It was a moment that should be called an overflow of memories.
Vera knelt at the memory of his past moment of becoming a blasphemous creature.
‘This… .’
Twisted memories are engraved again.
Moments that had been left blank were reunited in the right form.
The moment I became the owner of the gutter, and the moment I first met Renee there.
The moment the servant of the demon king trampled on this land, she met again.
– One help, are you okay with now?
That smile too.
“Turn it off…”
Vera shook his head.
He shook his head to calm his uncontrollable breathing.
and then met
-Do you love me?
Whispers of the night as the twilight moonlight pours through the window.
I felt the outstretched hand fumbling down my cheek.
-I might do something cruel. You will resent me.
such a warning word.
The past self answers it.
-However much.
lips overlapped.
The memories continued and headed to the Greenis.
– This will be at the end. This will be our last fight.
-Are you going to go back when it’s all over?
– You don’t like it?
-Well… .
My chest was aching.
It’s so sad that she just smiles bitterly, so I can’t figure out why.
She was such a person with a secret.
It was the same at the very end.
-Sorry… .
There were words of apology for no reason, and the memory ended there.
What comes to mind is the feeling of being submerged in a swamp.
After waking up, he had forgotten her and was with her in the middle of the gutter.
Vera took a rough breath and cleared them up.
Hot tears flowed from the corners of his wide, tearing eyes.
‘memory… .’
This was the real memory I had forgotten.
I met her, fell in love, and then broke up.
‘… why.’
Why?
Why did Rene in the last episode sealed herself, and why did she end up like that?
What the hell were you aiming for?
Confusion filled.
With resentment in the direction of the helpless emotion, and yet love at the end of it, Vera didn’t know what to do with himself now.
Moment.
[Come.]
The voice was heard again.
Vera raised his head.
I looked at the source in the world turned into fog again.
[Come.]
got up
moved staggeringly.
and cried
“who are you!”
I asked the voice who had guided me the whole time, who showed me this truth.
The voice answered.
[Come.]
Vera gritted his teeth.
It added strength to the steps.
A staggering step turned into a straight step.
It’s running again.
I caught a shaky accident.
He began to constantly infer who the owner of the voice was.
In the revealed memory, he became the tenth.
Rene in her last life sealed herself with the coffin of eternal life.
It is presumed that she went through several rounds.
Vera intertwined several causes and inferred the identity of the person who dragged him down into this space the moment it stabbed Alaysia’s heart.
The sprinting stopped.
The slow footsteps quickly settled into place.
With a tight breath, I looked at him, who still exists only as a silhouette.
and said
“Ardain…”
The fog cleared.
A pure white world opened up.
In the midst of it, he was still a silhouette.
[…] Yes, we met here.]
Vera then realized.
“you are….”
The reason he was only in sight as a silhouette.
There was no other reason.
That was the reason he didn’t have a fixed form.
[You already know that.]
he smiles
No, it felt like a smile.
Vera couldn’t know the exact expression of his face, as he was still only a silhouette in a world where everything became clear.
He looked like a young man and he looked like a virgin.
He looked like an old man and he looked like a child.
Sometimes he looked middle-aged.
He was seen as a good person and also as a bad person.
It was impossible to understand its essence, but Vera came up with the word ‘human’ as a word that could only encompass it.
he came
It stood in front of me as a blurry, distorted afterimage.
[you… .]
Still unknown, Vera could see that Ardain was smiling in front of him.
[…] This is a great sacrifice.]
Vera questioned the words that sounded bitter even though it was a smile.
“…what does sacrifice mean?”
Unquenched emotions put fire in Vera’s eyes.
The gray eyes that had burned and left only remnants had begun to burn with emotion once again.
Ardain replied.
[It literally means.]
Ardain turned around.
[Follow me.]
moved a step
Wow-!
The light took shape.
Vera stared at the scene with wide, tearing eyes.
“This….”
[This is the beginning of this land.]
What was revealed was a huge meadow.
He answered softly and continued walking.
Vera clenched his teeth and walked behind him.
Ardein continued speaking to such Vera.
[In the beginning of the day, we received a revelation.]
Nine ancient species are located above the grassland.
There was a small pond at the end of which they bowed their heads.
It was a lake that Vera also knew.
‘… The place where Elia is.’
The Lake of Revelation in the deepest part of Elijah.
It was there.
[We were born as farmers to build this land, but we moved only by that revelation.]
Vera heard those words and looked at the scene that followed.
Terdan pushed the earth and formed a mountain.
Lokrion flew up and formed the sky.
Nertania shaped the shadow, Gorghan shaped the sea.
[Just be free.]
As Ardane waved his hands as he said that, the completed world cluttered Vera’s vision.
[We followed that revelation to create a world that was more free than anything else.]
A land of spring where life springs up.
There, Ardein was stroking Alaysia by the side of Aidrin, who had taken root.
[That was the beginning.]
Vera thought.
The emotion buried in his voice was infinitely close to remorse.
However, it was not the beginning of this land that Vera was curious about.
“Sacrifice, what I am asking is the meaning of it.”
[The story is not very different from this.]
Ardain finally looked at Vera.
Face-to-face, he answered.
[Now, what did Alaysia and I do while you saw it?]
As he was about to answer, Vera felt speechless.
‘… nothing.’
did nothing
Alaysia and Ardain just stared at it.
Ardain chuckled.
[Yeah, because that wasn’t our role.]
“…I don’t enjoy talking back.”
[Um, you are a quick-tempered child.]
Seeing Ardain shrugging as if he couldn’t help it, Vera took a long breath.
“…I ask again. What is the sacrifice? What are you for? And I….”
Awkward-.
Vera’s fists clenched.
“…why am I the tenth?”
Ardain looked at him silently.
Then he nodded and said.
[Yeah, private stories are not important.]
“What is the tenth?”
[It is the end of the era.]
Ardain waved his hand.
Then the world began to flow at a very high speed.
In it Vera looked.
The sacrifices of the altar on the grassland, the sacrifices that were crucified on fire, and the sacrifices of being tied to a rock and eaten by crows.
numerous other offerings.
[An inflection point that exists for an era to end and move on to the next. That is the sacrifice.]
Every single sight is frowned upon.
Vera looked at it and asked him.
“…all of this, is it you?”
It was not an unfounded question.
The question I asked because I was so familiar with what I felt from them, the energy of the person in front of me and the energy of those sacrifices were very similar.
Ardein affirmed.
[So far it has been.]
“Until this time?”
[Isn’t it now?]
Then he looked at Vera.
Vera knew the meaning of the act.
No, it was right to say that I was able to draw a conclusion from that act and the sights I had seen so far.
“…You mean to say that I am your reincarnated soul with a torn soul?”
[You are a clever child.]
he smiled and said
[You are different from me. However, it is the same entity. This fate will somehow lead you to sacrifice, and you will fall down as a chaste sheep for the next age.]
Ardain approached Vera.
[I am the first creature. It is also the last creature of the age. That’s my destiny.]
Stopped right in front of Vera’s nose.
[You who carried it will also be the same. Alaysia exists for that purpose.]
Vera filled his whole body with energy.
To grasp the true meaning of what he said, he was trying to control his shaking heart.
“…you are the birth of an era.”
A word that brings out the essence of Ardein’s words.
to that he replied
[Yes, Alaysia is the end of the era.]
“The smallest world…”
[It is a name that closes the era.]
Vera asked next.
“Alaysia did this to prevent your death, right?”
A bitterness was added to Ardein’s voice.
[Yeah, the kid wanted to resist. The fate that surrounds us, the parting that will exist at the end.]
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Once again the landscape turned upside down.
This time, there was a scene that Vera knew.
Inside a tent, it was Alaysia, who was in full term, and Ardein, who was interrogating her.
[Foolishly, the child was greedy. I wanted to make a sacrifice to replace me.]
Ardain’s heart was pierced.
Alaysia swallowed it.
Alaysia’s body explodes in the air.
What came out with it was an unholy fetus.
[It shouldn’t have been done. So I tried to block it. However, there may have been some hesitation.]
The fetus melts.
Behind the muffled scream was Alaysia’s laughter.
[I was able to stop it. One, I couldn’t stop it.]
Vera listened silently.
[…] Love is so scary The greed that I didn’t want to get over what she really wanted was holding me back.]
This time, the long years were drawn from Alaysia’s point of view.
I saw Alaysia, who built the Land of the Apostates.
She was seen wearing all kinds of ugliness on her body.
At the end, she was seen advancing, hiding the fortress built in denial under the lake.
[I knew. What is at the end of the child’s path. How will she perish? Still, I couldn’t hurt her… .]
In the depths of the fortress built with negativity, she enveloped herself.
[…] tore me apart.]
“What did you want?”
[I wanted her to stop.]
“What did you do that for?”
[Hopefully she can rest.]
“Was it more serious than the sacrifices of so many people?”
Ardein’s words stopped.
Vera looked at him and waited for an answer.
Ardein answered with a voice that was indescribably broken.
[For me… It was.]
*
In the paused time, Renee stopped breathing.
– Can you hear me? No, hearing this would be the same as saying that you had come this far, so it would be a vain question.
A voice that resounds softly.
A bite trembling sadly somewhere.
-Finally, you must have come this far.
The voice he heard was his own.