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Chapter : 02
“…What?”
Following the tip of Suhyuk’s finger—
“Why is she still standing there?”
Diel Yekaterina was standing there.
“What kind of line is she even delivering right now?”
There was no way a character inside a dimension could see the headquarters outside the dimension.
“Did the video team mess something up?”
But why was it—
Diel Yekaterina’s eyes were clearly directed at them.
“Wait a second, sunbae. That thing Diel is holding in her hand…”
At that moment, Suhyuk pointed at something in the footage.
“That’s the holy relic from <I’m the Protagonist!>, isn’t it? How does Diel have that?”
At the same time, Jua noticed it too.
A mirror emitting a subtle, mysterious light was glittering in Diel’s hand.
It was a holy relic from the neighboring novel, <I’m the Protagonist!>.
But Diel was a character from <Everyone Is Afraid of Me>.
How did she obtain a holy relic from another dimension? Had the dimensions somehow gotten mixed up?
Even Jua, the most senior among them, had never seen a situation like this.
“With an error this big, the gate should open, right? Check it and open it quickly.”
At those words, Suhyuk moved in a hurry.
Sure enough, a red light was rapidly blinking on the gate open button.
When Suhyuk pressed the button with trembling hands—
“Sunbae! Be careful!”
The air wavered as if it were being crushed, and in an instant, a huge circle unfolded.
“You have to come back within five minutes!”
Suhyuk shouted toward Jua as she jumped inside.
Now, the worlds of the two of them were completely different.
“Miss Diel Yekaterina. What exactly do you think you’re doing right now?”
Feeling the rush of reversed air, Jua stepped toward Diel.
“Where did you get that? It’s dangerous, so hand it over.”
A medieval-style room and furnishings signaled the change in dimension.
Amidst it all, only Baek Jua—wearing the headquarters’ modern uniform—looked out of place.
“So. It was you.”
To Diel, it must have seemed like a ghost suddenly popped out of thin air.
“You said this place is inside a novel, right?”
Yet Diel smiled calmly, without agitation.
“I was created for the protagonists of this novel.”
“…!”
Diel knew everything.
That this world was inside a novel. That her life moved according to predetermined settings and storylines.
“No wonder nothing ever changed no matter how desperately I tried. So that was my fate…”
The expression on Diel’s murmuring face was strange—sad, yet somehow relieved.
“Baek Jua.”
She had definitely heard her name.
“No, Agent Baek Jua.”
And then—
“Experience it for yourself.”
It happened in an instant.
“Diel Yekaterina!”
She threw the absolute holy relic she was holding.
Kukung, kukung!
“No!”
By the time Jua tried to stop her, it was already too late.
Between the shards of the shattered mirror, a piercing blue light burst forth.
The ground shook violently.
“What is going on—”
And at the same time—
Pashsh—Diel’s body shattered and crumbled into particles of light.
Her blood-red hair, her pale skin—everything.
“Ugh!”
Jua, who had been staring blankly at the scene, staggered.
“Sunbae! Jua sunbae!”
Kukung! Kukung!
Everything began shaking uncontrollably.
“Sunbae! The dimension is collapsing. Get out, quickly!”
What? Coming to her senses, Jua snapped her head around.
‘Damn it.’
The circular opening that had torn through the air was steadily shrinking.
Suhyuk’s figure beyond it was growing faint.
“You’re supposed to take me with you! Lee Suhyuk!”
The gate connecting the headquarters and the dimension was closing.
“Suhyuk!”
Reaching out her hand, Jua ran with all her strength.
‘Please, no!’
But—
“Urgh!”
Kwaaang! The air sealed shut without a gap and bounced Jua back—thung!
