Chapter 823 – #172_Purple Rose (3)
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One.
A chill seeped in.
Sleet covering the lavender colonies.
Every time the wind swayed, the purple waves became the sound of rough breathing and seemed to hit my ears.
The red lotus flowers scattered on the shelf suggest two clues to understand this worldview.
However, Raffy died once.
Two, Raffi was revived as a red lotus flower.
Additional hypotheses can be established by adding inferences to the surrounding landscape and the appearance of Eloa today.
However, Eloa Tiphareth made a sacrifice for Rafi’s resurrection.
Two, he became a public figure and turned away from Gehenna.
Perhaps, Siu is in a state of running out of Gehenna following such Eloa.
It’s likely enough.
Master cut off the chance to save Raffy with his own hands.
If time could be turned back to that point, no matter how upright she was, she would have made this choice at least once in tens of thousands of times.
This view of the world is built on the basis of sufficient probability, not an absurd delusion.
“… Why?”
Therefore, it cannot be explained.
According to Gretel’s explanation, the dream that Happy Pig draws is utopia.
A space that is perfect, ideal, and cannot exist in reality.
Humans dream of perfect wishes.
All the more because it is unrealistic.
Raffy never died.
Eloah didn’t have to use the red lotus either.
The three of Siu, Eloa, and Rafi lived happily ever after, which is ideal enough.
Just as Mallika, who died after handing over the stigma, was replaced in Amelia’s dream by the one she went on a long journey from which she could not return.
I would rather have given up on probability. There is no need for such a distortion.
The cause is unknown, but the conclusion is simple.
This is not utopia.
At least, the case is different with Siu, Rinne, and Amelia.
– Woo-woo-woo!
Suddenly, the red lotus flower trembled.
He seems to say that he is the center of this distortion.
The lotus flower decorated with bright red crimson is both magical and mysterious.
“Siw.”
I must have been thinking too hard.
Seeing that you didn’t even notice the sound coming from behind you.
“Master.”
Eloa was standing there in a white nightgown.
Somehow, my heart felt cold.
The way her eyes alternated between Siwoo’s face and the red lotus flower was so complex that it was impossible to read.
It seems that he is in deep thought, or he seems to be in an out of control confusion.
However, there is a determination and resignation that are not light.
“Are you going to fall?”
“Ah yes.”
First of all, I withdrew from the red lotus.
Outside the window, a strong wind and rain began to blow.
The windows rattled and the breathing of the lavender colony grew louder.
“…”
Eloah remained silent, then approached Siu and crossed his arms.
The fingertips, as if looking for a place to hang on, gripped the forearm tightly.
“I just feel sorry for you.”
“No.”
“I know. That you are a kind person Even if you forgive me, you will not be able to forgive my decision.”
“…”
If this were real, how would Siu behave?
As Eloah said.
What she did will not be tolerated.
But hating Master would be even harder.
Even if he tried to straighten out the wrong path, he would hesitate every time he saw Eloa, who seemed blissfully happy.
Covering sins, covering the past, covering regrets.
Turn your eyes to the issues you don’t want to think about, and focus only on the peace in front of you.
Rest plated with such sloppy falsehood is completed.
All three will be of the same mind.
“Let’s go.”
“All right.”
Siwoo and Eloa came down from the workshop without having a proper conversation.
“…”
Siwoo’s role is to convert Eloah’s dream, which has been overly immersed and bonded, into a lucid dream.
The reason I hesitated to tell the truth was because I didn’t want to trample on her wishes.
But if this is a dream lurking in darkness.
If it’s not a happy fairy tale, it’s just a nightmare depicting a utopia plausibly.
It is better to tell the truth.
“Master, I have something to tell you.”
“Something?”
I took a breath and opened my mouth.
“I know it sounds weird. However, this is a dream. It’s not real.”
“… What do you mean?”
Eloah’s expression was that she couldn’t even guess at all.
As expected, she was not even aware of the contact with Siwoo today.
Maybe it’s because I was too engrossed.
“We were looking for a spirit witch. When I entered the larch forest of the national park, I met a homunculus called Happy Pig. It is a homunculus that makes you have happy dreams.”
Is this how a doctor who notifies a terminally ill patient will feel?
No.
It’s a lot more responsible than that.
It was because Siwoo had to convey the tragedy directly to his beloved Eloa.
“…”
“Didn’t Master also vaguely notice? Something is strange.”
It is difficult for the person in the dream to notice the sense of incongruity.
We naturally accept the progress of discontinuous events and the causalities that are out of context.
Siu tried to remind him of the contradiction.
I decided to take the time to comfort Elroa very slowly so that she wouldn’t be too shocked, and to tell the truth.
“Chamberlain…”
“Siw.”
It felt like a sharp blade stabbing my heart.
It was such a resolute, sharp spirit that there was no room to block it.
“Shut that mouth.”
“Master…”
“There are absurd remarks that even you cannot listen to. So what do you want to say?”
Changed atmosphere.
It’s the same as when you found the brooch.
Rather than calmly pointing out rational thinking, paranoid rejection.
The words falling from Siwoo’s mouth are not unpleasant, but the fear of not wanting to hear them.
As if reaching out to a wounded beast, it seemed to reveal its teeth.
“Siwoo, rather criticize me. I will get down on my knees again and again and ask for your forgiveness.”
“…”
“If only you would stay by my side… You can do anything to me. I will accept anything you ask for. Seriously.”
Where did the eyes that burned fiercely a moment ago go?
Eloa wept with her shoulders shrunken.
For Master, who cannot forgive himself, this world is the limit of happiness.
Seeing her holding on to her distorted utopia and not being able to let go, Siwoo couldn’t say anything.
2.
Elroa returned to the bed with reddened eyes.
It was Raffy’s room, not the bed that Eloa and Siu share.
Raffy, crouching down, let out a colorful snort and fell into a deep sleep that no one would know who was carrying him.
It was time for the apprentice witch to go to sleep early.
“…”
Eloa sat down by her bedside and ran a hand through Raffy’s hair.
Sleep really hard
A sorrowful smile hung on Elroa’s lips.
He remembered what happened right after he revived Raffy by stealing the lotus flower from the cowardly witch.
After learning the truth about the resurrection, Raffy got angry and said, “Do you know what he did? Why did you save him?”
She cried, ran amok, hit, and screamed at Eloa.
No wonder.
Raffy would not have wanted his beloved master to commit a crime for him.
But Raffy forgave Eloa.
I hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.
Even though it was done with Eloa’s self-righteousness and selfishness, they understood that love was at the root of it.
Siu was like that too.
At least until today.
Elroa quietly left the room and was immersed in her thoughts.
Why did Siwoo set foot in the research building, which he had never been close to before?
With what thoughts did Odokani stand in front of the red lotus?
Did he suddenly develop the absurd delusion that it was all a dream?
If the little peace you obtained after turning your back on everything is just a dream, what will the reality be like?
Eloa felt a cold chill in her stomach.
The unconscious is telling.
I shouldn’t be more conscious.
You shouldn’t look into the truth.
The truth will destroy Eloa Tiphareth.
“Even I am shaking…”
Eloah stopped thinking.
Eventually, I forgot that I had even come up with the idea.
A stinging migraine just went through his temples.
Eloah suddenly remembered.
The black brooch that Siwoo was wearing today.
The object that aroused Elroa’s instinctive sense of danger was not a simple jewelery, but an artifact.
Also, it’s not Siwoo’s original thing.
Siwoo’s sudden change in behavior and brooch’s appearance coincidentally overlap.
“No way…”
Eloa swallowed.
One tinnitus that passes through my head is the ‘witch of whispers’.
Keter, who worked hard to correct the order of the witch society, is the opposite of the darkness that causes chaos.
Eloah also followed her for a long time, but never met her face to face.
Lilith, who has everything wrapped in a veil, instills the temptation of reciprocity to people who are shaken.
It blurs judgment and makes it engulfed by desire, leading to destruction.
Spirit Witch was the first tinnitus I had ever heard of.
Lilith can manipulate her perception at any time and transform into another witch at any time.
What if Lilith approached Siwoo, who was in agony and agony?
What if that brooch was Lilith’s fangs?
It’s plausible indeed.
Siu said he understood Elroa and said he would forgive him.
He said he would turn a blind eye to the purple repose he had barely protected with his bloody hands.
That it was a dream, that it wasn’t reality, that there was something strange about it.
I can’t say that again.
Spacious mansion.
Eloa, who instinctively realized where Siu was, quickened her steps.
Elloa, who was running the spiral staircase leading to the spire, stood tall.
Siu looked at Eloa with a surprised expression.
His feet and movements seem to be heading towards the red lotus while climbing the stairs.
It was as expected.
“Siwoo, give me that brooch.”
The current Siwoo is not normal.
Clearly possessed by whispers.
Eloa was sure.
There is nothing wrong with the two disciples.
The only sinner here is Eloah Tiphareth.
