240. Dimensional Rift (7)
“I will stay by your side… I will stay by your side. I will be your companion. Huh… I won’t say anything bad. So, so ah… Ughhh. Please send Schluse back to the original world. Please… This is it.”
“·······.”
Yulia was doing her best to speak as clearly as possible as her tears dripped down her cheeks.
The pretty nightgown, which was supposed to be white, was already muddy and stained with blood.
Even so, Yulia wrapped her arms around the schluss who was struggling to breathe with her chest sunk.
“Ah… Ah…”
Schlus Heinkel’s pupils shook.
Only then did he realize.
To Yulia, he knew that he was nothing more than a villain.
The fact that he couldn’t win Yulia’s heart just because he was alone in a world without anything.
Of course, no matter what Yulia says, she will agree with her and smile.
But that’s all acting.
Her act to return the ‘Chulus’ she really loves to the original world.
To Julia, I am not the real Schluss Heinkel.
Because he’s just a villain who tried to kill the real Schluse Heinkel.
“Damn it…”
Even if she got the companion she wanted so much, what would it mean if that woman, especially a woman with the face of an ex-lover, lived hating me for the rest of her life?
Maybe it will be more painful days than alone.
Every time she discovers the forcedness hidden in her smile, every time she finds the tone of her acting, it will pain her heart to tear.
I did a very stupid thing.
The long period of solitude had completely erred in judgment.
Schluss Heinkel extended his right hand in acknowledgment.
Then a bottle of elixir appeared out of thin air and was placed in his hand.
It was a bottle made by gathering the continents drop by drop for nearly 100,000 years.
Schluss Heinkel opened the cap of the bottle and spilled it into Schluss’s mouth.
Then secretly splashed a drop towards Yulia.
Then Yulia’s elbows and knees healed as if they had been washed in an instant.
“Cool! Cool! Cool!”
Soon after, Schlust’s severed breastbone snapped right back up, and he stood up with a strange cough.
Respiration normalized.
Schluss immediately hugged Yulia and placed her behind her, and was extremely wary.
“Calm down. I have no intention of hurting you anymore.”
“Does it really look like it? After all, if I can’t kill you, I can’t go back-“
“I’ll send them back. Both of you.”
“What are the conditions?”
“No. Just go.”
“·······.”
Schlus was a bit surprised at the completely changed attitude compared to the day before.
Schluss Heinkel in this world, who looked like an excited child when I first saw him, was depressed as if he had lost everything before he knew it.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m sorry… Are you sympathizing with me now? Why do you want me to stay here and talk to you?”
“It’s not like that.”
“Then hurry up. Before I change my mind. You won’t have to go back and see the ending.”
Looking at the smile of the omnipotent Transcendentalist, Schluss felt a little pity for him.
A man left alone in a world with nothing.
He lost all his precious people and failed to achieve his goal of seeing the ending of the novel, the last challenge of his life.
Now, there is no way to escape, and there is no choice but to live forever alone in solitude.
However, it was entirely his responsibility.
It was all the result of his mistakes and choices.
When I realized that this wasn’t just someone else’s business, I felt like my whole body suddenly felt chilly.
“Isn’t there such a thing as dimensional coordinates? Any way to connect directly to your world…”
“I don’t know.”
“Oh, I don’t know either. If you open it, you guys will find it yourself.”
“I will.”
I remembered the road anyway.
You won’t miss it when you go back.
Schlus Heinkel held hands with himself and shook hands.
Then he grabbed Yulia’s hand and tried to kiss the back of it-
“Tsk.”
I let go because I was afraid that regrets would remain.
Then, he thrust his hand into the air and began to split space and time.
A tremendous amount of power was leaking out of his body even at the slightest gap.
“Get out quickly!!!”
A purple rift finally burst open, widening the gap.
Even while he was holding it, his powers were dissipating like crazy.
Perhaps noticing that time was running out, Schluss didn’t hesitate and jumped into it with Yulia in his arms.
Kung·······!
“Haaa…”
After the two disappeared, the gap immediately closed.
The air in front of my eyes was completely closed, as if it had been emitting a hideous light.
Schlus Heinkel, who was thrown back and took a deep breath, looked at his hand.
His hands were shaking.
“Ha······ Ha ha······.”
I no longer felt the omnipotent power.
He could sense it right away.
That he had returned to a normal human body.
The only difference between him and other humans was that he never aged or died.
“How to grow grapes now.”
There are vineyards all over the land that used to be a kingdom.
Now I was at a loss as to how to harvest all of it with this feeble human power, and how to make wine again.
“It was quite enjoyable…”
In 100,000 years, it has never been as enjoyable as the last 24 hours.
Although all of the ugly things have been shown, even that will always be a memory to look back on.
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When I feel lonely, I will unfold today’s memories as if I were looking for an album.
Schlus Heinkel stood up with a bitter smile-
“·······?”
He noticed something glowing in the distance.
I wondered and walked there, where there was a huge tree root.
Between the roots of the trees, there was a gap that one person could barely fit.
Looking through the gap, Schluss found a piece of paper that glowed in the sunlight.
It wasn’t paper from this world.
Schlus Heinkel picked it up as if possessed.
Inside it was written in pretty handwriting.
-Schlus Heinkel. If you are reading this letter, we must have safely returned to our original world. First of all, I want to say thank you very much. The Schluss next to me now says that I can only go back if I defeat you, but I believe there must be another way. Even in a different world, you are Schluss Heinkel. I believe in your kindness…
“Ha.”
I couldn’t bear to read it all at once, so I turned the letter over.
Schluss Heinkel fell on his knees and wept endlessly.
Everything I wanted to hear was contained in this.
Even the letters were still packed to the back, so there was still a lot left to read.
Let’s read slowly.
One line every ten thousand years.
Schlus Heinkel made that promise.
***
The 72nd hour of the disappearance of Schluss Heinkel.
The wagon arriving at the island came to a rough stop.
The green-haired girl in the sheer silk, who jumped in, exhaled her breath.
“It’s been a while.”
A beast tribe girl wearing armor.
She was greeted by Fellain, the leader of her holy knights.
After a light greeting, the two started walking down the street side by side.
“First of all, thank you so much for responding to my call. It’s relieved to have someone like Trier come to the system at a time when the empire is in chaos inside and out.”
“Yes······.”
I didn’t come here to protect the system, but I decided to put it that way for now.
She heard the news that Schluse had disappeared while she was focusing on training, so she rushed to her.
The training started to protect him, so it would be meaningless if he disappeared.
“Over there…”
“Yes. Lichtenburg House.”
The Lichtenburg Mansion is under construction as the walls have collapsed.
Looking at this, Trie felt a tickle deep in her chest.
Suddenly wrapped in purple light and disappeared.
It was hard to believe at the time.
How could such a thing happen…?
Feeling a tingling sensation inside, Trier turned her head to look at Fellain.
She had a rather calm and serene expression on her face.
“Aren’t you sad?”
“It’s sad. If you want to express that much, you won’t be able to find the words to express it, but it’s very, very sad. But I have a mission that Master Schluss has given me. I’m just doing my best to keep it.”
“I’m sorry. I asked this question…”
“No.”
Realizing that she had just asked a rude question, Trier lowered her head.
Missing her friends.
I wanted to see Einz, Erika, and Iris.
I wonder if they at least have a clue about the possibility of Schluse’s return.
Since they knew secrets that even the imperial family didn’t know, I hoped that Schluss might have told them secretly before leaving.
And that was the moment she was about to head for the Imperial University.
Koo-gu-gu-gu······!
“What?”
A blast sound came from far away.
Trier and Fellain’s eyes widened as they instinctively looked in that direction.
A purple flash was emanating from the collapsed part of the Lichtenburg Mansion.
“Schlus······.”
Before I knew it, Tree was running frantically toward her mansion.
She chased after Trier, who was speeding away at the speed of sound, and Fella also ran.
“Haaa…”
She hit the bars and looked inside her.
Before she knew it, her purple cracks gradually got smaller and she disappeared in an instant.
What appeared instead was-
“Ha ha… I knew you would come back…”
A man holding a little girl.
Schluss Heinkel was half broken and stood in a room where her insides could be seen.