714 – 8. Last Words (88)
The blank-faced woman was silent for a while.
She left behind the lips that were pressed together and the light green eyes that flickered in despair. She takes one step, and as she takes another step, the reality she had forgotten finally knocks on her body.
In the unconscious, the body is a reflection of the mind.
The wounds of her body, which had been broken, broken, and shattered countless times, remained as scars in her consciousness. Of course, there was no way the body was fine. Aren’t the joints that creak every time she takes a step proving this?
Still, I thought it was fortunate.
Because my body was still moving.
It was enough to have the strength left to struggle.
How many steps did you walk like that?
“I did something stupid…… !”
A sudden criticism penetrates my eardrums.
The epicenter was behind my back, and when I glanced around, I saw a woman standing there, standing upright and trembling.
“It’s impossible for you!”
There was no need to hear any more.
I have heard this countless times, and it is a fact that I myself know very well.
So my sight is facing forward again.
“You still don’t know?! That man, without the constraints of probability, is almost like a ‘god’… “You know best!”
One step.
“Make a ‘contract’ with me, Ian Perkus!”
Another step.
“The only answer is right in front of you! I, I am only for that possibility…… !”
“You mean.”
While moving forward silently, I said something that suddenly occurred to me.
“Have you never trusted anyone?”
This is a question I also heard once.
The woman’s face distorted as she could not guess what it meant. The gazes of me and the woman, standing tall, are intertwined in the air.
“Because it is unreliable, you cannot feel at ease unless there is at least a safety device such as a ‘transaction’ or ‘contract’.”
The woman still said nothing.
He’s just staring at me with heated eyes.
Is the emotion stirring within it anger or disappointment? It was an unknown problem to me. I turned my head again and decided to say one last word.
“I don’t do that.”
A reassuring farewell without any regrets.
Nevertheless, the woman was silent for a while, chewing her lips. Perhaps it was because my resolve was unexpectedly strong.
It was only when I was rummaging through my chest and looking for the jet-black stick that the woman’s lips softened and she spoke her words.
“How?”
The woman’s tone was full of confusion as her spirit was down.
Confidence looks like a solid rock, but when rainwater seeps into the cracks, it is bound to crack. Like a woman who can’t hide her confusion right now.
“How can you be so sure?”
“Hmm,” She swallowed and lowered her head.
As I closed my eyes and delved into her past, there was a conversation that eventually emerged from the other side of my subconscious.
The final message given by those who were bleeding, breathing hard, and dying.
‘Save the world.’
At first she thought she was terrible.
I feel burdened and want to throw it away right away. It was too much of a burden for me and I couldn’t bear it. Haven’t there been countless times when I collapsed under the weight?
Seria left.
Celine became an enemy, and Leto died.
It was a clear act of immorality. The end of a man who was weighed down by his mission and could only see what was in front of him.
I blamed fate and wandered. There was a me who insisted that the ‘me’ who came from the future was not right, but deep inside I accepted that it was right.
Because I didn’t want to lose any more.
I didn’t want to lose it anymore, but the memory of losing it left such a deep scar.
But now I know.
The fact that it was never a curse to give up and compromise.
Reynold’s will came to mind.
Don’t run away, don’t be a coward.
Advice from an adult who believed I would not do that.
“Because I promised.”
It was natural, but the woman did not seem satisfied with my simple answer.
On the contrary, it only heightened its vigilance like a cat raising its fur.
“Promises can’t change anything.”
Huh, a smile escaped my lips. It was the exact rebuttal I had imagined, and then I suddenly realized it.
Why did the man and the woman become attracted to each other?
It was probably because the two were too similar.
I remembered Ned’s will.
Promises can’t change anything?
“That can’t be possible.”
“No, that’s right. “Promises can’t change anything.”
Despite her simple denial, the woman seemed to have no intention of bending her will.
“I have seen countless times from the bottom of the world… Betrayal, lies, hypocrisy! In the face of reality, covenants are meaningless. So, make a ‘contract’ with me…… !”
“So you didn’t believe it?”
And silence.
The woman’s eyebrows narrowed slightly as she did not understand what I meant. Without even looking at her, I continued to add to her words.
“The ‘man’ you were talking about.”
“What are you talking about?” ….”
“He said he thinks of you as ‘a wound he wants to forget.'”
For a moment, the woman who was speechless suddenly moved her lips. I did not miss the opportunity and added my opinion again.
“I don’t think so.”
“What do you know… ….”
“They said I was stupid.”
Even his reaction when he was hit on the spot was the same as that of a man.
At the rebuttal I gave with a bitter smile, her womanly face fell.
That’s right. If it had been someone I wanted to forget in the first place, if it had been a memory that could be covered up so easily, there was no way I would have risked my life to come back.
So ‘stupid.’
This was the conclusion reached by a woman who was battered and ravaged by the world. Furthermore, the evaluation given to me by the man just now was also the same.
‘Children’.
It was a title that had never changed since we first met.
“Again, who would know if not me?”
I have been stealing his memories countless times.
Moments filled with loss, pain, separation, despair and regret.
It would be absurd arrogance to say that I understand everything about him. But what I could guarantee was that there was probably no one who knew the man better than me.
Because.
“I am ‘Ian Perkus.'”
That is the last one.
The persuasion was over, and I took steps again in silence. I was planning on leaving this space and returning to battle.
If it weren’t for the screams of evil.
“But, but…” … !”
The trembling tone continues, leaving behind a long trail of sobs.
It was a voice so earnest that I had no choice but to look back. My shocked gaze turned to the back, where I saw both fists clenched.
A woman who couldn’t handle the tears flowing down her cheeks.
“Well, what if you fail?”
I asked. She was appealing.
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No, is it a scream?
“I-Ian… Ian has suffered so much… There isn’t a single day that goes by that I don’t hate you. “I am the one who pushed Ian into that abyss of despair!”
It was a word that had more persuasive power than many logical languages.
The emotions that suddenly burst out quickly became a flood.
“This is your last chance!”
The woman was so desperate.
She spent her time, which could have been years, locked in her man’s unconsciousness, and whenever he wanted to cry, she would also swallow her tears.
She showed extreme pure love.
“If you fail, you may never have another chance…” Forever blaming myself and suffering… In the end, I couldn’t even see our faces that I wanted to see…… !”
I suddenly came to my senses.
I turned around and was walking towards the woman. Crying, crying, and now in front of a woman who can’t even properly put out her voice and is only wiping the dew from the corners of her eyes.
And said.
“Then let’s make a promise.”
“I don’t trust anyone…” … !”
With eyes burning with an eerie bluish fire, the woman cried out to herself hoarse.
“Because I don’t trust anyone, I can only trust myself… So, that’s why I only know how to sacrifice myself. “Only then will you be able to achieve your goal!”
“Don’t trust me.”
The woman’s speech did not last long. Before that, my one word stopped her from speaking.
“I believe in ‘Ian Perkus’.”
Tears filled the woman’s frozen eyes again.
“Back in those days, when I was still stupid and foolish… “The path that man wanted to walk.”
An impossible dream of not wanting to lose anything.
The woman has also laughed at him several times, so there’s no way she wouldn’t know.
“I’ll show you.”
That wasn’t just a word for women.
My resolution and promise.
“Because I won’t throw anything away anymore…” “You and that man.”
It was a declaration that he would never follow the man’s path.
After this, before I got up, the woman finally burst into tears.
“If you do this… Ugh, ah, I can’t do it… Ugh… ….”
It was a meaningless complaint.
My steps, which were about to leave, stopped again at the words whose intention I could not understand. Nevertheless, the woman who sat down was just shedding tears.
“Nothing, nothing…” Well, if I can’t give it to you, ugh… It’s an ‘unfair trade’… ….”
I never thought I would hear something like this from one of the church’s highest ranking officials.
It was so absurd that it almost evaporated, but I decided to quit. After all, what’s the use of considering what happened in the past?
Also, it wasn’t always like that.
I said as I finished preparing to leave.
“No, I got it.”
The woman’s eyes, which were shedding tears, look blankly at me.
It was right after that that I turned around.
“Unbreakable faith, the recklessness to take a hit and see through, and the tenacity to get up again even if you fall on the ground thousands of times.”
Every time I continued speaking, the woman’s eyes became blank.
My path that I almost forgot and would never find again.
“I won’t get lost anymore.”
The final conversation is over.
The steps I took were light. For a long time, as I walked down the road, my vision gradually became blurry.
A sound of crying mixed with laughter tickled my ears from behind.
“That was originally yours…….”
In the end, right after I heard grumbling about whether it was an ‘unfair transaction’.
Space is torn apart.
I felt as if my eyes were being torn to shreds based on a single point, and as a tear in the air passed me by, the scenery changed completely in an instant.
Gamgwang.
A flash of silver light penetrates the frozen space-time and approaches. The speed was literally comparable to that of light, and there was no time to worry.
I just moved my body according to my instincts.
When sparks flew and a sharp noise rang out, “Kang,” The union had already ended. In an attack that transcended the speed of sound, sound was nothing but a belated dispatch.
There was something else that was unexpected.
The sword was finally returned to my hand.
My body was feeling better. Until just before, the muscles in my limbs didn’t work properly.
There was no way the man did not know what I had noticed.
“…… “The look in your eyes has changed.”
A short comment left while putting force on the sword that had reached a stalemate.
“How did you do it? “It would be normal if you couldn’t come to your senses because of the assimilation rate.”
My arms were shaking as I tried to balance my strength. Even though the assimilation rate has increased so much, the pressure from the man is still overwhelming.
I managed to curl the corners of my mouth and smile.
“I met your ex-lover… “They asked me to please take you down?”
“Another nonsense.”
With a cold snort, the man dismissed my claim.
The next moment.
“I guess it would be good… Anyway, nothing changes.”
As if time were rewinding, the man’s sword returns.
She wanted to follow him, but her man took a step further and distanced himself first.
My eyes naturally traced her man’s blade. The tightly formed silver aura was already emitting a brilliant light.
Like a single sphere.
I saw it once.
The movement of stars swirling in the sky.
Another small world containing the principles of life, death, death, and death.
Gyeol (結).
Then the next step was obvious. I quickly tried to use Ban Cheon’s technique, but her man was faster than me.
A sound that passes through your ears like an auditory hallucination even without touching your lips.
“Have (解).”
The world and another world collide.
Heaven and earth are breaking apart.
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‘It has increased a lot.’
It was the man’s honest impression. When I first heard the call to give it my all, I thought it might have been ruined after so many frustrations.
This was enough to be acknowledged.
It was said that it was thanks to the increase in the assimilation rate, but the proof was that there were many battles and defenses with the men.
Even in the distant future, there were very few beings who could take a single stab from a man.
No matter what she did, she managed to regain her sanity without being swept away by the man’s memories.
It was indeed a challenge worth taking, and although I would never say it out loud, it was a growth worthy of praise.
But that is its limit.
The wall of ‘Master’ was high and rough. When I was possessed, I couldn’t do my best due to the limitations of probability, but it was a different story when I was in the world of unconsciousness.
‘Created God’.
The final dagger carved out by mankind, who was cornered, through all kinds of coincidences and trials.
There is no way such a person could ever be defeated.
That’s what the man thought as the world was falling apart.
If only something hadn’t flew in among the torrent of white light.
Kang!
The body of a skilled swordsman was no different from a kind of machine. Even if you are not conscious of it, your body, which has gone through countless battles, takes on the anti-heaven technique.
Yes, even if accidents are not keeping up with the current situation.
How?
The hatchet that was thrown out spins and spins in the air. In an extremely rare case, the entire image was visible on the retina of the man who was upright, so there was no doubt that this was the truth.
Nevertheless, the question is still not resolved.
Why?
The creaking gaze immediately traces the hatchet’s trajectory.
There, a flash of light tore through the silvery Milky Way.
Kagak!
The blade rubs against each other and makes an unpleasant sound. Normally, he would have launched a counterattack right away, but her man was feeling ’embarrassed’ for the first time in a long time.
It is the power to wipe out the world.
Of course, it was normal for the human body to not be able to endure it. No matter how unconsciously we are, it is impossible for something so disconnected from reality to occur.
‘No way.’
There was one case that suddenly came to mind.
I didn’t even think of it as a probability that made no sense, and even calculating it was meaningless.
What if miracles exist?
If it appears before your eyes like a cruel twist of fate.
‘That can’t be possible…’ ….’
Is this a trick of God?
The man who tore through the Milky Way and emerged was unharmed and unscathed. On the contrary, the fire burning in the golden eyes is even more intense.
More than anything, it is visible.
The result is a ‘boundary’ that cannot even cross the ultimate vision containing the principles of creation and extinction.
It was still quite small. At best, it was only slightly fluttering on Ian’s skin.
But she knew the man.
Building an independent ‘world’ that blocks all external interference.
Even if the whole world collapses, the grotesque distortion of continuing the battle alone.
There was a memory that suddenly came to mind.
The fact that Ian’s ‘image’ is not just one.
Quad, quack, quack, quack!
As the blade was clashing with the blade, a sound that could never be heard kept scratching my eardrums. Sparks, noise, and then explosion.
Surprisingly, the broken side was the man’s sword.
‘There won’t be any.’
‘Image’ is the embodiment of the mind.
This is why the man’s image has the power to stop time. He wanted to stay, and there were so many moments he wanted to regret, so he was able to live in a world that had finally stopped.
But this is just the man’s image.
Ian must have had his own ‘image’. Although it was not emphasized because I was shaking, almost falling apart, and unable to form a proper image.
What if that frustration actually created an opportunity for growth?
In a world that lost its momentum and became colorless, the man alone saw the flowing sword.
A sword road that will never break.
Okay, let me give it a name… ….
“Indomitable.”
Laughing involuntarily, the man reached out for her hand.
I didn’t want to admit it, but I did.
There was nothing else to do. He eventually decided to follow his heart.
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The opponent is a seed that may become a ‘master’.
Now, ‘moderately’ was impossible.