Chapter 255 – Chapter 255. I’m Dave, And…
I wandered for an uncountable amount of time.
No, maybe for the rest of my life…
He couldn’t kill the person he loved for that amount of time, and chewed on those he killed while waiting for the end without promise.
Even though he returned to the past, he couldn’t bear to regard that moment as the end.
Because I wasn’t sure
Maybe this isn’t the last flashback you’ll face right before you die, even if you’ve returned to the past, thinking that everything you’ve seen will happen someday…
Not having such confidence, he was prepared to kill even his former comrades with his own hands, but nevertheless he reached out his hand toward himself and tried to arrange a reprieve.
‘Are you okay. I will make sure that such a future does not happen. Even if that’s the case, we can change together.’
He probably couldn’t even imagine how much comfort those warm words would have given him who was lonely.
Yes, even a dream was good. Even if it was a torturer of hope, he hoped that he would be able to decorate his end more comfortably, intoxicated with the nostalgia of this moment.
Though he considered that simple wish to be the only consolation granted to him…
‘Mongma is cunning. He crumples lies into truth for his own ends.’
The truth is that everything he’s been through is just a plausible, concocted lie.
When he realized that not everything was false, but not everything was true, and that there were things that could be changed as he said, he had two thoughts.
He knows that the tragic future he saw can be changed so that it does not happen.
And at the same time, he knew that he, who had lived through such a tragic future, should not exist in the future that will change from now on.
‘I shouldn’t exist in this world. I have already been tainted…’
Fought desperately.
It is so cruel, desperate and cruel that even the existence called the Demon King feels fear…
At the end, he looked back and thought to himself that there was no other sign of tiredness even after chopping up the demon king’s corpse and scattering it on the plain.
As it is, the moment things go wrong even a little like this, something really irreversible might happen.
Even though he dealt with the demon king, even if he dealt with other demon kings, he knew that a peaceful future would not come to him unless he could shake off that anxiety that everything was over.
‘It shouldn’t be me being with everyone.’
I separated myself from the past and the self that experienced the future. He believed that the answer was to hand over all the happiness and glory to be enjoyed in the changing future to someone who could genuinely enjoy it all.
He felt that the atonement he had to do was to erase the disaster by burning his dirty soul, and at the end of it, he thought that confining himself in eternal darkness was the only permitted salvation.
“I will become the Demon King.”
Yes, the effort to sacrifice oneself like that.
At this moment, all the words I heard went back meaningless.
“No…”
Only one.
The moment when the result I wanted to prevent turned into reality.
“No, Dave. That’s not enough, please…”
I know it’s nonsense.
I had to do it nonetheless. No, I hoped it would come true.
“I’d rather, I’d rather be the demon king. If I, rather I become the demon king, and I die to you…”
Knowing that this was impossible, I tried to cling to it even more desperately.
-Quarreung!
However, the power has already been accepted to a level beyond its limits. The storm of power spread wildly in all directions, and the distorted space gradually began to hide his figure in darkness.
The pitch-black darkness hardened into an egg-like shape.
As if celebrating the birth of a new demon king. As if to bless the new end of this world, blue lightning rang out from the cracked sky.
“Dave, no.”
Right after he was about to reach out to the absurd scene, something flew in from afar and grabbed his body, which was hanging down, and began to pull it on the spot.
“I got it! Create a barrier right away!!”
Ymir.
After her fierce battle to protect Dave, she had reached her limit, and she was running out of her seat, wringing out the last of her strength and grabbing her body.
And the one in front of him is a paladin who keeps the cracked armor in danger.
The avant-garde, which could never be shaken, squeezed out the last of its strength and lowered the shield, and a barrier made of light spread in all directions to protect itself.
The crumbling world and myself.
“… Get out of the way.”
They are trying to isolate themselves from him.
“Serica, calm down.”
“Dave, Dave is over there! Let go now! Kill me…”
A voice bursting out of excitement.
Soon after the mana gathering roughly in that hand was forged and was about to turn into a blade, tremors began to strike from the small body that held onto the waist.
“… Celica. Stop.”
Hey. Even though she is very weak, she can read other people’s minds better than anyone else.
“Stop it, please…”
Even though her own madness is by no means false, she sobs as she clutches the hem of her dress as if she understands even that.
No, not just yourself, but the rest around you.
“… Everyone”
I realized it belatedly.
That you’re not the only one suffering.
With a body that is not a hero, although they say they are weak, their bodies have already become a mess after attacking the being called the Demon King.
Even so, he tried to save himself from the waves of that fierce force.
Even though I love him as much as myself…
Even though she loves him in the true sense of the word, more than herself who is just a lie.
“Why.”
There was no way it would be possible to kill them.
If you get your hands dirty like that, even your ignorant innocent self in the past won’t be able to be saved.
“Why are you doing this? I… What the hell did I do wrong!!”
Just standing here.
Throwing out my resentment towards the sky that bestowed this fate on me is the only way to get rid of my feelings.
“I didn’t want to be a warrior or something! It would have been enough if it wasn’t me but someone else!! But why did it have to be me, why did it have to be me!!”
Despite the originality, power swirled in the cracked sky, and the strong waves that originated from it came down from the sky and concentrated in one place.
“This is…”
The energy felt in the darkness that exists in the center is gradually increasing.
The more I felt it, the more my heart pounded, and I felt a deep murderous intent welling up from within.
“Oh, I didn’t want that, but why…”
The demon king brings a mortal future to the world, and the hero kills the demon king and puts his mortality behind him.
In a world that operates under such laws, his instinct as a warrior was forcing him to point his sword at the being in front of him at this moment.
Otherwise everyone dies.
Because everyone has already reached their limit. In the yard where everyone fought desperately up to this point, if you settle for wailing, the same future will only repeat itself.
‘Really, is this real?’
A heartless road with no options.
There is only one thing different from that time.
There is only one fact that you can foresee the future that will happen from now on and prepare your mind for it.
“Really, this…”
“Every.”
Even before the resolution was over.
Eventually, the existence that awoke from the egg landed on the ground and began to show off its presence.
“Everyone pay attention to this place.”
A voice is heard.
Even though it’s just one person’s voice, it’s so clear.
Not even the turmoil of the intertwined war could swallow up a single word heard at this moment.
“No more fighting is allowed. This is an order.”
It is natural.
This voice is the authority of the demon lord, not just talking with the mouth.
Because it is a wave that has power in itself and is exerted by affecting the minds of all beings it touches.
“Everyone, kneel before me.”
Yes, the power to exercise absolute command right by itself.
-Kugung!
At this moment, the bodies of everyone affected by that power were crushed to the ground.
Demons, subhumans, executives, and witches.
Even human beings.
At this moment, unable to ignore the commands he issued, they kept their eyes focused on one spot and kept an eye on him.
“Devil…”
“The Demon King was born.”
In a scene where fear and respect, despair and expectation coexist.
But the attention is focused on one place. Everyone instinctively felt it.
Even though the appearance may have changed, even though the body is based on that of a human, the power felt from it is definitely the devil’s.
In itself, it is a disaster, an environment, an existence that deserves to be called a living apocalypse.
The moment you face him, all you can do is to bow your head and beg for mercy.
At this moment, at the point of restraining their minds, their right to life and death is no different from being subordinated to him.
“… Dave.”
Only one person can stand against such an existence.
She picks up only a sword with missing teeth, and she is the only woman who reveals herself in front of him.
“Can you hear me?”
There is no armament except for the sword.
Naked, not wearing a single thread. Still, she feels no shame.
She moves on, focusing her attention on just one thing.
The only thing that shines in my blurry wet vision is the person who was my lover.
And a being who endured a mortal future for all.
“Or is it already too late?”
He really
If he’s really willing to sacrifice himself, he’ll only have one thing to do.
Even so…
“Answer me, please.”
Even so, only one question at this moment.
If given a chance to hear the answer.
“… Really, is this the only answer?”
If at all possible, with a voice leaking out of his mouth, he could hear the words that define his own existence…
I hope that even at this moment, I will be able to make that decision more clearly by correcting my mind, which is not going anywhere.
“I am…”
The Demon King responds to that desperate question.
“My name is Dave.”
Your own name.
“An existence that has shouldered the future that this world must move forward with.”
After that, I calmly say the sentence that exists for myself now.
“And…”
The words that were supposed to end were blurred, and the mouth was closed for a very short time.
A silence heavy enough to make my heart tremble.
Still, no one opened their mouths.
No one could open their mouths.
“…And?”
Only one person
Only one person who is allowed to open his mouth is powerlessly urging an answer to him.
“And…”
As if he couldn’t bear to ignore that, his heavily stiffened mouth gradually opened and his voice began to leak out.
Everyone here waited with bated breath for the sound to take shape and come to an end.
The absolute monarch born at this moment will pursue…
A word that abbreviates everything that will follow.
“… A person who is determined to love everyone who loves me.”
“…”
Without words.
Ponder what he said
“…Really.”
Even the sword in his hand dropped.
One weak footstep toward him.
“Really, Dave?”
With a voice that leaked out of his mouth, he asked him.
Is he really the one he knows?
Just to figure out if it’s not a lie just to dazzle yourself.
“… Okay. Celica.”
The positivity that comes back to the colorless of the anxiety full of that question.
Only then did Celica lift her head and look into his eyes.
A gaze clearly directed at himself.
There was no madness like the demon lord he had encountered before.
Rationally and soberly.
“Dave, whom you love.”
In the same voice as before.
My lover, who wants to pamper himself, exists there.
“Really, really…”
Even so, I couldn’t believe it and spit out a reversal.
If it’s tempting, don’t accept it.
Because even at this moment her own instincts were crying out. Because his instinct as a hero is forcing him to point his sword at the power of the demon lord filling his body.
“Really, is Dave right?”
But more than that, the beating heart.
Because feelings for him suppress those instincts.
“… Huh.”
Repeated affirmations eventually erased even the intent to kill him, and he even shook off the hesitation of his steps.
“You may be confused, but please calm down. Let me explain what happened…”
-Dump.
A body that relaxes and sits down without power.
The arms that gently embrace it feel very cozy and warm.
Other than that, I don’t feel any sense of danger.
Even though his mind wasn’t taken over, it was clear that he had accepted the demon lord’s power.
“… Celica.”
“Day, B. Day…”
The future he thought would never come again becomes a reality.
At this moment, she sensed with her own skin that she was touching her own body, and before long, a sorrowful cry erupted from her mouth.
To the point of swallowing up all the responsibility and madness that had been suppressed all along.
It is as if the lump in the heart that has been stuck together like a tangled skein of thread is relieved at this moment.
“… I’m sorry for worrying you, Celica.”
After embracing the body of such a lover, he quietly closed his eyes, comforted her back, and buried his head.
And whisper
“And thank you.”
The most cruel and the most dark.
In a world dotted with such tragedies, the words of this fate that had no choice but to fight for each other and fall for each other.
“For believing in me, who has changed like this, and loving me with all my heart.”
Only the ending is absolutely beautiful.
It is considered to be more dazzling.
