episode_0081

Harwen’s closed eyes open.

“Hmm?”

Harwen wakes up with an incomprehensible expression, rubbing her eyes.

She got up from the bed and looked at me and Erdi alternately.

“Erdi oppa and Kariel oppa?”

They look at me as if asking, “Why are you two here?”

We locked eyes with him for a moment and then used electromagnetic sounds.

[He looks like he doesn’t know anything.]

[I know… ]

I turned my gaze away from Erdi and looked at Harwen and asked.

“Harwen. Don’t you remember anything?”

“Remember? What do you remember? By the way, why are you guys here? Didn’t you say you were going to see His Majesty the Emperor?”

The time when Erdi and I went to see the emperor.

It was the day before the massacre occurred two years ago.

‘Then the memories only last until then?’

I asked next.

“Do you remember anything else?”

“What on earth are you talking about? By the way, Kariel oppa… Something seems to have changed? Same goes for my brother.”

Harwen, who said this while looking at Erdi and me in turns, looked at us closely.

Even the slight frown and narrowed eyes were identical to those of Harwen when she was alive.

‘Besides that, many other parts are completely the same.’

This wasn’t fake or anything.

The soul was clearly a real Harwen.

I sent a message to Erdi again.

[I don’t think there’s any trap or anything. Harwen doesn’t seem to be fake either. I think the devil was playing some kind of trick. Because he is the only one who can directly touch the soul like this.]

[Then can I leave it like this?]

[I don’t know about that. Even if there doesn’t seem to be any major problems yet, you never know when and where a problem may arise. But at least there is little chance that Harwen is fake or something, so take good care of her. I will go with the devil to report to His Majesty.]

[okay. So what is the explanation?]

[Convince me on my own. Even though Harwen’s nature is soft-hearted, it’s rational and cool-headed, right? Unlike you.]

Erdi frowned at the last word.

I sigh and nod my head as I understand this fact.

[Then I will explain it well.]

[Yes, I will go first.]

I roughly brushed Harwen’s head as she looked at me suspiciously.

“Be well. I go first.”

“Ugh! My hair is ruined!”

Harwen complained, but showed little resistance as if she wasn’t feeling bad on the inside.

I smiled and took my hand away from Harwen’s hair.

Harwen asked me as she straightened her tangled hair.

“But where are you going?”

“To go see His Majesty.”

“Aren’t you going with your brother?”

“Uh. Since I’m not going with you, stay close to Erdi today.”

I turned my head to Erdi.

When we make eye contact, he nods his head.

I walked away without saying anything.

To find the truth of this situation.

***

I don’t know how many times I’ve stepped into the imperial palace again.

I passed by the guards, who were now becoming friendly, and arrived at the throne room.

As I opened the door and entered, I saw the emperor looking quite comfortable.

“You see this a lot these days. Isn’t that right?”

“I don’t think it’s time to have luxurious tea.”

The emperor was leisurely drinking tea.

Even though I had just heard a report about what had happened.

I couldn’t help but laugh as the man, who would normally be busy here and there, was drinking tea luxuriously.

“You need to know how to enjoy your leisure time. Warrior.”

“I guess so. Anyway, I’m sure you heard roughly what happened just now. The transcendent almost arrived.”

When the emperor heard me, he rubbed his chin as if he was thinking about it and then blurted out.

“Looking at it, it must be the devil.”

“Yes.”

“After the devil, he is a devil… This is truly amazing. Normally, the rule is that transcendental people cannot intervene in this world.”

As the saying goes, the transcendent cannot intervene in this world.

Because the laws of the world are like that and the rules are like that.

It is not a rule made by someone.

Since this is a rule that the world created for itself from the moment the world was created, there is no being that can break it.

However, the fact that the devil could intervene meant that the laws of this world had been broken.

I don’t know if it was that or if they were digging into a loophole or something.

‘Now that I think about it, the Demon King is also a transcendent person.’

In a way, the Demon King was also a being that could be called a transcendent.

It’s almost impossible to catch unless you reach the level of transcendence, Sword Master.

However, there is a difference from the transcendental person like the devil mentioned earlier.

Should we say that we are bound to this world?

At the very least, he was an infinitely different being from ordinary transcendents.

I certainly thought that way before I met the Demon King, and it still is the same now, but there was a big difference before and after.

‘The devil called himself the god of darkness.’

The Demon King called himself the God of Darkness.

If it is a god of darkness, it is safe to consider it to be of the same status as the goddess of light that is currently widespread in the world.

It’s funny and makes no sense that such a being is just a demon lord.

‘You don’t know that.’

To say that this was simply a bluff, the things the Demon King showed were deeply embedded in my mind. Even if it was a lie, it could not be denied that he was once a god of quite high rank.

Obviously, if you think about the size of his power, it felt like the devil was much stronger.

What I felt from the Demon King was like looking at something unknown.

I can’t see it properly, I can’t understand it.

‘It really felt like I was seeing darkness itself.’

Considering all that, the Demon King was not an easy opponent to meet.

‘Now that I think about it, there’s a lot going on recently.’

The same goes for the Demon King, and the intervention of this transcendental person.

It felt like something huge was coming closer and closer to me.

‘If that happens, will it be the end?’

Usually, if there is a beginning to a story, there is bound to be an end.

The world I saw ended as a bystander observing it from afar.

But the moment I entered this world and became possessed.

I was no longer a bystander.

He was clearly a person and a being that belonged to this world.

We end the story together and greet it together.

And we live through the end together and after the coming end.

When I thought about the recent series of events, the great transcendent being, and the truth I still did not know, I felt that the end was approaching.

I saw their story once.

I knew because I felt their stories firsthand.

That the end is coming for me.

‘It’s complicated.’

It’s been 6 years since I became possessed in this world.

It was a time that could be said to be long and short.

I went through a lot during that time.

I made many connections and created many stories.

While performing the role of a creator of a new story, he also experienced the awakening of a new warrior.

but.

‘There cannot be two suns under the sky.’

For some reason, I remembered a sentence that existed in the world before I was possessed here.

It is a sentence that says there cannot be two under the sky.

And I agreed with that.

In the original story, there is one main character.

The rest is just a device to make the main character shine.

How can there be two main characters in one story?

A story is a world created through various interactions.

At the center of it all, there is a person with a great destiny called the protagonist.

No matter how much I achieved awakening as a warrior.

Even if you say you have become a part of the story of this world.

I still wasn’t the main character.

The main character of this story is Arien.

She alone had a grand destiny as the protagonist.

‘But I have no intention of just sitting back and watching.’

What if you are not the main character?

What if it is not the greatest destiny in the world?

I do the best I can at what I do.

A fate that should have ended long ago.

So, I will twist the fate of this world to my heart’s content.

And I will meet the beautiful ending called the end.

Even if that happens, I won’t be able to live after the ending.

If this world and my precious relationships could live as brightly and beautifully as the stars floating in the night sky, I would be satisfied with that.

What I want most right now is for my precious relationships to be without any worries.

Because you will have a peaceful life.

So, I am with my precious relationship.

Although I don’t know Arien, I am the only one who has seen her story.

I will do my best to the best of my ability.

Because that is the definition of who I am.

[It’s the same now as it was before.]

Suddenly, we heard a beautiful female voice in our head.

As soon as I heard that voice, I reflexively stood up.

“What’s going on?”

“… It’s nothing.”

He sat down and shook his head in response to the emperor’s question.

I thought about the woman’s voice that rang in my head for a long time.