The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 41



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Episode 41

Altera approached the gathered cadets, suppressing the smile that kept rising on her face.

Children looking at the cracked sky with blurry eyes.

I waved my hand in front of the cadets’ faces, but no one responded.

My gaze, no, my soul, was fixed on the sky.

Not only humans, but also the goblins living in the special enclosure stopped and looked up.

The world seemed to have stopped.

The only thing that moves is Altera.

“Phuhuhu.”

A smile appeared on my lips.

I couldn’t figure out why I was happy.

“Okay, show me.”

Altera patted the child’s head as he stopped, then turned around.

Towards the eastern general enclosure where she was waiting.

*

Sorry.

It felt like my body was lifted into the sky and then thrown back to the ground.

Quilbian lowered his head. He could see the weeds swaying in the wind.

Sorry.

The words ‘I’m sorry’ from my father’s mouth made me realize how bitter life is.

Sorry.

The ‘I’m sorry’ that the owner’s daughter said made me realize how messed up relationships can be.

Sorry.

The ‘I’m sorry’ that Drich spat out reminded me again that people are the same.

I thought I had become dull.

Hearing those words, I felt a brief sense of emptiness, but I believed that I would be able to vent my frustrations and get rid of it.

No it wasn’t.

I was arrogant.

Although I was young, I had experienced the hardships of life, so I was no different from an adult and I was confident that I would never be hurt by words.

“Don’t say sorry.”

Quilbian spoke with difficulty.

It felt like there was a stone stuck in my throat that I couldn’t get rid of. It took all my strength to utter a single word.

“You came to save me, right? So you don’t have to feel sorry. We both… … .”

“Quil.”

It was a voice that contained nothing.

There was neither joy nor sorrow in it.

What came out of Twella’s mouth were clearly human words, but to Quilbian’s ears, they sounded like the sound of rags being rubbed.

You should look into each other’s eyes when talking.

When facing the owner, I had to look at his feet, but when talking to my peers, I always looked them in the eye.

Because Quilbian knew that the eyes speak louder than words.

Still, he didn’t raise his head.

No, I couldn’t hear it.

A vague intuition struck my head telling me not to look.

“Quil.”

“Twella, let’s talk some more. Okay? Something fun, not something like apologies.”

“I told you, I already heard it all.”

“I want to talk to you directly!”

Finally, he raised his head and shouted.

Oh, that kid is no more.

I met empty, no, empty, light green eyes.

The vague term ‘another being’ was immediately understood. What was in front of me now was another person in the form of Twella.

The girl who used to tremble and say she didn’t want to die, who used to be happy while eating apples, and who used to be nervous while looking at the ascetic has completely disappeared.

“But you should have said hello. You should have said hello.”

Twella looked up at the sky without answering.

“Quil, you meant so much to me.”

“Don’t say that.”

“I will definitely not forget you.”

“Twella!”

“But there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s fate.”

I’m sorry, and I can’t help it.

A series of horrible words came out, bringing up hives.

and.

“He is coming.”

The split sky gave off light.

It was an intense light that could not be compared to the ‘sun’.

The moment he faced the light, Quilbian fell to his knees without realizing it. As if that wasn’t enough, he stretched out both his hands and fell face down on the floor.

I couldn’t figure out why I was doing this, but my body was telling me to do it.

Body, not head.

My breathing became suffocating. The light seemed to weigh me down.

Am I just going to die like a frog under a wheel?

The light that covered the whole world disappeared.

Quilbian was looking at the ground, but he could tell that something was coming down from the sky.

The Nak inside my body began to flutter. It seemed to be responding to the being descending from above.

What on earth is it?

In an instant, the pressure that had been weighing on my body disappeared.

Quilbian raised his head unconsciously.

And then I saw it.

“ah.”

She was a woman with hair down to her ankles. She was completely naked, but there was no sense of indecency whatsoever.

The woman who came down from the sky looked around expressionlessly and pointed at Twella.

“I’ve been waiting.”

Twella answered with a bright smile.

The woman who had come down to the ground turned around in front of Twella. As if he had been waiting, Twella took off his coat and carefully placed it over the woman’s body.

Who is that woman?

It was when Quilbian looked at the woman with trembling eyes.

The woman turned her head. Their eyes met.

“Eww!”

Quillvien screamed and squeezed his eyes shut. Unintelligible voices could be heard from all around.

Boom, boom, boom!

I hit my head on the floor. I had to do that to get rid of the noise.

My flesh was crushed and my bones were exposed, but I couldn’t stop. If physical pain could silence my voice, I would give up my arms, my legs, or even my neck.

It was when the thought of dying filled my head.

“We have arrived.”

Twella said.

At the same time, the voice muttering in Quilbian’s ear disappeared.

All the strength left my body. I fell to the floor with my arms and legs hanging down.

He let out a shaky breath and then closed his mouth in shock.

I felt the gaze.

That woman’s gaze.

Quillvien understood his situation perfectly.

A bug on the floor. A pitiful creature that would disappear if a woman just wiggled her feet.

He crouched down and raised both hands above his head.

No one told me, but my body moved on its own.

Worship him.

Praise him.

and.

“I will give it to you.”

Twella said.

Quilbian lifted his head slightly, feeling dizzy.

The cadets were approaching.

Their eyes were all open. Behind the cadets, goblins were also seen, and they were also gathering in front of the woman, groaning.

I stopped thinking.

I just watched.

Five cadets stood in front of the woman, holding hands.

Twella spoke again.

“I will give it to you.”

Fusik!

A light poured down from the sky and crushed the five students standing in a line.

The top of the head and the sole of the foot met.

A pinkish splatter of blood mixed with chunks of tattered meat and fat.

The cadets standing behind removed the flesh and stood in that spot.

Twella said softly.

“I will give it to you.”

Kwajik!

It disappears into nothingness.

Ten lives were lost.

It was a terrible sight, but Quillvian felt nothing.

I wasn’t allowed to think or feel anything.

“Are you satisfied?”

Twella asked.

The woman turned around.

Quillvian could see the expressionless face of the woman.

“Not yet.”

Twella raised her hand.

The wind blew so hard that the trees swayed. Even in the strong wind, the woman’s hair did not move at all.

The cadets who had been walking slowly from afar gathered in front of the woman in an instant, carried by the wind.

About twenty cadets stood in a pool of blood.

“I will give it to you.”

Blood spurted out.

The excited blood flowed slowly toward the woman. Blood touched her hair.

A tiny mouth appeared at the end of the hair. It was smaller than a sparrow’s eyeball.

The one mouth grew into two, then three, and soon there were as many as the number of hairs on one’s head.

The little mouths began to suck blood.

Each and every hair moved as if it were a living being with a will.

In an instant, the blood disappeared.

Even the crushed corpses were eaten by small mouths.

It was then that a light came on in my hazy mind. The Nak that had been writhing inside my body hit my head.

Forgotten fears came flooding back. Disgust surged and malice rose.

Quilbian looked at the woman with fear and awe. No, he glared at her.

Okay then.

The woman looked at Quilbian with a bright smile as if she was happy.

The moment he was recognized by the woman, Quilbian’s head went into hibernation again. He was conscious but unable to perceive.

But the rebellious Nak regained his cognitive abilities.

As Quilbian’s eyes became clearer, the woman’s smile deepened.

Give me what’s mine, no, rebel.

Invite the noble person, no, kill that thing.

You have to beg, no, run and bite.

The ego was split in two and was talking nonsense.

A guy who tells women that they should give everything and devote themselves to them. And then he tells them to stop talking nonsense and just swear at him.

The ego that I had to be obedient became increasingly inflated.

Quilbian lowered his gaze and raised both hands high as he spoke.

“I will give it to you.”

I want to finish it quickly, no, I want to be eaten by that person quickly.

Such thoughts began to swell.

A woman’s pure white feet came into view.

Ah, you came.

Just as I was about to kiss her feet, exclaiming in joy.

Sorry.

Why is it that every time I hear that word, it makes me shiver.

My father’s face, the face of the landlord’s daughter, and Drich’s face passed before my eyes one after another.

Finally, when Twella’s smiling face was drawn, Quilbian grabbed the stone in front of him.

Crunch.

He stamped his pure white feet with a stone.

The top of my foot was crushed and red blood flowed out.

Quillbian raised his head with a grin.

“… …Are you sick?”

The woman looked down with a sullen face and then bent down. She ran her hand over her injured foot and the wound disappeared as if it were a lie.

If I slightly lowered my head, the woman’s face was within touching distance.

The woman looked at Quilbian’s face with interest.

The smile grew even deeper.

The woman’s hands covered her face.

My body was trembling. I wanted to shake it off, but my muscles wouldn’t listen.

[Pain, that is.]

The woman’s mouth opened. It was a voice coming from something other than her ears.

As soon as he heard the sound, Quilbian sensed something was wrong with his eyes.

[That’s not it.]

The color has disappeared.

The whole world was dyed black and white.

That wasn’t the end.

In a world of contrasting black and white, black disappeared, and soon white also disappeared.

I can’t see anything.

My eyes are open but I can’t see anything.

“Twella, Twella!”

Quilbian flailed his hands.

The darkness that suddenly came was a horror beyond imagination.

The fingertips that were grasping the air caught something soft.

“Quil.”

It was Twella’s voice.

“I couldn’t go against the great flow. Fate is like a shadow. I can never escape it or break away from it.”

“There is no such thing as fate.”

“No, because I’ve been seeing this scene for a long time. I tried to reject it, but I just couldn’t.”

“So now… … .”

“Quilvian, remember? I told you. I’m afraid of dying. I’m really afraid of dying. I hate it so much.”

“I told you I didn’t want to be left alone.”

“That’s what it was. But I realized that it would be better if I could live alone. That’s all.”

“That’s it? So what, me too… … .”

Exactly.

There was a snapping sound.

[It happened.]

The woman said.

“then.”

Twella grabbed Quilbian’s hands. Quilbian tried to resist, but was unable to stop his hands from reaching for the sky.

“Twella!”

Crushing the cries of Quilbian, stained with sorrow and hatred.

“I will give it to you.”

Twella said.

(Continued in next episode)