episode_0151

Leila looked up at the sky with eyes that seemed to contain every emotion in the world.

How can an indifferent being be so resentful?

“Even if we can’t be together in this life, may the miracle of being together until our different hair colors turn pure white be with us in the next life.”

I decided to make a small wish that Raul wouldn’t hear.

“And please, let me take all the blame for my brother’s sins… because I taught him wrongly.”

The happiness of a lover who was terribly beautiful, the peace of a sister who was terribly foolish, that was all.

It’s understandable to wish for a lot, but that’s all she wanted.

I didn’t want anything else. Raul would take care of everything else.

“What are you trying to do, Leila?”

Even though Raoul’s voice was shaking with anxiety, Leila did not stop what she wanted to do.

Raoul could intuitively, or rather, because he was a demigod, know that Leila was going to do something dangerous.

“I have to make things right. If I can just fix the mistakes I made and turn this current in the right direction, I…”

When Leila raised her right hand, a large number of crows gathered.

Crows were strange birds. They were ominous birds that loved death, but they were also wise birds that recognized shiny things.

What was it about Leila that drew them there? Was it the thick scent of death that Leila gave off? Or was it her shining soul that no jewel could match?

“… I’ll correct all of this with just one swing. ”

“Don’t do it! I can’t lose you again!”

“The moment of separation always comes, and there is no eternal separation.”

Unfortunately, Leila was also a wallflower who did not listen to others even more than Raoul.

No, if we’re only talking about being meticulous, Raul could actually be said to be flexible.

Especially when it came to matters related to Raoul, he refused to compromise even if it meant dying, and had many fights with the Empress.

There was no way Raul, beyond the wall of tears, could stop what his stubbornness had decided.

A crowd of crows swarmed around her, and Raoul beat the wall of tears until his hands bled.

Even though he wanted to resent the thickness of that wall, he couldn’t bring himself to do so. It was a wall he had created and evidence of Leila’s tears.

“Damn…!”

“… Oh, indifferent God. Thank you.”

A great number of crows flew into her hand, and the countless flock of crows soon transformed into a giant pitch-black axe.

“What are you going to do with that…”

“Don’t you know what to do with an axe? Are you an idiot?”

Leila slowly approached Raoul’s tree, holding the axe in her hand.

“The axe exists to cut down trees. And I exist for you.”

Every time Leila chopped down a tree with her axe, Raoul’s spirit seemed to be chipped away at him as well.

An unknown intuition warned Raoul that the price of that axe would not be light.

Because of his actions, Leila was in tears, and because of his ignorance, Leila was about to sacrifice herself again.

Raoul’s mind could never be sane.

“Don’t… You were wrong… Instead, break this wall with that axe, cut off my head, and then smash my head in… Please, I beg you…”

There was no way Leila would grant that request.

Rather, he was furious at being asked to decapitate and crush the head of the person he loved.

Leila continued to chop at the tree without saying a word.

How much chopping did he do?

It seemed like one more shot would completely erase the tree.

Raoul also had a hunch that if he cut it one more time, the price would have to be paid.

“Don’t…!”

Raoul screamed.

“It’s okay to stay like this…! It’s okay to never touch you again! So don’t disappear! Just by looking into each other’s eyes from beyond this barrier, I…!”

“Then nothing can change, Raoul. You’ll just keep repeating the same old process of losing and losing again.”

Raoul couldn’t bring himself to stop Leila. Unable to physically or psychologically interfere, Raoul could only shake his hands.

“You damn tree! Get lost forever!!!!”

A huge tree fell with a mighty axe blow.

The giant tree fell and shattered the tear barrier, and shards of tear crystals rained down like rain, but Raoul paid no attention and ran towards Leila.

“Leila!!!!”

Raoul was anxious.

Because Leila’s body, which had made the last axe strike, was gradually turning into light.

“Why because of me… Because of someone like me…”

“Idiot… Putting yourself down is… insulting the person who loves you.”

Only then was Leila able to hold Raul’s warm hand.

“Ahhh, it’s warm… I can feel this warmth again at the very end…”

“Leila… I…”

“Now there are no more square walls of the mansion that blocked you, no more bad trees that made you a liar, no more bad women that locked you in a cage called a world without me.”

“What…?”

“I’ve been watching over you as a crow… I don’t know if it’s the last miracle that God allowed… or what…”

It was Leila who had seen everything as the crow that had been hovering around Raoul.

She, who had just burned the remnants of her life, as faint and faint as a bird, was now facing a long separation.

“You thought you had me locked in a cage… but you were wrong. You were the one who was locked in.”

Leila saw.

The pitiful sight of Raoul, who would stare into space every night and only fall asleep late at night.

The lonely figure of Raul, who occasionally looked up at the sky and recited his own name.

The pitiful sight of Raoul, suffering from the emptiness and loneliness of losing half his body every day.

“The world without me is lonely… cold… cramped, right?”

Leila smiled brightly again, uncrossed her hands, and hugged Raoul tightly.

“I’ll let you go now.”

As the warm sunlight illuminated Raoul’s face,

Hot tears flowed down.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you cry.”

“Am I crying right now…?”

“Yes. It flows down like a river flowing towards the sea.”

Raoul was crying.

Only after the giant tree that had been blocking everything was gone was Raoul able to cry.

Hot tears melted Raoul’s frozen face, and a sorrowful expression settled on his face, which rarely showed any emotion.

“Don’t disappear…”

Raoul threw a tantrum. He pushed through even though he knew it was unreasonable. He was throwing a tantrum in the face of life and death, as if rationality was a no-no.

“Oh, me too… I used to hate acting like an adult, but now I feel bad for acting like a child…”

Leila stroked Raoul’s cheek as if she was used to it.

Now, with death approaching, she wiped away Raoul’s tears with her cold hands.

To prevent Raul from getting burned by his hot tears, she cooled down his overheated emotions a little.

“You can act like a child. You’ve never been a child. You were only forced to live like a doll. You can act childishly later. But you know.”

“…. Whenever you say something like that, there’s always another condition attached.”

“Yeah. You know that too. At least not now.”

The sound of swords clashing across the boundary between life and death showed the intensity of the battle that was currently taking place outside.

“I always told you. Be patient before you fight.”

“Are you asking me to be patient again?”

“… I corrected it. I can’t undo your mistakes. But if you reflect and move forward, you won’t repeat the same mistakes. You’ll be able to endure properly. ”

“That’s fatal. I will never be able to keep up with that speaking ability.”

Raoul really felt that Leila was lethal.

“I’ll say it again. Nothing is holding you back now. No walls, no trees, no cages.”

Was it because the trees that monopolized the sunlight and energy disappeared?

The flower garden bloomed, nourishing Raoul’s tender heart.

The blue rose field was in full bloom, and the two people looked at each other.

After enjoying the brief joy of reunion, Raoul stood up and turned his back on Leila.

“Yeah. Now there’s nothing. It’s so empty.”

“Now live by filling this emptiness. Don’t give up easily. Live by struggling ugly. Like a wild flower that survives even when trampled. Like a nameless bird that tries to fly even when injured.”

“You must be uncool to say that, Leila. I know that without you having to say it.”

Only then did Raul find the courage to stand up,

She was smiling brightly like Leila.

“Because I am your other half.”

“………”

Leila smiled bitterly when she first saw Raul’s brightly smiling face.

“It would be a shame to give it to Camilla.”

Leila patted Raul on the shoulder and pushed him back.

“There are some things that you have to say out loud. If you omit words like you do, it only leads to misunderstandings.”

“I just say the main point. I never omit anything that is necessary.”

“……. Okay. My mouth is the only one that hurts. Then I’ll just say the main point. ”

Leila said as she put her ring on Raoul’s.

“Go and fight.”

That would be the world’s most uncool proposal.

“And win.”

“Okay. Let’s do that. So…”

Raoul accepted it, adjusting his grip on his cane.

“Goodbye, my friend.”

Raoul watched Leila disappear into the light and whispered quietly.

“And my first love that I can never forget.”