140 – A touch lurks on the island (9)
A line stretched out in front of my eyes. When he steps on the ground, he wonders if the line will shake for a moment, but then he stands upright again.
For a moment, the waves reflected the sunlight, dazzling it slightly, and the line seemed to tremble, but then it calmed down.
Hearing Monia’s cry and her voice stopping him, the wire frayed, but stood stiff again.
Through the eyes, through the ears, through the nose, through the skin… All the senses received by the five senses converge on that one line and are conveyed to Chester.
What on earth should I call this sense? Is this line you see with your own eyes what people call the soul?
Then, one end of this line would reach high into the sky and connect to heaven, and the other end of that line would reach down and connect to hell.
‘Maybe I’m feeling this because I’m about to die.’
Between Heaven and Hell, Chester’s knife and the approaching Cutlass blade collide.
With all his might, there was no way he could counter a cutlass that he swung properly with a knife.
Rottin is not a sailor. A traditional aristocratic child who was even trained in dueling and learned swordsmanship professionally from a knight.
His swordsmanship, unlike the clumsy trails that sailors wield to chase threats, moved in the right posture and in the right path, and of course the impact reached his body through Chester’s knife.
“Keuk… !”
My whole body hurts. The line fluctuates.
However, Chester felt the knife in his grip begin to vibrate and began to push the knife away with force.
I could feel the cutlass slowly cracking from the tip of the vibrating knife.
“what?!”
While embarrassed, Rottin moved his center of gravity by moving his feet exquisitely.
After putting the weight of his body on the knife and shaking it off, he steps back, leaving the staggering Chester behind.
Right after that, Rottin parted slightly and looked at his cutlass, smoke pouring out.
“What knife is it?”
“Whoa. Whoa.”
Chester did not pursue Rotin, who withdrew, but took a breath and straightened up a little.
The line doesn’t move. When the line moves, the body moves accordingly. Chester looked at the line quietly.
When the line moves, it moves the body. Use your strength to move your body only when you must move your body, and when it doesn’t, gather your strength quietly.
The moment the line moved like a bounce, Chester also moved like a bounce.
I straightened up and swung the knife. There was no clear destination. I just swung it towards the place I felt like I should swing it.
Caang!
Then, Chester’s extended knife blocked Rottin’s cutlass before it could be swung.
“what.”
Chester moved his free hand while the overpowered Lotyn panicked before he could wield the Cuslas properly.
puck.
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Light punch.
However, he hits Rotyn exactly where his eyes were, forcing him to back down.
“… … !”
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Lortin, blinded by the blow in the eye, looked at Chester in bewilderment.
‘What is that?’
Are those all movements of a dying man?
Even the people at the top watching and Urgo admired it.
He must have been draining blood and losing strength, but rather, his body movements were getting better.
– Didn’t you welcome the ancestors?
– Well. It seem to be like that.
– I heard that you have to experience that to become a great warrior.
– It’s awesome! Downstairs family! It is a great warrior’s bowl!
At first, he swung his knife to block the swinging cutlass. Next, I swung a knife at the cutlass before being swung to block it.
Then what next? What about next? It will be difficult to move forever as long as the strength of the body is drained, but can Rotyn endure until that ‘when’ comes?
‘I miscalculated my abilities.’
When he met Chester before, Urgo thought it would be a good fight if Lortin and Chester fought.
However, when I met Chester again, somehow, his capacity rose in an instant. It’s a little bit in the realm of heroes, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time.
And now, Chester, who had experienced the infinite expansion of his senses in extreme situations, was showing his strength beyond his ability to reach the limit.
This phenomenon, which the people at the top say was in touch with the spirits of the ancestors, was expressed by the steppe tribes of Urgo in this way.
‘The eyes of the soul have been opened.’
Knights would say that they had risen to the top, professionally trained assassins would say that they had become acquainted with death, priests would say that they had heard the words of heaven, and monks would say that they had reached enlightenment.
A brain awakening phenomenon that makes you wonder if you are hallucinating because of drugs, which only happens to a very small number of people of all kinds of occupations.
‘If it’s now, I’m going to have a little more trouble. But I’m curious. Which eyes are open?’
The sensations that people experience when they reach awakening are all different.
Chester is the only one who sees the lines of light that quickly accept and respond to his five senses.
Conversely, Chester, like the others, cannot perceive time slowly or read movements as if he could foresee the future.
The line shakes, the third crash.
This time, Chester didn’t even use a knife, and after blocking Rottin’s movement, he moved the knife and stabbed Rottin in the stomach.
“Cuck!”
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Lortin was stabbed in the stomach, but fortunately Chester, who was weak, could not easily penetrate Lortin’s well-trained abs.
But, what about the fourth crash?
“… … .”
Cold sweat begins to come out of Rotin’s body.
In Lottin’s eyes, the slowly dying Chester began to look like a monster.
‘… … .’
However, I couldn’t admit it.
I didn’t like to admit it.
The woman he loves is the man he falls for. I wanted to see the bad side somehow. I wanted to cut it because there was a part that was worse than myself.
He is smart, quick-thinking, courageous, and full of action. Love was covering up the strengths of such a rotin. Their brains become dull, they see only fragmentary things, and their judgment is distorted.
In the next moment, Chester moved before Rottin did.
I found a part of the swaying line that I could stab, and moved my body to stab it.
Move your body as if bouncing.
As if it had become a spear, he stretched out his entire body and held out the knife, which grazed Rottin’s neck.
“uh?”
I didn’t feel any pain.
He accurately stabbed the gap in his consciousness, the complete gap created in his wavering emotions.
It wasn’t until blood gushed out of his neck with uncontrollable force that Rottin realized he had been beaten, and when he saw Chester lying on the sand, he understood that he had lost.
I press the nape of my neck with my palm, but the knife seems to have cut a large blood vessel deep inside.
Rottin held down his neck with one hand and tried to pull out the gun with the other.
However, the gun cannot be loaded with one hand. In addition, the preloaded one was shot a little while ago.
yes. shot I mean shot.
Urgo fought first and drove him to the brink of death, even shot the gun first, and when the other side had a knife, this side held a cutlass and attacked.
‘That’s right. He acted like a guy who had no honor and no pride.’
But why is it that he dies and not him?
The woman he loved was taken away, and his life was also taken away.
In the midst of bottomless resentment and resentment, Rotin’s consciousness was gradually painted black.
* * *
Two men fell. Both were rapidly dying.
Realizing that the fight was over, Monia freaked out and went over to Chester to examine him.
Chester passed out as if he had put all his energy into it, while Rottin was wriggling as he glared at Chester.
“Latin.”
As Urgo approached, a frightened Monia took Chester into her arms, and the people at the top approached and surrounded Chester as if protecting him.
After watching them for a while, Urgo approached Rotin and turned him around to help him look at the sky.
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Lottin, who glared at Chester, looked at Monia with resentful eyes, looked at the clear sky, and then saw Urgo, said quietly.
“Damn it.”
That was the end.
No more words came out of Rotin’s mouth, and he left the world open-eyed, resentful of the world.
Carefully closing that eye, Urgo wiped the blood from Lottin’s neck with his thumb and drew a third eye on his forehead.
After dying and closing his eyes comfortably, he made a third eye to use in the underworld.
“It’s over.”
“Is it over? You remain.”
“no. That’s it. Because Rotin is dead.”
Urgo said calmly.
“Everything was Rotin’s will. I followed that will. But Rotin is dead, and his will is done.”
“… … .”
“Confused.”
And so he said.
“I don’t know how to live in the future.”
Then I saw the top people.
“I don’t know if I have a future life, but that doesn’t matter.”
It is a life given to others when avenging the family. Urgo had no intention of doing anything to live.
The people at the top are also not the parties to this, even if they are family members. The position was that the choice should be made by the parties, Chester and Monia.
Feeling the will in their eyes and realizing that she had to make her own choices, Monia looked at Chester.
Seeing the wounds all over Chester’s body, they looked at Urgo with resentment for a moment, but at the same time they remembered how Urgo had turned a blind eye to them that night.
After thinking for a while, Monia opened her mouth.
“then.”
* * *
The invaders are gone. everything is over But one problem is not over yet.
It was Chester’s treatment.
“Why why?! If you scatter those blue stones like last time!”
When the black wind that took Chester to the shaman’s cave acted as incurable, Monia, embarrassed, asked why.
After telling Monia to stay calm, the black wind began to explain so that Monia could understand it through the ‘picture’ she had learned from Chester.
Grace at the top can heal any wound. Unbeknownst to the people at the top, it can cure all kinds of diseases, including cancer.
However, there is one problem.
The grace of the top has an effect on the body that has been infused with the grace of the top. When a foreign substance enters the body, the foreign substance is not automatically removed.
If there is a problem caused by a broken tooth of an animal or a fragment of a tree or stone stuck inside the body, no matter how much treatment is used, it is useless unless it is removed.
As such, the present Chester also had a problem with ‘something’ embedded in its body, and it was useless even if it was treated with the grace of the top.
“I can’t take it out… … .”
However, I can’t get it out.
This was a fundamental problem.
Chester’s body is too small compared to the top people. One of their fingers is about the size of Monia’s forearm, but they couldn’t do the delicate work of removing something embedded in that body.
Besides, their strength is too strong, while Chester’s body is too weak.
Perhaps they accidentally crushed something like Chester’s heart during the operation, inflicting a mortal wound that even the grace of the top could not save.
“… … .”
Understanding all of that, Monia looked at Chester who was lying quietly.
Maybe it was because the battle was over, the blue tattoos on his body had disappeared, and the wounds from being attacked by eggs all over his body had completely disappeared.
However, Chester, who should have been lying peacefully, occasionally twisted painfully and grabbed his stomach.
There is something in there that makes Chester suffer. There is something terrible lurking that makes even the grace of the top useless.
Monia thought.
He knows all too well what he has to do for Chester.
However, can you really do that yourself? But, is it something you have to do?
My body trembles with fear. My eyesight fluctuates.
The people at the top understood what Monia was like.
How disgusting and terrifying is the reality of having to rip open the stomach of a loved one.
“Uh, no… .”
However, Monia finally took the knife in her hand while crying.
“Che, Chester, whoa! Queue!”
Monia, who had been weeping and hiccupping for a long time, looked at Chester in pain.
‘Chester. Chester. Chester.’
I only think of Chester. For Chester’s sake, for Chester’s sake, I must.
“… … .”
Determined, Monia brought the knife to Chester’s stomach.