{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "Sinclair." }, { "id": 1, "content": "A soft and gentle voice enveloped the area." }, { "id": 2, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "Look this way, Sinclair." }, { "id": 3, "content": "The voice is wrapping—perhaps coiling, even." }, { "id": 4, "content": "Alas." }, { "id": 5, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "Keke… Kahah! Isn’t this a magnificent sight?" }, { "id": 6, "content": "The laughter of the one standing next to the child completely twisted the air, like a hair-raising shriek made by two sharp pieces of metal scraping against each other, then flicking away." }, { "id": 7, "content": "Examining the area closely…" }, { "id": 8, "content": "One could see that it was surrounded by raging, knifelike flames." }, { "id": 9, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "How does it feel, Sinclair? How does it feel to witness this sight ablaze?!" }, { "id": 10, "content": "Her voice could even be described as manic, her wry smirk more twisted than the fire around her." }, { "id": 11, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "The One Who Shall Grip", "content": "…Ah." }, { "id": 12, "content": "That is when the child opened his mouth." }, { "id": 13, "content": "His lips trembled, his lungs brought up gasps and huffs." }, { "id": 14, "content": "Could this be a response of fear? Indeed, it may seem that way." }, { "id": 15, "content": "The child most certainly had something that one could call a chance." }, { "id": 16, "content": "He could’ve hatched out of the shell that is fate with his own strength, and gripped control over the path his life should take." }, { "id": 17, "content": "And yet…" }, { "id": 18, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "The One Who Shall Grip", "content": "It’s beautiful… Faust. Beautiful to look at those vile and repulsive things being purged." }, { "id": 19, "content": "It’s not so easy to reject the ease of letting another crack the egg from the outside." }, { "id": 20, "content": "Even if they aren’t your mother bird…" }, { "id": 21, "content": "Even if they wrest hold of your path and jostle it…" }, { "id": 22, "content": "That disquieting flame, almost mistakable for warmth, lures you into giving up your strength before it like a comforting bonfire." }, { "id": 23, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "The One Who Shall Grip", "content": "Why didn’t I let go earlier, Faust?" }, { "id": 24, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "The One Who Shall Grip", "content": "I didn’t need to bother trying to think or ponder so much when there was a clear answer laid right before me." }, { "id": 25, "content": "The child spoke with a trembling voice, whimpering on the verge of tears." }, { "id": 26, "content": "Pushed out of his nest all too soon, feigning the confidence he sorely lacks…" }, { "id": 27, "content": "A baby bird who hasn’t even broken his shell fully." }, { "id": 28, "content": "That would be the description most befitting this child." }, { "id": 29, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "Not just anyone can be like Faust, Sinclair." }, { "id": 30, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "However, it’s alright… Nfu." }, { "id": 31, "content": "The child with silver hair spoke, pointing to the sky." }, { "id": 32, "content": "Up above, something muttering indistinct mechanical noises was skewered to a nail." }, { "id": 33, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "The One Who Shall Grip", "content": "Ah… Ahh!" }, { "id": 34, "content": "The child’s pupils further shrink, while his tremble grows yet more intense." }, { "id": 35, "content": "It was painfully evident that he did not wish for what he was witnessing." }, { "id": 36, "content": "Despite him knowing this as well, he has decided that he will be ignorant of it." }, { "id": 37, "content": "Despite still thinking that what he is doing isn’t right, he cannot resist the convenience of letting this mysterious mother bird bring him food." }, { "id": 38, "content": "A pink chick who does nothing but gape and swallow." }, { "id": 39, "content": "Having dived into a pot of boiling oil, the child had no choice but to flutter with his melting arms." }, { "id": 40, "content": "…Though, by the time the fire dies down, he’ll have been reduced to ash." }, { "id": 41, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "The One Who Shall Grip", "content": "Ha… Haha." }, { "id": 42, "content": "The child laughed." }, { "id": 43, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "Congratulations, Sinclair. Now you’ve become someone who can laugh at that sight." }, { "id": 44, "content": "The one standing next to the child celebrated him with sincerity." }, { "id": 45, "content": "In truth, she was lauding her own achievement more than anything; if there really were possibilities diverging into numerous worlds… she had managed to mold the child into a form one of those worlds must envy." }, { "id": 46, "content": "It may even be that someone from another world has already been infatuated by a glimpse of the changing and charring child." }, { "id": 47, "content": "Soon enough, that world too will face a storm of fire, oil, and sparks; the child there will face a similar yet distinct trial." }, { "id": 48, "model": "파우스트", "teller": "Faust", "title": "The One Who Grips", "content": "Now, let us begin, Sinclair. The cleansing of this world." }, { "id": 49, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "The One Who Shall Grip", "content": "…Okay." }, { "id": 50, "content": "The child weeps amidst the fire; he shall ultimately be snuffed out in flame, unceasingly swinging the steel in his two arms and failing to grip anything in his hands, unable to tread the path he chose." }, { "id": 51, "content": "Whether he will break the shell from inside, or instead yield himself to the ease of being gripped open…" }, { "id": 52, "content": "What happens in that world will stay there." }, { "id": 53, "content": "Though, if you ask which world will be the first to reach that point…" }, { "id": 54, "content": "Who could ever know?" } ] }