〈 Episode 348 〉 Regret (2)
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“sorry.”
“I can’t do it, Raniel.”
“I’m sorry, but… I can’t be like you.”
The rain poured down.
Kyle smiled bitterly in the pouring rain.
“I am not worthy of being a hero.”
The finger pointed at me.
“It’s you, Raniel.”
“What are you talking about.”
“You are better than me…”
“stand up.”
“A guy like me shouldn’t have become a hero. “It’s not me who’s suited to be a hero, it’s you, Raniel.”
“Stop talking bullshit and stand up.”
I grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up.
I screamed. She screamed and screamed, but Kyle just pointed at me with an expressionless expression. I can’t forget the memories of that day.
no.
I couldn’t forget it.
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【Raniel van Trias.】
The voice of the stars.
【Blessings to the new hero.】
The voice of a damn star rings in my ears.
Raniel slowly lowered his gaze. In her eyes, I could see the starlight blooming from my body.
Starlight. The voice of the stars. And your own condition.
The information given is put together.
Information was connected and became context. Damn it, Raniel has a quick mind. Even though I don’t want to understand, the situation begins to make sense.
I became a warrior.
The inalienable starlight has been transferred.
The impossible has been accomplished.
To achieve the impossible, of course, a fair price will be needed. Giving a price and getting what you want. Wizards call it a bargain. The deal was done. Where? And who?
‘transaction.’
The moment I thought of that word, what happened in the North came to mind. Kyle signed an unknown contract with a star. What did Kyle say with his expression when he was screaming at him to break the contract?
“That can’t be possible.”
Kyle said with a bitter smile.
“I can’t let it go.”
He was looking at himself and smiling bitterly.
It is only now that Raniel realizes the meaning of that laughter. He understands what Kyle was trying to achieve, even though he had to put such restrictions in place.
“······.”
Raniel’s fingertips trembled.
Raniel’s pupils were shaking like crazy as he looked at the starlight rising from his body. Cold sweat ran down Raniel’s spine.
Contract, deal, starlight.
Okay, so Kyle made a deal.
I don’t know how, but I did something.
It looks like the starlight has passed on to me, right? Damn you son of a bitch. I couldn’t help but ignore you for saying that I was suited to be a hero. Yeah, well… yeah.
however.
But, isn’t it something that can be surpassed by stars?
It won’t be handed over just because you want it.
It would not be enough to impose such restrictions. To achieve this, something…a task must be accomplished.
‘Task.’
Battle with the sword of death.
Kyle said he must come here.
A guy who was making suspicious movements.
‘He said, there’s only one left.’
If it’s after the sword of death.
Next.
next.
ah.
no way.
【Fulfill the given fate…】
“Shut your mouth.”
Raniel cut off the voice that Star was trying to whisper in my ear. She doesn’t believe in stars. Now she couldn’t believe it even more.
“···no.”
Raniel sighed.
“no.”
she laughed
“no.”
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She muttered in a trembling voice.
“No, that can’t be possible. no.”
She took a step.
Although his physical condition was completely normal, Raniel’s legs were shaking for some reason. Raniel stumbled and grabbed his doorknob.
Opened the door and she went out.
When the door opened, he saw Roselle standing up and looking at him, but Raniel did not make eye contact with Roselle. Raniel walked.
‘No.’
One step.
‘No, right?’
Another step.
Raniel took a staggered step and looked around. He wonders where Kyle, who passed the star to him, could be. It will definitely be here. She needed to get an explanation from him. She absolutely had to listen.
All the hypotheses that come to mind right now are just speculations. That can’t be possible. Raniel hoped that this guy would deny all of these hypotheses.
With that hope in mind, Raniel walked.
I stumbled around the mansion.
Raniel moved, looking for someone who wasn’t here. I normally didn’t think the mansion was very spacious, but now it felt extremely spacious.
And, bam.
Someone grabbed Raniel’s wrist.
Raniel let out a suffocating breath. It wasn’t Master’s hand. His body briefly trembled and Raniel slowly turned his head. When he turns his head, there…
“···Cardi.”
Cardi is standing.
Cardi is there, not Kyle. Raniel looked at Cardi and smiled. She grabbed Cardi’s arm with her trembling hands.
“Hey, Cardi.”
“······.”
“Where is Kyle? Where is he? “There’s no way that idiot would have thought of something like this on his own.”
You, too, cooperated.
That was just a sleeping scent. I know. I know you lied. Still, I thought it suited you in case you didn’t know. Because you looked so distressed at that time.
however.
“···Raniel.”
By the way, why are you still making that expression?
“Kyle.”
Raniel raised his voice.
“Where’s Kyle, you asshole!”
Cardi responded.
“···does not exist. “Not here.”
“Then where is it?”
“I do not know either. “It must be somewhere in the Demonic World.”
“Ten, it looks like you’re doing it too badly? Well, even if he lost his starlight, he became a superhuman…”
“Raniel.”
“My words.”
Raniel grabbed Cardi’s arm tightly.
“Tell me I’m right, Cardi.”
“······.”
“It’s not what I think, is it? “Isn’t it?”
Tell me I’m wrong.
Cardi closed her eyes tightly in front of Raniel, who spoke as if pleading. And, he barely managed to get a word out.
“You know that too, Raniel.”
Cardi handed down the sentence.
“What you think is right.”
He thrust the truth in front of Raniel.
Cardi couldn’t tell a lie. Cardi simply conveyed the facts as they were.
“Kyle Torben is dead.”
Raniel doesn’t say anything.
I didn’t even ask why.
Raniel laughed. He said with a smile.
“…Are you trying to save me?”
It is not a question asked hoping for an answer.
She also knows the answer.
Raniel can no longer ignore the conclusion that was formed in his head. Raniel let go of Cardi’s arm. Raniel, who could no longer find a reason to stand, lost strength in his legs and collapsed in place.
He flopped down and sat down.
Raniel lowered his head. Looked at his own hands. Only the rising starlight came into Raniel’s field of vision. Raniel fully understood the situation.
“why.”
Raniel lowered his head like a doll whose strings had been cut and muttered.
“Why on earth?”
There was no one here who could answer that question.
3.
Raniel understood his own physical condition well. He is a body that should have died. His lifespan had reached its limit and his body was broken. His soul was irreparably broken.
Because it’s just broken and broken.
Raniel knew better than anyone else that the only end left to him was a miserable death. He knew and he was afraid.
A death that cannot be left behind.
I was afraid of dying with many regrets.
Raniel knew that there was no way to avoid that death. He knew it was impossible. But now the impossible has happened.
“······.”
The body is fine.
The broken soul was completely restored.
We are further from death than ever before. Although he was freed from fear, something more weighed on Raniel’s head. Ran El slowly raised his head.
“Explain, please.”
I glared at Cardi.
He glared at me and told me to explain.
“First, stand up…”
“I told you to explain.”
“······.”
After taking a short breath, Cardi explained to Raniel. Cardio explained Kyle’s plan, leaving out information about the future Raniel. He said he cooperated with it.
“It means that you have a star.”
I guess that means he was successful.
When I went there to pick you up, he was already dead. That’s why I brought only you. Raniel burst into laughter in front of Cardi who explained it that way.
It’s an unbelievable story.
I can’t even believe that I cut down the Demon King. He went back there to deal with the demon lord he was so afraid of? To achieve a feat?
It’s just an incredible story.
But the evidence that it is true is now here. The fact that he was alive, and the starlight that was within him, was proof of that. While listening to Cardi’s story in a daze, Raniel suddenly burst into laughter.
“···under.”
The laughter that came out dried up.
“really.”
Raniel muttered.
“I do that because I hate myself.”
“···What is that?”
“You know what? Cardi?”
Raniel laughed.
“Even at this moment, I am looking for the empty part of your words. And I finally found it.”
It was a habit.
Terrible habit.
“Cardi.”
She slowly stood up.
I reached out and grabbed Cardi by the collar.
“What about the body?”
“······.”
“What about his body?”
“that.”
“You didn’t bring him here because he was dead? Do not lie. Then they would have brought a corpse. At least they would have said that they burned it. There’s no way you, who know the devil, would leave a body there. “Where is the body?”
“···Raniel.”
“You’re not dead.”
“for a moment···.”
“You’re not dead.”
Raniel’s lips trembled.
“You couldn’t even die?”
“······.”
“Can you tell me what this damn constellation is whispering in my ear, Cardi?”
【Fulfill your given destiny.】
【Disaster, kill Kyle Torben.】
“Disaster, kill Kyle Torben.”
Cardi’s eyes wavered.
Raniel laughed.
“what is this sound?”
Kyle Torben has been a disaster.
Cardi explained that cutting down the demon lord was the feat he wanted to accomplish. Kyle was a disaster, he said. Raniel could easily guess what happened between those two sentences.
Ganichalt van Galatric.
Kyle met the same end.
The boy who admired Ganikalt and tried to be like him ended up being like him even to the end. Raniel’s lips opened and closed repeatedly.
“Cardi.”
Raniel barely managed to squeeze out a single word.
“Did you… know it would end up like this?”
“···that.”
“You cooperated even though you knew.”
Cardi closed her eyes.
It’s as if he’ll accept anything you say, and if you want to vent your anger, let it out. Raniel raised his hand in front of Cardi, who closed his eyes. He clenched his fist, but eventually his hand went limp.
“No.”
Raniel muttered.
“This isn’t it.”
“······.”
“You know there’s no way I would want something like this. “Why, why did you do that?”
Her voice trembled.
Raniel let go of Cardi’s collar and grabbed his neck with trembling hands. Thin neck. Raniel’s fingernails dug into the pure white skin.
Blood flowed out.
However, the small wound heals quickly. Starlight bloomed and the cooled skin pushed away Raniel’s nails. There is blood flowing down, but there is no wound. It is a resilience that is like a symbol of a warrior.
“Why did I become a hero?”
The moment he looked into Raniel’s eyes, Cardi lost his breath. Because he was there, with the same facial expression as Raniel, who was from the future.
“I didn’t wish to die. I thought I wanted to live. I thought I didn’t want to end up like this. Still, this isn’t it. This… this.”
“Raniel.”
“This isn’t right.”
Raniel laughed.
I laughed and cried.
I thought I would send Kyle a letter when I woke up. She thought that it would be the first time in a long time, a really long time, that she should talk openly with him. She thought that since she had little time left, she should not have any regrets.
But that opportunity is gone.
Raniel can’t wear a mask like always. Once removed, the mask cannot cover the face again. Even when his bare face is revealed, Raniel is just a human being who can be found anywhere.
afraid of death
Fearing what was lost.
A person who has hidden his wounds for a long time and allowed them to fester.
“I… I…”
All that remains is regret.
A broken moan came out of Raniel’s mouth.
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