716 – 8. Will (90)
The mind is clouded.
Amid the heavy drinking, shock waves swept through the area once again. The swords of the man and I met in the air, forming a stalemate with no one falling apart.
The man spoke through gritted teeth, which was rare.
“I should have told you…” “With you now, it’s impossible!”
The next moment.
One of the man’s hands, which had been holding the sword handle, became free and skimmed my waist. And the hatchet struck my sword like a thunderbolt.
It was the moment when the man finally mobilized his secondary weapon.
If the stalemate continues like this, the man’s sword will be broken again by ‘indomitability’.
He was an opponent who was in balance even with sword and sword. As the hatchet hit the sword, my body, which had nowhere to stand, had no choice but to fly away, making a sound like a cannonball.
Thump, thump, thump!
My body flies away again, breaking several fragments of the floating world. The last time I saw him, the man was stomping on the air once again.
Attack.
My sword blocks the path of the man who leaped through space.
That is the starting point.
The man and I’s sword, which landed on another piece of debris, spewed fire like crazy. Every time a sharp noise rings out, sparks fly in all directions, and dozens of sword cuts are exchanged in the blink of an eye.
Then the two swords reach equilibrium once again.
She was overcome by the man’s strength and let out a moan.
I asked through gritted teeth.
“I told you…” … !”
Right after that.
The man hurriedly turned her body halfway and pointed the hatchet she was holding in one hand towards the rear. Another hatchet that had flown in with a ‘kang’ sound repeats its idling motion in the air.
It was the hatchet I first threw.
A move to create a very short gap.
This was not enough, it was overflowing.
The strike with all my might pushes the man’s sword away as if it were being thrown away.
And the workshops are divided by repeatedly advancing and retreating.
Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang!
My vision was dizzy from the non-stop sparks. Still, neither of us took our eyes off the person in front of us.
Tap, the man crossed his hatchet and sword and took my sword.
“If the soul and self do not work…… !”
As soon as the man spread her arms, my posture collapsed. Without missing the opportunity, the man’s fist, shaking off the sword and hatchet, strikes my solar plexus again.
Boom!
Boric acid attack.
But my reaction was different from before. Instead of coughing and stumbling back, he only took one step back.
“Other people’s power… ….”
With a thud, the man’s two hands once again grasped the sword and hatchet that had soared into the sky like a stunt. Just taking one step forward, dozens of successive attacks were struck as if attacking.
One sharp cut left a light cut on my shoulder.
Blood bursting out.
To be honest, it was difficult to follow.
“Even if I borrow it… ….”
More and more wounds are engraved on my body.
Starting from the shoulders, arms, legs, and knees.
All of them were parts that had a fatal impact on combat power. This was the reason why I had no choice but to be pushed out more and more.
Park!
My knee ended up hitting the ground after receiving the man’s downward strike.
“If you struggle…… !”
The man’s kick struck my chin with a thud.
Normally, the jawbone would have been shattered and the person would have passed out. However, I gritted my teeth and turned my head forward again.
“Yes…… !”
“Bullsh*t.”
My body was kicked by the man and rolled miserably on the ground. The man walked straight up, panting, lifted her body up, and stood in front of me, who had collapsed.
The coldness of the blade wets my uvula.
Is this already the second time today?
“I told you, that’s your limit… You want to take a different path with the power you stole from me and the technology you borrowed? “It’s an absurd contradiction.”
The emotionless voice did not contain even a single trace of doubt.
I found that fact so funny that I let out a faint laugh.
“You have to do it alone.”
He declared.
“If you rely on others, you are the one who has to make decisions at important moments. The same applies to those who are responsible and those who must do it.”
I closed my eyes for a moment, taking deep breaths.
There was a memory that came to mind.
“You still don’t know? “The reason you can never defeat me as you are now.”
‘Samae’.
The woman who died smiling in the burning forest.
“Because you are still just a ‘fake’… No matter how much I try to peek into my memories and increase the assimilation rate… Your original is me. “How can you defeat me with the technology you stole from me?”
‘Ghost Sword’.
A woman who died after single-handedly wiping out the army of flesh that washed over her like a wave.
“So, you are a ‘child’.”
‘Eunseongnyeo’.
A sacrificial lamb who sacrificed his life in place of tens of thousands of lives.
“Because I haven’t been able to stand alone yet. Because I couldn’t escape my shadow… If you want to at least become a clone of me, be perfect. “I’m saying, instead of being clumsy and stubborn, become an adult.”
‘Dragon King’.
A poor girl who had to abandon herself to a harsh fate.
“Do you think I never had a time like you? The answer has already been decided…….”
One last thing.
“And what about you?”
“…… What?”
“So, did you stand here without anyone’s sacrifice?”
The man’s previously dry eyes suddenly become fierce. Feeling her fierce murderous intent, I asked again.
“You walked this path alone.”
The man remained silent for a while. She was silent, silent, then silent.
“…… “I regretted it.”
In the end, a dry, cracked tone leaks out from the dry lips.
“I regretted it terribly. From the beginning, I should have done it alone… Because of that, many precious people lost their lives. “If they had lived, there might have been a slightly different ending.”
Why?
I thought there was moisture in his voice, like light moisture seeping out from the cracked bottom of a lake. Perhaps the man was sincere.
That’s why he returned to the past.
I don’t want to repeat regrets, I want to see a different ending.
Didn’t he make me not lose my precious relationships?
“But you can’t lose anything. “In order to save more people, there are sacrifices that must be made.”
That was the conclusion he reached.
It was the answer she had been searching for all her life. Still, why does he look lonely?
“It is a terrible sin.”
In a gloomy voice, the man confessed that.
“So don’t rely on anyone. You bear all those sins alone… “Save the world.”
Unreasonable fate.
Her man must also have known that the request was excessive. Still, there was no hint of suspicion on her man’s face.
That’s right.
Just as I was a man, the man was also me.
So, you know that no matter what worries I go through, I will eventually make that decision. If you postpone your sins to others, you will bear them and die alone.
This was also me.
Heh, heh.
A burst of laughter comes out. I thought about the woman’s request that kept coming to my mind.
To ask for help, to save me, or to take good care of me.
This man was in hell. As a result of none other than a twist of fate, she was betrayed by all expectations, abandoned by the world, and living alone like a shell of herself, with hell by her side.
Suddenly, there was one last woman that came to mind.
A woman with brown hair sacrificing her life in front of a fallen man in a hell made up of her arms and legs.
“You mean… ….”
Just before she died, did she smile and say?
“You are ‘arrogant.'”
It was the first time.
Her man’s golden pupils shake violently and bulge. Indeed, it is not as I guessed.
A ‘wound you want to forget’?
It couldn’t have been that way. On the contrary, it was so precious that they wanted to keep it hidden.
Otherwise, there was no way he would have shown such blatant agitation.
“How on earth do you remember my memories…” … !”
“I told you.”
Heh, I just burst out laughing.
I groped in my arms. My sidearm that many people have given me.
“I met your women.”
Originally, he would have cut my head right away.
Embarrassed for the first time in a long time, the man hesitated and was unable to make a sound decision. He just distorted his face and glared at me.
It was like that until I took out the jet black stick from my bosom.
“I have something to tell you.”
It was truly a pleasant feeling.
There is no chance of winning, my body is in pain, and there is nothing to have hope for.
I felt strangely confident.
“Looking at you…… “
I win.
“Something like ‘obey’.”
I will win.
“What is that…?” ….”
Before the man could ask me what to do, I quietly drew a jet black bar in the air.
I remembered the noise that little Emma used to make.
Is it said that the space of the unconscious is probably infinite?
“Have you ever seen the sea?”
“…… ?”
Immediately after her man looked down at me with an expression that seemed completely incomprehensible.
Quaaang-!
From a narrow gap in the sky, water with tremendous pressure poured down on her man like a guillotine.
It was sea water.
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