Episode 207: An angel spreading its wings (2)
“The only way to end the nightmare.”
The referee’s mutterings dissolved in the darkness.
“Yes, this is the only way. “The end of everything in this world.”
And in the darkness, there was a being who affirmed those words. It was the devil, the master of this deep darkness.
The Demon King, the boy king who judges the world from above, smiled and spoke to his only compatriot.
“There are wounds that will never heal. and.”
The Demon King stroked the referee’s cheek where tear marks remained.
“There are nightmares that will never wake up.”
he said
“Those who do not understand often speak easily. Wounds can be healed and nightmares can stop. “It’s all about the difference of will.”
The Demon King looked down on the city. Because he was honestly very curious. What kind of expression is that young dragon looking at the referee?
What kind of expression is the referee looking at, with his hair now turning black and his hands full of Hongwol’s blood?
Yumari, Yumari was feeling sad.
The only remaining arm was aimed at the referee and split the air as it tried to catch something that could not be caught.
With an expression full of sadness, the girl bit her lip.
But the girl still didn’t give up.
“Fools who say that haven’t seen the real darkness.”
The Demon King shook his head a few times as if he was tired, then quietly went to the referee’s side and whispered something dark.
“That child had this nightmare.”
With just one word, a few syllables, the referee learned of the nightmare Marie had experienced as a child.
A child who loses everything due to the world’s overwhelming violence, a child who trembles in loneliness, and a child who experiences pain that they don’t want to even think about. He is a child who falls asleep because no one can save him.
It was a terrible nightmare.
I will probably never escape that nightmare until I die.
So the referee, or rather the darkness of the referee, made a decision.
“Come on, referee. Did I say this before? “Now it’s time to end that kid’s nightmare.”
The referee did not answer. He simply took out his dagger, Flabellum, without saying a word. The devil said after seeing that.
“It’s a shame. “I wanted to end that ignorant dragon with my own hands.”
However, he did not look regretful at all. The Demon King had an expression on his face like a child looking forward to a popular hero movie just before it starts.
But no one saw that expression. Because everyone was seeing something different.
It is a battle between a dragon and an angel.
Of course, it was the referee who started the confrontation.
The referee, who naturally fell to the ground because he had no wings, used the reaction of fire magic to elegantly twist his trajectory, aiming for Marie’s blind spot.
But Marie’s blind spots were not easily visible.
So the referee finally arrived on the ground.
But Marie still kept her distance between her and opened and closed her mouth, making a sad expression.
Concrete buildings remain scattered among the buildings that collapsed due to pressure. The referee naturally hid himself between the buildings and aimed at Marie’s blind spot again.
Is it because my emotions are shaken?
The referee was able to see Marie’s blind spot this time.
The referee rushes in without hesitation. In this way, the referee had no choice but to touch the ball with his floor while one of his arms was suppressed by Marie’s joint.
“Referee.”
This is Marie who fought on equal footing with the Demon King. Of course, the blind spot that Marie showed had to be a trap.
However, the referee who fell into the trap just looked up at Marie with an expressionless expression, as if he was wearing a mask, as if this situation was nothing.
“I know now.”
What on earth do you know? The referee was a little startled, probably wondering what that meant, but that didn’t stop him from fighting.
Since it was a ground where only one arm was used, the dark referee was able to easily escape from Marie’s side just by dispersing the darkness.
The darkness of the referee, who thought there was no chance of victory in close combat, began to accumulate thick darkness in his flavellam.
Flabellum, which was a white dagger, turned into a dark long sword and began to aim at Marie.
And the sword strike that left no sound cut off a bit of Marie’s hair. The referee decided to put her to sleep by scattering her sword attacks.
If you go for a long-distance fight, the attack will definitely be read by karma, and if you go for a short-range fight, you will only end up in the same situation as before.
In that case, the referee thought that the middle distance would be too fast to read and too far to react. No, what was moving the referee’s body now was something that was both the referee and not the referee.
What should I say about that?
Should I call it the referee’s darkness?
However, Marie barely moved her body to avoid the sword attack, as if it were nothing more than a breeze. Isn’t she even moving forward one step at a time?
“Referee, the referee already knows.”
no. The referee knew nothing.
Now the referee was just sleeping.
However, Yumari did not give up and looked at the referee again.
A boy so beautiful you can’t believe he’s a boy. A beauty of that level might be a bit inhumane and a little uncomfortable, but she was more human than anyone else because she always smiled like a fool and stretched out her hand with warmth.
The girl still remembered that touch.
“Why didn’t the referee take revenge on this world?”
There was no answer from the boy.
The boy just kept throwing sword strikes. The building behind Marie was cut off like tofu.
“Why did the referee keep trying to protect this world?”
The black-faced referee made no reply.
However, the sword strike faltered a little and ended up splitting the air next to Marie.
Finally, the referee opened his mouth.
“I am not a referee.”
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The black-faced referee spoke in a cold voice I had never heard before.
“I am the darkness of the referee. The referee you are looking for is sleeping under the sofa, sobbing.”
“As expected, I see.”
“You are Yumari, right? “I know you.”
the referee said.
“The child that the referee saved, and therefore the child that the referee felt most sorry for.”
“yes?”
“The referee was so sorry for making you live through a nightmare. So, let me end this nightmare for him.”
Before we knew it, Yumari was standing in front of the referee.
“Anyway, no one can wake the referee from this nightmare.”
And the referee drew his sword again. The sword strike was so large that it went beyond Mari and reached far into the center of the city.
Red solid line-
In the end, Marie got cut on her thigh by the darkened Flabellum.
“You can pretend to live happily. You can pretend like nothing is wrong. but.”
“… i know. “At that time when I have to sleep alone.”
You can’t lie at that time.
Yumari knew that fact better than anyone else.
The referee’s attacks continued, and continued. Marie continued to block the attack and let out a single word as if she was squeezing it out.
“But there is a way to wake up from the nightmare.”
The sound of a heavy breath saying one’s name, “Referee.” Even though the referee lost his expression in the darkness, he ended up shedding tears as he heard the breathing of the girl he wanted to protect.
“… “There is no such way.”
The referee’s darkness spoke.
The referee was still asleep inside, under the sofa with no one around and only blood flowing, with his eyes closed and suppressing sobs as if light and darkness had no meaning.
No one could wake this child.
No one.
However, the Demon King was not filled with dark confidence in Yumari’s words.
Looking at the miracles Yumari has shown so far… … .
“It’s not a miracle.”
No, travelogues. For such eccentricities, there may be another way. The Demon King’s heart was not wide enough to allow for such a possibility.
“It doesn’t matter what you do. “I completed everything while the referee was taking the time.”
Erasing a world wasn’t just about destroying the sky. The most basic way to destroy a world.
It’s what makes the ground disappear.
“Look, you stupid dragon. “No matter what you do, you can’t change the future of this world.”
And the city disappeared into the deep abyss. And the Demon King smiled again as he saw the city disappearing, leaving behind white smoke.
And I frowned again when I saw the things that had disappeared along with the city.
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The ground disappears. The Demon King’s technique of summoning an abyss beneath the earth and plunging the earth into eternal darkness.
Humans also called the abyss Tartarus or hell, and said that no one could escape from here unless they were angels with wings.
People fell into the abyss like that.
“The child the referee wanted to protect must have run away.”
It will happen. No matter how much we fight for people, no one would go to hell for people we meet for the first time today.
The child would have left.
“Somehow I couldn’t run away either.”
It doesn’t matter though.
That girl would finally stop being stupid. Thinking of that, the referee’s darkness smiled bitterly.
Anyway, that child was also a child living in a nightmare, and he would either run away and turn the world into hell as if he could not be the only one who suffered from this, or he would take everything around him, claiming that he would forget the nightmare with pleasure.
At best, the darkness of my childhood will peek out when I am alone.
Or maybe he would move to end everything like himself. That wasn’t bad either. Marie is a good child, just like the boy who fell asleep inside her.
The darkness just wanted the child’s nightmare to end.
Huh-huh-
The sound of a child crying was heard from afar. Did the boy under the sofa finally stop crying and start crying because he was tired of the nightmare?
No, it’s just the beginning of a new nightmare.
A child is crying in loneliness.
The darkness heard the cry and slowly closed its eyes.
Now, now it will all be over.
So please wait a little longer.
But something strange happened.
Isn’t the sound of crying slowly subsiding?
“It can’t happen.”
The darkness looked at the place where the child was crying.
A lot of people were gathered where the child was crying.
People who are scared, holding their breath, and praying in vain. But those people were protecting the child.
Why do people protect their children even though they know that hell will unfold in the future?
The referee didn’t want to close his eyes until he found out why.
In the center of the crowd, the referee could see a girl holding a baby. A girl holding a child with her only remaining arm, not knowing how to hold the child.
The girl really resembled someone.
With someone in the referee’s memory.
“I, I know this sight.”
In an instant, the girl turned into a dragon giving birth to a baby, and the baby had cute horns.
‘Angel, look. The child is so… … .’
At that moment, the girl appeared to have flowing brown hair and was hugging the referee warmly. And the woman reached under her sofa and touched her shaking child’s shoulder.
“Come on, baby. “It’s time to wake up,” he said and hugged the child’s back. As she slowly rubbed down her back, the child looked at her mother’s face and smiled and said,
“I had a scary, scary nightmare.”
The relieved child fell asleep again.
And the referee stood up.
The referee was finally able to understand why Marie fought and why she wanted to protect her people even after being so hurt.
Because Marie had faith.
“… Yes, I am.”
And the referee also knew about faith.
Because I have always lived in miracles.
“I believed… … .”
From the beginning, the referee believed this. It was as if the referee already had wings on his back.
However, you can only spread your wings if you have faith that you can fly.
“Someone will comfort the child who is having nightmares…” … .”
The wings spread out. Ten thousand more nights since the last angel came down. The heartless night that had turned people’s prayers to nothing for so long brought a new light of salvation.
fantasy,
