Episode 388 Disaster (14)
“Why… Why…?”
Hans stroked his chin and muttered.
“Are you lamenting? themselves?”
“The opponent is a monster. No matter how different it is from the middle world, there is no way that a mere monster would have that level of consciousness.”
Serien shook his head.
“That’s something no one knows. Actually, we got hit because we didn’t know them and we ran away here. I didn’t even know that magic didn’t work until I experienced it in the last battle. It’s not good to be judgmental.”
“I agree. There is no need to increase the damage by underestimating them for nothing.”
Heprion smiled and concluded the conversation.
“Then let’s go ahead and solve the problem! With Mr. Ray holding out, now is the time to give a good opinion!”
Everyone’s eyes grew heavier.
It was a disgrace for a high elf with high self-esteem to leave the altar to a human they despised and run away.
Serien sighed and said.
“…okay. I don’t know how long it will last.”
* * *
“Aagh!”
A scream was heard in my ears.
“Help me……! It’s okay to kill me, but as for the child…”
The woman’s earnestness turned into a single scream.
“How… how can you be so cruel! What the hell did we do!”
The old man wept and cried.
A woman carrying the laundry.
A stall selling fruit.
Some children playing in the field.
Soldiers armed with spears and swords killed them.
silently.
He slaughtered them like a machine without any emotion.
A soldier caught a girl with pigtails.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
A child screamed like he was going to sleep.
However, the soldier’s expression did not change.
I put strength into the hand holding the sword bottle and unleash it with all my might.
Ray, who couldn’t come to his senses in the sudden situation, rushed out to stop it.
He hit the ground with his legs full of mana and flew as if he were being shot, but his outstretched hand could not stop the soldier and passed through it.
didn’t grab
the kid died
The white flower field quickly turned red with their blood, and rain from the sky washed away the bloody smell.
It rained hard as if even the sky was trying to hide their deaths.
The devastation unfolded quietly in the flower field, covered by the sound of rain.
Their grievous cries turned into malice and rolled into one place.
“Kill every single one of them. It is the kingdom of witches.”
When someone’s voice resounded, the soldiers’ movements became a little more alert.
The old woman and the children who were playing in the field.
The stallholder, the herbalist, became the owner of the inn.
were brutally killed by them.
Ray looked at them devastated.
could not be saved Not even a single child could be saved.
Even if he knew that this was an illusion created by the monsters, he couldn’t stop the displeasure spreading through his image.
said the man on the horse.
“Sprinkle.”
Soldiers scattered a mixture of ink and purple powder from leather pouches across the flower fields.
Every time the heavy powder was sprinkled on the corpse, the corpse turned into smoke and flew to the ground.
Pasasack—!
The last of them who died miserably turned into smoke and turned to muddy water by the wind and rain and rolled on the earth.
* * *
The screams that seemed to last forever stopped.
The warmth of life was no longer felt.
A woman wearing a dark red robe trudged through the flower garden tangled in rain and blood.
“Why did you… do this…”
the woman shed tears.
He knelt down on the mud and howled incessantly.
Only the hatred and bitterness of those who couldn’t even leave a corpse were left there.
The woman who cried like that for a long time stood up from her seat as if she had decided on something.
“I will not stand still. I will destroy the kingdom and split the continent… You will vomit more blood than my people shed tears.”
she held the ground
Then, those who had been killed were reborn as monsters shimmering like black shadows.
– Krrrrrr!
The howl resembles that of a beast.
The woman who was looking at them muttered something.
* * *
“Ah.”
I woke up with a deathbed.
Tok- Tok-
Ray looked around as he felt the raindrops falling from the sky.
The clear rain soaked the ground in the dazzling sunlight.
What does rain mean in a cloudless sky?
Ray got up.
The flower fields were wide open.
It wasn’t the flower garden just before that was full of blood.
The fog before was no more.
Instead of the bloody scent that made me frown, the refreshing scent of flowers tickled my nose.
Red.
The blood-red intense flowers made the eyes happy.
In the flower garden, there were the woman and the children of the street vendor whom I had just seen.
Seeing them playing together in one place made my heart thump for some reason.
Without any care, without any pain, without any malice.
This was their only shelter.
“…”
The girl with pigtails who had been caught and killed by the soldiers pulled Ray by the arm.
“Come here.”
the kid said
“Come over here and let’s play together.”
In the place the girl pointed to, there were many other people besides the woman and the stall.
A villager who converses friendly with the guards and a farmer who wipes the sweat from his forehead while harvesting crops.
The noise of the village can be heard quietly over the flower field.
Everything was peaceful and beautiful.
If there is a utopia, wouldn’t it be this picture?
Ray was led by the little boy’s hand and walked to the flower field.
A soft flower brushed the back of her hand, her waist, and her ankle.
Every time that happened, the scent of flowers gradually grew stronger and made my mind far away.
People’s happy laughter rang in my ears like a lullaby.
The sunlight made my body drowsy and the rain washed away my fatigue.
“Are you happy? happy?”
the girl asked.
It was fun. happy.
but on the contrary.
It was pitiful. My heart ached.
The smile on Ray’s lips slowly disappeared.
he knows
This is fantasy, not reality.
I could sense it.
These are monsters, but not monsters.
No, at least he wasn’t a monster in the past.
Ray looked at the girl.
The girl also faced him.
“Are you happy? Are you happy now? Did our wishes come through?”
The girl speaks of their own eternal spring where happiness has descended.
their wishes.
It would have been to live a slightly more affluent and happier life.
They would have been dreaming of a life that was busy moving for their own happiness, not a life of being killed by someone, resentful of someone, and drawing on someone.
A woman who kept her child in a state of thinness because she couldn’t eat anything.
The old man who blocked the soldiers with a trembling body.
He looked at Ray and asked.
Are you happy now?
He didn’t answer the question.
I just quietly approached them.
The girl with pigtails tilted her head as if wondering.
“happy?”
Only mechanical questions returned.
“happy?”
they were kind
They show their memories that are not good because they are kind.
Because they are kind, they make them feel the same happiness as them.
Because he was kind, he never attacked others even when he became a monster.
Ray approached them.
He approached and silently hugged them.
“uh?”
The girl with pigtails was startled and tried to pull herself out.
cold.
A chill that seemed to pierce his flesh was transmitted to his skin.
The colder it was, the tighter Ray hugged him.
As much as the girl’s coldness is conveyed to you, the girl must be feeling the warmth.
I took all their sorrow, bitterness, resentment, hatred, and lamentation and embraced them in my arms.
I could vaguely feel it.
They didn’t want happiness.
If they truly wanted happiness, they wouldn’t have to show their past.
no monster The people in front of you just want to be comforted.
Tears flowed down the girl’s cheeks.
Tears as red as blood fell to the ground, destroying the flower beds.
As if a small drop of water broke the calm of the lake, the torn petals scattered into the air.
As the red flowers soaked the son-in-law, the rain that fell was also dyed in ink.
The sunlight that had been beating down disappeared behind the dark clouds, and the ground full of green grass became muddy.
The world that had been decorated by them was shattered and a red world appeared.
– Krrrrrr!
A scream filled with pain rang from the girl’s throat as she asked if she was happy.
broke the world
Now it was time to release the people who lived in it.
they are not dead
He became a monster and lived in this illusion.
That’s why I had to die in this world full of despair.
Ray took out a dagger from his waistband and held it up.
His sword, more gentle than ever, cut through a monster that had been a girl until just now.
The monster, which had not suffered a single wound even after applying mana, was easily split by his single sword.
– Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrly.
His sword pointed at other monsters.
Over 1,000,000 of them, Ray hugged them one by one and swung his sword.
One swordsmanship contained human emotion, and one swing contained sympathy.
Every time Ray cuts them down, the monsters disappear one by one from the world full of malice.
The rainwater has been cut.
The clouds parted.
He cut them down with one unselfish desire.
Cut and cut and split and split.
He swung his sword endlessly so that nothing remained.
One day passed, two days passed.
yet.
There were no beasts left before him.
* * *
He opened his eyes.
The gate was still open, but there were no more monsters pouring out of that ink-colored space.
cut everything
killed everyone
He dared to speak of salvation himself and killed those who were once human.
– It’s a foolish idea not to include it. put it Put whatever comes into your mind. Pack it up and throw it away. So that you can put it to your heart’s content and throw it away without hesitation.
Elisa had said.
so i put it
He put all of them into his own heart.
So it was abandoned in the past.
Even the heart of comfort and the heart of sympathy were left behind.
The determination to let go of what is in your hands.
It was difficult, but after two days, I was able to make up my mind.
Letting go, the will shines even stronger.
Ray’s spirit of speech has grown.
