Chapter 539
An explosion rang out on the field of snow .
Yu Jung-Hyeok swung the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] and smacked away the 'Hounds Chasing After the Abyss', before climbing on the roof of the subway train .
That explosion just now, it sounded suspicious . Did something happen inside the train?
[Dammit! There are just too many!]
The Abyssal Black Flame Dragon fighting off the Hounds blew his top in anger . There didn't seem to be an end to these black hounds rushing in at them from all sides .
The Great Sage continuously throwing down lightning bolts to scorch the hounds could only mutter on in an exhausted voice . [… . I don't want to admit this, but I'm still ways off from comparing against the people from 999th turn . ]
Yet another explosion noise went off from inside the subway . Yu Jung-Hyeok reflexively turned his head in that direction . What could those be? From the front car of the train, bits and pieces of what resembled Fables began leaking out .
It was also right then that some things were spat out of the hole on the train along with the loud 'Ku-gugugu!' noise .
Uriel freaked out and shouted at him . [Yu Jung-Hyeok! Dodge it!]
Right next second, hounds being ejected from the train blanketed Yu Jung-Hyeok like a black cloud .
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Pah-susu . . . .
Black bits scattered about . With the comma-shaped hole as the centre, the door before their eyes was disappearing .
Han Su-Yeong pushed herself off the floor and looked to the front . Letters were strewn about near the cabin door leading to the 3807 train car .
⸢I also⸥
⸢With you all⸥
The moment she saw those words that couldn't yet become sentences, Han Su-Yeong realised just what knocked on the door from the other side . They were Fables – very small fragments of Kim Dok-Ja . Her eyes chased after the line of fallen fragments . The closer she got to the centre of the cabin, the greater the number of Fable fragments fallen on the floor .
⸢Kim Dok-Ja was there . ⸥
Kim Dok-Ja's body, now as small as a young child, was floating up in the middle of the cabin . His eyes were closed, and he seemed unconscious . Rays of entrancing light were being emitted by his figure that continued to shed blinding Fable fragments . These fragments went through the subway's windows and drifted off to the destination unknown .
"Ah . . . . ?"
Kim Dok-Ja's Avatar next to Han Su-Yeong gasped out . His eyes were trembling as if he was shocked . Then, he began approaching the young Kim Dok-Ja .
"Ah . . . Ah, I'm . . . . . "
The moment he said that, a powerful suction force began pulling him in . Some kind of power was summoning him back . The Avatar's body began breaking down bit by bit . Those broken bits were then sucked into the main body .
His gaze looking back met Han Su-Yeong's . She reached out unbeknownst even to herself .
"Grab him!"
However, her hand couldn't touch him . The rate of the Avatar breaking down and getting sucked in grew faster . The bits of fragments from the Avatar brushed past her hand – some words were caught in Han Su-Yeong's fingers .
⸢I'm sorry⸥
Just what was he sorry about? Kim Dok-Ja's Avatar scattering away like an apparition emitted bright light as he got sucked into the main body . However, despite it absorbing all of the Avatar's Fables, Kim Dok-Ja's body didn't grow back up again . No, the amount of Fables flooding out from him increased, instead .
"Kim Dok-Ja!!"
Han Su-Yeong instinctively realised it . They needed to stop that . Otherwise, they would lose him forever .
Her muscles tightly wound up released like a spring . And so, just as Han Su-Yeong tried to approach Kim Dok-Ja floating in the air . . .
Kwa-aaaaaaah!
⸢Y o u c ant go fu rth er⸥
Accompanied by a loud explosion noise, powerful gusts of wind suddenly blew in and something exploded out from Kim Dok-Ja's body . His Fables were overflowing wildly . Sentences flooding out like black tides blanketed the entirety of the cabin and swallowed Han Su-Yeong up .
"Everyone, be careful!"
She was forced back mercilessly along with sensations of her skin being swept away . Kim Dok-Ja was getting further away . She urgently looked around, but there was not a thing she could grab onto . Even though she unleashed the Status of a Constellation and borrowed the powers of Great Fables, she had no method to defend against this surging torrent .
"Kim Dok-Ja! Sto . . . . !"
Sentences escaping from Kim Dok-Ja's body scratched past her entire figure . Sentences a man used to endure his life – the despair created by one person's life . The tidal waves of letters completely blanketing every direction resembled the darkest of the darkest night .
The 'Kim Dok-Ja' she understood was merely just the tip of an iceberg . Han Su-Yeong was overwhelmed in an instant and was helplessly shoved back, unable to say anything .
It was Yu Sang-Ah who supported her back, though . "Get yourself together!"
Kim Dok-Ja's figure could be spied among the gaps of the letters .
Yi Ji-Hye shouted out . " . . . . . He's a kid?! Why did ahjussi become like that?!"
"Hyung!"
"Everyone, gather around!"
To fight against the tidal wave, the companions hurdled together . Unfortunately, even that was not enough . They were kept pushed back again and again . At this rate, not only would they be forced outside the cabin, but get ejected from the train itself sooner rather than later .
It was then, someone spread open his entire figure and stood to block the exit .
"Hu-aaaaahp! I shall support you all!"
It was Yi Hyeon-Seong .
Accompanied by "Kwa-dududuk!" noise, he activated the [Steel Transformation] . His arms and legs assimilated with the metal of the exit and caught the companions like a net . With a pained face, Yi Hyeon-Seong watched Kim Dok-Ja's Fable brushing past his body .
⸢To Yi Hyeon-Seong, Kim Dok-Ja was too difficult . ⸥
The act of understanding someone started off with admitting that you didn't know anything about that person . Yi Hyeon-Seong bit down on his lip hard enough to draw blood and shouted out . "I can only hold on for a little while! Hurry!"
Gong Pil-Du quickly summoned his Armed Fortress and supported Yi Hyeon-Seong from behind . He then shouted out . "If I help, we can endure for a bit longer! So, hurry up and rescue that fool!"
The companions looked at each other .
"Hold each other's hands, everyone!" Jeong Hui-Won grabbed onto Yi Hyeon-Seong with one hand, and extended the other . "Unleash your Fables all at once!"
That outstretched hand was held by Yi Seol-Hwa, then Shin Yu-Seung and Yi Gil-Yeong held on to her other hand . The hands of two children were then connected to Yi Ji-Hye . Persephone, as well as Yi Su-Gyeong, followed them right after .
"Kim Dok-Ja! Wake up!!"
Jang Ha-Yeong grabbed Yi Su-Gyeong's hand and cried out, while Yu Sang-Ah caught her extended hand next .
"Su-Yeong-ssi!"
The last person to grab the outstretched hand was Han Su-Yeong .
" . . . . I got you . "
[Great Fable, 'One Who Rebels Against Fate', is continuing on with its storytelling!]
The Great Fable that connected the companions as one began resisting against the vicious storm .
Like a buoy in the stormy sea, Han Su-Yeong's body helplessly rocked from side to side . She could hold on only because of her companions behind her .
The companions tightly held each other's hands within the crashing waves of the letters, as if they were trying to save a drowning man .
Jeong Hui-Won shouted towards Kim Dok-Ja, ever so faintly visible to her . "Dok-Ja-ssi! We're here! Just hold on for a little bit longer!"
The companions holding onto each other's hands were like sturdy sentences connected as one . Han Su-Yeong felt the warmth transmitted in her hand and gradually realised something .
Words existed to describe the depths of the darkness . And to console such darkness, the thing called 'story' was created .
"Kim Dok-Ja!"
The tightly-held hands, supported by the sentences shoring up other sentences . While entrusting herself to that hand, Han Su-Yeong approached Kim Dok-Ja one step at a time . Only his face could barely be seen as the rest was covered by the darkness of the letters .
⸢Wh at y o u are do ing is me aning l ess⸥
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