Chapter 446 – #93_Your Memory (4)
#445
One.
It was the dizzying feeling of falling that awakened Siwoo’s fading spirit.
Like a skydiver crossing a cumulonimbus cloud, what Siwoo could see protruding through a cloud of black particles.
A darkness so vast that it is meaningless to measure its size.
The totality of Amelia’s solitude and sadness.
Amelia sinks endlessly down to the bottom.
We can see her choosing to be a loner in the end after lingering regrets and remorse throughout her life.
Amelia was slowly drowning in the fishbowl of solitude, where any earnest words were buried without echo.
“————!”
Call Amelia by name.
But Siu couldn’t even hear my own cry.
The purple magic wrapped around Amelia like a snake ended the erosion.
No matter how hard she tried to break Lilith’s leash, it wasn’t like she stopped her runaway.
You won’t get hurt if you’re alone.
A false rest comes when you empty out of his surroundings and shut yourself up in your own world.
The desire to be left alone.
Amelia took it.
He was gazing at Siwoo with emotionless eyes that appeared blue, and was spewing out wild and violent magic.
Are you running?
Or is it just falling?
Either way I didn’t know, and it didn’t matter too much.
The distance between the two was still far.
As much as the distance to the moon floating brightly in the sky I looked up at.
The misunderstanding caused by the disconnection, the gap between them because they did not understand each other, or because they understood each other too deeply, seemed far away.
However,
Even this moment is getting closer.
“————!”
Siwoo once again let out an inaudible cry and just approached.
His body was already in tatters.
What is left of Siwoo is neither a red branch, nor a sturdy armor woven from shadows, nor a ribbon that can move in all directions.
All of Amelia’s shabby body, pickled to the bone in particles.
I see her hand slowly rising up.
Amelia, already in a runaway state, is unaware of anything around her.
She was trying to rid herself of all the impurities around her in favor of a ‘world’ where she was perfect by herself.
Siwoo, who turned her memory over, knows.
What would happen if the resonance caused by Amelia while carrying so many of her particles in her body came into contact with them?
It will be a handful of fleeting piles of flowers.
Nevertheless, Siu chose to move on.
-Quad de deuk!
Siu felt the resistance of the magical power tearing at his body.
Like a warning that safety could not be guaranteed if they approached any further, the particles that had been swirling like dark clouds behind Siwoo, who was suffering from the intense pain that spread throughout his body, dissipated.
The sky, shining with pure white light as if the day had broken, was not caused by Amelia’s own will.
The sight of magic aiming at Siwoo and Amelia while cutting out the darkness was like a spear of light.
Like the stern judgment of God condemning foolishness, there was an echo of magical power within it that felt beyond sacredness to awe.
There was no doubt.
In a distorted space, it would be strange if the existence that could use that level of magic and that level of precision and attack was not the 24th tier Duke of Erelim.
It was 30 minutes past the scheduled time.
Even if it was difficult to advance like this, that spear would pierce Siu and Amelia side by side.
Life is precious
However, not everything is more important than life.
Siu fights his way through the enchantment that entwines her body like a rose vine.
A lot of torn and tangled clothes.
There are no major injuries on the outside, but there are bulging signs of ‘flowering’ on the exposed hands and arms.
– Ting!
Even in a space where only silence existed, a sound rang in my ears.
The clear wave, like tapping a wine glass filled with water lightly with a spoon, punishes uninvited guests who are not allowed to approach.
Seeu saw it.
Left arm extended forward.
A splendid flower that began to bloom at the fingertips ate away one side of the hand.
“———!”
It was a terrible pain.
It would be foolish to hope that the sensation of being devoured by a heteromorphic creature from the inside of the body as the muscles and bones are separated would not hurt.
The flowers that start sprouting from the fingertips will not stop until they reach the heart through the arms and shoulders, and spread throughout the body.
Siu couldn’t block Amelia’s magnetism magic, and he judged it to be impossible.
But Amelia saw her memories of her hunt, the rules of her magic she unfolded right beside her.
He has piled up data that cannot be compared with what he first tried.
“————!”
Bloom.
Sparks of intense magical power ran through the whole body along with the cry of a voice screaming.
It wasn’t normal magic.
It is no different from self-harming magic that consumes all mana and destroys the mana circuit of the body.
The flowers that Amelia blooms are eventually the seeds sown in advance that bloom by wave.
If the magic circuit through which the wave spreads goes into a state of shock, in other words, if the body is in a state no different from that of an ordinary human, even for a moment.
Everything was staked on the hypothesis that flowering would stop.
Was the hypothesis really correct?
Or, I don’t know if it’s just an unknown complex phenomenon in the random number space.
A shrieking wave passed through her body, but Siu was able to step into the void that seemed to have no bottom.
I grabbed my left arm that had half disappeared.
Amelia is within arm’s reach of her.
It was a long way.
The two of them, who had been only responding to the discrepancy, were finally able to face each other.
“…….”
Gehenna, the city of witches who have lived their own lives separated from the present world for a long time.
Proverbs and proverbs that do not exist anywhere in the world are often created independently.
Among them are these words:
No human can stand on a rainbow.
A rainbow is a symbol of splendid utopia and perfection.
It is used as an expression that there is no perfect person among humans.
It is a self-deprecating expression that among witches, no one will be able to reach the realm of the witch of creation.
I don’t know about the latter, but the former is indeed true.
There is no human being who can stand on a rainbow.
Sometimes minor misunderstandings.
Sometimes inexperience.
Sometimes the wrong way to express love.
Sometimes hate and resentment.
They hurt each other and create an irreversible relationship breakdown.
Fate is a shabby flower that blooms on such a pile of soil.
If a being standing on top of a rainbow could be called a god, the flower would look too insignificant in the eyes of the god and would be a worthless result that would wither easily.
But not so with humans.
Weak humans can be happy because they are together, and they can smile at each other.
– Parts, parts, parts!
The magic was still flowing through Amelia’s body.
No matter how good an engine she is, she cannot stop a runaway train while derailed.
From above, a pillar of light that guaranteed death was descending like a guillotine blade for execution.
With no strength left, Siwoo could do nothing but walk toward Amelia.
I couldn’t think of anything else but to gather her discord and hug Amelia, who was suffering alone.
I met you so hard
Do we have 10 seconds left to be together?
Siu hugged Amelia.
He didn’t care at all how painful the magical powers that violently pierced his devastated body were.
He just spit out what he really wanted to say.
The blood-stained lips opened through the cracks.
“Sorry for being so late….”
Could these words of hers have reached her?
Even at the last moment, it would have been a very small consolation.
He hugs Amelia, who had been absent-minded like her doll, dearly and dearly.
“I will not leave now.”
A son-in-law that is getting brighter.
The moment when the sizzling heat above your head is immediately felt and the merciless judgment of God pierces the two of you.
Knock knock.
Shiu felt the sound of water dripping.
No.
It was the sound of tears dripping down his cheeks.
From that point on, the world, which had lost its original color, regains its own color, and dark particles are scattered.
The distorted and messy space returns to its original state like a lie.
While the creation car of light that was pouring toward my head was transformed into a huge pile of flowers and scattered.
Coldly frozen time begins to flow again.
-Pop! Pop! Pop!
The remaining sparks of the fireworks display that had not yet ended embroidered the sky.
People who had gathered to enjoy the festival erupted in cheers mixed with joy and admiration as they watched the showers of flowers that were scattered splendidly out of nowhere.
There was no world that was crumbling.
There was neither the ferocious magic power that tore everything around, nor the divine spear that tried to judge it.
Instead, she felt a tugging force at her collar fill the empty space.
Siu raised his head beyond the blurred vision.
Amelia was there.
There was Amelia, who looked at Siu with her trembling hands, at a loss for what to do.
“Siw… Siu… Arm… My arm hurt….”
Even though I wanted to see Siwoo again so much.
Even though he was so afraid of reuniting with Siwoo.
There was Amelia Marigold, shedding tears of unending concern as she looked at Siwoo’s left arm, which had been severed immediately.
Siu met Amelia’s eyes.
Amelia is just tugging on the hem of her clothes as if she wants to run away right away, like a guilty person.
Not knowing what to say, I thought that Amelia, whose lips were parting, was very like her.
Anyway, I’ll be sure to hear it now.
“Miss Amelia.”
When Amelia’s name was called, her body stiffened with tension.
“Everything is fine.”
Siu passed out and collapsed into Amelia’s arms.
Under my clouded thoughts, I repeated another proverb of Gehenna.
God is cruel and does not gift miracles… It is a cynical maxim like a witch.
The aftermath of the runaway magic is proportional to the individual’s achievements.
Amelia was incapable of stopping her own powers that were already out of her control.
That’s why it’s a ‘runaway’.
However, Amelia not only withdrew her magic herself, but also canceled the magic of the Duke of Erelim.
Is it okay to say that this kind of incident beyond common sense is also a miracle given by God?
If not, it’s childish and clichéd.
It may be that a simple flower has bloomed on a pile of tangled soil.
A small but beautiful flower.
