Chapter 617
“Are you really going back? today?”
“huh.”
“I don’t think there is anything so urgent, but… … . I can’t help it.”
Ellen had nothing to call Jim. When she came here, Ellen said she had a cage with a cat in it, but she only brought one.
So when I went back to the Allied garrison, I just went back to my normal clothes, and I didn’t have anything else to bring back.
“It just stopped snowing… … .”
Louise couldn’t help but feel bitter when Ellen said that she would return right away, even though the heavy snow had stopped overnight and the weather had improved.
I came back to rest and got caught up in a strange thing, and in the end, my heart only became heavier.
The Demon King took control of the Knights Templar and the Five Great Main Religion.
And you can’t even touch it.
In the midst of the rapid change of the times, there is no good group, and we must choose a group that survives.
Something radical was about to begin, and it was sure to cost immeasurable amounts of blood.
Dark clouds hang over the empire’s future, and the time has come for everyone to make a choice.
Now, rather than the ecliptic, the Allied Garrison side would be more peaceful, and it was a path that would not get caught up in more ominous events. That’s especially true for Ellen.
If you can’t choose anything, you’d rather go where it’s invisible.
There are only problems that cannot be solved.
No one knows how these things will end.
If the empire collapses, and if the demon king fills its place.
What kind of fate awaits Ellen, who should be the opponent of the devil?
And what position should Heinrich take there?
no one has an answer
Everyone is doing something while fearing the future. Everyone agrees that the gate incident must end, but the things that were built while hoping for that were making the time after that even more frightening.
Is it really right to make the world hell for the sake of one absolute good?
Then, what happens to the world after that absolute good is achieved?
It is more dangerous for Ellen to remain on the ecliptic.
That’s why I leave the ecliptic.
But the idea had been there from the beginning.
“Cat, take good care of me when I get back.”
“… … okay.”
But at some point, I was waiting for a cat that suddenly didn’t show up, a cat that I tried to touch and leave for the last time, but didn’t show up.
However, he didn’t show up in the end, so Ellen leaves, leaving the job to Heinrich.
It might have disappeared altogether, Ellen felt that way, as if intuition.
Even if we were together, I kept getting that feeling that I would leave someday.
Like I’ve always felt that way from someone, someday.
I don’t know why, but I thought it couldn’t be helped if it suddenly disappeared.
We pass by, stay together for a while, and just wish we could pass each other like this sometime.
It’s a pity that I can’t say goodbye.
at last.
Ellen couldn’t be too obsessed with something too small.
“I’ll go.”
Ellen quietly left the Temple Dormitory, being seen off by Louise and Heinrich.
Looking at the back of Ellen as she leaves, Louise says.
“I think we might as well go back.”
“… … It seems like it should be.”
It’s dangerous anywhere in the world, but it was clear that the imperial ecliptic had become the most dangerous place in a sense.
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The heavy snow that had fallen so far not only stopped as if it were a lie, but melted in an instant.
The snow had been piled up for a very long time, but it only took a few days for the accumulated snow to melt.
Isn’t it a bit strangely hot?
Ellen walks through the snow-melted streets of Temple.
There is nothing to do in the Allied Garrison, but in the Imperial City, you learn too many things you don’t need to know.
If the purpose was to fight anyway, I’d rather live without knowing.
I decided that it would be better to spend this winter knowing nothing than to get lost in things that are difficult to think about and difficult to decide.
How long can I hold on to the will that seems to be broken?
how is the world
If I couldn’t go anywhere, I didn’t want to see any road anymore, if I was going to be forced to a certain road as if I was being led by something.
If a ship is going to sink someday, should it be abandoned?
The empire, as well as his own consciousness.
I’m just holding on to things that will collapse someday.
Ending the Gate incident would be the top priority right now, but everyone was thinking about what came after that.
The Knights Templar, the Empire, and countless other groups were already rolling the situation in their heads after that.
one by one.
Louise von Schwartz found out that the great axis of the allied force, the Knights of the Temple, had fallen into the hands of the Demon King.
What will happen if even Kernstadt, the first vassal state, is on the side of the devil?
An empire whose two main axes have fallen off will no longer be called an empire. The other vassal states also have no choice but to be put at a crossroads the moment this matter becomes visible.
which side to be on.
The Empire has already lost its legitimacy, and the Demon King is the one who caused the gate crisis.
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Both forces are groups that should disappear. However, there is no such thing as a gigantic force capable of defeating the two.
What if the empire is isolated?
The Empire has an immortal army that can be used even if everything is lost.
We have an army more powerful than ever.
Even if the empire on the verge of collapse makes a fuss, or if the empire tries to slaughter those who are on the side of the demon king in order to stay healthy.
Either way, the fact remains that war will break out once again.
“… … .”
And Ellen knows where she stands.
Whether victory is assured or fall is foreordained, the Empire will stand by its side.
Another will that will take the place of the will that will disappear one day will want the death of the demon king, so it will inevitably be like that.
So I’d rather not know.
There is no point in trying to figure out something because the path to go is fixed.
In the end, it is destined to become a being no different from the immortal army and be swallowed up by something.
Right now, you can run away even if someone pushes you to fight, but one day you won’t even be able to do that.
Like it or not, with or without someone’s coercion.
Destined to become an adversary one day, Ellen returns to the Allied Garrison to escape the spirit of division and war that lingers in the ecliptic.
There is only goodness there.
The one and only absolute line to end the gate crisis.
Like that, Ellen, who was walking along the snow-covered streets, reached near the entrance of the temple.
There is still no such thing as people coming and going.
But there, no people, but a small animal.
“… … ah.”
A black cat could be seen sitting on a nearby bench, curled up in the beating sunlight.
The cat only turns its head to see Ellen approaching.
-Aug
Ellen approaches the cat, who seems to be sitting on a bench enjoying the sunshine for the first time in a while.
it is a strange animal
It disappeared somewhere in a flash, then suddenly appeared in a flash.
The moment you give up and leave because you think you’re not coming back, you’re waiting at the entrance as if you knew.
If you wait, it won’t come.
If you give up, it will appear somewhere.
so nasty
Somehow, I can’t deny it.
Ellen is squatting in front of a bench, eye level with the cat looking at her.
Conversation doesn’t work
But somehow, Ellen always had the feeling that the conversation was going well.
You seem to understand my sadness.
You seem to know my pain.
It seemed to feel my pain.
I think it’s an illusion, but it doesn’t seem to be an illusion.
Even now.
Doesn’t it seem like he knows he’s leaving, waiting for Ellen to come at the temple entrance?
Do you really know or not?
Could it be that I am giving meaning to things that are just coincidences?
Still, when coincidences overlap, they say it’s inevitable.
This cat seemed to know his whole heart all too casually.
“I am going.”
– Ayeeng
Ellen says a plain goodbye.
can i come back
If you come back, what will the ecliptic look like then?
It’s hard to think that you can come back with good things.
Will this little animal be safe from the winds of war?
It is true that the Allied Garrison is dangerous, but the Imperial Capital and the Temple are also dangerous at this rate.
Small beings are always swept away.
Just as people were only swept away by the Gate Avalanche, so has always been the fate of small beings.
but.
A small presence in front of your eyes.
Smaller beings than small beings.
Maybe because it’s small, as the wind blows, as the waves do.
Rather, it may be that it is too small to be safe.
Ellen looked at the little black cat staring at her.
Recalling the moments when I found great comfort in a small existence.
“Bye.”
Saying that with sincerity, she quietly kissed the cat’s nose.
“And, go early early.”
-Aug
Lastly, after pretending to playfully hit the honey chestnut, Ellen headed for the Temple Gate.
After leaving the gate, Ellen looked up at the sky.
It is a warm day that has come early, as if it is said that the cold winter will end now.
But there was too much snow.
It’s piled up so much, can this snow melt for about a day on a warm day?
I’ve come so many times
In some shade where the sun doesn’t shine, there will still be full of accumulated snow.
Who will melt the snow in a shaded place without sunlight?
Ellen quietly holds the amulet.
A talisman in the shape of the moon and sun.
I hold it in my hand and carefully roll it.
tired.
tired and exhausted
Shouldn’t it be okay to let go now?
If you are forced to fight your fate anyway.
Wouldn’t it be okay if everything ended like this?
If the malice and hatred of this world create a situation in which one must fight in the end.
What is the need to endure? No matter what you do, no matter what you do, one day you will be forced to fight.
The moment you feel like giving up.
The moment when the gap in the weakened heart opens.
Ellen’s eyes sank deeply.
No, did it already reach its limit a long time ago?
As if it had reached the critical point of the given time, beyond the limit of the limit.
The sandbar of the ego is submerged under the raised water surface.
– Took
Too easily, the strap of the amulet made of leather straps snapped the moment I pulled lightly.
It seems like when was the last time it was hung around my neck so that it wouldn’t fall apart.
As if the shackles were finally released.
As if announcing the beginning of something that is finally being liberated.
Ellen throws away the amulet she’s been wearing like trash, and starts walking somewhere.
As if it had become something completely different from before.
As if she were now irrelevant to all the past, Ellen left without looking back.
-… … .
The black cat carefully took the round amulet that had fallen to the ground and disappeared into an alley.
