100 – The Saint and the Astrologer (4)
I didn’t see much. After all, astrology doesn’t know everything.
What is certain, however, is that as time passed, Beatrice fell deeper into this ‘dream’.
“… ….”
The time I felt wasn’t that long, but the time in my dream probably passed quite a bit.
Has it been about 1 or 2 years?
A time that can be said to be a few years at most. But the moment that time passed, many of the children had already disappeared.
The number of people that started out as dozens can soon be seen at a glance, and eventually that number also decreases to about ten.
Time passes like that, passes… ….
Soon, really, when there are less than five people left.
-It’s okay.
‘Dante’ still hugged the children around him.
-It’s okay.
Of course, those eyes, the look. It had been so long since she died so cruelly that it could not even be compared to the first time.
My body, which had been thin, had already taken on a normal appearance, like that of an ordinary boy of that age.
That would also be meaningless.
Because the boy has already lost everything.
With each passing day, my entire body is covered in blood, as time passes, my resolve becomes blurred, and the negative emotions that occasionally arise grow to the point where I cannot stop them.
-Ah.
The boy sighed.
-It’s difficult.
Since when has it been like that?
Since when did it become like this?
All of a sudden, the children, colleagues, and family that remained around the boy.
Truly, there was not a single one.
It has disappeared.
Kkeak… ….
The door to the dark room opened once again. The large room that everyone had shared before had now become the boy’s solitary room.
The boy mechanically turned his head and stood up again.
I move against my will and reach the man standing in front of the door.
-Is it a coincidence or an inevitability?
The man said.
-Or is it fate?
With the kindest smile in the world, as if you were looking at your own beloved child.
He spat out his voice through torn lips.
-You are the last one left, Dante. My son.
– … ….
The boy did not respond, nor did he make eye contact with his man.
The man didn’t think it was strange either.
Just turn your body and head outside as if it were natural.
The boy also just follows him as if it were natural.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
There is no hope for the boy.
It existed, but now it is gone. Even the hope I had was gone forever.
He had no choice but to do that when he was left alone.
Is there meaning in this life?
What purpose is there in this experiment?
The thought that suddenly comes to mind is, yes. They are just meaningless, useless, and worthless thoughts.
The boy just laughed quietly.
Do people ‘outside’ know?
Do you know what is happening here?
Even though I had not received any in-depth education, it was not difficult to see that the behavior here was not normal.
Mass production of people with special abilities? Or, giving birth to the strongest supernatural ability?
What meaning does it have when packaged in words?
It is simply a human experiment on an unprecedented scale that has been conducted for decades.
At least in the long history of the empire that the boy was indoctrinated into, such a facility has never existed.
‘hahahaha.’
Of course, it may just not have been recorded.
…… As if this space was meant to be that way.
‘Oh my God.’
The boy prayed. To someone in the sky who does not believe in its existence, does not believe in its omnipotence, and does not believe in its divinity.
‘If I have the power they desire, I will be the first to execute them.’
Even though I know it won’t come true.
Even though I don’t know that it has no meaning.
‘So.’
Nevertheless, even so.
‘…… Please give me a miracle just once, just once.’
The boy just prayed and prayed like that.
‘We will destroy their paradise and further destroy the imperial family. I will not give up until I finally erase the country called the Empire.’
Avenge yourself, avenge your dead brothers.
Based on my own shallow standards of good and evil, I will inevitably punish them.
‘Please…’ ….’
So that we can do it somehow.
Dismissal-
And.
A miracle has come.
Even if it is too late, it is a miracle when all those who were supposed to be protected have returned to dust.
*****
Beatrice was watching the whole scene.
“… ….”
I can’t stop and I can’t look away.
It cannot be stopped, and there is no way to help it.
That’s why I had to watch.
I just had to watch.
Pajik, Pajijik… ….
The moment when Dante awakens her supernatural ability and accepts her power.
Emotions accumulated over a decade, until the moment when the disappointment becomes a thunderbolt and collapses a small world.
‘Ah.’
Beatrice could not see all the scenes that followed.
The dream world shown by astrology is extremely limited.
However, the image of Dante destroying the facility imprisoning him with a burst of light and burning all the researchers with lightning…….
Perhaps a few more years had passed from that point, and a silver-haired young man who seemed to have grown even more than the Dante she knew was delivering her divine punishment to her imperial palace.
I saw it clearly with my two eyes.
I clearly intuited the future.
Even if you want to forget it, you cannot. It will be engraved in your mind for a long time.
It was such a transcendent sight.
All the buildings have disappeared, leaving only the ruins of the imperial palace.
Thunderclouds rising from there.
The absolute power that overshadowed the system struck down lightning without fail, bathing the city in darkness.
It seemed like the thunderstorms and thunderstorms would not weaken even after decades…….
There was no need to go that far.
It took less than three days for the system to be completed.
Hundreds of thousands of citizens living in the heart of the empire.
He was burned to death in such a terrible way.
Dante, who had become the incarnation of lightning himself, moved his huge body, and by that point, it was questionable whether he had any reason left in him.
It was safe to say that it was a natural phenomenon.
Like a typhoon sweeping away a shack or a seething volcano turning the sky into ash.
If the system has ended, the city around it, and if even that has been erased, the next city.
Thunderclouds that seem to be continuously searching for the next target, no, those terrible dark clouds. Before long, the continent was on fire.
In the literal sense, all life on the continent was burned…….
“… ….”
That’s true.
It was worthy of being called the scene of the apocalypse.
*****
“Heo-eok.”
Beatrice opened her eyes.
I woke up from a dream.
She violently let out the breath she had been holding for a long time, and then suddenly raised her body.
Her head is pounding. Her vision is blurry.
But that’s probably okay. It didn’t matter.
That’s not what we need to do right now.
Beatrice was buried in the one thought that was ringing in her head.
-It must be stopped.
Thunderstorms rained down for eternity, dark clouds covering the entire continent.
The imperial palace, the city, and even the continent itself are collapsing.
Beatrice’s eyes lost their light.
In no way is it normal.
…… That future should not happen. This shouldn’t happen.
I had to stop it at all costs.
Yes, even if it means eliminating the culprit in advance─.
“…… !”
Beatrice came to her senses a beat late.
Her eyes widen and she immediately covers her mouth.
‘…… Now, what am I thinking?’
Her pupils began to tremble unsteadily.
She momentarily becomes wary of her thoughts, even if it is belatedly so.
It was an inevitable flow of thought.
Beatrice had to shake off her body without realizing it.
…… She just thought, who on earth should she kill?
Why did she have to think like that?
‘What on earth is happening now…’ ….’
“Calm down.”
A voice was heard at that moment.
Beatrice suddenly turned her head.
A quite soft voice and tone that did not match her dizzy image.
She realized it a little late.
It was Jibril’s.
“…… Miss Jibril, this is.”
Beatrice let out a trembling voice while touching her forehead.
Jibril spoke to her as if he knew what she was like.
“Your body will feel strange. She’ll have impulses that she didn’t even think about, and they’ll keep talking to her in her head. Stop it, prepare for that future. Or… ….”
“… ….”
“Kill the culprit.”
Beatrice’s lips were closed in a straight line.
Her complexion had turned pale a long time ago.
However, if there was one thing that embarrassed her, it was that Jibril’s complexion was not very good either.
She had a pale complexion similar to Beatrice, no, she had a paler complexion than her.
Did he feel Beatrice’s gaze?
Soon Jibril calmly spoke to her.
“He is a master of astrology. Even though I haven’t seen it myself, showing the future to others is not an easy task.”
She seemed calm as she spoke, but Beatrice was rather embarrassed.
This is because I don’t know what she means by ‘master of astrology’.
“…… No way, that is.”
“Yes.”
Beatrice let out her saliva, and Jibril nodded her head.
She tapped her closed eyelids.
“It will take about two days. “It might be a little uncomfortable.”
“… ….”
Beatrice was silent. The expression on his face was quite sad, and beyond that, he looked quite complicated.
On the contrary, Jibril’s attitude seemed much calmer.
“Don’t mind my eyes. I’ll be back soon anyway. What’s more important than that is you. “Saint.”
She just raised her head and looked at where she expected Beatrice to be.
“This also varies from person to person, but the urge will subside after a few hours. It’s the result of being too immersed in a dream. “I can’t help it, so it’s good to be here now.”
As he said that, Jibril patted the seat next to him with his hand.
It was as if he was telling me to sit back down.
Beatrice hesitated for just a moment and she placed her hand on her forehead again, but Djibril’s voice was also quite firm.
“If you meet Dante in that state, nothing good will happen. “It’s not like you can’t guess.”
The moment she added the last word, her voice lowered slightly, and eventually Beatrice also let out a suppressed sigh.
She fell down in her place helplessly.
“…… Are you always swayed by this impulse?”
Beatrice asked her question with a slightly self-deprecating expression.
This is because it was a side effect that even she did not expect.
Although it was momentary, she tried to kill Dante. Even if it wasn’t really her will, it was inevitable that I would be disappointed in my own willpower.
Beatrice bit her lip so hard that blood leaked out.
It felt like her spirit was awakened by the fishy scent of her blood.
“Well… ….”
Jibril came back with her answer.
“It doesn’t happen often enough to say ‘every time.’ Should I say that it depends on the form of the future you see?”
After briefly reaching out her hand and fumbling around near her, she picked up a handful of the nuts from the tree she had piled up and put them one by one into her mouth.
She continued speaking with a rather detached air.
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“Dante’s case is unique. Usually the urge isn’t this severe. In the first place, there aren’t that many cases of falling deep into a dream like this…….”
“… ….”
“But you are holding up very well. The moment she first woke up from the dream, she couldn’t even maintain her senses properly. “I would hyperventilate all the time.”
With a slightly self-deprecating wry smile, Jibril pointed at Beatrice.
“It probably means that the boy’s importance in your heart is not low. You can be proud of it.”
“…… Ugh.”
Beatrice blushed briefly at Djibril’s smile, which seemed to be half teasing himself.
She tried to refute that it wasn’t anything like that, but soon she couldn’t bring herself to say anything and remained silent.
Jibril let out a small laugh at her reaction.
“…… “I say this because that’s who you are.”
And, once again, I am left speechless.
“You will have to decide for sure.”
This time, I erased my smile.
With a rather serious voice.
Her empty green eyes gently opened and looked at Beatrice.
And then I run out of words again.
“To kill Dante or not to kill him.”
“… ….”
Beatrice’s expression suddenly became scary and stiff.
Her eyes turned sharp as she glared at Jibril.