WE TRIED TRANSLATIONS x FLAME COMICS
Translator: ZERO_SUGAR
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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈
Chapter 597: Episode 9: Words That Cannot Be Written (3)
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What strange timing.
[Log in to the platform now and check the new round of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.]
It felt like this was the first time I'd received an update message.
I wanted to check my phone, but I didn't have the time. A bloody battle between a human and a monster was raging only a dozen meters away.
"No. What is that-"
At the sight of Huiwon's battle, Ye Hyeonu's eyes widened.
"Come to think of it, wasn't Inho Cheon originally killed by Jeong Huiwon? She awakened as the Judge of Evil then, too."
"That's right."
"Then how did Jeong Huiwon awaken this time?"
"It's a long explanation, so just watch for now."
Covered in blue blood, Huiwon had already cut off more than a third of the centipede's legs.
'Demonbane Judge.'
The Judge's attribute, which explosively increased her combat power against monsters, had infused Huiwon's Swordsmanship and was resonating through it.
Slaaash!
Every time Huiwon swung her sword, five or six centipede legs were severed at once.
She slipped out of the centipede's field of vision, cutting down only its legs with precise, swift swordsmanship. Gyeong Se-in swung her shield and shouted.
"Aaaah! Huiwon-unnie, you're the best!"
Lee Jihye, who had been idling on the landing, watched the battle in a daze.
"Wow, she's incredible..."
The awe-inspiring sight of her facing a Tier-7 Monster, and a huge one at that, all by herself.
Huiwon was displaying the kind of battle only Yu Junghyeok had been capable of. She was so focused on the fight that her thoughts rang clearly in my ears.
「I absolutely won't lose.」
The thing before Huiwon was a monster.
But in a sense, the enemy she was fighting wasn't a monster.
「Next time, for sure.」
Huiwon was fighting an imaginary enemy alone, someone who wielded a sword better than anyone she knew.
Imagining his sword, Huiwon swung hers again and again.
「I need to be faster.」
Huiwon knew it, too.
Junghyeok's sword was the essence of martial arts, forged through the time and effort of countless masters. Huiwon, as she was now, couldn't follow that trajectory.
Still, she knew where that trajectory led.
A sword created to shatter the sky of this world and bring down the stars.
Sky Splitter Sword Art.
[The character Jeong Huiwon's skill proficiency is rapidly increasing!]
Her sword was blossoming, nourished by a bitter defeat. A bluish sword aura had seeped into her Ground Rat Sword as well.
Sword Aura Art.
There was no doubt. It was still faint, but it was the Sword Aura Art used by martial arts masters.
[The Constellation Naval Warfare God is astonished by Incarnation Jeong Huiwon's talent.]
[The Constellation Goryeo's Top Swordsman has entered the channel.]
[The Constellation Goryeo's Top Swordsman watches Incarnation Jeong Huiwon with an interested gaze.]
A technique she had mastered through insight alone, without anyone's instruction or even learning a top-tier skill.
Come to think of it, Huiwon had possessed tremendous talent in the main story, too.
Could this round's Huiwon reach Junghyeok's level?
[The Daily Free Pass for comments you possess will soon disappear!]
Earlier, it had advertised the new round. Now it was even threatening me by saying my passes would disappear.
[You currently have six Daily Free Passes for comments.]
[Daily Free Passes for comments can be accumulated for up to two days and will disappear if unused within two days.]
My thoughts grew tangled. It was almost midnight when I checked the time. The passes cost a whopping three thousand coins if I bought them.
Ye Hyeonu signaled at just the right time.
"Everyone on the front line except Jeong Huiwon-ssi, fall back for a moment! We'll push the line with concentrated fire from now on!"
The fierce battle between Huiwon and the Giant Centipede had thrown the nearby Ground Rats and Grolls into disarray.
Hyeonu didn't miss the opportunity and ordered them to fire.
Dududududu!
The chaotic battlefield gained a brief respite.
Checking for a moment should be fine.
I joined the others as they moved to the rear, quickly opened my phone, and launched the platform app.
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Episode 9: Words That Cannot Be Written (3) +[24]
Episode 9: Words That Cannot Be Written (2) +[21]
Episode 9: Words That Cannot Be Written (1) +[32]
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An incredible number of rounds had been updated while I hadn't been looking. Even at a glance, there were well over forty.
How had the story progressed this far already? I hadn't even finished Emergency Defense yet.
Come to think of it, I still hadn't figured out who was writing this.
"Those in the rear, check your equipment! We'll resume deployment in five minutes!"
I didn't have much time, so I decided to check the comments on the latest round right away.
There might be useful information there.
[One Daily Free Pass has been deducted.]
[One comment from that round will be revealed at random, regardless of order.]
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―Oh
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......
Even for a free pass, this pissed me off every time.
Fortunately, I still had five passes left.
[One Daily Free Pass has been deducted.]
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―Woo
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Leaving comments that were only one character long should be illegal under South Korean law.
[One Daily Free Pass has been deducted.]
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―Yu
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Yu?
I used another pass.
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―Jung
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If the next comment I checked was "Hyeok," I might really want to die.
Tensing up, I was about to use my fifth Daily Free Pass when
[A new feature has been updated!]
A notification popped up.
[You can spend an additional 1,000 coins to view a comment with many recommendations.]
One thousand coins.
It was a little expensive, but...
At least a highly recommended comment would probably contain useful information.
[One Daily Free Pass has been deducted.]
[An additional 1,000 coins have been used.]
[You have checked the comment with the most recommendations.]
A comment immediately appeared.
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―Looks like Yu Junghyeok is going to be forced onto the Sunfish route again
Recommendations 236 / Dislikes 5
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Sunfish was Junghyeok's nickname, because he died and regressed at the drop of a hat.
My thoughts grew tangled.
Did that mean Junghyeok was going to die?
But that couldn't be right.
The Yu Junghyeok of the forty-first round I had seen was, if anything, closer to a complete bastard than a Sunfish.
In the distance, Huiwon had cut off every leg of the Giant Centipede and was landing the final blow.
"Prepare to deploy in one minute!"
It seemed the five minutes were already almost over.
After hesitating for a moment, I used my last pass.
[You have used all your Daily Free Passes.]
[An additional 1,000 coins have been used.]
[You have checked the comment with the second-most recommendations.]
Then,
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―Yu Junghyeok isn't the problem, Inho Cheon looks like he's about to die
Recommendations 189 / Dislikes 3
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A sudden unease made me look around.
Pildu was steadily firing shells, and the Ground Rat line had been completely pushed to the outskirts. Huiwon had finished off the Giant Centipede and was running toward us, stepping on Ground Rat heads.
There were no strange signs at all.
Time showed no sign of stopping, and the world hadn't turned monochrome. So...
―――!
The platform floor exploded before my eyes.
My body was hurled through the air as fragments of the floor flew out and slashed across me. With my hearing muffled, I spat out dust and pushed myself up.
My vision hadn't recovered yet, so I couldn't tell what had happened.
The man who had been beside me moments ago was being torn apart by Ground Rats, his body severed at the waist. Terrified citizens fell onto their backsides and crawled away.
The artillery position had collapsed from a single explosion.
Ground Rats had broken through the turret line and were tearing the Incarnations apart.
"Help me! Heeelp!"
Pildu's shattered turrets were visible through the dust. Both the [private property] he had been so proud of and [Armed Zone] had been destroyed.
Bleeding, Ye Hyeonu shook Pildu, who had collapsed on the ground.
"Mister! Mister!"
What had happened?
Everything had clearly been going well. Even □□ hadn't warned me.
Why?
Rumbleee.
A beast species emerged through the settling dust.
[Emergency Defense has entered a new phase.]
[An additional Tier-7 Monster has appeared!]
Giant Centipede.
It was even bigger than the one Huiwon had killed. Huiwon reached out and shouted.
"Inho-ssi!"
Another deafening explosion rang out from underground.
[An additional Tier-7 Monster has appeared!]
A monster's tail burst from the ground and struck Huiwon head-on.
I barely caught Huiwon's body as she was flung toward me.
"Huiwon-ssi."
Huiwon let out a pained breath. As [Hour of Judgement] ended, it seemed she had taken a serious blow to the back.
A middle-aged person crawling nearby shouted.
"R-run! Everyone, run!"
They stepped on my phone, which had fallen to the floor, and ran past. The platform screen I had been looking at remained on the cracked display.
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Episode 9: Words That Cannot Be Written (3) +[34]
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Comments were increasing in real time.
All I could see were the readers' comments.
I didn't know what was actually written in that text.
「"You've all thought about it at least once, haven't you? What kind of lives are those who weren't chosen by Kim Dokja living in that world?"」
In a text just over five thousand characters long, was our story being properly recorded?
How many people had died, how much they had suffered, and what stories had unfolded in this Emergency Defense that Kim Dokja had been unable to witness to the end.
Would the readers reading this chapter know any of it?
「"I believe you know as well what the life of an 'extra' is like in this world."」
They probably wouldn't.
Because their deaths weren't the story people wanted.
[The Constellation Prisoner of the Golden Headband yawns, saying he is getting bored.]
[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon wants an original Scenario solution.]
The death of a common extra couldn't draw the attention of any star.
[A Constellation that has yet to reveal their modifier watches your choice.]
The moment I stood up with Huiwon in my arms, a Ground Rat charged through the dust.
"What are you doing? Have you lost your mind?"
Sskk.
The Ground Rat was cut in half.
Jihye stood before me.
"My master told me to keep you alive."
The girl spat out the gum she had been chewing and spoke without even looking back at me, as if I were a nuisance.
The Giant Centipede that had spotted us was approaching.
"I can't take down something like that either. I can only buy time, so get it together and hurry upstairs."
Jihye was strong. She wouldn't die from something like this.
The writer of this story knew it, and so did the readers.
Jihye herself probably knew it as well.
「Then what about Inho Cheon?」
I slowly walked over and stood beside Jihye.
Jihye, who had been clearing out the approaching Ground Rats, glared at me.
"What?"
"Take care of Huiwon-ssi."
Jihye caught Huiwon without thinking, then looked at me in surprise.
Ignoring her, I started walking forward.
I kept going, driving spikes into the heads of the approaching Ground Rats.
"What?! Mister! Do you really want to die?"
Die?
"I won't."
If this had truly been a crisis that threatened my life, time would have stopped already, and the world would have turned monochrome.
Then the opening of a manuscript bearing all kinds of negative scene titles, such as "The Villain's Death," "The Villain’s Crisis," and "The Villain's End," would have unfolded before me.
That silence was therefore a single, unmistakable opening line to me.
「Inho Cheon does not die here.」
"Goddammit, wait! I'm telling you, you're really going to die!"
The platform was strewn with Ground Rat and human corpses, mixed together.
I slowly blinked as if taking a photograph.
[You narrate your own actions.]
[You have used 5 Plausibility points.]
The reason I activated the skill now wasn't to survive.
[Exclusive Skill □□ has been activated.]
It was simply because there were words I wanted to write.
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