170 – 51. Let’s go back (4)
Judas ran through the fire.
Elijah, burning black, continues to fall.
He grabs Judas and interferes with him.
Her exhausted Judas barely managed to separate her from him and walked on with great difficulty.
During her separation, various memories pour from Elijah’s burning mouth through several voices.
“I’m glad you’re safe. Miss….”
When he was almost killed by an assassin sent by Narsisi.
“Nothing happened.”
“Yes? But….”
“I planned it all.”
One day when I became an adult.
When she made a scene as if Elijah had been kidnapped.
“Judas, you… !”
“… “It’s no big deal.”
During her SS exams, she was hit by her crossbow instead of Elijah.
Among them, there were memories that Judah did not know about.
“If the two of them continue to be together like this, there will come a moment when Judas’s magic will completely run out.”
“… ….”
“The traces of being burned like this. Maybe… “It’s proof that the child can no longer handle the power of her daughter.”
When I heard from the Lord of Matab the cause of the soot on Judah’s body.
“Your presence must disturb me.”
“That’s why. There are weaknesses, so just eliminate them. “More than you don’t need it, it’s inconvenient.”
“I wish you would die if possible. “It would be inconvenient if I needed your sedative during the war.”
She was afraid that Judas would die if he stayed by her side, so she threw him out.
“I hate you so much.”
When Judas misunderstood that he had killed Mary.
“Keueuuuuu… ! Ugh! Ugh, ahhhhh-!”
When Mary was stabbed with her sword right before her eyes.
“Ah…. Ugh….”
When looking down at Judah, who was seriously injured and was about to die.
All memories were conveyed vividly with just the voice.
Judas gritted his teeth and ignored him.
I took heavy steps over the fire.
It’s hot.
It seems like my respiratory system has already melted.
I feel like my throat and nose are being torn apart every time I breathe.
The exposed flesh was burning and melting.
Right next to it is a distant cliff.
I think it would be easier if I fell.
But I endured it.
I grit my teeth and walk.
A lot has already been uploaded.
The sun is so close that you can reach it if you stretch out your hand.
Squeeze out your last strength.
I will jump up and reach the sun.
The moment you give strength to a leg that feels like it’s about to collapse….
“Ugh!”
The road made of fire shook greatly.
Judas stumbled and almost fell.
I barely got my bearings and looked underneath him.
A very long distance where a person appears as a dot.
The soles of the feet are clearly visible.
He stretched out his arms and was dying.
Death of the dead.
It meant eternal extinction.
*
Balak was attacked by Elijah.
Elijah, made of black fire, poured down on him like her hail.
Terrible words were constantly coming out of her mouth.
The humiliation suffered at home.
The abuse suffered by Narcisi.
I passed him by indifferently.
With the sole intention of sending Judah up, Balak struck down Elijah as he fell and killed him.
This is all an illusion.
You must not be deceived.
It was a terrible feeling to kill again a child who had already been killed.
Then at some point.
I saw other children melting and flowing.
With their egos more clouded than when they first met, they completely gave up on reason and struggled.
It was like immortality was right before my eyes.
‘Ah….’
Moment. For Ballack, everything was in vain.
In his own guilt.
In this action.
What value is it?
In the end, he was unable to save anyone.
Maria too. Narcissi too.
Cain, Levi, Jezebel, Achan, Sarah.
Even Elijah.
If you become obsessed with a specific wish, your ego becomes clouded.
And the moment you realize that that wish can never be achieved, your ego collapses.
The children lost their senses and rushed at Balak.
They push, hit, and trample him as if they are going to kill him.
“Aaaaahhh!”
“Keueuuuuu-!”
Children who try to kill themselves by melting their flesh into hideous figures.
And Elijah falling from the sky.
Black flames collide with the floor and explode.
Scatter in all directions and splash on yourself.
It melts hotly.
It was his own dirty karma.
Balak barely held on to his collapsing ego.
One last moment.
Judah must endure at least until he reaches the sun.
The black sky seen through the screaming children.
Judas stumbled as the road made of fire wriggled.
She regains her stance and runs towards the black sun.
But.
“Ugh… !”
Balak reached his limit first.
The fluctuating flames gradually faded and began to disappear from the bottom.
‘No… !’
Judah leapt with all his might.
Hands reaching out to the black sun.
It seems like we can reach it.
Balak sighed in relief at that sight.
As he was being crushed to death by his children, he was relieved and apologized.
To your children.
And to Elijah.
To Mary and Narcissi.
Only at the very end did he express his silent gratitude to Judah, who helped him atone even for the smallest detail.
The moment when I was about to close my eyes.
‘… !’
Someone escaped from the black sun and intercepted Judas.
They strangle Judas as if they were attacking him.
Because of this, Judah could not enter the sun.
He started to fall as he tried to approach the sun.
In the end, Balak completely lost consciousness without seeing Judah enter the sun.
It was a vain ending that suited him.
*
“I can’t go!”
The woman holding Judas’ neck screamed like a demon.
The tips of her gorgeous, flowing blonde hair were burning with black fire.
Judas frowned at that terrible sight.
‘Narsissi… !’
Mary captured Balak’s heart without any background.
Elijah inherited the power of fire from the illegitimate child born to that lowly citizen.
A woman who went crazy with jealousy toward her two mother and daughter captured Judah.
“You crazy bitch!”
Judas swore in his voice.
I climbed all the way up, but the flames had disappeared and I was caught by Narcissi and falling.
She rammed her fist into Narsisi’s face with all her might.
Still, that witch-like person did not let go.
Now he has no strength left to shake off Narcissi.
Even if you shake her off, there is no way for her to climb back up.
“Everyone die! “Let’s all die together!”
Narcissi’s skin was also scorched and oozing from the fire.
She cried out in her anger.
Judah was sick of her like that and resented this situation.
Anger filled her head as she was only determined to save Elijah.
‘I…’ How did I get here… !’
Even though her gums were bleeding, she clenched her teeth.
This didn’t make the situation any better, but she couldn’t endure the violence.
She fell, hitting Narsisi’s face without stopping.
“Wow… !”
Conversely, Narcisi tried to escape.
Judah did not let him escape.
He tied her legs around her waist, tied her up, and beat her.
He crushed her nose with her fist and hit her cheek hard with the palm of her hand.
“Because of you, just because of a bastard like you, Elijah… !”
Even though she poured out her anger at Narcissi through her bloodshot eyes, nothing changed.
Her body gradually falls down.
Her land is getting closer.
Is this really the end?
A moment when your heart is shaken.
“Let go of that hand.”
A low, cold voice intervened.
Judah opened her tightly closed eyes.
A woman was strangling Narsisi.
Her wavy black hair.
White dress.
The figure that at first glance resembled Elijah was the woman who guided Judah from her underworld.
She looks a little different from what he is used to seeing, but he recognizes her now.
‘Lia… ?’
Maria.
Elijah’s mother grabbed Narcisi.
“Please stop harassing my daughter.”
“Aaaaahhh!”
Maria fell, taking Narcissi with her.
Narsisi lost her Judah.
Stretching out her hands, she screams.
“Ugh?!”
Before Maria could even wonder how she got up, something lifted her up from underneath her.
His body floats.
Judah was startled and looked down at her.
Horn that grows like the branches of a healthy tree.
A deer with a sturdy body.
“You… !”
One day, a deer was jumping through the air, carrying him.
It was definitely a spiritual object known to Judah.
“Yuel?!”
Why is Yuel here?
There was no time to worry.
In an instant, it reached the height of the black sun.
Yuel placed her Judah on her horns and lifted her head with all her might.
“Ugh-!”
Judas looked down as he flew toward the black sun.
Yuel stepped through the air and went down again without saying goodbye.
And then Narcissi falls, screaming.
Maria was holding her tightly from behind.
I met her eyes.
Maria grinned.
Tears formed like dew in his black eyes.
Speak softly with only your lips.
‘Please take care of me.’
With that greeting, Judas was completely absorbed into the black sun.
*
“… ….”
Judas barely managed to get up from the floor.
He got down on his knees and looked down at his hands.
‘… ‘I’m fine.’
The melted skin returned to normal.
Like something that never happened in the first place.
My vision, which had been blurry due to ripening, became clear.
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‘But…. ‘Where am I?’
Elijah’s sword came into the sun.
Like the sun, the surroundings were dark.
There was no light.
‘Is this the inside of the sun…? .’
If she raises her head, she can see the moon, the only source of light here.
There were cracks all over the moon, as if it had once been broken.
It looks like the pieces were clumsily put together.
And underneath there is a steel frame.
‘… Cage?’
This place is like a birdcage.
It’s also very big.
Stars appeared around the outside of the cage.
Judas looked straight ahead.
A straight path inside a cage.
Both sides were blocked by walls.
There is a door at the end of the road.
The two doors that open on both sides were different on the left and right.
One is Elijah’s bedroom door.
The other one is Judah’s bedroom door.
This is a door made by using two pieces one at a time.
Elijah is there.
Judas, instinctively convinced, took a step forward.
Then a picture frame appeared on the wall.
There was a picture in the frame, and it was soft and warm, as if it had been drawn with crayons.
The picture moved.
There is also a sound.
“So soft.”
In the picture, young Elijah was stroking her moon deer.
The stables of the mansion.
It was the first day I pet Yuel.
“… ….”
Judas walked again.
Another picture comes to mind.
“Don’t go.”
“I understand.”
“Did you like it that much here?”
“… ….”
She lived in Elijah’s mansion for a while.
She thought I was going to tell her to leave, but she answered without even listening, and she found herself embarrassed.
And Elijah asked blankly.
A picture of two children.
A memory of a day that makes my heart feel soft just by looking at it.
There was no voice in the next picture.
Just the sound of quiet breathing.
On her birthday, Elijah crawled into Judah’s bed.
And then herself, hugging her.
In the bedroom on a quiet night, small bodies hugged each other.
“Give me two of these.”
After asking Judas to choose her flower pot, Elijah smiles as she buys anemones.
Every time Judas moved forward, a picture drawn as a memory appeared on both walls.
“What do you think of me?”
“Mine.”
The day she was embarrassed by the words she said without thinking.
“… What are you doing?”
“The cheeks… Very… Because it looks soft….”
“You can touch it more.”
As she touched Elijah’s cheek while he was sleeping, she found herself frozen.
Elijah tells himself that it’s okay to touch him more while he’s struggling.
She can still recall the texture of the glutinous rice cake she touched then.
“Oh, do it.”
I committed an irreversible act just to feed you.
“Feed me.”
She cleared that karma the next day.
Judas laughed and walked on.
“It is not for you, young lady, to apologize. “Because you didn’t do anything wrong.”
“I’m glad you’re safe.”
One day she became an adult.
She thought Elijah had been kidnapped and she was worried.
She looked up at Elijah and apologized.
“… ….”
On her way back from taking her last exam.
The moment when she was trying to place Elijah on top of Yuel and her lips almost touched him.
The wind passing by her and the scent of Elijah tickling the tip of her nose.
Elijah and Judah stare blankly into each other’s faces.
“Look ahead.”
On the way back on the UEL.
Once you leave the forest, the scenery unfolds.
The green fields wave.
Only then did Judah realize one thing.
‘Color….’
Until now, there was no color in Elijah’s gaze.
It was there, but it was strangely twisted and distorted and it was all colorless.
She was the only one who had her own color and shine.
And the moment I see the field.
Color temporarily returned to the world.
The grass is lush and flowing.
There Elijah put her yellow marigolds in her ears and smiled brightly.
“Do you swear to me an eternal loyalty that not even life can separate?”
“… “I swear.”
“Can you die for me?”
“I will offer it.”
“Prove it.”
On the day of the investiture ceremony.
It was a truly embarrassing memory for her as she ended up frozen with her nose pressed against Elijah’s foot.
“Don’t let go.”
“… Don’t let go “In the future too.”
“It’s because of you, so you take responsibility.”
Enjoying the festival alone with Elijah at the Foundation Festival.
“Do you know how I feel? How much I think of you…. “Do you really know?”
The words she heard when they were reunited after Elijah separated her.
“Ugh, I don’t like it. That’s later. “I want to stay like this for now.”
When she hugged Balak after killing him.
Probably, this is Elijah’s first cuteness that Judah remembers.
“Do you like me or Yuel?”
“Then why don’t you pet me?”
That time when she complained that only Yuel was pretty.
She was embarrassing, but she was so lovely that Judah didn’t know what to do.
“Thank you for coming to me.”
The moment we kissed for the first time in the Bevel family.
And.
“I like you very much. Judah.”
Elijah confessed in front of Mary’s tomb.
They shared their feelings without knowing the truth about Maria’s death.
Judah watched as color returned to her world.
The colors spreading around her like watercolor soon filled the ground and sky.
Elijah smiled and cried in front of the clear, non-temporary color.
Finally.
“It’s okay.”
Just before annihilation with the evil god of the void.
Elijah smiled at her and said it was okay.
“… ….”
That picture was the last.
Judah looked back on the path she had walked.
A straight road.
Warm picture frames hanging on the walls on both sides.
This is a space where we cherish and record our own memories.
Elijah seen from the outside looked as if he was trying to block the approach.
It also seemed like she was trying to erase her memories of herself.
But the fact that there is a space like this inside doesn’t mean that Elijah wants her help.
After gathering her thoughts briefly, Judah placed her hand on the door in front of her.
Elijah is beyond here.
You can take the real Elijah with you.
Judas opened the door with confidence.
Then there was light.
Golden light emanated from him, enveloped him, and colored the entire world dazzlingly.
