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76. Sacrifice (2)

It was a single drop of poison that even the gods feared.

It was certainly not false.

My whole body, no, my soul went beyond the burning sensation and reached the point where I couldn’t even move my fingertips, but the unique ability of the Holy Sword made it possible to move somehow.

The body of the huge flame on which she stepped was shaken, and Isabel threw herself in front of her as if to escape, but could not release it.

He threw his body in the same way and gripped the Holy Sword even tighter.

Each other’s bodies tangled and rolled.

As I held on to the end, the meteorite that came closer was gradually increasing its light and size.

Because it is not white, fireworks shining blue light fall down.

“Where are you going like that?”

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A scroll falls from the messy clothes.

There was nothing written on the scroll that was presented to Yan as an escape tool.

In the first place, it was a lie to say that a blank sheet of paper would go back.

“No matter how much I think about it… This is the only way.”

Someone had to stay and stop it, but I had no regrets.

“…If this continues, you will die too?”

“If I was afraid of dying, I wouldn’t have rushed in in the first place.”

Having died in various ways over a hundred times, dying was not something I was afraid of.

“The real fear is letting go without doing the right thing. Therefore…”

The time has come.

Blue beams of light fall from the sky.

“Let’s die together.”

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“30 Seconds before crash! Everyone get ready!”

I couldn’t afford to run away outside the damage range.

A devastating disaster where a 20m-class meteorite falls with maximum acceleration.

In such a dangerous situation, Yan bit his lip hard.

“Why, why are you not coming back!”

Due to the nature of the scroll, even if it moved to a distant place with a slight error in activation, Yan was confident enough to recover.

Interfering with magic was her specialty, so it was a piece of cake for her to move here, but even in the situation right before the collision, the hero showed no signs of returning.

There was no magic wave unique to the scroll, and the two figures, who looked faintly like dots in the distance, hardly came apart.

As if she had no intention of returning, she held on until the end.

An ominous thought passed by at that sight.

No way…

“…Iren, talk to me. Huh? Isn’t it? “

“…The hero is not coming back.”

Mirae Foreknowledge’s unique eyes were looking far into the distance.

“There is a scroll, a scroll! You just have to tear it up! You, you knew!”

“…Actually, there was no scrolling.”

“It can’t be! No, if you go and bring it to me right now-!”

She tried to step out of her formation, but a translucent, silvery barrier of divinity blocked Yan.

The last barrier Irren built while burning her own life to prevent the damage of the meteorite impact and save everyone.

Yan collapsed in front of that wall.

“How come…Why is that guy always acting like that!”

“It’s the warrior’s choice.”

Iren couldn’t look beyond.

The sublime conviction brought about by one’s own choice, not by someone’s invitation, coercion, or coercion, shone so brightly that I couldn’t look at it.

A light that even the sun could not compare was emanating from the soul.

10 Seconds before crash.

“You saved me at best… This is against the rules. No, he said he’d come back…”

It was a lie.

In Yan’s field of vision, a meteorite fell from the sky.

“Prepare for shock! Maintain your formation and raise your divine power to the fullest!”

As the unstoppable destructive disaster eventually hits the ground-

Everything has changed.

The enormous weight and energy caused the ground to sway like soup, and it spewed out a rip-roaring upheaval.

A heat wave burst out, and soil and rocks turned into steam from the immense heat and shock filled the field of vision.

“Dear God…”

A huge explosion sounded as if it would tear the whole world apart.

Irene, who could not stand it enough to crack even her defense shield after she had given up her life, eventually vomited a handful of her blood onto her floor, and she was stained black.

“Come… Don’t come.”

She held out her hand to stop people.

She’s close and even if she doesn’t have one of her own blood, it’s her life that will die today anyway.

She was satisfied with that alone if it was used meaningfully.

“hehehe, did the warrior think like this…?”

Just when she thought that there was not much left of her, Irene’s eyes widened.

A ray of red light was approaching the protective shield in the vision of the future that informed the warning.

The target is Yan, who is sitting down.

“Get down!”

As Iren threw her body at Yan, something in her passed through the protective shield made of divine power.

My eyes widened at what happened in an instant.

I thought that the protective shield would break and the enormous heat would hit everyone… But, like a lie, my vision was clearing.

“What is this…”

Around the time everyone was idly ignoring the mystery, Iren was looking at something else.

“Lie…”

Amidst the huge dug-out terrain, a woman with a distorted body was slowly moving her steps.

Her broken leg, burnt right hand, distorted face, and upper body gradually melted by the poison, all the muscles under the skin were exposed, and her right breast was so severe that her panting lungs could be seen.

Being alive is truly a miracle, and being dragged by her left hand…

“Hero…?”

“hahahaha…hahahaha! Did you really almost die?”

Isabel was walking slowly with a smile distorted by the pain caused by the hydra’s poison, which is said to kill even gods.

As the warrior dragged along the ground that had been melted and became glassy, the bloodstains were dragged along, and soon the blood evaporated in the heat and gave off red steam.

“You said you were alive after being hit with that?”

Jan, who was on the verge of fainting from the exhaustion of her mana, looked at Isabel with her trembling eyes.

It was impossible.

“Doesn’t poison get in the way, doesn’t the hero cling to it tenaciously… If I was stubborn, I could have blown this precious body away. What is it? If he hadn’t dragged some of his body, he would have definitely died.”

Grabbing the warrior by the collar and lifting it up, his body fluttered in the air without strength, and Yan, who looked at it, blocked his mouth and retched.

“Wow…!”

Compared to the hero, Isabel’s condition was truly a nobleman.

Her entire body was literally a lump of charred charcoal, her left arm and the bottom of her pelvis were nowhere to be found.

All her hair was burned and the skin on her face melted from the heat, covering both her eyes and nose.

Only the breath she exhaled through the tiny pores in her lips indicated that the hero was still alive.

Despite such a state, the sacred sword held tightly in her right hand was shining, connecting the thin breath of the hero, but the situation was so dangerous that it seemed that she would disappear at any moment.

“Oh, should I take this?”

After throwing such a hero like dirty garbage, Isabel took care of herself.

I wanted to cut off the connection with this incarnation as soon as possible because of the pain the poison brings, but it wasn’t yet.

“I was given a very small, tiny thread of hope, and I rushed at it saying that was everything…”

A well-planted seed always yields a bountiful harvest.

“I really like the look of despair, the expression of a human being who realizes that hope is actually nothing.”

The energy of the foreign press began to rise behind Isabel’s back.

Right before the hero’s death, both the holy woman and the church members ran out of supplies along with the holy power to prevent the aftermath.

Yan also poured all of his magic into the previous magic, so he couldn’t respond.

Just waiting for death to come, that was all they could do.

Jan lifted the head of the discarded warrior and placed it on his lap.

“…Stupid. It’s stupid. No, hahahaha I’m not stupid…”

Just by stroking it, the ooze came out and stained Yan’s clothes… But it didn’t matter.

Unknown tears fell down the bridge of his nose… And the hero’s breath stopped.

Tingleur.

The Holy Sword, which had not been let go all this time, fell to the floor.

“…. Huh. “

That’s it.

“It was hard. Crap…”

Then, next to Yan, who was crying, Irene raised her hands together and prayed.

She said the last prayer she could.

No, a request, a plea, a wish.

A pure white light swept around.

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“Ah…”

A pure white room with no end in sight.

Without realizing it, I was groping my body.

There were no wounds, no holy sword held tightly in his hand, and no foreign press holding on to the end.

Just an endless white world.

“This… Is it dead?”

I’ve never seriously thought about life after death.

Because I always regressed anyway.

“Still, I didn’t know it would end like this.”

There was nothing I could do but walk slowly through the endless white world.

The world after death is such a lukewarm and boring world.

Being apart like this means that you haven’t lost your soul to foreign media, so is it a success…?

While I was walking blindly with that thought in mind, a change occurred.

Something vaguely shimmering like a mirage.

Normally, he would have approached cautiously, but he strode forward, asking what could be more frightening about a dead body anyway.

“hehehe, do what you have to do, warrior. It’s just a little… I’m sorry”

It was a vision of Iren kneeling, a warrior with a sword hanging around his neck, or rather, myself.

”I love you mom.”

Without hesitation, Iren’s head ran away from the sword that was swung.

It never happened, no, it was something I didn’t choose.

As soon as Maria’s cry resounded like a beast’s cry, the pick went out.

“…This is what it is.”

As I moved slowly again, a new vision began to emerge.

“This is an unavoidable fate.”

Irene collapses with black blood flowing from her nose and mouth.

The reeds turned black and Iren, who collapsed, did not move again.

A lonely death without Yan or Floren.

I just stared blankly at the gradually fading vision.

“What you did was nothing in the end. You shouldn’t have tried to deviate from the prescribed path.”

Isabel murmured as the image of the gigantic incarnation came to mind.

And, like a sandcastle being broken by the waves, countless people are eaten by the energy of foreign media one by one without being able to firmly unite.

The illusion was illuminating the past.

…A future I didn’t choose.

The future where I killed Iren, couldn’t escape everyone, and couldn’t become the focal point.

What does this vision want from me?

I couldn’t figure out what the purpose of showing these things was.

Did it come from simple regret, or…

“… I love despair.”

The ruined landscape and the hideous Isabel exuding her hideous aura.

At the end, Yan was crying while holding a lump of black charcoal.

It was only when I saw the holy sword that fell on the floor that I realized it at the same time as I felt as if I was hitting her head hard.

That’s my end.

“I see. I have failed.”

Despite desperate attempts, it failed.

Even though they grabbed the foreign press, stabbed the holy sword, and threw their bodies together toward the final magic, they failed.

She stood in front of the crying Yan and held out her hand, but it just went through in vain.

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Then, the blow of the foreign press hit and everything disappeared.

….There was nothing I could do.

Sadness and regret filled my heart, and only darkness and heavy emptiness lingered in my heart.

The illusions disappeared and I saw someone’s feet in front of me as I lowered my head.

As I slowly raised my head, what caught my eye was red hair flowing down like a waterfall on top of my fluttering white clothes.

A halo shining behind her head, the radiance was scattering light around her.

Even if you didn’t say who it was, you could tell.

No, if anyone stands in front of this, they will realize who she is.

“Goddess Nemesis.”

She was a goddess with an expressionless face, just looking at me.

She sure had a mountain of questions to ask when she met her, but… She couldn’t say anything.

It wasn’t unspeakably beautiful, dignified, or intimidating.

An unknown phenomenon in which her mouth shuts shut and her head turns white.

After moving my lips for a long time, I finally managed to say one word.

“…Is this the end?”

A single word with many meanings.

Regret, mourning, grief, lamentation, regret, sadness, misfortune, sigh, heartache, pain.

A question that brings all of those things together.

But Nemesis didn’t answer my question and just shook her head.

As if it wasn’t yet.

Then he raised his index finger and pointed at her behind.

Where the illusions disappeared,

“What…?”

I looked back, but there was nothing.

Did this goddess trick me? When I hurriedly turned her head, a warm little hand grabbed my right hand.

She is not a goddess.

Much smaller hands, smaller stature and a familiar back.

I heard the voice of a child chattering incessantly.

“I mean, I actually wanted to draw. The flowing water and the flowing clouds, the thick forest and the gathering of people.”

“…Iren?”

I couldn’t see anything but Irene’s flowing hair and Irene’s back as she ran forward with my hand.

Nemesis was nowhere to be found.

“I also learned to dance, so one day I wanted to hold her mother’s hand and dance with her slowly, sometimes accidentally stepping on her instep.”

As Iren led me, numerous illusions appeared and disappeared repeatedly.

Not only the past, present, and future that I hadn’t experienced, but also the time of Yan, Floren, Irene, Maria, each and every Inquisitor, and everyone here.

“But that is a future that will never be reached. My destiny ends here.”

No.

“Who says they can’t reach it! You can change the future!”

At my cry, Iren just let out a silly laugh like hehehe.

“What the hero needs to change is not my future.”

She ran for a long time, but the place where Irene stopped was a place she had already seen before.

“…Stupid. Stupid. No, hahahaha I’m not stupid…”

Next to Yan who is shedding tears.

“…Sorry. I worked hard..Sorry…”

This was the scene before everything was destroyed by a blow from the foreign press.

But… There’s nothing I can do. A body that had already died, a corpse that had become a lump of charcoal, could meet only a pitiful figure that could only complain.

Irene stood in front of the mournful Yan, bowed her head and went behind me, and she pushed her back.

“Go ahead. Warrior.”

“…Where are you going? It’s already over. …Dead. It’s just an impossible dream.”

There was no chance left for me, who couldn’t even return.

I was just looking at it, but… With Iren’s actions, changes began to occur in this white and white world.

The ground under my feet collapsed, and a familiar feeling of floating wrapped around my body.

“This is the last option I can make.”

Irenne’s hand rose higher and higher, and she couldn’t hold it any longer.

No, Irene let go of her hand first and then turned her head this way.

“Dream. A dream that goes back to everyone.”

It was only then that I was able to see Iren’s face.

The reason why she hid her face all the time and could only see her back.

“And please do it. As if you have led the future to a better path several times so far.”

There was a little girl there, laughing through tears.

“For everyone.”

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As the bright light covered her eyes, she felt her feet touch the ground.

It was there when she opened her slowly closed eyes and looked around her.

I was standing in the middle of the scene that appeared as an illusion.

He stood here with a perfect body, not a body that had turned into a lump of charcoal.

As a bonus, Yan crying and muttering is a bonus.

“…. Huh. Great job. Her…”

I carefully stroked Jan’s hair.

As if it were an illusion like before, I feared inside and reached out…

“It’s been a while since I’ve heard…”

Unlike before, the soft hair dug between my fingers without passing through or disappearing.

“…f*ck?”

Yan’s face was a mess when he raised his head.

Bloodshot and tear marks across the cheeks.

“Heojeop… Huhjeop, how is Heojeop…?”

I couldn’t give you an exact answer to that question. No i couldn’t find the answer.

Because…

“What about Irene?”

Because the person who can answer has disappeared.

Yan also turned his head to look for Irene, but she was nowhere to be found.

Irene disappeared without a trace, only her silver air current gently hovered around her.

Everyone’s eyes looking at me were shaking.

Amazement, emotion, wonder, gratitude, awe… And disbelief.

“…Self-sacrifice? It can’t be!”

In the distance, Isabel let out her screams of horror.

“It is impossible… No, it is impossible.”

There was no way that the body that had been on the verge of death would be restored to normal without any cost.

Invisible Irene and her perfectly restored body.

The poison of the Hydra, which had been half-pickled, was also nowhere to be found.

“It is a violation of the law of cause and effect! To bring death back!”

“The violation is what you are doing.”

The aura of resentment that came along with Isabel’s outburst was slammed down from the air as if to crush everyone.

It’s definitely a menacing attack… But at this moment, I didn’t feel anything.

As he stretched out his hand toward the holy sword lying next to Yan, it was sucked into it.

I took the holy sword in my hand and took another step.

I didn’t swing my sword towards Isabelle’s attack, nor did I raise it.

Just holding it up, step by step, moving forward honestly.

In that firm action, all unclean things disappear.

There was no way it could be on top of the holy sword I was holding… But I saw the little hands overlapping.

“…..Irene.”

When I closed and opened my eyes, it disappeared like a mirage, but the warmth from that hand still remained.

Then, silently repeat the warmth in your heart as you move forward.

[Dreaming the impossible dream.]

Live your dreams. A dream that goes back to everyone.

[Overcoming an invincible opponent.]

“It is impossible. Die, die!”

Isabel threw out so much energy that her body couldn’t stand it, but everything disappeared in front of the shining holy sword.

[Enduring unbearable pain.]

The poison of the hydra that was melting Isabel’s upper body also jumped out at me as I walked, making my skin boil… But this kind of pain was nothing compared to before.

[To die for a noble ideal.]

I remembered the time when I held on to Isabelle until the end for everyone, in order to somehow make time with her life while holding the fake scroll.

Until the very end, he never gave up, even if his body burned and melted away.

[I know how to correct my mistakes.]

Isabel, shook off the sweet whispers of her foreign press and twisted her past that cut Irene.

[Love with innocence and goodwill.]

For the sake of everyone in this place, I raised my sword and fought against the foreign press as the center.

[Falling in love in an impossible dream.]

“Go! sh*t! Run! Run to the end and cut it down!”

“…Whoever sees it is a sham.”

When I saw Yan shouting as hard as I could, I just laughed.

The soft touch of the stroked hair was still in my heart.

It was good.

Just being by Yan’s side made me smile.

And after a while, she finally stood in front of Isabel.

As if all her strength had been drained, Isabel’s body was drying up like a mummy.

Even if I don’t cut it right now, it’s probably going to die soon.

I don’t know what the main body of the foreign body that encompasses the universe is, but Isabel’s body, the incarnation that came down to this earth, has already reached its limits.

Isabel let out her laugh at me, who eventually reached her front unharmed.

“hahahaha…hahahahaha! You think you won It’s a mistake. Nothing in the end i will come back again you can never get away from me Even if this body dies, it is enough to prepare a new body again.”

“I know.”

Raises her sword over Isabelle.

It is not this dying body that is meant to be cut.

More on top.

Looking at the pain of the poison that melts the whole body, and a faint line that conveys the pain.

Looking at the universe above, along the line extending beyond, there was a crawling chaos, a lord of a thousand shapes, and an indescribable feeling of bewilderment.

“-No way”

Just as the abyss looked into me, I also looked into the abyss.

“It can’t be. You never reach! I can’t reach you!”

It was only then that Isabelle realized what she was about to do and struggled… But it was too late.

Swing the holy sword toward the sky with all your might.

A pillar of light soared following the holy sword he swung with faith that he would surely reach it.

[To reach the stars with faith.]

Then the whole world was dyed white.