[Episode 152]
“I think it was around here…”
Late at night, I sneaked out of my room and walked slowly down the darkened street.
‘I can’t believe I have memories of my childhood…’
Actually, it was a bit strange that I remembered my childhood so much that I wouldn’t even be able to remember it if I was a normal person.
Um, I don’t have any feelings.
Well, it’s been almost 20 years, and it’s more strange to think that there may still be traces of it.
“I thought something should come here.”
In the darkened shopping street, only the bar was occasionally lit.
There were no special and special signs except drunken people walking in a daze.
‘Was it my mistake?’
I thought that if I came here, I might meet the man who handed me over to the bitch.
‘Since they say that the creator buff is gone now…’
You shouldn’t be complacent in thinking that things will come true as you think.
“Shall we go back?”
It was just as he was about to turn around after he was touching the end of his robe. When I turned around, someone in a black robe stood tall behind me.
Startled, I reflexively took a step back, then stopped.
“This is another face I miss.”
The other party, who had a familiar voice somewhere, sounded like a woman with a thin soprano tone.
It was a beautiful voice that was so pleasant to listen to that I became more wary.
It was because it seemed that if I lost my guard even for a moment, all the warnings would be released, and I would be talking about the hardships of life over a drink.
“who are you?”
“You don’t remember me like that or you don’t want to remember me?”
The head of the woman wearing the robe tilted at an angle. It was a rather bizarre behavior.
“I can’t tell you who it is unless you explain it properly. I don’t think you’ve met someone recently.”
But it’s definitely a memorable voice. Under the robe, I could see the woman’s lips drawing a circular arc.
“Oh, the young one is very smart. But it’s a bit disappointing to treat a life saver like this.”
A life saver?
Then I remembered why I came here. And even memories from childhood.
[This child… has to grow up without… destiny… dragons… death was common.]
[Only then… They say the future will be smooth and happy…]
[ …It hurts.]
[Remember, this is your child.]
Someone handed me over to a bitch. I can’t quite remember the contents, but there was a voice that came to mind sparsely.
“Maybe when I was young…”
“Yes! I pulled you out of that mound and gave you a breath of death.”
The woman smiled and said.
At first glance, sharp fangs were visible. The woman raised her head with a very happy face.
Only then did her pure white skin come into view. She was a beautiful woman with white skin, pink eyes and silver hair.
He looked like he was in his 40s, but somehow he seemed older than that.
“The soul is well settled and properly seated. It looks like something insignificant has stuck to it, but…”
She pressed her face closer, her eyes twinkling.
Even the face approaching to the point of being burdensome somehow didn’t make me want to avoid it.
“Yes, I thought there would be no more juniors born in the world, but a comrade was born again like this.”
“…I can’t believe he’s a comrade.”
“Yes, I am just like you. But strictly speaking, I am weaker than you.”
The woman said with her eyes shining. It was as if golden eyes flashed between the pink irises.
“I am purple. just call it like that. It is the only dragon that has survived in this world.”
It was like that too.
It didn’t seem to have changed much from the face in the last memory.
Not only that, but I felt strange from the first time we met. It was a familiar, not unfamiliar feeling.
“…Did the old man save me?”
“In conclusion, yes, but it was you who woke me up from my long slumber.”
“Me?”
“Yes, you called me to live.”
“Am I…?”
I wouldn’t have been in this world then.
When I put on a puzzled expression, she just laughed without saying anything.
“I came because I had a question.”
“Are you curious? What about this old man?”
Outwardly, she looked like a very well-behaved 40-year-old, but the way she spoke was like a very old lady, and I felt a gap between them.
“what?”
“How I was born and how I came to live and… my mother. I wonder why you embraced me.”
“Hmm…”
“All of that… I wonder if the Creator’s will went into it.”
At my words, Purple narrowed her eyes and shrugged her shoulders insincerely.
It was me who became nervous at the expression of not being very interested. Come to think of it, she wouldn’t regret anything at all.
‘Did I come without any preparation?’
But today, for some reason, my body moved first than I thought.
“Do you know about the things I was curious about?”
“I know.”
The woman took off her robe and smiled. I wiggled my hand carefully.
“I know who you are.”
“…You know?”
“Yes, consumables that create worlds and don’t get any rewards.”
My shoulders trembled at the firm and calm words.
“Poor, pitiful beings.”
A smile hung like a crescent moon. The eyes were an unpleasant smile that did not smile.
“If it’s broken, I crush the existence and make it a new soul again. Yes, it’s like melting broken iron with hot heat and making it into a new object again.”
It wasn’t very pleasant to poke the painful spot with a smile.
Seeing my expression harden, she closed her eyes and smiled.
“Don’t be so offended. I’m just talking about the world’s evaluation.”
that’s not my opinion
she shrugged.
“And the only soul freed from that bondage.”
“…”
“I know a lot and have seen a lot. I have existed since the birth of this world. I am a being older than God.”
“More than God…”
“God is a being that only emerges after faith is created in the completed world. It existed long before that.”
It’s a story about nothing I don’t know.
The words added made my body tense. It was from the thought that I might be able to get one step closer to the truth I had been searching for so long.
“Can you tell me?”
“It is not difficult to tell.”
“then…!”
“What will you do if I tell you?”
she asked with a smile.
For a moment, I was speechless. I pursed my lips and clenched my fists.
“If you can do anything. If you want money or something…”
“Money has no value to me. okay. Will you come to my house?”
“yes?”
“Please be my companion. ‘Cause I’m so bored and lonely The solitude was terrible and I was exhausted. So I slept for a very long time. And I waited for you.”
she laughed.
That smile was somehow bizarre. His eyes and mouth were all empty, and it seemed as if pitch-black darkness had filled them.
“If it’s a companion…”
“Yes, until the end of my lifespan. It’s not long. You will live thousands more years, but for me, it is 500 years at most.”
My mouth dropped open on its own at the number that I couldn’t get enough of. But there was nothing I couldn’t do.
I’m going to need the same people anyway. And I have no idea how long she must have been lonely.
‘Yeah, it’s about a horse companion…’
It’s not difficult. I could go back and forth and sometimes do as much as I wanted.
It was just when I was about to give an affirmative answer.
“However, from the moment you come to my house, you cannot go out for 500 years.”
she said, squeezing her face. My mouth fell open at the unexpected words.
“What is that…”
“I’ll give you my all, whatever you want, as long as you talk to me until I die.”
“That’s…”
I pursed my lips and shook my head slowly. It was an absurd proposition.
“I can’t do that.”
“okay? Then I have nothing to tell you.”
The woman backed away lightly.
“Our meeting will end here.”
The woman’s body began to oxidize little by little and disappear. I stretched out my hand in surprise.
“excuse me!”
“…How can a young crab grab you by the collar? Did your parents make you homeschool like this?”
“That’s… sorry about that. I hope you will let me know.”
I said with both hands tightly gripped by the collar and closing my eyes.
The thought of respecting the elderly in me was shedding tears, but more than that, I wanted to tell my father the truth.
“Do you want to know that? A piece of story that will eventually become nothing as you live in the world?”
“It is important to some people.”
“…Oh yeah? Then it should be simple.”
“Not 500 years.”
“Okay, then you can listen to my request.”
“Please… is it?”
“okay. If you listen… there’s nothing I can’t tell you.”
The dragon showed his teeth and laughed ferociously. It just didn’t feel right. But the answer I could give was fixed.
shit.
