Chapter 140 – Libra (7) – Part 1 Wan
The long ceremony was over.
“Ugh.”
My sister shuddered. He grunted, trying not to spill the seeds he had picked up in it.
Just in time, the light from the scale permeated my sister and me.
“Are you okay?”
“Ganchanat…”
I don’t think it’s okay. Still, he waited for a while, so he quickly recovered and stood up to straighten his disheveled clothes. Anyway, it’s just a thin dress.
Wow.
The ground shook. Now that the ceremony was over, the altar that had done its job was slowly being torn down.
“I’ll hold your hand.”
“Yes.”
Even though it seems that he has already recovered enough to walk normally, my sister did not avoid my hand and held it.
We descended before the altar collapsed and watched as the altar slowly turned into powder and was collected as a scale.
“It’s over?”
Just in time, the barrier that isolated the inside and outside broke down, and my sister and Iris, who were waiting outside, approached. Seeing the two approaching, my older sister smiled and gave strength to my interlocking hands.
Do you want to brag about the way you wear your hands?
The eyes of the two who watched it twitched. Just as she was about to open her mouth to say something, the scale made a noise.
Key!
A sound resounding from the scales. From the scales finally balanced, a distant power descended upon us.
“Ugh.”
Along with a throbbing headache, both eyes started to feel sore. As I stumbled, my sister, who was holding my hand, hurriedly supported me.
“Scarlett, are you okay? Are you sick?”
I swallowed a groan. Cold sweat soaked his back in a burning pain that seemed to burn his eyes. Gritted it Power went into the hands that were facing her sister. Even though I knew that my hand was scratching the back of my sister’s hand, I couldn’t stand the pain.
And.
When you open your eyes.
「Have you come? My nemesis.”
Familiar voice.
A person whose entire body is covered in pitch-black darkness and only the bright red eyes are clearly visible.
End of the world.
Demon King Baal was facing me.
“… This is it.”
“Welcome to the same place as me.”
In a relaxed voice, Baal spoke to me.
Only then could I confirm the scenery I was looking at.
A pure white space with the cosmos as the background, just like “The other side of the world” That stood just now.
“This is the ‘source’.”
Source.
At the unfamiliar word, when I couldn’t open my mouth, Baal continued.
「You and me. Or, only the gods of the celestial world can set foot here. To be precise, it is to be able to ‘see’. With the ‘clairvoyance’ you acquired.”
At Baal’s words, I reflexively touched my eyes. The two eyes that were hot as if they were burning were fine. Rather, it seemed much clearer.
“It wasn’t an ordeal I was given to overcome in the first place, but I finally overcame it and came up to the same position as Jim…” .」
Tsk.
Baal clicked his tongue. He glared at me disapprovingly, but then burst into laughter.
“Okay. So he must be my adversary. You are more worthy of my nemesis than even a hero.”
After saying that, the demon king turned his back.
The moment he turned his magic power to stab me in the back, Baal turned his back and spoke.
「Anyway, we can’t attack each other here. Follow me obediently.”
It was as it was said.
As if this place was literally a place to ‘see’, my magical power, which always followed my will, did not move inside my body.
Eventually I followed Baal.
Seeing the world through a clairvoyant.
As if to prove that Baal’s words that this place was the ‘source of the world’ were not false, the light on the floor was split like the roots of a tree.
“That is the turning point.”
The turning point of the world. A fork in the world, divided into different choices.
I had my doubts.
If each of these branches is a parallel world, isn’t the number too small?
“Do you know that divergence points can be divided so easily?”
Baal snorted.
“Those who can bring about a change in the world.”
The demon king’s eyes turned to me.
「Those who change the flow, create new turning points, and finally change the world.」
It’s none other than you. The one who tilts the weight of the scale.
“It’s okay, just follow me. There is no time to linger there.”
I was momentarily dazed by the fact that the Demon King had told me, but I followed him at the urging voice.
What made me walk for such a long time?
“… This.”
Severed roots as if burned.
Remnants of a world that could not go any further and stopped.
“Those are the words of the world.”
Hearing the plaintive voice of the demon king, I asked back.
“… After all, aren’t those things the same as you in the parallel world? I’m going to show you this…”
“Well.”
“What?”
“Anyway, this is the end of what I was trying to show you. If you show me this much, I have done everything I have to do.”
The Demon King stretched out his hand towards me.
“My nemesis.”
“Come and slit my throat someday.”
“I will also take your spirit and body, and finally complete my longing.”
“We are looking forward to the day we die and kill each other.”
Like that.
I opened my eyes again in the original world.
“Scarlett! Are you okay?”
My sister came closer and asked me if she was beside me nursing me when I was lying down. I slightly turned my head and met my sister’s eyes.
“… What about the other two?”
“I just switched. I decided to stay by your side one by one.”
“… How long have you been down?”
“About half a day…”
I’ve been down for a long time
I sat down with my sister’s support.
‘How.’
I recalled the scene I had seen at the ‘source of the world’.
The fork of the burning world, all that remains is the wreckage…
The Demon King’s words, as if to say that this is the unavoidable fate of this world.
I closed my eyes.
“Sister.”
“Huh?”
“I will definitely protect you.”
“… I don’t know what you’re talking about all of a sudden, but yeah. Happy.”
I stroked Letty in my arms and quietly made a promise.
I will not let Baal do his will.
Never.
