episode_0060

Raoul, who miraculously returned to life holding Leila’s body, looked in a miserable state.

Raoul, whose appearance was so miserable that it would not have been strange if he died at any moment, muttered something incomprehensible, and eventually fell to the ground repeatedly and fainted.

Then, for three days and nights, he suffered from convulsions, shedding bloody tears. He was so violent that Camilla, who was trying to stop him, got hurt, and they had to use a large amount of anesthetic to put him back to sleep.

“….”

Soon, he remained like a corpse with his eyes open for four days, without eating or drinking, just staring into space.

“Raul, you should at least eat something…”

His adjutant, Kyle, began desperately trying to persuade Raoul with a bowl of soup.

“… Take it.”

“Raul, if you stop eating and drinking with that body, you will really die…!”

“Leila didn’t come. If she does, I’ll eat it then.”

It was essentially a statement of intent to die.

But Kyle could understand him. They had always eaten, slept, and breathed together. How could he stay still when one was gone?

Raoul wanted to starve to death. He wanted to die as painfully and miserably as possible.

“Raul…”

“Get out of the way.”

And then suddenly, there was someone who came into the barracks.

“Your Majesty…?”

Prince Assel, one of Raoul’s close friends…

He just shoved Raoul’s face into the bowl of soup.

“It must be sad. We also can’t hide this sadness. Penelope tried to hang herself for killing Leila. That Camilla is also staying up all night drinking because of the shock. Fuck, really..”

“…”

◦ Fucking a fuck, and Raila is dead. . ”

He was very annoyed by Raoul’s attitude of shutting himself in the barracks and doing nothing after Leila died.

No, to be exact, I didn’t like Raul who was trying to just die.

“What you need to do is not how to die, but how to fight going forward.”

“But Leila…”

“Did Leila get the death she wanted? Hurry up and eat the soup that was shoved in your face. If you keep wasting food, I’ll kill you with my own hands.”

Raoul raised his face, grabbed the spoon with trembling hands, and began to eat the cold soup.

I didn’t feel any taste. I just swallowed desperately to survive. To not die.

“… If you’ve eaten everything, I’ll give you an imperial edict, my friend.”

Now Leila was gone. There was no good or evil in that war, but it needed to be told. What it meant to take Leila away from them, the reins they had.

“Show an example.”

“Is there a possibility?”

They have committed an irreversible act.

They slaughtered the demon soldiers who had surrendered and set fire to the temples they held sacred.

It didn’t matter if it later led to more intense resistance and invasion. I just needed a place to vent my anger.

And I wanted to give Raul an outlet for that anger.

“The land of the giants is not that far away.”

“… How many should I kill?”

“Hmm?”

“They took away my other half… shouldn’t they also pay a price that is beyond their expectations?”

It was a chilling remark, but the prince did not scold him.

“If we add our anger to it, we should completely destroy it.”

Raoul, who had emptied the bowl, gave an order to his adjutant Kyle, who was standing next to him.

“Assemble all the troops under my command.”

“Yes.”

“An order to bring plenty of oil and gunpowder as a bonus.”

A few days later.

The king of the giants was terrified when he finally saw the imperial forces that had arrived before them.

I knew that I would not be able to get through safely. But I did not know that I would send Raoul Bergé, who was practically the lover of the dead Leila.

The king immediately went out with his guards to greet the imperial army.

“There was a deep reason why we withdrew from the army that day…!”

“…”

“They kidnapped my only daughter and took her hostage. They said they would give her back if I just withdraw the army…”

“… So you’re saying you didn’t come here to fight?”

“I have come to propose a deal that will benefit the Empire. If there is any treasure or treasure you would like from our possession…”

“Is there a treasure that can bring the dead back to life?”

There was no way such a thing existed.

The king despaired at the answer that seemed to strongly indicate a will not to negotiate.

Meanwhile, the princess, whom the king treasured so dearly, came forward, bowed down to Raoul, and said:

“I deeply apologize for causing such a tragedy because of me. Because Abama values me more than my life, I just…”

“I treasured you more than my life… hmm…”

“Yes. We will gladly accept any conditions the Empire demands, so please give us back our horse’s head…”

The princess of the giants died with her head exploding before she could finish her words.

Raoul came up to her in an instant, grabbed her head and blew it up.

“Thank goodness. I can return the despair I felt.”

At that time, Raoul was in a state where reason did not exist. He was in a state of madness due to the pain of losing half of his body.

The king of the giants, seeing this sight, reached out his hand towards his daughter’s body, but it immediately made contact with Raoul’s staff and burst apart.

“… I will be the beginning of the tragedy you will experience today. Just as you did to me.”

An example of betrayal. That was just one of many reasons. The most fundamental reason was revenge for Leila’s death.

“You’re crazy… You’re crazy… You’re doing this because of one person…”

“You still don’t know how to reflect. Thanks to you, I can handle my work with peace of mind.”

As Raoul struck down his staff, the ground began to shake violently. The land of the giants was originally a place where earthquakes occurred frequently.

Even so, the giants began to shake due to the unusually large earthquake.

The structures that the giants had built over many years began to collapse, and as if things weren’t bad enough, a landslide caused by a flood also engulfed them.

And Raoul didn’t miss the song and took the giants’ lives. Earthquakes, landslides, and Raoul’s army. There was no way they could survive all three disasters that Raoul brought.

“Don’t leave behind even ashes or dust.”

Many giants lost their lives like that. Half of the population fled, abandoning their country, and their country with its splendid history was engulfed in flames and reduced to ashes.

In the midst of the blaze, Raoul tried to vent his anger by killing the giant soldiers with a blank expression on his face.

No matter how many times I killed them, there was no way he would be freed. I could fill the river with blood and pile up mountains with corpses, but I could not fill the emptiness in his heart.

I couldn’t console Leila’s death with the deaths of those betrayers who had taken a single hostage. I swung my staff, even though I knew better than anyone that it was meaningless.

“… More. More to come. I endured the shame of living to kill you and came here. I came to ask you about your sins, so swing that disgusting body around…”

Raoul unleashed his endless rage by bursting the giant warrior’s heart with his staff.

At that moment, when Raoul’s blind rage was burning uncontrollably, the giant warrior who had fallen shouted at Raoul.

“This crazy devil bastard!!!”

“Criticize as much as you want. It won’t touch my soul.”

“What makes you different from the Demon King!!”

At that moment, Raoul froze.

“What…?”

“I asked you what makes you different from the Demon King, who takes countless lives by swinging your anger just because you lost your one lover!!!”

Raoul was unable to give any answer.

Only his bloody hands were the evidence to his question, and he couldn’t even cover his own face with those hands.

“I…”

“The Demon King who started a war because he lost his wife is crazy, but you are no different! An example of betrayal? If you think about it, wasn’t your emperor the fundamental cause of this war!”

“I see. You might be right… No, you’re right.”

“Curse you two! You two who did this crazy thing for nothing more than love will be punished by heaven! You will be betrayed by those you love! Your devotion will never be repaid!”

He cried out curses until the end and then died.

“… No different from the Demon King… It really is. This feeling is truly foolish.”

Raoul put his hand on his chest and smiled bitterly.

“I will never love again. I will never make anyone my other half again. I will never have those foolish feelings again. Never again…”

Pure tears began to flow from Raoul’s eyes.

Shedding tears of pure sadness, not anger or misery, he threw the ring he had intended to give to Leila into the fire pit.

“I will never feel this pain again.”

That day, Raoul completely understood love and at the same time decided to forget love.

It was so painful, so sad, and so miserable.

He was burdened with mistakes that he would regret for the rest of his life, as well as hatred that would not go away.

Then Kyle approached him and asked.

“I’m ready to chase. If we continue to chase the escaped giants like this…”

The giants were originally a race that was not very numerous.

If we just kept pursuing them, it would be possible to wipe out the giants from the world.

“No. It’s going back like this.”

“But…”

“I forgot to offer a wreath to Leila’s body. That’s all.”

That day, Raoul’s empty heart was filled with regret and tears of blood.

A huge tree grew from Raoul’s blood, tears, and regrets, and Raoul decided to bury his love next to the tree.

In this way, Leila’s death turned Raoul into a living corpse.