39. After Exile (6)
“There was a time when I was away for a while without a report a few days ago. Why did you do that?”
Elijah asked nonchalantly, and Hermis scratched her head.
“Yes? Umm…. I’m sorry, miss, I don’t know what you mean.”
Elijah nodded her head slowly.
The opponent didn’t bite the bait.
It could be false or it could be true.
In fact, there was no basis from the beginning.
He had no way of knowing about Hermis’ schedule.
Because I stayed in my room all the time.
It’s just that she was a little suspicious.
Or maybe it’s just childish jealousy that doesn’t like her.
The last woman we talked to was Hermis.
“… Okay. Stop going out.”
Hermis didn’t go out right away, hesitated, then bent her back.
On a whim, she almost gave the last words she heard of Judas.
Even though she knows that she shouldn’t intervene in other people’s affairs.
It was just that the relationship between the two was pitiful.
After Hermis left, Elijah hugged the pupil of the moon.
‘My karma.’
She kicked herself out.
She told me to die.
Judas simply followed his words.
‘Should I go find it or not?’
I thought about it tens of thousands of times in the weeks since he left.
She was still holding her and suffering alone.
Even as she kicked her out, she wanted to find him somehow.
I wanted to see you again.
I wanted to lock him in a cage so he wouldn’t go far.
Because she will stand it herself.
I hope she’s not in a place she doesn’t know.
Still, I hoped that they would wait for me in a place where I could visit them anytime.
It is selfish greed.
Soon she decided.
‘… I’ll let you go.’
I want to burn the whole world to find it, but I decided to hold back.
How shameless.
You wouldn’t even want to see yourself.
Since it is one-sided, I decided to persevere alone.
I definitely realized, understood, and accepted it through today’s work.
‘If I’m alive somewhere, I’ll be satisfied with that.’
Elijah embraced the pupil of the moon deeply.
It is self-employed.
It was a self-inflicted thing. She
She said she wished she was dead.
Dare, direct to him.
And he did.
I don’t know what his intentions are.
‘If this is your greeting…. I’ll accept it. I’ll bear everything, I’ll bear it.’
He kissed the doorknob that Judas hand would have touched often.
Tears streamed down her lips.
‘Hello.’
I see my weak self who had to be killed someday.
A child curled up in a cage.
Unlike then, he smiles brightly.
Touching the flowers in the garden.
Looking at the moon in the sky.
The flowers withered, and the moon faded.
He laughs immaturely, not knowing that the two are dead.
It’s disgusting.
To the extent that I want to rip open my skin and gut it.
She kills herself, but laughs without realizing it.
Another side of himself that he tried to kill when he was beaten by Sardis, but survived thanks to Judas.
I don’t need it anymore.
Elijah gladly took up her sword.
She stabbed Elijah in the cage.
I stabbed and twisted her neck.
Red blood gushed out like a fountain.
It opens wide like a flower in full bloom.
Thick blood seeped into the root of the red anemone.
*
“Lady Elijah!”
She had something to declare, so she tried to gather everyone, but Miguel urgently came to her.
She tied her hair up and asked in a dry voice.
“What happened?”
Miguel was taken aback when he saw her.
Something has changed.
Unlike before, when I was weak like a corpse, I feel a determined will.
But there was no animation.
She still looks like a corpse or a doll.
When I was very young.
It was like seeing Elijah before he met Judas.
It wasn’t something to worry about right now.
“The Duchess of Narsisi has been murdered!”
Elijah hurried to the dungeon.
Three corpses left at the preserved site.
Narsisi, Achan and Sarah.
“What happened?”
Bowls hurriedly explained.
“Someone used magic in this prison while the young lady was away for a while. I read the wave and came to find it, so why are these three dead?”
Elijah’s rationality played its part more faithfully than ever.
She left no emotions in her head anymore.
‘Teleportation aiming for gaps. Then kill and escape.’
Check the puncture site.
‘The shape of the sword is different from that of my soldiers.’
This means that there are no enemies inside.
In other words, it is a very carefully planned murder plan.
‘If this is meticulous, the information should have already gone to Bevel’s side by turning the source. As for the justification, that side will get it first. I was going to hit first….’
It doesn’t matter now.
I’m going to kill them all anyway.
The one who opposes himself.
The one who uses the surname of Bebel. Not one will be left behind.
“Recall all soldiers.”
*
The front yard of Elijah’s mansion.
Her troops working for her Her troops are all gathered.
Starting as an ordinary soldier, a knight with superhuman strength.
And even the SS.
It’s quite a number of troops for one person to command.
Those who are loyal to the name of the Second Coming of the Age of Myth.
A number of allied ministers who had allied themselves against the empire also participated.
A podium in front of them.
Elijah looked down at everyone.
The drizzle was pouring down, but she didn’t care.
The red scarf swayed and fluttered in the wind.
“I am.”
She opened her mouth.
“I am Elijah di Bebel.”
Elijah said.
“A direct child of the Duke of Balak, an illegitimate child, and a sorcerer called the Second Coming of the Age of Myth.”
“Our enemy, the Empire, has released monsters in the capital city to intimidate civilians in order to show off its power. By continuing the war against the demons, they solidified their wealth with the blood and sweat of innocent people.”
“Also, the Bebel family, in cooperation with the Empire and the Moonsin Church, tried to kill me, who will become the cornerstone of the new era.”
Their owner said.
“Under this sky, where the sun looks down on all things impartially, I did something that should not have happened.
The distorted sun, which had lost its light, held her hands as if praying and closed her eyes.
“As the heir to the power of the sun, I will judge all those who disturb the order in his place.”
Speaks in a firm voice.
“That is God’s will.”
When she finally opened her eyes, her eyes were blazing like the sun.
“… !”
A quiet heat simmered through the crowd.
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“Worship, obey. Then, in the name of the sun myself, I tell you.”
The mad master of fire.
Elijah raised the pupil of the moon in her hand and drove a wedge into it.
“I will give you infinite victories.”
The people who filled the mansion grounds shouted in unison.
“Loyalty to Lady Elijah!”
Seeing those kneeling down as if of a united will, Elijah nodded her head expressionlessly.
“Let each of us carry out our assigned duties without omission.”
The soldiers and knights scattered all at once.
After giving Elijah a short greeting, the allies rode off to tell the news.
Elijah watched them walk away and then glanced away.
That corner of the mansion.
A garden full of red flowers.
Elijah barely remembered the name of the flower after a long time.
‘… Anemone?’
That flower, why did you plant so many of them there?
I didn’t know.
Why is that flower the only color in this space?
A colorless expression.
Looking at that face, as if her soul had died, Lia swallowed her cry inside herself.
*
“Ah….”
A letter has arrived for Balak.
Declaration of war by the anti-imperialist faction centered on Elijah di Bebel.
At the same time, news of the deaths of the Duchess of Narsisi, Agan and Sarah.
I tried to hit the Imperial Army first.
I couldn’t bear to let my children fight among themselves.
I tried to do it alone because I couldn’t move the troops, but it was too late.
In that brief moment of close attention, the war began.
“Ah….”
Where did it go wrong?
Couldn’t this have happened if she had to correct some mistake of her own.
Looking back, I couldn’t figure it out.
She was just certain.
The time was approaching when he would pay the price for knowingly neglecting it as an ugly father.
*
Evil, evil.
Gawain was cleaning his sword.
As Balak’s sword, he had to side with Bebel.
For a while, I have to face the young lady I once served.
And then the moment came when we had to cut the articles we taught together.
He won’t hesitate.
No matter who stands in your way.
‘… Judah.’
A disciple who was dispatched to Bethany out of nowhere.
It was a bit fortunate that he wasn’t in the enemy army.
*
Judah rode quickly through the woods.
‘I’m sure you’ve found the corpse in the stomach by now. Hermis took care of it, so they’ll think I’m dead.’
He faked death.
Hermis prepared a corpse similar in size to himself, and Judas left a pupil of the moon next to it.
Lamech’s deadly poison also showed that he was definitely dead.
The local features of Bethany were also used to burn the death row inmate’s body.
To make it difficult to know exactly who you are.
Now that it’s like this, Elijah won’t find himself, and there won’t be a second tragedy for her.
What did Elijah think the moment he found her body?
Funny enough, she was worried that she wouldn’t be surprised or hurt.
In the end, a foolish lingering attachment remained in her heart.
But she brushes it off soon.
I know how irrational and unlikely that is.
‘I will live well. Even if there is a war, Elijah is strong.’
As he was moving forward, he suddenly looked back.
For a moment she felt a strange sensation, as if Elijah had called her.
Soon after, she laughed.
I can’t do that.
‘There are no two heads.’
Judas laughed at herself and pushed through her remaining darkness.
Now I have to live a new life.
There is a place to start.
Jericho.
I bought land through an information guild and headed to the place where I built a house.
