- Park Seungyub
What is this? What the hell is going on?
Suddenly, screams were coming from the front of the train, and Kain-hyung started asking weird questions and then began acting crazy!
At first, he calmly went to Grandpa Mooksung and asked to borrow the gun.
“Grandpa. I want to check sothing, could you lend the gun?”
Would there be any suspicion in asking a comrade to borrow a gun?
“Going to shoot at the window or sothing? Give it a shot. But it won’t break that easily, right?”
“Hmm. Even if the Inheritance can’t be replicated, the gun can? It’ll be easier than using a knife at the very least.”
“What?”
“Grandpa, do you rember the na of your deceased grandson you ntioned before?”
“Why are you asking that all of a sudden? His na was... what was it again?”
-Bang!
Just as Grandpa Mooksung tilted his head in confusion, Kain-hyung imdiately pulled the trigger.
“…”
Soon, the train car was also filled with screams.
“K-Kain! What are you doing!”
“Tell your siblings’ nas.”
“What? Why all of a sudden—”
-Bang!
“What were the nas of the dogs you raised at ho?”
“Ahhh! Oppa! Please save —”
-Bang!
In an instant, Grandpa Mooksung, Eunsol-noona, and Songee-noona fell.
Are they dead?
This is so terrifying...
What is happening?
-Bang!
The sound of sothing being thrown and shouting.
Jinchul-hyung and Kain-hyung started fighting.
“Kain, you crazy bastard! What the hell are you—”
“You think I’m crazy? Really? Isn’t it the opposite?”
“What the hell are you talking about? Wait, are you not Kain? Are you possessed or sothing?”
-Bang!
“Of course. I’m not Han Kain. And neither are you.”
“You bastard, what kind of nonsense—”
“Do you really not know? Or are you just pretending because you don’t want to? If you really are Cha Jinchul, show the ‘Star’.”
“...”
What is this all about?
Jinchul-hyung, who was shouting re monts ago, stood like soone who had lost their mind after summoning the Star.
Sothing is wrong.
If the Star appeared, there should be a trendous wave that tickles the skin, but why was there nothing?
Kain-hyung calmly approached and stabbed Jinchul-hyung with a knife.
“Now do you get it? You already felt it, didn’t you? The ti of suffering will return soday, but for now, rest.”
“…”
One by one, the number of living people in the train car decreased.
It was terrifying.
Too terrifying.
My heart was trembling so much I couldn’t even move.
-Clunk!
The only survivor in this train car, besides , sat before .
“Are you alright? You’re covered in cold sweat.”
“...”
“Relax. You have to keep going.”
“Who are you?”
“Still don’t know? I don’t know who I am either. What’s certain is, you’re the only ‘real’ one in this car.”
“...”
“The rest are all fakes. Including . We were probably participants long ago.”
“How do you know that!”
“I’ve felt uncomfortable from the beginning. It must be because this isn’t my real body. Also, when the parrot flew by, you must have noticed. That parrot only reacted to you because you’re the only person it recognized. Then, while looking out the window, I realized sothing strange. There are mories of reforestation projects in my childhood, but reforestation projects ended decades ago, didn’t they? It couldn’t have happened during Han Kain’s childhood. Lastly, when I summoned the Grimoire, it turned out to be just a book mimicking its appearance. The only reason the fake Inheritance appeared is because the real one isn’t with .”
“...”
“Oh~ who am I really? I feel like I’m on the verge of rembering.”
“Why did you help ?”
The man laughed for a long ti at those words, then patted my head.
“You really are a fool, huh?”
After about 5 minutes, soone ca over from the front of the train car.
It was Songee-noona with Perro on her shoulder.
Seeing this, the man in front of spoke.
“Aha! You’re the ‘real’ Songee? How did you realize? Is it because of the parrot following only you? Or the bracelet?”
“...Who is real?”
“Can’t you tell at a glance? This kid is the real one!”
Songee-noona’s right arm, with ‘Diverse Perspectives,’ emitted a hazy glow.
“Relax! I’m not going to take this kid hostage. I’m not that horrible.”
“...”
“Just give a little ti. Just a bit.”
“Ti?”
“Ti to rember who the real is. I got rid of the fakes for you in advance, so can’t you give that much?”
Songee-noona approached.
Perro on her shoulder tapped my head.
Noona silently grabbed my arm and leaned against the side of the train.
“Noona, what’s going on?”
“Everyone in this car except you is a fake.”
“I heard that.”
“I was the only real one in my car. It seems we were all divided into different cars.”
After about 3 minutes, Kain-hyung… no, ‘soone’, who seed to be pondering, stood up.
“That’s it. I’ll finish it myself, so go on. By the way, you’d better hurry.”
“What do you an?”
“When the hotel uses NPCs, the ‘original personality’ never cos back to life. But I felt discomfort and incongruity as soon as it started, and while looking out the window, I realized the truth. Do you understand what that ans? After a certain ti, the fakes will all reawaken their consciousness. It’s a ti attack. Will everyone be as cooperative as ? You’d better hurry if you want to save your ‘real comrades’.”
Noona’s expression hardened instantly, and she approached the man.
The man smirked and quietly brought the gun to his head.
...What is that man’s reason for helping ?
Before pulling the trigger, the man murmured softly.
“Ah, I rember now. My na is Cha Seungjin. I have experience in the Navy Special Forces and Navy SEALs. I’m confident I can be a great help to you. Rember my na.”
-Bang!
...That man wanted a chance at resurrection in exchange for helping us.
Noona picked up the gun from his body and moved on to the next car with .
***
- Park Seungyub
As we entered the next car, the people there widened their eyes at us.
Since a version of Songee-noona and I were already in the train car, our sudden increase in numbers caused confusion amid the train car.
In the chaos, Noona raised her gun—
-Bang!
And blew off the head of the “fake Songee-noona” right in front of her!
“Everyone with an Inheritance, bring it out now!”
Even without Noona’s words, the sudden shooting from the next car made the people with Inheritance bring them out.
It took less than a second to realize who the “real” one was in this car.
-Slash!
In no ti, Ahri-noona, who grasped the situation, started killing the fakes from behind!
...It was a painful mont.
Even if they were fakes, they believed themselves to be Han Kain, Yu Songee, and Cha Jinchul, and yet… we had no choice but to kill them.
Songee-noona and Ahri-noona attacked from both ends.
In the end, they were all annihilated in no ti.
Ahri-noona picked up a gun from the body of the fake Grandpa Mooksung and approached us.
“I expected that to be the case since Perro only touched and left, but they were all fakes? That’s crazy.”
“We need to hurry!”
“Huh?”
“A fake who regained consciousness told us. Over ti, the fakes will all realize they’re fakes. What do you think they’ll do?”
“...Let’s go right now. How do we distinguish the real ones from the fakes who don’t have Inheritance?”
“Perro seems to know just by looking.”
-Click!
The gun was loaded.
“The parrot is finally proving its worth after coming out of the golden balloon. By the way, unlike Inheritance, it seems all Mooksung’s on the train have a gun. Can we take it?”
The sa process continued until the fourth car.
As soon as we crossed over, Ahri-noona and Songee-noona shot the fakes of Ahri, Songee, and Seungyub and then sent Perro flying.
Perro flew to sit on Eunsol-noona’s shoulder, and the rest were all killed.
The problem started from the fifth car.
When we entered, the fakes in the fifth car were already starting to regain their bearings.
Just a mont ago, they believed themselves to be Yu Songee, Kim Ahri, and Park Seungyub, but as their true selves started to awaken, they went berserk.
Fortunately, the real one in the fifth car was Grandpa Mooksung.
With the Blessing sealed and the fakes without Inheritance, no one could stop the lone grandpa with a gun.
When we arrived, Grandpa was standing amidst seven bodies with a hollow expression.
Even as Perro plucked his hair, Grandpa just stood there.
The real one in the sixth car was Jinchul-hyung.
Even though he had an Inheritance, summoning the Star without his Blessing was tantamount to suicide.
Despite that, Hyung had no choice but to summon the Star to fight against the many fakes.
We crossed over in the middle of a fierce battle and subdued the fakes, but by then, Jinchul-hyung was already half-dead.
“Jinchul-oppa! Oppa! Are you okay? What do we do... what do we do!”
How brutal must the fight have been?
Hyung had a gun wound and was bleeding from multiple places.
On top of that, summoning the Star turned his skin into sothing akin to a lizard’s scales.
Half of his skin looked like lizard scales and the other half like jellyfish, making it terrifying to look at.
Ahri-noona spoke calmly.
“Let’s go to the next room ourselves. We can’t heal him anyway. He’s still alive, so we have to get through this room and regain our Blessings to save him. The regeneration will save Jinchul.”
“Ahri’s right... Just go. Finishing this is the only way to save .”
“Jinchul-oppa!”
Ahri-noona dragged Songee-noona to the next car without hearing another word.
Eunsol-noona and Grandpa Mooksung gritted their teeth and passed by Jinchul-hyung.
It’s getting scarier.
The further we go back, the more the fakes realize they’re fakes and start acting out in madness.
I realized anew how lucky I was.
Even without my Blessing!
The first fake who woke up in my car, Cha Seungjin, chose to cooperate with the real one instead of causing aningless chaos, hoping for a chance at resurrection later.
I wasn’t saying this just because I was grateful, but soone who could make rational decisions, even amidst extre fear and confusion from mixed identities, was definitely worth considering as a candidate for resurrection.
I engraved the na “Cha Seungjin” into my mind.
The remaining cars were the seventh and eighth.
The fakes would have regained consciousness by now.
What happened?
***
- 1 hour ago, Han Kain
-Clang! Clang!
The train continued its endless voyage along its tracks.
Ti flowed like a wave.
I leaned against the window, staring outside.
It had been a while since I traveled by train, just sitting blankly like this.
When I was very young, we used to take the train to visit Grandpa in the countryside, where there were no signals!
Which was annoying!
I heard they even installed Wi-Fi in the village hall in the countryside now.
Ah~ what could it be?
There was a secret in this train car, and we needed to find it to remove the barrier to the front car…
As I was tilting my head full of thoughts, soone tapped my /genesisforsaken
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