Sword Whisperer

"…… That's an offer I've heard before."

And it was an offer that was not appealing at all. Van didn't even guess what was going on in her head. The Queen panicked and asked.

"Even if it could be a knife? It's gonna be so strong."

"I don't want to be a knife. I'm a man. I'm a prosecutor. When you're strong with a knife, it doesn't mean anything. And……"

Van's eyes became sharper.

"How do I trust you?"

"The child."

The Queen stretched her fingers. It was Kishin who pointed out the white and long fingers.

"I don't think I've heard a word before, have I?"

"How did you..."

Half stopped talking at the moment. His eyes trembled.

'No way...'

Van lifts the Kishin. Ever since he came into the realm of the night, the one who was always trying to give me a sinister ear was as bad as he was eating something wrong now. Van looks at Kishin with his cool eyes.

"Kishin. As I thought? '

— Uh-huh.

'Speak quickly. If you don't, I might throw you away from the queen.'

— Don't worry, that's right. It's because of her that I became a knife.

"Huh."

After hearing Kishin's answer, Van laughed in vain. I never thought Kishin was human, but at the same time I didn't think he would be empowered by the existence of 'Night'. I can't believe I was fighting the night with the power I got from the night. What an irony.

"... but I don't think there's any more reason for me to listen to your request. It's not a pleasure to be in a flying position like this one."

"Well, that's not my fault!"

The Queen replied with an unfair expression. She flirts with Kishin.

"That was his mistake!"

"Mistake?"

"It's not up to me to confirm who I am, it's up to the individual. And he couldn't break up with Carl's charm, so he lost his sense of being human. That's why I had to be a knife."

"Well, I guess I can be a knife anytime, too."

"If you're so sure of your identity as a prosecutor, you don't have to worry about it. I don't know if he's as good as he is. What do you think? Still not interested?"

Van grabbed the kissin. Kishin said nothing. So he set his mind.

"Let's hear the story."

The queen smiled.

§

"This is called the Lost Sam."

The Queen pointed to a white spring and said: In many ways, it was a very heterogeneous spring. I never imagined that here, full of darkness, I would find a spring with white light.

But Bondi Night was a place where anything could happen at any time. Van looked into Sam. His face was not illuminated above the white surface.

"Be careful. If you hit the wrong foot, it's over."

"…… What are you doing, Sam?"

"If you wash your eyes with this fountain, you will see the truth of everything in the world, and if you drink a sip, you will know the truth of everything in the world. And at the same time, you forget everything."

"It sounds like a dangerous spring."

"But I'm a fairy from this spring."

The Queen laughed with a sigh.

"As much as I do, you can't lose me in this spring."

"… so?"

"If you go into that fountain, you'll forget who you are. And while everything in the world can be, at the same time it will run the risk of becoming nothing. And in that fountain, I will call your name. So you can remember yourself."

"Is that just a name?"

"As long as you don't let yourself go. In the end, it's up to you. Kissin, you could be a piece of steel like that kid."

.......

Even Kishin, who said so much, kept his mouth shut now. It was quite a strange scene. I thought Kishin would curse the night in any situation. Kishin stood before this queen and looked like he was embarrassed.

"If you can get out of that spring safely, maybe you'll be stronger than you are now. Enough to beat that ugly old bridge guardian!"

The queen grabbed her fist. Van got a little tired. He asked powerlessly.

"What did our Guardian do to you? Do you hate it?"

"I don't hate it. It's him."

The Queen shakes her head.

"He always hates us. They cut us down every day, they kill us, they don't get rid of us. So if anyone hates you, it's him, not us."

"…… The night has destroyed the North, so I must."

"You must have spent a lot of nights at night, but you're still tying the nights together."

The Queen looks down at Van. For a moment, Van felt like a dumb white chimney had disappeared from her eyes. In keeping with the queen's name, the noble man looks down at Van's floor.

"We've been avoiding the sun together in the shade, so they're not all on the same side. At least I never hurt a single human being. Do you have anything to say about that?"

"... I don't have it. Damn it."

Van smiled bitterly. He was still forced to admit that he wanted to define the night as an absolute unconditional evil. When he starts to think there's a lot of circumstances in the night, that's how tired his life will get.

The queen laughed again.

"Yeah, nice! You admit it very easily. Now, the next question. Are you going to Sam? Are you going to stop?"

"..... can you come out of something that is not human?"

"If you wanted to be human, you'd still be human. Well, it's a case of not missing a time."

The queen grinned bitterly. Van looks down at the lost Sam. The white mob of light was about to seduce him.

'We can't delay time.'

I didn't have half the time to argue, even thinking about Anya. Van grabs Kishin. Maybe it would end up like Kishin. But.....

"Are you sure? You can be strong."

"As you immerse yourself in the fountain, you will be able to see beyond the limits given to man, beyond the limits given to you."

The queen shrugs.

"I'm not lying. You can be strong. But it could be ruined. The choice is yours. I wish you an adventure, but I can't say that there will only be an unconditional victory at the end of that adventure."

"…… I'd rather say that."

Van laughed bluntly.

"Can you give me a minute?"

"No problem."

The queen nods.

"There's plenty of time."

§

— Did you think about it enough?

Glass asked in a worrying voice. Even so, it was dangerous to immerse yourself in such an unidentified spring. Van answered by tapping Kishin.

'At least not a lie. I read it through Kishin. That's true.'

Kishin could lie, but he could not lie to Van. Just by holding it in his hand, Van was able to read the most fundamental part of Kishin.

And Kishin replied that all those words of the Queen were correct. At one time, there were countless people jumping in that fountain of hope.

— The North didn't perish in the morning.

Kishin replied in a bitter voice.

- I, people resisted. He did his best to welcome the morning sunset in the field at night. And..... it was then that the fairies appeared.

You can gain superhuman power by throwing yourself into a gland. Of course, the side effects of failing were too great, but under the guidance of the Queen, people began to throw themselves one by one. Some of them became moles, some became raccoons, but others became giant giants that were hard to contain.

It was that era. Humans had to give up being human in order to fight human enemies. Sometimes I forgot when I was human. The reason for the fight is gone, and only the fight remains.

— You better be careful. There were many who wanted to remain strong as human beings. But few of them have ever fulfilled that dream. Humans are weak. It's not easy... to feel strong in a hug of weakness.

It was the most serious conversation I've ever had with Kishin. Van held the kissin without saying a word and opened his mouth.

"Can't you go back to being human?"

—... I don't know. Sam's a scary place.

Kishin replied.

- When I went in there, my flesh became a knife. If you go in the second place, maybe even your mind will become a knife.

"......."

— A reward for feeding me so much night blood. Van. Avoid Sam. It's too much gambling.

The Kishin's voice was serious, but at the same time, somewhere in the corner, it contained the essence of the notion. Just as Van knew Kishin well, Kishin also knew Van quite well. Van was a prosecutor. There was no one who had gambled with my life on the scale for the rest of his life, and now he was coming back.

Eventually, the queen could soon see Van's face again. The queen laughed.

"Are you going to challenge me?"

"…… that fountain, it should be worth the adventure."

"What a surprise."

The Queen replied in a confident voice with her heart out.

"In many ways, it's beyond your imagination."

"Let's go."

Van starts unraveling my knives. It was not just silk creatures that lost the concept of life in the fountain. If I was wrong, the knives could all be gone too. And it was then.

— Leave me alone. Half.

"…… Senior?"

— I haven't given you the right help in a long time. It's been a long time since I've been a senior.

"It's too dangerous. Senior is just……"

- If it's going to be dangerous, it's better to be dangerous together, right?

"......."

Van bites his lips and grabs the hallucinogens. The sincerity of the glass has been clearly conveyed from the handle. The Queen looked at him with such strange eyes.

"Why don't you put the knife down?"

"…… I'll go with you."

Van looks at the queen.

"Let's go."

"Just what I wanted to hear."

The queen smiles and moves her feet to the fountain. Leaping without hesitation, she stares half submerged in the middle of Sam for a moment.

"Come in. I'll let you experience the most precious thing in the world."

Van hesitated for a moment. Thinking of jumping into the stalk, the white fountain seemed to be full of energies.

But I had to keep my mind on it. Van's eyes became sharper. It didn't make sense that I couldn't dip one foot in a spring while trying to cut the world down.

A man who was too old to call him a boy now, took his foot off.

Sam hugs him. When I thought the world was blurred and blurred again..... I couldn't see ahead, the Queen's voice touched me.

"I'll repay Suya for this."

"What?"

Van asks. But his voice bubbles and vanishes. I have something to say about what I just heard, but I want to ask you.....

Oh, my God.

The world collapses.