242 – 70-3. On a dark night without you.
***
The night sky is raining continuously.
Now I can’t even remember the last time I saw sunlight.
“I missed Richt..”
A woman was wiping her tears while looking up at the window.
The imperial palace of the Grancia Empire.
The splendidly decorated appearance disappeared without a trace.
A photo of a man wearing a black knight helmet.
A small stuffed toy that looks like it was modeled after someone else.
Recipes of foods I liked in my life.
Like a memo full of likes and dislikes.
“……”
It has turned into a space packed with items related to Lee Soo-hyun.
“This time… I promised I wouldn’t miss it…”
Black-haired Fine Grancia sitting on a high throne.
She held the jet-black knight’s helmet as if it were precious and put on a distressed expression.
What’s the use of reigning as the empress of an empire?
I couldn’t even protect the person I wanted to protect.
“The gods interfered..”
Suddenly, blood flowed from her hand as she bit her fingernails.
The face she saw earlier was definitely the man she knew named Rich.
A scar mark on the left side of the face.
“… I thought it would be okay now… But I thought I forgot everything…”
She missed her so much when she lost everything.
It was only after he died that she guessed why he covered her face with her helmet.
“It still hurts so much when I think of you..”
Chest pain felt sharp in the chest.
As she recalled the other possibilities she had missed before her eyes, the empress shed tears.
What did he do there to keep Licht alive?
‘Please don’t be afraid of me.. Please don’t look at me with such sad eyes..’
A man whose face became terrified when he saw himself transformed into a demon.
I want you to call me Mardol again like before.
I want you to stay by my side while casually making strange gags.
I just wanted ordinary happiness.
“…… I miss you. Licht.”
I tried to save him by turning back time, but to no avail.
As if reviving was forbidden, the result was the same even after hundreds of regressions.
‘If it’s not the Grand Route…. It’s impossible.’
It’s just saying that you can’t go to the gods and cry and beg for them.
It is said that you cannot go against your destiny unless you take the grand route.
What the hell is that?
Is it impossible for him to fully use the power of a demon god?
─ Smart.
At that time, a knock sounded and I felt someone’s presence.
“Fine-nim. Butler Djour. I will go in.”
The gray hair is completely gone now.
An aged butler opened the door to the imperial palace and walked in.
“Ah, Djour. What’s the matter..?”
“Today, I came to ask you to stop raining.”
D’Jour talks to Finene while bowing her head.
It’s already been 10 years since it rained all day.
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“The wizards in the imperial palace are gradually reaching their limits.”
“……”
It is also a makeshift way for wizards to vaporize the endless rain or artificially block the sun.
The pinnacle of water magic.
The situation was so serious that even the famous Dennis shook his head.
“I hate it… When the rain stops…”
However, despite her butler’s direct words, she had no intention of stopping the rain from the sky.
After Fine became a demon, the world was unable to see even a single ray of sunlight.
Do you want to let this world perish in a flood?
If that’s not the case, is it that sad emotions have been overlaid on the world?
“I think I will forget about Richt..”
It wasn’t all.
Remember.
She struggles, fearing that she will forget the man named Rich.
No matter how much I killed all the demon lords and rose to the position of a perfect demon god.
“Memories are gradually fading… Even if you put a lot of things about Licht next to you.”
There is a limit to human memory.
To miss a man who has already died for several years.
“Even if I dreamed of Licht appearing… Now my face will look blurry…”
“But, Fine..”
If I dreamed of him appearing every few months, I prayed that I wouldn’t wake up.
For her, who found out too late that it was her love.
“I’m still stopped there in the rain…”
Because dreams are reality and reality feels like hell.
Black-haired Fine Grancia fixed the weather.
“I’m afraid of everyone changing except for me..”
Fear.
After his death, the world as Finé knew it had completely changed.
The black knight who always believed that he would come to save him has turned into a cold corpse.
A body temperature as cold as ice.
Despite his dying life, his eyes were worried only for Fine.
It’s still vivid to me like it was yesterday. Who wants to stop the rain?
“A flood might really happen now….”
“What did you guys do when he was having a hard time..! No one helped him!”
He even thumped her chest as if he was frustrated.
Spoiling her regret, the black-haired empress shouted.
“Richt… Always came to my rescue when it rained. Why are you doing this to me…”
A tombstone with the name Licht written on it because he didn’t even know his real name.
She For her, the man who wore her black knight helmet was like a hero who always came to her rescue.
“I’m also taking care of myself..”
If you let it continue to rain, you could have hoped that he would appear along with Shim Gum.
“Okay. Then let’s talk about something else.”
“A different story?”
Dijour, who could not break Fine’s stubbornness, brought up another topic he had prepared.
Because the request to make the rain stop is certain to be rejected as always.
“My friend contacted me that a strange person had appeared at the academy.”
“…Drake?”
He began telling Fine Grancia the sad news he had heard from Drake.
“A man with burn marks on his face.”
The story that someone was found in Grand Hearts Academia.
***
“You shouldn’t be here.”
A word spoken by Nex as he hurriedly locks the door.
Clap, snap. The sound of the lock resonating in the director’s office.
“Damn it, I don’t know if even the cradle of the phoenix can buy me time…”
He broke into a cold sweat and bit his lower lip.
The appearance of using the spirit to hit the barrier.
What the hell happened to cause this uproar?
When Nex is closing all the curtains in the room.
“Fine is crazy, what do you mean?”
I asked what he meant.
To think our Fine went crazy after becoming a demon.
“Damn, you really come from another world..”
A man who narrows his forehead as if he is rather dumbfounded when he sees the way I ask.
“…How to do that.”
“You know the real name of the princess. No, should I call you Empress now?”
As she watched me mention the name Fine Grancia, she put her hand on her face.
When she attended the academy, few people knew her real name. In the past, I was always called Mardol.
“And the burn marks are the same…”
Nex said, pointing at my face.
Everyone who is close to Fine knows this characteristic scar.
“It’s strange to see someone already dead standing in front of you.”
“…….”
He’s already dead.
I noticed that this is a different world line.
Could it be that he really died while fighting the demon king?
“What happened to the president of the Academy..?”
“It’s obvious. I failed to convince the head of the family.”
So what would have happened if I hadn’t helped Nex and Chartines get engaged.
Removing the golden phoenix seal, he smiled bitterly.
“Why did you ask that the princess is crazy?”
“Ah, yes..”
“That’s exactly what it means. It’s fine as usual…. People get weird when they are involved with juniors.”
Nex let out a bitter sigh.
The look in his eyes made him realize that he wasn’t the person he had known.
“If you speak of a hero from another world, they will torture you.”
The Fine I remember is not that kind of person.
She doubted her ears for a moment.
“Wait, wait. Why does Fine torture normal people..?”
“Resentment. If you don’t do that, your anger won’t go away.”
If a hero from another world is found, the Imperial Guard will appear and capture them.
“Because the current ruler is Princess Fine Grancia….”
All around.
Shortly after Emperor Locke abdicated, what she did after ascending the throne was her enmity against her warriors.
“It means you hate a hero who killed someone you love.”
“……”
Not all warriors are evil.
Some people, like Dennis and I, are good enough.
“How could you torture a person….”
“I’m digging through all my memories, and if there are memories related to my juniors, I’m going to take them..?”
She said that if she had any memories related to me, she would take them.
No way, no way.
Not what I think.
“But that is the power of ignorance.”
“…The victim will lose all memory.”
Because this is the only relevant ability.
“I won’t hurt or kill you…”
It’s not like it’s life-threatening or hurting.
“It was around that time that the academy uniforms were changed to black.”
“By obtaining someone else’s memory….”
It was also the last struggle to find me,
It also meant that I would avenge the fact that the Demon King of Battery shot me.
“Yes, in your world they say that when a person dies, they wear black.”
Mourning clothes.
That was the reason why the white academy outfit was changed to the exact opposite.
“Ten years ago, Licht of this world died. While fighting the Demon King of Omniscience.”
“……”
“And now it has been 10 years since you died. A world full of dark clouds.”
It was also the reason why the rain that had been falling earlier had not stopped.
Nex muttered calmly.
More than the fact that I died, I couldn’t believe that Fine was ruined.
“Princess Fine, as soon as her junior died, she became the Demon King.”
“..Tell me it’s a lie.”
Her hands are shaking.
Her whole body feels cold as a chill that makes it impossible to breathe comes.
Dear warriors are the same.
If you lose someone you love, it is the destiny of a hero to fall into the devil.
“The demon of jealousy, the opposite of affection.”
Nex lowered her eyes as she looked at me, who had finally figured out the situation.
“…… The princess you remember is not in this world. Junior.”