281 – Unwavering
“So, who is that sister? Are you really not going to tell me?”
No matter what, you can’t just play board games all day. Before physical strength, a person’s mental strength is limited. After taking a short break, the two drank drinks to replenish their sugar.
Lucia Weston. The last descendant of the Weston family. The heir to the demon hunter clan suddenly felt that his situation was pitiful. Except when she was very young, she had never really been into these games. It’s not that she hated games. She just had family duties more important than that.
She trained diligently from a young age to become an excellent demon hunter, and she was also proud of herself. This hunter, the best of all her brothers and sisters, had faith. Since her childhood was harsher than that of other children, she believed that she would be rewarded when she grew up.
Considering that she reached mastery at such a young age, it was difficult for her to believe that this belief was wrong, but she did not think so herself. Lucia Weston thought her life was already ruined. By nature, she was the embodiment of self-care, she would polish her weapons whenever she had time and she never wasted it on play.
But now, she actually resents herself for living like that. When she looks back and wonders what she has left after living so hard, there is still something left behind. Friendship.
Still, two colleagues remained. Other than that, there’s really nothing left. Everything that was built with effort collapsed so easily. A person cannot make such an effort more than twice in a lifetime.
Now that I am here, can I practice again step by step like I did when I was young and regain what I lost? It’s been a long time since those useless hopes were thrown into the trash can.
So she was not so afraid of the destruction approaching her eyes. She even felt a strange, strange joy. Even though she had destruction right before her eyes, it was probably because of that psychology that she threw off her gloom and became somewhat cheerful.
“Why are you keeping your mouth shut like that? The world is going to fail soon anyway, so why are you going to make people wonder like that? “Is that sister even the princess of the empire?”
I flinch. The lion, who had been silent and laughing quietly, fluttered her ears. A strange look appeared in Lucia’s eyes when she saw that. As the heir to the Weston family, she was familiar with the family’s numerous knowledge.
Even though Jaheuk Gangi occupied the blood vessels of her entire body and restricted the use of her magical power, what she knew in her head was not erased. Lie detection and interrogation were basic skills that anyone from the Weston family should naturally learn, so it wasn’t that difficult to infer the truth from Leon’s expression.
“You really can’t lie. “I didn’t know you would react that way as soon as I said it.”
She didn’t know that she was really a princess, but what could she do? People who already have nothing to lose are not afraid of anything. Was she supposed to run out in a hurry, grab the princess who had left, and even bow to her? In a situation where the world is about to be destroyed, what on earth are you trying to achieve by being so servile?
“Then I don’t think you are of ordinary status either. Who is you? Shall I guess?”
“It will probably be difficult to guess. “Because I am nothing now.”
Instead, she asked for the identity of the mysterious man who had been her board game opponent. The lion just shook her head slightly and smiled. But that smile was powerless.
Lucia was just saying this, and she had no intention of exploring the man’s identity. She doesn’t have enough time just to enjoy the things she hasn’t been able to do, the things she hasn’t tried, and the things she has deliberately avoided.
She couldn’t afford to worry about other people’s business.
“If you see someone of that status coming here and playing cards, you probably have your own story. Everyone says the world is going to end soon, and it seems like it might be real this time. How about you?”
“What?”
“How do you feel? Sad? Or are you angry? Or have you already given up?”
The destruction of the world is shocking and painful, but the degree to which it is accepted varies from person to person. At a time when everyone has no choice but to accept destruction, the emotion she sees most often is despair. In fact, she knows best how she feels, shedding tears as she thinks about what their lives have meant and what she has been striving for.
Even before there was talk of the world being destroyed,
That was a long time ago,
She already felt that way once, when her demon lord trampled her own clan. She
And when she went to look for the North Star for revenge, she despaired a second time.
When the devil came to visit them for the last time and trampled on her once more, she had collapsed to the point where there was no place for her to collapse anymore. When she heard that multiplying a negative number by a negative number actually becomes a positive number, and that the world was actually going to end, she felt relieved.
No matter how evil the devil is,
Even if there is no way to deal with it with human power,
Even if he has powerful magic power and overwhelming force,
There is nothing we can do about these lumps of flesh, which are like a divine punishment given by nature.
He will also perish along with them.
She has already accepted inevitable destruction. In fact, it went further than that and became quiet. Rather, it was only after hearing the story that the world was falling that I was able to find inner peace and quiet.
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Even if they don’t have the same twisted feelings as you, everyone at this party probably has the same thoughts. Everyone gathered here to enjoy the last moments to the fullest, so didn’t they at least accept destruction?
People who were unable to accept destruction and were filled with anger had no reason to be here. So, even though she didn’t hear an answer, she was already anticipating what she was going to say.
“Lady. “The world will not end.”
But what you hear is really nonsense.
“Because God is taking care of this world.”
When Lucia, who had frowned at her words, looked back at the lion, the lion was munching on her piece of meat with an expression of peace in the world. He felt no worries, no worries about her future, nothing.
She has not already accepted destruction and found peace of mind within it. It is simply a denial of destruction itself. She didn’t like the lion’s attitude.
It may be nice to feel comfortable, but at best it is nothing more than a denial of reality. God? Why are you suddenly calling me a god? Do you think a savior will appear and save the world?
“I’m asking just in case. You’re not trying to say that you’re a god who came down in human form, or that you’re a child of a god, or something like that, right? That’s enough of that story. I’ve heard it so much that my ears are worn out now. “You don’t think you’re the only person in the world these days who says things like that, do you?”
When life is difficult and the world is shaken, it is the prophet who appears. A prophet is a prophet, but he is a somewhat false prophet. Even this woman who fell to the ground did not believe the words of such insensitive people.
Those people of hers, in her view, were born at her wrong time. What if you say something like that when the world is really going to end? In the past, they might have been able to become true gods and achieve what they wanted by relying on people’s faith. But now, neither God nor the Demon Lord can overcome the disaster ahead.
In the first place, the Trinity Church could not even touch the Polymorph curse on the Weston family. At that time, she no longer believed in God. In the first place, she trusted them and things never worked out well.
As with all curses, if it cannot be removed from the outside, there are only two ways. The caster has no choice but to release it on his own or kill the caster. The path recommended to her by her triad was the second.
I thought that if I killed Demon Lord Grimudo, if I somehow succeeded in doing so, then the Polymorph Curse would be lifted. In fact, I wasn’t sure if that would actually happen. Not all curses are weakened or lifted when the caster dies.
I just made this suggestion with the feeling of grasping at straws. I believed their words and tried to defeat the Demon King, but it was not something a person could do in the first place. It was around that time that I developed a blasphemous attitude toward the three religions.
These guys couldn’t find a solution even though their own saint, Araidel, became a lark. It was to the point where I even began to question what I was doing after eating. It was strange that if you said something like God to someone who had experienced this, you would get a positive response.
“It’s so noisy here, people keep shaking the floor. Everyone is eager to have fun, and the music and dancing continue without stopping. “Maybe that’s why everyone didn’t notice.”
However, despite that cold expression, the lion’s complexion did not change at all and he just smiled. He remembered his master who had gone to the North Pole, and the priest next to him. I don’t know if they really accomplished something, but they were clearly the only ones causing this change.
Leon believed in them from the beginning when they went to the North Pole. In fact, there was nothing else he could do. And they lived up to their faith very well.
“Feel it well. “The ground doesn’t shake anymore.”
The trembling of the earth’s crust that had been ringing like a bell stopped. Is any further explanation needed?
I realized that the abnormal was returning to the normal category, but I didn’t need anything more. God did not announce the end of the long disaster by hanging a rainbow. He did not make flowers rain from the sky. No supernatural phenomenon occurred.
That was enough. The earth returned to its static state again.
It didn’t take long for people to realize that.