Reconcile (13)
Elina stepped back little by little.
It was because Elin’s atmosphere felt so strange.
“… Elin?”
Elina cautiously called her name as if to dissuade her.
Elin tilted her head and stared at Elina with a confused gaze.
“Erin, are you okay?”
My voice trembled.
Have you ever thought that your twin brother was scary?
“Elina… ”
A soulless voice flowed from Elin’s mouth.
“I hate Elina.”
It was a voice that seemed to have raised a lot of hatred from the bottom of emotions.
Elina bit her lip.
“Everything I said was for us. It was what Neftam-nim wanted.”
“Sounds like Neftam. It was you, Elena, who tried to abandon me. You tried to hand me over to the Heretic Inquisitors. Isn’t that the same as telling me to die?”
“No, no. It’s not like that… I will be punished as well… ”
“What difference does that make?”
A cold gaze reached Elina.
Upon receiving that gaze, Elina’s body trembled as if convulsed.
Under Neftam’s orders, nothing was obviously wrong.
Now everything went wrong because of that.
“And again, Elina tried to take Leonhardt away from me… ”
“it is not so… !”
“Do not lie.”
Elin tilted her head slightly. The corners of her mouth slanted upward and arsenic dripped.
“You were thinking dirty thoughts. I even dared to think that a saintess shouldn’t.”
Elin smiled brightly.
“Pretending to be nice, pretending to be okay, pretending to be nothing. I hate Elina. Didn’t you feel superior while doing those things, thinking that you looked down on me, looked down on me, and helped me who would have been rejected in the first place?”
“Oh, no. it is not so. Elin, I never thought of that… ”
“Didn’t I think I couldn’t live without you?”
“then… never thought about it I really am for Elin!”
In front of Elina, Elin was already close.
When she moved, Elina didn’t even see it.
Did I lose my mind because I was afraid?
“Deceiver. dissembler.”
The words of accusation poured out in a cold voice lodged in my ears.
My head suddenly became dizzy at the words I couldn’t refute.
Have I really never thought of it like that?
Elin, holding a sharp weapon, walked right in front of Elina.
Elin pushed Elina and knocked her over.
“Wow!”
Elin climbed on top of Elina, who was lying on the ground screaming.
“El, Elin… stop, stop! Ugh!”
Elina struggled under Elin.
As much as she received professional training as a paladin, Elina always assumed that she would be physically superior to Elin. it was unconscious.
Strangely, however, Elina could not withstand Ellin’s power.
In the next moment, Elina’s movements stopped.
Before I knew it, the blade she was holding touched the left side of Elina’s heart.
Elina’s whole body froze at the terrifying sensation of the cold tip, as if her heart would stop.
“… I’m sorry.”
Elina let out a rough breath irregularly and looked up at Elin.
Beneath the shadow she created, Elin’s eyes shone with a distorted light.
“I knew you were trying to make up for what you lacked through me. ”
“no. Elin, I’m like that… ”
“It must have been easy for Elina to use because I was the saint of evil spirits. Because she would have been able to create an image of a noble saint who would forgive even a wicked woman by keeping me by her side.”
“Isn’t it… ”
“For Elina, my existence was just such a tool.”
Elina shook her head as hard as she could to deny Elin’s words.
But the movement was gradually losing confidence.
‘Strange… My head is blank.’
dizzy.
At some point, the strength to deny Elin’s words was running out.
“That’s why you could have abandoned me so easily. To you, I’ve never been family. How precious I was to you.”
my head hurts.
I don’t know if he really thought of Elin that way.
Elina turned her eyes to Elin’s hateful gaze.
Those eyes hurt more than the blade that looked like it would pierce the skin at any moment.
“That’s why I also decided to abandon Elina. Because it is completely unnecessary. Because you deserve to be abandoned.”
Elina’s body trembled like an aspen tree.
“And everyone else knows what a disgusting person you are. look. Even though you cried and begged so much, no one came to find you? Neftam also abandoned you. Because I know how selfish you are, how dirty and despicable you are.”
Elina’s eyes wavered aimlessly.
“Leonhard abandoned you too. You chose me, not you. You don’t care if you die or not?”
Elin, who was pouring out vicious words, whispered as he brought a knife to Elina’s chest.
“Then please die.”
The hatred and vehemence were sincere without a single lie.
“Elin… ”
A dry voice came out of Elina’s mouth as she heard the words she couldn’t handle.
I felt the warmth I had received from Elin flow through the holes in my body.
“… Sorry.”
The apology was a word that came out instead of a scream at Elin’s chopping words.
“Then are you going to die?”
The knife ripped through his clothes and dug deeper into his skin.
Elina’s eyes, which were earnest at first, soon lost their desire and were dying.
The eyes that were filled with tears were dry.
It felt like my heart would break.
Elina closed her eyes.
All energy drained from his body, and a sense of helplessness overtook him.
What is the meaning of a life abandoned even by the most precious person?
“yes.”
It was the answer that came out of giving up.
Elin laughed horribly.
A cold hand brushed Elina’s white cheek.
“great. I was hoping for that answer.”
Elin raised the knife in his hand.
“Now die.”
At a time like this, if Neftam-nim had helped.
Elina prayed earnestly.
May this pain of yours end now.
The next moment, Elina twisted her body to avoid the sharp blade.
A knife was lodged in the empty space of his chest and arm.
“… Why avoid?”
Elin, who had crushed Elina on the floor, asked with a faint smile.
But Elina was not in her right mind.
Suddenly, in Elina’s eyes, Ellin’s figure was reflected in a different form.
Standing there was a monster he had never seen before, not Elin.
His left hand was exceptionally small, like a child’s, his head too large, and his right hand and right arm were too large for his body. When I took a closer look at the faces, they were all different sizes and shapes. It was a monster that looked as if human body parts had been stitched together and patched together.
“… monster?”
“Are you a monster?”
Before I knew it, the monster had returned to the form of Elin.
It felt like a very disturbing hallucination.
“Are you treating me like a monster now?”
“Oh, no… ”
“You have always been like that. In fact, you must have thought of me as an evil spirit or a monster that worships me.”
Elina let out a thin breath and denied Ellin’s words.
Elin smiled and raised the sword again.
‘I see. I… ‘
Elina felt disgusted with herself.
how ugly you are Again, how disgusting.
A trembling breath of regret escaped his dry lips.
‘all… It was my fault.’
It felt like being pulled to the bottom of a swamp.
Gradually, a sticky liquid enters the nose and lungs, making it difficult to breathe…
With those words, Elina closed her eyes.
At Elina’s words, Elin smiled and raised the sword.
“Now really… !”
It was when Elin was about to lower the knife.
puck!
Elina woke up not to the sound of a sharp knife piercing her body, but to the dull tone.
Elin, who had been riding on top of Elina a while ago, was rolling on the floor before she knew it.
“Elin?! Go, Gongja… ?! Why Elin… !”
Leonhardt turned his head at Elina’s mumbled, absent-minded call.
“wake up.”
Leonhard held out his hand.
Elina, who had held out her hand as if it were natural, without even realizing it, lost hold of his hand and wandered in the air.
Leonhard forcibly grabbed Elina’s hand and raised her up.
“When I asked where you were, did you come all the way to the outskirts like this? Do you know how dangerous it is here?”
“I’m sorry.”
Elina was terrified and gave a vague answer.
Her hand, held in his large one, was still shaking.
‘It’s warm.’
Even at this moment, he felt a little disgusted with himself for feeling the satisfaction of Leonhardt’s touch.
As if reading her thoughts, Leonhardt pulled Elina and held her in one arm.
“I just stayed calm. You run into monsters like that because you walk around carelessly.”
“A monster?”
Elina felt eerie at Leonhardt’s words.
His gaze naturally turned to Elin, who had collapsed.
There stood the grotesque monster I had seen earlier.
I was sure this time it wasn’t something like a welcome.
“I-what is that?”
Elina, holding Leonhardt’s arm, trembled thinly and asked.