[This work has no affiliation with any specific religion or organization.]
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“Ugh, it smells.”
Traces of the years passed by prickle my nose.
Where did I put my notebook? I searched with all my concentration, even sweeping away the dirty dust with my hands, but I couldn't find it.
How long did it take to find it? The note that came into view was, "I'm here," fluttering in the wind as if advertising it.
I quickly stretch out my hand and flip through the pages of my notebook, frantically.
About halfway through the book, a child's handwriting appears in a messy, scribbled mess.
(The day the light of salvation descends from the dark clouds that cover the sky, the 'heavenly trumpet sound' will resonate throughout the world and the 'last day' will approach.)
[The Earth is the judgment seat of mankind. There we will be judged.]
(I dare say that day will be called 'the end of the world'.)
The pupils who were reading the text trembled like crazy as if an earthquake had occurred.
'The End of the World', 'The Last Days'
And, 'the sound of the heavenly trumpet'.
Reading this makes everything about today fall into place.
Today is the 'last day'
Destruction has finally arrived.
“No....fuck!”
As he slams his notebook down and yells, Jungkook and Taehyung rush into the attic.
The two of them were startled by the sudden gust of dust that came in and kept coughing.
He looked at me as I sat down on the floor, then came right up to me and asked what was going on and if I was looking for something.
In response to their words, I answered them without saying a word, showing them my notes.
“What the... Are you serious?”
What is this? 'Humanity's Judgment Seat'?
Jungkook and Taehyung look at me with disbelief, then at each other, and then Taehyung starts quickly turning the pages of his notebook.
[Another clue! Is this all there is?]
I was looking for Taehyung just in case, but it was already useless.
Because I was possessed and wrote down only that sentence.
“Hey Kim Taehyung! Look down here carefully.”
At Jeongguk's words, Taehyung frowned and pressed his face close as if he was going to dive into his notes.
He lets out a sigh and comes over to me, grabs my shoulder, and says,
A mysterious book that never gathers dust! A secret space in the second drawer!
When I hear Taehyung's words, I feel my mind light up.
The secret space in the second drawer. That's definitely what I wrote.
I quickly sat up and rummaged through the drawers. The drawer opened with a loud noise, and inside was a book of considerable thickness carefully placed.
Even though the drawer was quite dusty, this book was still in its pristine condition as it had been back then.
"This is it."
The first sentence that greeted us anxiously was very different from what we expected.
'This book is Volume 1, containing the history of 'Heaven.'
'P.S. If you want to survive this 'Judgment', it would be faster to refer to Volume 2.'
Volume 2...? That's something I've never heard of.
In my childhood memories, volume 2 doesn't exist at all.
I carefully turned the page at Taehyung and Jeongguk's suggestion to start reading this first.
{Chapter 1, The Exiles of 'Heaven'}
'There are 'outcasts' in our 'heaven'.'
They were imprisoned in the 'underground prison' of 'heaven' for various reasons,The most numerous of these 'exiles' are the 'defenders'.
History of the Defender
‘They serve as a shield to block the path of the ‘angels.’
‘Even to those who have always stood firm and faithfully carried out their duties, tragedy is bound to happen.’
‘Their frontal parts began to turn black because the light of the angels behind them could not receive the light, and soon their entire bodies turned black and they were banished to the ‘dungeon.’
‘They, who had been deprived of light in prison and whose appearances had become even more grotesque, eventually acquired abnormal bodies, and now they are nothing more or less than ‘hunting dogs’ hunting for their ‘targets.’
"So what did we see?"
Jungkook and I made eye contact at the same time, and Taehyung seemed to notice something and spoke.
[Is it because of the degeneration and evolution caused by long-term neglect that we have become unable to see our own appearance and have come to rely only on sound?]
Taehyung's words made a lot of sense, so Jungkook and I nodded at the same time.
Taehyung suggested reading more of the 'Heavenly History Book', but Jeongguk insisted on finding the second volume.
“What? Jungkook and I can just search for it, and Taehyung can finish reading it, right?”
The two nodded at my simple and clear answer and shook hands with each other once more.
Seriously, what is that handshake?
***
We split up and were searching here and there in the attic, looking for Volume 2, when we started hearing a huge, loud noise.
What was that? I left Taehyung, who was focused on his book, behind and went downstairs to look outside. What caught my eye was a 'grand being', no, a 'defensor'.
“You crazy, how did you get here without even making a sound!”
I shrugged my shoulders, saying that I didn't know what to ask Jeongguk, who was whispering to me.
How could a blind man find his way to this sparsely populated place? He looked around, but nothing caught Defensor's eye.
“Then why on earth...?”
While Jungkook and I stared blankly at the defender, Taehyung quickly put books and other items into a large messenger bag and ran out.
[You idiots! Run!]
