221. A Hazy Relationship (6)
“······Eugene.”
Thud.
Mijung grabbed my wrist roughly.
She squeezed it so tightly as if she was going to break it.
And her pupils were shaking.
Her anxious expression was obvious.
I knew right away what Mijung wanted to say.
“······No mask. Come back.”
This area is a space completely dominated by Yerina.
All the magic power and mana are in Yerina’s hands.
If we use up all the magic power and mana we gathered from outside in advance, it means we won’t be able to use them anymore.
And right now, we need to gather all the remaining magic power in Mijung’s and my body to barely cross the space once.
It’s a one-way trip.
In other words, once we cross over, we won’t be able to come back on our own.
“······Is your life that important?”
Mijung asked, looking straight at me.
Maybe it’s because she’s already experienced the danger of being annihilated in the void once, but her eyes were full of fear.
At that time, I had to jump in to survive.
But this time it’s different.
We can live if we don’t jump in.
As time passes, the magic power that was in Yerina’s hands will gradually become free.
The frozen walls will melt and we’ll be able to go outside again.
But what about Yerina?
“Is Yerina that important to you?”
“······.”
Yerina didn’t enter the inner world on her own this time.
She was dragged in because she couldn’t control her power.
So, let alone controlling that world, she can’t even guarantee her own survival.
It means that it will become more dangerous as time passes.
We have to get her out no matter what.
We have no choice but to pray that Yerina’s inner world is full of magic power or mana, or to borrow Yerina’s power to recharge our mana and escape.
Isn’t that too reckless?
Yes.
It’s uncertain whether we’ll be able to escape or not, but······.
When was it ever a certain situation?
I’m getting used to it now.
“It’s important. It’s so important that I’d rather die than live in a world without Yerina.”
“······.”
There’s no hesitation.
If I had been scared and backed down here, I wouldn’t have come this far.
It’s a journey I started because I thought a life without being able to return to their arms was meaningless.
If I’ve started to be so greedy, I should be greedy to the end.
I can’t let go of even one of them.
There can be no compromise.
“······Hng. Okay. Then, we should hurry.”
Then, Mijung smiled and clasped her hands together.
The anxiety in her eyes had disappeared without a trace.
All that remained was boundless trust and faith in me.
It seems like she was worried about me······.
But once I made my decision, she followed me without any hesitation.
Where I go, Mijung is there.
Where Mijung is, I go.
As we were soulmates who had agreed to die together, we had reached a point where we could understand each other’s thoughts without even speaking.
“······If she’s precious to Eugene, she’s precious to me too.””Thank you.”
“······Thank you, what is it.”
Crack!
The rough magic gathered at my fingertips cut through the cold air.
A large crack suddenly appeared where Yerina had been.
We stepped inside as we always did.
“Huh?”
“······Huh?”
A stupid sound came out of Miso’s and my mouths at the same time.
A cool breeze blew out from inside the crack.
Suddenly, as if our whole bodies were being held, a strong force was applied and we were instantly sucked inside.
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“Huh······. Ah, huh?”
A hill with a clear view of the Allied headquarters.
The mouth of an unknown person lying there and secretly scouting slowly opened.
It had been 30 minutes since the old man and the girl bloodsucker had transferred inside.
I thought they were doing well because they were so quiet.
At some point, frost began to form on the residential area inside the headquarters.
People evacuated in droves.
Soon, the building was completely frozen, turning into an ice palace.
However, the change did not stop there.
“Why is that······?”
Cold air rose above the building and created a gust of wind.
The cold wind, which had intensified like a tornado, suddenly froze.
It solidified into a giant pillar of ice.
It rose tens of meters above the sky, just like that.
It looked like a giant ice spear was aimed at the sky.
It was obvious who the culprit was, as clear as day, no, as clear as ice.
“Hurry up and get out of there, old man!!!”
Myeong shouted out loud.
The old man had done something.
Something very serious······.
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I have lived my whole life without knowing what it means to be cold.
Of course, I know that when the temperature drops, body temperature drops and people die.
But that’s just something I know from knowledge.
I have never felt ‘cold’ even once.
Well, ice and frost are always on my side.
As a lonely wolf of Frost, I was destined to be the monarch who rules the cold.
But why······.
Now, I’m cold.
I’m so cold.
My teeth are chattering.
My body is shivering uncontrollably.
Every time I open my mouth, the inside of my mouth sticks together and I taste blood in my throat.
My bones ache.
It feels like a strong grudge is seeping in as if to kill me.
Ah. This is what it means to be cold······.
“Ah······.”
I came to my senses and my vision became clear.
I was surrounded by ice.
It’s ice that is more familiar than people.
However, this transparent ice that covers me and makes me shiver does not move no matter how hard I try.
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This was the first time this had happened.
I can’t handle ice······?
Me, who has been the ruler of frost since I was born?
I rolled my eyes in confusion and gasped.
This is definitely the Allied headquarters······.
It looks like I’m looking down on the headquarters from above.And everything below is frozen solid.
Buildings and people, without exception······.
Some froze as they tried to escape.
Others were frozen in an embrace.
There were hundreds of people huddled together at the door, begging to be let in, frozen in place.
“Oh, no······.”
I see familiar faces among them.
Their eyes are lifeless and empty.
They’re dead.
They’re all dead.
Just a moment ago, they were laughing and talking, full of life.
Because of me, they’re all······.
Because I couldn’t control my rampage······.
“No······!”
Tears stream down my face.
But they too will soon freeze solid.
The pillar of ice grows larger.
It chills the surroundings even more.
The ice kingdom doesn’t stop at engulfing the Union headquarters, it continues to spread.
Endlessly.
No. Maybe there is an end.
If it engulfs and freezes the entire world, that would be the end.
“Oh, oh my······ I didn’t want this······!”
My tears and lamentations don’t stop.
The rampage rages on, with no end in sight.
Now that I’ve lost everything I held dear.
I can’t find a reason, a motive, a means, or a way to stop this rampage.
I can only freeze.
I can only do what I do best.
Like me, who knows nothing but how to freeze, destroy, and break precious things······!
In retrospect, it was a matter of time.
The Vast Expanse Method.
It gave me a lot of extra time, but I knew I couldn’t avoid this day.
From the day I first met Eugene, the timer started ticking down to today.
From birth, humans like me are a race destined to be monarchs.
We are born to trample on others and rule them.
Whenever I heard my father say that, I would laugh out loud.
I would ask him where in the world such humans existed.
I could make friends just like anyone else.
I could have a normal romance.
I believed that so strongly.
And I tried to prove it.
But as time went on, I only came to see that my father was right.
My relationships always twisted in strange directions.
Every time, they twisted in a way I didn’t want, and there was no going back.
At first, I thought it was just because I wasn’t trying hard enough.
I thought it was because of the difference in our social status.
I told myself it was because of prejudice and preconceptions, and I tried to live like a normal······ ordinary person.
It was only later that I came to understand what my father meant.
I was born with a unique talent called ‘madness’.
Thanks to it, I have a stronger body and an unyielding will than anyone else.
But as a result, I can’t build relationships with people.
I instinctively avoid relationships of equals.
I always have to put the other person under my feet in some way.
Only then do I feel at ease, and every time I find myself like that, I feel disgusted and like I’m going crazy.
That’s why I gave up on romance a long time ago.
My heart aches just from the collapse of my shallow friendships.If I were to hurt my beloved, I felt like I wouldn’t be able to bear the pain.
-I, Yerina Frost, will marry a man stronger than me.
So I decided to marry the country.
By killing my heart.
By killing the individual named Yerina Frost.
I decided to live only as the Frost Monarch leading Palana.
I realized that I was a seed born for that purpose.
And I was designed to perform only that role.
Because I learned that if I took a different path, I would always end up hurting someone, and in turn, I would get hurt······.
I definitely decided to do that.
I decided to close my heart.
I never imagined that a crazy bastard would come and break this lock.
“What······?”
Is it because of my mood?
Far away.
In my kingdom where everything was frozen, something seemed to be moving.
I was about to turn my gaze away, thinking it was an illusion.
At that moment, it approached me, relentlessly pushing through the high snow.
A strong man and a small girl······.
My eyes gradually widened at the silhouette revealed on the snowfield.
Someone who shouldn’t be here······
Someone who should have been dead for a long time appeared.