{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "place": "Round 2 Evaluations Assembly", "model": "하인2", "content": "We have arrived at the venue for the second round of the Evaluation!" }, { "id": 1, "content": "We found ourselves at some kind of deep subterranean area with multiple lifts installed inside it." }, { "id": 2, "content": "Some contestants were already rising on those lifts, but most of them had elected to remain down here to quietly and furtively discuss their strategies." }, { "id": 3, "content": "As for us, we were slowly getting used to our presence drawing the attention of every single person in the room the moment we entered." }, { "id": 4, "model": "하인2", "content": "Contestants must now each board their lifts and ascend." }, { "id": 5, "model": "싱클레어", "content": "Well, then... should we get going, too?" }, { "id": 6, "model": "싱클레어", "content": "I feel like we're drawing way too much attention, so let's—" }, { "id": 7, "content": "But we were stopped by a voice calling us." }, { "id": 8, "model": "임대옥", "content": "... Big brother Baoyu." }, { "id": 9, "model": "홍루", "content": "Ah, Daiyu." }, { "id": 10, "model": "임대옥", "content": "Have you been well?" }, { "id": 11, "content": "I'd seen a child who looked just like her a few times in Hong Lu's memories. I remember her beaming at Hong Lu as she made a mound of petals with one hand—" }, { "id": 12, "content": "... But now, she looked on at him without a discernible emotion, a spear in the very same hand." }, { "id": 13, "model": "홍루", "content": "……." }, { "id": 14, "model": "홍루", "content": "Daiyu. I didn't think you'd be participating in the Family Hierarch war." }, { "id": 15, "model": "임대옥", "content": "Have you forgotten that my family cannot exist unless we are in service of greater houses?" }, { "id": 16, "model": "임대옥", "content": "I am but a blade serving a clan from the Xue family." }, { "id": 17, "model": "홍루", "content": "I see, for big sis Baochai's family..." }, { "id": 18, "model": "임대옥", "content": "Yes. I will be fighting in the service of others to the last of my days." }, { "id": 19, "model": "홍루", "content": "... Daiyu." }, { "id": 20, "content": "Hong Lu took a step toward her, but she raised her hand and pushed him away." }, { "id": 21, "content": "It was not a threat, but her gesture carried such implicit resoluteness that it brought Hong Lu to a stop." }, { "id": 22, "place": "Daguanyuan - Yihongyuan Yard, Past", "model": "과거홍루", "content": "Daiyu. I'll be departing Daguanyuan soon. The elders have commanded me to leave here and experience more of the world." }, { "id": 23, "model": "임대옥", "title": "Bodyguard", "content": "You're leaving Daguanyuan?" }, { "id": 24, "model": "임대옥", "title": "Bodyguard", "content": "So you leave me now, still refusing to illuminate me the truths about that day." }, { "id": 25, "model": "임대옥", "title": "Bodyguard", "content": "……." }, { "id": 26, "model": "임대옥", "title": "Bodyguard", "content": "Why..." }, { "id": 27, "model": "임대옥", "title": "Bodyguard", "content": "Why won't you stop smiling like that?" }, { "id": 28, "model": "임대옥", "title": "Bodyguard", "content": "Then... I hope you'll never come back here again." }, { "id": 29, "place": "Round 2 Evaluations Assembly", "model": "임대옥", "content": "We shared an intimate bond once, yet all is for naught." }, { "id": 30, "model": "임대옥", "content": "Now I am unbound by the heavens, unbound by the dirt." }, { "id": 31, "model": "임대옥", "content": "Still lies this heart of mine now, with emptiness wrought." }, { "id": 32, "model": "임대옥", "content": "A blossom may be lovely now, but its wilting sharpens the blade of woe, the blade of hurt..." }, { "id": 33, "model": "임대옥", "content": "Our meeting never should have come to pass." }, { "id": 34, "model": "홍루", "content": "... You always say things that are so difficult and saddening to hear." }, { "id": 35, "model": "임대옥", "content": "My own funeral was held long ago. And now, having met you for the final time..." }, { "id": 36, "model": "임대옥", "content": "… when we meet our ends here…" }, { "id": 37, "model": "임대옥", "content": "… may we each become a lone thread of formless smoke, to be scattered to the winds." }, { "id": 38, "content": "With that, Daiyu walked away from us." }, { "id": 39, "model": "홍루", "content": "……." }, { "id": 40, "model": "홍루", "content": "Ah, looks like I forgot to introduce her to everyone." }, { "id": 41, "model": "홍루", "content": "She's someone with whom I had had a brief connection in my childhood. Though, I guess our reunion was made under pretty unfavorable circumstances." }, { "id": 42, "model": "이상", "content": "That she has come here in service of another candidate..." }, { "id": 43, "content": "... Means that we'll be enemies the next time we meet." }, { "id": 44, "content": "Yi Sang trailed off without vocalizing that sentiment, and sighed." }, { "id": 45, "model": "홍루", "content": "Connections are such fickle things, after all." }, { "id": 46, "place": "Grand Lift", "content": "Hong Lu muttered with a faint hint of loneliness as we entered the grand lift, enclosed by four pillars." }, { "id": 47, "content": "The lift rises ploddingly." }, { "id": 48, "content": "When I looked down, I could see the other candidates, still waiting for their lifts, looking up at us. The candidates whose fates may or may not intermingle with our own in this battle." }, { "id": 49, "model": "설반", "content": "Jia Baoyu!" }, { "id": 50, "model": "설반", "content": "You will never leave this place alive!" }, { "id": 51, "model": "설반", "content": "No matter what it takes, we will cut off your head! No matter what it takes!" }, { "id": 52, "content": "Someone screams bitterly from beneath us, but the lift does not stop." }, { "id": 53, "model": "돈키호테", "content": "Young Hong Lu..." }, { "id": 54, "model": "돈키호테", "content": "... are we to be battle villains henceforth in this quest?" }, { "id": 55, "model": "홍루", "content": "Mm... but to them, we are the villains." }, { "id": 56, "model": "홍루", "content": "Then are they to be evil in our eyes? Hehe, it's a distinction without a difference." }, { "id": 57, "model": "이스마엘", "content": "Well, whichever is the case, I'm pretty sure that..." }, { "id": 58, "model": "이스마엘", "content": "... trying to draw a clear line between enemies and allies won't mean much." }, { "id": 59, "content": "It seemed that we finally arrived at our destination as the lift slowed down." }, { "id": 60, "place": "Somewhere in Hongyuan", "content": "We were greeted by a sight that, at first glance, appeared as though it belonged outside. But we were still clearly within the confines of Hongyuan." }, { "id": 61, "content": "Underneath the blue sky were two metal gates leading into a massive, looming structure. Red lights flickered ominously around the building." }, { "id": 62, "model": "이스마엘", "content": "Looks like they decorated this huge space to look like the outside... I can't even fathom how much money they must've poured into this project." }, { "id": 63, "model": "가원춘", "content": "Family Hierarch Evaluations round 2." }, { "id": 64, "content": "A disembodied voice echoed from the speakers with a buzz." }, { "id": 65, "model": "가원춘", "content": "... Begins now." }, { "id": 66, "content": "The door to the lift that carried us up here closed shut." }, { "id": 67, "model": "홍루", "content": "Ohh... I finally recognize where we are." }, { "id": 68, "model": "그레고르", "content": "You've been here before?" }, { "id": 69, "model": "홍루", "content": "... This place is~" }, { "id": 70, "model": "홍루", "content": "~ the site of the former H Corp. that was once headed by the Kong family." }, { "id": 71, "model": "홍루", "content": "This place still bleeds from the wounds made then. I wonder if we will be spilling fresh blood over them today." }, { "id": 72, "place": -1, "content": "We are surrounded by the loud and crowded bustle of the teeming audience." }, { "id": 73, "content": "Is Hong Lu smiling still, as he always has since our first meeting?" }, { "id": 74, "content": "I turn around to face him..." }, { "id": 75, "content": "... only to see a much younger Hong Lu." }, { "id": 76, "content": "The deep sorrow in the child's eyes was about to overflow, as if he were ready to burst into tears." } ] }