Chapter 496
In the center of Lizaira is the town hall.
It was a place where all the villagers would gather for a party, and people gathered here when I just arrived in Lizaira.
Since it was winter, there was nothing to do, so it was a place where the villagers always gathered, such as old people gathering to chat or children to play.
midnight.
It was not a party, but all the villagers gathered at the word that I, who had been a guest for a long time, was leaving.
“I miss you, my dear.”
“Would you like to have a good time wherever you are? He’s a tough guy, so he’ll do well in whatever he does.”
“Are you going out tonight? If it’s light, go.”
Old people hugged me and patted me on the back.
Some were worried about me leaving in the middle of the night, but most nodded and said nothing after learning that it was Luna’s decision.
“It was a lot of trouble.”
“How come you can’t rest properly and seem to be working all the time.”
“I should have taken care of a few potatoes. Wait a moment.”
“I need to get some beef jerky. Stay here for a while.”
Ajumma and uncles busily returned home, as if they needed to take care of something for me, who was sure to leave far away, and brought a bagful of preserved food.
To the point where I can’t take it all.
“Hyung, why are you leaving already?”
“I couldn’t even play with my brother very much.”
“Can’t we just live here?”
“I was going to marry you when I grew up!”
“You decided to marry me!”
“Ult, you are ugly!”
Little children made dizzying noises just by hearing them.
I don’t know how to handle children, and I’ve never played with them properly.
But time is a bully, there were many times when the kids clung to me so much that I forced myself to play, and there were many times when I bothered them all day long.
I greeted the people one by one, and at the end I stood in front of Arta and Lena.
“Are you going?”
“yes.”
Arta is honestly not a sad guy. like i am
Still, he was the one who accurately judged what was wrong with me, and pointed me to the right way to go.
I didn’t say a particularly tearful goodbye to Arta.
I took the hand he held out.
“May the blessings of the sun and moon be with you.”
Shaking hands briefly, Artha spoke in a very low voice so only I could hear.
I was kind of guessing. Unlike Lena, it was clear that Arta knew about Ilwoldang.
“I could have stayed a little longer. There must be circumstances of its own, so you’re leaving suddenly, right?”
“Well, yes.”
Lena said so with tears in her eyes. In a way, Lena was the same as the country girl I thought of.
Lena took care of me in a place that was neither that close nor too far.
“I couldn’t ask why you couldn’t come with Ellen.”
Lena smiles, wiping the tears from her eyes.
“Anyway, everything will be fine.”
I know that just because I believe that doesn’t make it happen.
“If it doesn’t go well, make it work.”
But without even that much faith, nothing can be achieved.
anything will be fine
will make it work
I stayed in Lizaira for a long time, but the goodbye was only enough.
Because the time to say goodbye shouldn’t be long.
* * *
There were so many things the villagers brought to me, so in the end, Luna put the bare minimum in her backpack and gave it to me.
I put on my backpack and put on the scrollbook that I had been unpacking for a long time.
I put on the travel clothes I was wearing when I entered Lizaira again. It was clothes she hadn’t worn in a while, but Luna had washed them clean.
I saw villagers waving at me from afar and turning around.
The outskirts of Lizaira.
The only ones standing around me now were Luna and Ronan.
“honey.”
At Luna’s words, Ronan nodded.
Ronan Artorius stands in front of me.
That figure, which was intimidating just by looking at it, gave off a strong scent of a male rather than an adult.
Although he was the blunt head of the household, he was also shown to be infinitely weak towards Luna at times.
Luna wasn’t very talkative either, but Ronan was particularly talkative.
It wasn’t because he hated me, it was probably because he was that kind of person.
“Reinhardt.”
“yes.”
he puts his hand on my shoulder
“Do you have the confidence to make Ellen happy?”
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That plain question made me gasp.
It won’t come easily.
However, it was not an easy question for me to answer, just as it was a subject that Ronan could not easily ask.
I have no idea what the future holds.
“To be honest, not much.”
“… … .”
even if i die
Even if Ellen dies.
We will be unhappy with each other.
How can I recover this twisted relationship? I don’t know where or where to start.
“But I will do what I can. Even if I can’t do it, I will find a way.”
I don’t know how to find a result that can make each other happy, but I will try to find it. She found Lizaira in search of a way to step into the masterclass, and just as she was able to achieve that goal.
If there is no way, I will try to find it somehow.
I’m not confident, but I always tried to find a way, and I found a way.
It was my best right now to hear that promise.
Ronan looks at me quietly.
“Yes, what I can say to you going out into the world, this is probably the best answer you can hear from me.”
“what… … yo. this?”
“Still, the result of watching you all these days.”
Ronan grabs my shoulder tightly.
“I agree.”
Maybe.
I felt like I was recognized as son-in-law by Ronan.
“Go, Reinhardt.”
It was also the last time I said goodbye to Ronan.
* * *
“Follow me.”
“… … yes.”
After saying goodbye to everyone, Luna Artorius crossed the hillside outside Lizaira.
It was still winter, and I was wearing only the clothes I had been wearing.
Come to think of it, it’s true that I’ve become a body that has nothing to do with the temperature.
Luna stands at the foot of the mountain on the outskirts of Lizaira, looking at me.
Just like meeting Luna in the moonlight one night while wandering around the Sren Mountains. Even at this moment, when I had to leave Lizaira, I was facing Luna in the moonlight of a certain night.
“Now you will not set foot in Lizaira.”
“… … yes.”
As she said, I’ll probably never return to Lizaira in my lifetime.
It was unclear whether I could survive that lifetime, so it would have been a luxury to think about whether or not I could set foot in Lizaira again.
I stayed here as a guest, not as a demon king.
Where there is only nature to be afraid of.
Life in a mountain village may not be easy, but for me, who had lived a life full of things to be afraid of and care about, Lizaira was a safe place.
A place where you just have to do what Luna told you to do in a daze.
I also thought that I would like to live a life like this one day.
Even if it wasn’t Lizaira, I thought that I wanted to live a life where all I had to worry about was the weather for today and tomorrow, and food to prepare for the long winter, leaving behind a life where I had too much to worry about once everything was in order.
But this is not the world given to me.
There is a world I must live in.
That’s why he was only a guest of Lizaira, and couldn’t become a resident.
i have to leave
“Do you have any last words you want to say?”
I want to say.
There are many things I want to ask, and many things I want to say.
What is the monthly party?
who you are
Why does he not interfere with the affairs of the world even though he has such a mysterious power?
A number of complex thoughts came to mind.
However, there was only one thing I wanted to say.
“I’m sorry.”
“… … ?”
“I’m sorry.”
It seems ridiculously petty, but my honest feeling right now is that I want to cry because I’m really sad.
no that’s right!
I’ve been here for months, kicking me out as soon as I see I’ve moved up to a master class.
This is really unbelievably sad! Is it because people have no affection?
Luna’s lips trembled slightly as if embarrassed by my sudden noise.
“That’s sad. so… … . what are you going to do What do you want me to do… … .”
“You didn’t ask what to do, you asked what you wanted to say. So I said what I wanted to say. It’s sad. It just is.”
“You know how to say that, and you don’t seem like that, but there are cute corners.”
“I know.”
“… … under.”
At my answer, Luna stared at me.
“I thought you would ask about the secret of Ilwoldang… … . I guess I overestimated you.”
“Because I am a human too.”
Honestly, that’s what I’m curious about too.
But now I wonder what it is that matters.
No matter what I ask or say, Luna is a being bound by rules anyway.
Those things may arouse curiosity in a few of my questions, but they won’t change anything in reality.
To be honest, I have no idea what Ilwoldang is.
“Just what about Ilwoldang… … . I wonder if it has something to do with the Sunday and Monday vampires that disappeared a long time ago.”
The same goes for recognizing the fire of Hwayo. The same goes for recognizing that Elerith is an ancient Archdemon.
As the name suggests, I had no choice but to guess that Ilwoldang was a related group.
At my words, Luna looks at me quietly.
“You want to know? About Ilwoldang.”
The existence of Ilwoldang.
that secret.
“I want to know. of course.”
Although the elimination of curiosity cannot change anything in reality.
Even if nothing changes, what I was curious about was true.
“Follow me.”
Luna quietly took the lead.
The winter moon was up, but the night in the mountains was too dark.
But she led the way, slowly but surely, as if she could see in the dark.
I also walked along so as not to miss her back.
The place I arrived on foot following her was a place I knew well.
There was a time in the summer when I did zazen under a waterfall.
The deep valley where children used to play in the water.
Since it was winter, the waterfall, which was quite grand, was frozen as it poured, and the valley was also frozen solid.
Luna stands above the frozen valley, looking at me.
“Let’s ask one.”
“… … .”
Luna quietly opens her mouth.
“Do you think we are bad?”
“… … .”
“Do you think it’s bad that we who hide from the world, who turn away from the world’s affairs, even hide from the children of the village what chaos is going on in the world?”
Luna didn’t seem to protest.
“There’s no reason to say it’s bad.”
There is no reason why one must sacrifice for the sake of the world. Because they are strong, because they use unknown mysterious powers.
Just because that power can be of use to the world, there is no necessity for them to risk their lives to do such a thing.
Even so, it is true that I felt some kind of cruelty.
I know in my head, but in my heart I can’t say that I don’t have that kind of heart that wants to help a little.
“At least, I’m curious.”
“what?”
“Why do you have to hide? Why do I have to turn away?”
I stare at Luna who quietly looks up at the sky.
“Even if I don’t know anything else, I feel like there is an inevitability to it.”
“… … .”
She turns to look at me this time. There is a certain law in Ilwoldang, and because of that, it is not that it does not interfere with the affairs of the world, but that it cannot.
So when she tried to kill me in the past, it seemed like someone who was determined.
She walked towards the frozen waterfall.
As she waved her hand, the middle of the waterfall opened up as if a space opened up, and a path appeared.
Even when I was zazen, I had never seen anything like a cave behind a waterfall. The hidden space must have been revealed by her power.
Was there a space like this behind the waterfall where children had been swimming and playing without thinking until now?
She walked towards the path that suddenly appeared, and I followed.
As she snapped her fingers, a pale white magic lamp soon began to glow in the dark hallway. No, I wasn’t sure if the magical powers were right or not.
In the dark hallway, Luna walked through the pale light of magic lamps hanging at regular intervals on each wall.
What kind of space is this?
But he seemed to know that I was gaining access to Lizaira’s secret.
“As you said, Ilwoldang is a group related to the ancient Lord Vampires named Sunday and Monday. How much do you know about them?”
At her words, I nodded.
“It disappeared a long time ago, and all I know is that even Lord Vampires have no idea what Monday and Sunday were like.”
Monday (月曜) and Sunday (日曜).
I don’t know what those two were, just as Elerith doesn’t know.
“The desire of mortals for immortality is inevitable.”
She walks quietly down the hallway.
“For a very long time, it was like that.”
After walking through the corridors for some time, we soon arrived at a huge cavity.
There was something in the middle, something like a hook, but nothing was hanging on it.
She continued walking past the cavity.
The hallway continued again, and I could see strange patterns engraved on the walls of the hallway.
“Man, of course, existed before the ages were written down, and the mysteries, whether spells or runes, rituals or forbidden occults, existed before human history began.”
“Afraid of death.”
“Craving eternal life is probably a universal desire of mortals.”
“Before magic was systematized, even before the practice of strengthening the body and mind in the name of magical power enhancement became commonplace. Attempts to attain immortality through such studies and attempts have been innumerable in the immeasurably distant past.”
“Such a mystery, a lot of things that I don’t really know what they are, but that give rise to a powerful force.”
“The end of that mystery.”
Soon, Luna and I were able to reach another cavity after passing through the corridor.
This cavity was much larger than the one we just passed.
There were two sculptures in the cavity.
The left side seemed to be yellow, but it was emitting red light, and the red and yellow light were mixing and swirling.
The right side seemed to be blue, but it was shining white and then bright yellow.
It wasn’t hard to figure out what it was.
sun and moon.
It must have been an image of it.
“The source of all beings and the destination of mysteries, lending strength and performing miracles to those who believe and pray.”
pinnacle of mystery.
“God.”
She quietly approaches the sculpture in the shape of the moon and quietly places her hand on it.
“A long time ago, when the gods were nameless, moon worshipers prayed.”
“Ask for immortality and immortality.”
“The moon bestowed the blessing of immortality they desired.”
“However, they did not pray to the sun.”
“As I lived in a world ruled by the sun and moon, I only prayed for one power.”
“The sun might have hated those people.”
“The reasons are complex, but the results are simple.”
“Since I wanted immortality, I had to pay a fair price for it.”
“Bless the moon.”
“The sun had a cursed clan.”
“It is immortal, but it cannot walk in the sun. A cursed clan was born that could only continue its life through the savage and pathetic method of taking the living blood of another being.”
“Do you know what I mean? Reinhardt.”
Luna looks at me.
“Monday was the first vampire.”
Vampires were beings that originated from God.
