68 – Sky
Tuduk─. Do-do-doo-.
I woke up to the rain hitting the window.
Unfamiliar sounds.
Looking out the window with half-open eyes, the sky, which was always blue, was covered with dark clouds.
Truly unfamiliar weather.
I tilt my head at a certain strangeness, but today, the agenda was pushed back in a fresh mood.
I couldn’t bear to feel these days,
Confidence that no matter who comes, we can win.
I left the room with light steps befitting the sense of omnipotence.
It has been a long time since I went out.
Ttogak, Ttogak.
Every step I took in the white marble hallway made the sound of my shoes.
When I happened to run into an employee, I greeted him with a smile.
Befitting the people who manage the mansion, they were dressed in stylish maid and butler uniforms.
I was looking at them and then suddenly lowered my head and looked at my current outfit.
A blue flowing dress.
It’s close to a solid color, but is it because of the luxurious fabric?
Or is it because it matches the hair that hangs down to the waist?
I liked it quite a bit even though it was different from what I usually wear.
Ttogak, Ttogak.
I moved my steps again.
Slowly.
I looked around the mansion very slowly.
I stopped by a hall to enjoy dinner with my family as usual.
Old butler Baldert, who has been in a relationship for ten years, was busy preparing a dinner.
I wanted to walk over and ask what the menu was today, but I decided to be patient for later enjoyment.
Ttogak, Ttogak. I went down the stairs carefully.
I have arrived at the ballroom.
It is the widest facility in the mansion, and it is not strange even if soccer goals are placed at both ends.
The space is colorless and I don’t normally use it, but it seemed like it could be any day today.
The carpet on the floor of the ballroom, the table, and the food on it, it seemed like they were having a banquet.
In one corner, I saw Levy, a magician specializing in Explosion, playing to the music of a symphony orchestra.
I looked at it with delight.
A large research room where magicians discuss each other.
This is the only place where Dwice, who is always timid, shouts magic theories in a heated voice.
It was like that today as well, and I fought back the urge to intervene in that place where dozens of people were huddled together.
The gymnasium behind the mansion.
I saw Marco vigorously swinging his sword.
It’s something that happens every single day.
“Stupid like an idiot.”
Through the twisted lips, from the chapped chest, words that were not in my heart came out.
I shook my head from side to side and moved to the flower garden.
We have reached beyond the space.
I casually walked along the colorful flower fields. In the meantime, a violet flower caught my eye.
I accidentally picked it.
“… ….”
I played with it in my hand while spinning it round and round.
Purple flowers drew a circle as intended.
Slowly, very slowly.
Has stopped.
I raised my head.
At some point, the sky was burning red.
Doouk-tuk-.
Suddenly, blood dripped and burned the mansion and the flower garden.
It was mercilessly burned.
So the whole place became a sea of fire
An unpleasant shimmer.
I closed my eyes to the disgusting sight and calmly counted the hundred sheep.
One, two, three. And a hundred.
When I opened my eyes again, I was at the office.
It wasn’t my lab.
It wasn’t even a forum for wizards.
It was just a space where he worked and laughed in a faded memory that he hadn’t met for quite some time.
“…… hahahaha, the most memorable place is the office. Do you think that makes sense?”
Desperately.
At the same time, with a feeling of relief, he spat out the words.
“────.”
On the other side, a man whose name I don’t even remember one day was talking to me with a kind face.
It was funny.
A person whom I haven’t met properly for even a week, and now I’m slowly getting into trouble with my eyes, nose, and mouth–.
It was really foolish to draw even in my dreams.
“What is it, I can’t see your face, but I can understand why you are smiling mischievously.”
“───.”
“Your tone is unlucky.”
“—.”
“If you’re so elated just because you’re a little better, you’ll quickly lose your temper?”
Even so, I couldn’t stop.
“…… I don’t think I’m the kind of person who falls in love with a face. Hell, why did I fall in love with you?”
Even if it’s meaningless than a mirage.
“Enough to throw away everything I’ve built up until now.”
I longed for it.
“I miss you….”
The corner of the man’s mouth went down slightly. He looked at me with a sad smile.
To ask for nothing.
It was clear that he had hypnotized me or had taken a strange potion without my knowledge.
Otherwise, my heart was beating so furiously that I couldn’t understand it.
“It must be crazy.”
It makes no sense otherwise.
I smiled and made a small pair of scissors.
Taktak, I tried to close it several times.
And then a part of himself that he hadn’t cut off since he became a wizard.
Hair that resembles the color of the blue sky.
I grabbed a handful of hair that had been with me throughout the season of freedom and tucked it through the scissors.
“I offer you a contract.”
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Xiaofang pondered for a long time.
She researched and researched how to break the spell that the damn demon had set up.
I put all my time into it.
The contents of the contract were roughly like this.
──Everyone here who signs a contract with ‘Yoo Han-na (A)’, among them ‘Xiaofang (B)’, must abide by it.
──’Bul’ cannot leave the top-notch artifact ‘Skidbladnir’ until January 1, 2022. ※ However, except for Earth, movement to other worlds is permitted.
──’Eul’ completely erases the existence of ‘Lee Jin-woo’ from his memory.
──All encounters and exchanges with ‘Lee Jin-woo’ of ‘Bul’ are prohibited. Even if you don’t remember it, you must do it.
──’B’ cannot engage in any direct or indirect actions with aggressive intentions toward ‘A’ in the future.
──’B’ pays battle reparations. The amount of the compensation and the goods substituted for it shall be decided by ‘A’.
A contract stipulated in magic, soul, and world.
The stronger and more competent the subject, the simpler the contract, the more difficult it is to break the spell.
This time was especially in such a case, but Xiao Fang did not give up. She tried thousands of times.
For example, just because I decided to call Jinwoo Lee an idiot didn’t mean I could remember him forever.
A ‘name’ is something like magic that encompasses the identity of a world, a life, and life as a whole.
Unable to manipulate the magic, Xiao Fang gradually had to forget everything related to Lee Jin-woo.
That’s why I thought this wouldn’t work.
Since then, rather than circumventing her contract, Xiao Fang has switched to the route of stamping and pressing force through the spirit prison.
She devoted a month to raising the mastery of the artifact, and it came to the conclusion that it was not enough.
It was much faster to forget Lee Jin-Woo’s existence than to rule Yeong-ok as much as necessary.
In the meantime, I found a way to detour in an unexpected place and increase the destructive power of the spell.
Ever since I was a child, I was expected.
A time when everyone was persecuted and imprisoned in a separate palace.
A season to get out of the cage and look at the wide world, meet new colleagues and dream of ideals.
Until the moment they finally achieve their paradise.
Unhappy or happy, she was always ‘Xiaofang’.
So she took it for granted.
“For him.”
The name Xiao Fang.
“My love, my innocence, everything except my life.”
Life.
Identity.
Most of the process up to now.
“Offer it as a sacrifice.”
It was to face more happiness than that.
“Please receive an offering.”
Suddenly, the sky fluttered.
At that moment, Xiaofang looked at Jinwoo Lee.
He was smiling broadly.
Therefore, I had no regrets.
* * *
Smart—.
Marco knocked on the door.
However, the answer did not return mercilessly.
I got used to it.
“Xiaofang. I left rice, so I have to take care of it? Got it? Will I check later?!”
The assistant head of the Xiaofang family, the swordsman, and the meal delivery man were nagging in a gruff voice.
Apart from shutting himself in the lab for a month, I couldn’t give up on this.
Today’s menu is fried chicken with pork rice bowl, but I couldn’t help but eat it.
Like usual, Marco grumbled in front of the lab for several minutes, then put the trolley down and turned his back.
“…… Uh?”
If I hadn’t noticed the change, it would have been.
I couldn’t feel any presence in the room.
Kwaang-! As soon as Marco realized it, he raised his magic power and broke the door of the lab.
I knocked it down on its own to prevent the fragments from bouncing.
Then he desperately ran in that short distance and searched every nook and cranny of the room.
“…… Xiao Fang?”
However, only the curtain by the window swayed in the wind, and the owner of the room was nowhere to be seen.