294 – First Day (5)
A night to count the stars. If you count the many, many stars in the sky,
Sometimes, under this night sky, things that can never happen in broad daylight happen and surprise people.
If you walk along the same street in broad daylight, it’s fine, but if you walk at night, it’s somewhat gloomy.
Cries of ghosts start to be heard after the sun sets, and disappear when the sun rises.
Night has been the mother of mysterious events since ancient times. It is said that people become more emotional at night. Is that why people are more likely to see nonsense?
If not,
Perhaps only during this night,
A person’s intuition may allow them to go beyond the reason that normally blocks them and see things that they cannot see with their head. Either way, she looked. Something that can’t exist here. She saw the so-called nonsense.
At one point, a star that was scattered across the sky and embellishing the Milky Way was twinkling next to me. I looked around to see if there were fireflies, but what was there was clearly a star.
As if it had really fallen from the ceiling of the night sky, its size did not change in the slightest even though something that was far away came so close.
‘Is there something like dust in your eyes?’
Or did you have a problem because you opened your eyes too wide earlier? When she saw that starry thing about her, the first thing she suspected was her own eyes.
However, if a single star falls, you can claim that dust got into your eye, but if a cluster of stars falls, it is a different story. When I closed and opened my eyes, the emptiness did not disappear, but rather increased in size.
‘No. ‘It’s not my eyes that are strange…’
The stars and star fragments, as small as a grain of sand, scattered in all directions and then collected again and again, creating a certain shape. The woman who saw that image could not help but laugh and mutter self-deprecatingly. It seems that it wasn’t the eyes that were strange, but probably the head.
“Maybe I missed it without realizing it. “There’s no way I could have seen a vision like this because I missed it so much, but… I guess I missed it like crazy.”
When she finally saw the picture that the starlight had drawn of the night sky on paper, she couldn’t help but laugh as if she were mocking herself. A person who could not possibly be here took on a form that could not possibly exist in reality, and briefly appeared on earth through starlight.
With her mouth wide open, she saw the illusion of him just staring at her, then she lowered her head and mocked herself. I’m foolishly pretending to be strong, but I’m only seeing these illusions out of longing.
Rather than believing that what she saw in front of her was reality, it made more sense to think that she was seeing something in vain. And it was more comforting.
She would rather think it was an illusion than to think that she was showing this to the person she loved. Even if it’s just deceiving yourself.
-Why are you crying so much?
So, I wanted to dismiss that voice as an auditory hallucination. But it was too similar to be an auditory hallucination. It was so different from reality that I thought I might actually be mentally deranged.
-Why are your eyes so swollen again?
Even if she stubbornly thought that the voice was an auditory hallucination, the warm energy circling her eyelids was not a lie. Divine power was not the kind of thing that could be faked.
When the warmth of the star, which was different from human body temperature, caressed the side of my eyes and came down, tears also flowed down. The woman was sobbing, and then she opened her eyes again and looked straight at what she thought was an illusion.
It wasn’t an illusion.
It wasn’t like that from the beginning.
She was a woman who felt like she wanted to crawl into a rat hole, but she could not bear to continue speaking due to emotions other than embarrassment. Before I was embarrassed, I was happy. That too a lot.
“You haven’t forgotten me. Is this a new miracle from the saint? Now you can reach far away places like that.”
But the priest just smiled…
“The saint somehow prevented the cycle, right? Is he coming down from the North Pole now? Where should I go to take you? “Just say the word, no matter where it is…”
-I think you’ve already guessed that this isn’t a miracle. I’m just sorry to tell you that that guess is true. I am no longer on this earth.
As she watched the starlight getting fainter, she blurted out her words without realizing it. A possibility she didn’t even want to think about suddenly popped into her mind, and she desperately denied it.
No, I wanted to do that. But ironically, even at this moment, fate was not on her side.
-Today will probably be the last day I see the princess. I was able to reach this spot for a while now with some starlight, but there are not many days left until this is possible.
“Why, why are you…! Now that all the commotion has finally come to an end, I thought we could enjoy happiness together, but why are you trying to leave this world already? “If I leave a little later, can I do that?”
-It was not my blessing to enjoy happiness and stay in that position from the beginning. That is the princess’s blessing. Dear Ardain. I can assure you that I will definitely be a good monarch.
A moment in the future that I could not see before now seemed natural. She was a woman who had been inadequate as a monarch, and who had not even realized that she was inadequate, but now she was no longer unworthy. Just acknowledging her own shortcomings made her qualified.
Under her reign, the empire did not enjoy greater prosperity than at any other time, but
You may not be able to dominate the continent with a national power that can subdue all other countries, but
At least the people living under that reign will be able to enjoy peace and tranquility. So even though I had to leave this world, my steps felt a little lighter.
“No need. There is no need for such a position. “I don’t need the throne anymore, so just… just…”
I couldn’t bring myself to say anything, but I didn’t want to leave it at that until the last moment.
She somehow forced her words out. She spat out each letter with force.
“Can you stay here just a little longer…?”
She was actually anticipating the answer as she spoke, but
Surprisingly, he nodded his head and came over and sat down next to her.
The princess stretched out her hand toward him, but his shape just seeped through her fingers and spread out. He was no different from touching starlight. It was just that the warmth was different from real starlight.
“Are we never able to meet again…?”
-It can’t be so.
The priest just smiled.
-Once a relationship is formed, it only changes form and cannot be broken. Not only is this not the final farewell, in fact, it is not even a farewell in the true sense of the word. It will just be a long, long breakup. We will meet again someday.
Even if you bury this farewell in your heart and don’t moan,
If at any time you feel stuffy or empty,
When sad and painful things depress your mind,
When something happens that makes you angry and you can’t control your anger,
At such times, when you suddenly look at the sky, you see a star shining particularly brightly.
If there is such a star, it is me.
“Kyle…”
For perhaps the first time, she called his name. Tears welled up in his eyes. But she looked at him, holding back her tears.
There really was a sea of stars stretching beyond the slowly disappearing starlight in the night sky.
The brightest star. A star that I particularly like. It’s so big that you can catch it if you stretch out your hand, but it’s a star that’s so far away. The star was really out there.
Now Ardane was alone again, but she was not lonely.
The woman reflected on her priest’s words and looked at the spot where he had disappeared. And I looked at that star in the sky. It filled the emptiness a little bit.
She took her deep breath and wiped away her own tears. And then he slowly woke up. No matter what you say, he’s already gone. You will probably never see it again. As long as he lives his life, he will never see him again.
But whether that will really happen?
That wasn’t something he could know.
And so the first day allowed for priests ended.
Now the midnight bell rings across the islands, and the second day begins. And the time I could remain on this earth was reduced to two days.
However, this is the only thing left to see in the system. There was no need to wander around. Anyway, all relationships come together in one place.
Actually, I was a little surprised. Perhaps people who don’t know each other, but people who are related to each other,
After going through their own process, they came together in a place they had no connection with.
And even that reaper was there with him.
So it was then that he had to reappear.