62 – Dream (3)
“… Hmm.”
“…… “
Choi Si-woo looked at Cecilia, who was crossing her arms and closing her eyes with a serious expression.
A mark between the eyebrows.
Even the movement of her fingers that click without her knowledge.
It was a peculiar habit of hers that I knew because we had been together for several years.
‘… It really is Cecilia.’
Even if he was just a doppelganger, he couldn’t have imitated me to this extent.
Even if you copy the action itself, you can’t fool your senses.
“… Go back. “That is truly hard to believe.”
“Yes.”
“Did you say that no one but the goddess knows this fact?”
“Maybe. In fact, I thought she might notice if she was a being with a six-demon power. Looking at the Empress’s appearance, I don’t think that’s the case.”
“No matter what, that’s right. Time has passed… Hmm… “
Cecilia crossed her arms and shook her head as if wondering.
It was hard to believe, but since there was someone who had experienced it in front of her, it was a nuance that she couldn’t say anything about.
“But… “
“Just?”
“It suddenly occurred to me during a conversation with the goddess Irelua. “I wonder if what I experienced was really regression.”
“I have lived for a thousand years. I have never heard of any miracle having the power to go back in time and decades into the past. Crucially, if you think about the power of the Empress, it is something that is inconsistent with her.”
“… Interference in the world. “Are you saying that?”
“That’s right. The power of the Empress of Dreams is to bring about existence from another world. As a prerequisite, it can only be activated in a world that has existed. Since the world created by illusion is ‘fake’, the powers are not compatible with each other. “The reason she stays in 6th place is because her strength is used differently.”
“Yes… “Because I saw it firsthand.”
With those last words, Choi Si-woo was silent.
‘… ‘I think I’ve read it once.’
This is a plot from a novel I often read before I was possessed.
The shock and sense of disconnect when the main character, who went back in time, later learns the truth about the world and realizes that it is not, in fact, a regression.
Now Choi Si-woo also had similar feelings.
Of course, this is not certain yet.
It could just be your own illusion or it could be an unexpected variable.
But…
Because my ominous predictions were never wrong, thoughts like ‘No way, no way’ filled my head.
It was a moment when the conversation did not continue for a while.
Pang-!
“Ugh! “What are you doing all of a sudden?”
After hitting her hard on the back, Cecilia snorted, ‘Hmph!’
“When I saw my stupid student’s face, I wanted to hit him.”
“Yes?”
“If you think about it, what are you going to do? I am excited to have a conversation with my precious student for the first time in a long time… Why are you so dead? “Did you miss me that much?”
“That can’t be possible…? “
“Then smile.”
She immediately grabbed Choi Si-woo’s cheeks and lifted them up.
Her mouth muscles forced themselves up into a clumsy smile.
“Hmm! It looks much better. Smile. If you smile, you will be blessed. “Didn’t I smile even when I first met you?”
“… You were definitely smiling. “It was a problem because they were all screwed up with stock investments and they laughed heartily, saying, ‘Yes, if you commit suicide, that’s enough.’”
“Mwaaagh! Don’t say anything weird! Anyway, don’t worry about it now.”
As she looked at the sun rising high, she smiled.
The waves crashed violently, creating white foam.
A cool breeze brushed through her hair and fluttered in the air.
Cecilia, smiling brightly, grabbed both of Choi Si-woo’s hands.
It’s warm.
The warmth of the living, not the cold cold of the dead, seeped into Choi Si-woo’s heart.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s a regression or not. “This moment when you and I meet again is the product of a miracle.”
“…… “
“It must have been exhausting and difficult. “Because you have the type of personality that tends to get angry because you just keep things in your mind and don’t express them.”
“… “That only applies to Master.”
Cecilia sat on Choi Si-woo’s thigh.
Perhaps because of her small size, she fit perfectly into her arms.
When he looked down, his light green eyes fascinated him like jewels.
“Tell me more. The moment you lived… Things that were happy are good and things that are sad are also good. It’s okay to feel resentful, and it’s also okay to fail foolishly. “Feel free to ask this teacher.”
“…… “
Speech slowly opened.
Choi Si-woo told her story immediately after her death.
The story right after the return will be told soon.
Next, the events after the regression.
I released all of the agony that I had hidden from myself to my precious teacher.
When they ran out of topics to talk about, the two laughed and mentioned something that had happened in the past.
How long has it been since we had a good time where we sometimes got angry and made fun of each other?
The sun, which had risen brightly, set, casting the time of twilight.
Choi Si-woo closed his mouth at some point as the darkness came over the horizon.
I could no longer hear the blowing wind or crashing waves.
“Why are you suddenly silent?”
“…… “
I couldn’t answer.
Because I knew it instinctively.
Cecilia’s body is disappearing little by little.
You can see her broken ankles and the back of her hands.
I hear an inner voice telling me that I shouldn’t hope for any more miracles.
Her time with her is coming to an end.
I had to accept the breakup.
Of course I know it well.
By now, Erina and her children are all fighting hard.
We need to quickly pick up the fragments and help them.
But…
“Our student is crying a lot today. Now that I think about it, you said it was possession at first, right? Considering his age, he would have been over 50. “I guess it really is menopause.”
“… “I don’t want to hear that from my Master who was her virgin for 1,000 years.”
“Mwaaagh! You guy!! “I saw that you knew that, so I opened the diary I gave you as a keepsake and read it!!”
“Isn’t it obvious? No, it’s not a kid in the first place. Does she, the so-called unchanging goddess, keep a diary until she reaches that age? It also has a heart-like emoticon at the end-“
“-Hey, you damn disciple!!!”
The sound of evil sounds fills the area around the island.
Not long after, Cecilia stood up and said, ‘Tsk!’ And continued speaking while looking at the approaching full moon.
“It’s time to break up.”
“…… “
“Don’t be so discouraged. “I don’t exist in this world anyway.”
I soon caught my breath and looked at Choi Si-woo with serious eyes.
A pressure that was serious and awe-inspiring filled the surroundings, completely different from the gentle atmosphere just now.
“Still, it’s time to break up. I can’t close my eyes without checking my student’s condition. “Get up.”
With a ray of lightning, the starry night splits in half.
In Cecilia’s hands were three swords shining silver.
Her beloved sword wielded by the Empress of Dreams.
Her perceived power was on a different level.
The majesty that a true owner can show when handled is a dazzling light.
Choi Si-woo also silently spread his hands.
The special material sword from ‘ROGUE’ that cut down Ken Ichimaru was created.
“Are you ready?”
“… Yes.”
The new form of the two people looking at it disappears.
A thunderous roar rang out and the sound of swords clashing filled the surroundings.
A bloody sword energy fills the island.
The two began to share stories that could not be said in words through each other’s swordsmanship and state.
* * *
“… So, Choi Si-Woo saved you there too?”
“Yes, Siwoo is a good person.”
“Are you calling me by my name?”
“Yes, I didn’t get permission, but… “Maybe it will work.”
Yurika looked at Seol Garam, trying hard to hide her discomfort.
A face that makes it difficult to tell what he is thinking.
However, I could tell that he was very attracted to Choi Si-woo because he smiled every time the name came up.
Yurika felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable as a large stone rolled down her throat.
To change the topic, she pointed to someone else.
“Yuan. You?”
“Yes. Choi Si-woo also showed up and helped me. Well, to be exact, they put a cone hat on me and sang me a happy birthday song.”
“… What kind of nightmare did you have? “
“I don’t really remember, but… “I remember that I escaped thanks to you.”
Currently, the trio was taking a short break from dealing with the endless influx of guards.
I can see shadows being created infinitely beyond my field of vision.
It was a war of attrition that would never end unless the area itself was eliminated, so I needed time to cool off.
It just so happened that the discussion about this phenomenon naturally turned into a story about Choi Si-woo.
“What on earth is it? Choi Si-woo.”
Seol Garam immediately responded to Yuen’s mumbling.
“A good person.”
“… No, that one over there? Did you say Seolgaram? I use common sense to deal with it as if I have experienced it before… Shouldn’t we think about it more seriously? “I don’t know anything else, but I’m sure he has some great secret.”
Seol Garam shook his head.
“You saved me and two other people. “That’s enough.”
“… That’s great faith. Anyway, Yurika, don’t you know anything?”
“…… “
“… Yurika?”
“Oh, I’m sorry. Me too… “
‘Ahahahaha… Yurika said, turning away and silently thinking about Choi Si-woo.
I remember him holding her hand and walking away.
I remembered his back protecting me from the approaching threat.
When she heard harsh sounds, she felt a warm voice covering her ears and whispering, ‘It’s okay.’
Finally…
‘… ‘What could it have been?’
The image of Choi Si-woo, now an adult, hugging him and stroking his hair as if he was okay was lingering in his mind.
His wet last moments linger.
I’ve said it before, but Yurika is a saint.
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I often experienced things that were like miracles, and sometimes powers that could not be explained were revealed.
The most representative thing is the ability to grasp and understand the years of life and the inner self.
That’s why Yurika was confident.
She said that the memories she saw of her were definitely the past that Choi Si-woo had experienced.
‘…… ‘
I did not understand it through common sense.
How can the past be more of the future than the present?
Lastly, the two names he spoke quietly.
“… Choi Haru. Choi Woori… “
“Yurika?”
“Ah… yes?”
“What did you just say…” “
“Oh, no. It’s nothing.”
The sound of boiling phlegm was heard from afar.
The three took a fighting stance as the Sentinel of Thought approached again.
Yurika thought as she infused her holy power into her staff.
‘A little more… ‘
I want to know about Choi Si-woo.
* * *
The purple sword energy that finds a way out in the swirling thunderstorm creates a straight path.
Metal and metal gave off more heat than anything else.
Cecilia turned her body halfway and used her rotational power to fire dozens of sword energy into the form of thunderbolts.
Interconnected thunderstorms dominated the area like a net.
Quarring!
“Pfft!”
The boulders surrounding the body are instantly shattered by the electric shock that sets the coast on fire.
[Use Petrified Skin (Lv.12).]
To buy time, she snaps her fingers, and two flame arms emerge right underneath Cecilia.
As if she was of no use, she immediately shook it off and took on her Ki modifier.
“You learned a lot of tricks while I wasn’t watching!”
The new model disappears and quickly closes the distance.
Choi Si-woo was sweating inside.
I don’t know if it was my past life.
Fighting against the teacher in front of me with less than half the strength I had before was no joke, it really felt like death.
‘Each blow struck is as heavy as a mountain.’
The successive attacks that swirled like waves were all focused on attack.
It feels like hitting a rock that will never break with my bare hands.
How precise and fast it is.
I wondered if it would feel like this if I was dealing with an phantom.
If I hadn’t known about her habits because I had been fighting with her for a long time, I would have fallen for her a long time ago.
Kaang-!
In the end, she was unable to withstand the flash of light and vomited out a handful of blood.
Cecilia chases after her faster than she can fly behind her.
The speed of the play is literally absurd.
A blue light flashes in Cecilia’s eyes.
She swallowed in vain at the blow that was delivered as if she would never get out if she didn’t win.
At that moment.
“?!”
“!!”
A scroll with a soft light blocked her sword strike.
“This…” ?”
After a moment of surprise, the picture of a centipede written on the scroll came to life and came forward.
“Quisic!”
The being that came out with a roar swung its mace-like tail.
Boom!
Choi Si-woo, who was looking at Cecilia who had been thrown out, looked at the huge centipede coiled around his body.
