About a month after the last war ended.
[Sunrise Empire, Miracle Victory]
[Annihilation of the Demon Kings… The main character of victory is none other than the Princess]
[The missing warrior, found dead in the last war…]
Serena, who was sitting in her room and looking at the newspaper with empty eyes, slowly turned her gaze to the side.
– Squirt…
The sound of grasshoppers outside the window signaled that it was getting dark.
– Degur…
Serena, who had been quietly listening to the sound, staggered to get up from her seat, and empty wine bottles that had been scattered around the desk rolled around the desk.
– Tub, Tub…
It was a sight that did not suit her, who was very weak and even reluctant to drink, but it seemed quite suitable to the current Serena.
Unlike her usual neat attire, her hair has become sparse, her eyes have lost their shine, and her soulless expression makes you feel chill when you look at it.
– Quick profit…
Serena, who opened the door to the room after almost a week with such a tragic disgrace, staggered and moved.
“Se, Serena-sama!?”
“Ha, where are you going in the middle of the night…!”
The servants hurriedly approached her, but Serena, who quietly raised her hand to stop them, stopped immediately.
“…carriage.”
“yes?”
“Get your wagon ready.”
Serena said so with a white, tired expression, the subordinates couldn’t resist.
“……..”
So, the subordinates who hurriedly left her side and started heading downstairs.
– Flutter…!
Behind Serena, who was left alone, the sound of paper flapping is heard.
– Tsar…
The diary on the desk in her room was blown away by the wind and began to flutter.
“Selena-sama, the carriage is ready.”
“……..”
“…Selena-sama?”
In Serena’s mind, who had listened to the sound blankly, the events of that day began to come to mind again.
“Fray…”
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Memories of that day, when Frey became acquainted with the Demon King.
.
“Big…”
“Why, why? Why did you do this?”
I didn’t understand at all.
“Why? For what?”
That day, the truth came to me as I watched Frey, who was spitting out dark red blood and cooling off.
A man I hated and was eager to kill.
A demon who stole the innocence of the princess who was supposed to be impeccable. The Empire’s Cancer. disgusting asshole.
The conclusion that Frey, the protagonist of all the modifiers, was actually a hero.
“Explain…”
“eww…”
“Come on, let me explain!!!”
In fact, I could understand the conclusion in my head.
Because my needlessly developed brain was trying to guess the exact truth behind this incident and pushing it towards me.
“hurry!!!”
But my mind, the fear that springed from my instincts, was refusing to understand the truth.
If everything I just guessed is true.
Thanks to you, if I crossed a river of no return.
What am I supposed to do in the future?
“…I’m sorry, Serena.”
Thinking like that, I stopped all thoughts and just listened to him dying in front of me.
“No matter what… no matter what you do…”
As the words came out of his mouth, I felt something inside me cut off.
“…It was impossible to deceive you until the very end.”
So, something inside was cut off.
“I was a little smart enough… hehe.”
“……..”
“Still… I’m glad.”
I froze and just listened to him again and again.
“As a result of hard work… I was able to delay the moment you found out the truth, until the very end…”
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My hand holding his hand trembled as if it had convulsed.
“With this, I think I’ve barely reached…”
“……..”
“You don’t die for me… to a happy ending.”
Tears begin to flow from the eyes that were dry with fatigue.
“You, you…”
“I was afraid… The moment you found out the truth, you sacrificed for me without delay…”
“you…”
“Can’t you come and sacrifice for me now…? haha…”
At that point, I could no longer run away from the truth that came to me.
“…for me, for everyone.”
“Cool, cool…”
“Did you decorate all of this?”
An old diary that was disappearing into dust next to him.
The identity of the ‘book that Frey is always looking at’ that his henchmen have been told.
That was my diary.
– Shaa…
For some reason, the diary, which has been written on a page that I haven’t written, is gradually losing its shape and disappearing.
“Uh, since when?”
“……”
“Since when?”
Realizing the meaning at once, I asked a question while covering his wounds with my trembling hands like aspen.
“…Well.”
“No, tell me… Please…”
“Since when, crybaby.”
“……!”
In response to the answer that came back, I had no choice but to close my eyes and bow my head.
“I don’t know…”
“Ugh…”
His ninth birthday, which gave me the nickname crybaby.
The day I lay down on the hill near the mansion and looked up at the constellations.
“From that day…? From that day… until now?”
If everything started from that day.
Everything I’ve done to him.
The curse on him, the poison he fed him, the plot on him, the assassin sent to him, the wounds he inflicted.
all…
“Ahhh…”
Tired of turning blue, he opened his clothes, and his body, discolored blue, came into view.
It’s not like the wounds I got from the Demon King.
The traces of poison and curse that have been constantly on him over the past few years.
“I put on the illusion magic… why did it come off…”
Frey’s muttering, heard in a low, cut-off voice, penetrates deeply into my heart.
“Hey, this… until now? With your bare mind…?”
He didn’t get an invincible body by selling his soul to the Demon King.
Just to deceive me to the end.
He had endured this terrible pain for the past few years with his sanity.
“Come on, wait. Wait a minute, Frey.”
I was so crazy that I couldn’t stay sane any longer.
“Gee, I’ll fix it right now.”
On his dying body, already tired of blue, I began to cast a random spell on him.
Healing magic, recovery magic, healing magic, hemostasis magic, analgesic magic.
Healing magic that I know of, I began to list all of them.
“Gee, wait.”
However, it was all in vain.
“Wait!! Frey!!!”
No matter what kind of magic you use.
“My, I… I’ll get Perloche… Ferroche right away…!”
Frey’s life, already exhausted, was on the verge of being extinguished.
“Selena.”
I hurriedly got up from my seat and tried to run to the saint, my only hope, but Frey caught me.
“It’s the path I’ve chosen…”
He smiled faintly and slowly closed his eyes.
“It’s the ending I chose and wanted…”
“No!! I didn’t want this!!”
“This was the best. You just fooled me…”
I hugged him in a hurry, and eagerly grabbed his cheeks and started to take away the curse I had been walking for so long.
– Shaa…
“I didn’t know!! I didn’t know!! Really…!!”
There was no curse on his already dead body.
“Crybaby… no.”
Even though I had reached such a situation, Frey looked at me while forcing myself to come to my senses.
“…Selena.”
He weakly but firmly grabbed my hand and, with his last strength, began to speak to me.
“I’ll ask the Empire…”
At the moment when I, who noticed that the voice was fading, was about to intervene in a hurry.
“Gi, wait. I still want to say…”
“and…”
Everything was already late.
“If there is a next life, then it must be…”
“Fray?”
Apologies for what happened in the past.
Without even saying thank you for protecting everyone.
“you?”
So, he left.
.
“I, Serena-sama.”
“………”
“Stop getting up.”
Serena, who was moaning in a cold sweat, slowly woke up to the worried voice of the maid next to her.
“You have reached your destination.”
“…okay.”
The wagon she was riding in had already arrived at her destination.
“I, by the way… are you feeling okay…”
“……..”
Serena, who was about to get off the carriage with a soulless expression on her face, quietly turned her head to the maid’s words.
“…Princess Clana, haven’t you woken up yet?”
“Oh? Yes, yes. You are still in a coma…”
“I see.”
That was Serena’s last interest in the outside world.
– Profit…
Serena, who opened the carriage door with eyes as if she had made up her mind to something, stopped the maid who was about to help, and stepped outside.
“…the mansion is gone.”
“It was burned down by an angry crowd a few days ago.”
Then, the place she passed was none other than the burning and ruined Starlight Mansion.
“It’s self-sufficient, huh?”
“……..”
Frey, and the Starlight family.
As Frey had crafted in advance, he left his name in history as a treason on the side of the Demon King.
And the people of the Empire could not leave the mansion of the family that lost their qualifications as a duchy due to Serena’s order.
Of course, the people of the Starlight family who were going to stop such an imperial nation had already lost their lives without missing a single one.
– Three, Serena. That my brother died… is it really true?
“……..”
He contacted Serena the day the mansion was burnt down.
Except for Arya, who was studying abroad.
– Well, is that a lie? Boo, it must have been 5 years since everything would have ended, right? Oh, did your brother say that?
“……..”
– Serena? Why don’t you answer…?
Serena finds a forged document elaborately proving that Arya has nothing to do with her family’s crimes in the ruined mansion that day.
– No, tell me… huh, it’s bullshit… Please…
– Beep…
Without saying a word to her, I had no choice but to end the call.
“From here on, I will go alone.”
“yes?”
Serena, looking at the ruins of the burnt-out mansion, recalled Arya’s voice that day.
“Don’t follow me.”
“Se, Serena-sama…”
Then, she walks again, leaving the maid behind her.
“…I’ll go now, Frey.”
Towards the hill where I shared memories with Frey ten years ago.
.
“I’m sorry I broke your last request…”
Serena, who climbed the hill while harming the densely-grown trees, murmured.
“No matter how hard I try, I just can’t.”
Rising branches and grass were scaring her, but Serena continued to climb the hill without blinking an eye.
“…every time I close my eyes, I remember all the things I’ve done for you.”
To groan at such a scratch was an insult to Frey.
“I’m really sorry, really…”
Therefore, she bit her lip and continued to climb the hill, ignoring the wounds on her body.
“……..”
Then she stopped walking and raised her head.
“ah…”
Young Frey, who was celebrating his birthday, secretly came up holding hands.
A mysterious hill where evening primroses and star primroses bloom every year at this time of the year after the covenant of 1000 years ago.
The night sky I looked up at while lying on the hill was spread out equally.
“…that day, what you meant to say.”
Serena began to slowly move forward while watching that figure.
“What the hell was it?”
Just before Frey’s death, the contents of a will he hadn’t finished running through her mind.
“Now, no matter what you do, you won’t know.”
Her feet, muttering in a cold voice, are caught in danger at the edge of the cliff that spreads out.
“…I’m sorry, Frey.”
The darkness that spreads out in front of you.
The moment Serena’s eyes stared at the darkness shone in the moonlight.
“Now it’s my turn to make atonement.”
Her feet moved forward, one step at a time.
“…even me like this.”
– Whoops…!
“Hey!?”
At that very moment, the ground engulfed out of nowhere devoured Serena.
.
“…under?”
Serena, who came to her senses in the dark, looked around with a blank expression on her face.
“…Am I alive? I? But why?”
For some reason, she was alive.
“Bar, the floor is… soft.”
While investigating the cause, Serena realized that something soft on the floor had saved her life.
“Where the hell are you…”
Serena soon realized that it was a soft sheet with shock-absorbing magic, got up from her seat and muttered.
“……..!”
The next moment, she found what was in front of her, and stopped right there.
“Fray…”
Before long, Serena began to move forward trembling.
“Every year… you come back here?”
Then she realizes that this is a secret space that she and Frey used to hide in in the past, and she reaches for something on the old desk.
“Without omission?”
Ten evening primrose flowers were stuffed and placed on the desk.
“You… you really never forgot.”
Now, to say that it had been abandoned for 10 years, the condition of the hideout was too neat.
As if someone often came in and managed it.
“………”
A promise from 10 years ago begins to ring in her ear as she sits in front of a desk engraved with memories, lost for words.
“I’m fine… I don’t want to go…”
“Why?”
“You, you… I want to stay with you…”
The foolishness that I, who was still young, used to call Frey.
“After today… go, because of family affairs… I won’t be able to play with you for a while…”
“Huh, okay?”
The promise that Frey made to himself like that.
“That, and… you’re going to forget me naturally…”
“Then let’s make a promise.”
“…promise?”
Serena’s eyes, recalling the promise, suddenly widened.
“Yeah, a promise to not forget each other.”
After a while, her trembling hands point towards the drawer of the old desk.
“That day we… we wrote letters to each other.”
forgotten for a while.
No, it was a memory that I purposely erased from my memory.
It came back to Serena’s mind.
“…a letter to us 10 years from now.”
A time capsule that we put in the hope that our hearts will not change even after 10 years.
– Tickle…!
The sealing magic that blocked the time capsule was released as expected.
According to the number of evening primroses on the desk, the promised ten years had passed.
[I love you forever, Frey!]
And from the open drawer, Serena looked briefly at the letter with childish phrases she had written.
“…eww.”
Then, the moment she turned her gaze to the side.
“OMG……”
Ever since Frey passed away, her feelings have been shattered.
“Ahhh…!!!”
It burns up again in its saddest form, and then falls into tears.
[I want to marry you again in my next life!]
It was a very sad ending for a boy and a girl who loved each other.
Serena treat Frey very harshly in this timeline, why’s it different from the Serena we know?