The Paladin Owns the Relic chapter 188

188 – Advent (6)

It was just another day.

I thought so at the beginning.

I was used to the hand that threw me down. The kicks digging into the stomach were also the same.

Air was forced out of the lungs. I couldn’t move.

I was completely under him.

“Dirty albino bastard!”

The longer I spent with Han Seo-ah, the more despair touched me.

A flimsy hope. Only that dream of earning money and getting out of here someday made it possible for me to endure.

Adults were too strong.

We were just kids.

“…Ah…Ah…”

What made you so angry?

The head of the orphanage always had a belt in his hand. Sometimes there were even dumbbells. It was a little risky when lifting dumbbells. At that time, I had to somehow cling to the gear feet.

To plead with the one who torments you? But I couldn’t see anything else besides that option.

There was no place to sleep after leaving the orphanage.

There was no place that tried to use me, who had just become an elementary school student.

A middle child can even use it, but a small child cannot even use it. Moreover, because I was born with a different appearance than others, I was more and more wary.

Han Seo-ah was unique. She was the first child who approached me without any boundaries like her.

She was just as precious, and luckily she seemed to cherish me too.

Even the time I spent with other children was invested in me.

So somehow… Hold on, hold on… Let’s stay here together…

“Are you laughing? This f*ck … Do you laugh? Do you like me too? Huh? Are you satisfied?”

A dumbbell was lifted in the director’s hand. I hurriedly clung to his feet.

But for some reason, he didn’t stop.

The shoulder was taken down.

“Turn it off?!”

“Yes. sh*t… Huh? Does this hurt? Is this a f*cking hurt?

My shoulders were loose. I cringed. I couldn’t even scream. It felt as if the pain had hit my brain and escaped through my nose.

I was out of breath. My heart beat too fast. His head spun and he fell face down. It was wriggling, but the director was still moving.

“So… f*ck it…!”

I heard him raise his hand.

“You shouldn’t have laughed at me…!”

A knocking sound was also heard.

Kwajik.

It was a thick yet short sound. It was so short that it took my breath away, and even the heart that had been beating wildly stopped for an instant.

But I didn’t have the pain I expected. Something just fell on top of me.

I opened my eyes. I saw a child with blood running down his broken forehead.

Without a will. Just foolishly

She… Han Seo-ah died just like that.

Just…

My hopes just ended in vain.

. . .

“Keuk?!”

I immediately backed away. Hanseo approached me at some point Ah… No, Mercedes took her hand away from me.

There were shallow tentacles wriggling at the tips of the squirming fingers. There was red blood at the end.

It wasn’t hers. It was mine

I grabbed my neck. There was thick blood on the palm of his hand.

The conversation continued.

But at some point…Something got weird.

“…What did you… Do…?”

“Behavior that violates the laws of the world does not last long. It will be broken in a little while by the observer.”

Mercedes licked the blood off her fingertips.

“I missed you. Zahard. What kind of life have you lived When I died that day…what were you thinking.”

“…Stole my memory?”

“You were always missing me too.”

Mercedes put her hand on her chest.

“Right now, the shell of Han Seo-ah is almost gone. Even though we share the same memories, we harbor different emotions. It is safe to say that it is another object. But…”

Her eyes grew redder and redder.

“I still want you…”

“What?”

“Hanseo-ah’s only support was you. Even when she was given the new name Mercedes, she fought for you. As you think of her, she thinks of you. Does she know why she fought?”

“…What…What…?””

“Ra said. If this real world is caught in the tipping point of destruction, other worlds around it may also be affected. She didn’t want another payment. She fought just to protect you and the world you were in. Because that was Han Seo-ah.”

Mercedes grabbed the air in her. Something in her protruded through the torn space.

Something black and cloudy. An unidentified life that causes discomfort just by looking at it.

Things that repeated formation and collapse were sucked back into space.

And through the torn space…

Huge bared eyes looked at me.

“All worlds will inevitably perish. The gods don’t know yet. What lies beyond Only the warriors who fought against them, flesh-to-skin, would know.”

Red light poured through the cracks.

The pupil moved. It was looking at me

I couldn’t breathe. He opened his mouth, but blood poured out.

“Zahad… You know. I am…”

Mercedes looked away and whispered.

“He killed a lot of people. I killed the people I killed, and I did it over and over again. To destroy the fake world, all copies of life must be destroyed. Everyone, even those who survived at the hands of the corrupters.”

“…Heh…Heh…!”

I am short of breath. My head doesn’t turn properly.

“And that was mine too. Not just cutting down the fallen, but also cutting down the poor survivors. For you… For more people around you, I kept killing people.”

Mercedes walked. He put his hand on my head.

“Kill… Kill again… Discard everything… And then…”

A whisper was heard in my ear.

“The color of the clothes changes. Infinitely dull. The number of people killed exceeds the number of people they tried to protect. Still, I can’t stop.”

“……”

You must have thought that I would be dead. For she tore me off and threw me away from the beasts. Because what she retrieved was only her original pure Hanseo.”

“……”

“Is it Han Seo-ah that is standing in front of you right now… Or is it just a twisted and crashed Mercedes? I was worried In the darkness, countless whispers are trapped. Then I came to a conclusion.”

She stroked my hair slowly.

“If I kill them all anyway… I wonder if anything will matter.”

“…You…!”

I tried to stand up. But Halo is broken. It was shattered absurdly easily by her hand.

“Zahard. I was born to Seo Ah Han. That’s why it’s natural for me to want you. What I want to say is from here. I want you Even if you don’t want me anymore, I will always want you.”

“……”

“Come with me. With this world as the starting point, everything will collapse. I realized that no matter how much I try to save people, it’s meaningless. And you’ll realize that sooner or later.”

“…You…!”

“Cat. I remember?”

Mercedes murmured.

“At that time… I should have bought something delicious with that money.”

With that one word, goose bumps ran down my back.

The one in front of me was definitely Han Seo-ah.

But at the same time, it wasn’t Seoah Han.

Pure desire. Corruption running for destruction.

“Are you going with me?”

She asks in her confident tone. I gasped and answered.

You want to… Destroy everything?

Could that be… The f*ck…?

“Hanseo…!”

“Call me Mercedes. ‘Cause she’s no longer in me And what I want is also Zahard. Not Do Min-joon.”

Mercedes nodded her head.

“Zahard. You have to be careful with your answers. Once exhaled, there is no turning back. If I can’t have you…”

She took her hand off my head. She held out her hand to me.

“I will have you by force. Even if it breaks the mind, destroys the body, and I have the authority to control it.”

“…What?”

“But I don’t want to hurt you. So please choose So that your ending doesn’t flow the other way.”

This is a threat.

You’re a good person…That’s something you’d never say.

I stared blankly at her hands.

No sound was heard. There were no hands to help me.

Everything just stopped. In this world, no one could stand against her, and she was like inevitable death to me.

A being whose head falls off my neck with the simple movement of a hand.

I had no means to fight back. The difference in power was obvious.

But why…

Does that situation come to mind right now?

「You dirty albino bastard!」

It was like that that day too. Maybe it’s always been like that. No one helped, no one spoke up for me.

I was just abandoned. He was just crouching in the middle of the road. There were times when people passing by threw pitiful glances at me, but those weren’t feelings toward people.

The feeling of seeing a strange pet.

I didn’t like the term white-haired. Other appearances inevitably bought vigilance. Those who bought vigilance were not easily accepted.

I was rejected by all groups, and all groups hated me.

“……”

So that was it. I dyed my hair and did random jobs. I didn’t know why. I just wanted to.

There was nothing I didn’t do. People’s eyes changed just by wearing lenses in their eyes and simply changing their appearance.

I even heard that people have changed.

But even in the midst of that, there was one thing that didn’t change.

“… When… When…”

I was in tears. I got up. He looked at her, somehow staggering.

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She didn’t take her outstretched hand. She just asked.

“Why…”

I hoped it would go well. I kept wishing in a corner of my heart.

I knew I couldn’t be her. This basic selfishness I had was crawling out of my experience.

I hope only what I have is good.

To think that it doesn’t matter what happens to everyone except mine.

But even so, I implicitly wished for it. Sometimes I even pretended.

Maybe he desperately wanted it.

It’s not that people like me are doing well…

I wondered if the reason I should have been happy all the time was to be someone like you.

“If you are good… You should be good…”

My body couldn’t move properly. But she reached out.

How painful must it have been? To think that he continued to kill people for me… For the world.

Abandoned at the point when everything was over… Just suffering.

Nobody.

No one reached out to her.

“Why…Why did this happen…”

I thought about it all the time even when I ran out of the orphanage.

I wondered if it wasn’t me who should have been alive, but her.

But…

But why…?

Her outstretched hand touched Mercedes’ cheek. I noticed that her skin was freezing cold.

It’s already broken. What is in front of my eyes is an irreversible part of Han Seo-ah.

Her A killer who can’t even be called her anymore.

「Damn you bastards!」

I remembered the head of the orphanage. He always said that.

Maybe he was the first to hear the word damn it.

Swear. Violence. All kinds of opposite words about hope.

I learned all of that from him. It was an irresistible evil, and to me it was…

It was an inevitable mass of evil that we would have to face someday.

And Seoah Han protected me from him.

Even sacrificing himself.

All along.

I have been sacrificing all along.

“…Mer…Mercedes…”

I put that name in my mouth. I saw the traces left by the person I longed for in my heart.

Mercedes was just staring at me. She did not impose any restraint, she just closed her eyes.

Said.

In a low voice.

“…The answer?”

I replied.

Squeeze your voice.

“Cat…You know…”

The dying stigma caught fire. La’s. And Naga’s things were also mixed in it.

However, the energy of Surt, the demonic sword that ate all of that, enveloped my entire body.

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Kwachang.

“Do not disturb.”

The status window was broken in her hand. I had nothing left.

Even a handful of the energy of the remaining holy power that was extending out fell and disappeared. The holy relic lost its light, and even the world became quiet.

But still I said.

“The cat I saved with you…”

Hanseoah and I.

The basic difference between the two.

I was born with it, but I have a different temperament.

But even so… People change just by being ‘like’.

I could feel it at my fingertips. Her scream. A pit of evil so terrible that it devours the innate temper.

Now I saw a lump of human beings that no one would ever love.

That’s why I had to speak.

If it was her original Hanseo, she would say something to Mercedes if she was the one who broke away from her.

I was once loved by no one…

What Seoah Han said.

“I have no regrets. Even now.”

Look straight into the heart of longing. He also refuses to give detailed reasons.

I just do what my heart tells me to do. Looking at you, reminiscing about you, I kept thinking about you.

「Anyone can change. If you really want it.”

I dreamed.

I dreamed of your back.

All along.

Without forgetting even once.

So now…

“Mercedes.”

It is time to look straight into that heart.

“I want to help you.”

I hope.

“I want to get you… out of there.”

For the first time, I hope to be.

“I am not her. But i know her She knows what she would have said to you if she were her.”

Want to save people and sincerely help…

“A fake cannot be real. I’m sure it will. But a fake that has been separated from the original…If it’s real to someone…”

A real paladin.

“I will be your real one. Mercedes. I will save you No one else’s will, only my will.”

Mercedes blinked.

“…If that’s the answer…”

The drowsiness that jumped out.

She frowned.

“I have no choice but to kill you to get it.”