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Chapter 145: Changcheon (2)
Frondier approached Ajie cautiously.
‘… Are you okay.’
It hasn’t been decided yet.
Even if everyone has come to a conclusion.
Until I checked it─
Stand tall.
Frondier stretched out his hand towards Ajie, but his hand stopped in midair, just like Malia’s.
It was a strange feeling. In general, there was no sense of resistance from the wall at all.
In Frontier’s awareness, his hand continues to be stretched out, but as a result it becomes unstretched.
To put it bluntly, it feels like Ajie is being left out of the path where Frondier extends his hand.
It was a phenomenon that most people couldn’t understand, but Frontiere was able to make some guesses.
‘Is it a different world? … ?’
Now, Ajie is visible, but somehow it doesn’t seem to be located in this world.
Frontier stays in this world, and so does his hand. So, even if you see it and extend your hand, it will not reach Azi on the other side.
This is why I don’t know if he is dead or alive.
More than anything,
‘… ‘This is not Pantemonium.’
One of the possibilities that Ajie might be alive has been dashed.
Frondier swallowed his saliva without realizing it. It’s because I’m nervous.
Slowly, the reality he had been ignoring crept up behind him.
The reason Frontier is maintaining his composure right now is not because of his strong mentality. Not because there is a solution.
He’s just averting his eyes.
He gathers all kinds of difficult possibilities and comes up with a new hypothesis. When one family falls apart, another one comes to mind.
Thinking moves into more unlikely and untested areas. From there, it is already an area of delusion to prove that Ajie is alive.
But there is only a very simple and clear conclusion here.
Ajie is dead.
His head was spinning to deny that one thing, that was all.
How long has it been?
“… Frontier.”
All kinds of wizards and healers, including the police, gathered to retrieve Atjie’s body, but in the end, they gave up and returned because they couldn’t touch it.
Malia was in a state of collapse when Frontier met her, but now she has come together a lot.
After crying for a while, Malia heard about the situation and gave instructions to the family to investigate. She talked with other wizards and teachers about the situation of not being able to touch At Jie’s body.
What kind of magic is that, and is it even magic? How much does the imperial palace understand about this situation?
In addition, he calmed down enough to check the surroundings of the spot where Ajie fell and discuss what happened.
… For that long time.
Frondier was looking at Ajie with stiff, dry eyes, without saying a word.
“Let’s go back, Frontier.”
Malia said.
It was Malia who broke down when she first encountered Frondier, but she is much better now.
Her problem wasn’t her.
“… “I will stay here.”
“Frondier…”
Malia’s sad voice.
She cried a lot. Only after she cried did she come to her senses. She can accept reality and feel a little prepared to move forward.
Not Frontier.
He hasn’t cried yet.
Most definitely, he won’t cry until the moment he dies.
During that long period of time, Frontier continued—
“It’s okay.”
Frondier speaks in a dry voice.
“I’ll be back soon.”
“…”
Frontier’s condition is now serious.
He flew at full speed, spitting out all his mana. Although it may not be a case of mana exhaustion, there is extreme mental and physical fatigue.
Unlike Malia, who regained her composure with the help of those around her, he did not even move a muscle throughout this long period of time.
Front Deer was like that, as if if he lifted even one finger, everything would be over.
As Malia looked at Frondier, she opened her mouth, thinking that she should somehow feed him something, and then she closed her mouth again.
After taking a few very small breaths, Malia spoke.
“… “I’ll be waiting for you at the mansion.”
“Yes.”
Malia spoke and walked away with her calmness, but more than that, she was filled with ruthlessness.
Frontier does not yet know how to bear grief. It was something she couldn’t tell Malia about. How to deal with it varies from person to person.
Frontier needs time. If he thinks so himself, she has nothing but respect for Malia.
As she did so, Malia took a few slow steps forward.
“… “It’s okay.”
She heard Frondier’s voice.
Malia thought it was a voice calling her and turned around, but Frondier was still in that same position, frozen as stone.
Just the voice.
“Are you okay.”
She passed by Malia’s ear like the wind in a thread.
“You’re not hurt.”
What that meant, she had no idea.
* * *
Agier de Roach died.
The eldest son of the Roach family, the ultimate spear master, Constel is the envy of all warriors.
… Sword, Ajie.
His death shocked the empire, and rumors arose about his death among the citizens.
This confusion spread to Pro Headquarters, Constellation, and the Imperial Palace.
However, the deeper you go into the interior of the imperial palace, the deeper you get.
There is a deep silence that seems to suffocate all the subjects in the palace.
Deep inside where the emperor, empress, and princess reside.
From here, all the noise outside seems to run away.
“Majesty. “It’s already been two days.”
“That’s right. “Please open the door.”
“Majesty… !”
In front of the gates of Fili Terst.
There, her subjects are calling to her with her earnest face.
It’s been two days since Empress Fili has been locked in her room, depriving herself of all water and food. The subjects were shaking their feet in sorrow.
Around the end of the day yesterday, one of the subjects attempted to force the door open.
Although his loyal heart for the empress was virtual.
As the subject was struggling to forcefully unlock the lock,
After Fili opened the door herself and blew away her subjects with her magic,
She went back in and locked the door.
Afterwards, the subjects simply shouted ‘Your Majesty!’ And no one dared to enter.
And this did not only apply to subjects.
“… Mom.”
Smart.
Aten cautiously knocks on Fili’s room.
However, there was no answer coming from inside.
Unless she was absent, Fili had never once ignored Aten.
But this time, there was only cold silence after the knock.
No one can approach Philly now.
If she had simply thought of her position and authority, the Emperor Terst would have seen her, but her Emperor knew her Fili’s will and kept her in tatters.
In her room in Philly, her voice can be heard outside, calling her earnestly.
However, Fili was sitting on a chair in her room without any response.
Tap, tap.
She taps her own fingers on the table in front of him.
The tapping, which was messy at first and stained with her regret and resentment, became as steady as a metronome as time passed. Even Philly himself didn’t feel it.
If anyone had been around her Fili, anyone would have known that the steady beat that her Fili was tapping with her fingers was not normal.
She taps her fingers every second.
She repeats exactly, without a single tenth of a second of error.
Without any meaning.
‘… ‘If there is such a thing as fate that she cannot defy.’
If such a thing really exists.
Fili’s foresight was undoubtedly superior.
Because she could change what she saw.
She Fili was able to avoid danger ahead of time due to the ominous sense she felt in her. Her foresight has been a great help in securing her power and her foundation as empress so far.
Even if it is nothing more than a sensation of hers, the sensation is real, and Fili has experienced escaping danger on many occasions.
So she said,
‘… ‘When I saw that.’
Her unbearable regret was covering her body.
Her foresight became powerful.
So much so that you can see it with all five senses, not just your senses.
She saw the man collapsed in front of Malia and saw Malia crying.
I didn’t know if the man was Frondier, Azier, or someone else, but it didn’t matter.
She could be saved.
Because her foresight is a foresight that can be changed.
Because she’s not like a foreknowledge that can’t be changed.
Even though she can change, she couldn’t.
‘… What on earth have you done? Fili terst.’
Fili was pushed to the edge, to the point where no excuses were available.
‘If only I had better judgment.’
Where did I make a mistake?
What information did you need to know?
What should I prepare for and what measures should I take?
Tap, tap, tap.
The tapping of fingers becomes more precise.
Fili’s eyes gradually become unfocused.
No matter how hard I rack my brain, I can’t come up with an answer.
What he should have known, where he went astray.
Okay. Now I know.
This is because I am Fili Terst, so I cannot give an answer.
Because we are human.
He doesn’t know because he’s a dull and stupid person who can’t stop it even if he sees it in advance.
If only I focused everything I had on reading the future.
If all thinking was driven by calculation and response.
For ‘Phili Terst’, humanity was unnecessary.
Even if you throw away that, this won’t happen,
Boom─
“!”
Fili was surprised. The tapping of his fingers stopped.
Her phone was ringing.
She has disabled all notifications on her phone. She didn’t want to hear anything or be disturbed.
But no matter how she feels,
There was only one person she had to receive.
At least that one person should not be avoided and should be punished.
Fili looked at the phone screen.
‘Frondier.’
A sigh naturally escaped me at that name.
“… Phew.”
You have to say it.
I said I had a premonition.
Even though I knew, I couldn’t stop it.
Fili took her phone in her shaking hands and put it to her ear.
“… Yes.”
A short voice indicating that a call has been answered.
Frontier said to him:
[Mr. Philly.]
In that one word.
Fili arched her body like a doll with all her breath gone.
Her fingers trembled as if her phone was about to break, and she gritted her teeth to keep Frondier from noticing her breath threatening to escape.
[Help.]
Frontier said:
Ask for help.
This is something you say without knowing Philly’s situation.
He is saying this without knowing that Fili has already seen everything.
‘… Okay.’
However, if Frontier wants help.
Even though it is already too late, if Frontier says so.
I can help.
Make sure you don’t make a mistake this time.
She can work out her optimal calculations by giving everything she has.
Fili Terst is a human being who can do that.
[Mr. Philly. I need you.]
But Front Deer spoke as if she knew what Fili had in mind.
[We need the wisdom of His Majesty Fili Terst.]
“… Wisdom, you say?”
What does this mean?
What on earth does Frontier know to say something like this?
[Because I am a person lacking wisdom.]
As if she knows what Fili is going to do, she says something that seems to thwart it.
“… So do I, Frontier. “I am a person who has no such thing as wisdom.”
Philly failed.
Frontier is not someone you should lend wisdom to.
So she tried to throw it all away.
[It’s not like that.]
However, Frontier simply denied it.
[Now I don’t fight alone.]
“… !”
─You always fight alone. Human sloth Frontier.
Something Philly once said.
As if that had become a teaching, a word that was still engraved in him.
Unable to say anything, Fili tapped the table with her fingers again, as was her habit.
… Thump, thud.
However, the beat is a mess.
Fili’s eyes slowly began to return to focus.
And his tapping fingers soon stopped.
“… What do you plan on doing? Frontier.”
He clenched his fist.