196 – EP.34 The Forgotten Past-10
After spending a wonderful time in the eye of the typhoon, Lumadia and I returned to the village.
I was worried that the typhoon might cause great damage to the village while we were gone.
Fortunately, perhaps the trajectory of the typhoon changed midway, let alone damage to the village, even the wind calmed down considerably.
Though the wind is still blowing.
“In a little while, the typhoon will pass completely, right?”
“Maybe.”
“I hope it passes quickly.”
“Does Master hate typhoons that much?”
“It’s not that I hate typhoons, I just want to play outside with Lumadia! When a typhoon comes, you can’t play outside.”
You can’t go outside while a typhoon is coming.
However, if the typhoon disappears and the sun shines again and the weather becomes hot and humid, then there is no problem playing outdoors.
Perhaps you are waiting for that day to come.
“I see, Master, what do you want to play with me?”
“First of all, play in the water and eat cool watermelon! At night, I’m thinking of setting up a fireworks display with firecrackers sold at the local supermarket!”
Ruma Dia started to let out an easygoing laugh as the young me clenched her fists in her hands and let out a voice filled with anticipation.
I could tell that I was smiling because I felt cute in my youthful appearance like Tia.
However, I protested against her sticking out her mouth, as if she had accepted the feeling that her own plan had been ignored.
“Luma Dia is saying she doesn’t want to play with me right now?”
“Ahahahaha! It’s not like that, but the excited owner’s face is so cute…… Ahahahahaha!!”
“Ugh… !”
It’s embarrassing, but it’s true that he was really excited, so he just grumbled without any objection.
At the time that time passed and Rumadia’s laughter died down. Suddenly, Luma Dia softly hugged my body.
“I like it too. I am happy that precious memories with the owner continue to accumulate. So let’s spend our daily lives together happily like this.”
“Yes!”
A sight that made even me, who was watching it, feel happy.
But suddenly, I thought of Miho, who was my first pet, and I wondered if there would ever be a future where the two of us could live happily together.
Still, I wondered what would happen if Rumadia and Miho met each other.
It was a harmony between the naturally virtuous Ruma Dia and the jealous Miho, her breasts were already magnificent.
“Ah….”
“Why is that?”
As I was imagining the future for a long time, Ruma Dia, who was walking in front of me, suddenly stopped in her place.
When I looked at Rumadia wondering what was going on, her smirking smile was gone, and there was a stiff expression in its place.
In addition to that, she opened her mouth like a machine, breaking down her cold sweat.
“…… Master, step back.”
“Uh uh… ?”
Rumadia quickly blocks my path with the palm of my hand and pushes me back.
On the other hand, I couldn’t understand why she suddenly did this in the past.
Now I have noticed what caused the sudden change in Lumadia.
There is only one existence that can make Lumadia tense at this point.
“Master, leave this place immediately.”
“Eh, why?”
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I have time to explain why in detail. So come on!”
However, my feet did not come off easily because of the unusual aspect of Rumadia.
Rather, standing in place, I also turned my head to see where Rumadia’s gaze was heading.
A small black figure that can be seen beyond the line of sight. He moved slightly and quickly closed the distance towards us.
As we got closer and closer, the identity of the black figure was revealed. It was a man wearing a black suit with a skinny body.
“Formerly a bat, this time a human. The way they live here and there really is no different from a bat.”
“Aseus…… !”
A man who picks up Lumadia as soon as he arrives in front of us and sarcastic.
He is about 180 cm tall, has sharp eyes and a stern impression, which is scary.
With that appearance and even a black suit, he looked like a mobster from a movie.
In fact, looking at his words and actions, he was a bastard who could not be found even after washing his eyes, but there was a reason for his attitude.
‘…… God.’
The appearance is definitely human, but the heterogeneous energy felt in him tells us that he is absolutely not human.
A creature with a different rank. In fact, his gaze, looking at me as if I were an insignificant being behind Rumadia, made my body stiff.
“You are amazing too. After having such an accident, he ran away from us with a life-and-death plan, and now he will cling to humans… ? It’s been a year where I can’t really talk.”
“How did you know I was here?”
“Ah, that’s it. I was about to give up, saying that it would be difficult to find it anymore because it was the time when the typhoon hit. Then, just in time, I saw you flying around in a typhoon? With the human behind you now in your arms.”
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Looking at Shinsoo’s grinning face with a grim face, disgust began to well up.
However, as an ordinary human being, I had neither the courage nor the ability to face him.
I couldn’t do anything except hide behind Rumadia and hold onto the ends of her clothes.
“To be honest, I was surprised. That you, who had been abandoned by everyone, lost consciousness and found a new relationship.”
“Shut that mouth.”
“Ah, was it like Ruthven that you injected your blood into that human and made him follow you like a stallion?”
“My relationship with my master is not that dirty. Don’t speak carelessly!”
“Well, if it were a simple stallion, wouldn’t it have signed a contract with that human as a companion? Congratulations. Wouldn’t it be nice to break one more taboo and start a new family?”
Knap-!
I also clench my teeth and frown at his attitude of constantly taunting and provoking Rumadia.
If my body were here, I might have slapped him in the face once instead of Rumadia.
It was regret that I had to just watch the situation.
“Come to think of it, there is one more thing to congratulate. Congratulations, you became the companion of an abandoned b*tch, so you can’t die gracefully either.”
“Aseus!!”
At the attitude of the man who was even sarcastic towards me, Rumadia finally couldn’t control her anger.
Ruma Dia clenched her fists and, without delay, slammed into his face.
Kwaang-!
An impact sound that cannot be produced by human fists resonates everywhere.
A striking sound that can come out because the hitter is a divine beast.
If I had been hit, it was expected that the divine beast called Aseus would not be safe as it was so powerful that its head would fall off.
“Have you forgotten already? That you didn’t scratch me the last time we fought in the woods?”
“It’s great… !”
Contrary to expectations, however, Aseus was fine even after being hit by his fist, and Ruma Dia’s fist was red.
This means that Lumadia cannot defeat him in a simple physical fight.
You had to fight using weapons or abilities.
“It’s a waste of time, so I’ll stop chatting here and now I’ll tell you from the perspective of an executor. Lumadia, the divine beast that caused the extinction of 25 species of animals and disturbed the ecosystem. Now stop admitting your sins and accepting death.”
“What if you don’t like it?”
“If you can run away with that weak human, try it. Even if you manage to escape somehow, will that human child be safe? I intend to persistently target only that relatively weak fellow.”
“You mean bastard… !”
“If you don’t like that, come into this containment dimension I created. In that case, he will spare that human.”
A black darkness covers the space behind Aseus.
At the same time, distortion occurred in the jet-black space, and a completely distorted space was created.
An ominous space that sucks in and swallows surrounding objects little by little.
My instincts were screaming madly that if I went inside, it would be over.
“…… Saying that I won’t touch as much as the owner if I go inside. Can you keep it?”
“Lu, Lumadia… ?”
“Of course. Originally, the divine beast’s companion would also be subject to disposal, but if I use my ability, I can make the companion’s contract a thing that never existed.”
“Yes….”
Rumadia smiles as she loosens her clenched fists.
I shook my head as if I was holding on to that Rumadia, telling me not to do that.
“Rumadia. Oh no? Don’t you want to go there? You can’t go there… ! Dangerous! Dangerous!”
“Master… ….”
“I’ll give you three minutes. In the meantime, should you splendidly decorate your final moments?”
The words and actions of Aseus that keep making you angry.
But now it was urgent to stop Rumadia from sacrificing herself in my place.
“I’m sorry. I’m weak, so I don’t think I’ll be able to protect you except this way.”
“No! It’s not because Rumadia is weak! I… ! I… ! It has become a burden of Rumadia! So run away! I’ll stop him instead of Rumadia, so please run away… !!”
My little hand that trembles but doesn’t let go of Rumadia.
She couldn’t let Ruma Dia go, so she begged her and told her to run away.
Soon, Rumadia crouched down, made eye contact with me, and gently hugged my body.
Rumadia’s embrace was still very warm. However, her warmth only brought tears to my eyes.
“Master, if you don’t mind, can you close your eyes one more time?”
“No… ! If you close your eyes, you’ll leave, right? You’re leaving and never coming back!”
“Not really. Where am I going to leave Master?”
“Really… ?”
“Of course not!”
In the past, I didn’t believe in Lumadia once.
If you believed in Ruma Dia and stayed quietly in her house, the current situation might not have happened.
However, he abandoned his trust in Ruma Dia because he was worried about her.
So this time, I closed my eyes tightly in her heart to believe in her as much as she is now.
“Thank you. For trusting me…….”
A moist and warm feeling on the forehead.
I could tell that it was Rumadia’s lips. Because he too was kissed indiscriminately by her because she was cute.
“And as I said before, I was really happy to meet you, Master. It was a short time, but it was more fun, brilliant, and happy than any other moment. Finally… ….”
The feeling of touch on the forehead has disappeared.
As more tears were about to flow out of regret, this time I felt the same texture on my lips.
“Ah… !”
No, it’s different. There was clearly a different texture than before.
The moistness was still the same, but the warmth was quite different, so it was closer to hot.
Above all, it was accompanied by pain as if stabbed by an awl.
Nevertheless, I persevered.
If you can’t part with Rumadia because of this pain, you can endure the pain.
Thought so, I waited for Rumadia’s last words.
“I’m sorry. I love you more and more, and I always wanted to be with you! I’m really sorry I couldn’t… !”
At those words, the warmth that had enveloped my body just a moment ago disappeared in an instant.
Feels like hallucinating. When I hurriedly opened my eyes, Rumadia was walking into the distorted space in the distance.
“Ah… ! No!!”
I also ran after her, even if it was late, but there was someone blocking my way.
A divine beast in a black suit. It was Aseus who was trying to separate me from Rumadia.
“I’m sorry, but you are off limits. Let’s go back quickly.”
“Get out of the way!”
“Hey! I thought he was a coward, but he was a pretty bold guy, right? But, at least you have to know your fountain and play around.”
This was the moment Aseus reached out to me.
I just reached out, and the fear of death, greater than the fear of falling from a hill, flowed into my body.
Just like that, I fell backwards and my whole body trembled to the limit.
“The boys are scared… ….”
Until the end, Aseus’ sneer did not stop, and he also entered the distorted space that entered Rumadia.
The me of the past who was still trembling in fear even after the two disappeared right in front of my eyes.
I realized that I was such a helpless being, and my body trembled.
However, even for a short while, a new fear, worse than death, invaded my body.
The fear of losing someone dear to you. The fear of losing my one and only precious existence that I had barely found made my body move.
A newfound fear made me slap my cheek with my hand.
I was frowning at the bitter pain, but I didn’t tremble anymore.
The body that regained freedom ran toward the distorted space again, and tried to enter the distorted space without hesitation.
“Ugh!”
However, the distorted space pushed my body away as if it would not allow any further entry.
Even so, I couldn’t give up on Lumadia and kept running at it, but the distorted space continued to reject me as if it were surrounded by a transparent membrane.
“How come… ! Why… ! Why can’t I go in… ! Why did you leave without listening to me… !!”
Koo-ung! Coo-! Coo-!
I slammed down the transparent membrane with my fist. He begged me like crazy to let me in.
“Rumadia… ! Rumadia… ! Rumadia… !”
The skin was torn. Blood came out. The bones complained of pain.
But I didn’t stop punching.
“Rumadia… ! Rumadia… ! Rumadia… !!”
I just wanted to say one thing.
I wanted to honestly convey my feelings before Rumadia left.
I couldn’t say a simple word like that, saying that I felt the same way.
“Rumadia! Rumadia! Rumadia! Rumadia! Rumadia!!”
It hurts.
My hands hurt, but my heart hurt more than that.
Why am I so stupid?
Why am I so helpless?
Why do I have to let her go?
“Rumadia! Rumadia! Luma… D… ah… ?”
At that moment, something inside me started to disappear.
It gnawed away at my brain, slowly erasing my precious memories.
I didn’t want to lose. I never wanted to lose
No, I shouldn’t have lost it.
“No… ! No… ! No! No! No!! Give it back! Give it back! Give it back!!”
I put more power into my fist.
It didn’t matter even if my hand was broken, even if I couldn’t use it again.
I just knocked, thinking that I should return something precious before I lose it.
“Ah… ! Ah… ! aaa!!”
[The appearance of a precious person, the tone of a precious person, the warmth of a precious person, memories with a precious person.
Everything disappears, everything scatters like the wind.
In the end, all I had left was dried up tears and an empty heart.]
***
When I finished reminiscing about the past and opened my eyes again, I was in the woods.
This time, the forest was unfamiliar to me.
Why did I wake up in a place like this?
I don’t know. I didn’t even want to know.
Maybe he brought me here to soothe his wounded heart after seeing me.
‘All useless.’
Even if my heart is healed, there will be no such thing as the return of Lumadia.
Just as I was about to hang my head at that thought, I was lifted up by the only familiar being.
A pale pink bat. Such bats were not common in the world.
‘Rumadia… ?’
I’m sure. If my eyes weren’t broken, she would have been beaten.
I don’t know why she appeared in front of me, but I wanted to run and hug her right now.
But this time, too, my body did not move according to my will.
“Are you sure you want to leave?”
In addition to that, I was speaking my way.
But the voice coming out of my throat was someone else’s, not mine.
It’s a voice I’ve gotten used to as I’ve heard it a lot.
‘Eref?’
[Yes, these are my memories.]
‘…… Aren’t the flashbacks over?’
[It’s over. I’m just showing one more past by my whim.]
‘Then the Rumadia in front of me now… ….’
[She is the girl before she met you, before she committed her sins.]
In the end, it wasn’t the Lumadia I knew.
Rumadia was a complete stranger. Is it worth seeing her now?
I wanted to turn her head away because I thought the open wound would get worse.
‘Why are you showing me your past?’
[Because I was sorry. If it hadn’t been for my intervention, you would have lived happily with various pets.]
‘So you want to make me suffer more as an apology?”
[I don’t have any thoughts like that. I just want to show you this past.]
‘…… You know the pain I get when I see Lumadia now.’
[Sorry, but I hope you will watch it.]
‘Haa… ! It’s okay.
[Thank you for reconsider. And there is one more thing I want to tell you.]
‘What is it?’
[No matter what happens, never let go of hope.]
After those words, communication with Eref suddenly cut off.
I didn’t like the fact that he left after saying what he said.
Still, it was his earnest request, so I wanted to look at the present flashback.
“Wouldn’t it be better to stay a while longer?”
“No. I’m leaving now. You told me that somewhere in the world there is the only mate who will understand and accept me!”
“That’s true, but I don’t know if your mate is still alive. So there is no need to leave so quickly.”
“Certainly it could be. Even so, I’m leaving now. Because I want to meet my master as soon as possible!”
Rumadia turned her back and began flapping her wings.
Seeing her getting ready to leave her to me just like that day, her heart ached.
Her desire to see her just a little bit more, a little bit more time seeped into her.
Even if this isn’t my memory.
“Master… ? Why, master?”
“Are you the only one who will live with me?”
Rumadia ascends to the sky.
I wanted to see her face at least one more time in the past when I was leaving Lumadia again.
I wanted to capture her in my eyes one last time.
‘Of course, I should call you master in the sense that I dedicate my body and soul!”
“I see….”
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Lumadia is getting farther and farther away.
It’s bittersweet, but it must be time to let her go.
That was the time when I thought so.
Her flying well, she turned her head to me and smiled.
“If one day I meet the master I will love for the rest of my life, then I will come to show off!”
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Lumadia’s last smile was dazzling.
It was so dazzling that hot tears began to flow from my eyes.
After the last flashback, I cried endlessly in a space where only darkness remained.
I cried and cried and cried until my tear glands dried up.
Then I lifted my lowered head and looked up.
‘…… Eref.’
[Yes.]
‘You really are a piece of trash….’
[Sorry.]
He showed me these memories and reminded me of the pain of that day.
How can he not be lamentable, how can he not be resentful?
Therefore, there was something I really wanted to say to him.
‘Thank you. For giving back my precious memories…… !’
I wanted to speak my mind honestly this time.