The wagon, which had been running all night, stopped at a nearby village. I was going to do maintenance in the village for a while and then start again.

 

When I woke up, I saw Alice Carroll looking down at me, just like before I fell asleep. I noticed that she couldn’t sleep because of me.

 

got off the wagon The coachman said he would take a break and left first, and Alice and I got off the carriage.

 

For some reason, Alice took out a thin coat and wrapped it around her waist.

 

He leaned back on the carriage and took a deep breath.

 

“what’s the matter?”

 

“nothing… . You seem to have lost some strength. I will be resting here.”

 

Alice raised her head and tried to smile.

 

It seemed difficult to walk.

 

Are my legs numb? It seems that blood circulation in my thighs was not good because I kept cutting my knee pillow.

 

Did you just call me a minion? I’m sorry.

 

[Nyon! Isaac, buy my present!]

 

On top of the wagon, the grotesque-Cheshire waved his forepaw.

 

“What do you want?”

 

[Big fish thorns!]

 

I’ll have to pick it up from the food waste bin.

 

It couldn’t compare to Yeongju Castle, but it was a bustling town in its own right. There were many brick buildings, and the roads were well paved.

 

After buying food, he returned to the carriage and ate with Alice. I thought I should give a moral gift to the strange cat-Cheshire, so I handed over the fish thorn I got from the fish shop. The guy was quite happy.

 

After going to the bathhouse with Alice to wash and get out, we got back into the carriage and set off. Having been confined to the academy, the outdoor experience felt quite fresh.

 

On the way, I tried to lend Alice a lap pillow. Alice said she was fine, but when I asked if she was really okay, she said no, so I laid her on my thigh.

 

All night long, I stroked her alchemy hair, just as Alice had done for me. Alice was sleepy and quickly fell asleep.

 

As it was, he held a magic device with a high degree of magic circulation difficulty with one hand and spent time training.

 

The wagon headed for Marchen Academy without any problems.

 

* * *

 

An old cabin in the woods.

 

The gray-haired girl woke up.

 

The girl rubbed her eyes and got down from the old bed, and in the kitchen poured cold water out of a cup and drank.

 

The energy of sleep quickly ran away.

 

The girl raised her arms by the window and looked out the window. The sun-drenched forest was full of greenery as usual.

 

Red Riding Hood, which had been splattered with blood from cleaning up human trash, had been washed and left hanging on the drying rack. A slight breeze blew in and gently shook the red cloak.

 

“Prince… .”

 

The girl, Mitchell, muttered as she looked at the red cloak hanging on the drying rack.

 

The blue-silver haired man I saw a few days ago fills my mind.

 

He dealt with the aristocrats who had been trafficking in human trafficking, and even defeated the dangerous Demon Army with terrifying power.

 

I also saw him making love with a blonde-haired woman and washing himself in the bathtub naked.

 

It was because there was someone who showed the current situation of the blue-silver haired man in his dreams every night.

 

For Mitchell, the scene in which the prince appeared in a fairy tale was very attractive.

 

Isaac, the blue-silver haired man, was just like him.

 

A man with outstanding looks, strength, and charisma who came to rescue him from (not) a crisis.

 

It would be safe to call meeting him fate.

 

Mitchell could feel the heart-pumping sensation he felt while reading a children’s book every time he thought of Isaac.

 

Although he had never experienced the kind of love that often appears in fairy tales, Mitchell was sure that what he was feeling right now was love.

 

“Is it the Marchen Academy?”

 

Isaac headed to Marchen Academy.

 

Normally, Mitchell had no interest in the academy, but now that he thought it was where the prince was, he couldn’t help but be interested.

 

Even more so, Merhen Academy is the most famous academy in the Empire. Even Mitchell, who doesn’t know much about the world, knew that much.

 

what an amazing place

 

Considering that it was a place that embraced such a strong prince, the status of the Merhen Academy felt high.

 

“I want to see you again, Prince… .”

 

Mitchell decided to pursue the thing called love.

 

It was because that enchanting feeling might be the reason for Mitchell’s life.

 

However, Mitchell didn’t know that the feeling he was feeling right now wasn’t actually love.

 

* * * * * * * * * *

 

korea. A mysterious building was located in Ilsan.

 

A neat building with a height of 30 floors, which was completed quickly after erecting a tall screen.

 

At the top of the building, the brand ‘HIGGS’ was engraved proudly.

 

It was the building of ‘Hicks’, a game company that developed ＜Merchen’s Magic Knight＞, an RPG game said to be ahead of its time.

 

A no-entry warning was always attached to the door, and residents who walked in front of the building said they had never seen anyone in charge of the building.

 

The building owner and representative of game developer Hicks completed the ownership preservation registration in the name of ‘Dante’. Whether it was built with pure funds, it was a neat registration that could not be found in the details of setting up the mortgage.

 

On the other hand, the registered directors listed in the commercial register all had ordinary Korean names.

 

If you look up their real name number, you will not be able to verify their identity. All of the addresses of the herbal statue were empty or uninhabitable. It was a situation of poor registration.

 

The customer service center of the game company did not have a wired connection, and could only send and receive messages.

 

The reason why the dubious facts came to light was that the children had entered the Higgs building and had gone missing, along with speculative reports and several complaints about hearing strange noises from the building.

 

The police smell the crime and start digging into game developer Hicks.

 

Hicks didn’t answer the phone. Because there was not enough evidence or legal basis to apply for a search warrant, only one detective sneaked into Hicks’ building, which was off-limits.

 

and went missing

 

As soon as the detective entered the building, he sensed a crisis and called his colleague.

 

It seems that the radio waves are not going well, and the street is noisy, and ‘I am now in the Higgs building…’ . I’m here to get the kids… , hey, f*ck… ! Never come in here… .’ and the call was cut short.

 

The police are dispatched to find the missing detective. They all forcibly opened the door to the Hicks Building.

 

accidentally disappeared

 

The police who infiltrated the building said, ‘f*ck, what is that… !’, ‘There’s a monster, there’s a monster… ‘!’

 

The door to the building that had been pierced was immediately restored. It was an inexplicable phenomenon.

 

Like hyenas that smell blood, the broadcaster immediately responded to the police’s conspicuous movements and dug into the case.

 

The mysterious disappearance of the Hicks building, a game developer, was reported in the Korean media.

 

The videos that Hicks posted on the video platform also saw a surge in views.

 

After some time, a unit of police broke the windows of Hicks’ building and broke into each floor to carry out an operation to rescue the missing children and the police.

 

Then the unbelievable happened.

 

The broken windows were restored in the blink of an eye in front of many police and onlookers.

 

As if time were going back.

 

Or, as if a creature in the shape of a building exhibits amazing resilience.

 

“Hey, that’s all broken, right… ? Didn’t I see something wrong?”

 

“Yes, obviously… .”

 

The police waiting at the entrance decided that it was a serious situation and sent a radio to their colleagues who had entered the building, but the communication was already dead.

 

At least, there was a colleague who was able to communicate even if it was cut off.

 

[ monster… there is… . listen… noodle… didn’t… . This is… . ]

 

After that, communication was cut off.

 

Many citizens and broadcasting reporters who watched the entry of the police unit from afar murmured. It was because they had witnessed the same mysterious sight as the police.

 

Then, a man shouted.

 

“Hicks is on the air!”

 

“what?!”

 

Broadcasting staff and citizens who were broadcasting the scene live took out their smartphones and entered the video site.

 

“The Higgs just turned on a live broadcast.”

 

“At this timing? These assholes, did you just leave?”

 

The police entered the Hicks channel on a tablet and turned on a real-time broadcast to report the situation.

 

The screen with the Hicks logo continued for a while, then a tall woman in a suit suddenly appeared on the screen.

 

She was in a dark room.

 

As was the case in some videos, she spoke calmly in a certain tone, like someone with no emotions.

 

“f*ck this, are you human?”

 

However, according to today, the woman in the video made me feel a sense of alienation that was too much for a person and a feeling of rejection that was difficult to express in words.

 

I feel the indescribable eerieness of simply seeing it as acting.

 

Unexpectedly, a person can instinctively identify something that mimics a person.

 

This was the case with viewers who felt a creepy sensation while watching Internet broadcasts.

 

“It looks like a ghost imitating a person. … Hey, what does this mean?”

 

“Messiah… ?”

 

Subject: I’ll warn you

 

Channel Name: Hicks

 

36.6 million subscribers

 

Chijik… .

 

[Hello everyone.]

 

[This is Arlets, the head of development for ＜Merchen’s Magic Knight＞.]

 

[There are a lot of people invading our territory these days.]

 

[If so, the only one who suffers loss is you.]

 

[We are not something you can stand against.]

 

[You do not deserve the truth.]

 

[If an unqualified person enters our realm, only that soul will become unhappy.]

 

[Only the savior we chose.]

 

[Only a man who struggles with my people to save us and everyone deserves to face all the truth in this world.]

 

[Please act within your means.]

 

It beeped, and the screen changed to the Higgs logo again.

 

The broadcast has ended.

 

A few days later, the missing people were found all at once in the same place, unconscious.

 

It was a closed railroad tunnel.