As soon as she opened her eyes, Han Su-Yeong spat out a mouthful of blood.
韩素英一睁开眼睛，就吐出一口血。
Only after the black-coloured blood filled up the ground in a rather large quantity did she finally regain her wits. The first thing she saw was the dense forest. It wasn’t the location where she’d been fighting against Yu Joong-Hyeok just now.
直到黑色的血大量地充满了地面，她才终于恢复了理智。她首先看到的是茂密的森林。这不是她刚才和余重赫打架的地方。
“I really almost died back there. Yu Joong-Hyeok, you son of a bitch….”
“我刚才真的差点死在那里。余重赫，你这个狗娘养的......”
If she hadn’t transferred her memories to a dummy Avatar on standby at the very last moment, she’d have died for real.
如果她没有在最后一刻把自己的记忆转移到待机的虚拟阿凡达上，她可能真的死了。
[You have exhausted today’s allotment for the authorisation of ‘Memory Transfer’.] [From now on, the applicable Avatar will act as your true body.]
[你已经用完了今天分配给“内存传输”的授权。][从现在开始，适用的阿凡达将充当你真实的身体。]
She’d been expecting something like this to happen.
她早就料到会发生这样的事。
[Fable, ‘Predictive Plagiarism’, is hesitantly carrying on with its storytelling.]
[寓言，‘预测性剽窃’，犹豫不决地继续它的叙事方式。]
Han Su-Yeong got to clearly witness several ‘scenes’ through this Fable called ⸢Predictive Plagiarism⸥, the one she earned after experiencing that mysterious dream.
韩素妍清楚地看到了几个场景通过这个寓言所谓的预测剽窃，一个她经历了神秘的梦想后赚取的。
Such as, the various futures that would change according to the choices she’d make - Kim Dok-Ja’s death, or maybe, even Yu Joong-Hyeok’s death. And then, the sole future where both of those terrible choices could be avoided altogether.
比如，根据她的选择而改变的各种未来——金道子的死亡，或者甚至于余重赫的死亡。然后，唯一的未来，这两种可怕的选择都可以避免。
[Due to the penalty of ‘Memory Transfer’, your physical abilities will be weakened significantly.] “I swear, if either one of them is dead, then I….!”
[由于“记忆转移”的惩罚，你的身体能力将大大减弱。]“我发誓，如果他们中的任何一个死了，那么我......!”
Han Su-Yeong complained unhappily to herself and tried to sense the waves of magical energy from the surroundings. She still needed to locate the direction where those two were.
韩素妍不高兴地自言自语，试图感受周围的魔法能量的波动。她仍然需要确定那两个人的位置。
Not too long afterwards, her senses picked up on two rather enormous Statuses. She quickly ran in that direction.
不久之后，她的感觉又回到了两个巨大的身体上，她迅速朝那个方向跑去。
Out of all the futures she read, this was the ‘only one that worked out fine’. Kim Dok-Ja didn’t die, and for the first time ever, those two idiots would get to share a proper conversation.
在她读过的所有期货中，这是“唯一一个成功的期货”。金道子没有死，这是有史以来第一次，这两个白痴可以正常地交谈了。
That’s what Han Su-Yeong’s [Predictive Plagiarism] had predicted, and that was why she didn’t try to dodge Yu Joong-Hyeok’s sword at the last second. So, Kim Dok-Ja should definitely be alive.
这就是韩素妍(预测剽窃)的预测，这就是为什么她没有在最后一刻试图躲开于重赫的剑。所以金道子应该还活着。
It was around here that she heard the sound of a sword clashing against something else.
就在这附近，她听到了一把剑和别的东西碰撞的声音。
‘….Are they still fighting?
”“他们还在打架吗？
These idiots, I even died so that you two could talk to each other, but this….’
这些白痴，我甚至为了让你们两个能够交谈而死，但是这个......”
She figured that she really needed to give these two men a harsh earful when she arrived there. But, when she pushed past the bushes and stepped forward, the ensuing spectacle freaked her out in a rather grand manner.
她觉得自己到那儿的时候，真的需要给这两个男人一顿严厉的训斥。但是，当她穿过灌木丛向前走时，随之而来的奇观却以一种相当宏大的方式把她吓坏了。
Kwa-aaang!! Bang!!!
砰!砰!!！
Yu Joong-Hyeok was mercilessly slamming his sword down on Kim Dok-Ja, currently sprawled out on the ground.
于重赫毫不留情地用剑猛击正躺在地上的金道子。
“Hey!! You crazy son of a bitch!!”
“嘿!!你这个疯狂的混蛋!!”
*
‘….I guess it didn’t work?’
“......我想它没起作用吧?”
Yu Joong-Hyeok observed Kim Dok-Ja lying on the ground. On the chest of the unconscious man, the shallow wound left behind by his [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] was clearly visible.
于重赫看到金德子躺在地上。在这个昏迷的人的胸膛上，可以清楚地看到他的[黑暗天魔剑]留下的浅伤口。
‘But, I thought I saw it just now.’
但是，我想我刚才看到了
Yu Joong-Hyeok grasped his sword tightly and focused his mind. And almost right away, he sensed the dark aura oozing out from Kim Dok-Ja’s body.
于重赫紧握着他的剑，集中精神。几乎马上，他就感觉到了从金道子身上渗出的黑暗气氛。
That was the ‘wall’, the identity of the strange ‘foreignness’ he felt whenever he was looking at Kim Dok-Ja.
这就是“墙”，这就是他每次看着金道子时所感受到的那种奇怪的“异域”的身份。
‘I can see it.’
我看得出来
He could see a jet-black wall, composed of countless texts. He raised his sword high up and powerfully smashed down on that wall again.
他可以看到一堵乌黑的墙，上面写满了无数的文字。他把剑高高举起，狠狠地砸在墙上。
Now that a Transcender began pounding on it with serious intent, the wall started shaking around in an unstable manner.
现在，一个越境者开始认真地敲打它，围墙开始摇晃，不稳定的方式。
[‘The 4th Wall’ is glaring at you.]
4.“第四道墙”正瞪着你呢
Not caring whether it was glaring or not, Yu Joong-Hyeok continued to pound on that wall.
于重赫不在乎是不是眼花缭乱，继续敲着那堵墙。
‘Beyond this wall, there might be….’
在这堵墙之外，可能有.....
If it didn’t want to open up, then until it did; if it couldn’t be broken, then until he broke it down. Again, and again.
如果它不想打开，那么直到它想打开;如果它不能被打开，那么直到他把它打开。一次又一次。
But then…
但是后来..。
“Hey, you crazy bastard!! Have you lost your mind?!”
“嘿，你这个疯子!!你疯了吗?!”
Accompanied by a shrill voice, he felt a rather powerful impact in the back of his head. Blood trickled down and blocked his vision. Through all that red, he saw Han Su-Yeong kneeling down next to Kim Dok-Ja.
伴随着刺耳的声音，他感到一种相当强大的冲击力在他的后脑勺。血流了下来，挡住了他的视线。透过那一片红色，他看见韩素英跪在金道子旁边。
“Hey, Kim Dok-Ja!! Get a hold of yourself! Wake u…. What the heck? He isn’t dead?”
“嘿，金道子!!控制一下自己!快醒醒......搞什么鬼?他没死?”
Yu Joong-Hyeok scowled unhappily as he staggered on his feet.
于重赫摇摇晃晃地站起来，满脸愁容。
“Han Su-Yeong. Do you really wish to die today?”
“韩素英，你今天真的想死吗?”
“You already killed me once today, you bastard.”
“你今天已经杀了我一次了，你这个混蛋。”
“I knew you wouldn’t die from the beginning.”
“我一开始就知道你不会死。”
“Stop lying. My acting was beyond perfect, you know.”
“别撒谎了，你知道，我的演技已经超越完美了。”
She growled angrily and pointed at her Incarnation Body (which was her real body only until a few minutes ago) still lying on some forgotten corner over yonder.
她愤怒地咆哮着，指着那边某个被遗忘的角落里的化身身体(几分钟前还是她真实的身体)。
The Incarnation Body, currently crumbling away, showed the definite signs of bleeding out. An [Avatar] wouldn’t have bled anything in the first place.
化身的身体，目前正在崩溃，显示出明显的流血迹象。阿凡达一开始就不会流血。
Yu Joong-Hyeok spoke nonchalantly. “An [Avatar] would bleed like the real body if it was imbued with a certain amount of memories.”
于重赫若无其事地说。“如果一个(阿凡达)被灌输了一定数量的记忆，它就会像真实的身体一样流血。”
“Oh my? And how did you even find that out?”
“天哪，你怎么知道的?”
“From the record you wrote yourself. Specifically, you from the 1863rd turn, that is.”
“根据你自己写的记录。具体来说，是你从1863年开始写的。”
“Me of that turn wrote all sorts of crap, didn’t I? God damn it.”
“那个年代的我写了很多废话，不是吗?该死的。”
There were plenty of things she wanted to ask, but she chose not to. Instead, she poked Kim Dok-Ja’s cheek and spoke up. “Still, this guy looks like he got completely fooled, doesn’t he.”
有很多事情她想问，但她选择不问。相反，她戳了一下金道子的脸，然后开口说话了。“不过，这家伙看起来完全被骗了，不是吗?”
“Looks that way.”
“看起来是这样。”
“How did it go?”
“怎么样?”
“He went crazy and attacked me.”
“他发疯了，袭击了我。”
Han Su-Yeong smirked and lightly pinched Kim Dok-Ja’s cheek as if she was proud of him. “By the way, what’s the matter with his chest?”
韩素英(HanSu-Yeong)傻笑着，轻轻捏了一下金德子(KimDok-Ja)的脸颊，好像她为他感到骄傲似的。“顺便问一下，他的胸部怎么了?”
“He’s paying for making me eat dirt.”
“他是在为让我吃土而付钱。”
“….Dirt ”
“...泥土 ”
“There is something like that.”
“确实有这么一回事。”
She shifted her gaze back to Kim Dok-Ja and his cheek that sagged without any energy. In all honesty, he was only just barely alive, and not one part of his body could be described as ‘okay’. Indeed, the surrounding forest had been completely levelled by the battle just now, so it’d be far stranger if his body was left largely unscathed.
她把目光转回到金道子身上，他的脸颊无精打采地耷拉着。老实说，他当时只是奄奄一息，身体的任何一部分都不能用“还好”来形容。事实上，周围的森林已经被刚才的战斗夷为平地，所以如果他的身体基本上没有受到伤害就更奇怪了。
Han Su-Yeong understood that this scene of utter destruction was the direct evidence of the conversation that took place between Kim Dok-Ja and Yu Joong-Hyeok.
韩素英明白，这个彻底毁灭的场面是金德子和于重行之间谈话的直接证据。
“So? Did you hear the answer you wanted?”
“那么?你听到你想要的答案了吗?”
Yu Joong-Hyeok paused for a moment before making his reply. “A little.”
于重赫停顿了一会儿，然后回答说:“有一点。”
She could clearly read the depths of emotions contained in that simple reply of “A little”. But they belonged to Kim Dok-Ja and Yu Joong-Hyeok, and no one else. That left her feeling just a bit rueful, a bit lonesome.
她可以清楚地看出“一点”这个简单的回答所包含的深深的情感。但它们属于金德子和余重赫，不属于其他人。这让她感到有点悲伤，有点寂寞。
“Anyways. You are coming back to <Kim Dok-Ja’s Company> now, right?”
“不管怎样，你现在要回金道子公司了，对吧?”
Yu Joong-Hyeok mulled over for a while, but then, turned around to leave as if he had said everything there was to say.
于重赫思考了一会儿，然后转身离开了，好像他已经说完了所有的话。
She frowned deeply. “Hey, you! At least try to answer properly, will you? I even helped you out, didn’t I ”
她深深地皱起了眉头。“嘿，你!至少试着正确地回答，好吗?我甚至帮过你，不是吗?”
“The ‘Great War of Saints and Demons’ is just around the corner.”
“《圣魔大战》(GreatWarofSaintsandDemons)即将上映。”
Yu Joong-Hyeok continued to walk further away. One step, two steps…
于重赫继续往前走，一步，两步.....。
Just as Han Su-Yeong was getting ready to shout out something else…
正当韩素英准备喊出别的话来的时候..。
Tsu-chuchuchut!!
楚楚!！
Sparks buzzed around Kim Dok-Ja’s body and a ‘voice’ suddenly came out from him.
金道子的身体周围火花四溅，突然传来一个“声音”。
⸢(Yu Joong-Hyeok-ssi, that stupid scenario isn’t the most important thing, you know.)⸥
(余重赫，你知道，那个愚蠢的情节并不是最重要的。)
Startled by this development, Yu Joong-Hyeok quickly unsheathed his blade. The imaginary wall enveloping Kim Dok-Ja was actually moving. Past that wall, someone was speaking to him.
于重赫被这种变化吓了一跳，迅速拔出了剑。包围着金道子的想象中的墙实际上在动。穿过那堵墙，有人在和他说话。
⸢(Do you believe that it’s the end when you leave after talking one-sidedly like this?)⸥
(你认为你这样片面地说完话就走了吗?)
No, to be more specific, it wasn’t the wall, but rather… ⸢(You should experience it as well, what the ‘feelings of being a reader’ are all about. To understand what it really is.)⸥
不，更具体地说，不是那堵墙，而是......(你也应该体验一下，作为一个读者的感觉是什么。去理解它到底是什么。)
Tsu-chuchuchuchut!!
楚楚楚!！
The wall that didn’t want to break no matter how many times he hit it suddenly developed a small hole on the side, and a hand popped out from this mysterious hole. That hand proceeded to lightly grasp Yu Joong-Hyeok’s head and then, slammed it right against the wall.
那堵不管撞了多少次都不想破的墙突然在边上开了一个小洞，一只手从这个神秘的洞里伸了出来。那只手接着轻轻地抓住了余重赫的头，然后把它往墙上狠狠地撞了一下。
*
I was lying in pitch-black darkness by the time I regained my consciousness.
当我恢复知觉的时候，我正躺在漆黑的黑暗中。
What happened?
发生了什么？
Did I die?
我死了吗？
….By Yu Joong-Hyeok?
余重赫写的？
As the thoughts continued to swirl in my head, I slowly stood back up. I looked around but couldn’t see anything. It was then, a bright light from a lantern lit up in front of my eyes.
当这些想法继续在我脑海中盘旋时，我慢慢地站了起来。我环顾四周，什么也看不见。就在那时，一盏灯笼的亮光照亮了我的眼睛。
⸢(Dok-Ja-ssi, so this was where you’ve been all this time.)⸥ ‘Is that you, Yu Sang-Ah-ssi?’
(Dok-Ja-ssi，原来你一直都在这里。)“是你吗，于相雅-ssi?”
⸢(Are you alright?)⸥
你还好吗
‘Where am I….?’
“我在哪儿...?”
⸢(You’re inside the Library.)⸥
(你在图书馆里。)
Only then did I figure out what had happened. Most likely, I got sucked inside [The 4th Wall] as I blacked out again.
直到那时我才知道发生了什么事。最有可能的是，当我再次失去知觉时，我被吸进了(第四堵墙)。
‘….By the way, is it always this dark inside?’ ⸢(No, it’s just that the Library is in a state of chaos at the moment, you see. The aftershocks of the battle this time killed off all the lanterns inside, and all the bookshelves have fallen down. Everyone is doing their best trying to restore everything right now.)⸥ ‘My apologies. I have created a lot of trouble for you.’
“......顺便问一下，里面总是这么黑吗?”(不，只是图书馆现在一片混乱。这次战斗的余震把里面所有的灯笼都烧光了，书架也都倒了。现在每个人都在尽最大努力恢复一切”“对不起。我给你制造了很多麻烦。”
Yu Sang-Ah grinned softly and shook her head.
余相娥轻轻地笑了笑，摇了摇头。
⸢(No, not at all.)⸥
(不，一点也不。)
‘Is there anything I can do to help…?’ ⸢(Oh, no. It’s fine. You should lay here and rest. I’ll sit here and take a short break, as well.)⸥
“我能帮上什么忙吗?”(哦，不。没关系。你应该躺在这里休息一下。我也会坐在这里休息一会儿
Yu Sang-Ah let out a grunt and lightly settled down next to me. Her face, as illuminated by the dim light of the lantern was the exact same one from my memories.
余相娥咕哝了一声，轻轻地坐在我旁边。她的脸，被灯笼的微弱光线照亮，和我记忆中的一模一样。
⸢(You really did well.)⸥
(你真的做得很好。)
‘….In regards to?’
“......关于什么?”
⸢(When you said those things.)⸥
(当你说那些话的时候。)
I didn’t need a lot of time to figure out what she meant by those words. No doubt, she would’ve borne witness to the spectacle of the outside from behind [The 4th Wall].
我并不需要很多时间来弄明白她说这些话的意思。毫无疑问，她会从后面(第四堵墙)看到外面的奇观。
⸢(A proper relationship starts from the act of introducing oneself first, doesn’t it? It’s possible that you two might become real friends this time.)⸥ ‘….That would be great if such a thing was possible, but…’
(适当的关系是从先介绍自己开始的，不是吗？这次你们可能会成为真正的朋友如果这样的事情有可能发生那就太好了，但是..
I wasn’t expecting much, though. Honestly, I thought that it’d be a huge relief with Yu Joong-Hyeok’s anger being soothed, somehow. No matter what I said, it’d be quite impossible to soften the sense of betrayal he must’ve felt.
不过，我并没有期望太多。说实话，我以为余重赫的愤怒得到了某种程度的缓解，这会是一种巨大的解脱。不管我说什么，都不可能减轻他被背叛的感觉。
Books discarded on the floor seemed to be rolling around everywhere. Without thinking too much about it, I picked one up.
丢在地板上的书似乎到处都是。我没有想太多，就拿起了一个。
『Kim Dok-Ja, Records from 15 years old, Volume #25』
『金道子』，15岁时的唱片，第25卷
I sneakily closed the book and chucked the damn thing deep into the darkness.
我偷偷地合上书，把那该死的东西扔进了黑暗深处。
⸢(Uhm, excuse me, Dok-Ja-ssi?)⸥
(嗯，对不起，Dok-Ja-ssi?)
‘Yes?’
什么事
⸢(Actually, well, I read that book. Just a little bit.)⸥
(实际上，我读过那本书，只读了一点点。)
‘….How much did you read?’
“你读了多少?”
⸢(….Almost the whole book, if I’m honest. I find these more interesting than the ‘Ways of Survival’, you see…. I’m sorry.)⸥
老实说，几乎是整本书。我发现这些比“生存之道”更有趣，你看.....。对不起。)
My face reddened from heat, but there was naught that could be done when she had already read it.
我的脸因为热而发红，但是她已经读过这封信了，还是没有办法。
‘It’s fine. I do feel a bit ashamed, but still.’
“没关系。我确实有点惭愧，但还是有点。”
I did think that, with Yu Sang-Ah being a part of the ‘Library’, such memories would possibly end up being exposed, anyway. She carefully picked up the books rolling around on the floor, one by one, and dusted them before gathering them all together.
我的确认为，由于余相雅是“图书馆”的一部分，这样的记忆可能最终会被曝光，无论如何。她小心翼翼地把在地板上滚来滚去的书一本一本地捡起来，掸去灰尘，然后把它们全部收集起来。
They were all my memories.
那些都是我的记忆。
Her expression, as dyed by the darkness, was hard to see, but I could nevertheless sense how troubled she was feeling right now. Perhaps to console her, I picked up one of the books she had been gathering.
