267 – Who on earth are you?
I put nine arrows in my quiver and found them.
I calmly aimed my arrow when I saw the big, big bird called the Monster King.
When I saw it, it also saw me. Its eyes, fluttering in the flames, looked at me with a mocking look. My little arrow was smaller than its pupil. It was worth looking at it funny.
But when that little arrow pierced through the fluttering chord of wind and fire and stuck in it,
The thing that was mocking started to freeze as it was laughing.
It is not my power, but the power of the one who chose me. Of course, that fact doesn’t matter to me. Because I didn’t want to brag that I defeated it with my own strength.
A hunter never duels with his prey.
He just hunts.
One foot.
And two feet.
When I fired three shots in succession, it screamed. He could no longer stay in the air and staggered and fell. I tried to spit fire out of my mouth, but all I could hear was a gurgling sound. Only black smoke rose from inside its beak.
You can definitely hunt.
With that thought in mind, it was when I pulled the fourth bowstring.
-You can’t do that.
My body instantly stiffened. I knew I shouldn’t do that, but I couldn’t help it.
My hands trembled uncontrollably, and the bow I was holding fell. I felt something hot dripping down my cheek. It was my younger brother’s voice, which I had forgotten about because I couldn’t hear it for a while.
-You can shoot anyone with that bow, but not as good as that kid. I fell in love with it.
The voice did not come from inside my head.
I quickly turned my head in the direction from which the voice came.
That’s not what I wanted to do.
It had to be that way.
‘This is an illusion.’
My legs lost strength and I almost collapsed.
Unable to get closer or further away, I had no choice but to just stand.
My younger brother was standing with his back to a large zelkova tree and looking at me.
Just as it was then. Wearing the same clothes as then. He was looking at me with that small face.
I couldn’t remember what she was wearing at the time.
I didn’t even want to remember. No, I just thought that was the case.
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But it seems that wasn’t the case. I remembered.
I just didn’t want to think about it. I just didn’t want to think about it.
“You are not my brother.”
I held my head and screamed. That was just my old memory.
It’s not true that my younger brother came back and stood before me.
Even though I knew that, it was painful. It felt like the devil was playing a trick.
I know this is a joke, but I still can’t take my eyes off it.
I knelt in front of my ‘little brother’. Even though tears covered my eyes, I could see my younger brother clearly.
“It’s an illusion. “I’m looking at nothing.”
I knew it was a lie, but I couldn’t shoot the arrow.
She came to me and grabbed my neck with her fern-like hands,
Even if you try to take my life,
I can assure you, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything.
-Of course it is.
My younger brother looked at me and grinned. It was so similar to how she laughed when she was alive, it gave her goosebumps.
-Now that you know that, you will agree, right? While this vision possessed you, I could have killed you any number of times. The chosen one.
Close your eyes and open them again,
It wasn’t my brother who was there.
“Because you didn’t, you owe me your life. So in return, spare that child’s life. You can catch any monster, but not like the Phoenix. “I’ve already become attached to you.”
Demon Lord Grimudo.
The one who toyed with me with my younger brother’s fantasy.
He called me the chosen one of the Old Gods,
He assured me that he had no intention of harming me.
“The ancient god in that high place never chooses someone carelessly. He doesn’t choose unless he really cares. I could kill you, but I don’t really want to. “No one but me would be able to take care of that.”
But for the first time since I met that tiger,
I felt fear from him.
But he did not only feel fear.
He played with my mind.
And I played with my younger brother.
Even if I had to die, I wanted to give him at least one arrow.
The moment I picked up the dropped bow and was about to pick up the arrow, I made eye contact with him.
And at that moment my body refused to control me. His hands and feet were tangled, and his head was dizzy.
I dropped the bow I was holding again.
I couldn’t be his opponent.
“Mental attacks are by no means omnipotent. A person without a broken heart. A person with a strong will. A person with strong willpower. It doesn’t work well for those people. “When there are scars deep in your heart like you, no matter how strong your mental power is, there are still gaps that can be dug in.”
Even though I look fine on the outside,
Because he is a human being whose insides are already festering.
I gritted my teeth.
I chewed my tongue and it bled.
I erased the mental pain with physical pain.
I asked him with a momentarily clear head.
Why are you
With such great power,
Creating and protecting monsters that eat people,
Do you mean to live by protecting them?
I can admit that I would rather conquer this world and become its ruler.
Who becomes king and rules the country is because it has nothing to do with me.
“If you want to know, pull out the arrow stuck in my bird.”
He said so,
“But, you’ll probably regret it.”
I didn’t need to add that.
And I, who learned the secrets of the world from him,
In the end, I didn’t regret it.
At least at that time.
I thought that while hunting things that prey on humans, one day I would be eaten and that would be my death.
But this time what I had to hunt was so huge,
It was not possible to end his life by shooting an arrow.
That was something that could not have been my prey in the first place.
The destruction of the world. That’s too big a problem for me to deal with.
I never thought I would face something like that in my life.
A monster as big as a continent that will eat everyone when the time comes.
When I heard that story, I felt like I had gone back in time and was a little kid.
Now, there is no need to shoot it with an arrow, you can hit it with a bow.
But at that time, it felt like I had met the tiger again, a wall that I could never overcome.
For the first time
I gave up the idea of solving the problem myself.
I asked for help from the one who chose me.
And he answered my call.
Remember. To become one with the laws of the universe.
That is no different from you being swallowed by the universe.
The fact that humans inherit the power of the ancient gods and become new ancient gods is
That it is absolutely not a blessing.
That I, my saint, should be given a cursed fate.
My heart also hurts as if it were being torn apart.
I want to dissuade you from quitting now.
Yes, I said that stubbornness was useless.
You are ultimately trying to give up yourself for someone in the future.
You will definitely regret it.
So, Amin, please don’t blame me.
If you can maintain your sanity amidst the bonds that tear you into a million pieces,
I hope you remember that I stopped you until the end.
Dying is nothing.
What is truly scary is not truly living.
Now I know that there is a reason for everything adults say.
I know that there is a reason for everything we are told not to do.
I am not an ordinary adult, and I know very well that there must be a good reason for what God, who has lived since time immemorial, tells us not to do.
You may really end up regretting something.
No, it will probably definitely happen that way.
There is a reason for all warnings and taboos,
Because I now know that it is absolutely not nonsense.
Still, my answer was decided from the beginning.
If I hadn’t run away from my brother at that time,
He probably would never have survived until now,
I probably would have shared the name with my younger brother at that time,
At least there would have been no regrets.
At least I wouldn’t have to suffer from regret like I do now.
So I didn’t want to run away anymore.
Even if I become unable to live or die,
Even if I can no longer remain human.
Running away once was enough in my life.
Even if something you regret happens,
At least there will be no regrets.
In the words of someone like me who has already lost his heart,
Maybe something like this would be okay.
When a tiger dies, it leaves behind its skin,
When a person dies, he leaves behind only one grave,
At least I was able to leave behind more things.
At that time, my mind was already fixed, so I didn’t have it,
That is the future.
And then, to tell the truth,
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I really regretted it.
If I had known it would be this painful,
I would never have chosen this path.
I thought I wasn’t afraid of death,
I thought I wasn’t afraid of pain, but
The person who chose me was right.
From the beginning, it was an impossible task for humans.
But I was right about half of it.
At least there are no regrets left.
So, I want to ask.
This me, broken into pieces.
This me, scattered all over the world.
Who are you, the one who brought us back together?