92 – Elin – 2
The assailants who created a terrible scene were glaring at me.
“If there are witnesses, they say they will kill you, but what should I do, mister?”
“It’s impossible. That barrier is magic that is said to be the best shield among protection magic. If you wait, you can break it, but people will arrive before then. It seemed like they knew we were coming from the beginning.”
“Then I can’t help it. Well, even His Highness will forgive me for this much.”
“Yes. So withdraw.”
“That’s right, you children. Let’s go back.”
But after talking to each other for a bit, they quickly jumped over a high wall and disappeared.
Only then did my stiff body finally loosen up and I was able to run to my sister.
“Sister!!!”
“L, Rin….”
Her sister’s chest was pouring her blood non-stop.
I immediately tried using healing magic, but the blood didn’t stop.
“You’re not hurt, are you?”
“Everyone, the one who got hurt was my sister. Wait a little, wait a little He, soon, heal, I will give it to you.”
“Kuhup!”
My sister vomited dark red blood.
Why don’t you stop?
You are a genius. I’m a genius
Why are you struggling with scars like this?
Stop it. Please stop.
“As expected, Elin is a genius. It’s a barrier that I made with a lot of care.”
My sister smiles slowly.
“Lastly, to, is it okay if I ask you one favor?”
“This is the last time. He-don’t say that!”
“Lay me next to you, Damian….”
“No! Uh, sister get up and go!”
“Please, Elin.”
Seeing her sister’s straight eyes, I eventually let my magic flow through her body and hugged her.
The church’s uniform, which must always be kept clean, has begun to stain red.
But now I couldn’t afford to worry about that.
“Ha ha, ha ha.”
Uncle Damian was lying on the floor with a long wound on his back.
Next to that old man, I quietly laid her sister down again.
“Is it still there?”
“Yes.”
“Sorry, do it. In the end, it failed. Even you, intervened, made it, but….”
“I didn’t let you intervene. I was interfering.”
“I see.”
“… Selene. Can I ask you one last question?”
“Yes.”
“Are you happy?”
“Of course not. With a body like this, I, who was able to meet, meet everyone, is definitely, congratulations, blessings….”
From her sister’s eyes, her life was gone.
“You heard me, Elin. Selene was happy to meet you, and you did nothing wrong. So don’t cry, don’t cry….”
The old man’s hand, which lightly stroked my hair while saying that, fell to the floor.
“Ah….”
The pure white barrier slowly collapsed.
I hate Selene’s sister.
Because the grown-ups said it would be difficult for me to win the white title because I had an older sister.
I hate her sister who can’t see her eyes properly and is told that her body is weak and incredibly amazing.
Sometimes when I get stuck, I don’t like it because it seems like I’m making a fool out of worrying about it easily.
I don’t like people who are so naive that I easily believe them even if they lie to play a joke, and smile quietly when I find out that it’s a joke.
Well, there were good points though.
First of all, her sister’s daughter, Shion, was very cute.
Her sister’s husband, Uncle Damian, sometimes secretly brings me snacks.
And Charles, her sister’s disciple, followed me very faithfully.
Auntie Hecate who visits from time to time teaches interesting things that happened outside.
Considering that it was a relationship that Selene unnie had connected, it wasn’t all bad.
That’s why he’s incredibly amazing, does his best for someone, always trusts people, and is always kind, so only good people gather around him.
I really liked Selene unnie like that.
“aaa… !!!”
★
A lot of things have happened since that day.
Once I thought I would be punished, but it never happened.
It was because Selene’s sister’s death had already been predicted.
Of course, it was only possible to know that if you had a position higher than a senior archbishop, and I was the only exception because I happened to witness the scene.
And Lady Olivia, who predicted the saintess’ death and failed to stop it, was expelled. Shortly thereafter, Lady Ender Arcana took Charles and left the Martires Church.
There is no sister Selene, no Uncle Damian, no Shion, no Charlotte, no Aunt Hecate.
Obviously I remain here, but my daily life does not return.
It felt like there was a hole in my chest.
And not too long after that, I became a priest of the Martires Church.
A life of healing and helping someone who is injured every day with his outstanding light-attribute magic talent.
It was definitely rewarding, but for some reason the emptiness in my heart was getting bigger and bigger.
“Thank you so far.”
“If you want to come back anytime, come back, Elin.”
“Yes, Priest Hedges.”
In the end, I left the Church of Martires.
I didn’t have anything in particular that I wanted to do.
I just thought that if I left the church, this emptiness would disappear.
However, I left the church, and rather lived a life like a disabled person every day.
Wake up and eat.
Indulging in self-doubt and self-injury.
I don’t like being sick, so I use magic to heal.
I am frustrated again at the fact that I do not have the courage to leave even the scars of apology.
Then, thinking that this shouldn’t be the case, I prayed for repentance.
At the end, those miserable days when you cry alone and then fall asleep.
“What am I?”
One day, looking in the mirror, I asked myself.
No answer came back.
“There’s no way someone like me is a genius. A fool who lost precious people through his own mistakes.”
I was an idiot who liked him more than anyone else, but couldn’t express it because of the feeling of useless jealousy, and only showed his anger until the end.
Rather than praise for being a genius.
Rather than the title of white.
An idiot who couldn’t even see something much more precious right in front of him.
“What am I?”
The answer did not come back.
A sense of shame that started to grow again.
“aaa!!!”
I made a magical blade and cut my eye.
“aaa!”
The pain was so terrible that I immediately used my healing magic, and just as the pain stopped and the wound started to heal, another great emptiness came over me.
“… Let’s leave it alone.”
Aren’t you an idiot who couldn’t see what he needed to see even though he had eyes anyway?
Then you won’t need eyes.
Even after that day, I continued to live with emptiness and a sense of shame.
Fortunately, the frequency of self-injury gradually decreased, but that did not mean that my mental state was normal.
Even when Mei, whom I became friends with because I happened to treat her, suddenly disappeared.
Later, when we met again after a really long time, when he taught me that the name he’s using now is Anna.
Even when Charles, whom I really wanted to see, came to me and hugged me and cried.
Because I had no idea.
Someone said it was a gentle atmosphere, as if I had been liberated.
In a way, that was the correct answer.
From a certain moment on, whenever I met someone, I was copying the Selene unnie I remember.
“Mmm.”
A letter suddenly sent by Charles.
It was a request for support, saying that the large amount of monsters that appeared on the southern front line close to Reinen lacked troops.
Of course, I wanted to refuse, but it was difficult to refuse Charles, who helped me for a long time after we met again.
Especially because it wasn’t a story about joining the front line.
In the end, I took a wagon and headed to the front line.
I met you.
★
“It’s been a long time, Zion….”
My head hurt.
Zion?
Who are you talking about?
My name is Sophia Eris.
I don’t know anyone with that name.
No, this is not the time to think about things like this.
I have to take out the claws of the monster that pierced Elin’s stomach and treat them….
“I wanted to protect it, save it with magic, save it, give it to you, but it’s been a long time, so it’s too late, and I threw it away.”
“Ellin, sir?”
“That child is precious, right? Don’t worry. I will protect, give, and give.”
At the same time, the beast that pierced Elin-sama’s stomach with its claws bounced back as if it had bumped into something.
And as soon as the toenail fell off, Elin’s stomach started to ooze a huge amount of blood, and I immediately used healing magic.
“… Why?”
But she didn’t think to stop her bleeding.
“Zion. No, now, Eun, Sophia, did you say that?”
Again, my head hurt.
And what came to my mind.
‘Take care of Shion, Hecate.’
‘Do I really have to go this far?’
‘Because this child is our hope.’
‘Can’t we just run away together?’
‘Sorry. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to, but this is what I have to do.’
‘… Okay.’
‘I’m sorry, Xion. This is all her mom can do for you. Even if the memory comes back later, please know this much. Mom and Dad, they love you so much.’
Memories of kind parents.
‘Sisters! I want to do it too!’
‘Okay, Zion. Now, here.’
‘Can I not do it?’
‘Because if I help Shion do it, it’s the same as doing it together.’
‘Sister, you are very kind.’
‘Isn’t it cool?’
‘Yes!’
The daily life that was very precious when I was young.
“Elin, older sister?”
My sister quietly smiled at my words.
“Sister? No. Sister?”
The wound does not heal even if more mana is poured out.
Why?
Blood, blood, blood.
The blood won’t stop.
“Unlike me, Eun, you grew up as a kind child, Ro. As expected, Selene’s older sister’s daughter.”
“Elin sister, wait a minute. I, I will make sure to fix it. Be patient.”
“Lastly, to, is it okay if I ask you one favor?”
“This is the last time. He-don’t say that!”
“Whoops. Healing magic is, use, do not, just, once, only. Hug me.”
The life in her eyes was slowly disappearing as she said that.
Eventually I stopped using my healing magic and slowly hugged her sister.
“Warm, do it. I wonder if my sister felt like this too.”
“Elin sister….”
“I haven’t met you in over 10 years, but you call me sister.”
Her sister’s body started to get colder.
I haven’t seen her in a long time. She is my favorite sister.
Why did this happen?
This is all because I couldn’t react to the monster’s attack….
As I was about to indulge in such a sense of shame, Elin unnie patted my head and said.
“Zion. I’m so glad I can meet you again, for you, to move, to be able to, come on. That alone is enough for me. You didn’t do anything wrong So, don’t cry….”
Then her sister’s arm fell to her floor.
“Eh, you?”
I could no longer hear the sound of breathing in my ears.
“Ellin sister?”
The light completely disappeared from her sister’s eyes.
“aaa… !!!”
Wow
It turns out that there is a plot that is quite interesting and a scene that makes me want to cry