The Live

Zahar opens the door again. Once a month, we keep the door open, as we promised.

Yoon Jae didn't show up again. You feel the power of the shard inside the door, though it's weak. It was a force stronger than before.

‘Slow but steady. ’

No, I didn't think it was that slow.

Rather, it was much faster than I expected. I didn't expect the sculpture to assimilate so quickly.

‘A few times faster than me. ’

Zahar also knew the power of the Fragment.

He wouldn't be here if he hadn't handled that power. But it took him over a decade to deal with the pieces.

Thinking about that, it was not enough to say that Yoon Jae's growth rate was fast.

I thought you said it was the fifth year? ’

I walk the same path as myself, but faster than him.

I've never seen such talent before. Moreover, he was not only talented, but also devoted and trying.

I thought it was great.

Usually, talented individuals believed in their talents, and they were unwittingly detached.

But Yoon Jae was not like that. His determination resulted in one thing:

‘The desire to see my family...... Is that all? ’

I wanted to cheer.

No, I was already cheering.

Despite everything else, if it's that desperate, it has to be done.

It was then.

“...... Another visitor. ”

Zahar turns his head to look outside the temple.

After a brief conflict, he quickly closes the door. I didn't think Yoon Jae would come out again.

Jubbuck, Jubbuck...

I went to greet guests with a slow gait.

Soon, I saw an old man under a long, tall staircase.

“It's been a long time, my lord. ”

The old man looks at Zahar and greets him.

This is a polite posture. It bends down deep within your crooked waist, and you cannot be more polite.

Zahar stares at the old man. It was a face as if it were in a memory.

“... I look familiar. Who is it? Looks like a dragon. ”

“It's called warmth. Forgive me for being rude to you. ”

Zahar's face crumpled.

It was disgusting for them to think of themselves as kings. Their actions and their words were merely because they were chosen as the Lord of the Holy Grail.

But for a moment, I remembered the name and face of warmth in Zahar's head.

“Load?”

“I don't have enough, but I'm leading a clan. ”

The warmth was still polite.

He looks up at Zahar, standing over hundreds of stairs.

“Could you give me a moment? ”

* * *

There were numerous rooms listed in the temple.

Zahar leads warmth to one of them. Warmth relaxes and waits for Zahar to sit across from you.

Zahar, who was holding two teacups in his hand, handed one to warm.

“Would you like a drink?”

“Thank you. ”

“Having been stuck in a place like this for a long time, it only adds to enjoying something as trivial as this. ”

“So am I. ”

Warmth starts drinking Zahar's tea with a relaxed face. The warmth that soaked my neck with a steaming car opened my mouth with my face.

“You opened the door? ”

“ ……. ”

It seemed to know everything.

Door.

It was the exit and entrance to the back of the coin, on the other side of the world.

Opening the door meant one thing.

“Do you like him that much? ”

Zahar's hand stops, raising a cup of tea to the question of warmth.

Hiding was meaningless. Zahar shows his face instead of surrounding him.

“Yes. I liked it very much. ”

Zahar faced warmth with a smiling face and began to drink relaxing tea again.

Warmth touches the teacup in his hand. The warmth that was looking down at his wrinkled hand opened his mouth.

“I've lived a long time. ”

It was a wild story.

But Zahar continued to listen to him. There must be something I want to say.

“I would have lived for tens of thousands of years. After living so long, all I could feel was wrinkles and wisdom. ”

“The wisdom of the old man, what is this? ”

“It's different when you live a hundred years, when you live a thousand, and when you live 10,000. as wise as this wrinkle. ”

Warmth placed the teacup on the table. Then he looked Zahar straight in the eye and said,

“So this old man wants to give you a piece of advice. ”

“Advice……. ”

It was a funny sound.

A joke was built on Zahar's mouth.

But he nodded and replied.

“Tell me. ”

“Do not betray us. ”

“ ……. ”

“There is only one outcome of betrayal. Do you think there has never been a monarch who made the same choice as you? ”

At the words of warmth, Zahar's mouth grows thicker.

“Are you threatening me? ”

“Threatening, that's not fair. Everywhere... ”

The warmth rose from its seat and was backed up.

“Phew. is.”

One character, one word, one word.

I looked up the warmth without saying a word to Zahar. The tea cup was still there.

“Do you want me to answer it right here? ”

“Do it.”

“I hate you guys. ”

Zahar turns his head to look at the void.

Beyond that, I see a whole black world. Even after death, I could see poor spirits suffering forever without going to the afterlife.

“If you look at that, even more so. ”

The answer was enough.

Zahar had already left his mind. No, he never liked dragons in the first place.

It was the same in this world.

For him, this world and dragons were like enemies that had to disappear.

“…… Is that right? ”

Warmth saw Zahar himself and confirmed that he was right. It was his first encounter as a monarch, but it was no different.

“I understand. ”

“I won't get far. ”

“Escort is my specialty. Sure."

Warmth rises from its place. Then, as I was about to leave, I stopped and said.

“I almost forgot to bring you this news. ”

“What else? ”

“An old friend of the monarch is back in the world. ”

“Old friend? ”

“Think about it. With you, who has survived all these years. ”

I couldn't think of anyone else to say that.

I doubted that all the people I could call old friends were dead, and that warmth knew about them.

Zahar's expression hardened shortly. There was only one creature that had lived for hundreds of years, only one relating to itself.

“No way…. ”

“Goodbye, then. ”

Warmth turned around and left the temple.

I didn't hear the answer. However, Zahar was convinced of the ominous feeling of invading his entire body.

"Baloch."

He's back in the world?

The keys are already dead. The only key that remained was Yoon Jae.

Naturally, Zahar thought Baloch was going to die. I thought that even if I was immortal, I wouldn't be able to break the law of the Holy Grail.

That's why I stopped sealing it. But he didn't die, and he's been alive ever since.

Did you let him go? ’

Baloch was qualified for the key.

If the law had remained unbroken, it could have been a big variable of this fight.

Zahar looks at the place where warmth had passed. Suddenly, his movements were not felt anywhere within the temple.

Did you say "warm"? ’

The leader of the dragons.

I had never met him in person. It was hard to imagine how long he had lived.

He also became a monarch and lived for a long time. However, it was nothing compared to the time of warmth.

“…… Maybe we should go back a lot farther than we thought. ”