Love Letter From The Future

658 – 8. Testament (32)

“I have to go back… Celine now…… !”

“We raided the refugees. I found out later, but they ended up consuming human flesh as well.”

Stand up, my struggles stopped.

It wasn’t because the man’s words particularly touched my heart. I just realized that no matter what I said, the man in front of me wouldn’t listen to it.

The opponent’s face is gradually revealed centering on the golden eyes. As the fog clears, the face of the man staring at me is too familiar.

To the point where I want to throw it away.

“I didn’t mean to ridicule you. I don’t mean to say something that is not even funny, that what is revealed in exceptional and extreme circumstances is the true face of a human being…….”

“What do you want to tell me?”

“Sounds like you’re a ‘kid’.”

It was a heavy voice.

Without feeling any emotions, the tone was close to barren. At first glance, it reminds me of the polar area I saw in the north someday.

Because he was a human, he must have a heart. However, the frozen world, on the contrary, does not allow moisture and becomes dry.

Even though the land they stood on was made of water.

It was the same with golden eyes. A world of complete nothingness, where no inspiration or wave is felt.

It was inhuman.

“You seem nervous these days.”

“Wouldn’t that be you?”

“Of course I did too. I lost so much because of it.”

There was no blockage in the questions and answers. As if he had made preparations, the man gave an unstoppable answer to my ferocious question.

“I still think about it sometimes. Could it be that Count Rhodes just wanted to live, and what I did was not condemnation, but only weeding out… ….”

“Did you call me to listen to your laments?”

“I didn’t call you. Rather the opposite.”

My eyebrows narrowed slightly at the incomprehensible words.

Otherwise, there were so many riddles that it gave me a headache. Now, the act of adding more troubles can feel good.

However, the man in front of me was a person who did not take other people’s feelings as a small reference point.

“You are inconsistent. You keep trying to rely on my strength, but you try to deny me.”

“It can’t be helped.”

“Yes, it can’t be helped. Everything is like that The same goes for selection and concentration. Not wanting to lose anything… It’s a terrible arrogance indeed. Just like the Count of Rhodes had to be defeated for the sake of mankind.”

Is it because I saw the irreverent flame burning in my eyes?

Her manly voice, which had subsided, changed to a more commanding tone. Although the tone was still dry, she did not give a particularly warm impression.

Even her manly mercy did not last long.

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“Throw away Celine.”

A assertion.

It was a firm tone that couldn’t be tighter than this. I felt like my eyes would pop out of my heart. Even so, her man’s tone was flat.

“Before I read more… ….”

“What could I lose more than this?”

A heated gaze, a heated voice.

Even if I didn’t, I couldn’t keep my senses. There was no room left to hide his feelings.

“My body is already a mess, the situation is a mess, and my childhood friend has turned into a maniac revenge demon?”

“Things you can’t even imagine now.”

It was another assertion.

Unwavering confidence pierces the eardrum like an iron skewer. I wanted to argue something again.

It’s just that the man spoke faster than that.

“Do you want to save Celine? If that was the case, I should have chosen Celine earlier. Celine is already an enemy of the world. That she won’t give up on either of them is just your childish stubbornness.”

“Celine is a victim!”

“So?”

A half sentence of only three syllables.

That’s why she couldn’t say anything even more. My lips open and close over and over again, and finally they come together.

“Is there one or two unfair victims? If you put it that way, the Count of Rhodes was also a victim.”

“But, still… Celine is…….”

“I told you, kid. You are inconsistent.”

His golden eyes gently scan my body. Perhaps because it was the world of the unconscious, there were cracks all over my body.

Is it because of the reflection of unstable images?

“The days of being listened to when you cry and be stubborn are over. There’s still a bit of room left for me to intervene. You can’t fight anyway, so if you create a situation like always, I’ll intervene…….”

“Then why didn’t you stop me?”

It was a hoarse voice with no more energy to get angry. Instead of giving another bold answer, the man chose her silence.

Even if you could blame me right now.

“Yeah, I’ve always warned you… Could have been forced to stop. Like right now.”

“You are overestimating me. You are the master of your body. If only you weren’t in an extremely mentally unstable state like now…….”

“It must be my fault, right?”

Sighs or what.

She lowered her head and uttered the words, and her man’s golden eyes stared at me.

“If I, if I had done a little bit better… If so, could Celine be saved?”

The silence got a little longer. The man pursed her lips, then she slowly closed her eyes and let out a light sigh.

“I have been through the same pain as you.”

My gaze, which had been facing the ground, was slowly lifted. It was because she felt a slight tremor from her man’s voice.

Slightly.

I wouldn’t even notice if it wasn’t for me, but he’s so different from the guy I used to know.

I stopped staring.

“When you dealt with the ‘corpse giant’ in the Percus Territory, you said you would not throw anything away.”

It was a memory from a long time ago. The day when the gate to the demon world opened and a snowstorm raged.

I thought I would die, buried in the snow. If you can’t throw away the territory, if you can’t save anyone.

I’d rather give my life to save just one more person.

That was my promise to my young friend.

“I laughed at you then. But, in fact… I don’t know if I missed you.”

Her man’s eyelids were still closed, so she couldn’t read his gaze.

Even if I had my eyes open, it would have been. His pupils must be wandering at some point in the past.

“You finally defeated the ‘corpse giant’. I saved the elves in the north. In Ciendel, her castle, instead of relying on me, she confronted her saint, eventually even saving her without destroying her castle. Not too long ago, I had to say goodbye to my teacher and sister-in-law.”

He was a man who never praised or encouraged me.

It was the reason why he couldn’t help but be bewildered by his honest feelings.

“So that’s what I thought. After countless breaks and collapses, I had to throw everything away… Or maybe there was another way. Wouldn’t there be a way for everyone to live?”

The man’s eyelids finally open.

Stars formed in the pupils that looked like a dry desert. Above all else, it was the cold light, the eyes of a person who had shaken off all emotions.

“I wanted to see even that possibility. Even though I knew you would end up like this!”

In the end, his voice, which had been strained, had a clear color of self-reproach.

That fact, why?

I felt worse than the criticism directed at me. I wanted to at least deny it. No, it’s not it’s not your fault

But his tongue and vocal chords seemed to have hardened, and he didn’t move anymore. Because the world was turning white again.

“It was a mistake.”

It was a terrifyingly confident conclusion.

“You only get one chance. Call me I will do for you what you cannot do.”

I wanted to somehow maintain my consciousness, but my weakened body wouldn’t listen to my will.

And then he let out a breath while panting.

My mind has returned to reality before I know it, and the forgotten memories suddenly strike my brain. The battle right before fainting, the workshops that I finally encountered and shared with Celine.

“Celine, Cell…… !”

I jumped up and shouted like that, but soon I lost my mind.

A familiar landscape greeted me.

In the deepest intensive care unit of the temple, where the dim moonlight shines through the windows. It meant only one thing.

I was defeated.

Whatever the cause, Celine couldn’t be saved.

The reality you want to deny slowly invades your brain and heart. For a while I was silent, my lips and eyelids quivering.

Boom!

He hit the wall behind his back with his fist. The walls that couldn’t overcome the force shook, and a mysterious powder fell from the ceiling, but it didn’t interest me now.

I just let out a trembling voice.

“What the f*ck… ….”

The tremors soon spread to the neck and hands. While forcibly fixing my arm with the remaining arm.

I closed my eyes tightly. Because the night was still long.

“f*ck.”

Yes, it was too long.