308 – Last Moment (4) (Complete)
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“Really? Kyle passed away? Oh my, that girl finally got her wish.”
“I thought I would die prematurely. “No wonder she lived until now.”
“Everything she said, she muttered that she would somehow get her away quickly, but she ended up just like that. She knew from then on that she wouldn’t live long. “I just didn’t listen to her because I was afraid she would get cheated.”
After hearing the sad news, the elders of Pumpkin Vine Village muttered one word at a time. Hearing this for the first time in his life, not only other people but even Yurinel’s eyes widened.
“Yurinel, do you really not remember anything? You, Kyle, and the blue-haired girl. The three of us were having fun like this. Well, you and that kid were never alone together without Kyle… But anyway, you really don’t remember a thing, do you?”
Gatherer Rumil, an older woman with gentle eyes, tilted her head and opened her mouth. At the mention of blue hair, the audience’s attention naturally turned to two places.
Two girls with blue hair, which is rare in nature. Roca and Parnell had puzzled expressions as their eyes focused on them. Of course, the blue-haired girl was not these two.
“Blue hair…”
Loka thought for a moment and glared at Parnell. At this, the mage began to make excuses without realizing it. She didn’t know why, but she felt like she would be in big trouble if she didn’t explain.
“I-I’m not? “When Yurinel was a child, I was even younger, and at that time, I had never even met Yurinel, let alone this village!”
“Blue bird…”
Click here. There was the sound of her teeth clashing against each other. In fact, there was a place that struck me as strange ever since I heard it was a blue bird.
Once upon a time, I definitely saw a blue girl in a place where I couldn’t tell if it was a dream or a fantasy. It was definitely true. That woman is probably right.
“Was that girl the goddess that Kyle worshiped?”
“They said it was the Holy Spirit who came down to guide the apostles who were created under the command of the Lord.”
“Is the Holy Spirit a different concept from an angel?”
“I don’t know. Who knows. But it wasn’t a person. “That much is certain.”
“Even after so much time has passed, there’s no way it’s a person that I still remember vividly.”
Found it. I ended up finding out who had taken my owner.
The wolf, suppressing his boiling anger, strengthened the hand holding the handle of the sword. He held it so tightly that even though it was the handle, not the sword blade, the solid Chamryundo sword was dented.
Someday, I will definitely reach the sky and find a blue bird or something.
After that, perhaps one of the two will not survive.
“The miracle that was too much for us has now lost its luster and gone. From now on, the miracles of the saint whom the saint served will never again reach the continent.”
Ardein von Illumina muttered with a depressed expression. Now the saint is gone, and the era of miracles is over. The short era of divinity came to an end.
The world has returned to its original state. Just like that, the single proof that God exists disappeared.
“Not really. That blue bird always said that. “The very fact that we can maintain hope, live in the present, and move toward the future is the greatest proof that He exists.”
“We old people are so hard-headed that we don’t remember everything they said, but these words still stick in our minds. “The only thing God wants from us is to just live hard.”
However, if there is an oven that bakes infinite bread, people do not need to work hard to farm. If you have a millstone that can produce salt indefinitely, there is no reason to put in the effort to dig up rock salt.
What you get by working hard and sweating like that. Developing. Miracles ignore all processes and bring only results. How could it be God’s will to long for miracles, long for miracles, and even believe in miracles? All miracles eventually become mere fairy tales and must be forgotten.
So the greatest miracle happened in that sun,
As a result of that miracle, people were able to live their lives diligently,
That fact was known only to the highest god, and was simply buried quietly.
‘Aldehir Church…’
The heavenly god Aldehir quietly looked down at the earth. Then I made eye contact with a girl. Although we were very far apart, our hearts were aligned.
The girl found where she belonged. It was not a peaceful life in Pumpkin Vine Village, as the priest had arranged.
Yanid seemed to like Pumpkin Vine Village, and he seemed to want a peaceful life, but he had a more important mission. Finding that blue bird somewhere in the wide sky.
Anyway, I felt like I needed to reconsider the proposal that Pope Nergal had made to me in the past. We even ran out of star candy.
It is a little later that the girl realizes that this ‘sky’ is not the ‘sky’.
*****
Millions of years. Maybe more time.
The past dozen years have been more rewarding than the nearly eons I have lived as the Demon King. The ancient demon king, now a star explorer, looked around the universe with his ghostly body.
‘So many possibilities.’
In this near-infinite space where hundreds of millions of stars like their sun were scattered, there were also things more mysterious than the stars roaming around.
‘It was right above this sky.’
Although all I could do was look, I couldn’t ask for more than that. At least it was much better than the pitiful years I lived as a demon lord in that narrow place.
But in reality, that wasn’t necessarily the case.
That’s what it means to be human.
When you have something, you always want more.
Desire. If you package it well, you will feel better.
The man called Grimudo realized that what had been cooling down had begun to ignite again. It’s been a long time since passion boiled like this, but…
He is just a ghost. An empty soul.
A ghost as its name suggests, unable to interact with anything, let alone the stars.
It is a cursed being that can only be seen, but cannot be reached out and caught.
‘If I were given one more chance,’
If I could only receive life once again,
If I could become a living being and walk on earth,
This time, I will have greater ambitions and not be satisfied with being a frog in a well.
‘If that were the case, I would have tried to reach out to this wide world even if I had to burn to death.’
As long as I can realize the truth today, it doesn’t matter if I die tomorrow.
Now that I truly have this feeling, my body is already dead.
‘But who is to blame? ‘The eons of time I had were all precious opportunities that I wasted.’
What kind of skit is this? When I had the right to live and change something, I sat down at the North Pole without doing anything, and settled down there, doing meaningless things.
On such a topic, it is only after being completely deprived of all opportunities that one reminisces about the past and regrets it. Isn’t it really ugly?
‘Even though I was able to run harder than anyone else, I wasted all my time, and now I don’t even have the right to envy you.’
“This is the first time the Arcadia has come this far. This is something that will remain in history. “Everyone, today we are the first human beings to soar into the sea of stars.”
So, when Cardinal Omen of the airship Arcadia made a fuss, this ancient demon king who had walked through space before him simply remained silent. I couldn’t speak anyway, and even if I did, I was a ghost with no one to listen, but I didn’t want to ruin their feelings.
“This is a place that was only observed from afar. Wizards, if we just solve the power problem here… If the power of the skystone is sufficient, will we be able to go all the way to the moon?”
“That is difficult, Holy Father. “Thanks to the full support of the Empire and the Citadel Republic, the Arcadia has undergone several renovations and her output has greatly increased, but our understanding of this space is still extremely limited.”
The head of the Corinel branch of the Magic Tower smiled and muttered. Exploring space requires a completely different set of common sense than traveling on land. Here, you cannot go where you want without understanding the orbit. Their math and science skills were not yet sufficient to travel through space.
But the Aldehir Church had only taken its first step.
I don’t know when the second step will take place, but at least it will go further than now.
“But just being able to go beyond the atmosphere and step into the sea of stars is truly amazing. Everyone, look over there. That is the land we live on. Looking at it this way, doesn’t it seem like our situation is so insignificant as we struggle to take over that small piece of land?”
I do not have a strong body like Demon Lord Grimudo, nor do I have great magical abilities like him, but
Those people managed to climb up to this universe with their own strength and faith.
If, at a time when we were obsessed with monsters, we had united humanity with that absolute power and actively supported that kind of development, wouldn’t we and our continent have been able to move further than we are now? Looking back, he missed out on so many opportunities.
I didn’t even know it was an opportunity and I wasted it in vain, so it’s probably natural that I ended up in this situation. I was looking down on the kind of potential that people have.
“If you bite into those stars, will they taste like star candy?”
“Hmm, Miss Roca. From what we know about stars, they are no different than distant suns. “If you really bite into a star, your tongue will probably melt.”
He was a little surprised to see a familiar wolf in their group. Even though she couldn’t see herself, the Demon King still remembered the wolf that brought the sunset.
I don’t know why that woman is acting like that with Aldehyrgyo, but I can’t believe I’ll see her again in a place like this. If this was fate, it was a truly amazing fate.
-Loka… This sky is not where I am. As expected, I was wandering in the wrong place. It seems like I’m learning something, but it’ll take a little longer to find out.
The old demon king, who was deep in thought, even when he heard a laughing voice right behind him as if he couldn’t stop him, he just thought it was okay and ignored it. Then suddenly he came to his senses.
Now this is a sea of black stars. A place where not even a single wisp of air exists. Of course, this is a place where voices cannot be heard.
That Arcadia Hoya is under atmospheric magic, so let’s just say that, but behind him is literally outer space. It is empty space without anything. It is an intangible barrier that does not even allow sound to pass through.
-But mistakes and failures are different. A mistake from which you can learn is not a failure. It’s just a process of moving forward. How about you, star adventurer? Is what you’ve been doing so far a mistake? Or is it a failure?
However, rather than being surprised, the man was amazed. Someone was looking at me and talking to me. This man, who had lived as a complete bystander in solitude, was thrilled by just that.
I didn’t even wonder who the opponent was. There was no need to doubt whether he was whispering to him with malice or not.
If there is truly malicious intent, just do nothing. There was nothing that could cause him more pain than that.
Nevertheless, the fact that he looked at him probably meant that he had at least some degree of favor. In fact, it didn’t matter who the opponent was to him now.
It didn’t matter even if it was a demon trying to gently lure me and eat me. There was nothing more I could ask for if he could just be my companion.
‘How on earth did you…!’
However, I wouldn’t have been so surprised if the devil were here.
I wouldn’t have been this embarrassed.
I definitely saw that death with my own eyes.
I definitely touched that cold corpse with my own hands.
His pupils were greatly dilated, but even with his wide-open eyes he could not fully capture his opponent.
-Are you already defining your life as a failure? Actually, that’s not the case. Even if what you’ve done may seem like a failure, it’s not a failure if there’s still a chance. A mistake… It’s just a mistake that may have been a bit big.
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‘Why, why do you appear in front of me in this situation and say such things? ‘What do you want from me?’
-Do you remember the wish you had for carrying me on your back all those years ago? Even though I never said it out loud, someone higher than me heard my wish.
Just like him, this demon king was not a suitable person for this place from the beginning. There was a world that was much more suited to this ancient demon king than this world where limits were drawn to human strength.
It is not heaven.
And it is far from hell.
That place, a lawless place where struggle is rampant, may be better or worse than here.
You can go even if you commit sins, and you can go forward even if you accumulate virtue.
-A place where anyone can become stronger as much as they work hard. You hoped the world would become that kind of place. You hoped that the giant wall above you would break down on its own. I can’t grant that request, but I can introduce you to a world where there are no walls to begin with.
If I were alive, my heart would have started pounding as soon as I heard this. Even I, who was already a dead ghost, found it difficult to control my excitement. His hands were shaking.
-If you wish, I will send you to a much wider world. If you hope so.
‘I don’t think it’s just pure favor. If there is a price, say it. What can I do for you? What does he whom you serve want me to do?’
-Nothing. He said, Old Demon King. Just live your own life.
He was a despairing and corrupt demon king in this world, but
However, there is no way that will happen even if you are given a new opportunity in another world.
I am not hoping that this demon lord will suddenly be reborn and become a fighter for justice. We are not expecting to be transformed into philanthropists who do endless good deeds. But the truth is, most people are like that. How many people in the world can confidently say that they are good people?
However, as the saying goes, the right place is the right place, the important thing is not how good people are, but what kind of world those people create together. And the place where this old demon king hangs out is not here, but there.
If there is a large rock in a small pond, it is an ugly object that ruins the scenery, but if it is in a large lake, it becomes one of the many landscapes that make up the lake. Although he was a demon lord who was greatly feared in this world, he might be able to become a decent resident in the other world.
Maybe he will take on a bigger role than that,
It depends half on His will and half on the author’s will.
-But that is enough.
Just over ten years ago, when he was feeling despondent as if the whole world had collapsed after breaking up with the warrior party, the angel of light who came to him just said this.
Just live the life you want.
Just live the life you want.
Now, I stand in the same place as that angel and say the same thing.
The priest was then able to understand why the angel had said those words to him.
So he just smiled.