Episode 287. Last Chance (1)
While living a second life that no one has ever lived before,
No, in fact, I thought many times whether this was really my second life.
Because it was so absurd.
However, if I were to assume that it was me who went through a so-called ‘reversion’ and returned with all the memories of my past life, I had to ask another question.
Who the hell are you?
wherefore,
You gave me this ridiculous second life?
I thought about it countless times and thought that maybe I wouldn’t know even after my whole life.
But for me, there is a being who can solve that long-standing question that is like a wish.
It suddenly appeared before my eyes.
“How do you feel?”
Without introducing himself or explaining the situation, he asked me straight away how I was feeling.
“Are you asking how I felt about seeing this unknown memory of the past?”
If you really wanted an answer to this, there is only one answer I can give.
‘I feel like I’m going to turn around.’
There was only this one word.
“I’m asking how it feels to be dead.”
However, I was briefly entranced by the unexpected meaning.
“At the same time as the demon sword’s heroic spirit invaded your body, your soul was separated and should have disappeared without a trace. “I stopped the flow for a moment.”
He died.
Well, it’s not something that’s surprising enough to make you roll your eyes.
It’s strange to think that I lived through this situation in the first place.
“What do you want to hear from me?”
“It’s exactly like what you just asked.”
Despite my direct question, he gave a coherent answer.
“You had a choice. Although my mind was broken from destroying the Holy Sword’s subspace, there was no need to face the Demon King in that state. Rather, you needed to take sufficient recovery time in your subspace. “If I had fought the battle in a normal state after that, I would have been able to defeat the Demon King without having to sacrifice my body to the Demon Sword.”
right.
This is a fact that I myself do not deny.
If I had taken enough time to recover and fought the Demon King in good condition, at least the situation like now wouldn’t have happened.
Even though I knew that, I immediately entered into a bloody battle with the devil.
why?
This unknown being probably also knows about it.
“But in the end, you chose your people and your world, not yourself. Thinking about the people around you who would be trampled by the devil while you were away, you couldn’t bear it. In addition, you gave up your life in a situation where you had not yet completely completed your revenge. “I want to know how you feel after making that choice.”
The moment he finished speaking, a different scene unfolded around me.
It was the exact same place as before.
There was no one where Emily and I were, and instead there was only a black scorch mark left there.
“Humans are foolish. “He always regrets it when he gets to the point of death.”
This was also a fact I knew very well from experience.
“It was the same with that woman. I regretted not choosing you, and I repented later, but in the end, I met a miserable end. She made the same promise as you that she wouldn’t live like that in her next life… … .”
Even though I was already dead and didn’t remember her, Emily was with me in the last moments of her life.
And when I came back, the first thing I saw was Emily.
Should we consider this simply a coincidence?
“But despite that promise, you didn’t live a life for yourself this time either. Rather, I lived a life completely for others. Can you even estimate how many people have been saved and achieved new life because of you? Sian Bert. “You lived a failed life once again.”
okay. In conclusion, is that what you wanted to say?
Following my last life, I once again lived a life of failure for the sake of others.
I don’t know if he wanted me to be contorted in despair because of that, but
“Have I said everything I wanted to say?”
I don’t think so.
“Is it okay for me to open my mouth now?”
“I had a chance to open my mouth earlier.”
He answered as if he had been waiting.
“Then tell me straight. When are you going to bring me back?”
A short moment of silence passed with my words.
“What are you talking about?”
“I started to find out when you asked me whether I gave you a second life and whether you regret it now that that life is over. Regardless of how I feel, I guess you are very sad about my death. is not it?”
I asked while slightly raising my eyebrows, and he just stared at me without answering.
“There is no purposeless favor in this world. You gave me a second life for a purpose, but I ended that life myself without fulfilling that purpose. It’s a shame, so they’re holding me back from the brink of extinction and asking questions that don’t lead to anything like this. If you’ve already done it once, unless there’s a rule against doing it twice… … .”
I continued speaking with a faint smile.
“Resurrect me quickly. “Whether it’s collecting the scattered souls and putting them back together, or taking me back to just before I was born, do whatever you can.”
“Do you think there is any reason for me to show favor to you again when you have already failed me twice?”
“Don’t you think we failed?”
His mouth closed again.
“I don’t think this life is a failure.”
This is my complete sincerity without a single ounce of falsehood.
“I don’t really care about the bloody battle with the Demon King, since she will take care of it anyway after she invaded my body. Eshel Wert also played all her cards, so now all that remains is to destroy herself. The rest of the world will be taken care of by those who remain. I think I’ve lived well enough for myself. At least than in my previous life… … .”
Regret?
If not, it’s a lie.
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But I still don’t regret the choice I made.
However, that being may be different.
“I don’t know what your purpose is, but if you still want me to fulfill it… … “Hurry and send me back to the world.”
Unless I achieve the goal he wants,
I don’t want to disappear like this.
“You’re bold.”
That one word reminded me of someone who was somehow familiar.
“He’s bold, yet truly clever. “They are very similar to us.”
I still didn’t know who that ‘we’ was referring to.
He slowly approached me.
“This is the last time.”
When I got one step away, I thought he would raise his hand,
-deeply
Suddenly, he was stabbed hard right where my heart was.
My breathing suddenly stopped due to an unfamiliar sensation that I had never experienced before in my life, and my body became tense.
Soon, the unbearable pain continued, as if all the blood flowing in my body was concentrated in one place.
“You might be wondering what my purpose is, right? “There is an answer to what your maid said.”
chambermaid? Are you talking about Emily?
“Expand your world based on your order. “I will watch how that world progresses compared to the world where light is the order!”
With those words echoing in my ears, the surrounding scene began to change once again.
* * *
The magical energy that was seething like an exploding volcano is now fading away like a dying candle.
Betsy, who was in her arms, showed no signs of falling.
Belkarion looked helplessly at the red sky of the demon world with a helpless expression on his face.
Rogers approached carefully next to him.
“Hey Rogers.”
“Please speak, Demon King.”
“This person of the opposite s*x is someone who knows even when he doesn’t know. Even though he acts like he’s never coming back, he suddenly comes back at some point? “He’s such a hard guy to control.”
At those words, Betsy hugged Belcarion’s body tighter without saying a word.
“But now, even if I think rationally, I don’t think I would know. Because of those humans, my demons living in my land died. I have to get revenge for them. “What on earth should I do in this situation?”
“… … .”
“That’s because I really don’t know. “What kind of judgment should a rational demon lord make in a situation like this?”
“You just need to take your time and think slowly.”
Rogers, who could not give an answer easily, spoke on behalf of Betsy.
“Because rational judgment is for everyone, not just for one. If you truly think about the demon world and serve the demons, you will definitely be able to make good decisions. “No matter what judgment you make, as long as it comes from rational thinking, I can respect it, Belkarion.”
“head hurts… … .”
In a situation where he couldn’t do anything, Belcarion sighed deeply.
“It seems like it’s worse over there.”
Still, I naturally turned my head and looked at where Sian and Nana were.
“… … .”
A face distorted with anxiety, as if about to cry at any moment.
Sian just looked at Nana’s face in silence.
“Tell me. Where did Papa go?”
Even with Papa in front of her, Nana kept asking the inexplicable question where he had gone.
Arin, who was watching the scene, tilted her head in puzzlement.
“Why is Nana like that? Why… with the draft in front of me? … .”
-tuk
At that time, the sound of something falling to the ground was heard, and a strong tremor passed through Arin’s body.
Runab, who had suddenly dropped the magic book, was trembling all over and was looking at Xian in disbelief.
“Is this what you meant when you told me to brace myself?”
“Why, why are you like this, Lunav? “Is Xian’s condition really bad?”
However, on the outside, Xian looked very fine.
“I don’t feel my senior’s energy… … .”
But Lunav’s eyes were different.
“what?”
“What is currently residing in your body is not your soul. “A completely different heroic spirit is taking over my senior’s body.”
“What does that mean? If not Sian, then who… … ?”
Arin turned her head as if she couldn’t understand, and made eye contact with Sian.
“… … !”
And only then did Arin realize it.
Those eyes that made me look at myself countless times and look back at myself countless times,
He said he couldn’t see it from Sian anymore.
As Lunav said, it felt like someone completely different was inside his body.
“really. It’s self-indulgent until the end… … .”
Runab sat down as if she had no strength to even stand, and Arin followed her.
“Then who is in Xian’s body now?”
“It’s probably the heroic spirit of the magic sword.”
In response to Arin’s question, Runab lowered her head and let out a devastated laugh.
“My senior decided that he could not subdue the Demon King with his current self, so he completely gave his body to the Demon Sword.”
“I don’t understand! why? “For what?”
“Why would you do that? “Of course they said they would protect us.”
Arin immediately turned her gaze to Lunav.
“I wish it were the other way around… … .”
At the end of those words, tears flowed down Runab’s cheeks and dripped onto the floor.
Those tears were also a kind of token acknowledging that Sian no longer exists in this world.
However, Nana still does not want to admit that fact,
“Tell me, Kayram! Where’s Papa?”
He shouted as if appealing to Kayram, who had invaded Xian’s body.
But Kayram never answered.
Because there would be no use in saying anything,
There was no need to say anything.
“… … .”
They just turn around coldly.
Nana couldn’t chase after him, so she collapsed in her seat.
This feeling of having something you thought was everything disappear from the world in an instant.
I felt very empty and had no idea what to do next.
In that situation, all you can hear is Kayram’s footsteps getting further and further away.
Other than listening to those harsh sounds, Nana couldn’t do anything.
– Jeopuk
“… … .”
-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-jump-bump
“… … !”
However, the sound of footsteps, which had gradually become fainter, sounded clearer again, and began to move closer towards Nana again.
At this, Nana jumped up from her seat.
After a few steps, Xian arrived in front of her again and placed his hand on her head without saying a word.
Then he gently stroked it with a very familiar hand.
“When did you come here again?”
Only then did Nana’s face burst into laughter again.
“Papa!!”
(Continued in the next part)
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