143 – Looking at the guy who looks exactly like me…
A friend, Antonius, who appeared out of nowhere and declared that he had become a woman.
No, she now has the name Cleopatra.
Through some stories unknown to anyone but Antony, Achilles made him believe the truth.
“What do you think? Can you believe me a little bit?”
“Um… What… If you knew that much, it would be more of a problem to doubt it.”
As close friends in the past, Cleopatra talked about the secret that only the two of them knew.
Although Achilles felt deep surprise at this, he eventually admitted that the man in front of him was the Antonius he knew.
“Well then, since we haven’t seen each other in a while, shall we have a drink? That is the purpose of coming here.”
“… Well, it would be normal for you to say that. In that respect, it seems that even after becoming a woman, nothing has changed surprisingly.”
“Whoops, no matter what I do, in the end I am me.”
The look of a friend who looks at himself like that and has a lit smile that he has never seen before.
Seeing this, Achilles recognizes that it’s not just his gender that has changed, and he starts pouring a drink from the glass he’s brought.
“Then, where can I hear what happened in the meantime?”
“Of course, I came here with the intention of reporting on the current situation, so I’ll tell you everything one by one.”
As he tilted his glass with those words, Antonius began to talk about what had happened so far.
It started as a follower of the same Amun, when news about him was cut off,
In order to proceed with the plan to deal with the Shegyesu, he tried to assassinate Octavia, the daughter of the Pope of the Elven Church, but it was from the time it failed.
Annotius was caught and tortured mercilessly by Elisha, a member of the Demon Guard who was there.
And the end of that was to eventually become a woman’s body by her and experience pleasure in this and that cruel and too dense way, and as a result, he finally completely surrendered his body and mind to Elisa.
Achilles automatically frowned at the news of his friend’s current situation, which could never be taken favorably from the listener’s point of view.
But, nonetheless.
He began to feel both relief and deep bitterness at the fact that he was able to meet the friend he had assumed was dead, even in this way.
“First… Still, it’s fortunate that I can survive like this anyway, but that’s right, that demon called Elisa really has a bad taste.
Cleopatra’s life, which is not simply suffering, but her entire life has been completely changed.
As her appearance completely changed along with the change of gender, not only did she lose everything she had achieved so far in an instant,
The basic way of life and her life, which had to change from the very beginning, made Achilles, an old friend, feel heavy in many ways.
But,
Regarding Achilles, who felt sorry for this, Cleopatra began to show a deep smile on her lips.
“No, not at all, to be honest… Is it actually better than before?”
“What?”
Cleopatra’s words that tell an unexpected story.
As a result, Achilles’ face began to look suspicious…
Toward him, Cleopatra spoke to her close friend in a sincere voice.
“It’s true, now I… Compared to the past, I am living a very happy life. A life of living faithfully only to desire, free from a heavy sense of duty… You can’t imagine how great the joy of being freed from all the frameworks that forced you to be bound until now.”
“that… is it?”
Cleopatra’s words that speak with sincerity.
I’ve never seen a time when I had only vengeance, hatred, and the desire for it.
Her face was flushed red, and a smile that could not be hidden from her lips seemed to radiate even unusual madness.
A scene in which someone might think that she is insane when seeing her like this.
But,
While listening to his story, Achilles…
Although they are of different races, they are comrades and best friends who have shared their will for a long time.
At the same time, as much as Achilles knows all too well that he is of the same kind as him,
It began to occur to me that I couldn’t just dismiss her appearance as some form of insanity resulting from severe torture.
‘No matter how severely he was tortured, Antony’s heart could not have been broken so easily… Still, the fact that he talks like this… It can be said that what he suffered really brought happiness to his life. Unlike me now… ‘
Achilles lost his will to live in the midst of terrible emptiness and suffering, even though he had achieved his purpose in life.
On the other hand, the ultimate goal can be achieved, but
Cleopatra, who is very happy despite having achieved only half of her personal success.
As if looking in a mirror, looking at a friend like you who was walking the same path as you had changed so much.
Achilles naturally had no choice but to show a deeper interest in her life.
“I… Antonius… No, Cleopatra. Are you happy with your current life? Throwing away everything and living with changing gender?”
“Yes, to be honest, the time I’ve been obsessed with trivial things until now is a waste. Although it is regrettable that Amun did not perform his work perfectly, nevertheless, his… The happiness he gained from receiving Elisha’s grace was unthinkable when he was obsessed with vengeance and lost his senses. To the point where I would like to recommend it to you as well, if I could.”
“… is it… ”
Although the gender and appearance had changed, the words of the man of his own kind began to drive deeply into Achilles’ heart like a wedge.
Especially for him who is wandering around losing his purpose in life like now.
Rather, as he said, I began to think about dropping everything and starting something new.
As the emperor and his wife died, there was no one left to take revenge on.
That’s why I didn’t really want to take power.
He was tired of walking around the battlefield and spilling blood, and he didn’t even want to think about seeing a woman again.
That’s why I would never want to live a life like a crippled person who is dissolutely drunk and slowly ruined.
together,
Even if he is showing the appearance of thoroughly building a wall with power,
Achilles couldn’t help but think that Cassandra might try to get rid of him, a potential competitor, depending on the circumstances.
As a result.
Dangerous with nothing left…
His life is marked by only unhappiness.
Get out of this situation
The thought of giving up everything and starting a new life began to dwell in Achilles’ mind.
As a result, he looked at his friend who seemed to have caught on to happiness in such a lost situation.
A resolution began to form in my heart that I might as well walk the same path.
‘Even if… Even if there is a different misfortune behind this than I thought. It might be better than living a life like a dying old tree.’
Immediately after making that decision,
Achilles spoke cautiously as he did to his friend in front of him.
“there… Cleopatra. Maybe.”
*
“… .What?”
Elisha, one of the four heavenly kings of the Demon Kingdom and the commander of the bodyguard.
At this moment, she was putting on a blank expression while looking at Achilles, a member of the Third Knights of the Empire, in front of her.
“no… no… Wait a minute, so what did you say now? So… I see you… You want me to make you a woman?”
“… Yes. can you do it?”
“… Aren’t you crazy?”
“Certainly sane. However, I can’t say I’m perfectly fine in that I’m fed up with life to the point where I wonder if it would be comfortable if I died right now.”
Achilles speaks with sincerity, not jokes or other things.
Regarding this, Elisa looked at her second slave, Cleopatra, and asked, wondering how the third knight of the empire could have become like this.
“Hey, he’s your friend. where do you explain How did this human become like this?”
“That is it, Master.”
Cleopatra begins to explain the situation at Elisa’s command.
In her narrative, which continued from the position of representing Achilles in her own way,
Elisa began to feel that the man in front of her didn’t seem so normal, but considering Lee Ja’s situation, it wasn’t that she didn’t feel very sympathetic.
‘I’ve heard that infidelity completely tears a man apart… I never thought I could break people to this extent. What… Actually, if you think about it that way, it’s not a very unrelated story for me, but… ‘
Right now, Elisha herself was well aware of how severe the pain of love is, having suffered a broken heart not long ago from a warrior.
At least, it was a one-sided love, and since it withered without bearing fruit, it was possible to heal to some extent, and there was no feeling of betrayal at all.
However, this man in front of his eyes had a terrible experience of being torn to pieces even though he had made love and even got married.
That pain must have been several times more terrible than Elisa’s.
Like that, apart from the slight taste, I thought that I was a pitiful person in many ways.
Elisa began to think for a while.
and after a while,
Soon after, Elisa made a decision as a result of calculating this and that in her mind.
He looked at the man in front of him, a warrior with more power than himself, and said.
“… great. I will give you what you want.”
“ah!”
“But there are conditions before that.”
