Chapter 53: I also hope that the main character will become the main character of the extras.

Hayeon might have seen it, but I, who was being carried on her back, could definitely see it.

At the same time as the flames soared, a part of the floor collapsed.

It was unavoidable.

The floor collapsed to where we were in an instant.

Then, it was just a fall.

The two of us were helplessly sucked down to the first floor.

In the process, it was perhaps natural that the hand holding Hayeon’s back was released.

I didn’t even have the strength to grab her clothes now.

I squeezed out all my strength to somehow get into position, but my body didn’t listen at all.

The time it takes to fall from the second floor to the first floor is a moment.

My back crashed to the floor….

Bang!

With a loud noise, the impact shot up to my brain in an instant.

“…!”

The breath that my lungs held was forcibly exhaled.

I couldn’t make any other sound.

The pain was holding my uvula tightly, preventing me from even making a sound.

My body trembled like an insect stepped on by a human, and light flashed in my vision.

Even when my vision stabilized after time, the pain as if my whole body had been beaten up tormented me.

“….”

It hurt.

No matter how much I thought about it, this was seriously wrong.

The characters in the novel seemed to be able to fall from the second floor to the first floor without any problems….

‘…Hayeon.’

Even in pain, I set the priority of what to do.

What I had to do now was to check on Hayeon, who had fallen with me.

It was the number one reason for concern, but Hayeon’s help was essential to get out of this situation.

To escape from the hellish scene where the fire was burning and climbing up the wall.

The air was filled with smoke.

Even while falling, the towel I was holding in my mouth was drying up in real time, but my eyes desperately searched for Hayeon.

And, it didn’t take long to find Hayeon.

Since we fell together, since the time we fell was short, her brown hair was visible within three steps.

However.

“Hayeon, ah…?”

I lost my words as soon as I was happy to find her, as her appearance was clearly visible.

Blood.

The blood, brightly reflecting the burning fire, was forming a puddle around her body.

“….”

A sharp debris was piercing through Hayeon’s abdomen.

My heart jumps up to my brain and torments me.

The worst situation.

My still-remaining reason deduced the future created by the worst of the worst.

It was over.

At this rate, both Hayeon and I will die here.

In the first place, there was hope of survival thanks to Hayeon’s timely arrival like a miracle.

However, if Hayeon is in that state, in the end….

‘….’

…Somehow, I had to check Hayeon’s condition up close.

Surprisingly, when I forced the flow of thoughts to change, all the desperate circuits were turned off and all my nerves were focused on Hayeon.

I started to move my body.

“…Aagh!”

It was closer to the floor carrying me than me moving.

I couldn’t stand on my legs.

Even when I was carried by Hayeon, I could walk a step or two, but now, it wasn’t a matter of whether I had strength or not, I had no feeling in my lower body at all.

It seemed that something went wrong when I hit my back.

Despair was added to despair.

Nevertheless, I struggled to get to Hayeon’s side somehow.

If I can’t stand up, then I’ll crawl.

I moved my arms with all my might.

So my body moved, but even my arms weren’t fine, so pain came rushing in every time I put strength into them.

The floor was bumpy with debris, and it was heated by the heat, so putting my bare arms on the floor was a torment in itself.

Moreover, most of my body weight had to be placed on those arms.

On the other hand, the speed was really slow, so the distance between Hayeon and me seemed like a distance that would never be narrowed.

The scratches on my arms gradually increased.

The towel was already dry, but it was almost getting wet again with the saliva that seeped out as I gritted my teeth.

Suddenly, pain whispered to me.

Give up.

You will never reach that place.

If you lie down without wasting your energy, you will be able to face a comfortable death.

The fire burning fiercely over there whispered to me.

Give up.

You’re trapped here and will die anyway.

Your actions are nothing but meaningless self-consolation.

Everything around me was an enemy.

Everything whispered death to me.

…However, there was only one thing I could turn my gaze away from all that.

“I…got it.”

I grabbed her shoulder, which was stained with dust and blood.

Thus, I was finally able to see Hayeon’s face head-on.

“Hayeon-ah…Hayeon-ah….”

My hands kept trying to slip, but I somehow maintained my posture and checked if she was breathing.

…S.

A faint breath.

However, Hayeon was still alive.

As soon as I recognized that, a great sense of relief rushed in and my body collapsed.

Hayeon’s face became very close.

‘…Maybe, I won’t be able to move anymore.’

Even the breathing that I felt had improved a little began to feel stuffy as if something was blocked.

Just as I didn’t know when Hayeon would stop breathing, I intuited that I didn’t have much time left either.

…Suddenly, I resented this whole situation.

‘Why, do Hayeon and I have to die here?’

It wasn’t a question that wanted a rational answer.

It was a more primal reproach, containing only resentment and despair, towards something invisible.

A lament for the world that humans utter when they realize that being alive is actually a miracle upon miracles.

In my head, all sorts of questions ran again, and in the end, it came down to one word.

‘I want to live.’

I didn’t want to die.

And, more than that….

‘I don’t want to see this person in front of me die.’

I wanted to save her.

Therefore, I pressed my lips to Hayeon’s lips, where my nose was already touching.

The towel I was holding in my mouth fell into the pool of blood, becoming so soaked with blood that it was no longer usable.

Her mouth was firmly closed.

However, when I grabbed her jaw and put a little strength, her mouth, where blood was pooling, opened.

I sucked all that blood.

The fishy smell of iron filled my mouth, inducing vomiting.

However, when I thought that it was Hayeon’s blood, strangely, the feeling of vomiting subsided.

After repeating that a few times, I began to exchange the little breath I had left into the clean mouth.

‘I won’t let you die.’

Even if the fire approaching us laughed at us, that one thought became even stronger.

‘…Because I don’t want a future that’s only good on the surface, like dying together.’

If in Act 1, I was the heroine saved by you, the protagonist, then in Act 2, now, I will be the protagonist who wants to save you.

So, Hayeon.

You, whom I love the most, and I, will survive today.

The change happened in an instant.

Yoon Sejeong’s black eyes turned a deep gold, and platinum wings began to take shape behind her back.

Her hair was also gradually turning platinum, and her slowly changing appearance in a world dominated by soot and flames had a reverence like the beginning of a myth.

The fire envied it and struck its body, but an intangible force rejected it.

Just that alone couldn’t interfere with her now.

How many times did such a tug-of-war continue?

Eventually, when the wings were fully spread, Kim Hayeon and Yoon Sejeong were likewise engulfed in platinum light.

“…This is?”

Yoon Sejeong was dumbfounded by her current state.

A sense of omnipotence as if transcending humans, which she had never felt in her life.

Her body was already completely, no, it was restored to a much better state than before.

She instinctively knew what had happened.

Recovery.

It was the identity of the power hidden within her.

However, in contrast to knowing what kind of power it was, the question about the power grew much larger.

‘Can…such a power exist in reality?’

It was an ability that I had read about countless times in novels, but the power I was feeling now felt much more fictional even compared to those novels.

“…I see.”

If you think about it a little, there were plenty of premonitions.

Not only did her eyesight, which had been bad all her life, suddenly improve overnight, but she also had unusually good regeneration when she cut her finger while cooking or when she fell and injured her leg.

If all of those were unconscious manifestations of this power, everything was explained.

“I see….”

While she was lost in thought for a moment, the platinum light surrounding Kim Hayeon disappeared.

The debris that had pierced her was pulled out and thrown far away, and her body was completely healed.

However, her clothes were not restored and remained dirty… but such a trivial thing was not important.

“Hayeon-ah…!”

Embracing the clean Kim Hayeon, Yoon Sejeong cried for a long time.

The fire, in the meantime, could not dare to invade around the two.