230─Heap of Ashes
It is a bizarre sight that cannot be understood.
Isn’t it like walking toward the enemy camp without any weapons, and the enemy soldiers you encounter don’t even point at you with any spears or swords?
That’s why Lizzy didn’t try to understand what he couldn’t understand, and he tried to focus only on using the means he had.
But no matter what, the anxiety that surged through me made me clutch the plush toy made in his image.
“Lizzy.”
“…… “
“Even though my life was stained with sin, I didn’t think I had a single regret in that life.”
But if there are only regrets and lingering feelings engraved in that life.
“I didn’t kill you that day.”
Even if it may reveal some of the blemishes that were hidden.
He had to be greedy and stubborn.
But his desire to be a good husband to his wives.
I want to be a respectable younger brother to my older brother.
I was unable to do so despite my desire to become a proud pillar of the imperial family.
If you go one step further, you probably felt unfair.
Now that Lee Seo-jin and Fersen’s egos are mixed, he is clearly a third person.
So, the reason he didn’t kill Lizzy that day was perhaps a part of his childish and hypocritical argument about why he had to endure the karma that this body carried.
Of course, her clan, her family, and her entire life were ruined.
She believed that she wouldn’t dare do any harm to herself, and she tried to read her own happiness. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand herself that day.
But if there was one thing she overlooked that day, it was that the character of Fersen von Schweig Brutein had always used the misfortune of others as a candle to read the book of her own happiness.
Why did I make that choice that day when I couldn’t light a candle and read a book called happiness?
‘…… Did she say not to steal the candlestick to read the Bible?’
Recalling a phrase that vaguely remained in Lee Seo-jin’s memory, Fersen soon stopped in the middle of her snowy field.
I don’t know what the Bible is, but at least I was able to understand without difficulty what the verse meant.
It means not to satisfy one’s greed or cause even by doing something that pollutes one’s conscience.
However, she has lived only such a life, and the only means available to her are that path.
Should we not read the happiness hidden in the darkness while listening to the voice of conscience that appeals to us every time?
Yes, she wouldn’t have killed Ciel Midford and gotten her hands on Euphemia if she had made up her mind to do so in the first place.
Sureuk.
Finally, Fersen touches her own altar and looks down at Lizzy in her arms.
Cow!
Then, the gate to the Underworld opened on a snowy field, and beyond it, the scenery of the Underworld was dimly reflected……
Kik Geek!
Through the narrow door, a very large cotton ball sticks out.
Crispy!
Of course, the enemy’s camp engraved in the area where the cotton ball was located was torn to pieces.
Soon, the cotton ball unravels, revealing its 108 snake-like heads and begins to roam the snowy field.
Because it was a violent vibration that could be felt just by standing still, the special forces that were waiting in the distance immediately took action and crossed the area in a straight line.
And Fersen, who realized this, quietly placed Lizzy, who was in his arms, on the ground in the snowy field as the numerous signs of love that had been felt for a short period of time disappeared completely.
“Lizzy. “I killed your family.”
“…… “
“I destroyed your family.”
“…… “
“And I ruined your life.”
Without turning your eyes away from that fact.
Right now, in the guise of a complete villain.
“Now, I will kill you.”
“…… “
“Let’s end our story here.”
Fersen pulls out the sword that Prince Raymond had given him and aims the tip at Lizzy.
I only know this method.
This is the only means.
‘I am…’ … ‘
I am willing to read my happiness even if it means stealing the candlestick.
* * * * *
When the cool, well-maintained tip of a knife was pointed at her, Lizzy, who had been looking at it, raised her head and looked into Fersen’s red eyes.
“When the obsessive-compulsive disorder that has bound you for 25 years turns towards you, do you think you will be able to withstand it?”
“Probably not.”
She will cut open her stomach and see what is inside with her own eyes.
“Nevertheless, the reason you pointed the tip of this sword at me is because you want to take that reckless gamble.”
Even though she was about to be killed, Lizzy was not afraid and continued speaking clearly to Fersen.
But Fersen heard what she said and answered her with his grave face.
“Do you think I’m gambling right now?”
“…… “
“Lizzy. You’re slow to notice her. Even if that cursed doll is connected to you…… In reality, there is no connection.”
“What are you talking about?” … “
“Didn’t you show it to me on the way through the snowy field?”
“…… “
“The strange ability targeting me has no effect at all.”
As if she was willing to prove it if she wanted to, Ferzen extended the tip of her sword and pierced Lizzy’s left shoulder.
Puuk.
Surely, I can feel the pain so intense that her lowered body temperature becomes hot……
“…… “
Without letting out a single scream, Lizzy looked at her own blood stains beautifully coloring her pure white snow field.
“Ah…… “
At the same time, when Fersen took off her robe and showed her the exact location of her wound, Lizzie realized that what he had said was not a lie.
Tuk.
Toduk.
Even though the sword stuck in her shoulder was twisted to the left, further digging into the open wound.
His skin has not even the slightest scar.
Phew!
Immediately after stabbing the sword into her right shoulder, as if to achieve the correct symmetry, Lizzy fell down on the pure white snow field with her arms hanging down, looking quietly at Ferzen.
Jureuk.
A fierce snowstorm disturbs my vision, but the surroundings of Lizzy, colored like red maple leaves, keep my blurry vision clear.
“Ha…… Ahahahaha…… “
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As much as it was meaningless to think so, Lizzy naturally burst out laughing at the ridiculous reality of neutralizing the monster’s ability to target her.
No matter how far away and stubbornly you climb up the wall.
As if this cruel world can’t show what’s beyond, it builds even higher walls.
What on earth is that person named Fersen?
Is this world spinning around him in an unreasonable way?
“…… “
And even though Fersen had pushed her to this point, the unresponsiveness of Lizzie convinced her that she no longer had the wherewithal to threaten him.
Then, thinking that the only thing left to do was to sever the knot of this long evil relationship, Fersen raised his sword mercilessly high.
Then, as if she was mourning her own impending death, her bright red blood became even darker, coloring her pure white snow field and causing several bloodflowers to bloom.
Hasn’t she tried everything she can at this level?
Yes, if she had this much of her, she would at least not feel any shame when she reunited with her brothers in the Underworld. Lizzy accepted her own death calmly. I tried.
But from that sight of Fersen holding her sword high, her own brother ── Cesar, whose head was cut off by her guillotine that day……
As expected, Lizzy did not want to face her death like this.
But she no longer had any means left.
Because all the goods have been consumed, the gate to the underworld cannot even be opened.
‘Ah…… ‘
No.
The moment her thoughts reached that point, Lizzy realized that she had the last resort left in her, and with great effort she turned her whole body to her side to avoid the sword coming at her diagonally. .
Crispy!
As his sword cut through the innocent girl’s snow, Fersen lazily chased after Lizzie, who was crawling away as fast as she could.
‘So miserable, does she want to prolong her life even if it’s just for a few seconds?’
It is her tenacious will to live that makes her move.
Or perhaps it is simply the survival instinct shown by animals like humans.
…… Anyway, what does she do when she thinks about such things?
Kwaak!
He placed his foot on her slender waist, as if laughing at her struggles that narrowed down to just three steps.
Ferzen raises her sword once again, her eyes focused on Lizzy’s head.
Cow!
But in the process of desperately crawling, Lizzy took out her altar and opened the door to her underworld without the slightest hesitation.
Finch!
As a result, the snow piled up on her floor was mixed with her blizzard and kicked up like thick dust, and Ferzen had to remove her foot, which was trampling on her back, due to Lizzie’s struggles, not her own. .
“…… “
When the baptism of snow that covered her surroundings slowly subsided, Fersen was able to see her Lizzy looking at him, breathing faintly in front of the open door to the underworld.
“There will be no wealth left for you.”
“…… You know it too. “That is not the only price a warlock can offer when making a deal with the underworld.”
“It is a monster that only lives on the first floor. “If I were to sacrifice your life to bring down the monster that lives on the first floor, do you think I would die?”
“I guess not.”
Even if there isn’t that monster rampaging through this snowy field right now.
The monsters that inhabit the first floor can be disposed of with the bodies of the previous head of the Brutein family or the Ernes Empire’s rare witch—Isabel.
But that wasn’t what he was aiming for in the first place.
When making a deal with the Underworld, the moment you sacrifice your life, your soul and body completely become the property of the monster who agreed to the deal.
What it means is that no trace of oneself is left in this world.
To be precise, it was a range in which he could not interfere.
He knows the facts about obsessive-compulsive disorder, and now he must have realized how it can be exploited.
No, that’s about it. You would have noticed it long ago when the snow that had briefly disturbed your vision had completely disappeared.
Because I did not hide my intention, but rather wanted him to “Recognize”……
Jureuk.
The gate to the underworld opened, and from the moment he left his side, he cut off his left ear with the dagger in his arms.
On the contrary, as if he didn’t notice it, he continued the conversation calmly and weakly, and his actions in bringing the strange creature from the third floor that he had already summoned here gave me goosebumps.
Quang!
But the deal that had already been concluded was the law of the underworld.
Objects fall to the floor due to gravity.
Everything that exists in the world is in the flow of time.
No matter how powerful it was, it was impossible to twist it.
“Lizzy──!”
Yes, because you know that.
He must be indignant at this law, which even a monster living on the third floor of the Underworld cannot break through, and rushes in with such an ugly expression on his face.
But also those desperate movements.
A struggle to stretch out the sword he was holding.
He could no longer harm his own body, which was no longer the property of this world.
The only person who can bend the laws of this underworld is the god who rules the underworld.
So, you, who are just a daytime human being, cannot possibly receive favoritism in this world.
“Can you overcome the terrible difficulty of symmetry that can never be correct?”
This is the only spell that a woman who lost her family, her clan, and her life was ruined can engrave on you.
And if it were possible to overcome it arbitrarily……
“Okay. “Then, let me enjoy to my heart’s content the happiness that has been built up through my family’s misfortune.”
Lizzy smiles brightly as she immediately digs out her left ear, which was cut off, and her left eye, which was excluded from the transaction, and drops them on the pure white snow.
This is a symmetry that can never be corrected. Her resentment is that even in the afterlife, she will hear and see the screams and struggles he makes as he struggles under the spell he has carved into himself.
When he first “Recognized” That his symmetry was off, the only way he could shake off this spell was by “Forgetting.”
But there was no monster with such abilities.
In my 25 years of life, the existence that I call myself probably occupies the largest proportion.
Will he be able to completely erase it from my mind?
You probably can’t do it.
“Fersen.”
Just as I will never forget the times you engraved in me.
“You too…… “You will never be able to forget me.”
With that said in conclusion.
A monster that comes against the open gate of the underworld swallows Lizzy’s body and soul and descends on the pure white snow field.
Wow!
And immediately, the monster from the third floor that Fersen had descended brought out one of her heads and bit it off in one go, but there was no inflection point.
The monsters of the underworld are beings that did not have a body from the beginning.
The body given when one descends to this world is nothing more than a dummy given for a short time so that one can exercise its power.
If we try to destroy it, Lizzy’s body and soul, which were sacrificed as compensation, will never return.
“…… “
All that remains are her ears and her purple eyes buried in the pure white snow.
No, not only that.
Jeobbuk.
The elite troops under Gremory have arrived here and greet Fersen beyond the driving blizzard.