222. Freedom
Buuung!
Thanks to the war shoes, we are soaring into the sky.
Aria, who was hanging next to Finden Eye, glanced down.
I felt awkward as I watched Professor Deius and Dante’s leader, Luanes, working together to push away the tentacles.
The two people who were thought to be absolute allies and absolute enemies joined forces to pave the way for him.
Bang! Bang!
“Ha, you shoot well?”
Findeneye grinned as he watched Deia’s shotgun provide clean cover.
I was going up on the high-rise Romuleus, but since it was practically at a right angle, the speed was not fast.
Without war shoes, it would have been impossible to even attempt to climb up.
Finden Ai seemed to know this as well, purposely stepping on Muleus and leaping, and she saved her fuel by using her war shoes slightly later.
“Kid, isn’t it getting dangerous?”
Finden Eye is sweating and speaking with heavy breathing. When she checked below, she had risen to a dizzying height, but it also meant that she had reached her peak.
“No fuel?”
“Oh, it’s going to fall slowly.”
“… ….”
Aria purses her lips. Now she only had to wait a little longer and she could reach the mouth of Romuleus.
Her method occurred to her, but she found it difficult to put it into words.
“Get ready to step on it.”
But Finden Ai, without hesitation, showed how she would sacrifice herself.
She actually thought the same way Aria did.
“…… Are you sure you don’t mind?”
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If she falls from this height, she will die, no matter how much she is a Findenai.
Of course, there were leading warlocks like Deius and Ruanes waiting for her, but even so, it was impossible for her to risk her own life and fall from this height with her normal courage.
“Hey.”
However, Finden Ai responded by raising the corners of her mouth as if it was funny.
“Do you think the owner will just watch me die?”
Faith without the slightest hesitation or wavering. An assertion that could almost be called blind.
Aria nodded her head, thinking that although she was a little envious of that, she was not pushed back either.
“Good.”
The moment Finden Eye heard her answer, she immediately took action. Grabbing her Aria, who was at her side, with both her hands, she threw it straight up.
Boo!
Aria, who rose helplessly upward through the air resistance, began to fall beneath her again.
At the same time, Aria drew up her mana and condensed it into her legs.
“It’s going to hurt a little!”
In no time, Finden Eye is hanging on Romuleus’ body as if climbing a rock wall.
Arya falls beneath her and steps on her Finden Eye’s shoulders, lowering her body like a condensed spring.
“Big!”
The Finden child endured, letting out a moan as if she was forcing herself to do so along with her exclamation.
Paang!
Aria leapt on top of her, using her as a stepping stone with a surge of her mana. Unlike Arya, who was soaring high at incredible speeds, Finden Eye was unable to withstand her impact and was falling below her.
“Hmph!”
My skin trembles due to air resistance, and strong winds blow along with the cold at high altitudes.
But I was able to hang on to it by sticking a knife into its huge mouth.
After arriving at the summit, Aria immediately checked Finden Eye. Seeing her very exposed maid being held in her master’s arms made her feel a little envious.
“Keueuung!”
Aria enters the mouth stretched out towards the sky. As I passed between her huge teeth and entered her, her numerous tentacles were extending upward in a disgusting way.
Also, in the center was Mule, who had become one with the body of Romuleus.
Her upper body was a mule, but her lower body became a tentacle and glared at her Aria.
Her “Did she come here chasing her own destiny?”
A bizarre illusion that seems to be a mixture of the voices of countless people.
Arya glares at him, holding her great sword Dua Thane tightly.
“I don’t know about that. “I’m just here to kill you.”
The tentacles extending from all sides of her looked as if they were going to attack Aria at any moment, but Mule actually smiled because she was so happy.
“That is your destiny, savior of the continent.”
“… ….”
“In the end, you came here. “To kill me for putting the continent in danger.”
“… ….”
“In the end, you cannot escape your fate.”
Mule laughs as if the sky is leaving.
But Aria was honest with him without any change in her expression, so she asked.
“I’m curious.”
I couldn’t help but wonder.
“Why are you doing this?”
A question that penetrates to the core.
A god unknown to the people named Romuleus.
“What on earth do you want that makes you so obsessed with me?”
The reason why Aria tried to return to her path as a warrior, even as she fell.
“I am placing too much importance on the person ‘I’ rather than saving the world.”
“… ….”
Mule’s mouth, which had been laughing so loudly just now, shuts tightly. For the first time, there was a look of confusion and worry in the corners of his eyes.
“I traveled to many places to save the world, and learned a lot while trying.”
Aria slowly approaches Mule.
The tentacles that were blocking her path suddenly became rigid and stopped moving.
“There are so many different reasons why humans live. “You could say that’s a kind of freedom.”
Happiness, fame, wealth, religion, anger, revenge, love, family, friends, hobbies, etc.
People live with many different goals. They could not have been a truly free race.
“The only reason demons live is pleasure. “They sacrifice their lives for the pleasure they feel, but they are infinitely indifferent to everything else.”
Some demons are for deceiving someone, some are for seeing a struggle, some are for serving oneself, and some are for satisfying hunger.
It is cited as a reason to feel satisfied and lead a life.
Then.
“What about God?”
Aria was always curious.
Even giving up his position as a god.
Until I came down to this earth with this hideous appearance.
Also in the end.
Even giving up her life to bring Aria back to her warrior path.
What does God want?
“What on earth do you want?”
Mule’s mouth was tightly shut.
Until we knew it, Romuleus had stopped howling.
He just stood firm and stood there.
“That guy… ….”
Then say one word.
Mule glares at Aria with her eyes filled with love and hate.
“Kim Shin-woo had a lot of influence on you.”
A name called with a lot of hatred in it. Aria nodded her head without hesitation.
“That’s right, the professor made me like this.”
In the past, I would have just cut it down. Instead of having a conversation, he must have been worried about the commotion that would happen under her and was busy with Mule.
Actually, that’s what Mule wanted.
“Because I am his disciple.”
Seeing Aria smiling and talking as if she was so proud of it, Mul lets out a sigh of relief.
As if her own death was truly in vain.
“God’s reason for living.”
Is that why?
Mule gives her Aria the answer she wanted.
“It’s for you.”
“…… What?”
Not at all unexpected.
Aria was taken aback by the completely unexpected answer, but Mule was calm, so she answered.
“This world exists for you.”
“… ….”
“We, the gods, have always been waiting for you, and we are moving for the preordained moment when you will save this continent.”
It was as if I had become a different person.
Like a kind of theater actor.
Take off the mask, get off the stage, and shake off the role you were immersed in.
I felt like I was having a conversation for the first time with a being called Romuleus, not a god.
“What happens after that?”
If she saves the continent herself.
Then what is there?
When asked with such a question, Mule shook her head.
“We don’t know either.”
“… ….”
“That is why we are hoping for that day. “I wonder if the day you save us will also be the day freedom comes to us.”
It was a truth filled with devastating emotions.
Why are beings called gods so desperate to reinstate themselves as warriors?
Also, I felt like I could understand why Deius Verdi, that is, Kim Shin-woo, was so hostile.
“You are the main character and the meaning of the existence of this continent.”
Main character.
Hero.
Those are words I’ve heard so many times. However, the weight of hearing from a being who was a true god was difficult to bear.
But.
“I see.”
Aria answered boldly.
“That’s too bad.”
As if he had nothing to do with it.
“Helping your mission is the reason we exist. As the owner of the continent, you must save this land.”
Did it seem like escaping reality or running away from a mission? It was Romuleus reprimanding Arya, but she shook her head.
“You fool.”
A mix of playful criticism as if it was funny.
“Where is the main character on the continent?”
“…… “Is that what you’re saying?”
At Mul’s helpless words, Aria grins, putting her duatain on her shoulder.
“I can say it because it’s me. Are you talking about the hero, the protagonist, the person who will save the continent? “I don’t care about that.”
“… ….”
“Am I special than other people?”
The person who leads the play is called the protagonist.
Others behind him are supporting characters, effectively assisting the main character.
It would be nice if this were just a play. If this applies to reality, how pathetic it would be for the supporting actors.
In the end, isn’t all of one’s actions used as seasoning for the main character?
“Then I will give up being special.”
Aria comes down from the stage.
I will more definitely abandon the name ‘Hero’.
In the end, if everyone becomes a supporting actor.
On the other hand, everyone is the main character.
It will become a salvation for all who existed only for one girl.
“… ….”
“Why? “You don’t like it?”
“What you are doing is ultimately an act of ignoring our long, long wait.”
“I guess that’s possible.”
“In the end, you are only deceiving us who have worked hard for you. All they are doing is abandoning responsibility and running away.”
“Yes, I know.”
Mana gushes out from Aria Rias’ whole body.
A huge force that has been suppressed until now. The second coming of a girl who once almost saved the world.
“So what should I do?”
It could have been different in the past.
Actually, in the original game, in the second game, Aria sacrificed herself to save the continent.
But it was different now.
I learned from a professor that that is not the true answer.
Duatein soars high.
The Sword of Gluttony, which ate up God’s alter ego and became a weapon that could cut God down just once.
“As the hero Aria, it is to end my fate.”
The huge mana surrounding the great sword rises toward the sky like a pillar.
Then Romuleus, who had been quiet until now, began to move roughly.
“This is the last salvation I can give to everyone.”
So that everyone’s value can be held in oneself, not in Aria.
“The salvation of the continent! Destruction! Are you really going to pretend not to know that?”
The mouth of the giant Romuleus begins to close. At the same time, the tentacles in his mouth rushed towards Aria.
However, Aria was confident enough to answer Mule, who was struggling and shouting.
That person will do it.
“Damn you b*tch! Our wait! Make an effort! Get ready for you! My life! “You just throw everything on the ground!”
“Freedom for all.”
Let the warrior truly come down from the stage with the falling light.
This continent, which was tied to a girl named Aria Rias, has lost its purpose.
This meant freedom.