127 – Immortality (8)

“What… Uh… What, what?!”

Wiz spoke sparsely as if he had lost his language.

“Shh. Wake up the kid over there.”

I immediately raised my finger and assumed a quiet posture. Of course, the door was closed, but in case you didn’t know.

“…You, how did you…”

I said, calming Wiz, who was still puking.

“Let’s change places so we can talk.”

Continuing to talk to a girl carrying a person in the hallway of a hotel looks a little different. Since Wiz also has this ability, it seemed appropriate to continue the conversation in a slightly quieter place.

She held out her arm on one side. So that anyone can grab it at any time.

Wiz, who had been staring at it, nodded her head calmly.

“…Okay.”

Wiz grabbed me by Stella’s other arm, which was not holding her. Wiz, carrying the weight of the two, did not feel the slightest sign of difficulty.

“After you move… Tell me everything there.”

“Of course.”

A small girl carrying two larger people on her back might seem funny or pitiful, but it didn’t matter.

You won’t be able to see it from now on.

In the blink of an eye, my feet came off the ground. Unable to withstand Wiz’s speed, he floated in her air. Still, her arms were firmly anchored and did not fly back.

A dizzying sensation as if falling from a high place, a direct wind rushing through the body, and a feeling of floating due to the intense sense of speed.

Is this an act of accelerating time?

“…”

While moving, Wiz couldn’t erase his bewildered expression.

It was a very interesting sight.

**

There is a special phenomenon among wizards in this world.

‘Dream Child’.

This refers to a phenomenon in which two wizards at a close distance share each other’s dreams when they fall asleep at the same time.

The principle has not yet been elucidated, but the theory that the special magic waves emitted during sleep overlap and affect each other’s unconsciousness is most widely accepted.

Basically, the act of sharing the unconscious with others who cannot fully understand for the rest of their lives is quite attractive, but the conditions are so heinous that it does not happen easily.

It is the part where we have to fall asleep ‘at the same time’. You have to go to sleep at 1:00 without a single second deviation. This condition, which makes the phenomenon of Kkumasi an extremely rare phenomenon, rather made it romantic.

Thorough miracle.

This is the evaluation of Kumasi.

Yes.

A miracle also happened between me and Wiz.

Wiz’s consciousness came to an end at the same time that I chose to sleep over tiredness and solitude. A wizard who can use magic to some extent even if he is a candidate for a hero or a candidate for a demon king.

A dream come true.

Unfortunately, the other side didn’t seem to have my dream, but I saw the other side’s dream.

A vast reality disguised as a dream.

That terrible journey.

Everything without exception.

Is it because Wiz’s dreams come true in the form of endless dreams? I was able to see Wiz’s first dream all the way to the last one where I went crazy and died. It was thanks to this that he was able to know that the last Wiz was actually conscious.

I can understand all her pain.

That was the problem.

That it was not merely knowledge, but understanding.

At dawn when Wiz returned, I was still awake and received all of her memories. I don’t know what the principle is. The memory of a dream is transmitted to me who was not sleeping. Based on Wiz’s spirit, do you think I’m also awake?

Anyway, I was quite tormented by the sudden transfer of memories like billions of dollars.

Suddenly, the burden on the body and the rising nausea. I tried quite hard not to dirty the bed where one person was sleeping. I also tried very hard not to wake Innis.

“Well… That’s it.”

After explaining this, I sighed deeply.

Thinking that she had left this friend alone all this time, a corner of her chest was pierced for no reason. She felt a sense of kinship with her compassion. No matter how much I knew it in my head, I couldn’t do anything when I experienced it myself.

“Well then…”

“I don’t remember from my point of view…But I do remember roughly. What happened.”

She had a strange pride about her high school student, but looking at her now, her chrysalis has become wrinkled. Until now, the only thing she had been proud of was the chain she had been carrying in her life, but now she can’t even boast about the chain, so she has something to eat.

Whoops, life.

…No, now I’ve experienced the same as her experience, so if you add it up, you can see that I’m still superior in hardship. It’s even more so when I think of myself who died while returning.

If Wiz didn’t kill me, wouldn’t I be crazy like that every time? Even considering the parallel universe, I went through all the hardships.

I was really full of energy seeing myself trying to resolve my inferiority complex by comparing the hardships even in the midst of this, but what can I do? This is my heaven

I laughed and said, dumbfounded.

“In a nutshell, I’m a dreamer like you… Well, that’s what I mean.”

The double meaning of a dream is always interesting. Purposeful and false. What I said this time was both. A person who pursues an impossible goal and knows the reality of failing because he did not reach the impossible.

“…I see.”

Wiz shook her head as if she understood her. Dreaming is a famous phenomenon in this world. Even if he wasn’t interested, Stella would have told me. She probably understood without much question.

“…Then… Then…!”

Her hands were shaking.

Whether that was excitement or emotion, she even shared her dreams, but Wiz was still a stranger that she couldn’t fully understand.

Wiz wiggled her fingers and munched her lips. She had been impatient from a while ago, but rather, it seemed that her mind was ahead of her and could not speak her words properly because of that impatience.

“Then… Will you understand…?”

She smiled broadly. It was the face I had just seen in the hallway when I nodded her head at her request.

“Let’s… Run…!”

Wiz said very seriously.

I was overwhelmed by her solemnity for a while.

She couldn’t stop her laughter. A smirk escaped from her mouth.

“Suddenly, I wondered what to do in the elven forest… Did you intend to go to the world tree?”

As if this was the correct answer, Wiz’s head moved up and down quickly.

“Yeah…! Ah, I’m sorry I lied earlier… But I couldn’t help it…”

I saw it in a dream I just believed it when I said I saw it in a dream. There is a reason why prophets usually lie. Considering the superiority of information, even if you are dubious, you have no choice but to believe it. What can I do? Otherwise, I think the world will perish.

She held my hand on my chin and said.

“Let’s… Run away, Eva…”

She took her eyes off Wiz for a moment and looked around her. The road that draws the boundary between Ilios and the outside world. Wiz brought the fainting Stella and me there.

Anyway, after fainting, an additional sleep spell was cast, so there was no sign of waking up.

“If it were us… We could reach anywhere… Even if it was inside the World Tree… If we were candidates for the hero and the demon king…”

That wasn’t exactly wrong. No matter how strict the guards of the elves were, how could they stop the candidates for the hero and the demon king who rushed at them with their eyes closed? No, you can’t stop it in the first place. To put it bluntly, it would be easy for me to get close to the World Tree with just a little chaos.

Of course, breaking into the inside after that is a problem… But no matter how much I think about it, failure seems more difficult when I think about this line.

“You’ve seen it too… What kind of ending you’re going to… Uh, even then, I can’t see the answer what to do here…”

Wiz came over and grabbed his arm as if he were clinging to mine.

“Let’s run… Huh?”

Still she was laughing. That too with a very bright expression.

The look on his face shows that he expects me to accept it.

“…”

I smiled again and nodded her head.

“…! As expected.”

Then he removed the hand that held my arm.

“I hate it.”

In an instant, Wiz’s expression hardened.

“…What?”

But that was only for a moment, and she smiled broadly as she took care of her hard expression again. It was a relaxed laugh, as if contemplating the freshness of her junior.

“Ah, ah~ It’s been a while since you’ve had a dream yet, so you can’t realize it…”

She spoke softly, as if telling me.

“Because I haven’t done this once or twice…? But… This has no answer… It’s so thorough… There’s no gap…”

Once again you caught me. This time it was the waist, not the arm.

“Please… Trust me… Is this weird…? You don’t know yet… This is right… This is the right decision… After we hide When the snow stops… We will create a new humanity by ourselves…”

Her words were full of confidence. They are assuming that this is the only correct answer and that there is no other way. It was a conviction that came from experience.

“Wiz.”

Also, it was fear born from experience. I grabbed Wiz’s arms again and said.

“If we run away, what will Lillia do?”

Any other name other than Grillia can be put into it. Escaping now is an act of abandoning everyone you know.

Even in the same experience, the two Buddhist priests came to different conclusions.

Escape and challenge.

“Now not only you but also I know what’s going to happen. There’s one helplessly useful guy who’s had the exact same experience as you. The conditions are different than before. Yes. I can take on the challenge under more favorable conditions.”

No matter how much I had the same experience, it was because I was a different person. The environment for creating thoughts and attitudes was different, and the births were different.

To make a different decision was, in a way, inevitable.

“Because dying is scary. I think this is better than running away.”

I patted Wiz on the shoulder and rebuked him.

“I can do it. Now you’re not alone, it’s us. You’ve given me instructions every time, so it’s my turn to do the opposite this time.”

Wiz looked at me quietly and removed his hand.

“You… You… Don’t know…!”

Wiz shook her head.

“What do you do when you remember… This time was a miracle… You… Now you’ll forget everything when you die… But… I… I keep…”

His hand, which was holding his waist miserably, was trembling slightly.

“I… Have to keep going…”

I leaned over her and met her gaze. The blue eyes were shabby and wet and shone brilliantly.

“So that’s what I’m saying. I will never listen to you. I will die if you don’t help me. If you lose me now, you’ll lose someone who will remember your hardships for the rest of your life.”

“…Threats?”

“Of course it’s a threat.”

If I didn’t say it so strongly, I would never have broken that stubbornness. Wiz glared at me strongly, as if he had finally thought of being persuaded. So far, this is a much more familiar expression.

“And it’s also a reward.”

I talked about a small promise that we once exchanged.

“The answer to the riddle, now I can guess. I’ll have to pay for it.”

It was a very difficult and arduous problem. How long did it take to know the answer?

“…Now?”

“Yes. Now.”

Finally.

“Number 202.”

Wiz nodded her head and smiled.

“That’s correct…”

She turned around and finally reached her. Her trigger for her to fall turned into a trigger for me to stand up. The separation between her consciousness and her body, which she thought was a terrible curse, was reached by a miracle called Kumah.

“Wiz, you asked me a lot of favors. I did too. But last time I didn’t do that. You were the only one who asked for a favor.”

So.

“It’s my turn this time. I’ll lead you, I’ll ask you.”

Looking at Wiz’s memories, I realized that pain wasn’t the only thing. She was thoroughly able to realize how much effort she put in for us.

“This is an order, a reward, and a request.”

I said holding Wiz’s hand tightly. She put her hands together as if in prayer and spoke earnestly.

“Fight with me. Help me not to forget your pain.”

I know it’s forced. I know it’s harsh for her, who remembers her pain much more vividly than I do. She is threatened to comply if she does not want her own chains to become heavier.

But she had to. She couldn’t give up.

The moment either of us gives up, there will be no kings or revolutionaries, only death.

Wiz stared at me and pursed her lips.

“…Do you have any ideas?”

“Of course. It’s very innovative.”

“What is the probability of success…?”

I answered confidently.

“Three do.”

Wiz asked.

“On what basis?”

“Persimmon!”

She shrugged her shoulders once and smiled, then she replied.

“Reliable.”

It was the moment when I broke my stubbornness. It was the moment when I stepped into my challenge, not escape. I pulled her closer to me. Not outside, but towards this city.

“But I have one request.”

“What is it?”

Once again, the cycle of requests has begun. She gave me a new request as a condition of accepting my request for granting her request. It was a request that was reached after a long, long time.

“Let’s not die. Let’s live forever.”

The Bulsa left a request to the Bulsa not to die.

At that moment, immortality became immortality in a different sense.

Not immortal because they can’t die, but immortal because they can’t die.

It wasn’t immortality due to abilities or anything like that, but he became a person who made that promise himself.

Maybe it wasn’t just me, she was too.

“Okay, then.”

I met her eyes and said strongly.

It was a strong commitment not to hit her eyes.

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