Chapter 77 Promise (2)
I didn’t even have time to reply to Elodie’s words.
“Ugh!”
My body spontaneously popped up and flew backwards.
shudder!
The hut door behind me opened, and as soon as I put me in, it slammed shut.
“Elodie! Elodie!!”
I tried my best to open the hut door, but it didn’t budge.
Did the people in my workshop feel this way? Of course, unlike the door in my studio, this is a real door, and it’s just locked.
But now, as a child, it was impossible for me to open this by force.
“Elodie!”
I changed my seat and headed to the window. Through the window, I saw Elodie confronting a giant monster.
Elodie slowly floated up in the air, drawing out two spells in both hands, as she had shown me a while ago. It was, of course, a high level of skill, but compared to the monster in front of him, he looked too dwarfed.
Easy profit!!
The monster’s tentacles moved first. To be honest, a bunch of tentacles that make no sense to count. Each of them hardened like a sharp spear and aimed at Elodie.
Aww! Aww!
First, it hits the magic barrier that Elodie has set apart from each other, and the rest rushes in again.
“Ugh!”
The tentacles burn in the left hand wielded by Elodi, and freeze in the right hand. Elodie’s magic seemed to be working, but compared to the ones that were destroyed one by one, there were a lot of remaining tentacles, and the speed was even faster.
Wheeik!
Elodie flew while avoiding the tentacles by flying. It widens the distance and at the same time removes the attacking tentacles one by one. It was quite a familiar movement.
‘… … Obviously, it’s a better skill than at that time in the past.’
This is Elodie’s dream. No matter how young Elodie is now, her strength is quite high. It must be the result of a combination of magic and imagination. Elodie is using the best power he can imagine and believes he can.
one at that moment.
“… … under.”
I let out a smirk resembling a sigh, as if it was absurd.
Hundreds of eyes on the monster’s whole body suddenly burst open, and their eyes slowly glowed.
Whoa-ah-ah-!
As it turned out, those luminous eyes shot beams from all directions and narrowed the distance toward Elodie like a noose.
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No matter how quickly Elodie moved, there was no way to get out of a place where there was no room for movement.“Ugh!”
Elodie wrapped herself around her. He puts the magic barrier he made at a distance around him, and overlaps it in double and triple layers.
that,
Cheeky!!
The monster’s beam shattered like a piece of paper, and unleashed an unforgiving blow on the young body.
wow! Aww!
Elodie fell to the floor while being hit by a beam, and the monster threw a beam of his eyes at Elodie, who was flat on the floor.
“Elodie! Elodie!!!”
… … I am watching it in a hut, indeed peacefully.
As a child, I can’t get out of this place, because Elodie pushed me here and locked the door.
I’m enjoying the indulgences set up so well.
Bump!
One of its tentacles spread like a hand and grabbed Elodie’s leg. even lifted it.
Elodie seemed to have lost the strength to resist, and was drooping in the air.
whistle, whistle
He tossed Elodie here and there. It was not intended to attack or kill. I didn’t even check to see if I passed out or not.
I was just playing with it. Elodie.
touk
Then, as if losing interest, he dropped to the floor, and Elodie rolled over and his face turned toward me.
Elodie looked up at the window of the hut and met me.
He smiled softly as if he was relieved that I was there, and shook his head.
squish
And then, my reason was cut off.
Aww!
A black stream, which had never been seen before, resided in my body. With almost the same speed as it had returned to me, the Black Chun blew the door of the hut.
I exited the hut door and proceeded towards the monster without hesitation.
“Meno Sorpo!!”
Menosorph
Air weaving, simultaneous replication
Imperial Palace Armory
full open
I shouted without thinking back and forth, and the magic circle unfolded to its maximum size.
The weapon engraved its existence in the air, and shimmered in the light of the sun, moon, and milky way that stretched far from the sky.
Jiying—
The monster’s eyes turned to me. Hundreds of eyes turned to me. Countless tentacles turned their heads toward me and trembled.
“I dare not even this hybrid… … !”
My weapons were aimed at him to match my anger.
I’ll take this opportunity to count how hard your tentacles are clinging to each other—
“… … uh? Whoops, Frontier!”
At that time, Elodie, who seemed to have lost consciousness for a moment, raised her head and looked at me.
That moment.
“under… … ?”
All the weapons I created are gone. Menosorpo and Heukcheon were nowhere to be found.
At the same time, the huge monster I was staring at as if to kill me at any moment disappeared before my eyes.
“Ugh.”
I lost my strength and sat down.
I thought my mana had returned, but suddenly it came back to the body of an incompetent boy. My head was dizzy from the vertigo, as if mana had suddenly disappeared.
“Fah, Fron! it’s okay?”
Elodie came to me. My body wasn’t strong, but he was walking hard at me.
‘… … I’m getting better.’
The thought was brief, and the wounds on Elodie’s body gradually disappeared. Rather than being healed, it just disappears like erasing with an eraser. At first, there seemed to be no serious injuries.
‘I see. It hurts only as much as a young Elodie can imagine.’
In fact, if you think about it, it’s surprising that even after being hit with such an outrageous attack, it’s just that you lost your mind for a moment. I’ve seen the magic barrier break with my own eyes.
‘is it. I got my mana back.’
Is it because Elodie lost consciousness for a moment? Losing consciousness in a dream seems a little ridiculous, but Elodie was out of my consciousness for a moment at that time. In other words, the role assigned to me has disappeared.
And probably, it’s not supposed to be a fight between me and that monster inside Elodie. So the monster that confronted me also disappeared.
A monster only for her to fight, and for her to defeat.
He resists with all his might, but is nevertheless defeated by the overwhelming power gap, suffers even more pain after that, and at the end is ridiculed and thrown away on the ground.
that series of processes.
‘Is it really impossible to win?’
He fights a monster he imagines, but he can’t win. It didn’t make sense to me. One was actually done.
In other words, that monster is not Elodie’s ‘imagination’. something a little different from that. Elodie can’t resist or evade himself.
‘… … trauma.’
I bit my lip.
‘That monster is Elodie’s trauma.’
Although Elodie herself created it.
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Now she can’t get rid of it, deal with it, or stop her imagination.She is Elodie’s natural enemy.
And, perhaps, killing that monster is the way out of this dream.
* * *
Me and Elodie entered the hut.
Elodie was making a fuss while checking my body for any injuries.
“… … Sorry.”
Those were the words of Elodie, who then spit out with her face bowed down.
Very different from reality, Elodie’s habit of saying ‘I’m sorry’ in her dream was ‘I’m sorry’.
“I didn’t know the hut door would break. I thought it would be a little stronger.”
I broke
Elodie seemed to think the monster was trying to attack me by opening the door to the hut.
one.
“… … Elodie.”
“Fron, it’s absolutely safe in the cabin. Even if the door is open, you cannot come out.”
“Elodie.”
“The monster will go away on its own after defeating me, so if you wait a little—”
“Elodie.”
I grabbed Elodie’s hands and held them in front of my eyes. Then Elodie’s little head came up and looked at me.
“You saw it too.”
“… … .”
“Whoever opened the door to the hut, no matter what you didn’t see, countless weapons floating in the sky.”
“… … I.”
“I’m not going to say I didn’t see it.”
The reason I lost my weaving and ability was because Elodie thought ‘it can’t be’.
In other words, she disappeared because she witnessed it.
“That is my ability.”
“… … .”
At my words, Elodie rolled her eyes as if in trouble.
Even if I said this to the current Elodie, I wouldn’t be able to understand it. I can’t use my powers unless she trusts me anyway.
So, I decided to tell Elodie a more acceptable lie.
“It’s a skill I will acquire in the future.”
“future?”
At my words, Elodie’s eyes widened.
“yes. I used it for the first time too, but I think it’s a future ability. It felt like I borrowed the power I was going to use later.”
This is Elodie’s dream.
It is possible as long as Elodie, no matter how vain the words, is persuaded.
There is a reasonable excuse for this.
“That’s why it disappeared within a few seconds. Did you see it too?”
“… … Ah, so… … . I see.”
Of course, Elodie erased it himself, but Elodie does not know that he is in a dream and adds his imagination.
It must be one of the contradictions of dreams that the weapons I created suddenly disappear, and the monster disappears as if it were canceled.
Since I am resolving the contradiction myself, Elodie will understand easily.
“Look, Elodie. I have the ability.”
“… … yes.”
Elodie nodded as if reassured by my words.
But.
“So let’s kill that monster together.”
in my words
In an instant, his face turned blue, and he shook his head as he waved his hand.
“Oh, that can’t be!”
“why?”
“You are too dangerous. frontier. That monster is strong. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t even reach that monster!”
“Then we must fight together.”
“Oh, no. no. I can’t. If you get hurt, I… … .”
I had a strange feeling about it.
Elodie is overprotecting Frontier. I know that feeling.
He instinctively noticed Frontier’s inferiority and jealousy, and knew he was gripped with guilt about it.
… … One, that’s all.
‘Elodie at that time did not know.’
They say that the Elodie in front of me right now is a girl.
The actual Elodie doesn’t go back to the past.
At first, when I saw Elodie’s smaller appearance in reality, I mistook it for a moment. I realized when I saw Elodie apologizing.
Elodie, shuddering at this guilt, is not the girl of her day. It is the current Elodie itself.
Of course. Elodie, who was young at the time, did not know. Frontier’s envy, jealousy, inferiority, and hatred of Elodie. So, Elodie boasted to Frontier and eagerly shared the story he knew.
… … This dream is Elodie’s apology for the Frontier. It is the manifestation of sin.
—I didn’t mean it that way. sorry. I’m not good at speaking. I wanted to tell you well. I don’t mean to make you feel bad.
Elodie is practicing how to better convey her feelings to Frontier. Toward the role of Frontier that she created.
These are words that I cannot convey to the present Frontier. Even if I said it, it became meaningless.
That is why, towards the young Frontier, the young Elodie apologizes.
Even if it’s in a dream
Even if it’s a fake created by Elodie.
‘… … It’s fake.’
A bitter smile spread across my lips at the thought.
Although these actions that Elodie is doing in her dreams, some may feel that they are truly worthless.
Finally, I finally witnessed it.
Elodie’s apology.
The endless repetition of apologies that did not need to be apologized, I saw and I heard.
I am not Frontier.
I’m fake
“… … Elodie.”
Maybe I’m sinning
Pretending to hear an apology that the real Frontier didn’t hear.
“Sorry.”
An apology that Frontier didn’t even make, I deliver on my behalf.
“I’ve been jealous of you for a long time.”