102 – Picking stars from the sky (2)
Thunderbolt connects the end with just a moment. A vast amount of cold electric current flowed through the lion’s eyes.
The lion’s body stiffened, and its huge head fell down.
Boom!
Ice flowers bloomed in abundance from where the lion fell. The ash is frozen, the dust is frozen. Even the moment seemed frozen.
“Crazy guy….”
Huh, Virgo smiled and saw the sight of the giant lion falling down with his own eyes.
The lion has truly fallen. No matter how much new power he had awakened, his opponent was astronomically different from starlight. Even if there was a weakness, it was almost impossible to reach that weakness. Still, he did it.
Of course, it might just be luck. For a moment, the lion stopped his movements as if he was possessed, and Ilsoo was stuck in the gap.
But even if this was achieved by luck, the result does not change.
He proved it.
Stars in the sky….
“Not yet.”
He gave a small warning to Virgo, who was staring blankly at the spot where the lion had fallen.
“Not dead yet.”
As soon as he spoke, the lion’s legs twitched. Lively movement, quite different from rigor mortis.
“There’s no way an explosion wouldn’t occur when a monster that size dies. “It’s needlessly strong.”
“What, what?! Why doesn’t that thing die! “It’s a scam!”
“He is such a monster that he does not die even if his heart is pierced and his throat is cut. How could he die from that?”
The Watcher stretched out his hand without any fear. Then the ax that was stuck in the lion’s left eye flew back to him and stuck to his hand like a magnet.
He swung the ax and shook off his blood.
“Can you take those two and run away before they start a fight? Um, no. Okay.”
The Watcher looked straight ahead again, seeing the terrified Virgo in his eyes. He confidently grabbed the ax and held it out as if he were fighting a lion.
Hot blood spurted out like an active volcano from the place where the ax was stuck. The lion’s mane is stained with blood. A crimson glow appeared in his right eye, which he couldn’t lose.
“It’s okay if you don’t do anything. There is no need to run away. Just wait here. “That is enough.”
Kugugu Palace – The ground shook with just the slightest movement. My legs stopped twitching and I grabbed the ground to balance my heavy body.
The crimson mane gradually burned like a flame. The profoundly colored flame spread out menacingly, showing off its might, and mysteriously hovered around my neck like the rotation of the galaxy.
“I’ll try something.”
Virgo looked up at the lion with a white face. Just a moment ago, I was just suppressing my power.
That wasn’t a star, it was closer to a galaxy. Not the fence made by gathering countless stars, but inside that fence. I took the space where countless stars existed as my own.
If you turn the idea of power into a living thing, what would it look like?
Quaaa! The lion proudly planted his feet on the ground and roared. A dazzling light washed over him like a wave so much that he couldn’t even open his eyes properly.
Inside the maw of the roaring beast, the rays of light gathered. The light that had sublimated into a huge mass of energy flashed as if it would burn everything in front at any moment.
Fear. That was the only emotion that dominated Virgo’s heart right now. I recalled the ferocious image of a lion burning down the road a few years ago, and saw the dead screaming in the red earth that I had seen just before going crazy.
Virgo emerged from oblivion.
The first reason she said she was crazy.
No matter how many magical girls fly and crawl, the world will end up like this. Destruction is a predicted future, and no one can avoid it.
So it has no meaning. Even in the future, I will not get the reward of protecting the people who make noise without knowing the grace that protected them.
Efforts to protect will ultimately become meaningless.
If it will eventually perish, what is the point?
Virgo gave up his sanity. Even though she was fine and remembered everything, it was still painful. It’s much easier if you act according to your mood.
That’s why she chose oblivion and madness.
Now I have forgotten what I want from this starlight anymore.
Virgo moved forward as if possessed. She burned to death before seeing that sight.
She said, “Didn’t I tell you to stay still?”
Han Jae-joong walked in front of Virgo and blocked him. He stood proudly in front of the lion, which was like the manifestation of hellfire, and swung an ax as big as his body, pinning it firmly to the ground.
“I should have told you. They say they will even give me a star. But it won’t work if the person to give it to disappears.”
The wide back is noticeably different from when I first saw it. When did the kid who ran away from even a low-level monster become this big?
At first, it was just a whim.
Virgo, who was psychologically unstable, was an unstable person. Somehow he seemed more pitiful than he was.
That’s why he saved his life even when he saw him crying. Even though he insulted him, he let him live. No matter what he did, he just looked funny, and he wasn’t the slightest threat.
The goal is to catch a monster with a weak body without even a single starlight.
It was fun. It was the same feeling as watching a wingless butterfly flutter and struggle.
Was it for a sense of psychological superiority, or was it because of an instinct that I had not been able to abandon even then? Virgo stayed with him for more than a day. Even though he knew that if he was even the slightest bit annoying, he would become hysterical again and hurt himself without realizing it, he let him be.
A few days passed, and a month passed.
Only then did Virgo realize.
He said he wanted something from him.
Perhaps it is the meaning of starlight that has already been forgotten.
But Virgo couldn’t do that. He shouldn’t have come to his senses. The closer Virgo came to his senses, the more he struggled with mania. It was similar to what happens when a drug addict quits drugs. The more I tried to remember, the more pain rose through my body, and my body, which wanted to forget, became sensitive and increased violence.
I felt like I would inadvertently harm him if I continued like this.
That’s why. Virgo increased the number of things he wanted to forget. The stronger your will, the more your desires will respond.
Fortunately, there were many people in Dark Matter. The memories I wanted to forget gradually increased. The memory of the murder reached its limit and the memory of the murder was erased from the brain in order to defend Virgo.
Thanks to him, Virgo gained oblivion and lost him.
That should have been the case, but for some reason, he is standing in front again. This time he takes it upon himself to protect Virgo.
The back of the boy he always protected has suddenly become so dignified.
‘Ah.’
Looking at his back, Virgo rescued his one memory from oblivion.
It was an unremarkable scene. Around the time the lion burned the road and leisurely left. The body of a child that I saw while walking helplessly among all kinds of half-wrecked cars.
A still small child held in the arms of corpses presumed to be his parents. A little boy who couldn’t even become a boy.
A life with a still beating heart found among countless corpses.
Red Spica hugged her child and cried for a long time. The meaning of An Su-chae being here today was in her arms.
Why does that scene come to mind now?
“I don’t know about you, but I lost my parents to that guy. “I can’t lose any more here.”
Virgo realized everything. The child he was able to protect, the boy he protected, and conversely, the young man he was protecting.
The commonality between these.
“If you are going to die, at least pay your bills before you die.”
At that moment, the light that had been gathering in the lion’s mouth erupted. Flames resembling hellfire led everything in the orbit to a world of nothingness. In the middle of a fire burning ash, residual fire, and ice.
A huge ax with a blade shaped like the constellation Ursa Major blocked the place. I put the spear stick straight into the floor and supported the blade with my hand.
It’s so bad!!! The fire raged in an instant, not an instant. Cracks appeared on the floor around the spear and feet that had endured the impact. The spear blade continued to shake like a window during a typhoon, and the hand holding the blade also continued to tremble under the weight of the flames.
A series of violence that makes it difficult to even open your eyes. The Watcher was shaken but did not retreat. I couldn’t do that.
The blade of the ax, which had been enduring the fire of hell, gradually gathered fire from the lightning.
“No one will forgive your sins. Forgiveness is not something that heaven or someone else can do; it is something that the victim of the crime does. There are no people who can forgive you, and you have already eliminated them all with your own hands. “A lot of people will criticize you.”
The lightning fire that flowed along the blade continued to the lightning fire that continued along the blade.
“So, even if you can’t ask for forgiveness, please make it possible for me to understand. “
The lightning fire, as cold as the sky, immediately enveloped the hellfire and froze it. Hellfire burned the ice and lightning froze the fire.
“This is a long story. So, this is what I want to say.”
The repetition of the two lasted for eternity and ended in a moment.
“I will prove it to you by winning a star. “You belong to me, give me proof to remember you by.”
All of the flames were frozen white and spread like lightning, rising upward.
It was a lightning victory.
“You were magic to someone, a girl. Give it to me.”
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When the frozen traces of the flame reached the sky, a clear sky was visible.
The clouds have retreated.
Virgo looked up at the sky blankly. There was not a single cloud in the peaceful and serene blue sky.
All I can see before my eyes is his face with his back to the sun.
There is no such thing as destruction here. There is no such thing as anxiety.
Where the flames have disappeared, there are no beasts.
There was only pure light.
“Did he run away? “It has a bad aftertaste.”
The Watcher clicked his tongue and turned around to look at Virgo.
“I’m sorry. I shouted loudly and lost it. “I didn’t think of anything like this, but… hm?”
He, who had never been surprised before, was surprised.
“Why are you crying?”
Because none other than Virgo was shedding tears.
“It’s noisy… I don’t cry….”
“Aren’t you crying now? Is it because I can’t keep my promise? I’m sorry. Did I know that a guy the size of a house would run away? It’s difficult. If you do this, you will get starlight…..”
Watcher looked around and smiled slightly.
“…No. “But I guess I can keep my promise.”
A crimson dot rose from the ice flower. A small light with a soft glow like a firefly. A reward so small compared to what happened.
The Watcher caught the small starlight and handed it to Virgo. Stars flowed through the sky.
“This is the star that was promised.”
The star flowed and reached Virgo.
“I succeeded in protecting you, Virgo.”
Birgo, holding the tiny starlight, cried quietly like the day everything burned down. These were not tears of loss, but of proof.
A world that will one day perish.
A world without any meaning.
A world where sanity and memory are painful, and madness and oblivion are much happier.
In a world not worth protecting.
There was meaning here.
He was her guardian.
The reason why the world had to be protected, not because of the destruction of the world, was explained.
Her own protection proved not to be useless.
Virgo’s starlight is proven here. She had her answer here.
After holding the starlight and crying for a while, Virgo stood up and spoke to him.
“…I told you my sins will not be forgiven, right?”
Han Jaejoong guessed the next words and nodded seriously.
“Then, it’s okay if I choose someone to punish me for my sins, right?”
Purple starlight scattered from the empty space in my heart.
The body, which had lost the meaning of existence, was transformed into starlight, scattered, and collapsed. Life was no longer required for the person who found the answer. The end of a long, long life has begun.
“Kill me.”
Virgo whispered.
