I Am the Only Non-Returner - I Am the Only Non-Returner chapter 64

64 – You are me and I am you

In the endless flow of thoughts, the burden on my mind gradually piled up.

It felt like there was a thick fog in my head, and even though I tried to figure out the best move in the given situation, all I could see was complete darkness.

‘This is seriously wrong. I wonder why… I know something is wrong, but I can’t remember what it is.

I don’t have much time…’

＜00:05:30＞

However, only 1 second passed.

‘···Suddenly the flow of time…? Well, it worked out anyway. I have to keep thinking…’

But the more I thought about it, the angrier I became and the more I could not suppress my frustration.

‘Damn it… I can’t! I don’t know what the right decision is because you’re going to be such an asshole!

I am an idiot alone. When I was struggling with my illness, I heard a familiar voice from deep in the abyss.

(Oh, what are you doing, you idiot?)

‘Hey! What?! Who are you!’

(You’re an idiot. You’re doing such a damn side kick. I thought you’d follow me quickly, but suddenly you’re lost here. Tsk… This makes me weak, but… There’s nothing I can do about it.)

‘What…What!’

In an instant, more than half of the fog that had filled my head disappeared, and as the unbearable disgust soared and I nauseated, gray smoke came out of my mouth.

“Heo-eok-haa-“

As I watched the gray smoke scattering here and there, I was dazed for a moment and thought about what I was doing just now.

‘Huh? ‘What was I doing?’

For some reason, I felt refreshed, and only after thinking for a while did I remember that I had been thinking about organizing the emotions I was feeling and thinking about options.

‘··· I understand. Why was it frustrating! This is because I don’t think it’s fair.’

It was funny. Because I was the farthest thing from fair in this game.

I started out with a huge amount of points and was ahead, but now what?

‘No matter what… You shouldn’t have touched the newborn baby!…’

When I thought of the baby in Jinsol’s arms, endless anger welled up inside me.

‘During the time of the damn parasitic bug, I thought the host was abnormal…’

But when I looked at these three options, that wasn’t the case.

I thought again about the message that came to mind as if it were an immutable law.

‘As expected, this game is flawed from the start.’

If a baby is born with this condition, it leads to the conclusion that even more ridiculous things are possible later on.

And in my head, countless dark futures unfolded before my eyes. The worst of them all.

‘They tell us to kill each other until there is only one person left alive in the shelter…’

Is this too extreme? No, they are the ones who impose an unbearable chain on newborns and their parents.

It’s a very possible scenario.

At that moment, the strings began to break in my head.

And suddenly a new thought occurred to me.

‘Why did I only realize this now?’

I had numerous conversations with people at the shelter about the stage, and no one had any questions.

‘There is a final stage… Neither the host nor anyone said…’

I remembered the host’s message on the first day.

The second round of the Blessed Death Defense game starts in 1 hour! ······ I was very interested in those who surpassed stage 50 for the first time…

‘We only said we would start, but we never said a word about where the stage would end… Why were we so passionate about clearing the stage?’

It was a strange thing. It is natural for humans to wither away quickly if they do not have a goal. What on earth were we looking at as we ran forward? Was it simply to avoid dying?

‘Did you play a prank on your head? ‘Like the time of parasitic insects’

After rummaging through the swamp of thoughts with such doubts for a while and crawling out, I came to a conclusion.

“This game wasn’t meant to be broken in the first place… Right? Host?”

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– Kwajajajag-!

The moment I spoke out what I realized, I heard the sound of something breaking and felt the thick smoke in my head disappear.

I felt a refreshing feeling on a different level than when I was a parasitic bug spread throughout my body, so I came out of my thoughts, came to my senses, and looked around.

The outer part of the shelter that was in line of sight began to shimmer like a haze, and the sofa seemed to be melting away.

‘People?!··· Fortunately, they’re okay.’

After looking at the flowing scenery like a mirage for a while, I felt something flowing from my eyes.

Although fresh blood was flowing down, I was completely absorbed in the sight of the golden world, and I took in every detail of the strange shelter where the presence and absence of reality coexisted.

– Ddddddddddddddddddddddd!

Suddenly, the world I looked at started shaking with increasing vibration, and soon the whole world started shaking like crazy.

– Tiring-!

At that time, a message appeared along with a familiar notification sound.

“Is this an achievement that never existed?”

Insighter (unique)

– You can check other people’s abilities.

– Obtain 4~20P when checking other people’s abilities.

– Visualize the magic of the demonic beast.

– You can check the magical beast’s abilities.

– Obtain 40~200P when checking the magical beast’s abilities.

– When checking the magical beast’s abilities, there is an extremely small probability that its characteristics will be taken away.

– Insight has blossomed.

Insight plan

– Intuition about all phenomena observed increases.

– See through the invisible.

– Reads all of the other person’s thoughts and emotions.

“Hmm… It’s interesting to take away the characteristics of a demonic beast. Although the probability is low.”

First of all, I looked at the characteristics later, and the dirty gray energy that was crudely added here and there on the stage caught my eye.

“There are traces of arbitrary modifications here and there. What kind of dirty hands were put on the original stage…?”

As I was concentrating on the traces that looked as if they had been clumsily sewn together on a well-made doll, one message after another came to mind.

＜[The great beings of the beginning] Close their eyes again. [The Sentinels of the Beginning] Recognize players with the [Insight] Trait.＞

‘It’s been recognized? Be scared. There is no fuss about this and that in the beginning of the machine, hahahaha.’

And then another message came to mind that surprised me.

“Wow! The great beings made a reset… And the final stage has been fixed… hahahahaha! So doesn’t it feel like it should be like this?”

If you clear stage 29, this damn game is over.

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“Why are you releasing messages that you haven’t seen since the new change?”

The messages that were ringing like crazy were flying around dizzyingly.

“We’re not giving out rewards for past stages again, so why don’t we get rid of useless messages?”

Then the messages disappeared in an instant, and soon after, my body started shaking and another message appeared.

‘Why did this guy come here again? He was brutal as soon as he arrived.’

“Please punish the bad guys who played with the baby, right? But I don’t know who did this.”

God’s anger was so great that his entire body trembled like crazy, as if he had been thrown naked into the Siberian fields.

“What conditions again? Can’t you just punish me without conditions?”

For some reason, I was surprised at how shameless I had become, but strangely there was no resistance.

“No… Hey, Artemis? If it’s like this, why did you ask?”

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“No, even the organizer shouldn’t be treated like that.”

– Player Eun-gyeon must impregnate 5 women and give birth to children during the 21 stages.

– If the mission is successful, a special reward will be given.

(*When the final stage is cleared, the children receive Artemis’ ‘blessing’ and all return to their parents.)

– If the mission fails, you will never be able to receive [Artemis’ Blessing] Again.

“What kind of body do you have?”

“Uh huh… Who am I talking to?”

[Surprising Mission – 0/5]

‘······ Is this really true…’

I wasn’t as embarrassed as I am now when I received the parasitic bug mission to get 5 women in the shelter pregnant.

And then I felt hot gazes on me and looked around, and the people in the shelter, who had already stopped, were looking at me with intense eyes demanding an explanation.

‘How can I explain this? He keeps appearing out of nowhere and doing that.’

I was feeling embarrassed and was just rubbing my neck.

“Ah, the baby mission conditions have also been updated. There is no more time to choose. The game has become much more comfortable.”

1. Born babies are raised in shelters.

– Each time a stage is cleared, the abilities of the baby’s parents continue to increase.

– The damage taken by the shelter decreases slightly.

– Maximum resident population +10

– You can only raise one baby.

2. The newborn baby is entrusted to a subspace with protective functions.

– Subspace installation cost: 100,000P

(A total of 10 people can be stored)

– Durability +3000

– Upon clearing the stage, you can take the baby out of subspace for 3 hours.

– When the stage starts, the baby is immediately moved to subspace and is automatically protected.

‘Leaving it to the management was an option that didn’t exist at all. ‘You bastards.’

Hmm~

‘This is number 2 without any hesitation. Condition 1 is better, but I lost my choice because of the scene where Artemis is playing a machine. Damn it.’

When I chose number 2, a pillar of light the size of my outstretched arm stretched to the ceiling in the center of the shelter, and the baby instantly moved into it.

“Ji, Jiwon! Our Jiwon!”

Jang Jin-sol and Kim Jeong-gi, a married couple, cling to the pillar and look inside, calling out the name of their newly born baby.

Everyone was curious about what was inside the pillar, so everyone got close to the pillar and started looking at it.

The gray liquid in the pillar swirled several times and gradually stabilized, and the color of the liquid gradually began to change to a clear blue.

And the chef couple’s baby gradually appears as it turns blue.

“aaah…!”

The couple expressed their joy with their whole bodies and began trying to impress their presence on the baby.

However, the baby was just swimming slowly in the liquid in the pillar with its eyes closed.

But that alone was enough to melt the couple’s hearts because the baby’s body clearly had movement.

“My baby lived. hehehehe…hehehehe…”

“Honey…”

‘The giant gray hand has disappeared, so it looks like one turn has passed.’

And I felt like I needed a sufficient explanation to people about why God suddenly connected with me and came to visit me.

So, in addition to reading people’s thoughts and hearts, I explained the mantra in a slightly modified way.

My characteristics are evolving like Ha-eun’s, and I can now borrow characteristics based on my intimacy with people.

And he even explained how, while experimenting with Eunchae’s characteristics, he accidentally became able to use the characteristic of abundance.

But we didn’t really talk about Artemis.

“Anyway, having a baby will help the shelter, right? It’ll also increase durability.”

For some reason, Aksh*ta spoke first.