{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "You know, you could try different kinds of tea once in a while. Is my ssanghwa-cha really that delicious?" }, { "id": 1, "content": "Master answers teasingly as though I was asking him the most obvious question in the world. My seonbae will be back from a contract soon, so I open the window wide for her return." }, { "id": 2, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "Seonbae said she'll just be making a quick stop at the workshop, so I don't suppose she'll be long." }, { "id": 3, "content": "Days without contracts were always so peaceful." }, { "id": 4, "content": "Chatting about the day-to-day goings-on with my master while sipping on a cup of ssanghwa-cha. Worrying about our next month's rent with my seonbae, who should be here any minute." }, { "id": 5, "content": "It was a warm and gentle hour, not unlike the cold dawn of our Office's namesake." }, { "id": 6, "content": "I enjoyed that hour." }, { "id": 7, "content": "I was making decent progress as a Fixer, too." }, { "id": 8, "content": "Under the skillful guidance of my master, I learned the basics of being a Fixer, things I should know if I was really serious about working in this field, and the tricks of using Stigma Workshop's weapons." }, { "id": 9, "content": "Whichever contract we picked up, we managed. It was mostly thanks to my master and seonbae's excellent skills, but still. Results begot recognition, and I naturally rose through the Fixer ranks." }, { "id": 10, "content": "... A proof that I was slowly bettering myself." }, { "id": 11, "content": "But..." }, { "id": 12, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "Didn't really get to do anything in this contract, either..." }, { "id": 13, "content": "My master was once a prominent Fixer during the Smoke War. My seonbae once took care of an Urban Legend contract all on her own." }, { "id": 14, "content": "Between these two giants of our Dawn Office, my earnest efforts amounted to nothing but a struggle not to fall behind." }, { "id": 15, "content": "The two of them always assured me that I wasn't useless. That I was helpful. But all that reassurance rang hollow." }, { "id": 16, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "We got the Invitation...? It's that Urban Plague, 'The Library', isn't it...?" }, { "id": 17, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "Will I be going with you?" }, { "id": 18, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "Am I even going to be of any help to you two there...?" }, { "id": 19, "content": "My self-doubt grew with no end." }, { "id": 20, "content": "And with it, my faith in the two of them did as well. Too much." }, { "id": 21, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "I guess I won't have to do much more than provide them some basic support..." }, { "id": 22, "content": "The faith that the two of them had this in the bag. That I wasn't really that necessary." }, { "id": 23, "content": "And with such shallow, selfish presumption..." }, { "id": 24, "content": "... I walked into the Library." }, { "id": 25, "content": "My master, who was so worried about me to the end." }, { "id": 26, "content": "My seonbae, who refused to blame me for anything nor show any fear in face of the end." }, { "id": 27, "content": "Even Fixers of the affiliate Office who offered me help." }, { "id": 28, "content": "All were vanquished by the Library, each and every one of them turned into a book." }, { "id": 29, "content": "Everyone I'd grown so used to always being there for me... were gone. I alone survived." }, { "id": 30, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "Gah... Haah..." }, { "id": 31, "content": "I consider if there's any point in me going back in there to fight them." }, { "id": 32, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "The fabricated heart isn't so bad...? No. That can't be." }, { "id": 33, "content": "I consider escaping, reporting everything I've seen here to an Association, and then asking them for help. That would be the most logical thing to do, right?" }, { "id": 34, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "Y-you're right. No one really understood my true feelings." }, { "id": 35, "content": "Fear grips me. It holds me back from moving on; I slowly retreat." }, { "id": 36, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "... Will this path really bring me nothing but suffering?" }, { "id": 37, "content": "A beautiful voice whispers comfort in my ears with every withdrawing step I take." }, { "id": 38, "content": "Then, all of a sudden..." }, { "id": 39, "content": "... I begin to wonder if everything I'd ever done were nothing more than self-serving justifications." }, { "id": 40, "content": "And with it comes the inkling of an understanding that I will never be able to forge on so long as I continue protecting and embellishing myself with the shield of others." }, { "id": 41, "content": "That the right path is the honest, forward path. Not the stuttering retreat disguised as selflessness." }, { "id": 42, "content": "I accept that I wasn't even on a righteous path." }, { "id": 43, "content": "That I am a squalid, hideous person." }, { "id": 44, "content": "I admit it. I admit that I'm as uncaring and selfish as any other City dweller..." }, { "id": 45, "content": "... and I cease my retreat." }, { "id": 46, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "If I were to close my heart to everyone else... turn my back on them... could I truly love myself more?" }, { "id": 47, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "I don't know. I'm just... I just don't know." }, { "id": 48, "content": "Shield my eyes from apprehension." }, { "id": 49, "content": "Plug my ears from the beautiful voice." }, { "id": 50, "content": "Shut my mouth from the lies that I do this out of altruism." }, { "id": 51, "content": "I convince myself that the unembellished reality is no more heartless than my self-serving daydreams..." }, { "id": 52, "content": "... and turn to face the battlefield I had fled from." }, { "id": 53, "content": "How unfortunate..." }, { "id": 54, "content": "The child failed to reveal his true self. He even fell short of full self-restraint." }, { "id": 55, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "... No one's going to cry on behalf of my sorrow." }, { "id": 56, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "At the end of the day, this pain is my responsibility to bear." }, { "id": 57, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "Because it is an indelible stigma." }, { "id": 58, "content": "If only the child gave greater care to his own emotions." }, { "id": 59, "content": "He faced his feelings, and all of its hellish flames, and honed it all into a form of a tool." }, { "id": 60, "content": "The child failed to reach his pure self; instead, he remained the form of a human, and directed the tip of his sword against his enemies." }, { "id": 61, "content": "That's okay." }, { "id": 62, "content": "I once knew a child who was very much like him. A child who, even for a fleeting moment, reached the apex." }, { "id": 63, "content": "That child also ignored me the first time... only to lend me his ears later." }, { "id": 64, "content": "They are very similar to one another. So, I suppose a similar end shall await this one at the end of his path." }, { "id": 65, "content": "The child will eventually give up on forging onward. And he will retreat once again." }, { "id": 66, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "You're wrong, Miss Carmen." }, { "id": 67, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "I'm afraid. I'm so afraid that I want to let go of this blade and flee this place at this very moment." }, { "id": 68, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "But I don't want to linger here any longer." }, { "id": 69, "content": "But that path is such a painful one to walk. I wish that he wouldn't subject himself to such suffering." }, { "id": 70, "content": "The child, now freed from his shell, dangerously attempts to reach for the heavens when he has but a lone wing." }, { "id": 71, "content": "Not knowing that his shaky consciousness was the only thing keeping his wing intact in the flames that devoured his emotions as fuel." }, { "id": 72, "content": "He confidently regards the children of the Library, his sword-arm outstretched to meet their reception." }, { "id": 73, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "This feeling... is destiny bestowed upon me." }, { "id": 74, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "... I have to soar." }, { "id": 75, "model": "싱클레어", "teller": "Sinclair", "title": "Dawn Office", "content": "I will break this shell that stands in my way. I'll break it altogether and soar to a higher place." }, { "id": 76, "content": "How long will it be until that solitary wing of vanity melts into nothingness under the cascading emotions?" }, { "id": 77, "content": "There is no way to know for now. But on the day of your wing's melting, on the day of your fall..." }, { "id": 78, "content": "... heed my words once again, dear child." } ] }