293 – First Day (4)
The night deepens.
It is approaching midnight.
The only three days allowed to him passed quickly, and it would not be long until they became a thing of the past. So until then, he had to finish everything without missing anything.
‘There really were things that could only be known in hindsight.’
Is this the living hell of royalties? The priest looked around from where he stopped. There were no stars or moon in the sky, which looked like a pitch-black night sky. From the beginning, it was not the sky, but just a black river of darkness.
As that river flowed, it occupied a corner of the sky, blocking out both sunlight and moonlight. The only thing that shined in this gloomy and eerie space was myself. The entire space was black, as if ink had been painted everywhere, as if the space itself was swallowing up the light.
The sky and the earth. The dirt and sand also lost their shape and became like black rocks, laying on the ground. It was even worse compared to the battlefield where the great army’s spears and swords faced each other.
This is not a sight that can be created by humans, nor is it a phenomenon that can be found in the outside world.
White bones were scattered everywhere, and instead of blood flowing like a river, an unknown black and sticky liquid was quietly flowing across the ground. Around the stream where the liquid flowed, a black tree stood tall, bearing black fruit. This was black, and that was black too.
This place, which had lost its light and color, was just left lying around, abandoned by its owner. The fruit on the tree had ripened, but now it was shriveled and ready to fall. It withered and withered, and its branches drooped. There were huge, dying trees everywhere.
‘The Shinigami met his death without even regaining his power…’
This space itself is gradually deteriorating, so it will gradually weaken over time even if no one seals it or carries out purification work.
After about a hundred years, it will change into a slightly gloomy forest, and then it will be no different from normal terrain.
It was all largely due to the self-destruction of Mordrig, the grim reaper created by the Demon King. If he had been defeated and died in battle, he would have fought as hard as he could right before he died, and would have recovered all the power he used to create his sacred place and used it in battle.
Unable to muster up the courage to do so, the being that could have become a disaster of the times self-destructed and disappeared. Now, all that remains here are the contaminated beings.
Modrig, the source of power, has disappeared, leaving only polluted beings already dying. Each tree was a collection of many people coming together.
Those giant trees that were originally supposed to take root in polluted land, bear fruit, and produce soldiers of the Four Gods of Death from within the fruit, were actually used for other purposes. People who were polluted and transformed into a strong person were able to survive the disaster brought about by the ancient world.
Now that my life was saved, I didn’t have to stay like that anymore. And this space also had to return to nature.
So he just took one step,
Wherever the footprints appeared, the Shinigami’s divine power screamed and retreated, and he could no longer maintain his form. As the darkness that covered the ground dispersed, the darkness that covered the sky gradually cleared.
So when he finished the short walk, the otherworldly scenery around him had already disappeared. All I could see was a night sky embroidered with stars, which can be seen anywhere if you look up at the sky at the right time. The sky that has always been visible to people for countless years.
He quietly left the place after looking at the people who were unable to come to their senses, spread out on the land where color had returned. He still had a lot of work to do, and the day was almost over.
There wasn’t much time left, and there were many people to meet.
There were people I had to visit before I left the world.
Even if those people kicked them out.
Is it the result of pure coincidence that those people became, or rather will become, entangled with the Little Shinigami? Or was there some kind of connection? He wondered for a moment. Anyway, I needed to stop by the system at least once. He had to do the work he was asked to do and reconnect with existing relationships.
More than anything, I had to say goodbye to the only person who would be there.
What should we do first and what should we do later? By reading the relationships intertwined with the system, he was able to determine the order before it was too late.
So, it was time to stop looking at the stars and get moving again.
*****
Just as it takes several processes for a person to accept death, similar processes are needed to accept salvation. Still, it’s much easier than accepting death. And it is incomparably enjoyable. All that was needed was a little time.
At the sound of a cheerful song, the woman raised her head and looked at her bustling island. The current system was to put up colorful lanterns in every house, sing at the top of one’s voice, and prepare a wonderful meal using the food that was not available. The loud singing could be heard up to here.
“Ha, was it all my mistake…”
Suddenly, I look at the mountain of meat that has now completely stopped and does not move at all. Even if I hadn’t had a hard time having a snowball fight with that thing, nothing would have changed. Still, it was a good thing in the end, so it’s enough to just laugh it off that your eyes are puffy. Yes, you can just laugh it off.
The world has been saved. No, it is not the world that is the problem, but the system has been saved right away.
For the royal family, and for her as the princess, this institution is her home and hometown. The royal tombs where her ancestors are enshrined are here, and the people she must protect are also here. Now that the place has been saved, we should rejoice.
Yes, let go of all the past,
All you have to do is join them, laugh, talk, and have fun.
I know it in my head. I know it well.
But, that doesn’t work.
Is it so unfair that just one snowball fight hurts your bones?
No matter how confident you are, you are not that childish.
However, with that incident as an opportunity, the skepticism she had been feeling for a long time slowly reared its head again. When I think about it, I was always overly motivated and never did anything right.
What was she doing when her brother rebelled against her against her father? Nothing! She was just training underground and was overpowered by Yanid, who came out of nowhere.
So when she came to her senses, everything outside was already over, and her younger brother had committed suicide by drinking strong drink. There was no room for her to intervene. She did nothing in this rare case of treason.
Then, before that, were there any achievements you could be proud of? Well, as for whether something was accomplished properly after that, well. Is it an illusion to think that you can only put your mind first and do nothing properly? At least in my opinion, it was neither an illusion nor a coincidence.
‘Disintegration…’
What happened back then only got bigger, and the same thing happened this time too. In the face of an unprecedented situation where the entire continent was in danger and then rescued, she could do nothing even though she was the princess of the empire. Ordinary people might do that. But he says he is not like that.
Even though I wanted to be strong, I couldn’t. Once, when she was very young, she attended an old man’s deathbed. She was a young girl at the time, and she was arrogant to the core, and she disapproved of the fact that she even attended such an event. Even if that person is a famous scholar who is still talked about to this day.
-Master. Why are you crying? Master always studied hard, he gave us the right teachings, and he was always kind to everyone. Why is the teacher respected by everyone shedding tears like this?
As I watched him shed tears just before he was about to die due to old age, all I could think about was how ugly I was when I was younger. However, looking back, there was nothing wrong with the scholar’s final question and answer to the student’s question.
-That’s why I shed tears. As I approached my final moments, I reflected on what I had been doing while I was alive. If someone were to ask me right now whether you have achieved great accomplishments as a scholar, I would gladly answer yes. If you were to ask me whether I, as a person, observed morals and lived benevolently, I would gladly answer yes. However, I felt that if you asked me if I hung out with ordinary people and lived with them, I could only answer no. That’s why I shed tears like this.
Even after a long time from that day, she still did not understand the scholar’s last words for a while. In fact, she had half erased it from her memory.
So, the reason why that will suddenly came to mind now is perhaps because I was finally able to understand what his words meant.
That wasn’t something I just wanted to show.
These were not words that were forced out in order to remain as a joke even after her death.
Only after experiencing it myself, only after encountering such a situation, did I realize what a petty and foolish person I was!
Even when the citizens of the empire were anxious,
Even when they go through hardships and have a hard time, She
As the princess of the empire, she could not do anything.
She was neither a member of the royal family nor a swordsman, but in the end she did nothing.
She was angry at herself like that.
She clenched her fists so tightly that her palms hurt. She did and she didn’t let go for a while.
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Since they were unable to be by her side during difficult times, it was natural that she would not have a place of her own when all the hardships were over and a fun party was held. I couldn’t bring myself to smile and participate in a place where cheerful singing was heard. So she just took her steps somewhere.
She felt like she wanted to be alone, at least for today.
But the truth is.
It wasn’t necessarily like that.