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Chapter 168

"One ht before Sae-Jung was askingwithin ht take, so I was unable to answer her with anything concrete

"Then, etting progressively smaller

"…Maybe" (Sae-Jin)

"…Fournow I did htly kissed her forehead

"I will coht even show up to has happened at all" (Sae-Jin)

"Liar" (Yu Sae-Jung)

"No, really" (Sae-Jin)

There was always the possibility, since the future was not set in stone I spoke to her with a light grin, and Sae-Jung returned a bit more relaxed smile of her own

"In that case, I should just select the venue and send out invitations in theBe ready and wait for htly Her petite body felt unusually pitiful and small today, for some reason I even almost broke out in tears, but so stabbed intoof the back

Unfortunately, the only thing I could do was to gently pat her back

Right noish the night would flow just a bit slower than nor the early dahen the sun hadn’t broken the navy blue darkness just yet – I Spiritualised round portal

It had been only one day, yet the sight before me perfectly fitted the description "hell on earth" to a T

Strange, s, etc, and then, there was that unidentifiable creature wriggling about within the blackall by herself

"Lots of mini portals opened up all over the planet now" (Bathory)

She took a glance ataway the tide of Monsters

"Half of those mini portals will act as doorways to another world, while the rest, well, they will beco out" (Bathory)

She spoke in a roundabout way to let me know that the time was finally up

I walked towards the portal without saying anything

The thing I had to do was exceedingly sily choked full with countless Monsters forcing their way out from the distant, unspeakably deep bottoinable amount of bravery, so I briefly wondered whether I should pour ?" (Bathory)

I slightly turned oing to act according to that plan of yours? Even if you succeed, the end of the world won’t change – the portalMonsters in this world, you know? And in case you fail, that’s even worse than a dog’s death, too" (Bathory)

"…No need for useless talk, but let s aren’t planning to juht?" (Sae-Jin)

Inside this portal, there was a ‘door’ that allowed one to go to the past, or to another world, a new dimension

"…"

Bat

hory bit her lower lip as if she had thought about thisfrom that deep deliberation was a wonderful one, the kind I really liked hearing

"I’ood" (Sae-Jin)

As if she didn’t care for rin, her eyes narrowed to a slit while she spoke

"…It’s not because you persuaded ed by these motherfckers isn’t my old homeworld anymore, anyway" (Bathory)

"It’s the correct decision" (Sae-Jin)

Now that Bathory agreed to help, there was nothing to stop rand cere, too

I transformed into the Lycan Form, and carefully observed the other side of the portal

The portal was spitting out things as if it was erupting out like a volcano These things kind of reseled around like an individual organis, but at the sa

But I needed to be brave

In order to live, this was so I just had to do

"Well, I’ of a clock would only erode my resolve, anyway

With a simple leap, I jumped down into the portal

"What the?! H, hey!! Wait a sec…" (Bathory)

I heard Bathory’s surprised voice behind h, all sounds disappeared, and I sank deeper and deeper into the gap of nothingness

(TL: Still froet the idea)

The sticky, unwelco around in the beginning; as ti at all It was as if the sensation of touch had been robbed from me

I tried to look around

I once heard that the inside of a portal resembled that of the wild, unclaimed nature, but all I saas the jet-black darkness Even the stars that blinked faintly in the distance got sed up by this all-conquering darkness

Was I looking at the vast expanse of the outer space?

Wait, didn’t the space also forot drowsy and

It was hard to tell whether I was still breathing, , or even if I was still alive or dead

Suddenly, a turbid strea rushed past me quite violently, and it shot up and up

Within this black strea beats and felt their maddened eyes on me

But thanks to them, I remembered the reason why I was here in the first place

I had to go to where this strea opposite to the direction of the flow

And then, time flowed and flowed

Was it a minute, or one hour? One day? Maybe a month, or even a whole year?

Trapped within this unexplainable ‘world’, I feared that o, the sense of self, would retard and scatter away, never to beco after, or perhaps an eternity later, a ap’ that looked like a blackhole revealed itself in the far distance

That ‘blackhole’ quivered continuously and spat out monstrous creatures nonstop

Instinctively, ued and weakened body was revitalised by the pulse of life, and it felt like e, the creatures spat out from the blackhole left the turbid strea onto me Unexpectedly, it felt very cold, and painful, too

So, I transforendary Fenrir! For the next (12) hours, the Wolf that kills gods, Fenrir…]

Suddenly, ht cleared up co onto my waist seemed as small as a speck of dust

Even the blackhole looked like a slightly big cotton candy to me

So, I sed it whole, just like that

The blackhole got crushed like a pulp and got sucked into my mouth

[An existence that can not be handled by the host has been absorbed…]

If this hat I had to do, then well, without a fanfare, I’ve done it

But then, too many of the Monsters had left towards Earth If I was to help Bathory and kill theo back as soon as possible

‘It hurts a bit, though…’

But estion? Or was I dying for good?

Unable to budge an inch, I just floated within the dark ehts One possibility I’ve been denying until now entered er exist?

It really did feel like that was the case It really was a persuasive argue

I wanted to disappear along with the cold yet burning sensation of the stars wrapping around htily withinold… but then, I couldn’t recall anything for the next 15 years after that

Maybe that was par for the course, really Before my Trait manifested, I lived a shadow-like life where I was neither alive nor dead, after all

However, the memories of the past five years were so, so vivid and real

I , met Kim Yu-Sohn, andlife interconnected by many encounters and friendships