122 – Immortality (3)

“No, why is he dead again?!”

Lilia looked behind her and raised her voice in surprise. She deserved it Surely, everyone would be surprised to see the opponent who had been distracted by delaying the curse until now, convulsing and foaming at the mouth.

If that wasn’t the cursed death of decapitation, but a sudden death like this.

“Did you die of shock from strong fear?”

“Or maybe there’s another curse on it.”

“That’s not true. If so, you would have already known when I checked… No, it could be. The curse you removed earlier was quite strong. It could have been relatively less visible…”

The embarrassment quickly faded and Lillia began her analysis. She joined Stella as well and saw her corpse. In contrast to the two, the Prophet and Wiz blankly looked up at the sky.

They were in a forest quite far from the hollow. I saw my eyes as I sat down to catch my breath.

“By the way, what are you going to do with that?”

Lilia asked lightly. There were two candidates for the hero, but one archwitch and a prophet who were treated as legends. In addition to that, if she is in a hurry, she can blow a flame and call her Innis.

Anyway, she had more than enough energy to catch a single demon.

Of course, I can also call Eva, but…

I didn’t want to call. He really wanted to leave it as the final, last-minute, inevitable move.

I didn’t have a good feeling about it. Neither the ordeal to survive, nor the sudden death of a worshiper, there was nothing that did not form ominous.

“Looking at it, it’s snowing because of the devil. Where is the devil? Didn’t you see it in your dream?”

I saw a demon making rain the other day, but there’s nothing strange about a demon making snow.

Since she saw with her own eyes that what she said was true, trust was gained even when she said that she foresaw this situation through a dream. Lilia asked what she should do to deal with this eye.

“…Snow.”

“What?”

However, the answer was beyond imagination.

“These eyes… Are demonic.”

The white grains falling endlessly from the sky meant that they were all demons.

“The name is… The demon of death… When it touches the flesh, the body’s time stops after a certain period of time. …..”

Lilia laughed, huh, as if it were absurd. Stella’s expression hardened. Even the small amount of leisure I had before was gone.

“Well, then what should I do?!”

“Run… No, it’s impossible…”

Wiz shook his head, recalling the sight of snow falling everywhere he could, even though he had run away as best he could.

“…Ah, Iva.”

For a moment, Lilia spat out a name in haste. It was a name that immediately came to her mind when she sensed the crisis facing the city. A name flashed through her frantically beating head, and in an instant, that name dominated the entire accident.

“I have to tell Eva…”

She murmured, then pulled out her wand and listened. The shaking of the cane reminded me of a person suffering from withdrawal symptoms who smoked.

With the tip of her wand pointed at her temple, Lilia conveyed her own thoughts. She was really in a hurry, so it was a thought that was not properly organized, but her delivery itself was successful.

‘…Got it. Thanks for letting me know. Make sure to live.’

Eva cut off her flame with a heavy announcement.

With one glance at Lilia doing her fire, Stella organized her thoughts. She was both jealous and anxious. Most of all, she was worried. But she said now was not the time to be consumed by such negativity.

We need to devise a way to break the status quo. There are many talented people. Most…..

Suddenly, I had an idea. It was a success in digging up one of the original knowledge that had been forgotten due to poor memory. It’s still faint, but it’s still better than nothing.

“Wait, Wiz, as far as I know, demons of death are quite high-level. But that only comes with three demons and one human fear?”

That makes no sense. The fear of three demons and one human is different.

“There must be other offerings… I’m not sure. Anyway, there must be other pre-work!”

This was the memory I was not able to read further in the last round, by a demon worshiper who suddenly died.

Other pre-work.

Wiz’s eyes flashed.

“No, that doesn’t even make sense. The three demons are now sealed.”

Lilia glanced sideways at the Prophet. Upon receiving her gaze, the Prophet nodded her head.

“Yes. The seal hasn’t been lifted yet. Maybe they lowered their rank when summoned in the first place, but they’re not that strong, so there’s no room for that.”

It was still unknown why the demon of death had manifested. Even so, it was not unhelpful news.

At the very least, it would be helpful for Wiz, who would know this reality as a dream.

“Besides, what’s that? What’s the point of finding out the cause now?! The devil has already come out!”

Lilia pointed to the sky. She was still snowing. The number of her occupying more space than before has increased. The wind also got stronger.

“You should think about catching that!”

That was right. Stella said nothing.

“If I can’t catch this… If I die…”

Lilia was desperate. She was more desperate than anyone else here. A prophet who knows that there are quarters in the world, or a Stella or Wiz who knows about regression. Much more than those of them.

“Iba is dying!”

She had a reason not to die. She was to everyone, but Lilia’s was worse. Because what she was responsible for was not just her life.

Stella hardened her expression darkly. She couldn’t even open her lips properly.

At that moment, Lilia strongly grabbed Stella’s shoulder. She obviously has a weak grip, but to Stella, she felt stronger than any grip she had ever received in her life. She was heavy She was mute and scary.

She was so scared to think that Sreiva would die again. And she was lucky on the one hand.

It was fortunate that Iba wasn’t here right now. She was fortunate that she couldn’t show herself to be vulnerable.

“Please… You guys are candidates for heroes! You’re prophets! We have to stop everyone from dying… They say they’re demons… Then try to defeat them…”

Lilia knows that it’s forced. She knows that even demons have a class and there are limits to what humans can do. An existence that has never been discovered in the past and has been handed down only through phrases.

In the face of the disaster called the demon of death, humans were mere lives. A frozen life.

But Lilia couldn’t give up. The moment she gave up, the person she wanted to live with died.

“Please… Save me…”

Her hand on her stella fell helplessly.

“Please… Save Eva…”

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People have become helpless in the face of an enemy they can’t think of how to deal with. It was no different from a prophet, a candidate for a hero, or an archmage. They were people too.

Because they have an end, they are beautiful.

**

“Sah, save me!”

With those words, people hardened.

That person would have stood still in a state of terror for the rest of his life. It would last forever, unable to run away from the fear he was trying so hard to escape, and unable to be caught.

It was funny.

Those who actively tried to run away from death had to continue that flight for the rest of their lives, and those who gave up hopefully closed their eyes in relief. The scenery passed by, contrasting with hell and heaven. The sentiment was similar in that both were afterlife.

“Uh, sister? What’s going on?”

“Ugh, nothing. Really nothing…”

The child in Inis’ arms whined. She is karen She was obscured by Innis’s hand, so that her eyes could not be seen.

“It’s really nothing, right? Really?”

“…Then it’s real. Wait a minute and I’ll drop you off right away.”

“hehehehe! Then I’ll believe it!”

The child smiled.

“I’m talking about you, not anyone else! I didn’t believe that oppa, you know?!”

That attitude accelerated Innis’ guilt. No matter what her sister said, this child believed in and followed her own blood, which she had only heard from her parents.

She’d rather have been suspicious, had used a swarm.

Innis struggled with the guilt of being a villain all by himself and quickened his legs.

There was no longer a safe zone from the snow. Snow fell everywhere. In the city, inside a building, even under an umbrella. He sat down everywhere, like the vision of an all-powerful god looking everywhere.

Eva’s butterfly used to slash its eyes with the double structure of magic to avoid rain, but I didn’t know when the limit would come.

“Sorry! Hold on, please!”

With that said, Innis swung his staff. He cast a spell on the citizens. It was magic to avoid the rain. He was already out of sight, so he wanted to give him a chance to live even the slightest possibility.

His feet stopped for a moment. Innis came to her senses and stroked Karen’s hair.

“Wait a little bit… Let’s run away as soon as we find Mom and Dad.”

They were looking for their mother, who was out shopping, and their father, who was out at work. Innis comforted his child with words he did not know how many times.

He intended to run away as soon as he found his parents. He had no definite destination. To a place where there is no snow.

I was just going to a place where there is spring.

It may or may not be there, but it’s better than not trying. He had to hold onto even the slightest possibility and see.

“Innis, is your magic okay?”

“Huh? Ah… Eh, so far it’s okay.”

Cut off the answer, Eva kissed her. It was just a question of formality anyway.

He has magic now. Infinite magical power, there is an infinite life gained every time it spreads its wings. In fact, he had spread his wings, shaking people’s senses unnoticed by him.

He said there was no love in this kiss. Not only in words, but in truth. There was nothing that could be felt between a man and a woman who met each other’s eyes. Just desperate. There was only the spleen of the lifeguards who gave artificial respiration.

Gulp.

Along with the saliva in her mouth, magic seeped into her throat. Eva wiped her lips a few times, wiping away the aftereffects of her kiss that took her silver.

“…Puha.”

“But take it first, just in case.”

Innis nodded her head. Her red ears and fingers were probably from the cold.

“As soon as you find your mother and father, get on the broom. Don’t hesitate. Okay?”

Eva muttered a warning that her child couldn’t hear. Innis nodded her head. Countless people stopped in the snow came in. His heart ached and guilt choked his breath.

But I had to look away. She now had to save not only herself, but her family as well.

“Oops…”

My eyes grew stronger. The obstructed view became even more severe. The two moved their feet with difficulty. Whether it was frightened or asleep, the child in his arms did not say anything.

“But what if your mother is also looking for us?”

“…”

Nothing was said. But more than anything, it was a solid answer.

Soon, the two were able to find her mother.

“…Ah.”

It was as immobile as a statue. There was no need to worry about conflicts from the beginning. Because she was already frozen.

Actually, I already knew. From the moment the snow fell like this, the weak who couldn’t use magic were exposed to much more danger.

Already, it must have been right. I guess the eyes were right.

Innis was afraid that his sister would notice, and held her hand even tighter. Her distraught was hers as well, but her heart outweighed that she didn’t want this little kin to realize it.

“… Karen I can’t find my mother. She probably left first.”

Looking at this state, my father didn’t have to say anything. It was hard to find people walking down the street. No, he wasn’t there except for them. Like a city stuffed with dolls, everything stood still.

“Now let’s go too. Huh? I’m so sorry sister… I should have kept her promise more…..”

When I applied more strength to her hand, I felt a sense of incongruity. Her body, which had been soft, had hardened like plaster.

“…Karen?”

Innis asked like a broken machine. It was a flat tone, neither warm nor cold. It was dry.

“Ah…”

Karen was already frozen in her arms. As she removed her hand, the look on her child’s expression of trust in her sister was evident. She was nervous, but there was still room for comfort. She was still holding on to Innis’s collar near her chest, as if she was scared.

“It’s already too late.”

There was no hesitation in her eyes now. She gave that look everywhere. It was the same under magic or demonic power.

The cold and frozen sensation prevented her from even realizing that her eyes were being hit.

“…Eva, I’m sorry.”

The first thing she said after finishing her resolution was an apology. The apology she always did, she repeated until the very end. But today was a little different. It was an apology from a different angle.

“I was so stupid… Always afraid of someone dying…”

From the angle of the weak, it was an apology to a comrade.

This was a thought she was able to make because she was strong. So she was relatively safe. Loss was always her target, not herself, but her others.

But now, Innis truly realized.

She awoke to the most human fears for the first time.

“Determining to die…Was a scary thing.”

In that panic, I realized how great Eva had done before.

“You must have… Back then… I’m sorry… I’m sorry… For letting me make such a hard decision…”

Innis froze as he said that.

She understands the feelings of Eva, whom she could not understand even though she is her best friend, only at the end.

At that time, she finally found out how he felt when he told her to harm her.

Without even a single tear, the proof of his heart, only water from melted snow fell.

Without feeling guilty towards others until the very end.

I was frozen.

Eva approached her and kissed her forehead to forehead. She was there to cool off for a while.

**

Among beings who are beautiful because they have an end, sometimes it is difficult to determine where the end is.

They were the ones whose eyes were right now.

Immortality and immortality.

Those who cannot die and those who cannot die.

The two immortals looked at each other and laughed.

“It seems that the freezing time depends on the amount of magic power…”

Looking at Wiz, who was still moving, Eva decided that. Magic to avoid rain or butterflies were useless.

I got a butterfly. It was a good thing for him, who had infinite magical power as the origin of the demon of reverse heaven that was changed from an infinite demon.

“What is it? I wasted it for nothing.”

He laughed. Sleepy. Eyes continued to close. Sleepy in a blizzard, it seemed that he was really in danger of dying. In reality it was different. It wasn’t him who died, it was the people around him.

But now I don’t have to worry. All the people to kill are gone. Because they all ceased to be human. It’s all hardened like a plaster cast.

“My only friend is dead.”

“…I see.”

“But you lived… You who stole my friend… Something… Is amazing…”

Wiz was still flat. Even after witnessing the death of a friend, still. He just admired the irony and poured out the futility of his life.

“Then you should have died?”

“No… It’s not… Not really.”

Not really. Even though he stole Stella, he didn’t want him dead.

“Then do you resent me?”

“Hmm… A little bit?”

Wiz laughed and Iba laughed along.

“That’s great.”

Is it because they became the last two?

I felt affection for the person I wasn’t closest to. It was the same for Iva and Wiz. The relationship between the last two remaining in the midst of destruction, even between enemies, will engender camaraderie.

“Then let’s do a favor. It’s a similar request to what we did before.”

She had asked for a favor once before. At that time, she had stopped trying.

“Kill me.”

I have no reason to live anymore. He lacked the courage to continue to witness the death of a loved one.

“Stella… Would hate me…?”

I wonder if he didn’t specifically cause destruction.

It was simple to say to Wiz, who was reluctant to hit him.

“It’s gone anyway.”

“That’s right.”

Suddenly.

The time when the blue sword was covered with golden brilliance and the time when the sword cut the boy’s neck. It was so fast that the two of them woke up almost at the same time.

“…I’m sorry again.”

“…Huh, huh…”

Eva looked at Wiz and smiled. There was a hole in his neck and all the words leaked out. It was obvious that he was being humbled by ‘something’.

“I’m not dead…”

Wiz looked at him pitifully, and after receiving his gaze, Iba closed his eyes and nodded.

I meant to continue.

Wiz accepted the will.

“…”

For a while, the sound of cutting flesh echoed in the snowy field. Sometimes there was a slash before the sound, and there were more than ten slashes with one sound.

The sword that received the divine power was enough to cut the devil.

In the white world, Wiz looked at the sky, blushing alone. All the pink hair, which had been spooky, had been dyed red. The blue eyes resembling a first-class star were too dark to contain the blue sky.

I closed my eyes.

‘That’s right. I was asked to save him.’

Instead of that, you just killed him.

Wiz laughed.

She was so frozen.

Neither people nor promises.

Without protecting anything.

I closed my eyes, got hit in the eyes, opened my eyes.

Today, too, Wiz, who dreamed of her, opened her eyes.

“hehehe?”

My body, which woke up in surprise, was wet with cold sweat.

She lay down on the bed again, wiping the saliva from her mouth.

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