〈 Episode 344 〉 Ka■■■(5）
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Death has come, but you cannot die.
Kyle realized that something was holding his soul to his body. Standing at the end of his path, at his precipice, Kyle saw that a new path was about to lead before him.
A road stained black.
It is a path that negates all the paths one has walked. Therefore, it is a path that denies the life of Kyle Torben. Of course, you can’t go down that path. We will have to resist.
But, how?
My body doesn’t move.
Even if the soul is still attached to the body, this body has already died. It is impossible to move a dead body. At this moment, Kyle realized.
‘is it.’
Was this it?
‘Is this what you were trying to stop me from?’
Raniel from the future.
The Ash Goddess had spoken to Kyle.
He said his world was destroyed. It turned into a heap of ashes. Raniel, who came from the future, cried out and begged Kyle.
Please don’t go there.
When Kyle heard her words, he had a question in his mind. The world is destroyed? why? In Kyle’s opinion, it was difficult for him to think of an opponent who could surpass the star-bearing Raniel at this point.
“Disaster, I have to kill it, I have to defeat it, there are a lot of things I have to catch. There are too many…”
In addition, there were parts missing from Raniel’s words here and there. By covering up and crushing certain information, Raniel hid something from Kyle. I didn’t lie, but I also didn’t tell everything.
But then.
Kyle recalled that when Raniel pronounced the word disaster, her eyes were on him. Kyle laughed when he remembered that fact.
‘I was your enemy.’
Kyle smiled bitterly in front of the unfolding road.
The blackened road is the road of corruption.
A life not as a human being but as a disaster awaits Kyle. Something pushed Kyle from behind. He whispered to me to quickly become his vessel. Kyle thought as he listened to the whispers.
No, you can’t do that.
Kyle opened his eyes.
He moved his body. Every time he applied force, his body started to collapse with a loud sound, but Kyle kept moving. In order for him to do what he has to do.
I pushed Sarah.
I faced the rushing shadow.
The moment the shadow swallowed him up, Kyle felt his consciousness shake. The ego is distorted. The things he believed in began to change. Kyle gritted his teeth in that horrible feeling.
Puzzle.
I gritted my teeth and regained consciousness.
We must resist. The same outcome as the future he came from should not be created. You have to show him the possibility that a different future might exist.
So, we must resist.
Even though this action right now is meaningless… I must resist. Struggling until the very end is truly a human’s specialty.
‘knife.’
A human who refused death.
The human being who chose to resist until the end hoped to an unknown god. Maybe that’s what he wanted for himself.
‘···If only there was a sword, if only there was a sword.’
The wind blows away.
A wish that the stars did not heed.
But that voice reached someone. The Goddess of Ash listened to the wishes of humans. To make that wish come true, she used the handful of time she had left to work her miracle.
Sarah.
Ashes flew.
A handful of ash rising in the darkness is brilliant. It was so brilliant that it became Kyle’s guide even in the darkness. Kyle’s eyes, which were about to close, opened wide.
“···aha.”
A smile escaped from the corner of my mouth.
There is a sword (?) where the ash flows.
There is a life of your own that you have let go of.
Sigh.
Kyle grabbed the holy sword.
The starlight did not bloom.
2.
The moment Kyle grabbed the sword, he knew what he had to do. My blurred consciousness became clearer. Kyle thought with clear consciousness.
What can I do?
What can I cut?
It is impossible to cut down the swaying shade.
It is also impossible to cut down the path of corruption that continues before me. It is just impossible and impossible. Because the time given to you is already over.
‘···That’s funny.’
He was called the strongest warrior.
However, at the end of the day, all Kyle can do is extremely shabby. Even that is something that Kyle desperately needs now.
Clutching his sword, Kyle made a decision.
“Raniel.”
Kyle hopes.
“I’ll leave the rest to you.”
Kyle moved his sword, praying that she would hear his voice. It is not aimed at a sharply forged sword. The tip of her sword is aimed at herself.
Deep.
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Kyle pierced my heart with a sword.
A handful of blood came out of Kyle’s mouth. The shadow that had been swallowing Kyle fluttered for a moment. The place where the shadow begins is the heart. Kyle carved a clear wound into the foundation of the shadow.
A wound carved into the root.
A flaw that will never be erased.
Unable to heal the wound, the shadow consumed Kyle’s spirit and body. Kyle muttered even as he felt his consciousness falling into darkness.
“···If this is it.”
This would have been a sufficient variable.
Isn’t that right, Raniel?
With those last words, Kyle closed his eyes in a blur of consciousness.
Because I closed my eyes.
Because I thought this was the end.
That’s why Kyle didn’t see it.
“···Don’t be ridiculous.”
She moves the moment I close my eyes.
Saint Sarah.
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Sarah saw Kyle swallowed by the shadows.
Kyle, caught in the shadows, is changing. Sarah had a hunch that Kyle’s soul was broken. Sarah was also able to intuitively realize that this was a different type of apostasy than was commonly said.
You have to run away.
We must run away now.
Instinct warned Sarah.
Something creepy is about to be born. That’s not the Kyle he knows. Something greater than disaster will appear here. Sarah inadvertently took a step back.
So one step, one more step.
Sarah, who was taking a step back, saw something in her field of vision.
That is the ash remaining on the sword Kyle was holding. Sarah knows whose ashes belong to. Raniel. It belongs to the gray wizard Raniel.
···Raniel helped Kyle until the last moment.
Raniel’s voice from the future and her face pleading with Kyle passed through Sara’s mind. Sarah flinched and her steps stopped.
“···really.”
Sarada is very jealous.
Sarada is extremely possessive.
Sarah laughed and stroked her hair. And then he took a trembling step forward. Sarah walked towards the changing Kyle.
“Don’t be ridiculous.”
Anyone can see that they are lovers, very much.
“That is.”
Kyle Torben.
“It’s mine.”
That man is mine.
Just when I thought I got rid of the damn elf that came rolling in, my childhood friend from the future appears… I got rid of even that, and now it’s a god(?).
Sarah let out a laugh.
Even if you have a lot of relationships, there are still too many.
‘Why do you keep coveting other people’s men?’
Sarah laughed and continued walking.
Straighten your back, straighten your shoulders, and be confident.
Sarah hugged Kyle, who was swallowed up in the shadows. Sara thought as she pressed her skin against Kyle’s. She gave the last price she could offer.
It is special.
The specialness of being chosen by God.
Just as Kyle gave up his specialness for Raniel, something similar would be possible for him. Sarah squeezed out all that was special about her. That is the core of the human being ‘Sarah’.
Chosen as a saint.
She was raised to be a saint.
He spent his childhood being looked up to by everyone and intoxicated with his own specialness. To Sarah, being a saint means everything to her. Sarah knows that without this special feeling, she will become nothing.
‘But it’s been like that from the beginning.’
It doesn’t matter though.
Although she lived her entire life as a saint, Sarah was ultimately just a girl in front of Kyle. She fell in love like a normal girl, and dated like a normal girl. So she probably doesn’t care.
Sarah said without hesitation.
“I will give it to you.”
Life as a saint.
All the memories of my life as a saint.
Divinity given to her because she was a saint.
By giving everything, Sarah created a small light. With the light in her mouth, Sarah grabbed Kyle by the collar. I pressed my lips to Kyle’s cold mouth. I handed the light in my mouth to Kyle.
At that moment, Sarah’s pupils widened.
As if pure white paint had been poured into my head, my memories began to bleach. In her fading consciousness, Sarah barely managed to squeeze out a word.
“I love you, Kyle.”
At the last moment, Sarah laughed.
Like an ordinary girl, not a saint.
3.
The Ash Goddess watched it all.
Raniel, who came from 13 years in the future, struggled to understand what was happening here and now. But he couldn’t understand any of it.
A miracle happened.
Variables overlapped with variables.
The choices Kyle made in the end and the actions Sarah showed were all things that did not happen in Raniel’s past. Something happened that didn’t happen.
···It is unpredictable.
Raniel sensed that the path to the future was wrong. Of course, the major branches did not change. Despite the variables caused by the two, Kyle stubbornly began to defect. Soon, a new disaster will appear on this land.
but.
“···It’s not the same.”
What disaster did you experience?
Kyle, the sword of heaven, was a being close to perfection.
To kill Kyle, Raniel had to lose many things. He reduced countless things to ashes and sacrificed countless others to finally reach Kyle. But what about Kyle now?
Not perfect.
It’s incomplete.
An indelible scar is engraved on the heart, and the light planted by Sarah is sparkling in the shadows. Variables made Kyle an imperfect being. In Raniel’s opinion, it was a possibility.
The possibility of heading to a different future.
The possibility of leading to a future different from what you imagined. A bit of light appeared in Raniel’s eyes, which had lost their shine due to wear and tear over the years.
“···perhaps.”
Maybe, Raniel muttered.
“Really, maybe…”
The best rather than the lesser evil may be possible.
Although he is afraid to pronounce it, Raniel ends up assuming that it might be.
“······.”
Raniel was silent.
The silence didn’t last long. The sound of Raniel taking steps echoed through the church. After standing still for so long, she took her steps.
Variable after variable followed.
Small things come together to present possibilities.
All that remains is to grasp the possibility.
However, it may not be up to you to seize that possibility. Because he who came from the future cannot interfere with the present.
‘···If only there was someone who could hold it.’
There must be only one.
“next.”
The Goddess of Ash stopped in front of Raniel.
“It’s your turn next, Raniel.”
The Goddess of Ash laughed bitterly.
“···i’ll wait.”
If it were me 13 years ago.
If the country isn’t broken.
If I were to pursue the best.
‘Because I might find some answer.’
The Goddess of Ash took a step forward.
She made one last leap in time. Ten days into the future, the last turning point she remembers.
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