40. Lead, lead (4)
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Elijah hit the desk hard.
Various experimental tools including books and glass bottles on the desk were shaken.
Soon after, she violently swept everything off her desk.
Cudang-tang, it falls to the floor with a lot of noise.
Still impatient, Elijah transferred her black magic and burned the book she had written.
The paper burned and flew like sparks.
In contrast to her passionate behavior, her face was calm.
It was calm, but she wasn’t calm.
A calm rage lingered.
Blazing golden eyes stared at the still scattering sparks.
Two days have passed since Judas died.
He still hasn’t woken up.
He’s dead, so it’s only natural.
This is his home in Jericho.
After Drake’s death, a large number of troops came from the city, some of whom had stayed at the training center in the past.
They took me to this house.
What is the identity of this house? There was no time to think about why Judas owned such a house.
Elijah was compelled to save him. She
She said she could.
I was originally going to take him to the cage under the mountain, but if he wakes up, he needs a doctor, so he’s taking care of him here.
You can’t save people with magic.
But among black magic, there is a way to raise the dead.
For two days, Elijah didn’t sleep, focusing on her dark magic research.
‘I can’t give up…. I can’t give up…. Please, somehow….’
Unlike the mother who didn’t even have her body left, Judas did have her body left.
I don’t know if there is a way.
She was desperate for even the slightest possibility.
I have ordered all wars to stop for him and focus on defense.
Judah was more important than war.
But it was useless.
Black magic only raises and moves the dead, not brings them back to life.
Even if you make him move with black magic, he won’t see you or remember you.
If it is impossible to think or speak normally.
How is that different from a corpse?
Elijah bit her lip.
‘What should I do….’
His corpse is getting colder.
I filled the bedroom with cold air to prevent his corruption, but it will eventually rot.
When that happens, then, he himself….
‘Please…. Please think…. Try to think of something….’
She was desperate, but she couldn’t find a way to achieve that earnestness.
“Mom….”
Sitting down on the floor, she called out the name she wanted to lean on.
Elijah told only her bodyguards that Judas had died and that she had come here.
Therefore, there was no one to hear her call in this place.
Even if you heard it, the reality wouldn’t have changed much.
*
A haggard Elijah entered Judas’ bedroom.
It was like a winter cave, chilled by Elijah’s magic.
Inside were two senators wrapped up in their clothes.
Mei, a young woman who served as Elijah’s personal doctor since childhood.
And Gail, an old man who moved to her mansion after spending time at the escort knight training center.
The two men had been guarding this place for two days after receiving Elijah’s order to somehow save Judah.
There was nothing I could do except stand by her side.
Reviving the dead is not medical treatment, it is a miracle.
Even though they knew it was pointless, Elijah was so desperate that the two obeyed the order.
Elijah looked at the two with her dead eyes and asked.
“How?”
May shook her head.
“… ….”
May thought she should tell the truth now.
Judas is dead, and Elijah has to accept it.
If we continue like this, Elijah will die.
Elijah, whose complexion was dark and dead, spoke weakly.
“I am out.”
“My lady….”
Just as May was about to say something of hers, Gail interrupted her.
She shakes her head as if not to speak.
As the old man has lived for a long time, he has sent away many people, and has seen many people who have passed away.
Forcibly injecting truth isn’t very beneficial to those left behind.
“… Call me if you need anything.”
In the end, that was the best thing that could be said.
Next to the bed where Judas lay, Elijah pulled her chair and sat down.
A stretched body. Colorless skin.
While she saw him dead, she felt like dying too.
It was a terrible reality.
I missed you so much.
But, I didn’t want a reunion like this.
Tears flowed again.
That big hand always wiped away my own tears.
I can’t do that anymore.
You can’t even touch it.
I am the only one who harms him.
I thought so too.
Maybe then.
Judas escaped from Drake’s body, she could have been alive.
By the way, she’s in touch with herself.
She was stupid and impetuous, and she forgot that she couldn’t touch him and hugged him, so she might be dead.
We do not know exactly what the decisive cause of his death was.
However, any possibility comes from oneself.
It was all his own fault, guilt and responsibility.
“Judas….”
Elijah collapsed near his hand.
Fearing that her fate would go even further wrong, she couldn’t bear to reach him.
I wanted to touch it, but I didn’t even touch it.
He didn’t wake up even when the bed shook from his sobs.
*
The boy was a shepherd.
He followed the adults and helped herd the sheep.
I sometimes herded sheep with my sheepdog.
A girl lives in the forest. She
With her mother, she is told she stays for two.
I don’t know why they don’t stay together in the village.
Adults say that each person has their own circumstances.
The village children were very interested in the mother and daughter.
A forest witch or a spirit. Some fugitive royalty and so on.
It was full of all sorts of baseless rumors.
There are only two things that are certain about the girl.
A boy and a similar age.
He’s an outsider, but he gave birth to a girl in this village.
The boy wasn’t particularly interested in them.
It was purely by chance that I got to see the mother and daughter from afar.
Sometimes grown-ups brought supplies to her mother and daughter.
It was mainly food.
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On that day, the adults didn’t have enough hands, so they asked the boy for help.
The other children were excluded because they were too interested in the girl, fearing that she would frighten them.
The boy said yes without thinking.
At that time, after I moved her food box, I saw her mother and daughter.
I didn’t see it closely because I glanced at it from afar, not up close, and they couldn’t find themselves either.
The girl I saw for the first time seemed very timid and shy.
Hiding behind her mother, she barely showed the ends of her hair.
Black hair.
She looks exactly like her mother.
Her mother had black eyes, too, and her girl did too.
He was holding a teddy bear in his arms as if he liked dolls.
Considering rumors about witches and fairies, she was an extremely ordinary girl. So does the woman who is her mother.
And one day.
Two mothers and daughters disappeared, and the villagers were slaughtered.
My parents too. Even adults. All the children who played together.
Except yourself.
*
Several years have passed since I left the village with a certain priest.
The boy looked at the burning wagon on the trail.
It burns with an unusual scarlet flame.
The target he had to kill was the wagon he was riding on.
My hand was empty before I knew it.
The dagger I brought was definitely poisoned.
The dagger is now in that wagon.
‘… This is enough.’
The boy muttered that and left as if to run away.
***
‘Ugh….’
I struggled to open my eyes.
My head hurts as if it would break.
I have no senses in my whole body.
I can’t hear anything, and I can’t see anything.
I feel like I’m going blind.
‘Where are you here….’
Consciousness is blurred.
It feels like waking up from a difficult sleep.
The breath coming in through the mouth and nose is unfamiliar.
It was then that I remembered one by one.
‘… Ah. Gigantic Drake.’
I threw a gamble against a powerful enemy that I couldn’t win.
If things go well with a very low probability, you will survive.
High probability of death.
‘Am I dead… ?’
By the way, I don’t know if my condition is dead or not.
‘Or is it because he is recovering from suspended animation….’
I can’t tell because I can’t feel any sense.
What if he died?
If it’s a question of whether or not you believe in the existence of God, I’m close to the middle.
I don’t know.
The same standards can be presented to the afterlife.
Is there an afterlife or not?
I don’t know.
I leaned a little toward ‘having’ possessed by this world.
‘Then…. The afterlife of the afterlife? Do you go anywhere like that….’
Just as wild thoughts come to mind in a dream, the hazy mind came up with random thoughts indiscriminately.
Sense returned at a very slow pace.
‘I don’t think he died….’
There’s no way Drake is dead.
In Jericho, there is no one as talented as him.
‘Then how was it possible…. Did I poke my mouth and vomit it? Currently, the most plausible hypothesis…. Huh?’
Suddenly, I felt a sense of incongruity.
Sound.
It’s muddy and unclear as if you’ve entered the water after wearing earplugs, but you hear something.
Stupid, new.
It’s the sound of breathing as if you’re asleep.
Slightly below my right side lying down.
Audible from the right hand side.
‘… Who is it? Who is in this room?’
Are you the one who helped me when I collapsed?
I raised my head slightly.
‘I can’t see who it is….’
Still can’t see.
It has recovered more than before, but not enough to discern objects.
The opponent stood up rustling as if they had sensed my movement.
The figure of the opponent appears to be shimmering in a hazy mist.
“—?”
What did the other person say?
It looks like he meant to call me, but I can’t hear what he’s saying.
It sounds like a female voice.
For a moment, I thought of Elijah, then laughed at me inside.
I have to do it in moderation.
“──?”
I want to look at it because I can’t hear it, but I can’t see it even if I observe it with a frown.
The shimmering figure of the opponent seemed to be approaching me.
Involuntarily, I reached out my hand as if telling me not to approach.
The numb hand was lifted with difficulty.
Looking at the fact that he stayed by my side when I fainted, he wouldn’t be an enemy.
Still, all of my senses were blocked, so fear suddenly soared.
It was a reflex action.
The opponent who saw my action stopped.
After clearing my throat, I barely spoke.
***
Elijah slowly opened his eyes at the toss and turns.
Her mind was blank.
I was with Judas in my dream.
Back in her childhood, she smiled brightly, held her hand, took her for a walk or took care of Yuel.
She eats together.
Is that why I heard hallucinations?
In this room, there is nothing to make noise.
But the tossing and toss continued.
‘… ?’
Elijah carefully raised her head.
Her half-closed eyes widened.
Judas, the dead Judas, was raising her body.
She looked at him blankly and blinked her eyes.
Unknown tears flowed.
Is this also a dream?
There is no way the dead can come back to life.
Have you done something with black magic without even knowing it?
I swear it wasn’t.
For fear of harming Judas, I rented another room to study black magic, and I was careful not to be influenced outside of that room.
Even though he was insane, he had that much reason.
Then, this reality that happened before my eyes is one of two things.
It’s a dream. Or a miracle
Elijah bit her quivering lips tightly.
It hurts. She got a little closer to the miracle.
She sighed and said.
“… Judah?”
Then he frowned.
The only shining golden eyes in the world were definitely looking at him.
However, she observes and observes as if not recognizing.
He was vibrating dangerously as if his heart would fall.
Her breathing was so rapid that her heart was pounding.
A certain fear filled every corner of his body.
Once again, she spoke cautiously.
“Judas… ?”
He was still looking at himself as if he were grasping an unfamiliar object.
I felt like I was getting farther away just by looking at him.
I shouldn’t touch it, but I didn’t want to get away from it, so I subtly tilted my upper body. To get closer
But at that moment.
Judas raised her arm cautiously.
Looks like they’re trying to distance themselves.
It was an attitude of being wary of dangerous and unfamiliar subjects.
Excited, Elijah swallowed her saliva, and at the next word her heart dropped.
He asked, very carefully, in an unfamiliar, polite tone he had never used toward himself.
As if you were seeing someone for the first time.
“Who… Do you?”
