episode_0278

Hera. No..Arae looked at me seriously and opened her pursed lips.

“Why did you come?”

“..are. I want you..”

When I approached her and grabbed her hand, Arae flinched for a moment with a look of bewilderment before immediately pushing my hand away.

“Don’t touch my…my body!”

Arye, who was shivering and backing away as if she had a fit, saw me realize how rude I had been.

I heard that in his last life, Arae was toyed with countless times by Drax and ended his life miserably.

Of course, I would hate contact with others. I felt a deep sense of disgust and guilt for not being able to even consider such an obvious thing.

I looked at Are, holding back the tears that were slowly forming.

“I’m sorry, Arue…I made a mistake.”

“…..”

“Arue..I know. How many wounds you have.”

Arena looked at me cautiously from a distance without giving any answer.

“…are.”

How can I make her feel better?

After much thought, I decided to just tell her how serious I was.

“Of course you won’t believe me..but I want to make you happy.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know either.”

At my words, Arae blinked blankly.

I could have sweet-talked her, but I didn’t want to.

Her past life must have been filled with lies and malice. At least I wanted to tell her only the truth.

I don’t know why I care about her so much.

I don’t know if it’s because of the guilt of treating her body so carelessly, or the bond I have with her, or the pity I feel for her story.

But I just wanted her to be happy.

“I don’t know. I just want you to be happy. I want to make you that way.. I want to show you the beauty of the world called love, to you who is full of wounds.”

Arae’s eyes widened at my words.

“Love..?”

Arae frowned and muttered as if she didn’t know what it was. I approached her again very slowly and carefully.

“With your body, I have received so much love from many people. At least I want to give you half of that.”

I carefully knelt down in front of Are and held out my hand to her.

“Arue.. Will you trust me just once? I promise I will never abandon you.. Please give me just one chance.”

Let’s look at each other with earnest longing, Arue looked at me with trembling eyes.

The quiet silence that came about like that.

Arena hesitated for a while, then shut her eyes tightly and turned away from me.

It was heartbreaking to see her reaction, but I wasn’t too discouraged because it was an expected answer.

Yeah…it won’t be easy.

Just take it slow. I just hoped that if I took my time and kept talking, one day she would open up to me.

“I understand, Arre…don’t answer right now..”

“Okay. I’ll believe you.”

“No need……huh?”

I blinked blankly at Arae’s faint affirmation.

“Did you just say you believed me?”

“Yeah.”

Arae approached me while I was on my knees and secretly grabbed my hand. I was secretly very surprised by her actions.

I think it was accepted more easily than I thought..?

I was taken aback by the sudden change of heart.

I thought she would reject me outright. I thought that was natural. But I don’t know what kind of psychological change there was, but Arre said she would trust me so easily.

“Instead..I promise you will listen to my request.”

“Uh…uh…yeah! Just tell me! I’ll listen to anything you say!!”

I grabbed Arae’s hand urgently and looked at her.

I was confident that I could grant any request, as long as it could heal Arae’s emotional wounds.

Arena looked into my earnest eyes for a moment, then came closer to me and whispered in my ear.

A request I could never have imagined.

How much time has passed like that?

After hearing Are’s long request, I opened my eyes blankly for a moment, then quickly jumped back in surprise.

“What…what?!”

“If not, I won’t be reincarnated.”

A resolute face of Arae.

I spoke to her, holding her with trembling hands.

“Ah..Ar, you don’t have to do that, there is another way..”

“I hate it.”

My heart sank at Ariel’s answer, which was given without an inch of hesitation.

I said I could give her everything. And my heart also wanted to give her anything she wanted.

But this is… this is…

‘I never imagined it would be such a favor!’

“Promise. You won’t keep it..? As expected, they’re all liars.”

As Arega turned away from me with a sad face, guilt began to stab my chest.

I urgently reached out and grabbed Ara to keep her from moving away.

“Don’t…go!”

“As expected. They’re all liars. I hate them all. I hate people.”

I shut my eyes tightly at Arae’s voice, which was full of wounds, and shouted at her.

“Ah..no! I’ll listen to you! Please, I’ll definitely listen to you, so don’t do that!”

“Really? Promise.”

Arae’s voice changed again in an instant.

Her voice, which had been sad and telling me to leave this world just a moment ago, returned softly once again.

“..Huh?”

“Ah. And.”

Arena came to me as if she had remembered something and added something.

“The Goddess said. My soul is too weak. I can’t go anywhere.”

“Then…?”

“I need a lot of seeds.”

A lot of seeds..?

“What the hell are you talking about..?”

When I asked again in an unknown voice, Arue brought her mouth close to my ear again and whispered.

Such embarrassing words that I could die of embarrassment just hearing them.

“Ah..ah..?”

With a popping sensation, my mind went blank and my cheeks turned red, so hot that I couldn’t even imagine.

“Okay. I’ll go. Please do me a favor.”

Arae steps back as she says that.

“Ah..Areh, wait a minute..!”

I immediately went over to grab her.

Arae’s body glowed for a moment, then soon began to transform into small, flickering sparks.

“Ah. Right.”

Then, as if something had occurred to her, Arae approached me with a body that was fading away.

She put her hand on my cheek, smiled faintly, and spoke to me.

“Hera. Now your name. Don’t be sorry.”

“What did you say…?”

Arae returned to the form of a spark after leaving those words behind.

“Ah..Arue!”

I called her urgently, but…

No matter how much I called, the little spark didn’t even respond.

Eventually, I collapsed on the floor and stared blankly at the sky.

“I..I’m not ready yet..”

*

“Okay..Wait..! Are!”

The woman closed her eyes, leaving behind the voice calling her urgently, and opened them, a new sight unfolded before her eyes.

The vast universe.

After ‘it’ came to him, his scenery changed like this.

“…I did as you said.”

As he muttered softly, a great change occurred in the vast universe.

Numerous stars twisted and a violent shaking occurred, and then some being tore through space and appeared in front of him.

– good job.

The being that seemed to contain the entire universe in one person stroked his head as if he were proud of himself.

It was an overwhelming presence that I couldn’t get used to no matter how many times I saw it.

“I can’t believe it…really…I’m…you? ”

– Yeah, that’s right.

Actually, I knew everything. That a woman named Hansia would come to me. And that she would ask me to open my heart to her.

This unknown entity before my eyes told me everything.

When did it start? This being introduced itself as my future self, and promised to give me happiness enough to forget all the misfortunes I had experienced in my past life if I just followed his words.

At first, of course, I refused, but… the fragments of memories that this being occasionally showed me were smiling so happily that I couldn’t possibly refuse.

– Now. We. Will. Be. Happy.

“…Yeah.”

I nodded my head in agreement with what the being said, wishing it were so.

I didn’t want to live.

Living was nothing but suffering to me. Rather, my life was nothing but nothing, but now that I was free from pain, I was much more satisfied.

I just wanted to disappear into the shelter that the goddess had created, doing nothing for the rest of my life.

But… but even so, deep down… maybe he was desperately hoping for love. In the end, he changed his mind.

A person named Hansia who is overly beautiful.

Nothing has changed yet, but just imagining that lovely woman taking care of me already makes my heart feel warm.

I wonder if I wasn’t the only one who thought that way. The unknown being was happily muttering something to himself next to me.

– ….Wait a minute..Mom..

I felt embarrassed.

‘..I wonder if I’ll really end up like that later.’

Because I had never felt love before, I couldn’t even imagine it.

What on earth happened to make me fall so deeply for someone?

Just with that one wish to be born one year earlier and see my mother.

Turning back time and coming to the past.

For some reason, I even started to feel a little scared.