she felt
The tower that had been torn down over and over again was finally completed.
I found the answer. Now it was time to put that answer into action. Blood flowed from Raniel’s nose. The veins burst and her eyes turned red.
···A spell is an intervention in the providence of the world through a deal with the stars.
Raniel decided to skip that process altogether. He omits dealing with the stars. Raniel created a spell based on the logic that he would first twist providence arbitrarily, and then pay the price later.
Of course, it can’t be easy.
It is not an operation that can be processed by the human brain. However, Raniel’s computing power, which surpassed its limits, made him possible. Raniel immediately utilized the abilities of a super-computing wizard and superhuman.
Computation, interpretation, and execution.
Skipping the deal with the stars, Raniel directly interfered with providence. The moment she stretched out her hand, her mana stopped blooming. Raniel’s circuit was added to the rules engraved in the world.
The order we devised soon becomes a rule and providence.
Smite.
It’s just a moment.
A pure white ray of light appeared, tearing through the space as if it had been there ‘from the beginning’. The island that appeared collided with Kyle’s sword.
Kaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Space was distorted.
With a crackling sound, the space in the area began to split apart. The beam of light was torn apart by Kyle’s sword, but it still canceled out Kyle’s blow. It was a providence that would have cut him with a sword from heaven, but Kyle had no strength left to swing that sword.
For the first time, the knife Kyle swung bounced away.
Raniel did not miss that opportunity.
Raniel took a step forward and thrust his hand toward Kyle’s heart. With his thrusting hands, Raniel clutched Kyle’s heart.
The only circuit that was hidden.
Raniel’s palm, engraved with the circuit created by the Goddess of Ash, touched Kyle’s heart. Ran El smiled at Kyle, who opened her eyes wide.
“Because I don’t need it.”
Kiiiiing!
“Take it back, you f*cking bastard.”
A handful of starlight that my soul can endure.
Leaving only that behind, Raniel put all of his starlight into the circuit.
Flashing.
Starlight flooded in.
“I thought about it for a very long time.”
“Wouldn’t there be a different ending? Maybe I could talk to Kyle again. “Isn’t there a way to turn Kyle back into a human?”
She said she thought and thought about it.
The Goddess of Ash, who had been regretting over and over again for the past 13 years, smiled bitterly and drew something in the air.
“I’ve been looking for it all along.”
She laughed and cried.
“I finally found the answer.”
She decided that she couldn’t find the answer on her own. She said she found the answer because there were so many variables, and those variables changed the future.
“Don’t be like me.”
What she completed was a circuit. As she handed me the circuit, her Ash Goddess asked:
“Don’t become a god.”
“Don’t get thirsty from the starlight.”
“Power doesn’t accomplish anything. God is just an illusion. You should never deny the path you have walked. So, I mean.”
Remembering her words.
“Give it back and throw it away.”
“Because you don’t need it.”
I stretched out my hand.
“Don’t be like me, live your own life.”
He reached out and grabbed Kyle’s heart.
At that moment, the circuit engraved on my palm blinked violently. Light flooded like waves from the circuit, which consumed all the starlight, leaving behind only a handful.
A brilliantly burning platinum-colored light.
Starlight seeped through the hole in Kyle’s heart. The shadow in my heart was shaken by the rising starlight. Kyle’s grip on his heart rose like crazy, as if removing a foreign substance entering his body.
Quack, quack.
Soaring hands grabbed my arms. It clawed at my skin and screamed. Ignoring the screams ringing in my ears, I put a little more pressure on my hands.
‘I wonder if I’ll miss it.’
I can never let go.
Feel free to scratch wherever you want. If you’re going to break your fingers, break them. Even if all the skin is peeled off and only the bones remain, I will never let you go.
How many crises did we overcome to get to this point? How much hardship did she have to endure? I faced the risk of dying at least dozens of times. There were times when I really almost died. I have overcome such obstacles several times to get here.
So, I can’t let go.
‘Because this will be your last chance.’
The light became stronger.
The starlight that rushed in like a wave touched the seed deep in my heart. It was a seed that Sarah planted in Kyle’s heart, giving her all.
That is Sarah’s origin.
It is the origin of her life as a saint, and the origin of what she wanted to achieve by sacrificing everything that made up her life. I caught it. To grant her final wish.
Starlight seeped into the seeds.
The seeds germinate, swallowing the flooding starlight. It sprouted and took root, and began to drive out the shadow that had settled in the heart. A white beam of light began to soar through the overflowing starlight.
···This was my purpose.
The circuit I received from my future self was almost unfinished. This one circuit alone could not bring Kyle back. That’s why she said it. In Cardi’s case, this method would be useless.
It has to be that way.
After resisting until the very last moment, there was Kyle who left a scar on my heart.
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Because there was Sarah who gave everything with the sole intention of saving Kyle.
Because there was a future me who endured 13 years of hell.
Because of all that, this circuit finally had meaning. If any one of them had been missing, the circuit would have been useless. So, I put a little more strength into my hands.
Don’t let their efforts go in vain.
So that their lives are not meaningless.
My role was to lead the variables they created into a single answer. Because that’s why I came all the way here.
“Hey, Kyle.”
At the end of the road, I smiled bitterly.
“Please come back quickly.”
He said with a smile.
“Because I have a lot to say.”
Flash, flash.
The flash of light that burst out dyed the entire area pure white.
2.
Ka■ ■■ blinked.
How many times did I blink? Ka ■ ■ Ben felt the scum that had filled her head fall away. Her head slowly cleared, as if soot had been removed.
Kyle Torben.
Kyle, who remembered my name, stood up. Looking around, a landscape like the night sky was unfolding. A night sky decorated with stars. Looking down at her feet, there was a path shining white.
The path you have walked.
This was the life Kyle lived.
If you look ahead, there is a road full of old things. There was a path to denying the life I had lived so far. If Kyle had taken just one more step, he would have gone very far down that path.
Kyle looked at his feet.
The raised foot stopped just before stepping on the dirt. Just before the foot touched the old water, the old water disappeared as if something had washed it away.
“···aha.”
Kyle laughed as he looked at that.
What I feared did not happen. It seemed like he was successful. It looks like he succeeded in killing himself after he changed.
“Thank goodness,” Kyle muttered.
Raniel from the future said.
That his world was destroyed. Now Kyle also knows what the cause of that destruction was. He will be the one who has turned into a disaster. Because she couldn’t stop herself in time, her world would have been destroyed.
That’s why I was worried.
Kyle struggled until the last moment because he was worried. Kyle wanted to believe that the holy sword she had stabbed into her heart would have helped him.
…Maybe it meant something.
In any case, the terrible future she spoke of from the future will not be repeated. Kyle was relieved by that fact. Her heavy steps seemed to have become a little lighter.
“······.”
Kyle raised his head and looked ahead without saying a word.
Where the road covered in debris has disappeared, only emptiness remains. A void without anything. It means the end of the road. Death, eternal extinction.
That was the end that was allowed to Kyle.
In the face of death, Kyle let out a short breath.
His role is over. Now you can close your eyes comfortably. In the face of death approaching right in front of him, Kyle inadvertently looked back.
“You’ve walked a lot.”
If it’s short, it’s a short life.
But it was a long time for Kyle. Kyle couldn’t say that he had lived well all that long time. I was ugly, I stumbled, and I did a lot of things I shouldn’t have done. So, far from being perfect, the path Kyle took was just crooked and unsightly.
I made a lot of mistakes.
Looking back, I had a lot of regrets.
Looking back on his life, Kyle dreamed of a different ending that might have been possible. She wasn’t just an impossible assumption. It was a future she could have easily reached if she had tried just a little harder.
‘···If only I had worked a little harder.’
If only I hadn’t given up and chased after you.
Even if I fell, even if I was frustrated, even if I stopped, I would have stood up and followed you in the end. Or, if I had tried to think of you as the same person when I first encountered you, who had changed so much.
So, would a different ending have been possible?
Couldn’t the four of us have gone on an adventure by walking down the street together, bickering like before, and reached the Demon King? Even if we went back a long way, wouldn’t you and I have been able to reach the ending we wanted in the end?
…And then, after it’s all over.
Wouldn’t you and I, who are neither warriors nor wise men, be able to sit in an old tavern, sip drinks and have trivial conversations like we did in the old days?
‘···It would be fun if I could do that.’
While sipping a drink, we talk about our days as warriors, make jokes while pointing out mistakes we made, talk about ridiculously strong enemies, and ask ourselves, ‘What on earth did we do? ‘How did you win that?’ Even if you’re drunk with yourself, it’s a truly lame future to see.
Kyle thought about that future.
“···aha.”
Laughter leaked out.
It is a future that cannot come true. That’s why it looks even more beautiful. Kyle let out a laugh and stepped his lifted foot in front of her.
Now it was time to end this life.
This is the moment when Kyle’s lifted foot is about to touch the void. Flashing, a pure white light instead of emptiness reached Kyle’s toes. Kyle opened his eyes wide and looked at his feet.
Sarah.
A road was being built.
The road was being built at a very slow pace, like a seed germinating and sprouting. A life that had ended was about to begin again.
and.
Sigh.
Someone caught Kyle.
Kyle looked back. There was Raniel, who gritted his teeth and chased after him. She lifted her head, her breathing ragged. She said with a laugh, as if she had really had a hard time.
“Gotcha.”
Raniel pulled Kyle.
* * *
Flash.
Kyle blinked.
Only after blinking several times was I able to see the surrounding scenery. Collapsed ceiling. Remains of shattered pillars. There were traces of countless battles everywhere, including long loud sword marks and soot on the floor.
Next, Kyle looked at his body.
Limp arms and cracked body.
It wouldn’t be surprising if I died right now, but my heart continued to beat. The thudding sound of the heartbeat rang in Kyle’s ears.
···I can’t move.
I had no strength in my body.
I kept getting sleepy. Although something unknown was recovering my body, the recovery was very slow. It will take a long time to fully recover.
However, this makes no sense.
The more Kyle checked his physical condition, the more surprised he felt. He must have died. She must have been in such a state that she couldn’t survive?
“···how.”
Kyle muttered inadvertently.
“How are you alive…?”
“How are you alive, you bastard?”
Before he could finish saying that, someone hit Kyle on the head. With a dull pain, Kyle slowly lifted his head.
“···Raniel?”
Raniel was there.
Raniel, completely devastated, was looking down at Kyle. One of his eyes is half-closed, and his left arm is limp. He has lost so much blood that his complexion is pale.
But still, Raniel was smiling.
“Do you even think I went to such trouble just to save you?”
Laughing, she tapped Kyle’s head in succession. She pounded with such force that Kyle felt his bones throbbing. Before Kyle tells me to stop hitting him, wow! A loud sound rang out.
“Kyaaaaaaaaa!”
Raniel, who was pounding Kyle’s head, screamed and grabbed his wrist. As he tried to strengthen his broken arm, he ended up breaking his wrist.
“Stone-headed bastard! “Keuuuuuuu!”
She screamed and ran around in place, but because she couldn’t pay attention to her broken ankle, she fell to the floor with a thump. It was a bonus that the sound of her ankle breaking echoed.
Another loud scream echoed through the basement.
“···What are you doing?”
Kyle, unable to bear it any longer, muttered that.
Raniel glared at Kyle with his eyes wide open, but his venomous eyes quickly softened.
“Anyway…”
Raniel let out a long sigh.
As if she had a lot to say but didn’t know where to start, she repeatedly moved her lips together and smiled playfully as if she had inadvertently come up with a funny idea.
“Hey, Kyle.”
“What.”
“You didn’t hit me, did you?”
He flinched, and Kyle’s eyebrows moved.
“I guess so. “Because you won, I…”
“You hit me.”
“······.”
“You just got beat up all day, and then at the end, you got into a nasty close-quarters fight with me? Hey, where on earth is a swordsman who tells a wizard to settle the matter at close range?”
Raniel grinned.
“But I won? you lost to me I lost even at close range. “You sloppy bastard.”
I won.
I won.
“With this, 1 win and 1 loss.”
Actually, I lost a little more, but every time I fought, Kyle looked after me… and there were many times when I lost, but none of those were fights with all my heart. So it has nothing to do with the official score.
As if you insist so strongly.
Raniel spoke clearly, putting emphasis on each syllable.
“It’s a draw.”
The great gray wizard, extremely ugly and possessed of great pride and competitive spirit, smiled brightly.
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