Chapter 241 – Ep.17 – Reunion
“Uhm…”
As soon as he senses her presence, Helen slowly begins to open her eyes.
Perhaps because she had a long dream just now, her eyes are still full of sleep and hazy.
“Ah… I guess you’ve finally arrived.”
The voice also seems to have not woken up yet. A languid yet sad voice welcomes Delrin.
“I am being rude like this…”
Quickly wiping away the few tears that had formed on her face, she carefully stood up. It seems very difficult for her to keep her balance because the lingering effects of her dream have not yet subsided, but Helen stands up and bows her head toward Delrin, regardless of her physical condition.
“It’s been a while, Delrin?”
“… It’s been a while. I saw you a few days ago.”
Blurry smile.
A particularly dark and calm smile welcomes Delrin.
Before that brief smile ends, Delrin carefully looks at Helen and her surroundings.
Helen’s completely unkempt hair, deepened dark circles, the statue of the goddess of mysterious energy, torn clothes, scars visible here and there, cracked lips, an empty bottle of alcohol, a dry cigar that looks like it was burned a long time ago…
Their reunion is even awkward. Unlike her calm, spiritual image from the devil’s house, the current Helen is in disarray and looks like a patient barely able to breathe.
“Gye, have you been waiting here the whole time?”
“Yes, I waited.”
Nevertheless, with a graceful gesture that still retains elegance, Helen quietly holds out her hand. Delrin hesitates for a moment, looking at her outstretched palm as if to escort her, then relaxes her guard and thoughtfully places her hand.
“Would you like to have a chat together after a long time?”
“No. I don’t have much time… Please let me meet God as quickly as I promised.”
The two looked a little closer and looked at each other weakly. Helen’s gaze looking down is, as always, so deep and mysterious that it is difficult to describe, but also sad.
“Oh my… I guess I’m too excited. It’s not the time to be this happy.”
Perhaps she was genuinely happy to see her after such a long time, but she seemed quite sulky. Knowing that it is difficult for her to read her mind, Delrin continues her words without paying much attention to her.
“Is it true that you said that if you go to see God, your wish will be granted? It’s not like you lied or anything like that…?”
“Of course. Don’t you already know? It was written in the quest window, right? Go to God’s Garden…”
A familiar yet awkward word strikes Delrin’s ears. Quest.
It seems like it was a long time ago that I encountered that word. Yes, he was originally a small man left alone in this world with a small status window in front of him.
“Okay! Then shall we go?”
Archbishop Helen,
She places her hand on the goddess statue and mutters briefly, calling herself her guide.
“It’s the last time.”
Delrin follows Helen’s lead without hesitation. The two begin to carefully caress the weathered goddess statue, and dark red darkness surrounds them.
Between them, holiness and ominousness rise simultaneously. Unlike the magic she experienced in this world, the darkness Delrin is experiencing now seems to be filled with an unstoppable force.
Something high-dimensional.
Something that goes beyond magic and mana.
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“…”
When I open my closed eyes, I see a beautiful cathedral.
Like the goddess statue I just touched, the stone cathedral looks worn and worn out and most of it has collapsed, but there is warmth there.
“This is the place, Delrin! It will all be over now!”
Helen claps her hands with difficulty and pays her tribute to Delin. Maybe I’ve lost a lot of energy, but even the sound of applause is very small and faint.
However, Delin is unable to focus her attention on the sound of her applause, and she immediately feels out of place.
I don’t know why, but he feels like he’s dreaming.
A vaguely conveyed sense of unreality.
It feels like I’m having a nightmare.
“You’ve worked really hard all this time. My one and only hero.”
“… Something is strange.”
“It’s like a dream, isn’t it? A story about a warrior facing God.”
“It doesn’t seem real.”
“That’s it.”
Only one thing,
Only Helen’s warm touch fills his consciousness and helps him stay sane in this ambiguous space.
“This is in their dreams. Everyone is sleeping soundly. So, before waking up the holy people from their sweet sleep…”
She says.
Holding her hand tightly,
“The devil, that daughter, you definitely killed her, right?”
Delrin senses that he cannot take her hand away.
She must answer her last question.
“… No.”
As soon as the negative answer is over, a subtle air current begins to flow between the two.
Delrin feels it as ‘tension’, and Helen feels it as ‘regret’.
“But we resolved everything. The Demon King gave up on his plan to use us to invade beyond the continent, so it was resolved in a better way than killing us.”
“… I guess so. Are you okay? I knew everything.”
Helen takes her hand away from Delrin and takes a step back. The farther away she is, the more Delrin sees the strange aura of that beautiful woman.
“How can someone who can’t even properly kill a bug kill a child and its mother?”
The starlight is particularly bright. The two gradually increase the distance between them among the pouring starlight.
The gap between the two grows, but it is not lonely because it is filled with soft blue sparkles.
“… So what do you want to say? It’s all over now.”
“Unfortunately, there is still one more step left.”
However, Helen’s strange aura, located beyond the sparkling light, becomes more alive little by little. Since this is Delin, who has overcome her difficult times several times, the poisonous energy that Helen exudes is clearly felt.
“Do you still remember the story we shared a few days ago?”
The stories they shared while sitting on the sofa in the Demon King’s house briefly flash through Delrin’s mind. However, I don’t remember anything particularly important. At that time, the existence of the Demon King was even more threatening.
“Yes, I remember, and I think he clearly said he had no intention of killing me at the time.”
“Ahaha.”
“Ha, haha?”
Both smile shyly.
Maybe this will be the last laugh.
Because the span-long blade that Helen took out from her back took away all the laughter.
The blade reflects the light and sparkles blue,
It is aimed precisely at Delrin’s heart.
“… Are you kidding? No, if you’re going to kill them, you should have killed them a long time ago…”
“Is this a joke? Well, anyway, it’s okay if we don’t keep our promises to each other.”
“Wait a minute! Just a minute! I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to stay like this. I don’t know what you’re thinking about doing this, but first, you can keep the promise you made a long time ago… Won’t you?”
Embarrassing smiles.
On one side, embarrassment,
On the other side, sadness.
“I don’t think it will work.”
“Then how about saying it verbally? If you tell me what the problem is…”
“Well, let me put it in an easy-to-understand way.”
What settles down after the laughter is over,
Rigid and dull.
“We need to eliminate the risk factors that endanger the kingdom in advance. If possible, just kill them before coming. But I was just wondering. If you really killed them before coming, it would have been easier for both of us.”
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Delrin still remembers her first dream since coming to this world.
A dream I had in the carriage on the way to Albator after being rescued from Rico.
She was definitely running there too.
She runs and runs like that to meet someone,
After meeting, I think we both started crying.
“Wow, keek…”
Is the situation I’m running in the same situation I saw in my dream?
Even in the midst of confusion, Delrin runs tenaciously and runs away.
“Ahh!”
I think she said she was in a dream of the gods, but when she stumbled on the tree root, the pain was very vivid.
Of course, it seems that the state of the body, which is running in a state of exhaustion, has now reached a point where it is unbearable.
Still, what Delrin can’t stop is,
It must be the fault of Helen, who is truly trying to pierce his body.
Why am I being chased?
Delrin doesn’t understand why he does something like that.
But he has to run away. He cannot die. Now, he doesn’t even have the ability to save or throw, so if he gets stabbed wrongly, he will definitely die.
“Ugh…!”
However, as everyone knows, differences in physical conditions are not so easily overcome.
Even if you run hard, there is a limit to how Delrin can escape.
Helen, who has caught up with him, grabs his cloak and pulls him, and Delin falls backwards without being able to resist.
“Wait a minute! Sleep…”
Even if he waved his hand forward and tried to watch himself for a moment,
The sharp end pierces the back of Delrin’s hand and crushes it.
Wood-duk-
When I felt the sensation of piercing my skin, muscles, and bones at the same time, I felt the fear of death vividly.
A sensation that is completely different from the fear of pain I have felt so far.
“Aaaaah!”
“If you block it wrong, it hurts more. If possible, be quiet…”
And, the desire for survival that instinctively boils up from within the body.
He cannot die here. He must live.
Now there are wives, daughters, and family members left behind.
Pain stimulates the heart and brain at the same time, causing all organs of the body to struggle for survival.
“Let go! Let go!”
Nevertheless, it seems that it is not enough to push Helen, who is on top, so the positions of the two do not change.
Helen gets on Delrin’s ship,
Delrin glows with her blood dripping from underneath it.
There are not many cases where this relationship changes.
A cruel thing also called the providence of nature.
The strong always reign over the weak.
“I’m really sorry, but could you please just die cleanly? I have a lot of work to do because of you.”
However,
Indeed, sometimes unique exceptions occur.
An extraordinary event brought about by an intense desire for survival…
Pusuk-!
“… Ah, it’s difficult to do this.”
To create a foundation for escape,
Delrin uses all her strength to drive the metal object, half embedded in her palm, into Helen’s ribs. If it were normal, she definitely wouldn’t have been fucked properly, probably
I think I was a little lucky.
If something sharp pierces the skin, anyone will feel extreme pain and fall over. Helen does not moan or collapse due to her pain, but she does allow Delin, who is weighing her down, an opening to escape.
Delrin immediately begins to run, clutching her hand around her pierced hole. Anyway, if this is the place to meet God, then if you run away like this and find God before Helen, everything will be resolved.
However,
Very occasionally,
The precious miracle called life often causes unexpected things.
“Stop running away! “You made things so much more troublesome!”
Those sentences that Helen shouted into the back of Delrin’s head began to stimulate his mind.
“I’m going to die anyway… Really… No, you always do things like this? Right? It’s the same with keeping the Demon King alive. Couldn’t you have just killed me instead? How convenient it would have been if that were the case. The annoying demon king and his daughter would have died, and the annoying heretics would have died soon after.”
“What…?”
Especially humans,
Reason and emotions,
There are times when you are overcome by a force that goes beyond your instincts.
“If I do this, I have to do it myself. I have to offer this cruel prayer to God. Ask me to kill all the dangerous people who have crossed over to the Demon Continent! All the dangerous women and children who will one day pose a threat to the Holy Kingdom!”
Really sometimes,
If it were original, you would have to do something stupid that wouldn’t have been included in the options.
“… Well, of course, even if you had taken care of it, you would have made the same wish.”
That’s why Delrin stopped for a moment in her running away,
She turns back and faces Helen.
“… Are you serious?”
