“Harold…?”
Erina’s earnest voice spreads in the atmosphere where only the still and heavy stillness flows.
What unfolded in front of him was the sight of the person he loved so much fell down with a knife stuck in his heart.
“Nonsense…”
Miru also covers her mouth and opens her eyes.
The two of them, who managed to recognize the reality, look at him as he collapses without moving with disbelievable eyes.
“Harold!!!”
Soon, Erina’s scream spreads out once.
“No… no no no!! absolutely no!!”
He embraces him and pours out all his sorrow with tears, and begins to scream endlessly, hoping that what he is seeing is not the truth.
“No, I hate things like this!! Harol too… Please open your eyes…!!”
I whisper to him with a desperate wish that will never come again, but he still does not open his eyes.
“Hahaha… Is this your boyfriend? You look good…!”
In the meantime, a pagan who blows the final ridicule from behind them forcibly elicits an ugly smile and makes fun of her screaming.
“”
Erina, who has identified such a heretic, is not sad, but suddenly the atmosphere becomes quiet, and she expresses her hatred that cannot be expressed in words.
“?!”
Even a fanatic, who is known to be slow to live in Erina, made him crawl on the floor with all his might in fear…
“A monster.. a monster!!”
Desperately trying to resist the slowly approaching death, with a pathetic face dominated by fear, she struggles with the power of breastfeeding to separate from Erina.
He tries to back away somehow, but in the end, he is caught up by Erina, who quietly approaches without a word…
“Come on… Wait!!”
Kwajik!
The heretic’s words were once interrupted by her kick, and his body soon shattered with disgusting noises.
“This… this can’t be…”
And Miru, who was watching such a scene, started muttering to herself and was unable to accept the reality.
“Obviously we were going to stop… I promised my dad I would help…”
He grabs his head with both hands as he continues a monologue that no one will ever hear of what he promised in the past.
“But this scene… that’s what Morione was talking about…”
“?!”
Then, instead of speaking, he suddenly spit out nonsense and was in agony, and then a distorted voice leaked out in despair.
“Did you really die because of me…?”
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“A byproduct of time.”
It was a cozy and peaceful temple spread out like a paradise on earth, but what echoed out of that atmosphere was a deep voice like a shout.
“Procrastinate…”
And it’s a heavy and dangerous life that fits that, but what’s scary if a cute puppy threatens it?
Procrastination tried her best to send cool energy to the goddess who criticized her, but she was so naive that she felt like a nauseous child.
“No matter how hard you try, I’m not afraid of you. You can’t kill a god with the power you have now, in case it’s an old dragon who will become your real mother in the future.”
He carefully descends one step at a time with a calm but merciless smile and a mocking smile.
I try to sharpen my teeth to see if the anger has risen by such an arrogant attitude, but…
“You seem to think it’s power because the favor continues, do you know who you are here thanks to?”
As she tries to reveal a secret that must be thoroughly hidden, she shows a reluctant look.
“Now that’s a good attitude.”
As if he was generous, even in a situation where he was losing money, if the other person was polite, he would feel like he would be polite too.
“Don’t forget that I’m doing you a favor by the time god’s request. Always keep in mind that just being in this time zone is like a thorn in my eyes.”
I politely put my hands together and let out a light sigh of trouble.
“I don’t know how you captured Tempus’s heart, but you came to a time when you shouldn’t exist. It’s me.”
again and again
The clear sound of the high wheel gradually approaches Miru, and soon the goddess stands in front of her and stares at Miru.
“Still… I think the plan is developing from my point of view because you had a pretty big accident, so now it’s a symbiotic relationship?”
At the last words of the goddess, I wondered if there was a calm and uneasy stillness flowing inside the temple, but then she broke the silence and delayed opening her mouth.
“Morione…Tell me where Daddy is now and what I need to do.”
The person Miru was talking to was Morione, the goddess of fate.
She was an extraordinary goddess who could glimpse the fate of everyone and could vaguely predict the past, the ongoing present, and even the future.
“I want to help Dad.”
But when such a goddess hears Miru’s words, she laments and begins to shake her head.
For the goddess of fate to speak negative words, it was like a hint that the person’s actions were really wrong.
So, when Morione sighs to Miru now, it means that what Miru is talking about is a huge handshake.
“Hey, how many times do I have to say it to understand? No matter how many times you want to help Harold, the more he confronts you, the more his fate will be negatively affected?!”
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Now, as if bored, he scolds Miru with an angry voice.But Miru, who is strangely calm, seemed to ponder for a moment, but uttered similar words as before.
“I can do it! I can help Daddy!!”
Miru, whose personality suddenly jumps out, shouts as if to object to Morione’s words, but Morione hears the words and presses the bridge of her nose with her thumb and forefinger and closes her eyes.
“So… it helps him to stay still, he says he’s halfway there… No matter how much you prevent a tragedy from happening, the longer the time I spend with you, the more he advances and twists the fact that he is facing tragedy. It’s going to be a fate that doesn’t exist.”
And now, with a nonsensical tone of voice, Miru is blown away.
“Really, why are you so nervous that you couldn’t see Daddy? You say you want to be helpful, but what you do is actually lead Harold down the path of downfall.”
In hindsight, despite the hostile ligaments, he puts his hand on his shoulder as if he were trying to take his side.
“Keep in mind, the more you do this, the more unhappy Harold, the more I gain.”
“I said? That Harold will fall for some reason in the future, abandoned by the goddess and taken away from me.
do you understand Now, Morione herself is trying to persuade Miru to the point where she is confused about what to say to the enemy.
However, the more I try to understand this situation, the more I feel that the question that naturally arises, Morione, does not match.
Well, as Morione said with her own mouth, from her point of view, she is an enemy of procrastination, and such an adversary is none other than her own mouth.
Perhaps even Miru was noticing this, as soon as Morione’s hateful words were finished, they objected to it.
“Then, wouldn’t it be better to urge me instead?! The more I meet my dad, the more I’m going to lead to the fate you want… Why are you so angry!”
Then, as if the frustration has reached its peak, she sweeps her hair, showing a more frustrated look.
“Yeah, like I said, the more you interfere with him, the faster Harold’s downfall… But…”
Morione, who captures an unfamiliar stillness, whispers in Miru’s ear.
“If I want him to be my servant, he must face tragedy at the right time, so that I can save him.”
He opens his eyes darkly and speaks like a threat to Miru.
“But, if Harold’s doom is hastened too quickly because of you, everything will go awry, and my failure to fall at the right time will ruin my plans and, above all, bring him to a meaningless end.”
Miru was a little startled at those words, and then asked Morione one door.
“What are you talking about?”
Morione, who is somehow angry, puts her hand on her left chest, grasps it tightly enough to leave a mark, and makes a shocking declaration.
“That means that Harold could just die…”
Hearing those words, Miru takes her breath away and, although momentary, despair dominates her emotions.
“Daddy never dies, and I’m sure I’ll help you prevent your downfall, and make sure that the reality of being your servant doesn’t happen either.”
Miru and Morione’s conversations always run in parallel lines.
They fight each other and do not take the other’s point of view into account at all, so the subject of the conversation will return to the original point.
“Ha… Really…”
In the end, each story ends with the first tired person reluctantly following the other’s opinion.
“Okay, I was an idiot trying to convince you… I’ll figure out what’s going to happen to Harold today and the worst possible for you.”
This time, Morione gave up first, and he had no choice but to grant Mir’s request.
Morione prepares to foresee her fate, but before she sees the truth, she glares at Miru and warns.
“Now even I’m tired of telling you… The more you do this, the earlier Harold’s downfall will come, and the more I plan to make him his servant, the better.”
He spoke with a rather dignified face, but after this, as if he could never tolerate this much, he raised his life and threatened Miru.
“But… if Harold falls prematurely because of you and loses meaninglessly…”
At that moment, Miru feels a chill from fear for the first time while living with Morione.
“I won’t leave you alone.”
However, even that fear is temporarily wiped away, and she declares to Morione with a smile of determination.
“I’ll never let you die for me, I can assure you.”
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I was sinking somewhere.
Down there, the abyss with no end known
Even if I reach out my hand, nothing touches the void and the strangely cold inside…
Even though he remembers what his last memory was like, he just surrenders himself to the flow.
“I’m sure… I was protecting Miru, and then a pagan blade pierced my heart.”
I spit my death out of my mouth so casually that it makes me wonder even if I feel it.
“Then, is this like an afterlife… or is it being moved to a place like that…”
Obviously, this must not have been the case, but far from being surprised, he was accepting the reality very easily.
Thinking I’m dead and seeing what happened after I die makes it easy for me to understand everything so easily that I doubt myself.
“I don’t know… I’m dead anyway…”
Maybe it was because he quickly accepted reality and gave up.
Right now, I feel like I’m drowsy and unmotivated to let go of everything, and it’s like I’m letting everything flow in the way that it’s time to be.
I just picked it up and said that people think completely different before they die and after they die… Is this the case?
If it had been on the verge of death, I would have struggled desperately to live, but thinking that it is already an irreversible situation, my heart becomes lighter.
“What kind of situation is it with Erina and procrastinating…”
Questions that naturally arise with the feeling of getting colder.
Are those who witnessed my death grieving over my death?
How will Eleanor take this news…
I don’t have any connections, but will people who still know me mourn my death?
Come to think of it, what happened to my original reality… Now I can’t really go back forever…
With those thoughts, I look up at the sky, having reached the realm of nothingness to the point where I can no longer feel any sensation.
and…
“yes?”
A ray of light that I can see faintly at the far end of my field of vision
“What is that…”
With such a simple thought, I just stare blankly at the growing light.
“Uh…?”
Soon, the bright light that grew so large that it filled the sky came down to me and gave me preference for a warm feeling…
Wow!!
I close my eyes tightly for a moment in a flash that has swept away my vision.
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“Ugh…”
When I open my eyes again, it’s a pretty familiar sight
That was the reality I faced before I lost my mind.
“Yes…?”
The brain becomes complicated by rational thoughts that come back with an unexpected groan at the moment.
Even I don’t know how this happened now, but I could clearly see what kind of situation it was in.
“Am I still alive?”
Whatever the process, for now, I’m alive
Although he was stabbed, he didn’t feel threatened at all, as if he had been stabbed by a toy knife, and his head was strangely calmer than before.
First of all, I gently raise my head, relieved by the fact that I am not dead…
“brother…?”
“Harold…?!”
The reality I recognized as soon as my eyes barely returned to focus was the sight of two girls looking down at me with sad faces with tears left behind.
Both of them opened their eyes as if they had witnessed something unrealistic, and their faces, which seemed to have no will to live, gradually became alive.
“Ugh… Erina? Miru?”
Contrary to their atmosphere, I call their names in a calm atmosphere.
The two of them, unlike me, were still not fully aware of reality and just stared blankly at me for a while…
“brother!!”
“Harold!!”
As soon as they faced reality, they recognized that I was alive and at the same time rushed to me at a frightening speed.
“Ahh?!”
I couldn’t stand the strength of their flying force, so I had to lay my body back on the floor again.
“Herald!! Are you really Harold?! Am I not looking at something in vain?!”
“Oppa, are you really okay?! What the hell happened!”
The two girls, who rushed into my arms while crying sadly, start to hug me like children.
“Uh… I think I’m fine… Maybe…”
In order to appease them, he makes up excuses that come to mind.
“Are you really okay? I must have stabbed you deep in my heart!!”
“When my brother was stabbed in the chest and lost consciousness, it really felt like my world was collapsing…!!”
After hearing those words, I gently touch the part of the chest that was stabbed.
By the way….
yes…?
The fact that I was only able to recognize now, my body was strangely intact.
Obviously, as Erina and Miru said, the dagger must have pierced my heart, but I don’t feel any pain at all, and now I’m in a perfect state of consciousness.
Even though there were no wounds engraved, the clothes were torn, but there was nothing wrong with the body to the extent that the skin remained intact.
The dagger that pierced my heart suddenly disappeared without a trace, and I couldn’t find it no matter how much I looked around.
“Actually, I’m also feeling a little strange… At first, I honestly thought I was going to die, but now, I can’t understand the process that led to this…”
Even if they ask a question, even I don’t understand how this is in English, and I too want to ask someone for an answer right away if anyone has a question.
“Still… Seeing you alive like this, it seems like things are going well…”
When she reassured them with a tone of a little relief, the sad feelings eased a bit, but it seemed that it was still not enough to appease their hearts.
“I’m glad! Really…!”
“Brother, are you really okay…?”
I nod my head, accepting the foolishness of the girls who still hold me in my arms and wipe away their tears.
Erina and Miru, who managed to regain some reason, then hugged me tighter, detailing how they felt when I collapsed.
“For a moment, I only knew what was going to happen to Harold, and I was worried and anxious that I suddenly thought he had gone away forever, so it was a brief but unbearable suffering.”
“It hurts me too… Is my brother dying or not seeing him again… I was afraid of losing him again, so the fear of eternity seemed to eat away at me…”
He embraced me with ever stronger strength, and he told me how he felt.
But… did I say procrastination again? Did I hear the wrong thing because I was too crazy?
Maybe it’s my mistake…?
Anyway, they came back and it was so sad that their voices were mostly split, but as time passed, they regained their reason and their expressions started to get better.
“Please… don’t do this in the future, you know I can’t live without you…”
There is still a lingering impression, but now it whispers to me with a sense of relief.
“I’m so sorry… I really wanted to help…”
Miru was still suffering from the guilt that I had been harmed because of her.
“Well… As a result, I’m fine, so don’t worry too much.”
He comforted Miru, who was in particular pain, but showed no sign of improvement.
“But really like Morione’s words…”
Greeder suddenly mutters to herself something that no one else can hear, and she suffers even more.
“Huh? What?”
She asks again about Miru’s words, which she couldn’t recognize, but she shakes her head and tries to suffer from guilt again.
In the end, I raised my heavy body, which was only liberated after being swayed by them and forcing them until quite a long time had passed.
But the questions that keep turning my head upside down from before make me feel bad aftertaste.
Really, how did I get past the point of death?
Last time I looked at Erina’s abilities, she had healing powers, but I wonder if Erina even revived her?
But it seems like he was too sad to say that…
For a while, it seemed that this problem probably prevented me from concentrating on my work.
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Go back in time a little and visit Eleanor’s Temple.
“Really… what were you thinking bringing a girl to me!”
She was still complaining about yesterday.
“If you come here this time, do you have to imprint it on your body again?!”
If Harold had heard it, he would say nothing that would have made him creepy.
“I won’t let you go!”
In many ways, Eleanor didn’t seem to want to let Harold shine when he reappeared.
“Heh! Harold who didn’t even know the grace he took care of and wanted to flirt with another woman was bad too!”
Annoying family that lasts forever, the book is opened for reading, but the page has remained the same since before.
“Ugh… the more I think about it, the more I get hot.”
The moment I try to spit out anger-mixed words again…
“Kaaah?!”
Eleanor suddenly gasped.
“Collock! Colloc!”
It makes a painful coughing sound and vomits blood.
For a moment, but lost her sense of direction, she staggered, but then straightened her body and caressed her chest area.
“My heart stopped… But not enough power to kill a god, is it just a biological death…?”
After uttering those words to himself, the hatred of the past has disappeared, and he looks up at the dry sky with a face full of anxiety.
“Harold… what the hell are you doing…”
She taps near the chest where the heart is located and then begins to act casually again.
Tears welling up, worrying about a seed that is worth more than his own life, he spits out a monologue full of regret.
“Why did you say something bitter to you…? Why would you do such a reckless thing…”
He exhaled a soft breath and wiped away his tears.
“If I hadn’t secretly cast magic, I wouldn’t have been able to see you again…”
He clutches his chest tightly and apologizes for not reaching him.
“I’m sorry… It’s true that I was dissatisfied with you, but it’s not that I hated you…”
Then, he puts his hands together and prays earnestly to the sky, even though he is a god.
“Don’t make me apologize for everything… So please… Come back safely…”