[Episode 171]
“All collected.”
I sighed as I looked at the green radish that had just been harvested. It’s something I really don’t want to experience twice.
“What are you finally done with?”
“yes.”
“Even that witch does strange things sometimes. How delicious is this?”
Seolpyo, lightly holding a blue and white dance in his hand, murmured softly.
“Are you going tonight?”
“yes.”
“Maybe what you want isn’t such a great truth?”
“I just want to know why I had to go to the asshole and not my dad.”
The snow leopard’s eyes narrowed.
“Maybe it’s not a big deal. Still, it’s better than not knowing.”
Not knowing means that you have to be tangled up in the truth that may not even be a big deal for the rest of your life.
However, if you come to know it, even if the world has changed, it will become an understandable fact someday.
The snow leopard rubbed the cat’s stomach back and forth and nodded softly.
“Yes, but she is a witch. I’d rather keep my promise now.”
Snow Leopard spoke while lightly subduing the manic cat and lightly scratching its belly.
“witch?”
That was the moment.
Her eyes flashed white, and then she appeared. It was the dragon that called itself Purple.
“You should have stopped calling me a witch, cat.”
“Who is the cat? To the great Seolpyo.”
“You too live an egregiously long life.”
She glanced at the snow leopard with a displeased expression, then slowly turned her head to look at me.
“Geary, you’ve collected all of these.”
She clicked her tongue as if she hadn’t expected it in the first place.
“Did you hate spending time with me like that?”
“yes.”
Purple’s body staggered for a moment at my firm answer that came out without hesitation. she frowned.
“You’re direct. Didn’t you mean to say it differently?”
“I can’t say I like it…”
I hated it and acted desperately.
“It’s not because I don’t particularly like you. It’s just… I don’t like wasting time with my family.”
I would have done it if someone other than you had suggested this to me.
Maybe it’s a short time that’s not a big deal for them. Fifty hundred years.
But to me, that time, which will be less than 100 years from now, was so precious.
“Yes, I kept my promise, so let me know.”
Because a promise is a promise.
She said to me with a somewhat regretful expression, then snapped her fingers and took all the ingredients I had gathered.
“These materials can make a mirror that reflects the past.”
“A mirror reflecting the past…?”
“okay.”
“Is this fruit like green radish?”
“Green radish and the ripe fruit side are my snacks.”
oh no luck
I blinked and she shrugged.
“For me, free labor is a no-no.”
“yes.”
I understand that, but there are things I don’t like when I think about the hardships I’ve been through.
“You can see the past if you want just once. You said you wanted to see your birth, so you can see it from there.”
As she lightly flicked her fingers, Shinnok’s mirror and materials began to come together.
Eventually, the gathered things became a cluster of light and landed on my palm.
The fresh green mirror had changed to deep blue, not knowing where the original green had gone. The surface of the mirror looked as if the surface of the water was shaking.
“Imagine what you want to see. Then you will see.”
I slowly closed my eyes, holding the mirror with both hands. It wasn’t that hard to think of.
‘I want to see what happened since I was born.’
The moment I thought so, it was as if a deep blue light swallowed me.
* * *
Slapping―
I heard the splashing of water somewhere. I went into the water and listened to the flow of the water with my ears, but the water suddenly drained and the light poured out.
When I opened my eyes with the feeling that my breath, which had been blocked, suddenly exploded, my vision was opened.
“You were still alive.”
Someone was holding me in their arms.
She looked down at me with bright yellow golden eyes…
‘Purple?’
Suddenly, I remembered why I came here. I came to see the past.
“To show you such a fate.”
She clicked her tongue low and looked down at me with annoyed eyes.
“I would never have thought that a young hatchling would be born in this dying age. In this desolate place with no one to bless.”
As soon as the words were finished, the wind blew. The old, stale smell of earth crossed the tip of his nose.
As I rolled my eyes, I saw countless tombstones. this is death It was a cemetery for burying the dead.
I was speechless for a moment and kept it in my eyes.
The tomb from which I appear to have been dug out has a hollow in the ground. I held my breath.
“You called me.”
did i call
“Precisely, your instinct to live must have called me. Consider it fortunate that there are still dragons in the world.”
Otherwise, no matter how great you are, you would have rotted in the stomach.
“It’s embarrassing.”
She sighed as she carelessly held me in one arm.
“If you live long enough, sometimes you see things you don’t want to see. Your fate, barely born, is already very messed up.”
She stared at me for a long time, as if she saw something I didn’t know, then muttered.
“If I leave it as it is, I will surely be swept away by fate and die soon.”
As if pondering for a moment, she lightly tapped my cheek and murmured.
“They say a dragon must have good parents. It was a long time ago that I don’t even remember.”
Magical power gently scattered from her body as she narrowed her eyes.
As if looking at something, she closed her eyes for a long time while doing something, and finally opened her eyes.
“If you do this, you will die, if you do that, you will die. There is only one path for your pitiful and pitiful destiny to choose.”
After she said that, she slowly began to leave the cemetery.
When I blinked again, the background changed in an instant.
In front of my eyes was a drunken dog. His cheeks and nose were all red from drunkenness, but his eyes were lifeless, as if he had been hypnotized.
“Your fate has already been decided. All I can do is leave you safely to that fate.”
she murmured softly.
“How ironic it is that you have to be put into your destiny in order to escape it.”
Even then, the dog was staring blankly, his mouth hanging open.
“This child will have a chance to change his destiny only when he grows up without parents. It was common for dragons to meet the wrong fate and die. But to entrust a hatchling to something so rotten with my own hands.”
I couldn’t believe it, and the expression on Purple’s face was full of annoyance.
“But the future I see must be like this so that this little thing’s future will be smooth and happy…”
She snapped her fingers a couple of times and waved them in front of the asshole. Every time he snapped his fingers, the dog’s shoulders trembled.
“Even if that’s the case, it’s painful to entrust it to such a human scumbag.”
She said and handed me wrapped in cloth into the dog’s arms.
“Remember, this is your child.”
The bitch nodded with blank eyes.
“This will cut your throat someday, but until then you’d better take care of it.”
As soon as she finished her words, she took me into her arms.
that was the last My vision gradually darkened. My eyes are blurry, as if the night is coming.
“Don’t resent me. Your life is a thorny road. Even if you go to your parents like this, you will inevitably be ruined together.”
At the end of that voice, my mind went completely dark.
When I opened my eyes again, she was standing there just as she was that day.
“Are you feeling better now?”
“…”
The cheeks were hot. I raised my hand and pressed it hard on both cheeks, and my hands quickly became damp.
“I had a dream one day. To me, a dragon, that it was a dream was surprisingly strange.”
“Dream…”
“A young human wearing a strange outfit I’ve never seen before appeared and asked me to save it. You were there wherever you went as if you were possessed by that voice.”
I didn’t know why I was crying. However, I seemed to know who the ‘young human’ was.
It will be a young tea smile.
My other half who probably became a soul and was never born yet.
“The reason I couldn’t send you to that human was because your fate wouldn’t allow it.”
“My mother… why did she die?”
She looked at me blankly and opened her mouth.
“honestly?”
“yes.”
“Because I conceived you. Because I struggled to give birth to you with a weak human body.”
The resolute voice fell painfully.
