Chapter 78. If you come into my area (4),
you will feel refreshed.
The energy, which feels very similar to the magical energy that formed in my hands, is somehow unfamiliar. I was vaguely concerned about that and vaguely came to my senses.
‘…… clean.’
I hear a voice.
The smell of blood from the body and clothes disappears.
Only then did I feel the familiarity that had remained unchanged in the unfamiliar energy. The magical energy similar to mine that bothered me was definitely unfamiliar, but the magic created by that magical energy was familiar.
Actually, there weren’t many times when I was happy with something familiar. That is, until the comfort that came from Lucy’s warmth and the peace that came from Anne’s noise began to feel familiar.
The knocking on the door started off hesitantly and then got louder and then there was no sound. On very rare occasions, the sound of a violin could be heard quietly from somewhere. The sound of the gentle wind blowing outside the open window, shaking the young leaves.
That was all the joy I felt until then.
The blue haired crazy wizard casted it for the first time and I received it for the second time today, but instead of the unfamiliar magic that was still unfamiliar to me, I suddenly felt happy about the familiar magic that I couldn’t even count how many times I had received it even with my forgetful mind.
So I woke up. Because it’s familiar and nice.
‘Has anything been confirmed?’
However, in inverse proportion to my familiarity, I heard an unwelcome voice, so I closed my eyes again.
I’m never grateful for fixing me, but I feel like I should say thank you for fixing me and saving my life. But rather than saying those words out loud, I think it would be better to just sleep like this for 30 or 50 years. But if that happens.
‘yes.’
Because it was clear that the voice that had been changed like that would not come back.
Should I open my eyes? Should I not float?
I’ve been thinking about it for a while.
‘I will kill you.’
I heard these words:
So in the end, I had no choice but to open my eyes.
Meanwhile, an unfamiliar voice was heard again.
‘All.’
That voice is truly amazing.
The words spoken in that voice are even more shocking.
– Sreuk…….
I barely got up and sat down, holding on to the familiar ceiling of the familiar carriage spinning in an unfamiliar way.
How much time had passed before I let go of the leash? Looking at the talking piglet, I wonder if it’s time to take another drink off the leash and put a muzzle or gag on it.
I can’t rest at ease because of my little brother who frequently shows his teeth here and there.
So, I opened my mouth first.
When I had so much to say, something that could be called a sound finally came out of my silent mouth.
“wait.”
do.
At those words, my younger brother stopped walking.
He turned his head and looked distantly.
I saw those eyes.
And I found out right away.
What went wrong?
‘…… under.’
Why was the magical energy wielded by my younger brother so unfamiliar? Why was that voice so bad? The reason why the bright red eyes that were so familiar and a little welcoming had an overly distant glow.
It was only then that I realized it.
“I don’t know how much longer you want me to wait.”
The reason my younger brother didn’t take my side before going to sleep wasn’t because he was busy going back to being a king and then a prince over and over again. That’s not it.
It was because he was busy trying to come back.
But in the end,
“… I don’t like it.”
That I couldn’t come back after I left.
Having gone back, I have gone back forever.
– Tick tock tick tock.
It’s not that the leash came off as time passed, but that the clock inside my brother turned backwards and the leash disappeared.
“Kali…”
I was about to call him out, but when I realized it, I shut my mouth.
The person standing in front of me now is not the person my younger brother used to call out and pass on as if he was putting on a play. Like in a play, my younger brother is not someone I can call out and pass on to others.
On the contrary, he is a ‘ghost’ who inherited my younger brother.
Then what should I call that ghost?
Since I don’t know that, I’m afraid I might have answered wrong again.
– Jump and jump.
There was a sound of footsteps that I was no longer familiar with. Before long, the sound of the carriage door opening and closing was heard. I couldn’t help but listen to that little noise.
I can’t even call it again.
I can’t even get up and hold on.
– Tik Tok.
– Tick tock tick tock.
I turned my head.
I see a pocket watch.
A pocket watch I got from my younger brother. The watch was so noisy that I pulled out the crown to prevent time from passing after receiving it, and then pressed the crown again a while later. Before I knew it, time had stopped again.
– Tick tock tick tock.
There was no sound from the watch on the nightstand with the crown removed. Still, I could hear time passing, as if my head was buzzing. I had the illusion that the sound of a clock was coming from a clock that had stopped running that my younger brother was holding.
Were you holding that watch?
What were you thinking when you held that in your hand?
Did I try hard not to upset my time? Should time stop to return to the present? Should time pass to return to the present? How can I get out of the nightmare on my own? Did he worry about how to wake up from a nightmare where he was locked alone with no one to wake him up?
What did I hear and see when I went back to the past?
Until I just entered the carriage, until I paid for the treatment with white roses, until I said thank you, until then, it was clearly ‘Kalian’.
Since then, I’ve been alone, what I’ve seen, what I’ve heard, what I’ve thought of, and what I’ve thought about from the time I fell asleep until I woke up again at the end of the day. Because I was so scared.
Did he eventually go back and never come back?
‘are you okay.’
I should have said that. I should have done it. I should have done something.
If that were the case, I would have waited.
I would have waited instead of falling asleep alone.
‘Brother…Planz.’
I would have waited.
* * *
The carriage door finally opened.
Bern opened the door and stopped for a moment. Kirie, who had been looking at the door for some time, approached.
“Kiri.”
“Yes, my prince.”
Bern, who had been looking at Kyrie for a while who always answered in the same way, turned around. Then I looked in the direction I had walked before facing the harpy. Kirie, who knew that she was going to the place where the moving magic circle was, opened her mouth. However, Bern’s words were heard first.
“The shield will be there until morning. I’ll be back before it disappears.”
“I’ll get Raven. Ride on.”
“Kiri.”
“yes.”
“I’m not the kind of person who can’t even block your sword. I am.”
To block the red dagger sent by Harpy, Calian ran after the dagger and Kyrie stood in front of it. Calian held on to the dagger and dispersed the aura, but Kyrie was unable to disperse his aura. Trying to avoid it while trying to avoid it. This happened because Calian did not see the harpy running from behind.
Kirie must have been thinking about that the whole time she was standing outside the carriage. I guess I’m blaming myself for forgetting that it’s time to worry about how to deal with Aurors. He must have been worried that if the same thing happened, Calian would not be able to block his sword.
Bern, who guessed Kyrie’s intentions, opened his mouth.
“This wasn’t your fault. It was an accident.”
It’s not a mistake, it’s not a mistake.
It was just an accident created by coincidence.
“Do you think so?”
“huh.”
“If I tell you the same thing, will you think the same way? If I tell you that it is no one’s fault, just as it is not my fault that His Majesty the Crown Prince was harmed because it was an accident, will you think that way?”
“…For me.”
Bern turned his head and looked at Kyrie.
At some point, both the aura and bloom disappeared, and he looked at Kirie with his red eyes, which had been calm and quiet, and gave the remaining answer.
“It wasn’t an accident. Not to me.”
What happened was one thing and only one person was injured, but he says it was an accident for Kirie and not an accident for him. Bern, who had said this conclusively and as if telling the answer to the problem, looked away.
I took my step.
Euria and Arsene made happy faces when they saw Vern come out of the carriage, and Jan and Reric quickly stood up. Just as they did not see Eila, who watched them and then turned her head back to the soup cup in her hand.
– Jump and jump.
I started going back the way I had come.
While listening to Kirie not following her, Eila blocking Yan who was trying to run, the carriage door not opening again, and hearing all the sounds and sounds that were not heard.
* * *
– Jeopuk Jeopuk.
The sound of footsteps returning through the forest rings.
It wasn’t difficult to create a small gap in the carriage’s defense shield, so I made a gap and walked through it, leaving behind the sound of the shield healing. I thought about this as I walked to the place where the moving magic circle was located without even bringing Raven with me.
‘harpy.’
A monster that is difficult to find even in the history of Kairis, which no longer exists. So, of course, it is a remnant of the past whose reality and records may differ.
He said he was very scared. The timid harpy, which was probably not hungry as it had already hunted someone since it smelled of blood from its claws, passed over the one that attacked first. I thought that the information in the book that remained in my memory was bound to be different from reality. I didn’t think it was strange that they didn’t go out hunting in groups. It can be considered a miracle that even one animal survived, so how could there be a flock? I understood it that way and passed it on.
Because the record may be wrong.
In reality, he may have been a belligerent guy.
– Jump and jump.
But it was strange.
A man who knew how to deal with magical auras and how to solve them left the defenseless servants alone and targeted Calian first. I left the wizards who posed no threat to me, picked the toughest opponent, and kept attacking them. When the fight was going unfavorably, he attacked the other party members, diverting Calian’s attention, and then followed behind him.
How could a guy who was said to be very cowardly be so obsessed with the strongest guy? How could a guy who had lost all his wings attack so rationally without even thinking about running away?
– Jump and jump.
well.
‘The stone remains broken in the harpy’s heart.’
Zeon’s Stone.
Adelia, who had that stone, came to mind.
The black magic used by Adelia and Taming, one of the black magics. Nowadays, it is only used to train the Jeon Seo-gu, but it was originally a black magic that brainwashed and tamed animals and monsters. It was only then that I thought of the possibility that someone had tamed the harpy.
‘Why is this here?’
I don’t know how the missing harpy was rescued. I don’t know why that stone was in the harpy’s heart. It is not known whether the stone was used to save the animal or to brainwash the harpy, which is said to be intelligent enough to sometimes speak.
It is unclear whether Adelia’s hand touched it. The crazy wizard would have done anything for fun, so he might have gotten involved in this. However, if it wasn’t fun, I wouldn’t have done anything, so it’s hard to guarantee that I would have intervened.
– Jump and jump.
That’s not what’s important.
We had to catch the bastard who sent the harpy, not the one who created it. If you think about it objectively, Arsene Hertz, who drank that beer and got drunk, is more at fault than the kid who made beer with leftover barley.
‘Danu intervened.’
Danu sent his army through the forest. Sent Ronil through the forest. I sent Chase. Harpies also came from the forest. So Danu intervened this time too. I don’t know the true identity of Zeon, but I know where Danu, who is connected to them, is.
In that case, all you have to do is open Danu’s mouth.
Unless you open your mouth.
– Jump and jump.
Just open it.
All you have to do is kill all of Danu’s children until it opens.
‘Don’t forget. you are my son He resembles me more than anyone else. If you block it, get rid of it. If it bothers you, get rid of it. If it catches you, cut it down. It is your way to live, but I will protect it. ‘You must have been delusional.’
‘If your brother is that serious, give it a try. ‘In the end, neither your brother nor you will be able to protect anything with blood-soaked hands.’
‘…No. In the end, it will be one path. I thought what you said was a delusion, but in the end it turned out to be one way. okay. If you kill them all and leave only Chase behind, Chase will be protected.’
okay.
All you have to do is kill them all.
All you have to do is kill all the elves, make Danu open his mouth, find Zeon’s core, find them, and kill them all. That’s the way to go.
‘Who are you blaming? ‘You call me every day in your nightmares.’
‘Unless it’s resentment. Did you need someone to tell you which way to go? Is that why you called me, who is already dead, here again? ‘Did you call me because you were so far away from knowing who you should kill now to protect Chase?’
– Jump and jump.
‘That’s really nice to see. I’ll give you a compliment. Let me congratulate you. I am truly proud of you. ‘Because you went out of your way to protect Chase.’
It doesn’t matter if it’s a nightmare or a fantasy.
It all doesn’t matter now.
‘Try to keep it that way from now on. I will bless you.’
okay.
Just like it used to be. Just do the same thing as before.
– Jump and jump.
I just have to protect it somehow.
All you have to do is protect it somehow.
I thought that no matter how I did it or what I did, all I had to do was keep it alive. I thought it didn’t matter anymore what the method was.
– Jump and jump.
So I stopped moving forward.
I got out of the carriage and turned around. I walked back the way I had walked.
That was the path I walked.
– Multi-faceted, multi-faceted.
– …… Jeopuk.
however.
Me, who was going around like that.
– Oh, I found it.
An unexpected gesture towards me.
The hand gestures that come across me.
By calling them out.
– I was worried that you might have gone down this path.
He called me as I was lost and heading back. Stand in front of me, face me and call me. You brightened the dark path I was walking on alone and called to me.
– A caring prince.
Under a name that is neither Bern nor Calian.
For calling me by that name.
“…… Hina.”
I stopped walking.
I stopped without realizing it.
Then, I raised my fingernails and closed my fist. This was because I was wondering what would happen if I couldn’t feel anything in my palm when it touched the tips of my fingernails. I couldn’t figure out on my own whether the sudden light I encountered in a place like this was a lie, an illusion, or a nightmare.
But it hurt.
It definitely hurt.
Hina has arrived.
Without even having time to be surprised by that, I ran forward without even having time to wonder if Ronil, like Chase, might be a fake. No matter how I looked at it, I ran towards Hina, who was getting off a horse with a platinum color and the prettiest name in the world.
“How did you come? Why are you here? How are you here?”
– My brother contacted me, but no matter what I did, I couldn’t connect. I called again, but there was no answer, so I waited for a long time, but there was no word. I’m worried about that. My brother has never been like that.
Hina pointed to the communication earring. Because magic goes out of the shield, but cannot come in. Because of this, he received a communication from Kirie, but was unable to connect, so he seemed to have come to visit him himself.
Hina like this.
– I thought if I told the corps commander, he would ask me to come with him. But I heard that the corps commander is not allowed to come. So, like that over there…
Hina, who was talking, looked back.
Only then did I see the black horse that had been hidden in the darkness. Only then did I see the black chain armor that had been hidden in the shadow of the trees.
-Snap!
The sound of a heavy sword was heard late.
– I asked the Little Duke to come with me for a moment.
Demirea greeted Calian, who was walking with an absurd expression on his face, from a long distance away and without approaching any further.
After nodding my head in greeting, I looked at Hina again.
He said, looking down at his pitch-black eyes full of worry.
“Kiri is fine. I’m fine. Nothing’s wrong.”
– What about other people? Is everyone okay?
“Yeah. Nothing’s going on. Everyone…”
While saying that.
I suddenly felt relieved.
“…… Hina.”
I thought Hina was there.
Because I realized that one thing. Unfortunately, only now.
“Hina… Hina.”
I forgot that there was a wonderful fiancé on a black horse bigger than Raven, I forgot what I was on my way back to, and I forgot who I was pointing my blade at.
“I had a nightmare… I thought I would be okay now, but I had the nightmare again.”
Forget everything.
That it wasn’t okay.
I answered like that.
– So it hurt again?
Hina has never forgotten what she said about how it hurts when she has nightmares. I looked at Hina like that and nodded. I kept nodding my head several times.
“It hurt. I was scared and scared… It hurt.”
I finally felt reassured by the pat that made it impossible for me to hide anything. I couldn’t even hide it and told it all.
Because Hina came.
Because Hina is there.
– It’s okay now.
There is light.
Even though you probably don’t know that I’m not saying this because I’m hurt. Even though it must have been difficult to come all the way here while treating the Balkan soldiers.
-There is no need to be scared. A kind prince is better.
Hina, who knew nothing, said this.
I ended up laughing at the words spoken as if comforting a child.
– Don’t come when you’re sick, come when you’re sick. Ask them to come and get treatment at the right time. Don’t forget I’m here.
I ended up crying while trying to answer the question of not forgetting.
“……huh.”
Like a child.
Like a child who woke up from a scary dream and finally relaxed.
