The 31st Piece Turns the Tables - Chapter 16
Episode 16
Many things are incorporated into a person’s life.
Life, including his values, aspirations, and values, is literally a record of life from the cradle to the grave, and death is the end.
“No, that’s right! “What happens after taking a break for a month?”
“I think…”
Kang Seol sensed the commotion around her and stood up.
“Let’s go out. “It’s too noisy.”
“Sure.”
The two finished paying and went outside.
A dusky evening.
People who were freed from the fear of death were showing various reactions.
“Humans have committed countless sins. This is the judgment!”
“Purify! We need to purify!”
On the street, men and women wearing strange things were shouting like this.
I don’t know what they’ve always believed, but their actions have contributed to the current chaos caused by the world’s merger.
“It’s noisy here too. “I know a quiet place. How about we talk there?”
“Where is it?”
“…This is my old studio.”
“All right.”
Why does the old man refer to his studio as his old studio?
‘Are they not using it now?’
Since there is not enough information about the side quest, there is no way that Snowfall could refuse the old man’s offer.
As he said, Kang Seol headed to the old man’s studio.
The old man looked somewhat sad and at times seemed unharmed.
Like a person preparing his or her mind before receiving sad news.
“But… if it’s a studio, what kind of space do you work in?”
“What can I say? “You will find out when you go.”
– You know it even if I say it now, teacher….
– That way of speaking haha
Kang Seol followed for a moment, thought, and then blurted out the words.
“It’s a watch workshop.”
“You have noticed. “Didn’t you say that at the bar?”
The old man glanced at his pocket watch again and sighed.
“I think I made that watch.”
The place we arrived at following the old man was in a remote place in Kongori.
Although it wasn’t an underdeveloped slum, it was quite far from the commercial district.
Clap.
The old man opened the tightly closed door of the workshop with the key in his hand.
“It’s still… the same.”
Slight moldy smell inside the spider web.
However, the snowfall did not feel as unpleasant as I expected. It felt like I had just entered a studio that had not been maintained for a long time.
‘The watch workshop was right.’
Clocks crowded everywhere.
The work space was filled with various types of clocks, including grandfather clocks.
“Nice to meet you, my name is Bill Marcus. “Call me Bill.”
“It’s called Snowman.”
“…what?”
“Snowman…”
Snowfall and Bill stopped at the same time.
‘Bill?’
A somewhat familiar name.
But even for someone with an exceptional memory, he couldn’t remember why Bill’s name sounded familiar.
‘You’re doing it again.’
Why can’t he, who perfectly remembered things from a long time ago?
I thought maybe the pocket watch side quest was something I had already experienced once.
Otherwise, Bill’s name wouldn’t have been so familiar to my ears.
‘The problem is… I don’t remember it at all.’
Bill turned around, looked at the clocks, and said something over his shoulder to Kang Seol.
“I see… It’s truly a strange thing.”
“yes?”
“No. Now can you tell me how you got that watch?”
Kang Seol told Bill a slightly adapted version of the story of how he got this watch.
He said he found this watch while searching the cliffs of a sharp rock mountain to dig up medicinal herbs. Actually, it wasn’t wrong. The story behind it was just missing.
“That’s right… that’s where I found it.”
“Do you know anything?”
“Don’t know. Now I finally know how everything happened. “Would you please give me that watch?”
chin.
Snowfall handed the pocket watch to Bill.
Bill took the watch, turned it over, and looked at the engraving.
“It’s definitely the watch I made. Can you see the engraving here?”
“engrave? Ah, that was the imprint.”
“I don’t know if it’s faded over time or because of the hardships I endured, but my name is engraved here.”
indeed.
As Bill said, the word Bill was engraved on the back of the clock in a font that was difficult to understand.
Because it was so hazy, I only found out about the snowfall later.
“I gave this watch to someone 20 years ago. “It’s because of my granddaughter.”
“Granddaughter? “A granddaughter?”
“My granddaughter was kidnapped by the trolls of Sharp Rock 20 years ago. “The problem was that I had to climb a mountain to meet the performance schedule.”
Strong.
Snowfall felt a headache.
But since we were talking about something important, I endured the pain and asked again.
“What happened to your granddaughter?”
“….”
“…I see.”
“No one came forward. At that time, there were not only free knights, but also mercenaries and adventurers. “I asked everyone, but they all told me they couldn’t do it.”
The granddaughter has died, but there is still no word about the watch’s owner.
Kang Seol listened patiently.
“But then someone appeared. “He said he would help save my granddaughter.”
“Who is that?”
“It will be engraved on the watch.”
“But the name is nowhere on the watch…”
“That’s because it’s hidden inside. Now, let’s see.”
Click.
Bill roughly manipulated the corner of the clock to reveal a hidden space inside.
And inside, there was a nice phrase and name engraved on it.
– May those who are courageous have good luck in their future.
‘…Unbelievable.’
The name of the owner the watch lost was shocking.
– Snowman.
Bill said, looking at the snowfall.
“20 years later, a man of similar age appears with the same name and this watch… I wonder what is going on…” Kang-seol was the same as not knowing the meaning
.
Bill continued speaking.
“But the owner of the watch never came back. Same goes for my granddaughter. “After that, I left Kongori and didn’t return for a while, but only recently found myself back in this city.”
“Ugh….”
“Why why?”
“Oh no. I have a little headache. Please continue.”
“The story is over. I’m just saying that there was a story like that in the past. Oh! “There’s a place we can stop by together… how about it?”
“Where…”
“It’s my granddaughter’s grave. And it is also the adventurer’s grave.”
“…yes?”
Bill said, scratching his nose.
“He was the only person who came forward for my unfortunate granddaughter, and even though the body was not found, he at least placed a small tombstone next to it. How about together….”
“Wooow…Wooow….”
“Why are you doing this!”
I remembered.
Everything that happened between Bill, his granddaughter, and an adventurer named Snowman.
‘It was my first horse…’
In fact, this was not the first time he used the nickname Snowman.
I used it when I first set foot in the eternal world of Pandea.
It was the first of 30 horses he raised.
His name is Snowman.
It was a frost wizard.
“Tomorrow… can I come here again tomorrow?”
“That’s right. “I’ll be waiting here at noon.”
“Thank you then…”
“Rest now.”
That’s how Snowfall left the watch workshop.
* * *
What on earth happened?
‘What is this…’
The words he fostered left a mark on this world.
Snowfall came as a shock to that fact.
‘Could it be that everything my horses did remains here?’
This is definitely the case in the eternal world.
Words and actions influence our worldview.
But wasn’t that just a system on the game board?
Why do things that happened on the game board remain in reality and not on the game board?
‘It was all real?’
It may have seemed like just a game to him, but it was all reality.
What this means is that this was not the end.
“Ugh… Ugh…”
Kang Seol visited Kongori’s library.
“Closes in 1 hour. “If there’s a book you’re looking for…”
“It’s okay. “I will find it on my own.”
A book is a record of something.
And it’s a good medium to capture events that have happened over the past several decades.
Snowfall quickly skimmed down the bookshelf filled with history-related books.
There were numerous history books there.
But what he was looking for was something else.
‘If my first character died 20 years ago… I’m in Pandea exactly 20 years after I played the game in my dream.’
So, just look at the records of the last 20 years.
That was Kang Seol’s decision.
‘Where is it… where is it!’
Even though the first 10 characters did not leave much of a mark, the later 20 characters were different.
In particular, there was no way that the last 10 characters who reached the Ascension Adventure would not have their names left in history.
Pop.
Kang Seol’s fingers and gaze, which were scanning the title, stopped in one place.
– 10 years of turbulence.
Kang Seol picked up the book without hesitation.
It was a book with an impressive subtitle.
– Stories of superhumans who changed history.
Paralock.
His hands became busy turning the pages.
The best way to find out what the book contains is to look at the table of contents, so the lecture also stopped there.
– Starting.
1. How the Grand Duke of Surrey was born.
2. Correlation between the Prince of Frost and the Zodiac.
3. Who was the person who dug up the tomb of Emperor Leo, which shocked the continent?
4. An immortal who disappeared at an unfortunate time.
5. Is the sword that cuts everything real?
6. …
…
‘…they’re all my characters, right?’
Everything mentioned in the book was about the horses that Kang Seol fostered.
“It doesn’t make sense…”
A lot of things go into a person’s life.
In Pandea, the eternal world where Snowfall is now, he had 30 lives and deaths of his own…
He had already become part of Pandea’s history.
* * *
“Yes, this is the place.”
“The granddaughter is here…”
“No. There is no body. “Still, there is no body, but it is a place I honor, so it has its own meaning.”
Snowfall nodded and followed Bill.
Unlike yesterday, he spoke significantly less.
– Snowman is suddenly in serious mode. Does anyone know why?
– The quest was more boring than expected ㅡㅡ
– I was shocked by the death of someone with the same name haha
– Yeoyeo! Only then will we be able to walk down the path of Himsumjjin in the future…
– Does it have to be Jjintta?
“Here you go.”
A grave with a suitable tombstone.
The tombstone was engraved with a message dedicated to her by Bill himself.
– The most lovely woman in the world.
“I think it’s a good thing to honor someone. Even if it is a tombstone without a body, it always reminds me of that person.”
“I see…”
“The tombstone next to you is that of an adventurer with the same name as you. “We must quickly find the owner of the watch.”
“All right.”
Snowfall approached the unfamiliar tombstone with great strides.
Snowfall, who was trying to place the watch without any response, stopped.
– A person who did not pretend to be unaware of difficulties.
Something hot and unknown rose up in his chest.
It was not a desire for revenge against the gods or the excitement of exploring a new world.
The hand holding the broken pocket watch was shaking.
“…I’m sorry.”
Now Kang Seol seemed to understand why she couldn’t remember Bill’s name or the story behind this pocket watch.
It was all because he forgot.
It is a memory that I managed to forget by forcing the memories that came to mind to sink below the surface.
There is a saying called fumble.
A term also known as a fiasco.
When you roll a dice and get a 1 or the worst case scenario, it is called a fumble.
His first character, Snowman, lost his life in a fumble. Kang Seol, who was young, was shocked and tried to forget it.
So I forgot it.
“I’m sorry…I found it too late.”
A clock is placed on a tombstone.
Of the thirty lives that Kang Seol experienced, one life ended like this.
At that moment, a message caught his eye.
[The true owner of the pocket watch has been found.]
[You will receive ability points as a reward.]
Of course, the message that was thought to end here continued beyond expectations.
“Ugh….”
A message came to mind along with a headache.
[The story of ‘Snowman’ begins.]