Chapter 515 – The Story After 4,000 Years (Completed)
In the morning, the cave reflected sunlight on the dew on the stalactites. The shadows of the water reflected on the floor were shining like prisms in many directions. Next to me, Dagon was soundly asleep. Her tentacles wrapped around my wrist like a bracelet. I carefully unhooked her tentacles and came out.
The corridors of the cave were shining with magnificent colors like those of an old kingdom. In the middle of the hallway was a large painting, a painting of all of us together. Stretching out, I looked over the picture. I was sitting in the middle, and Eve was standing next to me with her arms crossed. Eve, who grumbled that she did not suit her, acted like a prudent lady at this time.
Above my head was a cellu. She even waggled her tail and pampered her on this day. A.A is on the right, and Karin is on the left. Beneath my feet were Elsie and Laika, each sitting on a chair, awkwardly drawing a V. Sieri was holding my arm tightly. It was as if I was worried that I would fly somewhere.
She was always worried. And a little further away was Soya. She’s taller than me even when I draw this picture, so her face her is all drawn despite standing with Theo Terre at the very back of her.
Arty was standing with Arus at a distance. Arus, who had turned into a human, had a dragon tail as much as his tail his, perhaps because he wanted to strongly insist that he was a dragon.
Matilda stood shrinking, clutching her Eve’s hand to her. Behind Matilda, her sister was warmly hugging her. Matilda licked her lips, holding her Eve in one hand and the back of her brother’s hand her in the other.
Dagon was standing next to Theoter. Aira and Emilia were standing next to her. These women, who were difficult to enter due to lack of space, were lifted higher than us by Dagon himself using his tentacles.
Ash was sitting next to Elsie. Erina wanted to be next to her her ai her, but I had her beside her her Leica. If you look closely at the picture, you can see that Erina is touching A.A.’S feet in her.
“Under.”
Looking at this picture made me smile. At this time, apart from the women in the picture, I had never been married. Increasing the number of women was more daunting than sharing happiness with the women now. I passed through the hallway and opened the empty door wide open.
It was once used by Eve as her room in her. Now there is only one empty desk left. Eve said she liked this room because it was sunny, so she always put her desk by the window. She complained about the desk, which was easily broken by the sea breeze, but she didn’t break her stubbornness of her.
When I opened the desk drawer, there was a suicide note. She is the will that Eve wrote when she thought she was going to die. At some point, she began to think seriously about her death. When was it it was probably around the time Robin died of old age. Robin, a great knight, had peacefully closed his eyes amid everyone’s blessings.
I couldn’t hide my bitter heart either. All the wives who knew Robin mourned his death his, but Eve wept bitterly over Robin’s death hers. I used to ask her this while trying to comfort her.
“Eve. Why are you crying so much yes?”
Then, as Eve wrapped her arms around my waist, she said,
“Groom. When I die, when I die, what happens next? I’m so happy to be with my husband, but thinking like that makes me so scared to die. I hate that I can’t touch my groom after I die , and that at best I become a phantom summoned by spirit magic.”
I didn’t say anything at that time and just stroked her hair on her. This will was a document containing Eve’s troubled mind her at the time. On days like today when I’ve been feeling down since the morning, I used to sit at this desk and read the article again.
It was because Eve’s face would come to mind as she was writing this while being blown by the sea breeze. I opened the envelope and tried to read the first sentence of the will.
“Groom. What are you doing?”
“Uh? Woke up?”
Eve woke up and was leaning against her door, rubbing her eyes. I hurriedly put the will into her pocket her, but Eve didn’t miss it.
“Uh! Groom! Did you take it out and read it again?”
“No, I just wanted to soak in the emotions for the first time in a while…”
I was flustered and evasive, but Eve came right up to me and waved her arm to her, trying to snatch the letter from her. I jumped and jumped, hiding the suicide note behind me, and Eve, realizing that she couldn’t take it from me, lashed out at her.
“It’s embarrassing! Give it quickly!”
“Why are you trying to hide it? Every time I read this, I have tears in my eyes when I think of our Eve.”
“I’m not dead, so why treat me like a dead person! Give it quickly! Give it quickly! It’s embarrassing!”
“Ah, not like that.”
I raised my arm and waved the suicide note. And at that moment, a strong sea breeze blows. The wind snatched the letter from the waving wrist and blew it across the mountain range.
“Uh?”
“Huh?”
At the end of a mountain range overlooking the sea. A white sheet of paper fluttered across the horizon. I looked at the suicide note with a blank face, and Eve let out a deep sigh as if everything went well.
“Really, a will from some time ago…”
“Has it been 4,000 years?”
“Have you been counting them all?”
“Of course. What about the other kids? Are you all awake?”
“Yes.”
Eve nodded her head. All my wives were doing well. A.A sometimes taught her children swordsmanship or farmed with Theoter for her pastime her, while Soya, Ash, and Artie devoted themselves to magic research every day. Elsie still couldn’t remember our names.
‘Memorize my name. If you say ‘Elsie’, she will make a sullen face.
‘A priest is a priest. A mermaid is a mermaid and a big mermaid is a big mermaid. A warrior is a warrior and a knight is a knight. It’s even weirder to call it a different language.’
Answered. Laika had grown smart and was submitting papers to her academy whenever she was bored. A scholar of interesting subjects and a sparkling wit [La. Icarus,” She even took on her own pen name, but she felt ashamed to call herself Icarus.
Sieri and Erina were immersed in their pastime. They made some nice furniture among themselves or made statues out of stone. I sometimes sell them at bazaars in the northern provinces, but they said that it makes a lot of pocket money.
“What, it’s hot since morning.”
Said Selu, sticking her head out from the other side of the door. She combed her red hair and looked at us.
“No it’s not.”
Eve responded with a laugh at Sellu’s teasing her. Sellu smiled, wondering if Eve’s reaction her was still funny. She was still hehe
“Hehe.”
Eve passed me by and looked out her window. This cave at the end of the mountain range saw the sea in front. The blue horizon seemed to be drawn in a painting. I could see Aira, Emilia, and Karin enjoying the fresh air on the balcony downstairs. Ira spotted me above, smiled brightly and waved her hand her.
Eve said.
“Groom. What will the outside world think of us these days?”
“Us?”
I didn’t have to go out of the mountains often. Basically, it was noisy even if we were alone inside the mountain range, and if we went to play as a group, we went to a deserted place. In the gap between the trip made up of sex and sex, I couldn’t afford to deal with unproblematic issues like world history.
Moreover, after Arus asked about my rumors the other day and was shocked to hear that I was the ‘King of Color’, I didn’t bother to ask about my rumors outside. I stretched out and asked Eve.
“Eve. Then, shall we go to the human kingdom once in a while? Eve and me with A. With Elsie. Huh? Shall we go secretly and listen to how everyone is listening?”
“Groom. Elsie is pregnant.”
“Ah, but traveling long distances during pregnancy is a bit daunting.”
“A little, right?”
“Is it?”
I licked my lips at her words. Will she be able to go after she gives birth to her child? It didn’t matter anyway. If you can’t go on a trip today, you can make other happy memories today. And I can go on a trip tomorrow.
We laughed heartily. Again a strong wind blows through the window. A white sheet of paper fell into the fluttering room. Eve and I looked at the paper at the same time and shouted.
“Ugh!”
Like a comedy, we stretched out our hands in the air and tried to grab the paper. Slowly, very slowly, time seemed to pass. What would it look like if we looked out the window far away? Maybe, wouldn’t it look like idiots playing with white paper?
I laughed again at the thought. I laughed so much that I lost my suicide note. Eve snatched the will, held it in her hand her, and carefully put it in her pocket. The bell was ringing. Eve told me
“Groom. It must be morning.”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
Before leaving the room, I looked around the empty room once more. Eve had moved to another room, saying she didn’t like the furniture rusting. Without a suicide note, there was no reason to come to this room anymore. With my feet on the edge of the door, I looked out the window once more. The curtains were waving as if to say goodbye.
I also waved my hand.
The wind stopped like a lie, and the curtains slowly fell. I closed the door and walked towards my wives.
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Groom. By the time you read this, I hope my husband doesn’t miss me. After so many years have passed since she forgot me, she said, ‘There was a woman like that back then’, she wants me to read this letter like a memory.
Groom. When I first saw the groom, I really hated him. She dragged me around, took her mother hostage, attacked me, but on the other hand, I was relieved that the groom had dragged me. I was someone who really didn’t know where to go. I always rode a ship and lived proudly as a captain, but I was wandering the open sea without a single control key.
I didn’t even know if I was a human or a mermaid, and I couldn’t possibly love a human. I even thought it would be nice if they all died.
Groom. But, the groom changed me. If she hadn’t been the groom, what would I have become? Something that was neither mermaid nor human was hanging from the gallows and rotting. Wouldn’t my mother still resent me then? I don’t know. My husband taught me how to love other people and made her a family.
Sometimes I sit by the window and think about it. What did I do to my husband? Looking back from here, I don’t think I’ve done anything. So I’m sorry, and I hate myself a little. I received a lot from my husband, but I have nothing to give.
Wasn’t she a woman with many wishes? Sorry. Can I ask you a little more please? When I was alive, she did everything the groom said he wanted to do. So if I die, I want you to listen to me.
Husband, when I die, I hope you don’t use ghost magic. I don’t think it’s going to be very fun to look at each other sadly with only souls left. And on the day I die, I really want you to cry like an idiot. And the next day, I want you to clean it up and return to your usual groom.
The groom has many days to live. So, I want you to forget me and continue to love me and live like a husband.
Sorry. Because she is a woman who wants a lot.
Groom.
Still love you
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