The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 83



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Episode 83

It comes down ‘right’ and Quilbian dies.

I don’t know why, but the future has changed.

Twella leaned against the rooftop railing.

Two days have passed since I decided to die.

The passage of time in reality was only two days, but during those two days, Twella looked into thousands of futures.

Thousands of Quilbians died before our eyes.

It was a death without any feeling.

There was no room for sadness in the rotten and decayed soul.

A phenomenon that just keeps repeating itself.

The head clearly recognized it that way.

I know it, but I don’t think it has any influence on the decision, but strangely enough, whenever I lean over the railing, I hear the voice.

Alive.

Run away.

“How do you live, and how do you escape?”

Twella looked down at the path where the children walked. If only they could throw themselves over the railing, eternal peace would come, but why couldn’t they?

As I was leaning against the railing, the future came to me again.

It was on the way to the restaurant. Quilbian was right next to it.

Twella stopped walking and said.

“Quil, you’re going to die.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“At first, I wanted to kill that goblin. But that didn’t work. I tried to change my method and save the kids. That failed too. So I tried to save just you and me, but even that didn’t work out as I wanted.”

“Fate, is that what you’re talking about? Have you seen the future?”

“This very moment is also some point in the future.”

“No.”

“It must be like that for you. I’ve seen this so many times.”

Quilbian, who had been making a sullen expression, turned around. He went to the warehouse instead of the restaurant.

Twella looked up at the sky.

I feel it.

It will arrive soon.

“It’s coming.”

“what?”

“God. A disaster we can’t do anything about.”

“… … Have you ever tried running away?”

“Countless times. The methods were varied, but the end was always the same. I would be caught by it. It would look at me with a beautiful smile and then eat me. It was always the same.”

Twella slowly lowered his gaze from the sky. Quilbian was holding his hand.

“It’s the same.”

As always, Quilbian will say, run away, survive.

Meaningless words.

The child in front of me opened his mouth and spoke.

“I, I will sell myself.”

“What are you talking about?”

Quillvian turned around and walked towards the thing descending from the sky.

He knelt down, bowed down, and raised only both hands toward the sky.

Twella stood next to Quilbian with a trembling expression.

“what are you doing.”

“If you throw it away, you can live. I know that.”

Quilbian continued speaking with his head buried in the ground.

“That kid, my father, was like that too. He said he had no choice but to sell you so that his family could survive.”

“Quil, this isn’t a problem like that. It’s not something you can bargain with. I’ve tried everything. I’ve begged you to spare me a hundred times. But it didn’t work. There’s no use begging for my life. The disaster coming down from above has nothing to wish for.”

ruin.

Destruction is coming down in the form of a statue.

Earthquakes, typhoons, and tsunamis are said to be the wrath of God, but Twella now knows.

Disaster has no feelings.

It is just a phenomenon. Even if you bow down to the splitting ground, pray to the pouring rain, or bow your head to the crashing waves, the disaster will only cover your surroundings.

There is no need to feel wronged or sad.

I was just unlucky.

Let’s accept it. Let’s accept it and be comfortable.

Finally it came down.

A pure white face and long hair. After facing the pinnacle of beauty, Twella closed her eyes.

Now, soon, you will be murdered and escape from the miserable future and settle into reality.

If you go back, you’ll die. Let’s throw ourselves over the railing.

“Please, take me and send this person away.”

“Quilbian said. It walked towards Twella without even responding.

It’s a given.

You can’t mix words with disaster. Disaster sows destruction, and humans just have to accept it.

That was when I thought about it.

Phew!

‘It’ stopped. It lowered its pure white face diagonally. Twella’s gaze moved along with it.

Blood was flowing from the instep that was so white that it looked transparent. Quilbian, holding the stone in his hand, struck the instep again.

Kkwaduk!

Its feet were completely crushed.

Twella was astonished.

I thought you were a perfect being. But you got hurt.

Of course, the crushed foot quickly regenerated, leaving a smooth surface without a single scar.

It looked at Quilbian.

and.

For a long time, which could be called history, its mouth, which had never been open, opened.

“You’ll give it to me?”

“Yes! Take me! Take me… … .”

It bent down. It stretched out its two white hands and wrapped them around Quilbian’s head.

“I don’t need you. What I want is the girl behind you.”

A black aura flowed out from its hand. The aura, moving like a snake, clung to Quilbian’s eyes.

“T, Twella? Where are you? I can’t see in front of me all of a sudden! Twella? Twella!”

Quilbian, who had been struggling with his eyes wide open, fell to the ground.

It turned around and stood in front of Twella with a face that looked like it was dying of amusement.

“Do you have something to say too?”

“… … How are you going to save us?”

It was him shaking his head with an innocent smile.

“No. I need you. I need the twisted love of God that dwells within you. It looks so delicious, I can’t stand it.”

“Then please bow down and save the child behind you.”

“Him?”

“yes.”

It looked back and clapped its hands lightly.

A strong wind blew from somewhere. The wind swept over the fainted Quilbian.

The tiny body was torn apart into tiny pieces by the strong wind. It was torn apart and shredded into countless pieces of flesh, which fell to the floor with a thud.

“Why me?”

“I guess so.”

Twella stroked his own neck.

“I just want to die. I want to die before all this happens.”

It opened its eyes thinly.

“Ah, this is outside of cause and effect. You are seeing God’s error. I was in your dream.”

“This is not a dream. It’s one of those things that will happen someday.”

“I misunderstood your expression. As you said, this is a piece of the future that will come someday. Yes, you are seeing more than I thought.”

It’s coming so close.

“I changed my mind. I don’t want to eat you. I want to keep you. Of course, I will eat you someday, but only after I’ve checked everything about you.”

“So I’ll die. That’ll be better.”

“No. You can’t die.”

It came and grabbed Twella’s hand. She flinched and tried to pull her hand away, but she couldn’t get away.

“You are mine.”

“The more I say that, the more determined I become. I’m tired of struggling and begging.”

“I will save you.”

He opened his eyes slightly at the words that he would save him.

“This hasn’t happened yet, right? So, I’ll save that kid you asked me to save. What do you think?”

“You’re going to save Quill?”

“Yeah. I keep my promises well. I’m a good person.”

It was a different future.

That’s what the suggestion was.

It was when I thought something had changed greatly.

“I’m sorry, but I understand eating Twella, but taking her with you is not allowed. That’s greed.”

Uttuk.

I opened my eyes to a terrible sound.

Twella let go of the railing she was holding onto and stepped back.

It wasn’t that he died.

Altera snapped my neck.

I sat on the floor and thought for a while, then smiled bashfully.

Even though I’m dead, I can still laugh.

It changed. The future, which always had the same ending, changed drastically.

Twella thought of its crushed foot. She thought of Quilbian, holding a stone and glaring at it.

“Who would save whom? This is ridiculous.”

Quilbian’s words lingered. I’ll give you mine, so save him.

I went down to my room and lay down on the bed.

The future has arrived without fail.

Twella gradually modified his behavior. It wasn’t difficult, since he had already been doing it tirelessly.

If you experience a hundred futures, ninety times you will be killed by it. The remaining ten times you will be killed by Altera.

Since Altera intervened, the number of times I see the future has increased dramatically.

That which comes down from the sky.

Alterea, who kills me, saying that it is difficult to fall for it.

Quilbian, who always shouts that he will save you.

The cruel years piled up again.

and.

Twella has reached.

“… … It’s here.”

A world full of gray.

A place where there is no life or death, where there are no records.

Twella sat down and took a handful of gray sand.

You will pay the price for giving up death here. You will live forever alone in a space where the beginning and the end are joined, where there is nothing.

My whole body was shaking.

This place was worse than hell.

You want me to be left alone in a place like this?

Save that kid?

Why on earth?

Twella looked down at her hands.

The warmth remained. Tiredly, but not tiredly, the small hand that held this hand every time overlapped.

It’s an unrequited love that won’t come back.

No, Quilbian will live his whole life cursing the name Twella.

The future that Quilbian will face is also vaguely visible.

These were terrible days. It was a series of pains that no normal person could possibly endure.

Still.

“… …You tried to survive.”

Quilbian will never learn the truth. He will spend his entire life cursing the traitor Twella.

Yeah, he’ll live.

Twella shook her hands.

I opened my eyes as the gray sand washed away from my hands.

It was on the bed.

When I came back from the future, I had a headache and was feeling foggy, but today was different.

It was clear. I felt energized.

Twella had a gut feeling that it was all over.

Time goes by.

Twella was peaceful both in reality and in the future.

Finally the time came.

“At first, I just wanted to help. I also thought that it would be better for two people to be together than to worry alone. But it gradually changed. I didn’t want to help, I wanted to protect. I honestly didn’t know what the difference was!”

Quilbian said.

It was a phrase I had heard many times.

I wanted to answer. I know you’re suffering, but it’ll be okay. You’ll survive by hating me, and one day you’ll go back to your normal life.

But I was careful with my words.

For an unshakable future.

The heavens opened, it came down, and all living things were turned into a handful of blood.

Twella spoke of the gray sands he would soon see, an eternal prison.

“I will give it to you.”

Hello, Quilbian.

This is my arrogant choice.

*

The house disappeared again today.

Twella smiled and went back to raking the gray sand.

Don’t think about anything.

It was not acceptable to bring up the past or dream of the future.

Here, you have to become a machine. You make flowers, you build houses, you sit on benches, and when everything disappears under the sand, you make flowers again… … .

No one comes here anymore.

Two visits have also ended.

Even the certain future has been consumed.

The last time I saw Quilbian, he still had life in his eyes.

That child will live well and die comfortably.

Someday I will forget the name Twella.

Twella prayed earnestly that that day would come soon.

“hmm?”

It was a strange thing.

Twella bent down. Half of it had disappeared, having been eroded by the wind, but the sand still retained its flower-like shape.

“tulip?”

Twella carefully scooped up the flower from the ground. He looked around, holding the flower in his palm.

Of course, there was nothing.

Twella returned to her home site and planted flowers in the ground.

A product of chance that will soon disappear.

Twella sat on a bench, stomping her feet and looking at the shabby tulips.

(Continued in next episode)