262 – 77-1. One life, one thought.
Dawn was rising on a night that seemed to never end.
The raindrops that had been falling hard just now turned into pieces of glass, reflecting light and driving away the dark shadows that had been covering the imperial palace.
“No.. No.. It can’t be like this. “It can’t be like this!!”
──Pajik, Pajijik.
Magic Hat, whose existence is disappearing due to the power of thoughtlessness, cries out.
The noise is getting worse and worse, and now even the voice is cut off.
Despite being in that state, Magic Hat was trying his best to kill me and Fine.
“To the fledgling subject who just became a demon god!!”
Even if you try to injure someone by throwing a playing card or a dagger, it will fail. Even if you use a shadowy hand, it passes in vain.
No matter how hard he struggled, he could not prevent the extinction of existence.
Just like what Magic Hat has done so far, it has to happen in the original world line.
He was struck by the same method he enjoyed using.
“You cannot completely destroy me!! “This is just buying time!!”
Magic Hat let out her angry voice at me.
I just became a Demon God, so I won’t be able to completely erase myself from the world line.
“I know. “But we can still save Fine.”
“… What?”
I was aware of that from the beginning.
Magic Hat said she didn’t know about the nameless saint or the dear warrior.
She knew nothing about its identity, Pine Grancia.
The reason he didn’t feel strange in this part was probably because of the incomplete extinction.
If I wanted to become a demon who could even control her time, all I had to do was come to the past like now and kill her.
‘The reason why I couldn’t do that is obvious.’
The past where important parts have been erased like an eraser.
Because at the center of that vortex was me, who had turned into a demon god.
The feeling of life dissipating from the body.
As blood flowed from her mouth, a fishy, bitter taste was felt.
“Isn’t your life worth it..?!”
“Yes, this is a relatively cheap price.”
If I keep using my powers like this, as that guy said, I will die.
“Please cancel the authority immediately. Husband. Please..!”
He seemed to know that words were not communicating, so he transformed into a woman’s body and tried to appease me.
Magic Hat Now that she realizes that there is no way out for her, she begins to scream.
“I’m going to become a complete stranger to Fine Grancia..!!”
Now, she is making up her words, even transforming into Fine’s face.
Like a child who doesn’t know what she did wrong.
“I was just trying to change fate for the person I love like you!!”
They were only complaining that it was unfair, leaving out the fact that they killed people.
“My only crime is loving you!!”
“Well, I shouldn’t have killed people.”
I held the sword handle tightly and answered while catching my breath again.
Sacrificing innocent people for the sake of loved ones is a nuisance.
“Ah, ahahahaha! Then, if I don’t kill anyone, you will accept me as your lover!”
“f*ck you. “You creepy bastard.”
When I saw the happy expression with red cheeks, I got goosebumps all over my body and immediately swore.
Does she still not know what was wrong with what she did?
“I really love this side of you!! Husband!! I want to destroy it!! “I want to make it mine!!”
I was willing to sacrifice my life for Fine.
On the contrary, Magic Hat was a person who would do anything for her own greed.
“I love you, I love you, I love you..!!”
He was courting me until this very moment when he ceased to exist.
You have to do some creepy things to a certain extent.
“I will come back!! “I love you!!”
“This isn’t love.”
──Sigh.
I slashed my sword towards the head of Magic Hat, who was screaming out his final words.
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The silver flash reached the sky and cut through the dark clouds while drawing an arc.
“It’s just one of your dirty lies.”
Then the demon god loses its form and disappears completely.
With the rising of the sun, his evil deeds came to an end.
***
My body gradually becomes colder and my vision becomes darker.
It seems that the lifeline held on by the Dragon Heart has now reached its limit.
‘What if I had used my power a little earlier?’
Because my body was as good as dead from the beginning.
Belated regrets come flooding back.
I found out too late this long contradiction involving Fine and Magic Hat.
The past kept repeating itself, like an Ouroboros biting its own tail.
All these miracles were possible because I came into her past and met her.
The internal organs and bones of the abdomen that were stabbed by the tentacle are sticking out.
Blood flows out from between the glass armor she is wearing.
A black-haired Inrang girl yelling at me not to die.
“No.. No.. Brother..!!”
“Pine..”
Even with Fine’s healing magic, it wasn’t enough to close the already gaping hole in her abdomen.
“No.. Please..”
The tips of her hair are turning white.
I guess it was right that I had to die in the original world line.
‘If only I had a little more time.’
Would it have been possible to revive the people who were close to Fine?
Just as he saved Empress Belin Grancia by making her a card.
Having become a demon, I could have already saved the people who were sacrificed by the Cult of Heroes.
It was a pity.
If this really happens, Fine becomes a girl who has lost her feelings.
Even if you go to the past, you can’t change your fate.
After all, this wasn’t a grand route?
“Brother, I can still live. “I can still live..!”
Fine keeps repeating the same words with her face covered in blood.
I am the only one left alive around her.
“Pine.. You don’t have to worry about me..”
“Don’t talk.. Please..”
I spoke while wiping away the tears from Fine’s eyes with my hands.
Due to the power of thoughtlessness, my existence will change into something that never existed.
Fine will completely forget that she ever met me when she was young, and Magic Hat will only forget that he attacked this place….
Wait a minute, where is Empress Belin’s most important card?
I noticed something strange in my increasingly narrow field of vision.
‘The Queen of Hearts has disappeared.’
Was it a trick to court me so tirelessly?
Where the Trump card should have been, there was a magic hat representing the guy instead.
This is why everything went wrong.
Now I understand why he had the Belin Grancia card with him.
As the noise got worse, my body began to gradually disappear.
Even the glass armor he was wearing broke and shattered with a sound.
“Ah, ah…. “Ah.. No.. The bleeding.. Won’t stop.. Why isn’t it cured..”
Fine screamed as she looked at my horrible appearance.
It’s not good for a young girl to see this scene.
“Pine, everything.. Will be okay..”
“What makes you say everything was okay from before… Don’t die!! “Don’t die!!”
I continued her words while caressing her cheek.
I hope this will give Finee her peace.
Even if you forget me.
“You won’t remember me..”
If you think about it, it was a simple procession of events.
He went back to her past, saved her, and used her power of mindlessness to become friends with her Magic Hat guy.
After that trauma, she lost her emotions and her hair turned white.
‘With the death of Chartines, there was a vacancy in her position as saint.’
While attending the academy, she was kidnapped by Magic Hat and had everything taken away from her.
Paradoxically, through the arrangement of the God of Light, she became a nameless saint.
“No.. That will never happen..”
“……”
Pine began to sob in my cold arms.
Even though she is covered in blood, she doesn’t seem to want to leave my side.
You will soon forget me completely.
I will disappear from here in a few minutes, as if I never existed from the beginning.
Like a person who risked everything for this moment.
“I will never forget Soohyun oppa..”
A halo of light emerged from Fine’s body and began to wander.
She is resisting the power of her thoughtlessness.
Now that even the glass armor that protected my body is broken.
It’s normal for you to forget everything about me.
How on earth do I remember?
Wooow ─.
I could hear the sound of the heart sword I created resonating with her.
‘Dear hero..!’
A little while ago, Magic Hat said that I could forge a holy sword using a human body.
In that case, Fine did not become a hero by chance by picking up the sword I left behind.
“Even if all my memories disappear… The memories you gave me….”
She became the warrior of her love because of her own choice.
The feeling of not wanting to forget myself.
It is intertwined with the feeling of love and intimacy.
“Because it will become a piece of warm glass and will remain in my heart.”
A miracle was occurring right here and now.
The reason why I wore the sparkling glass armor, Masterpiece, since I was a child.
The whole reason why my heart sword, which was just a fake, became the holy sword of love.
Because it was the reward for Fine’s struggle not to forget me when he was young.
“Fine, inside… In the pocket…”
I also decided to show off one of her tricks for her.
An action I never did during 24 failures.
“Is this… A ring…?”
I told her about her ring, which had been hidden from her until now.
A precious metal that resembles a silver wolf spinning in a circle, forming a ring.
I heard that in order to twist fate, you need to add a wolf, which represents day and night.
I couldn’t figure out the answer to the problem in the end, but I felt like I would miss the opportunity forever if I didn’t hand it over now.
Fine’s eyes shook as he found the ring in my arms.
“……”
Nod.
She nodded her head without saying a word, and she put her ring on her finger and the ring finger of her left hand.
Even if everything is erased because of the power.
So that our fate will not be cut off.
Let’s use this ring as a guidepost so we don’t forget each other.
“Someday.. We will meet again.. Suhyun oppa..”
“Is that really true?”
Fine folded my hands wearing her ring and prayed together towards the sky.
My body cracked like a piece of glass and disappeared.
***
As the current Fine Grancia looked at her mirror, she felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
“Since when on earth have I been wearing this?”
Something shiny in my left hand.
Suddenly, a ring was put on her ring finger.
The ring worn on the ring finger of the left hand is proof of an oath.
‘I don’t remember receiving something like this as a gift..?’
However, I don’t remember when and from whom I received it.
The feeling of losing something precious in a corner of your heart.
It was something very important and warm.
Tears began to flow from Fine’s eyes when she saw the ring.
What was lost?
The sense of loss comes like a wave and the crying doesn’t stop.
‘He must have been someone precious to me…. Why?’