Chapter 166 – Quarantined Night (4)
A profound yet sharp tone penetrates the ear.
There’s no one else here other than me. A voice he had never heard before confused the elf’s head.
Could it be that I even heard hallucinations? It was the time when the elf, laughing bitterly, was about to jump down the cliff again.
“Do you have bad ears?”
The voice heard again made the elf’s shoulders tremble. He realized that the words coming from behind his back were not hallucinations.
“I would have asked what you were doing here.”
Startled, the elf turned around almost reflexively. Under the blizzard that slowly subsides, he sees a man well-dressed in aristocratic attire looking at him.
The face of a man with dark hair and light brown eyes is very calm. The blatantly tongue-tied man brushed his wind-blown bangs back.
“Answer me if you are not dumb. Didn’t I ask such a difficult question?”
As he spoke, brushing off snowflakes from his shoulders and adjusting his sleeves, the man looked calm as if he had just finished drinking. The elf, who did not understand that, licked his dry lips.
“You…… How did you get in here?”
“Is there any reason not to come in?”
“That’s not what I’m saying. This is not an altitude above sea level that humans can climb. There must be a barrier…… I even put a cognitive impairment magic on it, but how did you get here?”
Theorard, who was about to say it was meddling in your past, changed his mind and shut him up.
It didn’t seem like the elf would believe it, and even if he talked about the past, it would only confuse the elf. At this point, the elf had only seen Theorad for the first time.
So Theorard just stared at the elf. A long, cold silence ensues. As the blizzard slowly subsided, Theorard looked at the elf’s face without a word.
“…….”
The pain and suffering that entered the eyes of the eyes is so deep and dark that I cannot bear to fathom it. The tear marks clearly set under the dark eyelids were almost too much to look at.
In addition, bloodstains that did not belong to the elves were visible here and there on the terribly torn coat. This time he couldn’t even fathom what else he might have gone through.
After catching his breath for a while, Theorard spoke as calmly as possible.
“Something happened.”
“My question first…….”
“Answer me. What happened?”
The elf couldn’t understand why the man in front of him was doing this. It was very coercive to be mere curiosity. He is persistent, as if he must listen.
After hesitating for a while, the elf decided to just tell it all. After all, he was going to die today. So it would be all right for him to talk frankly before he dies.
“They say I’m a monster.”
“Monster?”
“Yes. Where should I begin to explain…… I, have lived in a nearby town for quite some time? Everyone in the village is kind and treats me well, so I thought it would be different this time. That’s why I lived like a hero, catching monsters roaming around the village with my own hands.”
A deep smile spreads across the elf’s lips. However, the pair of eyes remained the same, giving a creepy sense of alienation.
“The village elders always praised me as the hope of the village when they saw me. The children smiled as beautiful as flowers, saying that they would grow up to be like my older sister. I was really happy back then. I thought I finally found a place to live. What? Ahaha….”
Like a broken music box, the elf quietly continued with a dying laugh.
“…… It was when I was managing the village’s flower garden. The sky was blue, the children’s laughter was sweet, and the chatter of women on the street was cozy. It was a really perfect day. Until the lord’s soldiers attack.”
The smile disappears from the elf’s lips. It was because it reminded me of the soldiers who trampled on the flower garden that I had been working hard on.
“The soldier over there said that. I might be a monster who made a contract with the devil, so I should go to the lord’s castle and have a trial. The appearance that does not age is suspicious, and the traces of tearing monsters are not common, and so on……. I was embarrassed, but I replied that I knew. Because there was no reason not to go to trial.”
Red eyes are watery. But Theorard could offer no consolation. Because I knew the elf didn’t want that.
“I had many friends. Even if the trial were held, I had a lot of friends who would tell me I wasn’t a monster. That’s why I went up to the court with confidence. And I mean…… I became a monster.”
The elf who told her of her unexpected ending her started to shed tears. Tears rolled down her cheeks and formed on her chin. Tears streamed down her expressionless face.
“A lot of friends came to the courthouse…… Not a single friend told me I wasn’t a monster. Only then did I realize That I was the only one who thought they were friends, and that I was the only hero who saved the village. I just… It was just a monster that took over their village.”
“It happened. As for the story—”
“So I decided to become a monster. Destroy the courthouse and come out…… Did you fight the guys who came running to kill me? Because it’s a monster Because I am what the villagers want me to be.”
Because monsters can’t be friends with humans forever. So…….
“I’m tired now.”
The voice that seems to have blocked out the emotions approaches terrifyingly.
I couldn’t find the figure of the Grand Master who bravely left the great forest to find evidence that humans are not evil from the current elves.
The sight of many people losing their faith…… They have gone through too many instances of betraying others for their personal gain.
Even so, the choice his to end his life his instead of destroying humans showed a philanthropic aspect. Elves, despite being betrayed and slandered countless times, were putting the blame on themselves, not humans.
‘Cause I’m stupid because I’m stupid Because I’m stupid.
It was not the deceived person’s fault, but the deceived thought it was his own fault. So the elf is going to take all the blame on himself and end his life.
It’s like taking your own life, just to climb up to the top of a mountain like this and put a barrier around you. Perhaps, he was concerned that others, the Great Forest clan, might find his corpse.
The clan who saw the corpse of the Grand Master would declare war against humans, so they tried their hand so that the missing state would continue for the rest of their lives even after their death his.
“A bug.”
So Theorard couldn’t let the elf die. He couldn’t bear to watch the act of taking everything and committing himself.
“Do you think jumping like that is noble? If you end your life, do you think anyone will applaud you?”
“I know. That this is not the answer……. Still, I don’t want to live anymore. I don’t have the courage to live the rest of my life.”
Wrong. No matter how you persuade them in the current situation, the elves will listen with one ear and let it go.
It was clear that any consolation given to him would sound like a pretense. It was just a one-sided tyranny to tell people who had given up hope to have hope.
‘Damn it…….’
Theorard let out a chilly breath and closed his eyes.
What should she do to save the elf? What should she do to keep the elf away from the choice of self-determination…….
After thinking for a long time, Theorard slowly opens his eyes. There was an unbreakable determination in the eyes filled with firearms.
“I’m glad you ended your life like this.”
The elf’s dead eyes filled with wonder. Theorard met the elf’s eyes and smiled.
“I am planning to use humans to kill her witch. With those who are trustworthy informed of the execution of the plan, it will not be long before the Church will begin to persecute the witches.”
Theorard decided to use his intelligence advantage his. Today, Saint Rastein told me, was a day 23 years ago. It is to take advantage of the fact that it is the period right before the religious persecution of witches occurs.
“Humans will be caught up in the instigation of the cult and will slaughter the innocent witches. Countless deaths would occur just because she was a witch. If you kill yourself, no one can stop it, so to me it’s like killing two birds with one stone.”
“What are you talking about? Why would you do that……”
“Because humanity, the greatest species, needs no impurities. Witches are like parasites living in the human world. There must be no reason not to remove it.”
The focus returned to the elf’s eyes. It was returning the will to live that had been cut off by hatred for the other person.
Now that hatred will become the center of life and make the elves live. I could have been hated for that. She was confident to wear a mask no matter how many times.
“It’s already fun. When I think of the bug-like witches screaming and dying, I can’t stand it. Maddened humans will bring witches to justice just as they did you. While calling them ‘monsters’.”
“Lie. It is a lie……. There’s no way that’s possible……”
“Impossible? Do you really think it’s impossible after seeing the way humans treat you? It’s disgusting. There is a degree to being short-lived.”
The Wind Blows. The snowstorm that had stopped was about to rage again.
“You…”
The elf, biting his teeth so hard that his teeth were twisted, glared at Theorad with a vicious force. The ice crystals condensed around it form a huge spear.
“Are you serious?”
It was the last mercy the elves performed, but Theorard did not blink an eye. Because he knew that he couldn’t physically attack himself as he was only a soul. Theo Rad only spoke lightly with his back straight.
“I mean it.”
At the same time, dozens of spears rushed towards Theorard.
Kwagwagwagwagwang—!
The slashing spears exploded the snow field and caused a snowstorm. The snow particles that flew like dust powder form a pure white fog.
It was an elf who thought the man would have been torn apart, but Theorard stood there as if it were natural in the fog-cleared space.
“How…?”
The bewildered elf opened his mouth softly. However, Theorard did not solve the elf’s question. It was because he noticed that he didn’t have much time to talk to the elves anymore.
“Are you upset? Are you resentful enough to want to kill me?”
The elf couldn’t answer. It was because he had witnessed Theorard’s body his gradually disappearing. Theo Rad’s body was slowly breaking apart from the tips of his toes.
“Then stop the tyranny of the church. Come see me when all of that is over.”
The voice gradually fades away. Theorad was ridiculed by the elves in his past before he was completely vanished. He wanted the elves to make a living out of hating him.
“Remember me.”
The light brown eyes his narrowed sharply. Theorard looked at the elf who was at a loss and didn’t know what to do, and murmured a little sadly.
“My name is Theorad Deharm.”
You should remember and come back again—
“He is the worst villain.”
