“”……..””
When the march of the Demon King, which had been stationed only on the coast for several months, began, the entire empire was enveloped in silence.
– Clap, Clap, Clap…
Thanks to this, the sound of the dazzling armor of the demons was further aggravated and resounded in the streets, and the people of the Empire began to cringe and come out of the shelter.
“ah…!”
“Suck!”
And soon, sighs and choking noises began to be heard from here and there.
“Yo, the hero… isn’t it…?”
“Eh, ah… no way… nonsense…”
“Rain, you must be a similar person, right?”
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Eventually, each of the people of the Empire began to talk like that with a terrified expression on their face.
– Look.
Soon, Aishi’s voice resounded throughout the empire, and they had no choice but to admit what was happening right before their eyes.
– The hope and the light you have been looking for over the past few months is right here.
It was as she said.
It was the last hope of the imperial people trapped in a desperate situation.
The hero I longed for and longed for will come back, Frey.
Then he was being dragged in front of the Demon King’s march in a cold state with his heart pierced by a spear of ice.
“……..”
To be precise, he was being dragged onto the frozen ground, tied to a rope tied to the back of Bener, who was walking with his head bowed and walking half-consciously.
– Jureuk…
Hot tears begin to flow from the eyes of Bener, who was dragging Frey miserably in front of the Demon King’s procession.
– Whoops…!
Then, suddenly, she knelt down on her knees and sat down.
“…this time, what else are you obstructing the march?”
Aishi, watching the scene from a carriage made of transparent ice, throws away her respectful words and asks a question in a cold voice.
“I… I… I can’t go any further.”
Then, a voice that was filled with earnestness that came out of Benaire’s mouth.
“The master’s body… was so damaged.”
Having said that, she turned her head and looked at the boy who was her hidden master with tears in her eyes.
“If I forcefully drag you any longer… I won’t be able to even tell the shape of it later…”
“therefore?”
“…I, at least let me walk with you in my arms.”
But when Aishi’s voice was still cold, Benaire closed her eyes tightly and suggested that.
“Any disgrace… he’ll be insulted… Please don’t insult him any more…”
“If you value Frey so much, why did you do that on that day?”
“…that, that.”
As Aishi, who looked down at her, smiled and snapped her fingers, memories of the past flowed into Benaire’s mind.
One day, in a dark cave, while stroking his head, he handed him bread.
And on the first day he was picked up, he vaguely remembers a boy who, with remorse in his heart, carefully blows a chestnut on his head who asked for punishment, and then smiled bashfully.
– Pair…!!!
And the next thing that came to mind was grabbing the boy’s arms and hitting him in the face with all his might.
– Kwajik…!
“Keheuk…”
After that, he did his best to hit his stomach, making him salivate.
Such a self-image was reflected in the eyes of the boy who was terrified, and it grew bigger and bigger.
“I, I…”
“Why don’t you just do what you normally do?”
Aishi, who secretly dyed her eyes black, whispered while covering her mouth with her hand, and flicked her fingers once more.
“Ugh…”
Then Benaire got up from her seat, trembling with her eyes dyed black like Aishi.
– Shreuk… Shh…
Then, with a grim expression on her face, she begins to move forward one step at a time.
Thanks to this, Frey fell on the frozen stone floor and started being dragged back by her.
His handsome face was being swept to and fro and being swept to the ground.
“sorry…”
Whenever Frey’s body was caught or shaken somewhere, the vibrations generated by it climbed up the rope and spread all over Venaire’s body.
“Bleeding…”
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Every time the vibration wraps around her body, the wounds on the boy’s body, who waved with a pure smile in her head, increase, and in the end she shed tears of blood.
Despite the terrible sensation, Benaire has no choice but to keep moving forward thanks to the force that has settled on her body.
In the end, after walking for a while, she was able to move only mechanical steps with her soulless eyes.
“”………””
And all of a sudden, they ran out of the shelter, and the people of the Empire who filled the streets of the Empire were staring blankly at the scene.
“Yo, the hero… is he really dead?”
“Uh, uh…”
The children of the orphanage who held cutely decorated signs and the gold coins they carried like amulets, and the children who were rescued from the orphanage of the church.
“”……..””
On that day, they left Frey’s mansion and scattered all over the place. Even the employees who regretted it and inquired about their Young Master in all directions.
“brother?”
At Aishi’s words, Arya hurriedly opened the door of the mansion and ran out into the street.
– Tsar…
Ann, a former maid, with her hair sparse and dark circles down to her eyes, and the maids who were kicked out of the Imperial Palace with her helplessly drop flyers looking for Frey, whom she was holding in her arms, to the ground.
“More, try harder!! Why can’t I teleport?!”
“…it must be the work of the dragons.”
“Uh, uh…”
Princess Limia, who had all her expensive items and tried to exile to a foreign country by activating the high-performance teleporting magic circle she had prepared for several months, only blew up a part of the palace grounds and looked down at the window helplessly.
“Uh, how do you…”
“Am I really dead…?”
“Oh, no…”
One of the few employees who stood next to him, defended Frey, and then took on the imperial chores.
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Everyone, without exception, was looking at him.
“Slowly the academy is visible.”
Aishi, who looked around as if watching them, noticed the Sunrise Academy that was starting to appear in the distance and smiled.
“By the way, isn’t it really disgusting to be human?”
“…Yes, yes?”
Then, she asked a question to Le Mernaud, who had been sitting next to her, whether she liked it or not.
“Just a few hours ago, these guys were calling out to the warriors and looking for them, weren’t they?”
“Yeah, yeah… That’s right.”
Le Mernaud, who was trembling in various ways next to her, nodded her head urgently.
“But even though the hero is being dragged around like that dead and being humiliated… there is no one who dares to step forward.”
“………”
“The hero sacrificed his life and life for the fools who didn’t even know about that kind of grace…
Having said that, she bowed her back as if she couldn’t stand it and burst into laughter.
“Fuhhh… Fuhhh…”
The day when the first snow fell that day and night could no longer be distinguished.
And on the day that the vanished hero appeared to everyone in the worst form.
The cold laughter of the Demon King was digging into the people of the Empire who were holding the improvised signboard in their arms and making a bewildered expression.
“Well, actually, he probably didn’t do everything with good intentions… That’s it.”
“yes?”
“Who knows? In fact, he must have been enjoying his evil deeds…”
– Whoops…!
“…town.”
Until a hard stone thrown by someone hit the demon king’s mouth.
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“”………””
A frighteningly quiet silence flows between the marching demon king army and the people of the empire.
“…Who is it.”
Aishi caressed her mouth with an expression of absurdity rather than pain.
Then, she dared to block the march of the Demon King and opened her mouth with a cold gaze at the young girl who threw a stone at her.
“Answer me.”
“Dada, shut up!!”
But, the girl who was terrified and trembling, but did not yield to her like that, and shouted that.
“Yo, the hero… you’re not the kind of person you can talk about rudely!!”
“under?”
Up until a year ago, she and her sister were selling vegetables and living each day, and she was a girl who was rescued by Frey and got a job as a servant after she was about to end up in a bad alley in the back alley.
“He saved me… He also cured my brother’s disease!!”
“……..”
“And how many good deeds you have done with the secret status of being a champion of money…”
She, who had defended Frey and also had to do chores in the Imperial Palace, murmurs with her hands trembling.
“The back alley, where the body was decaying, was transformed into a decent commercial area, and my dying friends found a place to live and a job… All thanks to him.”
“ha.”
“By the way, such a person enjoyed evil deeds… What…”
Then, she picks up a stone from the street again and throws it at Aishi while screaming at the whale whale.
“Don’t talk nonsense!! You bastard!!!”
“…tt.”
Aishi, who was about to grab the stone with her hand, frowned, then muttered while avoiding her head to the side.
“Anyway, neither this guy nor that guy can resist needlessly…”
Aishi, who alternately looked at the girl who did not leave her seat while shaking her trembling right arm and trembling legs, breathes out a cold breath.
“Father, run away…!”
“Let go of this!!”
“Then you die!!”
“Everyone looks like they’re going to die anyway, but it doesn’t matter!!”
Then, Aishi looked down at the girl who looked down at her with trembling eyes, waving away from the people around her.
– blah blah blah blah blah…
After a while, the sky blue magic begins to bloom from the girl’s feet.
“Courage is imaginary, but I’m a little busy.”
“Uh, uh…”
“You should set an example.”
The moment Aishi said that, her eyes flashed and she raised her hand upwards.
– Jjjjjjjjjjjj…!
In an instant, a lump of ice springs up from where the girl was, creating a huge pillar.
“Gee… I was just trying to freeze it like I’ve always done it.”
Aishi, who was looking at him, looked down at her right arm with a grin.
“Didn’t you fail to control your power because you kept interrupting me?”
– Parr…
“Then stop giving up.”
At those words, the sky-blue spark from her right arm wrapped around her body, and she whispered while stroking her right arm with her cold eyes.
“The dream of protecting everyone is to stop.”
– Crazy… Crazy…
“Didn’t the hero die because of you right now because of you?”
After those words were said, the trembling right arm began to subside.
“…I’m tired.”
Aishi, who turned her right arm a few times while muttering like that, put her hand on her chin and gave an order in a languid voice.
“Let’s go.”
At the same time, the march of the Demon King began to move again.
– Kwajik, Kwajik…
The pillar of ice that had stopped them until the end was trampled on by the Demon King’s army and shattered into pieces.
“”……..””
The people of the Empire trembled in fear at the sight, or quietly bowed their heads.
“The end is ripe.”
It was Aishi who laughed at them and headed to the academy in front of him.
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Meanwhile, at that time, a dark alleyway not far away.
“Uhm? Eup…?”
The girl who had stopped the march of the Demon King was struggling in someone’s arms with her mouth covered with her hand.
“Oh sorry.”
“Pu ha…! Pu ha…”
The boy, who was watching the march of the Demon King in the distance with his sharp eyes, releases her when the girl slaps him on the back.
“Thanks for taking the time. Thanks to you, things worked out.”
After a while, the boy stroked her hair for a moment and then moved to somewhere, surrounded by light.
“…Me, over there. Who are you?”
Then he turned his head slightly to the girl’s question and smiled.
“The way you taught me how to make vegetable soup, I put it to good use.”
“yes?”
“He told me that my jewelry is delicious.”
“Come on, wait…!”
After muttering like that, he was a boy who blended into the crowd.
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@linkingcrk Even though characters know that, their guilt from their previous actions doesn’t disappear. They can’t help but blame themselves for it. (Which is why coming to terms with it is difficult and long process that author somehow manages to implement quite well)
Consider the situation when Ruby was the villain. We all hated her so much. But when she got her redemption arc we couldn’t help but feel bad for cursing her previously. I remember many people commenting their regrets like that.
You should also remember how Frey broke down crying in despair and regretting all his previous actions towards Ruby when he knew the truth. And that happened when he knew she was REALLY EVIL back then so his previous actions & hatred towards Ruby should’ve been justified. However Frey still couldn’t help but feel guilt & remorse over his actions (which is kinda natural tho).
That is just how humans are @linkingcrk (at least good people are like that). They just can’t help but suffer from their actions. Even sweet and good Aria must be thinking to herself – What if she wasn’t so harsh and didn’t throw Frey out of family back then? Even though he was ‘EVIL’, she could’ve just said by word that he isn’t her brother anymore, and still kept him in family (although not talking to him while he stays under same roof or something) there was no need to throw him out of family. (But considering the novel is set as medieval-fantasy world, nobles throwing family members out wasn’t uncommon so Aria’s actions were still justifyable. But as I said before, she couldn’t help but think otherwise). What if she’d seen through his act or thought properly about his so-called EVIL DEEDS? What if she told him she didn’t mean what she said before and that Frey is still her brother and bring him back to family (which she kinda did when Frey had metal weakness curse Aria tried to call out to Frey when he said he wasn’t her brother but she whispered(?) (Seeing Frey’s weak side her heart wavered) that what Frey said is not the case and he is still her brother) in fact that scene tells perfectly why it was so hard for Frey to make Aria really hate him without her not worry about him. She’s too good and precious that she she would worry and care about Frey if he slips up his act even a bit.
In fact it’s not all that uncommon for siblings to care about each other IRL. If my sibling, who was kind and innocent when he/she was young becomes worst scum in the world, and if someday (even sometimes unknowingly) shows his/her weak side to me, I’D STILL WORRY ABOUT HIM/HER!! that’s how good siblings/humans are. They just worry even if their sibling are utter garbage. (For extreme scenarios imagine that sibling’s about to die in front of you and is crying helplessly… Damn the first thing you’d do is worry about them & try to help them at all costs forgetting all previous grudges at that moment… That’s just instinct (at least good people would do it)). Even more so for Aria as Frey didn’t do anything bad to her directly. So it’s obvious she cares about him whenever he shows his weak side.
So what I meant to say is that @linkingcrk and everyone else I know this story isn’t perfect but most of the scenarios and plot are pretty justifyable (like people keep regretting over stuff) if you think about it carefully. It’s just that emotions get the better of us and make us frustrated sometimes, making it difficult to judge a situation properly so we end up cursing everything. So please don’t hate this series over that. As I said, it’s not perfect but still doesn’t have as many problems as people complain about (especially that @Noobsama comments about lol. I guess he’s really frustrated with MTL and isn’t able to grasp the situations properly due to poor translation. Love to see @Noobsama & @Bananahoshi. fight over this stuff lol 😂).
Well In the end, everyone is just a victim of that damn tentacle-eye bastard and most importantly the AUTHOR.
such a shame my currently fav novel is just a “pls end already” novel for me… what is with this development? the MC was a villain from their PoV, why do they need to suffer from it? why do the Author is making poor Arya suffer? the real villain is the author
Heh