episode_0223

“Go, Eugene.”

Again.

It’s like this again.

I end up hurting Eugene’s heart again.

Even at this moment, there is nothing I can do other than freeze Eugene and urge him on.

“Before it’s too late. Hurry.”

I have known for a long time that it is a love that cannot end.

I realized long ago that there was no beautiful ending at the end of this road.

If only I had known this before meeting Eugene.

If that were the case, would I have rejected Eugene from the beginning?

‘no······.’

I wouldn’t have been able to refuse it.

No matter how many times I go back, it’s the same.

No matter how many times I face this cruel end, my decision will not change.

I don’t regret it either.

That’s right, I already figured it out.

How good it feels to be loved.

What a precious experience it is to communicate with someone.

Once you know that, it’s impossible to go back to a time when you didn’t know it.

There is no way I can lock the bar again and return to being the cold Frost Lord.

It has been put under some kind of curse.

A curse where a tin machine, whose only role was to protect and rule the country, was given a human heart.

Because of that, many people suffered.

Not to mention Eugene.

The same goes for Jill and Julia.

Of course, I didn’t express it outwardly, but…

I still haven’t forgiven those two.

I hate you.

I can’t shake the thought that if it weren’t for those two, I would have had a happy ending alone with Eugene.

This is my nature.

Although I try hard to hide it and look like a human being.

Ugly emotions are seething inside.

It is obvious what would happen if I were to return to this world in this state.

I’m going to crash again.

He is not satisfied with Eugene’s return and will display mania to monopolize him.

In the end, everything will be frozen and destroyed.

And Eugene, who has gone through many regressions, will know this well.

That I will never change.

Eugene may know better than me that my nature will always remain the same.

“Huh? Eugene?”

“······.”

“Eugene. Why is there no reaction? Eugene…”

“······.”

But something is strange.

Why isn’t Eugene responding?

Although most of his limbs and face are frozen, his heart is clearly beating.

It also provided sufficient horsepower.

He could feel that the magical power in his body was disintegrating moment by moment and being converted into demonic energy.

But why? why?

Is Eugene still not back?

“Eugene. You’re going to die like this. Go quickly. Please!”

“······.”

“Go! If this goes on, there’s no point in me staying here! I’m staying because I want you to live…!”

“······.”

Hehehehe.

Eugene’s body is shaking.

As if trying to move his frozen body and do something.

But the ice that had frozen his bones did not budge.

At that moment, I was afraid that if I continued like this, I would break.

“ah!”

Kwasik!

Eugene’s ankle fell off.

Eugene leaves his feet frozen on the ground and approaches me.

It breaks its other foot as well and walks toward me as if it were falling apart.

I shed tears when I saw that, and quickly accepted Eugene.

“Why why······!”

I don’t understand.

Eugene, you weren’t this kind of person.

You were a reasonable and rational person.

A courageous person may be beaten, but he is not a reckless person.

Although you may choose to make worthwhile sacrifices, you are not the type of person who would choose to die.

But why…!

You’re trying to die with me when you’re almost certain to die here.

“Please go back, Eugene. Please… I will ask you to go back and take good care of the saint and Julia… Huh?”

“Ji······lal······.”

Tsk tsk, tsk tsk!

Eugene’s frozen face begins to move.

The frozen cheeks were slightly torn, and Eugene let out his voice with difficulty.

As a result, my heart ached and hurt again and again.

“You’re a dishonest bitch… Are you a pretense until the end?”

“Well, what does that mean…”

“When did you take care of Jill and Julia? I know you hate them more than an enemy spy.”

“······.”

That was correct.

But I’ve never even told Eugene about this.

“How did you know? If I don’t know this, I don’t deserve to love you.”

“If you know… you know what will happen if I go back! If I go back, everyone will die! Me too, you too! Everything you hold so dear will freeze to death! So stop being stubborn now and be ridiculously greedy. “Stop messing with me! I’m telling you to go back before it’s too late…”

“······.”

“Why, why! Why are you closing it again!!!”

It’s frustrating and I’m going crazy.

Eugene is not the type of person to do this.

I’m not the type of person to behave this irrationally.

As if waiting for something, Eugene’s magic energy doesn’t move at all.

There seemed to be no intention of going back.

“Yes. You’re right. I have never considered Jill and Julia as friends. I thought they were all my enemies, opponents that I would have to put aside someday. Eugene, the happiness you want… I want that. “She’s a bitch who will destroy everything. She’s grumpy, can’t make concessions, gets jealous of others, can’t manage her facial expressions, is rude, blunt, and very lonely…”

“Are you blunt? You? You don’t know. How unconsciously you wag your tail and show cuteness.”

“What, what are you doing…!”

When Eugene laughed, my body became very shaken and trembled.

Is now the time for jokes?

Dying!

No, right now two of my feet are falling off, and my face is breaking while talking…!

I got to the point where I couldn’t see because of the flowing tears.

At that time, Eugene’s hand was twisted and rough, and some of his fingers were broken, and he reached out to me and wiped away my tears.

My vision was clear.

And then, Eugene’s face began to appear clearly.

Firm eyes without doubt or fear were looking down at me.

“You’re so jealous? You’re not going to get along with Jill or Julia? That’s probably the same for them too. When it comes to being sneaky, they’re way above you. If anything, the more honest you are with them, the happier they’ll be because they won’t have to hide their dirty side. .”

“What is that…”

“You think you are the center of the world. No, there is nothing special about you. Why are you attaching such grand meaning to your talent? You are probably just an ordinary person who is exceptionally strong.”

“It’s no use insisting like that… Didn’t I run away in the episodes you watched?”

“······.”

Eugene’s eyes wavered.

I thought so.

I must have been the same every time.

It would have run rampant at every turn, eventually destroying the world.

There is only one possibility that it did not run away.

It’s just that I didn’t know Eugene from the beginning.

It was only when I didn’t know Eugene, couldn’t understand people’s hearts, and lived my whole life with a bar on my head…

“Uh, never.”

“what?!”

“At least it never happened while I was staying there.”

“What?! You’re saying that after you left, the world was destroyed without fail!”

“After I left, the timeline would have collapsed, so it’s as if something like that never happened in the first place.”

“······?”

What kind of sophistry is this?

I was dumbfounded by Eugene’s proud nonsense.

You were always fine while Eugene was there?

You’ve never personally seen me go wild and destroy the world, so you’re saying it never happened?

“Yerina. Believe in yourself. And believe in me, who will always remain by your side. I will remain there wherever you are.”

“please······.”

“This is not the future world. It’s an illusion created by your fears. In no timeline has it ever happened that you destroyed the world. It will never happen again. No, I will stop it from happening. You and me, the two of us. “Anything is possible if you don’t give up.”

Holding Eugene’s frozen hand tightly, I slowly laid him down.

His speech slows down again.

It was just a final struggle to force my frozen body to move.

The cold is so strong that even his will cannot withstand it, freezing everything.

“Are you planning on throwing me away again?”

“Huhhh…”

Eugene froze as he left his last words.

The tips of his fingers and lips don’t even move anymore.

I don’t feel any vitality from deep within my heart.

Because of me.

I killed Eugene.

Because of this cursed body…!

“what?”

While I was pouring out all kinds of curses inside, I suddenly came to my senses.

what? Cursed body?

Only then did a feeling of self-disgust wash over me, and I burst out laughing out of sheer absurdity.

“under······.”

It sounds like a cursed body.

How many times have I benefited from my outstanding talent in a body that is not fit for purpose?

How many relationships have you met and kept thanks to your natural birth?

After seeing all the benefits, it’s a curse only when you face the backlash?

When I think about it, I don’t have much shame.

This wasn’t a curse.

It’s just the price I have to pay for being greedy.

Facing death here means avoiding the consequences and running away.

And running away was the same as denying the path I had walked.

A person who promised to follow the path of martial arts and justice would meet such an ugly end?

“I don’t like it… I don’t like that kind of thing…”

Juseomjuseom.

Picking up Eugene’s finger that fell on the ground.

They tear off both of Eugene’s ankles, which were buried in the ice and seem to have frozen solid.

Then, I pour my tears into the cross section, align the grain, and join it.

In an instant, the tears froze and the cut parts were glued together.

That’s how I healed my ankle, fingers, and torn cheek.

I laid down Eugene, who was finally healthy, and placed my hand on his cheek.

The energy that was constantly gushing out seeps into Eugene again.

But why?

This time, it seemed to be a different kind of energy than the chill that had frozen him from the heart.

“There’s no way I’m going to kick you out…”

He hugged Eugene, who was already cold.

It may be too late.

I may have realized it too late and ended up crying and regretting it.

But here, I decided not to back down any further.

Because I knew why Eugene was stubborn and stayed by my side.

Because I realized what you were trying to remind me of.

Although it was not conveyed verbally.

Rather, because it wasn’t there, it hit me even faster.

“This is the world I created… the inside of my essence…”

Future life?

Wrong. It’s not like that here.

It’s just a scene created by my vague fears.

“I was deceiving myself in the deepest part of myself and trying to avoid it.”

A rush of shame comes over me.

This was not a place of refuge.

It was not a good place to abandon all responsibilities and choose death.

A place to contemplate my own essence.

A place where not everyone can reach, where I forge and evolve my abilities.

Even if you were brought in by chance, you tried to die in a place like that.

Eugene was so frustrated that it was easy for him to hold on and hang around.

“You said you would stay by my side…”

Holding Eugene’s hand.

I put my forehead against his.

And then, slowly, at some point, I release the will that was boiling over inside my body.

Cast iron shoes studded with sharp spikes are filled with determination.

Self-defense rings emit blue light at will.

The iron wrist guard hums.

All the weapons I wear around my body respond to my will.

That means my whole body is reacting.

What I hold in my hand is my weapon, and my entire body is no different from a weapon.

The frosty texture melts into the body filled with will.

Swordsmanship to cut, crush, destroy and freeze.

The structure of the swordsmanship that I have practiced throughout my life is dismantled and dismantled, and then reassembled in a completely different form.

The shape thus created appears to be much larger than before.

It was an incredible will and will that was unbelievable that it was born from swordsmanship.

“I’ll believe it… you and me…”

Yerina’s fingertips shine, and her white will wraps around Eugene.

As a result, every cell is frozen, and Eugene’s body, which seemed impossible to revive, begins to melt.

As if turning back time, the torn apart body comes back together and comes back to life.

An uncontrollable will overflows and flows to the surroundings.

The dark clouds clear, white clouds roll in, and the fierce snowstorm subsides.

The will submerged in the ground melts the snow and the earth.

Grass that has been dead for a long time regains its green color and blooms in an instant.

Permafrost collapses, and the land that seemed frozen in time is suddenly filled with green life.

The ultimate in swordsmanship just for freezing, crushing, and destroying.

A destination that escapes those limitations.

It was a Frost-style secret.