[Episode 133]
I was speechless at the words like thunder from the sky. Dad’s face contorted.
“If you’re trying to talk bullshit…”
“Of course, I’m quite generous with our pretty girls and babies…”
Arma’s cold gaze reached her father.
“If you act presumptuous, I will get angry.”
An evil energy emanated from Arma, who smiled brightly. It was to the point that my always arrogant father’s shoulders twitched.
As I wrapped my arms around Daddy’s neck, Arma withdrew her energy.
“Okay, this time I was wrong. Don’t look at me like that. Let’s talk until the end…”
Arma raised her arms and shrugged. It seemed I was looking at it with resentful eyes.
“I need the tea smile from the other world to die.”
“…”
“Originally, the date of death for Cha Mi-so set by Byeol-keeper was when she turned 30 years old. But…”
I must have avoided that.
That day I died without dodging the car. Although it could have been avoided, it was not avoided.
At Arma’s words, I quietly shut my mouth.
“So you go back and live until you’re 30. And die.”
“…then.”
“Right now, your soul exists halfway between Eirin and Chamiso’s body.”
Arma raised a finger and explained.
“That’s the reason why I keep going to Eirin’s body and then moving back to Cha Miso’s body.”
“Does that mean that when Cha Miso dies, her soul will settle in Eirin’s body?”
“Yes, but it’s the star keepers who have problems here.”
Arma nodded at my answer and continued talking.
“Those starkeepers can steal souls from the middle. So what I need is your father, Erno Etham.”
Arma’s finger moved from me to my father this time.
I let out a short breath and waited for the next story with a tense face.
“Right now Aga and Erno Etam are imprinted.”
“yes.”
“The reason why the imprint that should have been done properly is because the tea smile is intertwined, so if you die on the other side in the meantime, the imprint of you and Erno Etam will be hardened.”
I looked at my father with my eyes wide open. Dad looked at me, then looked at Arma again and nodded.
“The moment the imprint is completed, you become a soul that has already belonged to my realm, so the star keeper will not be able to touch you.”
Arma straightened her shoulders proudly and said. The bridge of his nose seemed to have risen considerably.
The expression on his face made him feel proud.
“Of course, the star keeper will interfere, but as long as you have a strong will to return alive, you will be fine.”
Arma flew in and patted me on the shoulder.
Feeling the kind words and the firm touch of my father, it really seemed like it would be.
“If you become happier than anyone else in my world, the star keeper will eventually have no choice but to give up and let go of you.”
“…really?”
Arma nodded.
“They don’t need a happy soul.”
It was a very sad word.
Saying that someone must be unhappy for the sake of a certain world is like saying that the misfortune of a few is nothing.
It felt bad to think that the world created by unhappy souls would be happier than anyone else.
“A soul that is already happy, regardless of whether it is poor or not, does not desire, draw, or risk its life for something more because the soul itself is full.”
“…ah.”
That would be it.
Cha Mi-so said, “I was always lonely. Because I was lonely, I longed for someone and longed for affection.
I dreamed of a happy world. It was somewhat unbelievable that this world was born that way.
‘I made it…’
The fact that I had no memories of making this world made me feel a bit sad.
“I see.”
“The dreaming child is the longing one. The moment the longing disappears and the dream becomes reality, the ‘dreaming child’ wakes up.”
I laughed clumsily when Arma said that since she was happy, she didn’t have to imagine anymore to be happy.
“But while you’re doing that, you won’t be able to return to Eirin, and the time here will pass.”
“What do you mean?”
“…how much.”
Dad, whose face hardened, retorted.
“So this is something everyone here has to agree on.”
It’s not something you can do alone.
As I added, I clenched and opened my fist. Doesn’t that mean you have to break up with your dad after all?
“…I am.”
“If you don’t like it, you don’t have to. Eirin.”
Dad said as he took me in his arms.
“Of course, there are ways to protect it even if you don’t. But this baby needs to stay here.”
Arma pointed to the young Chamiso and said. If that’s the case, what I can say is limited.
“…I will.”
“It may be after seven years of this world time that you return here. Are you okay though?”
“But you said that you could be free if you did that.”
“that’s right.”
“Then neither I nor that child are lonely.”
I knew better than anyone how much loneliness can eat away at people.
So I couldn’t make a choice only for my selfishness. I slowly closed my eyes and opened them.
“I will.”
“Eirin.”
dad called me My dad, who held me in his arms, seemed anxious, so I hugged him face-to-face.
“Dad is fine.”
“I can’t stand it if you go wrong.”
“Am I not hurt?”
“I don’t know if the star keeper will be able to contact you in the middle, but… our pretty girl will solve that.”
Arma pointed at Lucillion. Lucillion came up to me and kissed the back of my hand.
“With the power of Arma, I will put a shield on the master’s soul. The star keeper probably won’t be able to find it easily.”
“In addition, the pretty girl will safely grow Eirin’s body in this world.”
So everyone said they needed it. It’s something you can’t do alone.
“And the imprinter can’t die in the meantime.”
Arma’s gaze reached her father.
Soon after, Arma explained that this was the only way to completely sever ties.
“You will become Eirin, and I will take this child back to my world.”
I nodded my head as I heard Arma’s voice adding that she could escape from the reincarnation of the stars.
“Okay.”
“good. All you have to do is die safely on the set date.”
“Does it matter what I do in the meantime?”
“doesn’t care.”
Arma reached out and hugged the young Cha Smile. Dad had been pushed far away before he knew it.
Judging by the wrinkled face, it was clear that Arma had forced him out.
“Can you give me some time?”
“hour?”
“Unless you have to do it right away. I want to say hello… and I have to tell my friend that I won’t be seeing you for a while.”
I couldn’t make them wait indefinitely like last time. At least there was a need for direct transmission.
“A week or so is fine. It wasn’t something to do right away anyway.”
“A week later…”
“A week later is the day when the sun’s power is the strongest. We will proceed at noon that day.”
I calmly nodded. Arma gave a long yawn and waved her hand in the air, and eventually a door of pure white light was created.
“Today, go ahead and get some rest.”
I saw a young tea smile.
When I was about to ask if you were okay, the child just smiled quietly and pursed his lips.
[All of your questions will be answered that day.]
It was a silent lull.
I stared blankly at him, then quietly embraced my father who had approached me before I knew it.
“Let’s go Erin.”
Dad turned around with me in his arms, as if he didn’t want to be in this space any longer.
Dad entered through the door of light.
“I don’t think we can stay together long, Dad.”
“…waiting is nothing. If you decide, I won’t fall for you…”
Dad slowly rubbed my forehead against my forehead, rubbing it lightly.
“If you don’t like it, tell me clearly.”
“What if I said no…?”
“I will find another way.”
“…are you okay.”
I hated seeing my dad make sacrifices even more. It’s probably something I’ll have to do someday.
My heart skipped a beat at all I was about to learn.
I couldn’t tell if it was fear or anticipation. What is certain is that the time has come for this eternal loneliness to end.
“Yes, then I will stand by you and protect you. Until the day you return.”
I listened to my father and slowly closed my eyes.
‘We have to break up again.’
But this will be the last parting.
I heard the sound of the gears clattering as if they were out of order
.
It was already announcing the end.
