Chapter 179 – The Beginning and the End
A forest without a name.
The owners here are not humans, but wild animals.
In this place where such a small ecosystem is made up, there is one green and round creature.
“Hi.”
The man who greeted him briefly held out something to it.
Then, the blue lump comes to me, and after tasting it, it trembles as if it is happy.
It is goat cheese with a flavor that is incomparable to bugs and dead animals.
The little blue slime liked that human man who came to visit him from time to time and handed him something delicious.
I didn’t have intelligence, but I could have the simple feeling of joy.
The man’s visit for over a hundred years suddenly stopped one day.
The little slime, who will one day be called Lia, felt the emotion of sadness, but as the time of the week passed, she forgot it.
Meanwhile, the man who disappeared just watched the slime from a distance.
Those eyes are aloof, as if they have realized that the end is slowly approaching.
* * *
Jurgen, which I created with my own hands, was very uneasy.
It’s not anxiety in the sense of being worried, but it literally feels like an unstable bomb.
Although the appearance was terrible, the disposition revealed on the outside was relatively close to good.
However, if you look closely at the inside, the roots themselves are ugly.
This wasn’t what I was aiming for.
Maybe because I, the evil god, made it, maybe it was made with the feeling of a familiar?
“Your name is Yurgon. Abandoned by his parents, chased by wild beasts, he fled to this village.”
“…”
“Did you understand?”
Baby Jurgen tilts his head at my question.
I hated seeing it so much that I instantly raised my hand, but I desperately held it in.
“If you understand, go away now.”
“Huh.”
He waved his hand a few times as if it was annoying, and he answered and walked to Toddler Village.
I was about to say a word in a short answer, but as usual, I lay down on the floor and looked up at the sky.
I stretched out one of his arms and rolled his fist, and an absurd amount of strength dissipated.
It was an unreasonable price for simply making an ugly bastard.
But I realized why I had to pay such a huge price.
“Fate.”
Jurgen is Lethe’s destiny.
I must have paid such a heavy price for creating an artificial life form and forcibly weaving it into the fate of a girl.
Even that girl is the source of this world.
That being said, from the beginning, there would have been no object of fate for Lethe in this false world.
“Okay… In ‘this world’.”
Couldn’t I have done such an inefficient thing in order to make her belong to her other world?
After weaving it into her fate, she dies, and by feeding the corpse to Lia, one day, Lethe’s capture will be completed.
“However… You have already failed.”
There was already a precedent for the one-armed Ed.
He’s gone, and I’m going to be too.
This route I am walking must have continued for so many episodes that I can’t even count, and the end was annihilation.
“Ed…”
After enduring tens of thousands of years, tracing the memories of the last episode, walking the same path, saying I did my best, passing the rest to the next episode and disappearing.
The guys in front of me weren’t doing their best.
It just ran away.
I’m also mean and my mind is rotten as well, but at least I made up my mind not to run away.
Anyway, this is the last time.
Even if it wasn’t the last, it wasn’t that different from being the last for me.
In the meantime, a chuckle is heard along with the sound of branches breaking on the floor.
-Sue.
I had already noticed that someone was approaching me.
“Mister.”
Of course, I knew that it was young Lethe.
But I never thought I would talk like this.
I couldn’t imagine this
“Okay.”
He raised his body, sat comfortably on the floor, and turned his gaze to the girl.
The first human I encountered after being thrown from this world.
This is a world where destiny exists, so I was convinced that if I had a destiny, it would probably be you.
But that was my mistake.
“I’ve seen you before, uncle.”
It’s just cute to see her talking to me with her own cute pronunciation after losing a couple of baby teeth like this.
I didn’t feel anything special.
In addition, her memories of her were hazy.
It’s safe to say that I never remembered or missed Lethe.
From the moment I left town until now.
Because the evil god of the past is not me, but the one that Ashte, the evil god, loves.
Ashte and I may be the same person, but I have no bond with Lethe.
That’s the same for me too
Because I am the only one who remembers the precious bond with them in the past.
It was not a useless sentiment.
Thanks to that bond and memories, it has endured for tens of thousands of years.
“Well. I don’t know who you are.”
“Eh. What’s your name, uncle?”
I was troubled.
What should I say to this kid?
The name that came out after a short thought,
“… Ed.”
After all, it was the name she gave me.
“What’s your name, kid?”
In response, I put my finger to my lips and ask the young Lethe, who blinks her eyes, her name.
“Ed… ? Yes? What! No, kid!”
Little Lethe, who gave a small shout and forgot what she was trying to tell me, went back to the village with her cheeks puffed out.
The little crab had a nasty personality.
Now, will that nasty child die because of the Jurgon I made?
Even the corpse should be taken to Leah and fed.
… Is this correct?
The next ten years until the earth’s unemployed, Kim Chang-mook, is thrown into this world.
It was not long before the end of the long journey.
* * *
It was only a moment before the snoring dog became a beautiful adult.
Lethe waited for something with her hands clasped in front of her.
How many lives have you repeated?
This hellish life that always ends in death.
After a while, a man of hers appears in front of her like a drop from the sky.
“Uh.”
As if very surprised, the stupid man rubbing her eyes and rolling his eyeballs here and there.
“Ugh.”
Then the man’s mouth opens slowly.
“Isn’t that a crumpled character!?”
In the past, I reacted the same as I did.
A language that contradicts the Korean that came out of his mouth like that spits out of Lethe’s mouth.
“Start.”
That one word was the one that penetrated everything.
This moment will be someone’s beginning and someone’s end.
Lethe was kind to me in the past.
Her memory of her will fade anyway.
That guy will soon live as a retired mercenary under the illusion that the object of his destiny is dead.
Lethe named me Ed, and her time passed quickly.
Her ignorant Kim Chang-muk tried to flirt with her by showering her with all kinds of compliments from time to time, but Lethe, woven by her fate, was not swayed by it.
While such peaceful days continued, finally, the day when Jurgon, who had been living well in the village, returned to Raham Village from another city.
‘…’
Today is the day Lethe and her misunderstood my actions in the past, her yurgon kills her with her own hands.
Should I let her die like this?
I do not know.
I am not sure what choice I have to make to have the brightest future waiting for me.
Concentrating on the field of view, with complicated feelings.
Suddenly, Yurgon was watching Lethe, and she misunderstood.
After a little bit of time, you will be able to follow the same steps as in the past.
So far, the flow has not changed except for sharing the power of evil spirits with Sophia Drin, so there is no butterfly effect.
So let’s wait like this until Lethe dies.
Anyway, I have no memories of Lethe.
Even if you intuit her death, you won’t feel uncomfortable.
– Ed! Why are you talking weird again?
By observing them by their side for the past month, the past of Lethe and I will be preserved as a memory in my head without disappearing.
To be precise, the moments shared between me and Lethe in the past and future.
It’s coming soon.
Until Jurgen’s blade pointed at Lethe.
It’s a big deal.
I can’t stand it.
“Ha, fuck.”
I decided to ruin the established narrative that had been repeated countless times.
Even though this urge can destroy all the causes and effects I have accumulated so far, I do not suppress it.
I wasn’t sure, but this isn’t it.
This world is not a place of exile, but a haven.
Ashte would not have wanted Lethe to repeat her endless pain.
So that,
-Teouk!
I easily snatched Jurgen’s clumsy blade that I created.
“What, what, what are you—!”
“Go away.”
“Kuheugh… !”
As if it was impossible to disobey the Creator’s words, Jurgon, who collapsed on the ground as his legs gave out, left the place on all fours like a dog.
Just running with a posture that suits you very well.
With that thought in mind, she turned her body to look at Lethe, and she was frightened with her eyes wide open as if she was startled.
As if she knew nothing, as if she were an innocent country girl.
“I’m sorry.”
In response, I handed an apology to Lethe.
To her, she must have gone through tens of thousands of small hells that started because of me.
It was too late, but it was a conclusion that came after a long thought and conflict.
“You are… Dae, what the heck, how is this…”
It’s already spilled.
Then I focus on it with all my spare energy, with certainty and precision.
Even if it means devoting all the energy of the evil spirit remaining in this body,
We transfer Lethe to her original destiny, Ashte.
Certainly.
Illya said.
It is said that it is close to impossible for the lower dimension to intervene in the upper dimension.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
It was definitely dangerous.
As if the planet were to be smashed by my will, the ground split and the sky split.
“The explanation is not me…”
Even so, I focus my strength on the world line like an idiot who will endure alone, hoping for the happiness of the woman he loves.
“Listen to the real Ed.”
A guy can understand the situation.
How much time has passed
Lethe, who was standing on the scorched ground, collapsed like a doll.
Like a dead body.
However, I could intuit that her inner core had been transferred somewhere.
“Ha…”
All the powers of the evil gods have been pulled out, and I can no longer predict the future.
First of all, I have to take responsibility for what I did…
“Shit.”
I, exhausted, collapse as it is.
