Egret

Much has changed.

It's been decades since we last met. The old man became a boy, the girl a demon.

The only thing that hasn't changed is the warm light in his eyes. The appearance and color were all different, but I could recognize as much as the light.

Raya reaches out without my knowledge.

Don't touch him at a close distance after all. No, not enough distance. I was unable to advance the trembling fingertips.

‘Blood.'

There's a lot of black blood leaking from the side and flowing through my wrist.

It's too dirty to reach him.

“Bo, don't look. ”

Raya hurriedly hides her hands behind her back. The ugly wings were also inserted into the body.

I didn't want to be seen. I didn't want to show him the ugliness of being dirty and corrupted.

‘I had a lot to say when I met you. ’

I really didn't think of anything now. So I pulled out whatever I could just say.

“I wanted to be a good boy to Igret..... ”

Judas waited for her to calm down.

“Because I became such a monster..... ”

She bows with a confused face.

Beyond his recollection, he never scolded Raya. The thought of being hated and angry with him made Raya tremble.

“I was wrong……. ”

“It's okay.”

“I'm sorry, really. Really.”

“It's okay."

Whenever I heard the answer, Raya's expression gradually distorted.

Tears did not flow from all black bites. A soul that becomes a command cannot weep. It is because only the living can shed tears.

“Don't hate……. ”

“I don't hate you. ”

I was relieved when I heard the immediate answer. He still didn't hate Raya. Realizing that, Raya could only lift her head.

“I always... wanted to be with you. ”

Then I slowly reached out my hand, which I hid behind my back.

“Brother Fried and Halder. And……. ”

The girl grabs the ice sword that is pointing at her as she looks at herself with her hands stained with her blood.

It was made with the power of the Spirit and the white ice blooming from the sword, the pure ice itself, clings to the palm of its hand.

‘The most precious person. ’

A scattered snowflake begins to build up on Raya's cocoa hair. She holds the sword and strikes its tip straight towards her heart.

“Igrett, you know what? Command doesn't die unless you stab him in the heart. ”

“ ……. ”

“By staying alive. Because it regenerates wounds a few times. If you don't destroy your heart at once. ”

His ego as Raya was ahead of his instincts, albeit temporarily.

Raya looked at Judas' face and opened her eyes in amazement. From the moment I first met him, I had never seen him before.

“…… Thank you for finding me again. ”

Even when she was sold into slavery in a hellish world, when she was injured and crying, Igrett found her. I found it, healed the wounds, and held it in my warm arms.

‘Cause that's good. I love it so much.’

You said you abandoned me and ran away, but in the end you found me like this.

Raya murmurs only in silence and stretches out her arms toward him.

“I'll sleep first. I think I'll forget everything again if I wake up more..... ”

Cheer up!

I dug my heart out with a ferocious cold. An ice sword made of Spirit's power destroyed the girl's black bitten heart.

At the same time as the sword pierced his heart, Raya held him in Judas' arms like a baby. His chest was cold, but his arms were warm.

The body that began to crumble with the white snowflake gradually became powder and scattered.

Cocoa-colored Charlotte greets Judas, who strokes her hair forcefully, with her eyes closed.

“Good night. It's Ray."

Passasac

Raya is a sparkling black powder that scattered mountains in the air of reconciliation. His arms, which had nothing to hug, stirred the air and, as you know, became a shape.

The last whisper he left behind hovered around his ears like a white butterfly.

"― Love you. ’

Unlike Fried and Halder, born of nobility, Raya, who was abandoned and raised alone in the slums since she was born, was like Igrett.

So Raya admired the word "toxic family." I was delighted that I had a home to go back to and valued the three people who lived with me as a family.

I couldn't stand the hurt of her precious people over the death of an unknown fever.

If hundreds and thousands of people could protect them even if they died, Raya did so without hesitation.

It was Igrett, of course, that she valued the three of them the most.

Thinking of losing him, Raya is ruined like a doll that crashed under a cliff. He was then completely encroached upon by Commander Gordon, who dug a gap between loss and fear.

Nyaaa

Baek Ho weeps a little as he approaches Judas' feet.

Judas does not move there as if time had stopped. Beak Ho looked up at him with a worrying look, and again he roared powerlessly.

Then there was another person who appeared behind Baek Ho.

“Your Majesty? ”

It was Edan who jumped with all his might.

Ethan, who found Judas standing alone in the middle of a bamboo forest, approached him.

I was bowing my head and I couldn't see the look, but I didn't see where I was hurt. There was a lot of black blood splashing from where he stood. It was an enormous amount of bleeding.

‘It must have been the blood of that commander before. Is he dead?’

Judas wasn't hurt. Edan, who confirmed that fact, sighed a little relief.

“Wait a minute.”

“ ……? ”

Khhhh!

The slightest trembling hand held Edan's cloak. Only then did Edan find tears flowing through my master's jaw line and hardened the spot.

“Can I count on you for a moment? ”

“…… Yes. ”

I can't press it. If I didn't know, I would pretend I didn't, but I already knew how precious my heart was.

Judas was no longer able to turn his back on all that.

But it should not explode like it explodes. His wish is that he will soon become a great power.

The flooding emotion flowed through the blood vessels, soaking the whole body and spilling out the hats.

It was unusual for him to sink the storm into a calm stream.

The crescent moon in the sky did not shed a sound of tears. Only black powder glistened like a star under the faint moonlight.

And the spirits that sensed the grief of the beloved came and burst into tears together.

There was a lot of light, but I can't see anything. That was a breathtakingly dark night.

He admitted, for the first time, that Orot felt "sadness."

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Jean Grande!

One hourglass fell and was smashed. Halder, who finds cocoa sand scattered between pieces of glass, stands in front of him and looks down at him.

“Hmm. Broken? ”

“…… I see. ”

Frid smiles as he sits in a chair and spins another hourglass between his fingers.

“It's faster than I thought. I really didn't expect blood to be on that hypocrite's hands. That's great, kid. ”

Halder bends his back and grabs the scattered sand in his fist. A black blood drop was impaled through the palm of the hand by a piece of glass mixed together.

‘Hey, Ray. Technically, I'm one year older than you? ’

"Yeah, what's that? ’

‘What is it? He calls me brother, too. ’

‘No, Halder fool. ’

Now, in memories that only felt so far away, the two of them were quite lofty.

Frid, the big brother, would always mediate between two growling people if they faced each other.

"Stupid is an insult, kid. I'm a little short, but let's call him nice. ’

‘Ah, Fried. This is really what you do!’

The clear face of the girl who was smiling. It was like seeing three people living in a parallel world, and now it was a distant memory.

Halder clenched his fist. Dark brown sand escaping between the fingers crashed to the ground without a pulse.

“Fried.”

“ ……? ”

“Do you remember the day you first met Him? ”

It was a day when I got caught in the square with disgusting gazes and fingerprints.

The family who flipped the sin of treason that was not there fell, and the necks of the side brushes were cut off in turn.

Lastly, Halder, a bloodline of the rest of the family, was tied to the square and turned over rotten eggs and animal blood.

It turned out that everything was a bluff before it was beheaded, but people did not remove the prisoner's stigma from him.

He who is once recognized as a sinner cannot live his former life in society again. However, even if it allowed me to live like a man again, I did not want to mix in the gap.

The shimmering sky howled over his filthy head.

I had empty eyes and was rained on the floor like garbage.

“I realized two things then. ”

The autumn rain was warmer for Halder, who was only waiting for death. Rain was fair to everyone. He only wets the world without prejudice or stigma.

“One is that justice in the world is ultimately determined by the powerful. ”

Faith and honor that aristocracy has built up have been torn apart like a piece of paper.

In front of the greater power, the relative weakness was thoroughly trampled down. Regardless of the notion of good and evil, he became a sinner in one word and fell throat at a time.

In Halder's heavy appeal, Fried just spins a red hourglass in his hand. The sand inside was swept away.

“And the second one. ”

Halder shoots his fist out. The sand fell, leaving only a piece of glass in his hand.

“That someone with power may not be happy. ”

His heavens were just and warm. But Igrett, who looked at him, did not look happy at all.

With warm but lacking eyes somewhere, I saved Halder from hell like that. It's like the sky scattering autumn rain over this filthy world.

And the dumb little girl who held out her hand told him with a big smile.

‘Be a family. We.’

Halder closes his mouth and looks down on the floor, and Frid gets up from his chair and receives a horse.

“Is it possible that someone who has the power to change the world can only be happy by crouching like a coward? ”

“Fried, don't insult Baina, who agrees with your approach. ”

“Ah, I will. I forgot that you and Raya are enthusiastic believers of the hypocrite. ”

Despite sarcastic remarks, Halder's eyebrows were not stubborn. I just asked him about Raya with an insensitive face.

“Raya wasn't the time to die now. If he's the one I know, I can't kill Raya. Are you sure you found his whereabouts? ”

“Of course. The old man is very desperate. If it was hard, I could barely recognize him. ”

Frid rolls a red hourglass in his hand and laughs.

“Don't forget. I'm not trying to kill him, Raya. ”

“Yes. I'm trying to get it back. Neither do I. I just hate the annoying nature of having power and not being able to use it. Isn't he my old friend? ”

“Really?”

“Oops, oops. Are you suspicious? This is so shocking. The commander is not free to die anyway. It's only a matter of time to revive once the ingredients are gathered. Halder.”

Frid, who approached Halder's side, put the hourglass out of his hand, pretending it was a mistake.

The hourglass was broken and red powder poured out. Mixed with cocoa sand and red sand, the disorderly marble bites dirty.

“Change everything and take back the one you love. ”

Frid approaches the shelf and pulls out a new hourglass.

“There's no way I'm forgetting that resolution. ”

Countless hourglasses were erected on shelves full of walls.

I still have a lot to speak for. The cost of losing a girl was unexpectedly high.

‘I didn't run away. ’

After that, Igrett sincerely killed Raya. That means that his rules, which were so stubbornly guarded, were broken.

A sage who was close to an equitable sky knew his emotions and began to use his almighty power in private matters. From now on, you will truly deal with the Command. When I thought about it, I felt a chill in my back trunk.

‘What an ecstasy! ’

It's like this if the sleeping God wakes up and comes to the ground.

Now the dancing of the world will begin to tilt to one man. The definition of this world, which everyone thinks is natural, changes.

Fried couldn't stand arsenic because he was expecting it.

“…… I look forward to it, Mr. Igrett. ”

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