Chapter 186 – Episode 186. No Matter What Future Awaits.
“… Dave.”
“Yes, it is me.”
Said, closing her distance from her.
Who I am Who is standing in front of her now.
“I am Dave. Celica.”
Yes, I’m Dave.
An insignificant human being and a traitor to humanity. A traitor who had no choice but to do so.
And such a past is colorless.
A man determined to love everyone who loves me.
“And what you like is me right now. Not the future me.”
“… Dave.”
“The reason you couldn’t kill the Demon King… Was it because you loved me who was the Demon King?”
“…”
“Because I love the demon king who killed all of my colleagues and eventually annihilated the world… Is that why you let him ruin the world?”
“No.”
Eventually, the moment she approached right in front of her, Celica took a step back.
Is it because it hurts just to see her face at this moment?
Taking her gaze away from me, she put her hand on her chest and went on with her strength.
“I just…”
It seems like it’s hard to even connect those words.
“I just thought maybe I could get you back…”
Because I know better than anyone what the consequences of that weak heart were.
“Everyone is gone, but if you disappear too, I…”
“Yes, you just saw me from the demon king.”
But doesn’t that also mean that you have a big heart for me?
His mind was so huge that it weighed me against the whole world, and even after returning to the past, I still couldn’t reach out to the simple option of dealing with me.
“What you like is not the demon king who destroyed the world. Even if that guy is my future, the current me…”
So I can’t blame her.
No, she shouldn’t be blamed.
“You are precious.”
Ymir, Heydo, and Verdia…
All of my relationships with them originate from the person in front of me.
“Every time I spend with you is precious.”
If that existence had left me, I would have to rule it out to protect what was left of her, but she just wanted to leave and couldn’t let go of her attachment to me.
If everything so far has been based on my heart towards me, I will have to revival there.
“I must have said this before I broke up with you, right?”
She must have known better than I did that my feelings were sincere.
That’s why, even though he was exposed to the truth that he had deceived and played with himself, he eventually blossomed in his sincerity toward me and had repeated conflicts.
“So me…”
“Me too.”
Her forehead, which collapsed at the end, soon began to tremble as it touched my chest.
“I want to be with everyone too.”
The beating of her heart, which she felt, eventually began to be transmitted to me through her hand as she embraced me.
“I want to stay with everyone. I don’t want to leave like this. If this is a dream, I don’t want you to wake up.”
Thus revealing their weakness.
For this moment alone, he has lost both his mission as a hero and his appearance as a failure who failed to prevent the tragedy.
“Anymore… I hate being alone.”
She is just a woman afraid of the future and unable to do anything about it. She chose to be held in my arms.
Because she trusts me that much, she is even ready to shake off all her burdens in front of me.
“… Witch.”
I laid her body on my back and looked over the ledge on which I stood.
To imagine the destination of a journey that exists beyond the plateau that stretches beyond the horizon.
“Let’s go find the witch.”
“… A witch?”
“Yes, the witch…”
Should I let go of her or lose her, I gripped her even tighter.
However, while correcting the gaze that stared beyond it without wavering.
“Serica, you said it yourself, right? Even if you come from the future, you don’t know everything.”
“… If you’re a witch, maybe you know something we don’t?”
“Yes, because they know much more about demons than me or you.”
I don’t even know if it really exists or not, at least. It would be better to resist than to suffer alone without knowing anything.
Giving up would be enough once you realize you really can’t set anything right this time of day.
“… Scared.”
Of course, it is not hope in the future, but despair. It may come as torture that makes the result even more tragic.
Fearing that her truth was not always what she wanted, and that such a cruel future would come to a standstill, she was gradually trying to drive a wedge into her own feelings.
“What if witches decide they can’t change anything? If you say that you will change like that…”
“I am here now.”
I said as if pulling out the wedge.
She is not alone in facing such a hopeless future.
In the future, we may not be able to do anything because we are caught up in a sudden situation, and everything may have reached a catastrophe, but now we know what awaits us in the future.
“Serica, you are not alone right now.”
No matter how much you don’t know everything, you can afford to be prepared to accept the future, and isn’t there a companion who can accept it as well?
“… Dave.”
“Together, maybe we can change it. No, you can change it.”
It’s like there’s still no evidence.
But even so, I didn’t feel any fear in the present that foresaw her future that even she couldn’t hold on to.
“I…”
The only thing that has changed is the reason.
Not by fixing her, but by preventing her tragic future… No, one more thing was different.
“Because I will definitely do that.”
Unlike when I was just stuck with her insecurities about whether or not I could fix her.
Because I felt that the mindset I had to have in the process was also stronger than before.
“Trust me, Celica. I am…”
To express her feelings, as she gradually loosened the body she had embraced, she took a step back before she knew it and put her hands on her chest with her head bowed.
As before, as if to feel my heartbeat.
“… Why?”
But don’t tremble
To put it to shame that he had been swayed by fear before. It was as if he felt his heart beating very calmly.
“Nothing has been resolved at all, and Dave’s presence is reassuring.”
Celica taught her that she had regained her composure as she so quietly let out her voice.
But I could vaguely feel it.
Just as she feels at this moment, that her outward appearance is not everything.
“… Celica.”
“Yes, I believe.”
Celica quietly raised her head from her seat at the end.
In the smile drawn on that face, the bitterness that had been revealed before had disappeared as if it had been washed away.
“No matter what future awaits, Dave is here now.”
The sunlight at dawn gradually rising above the horizon, and the face illuminated by the light was very bright.
“Since Dave is with me, I will do my best to change whatever future awaits.”
Infinitely bright,
Even so, the face that could not suppress the light flowing from those eyes.
“No matter what future awaits…”
“Whatever, no matter what the future awaits…”
Celica repeatedly emphasized her own words, as if she was trying to deny even such feelings to the end.
She felt the trembling of the words, but I decided to respond to her words without showing it.
“Yeah, sure, everything will be fine.”
You never know what will wait, but on the contrary, there is no guarantee that nothing will work out.
So for now, let’s hope for the fact that we don’t know anything that has made us anxious.
Only now that we are together like this.
Believing that it would be possible to change the tragic future, and determined to make it happen.
***
And, the time around dawn.
“… Ugh, it’s the head.”
Accepting the sunlight shining into her cave, Yumir raised her weary body and looked down at her own body.
The body covered by the blanket is naked, not even wearing underwear.
Yumir, who belatedly grabbed her throbbing head and recalled what had happened last night, looked between her own legs and burst out laughing.
“Oh, you did a great job yesterday too.”
To roll her body like this during a serious journey.
If he had been alone, he would have felt self-tortured, but the fact that he was not alone in the act was a great comfort to Ymir.
The fact that she is here with her saga, with her fingers poking between her own legs, still in her sleep…
“Uh, ugh~♡”
“…”
“… De, Day. Dave~♥”
“Is this lady crazy?”
“Kyaaak!”
Verdia screamed with the crackling sound of her ass being slapped. Afterwards she shouted as she glared at her Ymir with her face flushed red.
“Yu-Ymir!? What are you doing now…”
“No, then you’re just watching my pussy sore in your sleep?”
“What, what? Don’t talk nonsense! My, there’s no way I would do such a vulgar thing!?”
“Ask anything that doesn’t make sense through the mouth open below.”
Wasn’t the blanket over her covered with the dust of her assistant, which she had scattered?
Aware of it belatedly, a sound of ‘Ahh’ came from her mouth, but Ymir tried to ignore it and put on her clothes and prepared to go out of her cave.
“Ah, Ymir, are you awake?”
And just in time, as if she had been waiting, her own lover greeted herself.
Facing Dave’s morning greeting, Ymir smiled and replied.
“Heh heh, did you roll her body like that yesterday and prepare breakfast?”
“Well, it’s my job.”
Dave said it insignificantly and gently lifted the pile of firewood in his hand.
In fact, he showed no signs of fatigue. As much as I have a lot of experience in my own way, is it that my physical strength is not inferior to that of other party members?
“… Is there anything I can help you with?”
Still, it was not natural to remain calm, so I spoke out of politeness, but as expected, Dave did not pay attention to it and just tried to focus on his own work.
“No, Ymir can rest a little longer. She has someone to help her today.”
“Helper?”
When it comes to helping people, do you mean Heira? Think for a while.
“Dave~ The stew is done~”
“Yes, Celica, I’ll be right there.”
Afterwards, Dave goes straight to the place where the voice is heard from afar.
Confirming that it was Baserica who had heard the voice, Yumir smiled and turned away from her seat.
“Yeah, well, he goes well with that kid… Huh? For a moment.”
The moment the steps to leave stop.
Afterwards, her pale face turned towards Dave.
“… Dave, where is the mask?”
It’s not enough to take off the mask and call each other by name.
What the hell happened to the two of you while you were asleep?
