The Returner
[532] 7. I won't let you go alone (2)
Aphedrice is still a little jealous of these people.
If a dragon were jealous, who would believe it?
A dragon with a strong sense of self cannot be envious of other beings. But the Appledrice was now feeling jealous.
It meant that Apeldris could no longer maintain the spirit of a dragon.
‘You're going crazy. ’
God does not design life for no reason. When God designed it, it meant that the creature needed it.
It is clear why dragons must have a strong, unwavering self around them.
It was because I lived so long.
There is so much information that they digest. There is also too much logic in the world for them to understand.
The moment you start swaying with other beings and emotions, your emotions begin to build up. And for those who lived for thousands of years, emotion was like poison.
Can you hate someone for thousands of years?
Can I love someone for thousands of years?
Emotions become a burden, and attention becomes poison.
That's why the dragons slammed the steel bulkhead around their minds and freed themselves from other beings.
You sneak out and dig a rare life with the power to overthrow the world. Spend a lot of time sleeping and have no interaction.
If isolation is poison to humans, exchange is poison to dragons.
That was the spirit we had to keep.
‘I've already lost my identity as a dragon. ’
It started to happen while spending time with Lee Hyuk. Lee Hyuk was a human being, and he was just a human being... shaking more violently than any other human being.
It was impossible to observe such a human being for close to a thousand years and not change. Maybe this is the curse Latrel cast on her.
Latrell was the one who left her in charge of monitoring and restraining him.
It was a harsh punishment.
After all, her identity as a dragon has been destroyed, and all that remains of her is a miserable death.
There's no way he could have lived.
A being shaken by emotion cannot endure time. You can't win over loss.
What will happen to the appendage after Lee Hyuk is dead?
You will feel his void at the end of her lifetime, and that will consume the appendage little by little.
Remaining results are crazy. If not, dying alone.
Nothing mattered to the dragon living on its own.
Now she's a dragon, but she can't be called a dragon.
But…….
She didn't regret it.
The man who caused it is roaring now.
Look at me.
Look at me.
I'm wandering around in endless pain, crying out to the world for this power I've finally found.
‘Poor guy. ’
The appendage can't help but feel the sadness that is crushing your heart.
I was dragged to Beraph for no reason and had to endure the pain humans couldn't bear.
His roar sounded like a child's cry to him. The crying of a child who can't help but cry because he doesn't know what to do.
How does Lee Hyuk feel right now?
No one knows the end of this battle better.
Not to die, but to die more worthy, he was now enduring the agony of tearing his soul apart.
If she had been the way she was, now she wouldn't have been able to understand Yi Hyuk's heart, or why he was doing what he was doing.
If you have to face a moderate end to death no matter what choice you make, it is natural to choose a death that is less painful and less difficult. That's the dragon's way of thinking.
if she had a past where she didn't understand the notion that one being interacts with other beings and completes itself through others.
But not now.
Now…….
Was it good to be in this world?
‘Cause I could see. ’
The way he laughs.
He was building a smile in this world that he had never seen on veraf, a smile he had never shown her.
"A little naughty, though. ’
The people of this world have filled the parts she cannot. She was jealous and heartbroken and good at it.
Because he deserves it.
Lee Hyuk, who has suffered for such a long time, should be able to smile at the last moment.
It was a pity and a pity that it was not her who gave the smile, but others....
‘Are you still a little happier? ’
I couldn't ask.
Even if she did, even if she didn't, she'd be heartbroken.
But…….
I wasn't just jealous.
No matter what anyone says, it doesn't change the fact that she understands Lee Hyuk best and has been watching over him longer than anyone else. Deep distance between dragons and humans that we can never understand each other.
The appendage smiled.
He, she too....
The stage of self-preservation has already passed. I can't live normally. If we survive, we will see hell alive, and if we die, we will not die peacefully.
So...
‘I won't let you go alone. ’
It's too lonely.
That should be fine.
Even if dying alone is a death worthy of a human being named Lee Hyuk, she deserves to be hurt a little.
That was the only reward she could get for watching Lee Hyuk for a thousand years.
‘So... ’
Lee Hyuk's eyes twisted sore.
When other people's eyes saw Margie emitting Lee Hyuk, her eyes saw blood spilled from the broken and collapsing flesh.
It always is.
That's him.
Standing unannounced in front of you, you bleed more than anyone else and suffer more than anyone else.
A little teasing would be fine.
A little bit.
So...
“Come on.”
Lee Hyuk secretly turned his head.
I thought I heard something.
In his eyes, he sees Aphedrice holding his hands together from afar.
“Hehe.”
Lee Hyuk laughed.
‘It doesn't suit me. ’
Prayer is the right and privilege of a weak human being to entrust his work to others. Praying to the dragon theme.
‘Stupid lizard. ’
Stupid, stupid lizard.
That alone is complete, that alone is borne, the most perfect being.
The Dragon Road of Beraf.
It's like a woman with her hands together and praying. Like a human being.
‘God does not help us. ’
If you want to do something, you have to do it yourself. If you want something, you have to crawl and bite to get it yourself.
That was how Lee Hyuk lived. Either the appendage, who knows that better than anyone, prayed because he felt his helplessness or…….
“Heave-ho.”
That's disgusting.
It's disgusting.
Not her, herself.
Humans are judged for how they lived, but how they died is complete.
His death didn't look like she was desperate enough.
Lee Hyuk clenched his fist.
With the sound of woodchuck, the bones and nails of your fingers are broken, and flesh bursts and blood spills out. However, his body was recovering like a lie.
“Stupid lizard. ”
Look closely.
how spectacular he is at the end.
This shrink will not stop simply with a shrink that blesses the Earth. It will resonate beyond Beraf and all of its dimensions.
It will be a spectacular death.
The whole world will bless him.
He will rejoice in a world protected by his death.
But…….
‘I know, you idiot. ’
There is no Lee Hyuk there.
There is no Lee Hyuk in the world he will protect. His absence becomes the absolute condition of protecting this world.
But what does that mean?
Everyone dies.
How much pain Lee Hyuk suffered when he went off the rails.
So you have nothing to fear from death. Everyone dies.
It's just...
Can she understand now?
that the reality of the absence of other beings can sometimes be more painful than their own deaths.
She, the dragon…….
Can Lee Ji-hyuk's death be accepted as just an absence of existence?
‘Stupid lizard. ’
It's hard to buy.
She is taking on the pain that she doesn't have to go through, and chasing after what she doesn't have to go through. Like a moth leaping into the summer night flames.
“Chuckle.”
Lee Hyuk looked at the monsters in front of him, feeling contradiction in his attitude, who had lived to die but craved life more strongly than anyone else.
‘It's not time to get sentimental. ’
He doesn't have much time left.
If death cannot be avoided, then the last remaining time must be burnt in splendor.
“Take a good look, you stupid lizard. ”
This is the power he gained from surviving that hell.
It's useless and more important than anything... ….
Whoo-hoo!
His superiority is heard in the air.
“Shhh.”
Pain that was nothing compared to what he had so far dominated his body. But it's okay. I'm sick and tired of pain.
Margaery flies out of her fingertips into the air and clumps together.
Choi Jung-hoon knelt on his knees as he watched Lee Hyuk create.
The sky bites black.
The world bites black.
Whether they flew into the air in Lee Hyuk's body, even dark tar held each other together in the air.
Clouds.
It was a cloud.
But it was just not something you could call a cloud.
It's not black. It's dark.
It seemed to be open in the Abyss sky, where light, darkness, and nothing could escape.
Shake it off.
The great darkness that covers the sky flutters, burns, and burns.
It was overwhelming.
Whenever Magi's cloud lifted from the sky, Choi Jung-hoon's flesh was flinching. And the whole world was trembling with fear.
Screaming in my ears seems to be echoing.
The world is screaming because it cannot handle the power to process it.
“Does the legend mean there were no lies? ”
Diolet the 12-year-old groans in his ears.
At the same time…….
Lee Hyuk's hand slowly drops down.
Very slowly.
But be sure.
As his hands looked down, as if he were condemning the world to destruction, the dark gloom of despair floating in the air began to fall down toward the world.
Magi's strange clouds, which seemed to destroy everything in the world, were overwhelming the Magi and the Demon Kings.
Despair came down from the sky.