When I came back from the empty square, Leto was waiting for me in the same place I saw him off.
“Old man.”
The half ogre nodded and bowed his head as soon as he saw me.
I was curious about it and asked carefully.
“Excuse me, but is it okay if I ask how old you are now?”
“Yes? Ah, yep. There is no excuse.”
He smiled proudly, boasting a body of nearly 3m.
“I will turn thirteen this year.”
“Collock.”
At those words, Saree caught on without my knowledge and I started coughing in vain. Then Leto smiled as if he was used to it.
“I am growing up a bit. It’s mixed with ogre blood.”
“Uh, um. sorry. I didn’t mean to ask like that.”
“I know. You’re from the master’s family, aren’t you?”
Leto said so and nodded his head.
“How many times did the master tell the story of the old man… Thanks to that, I was able to recognize the old man as soon as I saw him. And I know that the old man you spoke of is not like that.”
He looked like he was genuinely okay.
And then he said, “Hey,” he coughed in vain and looked at me with serious eyes.
“… Then, according to the message of the master, we will deliver the requested items to the elderly.”
With those words, Leto began to untie his clothes that had been tightly closed.
Every time his clothes, like armor, were gradually unraveled, revealing the insides, I had no choice but to let out a sigh of relief.
“I am stupid.”
Leto muttered in a muffled voice.
“It’s dull there, and it’s always causing incidents and problems. When the owner sent me an errand to come to the grocery store, I forgot what to buy or had money and things stolen.”
Several layers of iron armor were buried in his chest and abdomen.
The ogre’s regenerative power was famous for being so great that even if his head was blown away, his body and his head could live separately. And even if the power in the blood was fading, it wasn’t going to disappear easily.
Without hesitation, Leto began pulling out the iron plates stained with his own blood and flesh.
No matter how much he looked at his wounds, he could only see the wounds that had just happened.
His body was constantly regenerating and being crushed on an iron plate.
for several years.
“But they couldn’t do that. Master, because it was the first time he asked me to risk my life to deliver it. And stupid Leto could only come up with this.”
His body was revealed after pulling out all the iron plates… It was like a mold.
Because it’s a mold, I couldn’t even imagine that I would spit these words out looking at a human body.
His body had two grooves like a case for storage.
The groove was literally kept with two items fitted.
“crazy… .”
Leto burst into tears as he spit out abusive language without realizing it.
“Uh, that… Lord, you are not commanding me to do this. I just want to keep it well and give it to the elderly… But it’s just me. So, please do not misunderstand him.”
In the meantime, he was afraid of what I would say about Gina.
Then he pulled out the things that were stuck in the groove and held it out to me with both hands.
The harpoon’s head.
chiseled tool.
“It’s something that can target the hearts of Venus and Juno, and the possibility that my colleagues who were guarding the master with me risked their lives to protect it.”
Leto knelt down and muttered with his head bowed.
“please… .”
“… … .”
what could you say to him
I silently picked up the harpoon and chisel that lay on his large palm.
“You can use the harpoon piece on Venus and the chisel on Juno.”
“okay.”
I carefully put them in the shadows.
Then he grabbed him, who was still on his knees, and lifted him up. I felt like I had to say something.
“He, Gina, left me a letter in there.”
“Oh, yes. I know. You worked hard to write something for the elderly.”
“There was written a story about you in it.”
I looked at him and smiled slightly.
“I’m really grateful and I’m sorry, and he asked me to tell you.”
“The master… .”
Leto sighed quietly.
Then he licked his lips a little, as if he couldn’t even decide what to say.
For such a long time, I waited for him silently while he was organizing his thoughts.
“… About 150 years from now.”
Then he cautiously opened his mouth.
“You can take the elderly.”
“Having you… .”
“You are the only flesh and blood of the master, and as the master said to help the elderly, the elderly are deserving of my obedience and service.”
Leto said so and bowed his head once more at me.
“Now there is nothing left for me to pass on to the elderly. We are well aware that the elderly cannot stay in this world for long. … I am now looking forward to the day when we will meet again.”
“… Do you intend to stay here and wait forever?”
At my question, the half ogre, who will be guarding this place alone for over 150 years, chuckled and smiled.
“I, too, must remain here and protect the traces of the master. It’s such a big place, so if you clean and maintain it, years will pass.”
“okay.”
I just nodded my head in response.
His decision was not something I could argue with.
“Then 150 years later.”
“Yes. 150 years later.”
With those words, he said that he would excuse me, and moved to the place where Gina’s lens was.
I’ll probably say goodbye to Gina while performing a ritual of its own inside.
And he will spend 150 years protecting this place alone, and after being defeated by Jin Ye-seul, who found this place alone, he will hand over the ‘flowing snake’ as if stolen from him along with information about his heritage.
I couldn’t say anything to him anymore.
[What are you going to do now, dear?]
“First, we need to find Sooyoung.”
He answered, leaving Leto alone and going back the way he had come.
“I’ll probably be with Milited. If we want to go back 300 years, that is, 150 years together, we need a Milited, so we need to find both.”
[Well. but… Because in this era, all Seven Evil Bells were sealed.]
[Didn’t Margo get released?]
Minerva snorted at Sbangali’s words.
[Isn’t the only talent of that buggy is to run away tremblingly? It was hard to find even the real woman, who hides so well. If he decides to hide, how many people will he find?]
[but… That’s the case again.]
“… … .”
I did not respond to their words, but I agreed with them.
To be honest, if Margot hadn’t suddenly attacked me, I thought I might have been looking for him all the time.
“More than anything else, I’m afraid to leave it alone with a guy like that. Although Sooyoung seems to be sharp, she has a soft and innocent side… Of course, it’s not that I don’t trust him, but I’m worried for nothing.”
[…] … .]
[…] … .]
… For some reason, both of them kept their mouths shut and did not respond.
what.
[What… right.]
Sbangali muttered so.
Just as I was about to ask what the hell did you mean by that, there was a muffled, muffled sound.
[What, something?!]
Unlike Sbangali, who was startled, I and Minerva were not surprised.
Because he knew that the sound he had just heard was made when something was hit hard and resounded in an enclosed space.
Instead of answering Sbangali’s words, I hastened my steps.
The source of the sound was on the outskirts of this tomb, closest to the surface, where I first met Leto.
“… uh?”
There, there was Han Soo-young, who thrust her fist into the wall.
She was poised like a pitcher, then repeatedly punched the wall as hard as she could.
It looked like he was arguing.
“Ah-oh!”
Then she roared loudly.
“Here, again, somewhere!”
… It seemed like he was really arguing.
It was a time when I forgot to call her for a moment in an unexpected sight.
“Who is there!”
With a stern cry, she hurriedly turned her head and looked at me.
When I met her eyes, I seemed to understand why Choi Hyun-woo had been complaining to me, ‘You don’t know how scary Sooyoung is when she’s angry.’
The corners of her eyes were raised wildly upward, and her eyes were half-red from bleeding. There were even rubbed nosebleeds there, as if he had been wiping with someone until he was about to die.
And Han Soo-young, who found me, was so surprised that he jumped up and jumped on the spot.
“Ji, Jihyuk!?”
She was so embarrassed that she hesitated, then hastily hid her clenched fist behind her back. Then, seeing the walls cracked and smashed, she cried out to me in an urgent voice.
“Bur, there’s a bug!”
Without uttering a word, she quickly shook her head.
Then he said while raising the potion bottle containing Milited.
“Milited! Yep, Milited was trying to run away! That’s why you’re holding on to it!”
… At her words, I had no choice but to nod my head as if to understand.
And in response to my reaction, Han Soo-young made a strange noise and sat down while clutching her head.
* * *
“Anyway, I’m really glad that you’re safe, too.”
“Yes… .”
I explained the situation to Leto, who ran away from the sudden roar, and moved to a suitable place, and she and I sat face to face. It was to explain what happened here and to share information.
I started telling her everything slowly, starting with the story about Gina.
He came 150 years ago to meet his younger brother, but it was already too late.
It was said that he was sealed inside the lens after being attacked by Yuno, the Seven Evil Servant, and that his younger brother succeeded in recovering the sealed lens.
The fact that he had obtained items that could be called the weakness of Venus and Juno.
Finally, when we returned to our original existence, Gina’s companions would be waiting to help us, and so on.
And Han Soo-young, who heard all of my story, quietly asked me.
“… it’s okay?”
… Her words were as trivial as the last time, but they did a wonderful job of breaking my heart. Without realizing it, I was speechless and could barely answer to Han Soo-young, who was looking at me worriedly.
“You have to be patient.”
… I knew very well that I had to endure it anyway, and I would eventually endure it.
There was still the possibility of reviving Gina, and above all else, I had no reason to see the child who chose a path that would be as good as dying for me if I fell down in frustration.
“That, what is it? First of all, I have thought about it.”
“yes.”
“There is a way to go back to our original time, but… I thought it wouldn’t be bad to go back 300 years ago.”
Han Soo-young frowned slightly at my words and asked me.
“… Are you planning to seal Venus and Juno with weakened ones?”
I nodded at her words.
“right. Above all, there is an ostensibly cooperative relationship with Milited, so I can get some help. At least it’s better than nothing. And above all… Well, so Minerva told me that he met me and had been with me for a while.”
No matter how weak they were, Venus and Juno.
Dealing with them alone was suicidal.
I don’t know if they dealt with them one by one, but no one knew how they would turn out, who were building a subtle relationship. In the end, Ariman could have done a trick on the way, or the other side, who felt threatened, might break in in the middle.
But, if only I could get help from Minerva of that time… .
And if they somehow weakened them and sealed them, it was clear that the future would be much easier.
“exactly… .”
Han Soo-young nodded at my story.
There I said with an attitude of what to do.
“First of all, Milited can’t accept that we’re back. I haven’t sworn with him yet, so I’m thinking that the pendant might be taken away, so I’ll bubble up and oppose it?”
“… … .”
For some reason, Han Soo-young kept her mouth shut at my story.
Then, as if he had made up his mind, he took out a potion bottle and placed it on the table.
“It won’t happen.”
“yes?”
“Because Milited here is already dead.”
Saying so, she pushed the potion bottle at me as if to check it out.
“Besides, the memories here won’t sync, so don’t worry about leaking information to him. Most of all, Jihyuk had to absorb the remnants of Milited, right? It’s been good, right?”
“… swimming.”
I asked her quietly.
“What the hell happened?”
To that she replied.
“Ariman.”
He stopped breathing for a moment at those quiet words.
“I met him.”
With those words, Han Soo-young stared at me.
and… .
“Jihyuk has a story he wants to tell you.”