113 – Clockwork
‘…… I’m sorry, disciple.’
After foretelling the isolation, Ashera could only bite his lip while looking down.
…… I didn’t want to do it this far.
That much was sincere.
But at the same time, she felt like she had to go this far.
Because of that, she spat it out while suppressing her guilty feelings.
‘I didn’t want to be like this. He said he didn’t want to break up with his disciple.’
How would you want to break up?
That was impossible.
The one and only disciple who is more precious than anyone else.
He is the boy he loves more than anyone else.
…… He didn’t want to be separated, he didn’t want to be isolated.
But.
Even so.
…… Still, she felt the need to know the truth.
I felt like I had to find out what the secret this one and only disciple was hiding.
“… ….”
So, erase your hesitation.
She raises her head again, her eyes straight and shining, looking straight at White.
A look of determination began to emerge over Ashera’s expression.
*****
“…… Master.”
“… ….”
At Ashera’s unwillingness to answer her own calls, White was forced to realize that she meant hers.
Naturally, her body starts to tremble.
My fingertips twitch, and my pupils fluctuate.
‘…… I will end the relationship between the priest and the priest.’
White took a step behind her, recalling what she had just said.
…… It was unacceptable.
It was something that shouldn’t have happened, something I never wanted to go through.
Her vision turns dizzy at the thought that she, Asherah, is severing her relationship with herself.
I couldn’t understand it, so I thought that I absolutely hated that.
“… ….”
…… White, in the end, had no choice but to make a decision.
He closes her eyes tightly and bites her lips.
‘…… Let’s talk.’
Within, I promise to do it in my heart.
…… Let’s talk.
Stop making silly excuses and tell the truth she wants.
In the first place, after killing the fourth demon king, the condition was only to buy half of the time.
Isn’t it just to get some time to make up your mind and enough time to make a decision?
“… ….”
…… So, let’s not deny it.
As she wants, as she wishes.
The truth.
The secret that has been hidden until now.
…… Let’s talk
Whoop-
Inhale briefly, then exhale again.
It was to calm down the emotions.
It was to try and calm down the violently fluctuating inside.
Soon, a decision came to White’s eyes.
…… And, of course, Ashera was able to notice that sign.
“Did you think of something to say?”
She said in a cool tone, trying hard to maintain her composure.
“…… Yes.”
At that, White nodded.
…… With a very distressed expression.
“…… I don’t think you want to talk.”
And there was no way she couldn’t read those emotions, so Ashera narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth.
“What are you hiding, why do you suffer so much?”
“… ….”
“…… What great secret do you have that you hide so tightly, even from me?”
At Ashera’s continued question, White gritted her teeth.
Within seconds, White lifted her head, seemingly completely in control of her heart.
“…… Let me tell you. If you wish for it.”
It was a word he spat out while trying to get rid of the title of teacher.
As a result, Ashera’s expression, as well as White’s, changed in a complicated way.
It’s changed, but at least White didn’t notice her like that.
Just slowly catching her breath, White begins to open her mouth.
“…… I am.”
…… It was time to bring out the truth.
For a moment, hesitation appeared on his wall, but it quickly disappeared.
Eventually, White spat out, forcibly suppressing her emotions that were about to escalate.
“──I went back 10 years and returned to the present.”
…… About her own secret, which she has been hiding all this time.
*****
Everything was said.
It was fine to say that I had confided.
It was half forced, but I was able to draw conclusions nonetheless.
…… It felt like I was being forced onto my back so that I could pull everything out.
“…… That’s how it happened.”
Squirting out, White closed her eyes tightly.
…… Starting with going against time, she put all her causes and effects into her mouth.
The identity of the magic of corruption, the conspiracy of the 12 demon kings, and the continent facing destruction.
This time, I told the whole truth without hiding anything.
He said he went back in time and returned to this era.
You couldn’t stop the 12 demon kings from targeting you, so you ended up making such an extreme choice.
To put it bluntly, it’s like seeing the future.
…… You came to see the future that led to corruption and ran rampant, putting the continent on the road to the end.
“──.”
By the time she spoke about that part, she couldn’t bear to look Ashera in the eyes.
She turned her gaze down again, just pursed her lips.
I only heard about it.
About everything, with a half-hearted desire to do something.
…… I knew.
She must be suffering.
She might get an indelible wound.
Even though it’s gone now, and in fact she didn’t do it of her own volition.
…… If it’s her, Ashera, obviously.
I will suffer, and I will suffer again.
Even though I knew it, I spit it out.
I thought these were stories that should be brought up someday.
In the meantime, when she came out with a coercive attitude, she might have thought that she was lucky inside.
…… I’m glad I can say
Because I thought that if I kept hiding the truth from her, it would be the same as deceiving her in the end.
Because if it was something she had to say anyway, she’d better tell it now.
That’s why.
…… So that.
She didn’t notice.
I didn’t know.
Her
Was directing her gaze down on her and at the same time trying to get her attention away from her.
Because I was afraid, I didn’t know how she would react, so she just got scared and turned away.
…… Until the end, she didn’t see what expression she was making.
Took-
“…… ?”
Because of that, she was puzzled at first.
Something fell off her.
I caught something in my downward-looking field of view.
…… For a moment she didn’t notice it.
Because of that, she reflexively raised her head.
“──.”
…… And.
Only then.
It wasn’t until then, finally.
What kind of expression is she making and what emotions are she thinking about?
…… Could see
I could barely confirm it.
“…… S, sir.”
The voice trembled.
My pupils started to tremble.
The sight that came into her field of vision, the sight that she might not have guessed to some extent in her mind.
She couldn’t stand the feeling of embarrassment.
“——Ah.”
Little by little, slowly.
…… When I saw her weeping in her eyes, she couldn’t control her emotions, which started to fluctuate violently.
“Ah, ah… ….”
…… She squeezed Ashera’s lips, and her voice trembled and trembled.
A light of astonishment that could not be concealed appeared on White’s expression.
Because she cried?
“…… This.”
…… It wasn’t because of that.
To be more precise, that wasn’t the only reason.
Because I could see it.
…… It was because I could see the clockwork pattern covering her body, Ashera.
“…… Master.”
Unknowingly, she called her.
Queek, Kirik-
…… No answer came back.
All I could hear was the noise of gears meshing.
In an instant, White’s expression hardened like a stone.
…… It was a familiar sound.
It was a sound that could not be known, perhaps no one but himself could know.
“Ashera.”
I called her once again.
“… ….”
…… She called, but still no answer.
Her pupils soon began to take on an empty light.
At the same time, the expression changed inorganically.
White’s face turned blue.
“…… Asherah!”
Shouting urgently, she stretches out her hand toward Ashera.
──It was.
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Wow!
“…… !”
…… Couldn’t reach
I couldn’t reach it.
“…… Kuck!”
At the moment of her moment, her white color bounced off with a short spitting voice at the white light that sat down on her as if to wrap it around her.
“…… What.”
Above the expression, astonishment and disbelief come to mind at the same time.
“This is it.”
While muttering, I involuntarily began to shake my head.
…… It was a familiar pattern and a familiar sound at the same time.
Clockwork, gears, and time.
“… ….”
Of course, there was only one thing that came to mind.
A magic that interferes with time.
…… It was none other than the magic he had created, the one closest to the power of a god.
However, I couldn’t think further.
“…… Heh, heh.”
“…… !”
At the moaning that began to be heard at the moment, White raised his head.
I saw Ashera, with her expression contorted in pain, with tears dripping down her face.
I could see him breathing heavily.
…… At the same time, the pattern of her clockwork, still surrounding her, came into her field of vision.
Awesome!
White gritted his teeth.
…… Expectedly, only one.
There was one possible guess.
A single word flashes through my mind.
‘…… Side effect.’
…… Perhaps, he was a concept that only he knew in the world.
──It must be a reward for trying to reach the authority of a god with human power.
It must have been a reaction to the forced attempt to twist the providence of the world.
…… It made sense in my head.
He had no choice but to understand because he was the one who researched and created time magic.
However, just one.
If there is something you don’t understand.
“Why, not me.”
…… Why is that side effect, that price?
“…… You.”
It must be her question about what goes to her, not about herself.
“Ashe, la.”
Speaks with difficulty.
And at the same time, it was at that moment that White’s expression twisted violently.
Hwaaagh!
The brilliance rose again.
A pure white, pure white, blinding brilliance arose.
“——Ah.”
Once again, Ashera let out a hollow voice.
‘What is this?’
…… It was she who had her doubts too.
If only there was a reason she knew a little more than White.
Challenge!
…… It must have been the fault of a screen that appeared in front of her before long.
──Something began to appear.
Something is destroying the world with a very evil sign.
I saw something I couldn’t figure out.
But there were things that could be known.
…… That being, that existence has black mana that is extremely dark.
At the same time, it was because she had black hair and golden eyes similar to him.
‘…… No, no.’
The reason for the denial was that the identity could be identified naturally.
Ashera’s face turned white.
Her fingertips began to tremble slowly and shallowly.
‘That thing, that being.’
She was no other.
That existence that brings about the end by scattering dark black mana.
That being with black hair and golden eyes, destroying everything in sight.
…… No one else
‘──It was me.’
He was himself.