Episode 1001
Phew!
The blue dragon, with its wings torn to the point of flowing like a rag, struggled through the sea.
“I’m sorry, Uncle… .”
Evelyn stroked Lokta’s scales with her only remaining hand, blood dripping from her entire body.
[Don’t talk!]
With trembling hands, Lokta pushed mana into Evelyn’s body, but it did not go in, only out.
“It’s late.”
Evelyn shook her head as if it was already over.
“We’re all here, but at the end… .”
I remembered the last time I saw Sella and stopped my hand, and I laughed to myself.
“But do you know that?”
Evelyn smiled, looking at the hand that had been holding Sella.
“I was so happy, even though I knew that my mother’s soul was not in it. Because I had never hugged my mother.”
Cella had hugged her many times. Even before she died, she had hugged her and told her that she loved her.
But she had never been the first to hug Sella. She was happy that she could hold her mother’s hand and hug her, even if it was the last time.
[… … .]
Rockta just grumbled silently, as if he was sad.
“I’m sorry for being unreasonable all this time.”
[Don’t talk and save your strength!]
Lokta felt Evelyn’s warmth fading away and for the first time he let out a scream.
“Thank you so much, Uncle.”
Evelyn touched Lokta with her weak hands and smiled a thin smile that seemed ready to snap.
[Hey, wait!]
“As the last royal of the Sirken Kingdom, I hereby decree that from this moment on, I release the Knight Lokta Deport.”
[Evelyn!]
Rokta stopped flying and looked at Evelyn.
“Uncle. I wish you were happy instead of me and Mom. I’m so sorry…”
With those words, Evelyn closed her eyes and dropped her hands. The life and heat began to melt away from her body.
[ah….]
Lokta shrugged his shoulders as he looked at Evelyn, who had been holding onto him with her hand hanging limply.
[Ahhhhhhhhhhh!]
As if sensing the sorrow of the Dragonian left alone, waves rose higher and deeper than ever in the sea.
***
Swish.
Rockta shook his head, swiping the ice pillar with the back of his hand.
“I should be happy alone? That can’t be possible.”
He shook his head heavily as he looked at Evelyn, trapped in the ice pillar.
Evelyn told him to free himself and live happily, but he couldn’t live like that.
He didn’t have much time left because of his injuries, and he didn’t want to send his lonely child away alone.
It was when Lokta sighed while blankly looking at Evelyn’s corpse.
Thump.
He heard someone coming from the entrance of the cave he was staying in.
“… … .”
Without making a sound, Lokta grabbed the sword leaning against the wall. As he was thinking about cutting down whoever came, a small flame like a lantern appeared before his eyes.
“You were here.”
A gray-bearded wizard walked out from behind the flames.
“Bird?”
It was the high-ranking wizard Birn who led the wizards in the last war.
“How did you get here…?”
“I’ve been following your trail. You’ve gone quite far.”
Birn sighed, saying it had been hard to get here.
“Did Evelyn die after all?”
He looked at Evelyn, who was trapped in the ice, and put his hands together as if praying.
“If I had survived, the history of magic on the continent would have changed.”
Birn shook his head, saying that Evelyn’s talent was more special than anyone else’s.
“I’m sorry. About that day….”
Rockta sighed and lowered his head.
“I guess it couldn’t be helped.”
Birn nodded, saying he understood.
“Still, we achieved our goal. The Kingdom of Roseur is finally gone.”
He smiled and said that he was satisfied.
“That’s because you only thought about revenge against Roser, not future wealth or status.”
“It seemed like it would be like that,” said Lokta, putting down his sword.
“Yes. That’s why I came. I need to untie the last knot.”
Birn turned his gaze from Lokta to Evelyn.
“What does that mean?”
Rockta frowned.
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“If we leave it like this, that child will turn into an evil spirit.”
“Oh, an evil spirit?”
“You haven’t achieved all the goals you wanted, and you still have regrets about this world.”
Birn clicked his tongue as he touched the ice that was freezing Evelyn.
“Even more so since it was locked in ice like this.”
“Then what should we do!”
Lokta took Birn’s hand and asked him to show him the way.
“We’ll either cremate him or bury him in the ground. Of course, we’ll have to hold some ceremonies before that.”
Birn nodded, saying he could do it.
“Please. I don’t want to cause that child any more pain!”
Rockta’s lips trembled, as if he had already broken down mentally.
“Of course.”
Birn patted Lokta on the shoulder, saying that his comrade’s business was his own business.
“There are just some things needed for the ceremony, so you go get them. I think I should get ready.”
He gave Lokta a list of things he needed and some money.
“Come get some fresh air and clear your mind.”
“Oh, I see!”
Lokta said please and ran out of the cave.
“So this is how we finally meet again.”
Birn suddenly spoke politely and placed his hand on the corpse that was holding Merlin.
His reflection in the ice pillar was not that of a gray-bearded wizard, but of a strangely handsome man with golden eyes. He was a wise man.
Wooooow!
As a black hole appeared in the sage’s grasp, something in Evelyn’s chest was sucked into him.
“Hmm, I guess I could write more here.”
The wise man looked down at Merlin and smiled faintly.
Bullfight!
At that moment, time stopped and everything turned gray.
Raon chuckled as he looked at the sage’s face reflected in the ice pillar.
“Yeah. That’s what happened.”
The wise man came here disguised as a dwarf and seemed to have taken something from Merlin’s corpse.
‘It seems like the memories were manipulated too.’
There is no way that someone as skilled as Merlin could not recognize Tacheon.
It was clear that Tacheon had manipulated Merlin’s soul, draining his power and manipulating his memories.
“I knew Merlin wasn’t in good shape, but this….”
-The life of one person. No, the life of an entire race was played around in the palm of that hand.
Instead of exploding with the intense anger he had previously shown, Lars exuded a cool murderous intent.
-I want to kill him myself even if it means receiving the consequences of causality.
The guy glared at Ta-cheon with bloodshot eyes, as if he was genuinely angry.
“I’m sorry….”
Raon shook his head calmly.
“He is Merlin’s prey.”
Killing the wise man. No, killing Tachun was something Merlin had to do himself when he woke up.
“Phew.”
As Raon watched Merlin, who was trapped in the pillar, with bitter eyes, the gray butterflies that were drawing this last scene spread their wings and flew away, showing a new place.
“This is….”
Looking back, it wasn’t a new place. It was the village of Para that I first saw in Merlin’s memories.
-This is where the madwoman lived. However… .
Lars narrowed his eyes.
-This place is different from the memory. It is the real world of the madwoman’s imagination.
‘It looks like that.’
Just like his own imaginary world, which was filled only with swords and swordsmanship, Merlin’s imaginary world seemed to be filled only with this village.
‘Of course there are problems, but….’
Raon lowered his eyebrows as he looked at the rings of mana that split the air apart.
‘It’s completely ruined.’
The ring is a circle of magical power that surrounds Merlin’s heart like a ring of fire in his own mind.
The mana circles that Merlin had in the real world were all broken, so the collapsed form was also revealed here.
“ha….”
Raon let out a long sigh and entered the village.
‘Let’s meet Merlin first.’
Since saving Merlin came first, I headed to the village.
“uh…?”
As soon as Raon entered the village, his eyes widened.
“What is this….”
I thought it was a pretty house made of colorful bricks, but upon closer inspection, I saw that the walls were filled with drawings of myself.
“Ugh….”
Raon stopped in place and turned his head to the right.
The wall of the house over there was also a picture of his own face that filled the entire wall.
-I feel sorry for the madwoman… .
Lars shook his head.
-She is a crazy bitch.
‘… … .’
There was no way to refute it.
‘This is driving me crazy.’
Raon let out a sigh of exhaustion and continued into the village.
-But your face is pinned to the wall.
Lars narrowed his eyes at the paintings that filled the walls.
-I didn’t just draw you.
‘then?
-This is a picture of you when you were with the madwoman.
The guy shook his head, saying that he didn’t simply draw his own face, but rather a picture of himself from when they were together.
‘Now that I think about it… .’
Raon stopped walking and looked closely at the picture.
‘It’s a place I remember everything.’
From his first meeting with Merlin, to the countless scenes where she surprised him by appearing in animal form, to the time they spent together in Sieghart, he and Merlin were present in every scene.
‘I guess Merlin….’
Raon lowered his eyes and sighed.
‘I think it reminded me of the days when I lived in this village with you.’
In particular, there were many pictures of the time she spent wearing a maid’s uniform in the annex, which seemed to be enjoyable.
The wizard who was thought to be crazy was actually more gentle, affectionate, and people-loving than expected.
Damn it.
Raon took a deep breath and moved his feet again.
‘Is that the place?’
You can see Merlin and Sella’s house from the past. There is a blue dragon coiled around the house like a snake, guarding the place. It was Lokta.
Kookookookookook.
After exchanging brief eye contact, Lokta lifted his tail and cleared the way for him to go home.
“thanks.”
Raon bowed his head to Lokta and then entered Merlin’s house.
Merlin’s house was colder and chillier than Sieghard in winter. My whole body was shivering and my hair was standing on end.
Merlin sat in the center of the living room, looking at a canvas on which she had laid out her drawing paper. At her feet lay countless unfinished drawings.
“no….”
Merlin shook his head in a tearful voice.
“I can’t remember….”
She muttered that she didn’t know and crumpled up the drawing she was drawing and threw it on the floor.
Sigh.
Raon approached Merlin from behind and unfolded the painting that had just fallen.
The picture Merlin drew was of a blonde-haired, red-eyed woman, but her face was somewhat ruined.
‘no way….’
Raon narrowed his eyes and opened the other drawings. As expected, a blonde-haired, red-eyed woman was drawn there, but her facial features were empty.
‘I get it now.’
Raon bit his lip deeply.
‘Merlin was trying to draw Sella.’
He missed Sella and wanted to draw her picture, but because of Tacheon’s memory manipulation, he seemed to have forgotten who he was drawing and how to draw it.
‘If it were now… .’
Raon let out a short breath and approached Merlin, who had just taken out a new sheet of paper. He grabbed her trembling hand and held it.
“ah….”
Merlin looked at himself and glared.
“Raon? Why are you here! You shouldn’t be here….”
“The mother I saw was….”
Raon smiled faintly and took Merlin’s hand.
“She had blond hair as bright as the sun, tied up neatly, and her eyes had a warm red glow, as if looking at a bonfire. Her nose was as high as the back of a sword. She was a beautiful person with a cool and refreshing aura.”
He made Merlin draw her mother’s hand, recalling the Cela he had seen.
“Your mother loved you until the end, and you also loved that person until the end. What I saw was….”
He continued to draw pictures while telling Merlin what he had seen and felt.
A long time had passed as he had to tell everything he had seen, but unlike that lonely and sad story, there was a warm smile on Sella’s lips drawn on the painting, as if welcoming her daughter.
“this….”
Merlin dropped the brush he was holding and opened his lips.
“Is this my mom?”
“okay.”
Raon nodded while facing the picture of Sella that remained in his memories.
“ah….”
With Merlin’s deep sigh, soft sunlight enters the house that had been filled with cold, and a soft flame blooms in the fireplace.
The air was warm and soft. The atmosphere of the affectionate home where Sella and Merlin lived together came back to life.
Phew!
Following the elegant light blooming from Merlin’s house, Merlin’s mana flow that had been shattered and collapsed is newly connected.
But the flow was different from before. Her essence. It was the fundamental wave of mana that Para must possess.
Wooooow!
Eight, nine and ten.
The tenth circle rose high into the sky, a pale purple glow rising from Merlin’s entire body.
“all….”
Merlin nodded, feeling ten rings swirling around his heart.
“I remembered everything.”
She said that she now remembered everything, and a drop of clear water fell from her clear purple eyes.
“Then let’s go out.”
Raon reached out to Merlin, who was holding the painting carefully in his arms.
“Evelyn.”
