23:45 'Operation waiting room'
Seo-woo was sitting leaning against the wall waiting for Lee Hyun-woo's operation.
"How is he?" Lee Ji-woo came rushing in, while giving a drink to her husband Seo-woo.
"Thanks..Now the doctor is trying his best."
Seo-woo just accepted the drink, it seemed like he was too tired to move his hands.
However, suddenly "Park Min-ji" ran towards the waiting room wanting to know Lee Hyun-woo's condition.
"Please let me through!"
They were both confused about what the commotion was about, then Seo-woo, who knew about it, let them pass.
"Sorry to bother." Siyeo-Ma who accompanied "Park Min-ji" apologized for not being able to restrain her stubbornness.
"It's okay, you did your best too."
Meanwhile, Lee Ji-woo held back "Park Min-ji" who was trying to enter, and Seo-woo could only put on a hopeless face looking towards them.
'1 hour and 40 minutes earlier'
Lee Hyun-woo managed to end the fight, but he was also lying on the ground bleeding out.
At the same time, a few minutes later Seo-woo managed to reach the floor and rushed to try to carry Lee Hyun-woo, with the help of the other soldiers and agents.
Meanwhile, on the other hand, in the shelter, everyone was seen cheering happily because the war was over.
However, some of them just kept quiet thinking about their partners and closest people who were taking part in the war.
"Where is he..?" "Park Min-ji" looked at the screen seriously, trying to find out the truth of Lee Hyun-woo.
"I'm sure he'll be fine."
Even though I myself am not sure if he is okay, I have a bad feeling.
*Such a big war like that, already caused great damage especially in the city center..*
*It was impossible for him to be fine, especially since he had to go forward alone in the midst of that chaos.*
"Park Min-ji" was seen still looking for Lee Hyun-woo's whereabouts, and it was clear from her face that she was very anxious.
"I see him!"
"Where?"
"There...but, what happened..?"
Siyeo-Ma started to hug tightly "Park Min-ji" who was trembling, and started to cry softly.
On one of the screens, Seo-woo is seen running with other agents who help him lifting the dying Lee Hyun-woo.
"Come on!" Seo-woo hopes that they will arrive at the operating room on time.
"Hey! Make a way!" Seo-woo shouted for people with minor injuries to move aside.
Lee Hyun-woo's blood continued to flow even though Seo-woo had held it in, but they kept moving until they finally arrived at the operating room.
Present time
Seo-woo looks exhausted and begins to fall asleep slowly on the chair, while Siyeo-Ma and Lee Ji-woo wait on the chair outside.
"How is the kid?"
"That girl? She really like him."
"I see... it must be hard for her."
It turns out that "Park Min-ji" is crying in the operating room which already looks deserted, where the operating equipment shows Lee Hyun-woo who is already gone.
"Please...wake up."
"Don't leave me again."
"Park Min-ji" begged Lee Hyun-woo to wake up and not leave him like Park Ji-nam did that time.
Meanwhile, Lee Hyun-woo himself was sleeping on the bed, lifeless, but it turned out that in his conscious mind he woke up and was in an unknown place.
"Why is this place like...life and death.."
Lee Hyun-woo looked to his right and saw that the people he loved that were gone happy, while on his left side, his eyes were shocked to see a child sitting alone in the darkness.
My feeling say that I want to go with those who has already gone, peaceful and happy together in the end of life.
*But, why did I hesitate.*
*Why..*
Lee Hyun-woo looked again to his right and saw Park Min-ji smiling happily there, his eyes were wide open with pine feelings, like the sea trying to reach its land.
Lee Hyun-woo also started to stand up, however, his feet, which were facing to the right and ready to step, instead stepped towards where the child was.
Lee Hyun-woo stood in front of the child and held out his hand thinking of taking him to that beautiful place.
However, the boy refused and kept his head down ignoring Lee Hyun-woo.
*What is this strange feeling?*
*Do you..*
The gloomy child suddenly heard Lee Hyun-woo's voice.
"What are you waiting for?"
"They'll be mad at us if we're late, right?"
Lee Hyun-woo reached out his hand again, with the boy's gaze starting to open up to him.
The child accepted Lee Hyun-woo's hand and they walked together into the darkness.
".Please.." In the darkness, Lee Hyun-woo heard the sound of someone crying.
Lee Hyun-woo, who started to open his eyes little by little, saw "Park Min-ji" crying over him.
"Are you waiting for me?"
*Huh..*
"Park Min-ji" looked ahead at Lee Hyun-woo who looked fine, and the tears started to sound loud as the embrace of longing and sadness felt very tight.
"Woah.."
"Hm...Sorry, it takes a long time."
Lee Hyun-woo started to hug "Park Min-ji" tightly, with the sound of the door opening and the longing in their eyes starting to fill with tears of disbelief.
"Sorry, it must have been a bother to you guys."
"You always make people worry you know."
"Hahaha.."
Lee Hyun-woo felt happy to see their longing for him, but he himself was thinking about the incident earlier.
*They would probably prefer that I leave too.*
When I reached out for the second time I knew it was me, and me alone. They would definitely be angry if I tried to catch up with them, and they will also throw me out if I dare.
00:15
'The Return of My Savior'
"Can't you just let me go??"
"No!"
"Park Min-ji" is becoming more clingy and stubborn with me, this will make it difficult for me to travel later.
*Ugh..*
Lee Hyun-woo then forcibly lifted "Park Min-ji" and entrusted her to Siyeo-Ma before finally running away so that "Park Min-ji" wouldn't chase him.
'A few minutes earlier, after rising again from the dead'
"Are you going back to that tower?"
"Yeah, there are a few things I need to figure out."
"No! You just got better, stay with me here." "Park Min-ji" became stubborn and wouldn't let me go with the usual excuses.
*The more I look at her, the more she looks like her.*
I listened to what the conditions were like outside after the war and in the tower as well, where the residents were starting to come out and help with the situation outside.
We managed to win the war and most of the enemies began to surrender, while those who continued to fight were killed due to numerical superiority.
"Here we are, back to this place again."
Lee Hyun-woo arrived at the tower and started climbing it again each floor, until he reached the 99th floor.
"She disappeared? It seems like that was her doing to wake me up, huh?" Lee Hyun-woo saw that Park Min-ji's body disappeared and was no longer there, convinced that she disappeared quietly with the sword lying on the floor.
Lee Hyun-woo entered the top floor and looked around the terrace of the building, until he saw a room near the terrace and entered it.
His eyes were wide open like the gates of heaven, with mixed feelings of deep sadness and happiness.
"These books...and the photos.." Lee Hyun-woo looks at his novel on his father the table and his family photo with him as a baby.
"Really..am I that handsome, haha."
I was very sad but I was also happy, see their smiles as we are one family.
"Maybe I'll take it with me."
However, when I took the photo frame a letter fell out of the frame. I thought about what the letter contained, but when I opened it, it turned out to be a letter telling how my father was the chosen one and their decision.
At that time my father was still alone and he was chosen so he knew the world much better since he left to find the truth, then when my father returned he tried to live a normal life.
" Hm... "That was the day I met her, her presence was so cold but I felt the warmth within her..." and the place is like when I met my mother.."
It seems like it's not a coincidence, it's fate.
"What a delightful destiny you have created, father."
After reading almost half of it, I finally reached the end. However, it was the ending that made me remember the past...the day I met with that things.
I walked out to the terrace, feeling the beautiful time I had never felt with my parents.
I imagined how it would feel if fate had been a little different, feeling the softness of their feelings and their hold.
But I also experienced all of that with someone I loved, and who left me a long time ago.
"Those last words, and that hold...in sorrow and joy, remain something irreplaceable."
Here I am now, looking up at the stars holding tightly to the memories they left me.
The stars will shine brightly, but who knows how long, with the stars falling they will rise from their sleep and destroy this human world.
'Lee Hyun-woo thought about the vision given by the unknown, about the world long ago. -From early chapter.'
"Come and I will wait for you, with me more ready with them."
Lee Hyun-woo left the city the next day.