The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

I can't remember any more future dreams I wrote at a young age.

But what I must have dreamed of was a happy future. I shouldn't have imagined dying with regret.

Ruth thought of the rest of her heart.

"Lekualek...... Alec"

I was more concerned about Alec than I was about to die.

Alec was so disturbed and crying that he had never seen it. Just remembering how painful it is, I can see the power coming into my whole body from remorse.

"Huh...?

- So for the first time, Ruth realized something odd.

When I die, I should have lost all my senses, but now I think about Alec and I feel like I have a painful chest and a powerful body. I have hands and feet, I have bodies, I have thoughts to feel it.

'What do you mean…, ah. Voice'

A grunt I didn't think would come out came out of my mouth. It echoes around and notices that it also reaches its own ears as a sound.

"Around - Wow!

As soon as I put it into words, Ruth fell on the floor. Hit your ass on the floor that resembles a white stone and distort your face to pain.

But I stood up in a hurry, understanding that I was able to feel the physical shock right.

"What, what do you mean?

The surroundings were a bright white world as far as I could see. A space that lasts forever, not even the horizon can be seen. A place where time continues as if it had stopped, without the presence of light or shadow.

"Something like this you've read before."

Ruth looked down at herself.

My body was white as were my clothes and my skin. Only contours like the lines drawn on the white campus seem to preserve Ruth's dignity as a person. But the hole breasts and clothes were undone, and I felt that I had returned to who I was a little while ago just because I didn't have the color. What bothers me is that there is not always an orha that sticks perfectly together?

"What the hell is this all about?

Raising the question in my voice did not return the answer. Ruth sighs small. In an attempt to feel firmly the dull body of his senses, he began to think as he walked without a destination.

"How did that happen in the first place?

Aristotle, who suddenly spoke out, the hands of the black child that came out of her, the voice of the young child, the sad Addy, the heart of Ruth removed -

"Really, what..."

A lot happened at once, and Ruth couldn't get her head sorted out.

All I know is that Ruth collapsed after he had his heart pulled out. And now I don't know what to do in a strange space, it just means I'm walking.

'... is this, alive or dead?

You're in a state of consciousness like this, but you don't even know your life or death.

"But"

Until they were close to closing their eyes, Alec and the others had a desperate complexion, but maybe after that someone's surgery was successful and they were just unconscious. Maybe I'm dreaming. I can also hope a little that I may see Alec again.

'- Unfortunately, you can say it's not there'

Suddenly, a voice that could not be taken as a man or a woman sounded in the space where Ruth was.

When I looked around in surprise, I noticed a strange shadow appearing on the front where there was nothing earlier. I can understand the shadows shining in places where only light could be seen and the front glowing.

"... Could it be God, God or something?

Ruth didn't believe so much in God. Naturally, even the Four Gods, who had prayed since childhood, were people in the end. But because of this strange space, I couldn't help but feel the possibility of existence that was only imaginary.

What was there was a face, an outfit, a standing I had seen somewhere. He was exactly the kind of person with the appearance of a man's imaginary God. But for some reason Ruth couldn't successfully recognize its existence. It's a face I've seen, understandable to have eyes and nose, but I don't know exactly what shape it's in and which position it's in.

"God - it's not that kind of thing. But I'm sure you know everything that lives on the planet."

Having said himself, 'I know everything that lives on the stars', he speaks softly to Ruth with a calm smile and a look of grief.

'I'm sure you won't be able to see him again. Because he has been plucked out of his heart by those who worship Zagris as God, making him unable to recover normally. The body and the spirit are no longer separated.'

"The flesh and spirit were separated..."

"Yes. So this is how we can have a dialogue with the stars."

I felt the faintly floating expectations disappear beautifully into the person's words, those who call themselves “stars”. The way you say it is far-fetched, but I guess you're finally saying it in oblate that it's "dead”.

"Me... I knew it would stay that way..."

Usually Ruth never takes the words of a stranger so honestly. But when I was in this world out of common sense, I was so convinced of the fact that I was dead.

"I'm dead, aren't I..."

“The star" smiled unanswered to Ruth's unwilling question.

'But be proud, you have done your duty beautifully. I lived honorably as "the one who holds the fate of XX."

'What do you mean?

Ruth had previously heard of "The One Who holds the fate of XX" from Wonok. It's a strange title, attached to Ruth.

It's just that at that time the 'XX' part should have been properly heard with the sound of 'brave man', but only an unclear sound could be heard from the mouth of whoever named this' star ', not clearly.

"What you call a title is a mission for the stars."

"Mission?"

"You are the one who holds the destiny of XX" has been on this mission since its birth. For that reason, it was my mission to risk my life to encourage those named Alec Gala to become fully awake as "the one who fulfills the star's wish."

Ruth tilted her neck at the words to be told lightly.

"The brave man who fulfills the star's wish"? Is it my mission to prompt you to full awakening? What's this all about?

When Ruth questioned the succession of arrows after all that he could not tell from the "stars", the ”stars” shut up a little.

'It's also a little pitiful to say that you did your mission splendidly, but you still don't know anything.... OK, take a look'

When the “star” waves, it suddenly colors the floor that was under Ruth.

"What's this, footage...?

I noticed that a different dimension would be reflected at Ruth's feet, as I had placed the large screen on the ground.

When Ruth's eyes and ears began to get used to the colorful world he had seen for a long time, it turned out that it was the deepest part of the ark where he had been earlier. It's an angle where Ruth is looking at the whole thing from a slightly higher position, ignoring the presence of walls and ceilings around the collapsed sealing device.

"- Alec!"

At the center of the video was Alec leaning over with Ruth in his arms.

"... Ruth... how... why..."

Alec is quietly weeping as he stares at Ruth.

But the perimeter was in big trouble.

A great deal of magic was emanating from Alec's body. He runs cracks on walls and floors, winds down big winds and thunderstorms, and spreads a number of holes in distorted spaces on his side.

The appearance that wrapped so much brilliance that it was likely to burn the beholder's eyes was the timed device itself, which was likely to explode even now.

"Alec, keep your power down!

"Dear Alec, take control of your own magic! Not like this!

Garcia and the others are desperately speaking up, but it hasn't reached Alec in a state of relief.

On the contrary, Alec's power is increasing more and more, and he can't even stay on the spot in the aftermath of it, and he's walking away step by step.

There was an explosion everywhere in the facility. The only thing that didn't come with one scratch was the sealing device behind Alec.

"- Alec! Alec, hold on!

Ruth crawled to the floor and tried to speak up, but naturally she didn't get a voice.

"Why, me, stay... ru,... su"

Alec's voice grew smaller, contrary to the stronger light wrapped around him. But its body is trembling in small pieces like mechanical parts that have begun to break.

"Ruth, Ruh, Suh, Ruh... Ah... why... Nah... so"

Alec's eyes, which began to lose light, continue to stare only at Ruth, who is immobile, and his arms can put in the power to hold him.

Alec, who no longer saw anything but Ruth, even his language was in jeopardy step by step.

"Not like that."

- Aren't Alec going to break, Ruth thought?

When Ruth grips his fist at the anxiety that creeps up, Alec and the others who were moving stop perfectly. It's like we paused the footage.

Now confused by a strange situation, the silent “star” speaks again.

'Come on, take a closer look from here. “The one who fulfills the star's wish” finally awakens completely. Be proud, your death is complete.'

"Fully awake? My death? - No, more than that, if it stays that way, what happens to Alec?

The words "star”, as if complimenting his godchildren for accomplishing a brilliant challenge, were creepily different from the confused situation of Alec and the others.

Ruth felt so horrible about it.

"It can also fulfill its mission as a" star fulfiller. "

'Not really, what happens to “Alec"!? In that state, there's no way you can control the force. I'm still storming my powers already. Alec himself is in danger!

Alec's power was already quite great. Just lost control. This is how it looks. And yet, I couldn't imagine any more.

But the words returned from the “stars” were a far betrayal of Ruth's expectations.

"That's not what the stars know."

'Duh, what do you mean!?

'Whatever happens to that man after he is fully awake, if he fulfilled his mission as "the one who fulfills the star's wishes," it means that nothing is wrong. It doesn't matter if a lot of people die trying to run wild.'

'What are you talking about!? If you get your surroundings involved and do damage, you don't know what the brave power is for!? I guess the power of the brave is for the salvation of people!?

For the peaceful life of the people Alec awoke as a brave man and fought all the time. And yet, it shouldn't make sense if you were given uncontrollable powers to storm off.

"- For people? What are you talking about?

'Huh?'

"The One Who Fulfills the Wish of the Stars" - the power of what you call the “Brave One" was made for the stars. “The one who fulfills the star's wish” does not exist for just dozens of races called 'people'. "

'Huh... is...? So, for what...?

"He who fulfills the wishes of the stars," as his name suggests, exists for the stars. "

Words that do not represent emotions reach Ruth's ear. And - I finally realized what I really meant by the words that were repeated.

'No way,' star 'means...'

'- Yes,' star 'means everything that lives on this star. You "people" are only one of them.

The frizzy cold spreads like a cold wind stroked my back.

"The earth, the sky, the sea, the people, the animals, the demons, and man, even the existence of the disastrous Zagres sealed by man a thousand years ago, are only 'one', even though they are soldered for the stars.

“The star" smiled calmly and coldly.

'The proud idea that' people ', who are only one of them, are special above all, is the arrogance of the intelligent. For the stars, the grass and the people are all the same. "

For the first time, Ruth became terrified knowing the difference between this “star” being and what we thought.