Contrary to what I was worried about, after the duel that day, Minerva and I got along well without any major accidents or problems.
There was no change in daily life.
Contrary to expectations, finding Milited, who was completely hidden to the extent that he could not even find a trace.
In the meantime, clearing out his remnants of interference was only added.
And when I come back to my dorm, I sometimes fight and spend time talking to each other.
Today, as always, I was talking with her and thinking about how long this time would last.
thud!
The giant dragon’s tail pounded the ground roughly as if it was expressing its displeasure.
[Stop, stop! You always talk about your little sister! It’s your younger sister, whom I’ve never seen before, so I can vividly picture her in front of my eyes!]
Unknowingly, an unhappy voice came out towards Minerva, who was screaming with disgust.
“No, Minerva, you asked me to tell you.”
[My mother asked me to tell you about your future plans, but I never asked what kind of side dish your sister likes!]
“So the plan is also closely related to my brother? As I said, those items that were useful when defeating Juno and Venus were actually… .”
[You already know it all! Your sister is a famous great thief in the future, in fact, she was a fighter who fought for the weak, knowing everything about you, she prepared them all, and even what was written in the heartbreaking letter for you. all!]
Without realizing it, I was blown away by the sight of her thumping and hitting the ground with her feet as if she was bored.
Come to think of it, it was true that I only talked about Gina over the past few days.
Feeling a bit embarrassed, I murmured as if it was too much.
“It’s chilly… yes what I’m going to set aside some time to talk about my sister later.”
[later… ?]
Minerva groaned and fell, and looked down at him with a ‘Is this guy serious?’ expression.
I shrugged and leaned against him, opening my mouth.
“… Sooyoung has been very strange these days, but Minerva, do you know anything?”
When I asked him, recalling how he had been thinking deeply about something for the past few days, Minerva asked with a snort.
[…] Are you spitting out another woman’s name on the subject that you are leaning on your real body right now?]
Whilst muttering as if it was absurd, Minerva let out a small breath and answered meekly.
[Do you know anything about being a real woman? I knew and got along just like you… There are only a few suspicious corners. And isn’t that the same for you?]
“… … .”
As she said, there were a few things that were roughly suspicious, so I kept my mouth shut.
If it’s as I expected… Because it was clear that talking about it would have the opposite effect.
Minerva looked at me with his mouth shut like that and asked.
[There is one more thing I wanted to ask you.]
“yes. What?”
[Didn’t you tell the real woman you met in the future that you almost died?]
“It was.”
[okay… .]
Minerva shook her head for a moment.
[Then, if you go back to the original time, it seems that the original woman will lose her memories.]
She burst into laughter when she saw me flinched and startled.
[What is it, did you think that the original woman didn’t know anything? I don’t think you’re looking down on your real woman too much.]
She said with a small, satisfied laugh.
[Even though it looks like this, time, providence, balance… To some extent, I heard it as a guinea pig, so I know it.]
Having said that, she let out a small sigh.
[And probably that… I think the reason why a woman named Sooyoung is worried is not much different from them. Time, Providence, Balance… Whatever it is, it’s like the sound of catching a floating cloud, but it makes you entangled.]
“… yes.”
It was something I had to agree with.
Minerva still muttered in a voice mixed with laughter.
[Then it will be time now.]
She slowly turned her head to avoid the gaze that met me.
[There is no way Milited could hide so perfectly. It’s because he didn’t die well because his organs were his organs, and hiding wasn’t his organs. If it was to hide, it was thin and his organs. However, if it has completely disappeared like this, it must be clear that another variable has arisen… .]
“… … .”
As her head slowly turned, I also pulled out my sword from the shadows.
A strange light flashed from the blade that contained Yuno’s energy, and it seemed as if his fingertips were numb.
[There is only one person who can do that now. No is it?]
“this.”
Ariman, who was walking from afar, muttered as if it was a little surprising.
He was borrowing Minerva’s face and voice this time.
“I must have interrupted their secret meeting without noticing.”
At his joke, Minerva let out a rough breath, as if offended.
Holding something grunting in one hand, he paused for a moment and looked around us slowly.
“I don’t offer one. I want to share a story. It would be better if everyone were there, but… It seems like it would be difficult.”
He then raised an empty hand to the growl of Minerva to calm him down.
“I swear by my name. This time, I’m not here to trick you. Rather, I came to help.”
[You can tell by looking at what is in your hand.]
Minerva turned back harshly and glared at him as if to kill him.
[Milited, I wondered how he was hiding so well… so will he It has already been sealed and has disappeared, is there any way we can find it?]
She shrugged her throat once more and let out a growl.
[You’re disturbing me with ignorant manipulation.]
“Well. From my point of view, I think I should rather receive a thank you.”
Ariman said so and looked at me.
“If it wasn’t for me, he would have had to wander around for a while to find Milited, and eventually ran out of time. Looking back, I was able to return safely because of me.”
“So, thank you a little. What is this?”
Ariman didn’t answer.
I just grabbed the shard of Milited I was holding in my hand and turned it into a hard crystal.
“… You and that woman will be caught on this time axis in a little while. What that means is that if you don’t go back even for a moment, something really difficult will happen.”
“Do you believe it?”
“You will have to believe it. Even for each other.”
Ariman slowly turned his eyes away and looked at me.
He looked at me with bright red eyes, with the same face as Minerva.
“I say it again and again, but if something happens to you and her, it will be a very difficult situation for me as well. That’s why I moved to break the unwritten rules, sealed Milited myself, and brought a part of him to you.”
Actually, he wasn’t wrong.
If he wanted to make this place in trouble, it would be over if he sealed Milited and disappeared as it is.
Then, as he quietly defended himself in a dry voice, he glanced at Minerva.
“There, Minerva, I think now is the right time to use the piece of Juno’s body that you hid.”
[…] You’re still a bad guy.]
Arriman took it in his hand and slowly put the Milited thing down on the floor.
Then he tapped it and touched it with his fingertips.
“It’s just two people. We only have enough left for the two of us to return, so use it wisely. You seem to already know how to use it, so I don’t think I need to explain it.”
He sighed and emphasized once more.
“Obviously, I said that I was caught on the time axis. You could ask Minerva, not me, how dangerous it is. And the remaining time between you and her is at most three days… .”
That was the moment.
Aiming for the gap in which Ariman’s gaze was focused on me, Minerva blew out her breath.
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Of all her breaths that I had seen so far, this was by far the most powerful.
But I could instinctively notice that her attempt had failed.
Minerva also noticed it, so he stopped exhaling with a brief click on his tongue.
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Only the crystal that was Milited remained where the breath was vomited.
— … Don’t forget that you don’t have time.
Loud voices were heard from all directions.
Now his voice was mimicking mine, not Minerva’s.
― Above all, the fact that you and her have no more work left to do in this age.
With those words, Ariman disappeared without a trace as if it had always been.
Noticing the breath Minerva had shot from afar, Sooyoung was approaching with haste, but Minerva and I didn’t say anything and just looked at each other.
… The truth is, from the beginning, we were all noticing it.
It was just that they were too shy to talk to each other, so they just didn’t put it in their mouths.
So the time has finally come.
In a way that was so sudden and so decisive.
* * *
“… I have something to show you.”
Those were the words that Minerva immediately transformed into a human form.
It wasn’t just the words of determination that she uttered.
She vomited as hard as she could, then vomited a sharp icicle-like crystal from within.
For a moment, Sooyoung swallowed a small moan next to her.
“Ugh… I feel bad.”
It wasn’t empty words or her complexion was really bad.
“I forgot that the human body is as soft as it looks… .”
After wiping away the blood from her lips with a smirk, she wiped the crystals in her hands on the cloth she had prepared in advance, and then held out as if to receive them quickly.
“It is a fragment of Juno. At that time, while biting him, what entered her body was deliberately left behind without dissolving it.”
It was as if he had believed that a time like this would come someday.
Minerva smirked and wiped the bloody lips with a cloth.
“It will be enough for you to add your mother’s heart and blood to it and make it.”
“Wait, Minerva… .”
“Poke the maiden’s heart with it.”
Suddenly, a voice echoed in my head as if I had heard it somewhere.
‘Seal your maiden. At least with your hands… .’
Who the hell had said it?
But there was no time for leisurely thinking about such things.
I looked at her blankly.
“Minerva.”
“I can’t help it, darling. No matter how much you think about it, this is the only way.”
She shrugged and dropped the blood-stained cloth on the floor.
“To be caught on the time axis… I can’t stand it because I’m afraid to think that I’m going to end up dragging myself on and going wrong because of my real woman.”
She shook her head slowly and said to me as if to hurry.
“So, please seal your maiden. with your hand. directly.”
As Minerva said that, there was a slight smile on her face.
“It was something I had been preparing for from the beginning. It had to be like this.”
“But so suddenly… .”
“Then what are we going to do, should we hold a farewell party and cry with the three of us embracing?”
Minerva shook her head at Sooyoung’s muttering.
“It is better to do this. Yes, I was fooling around with you in an unbelievable way… It would be unavoidable to pay that price like this.”
She half-forced the decision to me.
It was a crystal that mixed the energy of Juno and Minerva.
“It was created from the fragments of Yuno and the heart of the real woman. The seal will not be broken for at least 300 years.”
Having said that, she mumbled with a bitter smile.
“It will only be a temporary measure. My wife knows it well too. Whatever it was, it was only a workaround, and that it was able to preserve only a very small amount of memory. It’s a stupid thing to do.”
She shook her head slightly.
“Nevertheless, this woman cannot resist this feeling. I don’t even want to forget the memories with you. Even a little is good, so if I can preserve that memory, I’m sure… … .”
My eyes dropped unconsciously at her words.
I held a pale red crystal in my hand.
As if she had sucked her blood.
“I, we certainly won’t remember you. Minerva.”
“… … .”
“It’s not that I don’t remember. You wouldn’t even know that I met you like this. Because the first time you met Sooyoung and I… .”
“It doesn’t matter.”
Minerva smiled at me like that.
It was the first gentle smile she had ever seen in this era.
“Your mother doesn’t remember you.”
We stared blankly at her smile and quietly closed our eyes.
Why?
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Only this word kept popping up in my mind.
“… A hundred thousand times.”
“yes?”
“I’m only counting up to 100,000.”
I carefully grabbed her shoulder.
Then, with his other hand, he clenched the crystal and looked straight into her eyes.
“One a day. If you count 100,000 times, then I will definitely be standing in front of you.”
“… Is that so?”
Minerva smiled, but shook her head as if it was funny.
“I don’t know if a woman who can’t even memorize the multiplication table properly will be able to count the number of 100,000. what… What a sweet proposal.”
Having said that, she slowly took my hand holding the crystal with both hands.
Then, as if to do it quickly, he slowly grabbed my hand and pulled me to bring the end of the decision to his chest.
“Then see you in 300 years.”
“… … .”
It was rude to her to hesitate or hesitate any longer.
Crystals pierced my heart, and the beautiful human figure began to crumble in a ghastly way.
Immediately, she let out a faint breath and sat down on her seat.
She reached out her hand to stop me and Sooyoung, who were reflexively trying to support her, and she struggled to open her mouth.
“… get caught up go away As soon as… .”
Her body, which had been muttering, gradually began to return to its original shape.
White, slender hands turned into thick and sharp forelimbs, and round pupils were torn and torn, becoming those of reptiles.
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On her back, along with her wings, an unusually torn film was revealed.
“Happy dreams… lived.”
She let out a hazy voice as if she was scratching iron, and she looked at me and struggled to open her mouth.
“I’ll wait for my real woman, obviously… . So, I said.”
“okay.”
“… If that’s the case, don’t wait for you, too.”
Anytime.
That was the end.
Minerva, who had been laughing and chatting until recently, was nowhere to be found, and only Minerva, the Seven Evil Servant, sealed as a stone statue, remained by her side.
“… Minerva.”
The wind blew.
The wind that seemed to herald the end of the journey in this world was really cold.