episode_0228

I feel like I’m dreaming.

Everyone looking up at the sky.

I thought that as I looked at the pillar of light that seemed as if it had come down from heaven.

But in the middle of it all, Jill was looking straight ahead, not at the sky.

Likewise, I feel like I’m dreaming.

I was dumbfounded.

“Ah······ Ah ah······?”

A stupid sound came out of Jill’s mouth.

The sound of the airship twisting, crashing, and tearing through the sky above is quickly drowned out.

Everyone’s eyes were turned to the sky, so no one noticed that Jill was crawling on the ground, soiling her clothes.

Due to exhaustion of mana, every time I touch it, it flutters and trembles like a newborn calf’s leg.

But Jill didn’t stop.

no. I couldn’t stop.

In front of me, a man appears in my vision, shaking like an illusion.

A man holding a pillar of light in his hand.

The man whom I had desperately called, searched for, and cried for so long in my dreams was there.

Is it a dream again?

Didn’t you have a dream as vivid as this just a moment ago?

And wasn’t your hope betrayed again?

Then again, is this belief meant to be deceived?

Do you struggle even though you know it is a dream and that you will wake up in the end?

no. It’s different this time.

Something is different.

Jill struggled, barely able to crawl along the ground with her limbs, which were shaking in convulsions and were in excruciating pain.

In my dreams, I was always waiting for Eugene.

If you stay still, Eugene will come to you.

But not this time.

You have to catch it right now.

I had an ominous, eerie feeling that if I didn’t catch it now, I would miss it forever.

It has to be reached.

I have to reach him.

I wish so earnestly.

With his tongue twisted, he let out an incomprehensible sound and stretched out his hand.

“Ah…!”

That moment.

Eugene, who had been standing strong, slowly collapsed.

A pale-faced blood demon girl naturally supported Eugene and then slowly laid him down.

He still has a blank expression, devoid of any emotion, so I don’t know what he’s thinking.

The blood demon girl, holding Eugene’s head on her knees, brushes his bangs.

A smile passes by the corner of his mouth, which had no trace of emotion whatsoever.

It’s not a smile of absolute joy.

A smile with a somewhat gloomy edge.

“Huh······. Just a little, just a little… Let’s sleep…”

“······Koh, come on. Me, next to you. Protect me, I will give it to you.”

“Thank you. I’m so tired, really.”

why? Why are you saying that?

Jill’s pupils were shaking wildly.

Eugene makes eye contact and then slowly closes his eyes, as if they are the only two in the world.

Strength is draining from my limbs.

The corners of Eugene’s mouth draw an arc.

It is a comfortable face that someone who has been freed from all the pain in the world would make.

“Take a rest. ”

“······Yes.”

What do you mean?

A very hoarse voice came out of my mouth as I asked that question.

Are you coming back to rest?

Are you really saying you’re just taking a break?

Jill’s eyes glowed slightly blue.

Through her eyes, which were awakened a long time ago, things that cannot be seen by ordinary people come into view.

Things that could only be seen as a whitish haze in the past can now be seen more clearly.

Vengeful spirits that let out bizarre screams.

They have lost all sense of reason and are just ghosts wandering the nine heavens.

Through the gap, a dazzlingly shining spirit rises.

And that too, from Eugene’s body.

“Ah! Ahhh!!!”

The residue that has become language bursts out.

Even Jill herself had no idea what she was trying to say.

I just say whatever comes out of my mouth.

She desperately stretched out her hand to catch the rising light, but it just barely slipped out of Jill’s grasp and soared toward the sky.

I looked away to see if I had seen something wrong.

Eugene’s body still seemed comfortable.

His chest is heaving, he is breathing properly, and he looks as if he is in a sweet sleep.

But Jill could see it.

It’s empty inside.

It was clear that what an intelligent life form must have was empty.

“Ah, ah! Eye patch…!”

Jill crawled, making a sound that was either crying or screaming, and finally reached Eugene.

I caressed Eugene’s cheek with my hand, covered in dirt and bleeding.

For a moment, it seemed like embarrassment appeared on the blood demon girl’s face, but Jill didn’t care.

“Don’t go. Eggplant mya······. No way… Hmm, huh…”

When I looked up at the sky, my soul, shining beautifully in pure white, had already risen far into the distance.

There was no way to hold on to it in the first place, and now I’ve lost track of it.

It is said that among those who have died at the end of their lifespan, there are very rare beings who escape the sight of the underworld and wander around this world.

As if that exception did not apply to Eugene, he was dragged straight up.

“Seo, saint…?”

Julia’s eyes widened as she staggered closer.

In an instant, all the alcohol went away, and reality came crashing down in front of her.

It was so sudden that I couldn’t even laugh or cry, I just stood there in a daze.

It was a possibility that I had been somewhat ignoring.

They said there was no way Eugene would come back alive.

I feel like I can only survive if I suppress such hope…

Although she was looking away, Julia’s eyes were filled with fear even though the future she had never dreamed of was unfolding before her eyes.

“Aaaa!!!”

Jill is wailing.

To break my heart.

It was an even more desperate cry than the day Eugene disappeared.

Eugene’s body was not there that day.

Now Eugene was being held in Jill’s hands.

Jill made every effort to elicit a response from Eugene by caressing his cheek, caressing him, holding his hand and rubbing him, but in the end, she leaned her forehead against Eugene’s chest and shed tears.

Julia staggered to Jill’s side and sat down.

Then he grabbed Eugene’s other hand and lifted it up.

warm.

My pulse is racing.

It was clearly the hand of a living person.

Nevertheless, Julia was able to quickly figure out why Jill was sobbing.

Eugene’s hand didn’t feel like Eugene’s hand.

The touch, warmth, and smell were all Eugene.

Strangely enough, the feel of Eugene’s hand was different.

Becoming afraid of others

Slowly, over a long period of time, Julia was able to accept Eugene’s touch.

However, this hand is not the only resting place…

Rather, it felt like an inorganic piece of wood.

It was like that even though I was alive.

Obviously, my heart is beating and I’m breathing.

A feeling that something invisible is missing.

Come to think of it, did the saint say that she could vaguely see ghosts?

So, how could it be that the saint just looked up and suddenly started crying…?

Julia felt her heart sink.

“What is it? What?! why······! Ah!”

Yerina, who hurriedly ran towards me, forcefully lifting her eyelids that were trying to close due to exhaustion, let out an exclamation.

Understanding the situation was quick.

Coincidentally, the erased memories also came back.

Memories of meeting Eugene in the world where her origins resided and of reviving Eugene by creating the Frost-style Oui came to mind.

My heart is pounding.

When I saw Jill and Julia pouring out all the moisture from their bodies, tears welled up in my eyes, but I suppressed them for a moment.

A rational response was more important than that.

“What! Speak up, you stuffy girls!”

In Yerina’s opinion, Jill and Yulia, who are just crying and crying, are just frustrating.

Are these minds telepathically connected to each other?

It was a mystery how they could not even make eye contact, but were crying in sympathy, as if they had copied and pasted each other in this absurd situation.

“Uuuu! Ugh! Ugh! Eugene…! Eugene…!”

“Ah! hurry! Isn’t this an urgent situation? Nose boom! Blow!”

“Hmm!”

“So what! If you just cry, who will solve the problem?”

“Yu, Yoo Yu-jin… W, my soul… Ah, I can’t feel it… ”

“Eujin…! Hehehehehehehehe! Eugene’s soul, ugh…! To the sky… Heaaa!”

Yerina was going crazy and jumping up and down.

Is that why you just cry?

You have to do something!

I don’t know what works and what doesn’t, but I have to move my body first!

“This bastard…! I saved him for the best, so why are you trying to find me right in front of me!”

Wow!

Yerina’s hand, filled with anger, grabbed Eugene’s chin.

Then, they kissed their lips, making a sound that suited them, or rather, jjuwaaap.

At this, Jill and Julia were left with tears in their eyes and expressions of bewilderment on their faces.

“What are you doing! You don’t have to do anything to bring Eugene’s soul back!”

“Well, what should I do…”

“How do I know that! If you just cry and see that it doesn’t come back, that’s probably not the case!”

“······!”

In a hurry, Jill and Julia also began to move.

He clasps Eugene’s hand and puts his own will into it.

He even shed tears into Eugene’s mouth.

They kissed each other one by one, lusting after Eugene.

Come back.

Don’t leave.

I begged him to stay by my side, and my desire for Eugene grew.

Mijeong, who had been watching the scene the whole time, closed her eyes and thought.

‘······Guys, why? Like this?’

I really went to rest for a while.

I just went to see my future boss.

There was no such fuss, even if it was very fussy.