Breaking Up with the Heroine of the Female-Oriented Game - Chapter 123

Chapter 123

The End and the Beginning (1)

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“Ah.”

Blood.

Blood gushed out.

When Yoo Dahee withdrew her outstretched hand, streams of blood spurted in all directions.

Splat! Blood splattered on Jin Soyeon’s face.

The sticky, slimy blood thoroughly soaked Jin Soyeon’s face.

The unfamiliar, fishy scent of blood filled her nostrils.

Jin Soyeon unconsciously wiped the blood on her face with her fingers.

Red.

A very bright red blood.

Droplets of blood dripped between her fingers.

The weakly falling blood slowly soaked the ground.

“Ah, ah.”

Jin Soyeon stared blankly straight ahead, not even thinking of wiping the blood on her face.

Right in front of her nose.

Lee Jinhyuk was standing there.

With a large hole pierced in his abdomen.

He just hung his head halfway, coughing up blood.

“Ah, ah, uh.”

Lee Jinhyuk staggered as if he would collapse at any moment.

He swayed back and forth, unable to control his body, spewing strong blood from the round hole pierced in his abdomen.

Eventually, Lee Jinhyuk’s body slowly tilted.

As if he no longer had the strength to stagger, he fell face down on the ground.

Jin Soyeon, with a dazed expression, stretched out her trembling hands and embraced Lee Jinhyuk’s slowly tilting body.

She felt no strength from him in her arms.

Only hot streams of blood flowed from his abdomen.

Jin Soyeon blankly looked down at the streams of blood.

The blood that had flowed out had already formed a puddle.

He just entrusted his body weakly, only gushing out blood.

“Ah, ah, uh, aah.”

She tightly hugged Lee Jinhyuk’s body.

Her mind went completely blank.

It felt like all the blood drained from her at once. Jin Soyeon couldn’t believe the current reality. It didn’t feel real. She desperately hoped she had seen wrong.

But reality is cruel.

This sticky blood, this fishy scent, his faint breathing, people’s screams…

…They were all whispering that this situation was indeed real.

“Ah, ah, aaah, ah.”

It wasn’t a mistake.

Lee Jinhyuk’s body had been pierced through.

He collapsed, scattering his organs and blood.

Because of me.

While trying to save me who had let my guard down.

And instead, Jinhyuk, Jinhyuk di…

“Ah, aaaah, aaaaaaaah!”

As she clearly realized the reality she faced, Jin Soyeon screamed loudly while hugging the body of her dying childhood friend.

The, the wound is too big.

He’s lost too much blood.

With damaged organs and this much blood loss, it’s dangerous even for a hero trainee.

It’s too dangerous!

Jin Soyeon’s body trembled like an aspen tree.

Her heart pounded loudly and cold sweat poured down.

Even meaningless tears flowed drop by drop. The tears flowed endlessly down along her jawline.

She couldn’t see ahead because of the tears. Even the sight of the dying Lee Jinhyuk blurred.

“Ah, it wasn’t my intention, but well, not a bad result.”

“You!”

Yoo Dahee, who had mercilessly pierced Lee Jinhyuk’s abdomen, chuckled as she looked at Jin Soyeon, her hair with blood droplets fluttering in the wind.

“He must be precious to you? Seeing how he took the hit for you. Ha, how foolish.”

“Youuu, uuuuuuuuu!”

Jin Soyeon’s voice, filled with anger and crying, echoed loudly through the city.

She glared at Yoo Dahee with a raw expression mixed with negative emotions like loss, anger, doubt, sadness, malice, and more.

As intense emotions erupted like an explosion, Jin Soyeon could feel something sleeping inside her slowly starting to stir.

She couldn’t stand Yoo Dahee’s words that seemed to mock his sacrifice. She wanted to grab Yoo Dahee right away and do something to her.

This was the emotion she felt during the kidnapping incident.

No, it was an even darker, more sinister emotion than that.

“Oh.”

Even the great Yoo Dahee slightly flinched at the terrible gaze filled with dark killing intent.

How to put it, it was enough to give goosebumps just by facing each other like this.

They say when a woman harbors a grudge, frost falls even in May and June.

This is scary, really scary.

“You, da, dare to do this to Jinhyuk…!”

“Do you have time to worry about me? If you don’t treat him quickly, he might really die?”

“…!”

That’s right.

There’s no time to worry about Yoo Dahee now.

Fi, first Jinhyuk, I have to treat Jinhyuk. He’ll surely live if we hurry and treat him.

“Damn it!”

“Wh-what’s with that bitch!”

“Fuck! That bitch is asking for death!”

The heroes, who were taken aback by the sudden surprise attack, quickly regained their senses and attacked Yoo Dahee.

However, the heroes who were exhausted from the raid against the Ouroboros found it difficult to inflict proper damage on Yoo Dahee.

Even though Yoo Dahee was alone, she was a high-ranker level expert.

Moreover, John used his clone ability to cover for Yoo Dahee for a moment. The heroes hurriedly used flash grenades to remove John’s clone. However, in that time, Yoo Dahee had leisurely disappeared.

“Jin Soyeon!”

“Ho, Hong Daye teacher…”

Jin Soyeon looked up at Hong Daye with a dazed expression, tears streaming down, as she laid Lee Jinhyuk on the ground.

Lee Jinhyuk was just panting, intermittently coughing up blood.

His condition was extremely serious.

As if he could die at any moment.

“Ji, Jinhyuk, Jinhy… The blood won’t, won’t stop… What should I…”

“Healing potion! Bring a healing potion right now!”

“Ah.”

For an injury of this degree, even a healing potion might not be able to do anything.

But they poured in the healing potion with the desperate feeling of grasping at straws.

Was it because it was an expensive healing potion? It wasn’t ineffective. It somewhat stopped the bleeding and healed the wound to some extent. However…

‘His internal organs are too damaged. It’s not something that can be handled with a healing potion in the first place.’

Hong Daye bit her lower lip slightly.

She could keenly feel that the white-haired kid had attacked with full intention.

She twisted magical power in a spiral shape to pierce through the body and thoroughly damage the organs. It was truly a fatal strike. It was a wound that couldn’t be recovered by normal methods.

It was such a severe injury that a normal person would have already died.

It was only because Lee Jinhyuk was a hero trainee and was protected by a defensive artifact that he avoided instant death.

Instant death, that is.

“Cough, cough, haa… ugh…”

“Jinhyuk! Jinhyuk! Are, are you al, alright?! Uu.”

Lee Jinhyuk, who had slightly regained consciousness thanks to the healing potion, looked at Jin Soyeon with weak eyes while constantly coughing up blood.

Jin Soyeon bit her lower lip as she looked down at Lee Jinhyuk’s miserable appearance, tears rolling down her cheeks.

Drip. Drip drip.

Droplets fell on Lee Jinhyuk’s face.

It was her childhood friend’s tears.

“So… So, Soyeon…”

“Yes! I, I’m here.”

Lee Jinhyuk called Jin Soyeon with a dying voice, and Jin Soyeon nodded her head vigorously with a nasal voice full of tears.

“Are, are you… alright?”

“I’m fine so! So, hic.”

“I, see, that’s, good… Cough, cough.”

“Don’t, don’t talk, Jinhyuk! Don’t talk!”

As Lee Jinhyuk coughed up blood again, Jin Soyeon panicked with a pale face.

The bleeding was already too severe.

Although he seemed to have recovered slightly thanks to the healing potion poured in, it was unclear how effective it would be, so he needed to rest as much as possible.

“We’re contacting now, so a transport vehicle will come soon, so just hang on a little longer, Jinhyuk, just a little…”

Hong Daye was busy trying to arrange a vehicle.

She was struggling to even call a taxi through the phone, but it seemed everyone was reluctant because it was a place where several monsters had caused havoc.

They might be attacked by hidden monsters.

Even if offered money, it didn’t seem like anyone would come easily.

Looking around, all Hong Daye could see were damaged vehicles and roads. In the worst case, they would have to carry Lee Jinhyuk themselves.

“Damn it, is there anyone who could come…”

“Ms. Hong Daye! I called Yoo Seolhyun, she was waiting nearby so she should be here soon.”

“Yoo Seolhyun? Why is she here?”

Hong Daye was slightly puzzled at Han Seowoo’s words. Why was Yoo Seolhyun here? But there was no time to worry about that now. Lee Jinhyuk’s condition was urgent.

Screech!

Just then.

Vehicles could be seen in the distance.

Several large vehicles applied their brakes a short distance away.

Suddenly, Yoo Seolhyun and several others got out of the vehicles.

They hurriedly ran towards them.

“Is everyone alright? I heard there was a seriously injured person… Who exactly… Huh?”

At that moment, Yoo Seolhyun flinched.

She spotted Jin Soyeon through the gaps between people, and beyond her, a man lying covered in blood.

“…Lee Jinhyuk?”

The one lying there with his stomach pierced.

Yoo Seolhyun felt as if her heart had sunk slightly.

It was all the more shocking because someone she never expected was dying.

‘Why, why is Lee Jinhyuk in such a state?’

She had definitely received a radio message that they had successfully taken down the huge snake.

Why is he in such a dying state like that?

It looks like he could breathe his last at any moment.

This can’t be…

“Uu, uuu… Se, Seolhyun… Ji, Jinhyuk, Jinhyuk please… save himmm…”

Jin Soyeon burst into sobs.

“Fi, first we need to get to a hospital quickly…! No, for a wound of this level, we need to find a healing mage rather than a hospital…”

However, healing mages are not common.

As they were quite rare special ability users, their numbers were quite limited.

If it were Seoul, they could have asked the healing mage in the Gaon Nuri Clan, but this was Busan.

Even if they try to find a healing mage now, wouldn’t it already be too late…

“Tch. I know a healing mage on our side. I’ve already contacted them, so we can go there.”

“…Daehan?”

Kang Daehan was busy fiddling with his phone, then clicked his tongue once and jerked his chin towards the fallen Lee Jinhyuk.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you going to save that guy?”

“Ah, th-thank you Daehan!”

At his words, Jin Soyeon came to her senses and immediately picked up Lee Jinhyuk.

“Jin Soyeon, quickly! Get in quickly! Lay Lee Jinhyuk down here for now!”

“O-okay!”

Yoo Seolhyun quickly guided Jin Soyeon to the back seat of the vehicle, and Jin Soyeon hurriedly got in the vehicle with Lee Jinhyuk.

Kang Daehan and several others got into other vehicles.

“Han Seungju! Hurry!”

“Ah, yes!”

Yoo Seolhyun urged the driver.

Then she instructed him to drive straight to the location Kang Daehan had told them.

It wasn’t a very distant location.

If Lee Jinhyuk could just hold on a little longer, they would surely be able to arrive before it was too late.

“…So, Soyeon.”

“You…”

Yoo Seolhyun glanced at Lee Jinhyuk, who was weakly calling Jin Soyeon, then bit her lip.

He’s dying and still calling for Jin Soyeon.

She turned her head away sharply.

Seeing his miserable state somehow made her chest ache.

An inexplicable sadness was enough to disturb Yoo Seolhyun’s heart.

This feeling was similar to when her mother was in such a state… No, why? It was a very unfortunate thing that he was in this state, but why this feeling…

“…We’re going to where a healing mage is, so for now, don’t talk and stay still.”

Yoo Seolhyun said, as if telling him to rest.

“…I have, something, to say, cough!”

“Ji, Jinhyuk! Don’t talk! Just rest for now! Please stay still!”

Beyond his fading consciousness, Lee Jinhyuk had one thought.

He wanted to say that even if he died, he would be revived thanks to wearing the resurrection artifact.

But what if.

What if he couldn’t revive?

As it was related to resurrection, Lee Jinhyuk couldn’t be sure whether this artifact would work properly or not.

So Lee Jinhyuk made his last request, using his last bit of strength.

Thinking of Jin Soyeon, who would blame herself thinking she had sacrificed herself for him if the resurrection failed.

“It’s not… your fault, so… it’s okay, it’s okay, so even if I… die, don’t blame your…”

“Ah.”

This time he looked towards Yoo Seolhyun.

“Yoo Seol… hyun…”

“Don’t talk and stay still.”

“Soyeon… I… I’ll leave… Soyeon… to you.”

“Lee Jinhyuk? You? Lee Jinhyuk! Hey, snap out of it! Hey!”

“Huh? Ji, Jinhyuk! No, no! We’re out of healing potions too, wh-what should we do…!”

“Mister! Please drive faster, faster! We can pay the traffic violation fines later, so hurry!”

Shocked by the sight of Lee Jinhyuk with his head drooped, they hurriedly shouted, and the vehicle was able to arrive at the clan where the healing mage was even faster.

They and Kang Daehan’s group took Lee Jinhyuk, whose breathing was faint, to the healing mage and begged them to save Lee Jinhyuk, and the healing mage quickly began treatment in the intensive care room.

Jin Soyeon sat in the guardian waiting room outside the treatment room, praying alone, calling on the names of gods she had never sought before.

Please, please save Jinhyuk.

She would do anything, anything if Jinhyuk could be saved.

She earnestly prayed for Jinhyuk to be saved from death.

How much time passed like that.

Suddenly, the healing mage opened the door and came out of the intensive care room.

Jin Soyeon and the others looked at the healing mage with desperate faces. They waited anxiously for the results of the treatment.

“Do, doctor? Jinhyuk, Jinhyuk is…?”

The healing mage looked once at Jin Soyeon, whose face was covered in tear stains, then finally spoke slowly with a desolate expression, avoiding her gaze.

“At approximately 18:43 today… he passed away.”

“What?”

Jin Soyeon was momentarily stunned at the news of Lee Jinhyuk’s death.

“I’m sorry.”

“He, he died? Jinhyuk? You say he died?”

“…”

“Ah, uu, uuuuu.”

Thud.

Jin Soyeon sat down with a dazed expression.

Jinhyuk died.

While trying to save me.

So it’s right that he died because of me.

Jinhyuk was murdered by me and Yoo Dahee.

End of Chapter