{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "???", "content": "I have made my move." }, { "id": 1, "model": "???", "teller": "???", "title": "???", "content": "... Oh, so you have." }, { "id": 2, "content": "An old man garbed in a glistening white dopo robe sat opposite the child, who wore a hat woven from horsehair and bamboo." }, { "id": 3, "content": "The furnace was dark and unlit; the room was freezing. The two sat without even lighting a candle, the moonlight their only source of illumination." }, { "id": 4, "content": "Yet the moon was fully waxed and bright..." }, { "id": 5, "content": "... bright enough to cast its cold light upon the black and white stones on the board." }, { "id": 6, "content": "The Left State Councilor and his bodyguard were having a silent discussion via the game of baduk." }, { "id": 7, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Apologies, young man. I was absorbed in thought." }, { "id": 8, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "It is quite all right. We have not set a time limit for this game." }, { "id": 9, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Ha ha ha." }, { "id": 10, "content": "The old man gently chuckled." }, { "id": 11, "content": "He sat there for a moment, toying with the black stones in the bowl." }, { "id": 12, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "Mind me not, Left State Councilor. I am but a student in this match. It would be unbecoming of me to bid you hurry." }, { "id": 13, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Yet you are quite impatient now, no?" }, { "id": 14, "content": "Clack." }, { "id": 15, "content": "The sound of smooth pebbles grinding against each other ceased." }, { "id": 16, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Has it been seven winters already?" }, { "id": 17, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "Yes." }, { "id": 18, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "I have been your protector for seven years and four months, Left State Councilor. Time passes fast." }, { "id": 19, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Mmh." }, { "id": 20, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "May I ask for your opinion? I am certain that your perspective may vary from mine; I was raised in affluence, yet you have clawed your way up from the bottom." }, { "id": 21, "content": "The child began fiddling with the stones again, briefly absorbed in thought. Then he answers with a gentle voice." }, { "id": 22, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "The path you walk is a dark and arduous one." }, { "id": 23, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "But I believe that you walk that path with unyielding tenacity for the good of this Nest and its feathers." }, { "id": 24, "content": "The old man knitted his brows. Perhaps the child's answer wasn't what he was looking for." }, { "id": 25, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "You have not once shared your opinion with me, ever since you became my protector." }, { "id": 26, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "I suppose that is why I am content with you by my side." }, { "id": 27, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "I apologize. My response must not have been to your satisfaction." }, { "id": 28, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Ha ha, there is no need for apologies." }, { "id": 29, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "... You had the potential to become a Un'geom had you served the Right State Councilor instead." }, { "id": 30, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Is that not the title all those who walk the path of the blade in S Corp. seek? To be recognized as one of the very best in the Nest." }, { "id": 31, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Not even you would jest that you have never sought one such privilege." }, { "id": 32, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "I am your blade to wield, Left State Councilor. You were the one who chose me." }, { "id": 33, "content": "The child responds immediately and indifferently." }, { "id": 34, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "A blade follows the hand that wields it. And you are that hand, Left State Councilor." }, { "id": 35, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Hah. This is not a move one makes without nary a thought, young man." }, { "id": 36, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "I saw no reason for hesitation." }, { "id": 37, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "......" }, { "id": 38, "content": "The old man—the Left State Councilor—smiled, but there was a tinge of woe in his eyes." }, { "id": 39, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "... If that is your answer, then... I have something to ask of you. Though I hardly deserve to." }, { "id": 40, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "I will do as you command." }, { "id": 41, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Next week... I plan to present this appeal. May I ask you to protect me until then?" }, { "id": 42, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "I fail to see your purpose in asking me to do the duties that I am already intent on performing." }, { "id": 43, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "... Ah, do you seek to dismiss me after this?" }, { "id": 44, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Ha ha ha! I see that your talent in jests have grown since we first met." }, { "id": 45, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "... Written in this appeal are the hideous conspiracies, heinous deeds, and studies that have been conducted in secret." }, { "id": 46, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Should the contents of my appeal be made public... it will shake S Corp. to its roots." }, { "id": 47, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "......" }, { "id": 48, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "That is the strength this appeal carries. And such revelatory strength begets those that seek to destroy it. Assassins." }, { "id": 49, "model": "좌의정", "teller": "Left State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "... Be my blade so that I may see this path to its end. That is my request." }, { "id": 50, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "Protector", "content": "It shall be done." }, { "id": 51, "content": "The child replied without a moment of hesitation. He had no reason to." }, { "id": 52, "content": "Because he never questioned the fact that it was his purpose to protect the Left State Councilor." }, { "id": 53, "content": "... And that is why the child could not even imagine that he would ever fail." }, { "id": 54, "content": "The old man perished, despite the child's vow." }, { "id": 55, "content": "The child's skills with the blade were unparalleled; yet there was only so much that a single person could manage. The powers that be of S Corp. held resources and ploys that no single human could possibly withstand." }, { "id": 56, "content": "No one in S Corp. quite knew who murdered the old man, or how he was murdered. He was killed in a manner that could never be traced." }, { "id": 57, "content": "But the child knew." }, { "id": 58, "content": "It was the old man's political enemy... the Right State Councilor's doing." }, { "id": 59, "content": "It is before sunbreak; not a soul stirs awake in this hour." }, { "id": 60, "content": "There was another old man, sleeping—yet soon awakened by a noise from outside his window." }, { "id": 61, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "What... I-is there anyone out there?" }, { "id": 62, "content": "The old man peeked open the sliding paper door to his room..." }, { "id": 63, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Huh...?!" }, { "id": 64, "content": "And came face-to-face with the child." }, { "id": 65, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "???", "content": "It was you." }, { "id": 66, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "H-how are you still alive? How did you even get in he—" }, { "id": 67, "content": "The child was surrounded by corpses of decapitated men." }, { "id": 68, "content": "He glared at the Right State Councilor with a look of a fiend; there was naught but the silence of dead men who were once his bodyguards." }, { "id": 69, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "I-if you cut me down, it shall not end with your neck! Your entire family, your entire bloodline shall be purged!" }, { "id": 70, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "The Royal Court will send the Ch'unokkun against you!! Y-you must know how terribly tenacious they are; they will not let the borders of a Nest stop them!" }, { "id": 71, "content": "S Corp., a Wing that places heavy emphasis on tradition and hierarchies, oft sends the Ch'unokkun after contractors who have fled or violated a Taboo." }, { "id": 72, "content": "Within S Corp., the Fixers might as well be called Ch'unokkun." }, { "id": 73, "content": "And the Ch'unokkun sent by the Royal Court are known to be like the Taboo Hunters of other Wings; they are deadlier and more tenacious than any pursuers." }, { "id": 74, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "???", "content": "I will not cut you down. Your death will change nothing." }, { "id": 75, "content": "The child's voice is terrifyingly cold and collected." }, { "id": 76, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "???", "content": "Let this be a warning still." }, { "id": 77, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "???", "content": "A warning that, if I ever find anyone who is capable of tearing these putrid roots from the ground... I will return." }, { "id": 78, "model": "뫼르소", "teller": "Meursault", "title": "???", "content": "A warning that I can easily separate your pathetic head from your body as a blade cuts through weed." }, { "id": 79, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "What—?!" }, { "id": 80, "content": "With that, the child disappeared into the early morning wind." }, { "id": 81, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "Men!!! Find the best Ch'unokkun in the Nest, now! Arrest anyone who ever had ties to that man!" }, { "id": 82, "model": "우의정", "teller": "Right State Councilor", "title": "S Corp.", "content": "I want them hung before me!!!" }, { "id": 83, "content": "The child left the Right State Councilor's echoing bellows behind and resolutely made his way to the borders of S Corp." }, { "id": 84, "content": "His persecuted fellows who were barely maintaining their status as feathers at S Corp." }, { "id": 85, "content": "Those who wielded their blades under the banner of the Blade Lineage. He would one day return to this place with them by his side." } ] }