He lost his memory!”
“What?”
I heard words that blew my thoughts away.
Tyrkanjaka explained everything to Shay. Tyrkanjaka also didn’t know much, so the explanation ended quickly.
After hearing the results, Shay asked dubiously.
“Is your heart really beating? That man did it?”
“Yes! It really jumped!”
“Nonsense. Even a wizard wouldn’t be able to do it, but how the hell can that man who isn’t even a wizard… really have to run again? Aren’t you mistaken?”
In a way, it was a reasonable question, but it was an act of pouring cold water on Tirkanjaka, who was feeling both the joy of having his wish come true and the worries about it at the same time.
Tyrkanjaka glared at Shay, wiping away the faint feelings of excitement that remained.
“Shall I lie to you about such an important matter? Or are you saying he tricked me into my hemostat? How can I believe it if I show you my beating heart?”
“No, I didn’t mean that. If it was so easy to just revive the heart…”
If it was easy, why the hell did it not reach it in the previous round? It was because he did not want to reveal the fact of the regression yet.
However, this made Tyrkanjaka feel even more upset.
“easy? Looking at that child now, can you say that?!”
Shay stung at Tyrkanjaka’s scream. Before Shay had time to make an excuse, Tirkanjaka pointed to him on the coffin and shouted.
“I didn’t drink a sip of water for three days. He didn’t even touch a single bite of food. After cutting off the grain, he sat motionless, quieter than a vampire in a coffin! Revives my heart at the end and loses my memory in return! You said it was easy for you to take on such a reckless thing?”
But for doing something no one else has done in 1200 years, it was easy.
Tirkanjaka’s attitude was too serious to grumble. Shay kept her mouth shut and pretended to agree.
‘But… Seeing them excited really makes my heart beat again.’
If his heart had still stopped, Tirkanjaka would have at least understood, if not agreed with Shay. Vampires with cold blood don’t get excited easily and contemplate everything one step away.
The fact that she is so excited is proof that she has regained her emotions.
‘It’s a good thing. Let’s find out how to get the man’s memory back quickly! Then it will be much easier to convince Tirkanjaka from the next playthrough. Even if he can’t regain his memory forever, you can make him your teammate next time! Anyway, finding a way to capture it is really good!’
Shay, who had completed the calculations as a regressor, was delighted.
“Congratulations anyway! Now I just need to wake him up!”
“Whoa. Shay you…”
Tirkanjaka, who was about to say something, closed his eyes and calmed down.
When the heart stopped, this process was not necessary, but now that it has been recovered, the emotions do not flow as intended.
Tirkanjaka, reminding himself of what he had gained and what he had regained, said again feeling grateful for him.
“It happened. I’m not here to argue with you. how is it. Is there any way to get his memories back?”
“Um, in my case, I tend to solve most of the problems with the Chunban-Gyeong, but…” Chunban-Gyeong, the
ultimate defense qigong that responds by inscribing specific movements into the body.
At low achievements, it is simply a reflexive counterattack against the approach of injustice, but the higher the achievement, the more its true value is displayed.
The mind tends to follow the body.
By repeating familiar movements, you can keep your mind calm and return your mind and soul to a stable state. Thanks to the celestial mirror, Shay was freed from mental attacks such as heart-stopping curses and soul-extracting.
In order to defend against mental system attacks and prevent sudden death in unconscious situations, Shay first learned the polarity of the cheonban-gyeong every round.
“…but maybe he doesn’t have that option. Even if there is, I don’t know.”
Tyrkanjaka’s expression collapsed in despair. Realizing that her expression had become very colorful, unlike a vampire, Shay thought about the note she received three days ago.
Are you saying you don’t know what that means?
While Shay rummaged through his pockets, Tirkanjaka muttered with a blank face.
“Then keep losing your memory… Oh my God, to save me…”
“Wait a minute. Tyrkanjaka. wait.”
“I really have nothing to say. I took away his future to fulfill my dream…”
“Look at this.”
“It can’t be helped… As much as I’ve taken away his whole life, I’ll have to make up for it… I’ll stay with him for the rest of his life and take care of him…
” I took it out and waved it around.
“for a moment! wait! There’s a note he left for me!”
Tyrkanjaka’s eyes turned to the note. Shay unfolded the note in front of her eyes and pointed.
“There is not much written on the note here. It’s just a story to take care of Aji and stay away from the underground armory. But the pressure marks here have other letters written on them!”
“Press marks? It is invisible to my eyes.”
“Oh, sure. Then I’ll read it to you.”
Don’t go to restaurants.
Even if my condition gets weird after it’s over, don’t touch me carelessly.
If any supplies arrive, use them on yourself.
Shay, who read the text clearly with eyes that see depth, folded the note again and said smirkingly.
“He expected that he could become weird too. look. It says even if your condition gets weird after it’s over. It must have been entrusted to me for this time.”
“…Why?”
“It says not to go to the restaurant, but not going somewhere means you have to go there. Maybe if you go to the restaurant, there will be something…”
When Shay, who was explaining while pointing to the note, suddenly raised her head, Tirkanjaka was puffing out her cheeks with a troubled face.
Shay sensed something different in Tirkanjaka’s attitude.
You should be happy if you found a clue, but why are you looking dissatisfied?
“Why did you bother to hand that note to you?”
what. Shay made a stupid sound without even realizing it. Something was going strangely.
In the meantime, Tyrkanjaka glared at Shay and complained.
“You could just hand it to me. Why make things complicated by leaving it to you across one turn. I would have been the one who saw it right away when I opened my eyes, but if I had known the contents of the note in advance, I wouldn’t have been so worried.”
“Huh?”
wait for a sec. What on earth is that attitude?
Shay was so flustered that she was speechless for a moment. In the meantime, Tirkanjaka made a sound of air escaping, then clenched his hands and slapped his palms with a look of realization.
“iced coffee. finally i know It is clear that Shayner must not go to the restaurant. I gave that note only to you to prevent you from going to the restaurant. If that’s not the case, there’s no reason to entrust it to you.”
“Uh huh?”
“Aside from that, no matter what, the only thing left outside is you, Shay. good night. I’ll take him to the restaurant. Something will come out.”
Tyrkanjaka looked like he was about to run. Shay, who had been absent-minded, spoke urgently.
“Wait, Tyrkanjaka. I’ll go too! You’re probably hard to find…”
“Are you going to break the note? be waiting If you need help, call me.”
‘No, what are you trying to follow with the contents of the note? It was written by that guy anyway, so it doesn’t matter if you break this level!’
However, Tyrkanjaka’s attitude was stubborn, and he showed a strong will to leave Shay behind no matter what. Shay was just embarrassed.
‘If I had known it would be like this, I would have gone first. I just followed the instructions on the note for no reason!’
Shay greatly blamed herself three days ago for being excessively exemplary. In the next episode, just in case, I decided that I would not follow what this man told me to do.
“Woof woof! Woof woof!”
At that time, I heard Aji’s happy barking all the way here. It was a sound full of satisfaction to hear after a few days. Shay reflexively looked in that direction.
Aji was playing with him.
He chased Aji with unfocused eyes and threw the ball. The ball rises effortlessly and then falls. When Aji liked it and went back, he stroked Aji while still maintaining an expressionless expression.
Then Aji leaned over excitedly, and the shock staggered him weakly, and he fell to the ground.
Aji barked in surprise.
“Muppymong! Whoops!”
Tyrkanjaka was terrified and hurriedly ran towards it.
“Dog dog king. Leave him alone for a while!”
“Muppymong! oh my god? oh my god?”
“Let go!”
There was an uproar. Aji barks in surprise and Tyrkanjaka doesn’t know what to do. The two of them were spinning around the fallen man.
Shay looked at him and murmured.
“It seems that the loss of memory is real… I guess it was just a joke.”
Shay, who was saying that, suddenly reflected on whether she was a little too suspicious even in the midst of this.
