Chapter 170
Artificial saint (9)
The tip of the broken spear pole was sharp.
enough to easily penetrate a human heart.
I decided to look at it.
“Desiree… … .”
He rejected her shoulder and stood alone.
Fearing that he would stumble if he walked, fearing that he might not be able to properly capture the last face he saw, he stood motionless, as if nailed to place.
The day her name was called, she turned around.
“yes?”
“Sorry.”
– Chow!!
The tip of the spear she held pierced my heart.
A few drops of blood splattered on her dazed face.
* * *
My head was facing the ground as I was supporting the golden sun, and I was worried that I would stumble and fall over the protruding stone beak.
“Desiree… … .”
At his call, I quietly raised my head.
“yes?”
“Sorry.”
– Chow!!
I felt a heavy impact on the spearhead I was clutching, and a few drops of liquid splashed on my face.
I couldn’t understand what had happened.
Like a computer with a blown fuse, the brain refused to understand the sudden change of circumstances.
Therefore, I had to feel and judge the situation with my five senses.
‘After a while.’ Or ‘Huddeuk.’
It’s not loud.
But why? It sounded louder than the sound of thunder to my ears.
If someone unfamiliar had heard it, a sound that would have been thought to be rainwater collected on the roof during the monsoon season dripping into the gutter pierced the eardrum from the right cheek.
It wasn’t crumbled or broken by bumping into it, so what was spilled on the bowl must be liquid.
Some of the liquid that wet his right cheek entered his mouth.
Corrupt. It tasted like when you licked iron.
That’s why I noticed that it was a liquid mixed with iron.
“… … uh?”
A dull voice came out. I’m sure your expression will be the same as mine.
With my left hand, which was not holding the spear, I stroked my cheek once.
I could feel the liquid on my fingertips.
I smelled it.
fishy It smelled like rusty iron.
I carefully stuck out my tongue with my index finger brought to my mouth and licked it—.
—As expected, it was salty and fishy.
The right hand that was holding the spear pole was warmly wet.
When I lowered my gaze to the warmth I felt in my hands, a dark red liquid flowed down the window sill, penetrating between the gaps between my hands blocking the middle.
It’s a warm liquid.
The warmth of his hand began to slowly activate his brain.
The warm liquid fills the gap between your hands.
It couldn’t find a place to fill more, so it squeezed out of the maw and crashed to the floor.
– Knock, Knock, Knock, Knock.
Red spots bloomed on the yellow stone floor.
The red things falling on the floor weren’t raindrops, but they cunningly imitated the refreshing sound.
Suddenly, my shoulders twitched at the sound of a voice right in front of me.
Put your hand on the window sill.
When I opened my palm, it was full of red and black liquid.
– Knock.
As if it had dug into my palms as well as between the lines of my palms, it tightly bound my hands, as if telling me not to run away.
– Knock.
My hands are shaking. It vibrates. I was afraid to remove the red palm that blocked my vision.
– Knock.
I still have to get down.
You have to face it directly. Only then could I know what had happened.
─Tap.
The dark red color is erased from the ceiling of the visual field.
Yellow stone ceiling.
blond hair.
A gentle smile that I had never seen from Geumtaeyang caught my eyes.
The bottom is still dark red.
There was a moment of relief on his calm face as if nothing had happened.
But why? Dark red palms shake wildly.
shake.
It shakes.
It vibrated.
I don’t think I’ll go down any further.
The brain was obviously continuously inputting the command to lower the arm, but the nerves that received the command rejected it.
The cerebrum and peripheral nerves constantly compete for the initiative of the hand.
In the aftermath, the dark red hand vibrates endlessly in place.
“… … !”
“are you okay.”
─Someone held his hand.
“ah… … .”
“Because it’s okay.”
When Taeyang said it was okay, his head slid left and right.
I bit my lip to hold back what was about to burst out.
I could feel the weight of my head swaying along the side of my head.
He smiled and, without hesitation, slowly lowered the hand that was holding my hand.
I tried to hold on with strength, but unfortunately, the hand that had a problem with the chain of command went down weakly due to the light weight, and the moment I checked the bottom—
“──!!!”
He removed his hand and covered his mouth. The corners of his lips rose slightly.
Golden Sun in the world covered by his hands was laughing with his chest pierced by a broken spear.
Covering the pierced part with one hand, he leaned forward even though the weight of the spear pole was too heavy.
His white shirt and left chest are dark red.
The red stain, which was only the size of a fist, gradually grew in size.
– Knock.
He carefully stretched out his left hand while covering his mouth with his right hand.
The hand that was approaching him trembled.
Three spans up to his chest that had been pierced by the spear.
—I think I know why my head went back to the temple.
two spans.
—I might have understood this whole situation already.
span.
——Just like a child complaining, he was just denying the harsh reality.
When my hand touched my chest, which had been pierced by a spear, I was startled involuntarily and retrieved my hand.
Along with my receding hand, his smile was somewhat bitter.
“I’m sorry, Desiree.”
─I
─I… …
“There was only one way… … .”
——With just one word from him, I understood the entire situation.
Golden Sun did not have the ability to deal with 『Pain』 in the first place.
It was just that I took the burden I was carrying.
He was already at his limit, so why didn’t he notice?
Take the pain, empty my bowl
As death, it absorbs the spell into me, extinguishing Jack’s reason to continue fighting.
Golden Sun is the one who has reached the stage. In a situation where the requested support might come at any time, he decided that his own death was enough for me to absorb this technique, which could be said to be the link.
He’s the only reason.
I pierced my heart with my spear to end the whole situation.
“Ahhh… … .”
I tried to say something, but all I could hear was an idiotic groan.
“Ah——.”
can’t follow back because of his appearance.
The palms are dark red. because of his blood.
The shaman’s staff in the huge basement began to slowly blink after soaking up blood.
I came to my senses and reached out to accept the [pain] that pierced my chest, but the hand that was approaching the golden sun had no choice but to stop in the air.
“Hey, if you do, you will die.”
It was because he smiled bitterly and shook his head after pushing my hand away.
If you try to approach him again, he just resolutely knocks you off.
——He sank while embracing all my burdens, refusing even the last touch.
——with only the last conversation left.
The stuff that had been clogged in my mouth started to come out.
“Why the hell… … !? why… … !?”
I clung to the raging waves of emotion in my heart and asked, but—
“… … Because this is for the best.”
—His face was perfectly calm.
It’s a look that accepts everything.
I felt that way. chewed the lower lip
“… … There must have been a better way. There must have been a way that you wouldn’t have to sacrifice.”
“Desiree, you know.”
At my words, Golden Sun shook her head once more.
It’s a shaking that has less power than a little while ago.
“There is no best ending other than what I sacrifice here.”
he sentenced
“Even if there is, that’s the way for me, not the way for you.”
“That… … why… … .”
His sentence was harsh.
“I want you to be better than me.”
“That, why… … ?”
“Because I lived to see you.”
it’s cold
Every single word that came out of his mouth was infinitely cold, and my heart ached as I faced him directly.
The end of Arim was an explosion.
“That… … Why did you decide on your own!”
I don’t know why this is. It is true that he sacrificed himself for me and Elizabeth.
“Who asked to be saved this way?! Did you ask for help while risking your life like that?!”
I was yelling at him.
“To help in that way, to sacrifice, to throw oneself out to embrace all the burdens! Did you think the people who stayed would like it?!”
“… … It may be a little irresponsible because I sacrificed on my own, but there was no better ending than this.”
Golden Sun’s pupils were blurry as he answered.
His focus was on the air, not on my face.
“… … You take care of my sword.”
ah.
I was angry. Unbearably.
“Don’t die—!!!”
He was angry at the attitude of Taeyang Geum, who gave up his own life as if nothing was wrong.
But more than that-.
“If you want to hear thanks, live and hear it yourself—!”
—I trembled at my own inability to prevent his death.
I was furious. Power went into his hands.
What kind of saint do you mean when you can’t even save a single person right in front of you?
If this was the case, I’d rather have a nameless healer passing by on the street.
If it’s a recovery system ability, at least I’ve been able to hold his breath for a few more seconds.
But not me.
“If you die like this, I will have to carry you in my heart for the rest of my life!”
My head got hot.
I don’t know what I’m talking about now. Hot emotion took precedence over cold rationality.
The combination of words that came to my mouth came out of my mouth due to intense excitement.
“I should be grateful for your help!!!”
“… … .”
“Why do I have to do that in a world without you—!!!”
“… … .”
“Ha-. ha-. Ha-.”
Goldsmith was speechless.
“So, so… … . Please don’t die.”
“… … .”
“Please… … . don’t leave my side… … .”
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Just keep your head down.
There were no words.
He buried his face in his unresponsive shoulder.
There is still warmth left. But I can feel it slowly cooling down.
I could tell from his eyes that his shoulders were getting wet.
The red light entering through the edge of the field of vision indicated that the spell was being completed.
I held his remaining body heat.
However, that’s for a while.
“Ah?”
-chin.
The golden sun in my arms collapsed like a sand castle.
His knees, which seemed unlikely to kneel no matter who came, touched the ground.
His face, which was obviously a hand taller, sunk into my abdomen.
As his eyesight opened, the light of the magic formula that filled all directions intensified.
While frowning for a while in the intense light.
With a ‘thump’ sound, his model landed on the floor.
It has come to an end completely.
The light that filled my vision grew stronger and stronger. It was a flash of red that could blind you.
– Fast.
The molars were split into sections.
Light engulfed my vision.
In the halo, I thought.
—If a saint is born from the death of someone, then the reverse is also possible.—
* * *
As the light that filled the stone chamber disappeared, Desiree, who was standing in the center of the stone chamber, slowly opened her eyes.
Her eyes opened again, redder than ever.
Her red eyes contained the corpse of the golden sun.
Carrying his corpse at his feet, Desiree said nothing and headed for the room where Elizabeth had pierced the ceiling.
Looking at the cross section of stones, piles of earth, and stones, she lightly jumped several meters and landed on the ground.
“leg! Aim for the legs!!!”
“[The Knights of St. John] Annihilate! [Saint Simon’s Knights] have O’Hal seriously injured or unable to fight!”
“The dragon is getting tired, cheer up! Just do a little more—!”
As the position changed, all kinds of noise greeted her and the corpse of the golden sun.
-Kwaaang!!!
Red flames soared in the background at the same time as the explosion.
Hundreds of meters away, there was no aftermath, but it was enough to create a shadow on Desiree’s face.
“… … .”
On the stone wall that was originally part of the cathedral, she carefully leaned the golden sun against it.
Then lean over his corpse.
-Chack!!!
I drew my sword.
“… … Wait a moment, Taeyang-kun. I’ll finish it soon and come back.”
A whitish flame flickered in her hand.